By this time it was already dark, and several people were all hungry and tired, so they sat down to eat and discussed what to do next.

"According to my idea, let's take the time to sort out these antiques tonight, and then have a good night's rest, and then find a way to leave here tomorrow morning!" said Xiang Aiguo.

Everyone else nodded in agreement, but Poplar said: "I think it's better for us to find a way out first while we have enough food! If there is no way out, we can only dive out of that dark river, then I have to leave tonight! We can't be sure where that dark river leads, and I may not be able to rush back to save you in a short time after I go out, so we must try to save food and try to buy time!"

"That's good!" Tie Niu immediately answered, "But what do you mean by this, Lao Bai, do you want to leave me alone? That's not good, our brothers must advance and retreat together! If you want to leave me alone, then I will follow you into the water!"

"I don't want to go alone, but you don't hold your breath as long as I do, I'm afraid in case ......"

"No whatever!" Iron Bull interrupted Poplar's words, "Anyway, if you go into the water, I will definitely go into the water with you! I don't hold my breath as long as you, but it's not much shorter than you! Not to mention that I eat a lot, if you stay here too late, I will consume more food!"

Bai Yang knew that it was impossible for Tie Niu to let him go to danger alone, so he could only frown and not speak.

Xiang Aiguo sighed softly and said, "If I think so, with Tie Niu following you, you two can take care of each other......!" It's really too dangerous, and one more person goes into the water, and it's likely to be ......."

He didn't say "probably," but everyone understood what he meant by what he hadn't said.

"That's why I have to follow!" Tie Niu quickly answered, "Think about it, if Lao Bai can't get out in the dark river, can we people get out alive? It's just that it takes some more time, then it's better for me to follow Lao Bai, at least if there is any accident in the dark river, I can still support each other with him!"

Iron Bull's words are not unreasonable. But this matter is indeed a gamble with his life, and it can only be decided by the two of them, and no one else can express their approval or opposition.

Huang Mingliang couldn't help but sigh and said: "It's a pity that we don't have the ability of a giant ape, otherwise we can be like a giant ape, and jump out of the big gap at the top of the cave!"

"What you said is equivalent to not saying it!" Xiang Aiguo glanced at him and stood up, "I think let's do what Poplar said, let's find out if there are other exits in this immortal cave first!"

Several people had no opinion, so they got up together and searched carefully on the upper floor first.

Except for the big gap at the top of the cave, there is really no mountain crack exit or anything like that.

Standing on the platform that stretched out of the cliff, Poplar carefully examined the surrounding rock walls with a flashlight, and was sure that with his ability, even if he could climb more than twenty meters along the craggy protrusions on the rock wall, but the rock walls were inclined and gathered upward, it was impossible for him to hang upside down on the sparse stalactites on the top of the rock like a giant ape.

At the suggestion of Master Qiu, several people connected all the ropes, including the thin nylon rope and the remaining two thick hemp ropes, tied a large stone to the top, and hung it down in the bottomless abyss below the platform.

Until the rope is exhausted, and the stone below is still heavy, it means that with the existing rope, it is impossible to reach the bottom.

A few people did not give up and went to the cliff where the giant ape was imprisoned, and still hung down with a rope and a stone.

About twenty meters to the end, Bai Yang Fang wanted to go down the rope to check, Huang Mingliang grabbed the rope and said: "Lao Bai, you and Tie Niu are likely to go down the dark river later, now it's better to save some effort! A few of us are not as capable as the two of you, so we can't follow the dark river, but things like this can be left to us!"

Xiang Aiguo and the others all nodded "yes", and Bai Yang had no choice but to stand aside, let Xiang Aiguo and Dong Daoren pull the rope, and slowly hang Huang Mingliang down the cliff.

The cliff narrows further down, until it reaches about twenty meters, and one cannot go any further.

A few people had to put away the ropes and follow the narrow passage down to the lower level.

Wu Daoren's grave is on the beach at the entrance below, and across the beach is the dark river with a width of more than six meters.

On the other side of the dark river, there is the black stone forest arranged in an ancient formation.

"It will take a lot of time to cross this black stone forest, and we have determined that it is impossible to climb the cliff at the other end of the black stone forest......"

Bai Yang suddenly stopped talking at this point, and Tie Niu hurriedly asked, "Old Bai, what did you think of?"

"I'm thinking that if there is no other entrance and exit in this cave, then the Rainbow Girl will need a rope to come down from the cliff behind us......"

Before Bai Yang's words could be finished, Tie Niu was already full of excitement and said loudly: "Yes! The demon girl in colorful clothes is even worse than you, even if she can jump directly from the top and not fall to death, she will still need a rope when she goes up again, so there must be a rope left on the cliff over there!"

Several people showed excitement, and even Master Qiu nodded and said: "What Brother Tie said is right, that demon girl wants to go up and down, she must keep a rope on that cliff, if we don't see a cliff after we pass, it means that there must be other entrances and exits in this cave!"

"Then what are we waiting for, let's go through the stone forest and have a look!" said Tie Niu.

Bai Yang glanced at Xiang Aiguo, but saw that Xiang Aiguo was not as excited as others, so he hurriedly asked him again: "Does Senior Brother Xiang have other ideas?"

"I don't have any other ideas, I just think...... It's not that simple!" said Xiang Aiguo.

"Why isn't it that simple? The Rainbow Girl and the Black Lady are all dead, and the Man in Black has already fallen into the abyss, so it's impossible for someone to take the rope away from above, right?" Iron Bull said.

"I'm just blindly worried, I think let's go through the stone forest first! Anyway, this stone forest is less than a kilometer, and since we already have a way, it won't take too long to cross it!" said Xiang Aiguo.

Hearing him say this, Bai Yang couldn't help but "chuckle" in his heart when he thought about it, and suddenly felt very unsteady.

However, he didn't say anything, but went down to the dark river first, and made sure that there were no translucent fierce fish in the river, so he let the others cross the river.

After that, Poplar still jumped onto a large stone pillar, and the others followed the light spot on his head for a while. Then the best master Qiu chose a big stone pillar to jump on, and the rest of the people passed through the black stone forest smoothly according to the light spots on the heads of the two of them.

Then Poplar jumped off the stone pillar to join the head of Qiu, and then watched the lamppost sent by Tie Niu and the others pass through the stone forest to the bottom of the cliff.

From the frustrated expressions of Tie Niu and the others, they also knew that there were no ropes hanging on the cliff.

"Could it be that there really are other entrances and exits in this big stone cave?" said Master Qiu, looking left and right.

"I don't think there are any other entrances and exits!" Xiang Patriot shook his head.

"Brother Xiang didn't have anything to say before, but I don't know what he thought of?"

"Mandrill!" replied to Xiang Aiguo with a wry smile, "Don't forget, the mandrill hasn't been seen since we came down!" So it's certain that at least two mandrills on this cliff were only injured and never died!"

"What does Senior Brother Xiang mean that after the demon girl in colorful clothes descends the rope, the mandrills left on it will automatically put the rope up?" Huang Mingliang blurted out, "This is impossible......, right? Can you be so human?"

"I think it's very likely!" Poplar answered, "Judging from the previous situation where several mandrills fought with us in groups, the intelligence of mandrills should be higher than that of apes, and it is not too difficult for the man in black to feed them with two demon girls for so long, and to teach them to automatically retract the ropes." Of course, they must have some special command, such as whistling, and when the mandrill hears the command, it will lower the rope. ”

The more people thought about it, the more they felt that what Bai Yang said was reasonable, and Master Qiu couldn't help but sigh again.

Tie Niu and Huang Mingliang did not give up, and searched carefully on both sides along the steep cliff wall to see if there were any mountain crevices and stone caves.

Before I could go far, I heard a strange cry from above, which was the cry of the mandrill I had heard before.

Listening to that cry at the moment, it was almost like laughing at the few humans who had finally fallen into their trap.

"Come back, Lao Hei, listen to this voice and know that Senior Brother Xiang's inference is correct, let's hurry up and swim down from the dark river!" Bai Yang shouted.

Tie Niu had to agree, and walked back to where Bai Yang and the others were standing from both sides with Huang Mingming.

Poplar took a closer look at the cliff, and the cliff was as steep as a wall, not to mention him, even the man in black probably didn't have the ability to climb up the cliff directly.

A few people had no choice but to follow the previous method through the Black Stone Forest and return to the dark river.

Poplar looked at Tie Niu Fang and was about to speak, but Tie Niu preemptively spoke: "Don't talk nonsense, I'm definitely going to go into the water!"

Poplar had no choice but to put down his backpack, and the black sword definitely couldn't be carried, but he just hid a dagger close to him.

Iron Bull also checked the dagger he was hiding.

In addition, although the lights on the miner's hat were all waterproof, the two people still took the miner's hat off their heads and put it into the water to make sure that the waterproof setting was not damaged, so they took a deep breath and dived into the dark river under the advice of others.

(See Chapter 478 of "Dangerous River")