Chapter 190: Reveal
The old madman didn't explain much, and the cave didn't allow us to stay any longer. The place where the old madman was going to take us seemed to be inside the cave, which was like the outlet of a giant wind tunnel, and the huge tailwind made every step more difficult.
The walls of the cave do not have any superfluous artificial treatment, the most is the horizontal carved lines, the cave is very dark, the gas lamp has almost no effect, and several times because of the wind in the gap is extinguished.
The cave had been walking for several hours, and it had exceeded the diameter of the stone pillars outside, and it was not a cave that passed through the stone pillar mountain, but probably behind the mountain wall, and there was a larger area connected to it.
A few of us really didn't have the heart to go, but the louder thing in this cave besides the wind was the sound of our stomachs protesting. We didn't bring supplies, but the other man brought a full bag, just things, the dried meat of the big black mouse, which he would never have eaten when he was not hungry earlier, but now, there is no choice.
"I mean, the meat of this black mouse is similar to that of voles and bamboo rats, right?" The fat man compromised, and we sat down to rest, and in the faint light, the old madman chewed on those brown jerky, and several of us even the old generation swallowed our saliva again and again.
The fat man's hand was restless, and it was a little shameless to go directly to the old madman, and the fat man's claws slowly moved over and reached into the cloth bag, and he caught several pieces of jerky.
I didn't think about it any other way, although the question of what a rat the size of a cat grew up eating is still very unappetizing. I just don't care about anything, it's the right thing to fill my stomach.
The old madman didn't care about us asking for money, and in the end the three of them ate and left, regardless of how much they had to walk until they were all full. The fat man leaned against the wall of the cave, his belly exposed, and he was holding his stomach and singing a little song in his mouth.
After walking all the way, I didn't rest, and I guess it was already dark. Our direction may still be along the area of the subsidence, and the place we want to go may also be the center of this area, and the cave of this length, dug by hand, is no less than the Great Wall.
The ground was very uneven, it was all rocks, and I was much more comfortable with my hands on the ground, but as soon as I touched the wall, the texture made me grab something on the ground.
The hairs, I had already guessed the moment I touched them, but when I looked under the steaming lights, I realized that they were thick yellow-brown manes. This thing smells very strong, and when I grasp it in my hand, I smell a smell of sheep's hair, which is the hair on those monkeys.
The fat man and the old generation had already found out, and they came to the gas lamp, and just by looking at it, they already knew what those were. There are all those monkey hairs in this place, and there are so many of them, don't think about it, there must be a lot of monkeys here.
A few of us hurriedly looked at both sides of the cave, and there was no movement or shadow in the darkness. After thinking about it a little, those monkeys last night probably appeared very much after dark, and then disappeared at some point, in short, they haven't been seen since dawn.
"You...... How long have you been here? In the dark, the old generation asked.
The madman did not answer his question, but simply said, "Those stupid monkeys come out in the dark and hide in the morning, and it was your voice yesterday that drew them out." ”
"Monkeys don't eat people, and you've been here for a long time, so you haven't been attacked by those things once?" The fat man asked angrily, completely forgetting that we had eaten someone's jerky not long ago.
The old madman giggled a few times: "Daytime...... These things don't dare to come out yet, they are afraid of the sun, let's go, it's too late later. Without saying a word, the old madman stood up again and beckoned us to go.
"It's too late, you mean......" The fat man wanted to ask what was going on, but halfway through his words, he immediately turned his head to the inside of the cave.
I already knew what was going to happen, the monkeys weren't normal, and they were extremely bloodthirsty, and they weren't anything but ordinary. We didn't see it during the day, and it just confirmed the old madman's words, this kind of thing really doesn't seem to like the sun.
They're basically group hunting, and I think if we hadn't strayed into here, they might have been eating the big black rats and some other creatures.
Such social creatures do not sleep at night in a random place, there should always be a nest, and the old madman said, "We must hurry away, which already indicates that the monkeys may follow."
But it's really not very likely that they're going to have a dog's nose in the first place, and the old madman can be so sure that we'll run into each other if we don't leave. At this time, when I looked into the depths of the cave, I already had some weak legs. And why that mask appeared at the entrance of the cave, the reason is very clear, it is those monkeys.
We are considered to have fallen into bad luck, most of the other caves are still cliff tombs, which do not need to be seen to know, there should always be coffins, but this one, it is a cave, most of which are monkey hair, then it is very easy to understand things, those monkeys came out of here. It is also possible that the lair is just behind the cave.
Guess these, after looking at the faces of the fat man and the old generation, the matter has been decided, I am a little cold, this is not a good sign, day and night, and now at this time, it will not be long before it will be dark, and we will definitely not be able to catch up.
"You know what kind of place this is, and you still brought us to death, if you want to kill us, you come directly, why do you play so many tricks." In this case, so many monkeys are about to arrive, and I have a bad appetite for those things left only to eat bones, compared to being beaten into a sieve, I have no fear of firecrackers, and the old madman really didn't feel good, I couldn't hold back for a while, so I scolded out.
"It's just a passage, a passage to go deeper, those stupid monkeys are all in this area, this is not their lair, those things can find people, or rely on the smell."
His words didn't make a difference, and we walked against the wind, even if there was no smell on the other side, but there was no one behind us to follow. I'm really a little annoyed, the fat man spread his hands, it seems that we really have no other way than to move on.
The more scared you are, the worse things go. Murphy's Law doesn't seem to be a nonsense statement, and it's only half an hour forward, and it's definitely already dark. There is no end in sight in front of us, but we can hear a loud sound, which is the wind that only appears in a special terrain environment.
Not only the ghost-like sound of the wind, but also some of the things we didn't want to hear, the monkey's scream was almost drowned out by the wind, but we could still tell the difference. I was chilling, not because the wind was blowing, but because of the cold sweat from the memories of last night.
In less than ten minutes, my ears cleared up a lot, and as we had guessed before, the long cave was finally over, and there was a very open area ahead, and it was from inside that such a strong wind had poured in.
As it was already completely dark, we were very careful to find our way with the pole of fire to the edge of the cave. Sure enough, this method saved our lives in a sense.
It was completely dark, and there should have been at least some light, but who would have thought that it would be a cloudy night and there would be no light at all. The wooden pole used to find the way poked into the air and fell. We stopped, and when we looked around, we realized that we were out of the cave.
It was still a stone platform that was picked out from the outside, and because we couldn't see how big it was nearby, none of us dared to walk around, lest we stumble and fall. The entrance to the cave is not bottom, and it will only be higher here, and you can live longer if you are a little more timid.
At this time, it is not even clear to distinguish between heaven and earth, let alone do anything else, and there is a cliff on one side, and the bottom of the cliff is very empty, it seems to be a canyon, the wind echoes in it, and there are many monkeys barking everywhere. In order to prevent the sharp-eyed monkey from seeing the light here, we simply turned off the gas lamp, which was dark anyway, and we could see a range of half a meter, which was not much different from not being able to see
It's impossible to go back, I'm afraid it's another night, it's better to die than that, and we don't know what danger we will encounter, so we hid a few meters inside the cave, leaning against the wall and waiting for dawn.
It's very difficult to stay overnight in this kind of unsheltered place, and it's okay to think about holding on for a while, but as long as you get confused at the beginning, the wind will wake you up, and your back to the wind is like someone pushing you, which is very difficult.
At this time, I remembered the thousands of nights I had stayed up, but why didn't I think the bed was such a good thing at that time? I don't dare to make a sound when I complain now, lest the next second it will become a meal for the monkeys.
I woke up all night, and slept and continued to be awakened by the wind, until later, when I simply stopped sleeping, and faced the wind directly, and let it blow on my face, the more awake I was, the more I had to worry about being tormented by fatigue.
Until I saw a light fall from outside the cave entrance, my face was completely covered with dry tears, thanks to the strong wind of last night. It took a lot of effort to open all of his eyes, and he saw that the light shot through the clouds and mist, and shot down from the mouth of the cave in front of him.
I woke up the fat man and a few other people, and was about to go to see the old madman, who almost didn't scare me over, but the old madman stood up, looked at the entrance of the cave, and walked out.
A few of us rubbed our eyes before following him. What I saw when I got out of the cave was something I would never have dreamed of. There was a thick fog here, and the sky was covered with black clouds, but fortunately, there was a ray of sunlight that made the clouds disperse at a visible speed. In the hazy clouds, a mountain wall as big as the sky, but extremely ugly, was slowly revealing its massive form.