Chapter 26 -- Descending Layers
CHAPTER XXVI
Yu Ji silently put away the syringe, Wu Zhiheng couldn't help but glance at him, seeing that Yu Ji had no intention of explaining at the moment, he didn't ask anything.
Yu Ji continued to search the ground for something useful. He found two masks, which were inlaid with some ring-shaped empty tubes made of tin, and although he didn't know what they were used for, Yu Ji still put them away.
On the other side, Lin found a hole here, where an iron cable was fixed to the stone wall at one end, and the other end of the iron cable extended into the ground. It was dark below, and there was no light to shine through. There was still hemp rope tied to the iron cable, and Lin tried to pull the two-finger-thick hemp rope, and he heard the sound of the gear turning, and after a while, he dragged up a bamboo basket, and there was a small iron bucket in the bamboo basket.
She took out the small iron bucket with a felt pad, reached in again, and used the felt to circle along the inner wall of the iron bucket.
This iron bucket is filled with stone resin water.
Now it seems that if they want to find the source of this stone grease water, they will have to follow the iron rope. Lin He looked back at these people who fell to the ground, waved his hand with Wu Zhiheng and said, "Let's eat something first, I can be regarded as a good person with a good reward, otherwise these people will be difficult after we go down, and it will be enough to bear it." ”
After saying that, she didn't care about the corpses around her, just sat on the ground and distributed dry food and dried meat to the other two people, and then asked while eating, "You say, when will the Turks chase after them?" ”
"I guess it's going to take some time, and if the bats at the entrance of the cave are there, they won't be able to get in." I wish they had more time, as long as they could, and if they could fight less, they would have one less fight. After eating, Lin clapped his hands and said, "Let's go now?" ”
Wu Zhiheng took out three pieces of night pearls in response, gently sharpened a groove with a knife, and tied this night pearl to his wrist with hemp rope. Then, it was given to Yu Ji and Lin He.
"I'll go first, and Yu Ji will break later." After speaking, Wu Zhiheng leaned into the entrance of the cave, and did not use the bamboo basket, but directly climbed the iron rope with his hands wrapped in felt, controlled the speed of his body landing, and slowly descended in this way. Lin then followed him all the way down.
The rope wasn't too long, and only three glow-in-the-dark stones glowed faintly in the darkness. The ears became more sensitive when they couldn't see, and all three of them heard the sound of running water overhead, which sounded muffled and seemed to be separated by a thick layer of stone.
At the end of the rope, the three fell to the ground one after another. Wu Zhiheng gathered the three luminous stones together and held them high to illuminate this stone chamber. The stone chamber is not large, there is moving running water in front and back, and there is a naturally formed shadow back wall in this stone chamber, and the sound of chickens crowing comes from behind the wall.
The three of them turned their backs and saw several chickens chained to the water's edge, and they were looking into the water in horror. Slowly, I heard a noise in the water, and something crawled out of the water. The rooster crowed louder.
"It's a salamander!" Yu Ji shouted as he ran towards the water.
I saw a salamander the size of a buffalo crawling out of the water first, and then some salamanders of different sizes crawled out one after another. Four legs, two fins, and a pair of eyes covered with gray blisters. As soon as he landed on the shore, he opened his bloody mouth, showed his sharp fangs, and quickly pounced on the chickens.
Yu Ji was extremely fast, broke the rope on the chicken's feet with a stone, and then jumped out and carried several chickens behind the shadow back wall.
At the same time, Wu Zhiheng drew his knife and slashed at the open mouth of the largest salamander, and then shaved off his chin. The salamander flicked its huge tail under the stimulation of pain, and Wu Zhiheng jumped on the bulge of the stone wall.
Seeing that the salamander missed the blow, its tail did not stop, and continued to whip the stone wall, and the entire underground stone chamber vibrated with it. Some of the fragile stalactites on the roof of the stone chamber have fallen one after another. The huge salamander was so angry that it reflexively pounced on its companions.
Lin He was using his short sword to fight several smaller salamanders in hand-to-hand combat, when he was suddenly rushed in by this huge salamander. I saw this huge creature open its half-cut mouth and swallow a smaller salamander alive. Lin froze there as it crunched and crushed its companion's bones. Then its jaw slowly grew again, not only did the chin change, its original white skin became transparent, and red blood flowed rapidly in its veins.
Soon, its massive body expanded in a circle. This guy can also regenerate tissues!
This time it's troublesome, Lin looked at the salamanders in the river that were still crawling out, this is simply the ammunition depot of the big boss.
Lin quickly cut off the tail of a small salamander with his short sword, and then observed it, and found that it did not grow again, and it did not eat other companions. It seems that this smaller salamander will not regenerate. She looked at the huge salamander that was fighting against Wu Zhiheng again, and found that it was actually eating its companion while chasing Wu Zhiheng to bite. But this salamander only eats its living companions, and Lin leaned over and pulled the corpse of a dead young salamander down in front of it, and then quickly retreated. It didn't even look at the corpse that had fallen to the ground.
How did Lin jump behind the shadow back wall, she said to Ji, "Can you borrow me some chicken feathers for use?" Yu Jileng paused, then lowered his head and asked the chickens, only to see that the chickens turned their backs to Lin aggrievedly, "They agreed, don't pull the hair on the buttocks, it hurts." "If you ask me to pull it out, I won't pull it out, it stinks to death. Lin plucked two handfuls of hair from his back in disgust.
She returned to the stone room, jumped to a high place, held four chicken feathers in one hand, concentrated the internal force of the whole body on her fingers, and then waved her slender hand, and the eight chicken feathers were like sharp swords with eyes, poking straight into the throat of the big salamander, and the chicken feathers injected with internal force were like steel nails, sealing the throat of the big salamander, so that it could no longer eat any small salamanders.
At this last moment, Wu Zhiheng decisively raised his knife and cut off the head of this giant salamander like a god of death. Then he cut off his tail and limbs, as well as the sturdy fins. Wu Zhiheng was really afraid of its endless regeneration.
Lin walked around the water's edge and saw a small salamander still crawling, and after stabbing it to death with a sword, she thought about it again, maybe someone would recognize this thing after she went out, so she wrapped the corpse of this thing in oiled paper and put it in her sleeve.
After dealing with these salamanders, Yu Ji and the chickens also walked out from behind the shadow back wall. Yu Ji said to Lin He and Wu Zhiheng with a calm face, "That's where the stone grease water comes from." ”