"Ahem, cough, cough ......" A stream of cold water accompanied by mud and sand flowed into his throat, causing Yang Jian to cough violently. It took a while to open my eyes with difficulty, and it took me a while to get used to it. It was like a huge dark space, and the only light source was two flashlights. There are many strange rocks nearby, and beyond is the endless darkness.

"Great, you're finally awake." Wang Tian saw Yang Jian wake up, and said excitedly, "It's a miracle, we were swept into the underground dark river, except for Zhang Bi, all of them were fine, and they were all together." Saying that, Wang Tian seemed to suddenly remember something, closed his mouth, and looked to the side.

Yang Jian followed Wang Tian's gaze, but was horrified to find that Zhang Bi's body was lying horizontally at the water's edge, with a hole the size of a bowl in his abdomen, and even his internal organs were exposed.

"Maybe I hit the stone tooth when I was swept down by the dark river." Wang Tian explained while helping Yang Jian up. Yang Jian endured the pain from the hundreds of bones in his limbs, and it took him a while to get used to it before he could barely walk, spitting out the uncleaned soil in his mouth, Yang Jian walked to Zhang Yu's side and patted him on the shoulder: "Mourn, the dead have left, and the living need to work harder." ”

Seeing that Yang Jian was already awake, Zhang Yu adjusted his mood, stood up, and said, "Since everyone is awake, let's go find the exit!" "But is there really an exit from such a place?" Wang Tian said worriedly. The army patted Wang Tian and stopped him from continuing, the most terrible thing now is to lose confidence and hope.

"Follow the flow of water, the water is moving, which means that there may be an outlet." Zhang Yu judged the situation and led everyone to walk along the underground river next to him. "The wall?" Yang Jian saw that everyone didn't seem to care about the dead Zhang Bi, and couldn't help but ask. "Let's find the exit first, otherwise it will be too much trouble to carry a person, and our supplies are gone, the only luck is that the strong flashlight we carry is waterproof." Zhang Yutou didn't reply, maybe he was afraid that he would be reluctant to leave Zhang Bi behind if he turned back.

Yang Jian and Wang Tian were holding the equipment that belonged to Zhang Bi. Follow the underground river. "It's a huge underground cave, and it's strange that the strata of Death Valley were formed by the volcanic activity of the Triassic period, and the main component is basalt, while here it is a clear karst landform, which is limestone, so remember not to speak loudly, and be careful not to cause the cave to collapse." As he spoke, Zhang Yu shone the strong flashlight upwards, and everyone saw countless stalactites hanging upside down on the top of the cave.

Everyone's hearts are extremely dull, and now the road ahead is unknown, and the biggest possibility is to be trapped and die here. Yang Jian was also puzzled: everyone was swept into the underground river, and there was no possibility of survival, but now except for Zhang Bi, everyone else had nothing to do, and they were also washed by the underground river to the same place. And Yang Jian can think of it, and others can naturally think of it, but they just tacitly didn't say it.

"I said sword, what are you going to do when you get out?" Wang Tian walked over and asked. "You are cheap, I am such an upright, simple person, how can I be cheap, at most I am a little cheap." Yang Jian knew that he needed to enliven the atmosphere now, and he said very cooperatively, even ignoring the calm and free image that he usually worked hard to maintain.

However, perhaps God was also playing tricks on the people, and the stream they were following suddenly went into the underground channel and disappeared.

"What now?" Wang Tian cried with a sad face, he knew that he would not come to this ghost place. "You hear the sound of water over there, why don't we go over and have a look?" Zhang Yu's timely proposal.

After a long period of difficulty in the cave, everyone finally came to the source of the sound, and Yang Jianjian found that there were actually a few puddles of water on the ground, "This...... ...... here" Zhang Yu observed for a while, and opened his mouth in horror. "This is where we set out." The Army told a horrific truth." What about the corpses on the wall? A cold sweat broke out behind Yang Jian's back, as if a devil had been secretly staring at them.

"Let's get out of here." The old thief also felt fear, let alone Wang Tian, it was difficult to even think at this time: "Where are we going, where are we going?" "Whatever, it's better than staying in this place." The old thief said and walked to the side.

At this moment, several sounds similar to cow barking were suddenly heard in the distance. "How can there be cows here? It can't be some unknown creature, right? Zhang Yu was a little puzzled and scared. Isn't the legendary dragon cry like a cow's roar? Wang Tian suddenly came to his senses.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Yu couldn't make up his mind: "Is that to advance towards this dragon Yin or stay away from him?" "Let's go forward, there is no way out anyway, and dragons have always been sacred and upright beings in our myths and legends, so they shouldn't hurt us." Wang Tian's reason persuaded everyone, after all, everyone knew that this expedition was to find the dragon, but they had never believed in the existence of the dragon before, and now, they were also skeptical.

In the dark space, only a flashlight guided the way, no one spoke, only the "rustling" footsteps echoed in their ears, and even the strange cry never appeared again, as if it was just an auditory hallucination.

"How can there be three roads here?" I don't know how long it has been going. There are three distinct paths in the irregular cave, separated by piles of stalactites.

"Which way to go?" Zhang Yu couldn't make up his mind, so he had to discuss with everyone. The old thief spoke at this time: "The middle road is generally not taken, in ancient times, the right was respected, if there is really anything, it should be on the right?" Of course, this is my experience of robbing tombs, and if it is naturally formed here, it will not work. ”

The five of them decided to refer to the old thief's words and go to the right first, but soon there was another fork in the road. "Keep going to the right." The thief twisted a little soaked phosphor from his pocket, applied it to the stalactite on his right, and walked forward.

It turned out that the old thief's judgment was wrong, there was a cliff on the right, Zhang Yu threw a stone down, and only after three or four seconds did he hear the sound of landing. "This cliff is about seventy or eighty meters high, it won't work, let's take another path."

Everyone returned to the previous fork in the road and chose to turn right, but they were greeted by a fork in the road with three intersections. "When will this continue?" Wang Tiandu was about to despair. "This was the fork in the road we first encountered, and we went back to square one." The old thief found the signal he had secretly left and said.

This time, the five of them chose the road on the left, and they were greeted by an extremely wide underground river, which almost didn't even shine a flashlight on the border.

"Oh my God, what is this!" Wang Tian let out an exclamation, and everyone turned their heads to see that in the water irradiated by the flashlight, a small snake with four legs resembling a long length was swimming, or rather, more like a dragon's cub!

Zhang Yu went to the river and looked at it carefully for a while, and said: This is a kind of cave newt, a kind of salamander, but the cave newt is very peculiar, it has always been maintained in a juvenile form, the cave newt can generally live for a hundred years, and it can survive for six years without food, it has only been found in the European Alps, but how can there be here? Perhaps it was too far away, Zhang Yu didn't see clearly the extraordinary things on the so-called "cave newt".

Probably disturbed by everyone, the newt disappeared as soon as it flicked its tail. "Alright, let's go back." Before Zhang Yu's words fell, a gray monster suddenly burst out of the water, with a huge splash, and pounced on Zhang Yu. "Bumper", the army's reaction was not unpleasant, and as soon as he heard the sound of water, he sent two bullets into the monster's body. But due to inertia, the monster castrated unabated, and a huge mouth directly swallowed Zhang Yu's head.

A few people reflexively retreated, away from the river, for fear that a few more such monsters would jump out.

When the monster landed, everyone saw clearly that it was an extremely huge strange fish, with a length of nearly two meters and a mouthful of huge teeth, just a slight twist, which made Zhang Yu's corpse separate. Blood spurted from Zhang Yu's neck and sprayed on the head of the strange fish, glowing with scarlet blood under the illumination of the light, making it look extremely hideous.

The Army shot the monster fish in the head, ending its life.

"What the hell is this monster?" Wang Tian asked with palpitations. "It's the tank platypus, a river monster that lives only in the Great Kari River between India and Nepal, where the water is often used to dispose of corpses after cremation ceremonies in India. Some say that tank platypus has been devouring this half-cooked human corpse after cremation. "The well-informed army is very knowledgeable about this fish," but it was also the first time I had seen it. Looking at the army with a gun, Yang Jian's eyes flashed, it is definitely not simple for a veteran to be able to hold a gun, regardless of whether he is legally holding a gun or not.

Now, another person has died. All four of them returned to the fork in the road with heavy hearts.

"The last way, and the last hope." The army led the three into the middle road.

The road is not long, it takes about ten minutes to reach the end, and at the end of the road, there is a hole, but it is more like a door.

"Look, there are words on the hole", Yang Jian's keen eye found the big characters engraved on the entrance of the cave. "Which of you recognizes these words?" The army asked several people. "If I'm not mistaken, these four words should be the gates of hell, but I don't remember which dynasty they were." The old thief recalled carefully.

"The Gates of Hell?" Yang Jian muttered. The outside world called Death Valley the Gate of Hell, but unexpectedly, the real Gate of Hell turned out to be here. But what's in there?

"Shall we go in, or shall we exit?" The army asked the crowd. "Go inside, there's no other way." The old thief hesitated for a moment and said. Yang Jian and Wang Tian also nodded, after all, there might still be the dragon they longed for.

"Okay, let's get to the hell out there." The army drew his pistol and led the group into the gates of hell.