This snow pig made Chen Yutian and I laugh. At this time, a few guys who were sleeping just now also woke up and surrounded them curiously.

I touched the snow pig with my hand, and sure enough, it was chalk ash (shēn).

It is estimated that the snow boars used this stone cave as a winter habitat (shēn), and when we came, these snow boars saw the light and hid, or maybe the ancient apes often passed here, and the snow boars were afraid of being trampled by the huge australopithecus and used to hide (xìng), and when it was quiet just now, these snow boars all came out again.

At this time, Tuesday Mao also got up, and said with sleepy eyes: "What are you doing at the door?" ”

Ma Bo said: "Come here, Brother Ermao, how many of your brothers are robbing you of something to eat outside?" ”

Tuesday Mao was stunned for a moment and said, "What kind of brother am I?" ”

Everyone burst out laughing.

I said, "Don't you say, you look a little similar to Ermao!"

Ermao felt even more strange and ran over in a few steps.

When I saw the cute snow pig, I also laughed. said: "Ma Bo, aren't these your brothers!" ”

I saw that everyone was almost rested, so I took out my pocket watch and looked at the time, it was already seven o'clock the next day.

Then he said: "Everyone is almost rested, clean up, eat something, see if Li Long and Zhao Qiguan (qíng) are better, everyone will set off when they are better." ”

Zhao Qiguan has basically recovered, Li Long slept all night, the swelling and pain are still relatively obvious, but there is no major problem in walking.

We casually ate some dry food.

At this time, Tuesday Mao said: "Hey, these paintings are interesting, even people like Lao Tzu who don't know how to read can understand them, where did you get it!" ”

I looked up and saw that Tuesday Mao was looking through the brown book I had taken down from the stone niche.

Yesterday I flipped through the book and threw it aside to sleep, when Mao picked it up and flipped it up.

I pointed to the stone niche above my head and said, "That's what was placed there, probably the history book that Shibi used to record things (qíng) in the past." ”

As soon as Mao saw Wanqu on Tuesday, he was angry, and said faintly: "This is interesting, are the Wanqu people flies, you can see them everywhere, these dogs (rì) tortured us really badly." ”

I smiled, bothering to pay attention to him.

On Tuesday, Mao said again: "This painting is strange, this painting is a spring water under the cave, isn't it, Erwa?" There's such a big wolf on this spring! ”

I also flipped through the books casually, and there were many more that I didn't have time to read, and I didn't know if there was a spring or not.

I said, "What's the spring?" ”

Tuesday Mao came over with a book, pointed to the book and said, "Look, this is under this cave, the spring, here, the wolf, here." ”

I saw that on the brown leather book, a wolf was half-squatting by a spring, and there were two white wolf warriors standing on the left and right.

I tried to explain, "Maybe this is a frozen spring in the cave, and when the city was built, wasn't the water source always the most important thing?" So it's not surprising that there are wolves and white werewolves guarding them. ”

On Tuesday, Mao let out an "oh". Then he began to eat again and flipped through the kraft book.

After a while, Tuesday Mao said again: "Then what is this painting of an ant?" Do you see if this is an ant, Erwa? ”

I leaned over and saw that the page was drawn in its entirety

An ant is on it, and this ant doesn't seem to be the ant we've ever seen, the key is that every detail is drawn very well, and it looks fine and full of tension.

I haven't heard Ding Sanye and Khenpo Kunqu Tenzin talk about the worship of ants (qíng) by the White Werewolf or the Guqiang people, and I don't understand why this Shibi draws an ant in such detail.

Turning another page, suddenly Tuesday Mao was shocked and said, "I (cāo)!" ”

I saw Tuesday Mao swallowing saliva, and when I looked at it, I saw that this page turned out to be a woman on the page (shēn)**, (shēn) body posed in a strange shape, looking at the sky thoughtfully.

The woman's (shēn) is followed by a wolf who also looks at the sky as if there is something in the sky.

I teased: "Ermao of the dog (rì), you haven't looked at the foreign mother-in-law in the diorama for a few days, so you are hungry like this?" ”

The diorama was one of the things of our street artists at that time, and the wooden box contained all kinds of pictures, and there was a magnifying glass on the box, and according to the optical principle, the camera obsca (cāo) was made to make a magnified picture. At first, I wanted to see some scenery, and then some people began to make some (luǒ) women, (chūn) palace paintings for people to see, and one view of the Western scenery with two copper plates, and one (chūn) palace painting required five copper plates.

At that time, we often went to see it secretly on Tuesdays.

Tuesday Mao's face flushed, and he defended: "This... Lao Tzu is looking at this shape, to see if there is any problem. ”

Ma Bai smiled: "Brother Ermao, those girls on the dock have more shapes, I'll take you to play for a long time, and you'll know!" ”

Tuesday Mao's face turned even redder, and he impatiently closed the book and threw it to me: "Fuck your uncle, the pervert of the dog (rì)!" ”

After everyone was full of food and drink, Mao raised his throat and howled a few times on Tuesday, which was in place.

I said, "Let's get ready to go, it's not too early." ”

We continued along the passage we had traveled in yesterday, and when we had not walked long enough to turn back yesterday, we saw a chalk mark.

Yesterday, if I had walked one or two hundred meters further, I would have been able to see it, but if I had walked further, it would have been too late to rush back to save people.

The arrow was pointing downward, and we saw a fault in front of us, and after going down the stone staircase for a while, we saw a stone bridge at the corner, spanning the mountain wall, and the stone bridge was carved with the image of wolves of different shapes.

On the opposite side of the stone bridge is a hole that is artificially dug out or artificially expanded, and the dragon and phoenix are also carved on it, which is extremely exquisite.

Walking across the stone bridge, you will enter a natural cave in front of you, and in this cave you will go further and further down, this cave is a structure of floors, spiraling down layer by layer, and some stone stairs have been dug by man.

After walking for a long time, we saw traces of a fire in a depression, and probed the temperature of the fire, and the residual temperature was still there, and I said happily: "It seems that we are very close to them, and it is estimated that Uncle Du and they are separated from their uncle and them here." ”

Over there, Ma Bo also said: "Brother Erwa, there are marks on the cave here." ”

I went over to look at it, and sure enough, there was a mark here, but the strange thing is that there was a big road in the cave, and my uncle did not choose to take the big road, the arrow went down, and under the mountain wall, I saw a small cave exposed, and there was no arrow to guide it, and I couldn't see a hole here at all.

And this cave can only be reached with the help of ropes, so we tied the rope and descended to the small cave, only to see that the cave was so small that only one person could bend down to pass through.

On Tuesday, the hair (shēn) wood is relatively high

Big, after looking at it, his head was big, and he said: "Your uncle really knows how to choose the road, and he won't suffocate people to death by drilling this rat hole!" ”

I said, "Uncle, it must make sense for them to go here, let's not talk about it first, I guess the hole will be big when you walk in." ”

I was the first to enter the hole, this hole is indeed too narrow and low, it is difficult to walk in it and look up, we have backpacks, ropes, rifles, it is really uncomfortable to walk in the hole.

But this cave is also strange, just now it was obviously a natural cave, but after walking a few hundred meters, the front suddenly became a trace of excavation. It is estimated that there used to be a door here, but now it has long since corroded, leaving only a stone trough.

After walking for a short time, he walked out, stepped on the stone staircase that had been hewn out and walked up for a while, and saw that it was already a road made of bluestone slabs.

In this way, it seems that there is some powerful mechanism on that road, and the builders have built a small road under this road to facilitate access, and I think we must have entered a relatively hidden place in the ancient city.

The cave is much warmer than above, and people can't imagine that it is still a thousand miles of snow field, and the dripping water is the season of ice.

We took off our thick leather jackets, and we looked a lot more relaxed.

I've been thinking about Lin Xia in my heart, I don't know if Lin Xia has arrived again, there are markers along the way, and we have re-marked the place where it was rubbed off by the snow pig, Lin Xia is also a person with rich exploration experience, I don't think she has a big problem.

The road is sometimes forward, sometimes downward, but in general, it should be getting lower and lower, and at this level, it may have reached below the snow line.

From time to time, you can see some stone checkpoints on both sides of the cave, and you can see that this place was once heavily guarded.

The only mark on the stone is when it comes out of the small hole, and it is estimated that there is only such a big road, so there is no more marking.

After walking for about a mile, a large arch appeared in front of us, and the pattern on it had already been washed away by the groundwater in the cave, which made people feel even more quaint and authentic.

At this moment, we heard the murmuring water in front of us, and it seemed that there was another underground river, and when we thought of the underground river, our heads were big again, and the fierce appearance of those dragons still made us feel palpitations, and we didn't know if there were dragons here.

Entering the arch, the cave in front of it becomes wide and deep, and the height of a dozen stories can not be seen upwards, and when you look ahead, the flashlight cannot shine on the boundary at all. But judging by the echoes, this is definitely the largest cave (xué) we've ever visited.

Groundwater flows through the hole, and we can't see where the source is.

Fortunately, the river was not deep, and we crossed the river cautiously, and there was no shēn shadow of a dragon, so we were relieved.

After crossing the underground river, there was a sound of water rushing in front, and the flashlight kept coming, only to see a white line hanging down in the air on the mountain wall, which was very spectacular.

Tuesday Mao pointed to the front and shouted in surprise: "Erwa, is it the place we saw on the tree under the waterfall?" That spring! ”

I followed the light of Tuesday Mao's flashlight, and saw that not far in front of the waterfall was a stone chamber, and the bottom of the stone chamber was really a spring, which was exactly as drawn in the brown book!

(End of chapter)