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"Nuclear, nuclear radiation?" Zheng Xiongqi hurriedly threw a peach he had just picked into his hand on the ground, looked at the two of us in surprise, and exclaimed: "This is Shennong Mountain, and there has never been a nuclear industry, how can there be nuclear radiation?"
His words made Mu Qianxun and I speechless.
In this world, except for Chernobyl, it seems that I have never heard of nuclear pollution.
But there is no better explanation for this strange phenomenon in front of us.
Picking two green leaves and wiping the juice of the fruit off the tomahawk, I said, "Perhaps there is a power here that is as powerful as nuclear radiation, which can make all the creatures living in his area of influence grow larger than the outside." ”
"It's just that no one knows where this power is coming from. Mu Qianxun added.
I nodded, ignoring the strange findings, and continued on my way, urging them, "We need to hurry." ”
One glance at the two of them, they immediately understood my intentions.
Now, we find ourselves in the sphere of a strange force that has no idea whether it is good or bad for humanity.
The best thing to do is to do your own thing and get out of here quickly.
Raising my wrist to look at my watch, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon.
I quickened my pace, waving my tomahawk frequently, chopping down the bushes and vines that stood in our way.
Fortunately, the dense forest here is full of tall broad-leaved trees, which cover the dense forest tightly, so there are not many shrubs in the forest.
After walking like this for more than an hour, I saw that the sky gradually darkened, and the light under the forest dimmed little by little, until at last it was almost like night.
It's just that when we look up at the sky, we can still see the deep blue sky in the gaps in the canopy.
The sun is about to set.
We both let out a long breath, and as we passed by a flat, open field, I felt the urge to stop for the night.
Although I know that I am within the radiant range of the mysterious power, we have come here, and we have no choice.
Zheng Dashao and Mu Qianxun's physical fitness is basically overdrawn.
If you turn back now, it will undoubtedly be more dangerous than staying here.
I was about to stop, but when I looked up, I saw that behind the trees at the edge of the open field, there was a more open flat land.
Quickening my pace, I said to the two of them, "Chihiro, Yuki, let's take a few more steps, through the woods in front of us, where there seems to be a larger open field, and we will set up camp there." ”
The two of them, even though they were tired, nodded vigorously and rushed forward.
We swooped into the woods in front of the clearing.
The forest was very small, and the light coming out of the back of the forest was much brighter than the open ground behind it.
Guided by the light, we walked straight through the woods, and in the distance, we saw a blood-red sunset hanging high in the sky, and the terrain here was very high.
Three steps and two steps, Zheng Xiongqi ran forward, and suddenly his feet were empty, and he almost fell down.
I grabbed his backpack and dragged him back from the edge of the cliff.
He patted his chest in fear, gasped and said, "Damn, it's actually a cliff, it's so dangerous." ”
A gust of mountain wind whistled and blew up from the bottom of the cliff, almost blowing Mu Qianxun's hair firm.
I pulled her and took two steps back.
Looking down the cliff, I realized that it was a large sinkhole.
In the middle of the sinkhole, there was a large protrusion, like a boulder tumbling into the sinkhole, and it was covered with long grass.
The sinkhole was also overgrown with all the same length of grass, and there was not even a decent tree in it.
Those long grasses, under the action of the wind, form waves of ripples, like wind blowing wheat waves, which is very beautiful.
"Brother Feng, it's strange here, let's go back to the land inside and camp, it's not safe here. Zheng Xiongqi stretched his neck and looked at the bottom of the sinkhole, and couldn't help but have a twitch on his face.
"Wait. ”
Staring at the grass waves below, I suddenly noticed a strange phenomenon, and quickly stopped the two of them, pointed to the bottom and said, "You see, the wind is blowing from the stone in the middle. ”
The two of them looked at the middle of the sinkhole, then turned to look at me and nodded vigorously.
"What is that? How can there be a wind blowing from underground?" Zheng Dashao asked in astonishment.
I frowned slightly, and looked at the boulder carefully, only to realize that it was actually hollow inside.
Continue to explore the hollow space underground, and that space soon surpassed the limits of my vision. But the space itself seems to be endlessly derived from the underground.
That's a bottomless pit.
I was so excited by this discovery that I wanted to jump in and see what was inside.
I quickly scanned the cliff face, but I couldn't find anything to walk on.
At this time, Mu Qianxun understood what I meant, pointed to a gap on the edge of a cliff not far away, and said to me: "Wind, you see, there seems to be someone climbing over there." ”
I chuckled inwardly, and followed the direction of her finger to see vines the thickness of a finger tethered to a tree only a dozen paces away from me, and those vines stretched down a gap in the edge of the cliff to the bottom of the sinkhole.
My eyes lit up, and I strode over, stood next to the gap, and leaned down to look down.
The thick vine really stretched along the rough cliff wall to the bottom of the pit.
"Let's go down," I decided at once, to go down to the bottom of the pit while it was still dark, or else we would probably have to stay here for another day.
Mu Qianxun nodded in agreement.
But Zheng Xiongqi was very reluctant.
He was tired and frightened, and I was afraid that he would have already retreated in his heart.
Seeing that Mu Qianxun and a woman nodded, he had to stand up reluctantly, walked over and barely squeezed out a smile, and said, "Since they have already arrived here, if you don't go down to take a look, you will be in a panic." ”
We looked at each other and smiled, and we got busy.
In order to enter the mountain this time, Mu Qianxun and I had already prepared the necessary mountaineering equipment.
We put down the backpack on our backs, took out the professional trekking ropes, fixed them to the edge of the cliff, and tied our respective protective gear.
First I went down the gear of the three backpacks one by one, and then I took the lead, the first one to slip down the rope.
Mu Qianxun is the second, and Zheng Dashao is the last.
The three of them descended to the bottom of the pit one after another, and at this time, the dim light of the setting sun had risen to the half-middle of the cliff.