Chapter 12: The Snake Cave

"It's not in Kunlun? Where is that? Zhang Xuan asked. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"According to Miss Susan, this city must be the so-called 'City of Quicksand'. But this place has nothing to do with Kunlun at all. In other words, quicksand means a mobile city, and the location of this city will move around with the sandstorm, so it is not impossible to move from Qinghai to the border of Inner Mongolia. ā€

"But if you talk about science, how can there be a city that moves with quicksand?"

"Speaking scientifically, how could such a species as the Baba exist? How could Mr. Sun not change his appearance for 20 years? There are too many mysteries in this world that cannot be explained by human science today, and we cannot use common sense to speculate. ā€

"That makes sense," Mr. Zhao agreed, "Originally, I participated in this expedition to experience something interesting, and if everything was not in line with rational speculation, it would not be too boring." ā€

"Here we are." Susan interrupted the discussion, and stopped.

The dimly lit space was filled with the stench of rotting corpses. Su Lan covered her mouth and nose with one hand, turned on the flashlight with the other hand and scattered with the others to look around. There were corpse residues and bones everywhere, and Zhang Xuan, along with him, his face was getting worse and worse, and he looked like he could vomit out at any moment.

"This place is really not suitable for girls," Su Lan also felt her stomach churning, "Zhang Xuan, or you go up and stay first." ā€

"And say that I, you yourself don't look like you're dying. There are so many bones here...... How many people has this femme fatale eaten......"

"These bones are the residue that people who eat in the pot can't digest and spit out." Old Joe was the most calm of all, he picked up a calf bone and weighed it in his hand, "Sensei said, some human bones are still quite sharp, suitable for weapons." For example, this treatment handles the head of the gun, which can be fought with the devil's bayonet. ā€

"Old Joe, you're enough, and you're not afraid of ghosts pestering you."

"There's a new corpse here." Mr. Zhao, who was checking on the other side, suddenly said that the wattage of turning on the flashlight made others visible, "The clothes are quite similar to those on Susan's body, and there are traces of fangs on his throat, which are obviously poisonous; There is also Susan's broken arm five meters away, and this ......"

He broke open the corpse's right hand to reveal a communicator, and Su Lan recognized at a glance that it was the one that Xiao Ji had contacted Mr. Zhao.

Zhang Xuan quickly walked to the corpse and squatted down to search his body, Mr. Zhao looked directly into Susan's eyes, and his voice was a little scary for some reason: "Where is the person you are chasing now?" ā€

Susan looked away: "Lost in the chase." ā€

"Lost?"

"At this point, I don't have any need to lie. After a few of you fled in a car, we couldn't catch Mr. Ji, so we changed our minds and followed his movements. He was not lightly injured, and he did not walk very fast. "It started off quite smoothly and we followed him to the end of the road. Not long after, this Mr. Su also came, and Mr. Ji asked Mr. Su to stay at the altar and wait for you, and enter the snake cave through a secret passage. When we came here, he suddenly noticed that we were fighting us, and when we had the upper hand in two against one, Yuba suddenly rushed out, but he suddenly disappeared. The two of us were no match for Baba in this place, one was bitten by the throat and died, and I was bitten until my right hand was cut off and my arm was cut off to survive. When you were about to die, you opened the door above, and I rushed out, and you all know what happened after that. ā€

After listening to the explanation, several people looked at each other. Lao Qiao asked Mr. Zhao: "Do you think this girl is telling the truth this time?" ā€

"She didn't tell the whole truth." Mr. Zhao replied, "Miss Zhang, did you find anything?" ā€

"This person's name is James Qin," Zhang Xuan stood up as he flipped through his identity book, "and the things on him are similar to Susan Lee's, but this notebook may be of great help." ā€

Mr. Zhao took the notebook she handed over: "Notepad? Good luck...... The first few pages are full of symbols, and this seems to be similar to the words I just saw on the stone wall? ā€

"It's a kind of writing." Su Lan leaned over and looked at it, and the experience he had accumulated when he helped his father sort out the rubbings in the past made him immediately give an affirmative answer, "And you look at the last two lines, which are exactly the same as the order of the words on the mural just now." ā€

"That old guy Sun Yue is really right to go out of his way to let you join," Mr. Zhao said happily, "You are half an expert in the whole team, Xiao Su." Xiao Su, take it, take a closer look, can you figure out what these words roughly say? ā€

"You can guess what it means in a few lines, Mr. Zhao, you are too exalted to me." Su Lan said, "Miss Susan, you should know the meaning of these words written in your companion's notebook, right?" ā€

"It's James' workbook, but I haven't seen anything written in it, and I don't know what the words mean."

"This woman's words are three points true and seven points false, go out and settle accounts with her. I'll see if there's anything else. Old Joe continued to check, "This place is so fucking big, there are so many forks in the road, I can't think of such a large space from above, it's like a fucking labyrinth." ā€

"Do you understand the three holes of the cunning rabbit, let alone such a big snake. Old Joe, don't mess around, be careful of getting lost. Zhang Xuan said.

"Hey, don't underestimate Old Joe and me. Lao Tzu was able to ambush and annihilate the enemy in the rainforest of the Vietnam War, and a snake cave can have a complex forest? ā€

"Be quiet, all of you." Su Lan said, "The last page of this book draws a map, which looks like this snake cave. According to the picture above, there are three exits to this snake cave. The first one is the secret door we came down to, and the second one is behind the altar, which is probably the route that Xiao Ji chose from the altar to here. The third exit, marked with a red pen, is about half a kilometre to our left-hand side, and there is a blank space framed in a rectangle. At the bottom is written the words 'Cave Fantasy World'. ā€

Zhang Xuan objected: "Isn't the Cave Phantom World a stone tablet at the entrance of the city?" ā€

"The direction is not right," Su Lan replied, "the direction of the stone tablet and the altar is on the southeast side of this temple, that is, in the lower right corner of this map, and this rectangular framed 'Cave Fantasy World' is in the upper left corner of the map. And it occupies a quarter of the paper, which is larger than the entire snake cave. ā€

What kind of place is this......

Is this the place where my father went back then?

"Look at the lower left corner of the title page of this notebook, whether there is an English letter 'S' written in the same red pen." Mr. Zhao, who had been quiet until now, suddenly spoke.

Su Lan flipped the notepad back: "It's indeed as you said." So what do you mean...... This book was deliberately left to us by Xiao Ji? ā€

"That's the code I agreed with him. Xiao Ji walked in the direction marked by the red pen. Mr. Zhao took Xiao Ji's communicator and pressed it a few times, confirmed that it was broken, and threw it aside, "James, take the useful things on him, let's go." This snake cave is as big as the city on the ground, who knows if there will be anything else, let's not walk around, follow the signs and hurry out. ā€

"Judging by the handwriting, James' signature and the symbols written on the front of the cover were written in a leaky black pen, which appeared to have been written before. The map on the last page and the logo of S are all written with a ballpoint pen.,It should be written by Xiao Jixin.怂 ā€

"This kid surnamed Ji left first because he knew that he was being targeted." Old Joe let out a long breath, with a rare look of admiration on his face, "Use the pot to kill the tracker, the communicator is broken and we can't contact us, so I use this person's notepad to leave a message." Mr. Zhao, you guy is really unusual. I misunderstood, thinking that he had other intentions to go it alone, and I had to apologize to you. ā€

"On the contrary," Susan, who had been listening to everyone's conversation in silence, suddenly sneered, "Mr. Qiao, haven't you wondered why that person knows so well about this area that he can casually draw a map of the snake cave?" ā€