Chapter 19: The Ghost Mother and the Infant (1)
Wu Lan usually speaks very casually and concisely, but for some reason it always seems to bring people a sense of trust, or rather a deterrent, so that people are naturally willing to believe in him and obey his commands. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Especially in this environment, although Wu Lan's voice was not loud, it was like an order, everyone didn't dare to be careless after listening to Wu Lan's words, and immediately became nervous, and Cheng Jiao, who was on the rubber boat in front, signaled everyone to stop.
The two rubber boats stopped at the entrance of this cave and did not dare to go deeper, and several frogmen used a strong flashlight to shine vigilantly, but they didn't see anything unusual for a long time, except for the occasional sound of water droplets dripping into the river, and the sound of some salamander-like things seeing the flashlight escaping into the water, there was silence all around.
Wu Lan's giant sword was still rubbing against the scabbard, which was particularly harsh in this silent environment, and my heartbeat continued to speed up with the sound of friction.
Cheng Jiao told everyone, just in case, let everyone put on a life jacket first, and put on an oxygen mask, I followed Chen Asi's appearance, pulled out a life jacket from a bag at the bottom of the backpack and put it on my body, this life jacket is a special life jacket used in cave exploration, different from ordinary life jackets, it is not a stuffed float, but like a rubber boat, there is a pull ring next to it, usually the life jacket is very thin on the body, there is no feeling, once you fall into the water, pull the pull ring, the life jacket will automatically inflate and expand in a very short time, When you don't need to re-inflate, you just need to flip a slider below, and the air in the life jacket will be discharged using the principle of negative pressure to make it easy to carry.
The oxygen mask is on the left side of the backpack and is integrated with the backpack. There is a trachea connected to it, and the trachea can be retracted. Pull out the oxygen mask and put it on your head. This oxygen mask is also dedicated to cave exploration and has both diving and anti-virus functions. Usually wear just like an ordinary gas mask, the medium inside can filter common toxic gases, and when you need to dive, as long as you rotate a knob next to the oxygen mask, it will close the breathing hole of the mask, open a small oxygen cylinder hidden under the backpack to deliver oxygen to the oxygen mask, of course, the diving function is only used when it is needed in special times, not professional diving equipment. Therefore, the gas cylinder has very little gas storage, which is only enough to maintain an uninterrupted oxygen supply for 10 minutes.
I followed Chen Ah Si's example and fastened the bright light flashlight into a buckle on the frogman's jacket on my shoulder to free my hands, and then took out the "USP" pistol from the holster and held it in my hand as a precaution, while the shotgun was still in the holster behind me.
After everyone was ready, Cheng Jiao motioned to the frogman paddling the paddle blades gently, and the two rubber boats cautiously moved forward.
The rubber boat got closer and closer to the huge stalactite pillar in the middle of the cave, and suddenly, the giant sword in Wu Lan's hand stopped rubbing. Ermao next to me whispered: "Quick, listen, what is this?" ”
Everyone was already nervous, and when they heard Ermao say this, they all held their breath and listened carefully.
Listened for a while. Da Mao next to Ermao "snapped" and slapped Ermao on the head: "Damn, you're timid, what's the sound?" ”
Cheng Jiao, who was on the other rubber boat, immediately stopped Da Mao. made a silent gesture and whispered: "Ermao is right. There was indeed a voice, as if it was a woman singing. ”
listened to Cheng Jiao's words. I whispered, "This cave is not karaoke, how can there be women singing?" But I pricked up my ears and listened carefully, and sure enough, I faintly heard a voice, intermittent, without lyrics and no melody, like a woman singing, and like the sharp sound of the wind blowing through the cracks in the stone.
Everyone listened carefully to the voice, and felt that the voice was getting closer and closer, but it was very ethereal, and they couldn't tell the direction, and they couldn't tell whether it was the voice of a woman singing.
Cheng Jiao told the paddler to ignore the sound and leave the cave quickly, and the paddling frogman sped up the paddling speed according to Cheng Jiao's instructions.
At that moment, I don't know where I heard a baby's cry again. The cry was different from the woman's singing, clear and loud.
I shivered, and everyone immediately became alert, how could there be a baby crying in this underground cave? Before everyone could react, a frogman on Cheng Jiao's rubber boat suddenly pointed to the cave wall and said, "Look, what is that?" ”
Everyone looked at the place where he pointed and saw countless eyes appear on the cave wall.
The walls of this cave were originally very peculiar, covered with small holes the size of fists, densely packed, and now countless eyes appeared in these small holes, flashing with the light of the flashlight, as if this cave had suddenly become alive, and countless eyes were staring at us.
"What's in those holes?" Da Mao asked in horror.
"I don't know, but definitely not our fans," I replied.
As he spoke, he saw that the eyes in those small holes began to change, and they collectively protruded forward, as if the eyeballs were sticking out. Immediately afterward, two more baby cries were heard.
At this time, it seems that the voice of the woman singing is gradually clear, and with the woman's "singing", the baby's crying is more and more, louder and louder, one after another, and after a while, the whole cave is full of crying, deafening.
"Damn, didn't you go to the nursery school, and the baby 'blew up the nest', right?" Da Mao shouted.
didn't wait for Da Mao to finish speaking, I saw those "eyes" plop and plop and start to fall into the water, one "eye" fell down, and another "eye" protruded from the small hole, and so on. I could finally see by the light of the flashlight that those were the eyes, the kind of salamander-like things we saw on the road.
In a short time, thousands of these things gathered in the water around the cave, and they swam towards us like an encirclement.
Cheng Jiao suddenly remembered something and shouted: "It's not good, it's a Chinese salamander!" ”
"What is the Chinese salamander?" I asked.
"It is a close relative of the baby fish, but it is much smaller than the baby fish, this kind of thing lived in the age of dinosaurs, it is said to be extinct, but I heard that someone saw it in the mountains two years ago, it is called a living fossil, they are small but very ferocious, they eat their own larvae and their own kind when food is scarce, they are extremely aggressive, everyone is prepared."
At this time, the encirclement of the Chinese salamander has become smaller and smaller, everyone hurriedly used the guns in their hands to shoot at the salamander, for a while, the sound of gunfire, "singing" and "baby's cry" in the cave was mixed together, deafening.
But because the Chinese salamanders are small and very flexible, although the power of the guns is great, it seems to be useless on them, and there is little effect on wasting a lot of bullets, although some are killed, but more Chinese salamanders continue to gush out of those small holes, and they rush to our rubber boats like a tide to attack us.
Wu Lan was on the left side of the rubber boat, dancing the giant sword, only to see the sword flashing, fast as lightning, like a fan of the fan to build a barrier, and killed a large number of small salamanders in a short time.
Chen Ah Si and a frogman on the other side of the rubber boat used a sapper shovel to protect the hull of the boat, which also made it impossible for the small salamander to get close.
Cheng Jiao and their boat were the same, Tang Ying was on the side of the rubber boat, he was holding an oar, and he was also dancing like flying, so that the little salamander could not get close, and those frogmen did have two strokes, and they cooperated to protect the hull of the boat.
Da Mao and I were behind the rubber boat, Er Mao was in front of the rubber boat, and I also pulled out the sapper shovel from the right side of the backpack and tried desperately to prevent the small salamander from approaching, but we couldn't compare to those frogmen, let alone Tang Ying and Wu Lan, and after a while, there was no strength, some small salamanders took advantage of the air to swim in, and the sharp teeth tore a hole in the rubber boat in a few clicks, I quickly tried my best to shoot those small salamanders to death, but more small salamanders came over again.
Fortunately, this rubber boat is double-layered, just like a car tire, although the outside is broken, as long as the inner layer is not broken, there will be no air leakage, but there are constantly small salamanders gushing out of the hole, repelling wave after wave, and if it goes on like this, it is estimated that we will not last long.
Da Mao shouted: "I, I can't hold on, hurry, hurry up and think of a way, if this continues, as soon as the rubber boat leaks, everyone will have to fall into the river to feed them." ”
"These little salamanders appeared because of the woman's singing, and it is estimated that it has something to do with that singing, and the singing must be stopped first," Cheng Jiao shouted.
"But, where did the song come from?" I asked.
"Well, it seems to be from the stalactite pillar in the middle." Ermao, who was in front of the boat, said. Although Ermao is usually a little sluggish, his ear voice is very smart.
Before Ermao finished speaking, I felt that the hull of our boat shook slightly, the figure flashed, and a flash of light shot to the stone pillar in the middle of the cave, only to hear a click, followed by a figure flashing, the hull of the boat just shook slightly, and the person had returned to the boat. I fixed my eyes and saw that it was Wu Lan, his body was simply too fast, and in less than a second, he played back and forth between the stone pillar and the dinghy, and the song came to an abrupt end.
As the singing stopped, the "eyes" in the small cave disappeared, the small salamanders no longer gushed out, we stepped up to clean up the remaining small salamanders in the water, after a while, the small salamanders in the water were basically dried up, and a thick layer of small salamander corpses floated on the water, and the cave returned to calm.
Everyone sat on the rubber boat exhausted, panting heavily, I only felt that my chest was hot, like a fire, and there was no strength in my body, but fortunately Wu Lan stopped the song in time so that the little salamander would not gush out, otherwise I would have to vomit blood.
After resting for a while, feeling that the physical strength gradually recovered somewhat, everyone looked at the stone pillar in the middle, and saw that the stalactite pillar was vertically cut open by Wu Lan with the giant sword, and some thick green liquid flowed out of the crack.
While everyone was looking, they saw that the crack of the stone pillar began to expand, and pieces of debris fell from the stone pillar into the water, and as the crack expanded, a woman slowly appeared in the stone pillar. (To be continued.) )
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