After observing the terrain, Ye Ming picked up Su Xueling and stepped onto the single-plank bridge, walked over cautiously, and then about twenty meters ahead, it was the peak cliff of Silver Elephant Peak, about six stories high. The cliffs are bare, with only a few weeds and moss on top, and some bits and pieces of trees at the top, which look so steep that it is impossible to climb without climbing tools.

After putting Su Xueling down, Ye Ming looked to the left and right again: on the right was the river bank that sloped downward, densely overgrown with shrubs, thorns and east thatch, and there was no road at all; On the left is a gentle slope that winds to the northwest side of Silver Elephant Peak. There are no trees or thorn forests on this gentle slope, and it looks like a meadow, but because it is winter, the grass on this meadow is a little yellowish and lacks vitality and vitality.

Ye Ming pointed to the gentle slope on the left and said to Su Xueling: "Sister Ling, if we want to continue climbing, we can only go up the gentle slope on the left." However, this slope leads to the northwest, and even if we can continue to climb, we will have to climb to another peak of Boca Mountain, which is a dead end. However, now we have no way out, we can only run a few steps, at least not sit here and sit still. You sit here first, and I'll explore the way. ”

After Su Xueling nodded "um", Ye Ming climbed along the bank of the Dongta River to the gentle slope. After climbing about a thousand meters, a cliff more than 30 meters high suddenly appeared in front of me. This cliff is connected to the cliff of Silver Elephant Peak, completely blocking the way forward.

Ye Ming stared at the cliff in frustration for several minutes, knowing that there was no way out in front of him, so he had to sigh, turn around and walk back.

When he was about to reach the location of the single-plank bridge, Ye Ming saw a towering boulder under the cliff on the left, and wanted to climb this stone to see if Gong Pengju's people had caught up. So, he brushed aside the thatch and thorns that blocked the way, walked under the boulder, used some of the edges and corners of the stone to climb to the top of the stone, and then stood up straight and looked condescendingly at the path where he and Su Xueling had come up.

Just as he had predicted: on the trail, which was about eight hundred meters vertical from the summit of Silver Elephant Peak, there were more than a dozen figures climbing up. These people were all armed with rifles or *, and they must have been sent by Gong Pengju to pursue him and Su Xueling. Judging from their current speed, it would take them another hour at most to reach the summit......

When he saw the dozen or so heavily armed pursuers, Ye Ming's heart couldn't help sinking, and he felt that this time he was really in a catastrophe: Silver Elephant Peak could not be climbed, the left and right sides were dead, even if he could climb more than a thousand meters in the northwest direction, he would eventually be trapped by another cliff, and it would be difficult to escape the fate of being chased and killed!

However, despite the anxiety in his heart, Ye Ming did not panic, but stood on the top of the stone and began to look around to see if there was a place where he could hide for a while.

When he looked at the northwest side of the boulder, his eyes suddenly widened: on the left side of the boulder, about twenty meters to the left of the boulder, a circular hole with a diameter of about five meters appeared, like a sinkhole in the grass.

Ye Ming hurriedly jumped down from the boulder, ran to the edge of the sinkhole-like hole in three steps and two steps, and looked down, only to see that the hole was vertically downward, and about three meters down the hole entrance, it suddenly became open. By the light shining through the entrance of the cave, you can see that there is a large karst cave below. And this circular cave is actually a "skylight" caused by the collapse of the top of the cave or other reasons. From the "skylight" down to the bottom of the cave, the height is about 20 meters.

What surprised Ye Ming was that in the center of the bottom of the cave, there was a dark river. This dark river runs northwest-southeast, and there is a bend just under the "skylight" that turns into the belly of the Silver Elephant Peak. From this, Ye Ming judged that this dark river originated in the northwest direction of his current location, that is, the upper reaches of the Dongta River.

Ye Ming once had the experience of escaping from the cave, and as soon as he saw the dark river in the cave, he immediately had a huge hope in his heart: although it was impossible for himself and Su Xueling to go down to the cave from this "skylight", as long as they found the source of the dark river in the cave in the upper reaches of the Dongta River, they might be able to dive into the cave from the source.

Judging from the course of the Dark River, it is likely that the cave will cross the Silver Elephant Peak from west to east, and will most likely have an exit on the other side. As long as you find the exit over there, you can escape from Sun Zhicheng and Gong Pengju's sphere of influence, and you and Su Xueling will be saved......

Thinking of this, the frustration and despair in his heart were swept away in an instant, he lay down at the entrance of the cave, used his super eyesight, carefully observed the direction of the dark river, and then raised his head to the northwest to look, and was silently calculating where the dark river was connected to the Dongta River.

After a few minutes of visual inspection and estimation, Ye Ming got up from the entrance of the cave and happily climbed back up the gentle slope along the bank of the Dongta River.

When he returned to the cliff he had just seen, he took a closer look at the Dongta River and saw that there was a waterfall below the cliff, and below the waterfall was a circular pool. At the bottom of the stone wall on the east side of the pool, there is a sloping hole that goes deep into the mountain, and the water in the pool flows down the sloping hole into the stone wall.

When he saw the oblique hole embedded in the stone wall, Ye Ming's face flushed with excitement: If the estimate is correct, the oblique hole embedded in the stone wall on the east side of this waterhole should be the source of the dark river he saw just now. That is, that cave is connected to this pool, as long as you drill through that oblique cave, you will reach the cave that has passed through the Silver Elephant Peak!

In order to verify his judgment, Ye Ming immediately stepped on the thatch on the bank of the river and went down to the waterhole, and found that this waterhole was shallow except for the place where the waterfall fell, and the rest of the water was shallow, about half a meter deep.

So, he took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trousers, and came to the mouth of the inclined hole, and lowered his head to look inside, only to see a stream of water diverging from the waterhole slowly flowing into the stone wall, although the water flow was very large, but it was not urgent, and the height of the inclined hole was just enough for an adult to go inside.

After carefully inspecting the direction of the oblique cave, Ye Ming concluded even more: This is the source of the dark river in the cave, and you can definitely enter the cave from this oblique cave.

So he walked out of the waterhole and returned to the riverbank, put on his shoes and socks, and hurried to the side of the bridge.