Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Snake Tomb
After returning to the shore, Zhang Tianye lay on the ground panting, and after half a sound, a numb soreness began to come from his legs.
At this time, a lot of blood had flowed out of his legs, but fortunately, Zhang Tianye had learned the relevant treatment methods in the wilderness survival course, he gently patted the wound on his thigh with his hand, turned out the lighter from the bag, and roasted the tail of the leech with the flame, and it was really the same as the book said, the leech began to squirm from the wound one by one and retreated.
After cleaning up, Zhang Tianye took out iodine wine from the bag next to him and smeared it on his legs, and wrapped the gauze on it with the pain.
At this moment, another backpack suddenly flew over from the shore and smashed directly on Zhang Tianye's body, he Dingqing saw that it was Qi Xin, and asked with a surprised face: "Why are you here too?"
After Qi Xin came ashore, he squatted on the ground and gasped for breath and said: "You girl, it's not reliable at all, you just leave alone, Dewey doesn't know where to run, if I don't come over, I really have no way to live."
Qi Xin, who was squatting on the ground, was startled when he saw the leeches crawling next to Zhang Tianye, and then looked at his legs, which were also covered with layers ......of leeches, and he almost didn't faint at the moment.
Zhang Tianye hurriedly helped Qi Xin sit down, helped him clean up the wound, and after cleaning up, he took out a cigarette from his bag and handed him one and said, "I set off at two o'clock in the morning and walked here, when did you leave"?
After Qi Xin took the cigarette, he endured the pain and said: "When I woke up in the morning, I saw the note you left, and Dewey didn't know where to go, so I had to follow."
"And how did you get here"? Facing Zhang Tianye's question, Qi Xin said very worriedly: "Not long after I entered that passage, I saw a secret door on the side of the passage, and there were footprints on the ground, I guessed it might be yours, so I followed in, who would have thought that as soon as I stepped into one foot, I fell into the thief hole and fell directly on the edge of this dark river."
Zhang Tianye thought about Qi Xin's words, and only then did he realize a problem that had been ignored, he walked downhill in the cave for most of the night, and he didn't realize that he had entered the underground world.
After smoking, Zhang Tianye put on his backpack, and the two of them limped to the front with flashlights, Qi Xin asked as he walked: "Zhang Shao?" Where do you think Dewey will go"?
"Monkey, I'm not sure where he went, there may really be something here", Zhang Tianye didn't answer him directly to this question, but Qi Xin's previous guess was right, Dewey people have no problem, there is something to hide from them.
The two of them didn't go far, and the scene in front of them changed again, and there were many forks in the passage, to be precise, it was more like a robbery hole, staggered and horizontal, extending in all directions.
According to Zhang Tianye's previous inference, Dewey fell from above, which means that his current position should be very deep underground, and it may be really difficult to go to it.
It is still an unknown mystery where so many entrances lead in front of you, and if you go wrong, you may be trapped here forever, and it is difficult to have a chance of survival.
Qi Xin lit a cigarette with difficulty on the side, and said darkly: "If you retreat now, you will still suffer the sin of leeches, and if you move forward, you will die for life."
He said to Zhang Tianye a little breathlessly: "Zhang Shao, let's go back, it's impossible to return to the ground through here."
Zhang Tianye, who was carefully observing these cave thieves on the side, squatted next to a cave and said to Qi Xin: "Monkey, don't worry, things may not be as bad as you think"?
After finishing speaking, Zhang Tianye shone the flashlight beam into this thief hole, Qi Xin heard what Zhang Tianye said, so he walked over, squatted down and looked inside with him.
After looking at it for a long time, he didn't find anything special about this thief hole, Zhang Tianye just grabbed a handful of dirt at the entrance of the cave with his hand, rubbed it on his hand and said, "Monkey, do you see this soil?"
"Could it be that the mystery is here"? Qi Xin grabbed a handful of soil in surprise and followed Zhang Tianye's example, rubbed it on his hands, he also found a problem, the soil at the entrance of the other caves is darker, only the soil at this cave entrance is lighter in color, and the soil is still relatively wet.
This proves a problem: "This thief hole may have just been dug up by someone else not long ago"!
In the end, Zhang Tianye put the soil in his hand to his mouth, and when the smell of the soil entered his nose and mouth, it confirmed this even more, because this smell is like the fragrance of the soil emitted by the rain in our countryside, commonly known as "earth fragrance".
Qi Xin, put down the soil in his hand, got up from the ground with great difficulty, and asked, "Let's go into this cave"?
Zhang Tianye shook his head and said: "Things are not so simple, monkey, have you thought about it, who dug this thief hole"?
This question woke up Qi Xin, and he then stood up and said, "Monkey, what do you guess will be down here?"
"I don't know, but I always feel that Dewey knows something", Qi Xin lit another cigarette and looked at Zhang Tianye with vicissitudes in his eyes.
"Let's go down and have a look" Zhang Tianye made a decision directly, Qi Xin simply threw the cigarette in his hand on the ground this time, and the two of them got into it one after the other. Only to find out that this thief hole is very steep, leading directly to the deeper underground.
After entering the thief cave, Zhang Tianye took the lead in the front, in order to save power, Qi Xin in the back was responsible for lighting, and he was responsible for exploring the road in front.
The steep thief cave is like an endless general straight underground, because the space of the thief cave is relatively small, it can only accommodate one person crawling forward, they can't even turn their heads, through the light of the flashlight, Zhang Tianye saw that there are many exposed white objects around the thief cave, which have been weathered.
At the beginning, Zhang Tianye didn't pay too much attention to this matter, but the further he went, the more and more such white objects appeared, which aroused the conjecture of the two people, and the two of them knew that this was likely to be the skeleton of a person or an animal, but such a large-scale appearance was still very incredible.
The further he went, the more weak Qi Xin became, and he kept urging Zhang Tianye to speed up, because he really didn't dare to imagine what a terrible thing it would be if all the bones in it were human.
But this has been leading to the underground thief hole, as if there is no end, the two people are tired and panting, there has been an obvious lack of oxygen, breathing began to become short, the situation has become very unoptimistic, if the two people do not get out of this thief hole, I am afraid that they will really suffocate here.
Just when the two of them were anxious, the road ahead began to calm down, Zhang Tianye took out a flashlight from his backpack, and the beam hit the wall far away, and the two of them were relieved and almost reached the exit!
Unfortunately, at this time, the situation changed, and there was a sound of objects rubbing the ground behind Qi Xin, the sound was very fast, and the thief cave itself was very quiet, and the appearance of this sound, the first year that flashed in the minds of the two people was the "Purple Strange Snake"!
Thinking of the fate of the mutant pine caterpillar in the mushroom forest, Zhang Tianye almost used all his strength to crawl forward as fast as possible, buying time for Qi Xin in the back, because once he was bitten by this purple strange snake, I am afraid that he would really sleep here.
In the panic, Qi Xin's flashlight fell to the ground, and he had no way to pick up the flashlight at this moment, his hands and feet almost kept the same action in the thief hole, the back road was blocked, and there was no room to turn back, and the two of them could only pin all their hopes on the exit in front.
With a plop, Zhang Tianye disappeared without a trace, there was no strong flashlight, and the surroundings became pitch black.
Qi Xin in the back couldn't see the road in front of him clearly, but his sense of hearing became extremely sensitive, and he could feel that the purple strange snake chasing behind him seemed to have stopped advancing, but he didn't dare to stop, gritted his teeth, and crawled forward.
Immediately after falling down at the place where Zhang Tianye disappeared, he knew that he must have reached the exit, but there was no pain from the fall on his body, and he couldn't help but think in his heart that it must have fallen on Zhang Tianye's body, and just as he was about to speak, he was covered by a pair of mysterious hands.
Qi Xin struggled for a while, and it wasn't until he heard Zhang Tianye lowering his voice on the side to tell him to calm down, that he realized that the person covering his mouth was Zhang Tianye.
Qi Xin, who calmed down, nodded hurriedly, Zhang Tianye turned on the flashlight and poked into the thief hole where the two people fell, and then they realized that the thrilling scene just now was the falling flashlight that saved their lives.
Qi Xin's flashlight fell just in the direction of the snakes, and the dense purple strange snakes seemed to be very afraid of this light, so they stayed in place and didn't dare to move.
It just so happened that this also gave the two people a chance to breathe, Zhang Tianye, quickly withdrew the light from the thief cave and shone it at the feet of the two people, Qi Xin was so frightened that he almost didn't scream.
Because the two people were stepping on several stinking corpses under their feet, surrounded by white snake eggs, the number was terrifying, and the first thought of the two people was to enter the snake mound!
Here, they didn't dare to stay for a moment, carefully bypassed the corpses around them, walked to the front, looking at the large snake eggs, the two of them felt a chill in their hearts, for fear of being careless, a purple strange snake came out of the surroundings, and explained themselves here.
A few minutes later, the two of them walked out of the snake eggs around them, Qi Xin wiped the sweat on his forehead, and at this time, most of the big stone in his heart had already fallen, and said to Zhang Tianye: "It seems that we all guessed wrong, the person who dug the thief hole accidentally dug the wrong place, entered here, and released these monsters, fortunately, our lives are big, if they don't explore the way, I'm afraid, it's us who lies there."
Zhang Tianye nodded and said nothing, and when he saw the strong flashlight in his hand shining in the illuminated range, Qi Xin's long-suppressed scream finally broke out.
Pointing to the place where the strong flashlight was shining, he said: "Zhang Shao, you see that the road has become a stone road under your feet, and there is a red handkerchief next to it, which seems to be ......."