Chapter 10: Out of the Hole
Zhou Xiusheng continued to move forward alone, and after a while, he walked to the side of the dark river and stopped, and carefully thought about the bizarre things before: two identical caves, but the outside is a completely different world, and the two places are thousands of kilometers apart, is this kind of thing really possible in the world?
After thinking about it, the only strange thing about him was the dark river. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoIt's strange that the dark river isn't one-way, otherwise why swim upstream in every direction in that hole.
He thought to himself, could he really freely shuttle between the Feimeng Empire and the Eastern Han Federation through this dark river? This was beyond his knowledge. If this is the case, then on the battlefield of the Civil War, what is the use of the Northern Coalition building a burning fortress and the southern building of a Bauhinia Fortress, and the enemy can directly attack the opponent's abdomen through this dark passage.
Zhou Xiusheng thought for a while and couldn't get an answer, but what should he do now? If this place is really within the territory of the Fiemon Empire, it seems that there is no way to escape. At this time, it is estimated that the guards of the leopard room have found out that they are missing, and they will definitely be arrested if they go back.
"Do you want to try this river again?" At this time, a strange thought popped up in Zhou Xiusheng's mind, if this dark river could really shuttle between the Eastern Han Federation and the Feimeng Empire, wouldn't he be able to escape and ascend to heaven? Zhou Xiusheng is a man of action, if he can't figure out what he can't understand, he won't think about it, and he will know if he tries it. Once he figured it out, he acted immediately.
After the experience of going down the river for the first time, he was better prepared this time than the last time. Zhou Xiusheng held a torch in one hand and the river bank with the other, and slowly walked into the river, the river was still cold and biting, and the water flowed downstream with him.
Zhou Xiusheng didn't struggle, just went down the water, while trying to hold a torch to observe the terrain of the dark river, and after a while he was washed into the dark river hole, both sides could not climb, although the rock above his head was still far from the water surface at this time, but the whole shape was like an inverted funnel, as the downstream direction, the rock above his head was closer to the water surface.
Last time, he jumped into the dark river in a hurry, in order to escape for his life, he couldn't see the dark water, and he completely relied on his body's sense of touch to perceive the things around him. This time is different, because there is a torch in the hand, the river is illuminated, and the environment is observed with the eyes, but the feeling is even more terrifying, the downstream river is like a monster with an open mouth, trying to swallow people into their stomachs, and people will subconsciously want to escape from here. Then look up at the rocks overhead, uneven and bumpy, outlining strange patterns, like there are many eyes staring at you in a daze.
The speed of the water flow is very fast, Zhou Xiusheng's body was soon involuntarily washed by the water flow to the place where the water surface and the top of the cave meet, he was prepared, he took a deep breath, got into the water, touched the top of the cave and swam forward, the torch went out and turned dark again. Two minutes later, he estimated that he should be almost to the small hole, and touched the top of his head with both hands, but he didn't touch the small hole for the first time, and he was shocked, thinking that it was different from last time, there was no small hole here?
Zhou Xiusheng felt the water flow here, as he expected, the waterside here was very calm and there was no undercurrent, he didn't give up and touched the surroundings for a while before touching the small hole. I thought that it was really lucky to be washed here by the water for the first time, but I hadn't woken up at that time, and I couldn't hold my breath underwater, and if I didn't find the small hole at the first time like this time, I guess I would have drowned.
He stuck his head out of the water and touched his surroundings with his hand, and sure enough, the mark he had carved on the wall of the cave was still there. At that time, I escaped from here, but I didn't expect to go outside and go around and come back here, if it weren't for the serpentine hairpin that woman gave me in my arms, I thought the previous encounter was a dream.
According to my experience last time, if you swim out from here, you will swim against the water. So is it possible that there is a cave with the same topography in each direction, but the exit appears in different countries? This kind of assumption is scary to think about, Zhou Xiusheng shook his head, thinking that there is no such thing in this world that can be done.
He couldn't go one direction to verify that it was the right way, there was no sense of direction in this small hole, and if he wanted to return to the Hanlun Mountains of the Eastern Han Federation, he had to rely on luck.
Before leaving, he deliberately climbed up along this small hole and went to see the top of the cave where the pendant was obtained, but unfortunately he found nothing, the top of the cave was still the same as before, and a big rock was tightly covered there, and nothing strange appeared.
According to the original method, Zhou Xiusheng chose a direction based on his feelings, and walked out holding the stones at the bottom of the river, praying in his heart not to return to the cave of the Feimeng Empire. Soon he climbed up to the bank of the dark river, and this time he was very careful not to go out rashly, but listened quietly with his ears for a moment in the darkness, and judged that there was no one here before walking towards the passage.
This time it was really completely dark, without any light, he relied on the instant light of the flint and steel all the way to go out step by step, and when he walked into the empty cave with this long moon mushroom, he found a very strange place, there are also moon mushrooms here, but it is not like the cave in the Hanlun Mountains has been harvested, and it is not like Qingluan Island is full of moon mushrooms. This piece of moon mushroom here is like the situation before their 55 group entered the cave for the first time, before they were picked, Zhou Xiusheng was a little in a trance, he had a sense of time and space confusion, as if he had returned to the time when he went into the cave with Mo Jie and them for the first time and saw a large piece of moon mushrooms.
But he is very awake, all this is not a dream, everything is real, what is it, only after he goes out and slowly looks for the answer.
Zhou Xiusheng walked out cautiously, he was afraid that he would suddenly meet someone again, but this time he was lucky enough to walk all the way to the huge cave with stalagmites, and he didn't meet anyone again. He relieved himself as if it had never been discovered, and after a little further he heard the sound of water, like thousands of horses charging, and a bright sun shining through the curtain of water into the hole.
Zhou Xiusheng hadn't seen the sun for a long time, his eyes were not very suitable for the sun, he squinted and walked towards the entrance of the cave, and found that the exit here was behind a waterfall, and the mist that floated down the waterfall was under the sunlight, and there was a round of rainbow hanging in the air, which was beautiful.
He wasn't in a hurry to get out, the place was very secluded, just to allow himself to trim up. He took off his clothes and trousers and laid them out in the sun. After the pendant on his neck was noticed by the woman, he himself became curious, took it in his hand and observed it carefully, the pendant still had a small piece left, in the shape of a square stone pillar, it was gold and gold and jade to the touch, and it was a little heavy in his hand, I don't know what material it was made of, there was nothing special on the top, there was a small hole, and the rope was worn on the small hole. Look at the fracture again, it feels very rough to the touch, and it looks like a pattern, but if you look closely, you can't see the law on it.
Zhou Xiusheng looked at it for a while and found nothing special, but he always felt that this pendant was a little unusual. He thought carefully that there would always be a reason for his inexplicable awakening in that hole. Either it has something to do with the special terrain there, or it has to do with this stone. He analyzed that his awakening only happened after he obtained this pendant and hung it around his neck, so it was mostly related to it.
Of course, all this is just speculation now, and he needs to keep this pendant to solve the mystery. After Zhou Xiusheng hung the pendant back around his neck, put on dried clothes, observed the terrain of this waterfall, and walked out.
It was an unfamiliar environment, and he didn't dare to be careless. In case it is like the Fermon Empire, this exit is also within the territory of the Six Southern Empires, he will be very dangerous. After the people of the light camp awakened, the aura on their bodies could not be concealed in the crowd of the dark camp at all.
Zhou Xiusheng walked down the waterfall river in the bushes, and after walking for a few miles, he found traces of human activity, where there was a small fishing boat floating on the river, and a large fishing net was drying on the trees on the bank, but no one was found nearby. He looked up at the sun in the sky, it was noon time to eat, and there should be a village nearby.
After walking half a mile, I found a village in front of me. The village was not big, about twenty people looked like people, and he sneaked up to it.
Before arriving at the entrance of the village, Zhou Xiu met a few naughty children who were playing, wearing linen clothes, both men and women, with their hair tied in small braids. Several children were also very interested in this stranger, and looked at him with dark eyes, not afraid of the living at all.
Just when Zhou Xiusheng wanted to retreat first, a child asked crisply, "Who are you?" Zhou Xiusheng was overjoyed when he heard that he spoke federal, thinking that he had finally arrived at the place where he should be this time, and looked at these cute children and said, "I am a passerby, where is this?" ”
The kid tilted his neck and said, "This is the village of the mouth!" ”
Zhou Xiusheng asked again: "Where does Nankou Village belong?" ”
Unexpectedly, the child rolled his eyes, looked at Zhou Xiusheng with disdain and said, "You are really a fool, of course the village belongs to the village." ”
Zhou Xiusheng didn't expect that he was despised by a little kid, he couldn't cry or laugh, and thought that he still had to go in and ask the adult. He straightened his clothes and walked to the village.
There are no guardrails in the village, and the houses here are made of wood, and each house is fenced in front of the house to form a small yard, raising some chickens and ducks, which is a typical peasant family.
Zhou Xiusheng walked to the fence of a house, and when he looked out, the wooden door was open, and an old man over half a hundred years old was sitting at the door, smoking a dry cigarette. He didn't go in first, stood at the door and felt it, but he didn't feel any breath, thinking that this old man should be an ordinary person. knocked on the fence and said, "Hello, uncle." ”
The old man looked up at Zhou Xiusheng, and was unwary when he saw that he was young: "Young man, I saw you when you were talking to the dolls, what is the matter with you here?" ”
Zhou Xiusheng scratched his scalp honestly and said: "I went out to play, got lost, and wanted to ask for directions!" ”
The old man stood up and opened the fence and said, "Come in and drink!" I really don't understand that you city people spend time and energy running so far just to see the waterfall, little old man, I have lived here for more than 50 years, and I don't think there is anything beautiful about the waterfall. ”
Zhou Xiusheng followed his words and said, "Uncle, there were other people who came to see the waterfall before?" ”
The old man nodded and said, "No, our place is remote, and the people in the city who come here are basically here to see the waterfall. ”