"You...... What the hell do you want me to do? "I'm in a hurry.

Bragu didn't answer, but pointed to the volcanic peak outside: "In three days, there will be a violent magma coming out, and at that time, almost all the Gu worms in the entire crack will gather in this area, except for ...... Except for you and me, everyone else is not spared. ”

"What?" My brain buzzed, "You're saying my teammates are all going to die?" ”

Bragu shook his head slightly, "I mean, they have to get out of here before this moment comes. ”

Before I could reply, I heard the voices of Yang Jianqiang and a few of them coming from outside the slit.

"Build, don't sleep! Pack up and get ready to get out in the water. ”

"Ao-"

Immediately Han Jianli agreed with sleepiness.

My mind was a mess, and I gritted my teeth and felt that no matter what, I should tell Yang Jianqiang about it first.

After I relayed Bragu's words, everyone stared at me and then shifted their eyes to Bragu's face.

"Dude, is this true?"

Yang Jianqiang's voice trembled a little.

Bragu nodded: "Originally, I thought that there would be some time before this magma burst, and it was only after you fell asleep that I found out about the advance...... If you want to live, you must leave within three days......"

Bragu said this without hurry, and didn't seem to think it was a problem.

"You...... There's nothing you can do? ”

Blagu shook his head: "At that time, all the powerful poisonous Gu worms in the entire canyon will gather, and it is beyond the control of human beings. ”

Yang Jianqiang and Liu Liwei discussed.

"Team Leader Yang, you have also seen the power of this valley, we have to make arrangements in advance!"

"If you go back the way you came, it will only take seven or eight hours to reach the next floor...... There are about 50 hours left for us. ”

"You mean, you still want to continue the investigation?"

Yang Jianqiang nodded: "Three bows and nine knocks have come down, and I am almost the last trembling, I can't just give up!" ”

A total of three sets of diving equipment were prepared, and the group came to the lake again, and saw a black object floating on the lake from a distance.

It was a person, a person!

It's strange that a few hours ago, we were sitting by the lake and talking, when the water was as flat as a mirror, how could there suddenly be more dead bodies? Looking at the appearance of this dead body, my scalp is numb again.

Dressed in the same clothes as us!

Suddenly, Mr. Wu in front of me trembled, and he froze at the same time! He pointed to the dead bodies in the water and shouted, "That's ...... That's Lao Song! It's the old Song ......"

Because the corpse was lying in the water, only leaking most of the back and the back of the head, Mr. Wu shouted like this, and several of us also stopped.

There were a total of fifteen people who came down this time, first Professor Song suddenly left the team, and then the tall SWAT officer and Xue Chuanqiang were dragged away by a huge creature that resembled bats, and they should have died tragically...... When I first saw the corpse's clothes, my first reaction was: This person must be one of the tall special police officers or Xue Chuanqiang.

In his mind, Professor Song should still be alive.

After all, Mr. Wu and Professor Song have been friends for decades, and he recognized this person as Professor Song at a glance!

"How could Old Song be in the lake?" Ma Huadong muttered with a puzzled face.

"Have you forgotten how we got into this underground crevice?" Liu Liwei snorted coldly.

Xue Chuanqiang nodded: "I mean, how could he die in the lake for no reason?" ”

Liu Liwei replied: "It's definitely not for nothing! ”

No one thought that Han Jianli and I would do our job of salvaging corpses in the cracks three or four hundred meters underground.

The corpse was only three or four meters away from the shore of the lake, and there was no need to go into the water, so we tied an iron hook to the end of the rope, tried a few times, and then hung up the corpse's clothes, pulled it up and took a look, sure enough, it was Professor Song, the person was dead, his face was pale, and there were scratches on his forehead and the corners of his mouth.

"Professor Gu, can you see how people died?" Yang Jianqiang dodged half of his body and asked Professor Gu to come over.

Professor Gu shivered and put on white gloves, squatted in front of Professor Song and tinkered for a few minutes, then raised his head:

"He had multiple injuries on his body, but none of them were fatal, and there was a lot of fluid in his abdomen, and he should have died of suffocation." As he spoke, he glanced at the lake beside him.

Perhaps seeing the tragic death of his old friend, Mr. Wu's face was extremely ugly, and he walked to Professor Song's corpse tremblingly, and sighed:

"Brother! Why the hell are you? ”

Liu Liwei on the side snorted coldly: "He should have known the secret here a long time ago, and he wanted to go into the water alone, but he didn't expect to drown accidentally." ”

Han Jianjian interjected: "So, he died of greed? ”

Before Liu Liwei could reply, Professor Gu, who was squatting on the ground, was surprised.

"Look at his body!"

When I went to see Professor Gu tearing off Professor Song's shirt, I only glanced at it and felt sick to my stomach.

Professor Song's chest, shoulders, and back...... Almost the entire body was rotting, and there was also a layer of white forest scales, and I immediately thought of the stationmaster He, the village party secretary of Hewang Village, and the corpse of the woman in red, could it be that Professor Song was the same as them?

Then an idea popped up and he said casually:

"I should know why Professor Song behaved so abnormally as soon as he got close to the underground space, and then quietly broke away from the team!"

Yang Jianqian let out an "um" and asked me, "Why?" ”

"Because he, like Stationmaster He, doesn't know if he was poisoned or radiated back then, but in short, his body will undergo abnormal changes...... Previously, Mr. Wu said that in the past ten years, Professor Song has fallen in love with the study of Kanyu, and he should be looking for a way to save himself. I thought for a moment and continued, "Maybe there's something here that saved his life!" ”

Yang Jianqiang nodded: "What Lu Dong said is very reasonable, I know about the scales growing on the body after the death of the stationmaster of the water conservancy station......

During the two minutes of our conversation, Professor Gu had been squatting on the ground and fiddling with the corpse, when he suddenly shouted, "Impossible! ”

"What's wrong? Professor Koo! Before Yang Jianqiang finished speaking, he leaned over.

"You...... Do you know what these traces are on his body?"

Professor Gu's voice trembled a little, and a short sentence actually popped out word by word.

I fixed my eyes on his chest, and I saw that under the white scales, there was a trace of decay, showing a bluish brown color, which was obviously different from the color of normal human skin, even if it was blistered, it should not be like this.

Seeing that we didn't speak, Professor Gu continued to say in a trembling voice: "This is a corpse!" And the corpse spots have spread! ”

"What do you mean by diffusion?" Han Jianli also leaned over and asked at the right time.

"Twelve hours after death, the corpse spots will gradually spread and the color will gradually darken as the blood clots." As he spoke, he pointed to Professor Song's left chest, and then said, "If you look closely, the surface of the corpse is already decomposing, and I judge that the time of death is at least more than twenty-four hours. ”

"Could it be that Professor Song is already dead?" Han Jianli is another thunderous sentence.

This would have been a stupid remark, because a few hours ago, the corpse had not yet appeared in the water, but at this time everyone did not laugh, but stared at the surface of the water with a serious face.

A terrible thought welled up in my heart: Could it be that Professor Song was a dead man a long time ago?

The discovery of Professor Song's body cast another shadow on everyone's already depressed heart, two special police officers lifted the body to the side, and Teacher Wu trembled and covered the tarp on Professor Song.

After discussing it, Yang Jianqiang asked me, Han Jianjian, and the short special police, and we all went into the water.

I put on all the diving suits, but I heard Mr. Wu sigh behind me, "Do you really want to unravel this veil of mystery?" ”

Several people turned to look at him.

"Professor Wu, what do you mean by that?" Yang Jianqiang asked.

"Seeing Lao Song's corpse, I felt that I had suddenly figured out a lot of things! Do you think it's best to make everything here public? ”

He said this with a serious face, and several of us glanced at each other, and finally our eyes were fixed on Mr. Wu's face.

Teacher Wu smiled slightly, and turned to look at Yang Jianqiang: "Team Leader Yang, please take out that ancient beast skin map!" ”

Yang Jianqiang was stunned for a moment and took out the old animal skin.

At this time, I subconsciously touched the animal skin in my pocket, and sighed in my heart: Is it true that the ancients liked to record very important things on animal skins? On second thought, paper was only invented for 2,000 years, and the ancients of the past really couldn't find anything more suitable for preserving important information than animal skins.

Besides, some hides can last for thousands of years, making them much stronger than paper.

Teacher Wu took the ancient animal skin, glanced at it, and turned it over for everyone to see.

"Do you really understand the meaning of this painting?"

After being silent for half a minute, Ma Huadong spoke: "Old Wu, do you mean that after the dead are put in the water, they can crawl out alive?" ”

Professor Wu nodded.

Ma Huadong suddenly slapped his forehead: "I understand!" ”

I was so anxious that I wanted to scold, and I thought: These two old men really fucking like to sell off, can't they finish all at once if they have a fart?

At this time, Yang Jianqiang was also a little impatient, and urged: "What the hell is going on?" Two of you! We have limited time! ”

Teacher Wu returned the animal skin to Yang Jianqiang: "I think Lao Song also knows about the Fountain of Youth, and he is in a hurry to come here, he should just want to find the Fountain of Immortality before us, what is the purpose of his doing this?" Let's think about this crack hidden deep underground, what is it called? ”

"Forbidden for human beings!"

"Netherworld!"

Han Jianli and I were both a little anxious, so we replied one after another.

Teacher Wu nodded: "You two are right, the Dongyi clan has already discovered this underground crack, I think there should be other people in history who discovered it, not only did they not make this place public later, but also did everything possible to hide it, why is this?" ”

It made a few of us confused at once.

At this time, Ma Huadong had a suddenly realized expression, and he continued: "You think about the old man and the girl before, and then think about the old Song, birth, old age, sickness and death are the laws of nature, and they are also the logical basis for the existence of this world. ”

I don't seem to understand it, but it makes sense when you think about it.

Yang Jianqiang pondered for a moment and nodded slightly.

"What do you mean, two professors?"

"What doesn't belong to this world, shouldn't be allowed to appear in this world!" Teacher Wu said categorically.

Ma Huadong also nodded.

At this time, a hoarse voice came from not far away: "It took the old guy twenty years to really understand the meaning of the ancestors' teachings, I didn't expect you to understand it so quickly!" ”

Looking for the sound, I saw Bragu standing under a Bodhi tree not far away, looking like a god descending from a distance.

Yang Jianqiang took two steps towards Bragu and stopped.

"Bu Lao, why are you here?"

Bragu shouted from afar, "I'm here to stop you from doing stupid things!" ”

After speaking, he walked towards us slowly, still as if he could see the road in front of him, and easily avoided the linden tree in front of him.

Walking up to us, Bragu pointed to the lake on one side: "Do you really know about this lake?" ”

Everyone looked at Bragu and then at the lake, not knowing what to say.

"Don't you say this lake is an ancient tomb? It's not human ...... yet."

Finally, Han Jianli replied in a low voice.

"Not bad! No one can touch what is underneath. As he spoke, he pointed to Professor Song's corpse, "I've seen him!" ”

"What? Bu Lao has seen Professor Song? The wooden stick in Yang Jianqiang's hand fell to the ground with a "snap".

I also took a deep breath and thought it was incredible, he was blind, and he had been blind for 20 years, theoretically he didn't know what the person lying down at this time looked like, how to understand the word "seen"!

This time Bragu did not sell again: "I remember the smell of him, it was a dead man's smell, this man had been here twenty years ago, and ...... And he died in the lake first, who knew that he would climb out of the lake a day later, and ...... And what crawled out were three identical of him! ”

It is estimated that ordinary people can't understand this, but everyone present understood, and their faces changed color instantly.

"Bu Lao, you mean Professor Song - he...... He was here twenty years ago and died in the lake? ”

Bu Lao nodded: "Although my eyes are blind, I am extremely sensitive to smells, just ...... Just now, I smelled that unforgettable death again, so I knew he was back! ”

I just felt a tingling on my scalp and a cold sweat on my body.

This sounds unbelievable, but it also explains why two corpses of Teacher Song were found in the two underground floors.

"Old man, you ...... Do you know what's in the lake? Teacher Wu's voice changed tone.

"Yes!" Bragu paused for a moment, then added, "I don't know! ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"The animal skin silk book left by the ancestor only mentions that the things at the bottom of the lake should not belong to this world, but the ancestor brought it out from behind the stone gate, and later ...... Later, he was sealed to the bottom of the lake...... But I don't know exactly what it is. ”