Chapter Thirty-Five: Mountains and Rivers

The entrance to the cave is at the bottom of a small canyon. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the back of the cave is a straight cliff, on which there are almost no flowers and trees, and on both sides of the canyon are some large rock walls that slope towards the middle, these two large rock walls have the height of dozens of positions, and the higher the rock walls are, the closer they are, and when they reach the top, they are almost together, and only some light penetrates on the right side.

The bottom of the small canyon is uneven and rocky, only five or six feet wide.

Looking ahead, the canyon twists to the right in a large arc, and its distant bottom fades until it disappears into darkness, as if the bottom is still sloping downward.

What made Dekang's back stand on his back was the terrible silence of the little canyon: no running water, no howling wind in Altyn winter, no rustle of rolled snow against the rocks, no rattle of snow sliding down the slopes.

It's a terrible silent world, like a dark space, like two gates to hell.

"Second brother. What shall we do? Baoyue asked in a low voice.

There is a cliff on the back, what else can I do: "Go forward, there will be a way out, it's better than being stuffy in a dark space." ”

Dekang walked forward with Baoyue on his back for a while, looking back at the swarthy big pipe hole, and couldn't figure it out in his heart.

The picture on the top wall clearly shows that the pipe at the bottom of the house leads to the adjacent lake, which later turned into a grassland and the black pipe disappeared.

The big house is obviously still a long way from the mountain range, how can this pipe pass through the mountain and appear in a small canyon without wind and snow?

'Those strange humans must have some secrets not carved into the walls. Dekang guessed as he walked.

The bottom of the uneven canyon is full of rocks, and you have to look at the road conditions in front of you every step you take, otherwise you will not be able to pass through the narrow gaps with a large basin on your back.

Several times when he stopped to catch his breath, Dekang wanted to throw away this burden, and every time Baoyue looked at himself pitifully with his forelimbs, and his heart softened and wanted to throw it away next time, but he still carried it.

Gasping for breath and dizzy, I walked forward, and when I stopped to rest again, I could no longer see the entrance to the starting point, and the place gradually became dark.

Dekang jumped on a rock and looked ahead, the bottom of the canyon was indeed stretching downward, and the front was getting darker and darker, and I really didn't know what the exit would look like.

"Second brother. Look at it. Baoyue behind him suddenly screamed.

Dekang turned to look at her, and the cub pointed to a stone under the rock wall on the left, the boss with his mouth open.

There's not any movement here. Dekang looked suspiciously in the direction she pointed, and there was a stone sheep lying down under the rock wall, and a broken leg and hoof stuck in the crack of the stone beside it.

There are no such things as stone sheep and stone horses near the Altyn Mountains, and I heard that these things appear from time to time in some places on the edge of the steppe, but humans who have nothing to do with their stomachs generally carve the size of sheep and horses into a relatively large size, and then place them in places where special ceremonies are held.

'How can there be a stone sheep in a place where this bird doesn't poop, did it fall from above?' Thinking of this, Dekang looked up at the top of the rock wall.

It was dark and there was no reflection of snow at all.

'It's so high, even if it can fall, it will definitely be shattered, could it be a trap?' Dekang hooked up a small stone and threw it at the stone sheep, only to hear a snapping sound, the stone smashed on the stone sheep's back and flew out, and there was no movement on the stone sheep's side.

After waiting for a while, Dekang jumped over and squatted on the side of the stone sheep to take a closer look, and found that the body shape of this light gray-brown stone sheep was no different from that of an ordinary adult fat sheep.

He was amazed by the exquisiteness of human carving: the face was no different from that of a real little fat sheep, the horns were full of wrinkled growth rings, there were even small traces of fluff on the inside of the ears, and although the wool on the whole body was gone, some of the skin could still distinguish the curly wool.

Baoyue had already climbed on the back of the stone sheep and rode on its neck with the horns of the sheep: "Second brother." Isn't it strange that this little stone sheep is placed here by humans, why don't they put it in a big space? ”

It doesn't appear on the screen at all, who knows where it came from.

Dekang shook his head: "It's not like they did it, it's strange that humans have their own ideas when they do things, and it's useless to put a stone sheep here." ”

After speaking, Dekang had an idea: 'Could it be that there is something under this stone sheep?' ’

Hugged Baoyue Dekang squatted down and carried the head of the stone sheep, his left lower limb stepped out of the side half a step and his back moved the stone sheep out of place, looking back, there was nothing on the ground except sand and gravel, Dekang squatted down and pulled for a while, revealing a hard rock underneath.

Dekang scratched his scalp, what an inexplicable thing.

"Baoyue. There is only this inexplicable stone sheep here, the second brother feels that something is wrong, let's hurry and strive to run out this day and night. ”

"Ahh What's the problem? Baoyue said, turning her head to look back and forth.

"There is no wind, snow, no water in this small canyon, and the strangest thing is that there is no sound at all."

"Aren't all canyons like this!" Baoyue's face turned pale instantly.

Dekang hugged her: "Don't be afraid, there will be a way out if there is a canyon." Maybe we'll find the Flying Eagle's food library, and those bastards like to hide in places where birds don't shit. ”

After listening to the second brother's words, Baoyue's face recovered a little, and Dekang carried her back and buckled the big basin and continued to walk forward.

The ground was still full of rocks, but the canyon gradually became wider, but it was still dark overhead.

There are more and more stone sheep, stone horses, and stone deer on the road, most of them are missing arms and legs, and some don't even have heads; Dekang even saw the fox, the stone tiger, and the stone wolf clan carved in stone.

Dekang stopped to take a closer look at the stone wolf in front of him, and found that his posture was very strange: his whole body was curled up, his hindlimbs were shrunk into his lower abdomen, his tail was also tucked under his buttocks, and his forelimbs were straight and straight forward, but his head was tilted back. This posture is not standing, lying on the stomach is not like lying down, but the forelimbs and head are so strange.

Unable to think of why, Dekang looked back and forth, and found that all the carving postures were very strange, and none of them could stand normally.

'Who's doing all this weird stuff here?' The more Dekang looked at it, the more puzzled he became.

"Second brother. Why don't you leave? Baoyue tugged at his neck under the big basin.

Dekang turned his head to Baoyue while turning the big basin upside down and said, "There are stone sheep, stone horses, and stone oxen here before and after. ”

"Really! Baoyue wants to take a look. The cub was forced to jump off her back, forgetting that this was not a dark space with flat ground, and as a result, her forelimbs stepped on the edge of the rocks next to her, and her hind limbs fell directly into the cracks in the rocks.

"Whew...

Dekang didn't have time to react at all, so he could only jump down and pick her up at the moment: "Baoyue." Have you twisted your upper and lower limbs, there are rocks everywhere here, and the second brother has to look back and forth every step he takes, and you dare to jump around. ”

Baoyue glared at the big basin: "It's all the stinky basin that covers Baoyue, so I didn't see it clearly." ”

"Or the second brother will smash the damn stinky basin and throw it away. Hey, hey, hey... ”

"Don't... You're still smiling like that. Baoyue stretched out her right forepaw and tried to pull his ear.

Dekang quickly tilted his head back to dodge Baoyue's claws, and at the same time held Baoyue with his forelimbs and stretched forward as far as possible to keep her out of reach, Baoyue screamed and scratched his chin.

Suddenly, Dekang's mind flashed the posture of the stone wolf clan, his head was tilted back, and his forelimbs stretched forward to show that he was also dodging something, why didn't he run away and curl his lower limbs?

"Second brother. You're in a daze again, let me go. "Baoyue, who has been held in mid-air by Dekang, is in a hurry.

Dekang hurriedly put her down, the little cub stared at the stone wolf clan left and right, and then looked, and finally touched his face with his forelimbs, touched his paws, and sniffed it with his nose, and finally lay on the belly of the stone wolf clan and turned his head to look at Dekang suspiciously, looking like he was asking about the results.

Dekang shook his head at her, a hint of disappointment flashed in Baoyue's eyes, and he stared back at the head of the stone wolf clan.

Dekang touched her head; "The second brother couldn't figure out how there were so many stone carvings of the prairie guys. But since humans can get these guys out here, there must be a way out ahead, so let's keep going. ”

Carrying Baoyue on his back and continuing to walk forward, he could see scattered stone sheep, stone deer, stone horses and other guys on the road intermittently, anyway, he couldn't figure out the situation, and Dekang was too lazy to stop and check one by one.

Walking like this for a while, unconsciously, his nose smelled a different smell in the air, Dekang stopped and inhaled carefully, the air was indeed different, and there was a smell of water in it.

Normally, there is some moisture in the air, and no matter how sensitive the nose is, it will not be able to tell the difference.

If you are close to the air near a river or lake, it will have a fresh, slightly fishy smell of water that can be recognized by the average nose, and a sensitive one can be smelled from a distance.

If it is in the desert or the Gobi region, even if it is a small pool of water, the smell of water emitted by it will drift far away, and most of the guys who wander in such places have an unusually sensitive nose to help find water.

The nose of the wolf clan is also the number one on the sensitivity list and is ranked first.

Dekang raised his left forelimb and patted the big basin: "Baoyue." There was water in front and we had water to drink. ”

Baoyue lifted off the big basin and slid off Dekang's back, and the little cub didn't dare to jump this time.

Dekang noticed that her lips began to wrinkle a little, the color was slightly whitish, the problem was not very serious, if the corners of the mouth cracked or began to blister, it would be a threat to the little cub's life, at that moment, the speed of dehydration would be very fast, and she would faint at any time.

Baoyue hooked Dekang's right forelimb and stretched out his nose to take a long breath, and then took another breath, and finally turned his head to look at him suspiciously: "Second brother." How do you know there's water up ahead? ”

"There's still some way to go, you're too young to smell it."

"But Baoyue's nose is also very sensitive."

"Then you'll grow up quickly. Let's go. ”

The bottom of the canyon here is already about twenty feet wide, the ground is much smoother, and there are not so many rocks, so Dekang can trot with Baoyue on his back.

Soon, Baoyue under the big basin also smelled the smell of moisture, and she pulled Dekang's fur and shouted, "Second brother." Baoyue also smelled the smell of water, did you see the flow of water? ”

"The bottom of the cliff on the left looks a little damp, so it should be not far ahead." After saying that, Dekang quickened his pace and ran forward, he also wanted to gulp water into his stomach.

Clear water seems to be squeezed out of the stone crevice at the bottom of the cliff on the left, and at first there is only a slight trace of water at the junction between the rock wall and the ground, and gradually the water trail becomes a slender stream.

The moment he saw the slender flow of water, Dekang threw down the big basin, threw away the rock sheepskin, and rushed up with Baoyue on his back.

They lay on their stomachs beside the slender stream, their mouths pressed to the ground and their lips sucking the thin layer of stream, completely ignoring the mud and sand that filled their mouths.

What I don't understand is that after sucking for a while, I don't know how much water I sucked, but my mouth felt more thirsty.

Dekang looked up at Baoyue, and the little cub was also looking at the second brother with a surprised expression, they looked at me, I looked at you, and laughed at the same time.

I was really hungry, and I saw the slender streams, and I was afraid that there would be no ponds.

They both pulled their legs and ran forward at the same time.

Baoyue rushed directly into the small pond, covered his little head under the water and drank wildly, Dekang also put his mouth into the water to collect his breath and inhale violently, who knew that he also sucked water into his nose, and suddenly choked his head sour, sneezed several times in succession, and choked out all the water he had just drunk.

The little cub heard the movement and looked up at the second brother, grinned and poured her water again.

This time, Dekang and Baoyue drank until the water in their stomachs was about to come out of their throats before they went ashore.

Shaking the water droplets on his body, he squinted on his back and lay lazily on the ground, Baoyue followed Dekang's example and shook his ass for a while, and then pillowed on his limbs, their stomachs were bulging, and water flowed from the corners of their mouths when they took a breath.

After lying down for a while, Baoyue finally spoke: "Second brother." The water here is so sweet. ”

"All the water is sweet."

"Second brother. Why is the water not cold at all and does not freeze? ”

"Because it's 。。。。。。 here" Dekang replied in a daze, and he couldn't go on halfway through speaking, what kind of place is this?

Dekang stared at the height and asked himself, and suddenly found that the cliffs on both sides began to close together out of nowhere, and the top in front of him became an arc-shaped dome.

'O luna. Have we entered the belly of the mountain! Dekang couldn't believe his eyes, and jumped up to look around.

Suddenly, Baoyue's little head, which was pillowing in the limb nest, suddenly rubbed on the ground, and she screamed and jumped up: "Second brother." Why don't you say, what the hell is this place? ”

Dekang stood motionless on a rock, his eyes staring straight ahead, if he had rolled on the mud and sand before, you would have thought that there was another stone wolf from a distance.

Dekang was completely shocked.

If this is hell, then the dark space is heaven.

There, Dekang at least saw strange humans, saw the first generation of Divine Sword Wolf King, saw magical murals, and got a sword.

When I saw the small pond in front of me, I thought it was the sea, and I just wanted to drink as much as I wanted, but I didn't think to look ahead to see what was going on in front of me.

Since running out of the big pipe, Dekang has been saying to himself that the door of life and death has been experienced, the bad luck has passed, and what awaits us in front of us is sweet clear water and fat little antelope.

Even if he felt that the small canyon was getting darker and darker on the way, he was still comforting himself: 'De Kang Ge fell into the dark space during the day and walked out of the small canyon in the night, and many summers and winters will be a legend after many summers and winters. ’

He didn't even bother to look up to discern the reason for the darkness of the canyon.

It wasn't until Baoyue asked that Dekang came to a clear picture from the beauty he had weaved.

In front of Dekang's eyes: the small pond became a large pond, and the big pond became a large stream, and the big stream gradually overflowed the entire valley floor and became a river: a big mold river that could not see the sun and moon, did not know the depth, and did not know where it flowed.

There is no way to go back to heaven, and life and death are unpredictable when you go forward.

'Life and death are better than death, and it is better to drown in a river than to starve to death in a dark space. Dekang made up his mind to break out.

With the spirit of determination, I relaxed a lot, and my mind started to move, thinking that human beings have also come here to rectify the stone sheep, stone horses, and stone wolf clans, and if they can come in, we can go out.

"Whew。。。。。。 Not...... Dekang yelled at the Big Mold.

Baoyue had already circled the rock many times, and she wanted to climb but couldn't, so she could only call Dekang below, but he didn't hear a word.

Later, seeing that the second brother looked wrong, he could only lie on the edge of the rock and be anxious, and when he saw Dekang jumping off the rock after screaming, Baoyue couldn't control it anymore, and the tears in his eyes were left down his cheeks.

Dekang hugged her: "Baoyue." There's a river ahead, and we'll never be thirsty again. "I can't tell her the seriousness of the situation, I can only take it one step at a time.

Baoyue was still sobbing: "But just now, the second brother seemed to have seen the most terrible thing, and his face turned white with fright." ”

Dekang patted her on the scalp: "The second brother drank too much water, and he didn't want to spit it out, so he was holding it there." ”

"Stinky second brother. It scared Baoyue a lot. After listening to Dekang's nonsense, Baoyue burst into tears and laughed.

Dekang sighed secretly, this winter and summer is really fucked up.

First of all, the family suffered a tragic disaster, and finally escaped to Belik Lake to settle down, who knew that somehow went up the mountain to play, fell into the dark space where there was not a drop of water, almost died of thirst in it, and ran out of fear and racked his brains, who knew that the end of the canyon was a dark river without the sun and the moon.

O Luna.

This is too tricky for my brother.

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