Chapter 44: The Eye in the Dark
"Don't go there yet!" Seeing Tristana preparing to walk towards the entrance of the cave, Ling Tianmao hurriedly reminded him.
"Well, it smells of blood in there." Ling Tianmao saw the two of them staring at him, and hurriedly pointed in the direction of the cave entrance.
Teemo had a skeptical expression, and Tristana, after a moment of thought, aimed her hand cannon at the branches of Ceylon fruit on the rock wall.
"Boom", the fruits, branches and leaves were blown to pieces, and a lot of gravel slag also flew into the air together.
As the smoke slowly cleared, the dark hole was exposed to the trio. Ling Tianmao was suddenly choked and coughed twice, without the cover of branches and leaves, the smell became even more pungent.
"Sure enough, there's a problem here." Without the distraction of the Ceylon fruit, Teemo and Tristana also smell the cave.
"Get ready for battle!" Tristana held the cannon firmly in her hand and aimed it at the dark hole, and Teemo immediately switched from his lazy appearance, the blowpipe in his hand already moved to his mouth.
Seeing the cute creatures in the two games put on a serious look, thinking of the serene expression that Timo showed after his death, the huge contrast made Ling Tianmao almost laugh.
But soon he remembered how they had turned the robbers into corpses, and held back the laughter before it could break out of his mouth.
"You wait and take care of the lighting, I'll go to the front, Timo you break the back!" Tristana handed over a torch and stood at the front of the three.
Ling Tianmao saw Timo standing behind him, so he had no choice but to take the torch. Both people bend over and press the center of their bodies down so that they can quickly make various strain movements. Ling Tianmao had no choice but to learn their posture and slowly walk towards the entrance of the cave together, but his figure was too different from that of the yodelers, and his forward movements looked so funny.
When he came to the entrance of the cave, the smell was even stronger, and even though Ling Tianmao's sense of smell had been tested for a long time in schools and hospitals, he was still stimulated to his stomach and let out a few retching sounds.
Tristana, who was in front, heard Ling Tianmao's voice, and immediately turned her head, putting her index finger in front of her mouth with a serious expression and making a silent gesture, Ling Tianmao nodded a little apologetically.
Ling Tianmao lit the torch with the fire fold he had given himself, and the space near the entrance of the cave was also illuminated by the torch in his hand.
The light of the torches didn't allow them to see the end of the cave, but it allowed them to discover the source of the stench.
A few steps inward from the entrance of the cave, there were many corpses and bones piled up on the ground. Their time apparently varies greatly, some have been reduced to bones, and some have not yet rotted away from their internal organs and soft tissues. The freshest one was probably a male yodeler near the exit, the left half of his body had been eaten by unknown things, and the remnants of the corpse were bleeding from it, and a swarm of unknown bugs was rolling happily on it.
Due to his mental preparation in advance, Ling Tianmao did not make any sound this time, and to his surprise, although Timo and Tristana's faces were also very ugly, they didn't seem to feel very unbearable for such a scene, they must have experienced many terrible things before.
With the light of the fire in his hand, Ling Tianmao quickly glanced around, and the bones on the ground included humans, wild small animals, and of course, a large number of yodelers. And the corpses that have not yet turned into white bones are almost all yodelers.
Seeing this, Ling Tianmao understood in his heart, after the entrance to Bandle City became here recently, the number of yodelers passing through here continued to rise, and they were very easily attracted by the smell of Ceylon fruit in the air to come to the vicinity of this cave entrance, and finally were attacked by something and turned into these corpses on the ground.
Since the beginning of the war, humans have migrated from this area on a large scale, and the surrounding animals have been reduced by robbers and Noxian soldiers, so the bones of humans and animals are mostly old.
I don't know if the two of them understood, Ling Tianmao's palm holding the torch began to slowly ooze beads of sweat. There must have been another or another group of other things in this cave besides them, but he didn't dare to tell them his analysis casually right now.
The only thing that reassured him a little was the wary look on Teemo and Tristana's faces. Tristana raised a hand and waved it forward, taking the lead and carefully touching it forward.
As the three of them continued to go deeper, there were more and more corpses around, and it was hard to imagine how many lives were buried in this strange cave.
In addition to this, it seems that the temperature in the cave is also rising. The hot and humid air mixed with the stench made Ling Tianmao's chest feel stuffy for a while, and several times he wanted to throw the torch and run outside to breathe freely, but he knew that Timo behind him would not allow him to do so.
"Brush!" There was a slight sound of wind behind him, and Ling Tianmao hurriedly turned around and shone it behind him with the torch in his hand, but there was nothing behind him except corpses and empty rock walls.
Teemo looked behind him nervously, his blowpipe already in his mouth, and it was obvious that he had heard the voice coming from behind him as well.
Ling Tianmao patted Tristana in front of him, and after seeing the other party turn around, he pointed behind him and looked at her with inquiring eyes.
Tristana didn't know what was going on, and Teemo in the back gave her a few simple gestures, which should be simple sign language that the two of them usually used for ease of communication. Tristana nodded her head in understanding, and she looked at the path to get in and on, and after a moment of deliberation, she made a gesture to keep going.
However, as soon as the three of them walked a few dozen meters, something seemed to slide on the rock wall on the left side again, this time the sound was even more obvious, Tristana also heard it, and before Ling Tianmao's torch shone over, a blow arrow and cannonball hit the rock wall on the left.
But when Ling Tianmao raised the torch, there was nothing but bare stones. The three of them did not move on, but surveyed their surroundings in the faint light, and now it was clear that something had spotted them, and the trouble had to be resolved.
Just as the three of them were concentrating on searching, the torch in Ling Tianmao's hand suddenly went out, the only light source disappeared, and the entire cave fell into darkness again.
And somewhere they didn't notice, a pair of crimson eyes were staring at the three of them.