The large swarm of saber-toothed vipers came quickly, and the grinding sound of iron leaves continued to come from a distance like waves of tide, and the first few had already reached the bamboo raft at our feet. Although the bamboo raft was sturdy, it could not withstand the saber-toothed vipers that these hungry ghosts had to live to gnaw.

In desperation, we had to pick up the sapper shovels and chop up the fish that swam nearby. As soon as I swung the shovel into the water, the sapper shovel was bitten by a rabid dog-like saber-toothed viper, and I hurriedly raised my hand to shake off the two, and when I looked down, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat - under the spotlight of the mountaineering helmet, several rows of staggered tooth marks were bitten out on the blade of the steel shovel of the sapper shovel.

However, this is only a few saber-toothed vipers swimming in first, and more schools are surging from behind, and if no effective measures are taken, our bamboo rafts will be bitten to pieces by a large number of saber-toothed vipers in a few tens of seconds. However, the location of the bamboo raft is still more than ten meters away from the exit of the Mushroom Rock Cave, and now it is completely surrounded by saber-toothed vipers, and it is impossible to paddle with instruments, and this last ten meters is really as long and distant as hell, and I am afraid that we will never be able to reach it.

The fat man shouted anxiously: "This time we're really going to finish playing, I don't want to be fish food." Lao Hu, do you still have bullets in your pistol, give me a shot in the heart, I would rather be shot to death than gnawed alive by this piranha. ”

I was also a little numb at this time, and gritted my teeth and said to the fat man, "Okay, that's it." I'll shoot you first, and then I'll shoot myself, and we must not fall into the hands of the enemy alive. ”

At this juncture when life and death were on the line, Shirley Yang suddenly said to us calmly: "Look at the way you two guys are not productive!" On weekdays, there are thousands of viciousness, thousands of tyranny, and there is nothing in the world that can be put in your eyes. Now that you haven't passed Shalong Mountain, you want to commit suicide when you encounter such a predicament, and look at what kind of face you will have after you go back. Now you are all at my command. ”

With that, she raised her pistol and fired several shots at the dense area of the saber-toothed viper in the water, and the river was instantly stained red with fish blood. Seeing that the blood was not the same kind or something, the saber-toothed vipers around them pounced and bit the injured saber-toothed vipers, and the danger that the bamboo raft was about to be bitten was slightly alleviated.

Shirley Yang couldn't put the pistol back down, let go directly, and let the 64 type fall into the water; At this time, he had already thrown the flying tiger claw far away at the white cloud mushroom rock at the exit of the cave, and the steel cable of the flying tiger claw was wrapped three times around the rock pillar of the mushroom rock, and the claw head was tightly clasped to the rock.

She asked me and the fat man to pull the bamboo raft quickly to the shore at the entrance of the cave by dragging the steel cable of the flying tiger's claws, and under the pull of the three of them, the speed of the bamboo raft was several times faster than that of the sapper shovel just now. At a distance of five or six meters, the fat man began to throw the geological mountaineering bags full of equipment, and even the two insect nets one after another to the shore - each bag weighed forty or fifty catties, and if one was reduced, the bamboo raft would be lighter and faster.

At this time, the grinding of the iron leaves was loud, and the large swarms of saber-toothed vipers had already swarmed like maggots attached to the bones, and we no longer dared to stay on the raft, and immediately jumped onto the shore of the Archean Dolomite. As soon as he landed, the rope that bound the bamboo raft behind him broke, and the whole bamboo raft fell apart, floating in the water one by one, and the damaged strong searchlight sank with it.

The school of saber-toothed vipers has nibbled away from the water bees attached to the bamboo, and still wanders around and refuses to leave. I looked at the school of fish tumbling in the water, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, after all, it didn't turn into fish food, otherwise I would have died in this cave full of water before I saw the tomb of King Xian.

The fat man next to him suddenly shouted: "Ouch, no, the backpack fell into the river." ”

I took a look at the situation, and I was also shocked - I had just thrown three large backpacks on the shore, and before I could pick them up, the first backpack I threw over fell on the water's edge due to the distance, and the contents of the backpack were heavy, and the gravel on the bank could not support it, and it fell into the river. There was nowhere to stand, and if you wanted to get the backpack back, you had to go into the water. The large backpack was about to be swept away by the current, and a large school of saber-toothed vipers in the river was waiting for them.

We had all our equipment grouped together when we set off, and this backpack contained a propane jet bottle that could shoot flames three or two times with a lighter; Since it is not easy to buy, I only got this bottle, and I originally equipped it when I was ready to pour the bucket, just in case. In addition, there are six refillable oxygen cylinders the size of a water bottle, as well as rulers, diving goggles, and breathing apparatus, which are all indispensable underwater equipment for the robbery of the tomb of the king built in the lake, in addition to many other important items - because the backpack is full of various gases, it has not sunk to the bottom for a while.

If this backpack is lost, we can take the tail and Mingjin to collect the troops as soon as possible, Y Yang is also anxious when he sees this scene, and wants to hook the backpack back with the flying tiger claw, and the flying tiger claw is still wrapped around the mushroom rock, and he can't get rid of it in a hurry.

I knew that if I delayed any longer, the equipment would be washed away by the water. There is only a sapper shovel in his hand, and when he sees a crack on the anticline of the rock on the shore, he doesn't think much about it, so he treats the sapper shovel as a rock (wooden deed), puts the entire shovel blade up and inserts it into the rock crevice, and then uses force horizontally, and the sapper shovel is stuck in the crack of the rock. Reaching out and feeling that it was very secure, he hung his whole body on the surface of the river, grabbed the triangular handle of the sapper's shovel with one hand, and reached into the water with the other hand to grab the backpack that had just floated from below.

The backpack was actually grabbed in my hand, and the heart was put down, but suddenly a knife-toothed viper burst out of the water, opened its jagged sharp mouth, and gave me a hard bite on the back of my hand in mid-air.

A piece of flesh was immediately torn off the back of my hand, and I shook in pain, and I almost fell into the river. I struggled to eat and didn't let go of the backpack. Several more saber-toothed vipers jumped out of the water and tried to bite me, and my body was hanging in the air, and the backpack was too heavy to dodge.

Thanks to the fat man and Shirley Yang pulling me back from behind, I was lucky enough not to be torn apart by the fish. I wiped the cold sweat on my forehead, and looked at the injury on my left hand, fortunately it was not serious, only a piece of flesh was bitten off, although the blood did not stop, after all, it did not hurt the muscles and bones.

Shirley Yang hurriedly took out the medicine and bandaged me: "You are too reckless. Is life or equipment at stake? If the equipment is gone, it's a big deal to let the dust beads be stored in the tomb of the king for a few more days, and it is not child's play to lose his life. ”

I said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: "What is this little injury, if I don't show the means of showing someone Hu today, then the American advisory group will say that we are incompetent again." Isn't that right, Chubby? ”

The fat man said with a smile: "Lao Hu, what kind of skills are you doing these two times, if you don't steal chickens, you will lose a handful of rice, and let the fish bite by yourself." Our general will press the back, and when we arrive at the tomb of the king, you will all depend on the fat master's skills; Let you open your eyes and know what is beyond the mountains. ”

Shirley Yang first used Yunnan Baiyao to stop the bleeding on the back of my hand, then pasted a layer on the outside with hemostatic glue, then wrapped the wound with waterproof tape to prevent water infection and inflammation, and finally gave me a shot of penicillin.

I hurriedly waved my hand: "No, no, I can't get out of the line of fire with minor injuries, and I'm a little faint, we didn't have much of this antibiotic, let's keep it first." ”

Shirley Yang couldn't help but say, let the fat man press me to the ground, and forcibly injected me before I stopped. Due to the complex environment in this cave, I don't know what dangers there are, so I didn't take a break. After measuring the direction and seeing that the side of the river was barely passable, he put on his equipment and prepared to drive No. 11 and walked out of the river along this underground canal.

As we walked along the edge of the river, we saw the scale of the waterway that had been dug for the king's tomb. originally thought that King Xian was a generation of grass-headed emperors separated from the ancient Dian Kingdom, and the scale of his mausoleum would not be too large. But judging from the canal that runs through the mountains, the king who is good at voodoo is really powerful, and his power is definitely small; The scale of the king's tomb built in the water dragon halo should also be far beyond our imagination.

After walking deeper and deeper in the dark cave, and walking for nearly an hour, there was a sudden collapse on the side of the river, and the gravel slid into the water as soon as it was stepped on, and it seemed that the road could not go any further, so we had to find another natural cave to pass through. After walking for a short time, I heard the rumbling of water on the other side of the mountain wall, but I heard the sound of the water, but there was no way around. We raised the wolf's eye to look around, this place is a natural dissolved rock group landform in the mountain, and there are many large and small holes in the large mountain rocks.

I finally found a stone hole that could be drilled through by one person, so I dragged my backpack behind me with a climbing rope and drilled through it in order. Finally, we saw a huge waterfall in the middle of the mountain, and we got out of the grotto right below it. There is another stream of water that joins the river under the waterfall from the opposite side, and when you look in the direction of the current, there is some light in the distance, as if the exit is there.

Shirley Young told me, "This system of water that flows into the waterfall is probably the waterway that the locals discovered during quarrying. Looking at the landform of the riverbed near here will not exceed a few decades, it should have been formed recently, otherwise there is this waterway, and there is no need to process the canal in the Shalong Mountain when building the tomb of the king. ”

I said to her: "This kind of lime-dissolved rock landform has been washed away by water for many years, and I knew a little bit about it when I was an engineer in the past, and in places like this, the entire bottom of the mountain has long been washed into a sieve by countless tributaries of the Lancang River." In some places, the depth of the water is even more than hundreds of meters, and it is not uncommon for the river to be diverted in the cave; Anyway, the flow is getting lower and lower, and if you knock down a piece of rock, there will be an extra tributary, and if it goes on like this, this mountain will collapse sooner or later. ”

The three of them walked as they spoke, looking for the place where there was light. Halfway through, I saw that some caves on the high mountain wall were arranged in an orderly manner, which seemed to be dug by hand. There are obvious stone steps below the mountain wall, and from time to time you can see rotten human bones on the ground, as well as some weapons and armor, all of which are rotten to the point of decay.

The scene here is very much in line with the description of the proprietress in the Caiyun Inn before, it should be that some rebels used this as a base to fight against the official army. This kind of thing has often happened in Dali, Yunnan and even the Lancang River since the Yuan Dynasty. Because the objects are difficult to preserve in a humid environment, almost all of them have decayed, and it is not easy to identify which dynasty or generation they belong to. Looking at the degree of decay of those bones, as well as the shape of weapons and armor, we can only judge that it may be in the early Qing Dynasty.

We have always walked into the mountains, not too trekking, but also able to walk freely. Although they abandoned the boat and walked at the foot of Shalong Mountain, each carrying a lot of heavy equipment, they did not find it difficult. But the journey was so dangerous that they wanted to get out of the cave as soon as possible, so they ignored the ruins and hurried away.

At the end of the stream, the river was still flowing forward, but it was flowing underground. The cave is a little lower than the ground outside the mountain, so you can't see the big river in the mountain outside. We climbed up a rocky slope, where there were traces of being soaked in water, and it seems that the large-scale precipitation across the country some time ago had a great impact on the large and small caves in the mountain. In the middle of the gravel slope, a hole that had apparently been washed away by the water was revealed. Now that the water has receded, it is easy to find this outlet during the day with the sunlight outside. The stones here are obviously artificially blocked, and if it were not for the flood in the mountains, it would be difficult to open them by manpower.

We put on our sunglasses, got out of the cave, and finally managed to cross the mountain. When I came to the outside and looked back, I was under the dangerous peaks of the cliff of Shalong Mountain; At the top of the head, the clouds are thick, the shell of Shalong Mountain is full of dark green granite, and countless vines and broad-leaved plants grow on the cliff, all of which are green as far as the eye can see, and it is very difficult to find this small gap from the outside.

Looking ahead, it is surrounded by mountains, and the terrain in the middle is getting lower and lower, and it is full of large primeval forests. The forest is reckless and green, all kinds of plants are dense and abnormal, the canopy of the old trees shades the sky and the sun, there are many strange flowers and trees that cannot be called at all, and there are countless ravines and deep valleys, streams and rapids. Some deep valleys can clearly see the grass and flowers in the sun, but the more you look at it, the more unfathomable it feels, and the depth makes people dizzy; In other places, the clouds are foggy, and the scenery is hazy and mysterious.

This is a pristine place between the Nu River and the Lancang River, blocked by snow-capped mountains and rivers, completely isolated from the world, and I took out the human skin map to confirm the path into the Worm Valley.

The fat man raised the binoculars to look at the jungle below, and suddenly grabbed my arm and stuffed the telescope into my hand: "Sensei flipped through the map, you see there are many big golden butterflies over there, and that valley must be there." ”