Chapter 45: The White Snake's Lair
"Stop, I'll go down and have a look." Teng Lao Wu stopped with a flashlight in front of him, and the snake road was already at the end, and another hole appeared in it. Teng Lao Wu stood at the entrance of the cave and swept it around, and jumped off the edge of the cave with his legs bent.
Immediately there was the sound of landing, followed by a strange sound like a tree branch breaking.
", it stinks in there, it's all over the ground." Teng Lao Wu scolded and said, "This is nearly two meters high, everyone be careful." ”
Under the lighting of Teng Lao Wu, they jumped down one after another, Hu Lao coughed violently twice as soon as he landed, his face was languishing, very ugly, Jiang Yun wanted to help him, Hu Lao waved his hand to say no, Chu Ye looked at Hu Lao who was hunched down worriedly, and for the first time he had some resentment towards Ajie.
After everyone came down, Teng Lao Wu fired a flare, the cave below was the size of three basketball courts, the ground was covered with fine broken bones, and the strong fishy smell stimulated Chu Ye's nose, and his stomach rolled like a river and a sea.
The bones on the ground were layered on top of each other, and it was impossible to tell whether they were human or animal, and with each step, there would be a series of crackling sounds, which were particularly harsh in the quiet hole.
"What is this?" Jiang Yun pointed to a slender gray-white mountain-shaped rock on the ground.
"Snakeskin." Chu Ye was also curious and was about to touch it, but he was frightened by Ghost San's words, and quickly retracted his hand. It's really the white snake's lair.
However, no trace of the white snake was found, so it should not have returned.
"Then the White Snake is not here, what now? Uncle Lan. Xiao Jing covered her mouth and nose tightly and asked, it was difficult for a big girl like a flower to follow her to such a stinky place.
Lan Yucheng opened a pair of eyes, and he didn't know whether he was lost or unwilling, there was nothing else in this cave except for dry snake skin and bones everywhere, no matter what Lan Yucheng wanted, I am afraid it would not be possible to achieve it in this cave.
Hu Lao patted Lan Yucheng on the back, "Forget it, Yucheng, this road doesn't work, find another way." ”
"That's the only way, I didn't expect it to be empty in the end." Lan Yucheng sighed, lowered his head and didn't move for a long time after finishing speaking, as if he was still expecting something.
"Mr. Lan, there is a cave here." Teng Lao Wu, who was searching alone in the cave, suddenly shouted from the northwest corner, Lan Yucheng suddenly raised his head, his eyes were full of fine light.
"In the past."
During the stampede, the sound of some fine bones breaking resounded, and the sound was infinitely amplified in the silent claustrophobic space, scratching people's nerves. Teng Lao Wu pointed to the two-meter-high and three-meter-wide stone cave in front of him and said, "Mr. Lan, I looked around, and there is only this one hole in it, and I don't know where it leads." ”
"Everywhere you go, you have to walk around." Lan Yucheng had a resolute look on his face.
Chu Ye thought to himself that this Lan Yucheng was completely a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and he would drill a cave when he saw it, but it was better than staying in this stinky place. Looking at the dark and secluded cave, a slight dripping sound was coming from the depths, and Chu Ye's heart exploded with a strange feeling, indescribable, like familiarity, like fear, and a trace of anticipation......
Teng Lao Wu, who was the first to go, sniffed and then carefully searched the cave wall with a flashlight and said: "No, the smell of this nest is too strong, my nose is useless, but the rocks on these cave walls have traces of abrasion, and the white snake should often go inside." ”
"Strange, after the snake road, there are naturally generated caves here, what is the beast drilling?" Teng Lao Wu muttered to himself again.
After walking a little further, the cave suddenly became damp, and there was ankle-deep water on the ground, and there was water dripping down the roof of the cave, falling on the skin, and the ice was unstoppable.
After the water, everyone's feet were frozen, and Hu Lao's coughing became more and more serious, as if he wanted to carve out everything in his lungs, Jiang Yun couldn't hear this voice, and walked to Chu Ye's side, his voice with a panic that couldn't be concealed, "Brother Chu, do you think the master will be okay?" What am I going to do? ”
As he spoke, his eyes were already red.
"Little bunny, can't you hope I get better?" Hu Lao heard Jiang Yun's words and said angrily.
Chu Ye listened to Hu Lao's voice, although he was tired, he still revealed a breath of neutrality, so he said softly: "Don't worry, Hu Lao is a master, and he will definitely be fine." ”
In fact, Chu Ye has no bottom in his heart, except for Chu Ye, everyone else is fighting their spirits, so many things happen in just one day, the iron body will be a little unbearable, not to mention that Hu Lao is here at an old age, and he was injured again, if he persists like this, Chu Ye doesn't know how long Hu Lao can support it.
Chu Ye looked at Hu Lao's figure worriedly, and found out in an instant that this old man was already so stubborn.
This cave passage is twisted and curved, and it takes a lot of time and energy, until an inverted triangular slope appears, and the vision in front of you suddenly opens up, in front of which is a large fan-shaped hole, and the dome and the cave wall are full of black granite with mica, and after absorbing the light of the flashlight, it emits a faint light in the darkness, as if entering a fantasy world, from the white snake lair that has just come out of the foul smell, and for a while I have seen a little stunned in this beautiful cave.
The temperature has risen a lot in the depths of the cave, which is indescribably refreshing, and the most striking thing is the stone tools and pottery scattered on the ground, and you can see a small number of tools made of animal bones, which are rudimentarily carved with some human and animal patterns, showing that there are traces of human activities in this cave a long time ago.
Everyone's eyes were straight, no one would have thought that there would be such a discovery, and there were several cave passages on the surrounding cave walls. One of the caves has obvious signs of excavation, the ground is level, and the raised rocks have been filled with mud and tamped, and have gradually been petrified.
"Mr. Lan, do you think this is iron or copper?" Cheng Youmin didn't know where to find a blue-black single-edged knife full of rust.
As soon as he saw this thing, Teng Lao Wu snatched it up, his eyes were glowing green, and his mouth trembled: "This, this is a bronze knife." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly flashed, and he searched on the ground again, and after a while, he picked up seven or eight bronze artifacts, which were basically small bronze artifacts, but unfortunately the oxidation was very serious.
The shape of these bronzes is simple and simple, and their age is probably extremely old. If there were only these stone tools, it would probably be an early primitive civilization, but now that bronze tools have suddenly appeared, it has become a bit more complicated.
We all know that the most glorious era of the bronze civilization was in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and there were many stone tools in it, and the age may be earlier.
"Go in again." Lan Yucheng pointed to the excavated cave and said.
Although there are many human-made objects in this cave, there are no written or pictorial records, and it is impossible to speculate on the origin of these people.