Chapter 30: The Trench

Now they have enough time to observe their surroundings and enough space to do things that were simply not possible before.

"Huang Dou! Uncle Cao! Lu Xiaoling kept banging on the rock wall with a torch that had not yet been lit, but there was no response in the deep darkness.

It's like they've all been killed.

But for Huang Dou, this is almost impossible under normal terms.

When they set off, they all wore thick clothes, put on thick leather gloves, and tied the trouser legs, corners and necklines with thin ropes. And after using the Divine Fighting Technique, he is simply a humanoid tank.

But he didn't respond, which made them worry if he had been hit by some mechanism, or if he was poisoned by Barong in the shadows or something.

They are in a dilemma, should they continue to find Cao Daoping, or should they go in the direction where Huang Dou and Ba Long disappeared to find Huang Dou?

"Huang Dou should be able to protect himself." Sun Yang said. "Even if he can't deal with Barong or Python, he should be able to escape after the god hits him. But Master Cao has been trapped for a few days, and it is likely that he will not be able to hold on anymore. ”

Lu Xiaoling opened her mouth to say something, but Sun Yang's reason was very good, so she shook her head and walked in the direction where they had found Master Cao's traces before.

"Master Cao! Yellow bucket! Sun Yang banged on the wall and screamed along the way, and where they passed, the pythons fled one after another, but they didn't seem to be willing to let them pass over so peacefully, and followed them at a certain distance, hissing and intimidating at them. More and more cockroaches gathered around them, and at last the rustle of their bodies as they walked was drowned out by their screams.

The number of toads had grown so large that they had begun to fear again, and if the powder suddenly didn't work, the only outcome they faced was to be immediately pounced by thousands of toad choppers, suspended by venom injections, and waiting to die.

"It's too much......" Lu Xiaoling couldn't help but say.

The pythons that were scared away by them had nowhere to crawl but to crawl from the bodies of their kind, and the cave was so crowded that Sun Yang and Lu Xiaoling even had to stop in order to give them time to escape.

But there were more and more signs of Cao Daoping fighting on the ground, which made Sun Yang can't help but start wondering, what is the reason for him to insist on going in instead of fleeing? Was there something in the depths of the cavern that he would rather risk his life than have to get? Or had he lost his sense of direction under the siege of the sea of pythons?

They passed through one cave after another, they were almost all the same, the hall carved out of the natural cave, there were many sculptures and all kinds of sacrificial vessels, which made Sun Yang and Lu Xiaoling gradually lose interest in exploring, the only thing that could make them stop was either what Cao Daoping discarded, or the spider swarm that was too crowded so that they had to stop waiting.

Sun Yang couldn't help but look back at the way they came, it was also dark, they had been walking in this cave for more than an hour, but there was no sign of any end in front of them.

It's like you can go all the way to the end of the world.

The air around them gradually began to moisten, and in the rustle of the toads, there was a sudden sound of rushing water, and the toads let out a screech of uneasiness, but as they passed through a naturally formed corridor, the space suddenly became clear.

"They're back!" Lu Xiaoling said in surprise.

"Master Cao!" Sun Yang shouted again.

The echo came back faintly after more than a dozen seconds, which surprised him.

"Xiaoling!" He shouted at Lu Xiaoling.

A thunder fire talisman flew into the darkness in front of them, and as the firelight exploded, a huge space with no end or bottom in sight suddenly appeared in front of them.

It's incredible!

The opposite side was at least a few dozen meters away from them, but standing here there was no road for them to cross, Sun Yang threw the torch that was almost burned in his hand to the opposite side, it hit a stone, bursting out a little spark.

On the opposite side, there are still steps that go up the mountain wall, but they are broken here.

"There used to be a suspension bridge here." Sun Yang re-lit a torch and took a closer look at the place where the steps had been interrupted, where there were several thick stone pillars with holes and grooves to hold the ropes in place, as well as the remains of metal objects. But it's been a long time, and in such a humid environment, almost everything has been badly rusted and rotted.

"This doesn't make sense, Uncle Cao, he can't fly over." Lu Xiaoling said.

There were no ropes in place around, and no other clues were in sight, and the trail they were following was abruptly interrupted.

There is no bottom in the abyss below, only the sound of rushing water can be heard.

Could it be that he fell and was washed away by the water?

If that's the case, it's simply impossible to keep looking for him.

Such groundwater flows are often unpredictable in rock crevices, and the outlet may be tens or even hundreds of kilometers away.

"It can't be just a temple in such a big place, Barong must be hiding something!" Sun Yang said. It is hard to imagine that in ancient times, when science and technology and engineering were extremely backward, the Sanmiao people who lived in the deep mountains had the ability to build a group of huge underground palaces in the belly of the mountain. Even borrowing a natural cave is not possible.

"What now?"

"I'll go down and take a look, and you can help me keep an eye on the rope from above." Sun Yang said.

The fixed place is ready-made, and it can be tied directly to those stone pillars, the only problem is that I don't know if the rope is long enough.

Sun Yang threw a stone below, but in the sound of rushing water, he did not hear the sound of the stone falling to the ground or entering the water.

"I'm more agile than you and weigh less than you." Lu Xiaoling said suddenly. "Let me go."

Sun Yang wanted to say something, she had already started to make a rope buckle and fix it on her waist and thighs.

"Be careful!" Sun Yang had no choice but to say.

He straightened the rope, examined it carefully, and then circled it twice around a smooth stone pillar, and then trapped the end firmly to another stone pillar, and then pulled the rope in his hand and slowly let it out.

Lu Xiaoling held a torch in one hand and a rope in the other, and slowly disappeared under the cliff.

"Down! Under! She commanded loudly, and Sun Yang put the rope little by little, watching the light of the torch in her hand fade away.

A cold wind blew, and the torches planted next to it suddenly shook violently.