Chapter 13: The Hunt
"Godfather, are you alright?" I asked with concern as I looked around to check his body.
The godfather waved his hand casually and said, "When I fell down just now, I was rubbed on my leg, and I scraped a small hole, so it's not in the way." ”
I hurried over to check, and there was really a hole more than ten centimeters on his calf, and I don't know if it was scraped by gravel or branches, and he was still bleeding. So he took out a first-aid kit from his bag, tore open the package, and bandaged him.
After resting for a while, the godfather stood up and looked around with his headlamp, and after observing it, he analyzed to me: "Our current position is estimated to be in the belly of the mountain, and we have to think of ways to get out as soon as possible." The air flow in this cave is smooth, and in my previous experience, there should be an exit if you go all the way down the underground river. Let's go, let's go downstream. ”
I nodded, approving with him.
Since my hiking bag had been thrown on the mountain, we cleaned up the equipment again, but fortunately, the Soul Fixing Flag was in the godfather's bag, and some other important things were packed in the waterproof bag and didn't get wet, and he cared about me and didn't let me carry too many things, so most of the food and less important equipment in my bag were included, and it didn't hurt much.
Packing up our backpacks, we continued on our way.
Maybe there is an undercurrent underground, the water on the road ahead is gradually decreasing, a large area of limestone mixed with silt is revealed, the cave is damp and wet, surrounded by stalactites, under the illumination of the headlamp, the milky white stone shows a staggered layer, the water droplets slide down along some stones, if it were not for the footsteps of two people in the cave, I think the rhythm of the water droplets falling will be the sound of heaven.
Turning a large bay, the limestone on the ground gradually decreased, the soil beneath my feet became softer, and there was a foul smell in the air.
After walking for a while, the godfather stopped, bent down and grabbed a handful of fine soil mixed with mud and sand, sniffed it and frowned: "It's strange, how can there be animal feces here, and there are so many." ”
As I was thinking, I suddenly felt something rushing under my feet, and when my headlamp shone down, it turned out to be a mountain mouse. The godfather also saw it, and suddenly the headlamp slammed to the left and said, "There are also here." Another mountain rat scurried over.
In a short time, more than a dozen rats ran behind us. The rats were running down as fast as they could, as if something was chasing after them.
In a short time, the rats were so dense that it was difficult to get down, and they ran forward in dense form, ignoring the illumination of our lights.
"Don't stop, keep an eye on the rear at all times, I'm afraid it's a little weird." "As the rats moved, my godfather whispered to me.
I staggered and shifted my steps, turned around and shot my headlamp into the distance, only to see that the ground in the distance was undulating. When I looked closely, I immediately got goosebumps. I just felt a heartbeat.
In the distance, there are countless snakes, large and small, writhing their bodies and rushing towards us like a sea of mountains, no wonder the rats will run for their lives.
"Run." The godfather also found out about this scene, no longer cared about the rats under his feet, pulled me up and rushed forward.
We ran as hard as we could, blood splashed under our feet, and we didn't know how many rats we had trampled to death, when we suddenly found that the rats in front of us were in a commotion again, and some of the mountain rats actually turned around and ran back. I had a bad feeling in my mind, could it be that something was going on ahead?
Sure enough, there were also overwhelming snakes on the river in front of them, and the snakes were spitting letters, and some slow-running rats were directly devoured alive by them.
This is over, and the way out on both sides is blocked. I stopped and nervously asked my godfather, "What now?" ”。 My godfather couldn't think of anything for a while, just held my hand tightly.
The group of snakes was hunting in an orderly manner, startling the mountain rats to jump up and down for a while, and the encirclement was slowly shrinking, and a few panicked rats even jumped on us.
"Smack" The godfather knocked out a mountain mouse that had climbed onto his backpack and yelled at me, "Look around, don't stand stupidly and wait for death." ”
At this time, I found that some rats ran to a rock wall and disappeared, and then ran over to take a look, it turned out that there was a small angle behind the cave wall, and inside was a fork hole two or three meters wide, and the protruding part of the angle blocked the outside view, and countless rats were drilling inside, if it weren't for them to lead the way, I really couldn't see it if I didn't look carefully.
"Godfather, come here, there is a way here." I waved to my godfather and shouted. My godfather ran over to my call, looked at the fork in the hole, pulled me and ran in.
The inside of the cave was relatively wider than the entrance, but we were desperate when we went further in, because it was a dead end, and the whole cave was only thirty or forty meters to the end, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of rats that had escaped.
I sighed, it seemed that we would not be able to escape the snake's mouth after the rats outside were exhausted, and I shuddered at the thought of being crawling with poisonous snakes all over my body.
"Phew, fight with them." The godfather took a sip, put the hiking bag on the ground, took out the shovel in the bag and handed it to me. Holding the iron chisel in his hand, he found a first-aid kit, sprinkled all the alcohol on the gauze, and finally wrapped the gauze on the iron chisel and picked up the lighter.
"Bang. With the lighting of the torches, the rats were in a commotion, and they fled to a distance of a meter from us, not daring to come over again.
The moment the rats jumped and fled, I vaguely noticed something white on the ground, and when I approached and blasted the rats away, it was actually a skeleton. hurriedly shouted: "Godfather, there are dead people here." ”
The godfather came over when he heard the sound, took a torch and took a photo, it was really a skeleton, and there was more than one, drive away the mouse and look for it carefully, good guy, there are at least more than ten skeletons.
The godfather checked it, his face became solemn, and he turned back to me and said, "Check the surroundings separately, and don't let go of any corner." ”
I struggled to chase away the rats under my feet, looking at them one by one, but found nothing but a few more skeletons. At this time, I suddenly heard my godfather shouting happily in front of a rock wall: "Qingwa, come and see." ”
I hurried to my godfather's side, and followed my godfather's hand as I caressed the rock wall, which was indeed a little different from other places. The rock walls are generally natural and smooth, but here there are some subtle unevenness, and some places are covered with thick soil, as if someone deliberately piled it up.
My godfather stuck the torch on the ground, took the shovel in my hand, and scraped the dirt off the surface, and after a few clicks, the masonry inside was revealed.