Chapter 90: Into the Belly of the Mountain
The cave leading to the summit of Mount Kuwata is just behind the shrine and is not difficult to find at all. The entrance is very inconspicuous, just a black hole more than one person high. In front of the entrance of the cave was a tablet with a bunch of strange symbols, like pictures and words.
The cave is oriented east-west and has a gentle upward slope. There are no steps, and the sides are covered with thick rock, which is fastened together by curved stone slabs to form a dome. There are many murals on the walls, some of which have been rudely sprayed with big red English words starting with F, and there are littered cigarette butts and garbage on the ground. The expedition team disrespected the local culture, so it's no wonder that they had a feud with the villagers.
The stone walls are planted with clusters of fluorescent mushrooms, one at every ten meters or so. The narrow cave was deserted, ghostly in the green light.
The cave is not very long, about thirty meters to the bottom, with a sleek corner. As soon as he walked around the corner, a big man suddenly pounced out, holding a flashing blue electric rod in his hand. The man was silent, moved quickly and decisively, and was clearly trained.
"Bang! Boom! ”
Two muffled rings in a row, because the answer was too fast, it sounded like only one ring. The big man who pounced just now stuck to the wall, his eyes rolling and fainting. His nose was so sunken that he looked like he had been hit by a train.
Xu Changqing retracted his fist and rubbed it on the big man with satisfaction. His strength has now improved to 17.31 and his fist power is capped at nearly 290 kilograms. This force hits the face, enough to crack the facial bones.
"Hey, stand up." He picked up the big man who rolled his eyes and slapped the other party a few times.
"Ah......" The big man woke up in a daze, muttering, "I don't know anything......"
"What about your accomplices?"
"Dead, all dead," the big man said with his eyes in different directions, "Bright, you win, kill me......"
After interrogating for a while, from the big man's words, he finally asked for some news. The expedition was plotted by Bright and lost almost all of its equipment. Most of them died, and a few were forced to flee into the cave. Some of them disappeared as they walked, and some were captured by monsters that suddenly appeared on the side of the road. This big man was determined to go back, and after nine deaths and a lifetime, he finally found the exit. However, he no longer knew the way, had no confidence to move forward, and was so hungry that his thoughts were confused, so he could only hide in the corner and wait for death. The pounce just now was already his last strength.
After sucking the big man with the Evil Spirit Illustrated, you can feel that the banshee Kuroki has recovered a little. Just now, more than eighty souls were harvested in Zhitian Village, and maybe a few more will be in hand, and the banshee will be able to summon it. Without this strongest combat power, it is always unaccustomed to fighting.
Moving on, the road gets more and more rugged. After walking through a dirt road that appeared to be steps, the front was blocked by collapsed earth and rocks. Xu Changqing turned left and right a few times, selected a large crack in the stone wall, kicked off the wall and got in. Behind the wall is a wet cavern covered in fluorescent mushrooms, with bubbling water underfoot. It seems that this is a natural underground river.
It was clear that someone had been to this underground river before him. There were some tools for fetching water left in the cave, as well as an old black iron wind lamp, which had rusted to the point of not being in shape.
Xu Changqing stepped on the cobblestones and walked forward little by little, and suddenly grabbed the hand bones of a skeleton. He looked at the dead man leaning against the corner, picked up the skull and looked at it carefully, and said to himself: "The skull has been cut open, and the person who killed him must have a lot of strength if he was slashed in the head."
Fragments of weapons were scattered on the ground, and this was once a battlefield. Xu Changqing squatted down boldly and groped around the waist of the skeleton. From the decaying leather, he found a rusty short knife, oddly shaped, without a blade, and with a decaying wooden handle.
This is a samurai's short sword. Its owner, perhaps one of the people who buried the gold back then.
The hole in the ground is not too long, and it takes a few turns to reach the end. There were no five fingers in front of him, only a faint yellow light dangling, accompanied by a desperate cry: "Don't come!" Don't come here! I don't care about you! ”
The yellow light is extremely faint and can only illuminate a palm-sized area. The room could be seen covered with cobwebs. A face distorted by fear appeared and disappeared, and the source of his fear was mostly hidden in the darkness.
"Hey, a ghost fog spider, there's this thing here."
Maybe he saw some rare creature, Xu Changqing observed with great interest, and commented by the way.
The person trapped by the spider probably heard it and screamed, "Is there anyone?" Help me! His hoarse cry suddenly became sharp and full of excitement.
Xu Changqing shone a flashlight. A figure looming in countless gray cobwebs, still struggling. A large black shadow retreated, seemingly terrified of the light.
The wind sounded, and two gray masses flew head-on. Xu Changqing stretched out his hand and flicked, and the gray thing changed its trajectory halfway and hit the wall headlong. The stone walls were corroded to the point of sizzling, and smoke was still emitting, which was supposed to be the venom of the ghost fog spider.
There was a rustling sound from the corner of the wall, and it disappeared into a hole. This ghostly fog spider is very cautious and cunning, and runs away after spraying venom.
"Help me, save me."
The cobweb-mummified guy struggled even harder.
Faced with a call for help, Xu Changqing seemed indifferent. He asked the mummy, "Who are you?" ”
"Let me go first!"
"Goodbye."
Seeing that the savior who was not easy to appear turned his head to leave, the guy wrapped in the cobwebs was anxious and shouted: "Don't go, I'll give you money!" A lot of money! ”
Xu Changqing sneered: "Money? I can't take it directly from you, and you can't move it anyway. ”
“…… I have one more news! Secret news! The biggest secret of this underground labyrinth! ”
"Oh, what secret?"
"Put me down first," the man in the cobwebs hurriedly demanded, "and I have a small flamethrower in the backpack at my feet." This cobweb is afraid of fire, and it will break when it burns! ”
There was indeed a military backpack under the calloused ball. Drag it over and open it to take a look, and it's really rich in things. Magazines, field dry rations, first-aid medicines, and so on are all available.
Probably because he was afraid that Xu Changqing would not be able to find it, the person in the cobwebs hurriedly pointed out: "The one hanging on the edge of the satchel is it." ”
Xu Changqing took off a dry powder fire extinguisher-like thing from the side of his backpack. I have to say that this flamethrower is very delicate and practical, with a sturdy nozzle on the top, and a liquefied gas tank for hot pot sold on the street below. I tried to spray it, and when I exhaled, I spewed out a blue flame more than two meters long, and almost set my backpack on fire.