Chapter 21: The Strange Crocodile at the Bottom of the Cave
An eerie chill rose from the soles of his feet, and Taimo couldn't help but take a few steps back and look at Ansu, "It's better to go back when there's no way." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
An Su furrowed his eyebrows, and in the fading firelight, there was not the slightest hint of flinching on his face. She suddenly stepped forward and kicked a stone down, silently counting the seconds in her mind.
One, two, three, four, five......
After about ten seconds, she finally heard a slight click, and the stone was gone. If the gravity of an alien star is about the same as that of Earth, it is about 100 meters from here to below.
Ansu reorganized the dry branches he was carrying into a torch, and the fire suddenly brightened a lot. Ansu lay on the ground and held a torch to carefully observe the surroundings of the abyss, and suddenly she sighed softly.
She saw rows of deep pits that stretched downward on the stone wall below, rectangular in shape, crudely excavated, but large enough for three people to tread on them. Ansu bit the torch with her mouth and carefully stepped her feet on the first pit.
In the depths of the dark cavern, the dark shadow that had been curled up raised its head and quickly stood up.
"No, you can't ......"
In the blink of an eye, before the sound dissipated, the black shadow disappeared without a trace.
With her feet touching the ground, Ansu took the torch back in her hand and raised it. Taimo also climbed down the pit in the stone wall. It was roughly a circular pit, but the bottom of the pit was too flat, and apart from a few pieces of rubble falling from the top of the cave, it was as empty as an abandoned playground.
Ansu followed the fluctuation of energy as thin as spider's silk, and suddenly, she stopped.
She saw the round door again, but this time it was open, as if it had been slammed open from the inside by a great force, leaving a deep groove in the middle. Due to the force of the impact, the surrounding rubble scattered to the ground.
Ansu touched the groove, raised his eyes and took a deep look at the passage behind the round door, and narrowed his eyes, what is hidden here, you will know when you walk in.
As he walked, he looked around, marveling at the fact that he had never seen a cave with walls so smooth. He couldn't help but reach out and touch it, like touching a smooth pebble.
Suddenly, a subtle clicking sound interjected into the sound of their monotonous footsteps, like a machine spinning. An Su remembered the encounter in Hongqiu, and this passage was about to turn up.
"Let's go!" Ansu snorted.
Taimo stumbled and almost fell, he gritted his teeth and stumbled to catch up with Ansu, but before he could take a few steps, the passage suddenly erected, and the two were poured into another space like beans in a bamboo tube.
Boom--
The two fell into the water, and the torch in Ansu's hand was extinguished, and the surroundings were plunged into darkness.
Ansu grabbed Taimo, who was fluttering in the water, and dragged him to swim in the direction of the energy fluctuations, swimming a few times before hitting a cylinder with the top of the cylinder exposed, and Ansu pushed Taimo up to calm down on it. Few people in Ammanra know how to swim, after all, the rivers here are full of cruel predators, and you have to be extra careful when you go to the river to drink water, and countless animals are dragged into the water by crocodiles every year.
Ansu floated in the water and listened. There was silence all around the darkness, and perhaps the loudest was the sound of Taimo panting. Ansu could hear the sound of the water being scratched, but not the sound of its own flow. The water itself is strange, denser than water, and thicker than ordinary water, with the smell of rotting leaves.
These waters may be stagnant with no outlets and inlets. Ansu furrowed her eyebrows, they were trapped here.
Silence is oppressive, darkness is hopeless. Taimo suppressed the fear in his heart, opened his mouth, and his voice trembled with a hint: "How do we get out?" What he saw and heard today refreshed his understanding of the world, and the stone wall would move when he touched it!
"You stay here, I'll go find the exit." With so much water, it can't appear out of nowhere.
An Su swam in the direction of the energy fluctuation, and on the way he encountered a few more cylinders, some of which were broken, and An Su could feel that the inside was hollow, as if something had been contained in it, and An Su could feel the thin tubes that were left behind. Ansu tugged hard, not moving at all, as if it was connected to the bottom. Ansu wanted to know who had built a secret base here and for what purpose. Nothing here could be built by the alien indigenous tribes, and Taymor looked surprised when he saw the metal walls, apparently he had never seen anything like this before. Ansu held the slender pipes, feeling one step closer to the truth, but unfortunately it was pitch black all around, and it was difficult for her to tell what was here just by touch.
Ansu fumbled in the dark for a while, and roughly sketched out a map of this place in his mind. The whole place is perfectly circular, with large metal hollow pillars standing inside. Ansu held her breath and dived below, groping along the wall, hoping to find an exit, but the whole space was like an egg, without the slightest gap.
Ansu was sure that the place was connected to the outside world, as they had not felt breathing difficulties until now. Just as Ansu was considering whether to continue diving, Taimo suddenly screamed and fell into the water with a thud.
"There's something!"
Taimo was dragged by Ansu's arm and swam away, spitting out a few mouthfuls of stinky water, gasping for breath.
Without being reminded by Taimo, Ansu could feel that the back kept biting on what was chasing after him, it was silent, and there was no splash between swimming. Taimo, a shrewd hunter, was almost injured by it.
Ansu pushed Taimo up the pillar near the wall, quickly drew his daggers, his lips pressed tightly together, and his eyebrows were solemn.
She couldn't even feel the fluctuations in the energy on it! It was as if it were an ordinary stone without life.
An Su had no choice but to mobilize the sensory organs of her body, since absorbing the meteorite energy, her senses have become more sensitive, her ears moved slightly, and the dagger in her hand was swung out almost at the same time-
Qiang--
The two collided and sparked, and with this fleeting faint light, Ansu saw the attacker, a crocodile. Doubts flashed in An Su's eyes, when did the crocodile's skin become so hard, it was even harder than steel, and it was not injured under the attack of the dagger, it was really a god.
The strange crocodile missed the bite, followed by its tail covered with spiky scales and flung it like an iron whip, bringing up a slip of water and dousing Ansu's head and face. Ansu dived quickly, and the tail of the strange crocodile hit the surface of the water, splashing a large amount of water, and falling down with a thud.
Ansu dived into the water and immediately swam rapidly, like a swimming fish swimming to the bottom of the crocodile, and stabbed the crocodile under the jaw with a dagger. In general, the most vulnerable part of a crocodile is the submandibular area, where the head joins the body. On land, this part is protected by a thick and strong skull, and it is difficult for others to attack it when they lie on the ground, but under water, there is still a chance.
It's a pity that the dagger only made a piercing sound on the body of the strange crocodile, but it didn't penetrate, and An Su couldn't help frowning.