Ah Le groped in the darkness for a long time, and judged only by hearing that the main river should be on the right side of the branch, falling from the right side and splitting into two rivers, one was the ice-free river that they had previously gone upstream, and the other flowed to the left, forming a waterfall downward.

However, Ah Le is more concerned about what else exists in the wide cave on the other side of the waterfall. What's above the falls? What's under the waterfall?

But because of the lack of equipment and lighting equipment, Ah Le did not dare to take the risk, and after discussing with Tang Qianrou, he had to prepare to cross the unfrozen river and continue along the bank of the main river above, but the question also arose - if they crossed the river, would they be attacked by something in the water?

"There is only one way, I will cross first, you follow me closely, if anything happens, I will entangle that thing first, you leave me alone, climb to the other side first." After Ah Le finished speaking, he was about to go down the river with Tang Qianrou, Tang Qianrou squeezed his hand and pulled it back, Ah Le turned around and said, "I said before that if there is danger, you must listen to me, haven't you forgotten?" ”

Tang Qianrou in the dark had to nod, "um", and followed Ah Le down the river.

After going down the river, the two found that the river was not deep, just below the thigh knee, and Ah Le also wondered how the thing hid in such shallow water? Is it that you have been lurking underwater and diving?

Although Tang Qianrou was led by Ah Le, her heart trembled every time she took a step, for fear that the thing before would come out, but fortunately, until the two of them crossed the unfrozen river, that thing did not appear.

After the two went ashore, Ah Le held Tang Qianrou with one hand, touched the cave wall with the other hand and continued to move forward, after walking for a while, Ah Le stopped, reached out and touched the front of the cave wall: "The temperature of the cave wall has begun to rise." ”

Tang Qianrou stepped forward and touched it, and asked, "Could it be that we are going underground now?" Something is wrong, we're obviously going up. ”

Ah Le shook his head: "I don't know, let's go for a walk, maybe we'll know what's going on." ”

The two of them walked up the ramp of the main river, and the more they walked, the more difficult it became, the ramp became steeper and steeper, and the river next to them became more and more turbulent, like the water flowing in a mountain stream.

"Have you ever wondered why they took our stuff and threw us in this cave?" Tang Qianrou remembered this most critical question.

Ah Le said: "Have you ever thought about it, the worst thing is to treat us as sacrifices, remember the time we looked for the gold tablet in Quintanaro, Mexico? ”

Tang Qian said softly: "Of course I remember, we almost all died there that time." ”

"That's right, when we were attacked by that group of local cultists, they threw us into a stone city, and also took away our equipment, but they didn't tie us up, and when we were still rejoicing, we found that there were a lot of monitor lizards in the stone city." Ah Le said as he walked, "Those Sheila monitor lizards are about the same poison as cobras, even if they are not bitten, they will not survive for three minutes if they are splashed with venom that can fly a meter away, and those cultists are treating us as sacrifices." ”

Tang Qianrou was shocked when she heard this: "You mean, the monster that captured us is a sacrifice for something?" Could it be something like that in the water? ”

After speaking, Tang Qianrou subconsciously approached the cave wall and looked at the turbulent main river next to her.

Ah Le said: "Even if it is, don't be afraid now, the water here is so urgent, there is no way to hide that thing inside, let's continue to walk and see what lies ahead." ”

Ah Le and Tang Qianrou's path was finally blocked by a high wall, and the water of the underground river flowed out of the gap under the high wall, just as the high wall was a dam, and at the other end of the dam was a wide underground lake.

Ah Le looked up at the black wall, but the moment he reached out to touch it, it bounced back like an electric shock.

Tang Qianrou hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Ah Le reached out again to touch the black wall: "It's made of iron." ”

When Tang Qianrou heard this, she immediately reached out and touched it: "It's really made of iron!" ”

A smile appeared on Tang Qianrou's face: "Ah Le, do you know what this means?" ”

Ah Le shook his head: "What? What do you want to say? ”

Tang Qianrou smiled: "We are very close to Qimen, we are very close to Qimen!" ”

Ah Le was very puzzled: "Could it be that Qimen really has a direct connection with the Cast Iron Immortal?" ”

"If there is no direct connection, it is impossible for Xing Renju to deliberately place all the clues of Qimen in the ruins related to the Cast Iron Immortal." Tang Qianrou began to grope around the black iron wall, trying to find a mechanism that could be opened, "Ah Le, quickly find if there is any place where this iron wall can be opened." ”

Ah Le grabbed Tang Qianrou's hand: "Don't, the water is flowing from behind the iron wall, if it is opened, it will be the two of us who will suffer." ”

Tang Qianrou was stunned for a moment, and raised her eyes to look at the iron wall: "Yes, I was so excited that I forgot about this, so it's still a dead end here." ”

"Yes, it's a dead end." Ah Le knocked on the iron wall, "But, fortunately, we know that there are artificially cast things here, maybe it really has something to do with the cast iron fairy, and this is also a clue." ”

Tang Qianrou groped around: "Let's see if there is any other way out." ”

Ah Le shook his head: "There shouldn't be, it's just a sluice gate here, it seems that we are going backwards, we should go downstream, let's go, let's go back." ”

Tang Qianrou looked in the direction she came from: "If we go back, will we encounter that kind of underwater thing again?" ”

Ah Le said: "No, no, we have to fight anyway, don't worry, with me, I won't let you have an accident." ”

Tang Qianrou nodded helplessly and followed Ah Le to walk back, but before the two of them took ten steps, they heard something rumbling behind them, and just when Tang Qianrou turned to look, Ah Le grabbed her hand and ran directly down: "The sluice gate is open!" Run! ”

In this environment, even if you have wings, your speed is not as fast as the water rushing out after opening the sluice gate and releasing the water, and soon the two of them are directly swept into the gushing water, struggling desperately in it.

Ah Le, who was rising and falling in the water, shouted at the top of his voice: "Try to get away from ...... Away from the cave wall...... Cave wall ...... Far...... Far ......."

Tang Qianrou heard Ah Le's intermittent words, and she also knew that she had to stay away from the cave wall, because this kind of water flowed straight down, once a person was hit by the cave wall, even a slightly protruding stone would kill a person.

Tang Qianrou wanted to respond to Ah Le, but because of the flow of water, she took a sip of water in one mouthful, and her chest was stuffy, so she had to pinch her nose and never dare to speak again.

After the two struggled in the water for a long time, they found that the speed of the water began to slow down, and Ah Le in front of him saw Tang Qianrou, grabbed her wrist, hugged her to his side, and then grabbed a protruding rock next to him.

Ah Le grabbed the rock with one hand, and dragged Tang Qianrou with the other, waiting for the current to completely pass, then he pulled Tang Qianrou ashore with great difficulty, and he climbed up and knelt there coughing, and soon vomited a large mouthful of water.

Tang Qianrou gasped for a while, stepped forward to help Ah Le pat her back, and asked, "Are you okay?" Is it better? ”

Ah Le raised his hand to signal that he was fine, turned over and lay down, raised his hand to touch, but touched a hand of silt, he immediately got up and touched the front: "Silt? ”

"What?" Tang Qianrou was a little nervous.

"It's silt." Ah Le rubbed his hands carefully, "There is fine sand in it, how can there be silt and fine sand in the snow-capped mountains of the Altai Mountains?" Let's go ahead and see what the hell is ahead. ”

Tang Qianrou followed Ah Le forward, walked for a while, and finally saw the light, the two of them suddenly became excited, from walking to running, stepping on the mud with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and at the same time feeling that the temperature began to get warmer and warmer.

Finally, the two of them ran out of the cave with the unfrozen river, and saw the pot-shaped cave with an opening at the top, and below the cave, there was a deep turquoise pool, and the deep pool was surrounded by all kinds of strange and flowering plants.

The two of them looked at the flowering plants, and their tense nerves slowly relaxed, although they were still trapped, it was much better to see the light than to grope in the dark.

Ah Le sat among the plants, plucked a flower and smelled: "I know now that the smell of flowers is actually the taste of life." ”

Tang Qianrou raised her eyes to look at the opening at the top of the cave, and looked at the sun on the edge of the opening: "Judging from the position of the sun, it should be more than one o'clock in the afternoon." ”

Ah Le also raised his eyes and looked: "In the case of not being able to discern the direction, it is not accurate to judge the time just by looking at the position of the sun, it may be morning, or it may be close to the afternoon, in short, let's find out if there is a way to leave." ”

Tang Qianrou raised her hand and pointed to the edge of the top of the cave: "We can't get out." ”

"Why?" Ah Le raised his eyes and finally saw a little snow on the edge.

Tang Qianrou was disappointed again: "It's freezing outside, the two of us are soaked, even if we wait for the clothes to dry before going out, we will be frozen to death." ”

Ah Le nodded and looked at the deep pool in front of him: "I really don't understand, why did there appear a sluice gate there before?" And why release water? I always felt that something was wrong. ”

Ah Le thought about it, as if he saw something swimming in the pool, he took a step towards the edge of the pool, approached and looked carefully, at this glance, he clearly saw that there was a black shadow in the pool fleeting, he immediately stepped back, and at the same time grabbed Tang Qianrou's hand.

"Qianrou, there's something in the pool!" After Ah Le finished speaking, he pulled Tang Qianrou and ran towards the cave, just ran to the entrance of the cave, and heard the rumbling sound again, he had to take Tang Qianrou back to the big cave, hiding at the end of the cave mouth, waiting for the water to rush out.

Ten seconds later, the stream of water sprayed out of the hole, and the gas brought out almost overturned the two, just when the two finally supported each other to stand firmly, they found that the water also brought out two goats that were already soaked and struggling in the water.

"Goats?" Tang Qianrou looked at her strangely, "How could you rush the sheep out?" ”

Ah Le stared at the waterhole: "Something is wrong, these sheep seem to have deliberately rushed out of the water." ”

Tang Qianrou asked, "Why?" ”

Ah Le pointed to the water and said: "There must be something in the water, maybe the sheep is fed to that thing to eat, or maybe it is used to hook up the killing of that thing." ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Although Tang Qianrou said this, her body was already close to the cave wall, "What will be in this water?" There could be no large carnivores in this snowy mountain! ”

Ah Le shook his head and clinged to the cave wall: "Not sure, do you remember the monster I saw?" Even that animal has it, and I can't keep it up there. ”

Ah Le said, Tang Qianrou saw clearly that there was a large black shadow under the water surface that had just calmed down and began to swim, Ah Le covered Tang Qianrou's mouth, pulled her directly to lie on the edge of the waterhole, and put a finger on her mouth, signaling her not to make a sound.

After Tang Qianrou nodded, Ah Le let go of her hand, and both of them focused their attention on the black shadow swimming in the waterhole.

The black shadow was swimming in the water, hovering not far from the two goats standing on the other side of the waterhole, the two goats didn't seem to notice the danger at all, one of them tried to walk in the direction of the cave, while the other lowered his head and graze, looking up at Tang Qianrou and Ah Le on the opposite side from time to time.

Ah Le noticed that the black shadow swam towards the goat that was walking towards the entrance of the cave, and stopped in the water very close to the goat, like a black piece of wood in the water, and stopped there.

The goat that walked to the entrance of the cave called towards the cave, as if he was afraid of the darkness in it, and also afraid of Ah Le and Tang Qianrou, who were lying there at the other end, and never walked towards the cave.

Finally, the underwater thing moved, and the slight movement of its body caused a ripple on the surface of the water, and the goat finally sensed that there was something in the water, but I don't know if the goat was stupid or too curious, so he walked towards the waterhole and put his head close to the surface of the water to see.

At this moment, the black shadow under the water suddenly pounced out, bit the goat's head, and shook the whole head again, directly dragging the goat into the water.

There was no struggle, no screaming, because the waves generated by the huge body quickly calmed down, and the big cave quickly regained its calm, and the goat on the opposite side who was chewing grass was also stunned, and then looked around, as if he was still wondering how the companion who was still there just now had disappeared?

Tang Qianrou at the other end of the waterhole covered her mouth, Ah Le also gritted her teeth, and stared at the place where the goat disappeared before, it was not an illusion, because the marks left by the goat's four hooves were still there.

What's that, though? Judging by the momentary pounce from the previous moment, it looked like a crocodile, but at least several times larger than a crocodile.

Besides, are there crocodiles in the snowy mountains? It's! A series of thoughts flashed in Ah Le's mind, but no matter which one of them was, he couldn't let himself think more and come up with a solution to the crisis in front of him.

"Perhaps...... Maybe ......" Tang Qianrou looked at the water and finally spoke, "Maybe the goat is not dead." ”

Ah Le looked at Tang Qianrou and didn't know what she wanted to say.

Tang Qianrou said again: "Look, there is no blood on the water surface at all, if you are bitten to death, there will definitely be blood, right?" ”

Ah Le knew that Tang Qianrou was comforting herself, but this comfort would soon turn into terrible self-deception, and he immediately said, "Didn't you see it clearly just now?" It was huge, many times bigger than a goat, and it swallowed the goat whole in one bite, so it didn't bleed! ”

Tang Qianrou slowly turned her head to look at Ah Le, and then looked at the waterhole sharply, as if she was afraid that the monster would pounce again, she immediately got up, and moved towards the cave close to the cave wall.

Ah Le also got up, looked at the waterhole, and slowly moved his eyes to the silly goat opposite, which was still grazing with his head down, and staring at Ah Le with a "what do you see" look.

Ah Le looked at the goat, looked at the waterhole again, thought about it, ran to the side of the goat, bit his finger with his teeth, dripped it in the waterhole, and squeezed some blood out of the goat, and then ran towards the cave with his legs, and at the same time waved Tang Qianrou to hide.

The two hid at the entrance of the cave and looked towards the waterhole, and found that the black shadow in the water appeared again, and swam directly to the goat, and the goat still looked down at the water, but the strange thing was that the monster in the water did not attack the goat, but just wandered around, and then dived down and disappeared.

"It's weird." Ah Le squatted down and frowned, "That monster has a great reaction to blood, but why doesn't it eat another sheep?" ”

Tang Qianrou was already frightened, she didn't hear what Ah Le was saying clearly at all, she just shook her head habitually.

Ah Le stared at the sheep for a long time, and finally his eyes fell on the grass that the sheep was gnawing, and then turned to look at the cave, and then said, "There must be another way out here." ”

When Tang Qianrou heard this, she asked, "Where?" ”

"I don't know, but there must be." Ah Le looked around, "Those monsters threw us here, they couldn't have been transported in with spells, right?" It is impossible to come down from above, we two big living people, even if we put it down, we have to be tied with ropes and hang down, but look at our wrists and ankles, there are not so heavy bruises, indicating that we are being carried in, since we want to be lifted, it must be through a passage that can be walked. ”

Tang Qianrou looked around: "Where will it be?" ”

"It's only this big, either around an underground river, or in that hole with a deep pool outside." Ah Le thought carefully, "There are only these two places, and besides, I have to do an experiment." ”

"Experiments? What trial? Tang Qianrou didn't know what Ah Le was talking about.

Ah Le pointed to the sheep and said, "Look, the sheep was not killed, why?" The monster wasn't supposed to be full, maybe it was because the sheep had eaten the plants by the waterhole, and it was the kind of plants that kept the sheep alive. ”

Tang Qianrou looked at the plants not far away: "Do you want to eat that kind of thing?" ”

Ah Le nodded, and Tang Qianrou immediately stopped: "No, what if it's poisonous?" That plant had never been seen before, and it was not to be ventured. ”

Ah Le shook his head: "This is no way, I have thought about it, let's wait for one more night, wait until tomorrow, tomorrow if the sheep does not die, the monster does not eat the sheep, it means that the plant is not poisonous, and we can save our lives after taking it, in this way, we are at least safe in the face of this monster, I can also look around along the edge of the waterhole, is there any other way out." ”

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