Chapter 24: Traces and Blood

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The Merfolk Guard the Hall! Just hearing this name, Lu Ming secretly said in his heart, there is a good chance that there will be those mermaids they met before, and it is estimated that the number will not be small, with the current state of their group, it is undoubtedly more auspicious. But this can't be said, otherwise it can only increase the fear of his teammates, even Meng Da was surprisingly silent this time, it is estimated that no matter how simple his brain is, he can see the seriousness of the problem here.

After everyone cleaned up, Meng Da took the lead and walked to the front, Lu Ming followed closely with Shaq on his back, followed by Liang Hansheng and his wife and the old ghost, and Li Fatzi helped Liu Ding and Gao Yu to walk at the end. The road ahead was smooth and there were no forks in the road, and it was not long before everyone came to a cliff and looked up and could faintly see the mouth of a cave, but there was no other way up to it.

"It seems that he wants us to enter that hole, but there are no roads around, so I guess we have to find a way to climb up," Gao Yu said after observing it.

The place where they stood was about 5 or 6 stories high from the entrance of the cave, and the whole cliff was almost 90 degrees, as if it had been cut by a knife, and there was not even a point of force.

But now is not the time to hesitate, Meng Da volunteered and decided to try first, after all, he has also been interested in rock climbing for a while before and has some experience. If he can go up and put the rope down, then the people behind will undoubtedly be much easier.

But after climbing less than 5 meters, Meng Da came down and said, "No, this surface is too even, and there is not even a point to borrow." Without expansion spikes and hanging pieces, you can't get up with your bare hands. I'll pick the line again and see if there's anything else I can go up to."

Next, Meng Da tried several more routes, but they couldn't, and the highest one only climbed less than 10 meters before failing. Half an hour passed in a blink of an eye, and everyone was a little anxious for a while. Suddenly, Meng Da shouted: "Brother Lu, come and see, there is a problem here." ”

After hearing the sound, everyone hurriedly rushed over, and looked in the direction pointed by Meng Da, but there was nothing else to find except for more green vegetation than elsewhere. Seeing that everyone didn't react, Meng Da hurriedly said: "Look carefully, there are some artificially chiseled borrowing points on this cliff, and with these plants, you can just go up smoothly." ”

After a closer look, it dawned on them that there were some scattered grooves on the cliff, as if someone had chiseled them with tools, and these grooves corresponded to the green vegetation, forming a semi-artificial and semi-natural climbing route that reached the vicinity of the cave entrance.

"Generally climbing routes are to avoid areas covered by vegetation as much as possible, one is because there may be all kinds of snakes or reptiles around the plants, and the other reason is that the plants may affect the placement of the protective ropes. So I didn't look closely at it at first. It wasn't until I accidentally noticed that there was a lot of debris underneath that I glanced up twice. This man must be a person with extremely strong climbing ability, and he is from a wild road, or he would not do this. Meng Da said affirmatively to everyone.

Finally found the way up, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Meng Da climbed up without saying a word, and the others could only watch him hope to reach the top smoothly. However, Lu Ming was a little sad at this time, because he felt that it was really too strange, the mermaid who died mysteriously in the passage before, and now these artificial grooves on the cliff, a series of abnormal things were linked together, which made him very confused, he felt that he had grasped something, but it seemed to be through a veil that could not be touched, so that he could not see the truth clearly.

On the cliff, Meng Da is struggling to climb up, seeing that it is less than 2 meters away from the entrance of the cave, but there is suddenly no focus point in front, Meng Da carefully observed it nearby, the artificial groove is completely gone, and there was originally a small sapling sticking out in front of it has also withered and died, and there is no way to continue climbing with strength. At this time, it is undoubtedly impossible to go down, because it is relatively easy to climb up with the help of plants, but if you go down, you will not be able to borrow strength.

Meng Da took a deep breath, carefully observed the entrance of the cave that was close to the ruler but far away in the sky, and decided to fight. Because he is now the hope of everyone, if he can't succeed then everyone may be trapped here, thinking of this, Meng Da gritted his teeth and said silently: "Meng Daxia, Meng Daxia, this is your chance to show your talents, you are still a virgin, you must resist it." ”

After speaking, he slammed his legs and jumped towards the entrance of the cave, and then his upper body fell to the edge of the hole, but before he had time to stay for a short time, Meng Da felt that the place where his left hand grabbed was slippery, and then his body slipped down, but fortunately, in the process of sliding, his right hand tightly grasped the outermost edge of a protruding rock, which stopped the fall in time, but his whole body still hung on the lower edge of the hole, swinging back and forth with the wind, which seemed extremely dangerous, The people below couldn't help but exclaim when they saw this thrilling scene, and then quickly covered their mouths, for fear that these sounds would affect Meng Da.

Meng Da, who was in danger, was surprisingly calm at this time, he first concentrated the strength of his whole body on his right hand, stabilized his shaking body, wiped his left hand behind him, and took out a dagger. Then he stabbed the dagger into the cave ground with all his might, but he didn't expect the dagger to be completely submerged and fixed to the ground. Meng Da hurriedly puffed up, grabbed the dagger at the waist and exerted his strength, turned over and came to the cave.

Meng Da, who had survived the catastrophe, lay at the entrance of the cave, panting heavily, but fortunately he found that the ground of the cave was soft at the moment of sliding just now, so he thought of using a dagger to get himself up, otherwise he would really be brave and righteous. The people below applauded Meng Da after experiencing a false alarm, and Lu Ming also took a deep breath and shouted upward: "Meng Da, good job!" Throw the rope down. ”

However, after a few minutes, I heard Meng Da's trembling reply: "Brother Lu... Come up, my mother, what's up here? Soon, everyone climbed up with the help of the rope thrown down by Meng Da, but when everyone saw the scene inside the cave, they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.

The cave is an irregular circle, about 3 meters in diameter, and there is a trace of light projected from nowhere, which presents the scene in the cave clearly. The cave is dark red as a whole, it looks a little damp, and there are some white barbs scattered on the cave wall and top, about half a meter long, which looks a bit like the bone sword in Lu Ming's hand, and the horror is that there are many mermaid corpses stuck in these barbs!! The most important thing is that these merfolk seem to have been dismembered, some of their heads are stuck in the right barb, but their thighs are stuck in the left barb, and their bodies are stuck everywhere, as if they have been broken, and they die quite strangely. No wonder Meng Da is such a bold person who can't stand it a little, so everyone hurries up. Zhu Wenli and Liu Ding were even more frightened when they saw this scene.

When Lu Ming saw this, his face was also a little unsightly. He has learned how powerful these mermaids are, but they died here, and they died so miserably, which shows that this cave is really evil, but now they have to pass through this cave, it can be said that they really know that there are tigers in the mountains and go to the tiger mountains.

Originally, everyone should have continued to move forward, but seeing the tragic situation inside, no one dared to move their feet. Lu Ming also knows that now is not the time to urge, everyone needs a time to calm down their emotions and accept the current situation in front of them. At this moment, he suddenly noticed a small hole in the ground of the hole, and from this small hole, a little crimson liquid was oozing!

Lu Ming hurriedly squatted down and touched the surroundings of the small hole with his hand, feeling a little soft, but it was not the feeling of soil, but it was like touching something like bacon, and what was even more strange was that the red liquid still had a temperature. At this time, Liang Hansheng also came to his side, stretched out his hand and dipped some red liquid in his nose and sniffed it, and said: "It's blood, but I don't know what kind of creature it is, and it's hot, it should have just flowed out of the blood vessels." ”

Liang Hansheng's words directly stunned the surrounding people, and then everyone focused their eyes on the ground, and Meng Da directly shouted: "Isn't this the place where I inserted the dagger just now?" How could there be blood, and my hands didn't hurt. ”

"It's not your blood, it's coming out of the hole where your dagger was pierced, and when you touch the ground, it's like you're touching a layer of flesh, in other words, the hole may be alive." Lu Ming suddenly said solemnly.