James cursed hatefully, "Where have all the people gone!"

Let his men turn on their searchlights and look around, and after a while someone will shout, "They've fixed another rope down here!" ”

James and Tan Xixi rushed over to look, and sure enough, they saw that the stone wall on the right side of the platform was hit with expansion nails and pitons, and two long ropes were firmly fixed and hung down to the platform. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

James let out a "huh", "Why did you change direction?" "Yesterday they went down from the left side of the platform.

Tan Xixi, "Probably Professor Lin has made some new discoveries on this side, let's go down from here and take a look." ”

As a result, when I climbed down, I found that this side of the stone platform was much more difficult to get down than the left side, and the stone wall on the left side of the stone platform was smooth, and James and the others were pulling the rope and sliding down at that time; There are a lot of protruding sharp stones on the stone wall down here, the stone seems to be artificially embedded, can not be forced, can not be stepped on and grasped by the hand, a force will be loosened, can not be used to force the pestle there to get in the way, there are a few pieces of extremely sharp, just like a stone knife, a few people are not careful to pay attention to the clothes are cut out.

James was not so irritable when he reached the real critical moment, he became calm and steady, and he was also one of the few people whose clothes were torn, so he didn't scold, but just asked Tan Xixi, "What do you think made Professor Lin give up the route that he has already walked once on that side, and instead come here to take such a difficult road again?"

Tan Xixi pondered for a while and said, "It should be Professor Lin who calmed down and studied the surrounding terrain and thought that it was more reasonable to go this way." ”

James raised an eyebrow, "Why?" ”

Tan Xixi asked rhetorically, "If you hide good things in one place, will you leave a broad road for people to enter and exit, or will you design a hidden path and then set up some obstacles on the road?" ”

James agreed, "Yes, that's right. ”

After everyone came down, they marched together in the direction of the ancient stone city, and the bottom of the high platform on this side was also a mess of stones, and everyone walked deep and shallow, and it was extremely difficult to travel.

As he walked, someone suddenly shouted, bent down and picked up a broken searchlight, which was used by James's people, and it was estimated that Professor Lin's team accidentally broke it when they got off the stone platform or walked on this rocky road, and simply threw it on the road.

James took it and said in a deep voice, "That's right, that's the direction, Professor Lin, they must have walked here." ”

Although the direction was determined, everyone's hearts were not relaxed.

Darkness, silence, the searchlight of the light of the place is a strange rock, although not tall, but the shape is strange, many can be seen not to be natural, but artificially chiseled into this strange shape, coupled with the unknown danger ahead, it is really quite stressful.

Yaoxiang didn't have the leisure to continue thinking about beautiful things at this time, and his whole mind was on the extremely difficult road under his feet, just afraid that he would accidentally stumble and fall on the ground where there were ups and downs, and a hole would be poked out of his head.

Like last time, after reaching the edge of the moat of the ancient city, everyone was blocked in their way.

After thousands of years, the water in the river was still flowing very slowly, which shows that the river was cleverly carved at that time, and it was connected to an underground water source somewhere.

The river is not very deep, and the beam of a searchlight sweeps across the river, occasionally revealing the carcasses of an unknown animal underwater.

It's good that only the bones are left, although it will be very eerie to see the bones in this gloomy and dark place with a strange atmosphere, but the group of people who came down are not fuel-efficient lamps, except for Qin Kun and Yaoxiang, almost all of them are fierce, and they usually don't move their brows when they see a dead corpse.

The bones of the animals at the bottom of the river in this strange place are terrifying, but they can be tolerated, but even these people may not be able to stand the corpses that have not completely decomposed—each corpse is densely packed with hundreds of small water snake-like locusts, which slowly wriggle with the undercurrent at the bottom of the river.

This situation is not only horrible but also disgusting, and those people who have had the experience of the last time try not to look closely this time, lest they accidentally vomit.

Yaoxiang didn't know the depth, because he didn't have Qin Kun's eyes, he deliberately leaned forward a little, and after seeing it clearly, he covered his mouth in fright, and retreated with shaking his legs.

"Kun-Brother Kun, this is terrible." Yao Xiang resisted the urge to spit out, and took a few deep breaths, wanting to press the disgust in his chest.

It's just that taking a deep breath in such a place is not a good thing to bear, Yaoxiang barely suppressed his nausea, and sniffled again, "Oh my God, the air here is weird, I seem to smell a smell of death." ”

Everyone who heard his words had a sudden shock in their hearts, dark, suffocating, with a hint of moisture, and there was an indescribable smell in the air, which was quite appropriate to describe as the smell of death.

Qin Kun closed his mouth tightly and endured the discomfort that came up from his throat before he said, "Don't talk nonsense, this river must be open to the outside, and when an animal comes down to drink water, it will be preyed upon by this kind of locust, and then it will flow down with the water." ”

James was calm because he had seen it once, and said to Tan Xixi, "This side is not bad, in addition to these disgusting things in the river on the other side of our trip last time, there are also poisonous mosquitoes like black mist on the water surface, which are similar to the poisonous insect miasma we met last night, Professor Lin said that if you are surrounded by such a group of mosquitoes and bite, you will be infected by the bacteria they carry, and you will die." ”

Tan Xixi was very calm, "In tropical places, it's not strange to have these things. ”

Since they couldn't cross the river, Professor Lin and the others would definitely not grow wings and fly over, so everyone began to search along the river.

The ancient stone city is in an obvious quadrangle, and after walking along the river for half a day, it encountered a bend with a large angle, Tan Xixi instructed everyone in advance to slow down when encountering this kind of bend, so as not to react in time to meet unexpected situations.

Everyone was already hanging in the heart, and after listening to this advice, they became more cautious step by step, and slowly bypassed the corner, but fortunately nothing strange appeared.

After another hour in the darkness, James shouted, "Stop! Don't go any further! Go back! ”

Tan Xixi looked at him sideways, and through the afterglow scattered by the searchlight that hit forward, he could see James frowning, his skin was shiny with sweat reflection, and his angular face had a rare look of Guoyi.

James shouted again, "Ahead, don't go any further!" ”

His men obediently turned back and retreated.

Tan Xixi asked, "Don't look for it?" If they can find Professor Lin today, they may still have a chance to rescue, and if they come back tomorrow, those people will all die. ”

James, "The equipment, food, and water we brought with us are not enough, and it is okay to stay for a few hours, but it will definitely not last too long." Besides, there was no trace of Professor Lin and them along the way, Professor Lin and Meng Lin and those people only came down at noon, and it was impossible to go far, I estimate that it would be useless to look for them like this, they should be trapped somewhere else, for the sake of safety, it is better to withdraw first, and then go out and find other ways. ”

Tan Xixi, "It's okay." ”

Everyone then turned back and retreated.

When you go back, you have to relax your nerves and just follow the route you took when you came.

When I was about to return to the stone platform, someone suddenly pointed to the moat, "What is that?" ”

The person in charge of lighting the lamp raised the searchlight and swept it in that direction, and everyone suddenly exclaimed.

I saw a black protrusion appear on the black surface of the river!

The scene was so abrupt that the group walked in the dark for hours, their nerves were stretched to the limit, and they were suddenly a little confused when they were frightened like this.

Tan Xixi shouted, "Don't mess around! It's a stone bridge! ”

James was shocked and angry, "How can there be a bridge?!" I didn't have it just now. ”

Tan Xixi's face was expressionless, "It's not surprising, this bridge rose from under the water, it must have been something we accidentally ran into just now." ”

James grabbed a subordinate next to him who was known as Hawkeye, "You have good eyes, take a closer look, is it a bridge." ”

The man was a master shooter, and his eyesight was very good, so he asked several people who were lighting the lights to concentrate the light of the searchlight in that direction, squinted his eyes and carefully identified them for a while, and finally asserted, "Miss Tan is right, it is a stone bridge." ”

Now the mystery of Professor Lin and their disappearance for no reason after coming down can be explained: Professor Lin and they must have inadvertently touched the mechanism that made the bridge rise out of the water after coming down, so that the bridge that could enter the ancient city was exposed, and then they crossed the bridge and entered the ancient city.

Tan Xixi, "The fact that we didn't see this bridge when we came down just now proves that it is time-sensitive, and it will be lowered back after a while, you should make a decision now, should we go in and find Professor Lin." If you want to go, you have to go now. ”

James frowned, "I'm not saying that we don't have enough stuff with us, so it's not suitable to stay here for too long." ”

Tan Xixi said coldly, "We don't know where we just ran into the bridge to show it, and we still can't get through tomorrow." If it passes now, you should be able to stay inside for about an hour and come back. ”

James asked, "How do you know that this bridge will last an hour without coming down?" ”

Tan Xixi, "This kind of large mechanism doesn't move too fast, and it will take time to move again, at least an hour." ”

James cursed, lowered his head and thought for a while, and finally raised his head and gritted his teeth, "Then go over, watch the time, only stay in it for an hour, and after an hour, whether you find it or not, you have to quit immediately!" ”