Chapter 1214: The Land of Hope (17)
Walking out of the passage, everyone unexpectedly found that there was an underground river in front of them, but the water flow in this underground river was completely different from other underground rivers.
In general, the flow of water in underground rivers is relatively slow. The water flow of this underground river is quite turbulent. I'm afraid that even if a goose feather falls into it, it will be swept into the river.
In addition, there is a stone embankment along the river two or three meters wide on both sides of the underground river, which is undoubtedly man-made by looking at its smooth appearance. With such a big project, I don't know how much time it took the people of the ancient country to refine it at the beginning.
The two ends of the embankment also don't know where to lead, it's pitch black, even if the flashlight shines up, you can't see far, and with the atmosphere here, it feels like two fierce beasts with their hideous mouths open, waiting for them to throw themselves into the net.
Meng Zitao thought of the flood in the previous passage and wondered if the water would be taken from here, perhaps because of this, the water flow here would be different from other underground rivers. If it was indeed as he had guessed, it should follow the flow of water, because the water would flow into the passage below, and perhaps find a way out.
Meng Zitao was lucky, everyone walked for a while and saw an arched bridge in front of them, so everyone followed Meng Zitao and walked towards the arched bridge.
Meng Zitao walked to the middle of the bridge and suddenly noticed that something was flowing down from upstream.
"That's a human!" someone exclaimed, noticing the situation in the water.
When everyone heard this, they turned their heads to look at the river next to them, and found that in the rushing river, there were several corpses floating in the rushing river, looking at their costumes, these people should be the Pony King's men, and they all looked as if they had been suffocated to death.
Regardless of this, everyone wonders why Pony's corpse floats downstream.
In addition, Meng Zitao also saw a corpse face up, which also caused him to wonder.
In general, floating corpses in the river have the male face down and the female face up.
This is due to the fact that men have a larger proportion of weight above the ribcage, including the shoulders, than on the waist and hips. As a result, when at rest in the water, the male body above the chest cavity will sink into the water, and the waist and hips will float above the surface. In this way, the male corpse becomes a face-down position.
In contrast to men, the weight of the waist and hips is larger than that of the chest cavity, and when the waist and hips are at rest in the water, the waist and hips sink into the water and rise above the chest cavity. In this way, the corpse of the woman becomes a face-up position.
Of course, it is not without special circumstances, but Meng Zitao found that the corpse did not have an Adam's apple, which can prove that it was a female corpse, but he obviously didn't see any women before, where did this corpse come from?
Moreover, this person also gave him a sense of déjà vu, but because his face was swollen, he couldn't recognize it.
So far, everyone has looked down on life and death a lot, and a few floating corpses can no longer make everyone panic, and except for Meng Zitao, who was surprised by the female corpse, everyone else did not notice the gender of the female corpse, and they only looked at it a few times and stopped paying attention.
But at this time, Meng Zitao suddenly had a palpitating emotion, he first thought of the Jiaolong he had met before, and hurriedly let everyone feel on the water and retreated to the river embankment.
Meng Zitao's reminder was timely enough, but it was still almost bad, and I saw a huge black shadow in the river, like a bullet, burst out of the river and rushed towards the people on the river embankment.
Even if Meng Zitao reminded him in time, the monster's mouth reached the foot of a security guard, and as long as he was slow for a second, that foot would go to the monster's mouth.
The monster didn't bite, and it didn't stop, because it had four legs, and with the ball of its forefoot propped up, it rushed towards the security again. It was lightning fast, and its mouth was bigger than a human, and the security guards froze in fright.
Seeing that the security guard was about to fall into the monster's mouth, Meng Zitao jumped up, pulled out the cicada wing sword, stabbed the monster in the head, and stabbed the monster first, directly into the monster's skin.
But to Meng Zitao's surprise, the monster's skin is very tough, and this sword is only stabbed into one or two inches, and it is difficult to stab down, of course, this is mainly related to Meng Zitao's inability to exert force in the air.
"Wow wow!"
A shrill cry suddenly came out of the monster's mouth, like a child's cry, specifically, much like the cry of a bass fish that I had heard before, but it was so sharp that people couldn't help but cover their ears.
Meng Zitao just frowned, and in an instant, he could already see what this monster was, it was clearly a giant salamander that had grown for an unknown number of years and was about the same size as a giant crocodile.
The giant salamander's body struggled a few times, and with the mucus on its body, it broke free from the cicada's wing sword.
The giant salamander is a carnivorous creature, and it has a special grudge, it hasn't done anything to Meng Zitao, Meng Zitao actually hurt it, then it's okay, turned around and bit Meng Zitao.
This time was exactly what Meng Zitao wanted, raised his sword, and stabbed it at the mouth of the giant salamander.
This giant salamander's sixth sense is also very strong, and he may feel that Meng Zitao's sword is a fatal blow, and he actually retracted his body alive, and turned his head and jumped into the river.
The giant salamander's actions were done in one go, and even Meng Zitao couldn't react, and he was gone, but Meng Zitao noticed the hateful gaze of the giant salamander when he left, and knew that unless he couldn't touch it in the future, he would come to them sooner or later to take revenge.
Seeing that the giant salamander was gone, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and some people couldn't help but ask what it was, and Professor Qi explained to everyone that the monster was a giant salamander: "Don't think that such a big salamander is impossible, in fact, two-meter-long salamanders are not uncommon, especially in this kind of ghost place, it is not unusual for the salamander to look like this." ”
Then the army spoke, "Isn't there a corpse in the river, and why doesn't it eat these corpses and attack us instead?"
Professor Qi said, "Uh...... Maybe it's like to eat living things. ”
Meng Zitao waved his hand: "Take care of it first, now everyone listen to my orders, hurry up and cross the bridge!"
There is such a monster in the river, it must be far away from the underground river, and everyone crossed the bridge in batches under the command of Meng Zitao.
Meng Zitao watched the river nervously, and at the slightest disturbance, he would take a thunderous blow, but the giant salamander was very cunning, probably aware of Mencius's threat, and did not even come out of the water halfway.
When everyone was a little safer, Meng Zitao breathed a sigh of relief, and then, he thought of the question that the army just said, why did the giant salamander not eat the corpses in the water, but came to attack them, is it true that it likes to eat living creatures?
Meng Zitao put this question aside for the time being, he looked around, and found that there was a pair of stone doors not far in front of him, the stone doors were closed, and he didn't know what was going on inside, so he led people over.
Meng Zitao tried to push open the stone gate, but with only the strength of ordinary people, the stone gate did not even tremble. Later, he used his ability to discover that there was something behind the stone door to support him, and he had to put a lot of effort into pushing it open.
Meng Zitao was worried that if he encountered an organ, he would smash the stone door open with violence, so he was ready to push the stone door open. He moved his hands and feet, put his hands on the stone door and began to push.
With the increase of Meng Zitao's strength, the stone gate was also a little "supportable", and finally with the sound of "overwhelmed", the stone gate was pushed open by Meng Zitao.
Everyone took a flashlight and shone it into the stone room, there was a lot of space inside, and there were a lot of things, it seemed that they were all weapons, and everyone guessed that this was probably the arsenal of the Elite Country.
Feeling no danger, Meng Zitao walked into the stone hall to check, and confirmed that this was the arsenal of the Elite Kingdom, in addition to all kinds of weapons, there was also a small pool dug directly in the ground, and all the crude oil was placed in it.
There are so many weapons that Professor Qi seems to be having a holiday, quite obsessed, and says that he wants to stay here to study these weapons.
Meng Zitao almost slapped it to death, it's all at this time, and he is still obsessed with research, don't you know that escaping from the ascension to genius is the most important thing?
He didn't care what Professor Qi would decide, at this time, what he had to do had to be done, and if he refused to leave, he would take people away even if he knocked them out.