Xiao Meng asked, "But the climbing rope is gone, so we can't go down now." ”

The bearded man took out another bundle of climbing ropes from his backpack, "I still have a spare one here, you can use this first, let's go out and see if we can get those two climbing ropes back." ”

"But how do you secure this rope?" Mu Feng said as he turned his head to look at Chu Tianyi.

Chu Tianyi smiled bitterly and nodded, "Okay, I'll come." As he spoke, he took the rope from the bearded man's hand and walked towards the entrance of the cave.

Mu Feng stopped him, took the mountaineering rope over, tied one end to Chu Tianyi's waist, and handed the other end to Xiao Meng and the beard, "The dew on the cliff wall in the morning will be very slippery. It's safer this way, and when you get to the top and shake the rope three times, we'll untie the rope and you can pull it up again. ”

"Okay," Chu Tianyi nodded, "It's still Brother Feng's thoughtfulness." ”

Xiao Meng tied the other end of the rope around his waist and said with a smile: "Brother Yi, be careful when you go up, beware of people and bears ambushing you on it." ”

Chu Tianyi knew that he was joking, but combined with the story Mu Feng had just told, a nervous mood really surged in his heart, and he casually pinned the short knife to his waist. Then he compared his middle finger to Xiao Meng, and then walked to the hole, found a position where he could borrow his strength, and drilled out.

The situation outside was as Mu Feng said, the cliff wall was stained with a layer of water vapor, and it became extremely slippery. Chu Tianyi climbed even harder, but fortunately, there was a safety rope around his waist, which made his heart settle down a little.

Chu Tianyi was born with a character who does not admit defeat, he eats soft and does not eat hard, the stronger he presses, the greater his strength to rebound. The more difficult the situation, the more you want to succeed.

Chu Tianyi gritted his teeth, worked hard to measure every position that could be leveraged, found the most suitable point, and climbed up with difficulty.

Just as he was about to reach the top, he remembered Xiao Meng's words again. The legend that Mu Feng told is actually not terrible at all, but it is extremely scary when you think about it. Every time I think about it, especially in such an environment, the hairs on my body still can't help but tighten!

Chu Tianyi took out a short knife from behind him and bit it in his mouth, carefully poking his head out from the top of the cliff. Of course, there were no man-bears ambushing up there. However, there are also gains. Only one of the two climbing ropes that had been tied to the tree was now gone, and the other was missing.

Chu Tianyi looked around, and when he saw that there was nothing abnormal, he slowly walked over to take a look. The rest of the root was pulled up by something and thrown under the tree. He didn't have much hope for the two missing climbing ropes, but he didn't expect to find one of them as a windfall.

He pulled the rope around his waist three times, then tied it back to the tree.

Xiao Meng's voice came from under the cliff, "Brother Yi, how is it?" ”

Chu Tianyi replied: "I found a rope, now that the two are tied, you can get down." ”

"Good!"

Chu Tianyi didn't follow in a hurry, but looked in the direction of the extension of the canyon, and at the same time wondered if he could go outside the canyon and along the direction of the canyon.

He observed for a long time, but finally gave up on the idea, because he found that the topography near the canyon was several times more complicated than the bottom of the valley, and it was too difficult to walk. If you take a detour that is easy to take, you will have to walk a lot more and easily get lost in the dense woods and bushes, which will delay you a lot of time.

At this time, Xiao Meng's voice came again, "Brother Yi, why haven't you come down yet?" You okay? ”

"It's fine!" Chu Tianyi agreed, and looked down the cliff. There were a lot of plants growing on the stone wall, and he couldn't see the specific location of Mu Feng and the three of them clearly, "Have you all gone down?" ”

"Yes," Xiao Meng replied, "Brother Yi, come down quickly, something is going on down there!" ”

Chu Tianyi couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "What's the situation?" ”

This time it was Mu Feng's voice, "Don't ask yet, you can talk about it later." ”

Chu Tianyi didn't speak again, he quickly slid down the climbing rope. As soon as he landed, he saw three other people standing at the bottom of the cliff with strange expressions.

It's okay that other people's faces have changed, but Mu Feng's face is not very good-looking, which makes Chu Tianyi's heart suddenly lift. He walked up to him and didn't speak, but when he looked down, he understood the reason for the difference in the faces of the three people.

There was a snake broken in two on the ground not far ahead, Chu Tianyi took a few steps forward curiously, and when he saw that the "snake" had a beast head, he took a few steps back, it turned out that it was not a snake at all, but a piano worm. "W-where did this come from?"

"I don't know," the bearded man shook his head, "it was here when we came down." ”

"I almost stepped on it!" Xiao Meng added on the side.

Chu Tianyi looked at it carefully, "Broken in two?" Isn't that the one you killed in the first place? ”

"No," Mu Feng waved his hand and walked over to him and squatted down, "The insect we killed earlier was cut with a knife. Therefore, the broken stubble of its body is neat, and if you look at this one, the broken stubble of its body is torn, that is to say, it is pulled alive! ”

"Pulled!" Chu Tianyi couldn't believe it when he heard it, "Who has such a great ability to use this monster as noodles!" Speaking of this, his mind suddenly turned, "Could it be that, that man bear?" ”

Mu Feng nodded, "That's what I guessed." However, there is still a problem with this piano insect corpse. You probably didn't even notice. ”

"What?" The three of them also gathered around and squatted.

Mu Feng pointed at the corpse of the piano insect with a short knife, "Look at its eyes." ”

Chu Tianyi looked at it, but he didn't find any wounds or anything. He and Xiao Meng glanced at each other, and both of them were dazed in their eyes. And the bearded man frowned slightly, "You mean to say that this lyreworm didn't die last night?" ”

"Yes," Mu Feng explained, "Generally speaking, animals, including humans, will begin to have cloudy eyes after a period of death. This kind of lyreworm is very similar to a snake, and I think it can be compared to the fact that 15 hours after the snake's death, the eyes begin to gradually become cloudy, and after 30 hours, the lens is highly cloudy. Look at this worm, its eyes are starting to get cloudy, but not yet. So, I think the death time of this lyreworm is between 15 hours and 30 hours. ”

"So that's the case," Chu Tianyi remembered that when he went to the vegetable market to buy fish in the past, his grandfather had taught him that when buying fish, he should look at the eyes of the fish, and the clearer it is, the fresher the fish. This kind of knowledge is not very profound, the difference is whether you can apply what you have learned. This made Chu Tianyi couldn't help but admire Mu Feng.

"But I don't understand," said Xiao Meng, "why did that man-bear put this worm that killed a day ago here?" ”

"Wait a minute!" Chu Tianyi suddenly remembered something, "15 hours to 30 hours? He said, looking down in thought. After a few seconds, he looked up suddenly, "Isn't that when I was poisoned by a lyreworm and fell into a hallucination?" I remember the man-bear was fighting the lyreworm before I jumped into the river! Could it be this piano worm? ”

Xiao Meng sighed, "Don't say it, it's really like that when you think about it!" But what did he do it for? Break the piano worm and throw it over to deliberately disgust us? ”

"No!" The bearded man objected, "Why should we throw this if it wants to be disgusted, just throw it in the hole, and it will go up anyway." ”

Chu Tianyi knew that the reason was probably not so simple, he turned his head and asked Mu Feng, "Brother Feng, what do you think?" ”

Mu Feng blinked, "I don't think there is some warning in this?" ”

"Warning what?" No one knows about this question at the moment. I have to say that if Mu Feng guessed correctly, then this man-bear's warning was a little too subtle.

"In short," Mu Feng is a person who likes to make concluding remarks, "If it's a warning, it must be related to the piano worm, so be careful." He turned to his beard and said, "Take out the gall of this worm and carry it with you for later use." ”

When the bearded man went to the gall of the piano, several people continued along the canyon. Passing by the edge of the giant pit on the way, Chu Tianyi subconsciously glanced at the bottom of the pit, and it was this glance that he suddenly stopped, "Hey! Why is there no such thing as the oversized corpse of the lyrebug? ”