This so-called small island is actually formed by a pile of stalactites, and there is not even a flat place on the island, it is full of uneven stone buds.

I stepped up first, and then pulled Lin'er up as well.

Lin'er may not have had the experience of rafting in the dark river before, so she seemed a little nervous.

I shone my flashlight at the water behind me, and she asked me, "Aren't you afraid at all?" ”

"I was scared before, but then I found out that it's useless to be afraid at such a time, but if I am always trembling in my heart, I can't do what I should do, so I don't bother to be afraid."

"Actually, sometimes I envy you people who often run outside, I have been with my mother-in-law since I was a child, and I have only been out of the mountain twice when I am so big. You're not going to laugh at me for not seeing the world, are you? ”

I looked carefully at the water to make sure no one else was washed down, so I put away my flashlight and said, "We are the opposite, I envy those who stay at home all day, and now what I want to do most is to nest on the sofa, eat some snacks, and watch TV, no better than taking a cold shower here." ”

Lin'er smiled: "Mother-in-law said that you are different from others. ”

This girl's thinking jumped a bit big, and it was hard for me to keep up, so I asked, "What's different?" ”

Lin'er thought for a while and said, "I don't know how to describe it, how to say it, it's just ...... I've seen a few of them before, and they all like to hold themselves up, and they always have to put on a high look. You're different, you're not like a gate valve kid at all. ”

"And what am I like?"

"Sometimes, I think you're like a master, and sometimes, I think you're like a rascal."

Lin'er smiled as she spoke.

Little rascals? Except for my second aunt, I'm so big, no one has ever said that about me.

Now is not the time for gossip, I just smiled, didn't answer, and just interrupted the conversation.

I turned around and looked around the river, which was the rainy season and had swollen the banks so much that it was now almost closed, with stone walls on both sides.

The water in the river is quite urgent, and it is estimated that the river in this place is very close, and I don't know where the water will flow.

I followed the flow of the river and lit it forward, and the beam moved forward for more than 30 meters, and I saw a stone waterfall connected to the stone wall of that place, and the flow of the waterfall was very small, and under the water curtain, I could clearly see the stones stacked together.

It is said to be a stone waterfall, but in fact it is more like a staircase made of rough stones, and if you climb up these stones, you can enter a very wide stone cave.

The low flow of water means that there is very little water in the cave, and I suspect that the tunnel may be connected to a tunnel leading to the outside.

After roughly judging the water potential of the leylines, I estimated that the problem was not too much, so I took Lin'er into the water, swam thirty meters downstream, and climbed into the cave by the stone waterfall.

As expected, the cave is a very wide natural tunnel with a small stream flowing through it and relatively dry rocky beaches on both sides.

Lin'er was soaked with water all over her body, she couldn't bear the cold, and kept shivering.

This girl is already strong, if she is replaced by Li Huaishan, it is estimated that she will have to scold her mother now.

I first gave Lin'er an energy bar to replenish her calories, and then picked up a lot of pebbles from the ground, dried them with karmic fire, and then asked Lin'er to stuff the hot stones into her pocket.

The pebbles were burned, and I directly raised the temperature on the stone surface to more than 50 degrees, so that not only could Lin'er keep warm, but also dry her clothes.

It is often said that men and women are not tired of working together, but I disagree with this sentence, many times mixed teams of men and women will cause some unnecessary trouble in the process of performing tasks. For example, if there was a big man next to me now, then I wouldn't have to put so much effort into baking stones, just light a bonfire, X-ray my clothes, and dry myself and my clothes.

But now I can only take care of Lin'er first, as for myself, I don't have so much time, I just endure it when my clothes are wet, anyway, my buddy's body is made of bones, and it's nothing to collect a little cold, but it's uncomfortable to be painted with wet clothes all over my body.

I roasted a few more large stones, put the canned beef on top and simmered slowly, and Lin'er took out a wooden bucket and pulled out a glowing worm from it. It looked a lot like a firestarter, but it was much larger and couldn't fly, so Lin'er put it on the stone wall, and it lay there tightly, lighting it for us like a motionless light bulb.

A bug that can be used as a light bulb, I'm still going to see you when I'm so big.

I asked Lin'er why she didn't take out such a good thing in the morning. Lin'er said that Gu art is the secret of their lineage, and they can't show it too much in front of people, plus many Gu insects are highly poisonous, they are harmless to Gu Po, but for others, they may be fatal. But I don't have so many worries in front of me, and I'm not afraid of poison anyway.

The two cans pressed against the stone were quickly boiled, and the sound of boiling water could now be heard from the cans.

Lin'er's body was very cold, and when she saw that the can was hot, she took out a short knife and inserted it between the can and the stone surface, trying to hold the can up with a wide blade.

The short knife in her hand is very special, the head and tail are as wide as the knife, at first glance it looks like a fifteen-centimeter-long ruler, the blade is cut on three sides, and the unique lines of flower steel can be faintly seen on the blade.

At first, my eyes fell on the short knife, and I didn't find anything abnormal, until I felt that something seemed to be shaking behind Lin'er, so I glanced behind her shoulder, and saw a black shadow projected on the stone wall on her body, Lin'er was moving, and that shadow was also moving.

This was no problem, but when I looked down slightly, I found that the shadow of the short knife was wrong, the knife in Lin'er's hand was like a ruler, but the knife in the shadow was clearly a curved Miao knife.

It was only after a blink of surprise that I discovered an even bigger anomaly.

The light radiating from the Gu worm's body was as bright as a tungsten lamp, and the light shone on Lin'er's left face, casting a long shadow on the right side of Lin'er's body, and on the stone wall on Lin'er's left, there was also a shadow - the shadow holding the "Miao Knife".

I immediately came back to my senses, grabbed Lin'er, and pulled her over as fast as I could.

At the moment when I made a move, the shadow behind Lin'er waved the Miao knife and slashed at the top of Lin'er's head.

As I pulled Lin'er behind me, I threw my left fist and smashed it into the man's forehead. He subconsciously raised his hand, Miao Dao waved in the air, the knife edge just crossed my fist, the shock urged into the knife body, I heard a crisp sound of "pop", the knife body seemed to be broken, I fought with the risk of being cut off by a knife to increase the force, I wanted to directly break the knife edge, and smashed the fist on the opponent's face.

But as soon as the force was pressed, there was a sudden flicker in front of him, and the "person" holding the Miao knife disappeared out of thin air.

The flash in front of me was like when I used to take pictures with an old-fashioned camera, and the flash briefly and quickly burst into bright light, and for a moment I couldn't see anything, and the next moment, the situation around me slowly became clearer again.

It took me a moment to regain my composure, and then I took a quick step forward and looked closely at where the man had been crouching, and found a small piece of broken iron on the ground.

The knife was made of pig iron, and the blade was so brittle that if it had been made of wrought iron, my hand would have been cut off.

Now I was also confused, since there are fragments on the ground, it means that the person just now should be ...... It's a real being, it's not a ghost, a ghost has no substance, but I can't explain why a person with a physical object would disappear out of thin air in an instant.

Could it be that there is also a broken space in this place?

No, it shouldn't be such a coincidence, when that person disappeared just now, I felt inexplicably weird, it felt a bit like you first drew a thin line on the paper with a pencil, and then quickly erased it with an eraser, leaving no trace at all, in other words, that person seemed to have been completely erased from this world, leaving no trace of existence.

I don't know why I feel that way.

Lin'er hugged her shoulders and stared at the ground without saying a word, I didn't think she looked like she was scared or nervous, but as if she had lost her mind all of a sudden, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, so she raised her voice slightly and asked her, "Are you okay?" ”

Hearing my voice, Lin'er slowly came back to her senses, and after a short while, her lips trembled and said, "My ...... My Shadow ......"

The light on the Gu worm's body spread on Lin'er's back, but it failed to cast a shadow in front of her.

Her current situation is exactly the same as Lao Ruan.

At that time, Lao Ruan saw that he had no shadow, and he panicked all of a sudden, Lin'er's shoulders kept trembling, and she didn't look as calm as Lao Ruan was at that time.

Two shadows appeared around Lin'er just now, and I didn't even notice such a big anomaly at the first time, and my mind was obviously affected in some way.

Thinking of this, I took out my teeth, stretched out my left hand in front of Lin'er, and then stabbed the dull tooth blade into the flesh of my palm.

The severe pain suddenly made me completely sober up, I didn't feel that there was anything wrong with me just now, and now I am completely awake, and then I think back to the state just now, I found that my head was astringent and swollen, and I was groggy, and that state was similar to having smoking cessation and continuation.

Lin'er was also frightened by my sudden move, and couldn't help but exclaim, "What are you doing!" ”

I pulled my teeth out, "How are you feeling now, are you sober?" ”

Lin'er was stunned for a moment, and then nodded at me: "I'm much sober." ”