Chapter 24: The Bottomless Abyss
Everyone stepped on this canopy, and under their feet were all thick and sturdy branches, which were intertwined and extended, forming a huge net, which could easily bear the weight of everyone, everyone only needed to be careful, not to deliberately step into the gap between the occasional branches, and basically did not have to worry about falling.
Twenty-three people climbed onto the oncoming canopy one after another, and carefully walked along the canopy towards the center.
After entering the underground world for so long, Sun Tao began to consider the need to save power, and asked most of them to turn off the searchlights on their helmets, leaving only a few searchlights.
The power supply of the searchlight that Sun Tao originally carried in his hand had been exhausted, but fortunately, the materials and equipment he prepared were sufficient, and he was replaced with a backup power supply.
Along the way, everyone mainly relied on the light emitted by the high-power searchlight held by Sun Tao in his left hand to see things.
At this moment, Sun Tao was carrying a searchlight and constantly shooting around the canopy to see if there was any danger.
Xiao Ling followed Zhou Kesheng and Li Zhibao's side, with the help of Sun Tao's searchlight was also looking around, he stepped on the thick and sturdy branches below, feeling the branches shaking up and down slightly, he was different from others, he was targeted by the miserable white hand, and suddenly ventured into this kind of canopy, his heart couldn't help but feel weak, he was very afraid that the branch on the sole of his feet would suddenly break, and he would fall into this bottomless abyss, but he was afraid that he would fall so that even the bones would not be left.
It is said that the more scared he is, the more he will come, Xiao Ling was thinking about the miserable white hand in his mind, and suddenly found that the strong beam of Sun Tao's spotlight swept forward, and in the beam sweeping, he suddenly saw a huge shadow, at this moment, he saw it clearly, the shadow that was swept by the beam was a terrifying hand that was as white as paper.
Although he disappeared into the darkness in an instant, Xiao Ling suddenly became cold, and instinctively grabbed Zhou Kesheng, and let out a heavy panting sound from his mouth.
"Can't go, it's dangerous." Xiao Ling's heart was cold, and he hurriedly turned on the searchlight on his helmet and shone it into the depths of the canopy where the big white hand that had just appeared.
Zhou Kesheng stopped and said in a low voice: "See 'it' again?" ”
Although he couldn't see it, he was convinced of what Xiao Ling said.
Xiao Ling nodded slowly, licked his lips, and stared at the depths of the canopy in front of him.
Under the light of the searchlight of his helmet, he could see very clearly, between the branches of the tree, the big white hand was quietly clinging to it, it seemed to be real and illusory, the roots penetrated the big hand, making it seem to be just a phantom existence, and there was no substance, even the light of the searchlight could easily penetrate it.
Zhou Kesheng raised his right hand, and the deep voice made everyone stop for a while.
"Something happened." Sun Tao stopped first, then turned his head to look at Zhou Kesheng.
Zhou Kesheng shook his head at him, and then whispered to Xiao Ling: "Where is it?" ”
Xiao Ling stretched out his hand and pointed to the location where the big white hand appeared.
This big white hand can only be seen by him, and it is an illusory existence, which cannot be touched by any object in reality, but it represents a certain supernatural power, but it seems to be real.
If this big hand appears, there will be disaster, Xiao Ling's scalp is numb, how dare he move forward again, and even want to retreat immediately and escape from this area.
Zhou Kesheng's face was also ugly, he frowned, and said: "This time it's troublesome, we have to go down, this is the only way, the depth of this abyss is only more than a thousand meters, we don't have enough tools to go down through other methods, we can only climb this immortal giant tree down." ”
Xiao Ling took a deep breath of cold air, the depth of this abyss is at least more than a thousand meters? The undead tree grew from the bottom of the abyss, which means that the height of the undead tree is at least over a kilometer.
Although the crowd also carried some safety ropes for rock climbing, it was obviously impossible to descend to the abyss below a kilometer with these ropes, and the only feasible way was to descend the immortal tree.
But now the big white hand suddenly appeared in the canopy in front of it, which means that this area may be in some kind of disaster or danger at any time.
This time, they spent a lot of money to organize this scientific expedition, and they sacrificed two team members along the way, and now the hope and goal are in front of them, and it is impossible for everyone to give up and return.
After Zhou Kesheng and Li Zhibao discussed in a low voice, they decided to stay as far away as possible from the area that Xiao Ling had pointed out just now, and then walked around the edge of the canopy.
Fortunately, the area where the canopy extends is extremely vast, as long as you don't get close to the area that Xiao Ling pointed out just now, there may not be any danger.
Everyone decided to detour, although Xiao Ling was afraid, but helpless, he knew in his heart that he couldn't stop everyone's decision, not to mention that he couldn't find the Pisces jade pendant, and if he didn't resolve his own calamity, sooner or later it would be a dead end.
Xiao Ling was uneasy, always feeling that some danger was about to appear, and this strong uneasiness made him ask Sun Tao for some self-defense weapons.
Sun Tao looked at Zhou Kesheng, and when he saw Zhou Kesheng nodding, Sun Tao gave Xiao Ling a military waist knife.
Although Xiao Ling wanted a gun, even if he didn't give a submachine gun, he would defend himself with a pistol, but Sun Tao refused.
"You have not received professional training, and if you shoot rashly, not only will you miss the target, but you will easily injure your fellow comrades by mistake."
Sun Tao told the truth, handing over the gun to a rookie who had never used a gun, he was afraid that in the chaos, Xiao Ling would miss the target, but hurt other people, and even someone shot and injured himself in the chaos, this situation did not happen before.
Xiao Ling knew that Sun Tao would not give the gun to himself, so he could only take the military waist knife in his hand and wave it twice, this kind of military waist knife is very sharp, it can easily cut off wrist-thick branches, and the lethality in hand-to-hand combat is not small.
Xiao Ling held the military waist knife in his right hand, and his courage was slightly stronger, so he hardened his head and followed everyone to go around the edge of the canopy, far away from the area where the big white hand appeared.
Xiao Ling shone the searchlight towards the place where the big white hand was, and found that the big hand was still silently shrouded there, motionless, like a white demon and monster, quietly trying to eat people.
Everyone walked along the edge of the canopy, and as everyone trampled on it, a large number of undead mushrooms were trampled into mud, and colorful sap oozed and flowed.
These colorful immortal mushrooms are very soft, like mud, and everyone has to be careful not to slip on them, slipping on this canopy, it is easy to fall into the gap in the canopy, which increases the difficulty of everyone to hurry.