Chapter 67: The Passage
"Every time the tribute was escorted, the procession would split into two groups, and most of the people would return, leaving ten men carrying the tribute up the mountain, and these ten men had never returned. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Bloom walked at the front, introducing everyone as he went, his last sentence unhurriedly clouded everyone's hearts.
"Nothing can stop us, and nothing can leave us, just like dealing with the Bols bandits, nothing is impossible, everyone hurry up the mountain!"
Of all the people, only Alan was not affected by Bloom's words, and his tone was still full of confidence, and after speaking, he began to urge everyone to go up the mountain.
Although there is a road to walk, but the road up the mountain is not easy to walk, the road is very narrow, the width is only enough for one person to walk, plus the mountain road is very steep, both sides are cliffs, one is not careful to fall off the cliff. Even if everyone is a master, they are also very careful, as the mountain rises, the wind is getting stronger and stronger, Alan has to repeat the old trick, with a rope to connect everyone with the person, the little girl who can't see with both eyes can no longer continue to walk independently, can only be carried by Stanny, even so, everyone walks up for an hour to rest for a while, to recover strength.
"I don't know how far it goes?"
Alan wiped his sweat and asked as he panted in the direction of the mountain.
"I guess it's going to be a long time. ”
Bloom stopped, pointing to the misty halfway up the mountain.
"It's strange that these clouds can't be blown away by such a strong wind. ”
Alan had already seen the upper half of Longshen Mountain completely shrouded in thick clouds and mist from a long distance, and he hadn't thought too much about it at that time, but now that he was on Longshen Mountain and felt the wind whistling around him, he realized that these clouds and mist were a little abnormal, as if there was a strange force attracting them, and they still gathered and did not disperse despite the strong winds around them.
"I don't know why, maybe there's no wind up there. ”
Bloom shook his head and laughed, not believing that there would be no wind up there.
According to the map signs, the entrance to the cave should be on a mountainside close to the cloud belt. Although it is said to be the location of the mountainside, but because the Dragon God Mountain is too high, the mountain road is very difficult to walk, and the height of the halfway up the mountain is not something that Allen can reach in one day, the higher the mountain, the lower the temperature, fortunately Allen They have prepared some fur to keep out the cold, which can be taken out at this time to come in handy.
It took Alan two days to finally reach the halfway point of the mountain, and although the journey was very hard during the two days, fortunately there were no other dangers.
Suddenly a snow line appeared overhead, and I saw a lot of snow along the way, but when I got here, the thickness of the snow suddenly increased a lot, and the mountain road no longer went up, but changed from upward to horizontal, and began to rotate around the mountain to the south.
"Whoa!"
Allen and the others continued to follow the mountain path, and soon heard the sound of water dripping and crashing.
Everyone quickened their pace, turned a large rock, and suddenly opened up in front of them, a wide platform appeared on the mountainside, the outside of the platform was suspended in the air, and the inner side was connected with the cliff, and there was a cave on this cliff, and the water flowed out of the cave, and then flowed down the stone crevice, and was torn into countless small streams by the raised rocks on the mountain, and then turned into a fine mist by the mountain wind, and fell towards the mountain.
"This should be the cave we're looking for!"
Bloom stood in the middle of the platform, facing the entrance to the cave and nodding in acknowledgement against the location of the cave marked on the map.
"Wouldn't it? Dragons live in these small, damp, dark caves?"
Elvis said with a frown as he looked at the entrance to the cave, which was less than six paces high and four steps wide.
"That's right, it's the size of the hole, it seems that the dragon can't get in and out at all, how can it live in it?"
Harvey on the side also echoed, the scale and environment of this cave are really difficult to associate with the dragon, if the dragon really lives here, then it is too aggrieved to go in and out.
"Wait a minute, everyone, I'll go in first and see what happens. ”
Bloom was also suspicious of what the two men said, he walked to the entrance of the cave and looked inside, but it was so dark that he couldn't see anything clearly, so he wanted to go in and check the situation before making a decision.
"You don't go too far. Harvey, you're with Big Brother Bloom. ”
Alan took out the lighting magic array and handed it to Harvey and said, "It's good that the two of them act at the same time, and if there is danger, there must be a report."
"Okay. ”
Harvey said yes and followed Bloom into the cave, while Alan and the others waited in a sheltered position on the platform, and within an hour there were footsteps in the cave, and the two men returned.
"How, what did you find?"
Seeing Bloom and the two come out, Alan couldn't wait to ask.
"It should be this cave, just entering a narrow passage, dozens of steps later is a wide mountain cave, and at the other end of the cave there is a passage that extends to the heights, but it really doesn't look like a cave where dragons live. ”
Bloom said.
"What's going on inside the passage?"
Alan continued.
"The passage further up was long and narrow, and there was a stone staircase that went upward, about two or three hundred paces, and there was a wide platform on which there was a pool, and there was a great deal of water in the pool, but the road came to an end, and we turned around and found no other passage, and then we returned. ”
Bloom described the situation above the passage in detail.
"You said that this road is impassable, so how can you tell that it is this cave?"
"I'm also curious, but according to the description on the map, it should be this road, and there are many traces of human activity in it, so there should be nothing wrong, maybe because we were in a hurry to come out and report the news, so we didn't check what we left out. ”
Bloom judged this way because he saw signs in the cave that there were once people living in it, and that the only people living in it were the same team that had previously escorted the tribute.
"Since the road inside is upward, and it doesn't look like a dragon's lair, we may have another way to get there. ”
Alan looked up at the direction of the top of the mountain that was submerged in the mist, and said with a twinkle in his eyes.
"Alan, what do you mean...?"
Bloom and the others were all confused, not knowing what Alan was talking about.
"I mean, this cave is not our destination at all, the cave is just a path, and at the end of the path is the top of the mountain, where the dragons live. ”
Alan explained his speculation.
"Alan makes sense, this cave is not a dragon's lair, the real dragon's lair is at the top of the mountain, and this cave is just a path to the top of the mountain. Because the environment outside this mountain is too harsh for humans to go up at all, they can only use this passage. ”
Elvis's words dawned on Elvis, and he explained further.