Volume 1 There Are Dragons and Sparrows in Lin'an Chapter 41 The Cave
He didn't answer but stood up and looked at everything around him, there were stone walls and caves everywhere, he put his hand on the rock wall, he could even feel the wind blowing out of the cracks in it, the hole in front of him was wide, as if a big mouth was bottomless, he looked up at the layers of stalactites above, the spiritual liquid was wet, as warm and shiny as a white jade pillar.
"How did we get here?" he asked.
"After I dragged you into the water, we kept drifting in the river, and the current was so fast that I couldn't go ashore, and so we floated until we were washed up in a cave, which was supposed to be on it, and so we were washed down into the river, but the walls of the cave were so smooth that we couldn't climb up. She stretched out her hand and pointed to a cave above, Chu instantly looked at the cave behind her, it was extremely dark, but when she squinted, there seemed to be light seeping out, but it was accompanied by an endless stream of flowing water.
There is a hole in the hole, and there is a river in the hole...... He looked at the darkness around him and thought, looking at the stalactites and smooth stone walls above his head, he suddenly understood where he was.
This is an underground river, connected with the river of Lin'an City, when he was a child, Chu Xun once told him that the underground river of the Southern Tang Kingdom and the beautiful stone stalactites, the formation of stalactites takes a long time and a special geological environment to form, the local officials of the past dynasties like to send the stalactites to the imperial court as tribute, there are several stalactite pillars in the Dayin Palace, but they have been processed, inlaid with precious jade and gold, coupled with the heavenly seal carving, and finally present a heaven-sent touch.
Unexpectedly, there was an underground river under Lin'an City, which surprised him, he stretched out his hand to walk in the dark, and suddenly heard the sound of water droplets not far away, and suddenly he slipped as if he had stepped on something, and almost fell into the dark river, he sat tremblingly by the side of the dark river, watching the grass carp under the water swim slowly, with a light swing with sparkling waves, Su Nianyu took his hand and said angrily: "Be careful of falling into the water, I don't want to fish you up again, it's troublesome to dry your clothes when they are wet." ”
"Sister Yu, how long have we been here?"
"About a day or two, there's no shortage of water here, but we'll starve to death if we stay here any longer. ”
It's been two or three days, and the city must be in an uproar because of his disappearance now, maybe the guards in the palace are looking for someone all over the city, and it seems that they need to get out of this place quickly.
"Sister Yu, do you see that rock? The wind is blowing from there, maybe there is an exit there, let's climb up and take a look." He pointed hard at the stone above, but he didn't know if Su Nianyu could see it.
"But I'm not tall enough. She glanced at him with a crimson face as if she remembered something.
"It's okay, you step on my shoulder and climb up first, then pull me up. He kept walking back and forth, hoping to find a stone to step on.
She bit her nails lightly and looked at him and said, "She, aren't you afraid that I will leave you and run away after I go up?"
"Where is all this nonsense, come quickly!" he said impatiently.
"Oh, I'll come over when I'm dressed. She responded childishly, and then the sound of squirming and dressing sounded, Chu Xianzhao found a solid stone and stepped on his feet, as if he remembered something, as if he had been struck by lightning.
"Sister Yu...... Didn't you just have your clothes on?"
"The clothes are all wet, how can you wear them, you can't see anything in the dark anyway. The voice came from far and near, she put her hands on Chu Zhao's shoulders and exerted her strength, the whole person stood on his shoulder, grabbed the black stone and climbed up, and then poked out her little head and stretched out her hand to him, "Why are you still stunned, hurry up, otherwise I will really run." ”
"Uh-huh......" He scrambled to wipe the blood from the bottom of his nose before grabbing her hand and climbing up.
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The two of them walked in the dark, Chu Xianzhao held her sleeve tightly, for fear that she would fall into the hole with one foot in the air, and it was dark as far as the eye could see, he could only judge whether their path was correct according to the direction from which the breeze came, the two sides of the stone wall were covered with stalactites, the water surface was calm, the flow speed was slow, there seemed to be a sound in front of him, the spring water jingled, like no man's land, he never thought that there was actually another such deep underground river under Lin'an City, the pale cyan rock wall emitted a faint green light, and it was very scary to look up.
The cold in the cave was pressing, Su Nianyu clung to Chu Xianzhao's back, followed him like a frightened little animal, and fortunately pulled this little ghost down, if she came to this ghost place alone, she would not be scared to death, the two of them were not so terrible together, her long sword was lost in the river, in case of any danger, it would be difficult to protect herself, she stayed here alone for two days, at this time she was already hungry, looking at the smooth milky white stalactites on the wall, she remembered the shaved ice in the city, the merchant dug the ice cellar in winter, took it out when it was in the sky, shaved out the ice chips with a planer, mixed with sugar and dried plums for human consumption, and then poured a spoonful of pear juice, after taking a bite, I felt that the whole person was about to melt, and my smile was suddenly very happy.
"I want to eat shaved ice......" she leaned on Chu Xianzhao's shoulder, and said in a delicate voice.
"Hungry and confused, now that it's autumn, there is no shaved ice to sell, and when you get out, Your Highness will take you to Xiantianju to drink lotus seed syrup and eat osmanthus cake. ”
She kept rubbing Chu Xuanzhao's back with her face and smiled: "I still want to eat croissant honey, mung bean cake, and honey three knives!"
"What kind of knife is honey?"
"Honey...... Oops!" she exclaimed, the sound of rocks breaking came from the soles of her feet, Su Nianyu suddenly knelt on the ground, her forehead hit the ground, she opened her eyes and saw that a white and faint head was staring at her eyes, with a big grin, a layer of sunken flesh on the skull, and something seemed to be wriggling in her long black hair, dark and terrifying.
"Ahh Her back hit the hard rock, and Chu Xianzhao immediately came over to help her up, but Su Nianyu pointed ahead and trembled: "Skeletons!
Chu Xianzhao squinted his eyes, the corpse not far away was curled up, still wearing a green robe, thinking about it carefully, it might be an unlucky guy who accidentally fell into the water and was washed here, if he didn't leave here quickly, it might be the two of them who turned into corpses.
"Xiao Zhao, you see there are still swords and armor there!"
Chu Xianzhao looked at the direction pointed by Su Nianyu in surprise, those armor covered with rust were scattered all over the place, and the patterns on it were already difficult to distinguish, Chu Zhaozhao picked up a well-preserved cuirass, and worked hard to wipe off the moss on it, generally the armor will be engraved with the coat of arms of his own army, such as the cuirass of the Tiantuo Eagle Rider of Da Yin has an eagle coat of arms on it, this cuirass is made of iron armor leaves connected with belts or nails, it is extremely light to start, and the texture feels like it is produced in the country, such as although the steelmaking technology of the Yin Kingdom is not as good as that of Qingguo, but the armor is hard enough to sweep the northern countries, the wolf of the Bottle Country cannot bite through its armor, and the bow of the Golden Horde is also difficult to penetrate, and even fend off a burst of crossbow arrows.
When he wiped the mud and moss on it, a majestic tiger suddenly appeared in front of him, he looked at the coat of arms on it puzzled, which army would carve a tiger on the armor, he took a closer look, and found that the beast was not like a tiger, the tiger would not have such long fangs under its lips, like two drooping long swords, and the iron teeth of Sen Ran were glowing blue, as if they would pounce out of the armor at any time and bite his neck.
"I've never seen such a strange animal, it looks like a tiger but not a tiger, a leopard and not a leopard, and the nose looks like a dog's nose. He said softly.
Su Nianyu took a closer look and said with a smile: "It's a shame for you to say this, this is engraved with the family crest of the Burchijin family-saber-toothed mastiff! ”