Chapter 20: Into the Cave
The Great Rift Valley is a scar on the face of the Serra steppe, which stretches for hundreds of kilometres. The cliffs of the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info are craggy and steep, like a sharp sword inserted into the ground. It is now the rainy season, and the turbid water of the river laps on both banks, setting off a deafening wave of turbidity.
Ansu stood on the side, the wind lifting her bangs from the bottom up, revealing a pair of thoughtful eyes. Her eyes scanned the ledge inch by inch, looking for a suitable place to stay.
"That's where we climbed." Temo put his hand on his brow bone and looked down. "There are a lot of caves here, and no one can tell how many there are so far."
Ansu didn't understand, but she still guessed something from his movements, and it should be easier to go down here. But if one accidentally stumbles and falls, it will be swallowed up by the rushing river below, and it takes skill and courage to go down.
Ansu closed her eyes, feeling the energy that seemed to be there, and slowly adjusted her steps, and finally at one point she drew a heavy circle on the ground with her spear.
The energy fluctuations are most intense here.
This place is a long way from the edge of the cliff, and the monster is hiding in a hole, and the entrance must be found.
"Where's the nearest hole?" Ansu asked casually, but then laughed at himself, how could he understand?
But Temo seemed to understand that she was looking for the nearest hole nearby, stuck her spear in the ground, took a few steps in the direction of the cliff, and stopped to look at Ansu. Aware of this, Ansu stuck his spear in the ground and climbed down the cliff with Temo.
The composition of the cliff wall is mainly composed of sand and gravel, after the heavy rain washing, the yellow soil is washed into the river, the whole cliff wall is washed out of many large and small ravines, and there are soil clods falling into the river from time to time in some places. Both Temo and Ansu will have to work hard to find a reliable place to stay.
The more they climbed, the more careful they became, after climbing a few tens of meters they were already sweating profusely, Ansu was fine, Temo was starting to gasp a little, for the Ammanra, they preferred to climb and jump between the trees like monkeys rather than climbing with sticky mud. They can tolerate the dust they climb during the dry season, but they can't tolerate the sticky mud of the rainy season. The wet mud glued the hairs on their bodies piece by piece, like countless little hands pulling together, which made them very uncomfortable.
Taimo knew the general location of the cave entrance, but he did not know the principle of the shortest straight line between the two points, so instead of starting from the cliff directly above the cave, he chose a more reliable climbing route, so after climbing vertically down a large distance, he had to turn to the left to climb.
In fact, the quickest way is to find a rope to hang down to the mouth of the cave, and then grab the rope and slide down, but it is difficult to find a rope of several hundred meters in a hurry, and most importantly, the cliff is a flat grassland, and there is no place to fix the rope. In the end, I had to use the most primitive climbing method, which was difficult to find Ansu who had crawled and rolled in various dangerous situations.
The stone under his feet suddenly loosened, and Tai Mo's heart sank, and he quickly reached out to clasp the cliff, but last night's rain made the cliff still damp, and his five fingers only left five traces, and then slid away.
Rotten!
Temo's head was empty, and his eyes were full of flowers, and he fell down--
It's dead this time! Dead!
It's a pity that even the female's little hand hasn't touched it......
At the moment of life and death, what flashed in Taimo's mind was such a thought.
"Choose a new place to stay!"
A loud shout on his head pulled Temo back from his state of despair, and he calmed down, realizing that he had not fallen any further, and when he looked up, Ansu was grabbing his wrist with his left hand, and digging his other hand deep into a crack in a rock. The gap, which was originally as thin as paper, was inserted into five holes by An Su's fingers.
Taimo stared blankly at Ansu holding her wrist, her temperature came over, warm and reassuring. His heart suddenly exploded, she touched me, she touched me......
Ansu frowned and looked at Tai Mo, who was still in a state of chaos, looked at the entrance of the cave, estimated the distance, added a little strength to his hand, and threw Tai Mo in the direction of the cave entrance--
Still immersed in a state of stealing joy, Temo crossed a diagonal line and was thrown to the entrance of the cave in an instant, but the back of his head hit the wall of the cave, grinning in pain, and finally came to his senses.
It didn't take long for Ansu to reach the entrance of the cave, ignoring Taimo's complaining eyes and surveying the cave. She squinted into the depths of the cavern, bottomless. There are some messy marks on the ground, although they are messy, but it can be seen that many footprints are superimposed, and they are not naturally formed. Most of these footprints were left by giant primates, for example, the monster. In others, Ansu clenched his fists, and although they were indistinct, they were indeed human footprints. The toes of the Ammanra are three-segmented like fingers and can grasp branches, but this one is not.
Taimo followed Ansu's gaze and apparently spotted the monster's footprints, and he rubbed the back of his head with pain and stood up. He knew that there was a monster living in the cave of the Great Rift Valley, but he never knew which one it was, and he didn't expect that it might end up in its lair today.
Ansu untied the dry branches tied to his back and quickly formed a torch, and the rest was tied back into a bundle and carried on his back again.
The torch burned, and Ansu threw the flint back to Taimo, and led the way to the cave with the torch, and Taimo hurriedly followed.
Within the orange yellow light, you could see stalagmites scattered on the cave walls and on the ground, which looked very old, and their shadows seemed to come alive in the flickering firelight, like countless waving living vines. There was silence in the cave, the occasional crackling sound of torches burning in the cave was so loud that it often made people's hearts flutter.
Taimo clenched the stone knife and was on guard, his eyes rolling uneasily from side to side, for fear that the monster would suddenly burst out of some shadow.
The hole went all the way down, and the deeper it went, it became wider and wider, as if the ground had been hollowed out. Ansu stopped, carved an arrow into the cave wall with a dagger, and made an inconspicuous mark out of gravel. In the past, where Ansu had turned a corner and changed lanes, she would make some marks and move on, but this time she stopped.
"What's wrong?" Temo asked, startled by himself as soon as he spoke, and there were echoes in all directions.
What's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong......
Ansu glanced at him and held up the torch to signal him to come forward.
In an area barely pushed away by the firelight, Taimo could still see a cloud of darkness. The road is broken here, and there is endless darkness in front of you, and a bottomless abyss at your feet.