Chapter 108: Traces
How big is this place?
The more you climb down, the more uneasy Chen Xiaodonkey is, there is always the sound of water on the edge, but he has climbed more than 20 stone pillars, not to mention the distance of eighty or ninety meters, and he has not touched the edge yet, if it is on the ground, this distance is already a lot of distance out of the sinkhole.
"It's getting colder and colder!"
Cao Hou couldn't help but shudder in the middle.
The sinkhole itself was very deep, and when they dug it down, it was a downward slope, and the devil knows how many meters they were underground.
Zhang Wat led the way without saying a word at the front, stopping from time to time to determine the position, and after passing the two stone pillars, he turned around and frowned: "Zhibai, are you walking in a straight line?" ”
Chen Xiaodonkey looked back, was half-blocked by a stone pillar behind him, and shook his head.
"Not sure, but if this is the drainage, there shouldn't be any moths."
All the way over, he made marks on the stone pillars, but he was not worried about getting lost here, Zhang Wat nodded, turned around and continued to lead the way, and climbed forward for a distance of more than ten meters, Zhang Wat suddenly gasped, and Cao Hou was even more shocked and shouted, "I grass"!
"What's wrong?"
Chen Xiaodonkey's eyelids jumped, and he hurriedly climbed up to push Cao Hou away, and the flashlight shone through, but he was also shocked.
There was a person leaning on the stone pillar in front of him, facing them, his mouth was half-open, his eyes were wide open, and his facial features were slightly distorted on his bloodless face, as if he had seen something terrifying!
The man is dead.
Chen Xiaodonkey looked at that face and suddenly felt a little familiar.
I saw the bun on the head of the dead corpse again, and suddenly reacted, isn't this one of the people in the group of Orientals?
Cao Hou and Zhang Hu obviously recognized it, and Cao Hou said with an ugly face: "Didn't the surnamed Xu say that these people ran away as soon as they came out, why did they die here?" How did they get down? ”
Chen Xiaodonkey shook his head, this question was also what he wanted to ask.
"Don't move, I'll take a look."
The three of them glanced at each other, Zhang Wat crawled over, put his hand on the dead body and touched it for a while, and said: "There are corpse spots, half-stiff, dead for three or four hours, there is no danger." ”
If it's useless, will it be autopsied? Chen Xiaodonkey glanced at Zhang Wat in surprise, and then crawled over and took a closer look at the exposed skin of the dead body.
Indeed, as Zhang Wat said, obvious corpse spots have appeared on the person's wrists and ankles, and he has obviously been dead for a while, but there are also some strange places.
"There were no wounds on the body."
Chen Xiaodonkey frowned slightly, there was no wound but he was dead, this thing was a bit strange.
Cao Hou noticed the expression on this person's face and joked, "This thing shouldn't be scared to death, right?" ”
Chen Xiaodonkey and Zhang Wat looked at each other, their eyes were weird, not to mention, the monkey looked really similar when he said this.
Cao Hou himself is a casual joke, although everyone often says 'scared to death' or something, but I have never seen anyone scared to death in this world! But the sudden change in the eyes of Chen Xiaodonkey and Zhang Hu made him nervous, and scolded and scolded: "What do you two mean, don't be so special!" ”
Neither of them paid attention to him, Chen Xiaodonkey turned around and looked in the direction facing the corpse, this was the direction they crawled over, if this person really saw something and was scared to death, then it was a bit terrifying.
Not to mention that Cao Hou was nervous this time, Chen Xiaodonkey suddenly felt cold behind him.
But what made him barely feel at ease was that Brother Cat didn't seem to have any reaction to this, otherwise there would really be something evil in this place, and Brother Cat should have warned him.
"Zhibai, come and see."
Zhang Wat didn't know what he found, and stopped under the stone pillar on the other side, his flashlight shining on the ground.
Chen Xiaodonkey crawled over, and there were some muddy footprints in the place where Zhang Wat was shining, and the footprints looked like a lot, and spread in the other direction for a short while, disappearing behind a stone pillar.
Are these the footprints of those Orientals?
Chen Xiaodonkey guessed.
The footprints were a little strangely distributed, first a series of toes pointing in the direction of their side, and some of them pointing to each other, but other than in this direction, there were no footprints on the left and right.
Not only that, but there are a few more interesting details if you look closely.
Although the footprints that came over looked like there were a lot of overlapping places, they were probably all in a line and relatively neat, but these footprints that left abruptly were crowded between the two stone pillars, which looked particularly messy.
If that Oriental man was really scared to death---- Chen Xiaodonkey squinted his eyes slightly, speculating on what happened here three or four hours ago:
A group of Orientals didn't know where to enter this mezzanine, and there should be no crisis when they came, so the formation was relatively neat, and after arriving at this position, this group of people either needed to rest, or for some other reason to temporarily stop, at this time an Oriental should have suddenly seen something and was scared to death, while the rest of the people suddenly panicked, crowded together and immediately fled in the direction they came.
As if to confirm his speculation, the two soon found some traces under the stone pillar with footprints that were slightly different from the original color of the ground, which should have been where people had sit.
After thinking for two seconds, he said to Cao Hou: "Monkey, search your body and see if the gun is still there." ”
"I grass, search for the dead?" Cao Hou was a little resistant, but he still pinched his nose, and quickly took out a pistol full of bullets and a dozen bullets from the corpse, as well as some silver dollars and Oriental coins.
"These Orientals are all very rich!" He consciously took a dozen silver dollars and Oriental banknotes, and silently thought that this was the cost of touching the corpse, he turned his head and said, "The gun is here, and there are bullets." ”
"You calf got into the eyes of money?" Chen Xiaodonkey scolded helplessly, the guns and bullets were all there, which once again proved his speculation that this person should have died very suddenly, and the group of Orientals were also in a hurry to run away, otherwise there was no reason not to even take the guns and bullets away.
But what happened to make that group of people panic like this? The leading priest is a master of no small ability.
Hiss...... Hiss......
Just when Chen Xiaodonkey was puzzled, his ears moved slightly, and he suddenly heard some small and messy hissing sounds coming from the direction they came, and he chuckled in his heart, and immediately turned his head and asked the two of them: "Did you hear it?" ”
"Hear what?"
Cao Hou looked at him a little confused, and Zhang Wat also said that he hadn't heard anything.
Is your ear recovered?
The hissing continued, and it began to move towards them at a rapid pace, and Chen Xiaodonkey didn't think it was an auditory hallucination. But this voice is ----I'm grass!? He reacted suddenly, his face changed suddenly, and he pulled the two of them and said, "Hurry up and run!" Run along these footprints, speed! ”
"What's wrong?" Cao Hou didn't move, still a little confused.
At this time, Brother Cat seemed to feel something, and suddenly turned his head to look in the direction they came from, and jumped on Chen Xiaodonkey's shoulder with a 'meow', his paws exposed, and the hair on his body seemed to stand upside down.
"A lot of snakes are coming this way, so if you don't want to go into the snake nest, hurry up!" Chen Xiaodonkey explained angrily.
"I'm grass!"
Cao Hou has been afraid of snakes since he was a child, and when he heard this, he was in a hurry, so he didn't need to rush now, he immediately followed the two of them, using all fours together, and crawled frantically down in the direction of the footprints in front of him.
But it didn't take long to climb out, probably less than a minute later, the sound of a large snake spitting out letters began to echo in the ears of the three people, Cao Hou looked back at the sound, his face turned white all of a sudden, a half-meter long, black-green young snake was extremely fast, and it had already touched less than two meters behind him.
The moment he saw this thing, he couldn't help but soften his hands and feet!
And the strange color of the young snake did not slow down, and immediately showed its fangs and pounced on his face!
"Meow!"
said that it was too late, and the cat brother who had been squatting on Chen Xiaodonkey's shoulder and looking nervously at the back, jumped out suddenly at the moment when the young snake was about to bite Cao Hou, and pounced on the snake's head with its claws to the ground, and a dagger followed it and quickly cut it off, cutting off the snake's head with a knife.
"Don't look at it, hurry up, it's coming to an end!"
Seeing that Cao Hou was still staring at the body of the young snake that was separated and swinging wildly on all sides, Chen Xiaodonkey urged.
The sound of the water that he had heard from the bottom was already close in front of him, and these footprints seemed to lead to that place, and his heart was a little heavy.