Lao Zuo stopped and looked back, and I saw him frowning fiercely.

I can't tell what Lao Zuo thought of at that time, and he didn't stop long, just glanced at it and continued to move forward.

The stealth skills of the cats and monkeys are very powerful, and if there is no sound of breaking the air behind you, you will not be aware of their existence at all.

In the darkness at this moment, only the footsteps of our group remained, and the sound of running water in the underground river veins, which was not dead silence, but more frustrating than dead silence.

As we go deeper, the density of the underwater network becomes larger.

Waterways of irregular thickness and shape cut through the stone faces beneath our feet, like the abundant water veins of the Jiangnan region, dividing the earth into countless fragments.

The land area is vast enough, and the water network is dense, which is called rivers and lakes, but if the place is too small, the water network is extraordinarily dense, and the scene in front of you is a thousand ravines.

Now the road under our feet is cut into ravines by the current, and it is almost impossible to find a whole flat ground adjacent to the ravine. Everyone is extra careful every time they settle down, for fear of accidentally falling into those relatively wide rivers, most of which are very deep, and the undercurrents under the water surface are turbulent, and once they fall in, they will be swept away immediately, and there is no chance to struggle.

Walking in such a place is a great test of physical fitness and mental character, and it didn't take long for Li Huaishan and them to gasp for breath.

Lao Zuo had to change places with Liu Shangang and walked to the center of the team, I was still behind the end of the team, and the two of us were just one in one middle and one behind, taking care of the safety of others.

I don't know when it began, from time to time there was a wave of breaking sound overhead, and the sound of "twing" was like a large group of lizards crawling along the top of the rock above our heads.

But in the field of vision of the ghost eye, above is a large column of stalactites with canine teeth hanging upside down, and nothing else can be seen.

Twenty minutes after the shattering sound, I finally saw in the ghost's eyes a large group of cats and monkeys shuttling on the stone tops, like lizards, able to quickly crawl on the damp-soaked stone roofs. The sound I had heard before was nothing more than the echo in our ears as the monkeys moved.

The sound of shattering became more and more intensive, and at this time, many cats and monkeys had arrived directly above the team, and Li Huaishan, who led the team, also had to stop and look up, Liu Shangang changed the magazine as fast as possible, and opened the safety bolt of the sniper rifle.

Liang Houzai, who was closest to me, asked me in a low voice, "What do these cats and monkeys want to do?" ”

I shook my head, unable to respond.

The devil knows what these things are up to, saying that they are hostile, and they have not actively attacked us, that they are not hostile, that they have followed us to the death.

The cat and monkey walking in the head stopped as soon as they reached the top of the group, and the cat and monkey behind continued to press up.

The number of these cats and monkeys is beyond imagination, and I can no longer roughly estimate their number by scanning them, but as far as the eye can see, they are like a large colony of ants, densely clinging to the top of the rock.

Li Huaishan asked Lao Zuo: "Shall we continue to go, or should we withdraw halfway?" ”

Lao Zuo glanced at Li Huaishan: "You feel the danger again?" ”

Li Huaishan pouted helplessly: "Since I entered this water network, I have never been in peace in my heart." ”

Lao Zuo nodded and turned around to look at me, because Liang Houzai was wearing a not particularly bright pathfinder lamp on his head, and Lao Zuo could not only see me, but also see the expression on my face.

I pondered for a moment and nodded at Lao Zuo.

Lao Zuo's thoughts should be the same as mine, because when I nodded, he also showed a rather helpless smile.

Then, he raised his hand and patted Li Huaishan's shoulder: "Go on, go through the water network first." ”

Keep going, that's the answer for me and Lao Zuo, even if we all want to go back now.

Li Huaishan didn't say anything, straightened his backpack, and beckoned everyone to continue walking.

As soon as we took a few steps, the cats and monkeys above us followed suit, and they climbed as far as we went, desperately keeping a fixed distance from us.

Huang Yuzhong and Liu Shangang looked up from time to time, as if they were thinking of a way to get rid of the cat and monkey.

It can be said that it is quite difficult to get rid of them, the speed at which we run on two legs is too different from the speed of a cat monkey in the dark, not to mention the small size, can crawl on walls, and is much more agile than us.

When passing through a very large underground waterfall, because we had to climb down the stone wall next to the waterfall, the cats and monkeys seemed to be afraid that we would escape from their field of vision, and they also jumped off the top of the rock.

During this period, there was a splash of water from the waterfall, and the volley was sprinkled on several cats and monkeys, and they saw that those cats and monkeys were as if they were burned by fire, and quickly shook their bodies away from the waterfall.

At that time, the people in front of the team had already descended the stone wall, and only my body was still hanging from the steel cable.

This stone wall is moistened by moisture all year round, and the texture of the stone has a strong moisture in it, but cats and monkeys can still crawl on it.

This is enough to show that cats and monkeys are not afraid of water, but why should they stay away from waterfalls?

I was suspicious, so I reached out and dipped a little water from the waterfall next to me, put it in front of my nose and smelled it, but I didn't smell anything special, and then I took out a waterproof flashlight that was almost discarded and slapped it on my wet fingers.

I saw the golden light reflected on the moist skin, and I have seen so many antique treasures at a glance, and I can see at a glance that it is the unique luster of gold.

That's right, the water does have very fine sand mixed with it, and I can see the golden light just by dipping my finger in the water, indicating that the gold content in the water is very high, and it is estimated that there is a very large gold mine in the upper reaches of this water network.

At the moment, this cat and monkey is not afraid of water, but of gold in water.

And gold does have the effect of warding evil spirits.

Probably seeing that I had been hanging on the steel rope and couldn't go down, Lao Zuo shouted at the bottom of the waterfall: "What are you doing? ”

I looked up at the cats and monkeys that were gradually pressing over, and shouted as I slid down the tightropes: "There is a lot of golden sand in the water, and cats and monkeys are afraid of gold." ”

As I spoke, I flicked my arm and threw the water mixed with the golden sand in my hand at the monkeys.

It is such a little bit of gold water, it can also tear a huge hole in the monkey group, many cats and monkeys will flee as soon as they get into the water, and some are worried that the gold water will fall on them, and their mouths make a screeching sound like a cat.

It's actually very risky for me to do this, and if the monkeys are provoked, they will attack them in groups.

But there was a waterfall right next to me, and I wasn't afraid, so as soon as they came, I shrunk back into the waterfall.

After the cats and monkeys were driven away, they slowly gathered together and continued to keep a distance of two or three meters from me, but they did not mean to pounce at all, and I carefully observed the expressions of these cats and monkeys, and they did not even get angry.

Seriously, if these cats and monkeys are provoked, I feel a little more comfortable, and they do remain so quiet, and I feel more and more apprehensive.

The scariest thing is not that danger comes suddenly, but that you know that there will be danger, but you don't know when it will appear.

When my feet landed, Lao Zuo came up with an arrow and helped me untie the protective belt on my waist, and at this time the monkeys pressed along the stone wall again, but they were not in a hurry to approach, just staring at us not far away.

I said to Lao Zuo: "These things are afraid of gold, but if they are stained with gold, it seems that they can't cause substantial harm to them." ”

Lao Zuo frowned and nodded thoughtfully.

After the waterfall, we were almost at the end of the net, and Yoda's map only showed the end of the net, so no one knew what was further afield.

After about ten minutes, Li Huaishan stopped, took one last glance at the map, folded it, and stuffed it into the side pocket of his backpack.

This is the end of the water network, in front of which is an unusually vast dark space, where the natural karst cave seems to have collapsed many times, and there are many large stone mounds piled up by broken stones on the ground, the top of the cave is very high, forty or fifty meters, but there are no stone stalactites with interlaced canine teeth on it, it is estimated that in the previous collapse, these stone stalactites have fallen.

A huge dark river with a width of more than 40 meters meanders through the stone hills, and all the veins in the water network converge into this wide vein, just as the rivers of the world will eventually merge into the sea.

Li Huaishan stood at the end of the water network and groaned for a long time before finally turning around and beckoning everyone to march along the beach of the big river.

As he turned back to greet everyone, I could hear a hint of uncertainty in his tone, as if he didn't know whether he should follow the river or not.

But there seems to be no other way out at the moment.

We crossed a few pieces of gravel ground cut out by the water net, and finally stepped on the beach of the big river, at this time the cat and monkey seemed to be crazy, and began to rumble towards the team, everyone was nervous, Lao Zuo and I condensed the mental power for the first time, Liu Shangang held a gun in one hand, reached into the backpack with the other hand and took out a grenade, and the others also prepared their own weapons, just waiting for the cat and monkey to rush up.

But these monsters only shortened the distance between them and us, but they still did not attack.

I was at the end of the group, closest to the monkeys, the two big guys at the head of the group were less than half a meter away from me, I could even smell the stench coming out of their mouths, and now every cat and monkey looked like they were about to tear us apart.

The strong hostility began to spread rapidly in the dark space, but the monkeys still had no intention of rushing up.

No one knows what these cats and monkeys are thinking, but everyone knows very well that even if they don't attack now, it won't be long before they rush up and tear us apart, and it's only a matter of time.

(End of chapter)