Chapter 38: Cave Bones

Hearing Dekang's words, Baoyue stretched out her head to look at the corner, and asked suspiciously, "Second brother." Pen Γ— fun Γ— Pavilion www. biquge。 infoIsn't that monster not chasing us, why do you still want to escape? ”

"It's not a safe place here, who knows if the undead demon will appear again, so we have to get out of here as soon as possible and stay here to die."

Baoyue was even more confused, stared at Dekang and asked, "Hasn't the second brother been swimming forward?" Why did Baoyue fall into the water, second brother, you are so happy? ”

Dekang touched her little face: "The second brother is happy because there is a dead end in front of him, there must be a dark hole there, and there is no way to escape; But the clever Baoyue fell into the water, but suddenly found a way to escape from the dark hole. ”

Baoyue looked ahead at this time, watching her little face gradually turn a little white, and her body also shrank into Dekang's arms and murmured in a low voice, "Second brother." Is there really a dead end ahead, do you really have a way to escape? ”

Dekang nodded sharply: "Second brother was also stupid when he saw it for the first time, the underwater dark hole is even more fucked up than the dark space, but our smart Baoyue has found the only good way." ”

"I found a way?" Baoyue's eyes widened like brass bells hanging on herdsmen's horses.

"That's right. Turn the big basin upside down and press it on the surface of the water, and the second brother can breathe by hiding in it with Baoyue on his back. ”

Baoyue's little eyes were dripping, and gradually, her eyes lit up: "Whew... Just now, Baoyue can breathe under the big basin. ”

Try it out now.

Dekang held the rock sheepskin in his mouth and raised his forelimbs to buckle the large basin upside down on the top of his head, keeping the basin edge in a horizontal state and slowly approaching the water surface, the river water overflowed the paws little by little, and the basin edges on both sides fell on the water surface almost at the same time.

The distance of one claw at the mouth of the basin was all submerged under the water, Dekang turned his head and Baoyue glanced at each other, and saw each other's surprises, and their eyes brightened.

Baoyue glared violently at her lower limbs, and took advantage of the moment when her body was rushing up to kiss Dekang's cheek: "Second brother." You're so good, you can think of such a solution. ”

Dekang replied with a smile: "Baoyue of the Dekang family is a little lucky star. If it weren't for Baoyue's insistence on bringing the big basin, if it weren't for Baoyue falling into the water and hiding under the big basin, the second brother wouldn't have been able to think of any way. ”

"Then you have to stay with Baoyue when you go back to the cave, and you have to play with Baoyue on your back every day and night." The cub is very good at climbing up the pole.

"No problem. As long as he doesn't go out to hunt, the second brother accompanies Baoyue and plays with Baoyue on his back. Without saying a few words, the rock sheepskin was about to sink, and Dekang hurriedly hooked it with his lower limbs.

It is also strange to say that the forelimbs buckle the edge of the basin, and the whole body is in the water, Dekang did not paddle at all, but Dekang and Baoyue and the big basin actually moved slowly with the water flow and did not sink into the water.

After drifting like this for a while, Dekang flipped the big basin and looked ahead, and he was almost close to the end of the dark river.

The color of the rock wall at the end is no different from that on both sides, indicating that there is no fault in the belly of the mountain, and from the speed of the water flow, it seems that there will be no big whirlpools at the entrance of the dark cave, and your body can maintain a balanced state to enter the dark hole.

When he inspected it, he drifted close to the entrance of the cave, and the rock wall above the dark river gradually approached in a large arc shape and submerged under the water, that is, half a large oval, Dekang let out a sigh of relief, so that the inverted basin could easily float into the dark hole.

"Baoyue. Hug the second brother tightly. We're about to drift into the dark hole. After saying that, Dekang turned the basin upside down again, carefully sinking his forelimbs, and letting the edge of the basin slowly approach the surface of the water.

It was very smooth, and the distance of one claw on the edge of the basin submerged under the water, and Dekang's claws tightly clasped the symmetrical points on both sides of the basin, trying his best to keep the balance and stability of the large basin.

With a slight sudden, the bottom of the large basin facing the sky finally touched the top rock face that bent down, that is, the entrance of the dark hole, Dekang's body paused slightly in the water, then the upper body stayed in place, and the lower body began to tilt towards the dark hole, and the whole body was on the verge of losing balance.

Dekang's lower limbs kicked the water a few times, trying to reduce the amplitude of the tilt, and at the same time, the upper limbs pulled down the edge of the basin, and the big basin was submerged half a paw distance underwater, and finally, in a slight sudden sound, Dekang carried Baoyue on his back and drifted into the dark hole.

Although the top could not be seen under the large basin, Dekang could still feel the water filling the entire dark hole.

When entering the dark hole, Dekang's heart mentioned his throat again, as long as one is careless in it, the big basin is flipped and it will be completely over: because it is not easy to keep the inverted basin stable by clasping the symmetrical two parts, and a tremor or uneven force on the left and right forelimbs will cause the large basin to roll over instantly.

After drifting into the cave for more than a dozen positions, Dekang found that it was actually much safer than he thought, because the smooth rock wall at the top of the cave provided an additional third, fourth, and sometimes even the entire basin floor as a support point, and as long as he didn't pull the edge of the basin on one side, the big basin would not roll over at all.

Dekang was relieved for a while.

After getting acquainted, Dekang can swing his lower limbs slightly to increase the speed of rafting, and drift for a while in the continuous sudden sound, and suddenly feel that the big basin is loosened, and the sudden sound is gone.

'Probably drifted into the bumps of the dark hole. Dekang tried to lift the basin upwards, and sure enough, the basin easily detached from the water.

In front of me was a cave the size of only three or four figures.

The top of the cave is only one more than one position from the water surface, and there are some water beads scattered on the surrounding rock walls, and the traces of water stains caused by different water levels left by a circle of rock walls close to the water surface can be clearly seen in a long winter and summer.

The air in the small space smells a little unpleasant, with a little musty smell and a little watery smell, at this time, you can't take care of these, Dekang and Baoyue gasped, no one knows where the next hole or exit is, how far is the distance?

In this mountain waterway that does not see the light of day, it is the gift of the moon god to have a place to breathe.

In the blink of an eye, he drifted to the end of the small space, and Dekang skillfully buckled the large basin upside down, and took Baoyue into the boundless darkness again.

With a series of sudden sounds, Dekang carefully paddled the water to speed up and drift forward. This dark hole is relatively long, and it has been drifting for a while, but it has not yet touched a pit where you can take a breath, and the air in the large basin is gradually becoming dirty, and Dekang has already smelled the body odor of himself and Baoyue.

If there are still no holes, we will not be able to survive too long. Dekang began to hold his breath so that Baoyue could take a few more breaths, and only take a small breath when he couldn't hold it anymore at the end.

When Dekang's face was red, the thunderous suddenness suddenly stopped, and the large basin above his head was loosened and floated to the surface.

Dekang hurriedly flipped over the basin and exhaled the breath he was holding at the same time, he didn't bother to look around, staring at the top rock wall and taking a big breath.

The air here is relatively fresh, although it is not as fresh as near the mouth of the big pipe, but it is much fresher than in the small recesses of the dark hole, and there is no musty smell or watery smell.

"Second brother, look. It's a big cave. He glared at the rock wall at the top several times before Dekang reacted, and when he looked down to take a look, Baoyue's frightened scream came from next to his ears.

Baoyue's little head rested on Dekang's left shoulder, with the second brother protecting her, she would be so frightened, thinking that at the beginning of the fork, the brown bear chased behind her, and there were few positions behind her, and between life and death, Baoyue on her back did not scream, facing the undead demon in the dark space and in the dark river, as long as Dekang was by her side, Baoyue was not so frightened.

Dekang turned his head to look at Baoyue at lightning speed to determine the position of her gaze, while his right eye swept forward to the left.

When he saw the scene of the space on the right side of the dark river, Dekang's head suddenly went blank, and he remained motionless in the movement just now, and his body floated in the water as if he had lost his instincts.

I don't know how long it took, maybe for a moment, maybe after drifting for a long time, there was a pain in the left ear, and this pain became more and more obvious, and Dekang gradually came back to his senses.

"Second brother. Second brother. What is this place and what are those exactly? Say it quickly ... Say it quickly... Second brother," Baoyue shouted loudly in Dekang's ear.

Dekang patted her little head mechanically, and said slowly in a mosquito-like voice, "Baoyue." Don't shout, let the second brother observe and think. ”

It was a large cavern with forty or fifty figures.

The dark river is on the right side of the big cave, the right side of Dekang is the rock wall of the dark cave, and the dark river on the left side is the space of the entire big cave.

The cave gradually sloped upwards from the dark river, although the ground was uneven, there were no large rocks, and there was a white light at the highest point in front of the right side of the large cave, Dekang must have been the reflection of snow, because the temperature of this cave was much lower than the dark river in front.

Baoyue's horror is not a mixture of sadness and joy after finding a way out, but from the ground of the Great Cave.

On the left side of the big cave, five or six places away from the dark river, all the way to the top, occupying most of the entire ground of the big cave, there are gray skeletons neatly arranged, each skeleton is quite complete.

The most peculiar thing is their skulls, none of which are crooked; All the skeletons are placed in the direction of the Dark River, and each skull is also facing the Dark River.

Judging from Dekang's position, it felt like their empty eyes were still unwillingly staring at something.

At the first glance of these skeletons, Dekang concluded that this was the skeleton of the wolf clan, and it was strange that he had a familiar and unfamiliar feeling, and it was this feeling that made Dekang stunned instantly.

In early summer, when he followed them to patrol the edge of Altyn, Dekang also saw the skeletons of the wolf clan outside, as well as the skeletons of the little fox and the jackal clan.

At that time, he just stepped forward and sniffed, and thought, 'This is the skeleton of our wolf clan, why did you die here,' and he didn't feel the same way he did now.

'For many winters and summers, there has been no other group of wolves in the entire inner region of Altyn except for our Dekang family, and Ah Da and Ah Ma have never mentioned that there is a cave near Lake Belik where the bones of the wolf clan are kept; The wolf clan comes from the earth, and of course returns to the earth after death, and never deliberately preserves the skeleton of an elder, so many neatly placed wolf skeletons in front of him are simply unheard of. ’

There were so many, such strange wolf skeletons, Dekang was shocked when he saw them, not to mention Baoyue.

Such an unusual thing may hide a big secret of the wolf clan here.

Throwing the rock sheepskin beside him ashore, hooking the rock bumps on the shore and climbing ashore, by the way, picking up the big basin of the great hero of this dark river trip, Dekang and Baoyue shook their bodies vigorously, shaking off the water droplets on their bodies as much as possible.

This kind of weather cub must not be frozen, Dekang stepped forward to help Baoyue pat every part of his body after shaking it himself, basically not giving the water droplets a place to hide, and after dealing with the water droplets, they glanced at each other, and approached the skeleton step by step.

Each of these skeletons in front of him is larger than the ordinary wolf skeleton, it is conceivable that they must have been a relatively large wolf clan when they were alive, and judging from the skeleton in front of his heels, he should be a strong wolf clan, and then look at the two skeletons on both sides of him, it turned out to be a strong wolf clan.

Dekang's eyes instantly sharpened.

Dekang squatted down to take a closer look at the skeleton, even if the skeletons were scattered on the ground, it was not difficult to see that his whole body was intact, without any traces of injury, and then looked at the two bodies next to him, which were also complete skeletons of the strong wolf clan.

He stared at the ground and moved his feet unconsciously, and looked at almost all the skeletons in the first row, none of the skeletons were small cubs or old people, all of them were strong wolf clans.

It is inevitable that the creatures of any race will be born, old, sick and die, and it is normal for some of the bones to be small and old, but the people who died here were all strong wolf clans, and something extraordinary must have happened, because any strong wolf clan would not lie in one place and wait for death.

After watching the first row of Dekang went around to the right side, and continued to look at the skeletons on the far right, all the skeletons were also strong wolf clans, and suddenly, he found that all the skeletons on the ground were about the same size, and they all belonged to the relatively large wolf clan.

'All the strong wolf clans are lying here obediently waiting to die. Such a terrifying image flashed in his mind, which made Dekang shiver.

Baoyue in the back stretched out his head to sniff at the skeleton, and accidentally stepped on the side of a small protruding rock with his forelimbs, and his whole body instantly lost his flatness and rolled to the ground, and his left shoulder pressed against a skeleton.

To their astonishment, the crushed bones turned into powder in an instant, like the ashes left behind by the fire of the herdsmen of the prairie, and dispersed as soon as the wind blew.

Dekang walked to Baoyue's side, pulled a few times the bones that were not overwhelmed by her, and a rib turned into fragments at once, Dekang pressed a fragment a few times with his front paws, and did not feel any resistance, the fragment was crushed into powder.

The bones of the strong wolf clan turned into powder, and it would take many winters and summers to become like this! Anyway, I didn't see it myself when I was on patrol, and the bones that would probably turn into powder were blown away by the cold wind.

Dekang's mind was a little confused all of a sudden, and he really didn't know how to face these skeletons, how to guess the origin of these skeletons.

For Dekang, the sight in front of him was even more incredible than falling into a dark space, and he only felt that every fur on his body was slowly standing up.

"Second brother. How could there be so many bones here, and what kind of people are they? Seeing that the second brother was quite calm after coming ashore, Baoyue slowly recovered from the initial panic.

"These are。。。。。。 Well... This one... The second brother couldn't see it. Originally, Dekang wanted to tell Baoyue, but halfway through the words, he felt that it was inappropriate, and he was confused.

It was about the wolf clan, and it was so weird, Dekang really didn't know how to explain to her why all the people who died here were strong wolf clans, and their bodies were not harmed.

If you can't say it clearly, I'm afraid that the little cub will have nightmares when she goes back, not only her, but probably herself.

Dekang suddenly remembered the look in Grandma's eyes when she talked about Belik Lake at the last moment, she obviously knew something, but there was no clue to why there was not a word in the end.

Look at the ground here, the dust on it shows that there have been no creatures in and out of this place for a long time, these winter and summer Dada and Grandma must not have entered the cave, maybe they don't know where this cave is.

Dekang didn't want to disturb these wolf clan seniors who died here somehow, since he couldn't find the truth, it was important to find a way out: "Baoyue." Go up with the second brother and have a look. ”

There is an exit at the top of the high place on the right side of the cavern, which is now blocked by a rock.

The rock was stuck in the middle of the exit, and there was a bigger rock next to it, two heads away from the exit, and the damn rock stuck in the exit was leaning against the boulder.

There should be two gaps on both sides of the stuck rock that connect to the exit, but the gap on the left side has been blocked by mud and small stones, and the right side is almost blocked, leaving only a small gap two claws long, so Dekang saw a miserable white light when the dark river looked up, and now it should be night outside.

Seeing the exit made them both excited and a little nervous.

Dekang was still thinking about how to get out, and Baoyue, who was holding his lower limbs tightly, raised his little face and whispered, "Second brother." Is it possible to get out here? ”

Dekang greedily breathed in the fresh air with the cold air of snow outside, and the familiar smell entered his lungs, making him feel full of strength and fighting spirit.

Dekang pointed to the front and replied: "There's a damn rock here blocking the exit, as long as the second brother pushes it away, we can get out." ”

After speaking, Dekang bent down and carried the left side of the rock with his right shoulder, supporting the rocks on both sides of the shoulder, and at the same time his head was pushed up to increase some thrust, and with a scream, his lower limbs exerted force, and his waist stiffened. . . .

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