Chapter 0093: Falling In
Xiao Qiong had a feeling of being teased by a rat, and chased after him like an arrow off the string. ran for about ten meters, stepped on the air, and the whole person fell straight down!
Ouch-ah--
A miserable scream came, echoing over the cave, folding a few times, and reaching Zhang Zongchang's ears. Zhang Zongchang suddenly startled and groped in the direction of Xiao Qiong's voice. When you touch the edge, you look down and you're on a bottomless cliff!
Xiao Qiongja fell on a stone and will definitely die.
Xiao Qiong - Xiao Qiong -
Zhang Zongchang shouted several times in a row, and there was silence below. If he could still catch his breath or **, in such a quiet cave, there would definitely be a sound. No, nothing!
Fortunately, the miner's lamp is still in hand. Zhang Zongchang turned on the miner's lamp and shot straight down, except that the light was gradually swallowed up by the darkness, he saw nothing. Looking around, he was pleased to find that there was a small path that zigzagged down the hanging bank. Touching the cliff wall, there is a slippery feeling.
The matter has come to this point, even if it is the tiger's den in Longtan, you have to go down to see it. Zhang Zongchang tied the spirit to his body and moved down from the cliff inch by inch. He didn't dare to look at his feet, but just by feeling, he stepped on a solid step and moved another step. I don't know how many hours it took until I stepped on the flat ground.
Zhang Zongchang turned on the miner's lamp again, and at this time, when he shone upward, he was a little dizzy. He did not see the edge of the overhang. The neck is sore, what height should it be? There were several slips under his feet just now, and Zhang Zongchang almost fell. It was the faith that survived and found Xiao Qiong to support him, and finally climbed down the bottom of the cliff.
It's sand under your feet!
Zhang Zongchang couldn't help but be overjoyed. The spirit adjusted to its new surroundings and barked wildly into the darkness. Zhang Zongchang followed the sound and shot the miner's lamp into the distance. I saw a black thing hanging upside down - it was Xiao Qiong!
Xiao Qiong's legs hung upside down, head down, feet up. The strap of the hiking bag was wrapped around a rock and dangled. It is still about two meters above the ground. Zhang Zongchang carefully picked up Xiao Qiong, untied the strap of the backpack wrapped around the stone, and then put Xiao Qiong flat on the ground.
"Am I—still—alive?"
"This is—where is it?"
Xiao Qiong struggled to open her eyes and saw a familiar face. Zhang Zongchang's wrinkled face bloomed with a smile and nodded vigorously!
After a few minutes of delay, Xiao Qiong turned over, as if in a dream. When I woke up, I was still in the dark.
Look around, it's a dungeon. Straight and steep cliffs, 100 meters high. That damn rat almost caused Xiao Qiong to fall into a meatloaf. Hey, why are your feet so soft? Xiao Qiong struggled to stand up, as if she was standing in the snow. The soft sand stretches into the distance. Next to it is a babbling underground river.
Under the light of the miner's lamp, there is no end in sight to the underground river. But the real sandy one, less than two hundred square meters. If she hadn't been caught by the stone, Xiao Qiong wouldn't have died. Due to the gravitational pull of the earth, the food and water in the hiking bag will definitely hit the ground first.
After resting for a while, Xiao Qiong and Zhang Zongchang began to get back on the road. After walking a few steps, I found a pile of burned ashes on the beach, which looked to be some years old, just some traces, and a few sticks of charcoal that had not been burned. There has been at least human activity in this place.
Thirty years ago?
Fifty years ago?
Or something much older?
Xiao Qiong and Zhang Zongchang have no way to be sure. Where this underground river leads is uncertain. As long as you can stay, stick to it. If you stay, you will definitely be dead.
After walking for about a kilometer, the front began to get low again. The top of the cliff is close to the top of the head. The babbling underground river gradually drifts away from the foothills, but the steep road continues upward. They crawled through a slope of several tens of meters, and in front of them there was an open area.
Zhang Zongchang and Xiao Qiong were confused. How long have they been navigating this underground labyrinth? No way to know? For more than ten hours, I was walking. The cell phone signal has long since disappeared, and the battery has run out of energy, turning into a piece of scrap metal.
How long will it take to see the light of day again? Zhang Zongchang suggested that you go to bed when you are tired and leave when you wake up. Now it seems that there is no hypoxia in the underground labyrinth. In case the food and water are exhausted and you die inside, then you have to accept your fate!
Without time, Xiao Qiong's Zhou Yi Prediction Technique completely lost its effect. Only by feeling. Xiao Qiong counted carefully, they had slept twelve times, woke up twelve times, eaten twelve times, and were still spinning in the maze!
There is no night, no day, only feeling. The head of the Qingfeng Dao who is talking nonsense, and the pretending to be deep Dai Lao Liu, I believe that they all know the story of the hidden treasures of the underground palace from legends, and they have never been to the underground palace at all. If they go on in the dark like this, they will never see hope, and they will not want even gold and silver. The tenacious desire to survive supports the old and the young, as well as the spirits, and continues to walk aimlessly.
In the depths of the cave, apart from the giant rat, there was no other creature to be seen. The water in the underground river is black and smells foul.
Xiao Qiong couldn't help but secretly worry that if one sleep was counted as a day, they had been wandering around the depths of the crypt for 12 days! Food and water were running out, and there was no possibility of catching rats to satisfy their hunger. If it takes a few more days, he, Zhang Zongchang, and Lingling will all be buried alive in the crypt.
The treasure map of the dungeon once again flashed clearly in Xiao Qiong's mind. What does it mean that the three main peaks, which are distributed in a triangular pattern? Are they in the dungeon now? I wandered around like this, and I didn't see anything. Xiao Qiong remembered the pile of embers on the beach, which showed that this crypt had at least been touched by humans.
So, is he a treasure hunter?
I have to admit that this crypt is beyond human imagination. It's a living world. Looks too abnormal. Why? Xiao Qiong felt that her brain was not enough. The underground river leads to unknowable places, but the road leads them to make useless explorations. No matter how smart a mouse is, don't even think about getting out of this maze!
If you go further, you can hardly go back to the original path, let alone find the cave to go to the Sanqing Palace. After so many days, the door of escape was not open to them.
Death is getting closer. The Grim Reaper seemed to be standing on a high place, smiling at Xiao Qiong.
I can't remember how many times I've taken breaks. Food and water have bottomed out anyway. Zhang Zongchang began to refuse to eat. He wanted to leave the chance to live to Xiao Qiong. No matter how Xiao Qiong pleaded, he just took a symbolic sip, and then handed the mineral water bottle to Xiao Qiong.
"Mr. Zhang, I have tested, we will get out alive. You can rest assured. ”
In the dark, Xiao Qiong still looked confident. Zhang Zongchang smiled bitterly and asked rhetorically, "What time is it today?" ”
yes, what day is it? Has the Mid-Autumn Festival passed? What about National Day? Are there many tourists who come to Yandang Mountain to play? Why hasn't anyone discovered this underground labyrinth?
It's a lot of fun!
Xiao Qiong masochistically used her imagination to let her thoughts fly through time and space to another prosperous world. Suddenly, he saw a bat flying through the darkness!
Yes. It was a bat.
I haven't seen any creatures for more than ten days, and now there are bats, what does it mean?
They are getting closer and closer to the ground.