The Ghost of the Tomb Chapter 11 The Cave
The old five monsters jumped in front of the team, and they looked very similar to the monkey in Journey to the West, and we followed him closely. We saw a corpse on the www.biquge.info road, which had been stung by a wasp and completely deformed, and some places had burst out of stinky water, and we turned the corpse's face over and found that he was the green-faced man named Qingkui.
The old five monsters pointed to the corpse and scolded: "I won't tell you that the few people who surrounded you under the tree just now were led by this Qingkui, who deceived you outsiders into entering that ghost forest, and said on the face that they were protecting the ancient tombs, and secretly they were trying to make money and kill people, and I don't know how many people were harmed." This time they were attacked by the way of the hornet, and God has eyes. "I think of the dead in the ghost forest and the severed hand on the hillside, and I feel sick.
After walking about a few hundred meters to the west, suddenly the old five monsters pointed forward: "The mountain recess is concave, watch out for your feet." ”
When I looked up, I saw that the recess of the mountain was between two large mountains, overgrown with weeds, thorns, and inaccessible, and it was indeed a very secret place. I think of the bloodstone in Widow Zhang's house, at that time she said that it was picked up in the mountain hook in the mountain village, and the mountain recess and the mountain hook have the same meaning, now look at this place, yes, it must be here.
There were all kinds of bird calls and wild beasts around, mosquitoes buzzing, and gravel everywhere under their feet, the old five monsters slowed down, bent down all the way to remove the weeds under them, and the weeds were exposed one by one under the grottoes, some big and some small, all dark and unknown where to go.
Suddenly, the old five monsters stopped walking, and kept staring at something in the grass, and when I looked there, it was a marching kettle, which looked very new, and should have been dropped not long ago. I picked it up and shook it, and there was still half a jug of water in it, which should have been lost by the owner of the kettle when he was in a hurry.
The old five monsters muttered: "Impossible, how can it be..."
Seeing that the old five monsters had a bad expression, Hong asked alertly, "What did you find?"
The old five monsters raised their heads and said, "I recognize this kettle, they can actually find it here." ”
Hong led the way and asked, "Who is it?"
The old five strange said: "About two weeks ago, there was a team of people, obviously they came to fight, looking at their outfits and equipment, they must not be ordinary Tufuzi." They are also ruthless characters, they can still come out alive after passing through the ghost forest, but they didn't enter the village, they went directly into the mountains and forests, and now they haven't seen a single figure come out, I thought they were fierce and lucky, but I didn't expect it..."
The old five monsters suddenly slipped away for a long time like a monkey, stopped in a mess of grass in front of them, kept pulling out the grass, and then raised their heads, their eyes were full of surprise, and said: "It's this grotto eye, I have made a mark, it has been turned, they... They went in. ”
Hong led the scolding: "Damn, someone actually took the lead?"
We hurriedly followed, and when we looked at the cave, we couldn't help but take a breath of cool air, the hole in the grotto covered by the grass was too cold, just enough for a person to get into, and lead obliquely to the ground. The old five monsters rubbed some white, very fine cotton wool-like things on the edge of the hole, and said: "I used very thin silk threads to imitate spider silk to make a web at the entrance of this hole, and now the whole web is broken, there are no big animals around here, someone must have entered." ”
Hong Ling unscrewed the flashlight and shone it into the hole, and found that there was a lot of distance inside that was very narrow, and said: "Boss Li attaches great importance to this mission, and we can't drag it out any longer," he stared at us one by one, first looked at Niu Can, and Niu Can's eyes immediately responded positively to him, but Hong Ling shook his head disdainfully and said, "You are too fat, no," and finally stopped his eyes on me, and said: "Xiao Zhuang, you go into the cave first." ”
"What? I... Go in first," I reluctantly looked at Hong Lingtou.
Hong Ling's face shook two evil moles, and said, "What is it for young people to suffer a little? Give you a chance to learn something." ”
I was very reluctant, and seeing that Uncle Guang didn't speak for me, it seemed that this loss was decided. Niu Can saw that Hong didn't arrange for him to go down the cave first, and looked at me unhappily, as if he was dissatisfied that I was better than him to get this opportunity.
Sister Zhao covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Young people, don't hold back when you do things, let's go down." ”
The old five monsters looked at my tangled expression and said, "It's okay, it's just more than two meters so narrow, and the inside will be spacious immediately." ”
I stared at the black, smelly hole, gritted my teeth, and was the first to get inside.
The hole was very narrow, and the smell inside was very strange, I hardly dared to inhale, unscrewed the flashlight and bit it in my mouth, and I forced myself to crawl slowly, the cave wall was wet and sticky, and a lot of debris was rubbed off by me. The cave is oblique downward, indeed as the old five monsters said, there is only a narrow aisle of about two meters, and it is a karst cave that comes out. I bowed down and jumped down the cave, it was pitch black, the temperature was very low, I used a flashlight to shine everywhere, and found that this cave was about 20 square meters square, and the top of my head was overhung with stalactites, and there was a fork in the front wall of the cave, which led to two different directions.
After a while, I heard the leader of Hong shouting outside: "Xiaozhuang, what's the situation inside?" and then the flashlight continued to shine from the outside of the cave.
I shouted towards the cave, "It's safe inside, there's a cave." ”
There was cursing and scolding outside the entrance to the cave, and one by one they came in.
Hong led the last one to jump into the cave, his tone was devoid of respect, and he said to the old five monsters in his habitual command tone: "You, lead the way ahead." ”
Everyone turned on the flashlight and followed the old five monsters walking in the cave, he said as he walked: "There are many forks in here, extending in all directions, you have to follow my old five monsters closely, and you can't find them if you get separated." So saying, he walked to the mouth of the first fork, and without any hesitation, chose the cave on the right and went in.
This cave was much wider than the one we entered, and we could barely walk upright in it, and Hong led a few of them to follow closely behind the old five monsters, followed by Uncle Guang and Li Taohua, and I was once again very unfortunate in the cave at the end of the line. This cave is completely natural, there is no trace of artificial chiseling, the winding is very deep and long, sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, sometimes high and sometimes low, and in some places people have to lie on the ground and twist like insects. The strange smell continued, and there were a lot of fine black particles at the bottom of the cave along the way, sticky and slippery when stepped on, like the feces of some kind of small animal.
The old five monsters are like a monkey jumping and walking, he seems to be very familiar with the terrain here, he does not hesitate when passing through several forks, we are carrying heavy equipment, in such an environment at such a speed to move forward, or obviously feel the difficulty, the old five monsters sometimes deliberately slow down, stop and wait for us to keep up.
After walking about half a pack of cigarettes, Sister Zhao was so tired that she scolded: "Ouch, I said that the old five monster seniors, have you remembered the wrong way?
The old five monsters said: "How can I be mistaken? There are my marks on them, I didn't mean to toss you, this road has to go like this." ”
After another cigarette, under the light of the flashlight, I saw a large cave finally appear in front of me. The old five strange said: "There is a very wide hole on the edge of this cave, and then through this cave, you will reach the ancient tomb escape entrance." ”
Everyone jumped into the cave one by one, and heard Sister Zhao chirp crookedly: "Ouch, it's almost there, it's great... Leader Hong, we are finally about to enter the ancient tomb. ”
Li Taohua immediately joked to Sister Zhao: "Ouch, Sister Zhao, the gold and silver treasures in the ancient tomb are piled up as high as a mountain, how much can you carry out with your small body." ”
I was the last to jump into the cave and saw everyone gathered around the edge of the cave, as if they were observing something. I walked over and looked down, and I couldn't help but be shocked to see the hole below, and something seemed to be slowly squirming in the depths of it, squeaking under the stimulation of the flashlight. At this time, in order to show that he was active and capable, Niu Can actually turned on a high-power miner's lamp, Uncle Guang scolded badly, and before he could turn off the miner's lamp in his hand, the miner's lamp shone on the hole as in the daytime, and we found that it was black and full of mice, and these rats were half larger than normal, one by one, densely packed together, and the entire cave was stuffed. I felt sick in my heart, there are so many fucking people, it turns out that the feces all the way here are actually rat droppings.
These rats were all lurking, and were illuminated by the high-power miner's lamp, and the layer of rats on the surface was stimulated to shake violently, scattering from our feet, flying around without a head or brain, revealing a layer of rats behind them immediately exploded like boiling water, and all the rats in the hole scurried out of the chain reaction, like the black tide wave after wave, and some actually crawled on us, and the rat paws scraped our flesh and skin, and we were so scared that we kept jumping around and wanted to get rid of them, and we also trampled on a lot of rats in the flow under our feet。
Everyone slapped the mice on their bodies while jumping, and Sister Zhao scolded in her mouth: "Niu Can, you fool, what kind of photos are you taking... You rotten bastard..."
Niu Can saw that the rat in a hole was killed by him and fled in a hurry, and seemed to be very proud, and deliberately stepped on the flying rat on the ground, and scolded in his mouth: "I trample you stinky rat to death, I step on it..."
For a moment, the situation was particularly chaotic. I felt that these rats seemed very inappropriate and abnormal, and as for why, I couldn't say why.
It didn't take long for the mice in the hole to gradually decrease, everyone jumped full of sweat, the skin and flesh on the body were also scratched a lot, and the face was ugly, the right eyelid of Hong Lingtou was scratched by the rat's paw, and the right eye blinked very embarrassed, and he patted Niu Can's head very unhappily, and scolded in his mouth: "Why are you so reckless." ”
Niu Can stepped on a lot of rats just now, he was very proud, and he smiled, seeing that Hong Ling, who had been flattering him, was so dissatisfied with himself, he suddenly pinched the whole person, and stammered a little in his mouth: "Hong... Lead, sorry,... I... I'll pay attention next time. ”
The old five strange said: "While the rats are scattered, let's hurry in." With that, the first one jumped in.
Sister Zhao muttered, "Ouch, aren't we drilling into a rat's nest?
Hong Ling blinked his injured right eye, he was very impatient, he had always liked Sister Zhao more, so he never blamed her for anything, and he couldn't help but scold now: "You think it's a bird, a mouse gives birth to a little mouse, have you ever seen a mouse that lays eggs at a young age?"
Sister Zhao was probably frightened to say such a stupid thing just now, and at this time she also reflected it, covering her mouth and wanting to laugh but couldn't laugh.
Li Taohua smiled and patted Sister Zhao on the shoulder, and said: "Ouch, Sister Zhao, I have seen the rats that laid eggs, I have raised a nest in my hometown, the mouse eggs are delicious, they are good things that are not available in heaven and earth, I will bring you a few to try next time." ”
Sister Zhao didn't hear that Li Taohua was making fun of her, and asked, "Is there really such an egg?" Xiao Li, you must bring it to me next time to taste," she smiled beautifully as she spoke, it was very funny.
Hong Lingtou knew that he would definitely not be able to say anything about Li Taohua, so he had to glare at him angrily, and followed the old five monsters to jump into the hole, and everyone jumped in one by one. The panic in my heart has not subsided, and I was made to laugh by the farce of the rat egg, but I didn't reflect it for a while, and I came back to my senses when everyone jumped out of the hole, and I panicked again, "Damn, why is it my last one," and there was no way, so I could only jump down hard.
This time it was Niu Can who walked in front of me, he was counted down by Leader Hong, he was in a very bad mood, and he didn't have the heart to show that he was active and capable when he went down to the hole, and he didn't keep up with Leader Hong's pace for a while, and he fell behind the team like me, and walked forward with his brain. The smell of the rat's nest is really very uncomfortable, my stomach is constantly twitching, covering my nose and following everyone, fortunately, this section of the cave of the rat's nest is quite spacious, and I don't have to crawl forward, otherwise it will be even more unlucky to rub the mouse feces all over my body.
After walking about a cigarette, these caves began to show some traces of artificial excavation, it seems that as the old five monsters said, we are very close to the escape exit, but I also found that there are some other places in this cave that are very wrong, it seems to feel different from the roads that I have walked before, and I found that the feeling under my feet is a little different. I swept the bottom of the cave with a flashlight, and found that the bottom of this section of the cave was very clean, not a single mouse droppings, and they had never been active in this section of the cave? A nest of rats is stimulated by the high-power mineral light, and the normal animal's response to escape the danger should be to drill in the opposite direction of the mineral light, which should be drilled into the mouse's nest, but the nest of rats without exception is to drill out against the miner's light, which is very abnormal, the only explanation is that the nest of rats has lived here for a long time, and knows that there are more dangerous things in the cave in the rat's nest.
I used the flashlight to sweep up and down, left and right, and I saw that there was nothing special about this cave, but when I touched it, I would feel that some places on the cave wall were a little uneven, and when I used the flashlight, I found that these unevenness was because there was a trace of very small cracks on the cave wall, and I would not notice it if I didn't pay attention to it, and the number of cracks would not be too much, but there would be some such cracks every other section, which would extend along the cave. I moved forward while touching these cracks, wondering in my heart, what kind of monsters could pop out of such a small crack to make those rats feel so scared? Could it be that these cracks can spew out that kind of blue ghost fire, burning the rats to the point that there are no slag left? I suddenly found that the hand that touched the crack felt a little abnormal, and quickly put it under the flashlight, and found that there were red blood stains on the hand, and put it under the nose to smell it, and sure enough, there was a fishy smell, damn, what is in these cracks? I was busy shining my flashlight at the gap, and suddenly I heard something rattling in the gap... Ga's voice, at this moment, the voice of the old five monsters in front of him: "That escape port has arrived." ”