"Hey, you say, will this potion work on us?" Chen Tao shook his arm, raised his sleeve to his nose and sniffed it, frowning.

"What do you say?" Yang Lixuan glanced at him, turned around and continued to walk forward.

"It should work...... Chen Tao hesitated, after all, he hadn't seen that kind of black worm until now, and he hadn't encountered any danger all the way.

"Mountain ghost, how long have we been walking?" Uncle Long asked.

"Almost, six or seven hours." The mountain ghost glanced at his watch and said.

"Hmm...... Normally, a person can walk five kilometers in an hour, and although we are walking slowly, we should be deep in the mountains by now. Chen Tao said.

Uncle Long took out the map from his pocket, looked at it for a while by the light of the headlamp, and said, "Our location is not far from the Cannibal Valley, everyone pay attention to the surroundings and stay vigilant." ”

Uncle Long took the map, raised the wolf's tooth flashlight and took a picture of the road ahead, "The locals said that the people in this mine road only had an accident when they dug up the man-eating valley, and that kind of black worm may be in front, for the sake of safety, take the potion again." ”

After listening to Uncle Long's words, the others each took a potion bottle from their backpacks, poured it out and smeared it on their bodies and clothes. Although he had a gas mask, the peculiar smell of garlic and ginger mixed with the potion still got into Chen Tao's nose.

Soon, the air around him became strange. The potion was mixed with the damp and rotting smell of the mine, and it smelled in the nose with an indescribable taste.

Chen Tao joked: "It's interesting, let's just like a chef pickles fish when he cooks fish!" Spread the sauce all over the body and wait for it to be cooked. ”

"We're here to cook. However, the fish in the pot is a thousand-year-old salted fish, if you see it later, I will get you some to eat! Haozi smiled.

"Eat it yourself!" Knowing what Haozi was talking about, Chen Tao couldn't help but glance at him.

"Hey, that's a good thing, dip some breadcrumbs and fry them until golden brown, and the kids next door are crying! This thing, big supplement! Maybe you can prolong your life after eating it, and you can soar! Haozi squeezed his eyebrows and said nonsense to Chen Tao.

Chen Tao didn't bother to take care of him anymore, poured a handful of potion and smeared it directly on Haozi's gas mask,

"Damn, murder, you are!" Not to be outdone, Haozi picked up the potion and poured it into Chen Tao's neck.

Seeing that the two of them still had the mind to fight at such a time, everyone couldn't help but laugh, and the atmosphere was much calmer than before.

"Huh? You see, there's a hole in the rock wall ahead! "Mountain ghost road.

Everyone hurriedly turned on the flashlight and shone it on the stone wall in front of them, and saw that not far from the stone wall on the left in front of them, there was a big hole.

Chen Tao and Haozi stopped playing and came over. Everyone hurried to the front of the stone cave and shone a flashlight into the cave.

"This hole seems to have been dug at the same time as the one on the left before." Uncle Long touched the chisel marks on the cave wall.

"Strange, how can there be an extra hole here?" Boss Zhang held up the flashlight and took a picture before and after.

Yang Lixuan looked at the hole in the stone wall, raised his hand to take a picture of the way he came, and then turned to the stone wall on the right opposite the cave entrance, thought for a while, and said, "Do those people know that there is an ancient road here?" And also know where the ancient road goes? ”

"Huh?" Yan Wensheng also walked over, glanced at the direction of the cave, and then looked behind him and said, "This cave is connected to the cave in front!" ”

"What?" Except for Yang Lixuan and Yan, the rest of the people were shocked.

"Through? If that's the case......" Uncle Long muttered.

"They know where this ancient cave is going, and they have dug a shortcut to get out!" Yang Lixuan said.

"It's not that simple! What are they doing here? Uncle Wang said.

"Now that they know about that ancient cave road and have made another shortcut, are they planning to settle down here?" Boss Zhang said.

"I don't know what else it is, but the purpose of digging this new mine is definitely to get shortcut!" Yan Dao.

"Could it be a coincidence?" Chen Tao wondered.

"I don't think it's a coincidence, you see, the road ahead, the ancient road coincides with the newly dug mine road. From the exit to the inside of the cave, there are countless overlapping segments, so can it be said to be a coincidence? Uncle Long said as he looked deep into the mine road ahead.

"Someone else must have been here before us! And there were a lot of people, they were able to dig tunnels and install sleepers and rails, and the group definitely stayed here for more than a day or two. Uncle Wang said.

"Who the hell are they......" Chen Tao muttered to himself in a low voice.

"There's no way to know that yet, let's go, let's go on and see." It has been more than seven hours since entering the cave, and everyone has basically not stopped except for a short rest in the large space section of the fork.

"Well, after coming down, your physical strength will be consumed quickly, and you can't get timely rest and food replenishment, can you stand it?" Uncle Long asked Chen Tao quietly.

"It's okay Uncle Long, I can still stand it, although I am a little hungry, but I can still hold on for a while."

"Well, if you go a little further, you have to take a break, eat something, replenish your strength, and pay more attention to yourself." Uncle Wang looked at Chen Taodao.

The crowd continued to go deeper, and no one could imagine what it was used for in such a long mine.

"The further you go, the more spars there are on the stone walls, and the size and color are much better than at the beginning." Haozi touched the large black crystal ore fault on the stone wall.

"What kind of place was this cannibal valley before, and how could there be so many of these ores." The GI said, this was the first time he had spoken since seeing him.

No one can answer this question, the mine road is no longer as spacious as when it first came, and everyone is lining up in a long line, carefully moving forward.

"Huh? Why is there no road? Uncle Long said.

Chen Tao looked at Uncle Long's flashlight, and saw that the hole in front of him seemed to have collapsed, and it was tightly blocked by large and small gravels, and he couldn't get through it at all.

"It was blown up." Yan squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while.

"Something is wrong on the ground, and the railroad tracks are gone! And the ground is ......," the mountain ghost stepped on a few times and said, "It's a little hard."

Yang Lixuan squatted down and pinched a little bit of void soil with his hand, put it on his nose and sniffed it, "There is a very strange smell in the formation. After speaking, he brushed the damp soil on the ground a few times with his hand, but he didn't say a word.

"Then what are we going to do now, we can't walk ahead, do we want to go back?" Boss Zhang suddenly interjected.

Yang Lixuan didn't speak, stretched out his hand and touched the surrounding stone walls, and raised his hand at Chen Tao and said, "Give me the shovel."

"Huh? Oh give! Chen Tao didn't expect him to talk to him suddenly, and after being stunned for a moment, he took out a folding shovel from the back of his backpack and handed it to Yang Lixuan.

Yang Lixuan picked up the folding shovel and smashed it down towards the stone wall, bringing up a string of sparks and gravel, and everyone picked up a flashlight to shine on the bulge of the stone wall that had been cut off a trace of the skin, only to see the black light flickering on it, and the entire bulge was actually full of black crystall.

"Damn, it's so big!" Haozi exclaimed.

"More than that!" After that, Yang Lixuan took the shovel and slashed at several other places on the stone wall and said, "The entire rock formation here is that kind of black crystalline. All around, overhead, and across the ground, we may be in a black hedron of great volume. ”

"Shh......h

"It's all black crystal? What a big chunk this has to be! Chen Tao looked up in shock.

"The location...... We've come to the edge of the Valley of Cannibalism! Uncle Long took the map and said.

"According to legend, those people back then should have been here to do something, and the collapse in front should have been blown up at that time."

"If you look closely at the story. They didn't actually dig to the end, but ended here. Uncle Wang said.

"So what do we do next? If you can't get past the front, can you make a hole and walk by yourself? The mountain ghost asked.

Everyone fell silent again, only Yang Lixuan had been walking around, looking in the east, touching in the west, and everywhere he went, he gently knocked on the rocks above with a shovel, and the sound of metal knocking echoed in the long dark mine passage for a long time.

Everyone was silently thinking about what to do next, and when they heard the sound of percussion one after another, they couldn't help but feel a little irritable, Boss Zhang was about to have a seizure, but Yang Lixuan raised two fingers but made a silent gesture to him. Then he waved his hand at the crowd and motioned for everyone to be quiet.

Everyone didn't know what he was going to do, but they didn't say anything, they all looked at him quietly, and saw him climb on top of the gravel in front of him, and turned his headlamp to purple light mode, and then everyone saw that in the cracks of the gravel in front of him, there was a layer of blue-green fluorescence under the purple light.

Seeing this kind of scene, the rest of the people followed Yang Lixuan's example, and turned the top of their heads into purple light, and under the illumination of many lights, they saw that the cracks and holes of these gravel were holes, and there were a bunch of fluorescent spots.

"What is this?" Uncle Long asked.

"Bloodthirsty black worm excrement." Yang Lixuan looked at those fluorescent objects.

"If I'm not mistaken, that group of people should have taken the initiative to blow up this place, but they didn't control the amount of explosives, and they collapsed along with the cave wall. At the same time, it may have exploded the nest of the bloodthirsty black worm, so some black worms drilled out of these crevices and holes. ”

"Looking at the traces of excrement, it looks like they've used this as an entrance, right?" Uncle Long said.

"Well, besides, they're all around us all the time!" Yang Lixuan looked at the crowd.

"What!" Hearing his words, everyone was frightened into a cold sweat, and Chen Tao couldn't help but get goosebumps.

"Those damn black bugs have always been with us? We don't know! Thinking of the pupa dug out of the crazy boy's body, Chen Tao felt a chill in his body, and a cool breath rushed down his backbone to the back of his head.

"These insects are so small and so dark that you won't be able to see them if you don't pay close attention, but don't worry, they won't bite you." Yang Lixuan waved his hand and said lightly.

"It's the potion! That potion has been protecting us! Haozi exclaimed.

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but raise their hands to smell the smell on their bodies, and felt a little relieved.

"So what do we do next?" Uncle Long looked at Yang Lixuan and asked.

"Those people definitely didn't want to blow up the overhead, they probably encountered some reason why the machine couldn't be used, so they chose this way."

"So what you mean?"

"Get the rocks out of the way and see what they're blowing up in the first place! I guess they might be trying to go down. Yang Lixuan raised his head and threw the folding shovel towards Chen Tao. Chen Tao took it, looked at the blade on it, and was a little open-minded, and couldn't help but touch:

"How hard did you smash the stone wall!"

"It seems that this black crystal is a little harder than ordinary stone." Haozi said.

"No matter how bad the stone is, if you hit it hard with a shovel, the blade of the shovel will be open." Chen Tao said.

"In that case, let's blow it up!" Yan walked over from the crowd and said, "It's time for me to show my hand, master."

I saw him rub his hands together and take something out of his backpack. Uncle Long shouted, "Wait for a while, I've been walking for so long, take a break and eat something." Since there was a bloodthirsty black worm's nest under the stone, wouldn't that explosion be like stabbing a hornet's nest. ”

"Hey, yes, I've been screaming in my stomach for a long time. I'm starving! Boss Zhang touched his stomach and sat on a large gravel.

Thinking that there were insects all around, Chen Tao felt that he couldn't eat, Yang Lixuan seemed to see through his thoughts, and said: "You guys are smedicated, and those insects are lying on the stone wall two or three meters away, not daring to approach, and they are afraid of fire, it's okay." ”

Listening to his words, Chen Tao's heart relaxed a little, took the smokeless stove and pot from his bag, boiled it with mineral water and made some instant noodles.

I bought the remaining box and a half from the commissary, plus a few buckets that Chen Tao brought in his bag, which was enough for everyone to eat two meals. It's the first time in my life to eat instant noodles in a dark mine with countless black bugs around. Thinking about it, Chen Tao couldn't help but feel a little funny.

"When did my taste become so heavy?"

Shaking his head, he ate to himself. All the way to the present, although he has been persevering, he has been hungry very early. Now it's not like usual, no one in the group is silent, and Chen Tao naturally can't open that mouth.

Raising his head and drinking the last bit of noodle soup, Chen Tao looked at a piece of gravel and sat next to Uncle Long. Watching a few other people smoke and smoke, clean up.

"Are you afraid?" Uncle Long looked at him with a smile.

"Don't be afraid." Chen Tao shook his head firmly. "I chose the road myself, and I will go down when the sky falls!"

"Good! As a member of the Chen family, you should have this courage and courage. Uncle Long lit a cigarette and took a puff: "The road ahead is still long, and you will encounter a lot of things that you can't understand in the future, even beyond your cognition, you have to resist!" With that, he patted Chen Tao on the shoulder.

Looking at Uncle Long's eyes, Chen Tao smiled back and nodded lightly. He didn't want to say anything, and he didn't want to make many empty promises to Uncle Long, he wanted to show him with practical actions, and tell him, your nephew and I will definitely be able to do it!