"How's this hole?" Benzoin found a cave with a small entrance above the cave wall, barely allowing two people to climb into it side by side, and although the cave was not spacious, it was no problem to squeeze ten people in.

Benzoin asked for a long time before Tang Anshu came out of the hole: "It's okay, it looks safe, but you are a survival expert, and you have the final say in this matter." ”

Benzoin shook her head and said, "But I have no idea what we're hiding." ”

"Actually, I don't know, I can only analyze that the people here have been eroded by something and become like that." Tang Anshu slipped down from above the entrance of the cave and stood in front of Benzoin, "After Adjutant Gu and them come, I will explain my speculation, now, we have to find something in this camp, and after we wait to hide in, we will block the entrance of the cave." ”

"Blocked? For ......" Benzoin stopped before she finished asking, "Okay, listen to you, wait for Big Brother Gu to come." ”

Benzoin wiped a handful of sweat after speaking, and before she knew it, the temperature in the cave had risen, and now it felt like a hot summer.

Benzoin took a sip of water, and then looked for something that could block the cave with Tang Anshu, and after searching for a long time, he only found some fragments of linen cowhide and the like.

At this time, Gu Feng also led Li Zhaonian and others to hurry over.

After seeing the ancient style, Tang Anshu immediately asked, "Are you still safe on the way here?" ”

Gu Feng nodded: "Safe, what's wrong?" ”

Benzoin looked into the smoke: "It seems that something is hidden in the smoke." ”

Hearing Benzoin say this, Li Zhaonian and the others immediately picked up the weapons in their hands, led by Gu Feng, and stood in a diamond-shaped protective formation, surrounding Benzoin and Tang Anshu.

Gu Feng said: "Now you can tell me, what exactly is the crisis you are talking about, right?" ”

Tang Anshu nodded: "Where to start?" Let's start with the Ming army, who came by boat from the other side of this underground lake. When they arrived, they immediately set up camp on the spot, and it took about a day, and while they were camping, Baihu ordered one-third of the soldiers to rest, and when the camp was completed, the soldiers who had set up the camp began to rest, and the one-third of the soldiers who had rested before left the camp to investigate. ”

Benzoin said, "The third of the soldiers, the sculpture-like corpses we saw outside the cave and on the shore of the lake earlier?" ”

"That's right, it's them, this group of people didn't investigate for a long time, and something happened." Tang Anshu looked around the camp and said, "As for what it is, I can't tell, I guess it has something to do with the temperature and heat wave here, in short, it is very fast, almost in an instant, it killed all the lives in this cave without pain, and the most important thing is that this cave was definitely different from now, and the environment is particularly suitable for living, otherwise, those Ming troops would not choose to camp here, let alone build a wharf, and also leave a fish basket on the shore of the lake." ”

When Tang Anshu just said this, suddenly there was a gust of wind blowing on the side of the lake, and this time the wind was not a heat wave, but a cool breeze, which made people feel very comfortable, but because the wind was too strong, everyone couldn't stand steadily, and the surrounding camp tents were also blowing in all directions.

"Fast into the hole! Fast! Tang Anshu commanded everyone to crawl towards the cave above, and he himself also ran towards there at the same time.

Everyone crawled towards the cave one by one according to the order, and when it was the turn of the last Tang Anshu to enter the cave, Gu Feng who reached out to pull Tang Anshu at the entrance of the cave was stunned, looked up at the lake, and said in surprise: "What the hell is going on?" ”

Tang Anshu immediately turned around, but found that his eyes suddenly opened up, the original thick white smoke disappeared without a trace at this time, the sour smell disappeared, not to mention, the originally turbid lake water was gradually becoming clear.

Tang Anshu walked to the lake in surprise, staring at the turbid water in the lake that was gradually receding, as if a god was casting a spell, fading away the turbidity in the lake and replacing it with clear and cold water.

Looking up again, the thick fog in the mouth of the cave at the top of the cave also rolled towards the center of the whirlpool, and it was soon wiped clean by a mysterious force, and a beam of sunlight shone directly from above, illuminating the small area on the lake below, like a miracle from heaven.

"Oh my." Benzoin stood beside Tang Anshu and looked at it dumbfounded, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Gu Feng stood there with a gun, still vigilant.

Li Zhaonian, Wang Qingyun and Tang Hualong stood behind and looked around curiously.

When Benzoin walked into the lake and felt the long-lost coldness, she also noticed something swimming in it, and she exclaimed, "Look! It's fish! ”

Everyone looked at the shallow water in the lake, and found countless fish swimming in it, and then raised their eyes to look ahead, there were many fish on the other side of the lake swimming slowly, and after those fish surged to disperse, they could also see shrimp and crabs washed with the stream.

Gu Feng leaned over and looked carefully: "It's a sea fish." ”

Benzoin stretched out her hand and stirred in the water, hesitated, licked her fingers, and then spit out a mouthful of saliva, looked at Tang Anshu and said, "It's sea water, sea water without a peculiar smell." ”

Li Zhaonian stepped forward: "What the hell is going on?" ”

"Telescopes." Tang Anshu took the telescope handed by Tang Hualong, looked at the shore in the distance, and then threw the telescope to Gu Feng, "Adjutant Gu, look at those dried corpses now." ”

After Gu Feng glanced at it, put it down, Benzoin glanced at it, and exclaimed: "Wax corpse? How so? ”

At this time, the dried corpse that was originally on the shore like a sculpture turned into a wax corpse.

Tang Anshu shook his head: "I'll go to the camp tent to have a look." ”

After Tang Anshu left, Gu Feng asked Benzoin: "It's obviously a dry corpse, how can it become a wax corpse?" ”

Benzoin shook her head: "I don't know, maybe they originally formed a wax corpse after they died, because of the environment or other reasons, something was attached to the surface, like an extra layer of skin, so that it looked like a dried corpse." ”

Gu Feng ordered Li Zhaonian: "Li Zhaonian, you and Tang Hualong are on guard on the shore of the lake, and if there is a situation, immediately enter the camp to make peace with us." ”

Li Zhaonian and Tang Hualong said in unison: "Yes! ”

In the tent, Tang Anshu stood between two rows of dried corpses, quietly thinking about something.

His mind kept flashing everything he had seen before, as well as benzoin and ancient answers, if he hadn't fainted before, maybe he could have found something, why did I faint? Am I going crazy?

No, I can't think about these inconsequential questions, I have to think about how long the time has elapsed between what has happened in the past and what is going to happen in this cave?

"What we see now is exactly the same as what the Ming army saw." Tang Anshu suddenly turned around and said to Gu Feng and Benzoin, who quietly came in and didn't dare to disturb him, and the two of them were taken aback by Tang Anshu.

Benzoin nodded: "It should be." ”

Gu Feng thought for a moment and said, "And then the smoke came, and they died?" ”

"No, it's not, if that's the case, we'd have died long ago since we fell out of the hole." Tang Anshu shook his head and said, "Those thick smoke must have a certain amount of harm, but it will not kill us, and the posture maintained by these corpses is not painful, so I still adhere to the previous opinion, there will be three different environments alternately according to the change of time, one is the living environment we see now, the second is the smoke environment, and the third is the violent death environment." ”

Benzoin finally understood: "When you said the cycle earlier, you mean the time interval between the alternation of environments? ”

"That's how I calculated, it took almost a day for us to slip down from the hole and now this environment has appeared, and it will take a day for the Ming army to build this camp before, right?" Tang Anshu turned to look at the dried corpses, "Plus the Ming army was killed instantly after the appearance of the living environment, so, I speculate that this place is a smoke environment that becomes a living environment, and the survival environment suddenly changes into a violent death environment, and then becomes a smoke environment after the violent death environment ends, and so on." ”

Benzoin thoroughly understood: "No wonder you are looking for a cave, so to speak, the alternating cycle, not three days, but two days?" ”

Gu Feng thought for a while, and also understood: "I understand why Tang Anshu asked the army to take a day to get here, because before the Ming army sailed here, it was still a smoke environment, and when they were about to come, the environment here suddenly changed to a suitable environment for survival, they didn't know anything about it, they spent a day camping, and then died en masse, so it was the third environment that killed them?" ”

Tang Anshu said: "That's right, why did I choose to find a hiding place around the camp, just because the corpses here in the camp are not the same as those over there, you see, the corpses on this side, after showing the living environment, there is not much change, on the contrary, the corpses standing on the shore of the lake are in the smoke environment and the living environment, and the surface of the corpses has changed greatly, so although the people in the camp died violently, at least the follow-up damage suffered was much lighter." ”

Gu Feng nodded: "So, we still have a day, let's leave by boat now, right?" It should be in time. ”

Benzoin objected: "No, after hundreds of years, whether those boats can be used or not is one thing, and besides, we must be fully prepared, there are fish, shrimp and crabs, you can take advantage of this day to catch some as alternative food later, after all, none of us know what is on the other side of the lake." ”

Tang Anshu agreed: "Yes, even if these Ming troops came from the opposite side back then, but after hundreds of years, no one knows what has changed on the other side, for the sake of insurance, it is better to do what Ah Xiang said." ”

"I see." Gu Feng nodded, "I'll go out to prepare, you guys should hurry up." ”

Gu Feng left, Benzoin looked at Tang Anshu, who was standing there alone thinking about something, swallowed back what he was about to say, and just said, "I'll wait for you outside." ”

Tang Anshu nodded slightly, but he was absent-minded, his mind was a mess, for some reason, after waking up, it became very difficult for him to concentrate.

Did I break my brain?

Tang Anshu was extremely puzzled, he felt that there seemed to be something strange in his body, but he couldn't say it, was this abnormality just produced, or had it been there since he was a child? These questions haunted him, making him feel uncomfortable all over his body, and an uneasiness pervaded his whole body.