I've heard a lot of rumors about ghost fires, but they're all over the place, and it's too exaggerated.

The fat man hid behind his classmates, "I didn't see this last time I came in, Kaiming, let's run." ”

"Wait. "When I turned on the flashlight, I saw a string of beaded chains hanging on the bottom of the cave, crystal camp transparent, and when I poked my fingers, my nose was as sticky as a snot, a fluorescent substance.

Knowing that it was not a ghost fire, the fat man walked in front again to lead the way, and as he went deeper and deeper into the cave, he heard the sound of running water. In front of a slope, he took off his shoes and socks, and a rancid smell spread through the hole.

"What are you doing?"

"Just do it. ”

His feet were on the slippery limestone, and his hands were clinging to the crevices above him, climbing up the slope and sliding down again, three attempts before reaching the top. For a child growing up in a mountain village, this is not a big deal, and he can climb this three-meter-high slope twice as fast as him in one go.

The two stood barefoot on the slope when an underground river came into view. The three-meter-wide river channel is full of water falling from a high place, and Hualala falls into a deep hole, and the surrounding rocks are washed smooth.

The fat man sat on the stone face and slid down the slope.

"Kaiming, come down. ”

I didn't expect there to be a cave here, and I began to look forward to what I would encounter next.

The moment I stepped into the water, my whole body shivered, the water was more frozen than the stream, maybe only three or four degrees, but it was bearable, the depth of the water was a little higher than my ankles, and I could see the stones at the bottom of the water.

The two tread deep into the water, and the fat man shone left and right into the water with a flashlight, "There is." ”

Walking over, I bent down to see a small fish lurking behind the rocks against the current, the size of a tail finger, the whole body is transparent, and the internal organs can be seen. The electric light shone on it and did not escape, and when you looked closely, it had no eyes.

"I checked the information, it is called 'stingfish', it is very rare, it lives in caves and underground rivers, it has no contact with light for a long time by the line, and its eyes have deteriorated. ”

It is true that this strange fish cannot be seen outside, it stays in place all the time, it is very quiet, unlike ordinary small fish, which run away when it sees people. It wasn't until it held its hands together with the water that it found itself trapped and swam around to find its way. If you put it back in the water, you can only swim to a meter away, and it has no natural predators in this dark environment, so you can swim with confidence.

Along the way, I found more of these fish, except for a small frog sitting on a rock, and no other living creatures were seen.

Before the end of the cave came to an end, the fat man stopped and said, "I have come the farthest here, and I have never walked the rest of the place." ”

Now that you're in, you might as well walk around again, and maybe you'll find something unknown.

The fat man nodded in agreement, after all, there are two people, what else is there to be afraid of.

Continuing down, the river begins to get deeper and reaches knee level.

"Kaiming, do you think if you keep walking to the center of the earth?"

"I don't know. "It's obviously too difficult for an eight-year-old to answer this kind of question.

"What is in the heart of the earth?" he must have been bored, so he kept asking this and that.

"Nuclear. Just like a peach eats off the skin and flesh, the inside is a hard core. "This is just speculation, no one has ever seen the core of the earth with their own eyes, so you can't break it open and take a look.

"What's in the kernel?"

"Damn, are you finished? There's nothing in the nucleus. "Whatever it is, just stop him from asking.

"There should still be, when we smashed the core with a stone, there were seeds inside. He said.

"Why don't you smash the core of the earth with a rock and see if you can hit anything?"

He finally didn't speak again, he must have lost interest in this question, right? Looking ahead, the people were gone, and the water surface was rippling in circles.

The "Fat Man ......" flashlight shines on a smooth rock wall, and it is impossible to hide people, and the problem lies in the spreading ripples.

Gently take two steps forward, the front foot actually stepped into the air, the whole body sank into the water, the nostrils spewed a string of bubbles, slid across the cheeks and rose to the water, the eyes began to adjust to the cold water temperature, paddling the hands, so that the body did not sink.

The fat man was below, his eyes wide open, his mouth open, and the occasional bubble or two slipped from the corner of his mouth. His body sank motionlessly, and the flashlight had fallen into the abyss.

In the faint light, a ring-shaped creature hovered at the bottom of the water, its protruding eyes closed, its flattened upper lip with two one-meter-long tentacles, and an inverted fin extending from its back to its tail.

The moment the flashlight lands on the reef at the bottom of the water, it widens its eyes and opens its mouth more than a meter away, forming a vortex that sucks the flashlight into its stomach.

The light faded for two seconds, and it spat out the glowing flashlight. The fat man slowly sank to the bottom of the water, and the monster's mouth could definitely swallow a child, even though he was fat.

At this time, he was no longer afraid, his head rushed out of the water, he took a deep breath, and dived backwards.

Reaching a depth of three meters, the cold made the pores of the whole body shrink, only two meters from the bottom, and the scales on the monster's body could already be seen clearly, the scales were white under the light, overlapping from the lips to the back, covering the body more than ten meters long.

It stared at a circle of dark eyes, coiled its body, and seemed to prefer to wait motionlessly for its prey to come to the door.

Speed up the water with both feet, and before the fat man sinks to the bottom, take his hand and pull it up.

As they floated, those dark eyes kept watching, probably assessing whether it was worth the attack.

In order to avoid arousing its desire to attack, the paddling movement has been very gentle, and the moment the head is out of the water, I see it move its body, and a puff of mud and dust rolls up at the bottom of the water.

Can't wait any longer, drag the fat man to the shallow water on the opposite side and put him on a reef. His face was pale and his lips were purple. Pressing on his bulging belly, water came out of his mouth and nostrils.

"Ahem......" He opened his red eyes, unable to tell whether they were rivers or tears.

"Fatty, don't you know how to swim?"

He shook his head, shaking as he hugged his soaked body.

"We were almost eaten by it just now. ”

"What is it?"

"I don't know, it looks like a dragon. ”

The fat man followed what his classmates were counting on, and his leaning out body immediately shrank back.

The two of them are on the edge of the abyssal pool, and they have to swim over the way they have to return, the fat man can't swim, it's easy to do if he's unconscious, you can drag him to swim over, but the situation is different after waking up, no matter how good the water is, you can't drag a fat man who is struggling to swim, and the two will sink to the bottom.

When he saw the dragon underwater, he trembled with fear, and it was no longer feasible to go back the way he came, so he could only go deeper into the cave and find another exit.

The further down he went, the entrance to the cave became narrower, and the water became turbulent, and the fat man stepped on the stones at the bottom of the water, slipped under his feet, and rushed down the rapids, and the two collided together and went down with the water.

Turning five or six corners in the cave, he rushed out of a gap and fell from a five-meter-high waterfall into a deep pool.

The whole body is wrapped in a warm current, and when you open your eyes, there is a small hole at the bottom of the water with bubbles, which contain a white mineral, and a buoyant force pushes the body to the surface.

The waterfall and the pool meet hot and cold, and the surrounding area is shrouded in a thick fog, leaving the rapids area, I saw the fat man lying on the shore and vomiting water.

It is a rock cave, the space the size of a football field, surrounded by natural stone bushes, standing on the edge of the pool, the head is hundreds of meters away from the top of the cave.

"Look, there's light there. ”

As far as the fat man looked, there was a house made of black stone high up in the cave wall, and the light came out of the window, fluctuating, probably from candles or oil lamps.

"How could anyone live in a place like this?"

"Kaiming, are you sure that there are people living in it, not monsters or anything like that?"

This cave is fully enclosed, and it is indeed not suitable for ordinary people.

The two discussed whether to go up and have a look, and a man came out of the stone house and walked down the winding stone path.

"Hide. "Pull up the fat man in a daze, and hide in the rocks that are taller than a person.

Descending was a woman, in her twenties, with long black hair, wearing a fluorescent skirt, and her skin glowing white in the dull cave.

I can't help but glance at the fat man, I have never seen such a white person, and I won't suspect that she is a monster.

She crouched on the edge of the waterhole and reached for the two scales, the fluorescent skirt was made of these tiny scales, which were exactly the same as those on the dragon, and should have fallen off from it and flowed here with the water.

Her hands reached into the pool, and a school of small fish swam over and pecked at her skin, a small fish a little larger than a toothpick called a hot spring fish, which pecked at microorganisms for a living, and the dead skin on human skin was also their food.

The woman picked up a ball, leaked the pool, and put the small fish in the black bowl.

"Ahh......h

The woman turned around, swept her gaze over the rocks behind her, walked barefoot, and saw two soaking boys squatting behind the rocks.

Both sides looked at each other for a while, both guessing each other's intentions.

The woman didn't think they were any threat, and pointed to the stone house on the cave wall.

Anyway, there was nowhere to go, so the two friends followed her ass and climbed up the stone path.

As the stone house gets closer to sight, the granite texture becomes clear, it is made of pieces of stone, and the roof is a piece of rough stone embedded in the cave wall. There are stone pillars and porches at the doorway, and when you walk up two steps and enter a house of ten square meters, an oil lamp stands on a stone table, and the firelight illuminates the surrounding stone carvings, humanoids, insects, and reptiles.

The fat man was attracted by a fish with two legs, and the statue was indeed strange, with inverted teeth on its beak and no fins on its gills, but a pair of three-fingered claws.

Click, kicked a small stone knife under his feet, granite texture, single blade with a tip, next to a pile of lime and an unfinished saber-toothed tiger statue.

There was no one else in the house, and the statue was made by the woman alone.

The three of them sat around the table, and the smell of fish filled the room, and they sniffed it, it was not from the small fish in the bowl, the problem was from the burning lamp oil.

Where's the lamp oil? She can't be extracted from small fish.