Sun Tao and Qin Yang both held searchlights and shone under the tree hole, hoping to find something.

"This cave is bottomless, and it's not easy to go down." Sun Tao frowned, thought about it, took off the backpack, and took out a bundle of rope from it.

After that, Qin Yang and several team members took out a bundle of rope from their respective backpacks.

Sun Tao found a thick tree root, tied the rope, tried the strength, and then threw it down, and then looked at Xiao Ling and Zhou Kesheng and said, "Then I'll go down to explore the road first?" ”

Xiao Ling also tied a rope on the other side and said, "I'll be with you, so I can take care of it." ”

Sun Tao nodded, hung a camping lantern on his waist, and then the two carefully descended along the rope.

Xiao Ling raised his vigilance, touched the two military waist knives on his waist and a few grenades on his back, and together with Sun Tao, he followed the rope into the dark cave below.

Xiao Ling held a rope in one hand, the whole person hung on it, and the other hand held a searchlight, shooting into the darkness below, and found that after the cave was about thirty meters down, it gradually showed a spiraling trend, and there were many thick roots sticking out of the four walls, all of which were the roots of the towering giant tree extending to the bottom.

Xiao Ling let go of the hand holding the rope, stood firmly on the sloping wall below, and then shone the searchlight downward, because the cave was in a spiral shape, and the light could only shine more than ten meters down the slope before it was blocked.

If you want to see the real situation below, you need to dig deeper.

Sun Tao landed beside Xiao Ling, pulled the rope, and transmitted a signal to the top.

After making sure that there was no danger below, everyone above followed the rope and landed one after another.

Sun Tao carried the camping lantern and took Liu Guangsheng and a team member to open the way in front, Xiao Ling, Zhou Kesheng, Li Zhibao and other members of the scientific expedition team followed behind, Qin Yang took the other three team members to break the back, and fourteen people followed the spiraling cave and went deep down.

Xiao Ling took the searchlight and shone in all directions, surrounded by gray-white rock walls, and could faintly hear the sound of water flowing below.

The air in this cave is fresh, and there are obviously vents and underground rivers.

Everyone carefully followed the spiraling cave all the way down, but fortunately they were safe and sound on the way, and did not encounter any danger.

The further down the cave became, the larger the space became, the flatter the terrain became, and after half an hour, everyone was already in an empty and huge underground world, looking up and looking up, there was no top in sight.

Xiao Ling looked upwards with the help of the beam of the searchlight, and guessed that the height of the rock formation above was at least more than 100 meters.

Around everyone, there are giant mushrooms standing one after another, these mushrooms are more than three meters tall on average, like giant umbrella covers, one by one towering around, densely packed, at a glance, this looks like an underground mushroom forest.

This giant mushroom emits the smell of rotting corpses, and everyone is afraid of being poisonous, so they all wear gas masks.

Hu Shengzhe observed these giant mushrooms and said with some surprise: "These mushrooms are very similar to the mushrooms that grow in the cemetery, these mushrooms grow from human corpses, with a kind of rotting corpse smell, called corpse mushrooms." ”

"Corpse mushrooms?" Pang Yan was photographing these giant mushrooms, and was startled when she heard Hu Shengzhe's words.

Hu Shengzhe shook his head and said: "It's just that it looks like the smell of corpse mushrooms, and the appearance is similar, but corpse mushrooms are generally only the size of a fist, not so huge, these giant mushrooms are very similar to corpse mushrooms that have been magnified many times, I don't know what kind of species they belong to, but it's a pity that Lao Song is gone, otherwise he might be able to identify it." ”

There was a slight surprise in his tone.

Xiao Ling knew that the old Song he was talking about was Song Jifu, a botanist, who had participated in a scientific expedition under the Luobu Desert with everyone before, but unfortunately disappeared mysteriously halfway, and when he reappeared later, he had become a monster and was killed by a grenade.

Song Jifu has a good relationship with Hu Shengzhe and Wang Lei, and now seeing this unknown variety of giant mushroom, Hu Shengzhe can't help but think of Song Jifu.

Hu Shengzhe sighed, everyone did not stop, and continued to carefully walk through the giant mushrooms that exuded a faint smell of rotting corpses.

Zhou Kesheng took out the compass and frowned slightly, he found that the needle of the compass was swaying and could not locate the direction.

"It seems that the magnetic field in this ruin is very chaotic." Zhou Kesheng exhaled softly.

"So, there's also a big magnetic mountain at the bottom of here, the same as under the Rob Desert?" Pang Yan looked at Zhou Kesheng.

Zhou Kesheng put away the compass and said lightly: "It's hard to say." ”

Xiao Ling cautiously observed the surroundings, and suddenly his heart sank slightly, and he saw the miserable white hand again.

Since entering the ruins, he has seen the miserable white big hand many times, and every time the big hand appears, it means that danger will come.

Now I suddenly saw a big white hand quietly hovering above a giant mushroom, and five fingers passed through the mushroom, revealing below, slightly closed, and faintly covering himself.

Vigilant, Xiao Ling's muscles immediately tensed, and in the next moment, there was wind on his head, and a huge black shadow suddenly appeared from between the gaps in the mushroom umbrella cover above, and a pair of steel hook-like claws grabbed it, and the target was Xiao Ling.

Xiao Ling was alert in advance and quickly retreated, and Hu Shengzhe, who was following him, didn't understand what was happening, and was knocked out by Xiao Ling, and let out an exclamation from his mouth.

Xiao Ling raised his right hand, and the military waist knife flashed, and the cold light flashed, cutting the claws that were grabbed from above.

The three claw toes were cut off, a scream sounded, a pair of huge wings spread, and a fierce wind blew, and Wang Lei and Pang Yan, who were standing on both sides, couldn't stand and retreated in surprise.

Xiao Ling's eyes contracted slightly, and he could already see the huge black shadow that suddenly appeared and attacked.

This is a giant eagle with four claws, the body length is nearly two meters, the wings are spread, the wingspan reaches an astonishing five or six meters, the iron claws and steel beak, the whole body is gray and black, and every long feather on the body is like a gray iron cast, which looks very vicious.

"This is the ancient eagle—" Wang Lei saw it in his eyes and exclaimed, recognizing what kind of creature the giant eagle with four claws was.

Xiao Ling cut off the three claws and toes of the ancient eagle with a knife, the ancient eagle screamed, its wings spread, its body rotated, and the other claw poked out, grabbing Xiao Ling's chest viciously, as fast as lightning.

Xiao Ling hurriedly retreated, and with a "snort", his chest clothes were torn by his claws, leaving four blood marks on the skin on the surface of his chest.

Xiao Ling snorted slightly in his mouth, his left arm was flirted from the bottom to the top, and the saber slashed at this claw with full strength.

Although this claw was as hard as steel, it couldn't withstand Xiao Ling's strength, and it was cut off by a saber in an instant.

Xiao Ling twisted his waist up, jumped up, kicked out his right leg violently, and with a "bang", he kicked the ancient duck firmly.

：。 ：