Tomb Raider: The comprehension is against the sky, and the achievement is indestructible

Chapter 74: The Blade Viperfish in the Northwest Crypt, the Old Shopkeeper's Immortality Technique

Su Mo naturally didn't need to carry a gun, and he still carried his Frost Moon Sword on his back. Hubayi and Fatty Wang felt a lot more at ease when they touched the guns.

Both Da Jin Ya and Blind Chen are good at speaking, but they don't have much real ability. Moreover, one is blind and the other has asthma, so they have no way to go down.

But the militia platoon leader was terribly scared before, but now he wanted to go down with them.

This guy is a smart man. He can see that Su Mo and the other two must be capable. He is the platoon leader of the militia here. If something happens to these three people when they go in, he will definitely be to blame. If nothing happens and they rescue Professor Sun and the others, he will have done a great job.

There was no other choice, Su Mo and the other two could only take the militia captain and two brave militiamen and slowly go down into the underground cave.

However, there was a ramp under the entrance, and there were no stairs or anything like that. It looked like a product built according to the underground cracks. At the end of the ramp was a stone house, which was made entirely of round stones. There was nothing in the stone house except a stone bed.

There was a square gap in the middle of the stone house. When shining the Wolf Eye flashlight down, one could see a staircase at a 45-degree angle, and it was bottomless below.

Su Mo and the others then walked down the stairs, only to see a huge man-made cave below. Inside the cave was a pool of water. The water was pitch black and bottomless, and there were several iron chains as thick as a child's arm on the pool, which seemed to contain something locked inside.

"This...can't be a dragon locked up!"

When the militia platoon leader saw the iron chain as thick as a child's arm, he could not help but exclaim in amazement.

He had often heard people talk about legends like the Dragon Locking Well. Now, seeing that the pool was so deep that he could not see the bottom, and there was such a thick iron chain inside, he thought that there was some evil dragon locked in the pool.

As soon as the words fell, the iron chain suddenly shook, as if the thing locked inside suddenly struggled after hearing someone talking.

Several militiamen were so frightened that their faces turned pale. Hubayi and Fatty Wang quickly aimed their rifles at the pool.

Su Mo used the Taiyin visualization method to see an extremely dark energy surging in the water. It was obvious that the thing locked in the water was definitely not an ordinary thing, so he said in a deep voice:

"Just watch me pull the chain up!"

The militia platoon leader was shocked when he heard this:
"Comrade cadres, please don't move around carelessly. I often hear the older generation say that these underground pools contain either the Dragon King or a monster. If they are pulled out and hurt someone, it will be disastrous!"

"There are so many monsters out there, just stand aside and watch!"

Su Mo was too lazy to listen to his nagging, so he drew out the Frost Moon Sword with one hand and grabbed an iron chain with the other.

Clang, clang, clang!
With the sound of dragging iron chains, Su Mo dragged out the iron chain, which was as thick as a child's arm and weighed hundreds of pounds, with one arm. Immediately, there was a huge splash under the water, as if some huge monster was about to appear!

The militia platoon leader and several militiamen all turned pale and their legs couldn't help but tremble. Although they were holding rifles in their hands, given their current condition, they would be lucky if they could avoid accidentally hurting their teammates.

Although Hubayi and Wang Pangzi were also surprised, they were able to remain calm. They held their rifles tightly with both hands, and aimed the muzzles at the splashes in the pool.

Su Mo kept dragging the chain with one arm, and water splashed on the surface of the water. Soon, a huge dark object was dragged out of the water. The militia platoon leader saw it and couldn't help but screamed:
"Oh my god! Could this be the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun?"

However, the object that was dragged out was completely black and looked like a large water tank, but it did not look like one. Everyone was confused when they saw it. Could it be that the blind man was right and this was the place where the ancients made elixirs?
When the militia platoon leader saw that the object locked by the chain was not a monster or evil dragon, he became much bolder and immediately led a few militiamen to move forward with torches.

Under the illumination of several torches, the object looked much clearer. It looked very much like a water jar, but it had countless round holes on it and was engraved with many strange patterns. The opening was sealed and there was a pointed lid on it, which was locked with six latches.

As this thing was pulled out of the water, all the accumulated water inside flowed out through the round hole, and then the cylinder body suddenly shook, as if something was locked inside!
The militia platoon leader was sticking his head to look into the vat, but was frightened by the noise. A militiaman next to him was a little bolder and fired a shot at the vat with his rifle.

boom!
The water tank broke into pieces, and many strange white fish jumped out of the tank, and several human skeletons fell out.

Although these strange fish are only two or three feet long, they are very strong. After falling to the ground, they keep bouncing. Their mouths are extremely large, and there are many serrated fangs in their mouths!
[The razor-sharp viperfish is a carnivorous fish that lives in dark rivers! ]

When Su Mo saw the names of these fish through the Taiyin Visualization Method, he couldn't help but be stunned.

This kind of razor-sharp viperfish was supposed to live in underground rivers in the southwest, but somehow it appeared in a pool in a cave in Shaanxi!
At this time, the militia platoon leader saw the silver ornaments on a human skeleton scattered on the ground, and couldn't help but exclaimed:

"Isn't this the daughter-in-law of someone's family? She disappeared after returning to her parents' home two years ago. Everyone said she was kidnapped or murdered, but how could she die here!"

As he was speaking, the sound of footsteps was heard from deep in the dungeon.

However, it was Professor Sun and the archaeological team who heard the gunshots from above and hurried over.

It turned out that Professor Sun did not encounter any accident, but discovered many ancient stone tablets underneath. He has been obsessed with archaeology all his life, and he could not move when he saw so many stone tablets. He studied them for a long time but could not find any, so much so that the militia platoon leader thought he had met with an accident.

And this big black water tank belonged to the old owner of the coffin shop who had passed away some time ago.

This old shopkeeper came from Yunnan, and these razor-sharp vipers were brought by him from the waterways near the ancient Dian Kingdom.

In ancient Dian, there was an evil magic trick that kept razor-sharp viperfish in ponds and fed them with the flesh and blood of living people. Then, if people ate the meat of these fish, they would become immortal and free from disease, and even strong and swift.

This old shopkeeper came from Yunnan, and perhaps was a descendant of the ancient Dian people of King Xian. Therefore, he learned this secret technique and raised many razor viper fish under this underground cave in water tanks, and then fed them with human flesh.

Because he was afraid that others would discover his evil deeds, he deliberately spread the rumor that if he knocked on the coffin, someone nearby would die. This made people nearby afraid and usually did not dare to go near the coffin shop.

The truth was revealed at this point, and Professor Sun couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he saw Su Mo and the others:

"Who are you?"

The militia platoon leader was very surprised when he saw that the two men did not know each other at all:
"Hey! Didn't this cadre say he knew Professor Sun? Is he lying to us?"

(End of this chapter)