Volume 1 Departure Chapter 10 Approaching the Abyss in the Middle of the Night
The rain began to fall heavier and heavier again, and every drop of rain at this time hit Chen Zimo's face, like a sharp ice cube, stinging, extremely stinging.
The pain in his body also rose spontaneously, stimulating Chen Zimo's nerves. His chest felt like he had been stabbed by ten thousand sharp knives, and a heart-wrenching pain spread all over his body. Bursts of pain rushed towards him like a river tide, and waves of unsettled waves rose again and again.
Sun Yun helped Zimo, and Ling Feng explored the way in front, because they didn't know the way, and they had long been lost in the dense fog during the day, and they didn't know where they were on the mountain now, so they could only walk in the direction of the descent that they vaguely remembered.
Without walking for a while, Ling Feng stopped in the distance, and Sun Yun also discovered the situation, hurriedly grabbed Zimo, and hid next to the big tree on the side.
Zimo raised his eyes and saw Ling Feng's hand pressed tightly on the hilt of the sword, looking around at something, and then slowly squatted down again, because it was too dark to see what he was doing, suddenly he beckoned in the direction of Sun Yun, indicating that there was no problem.
Only then did the two of them walk out of the tree and walk in the direction of Ling Feng, only to find that there were three corpses on the ground.
These were the three hunters before, Ling Feng pointed to the one a little farther away and said, "He still has qi." ”
Chen Zimo endured the pain and asked Sun Yun to see if the people over there were still saved, while he squatted down and looked at the two corpses in front of him.
I saw that the right half of the body of one of them was gone, and the other person's body was almost smashed into mud by some force.
"What do you think?" asked Chen Zimo.
"It shouldn't be man-made, like some kind of beast, you see this person who is only half of his body left, the wounds are uneven, and they are obviously torn apart by some force, perhaps, maybe it is the demon beast on this mountain. ”
"I think so too, it seems that this place can't stay for long, maybe the demon beast is still wandering around. ”
Ling Feng helped Chen Zimo up, and the two walked towards Sun Yun.
"Xiao Yun, how is it, is he still saved?" Ling Feng asked hurriedly.
"It's okay, it's just that the ribs are broken, but it shouldn't hurt the internal organs, and there is a wound on the head, which should have been left by hitting the tree. ”
"This man is really fateful. Chen Zimo looked at the person in front of him, who was the leader among the hunters at that time. "Let's go quickly, Ling Feng, you go and carry him on your back, Xiao Yun and I will walk in the back, see if we can find a place to hide nearby." ”
Ling Feng was stunned for a moment, he didn't want to care about this drag, at this time, with a drag, maybe the danger would be a little more at that time, although Chen Zimo was also injured, but this was different in his heart, and the person in front of him was just a meeting in the water, let alone a friendship.
But because of Zimo and Sun Yun, they could only carry the man on the ground and continue to move forward, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the road ahead was also obscured by the rain curtain.
"We're going to find a place to stay quickly!" Sun Yun shouted loudly, but the heavy rain made her voice slurred.
Just then, a figure ran out of the bushes, shouting, "I've finally found you!"
When everyone saw it clearly, they found that the black shadow was the previous Wang Duwei, and everyone was overjoyed.
When Wang Duwei walked in, he saw the condition of the crowd and asked, "What is the matter with you? What happened, how did these two people get so seriously injured? What about the others?"
Ling Feng said, "It's a long story, those two hunters are dead! ”
Wang Duwei looked around and hurriedly said, "Come with me, I found a big cave near here, we should be able to hide for a while, and wait until the rain stops at dawn." ”
"Good!"
Everyone hurriedly followed him, and in a moment, Chen Zimo saw the cave that Wang Duwei said on the side of a mountain cliff.
"This is it, let's get inside!"
Everyone entered the cave, and at the mouth of the cave, Ling Feng put down the hunter and wiped the rain from his face. Chen Zimo also leaned on the cave wall, panting heavily, at this time the tiredness drilled from his feet to the flesh and marrow, and in an instant, his limbs and his bones seemed to be soft and light.
Wang Duwei also made two torches at this time, and everyone saw the light and felt a lot more at ease.
"How can there be such a big cave next to the cliff here?" Chen Zimo held his tired and aching body, observing this huge cave as he spoke, and it could even be said that this was a cave.
"I also didn't find this cave for a long time, I have been hiding here since it was washed away by poisonous bees, and there are two forks in the depths of the cave, so I didn't look too deep. Wang Duwei said to everyone.
"I'll go in first and see if there's any danger!" Ling Feng said first.
Wang Duwei also nodded and motioned for himself to go with him. Chen Zi thought for a while, and continued: "I'll go with Xiao Yun too." ”
He must be worried about the two of them when he says this, and he also has some bad premonitions.
Wang Duwei looked at him. "Okay then! Ling Feng and Xiao Yun are together, and I am with you. ”
Chen Zimo originally wanted to say something, he was really worried about Xiao Yun's safety, but after thinking about it, he was so seriously injured, he was just holding on at the moment, if he stayed with Xiao Yun, it would be a drag on her, and Ling Feng's strength was also very powerful, if he really encountered danger, it would be no problem to escape, thinking of this, he secretly murmured: "I am really a drag now, and it is useless at all." A sour and powerless feeling came back to my heart.
"Then what should he do?" Sun Yun pointed to the hunter who was still unconscious.
Wang Duwei looked at the man: "Just put him here first, it can be regarded as safe here." ”
Everyone had no objection, and Ling Feng and Wang Duwei led everyone to the depths of the cave with their torches.
The deeper the cave became, the more open it became, and the road stretched straight and diagonally downward, and the cave did not have many forks and twists and turns as they had thought before. Ling Feng reached out and touched the cave wall beside him. "It's like it's been mined by hand, maybe it's a small mine. ”
The torches lit all around, and a cave stone hung on the roof of the cave, like a neighing horse, with a front hoof raised, and its tail clinging to the top of the rock, as if it were about to gallop. The more he walked inside, the more humid the air became, and the pain on Chen Zimo's body became more and more obvious.
"Let's go this way!" Ling Feng pointed to the hole on the left.
"Hmm!" Zimo nodded.
"Brother Zimo, you have to be careful!" Sun Yun said with concern.
Hearing Xiao Yun's words made Zimo's heart warm. "Don't worry, I promised you to protect you, so I will never have an accident, you have to be careful!"
After entering the fork on the right, because the road can only accommodate one person, Chen Zimo walked in front, Wang Duwei broke behind, and the quiet cave only had the sound of dripping water from time to time, but the quiet environment was more conducive to thinking.
Chen Zimo, who was walking in front, lived in his mind bit by bit what happened before and after entering the mountain.
First of all, before going up the mountain, someone in Luojiazhuang sent a message with a flying knife, reminding him to be careful of Lu Lingfeng; then, at night in the garrison camp, he saw Wang Duwei and Lu Lingfeng talking quietly, and more than once, the two of them were talking about something at night in Nanshan Town; after entering the mountain, they happened to meet three hunters who didn't know where they came from; Nanshan Town became a no-man's town, and there was really no one; then the food was poisoned, and it was a dog that didn't know where to get out of it to block the disaster for them; he was watched when he went to the toilet at night, and the person who was watching should have been in the temple at that time; the next day, he was inexplicably attacked by poisonous bees in the forest, and everyone was scatteredHe was attacked by an assassin from nowhere, and the assassin was repulsed and disappeared again, and then the three hunters were attacked by monsters, killing two and injuring one.
A series of clues and events connected in his mind, and he realized that he must have overlooked something.
First of all, Nanshan Town is not far from Heluo City at all, and it is near the business road, there has never been a demon beast before, how could there be a sudden attack by a demon beast? And no one else knows about their coming to Nanshan Town, the three of them sneaked out, how could someone remind him to be careful of Lu Lingfeng as soon as he arrived in Luojiazhuang? And how could that assassin know where he was?
At this time, he realized that the sudden poisonous bee must have been deliberately drawn out by someone, in order to create panic among the people, which means that someone had been following them secretly, but how did the person poison the food? If it wasn't from the assassin, it was. Thinking of this, Chen Zimo shook his head secretly, that means that there is another force, who will it be?
Things seem to be getting more and more complicated.
He went through everything from the beginning, when he thought of those hunters, he was suddenly shocked, no wonder he felt that something was wrong at that time, how could a hunter in a mountain village speak so elegantly, and as soon as he saw everyone, he knew that everyone was an official person, and blurted out that he was an adult, if it was because Wang Duwei was wearing military uniform and soft armor that they recognized it, then how could the people in the mountains know the identity of the rest of us? And when they met strangers on the mountain, they didn't have any warning at all, and walked over directly, how could this be the act of a hunter who ventured into a dangerous place, and now how did he think that those people were waiting for them in that place on purpose!
But the three of them also suffered heavy casualties outside the hunting house, what is going on? Could it really be that they happened to encounter the demon beast, no, no, the demon beast killed people, but did not eat them, then, maybe they were not attacked by the demon beast at all.
Unconsciously, he and Wang Duwei had walked a long way, climbed out of a small hole, and reached the end of the fork in the road, which was a room-sized hollow, reflecting the faint light of the torch, Chen Zimo suddenly found that there seemed to be a few people sitting in the corner of the dark cave wall.
He hurriedly pressed the hilt of the sword at his waist and shouted, "Who are you?"
The sound reverberated through the cavern, but there was no response in the darkness. He moved over a little, and when he got closer, he realized that there were only six or seven corpses. Some of the bodies were leaning against the walls of the cave, while others were lying flat on the ground. He lowered his hand from the hilt of the sword at his waist and walked over to examine the corpses that had come from nowhere.
These corpses were all fatally wounded, and most of them were fatal in one blow, the corpses were all wearing uniform armor, it seemed that they should all be soldiers, judging by the degree of decay of the corpses, they should have been dead for a while, he reached out to wipe the dust from the armor on the chest of a corpse, and saw a pattern of a flying eagle.
He remembered this pattern, which he had seen in the travelogues left by his parents, which was unique to the Xiaolin Legion, and according to Wang Duwei's previous words, these people were under the command of King Shan.
"How could they die here?" Chen Zimo murmured softly.
He continued to examine the other corpses, until Chen Zimo was shocked when he saw the face of one of them.
That person, that turned out to be Wang Duwei wearing the armor of the Xiaolin Legion, and the corpse was Wang Duwei, then, who was the one who had been taking him into the cave?
At this moment, who is the person behind him?