It was so rotten that only the ship rack remained, and it was difficult to use it anymore.

We pulled the airbag tied to the big backpack and let it fill the air and float on the water, and weapons such as submachine guns were placed on top so that they could be taken out and used at any time. Put away the wolf-eye flashlight, turn on the tactical spotlight on the helmet, and then follow into the water, holding the air bag on the backpack, and wading through the water.

After walking more than ten meters in the water, your feet can't reach the ground, and the cold and biting groundwater is getting deeper and deeper. I looked at the compass, and the current was parallel to the direction of the worm valley.

The cave here has many huge natural stone pillars in the water, like corals on the bottom of the sea, and because of the darkness of the cave, it is not clear how these strange stone pillars were formed.

The low position above my head from the water was particularly oppressive, and when I looked up, I saw that the huge rhizomes of many of the valley's plants had grown from above. Some of the longer ones even protrude directly into the water, forming a rare plant cave roof.

As you travel farther and farther, the terrain gradually lowers. The cave was filled with groundwater, and the distance between the water surface and the top of the cave gradually increased, and the breathing was much easier than before, while the plant rhizomes hanging overhead and those strange stone corals were getting denser and denser. I also noticed that there were some fish in the water of this cave, which occasionally touched our bodies underwater and then swam away, and I was secretly glad that it was not piranhas.

To further confirm the direction of travel, Shirley Young asked the fat man to take out the flare gun and fire another flare in front of him. The fat man counted the number of flares left: "There are still eight rounds, this time there are still too few, so you have to use them leisurely." After saying that, he loaded a shot in the flare gun, adjusted the range, and fired forward.

The flares drew a shining arc and finally hung on the intertwined vines not far away, and at this moment, the white light illuminated the surrounding caves, presenting a rare and terrifying natural landscape in front of us.

It turns out that the coral-shaped stone pillars are fossils of forest trees from ancient times, and the so-called "ancient" here is not something that modern people can trace.

Fossils are ancient relics buried in the stratum, formed by tens of millions of years of sediment burial. The most common are animal fossils, because the bones and teeth of animals have less organic matter and more inorganic matter, the degree of decay will slow down after being buried by sediment, and will be washed away by the slow-flowing groundwater in the sediment voids, and the excess minerals will be precipitated to form crystals, and before the bones completely decay, the crystals of these minerals will form real fossils if they can completely replace organic matter.

But plant fossils are very rare, Y Yang said excitedly: "Shalong Mountain may have been a huge active volcano hundreds of millions of years ago, during the last apocalyptic volcanic eruption, at the same time there was a mudslide nearby, magma swallowed the forest below the mountain, and the trees that were charred by the high temperature in an instant were immediately swallowed by the ensuing mudslide before they could be destroyed, and the temperature was also instantly cooled." ”

After tens of millions of years, with the changes of nature and the repeated erosion of the underground water system, the forest that had been sealed in the sediment for countless years was revealed underground.

I don't think there is anything unusual about these stone trees, I also dug them up in Kunlun Mountain back then. However, recently, Shirley Yang has always seemed worried, and her expression has always been melancholy, and it is rare to see her happy, so I said to her: "Although we have not been frightened on the way to Yunnan, we have also seen some real mountains and rivers, and seen some things that ordinary people can't see in their lives, which can be regarded as a worthwhile trip and a lot of gains." ”

The fat man interjected: "Just looking at some broken stones will inevitably seem to be a fly in the ointment, and then touch a few earth-shattering artifacts to go back, and shake the golden tooth and the grandson together in the Pan homeland, and then kill out of the Pan homeland and enter the glaze factory, which is almost complete." ”

I was about to speak, but the flare hanging in front of me ran out of energy, and then it went dark, and the hole gradually turned into darkness again, except for the faint pillar of light from the tactical spotlight on our helmets. I felt as if we were drifting in a black ocean, the only three of us left in the world, and as the last glimmer of light from the flares was slowly being taken away by the darkness, a sudden sense of loneliness and depression spread through my brain nerves.

I felt very strange that I felt this way, and in the process of going from light to darkness, I felt as if I was struck by a faint electric current, and then I had this inexplicable sense of loss, and my mood suddenly became depressed. I looked at Shirley Young and Fat Man, and the two of them also seemed to sense that something was wrong, but how did this subtle change come about, what exactly did it portend, and why did they suddenly feel a panic?

At this point, the flare that had been fired directly in front of it had finally been completely extinguished, but we found that while the last ray of light of the flare was completely gone, a faint white figure slowly appeared in the dark depths of the groundwater. Although the cavern was very dark, the white light on the figure's body was getting clearer and clearer, and I was sure that it was a female corpse with a whole body. She seemed to have floated from the water, and as the corpse drew closer to us, the frosty face of the corpse could be seen, and my heart began to beat faster, and the nightmarish panic intensified.

There were a lot of floating aquatic plants on the water in front of us, blocking our progress on the water, so we had to take out the sapper shovel and keep pushing away these floating aquatic plants. Duckweed and aquatic plants grow a lot of mosquitoes, water spiders, and grasshoppers, constantly pounce on people's faces.

Just as we were overwhelmed, we suddenly heard the sound of buzzing insect wings in front of us. I subconsciously pulled the submachine gun out of the waterproof bag, and in order to see what it was, the fat man had to shoot another flare. In the light, I saw that the roots and vines of the plants hanging down in front of me were tightly blocked, and countless huge black flying insects looked like small dragonflies, but they had no eyes, and there were thousands of them, like black clouds transiting, circling back and forth around the roots of the plants.

No one has ever seen this insect before, and it probably exists in a special environment where the ground is wet. Insects are the largest group in the world, and about one-third of the species are yet to be recognized by humans.

However, this black dragonfly-like flying insect does not seem to attack people, but such a large group of people can't help but make people's scalp tingle.

Text Chapter 122 Death Drift

The female corpse was dressed in plain white mourning clothes, I don't know why it could be seen even in the dark water, the flare had just been extinguished, and I only saw a hazy figure, she was facing the sky on her back, her hands were stretched out and slightly hanging behind her, the female corpse gradually floated from the bottom of the water, and as the distance between us gradually shortened, the outline of the facial features of the female corpse in white was also faintly presented.

The body of the female corpse is wrapped in a faint blue light, which is a kind of light that has no temperature, symbolizing death and coldness, and at a glance, it feels cold to the bone, just like the ghost fire in the cemetery, I don't know why this female corpse or female ghost suddenly floated out of the water.

I tried my best to reduce my heartbeat, but this inexplicable panic in this body could not be eliminated, I thought to myself: "The one who comes is not good, the good person does not come, she seems to be dressed in ancient costume, not modern costume, suddenly appeared under the deep water under the tomb of the king, it is definitely not a good type, we must strike first." So he reached out to fetch the black donkey's hooves, intending to wait for the female corpse to approach from the bottom of the water, and then suddenly moved and shoved the black donkey's hooves into her mouth, and said, if it is not a zombie but a ghost, then greet the other party with glutinous rice dyed with cinnabar.

Shirley Yang and the fat man also had the same idea, they each took their own instruments, and quietly watched the female corpse floating up from the bottom of the water, waiting to do it.

Unexpectedly, the female corpse that slowly floated up from the bottom of the water diagonally below us suddenly disappeared into the dark water, that is, in the blink of an eye. Looking at the bottom of the water again, it was already pitch black, and the dark blue light wrapped around the female corpse disappeared into the invisible darkness like the light of a flare.

However, the inexplicable sense of panic disappeared immediately, and I thought that I was the only one who had this feeling, but when I looked at the other two people's expressions, I knew that they felt exactly the same way as me, and they were all entangled by a sudden sense of panic just now. The three of them looked at each other, what the hell is going on? Regardless of whether she is a demon or a ghost, if she is directly let the horse come, it is better for the two sides to see a real chapter of life and death than to appear and disappear silently like this, which makes it even more difficult to figure out the intention of this female corpse.

We float on the surface of the water with our upper bodies and are in the water from the chest down, and the bottom of the water is unfathomable. As if swimming in a dark and bottomless abyss, the fat man couldn't help but worry: "I said Lao Hu, did you say that female corpse is the kind we usually say?

I shook my head and said, "Who knows if it's a dead drift or a water ghost, but it's more likely to be a water ghost, otherwise how could the corpse emit a blue and faint cold light, I haven't heard that there is also phosphorescent ghost fire in the water." ”

Fat people and I have always been bold, but we are only afraid of the same in our lives, because there was an incident that left too deep an impression on us before, sixteen or seventeen years old is an important stage in the formation of a person's world view and values, and what happened during that period often affects a person's life.

So as soon as I talk about female ghosts, the fat man and I immediately think of the legend of the water ghost pulling the foot, in the past, every summer, children like to swim in the river or pond, adults for safety, often scare children, saying that there are female ghosts in the river to catch the stand-in, specifically use the ghost claws to grab the swimmer's feet and neck, once caught, with their own strength can never break free, will suffocate alive at the bottom of the water, become a ghost in the cold deep water. But when I was a kid, Fat Man and I didn't believe it at all, because we knew in the first grade that the thing that caught people's feet in the water was aquatic weeds, not ghost hands.

But then we were sixteen or seventeen years old, when we became Red Guards, and we were coaxing bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods everywhere every day, and once we were catching up with the dog night, the weather was so hot that it seemed to be on fire, and we were tired, and we happened to pass by a small abandoned cistern, which was located in the area of the current Pingyu, and when we went home at night, there was a lot of mud under the old cistern, but the water above had a circulation system and was quite clean, but this cistern was very deep, and it was not easy to touch to the end, and some people were so hot that they wanted to go down to swim happily, but a few others were hesitant and had reservations about whether to go down to swim。

At this moment, an old lady in a white jacket came and beckoned us: "Come and swim in the water, this water is a cool world, there is a hole under the water, and my grandson swims and plays in it every day." ”

As soon as they heard that someone was playing in it every day, it was not dangerous, so everyone jumped down to swim, and when they came up, the old lady in the white coat was long gone.

There was also a child who was with us who said that his brother was gone, but we didn't know who his brother was, because except for a few people who knew each other, were all revolutionary comrades-in-arms who came together spontaneously during the revolutionary struggle, that is, when they were fighting in groups, and there were quite a lot of people, so we couldn't figure out who was about whom, so we asked the child what his brother looked like and what he was wearing.

But the child was too young to say it clearly for a long time, so we didn't take it seriously, thinking that there was no such person at all, and it was more likely that the revolutionary will was not strong enough, and he escaped halfway through the swim, and went home for dinner, so he scattered as birds and beasts, and went home separately.

I didn't expect that after two days we passed by the small reservoir again, and saw that there were many people there who were starting to release water, it turned out that the child told his parents about his brother's disappearance after swimming, the kid's father was a head of the military region in charge of logistics, and brought people to find his son.

As a result, after the water in the cistern was drained, there was indeed a young corpse of a boy of the same age as us, who had been swollen and white by the blisters, his body was entangled in the bottom of the water by a large mass of aquatic weeds, and his left leg was pulled by a hand stretched out from the aquatic weeds, but people were very strange, where did so many aquatic plants come from?

There will be no aquatic weeds in the cistern, so when you scoop up all the aquatic weeds and clean them up, there is a white bone in it, and it is this human bone that is rotten at the bottom of the water and grabs the ankle of the Red Guard with his hand, and he is drowned alive under the cistern.

At that time, it was a materialist world, and no one dared to believe in the ghosts in this world, and even if they did, no one dared to say it, it could only be attributed to coincidence. This half-grown child must have accidentally inserted his foot into the aquatic weeds while swimming in the water, just in time for a person who had been drowned a long time ago in the aquatic weeds, and they were entangled together while struggling.

But as for the five deep bruises on his legs, where the dead man grabbed his ankles, no one can justify them, and the old lady in white who lured us into the water is said to be a lurking spy. At that time, there were many versions of this incident in our area, but I and the fat man were the few witnesses, and although we did not believe that there were ghosts in this world at the time, the corpses soaked in water and rotted made me so sick that I did not eat properly for three months.

It was really an indelible memory, and this time I suddenly looked at it