Chapter 127: The Strange Cave
The mutant estuarine crocodile only quietly showed a small half of its head on the surface of the river, watching the people on the shore from a distance.
"Let's get out of here." Ding Xiu gestured to his companions.
The river is home to the Mutant Estuary Crocodile, and the terrain in the nearby area is very favorable to it, and it is very dangerous to continue to stay nearby, because no one knows if the monster will rush up and continue to attack.
The four returned to the car and drove away from the riverbank.
The car was not as smooth as before, and the speed was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and when they came to an area far away from the river, Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo got out of the car and began to check.
"There seems to be something wrong with the brakes." Gu Beimo said, "Fortunately, there are repair tools and replacement accessories in the car. ”
"Let's set up camp first, let's fix the car, and the broken towing device also needs to be replaced, so as not to drag us back when we encounter danger later." Ding Xiu discussed it with his companions, and everyone began to divide the labor, and everyone got busy.
Song Xijun was on the side to help with the vigilance work, and Shen You began to release pheromones, preparing to attract insects over.
Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo respectively took tools to repair cars, and the two were not only good at driving, but also good at repairing cars.
When the sun unconsciously came to everyone's heads, and the clearing was sprinkled with shade, there were some flying insects beside Shen You, and she stretched out her fingers to let them stop at their fingertips.
"Alas, it's a pity that your combat power is far worse than that of Di Bee." Although the tamed insects can be a help, Shen You still misses the Di Bee who was left in Nangang very much. Those bees were the most effective insect helpers she had encountered on her journey, so she had been taken by the girl before.
"It doesn't matter if you can't fight, their biggest role is actually reconnaissance and vigilance." Gu Beimo poked his head out from under the car and reminded her.
"Is the car fixed?" Shen You looked at him.
"It's coming." Gu Beimo said and got back under the car, "Let your bugs out and help Xijun share the work of vigilance." ”
"Great!" Shen You nodded, raised his hand slightly, and let the insect out.
The fault of these two off-road pickup trucks was not too serious, and it didn't take long for Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo to repair the car.
Everyone ate some food to satisfy their hunger, and then took a short break before returning to the road.
The four of them found a cave before dark, and Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo stopped the car and prepared to camp here for the night.
The night in the basin is very dangerous, and it is much better to settle in a cave than to sleep in the wilderness, and when everyone found this cave, Ding Xiu carried a camping lamp and prepared to go into the cave to check it out.
"Wait for me at the entrance of the cave." He gestured to his companions.
"Ding Xiu, let them go in and have a look." Shen You grabbed Ding Xiu, she released the tamed insects, and directed them to fly towards the cave through pheromones.
"It's different if you have scouts." Ding Xiu nodded, knowing that Shen You's arrangement was more secure.
Since the construction of Tianque City, this basin has gradually developed in a direction that is rarely visited by people. When the traces of human beings fade, other creatures begin to consider themselves masters.
In this environment, there are bound to be wild beasts in the cave.
The four of them waited outside the cave, and after a long time, none of the insects that had been released just now came back.
Shen You frowned and began to reconnect with them with pheromones.
"What's going on?" Gu Beimo asked.
"I don't know." Shen You shook his head, "The bugs didn't respond. ”
"What's in there?" Ding Xiu was a little surprised, he believed that there would be wild beasts inside, but according to common sense, the beasts that lived in the cave generally did not pose a threat to insects.
Shen You continued to try to establish contact with his insect companions, but to no avail.
The sky gradually pressed, Ding Xiu took the hand of the flame dragon and the military thorn, and said to his companions: "I'd better go in and have a look, everyone is waiting for me here." ”
"How can you go in alone?" Gu Beimo also took out a gun from the car and prepared to go in with him.
"We can't leave two girls outside." Ding Xiu stopped him and said, "Old Gu, you stay to protect Xiaoyou and Xijun." ”
"Lao Gu stays, I'll go in with you." Song Xijun stood up and made a compromise suggestion.
"Okay." Ding Xiu didn't have time to hesitate, so he had to nod, "You follow me, be careful." ”
The two of them took the camping lantern and walked towards the entrance of the cave, which was located under a stone wall, and the inside was dark and quiet, and there was no bottom in sight.
Entering the cave, Ding Xiu sniffed, and he smelled something unusual in the air.
"Strange, do you smell something?" Ding Xiu asked Song Xijun.
"It seems to have a sweet aroma." Song Xijun said what he was aware of.
"That's right." Ding Xiu nodded, "That's the smell." ”
"What's wrong?" Song Xijun was stunned for a moment.
"Generally in the caves inhabited by wild beasts, there will be some unpleasant smells." Ding Xiu whispered, "Wild beasts like to take leftover prey back to their places of residence for storage, and they will also excrete nearby. ”
"I didn't smell what you said." Song Xijun took a few more deep breaths and shook his head.
"That's what I find weird." Ding Xiu raised the camping lamp and shone it under his feet, "You see, there are some mosses growing on this ground, and if there were wild beasts in the cave, these mosses should have been trampled on a long time ago." ”
"So there are no beasts in this cave?" Song Xijun asked.
"According to common sense, this is true, but none of Xiaoyou's bugs have returned, so we can't trust common sense." Ding Xiu raised the blade of the gun in front of him as he spoke, and began to carefully observe his surroundings.
Seeing Ding Xiu's cautious appearance, Song Xijun also raised her vigilance, and with the help of the light, she found that the stone walls in the cave were covered with vines.
The branches of the vines were very green in the light, and the girl opened their leaves with her hand to see the crimson veins of the stems underneath.
"Xijun, did you find anything?" Ding Xiu, who was walking in front, glanced back, and he had just heard Song Xijun's footsteps stop.
"Nothing, just look at the plants on the walls." Song Xijun said and hurriedly followed.
The vines, though of a peculiar color, did not attract the attention of the two of them, because such plants could be found everywhere in the dense forest. They are either entwined around the trunk of the tree or attached to the stone, and the more you see them, the less noticeable they are.
The more Ding Xiu walked inside, the stronger the sweet aroma in the cave. He stepped on something soft under his feet, and when he looked down, he saw that it was a thick layer of vine branches.
The cave was very long and narrow, and there was no room for camp.
"It's a pity." Ding Xiu sighed, turned around and prepared to go back.
"What's that?" The camping lamp in Song Xijun's hand shone around, and suddenly found a bright light flashing under the vines in a certain position.
She walked over and brushed the branches of the vine with her fingers, and her fingertips touched something cold, a metal pendant.
Song Xijun held up the camping lantern, and with the light, he wanted to take off the pendant and take a look.
"Ah!!h The girl suddenly screamed, the lamp in her hand fell to the ground, and her footsteps tripped over something in the process of retreating, and her body fell backwards.
Ding Xiu rushed forward to hold her up, and Song Xijun threw himself into his arms, his face a little pale.
"What's wrong?" Ding Xiu asked, holding up the lamp and shining it towards the wall where she was standing just now.
"I saw Yao Jianpan, and he hid under the vines." Song Xijun thought of the scene he saw with his own eyes just now, and his voice couldn't help but tremble a little.
"Yao Jianpan?!" Her words made Ding Xiu a little confused. Ding Xiu stepped forward and used the blade of the gun in his hand to remove the vines.
Underneath is just a skeleton entwined by stems and veins, how can there be the shadow of Yao Jianpan.
"You're wrong, it's not Yao Jianpan." Ding Xiu turned around and comforted her.
"Really?" Song Xijun's nervous mood eased at this time, and she walked towards the skeleton, reaching out to take off the pendant around the skeleton's neck.
"Am I beautiful, Ding Xiu?" The girl held the pendant in front of her, ready to wear it around her neck.
"What's wrong with you, Xijun?" Ding Xiu sensed that something was wrong with her appearance.
"Do you think I'm beautiful, Ding Xiu? I like you. Song Xijun's voice suddenly became sweet and full of temptation, her face was slightly red, her eyes looked at her companion in front of her blankly, and she didn't even notice that the pendant she had just held in her hand fell to the ground.
"You...... Of course...... It's beautiful, but ......" Before Ding Xiu finished speaking, Song Xijun hugged him again and kissed him with his warm red lips.
Ding Xiu only felt a "buzz" in his head, and in an instant, only a blank space remained. When he came to his senses, he instinctively wanted to push Song Xijun away, but the girl in front of him had already changed.
"Jia Ning!"
Ding Xiu looked at the woman who was kissing him affectionately in his arms, half surprised and half sweet.
The hand of the dragon and the camping lantern both fell to the ground, he was holding Song Xijun, and Song Xijun was also holding him, and at this moment the two seemed to be unaware of everything around them.
Ding Xiu had forgotten that the person who came in with him was Song Xijun, and there was only Chen Jianing in front of him; And Song Xijun also forgot many things, her heart was full of Ding Xiu.
The vine seemed to have grown legs, its stems and branches crawling up the weapons and lamps that Ding Xiu had dropped on the ground, and then the insteps of the two of them.
The sweet smell of the cave was even stronger.
The sound of "rustling" came and went, the branches and leaves of the vines rubbing against each other, the crimson stems and veins already wrapped around the calves of the two of them, and more branches and leaves continued to move upward.
"Jia Ning, at this moment of reunion with you, I have thought about countless days and nights." Ding Xiu had already closed his eyes, and he hugged the girl in his arms tightly.
"Ding Xiu, you like me too, right?" Song Xijun also closed her eyes, and she, like Ding Xiu, thought that she was looking at each other, "You hugged me so tightly, I ...... I am very happy. ”
If there was a third person next to him at this moment, he would definitely see a very strange scene-
The man and the woman seemed to be petrified, they did not open their eyes, nor did they speak, but hugged each other tightly, still climbing wantonly on their bodies by green vines.