Chapter 16: The Man-Eating Monitor Lizard
With the help of the searchlight, Xiao Ling saw that there were some never-before-seen plants growing on the surrounding rock formations, which looked like mushrooms, but the surface was colorful, and in the searchlight, the colorful phosphorescence was reflected, faintly shining, full of a strange beauty.
Zhang Shuang will carefully use the locator to locate the rock formation at intervals, which is the signpost they will return, and there must be no bad pool.
Zhou Kesheng unfolded the map from time to time, using searchlights to observe the landform and determine the direction.
This is a hand-drawn map, Xiao Ling can't understand it, but Zhou Kesheng can use this shabby-looking map to determine the direction in which everyone is going down.
Xiao Ling guessed based on the coordinates of Zhang Shuang's locator to the rock formation, and now everyone is afraid that they have entered this underground crack thousands of kilometers deep.
The space beneath the crack gradually became larger and wider, and it became more and more difficult to determine the orientation, and more and more colorful plants that looked like mushrooms appeared around them.
Fortunately, along the way, I only occasionally encountered some cave bats that inhabited the shadows, but they were all scared away by Sun Tao using a searchlight, and everyone did not encounter any danger along the way.
As we go deeper, the surrounding landform is also changing, at first it was just a layer of annular rock, and now as we go deeper, there are more and more plants, and a large number of colorful mushroom-like plants are piled up, which faintly glows with a faint multicolored phosphorescence, as if dyed with a layer of dreamlike color.
There was also a rancid smell in the air.
Zhou Kesheng asked everyone to wear face masks, which filter poisonous gases to prevent toxic gases from appearing in the air.
Xiao Ling was full of curiosity about this underground world that was thousands of meters below the ground, and he felt that this experience was like a dream.
According to the introduction of Li Zhibao and others, this underground world is an ecosystem of its own, and all kinds of animals and plants here are species that have never been discovered, including those bats that were scared away, are a very special albino bat, perhaps the reason for the long-term lack of light, the whole body is a kind of gray-white, the whole body, the only pair of eyes are glowing with fire red, among which the individual is large, the wings are spread nearly a meter, if you are close to watch, it is very scary, almost larger than the flying fox.
Fortunately, they were very timid, and they were frightened away from afar, and did not pose a threat to everyone.
However, the members of the team who protected them on the perimeter did not dare to take it lightly, holding submachine guns in their hands, they were fully alert, and they would not hesitate to shoot if danger approached.
After arriving at the underground kilometer, the terrain gradually became open and flat, and everyone climbed all the way down, and their physical strength was not small, especially Li Zhibao and Zhou Kesheng, although their physical fitness was not inferior to that of young people, after all, they were old and tired, and they told everyone to rest on the spot for a while.
Although Xiao Ling did not receive professional physical training like those fully armed team members, as his food increased, his physical fitness was getting better and better, and he did not feel tired, but felt more and more energetic, and his whole body seemed to have endless strength.
However, he also sat on the ground with the others, and the gun-wielding team members stood guard on the perimeter in case of danger.
Xiao Ling listened to the wheezing voices of Zhou Kesheng, Li Zhibao and others around him, silently observing the surrounding terrain, he didn't know the goal of this trip, how far the legendary Pisces jade pendant was from here, he was full of curiosity about the mysterious Pisces jade pendant that he was going to see.
"Dean Zhou, how far is it?" Xiao Ling finally couldn't help it, and asked Zhou Kesheng in a low voice.
Zhou Kesheng sighed softly and said, "I'm not sure either." ”
Xiao Ling said: "You don't know either? "I thought that he was a survivor of the scientific expedition team that year, and since he had seen the Pisces jade pendant, he should know the specific location.
Zhou Kesheng pondered for a while before he said: "It's not fixed, I can't describe it in words, but when you see it, you'll naturally understand." ”
Xiao Ling was stunned, isn't it fixed? Can this Pisces jade pendant still fly with wings? The old fellow was about to ask again, when suddenly there was a rustling sound in the darkness in the distance.
The sound caught everyone's attention, and immediately several beams of light shone in the direction of the sound, and the submachine guns held by several team members were also pointed in that direction.
In this bright searchlight beam, three huge black shadows appeared, and they were three giant lizards.
These three lizards, with a body length of more than three meters, are gray-white all over, with a bloody mouth open, poisonous saliva flowing from the corners of their mouths, and trample on colorful plants that look like mushrooms all over the ground.
Before they could get closer, there was a faint smell of fishy smell in the air.
Xiao Ling had never seen such a terrible scene, and he couldn't help but feel a tightening in his heart.
The three heavily armed team members reacted quickly and quickly caught up, the light submachine guns in their hands spewed fire, and a barrage of bullets shot out.
This submachine gun looks small and light, but the actual power is extremely huge, it can hunt elephants, although the three white monitor lizards have thick skin and thick flesh, they can't reach it, and before they can break out of two or three meters, they are beaten into a sieve, and soon fall to the ground and no longer move, losing their lives, under their huge bodies, those flattened mushroom plants are miserable out of colorful sap, which is slowly flowing around.
The three giant-looking monitor lizards that looked hideous and ferocious were easily dealt with, and except for Xiao Ling, the other members of the team were very calm, obviously all of them were people who had experienced strong winds and waves.
Wang Lei, who was short and thin, walked up a few steps, used the searchlight in his hand to shine at the corpses of the three monitor lizards, and said: "This is the albino variant Komodo dragon, it is indeed rare to survive in this kind of underground world without light, because without light, their eyes are almost degenerate, and they should use their sound to sense and catch their prey." ”
Xiao Ling knew that the members of this scientific expedition were not simple characters, this Wang Lei didn't look amazing, he was actually a zoologist, he could recognize at a glance that this was a mutant albino Komodo dragon, it was not surprising, Xiao Ling himself, except that he felt that this looked like a monitor lizard, he didn't know what species of lizard he belonged to.
Wang Lei was talking about the species of the three dead monitor lizards, while Pang Yan stepped forward with a camera and took a few photos of the three albino Komodo dragons that had died.
Sun Tao waved his hand and said, "Let's hurry up, the bloody smell of this monitor lizard is only afraid that it will cause trouble, and it is not safe to stay here to rest." ”
Sun Tao's main responsibility was to ensure the absolute safety of Zhou Kesheng and Li Zhibao and other ten members, since he said so, everyone did not dare to hesitate, they all took their camping backpacks, continued to hurry, and quickly left here.