Chapter 5: The End of the Cave
I was walking through a crack in a dark mountain, chasing a goal that seemed to exist and seemed illusory.
It's five o'clock in the morning, and the path is still as dark, quiet, and colorful as it began. It shouldn't be dawn outside, people are asleep, and no one knows I'm here.
No one knew that I was so tired, like a rubber plug in a syringe, slowly pushing the ancient air of this place forward.
Twenty minutes later, the lights went out.
Almost instinctively, I pulled out the police bulletin and wanted to use it for lighting, but I found that the light was not enough to illuminate anything, and the power was low, so I thought about it and decided to save it for the critical time.
I closed my eyes, trying to get used to the darkness, but I still walked habitually. It's been more than four hours since I entered this passage, and I've walked about thirty kilometers. Along the way, the direction has not changed, but the bevel of the ground has a faint tendency to increase. , the passage is still long, and there seems to be no end, and the traces left by Liu are still extending forward. Thanks to these traces, I was able to remember what I had come here for, and the monotony and exhaustion along the way almost hypnotized me.
When I opened my eyes, I still couldn't see at all. I stretched out my stick and leaned forward, slowly moving forward.
After walking for about an hour, a faint light suddenly appeared in front of me, and I cheered up and quickened my pace. I wondered where this glimmer of light came from.
There must be an exit ahead, but where does this exit lead?
Supposedly, I should have walked through the mountain for such a long time, but I am still in the mountain. This only means that I am now walking on the central axis of the mountain range, and the front leads to the other end of the mountain range?
I made this assumption and couldn't help but cry out in my heart.
This mountain range is called Summer Mountain, and its shape is particularly peculiar, with several huge mountain ranges converging here from east to west, and there are many intersections in between. I've seen satellite photos, and it's like a big claw. Our unit is in the middle of the finger in the middle, and if we go west, if we go out, we will really go deep into the mountains. The place looked green and black in photos, not a good place. If Liu Dongxi really came out of the mountains from here, it would really be a dragon entering the sea, and there would be no trace.
Thinking of this, I was a little anxious, and my steps quickened, and the light in front of me became bigger and bigger, and I almost trotted.
After running for a while, I realized that something was wrong and quickly stopped.
The bright light in front of him was a hundred meters away, and Lan Yingying kept shaking, with a provocative meaning. It's especially tempting for me, someone who's been fumbling in the dark for so long. But it's not the light of day.
When I thought of this, the first thing that came to my mind was those deep-sea monster fish that I had seen on TV. In the dark depths of the sea, place the glowing sarcoma growing on the head in front of the mouth to attract prey. I felt a chill in my heart when I thought of the anglerfish's wide mouth and upside-down fangs, and I felt more and more like a small fish trembling and being attracted by the bait, trying to bite but not daring to come forward.
There will never be such fish in the mountain, and if there is, it will become dried fish. But what if it's some other monster? Undiscovered large lizards? Snake? Or simply dinosaurs!
I heard that many places were isolated due to geological movements, and some ancient species were preserved. The geology is so peculiar, maybe that's the case. This impossibly long passage leads to an ancient world, as in Verne's novel, and an unknown dinosaur is tempting me, the poor little policeman, with his glowing body at the exit.
At this point, you can see how far my nerves have been tortured. Not to mention whether dinosaurs can quietly reproduce in the mountains of such a developed eastern coastal area and have not been discovered by us so far, just say that a dinosaur stuffed its head into a hole like a second cargo and waited for me to enter its mouth, I am high enough to be a screenwriter for Disney.
After a moment's hesitation, I finally decided to be cautious and take a look. After all, you can't be scared back by a light after walking so far, and besides, in this mountainside, it is more likely that there are still self-luminous mineral crystals.
Halfway through, I could see that the light was not coming from the front, but was projected onto the mountain wall from the side, and it looked like the water in the swimming pool was reflected on the roof, and at the same time, a damp smell came from the smell, there should be water ahead!
There is water!
By this time I was so hungry and thirsty that I had nothing to eat, and I had two compressed biscuits in my clothes, which I was going to use for my night shift. But the thirst was unbearable, his throat had already begun to smoke, and his head was dizzy for a while, and at this time he knew that there was water in front of him, so he had already put aside his worries and ran.
A few dozen meters is not a long distance, I ran a few steps to get to the place, turned the corner, and the light almost blinded my eyes.
When the noise in my eyes gradually calmed down, the spectacular sight in front of me made me almost fall to my knees.
The space in front of it suddenly opened up, and the rocks rushed up to the roof of the cave like a tide, forming a natural dome more than 20 meters high, and the rocks were covered with flowing textures and meandered down. More than ten steps in front of me was a huge lake, so wide that I don't know how wide. Thousands of blue points of light in the water swim around, deep and shallow, with clear layers, illuminating the rocks at the bottom of the water from time to time, making this piece of black crystal deep and transparent.
In the shallow areas, blue light shines through the water, illuminates the dome and the cave walls, and is refracted by the fine crystals in the stone, which has both dazzling brilliance and dark light, this kind of fantasy-like scene makes people feel like they are in a dream and do not want to wake up.
I was stunned for a long time before I walked to the water's edge, and it turned out that there were schools of translucent fish swimming in the water. I don't know what kind of fish it is, each one is about ten centimeters long, the head and tail are slightly pointed, and there is a luminous gland on each side of the abdomen, and the brightness increases when it swims fast.
Schools of fish hover back and forth in this unknown depth, like the slow but determined movement of stars in the universe, making people dizzy.
And at the bottom of the deep water, there are huge spots of light moving slowly. I couldn't help but be amazed, looking at the size of this spot, the giant fish under the water was afraid that it would not be the size of a double bed. The species in this underground lake is so single, and I don't know what to eat to grow so big.
I can't help but sigh at the miracle of creation, who would have thought that such a huge lake could be hidden in the belly of this mountain, creating such a scene that is not like this in the world.
Thinking of this, I felt that I was thirsty, and since there were fish in the water, I guess the water could be drunk. I crouched at the water's edge, carefully avoiding the fish that swam in, and drank with the water in my hand. This fish doesn't know what habits it is, and looking at the species being so single, I'm afraid it's not a good species.
The cold spring water, the entrance was extremely refreshing, and I was shocked, so I simply washed my face, sat down cross-legged, and let the water drip on my body.
Suddenly, the wind came from the back of my head! I subconsciously shrank my head, and my left shoulder was swept by a hard object, and I fell headlong into the water. The frightened fish scattered and fled, and the water suddenly brightened. I tried to tread the water, and looked towards the shore, and a dark shadow stood on the shore, in the blue light, with many hands and feet, not like a human form.