The woman looked to be in her twenties, her eyes were closed, her face was pale, her head hung slightly, and her long black hair was scattered over her shoulders. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's a dead man. Tang Ying said.

No one could deny Tang Ying's judgment because he had seen too many dead people.

But why is there a dead woman in the stone pillars of this underground cave? Who is she? It looks like she has just died, and who killed her and brought her here? I wondered, but I didn't ask these questions, because I knew that everyone must have these doubts in their hearts, and no one could answer them.

"Was it her singing that attracted those Chinese salamanders?" Da Mao asked.

"Perhaps," I replied casually, "but this is too evil, how can a dead man sing?"

"Dead people definitely can't sing, it is estimated that the so-called 'singing' is caused by the geographical structure here, maybe we enter the water waves disturbed the stalactite pillar to resonate and produce that kind of sound, and the frequency of that sound is just enough to attract those Chinese salamanders. This kind of acoustic phenomenon abounds, such as the echo wall of the Temple of Heaven and the 'midnight singing' of the London Grand Theatre. When Wu Lan split the stone pillar with his sword, the resonance was destroyed, so the so-called 'singing' stopped. Cheng Jiao replied.

Cheng Jiao can always explain some weird things with scientific principles, and her explanations are very reasonable, which has to be convincing.

After a while, as a large piece of debris from the stone pillar fell off, the woman was revealed in its entirety, and her appearance shocked everyone.

I saw that the woman's hands and feet were nailed to the stone pillar with metal wedges. It seems to have been nailed for a long time, and the metal wedge is quite rusty. The strangest thing is that the woman is wrapped in a circle of tubular things, and those tubular things are neither plastic nor metal, but like umbilical cords, which seem to be connected to the woman's body, a part of the woman's body.

The tube-like stuff was flesh-colored and translucent, with a faint flow of dark green liquid visible inside. Part of the tube on the woman's upper body was cut off when Wu Lan split the stone pillar just now. A thick, green liquid flows out of it. The tubes on the woman's lower body wrapped around her legs, leading between the nailed feet into the stone pillars below, and since the stone pillars below were not broken, it was not known where the tubes ended up.

"This woman's death is really weird," I said.

"Leave her alone. We'd better get out of here as soon as possible," Cheng Jiao said.

The frogman in charge of rowing on the two rubber boats listened to Cheng Jiao's instructions. Pick up the paddle rowing boat. But the strange thing is that no matter how you row, the dinghy just stays put. It's like something is sticking to it.

"Damn, it's evil again, why the canoe can't row?" said a frogman rowing boat.

"I can't move on this side. Another frogman in a rowing boat also said.

"Is it hanging on to something?" Chen Asi said, using a sapper shovel to remove the carcass of the Chinese salamander near the rubber boat and look under the boat with a flashlight.

"It seems to be something, but I can't see it clearly, it looks like a mass of aquatic plants, I have to go down and take a look. Chen Ah said as he looked around.

After hearing this, Cheng Jiao instructed the two frogmen: "Monkey, Lao Zhao, you two have good water nature, can you go down and see." ”

"No problem, it's on our brothers," Monkey and Lao Zhao said in unison.

I remember that the frogman named Monkey was the last to come down from the well in the stone chamber, and I was still wondering how the wheel of the winch was turned by a man to send the person with the rope down, and there was only one person left on it, how could this person come down? After a while, the person above came down, only to see that he had no rope tied to his body, two ropes wrapped around his arm, pulling a rope with one hand, and sliding down a large section as soon as he let go, when the rope was about to reach the end, he grabbed the rope and then pulled the other rope down, it turned out that he was wrapping a rope around the runner, using the inertia of the body to control the runner, and repeating the action like this, looking at the time when he was still two or three meters high from the ground, his hand was loosened, a somersault, and his feet fell steadily to the ground, causing everyone to applaud, even Tang Ying couldn't help but praise him. Cheng Jiao introduced that his nickname is Monkey, he used to be an acrobatic troupe, and his body was very flexible, which left a deep impression on me.

Another named Lao Zhao said that Cheng Jiao used to be an amateur diving instructor, and he and the monkey were very good at water, so Cheng Jiao ordered the two of them to go into the water to check.

I saw that the monkey and Lao Zhao took off their backpacks and holsters, did not bring oxygen masks, tied a dagger to their legs, pushed away the corpse of the little salamander in the water, jumped into the water with two sounds, took a deep breath, and plunged down.

Everyone watched from the dinghy, waiting for their news.

But after waiting for two minutes, they did not come up, and after waiting for more than a minute, they still did not come up, and there was no movement in the water. The longest breath-holding time for ordinary people in the water is about two minutes, and the good ones can reach three or four minutes, but they have been down for nearly four minutes and have not come up, and everyone is a little anxious.

After another while, there was still no movement, Cheng Jiao said: "Something must have happened." ”

"I'll go down and have a look," Chen said.

According to Cheng Jiao, this Chen Asi said that he is the right-hand man of the boss of the first-class wholesaler, and since he went down the mine, he always seems to be competing with Tang Ying and Wu Lan, and it is estimated that he feels that the first-level wholesaler has a lot of power in this industry, and he wants to show the strength of the first-level wholesaler in front of his peers as a backbone personnel.

"Are you okay?" I said deliberately.

"Ah Si should be fine", Cheng Jiao said: "His skills are very good, and his water nature is also good." ”

Then he said to Chen Asi: "Pay attention to safety." ”

Chen Ah Si agreed, took the dagger, and plunged into the water.

"This Chen Ah Si always seems to want to find an opportunity to show it," I said deliberately sarcastically.

"He is indeed very capable", Cheng Jiao said: "The tiger father has no dogs, and his grandfather is the famous Tufuzi Chen Pia Si in the south." ”

I was secretly taken aback, and I thought no wonder. It turned out that his grandfather was Chen Pi Ah Si, I heard some things about Chen Pi Ah Si after I entered this industry, he was known for his black heart, ruthless hands, and good skills in the industry, but it is said that he disappeared later, and no one has ever seen him again.

About a minute after Chen Asi went into the water, there was movement in the water, and I saw that the water splashed, Chen Asi showed his head and took a deep breath, as if he just wanted to say something. I don't know what's in the water. Immediately dragged him back again, and then, I saw a churn under the water, and Chen Asi came out of the water again. Shouted, "Kill the ...... woman." I haven't waited for anything to finish. He was dragged back into the water.

Before I could react, I saw Tang Ying's hand raised slightly, and three bone piercing nails were shot out at the same time. The woman in the stone pillar in the middle, one nailed to the center of the eyebrows, one nailed to the throat, and one nailed to the front heart, the speed of the technique, the accuracy of the dart, is amazing.

I immediately reacted, Chen Ah Si said "kill that woman quickly", could it be that the woman in the stone pillar is alive?

I saw that after the bone nail hit the woman in the stone pillar, the woman immediately changed, her long black straight hair instantly turned into dust, her originally bare white skin became like gray-black orange peel, her whole body dried up like a deflated ball, and even the tubular things wrapped around her body dried up, and the woman instantly turned into a zombie.

At this time, Chen Ah Si surfaced again, panting heavily, and everyone pulled him to the rubber boat.

Chen Asi lay on the rubber boat and recovered for a long time, his breathing stabilized, and he said intermittently: "There are seven coffins under the water and under the water. ”

Everyone was taken aback.

Chen Ah Si calmed down for a while, and then said: "It is seven sarcophagi, which are tied with iron chains and fixed to the bottom of the water, but the lid of one of the coffins is open, and the inside is empty, and the rest of the coffins are still sealed, but there are many tentacles sticking out of the gaps in the coffin lid, and there are suction cups on those tentacles, and just now those tentacles used suction cups to suck the rubber boat."

"How are the monkeys and Lao Zhao?" asked Cheng Jiao.

"They're all dead, and some tentacles are entangled in them," Chen said reluctantly.

Everyone was very sad to hear the news, and I didn't feel it in my heart, the two people who were alive just now, talking and laughing, disappeared in less than a few minutes, the reality is too cruel.

After being silent for a while, Cheng Jiao asked, "Why did you say kill that woman?"

"I saw the pipes wrapped around the woman in the stone pillar under the stone pillar under the stone pillar sticking out from under the stone pillar to connect the coffins, guessing that they might be a twin system, interdependent, at that time those tentacles entangled me, I cut off a few, but more tentacles entangled me again, I thought that if they were really twin systems, one side died, and the other party could not live, there was no other way, but to try it, but I didn't expect it to work. When you killed the woman, it seemed that the contents of the coffin were also dead, and the tentacles were useless. ”

As he spoke, Chen Asi frowned and took a breath.

"Are you injured?" asked Cheng Jiao.

"It's okay, that tentacle seems to sting, and the calf is slammed," Chen Asi said.

I saw a small bag on Chen Asi's calf, and a frogman helped him eliminate the poison and smeared it with ointment to treat bites, Cheng Jiao was afraid that this thing would be poisonous and infected, so he injected him with a shot of "Baifu Qing" and a shot of antibiotics.

No one could tell what the woman in the stone pillar and the contents of the coffin were, and even Tang Ying, who was well-informed and had rich experience in fighting, didn't know that the two rubber boats sailed out of this cave.

The rubber boat went forward along the underground river, and bypassed the many bends, there were many branches in the middle, Cheng Jiao looked at the drawings and the compass to direct the direction, there was a very narrow passage in front, it was just enough for a rubber boat to pass, and the water in this place was turbulent, our rubber boat followed Cheng Jiao and them, like a "rapids" through this channel, after passing through the channel, the rubber boat was washed far away by the water, and almost hit the rock and the cave wall several times, fortunately, the two frogmen of the rowing boat were experienced, so they avoided the collision.

After being washed away by the water for some distance, the current gradually slowed down, and the rubber boat came to a huge cave, which was much larger than the one we had come down from the well before, and the underground river flowed through the middle of the cave, and on both sides of the river were shoals, and I suddenly saw something on the shallows by the river. (To be continued.) )