Chapter 220: A flare rising from the lake

In the undulating mushroom forest, "Maruyu" suddenly shrank into a ball, and the fat man standing on the "Emperor Mushroom" also kept raising his arm, signaling an emergency retreat.

There was a sound of mushrooms shaking behind me, and there were a lot of sounds, at least surrounded on three sides, only in the direction of the lake, and I didn't care about looking back to see what it was, just ran all the way to where the fat man was, and the fat man never shot, which means that those things were still far away from me, or did not chase up, and when we climbed the trapezoidal mushroom mountain and returned to the "emperor mushroom", Uncle Ming immediately fell down, "Whoop Hoo" panted like a bellows.

I and the fat man took out the binoculars, looked back along the way we came, just now in the open space of the mushroom jungle, there appeared hundreds of shapes like little foxes or snow rats of the "Earth Guanyin", they are like silver foxes, sharp teeth and claws, good at making holes, and because of their cry like tigers, so the scientific name is called snow grass, but they can only survive in areas with hot springs or geothermal heat, they are cunning and cruel by nature, and some people in Karamir also commonly call them ground wolves, or "Earth Guanyin", many local people's homes, There are daily necessities made of this animal fur, which are of great value, and there are also in the Northeast, but the quantity is small, and the fur is not as good as that of Kunlun Mountain, more like a weasel.

A large group of "Earth Guanyin" is like a white wall, the "Pill Moment" tightly surrounded, they seem to be disciplined, no one acted rashly, just silently lying around, not long after, from the team crawled out of a silver-haired "Earth Goddess of Mercy", it seems to be the leader of these "Earth Goddess of Mercy", only to see it carry the front paw people to stand up, with the claws to push the motionless "Pill Moment", and then around it two circles, and then return to the team.

At this time, the rest of the "Earth Guanyin" stepped forward one after another, after approaching the "Pill Gap", opened their mouths at a very close distance, and blew along the crack of the hard shell tightly contracted by the "Pill Moment", and after a while, the "Pill Gap" seemed to be unable to bear the itch, stretching out the constricted carapace, without the slightest room for resistance, and was overturned by dozens of "Earth Goddess of Mercy", facing the sky on its back, and could only be slaughtered.

Due to the distance, although there is fluorescence everywhere in the cave, if there are too many dark areas in between, the light will be absorbed and weakened by the darkness of the underground space. The fat man and I couldn't see what evil tricks those "Earth Guanyin" were doing, and we saw that the poor "Marukumi" was like a prawn, and it was peeled off its shell in an instant, revealing the translucent flesh inside. The group of "Earth Guanyin" stripped the flesh of "Pill Shine", carried it on their bodies, and carried it to a corner in the distance.

The fat man and I looked at each other, lying on the "emperor mushroom", and couldn't speak for a long time. We don't care about the hundreds of "Earth Guanyin", it's just that scene just now, but it is definitely not a behavior that a beast like "Earth Guanyin" can do, their habits are all in groups of three or five, and it is rare for so many to gather together, and they are orderly. The most incredible thing is that after they peel the meat of the "pills", they do not compete for food, as if they are performing some kind of ceremony, and transport the food to other places, but these guys do not have the habit of storing food like termites, this behavior is too abnormal.

The fat man thought for a long time and said: "Maybe they know that prices have risen relatively much recently, and they want to stock up on some scarce materials, which is a group of people who engage in speculation." ”

I shook my head, and suddenly had a not very good premonition, in those human skin murals that record ancient rituals and legends, as well as the deeds of the world's enemy Orb King, it is mentioned more than once that the shaman of the "Demon Kingdom" can drive the beasts, collectively referred to as "demon slaves", this kind of thing is not impossible, some herbs and formulas that have been lost in ancient times can indeed control the simple behavior of beasts.

I feel that those "Earth Guanyin" are very unusual, they must be controlled by some kind of force, and the food is not for them to eat, maybe near the underground altar, there is some kind of thing that guards the altar, and these minions may be carrying food for it, if Shirley Yang and Ah Xiang strayed into the altar, they are alone, then it will be troublesome.

Seeing that the large group of "Earth Guanyin" was far away, they probably went to catch other food, and Uncle Ming finally took that breath, I asked him if he could move around by himself? If you can't go, just stay here and wait for us, we will get the second underground lake to find the two people who were separated, maybe there is a special smell on this emperor mushroom, and ordinary things dare not approach, it should be relatively safe to stay here.

Uncle Ming immediately expressed his attitude, when he was washed down from the temple by the water, he didn't see the rest of the people, relying on his water skills, and the rivers and oceans had also swam, so he didn't drink a few sips of water to save this life, and now of course they want to find it together, if Ah Xiang has three long and two short, he will not be blind. So we descended from the Emperor Mushroom and headed back to the underground lake, where there were more large mayflies, not only in the air, but also on the ground with them and the corpses of the larvae that had not yet shed their shells, and the whole area was shrouded in a dead fluorescence.

There are also several huge natural tunnels around the lake, and the water of the underground lake flows in, forming a huge dark river, which is only exposed, plus the water system hidden in the deeper underground, creating an intricate giant water network here, one thing needless to say, everyone is also clear, we are basically lost now, we dare not leave the double-layer underground lake too far, surrounded by unknown areas, completely unfamiliar geological landforms, including those strange insects that have never been seen, and the sieve-like arc top, easy to come down, difficult to go upThere was no possibility of going back from there, and I felt a little worried at the thought of this, Shirley Young had flares and flare guns on him, and it was supposed to be through this tool to get in touch with us, but there was no movement...... I really don't dare to think about the worst.

This underground lake is very large, we walked along the lake for a long time, only to walk less than half a circle, there is always no trace of Shirley Yang and Ah Xiang, I think the fat man is okay, when is that a virtue, is hungry, see everything is going to catch and roast and eat, and Uncle Ming is tired and hungry, like a deflated ball, so they cheered up, there must be good things in this underground lake, I have long heard that the "Dragon Top" has the "Dragon Pill" refined by the Queen Mother of the West, maybe we can pick up a pot while walking. Eat one grain as light as a swallow, eat two grains to be reborn, and eat a handful to live with heaven and earth.

The fat man said: "Commander Hu, your second political commissar is here to bluff us again, how can I listen to this set of words a bit like the fortune teller Chen Blind when he sells strong pills?" What kind of Longdan Immortal Pill do you mention now, if you can give me fried soybeans, I will be content. ”

I said to the fat man: "You are a small peasant ideology, a little rich is safe, what is the head of fried soybeans?" I'm really not blinding you, this underground lake is not ordinary water, what is this place? In feng shui, this is the top of the dragon, these waters are the brains of the ancestral dragon, don't believe you go down and drink two sips to try, the nutritional value is higher than that of soybean juice, and you can also relieve your satiety after a few sips. ”

When Uncle Ming heard what we were talking about, he swallowed his saliva and said disapprerovingly: "Bean juice is very difficult to drink, I think I was in Nanyang, what haven't I drunk?" Of course, everything has been drunk, and we also pay attention to feng shui there. But is it true that where feng shui is good, water is nutritious? There's no reason for this, Brother Hu, you're a bit of a mess. ”

I thought to myself that this Hong Kong farmer was not scared like the third grandson just now, so I said to Uncle Ming: "Feng Shui is not true, and it is a pseudo-study after all." How much do you know about the doorway here? Let me tell you the truth, the water of this underground lake is not only delicious, but also worth a lot of money, how much is the dragon vein worth in China, how much is this lake worth, it is not that there is a dragon vein in Kunlun, without this lake, the Kunlun ancestral dragon is nothing. The ancients had a very appropriate analogy, no Xiangyang Jingzhou is not enough to use force, no Hanzhong Bashu is not enough to be in danger, nothing to do with Henan can not live in Yu, the situation is also, because the wind and water itself is objective, the same, without these groundwater, Kunlun Mountain is not worthy of the head of the dragon, although in addition to the believers of the ancient demon country, outsiders may not have seen this underground water system, but in almost all feng shui theories, its existence has been demonstrated, which is called the creation of heaven and earth, the same as yin and yang. ”

After a wide discussion, Uncle Ming was speechless, but this distraction, he didn't feel too tired, and he could only endure the hunger, and when he found Shirley Yang and Ah Xiang, whose whereabouts were unknown, he could find a way to sacrifice to the Five Organs Temple. We looked at the black lake in the heavy lake, I was afraid that they had already fed the big fish, or they had been washed into a deeper place, where could we find this black rumbling?

Just when we were anxious and about to look for those dark rivers, suddenly from the center of the underground lake below, a flare was raised, and the flare hung in the air, illuminating the surface of the lake clearly, and the frightened mayflies around them dragged the light tail to scatter everywhere, and the light danced wildly, and the scene at this time was as brilliant as fireworks bursting in the dark sky.

I and Uncle Ming, the fat man three of them were pleasantly surprised, surprised that we searched around the underground lake unsuccessfully, it turned out that there was a small island in the middle of the dark lake, it was really unexpected, the joy is that since there was a flare, it means that Shirley Yang is at least alive, maybe Ah Xiang is by her side, but by the miserable white light, there is only a raised cone-shaped mountain on the island in the lake, but there is no half a figure, the light gradually weakens, and without waiting to look closely, it disappeared into the darkness of the lake.

Uncle Ming was taken aback, since there is no one? Who hit the flare? And why did it take so long to send a signal? This series of questions is nothing more than to say that maybe there are traps on the small island in the lake, which is to lure everyone to take the bait and go rashly, it is inevitable that people will be made dumplings, or should we think about it in the long run.

I ignored Uncle Ming's speculation, while the flare was still hanging in the air and not extinguished, I raised my binoculars and took a closer look at the terrain in the lake, there was indeed no one on the island, but I noticed that the angle of the flare just now was vertical, not the arc firing method we usually use, and the angle was wrong, which means that the flare was hit from below the horizontal plane, and there must be a hole on the island in the lake, and they could be trapped in it.

The three of them sorted out the equipment on their bodies a little, took out the only remaining searchlight, and did not dare to delay for a moment, they swam into the underground lake, and desperately swam to the island in the middle of the lake, but found that this lonely island in the lake, not only was there no trace of anyone nearby, even the ground did not have any traces of caves, only behind a rock, dropped a shot MI911, the bullet casings were scattered around, it seemed that there had been a fierce battle, and the owner of the pistol was of course Shirley Yang.

This island is the size of half a football field, the middle is bulging, like a horn upside down, the terrain is very peculiar, I looked at the rocks under my feet, and said to the fat man and Uncle Ming: "This is an extinct volcano in the underground mountain, and there is a crater above, if they are still alive, they may have fallen into the crater." After speaking, he ran up first, and the fat man dragged Uncle Ming to follow behind.

After running a few steps, I found that there were a lot of rotten hard cypresses scattered among the volcanic rocks, and the nearby stone piles could also be seen to be artificially piled up. As he was walking, he suddenly saw a severed human hand on the ground, the blood had not yet dried, it was a woman's hand, and she was wearing an auspicious ring on her fingers, which was given to Ah Xiang by the iron rod lama.