Chapter 163: Dragon's Eye Lake
Although it is a village in the mountains, the village has long been electrified, a wide concrete road has been built, and the families are small cottages with at least two floors.
When a few people arrived here in the afternoon, they also saw a tour group bus parked on the side of the road, and a group of tourists walked up the mountain under the guidance of the guide.
It's not so much a mountain village as it is a tourist attraction with great scenery.
"To enter the underground tomb, you must first find a place called Longyan Lake." Luo Qi said: "I only know that Longyan Lake is in this mountain, but I don't know what the specific direction is. ”
"So you need to find a local guide, right?" Ji Ye asked.
Luo Qi nodded.
"It's a tourist village, so it's easy to find a guide." Li Mian glanced at the restaurant not far in front of him, "Let's go over there to eat first, and ask the boss by the way when you eat." ”
This proposal was immediately approved by Hao Zhi.
They had been from the hospital at six o'clock in the morning, and had not eaten for seven or eight hours now, and they had already starved him.
So a few people came to the hotel first.
The hotel is not big, it is a small hotel of the husband and wife type, the owner of the hotel is a middle-aged man under forty years old, this is not meal time, he is the only one in the store.
After coming to the hotel, Ji Ye ordered food and asked the restaurant owner about Longyan Lake by the way.
"Longyan Lake? What are you doing there? The owner of the hotel showed a look of surprise in his eyes, "It's a natural reservoir, don't say it's you tourists, even our locals are forbidden to approach." ”
"We're not here to play, we have other things to do when we go to Longyan Lake."
Ji Ye said: "As long as you help us find a guide, I can give you a thousand yuan as an introduction fee." ”
Hearing that Ji Ye was willing to pay a thousand yuan for the introduction fee, the hotel owner suddenly had a heart-warming look.
He hesitated and said, "I can help you find this guide, but you'd better not get your hopes up, I don't think anyone will be willing to take your order." ”
"Why? Is there anything special about that Longan Lake? ”
Li Mian immediately sensed that there seemed to be something hidden in it and asked.
In order to prevent the water quality of the reservoirs from being polluted, the local authorities will even move all the surrounding residents to farther places, and prohibit ordinary people from approaching the vicinity of the reservoirs.
Li Meng originally thought that this Longyan Lake was also a reservoir of this nature, so he didn't feel any strange when he started to see the way the restaurant owner subconsciously shook his head after hearing Longyan Lake.
But now the boss is so hesitant after seeing Ji Ye so generous, which can only show that there is something else unusual in that Longyan Lake.
"Longyan Lake is not simple." After questioning, the owner of the hotel said the reason, "There have been many people missing there, and we locals never dare to go to that place......"
According to him, in fact, Longyan Lake is not a natural reservoir, and the term "reservoir" is just an excuse to fool tourists from other places, in case some tourists from outside the lake go to Longyan Lake to play.
Longyan Lake is located in the back mountain, that lake is very large, the lake water is very clean, but the strange thing is that there are no fish and shrimp in the lake, although there is nothing wrong with the lake.
The reason for the name Longyan Lake is that there are often large whirlpools with a diameter of two or three meters in the center of the lake, sometimes even up to four or five meters, and when viewed from above, the whole lake looks like the eyes of some creature.
“…… It is said that the whirlpool leads to the underworld, and no one in our local area dares to approach it. ”
The owner of the hotel said: "Every year, tourists go missing there, but not a single one has been successfully found, and the village elders say that those who go missing are dragged to the underworld." ”
Although the locals have put up iron fences, hung up signs prohibiting entry, and made up a lie about a natural reservoir at the leading point to Longyan Lake, there are always tourists who have to die, stumble into the place by mistake, and then there is no news.
Of course, not all the people who have been there have disappeared, and most of them have come back safely, but the fact that several people go missing in one place every year is enough to make people feel scared.
"Such weird...... Hao Zhi's face turned white when he heard it, "Why don't we go?" ”
All three ignored his words.
"I can pay 50,000 yuan for the guide, as long as I lead us to the vicinity of Longyan Lake." Ji Ye understood what that Longyan Lake meant to the locals, and directly raised the guide fee to 50,000 yuan.
Hearing the amount of 50,000, the hotel owner suddenly opened his mouth wide.
He followed up and asked, "Just lead you to the neighborhood, right?" ”
"Get it to the neighborhood, and we'll go over by ourselves when the time comes." Ji Ye nodded and said.
There is no guide who is familiar with the terrain to help guide the way in a place like the deep mountains and old forests, even if you know the general direction, it is useless, and there is a greater chance that you will go astray to the point where you don't know.
Let them go over and look for that Longyan Lake by themselves, and they don't know when they will find it and how much time they will waste.
"Okay, I'll lead you there!" The hotel owner nodded vigorously and made a decision, "But you have to pay me the 50,000 yuan first." ”
He was ready to take the order himself.
It is now the off-season for tourism, and the profit of a small restaurant like his in three months does not add up to 50,000 yuan.
Anyway, there are no guests in the hotel in the afternoon, so it is better to go out and earn extra money.
"No problem." Ji Ye said with a smile.
He doesn't have to worry about the boss taking the money and not doing anything at that time, so it doesn't matter what he pays first.
So after making up his mind, Ji Ye didn't wait for departure, and directly transferred 50,000 yuan to the hotel owner on the spot.
When they had finished eating, the boss didn't even clean up the table, so he closed the roller shutter door and led them into the mountain.
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The distance between Longyan Lake and the village is not far away, but it is not close, the straight-line distance is almost five or six kilometers, even an ordinary person can walk for an hour to complete such a long distance.
However, because it is located deep in the mountains, the route naturally inevitably twists and turns, and the mountains and flat terrain are completely different, so it is much more difficult to walk.
Although Li Mourning and the others were not affected by the complex terrain and walked on the ground wherever they went, the hotel owner who was the guide was an ordinary person, and Hao Zhi was injured, so the speed was not fast.
It took nearly two hours for the owner of the hotel to take them to a high slope and see the Longyan Lake.
Standing on this side, it was just a very ordinary lake, and there were no trees around, so it looked a little empty.
"That's Longan Lake...... It's about an hour's walk from here......" The innkeeper gasped as he pointed to the lake in the distance.
The road in the mountains was far more difficult to walk than on the flat ground, so he was tired enough after walking for two hours in a row.
After sending them here, the boss turned around and went back the way he came, even though he was still some distance away from Longyan Lake, he still felt very uncomfortable.
And after the hotel owner left, Li Mian directly rolled up Hao Zhi with a twisted force field, and in Hao Zhi's panicked shouting, the three of them completely let go of their speed and rushed in the direction of Longyan Lake.
It originally took about an hour to travel, but it took them all less than ten minutes to come to the shore of Longyan Lake.
"There really aren't any fish or shrimp in the lake." Li Mian's eyes swept from the lake and said thoughtfully.
The water of the lake is very clear, and you can almost see the bottom of the lake when you sweep it away, and you can't see any fish and shrimp or other creatures, not even aquatic plants.
However, what can be seen is limited to the area near the lake, and the area near the center of the lake can only be seen in a bottomless pitch black.
The lake is obviously very beautiful, but it gives people an eerie feeling of unusually dead silence.
"Is the lake water poisonous?" Hao Zhi was jealous, and subconsciously stepped back a little.
"The lake water is not poisonous, it is radiation." Ji Ye squatted down in the middle of the night and held up a hand of lake water, "There is a strong residual radiation in the lake water, and ordinary life cannot survive at all." ”
As a monster, he is extremely sensitive to radiant energy.
"Longyan Lake is connected to the underground river, and you can enter the ruins and tombs from the deepest underground river at the bottom of the lake." Luo Qi said how to enter the underground tomb.
"From the bottom of the lake?" Hao Zhi's face couldn't help but turn white, "Let's not say that there is radiation in this lake...... Just this deep water can easily kill people, right? ”
Not to mention a landlubber like him who has no water at all, even if he is a snorkeling master, he doesn't dare to go down to this deep lake casually.
There has always been a folk saying that deep lakes are more terrible than deep seas.
"I'll go down and take a look." Ji Ye disarmed his human form as he spoke, and turned into the kind of hideous demon body like a slayer.
"Stay safe." Li Mian said.
Ji Ye nodded, jumped directly into the lake, and swam quickly in the direction of the center of the lake.
They didn't wait long on it, and after about ten minutes, Ji Ye came up again from below.
"There is indeed a deep hole at the bottom of the center of the lake, and it is very dark inside, and I don't know where it leads."
Ji Ye said: "The depth of the lake is not as calm as it seems, there is a strong undercurrent, and the people who disappeared before should have been swept into that deep hole by the undercurrent when they went down to the lake to swim." ”
Lakes like this should not have an undercurrent, but it is supposed to be connected to an underground river, so an undercurrent is formed.
And for swimmers, undercurrents are more dangerous than anything.
Li Mian nodded and said, "Then let's go down." ”
"Wait." Hao Zhi's face changed suddenly, and he stepped back and said, "I won't swim ......."
Before he could finish speaking, he was violently swept over by Li Mourning with a distorted force field, and followed them into the lake, swimming towards the depths of the middle of the lake.
Not long after they entered the lake, the originally calm surface of the lake suddenly moved, and soon a large whirlpool with a diameter of four or five meters was formed.