Chapter 80: The Strange Cave
After a frenzied felling, the man-eating vine began to slowly shrink back, as if it were commanded by someone.
"This thing seems to have a brain, as if it can think!" Ouyang Yiming looked at the red vines that slowly shrank back above his head and sighed.
Mary also relieved her nervousness, "I don't know why, it feels strange here, I noticed that my watch kept shaking when I came in just now, but it didn't move when I got there!" Mary said, pointing to the depths of darkness.
Ouyang Yiming originally thought that he would just come in to find some ore and let Mary identify it and go back quickly, but he found that the situation here was not something that could be figured out in a while, so he asked the little monster to bury him back to the carriage with a red flower, and by the way, he protected the King of Jinmu.
Ouyang Yiming took Mary and continued to walk deeper, "Squeak, squeak!" The voice made people's hearts twist, and the vines above their heads stared at the two of them like monsters.
"They're alive, and they're being targeted!" Mary's voice made Ouyang Yiming feel a little weird, plants can prey like animals, which subverts Ouyang Yiming's cognition.
Mary suddenly stopped and took out a flashlight from her bag, Ouyang Yiming was surprised for a long time how this thing could light up without igniting, but Mary didn't have the time to explain, and looked at the watch in her hand, "This is it!" ”
Ouyang Yiming had no effect on whether he had this flashlight or not, he looked left and right, except for those vines that were getting denser and denser, there was no difference from other places, picked up the waist knife in his hand, and cut it at the grass on the side, this cut, the man-eating vine surged wildly, breaking the original balance.
"Hide behind me!" Ouyang Yiming found that behind the overgrown grass was not a rock wall, but seemed to be extending inside.
Mary nervously looked behind Ouyang Yiming, "Such a thick vine should be the root of a man-eating vine!" ”
Ouyang Yiming sped up as soon as he heard this, the man-eating vine was not the only creature, there were countless bright red vines wrapped around it, and the man-eating vine were two kinds of plants.
"It's strange, the dodder and this man-eating vine are entangled, one is a man-eating vine that eats animals, and this kind of dodder is specialized in eating plants, why does it grow together?" Mary's heart was full of doubts, she knew that Ouyang Yiming wouldn't understand, but he clearly saw that the dodder was about to defeat the man-eating vine, and the ecological balance he thought had not been realized.
Ouyang Yiming slashed hard and said, "Good guy, this little thing is so powerful, the roots inside are already rotten." ”
Ouyang Yiming's unintentional words made Mary have a thought in her heart, "This place has been discovered!" This dodder was deliberately brought in later to deal with the man-eating vine! ”
The roots of the man-eating vine are extremely toxic, and Mary's original wet cloth is no longer very effective, and the further she goes inside, Mary's face becomes worse and worse!
"Let's go out first, and then come back later." Ouyang Yiming found the crumbling Mary and quickly helped Mary back to the side of the carriage.
Ouyang Yiming wanted to go out naturally because of Mary, but he was also worried about the poison of the safflower burial. After giving Steward Liu's medicine to the safflower burial, the safflower burial's face gradually improved.
"It's not highly poisonous, it's just a paralyzing gas, emitted by the man-eating vine when it hunts its prey." Mary rested for a while, then regained her spirits, and immediately laughed when she saw Ouyang Yiming holding the red flower burial very nervously.
"How can there be such a strange plant in here? Just now when I was cutting down the vine, I found the remains of a dog inside, and you were unwell at the time, so I didn't say anything! Does this plant have to give the roots to eat everything it catches? Ouyang Yiming was a very curious person, he couldn't understand why there were so many corpses outside, but that dog would have entered such a dangerous place as the root of the man-eating vine.
Mary seemed to be thinking hard, but she couldn't grasp a thread in her head, "I don't know why, but I feel like this place must be artificial!" These two plants, one from the tropics and the other from Japan, are unlikely to meet! ”
"Toyo?" Ouyang Yiming naturally knew where Japan was, and he remembered the man in white in the Great Marshal's Mansion!
Honghua Burial was still unconscious, but it was getting dark. Ouyang Yiming decided to take Mary and continue into the wind chime.
"At night, the man-eating vine will emit that paralyzing gas on a large scale, and now it seems to have faded, maybe we cut off his roots just now!" Mary didn't know if it was to comfort herself, or if it was a scientific explanation.
When they reached the place where a path had been cut, the two of them walked inside, and the vines next to them seemed to really droop, and the dodder seeds were all over the broken places of the man-eating vines, making people feel the horror of this creature.
"Look, is that a dog?" Ouyang Yiming pointed to the depths of the vines, Mary took a flashlight and shone it over, sure enough, it was the white bones of an animal, and she was surprised, "This should be a large dog, what kind of dog you have to bring back to check to know, but now in addition to the army, will there be ordinary people in China who can afford to raise such a big dog?" ”
"Impossible, people are starving to death, such a big dog has to eat several people's meals a day, where will it be raised!" Ouyang Yiming's approval made Mary fall into deep thought again.
Seeing Mary in a daze, Ouyang Yiming shook his head and continued to cut inside.
After more than an hour, Mary found that Ouyang Yiming had basically cut down all the vines, and a cave with the height of a man appeared.
Out of nowhere, a foul smell rushed towards the two of them, it was a smell that would only be emitted after an animal had been dead for a long time, Ouyang Yiming had dug the grave and knew this smell.
"Do you want to go in?" Ouyang Yiming looked at Mary, who kept vomiting, and asked.
Mary wiped the tears that had come out of her face because of the vomiting, but her eyes were very determined, "Go in!" ”
What greeted the eye was an endless stream of bones and corpses, and the clothes on the corpses were exactly the same style as the Manchu uniforms. Some of the corpses were swords hit, some of the helmets had bullet holes, but the dead soldiers had all the swords in their hands, and there were no fire bolts, and I don't know where the bullet holes came from.
"How can there be a fight in this cave? What's there to argue about here? Ouyang Yiming couldn't figure it out, how could this person rush into the straight cave where he didn't stand very much!
Mary shook her head, "They were moved in later!" It's a massacre! ”
Walking a long way forward, the cave gradually began to open up, and you could see the starry sky that had risen at the exit in front of you.
The two of them ran forward excitedly, but they were shocked by the sight at the entrance of the cave.
Countless tents and brick houses lay in tatters and haphazard, corpses and broken flags lying on the ground.