Chapter 12: The Bells
The sound could be described as deafening.
I shuddered. The stiff head turned stiffly around his neck, looking back at the deep hole. But there was nothing in the cave.
I noticed that the voice sounded rhythmic, one after the other, high and low.
It feels a bit like a baby's snoring while sleeping, but it's obviously much louder and scary than that.
I couldn't tell what it was, and I couldn't tell the answer from the expressions on the faces of the people around me. It seemed to me that it was simply a burst of thunder in a cavern.
"Why don't you leave?" The girl poked me with her finger behind her.
"What's that? Did you hear that? I nervously turned back to her and asked, "You say you've heard 'horrible voices,' is that what you mean?" ”
I saw the girl frown, and after a moment she nodded at me, "Yes." But don't ask me what it is, because I don't know either, it's definitely not a good thing anyway. Xiaoyangzi, since you have come down, you will touch the ground with your feet later, and you won't make a fuss about whatever you encounter. As she spoke, she looked around, "Dadong said that something was 'sleeping'......"
Go to bed?
It must be a living thing, right?
I grass! Hearing her say that, my back was cold like ice.
"Let's go, look at you slowly, the old turtle climbs faster than you!" As she spoke, the girl slapped me the back.
I looked down and said I understood, then with a dark face, I looked at the fracture and gestured a few times in place. Lifting my foot, I was about to jump out. At that moment, a hand grabbed me by the shoulder. I let out a "wow" and stumbled, almost falling off the gap.
The footsteps were easy to stabilize, and when I looked back, it was Xiao Rong.
"Brother Yang, don't jump." Xiao Rong looked serious, "Throw the rope and go straight down." ”
"Go down?"
Hearing him say this, I looked down and saw that there was a staircase one level lower below the fracture. It's a good idea to grab the rope and slide straight down, which really saves a lot of effort and time.
Dadong and they have already gone far away, and I know that I can't hesitate any longer, so I immediately let Xiaorong act.
I saw Xiao Rong take out a bundle of climbing rope from his bag, tie one end to the railing of the spiral ladder, and pull it hard, seeing that it was quite reliable, he threw the rope and hung down from the broken place.
At this moment, the earth-shattering "grunt" sound finally became smaller. I took the lead, grabbed the rope with both hands, circled around my calves, then took a deep breath and jumped—in the blink of an eye, my body slid downstairs.
In this way, it is much faster than Dadong's speed.
Then there is the girl and glasses, Xiao Rong is behind the palace.
After the group slid down smoothly, Xiao Rong made a clever effort on the rope, and with a slight shake, the rope was retracted.
I looked back, and they were coming soon. I threw away my discarded glow sticks, and the girl gave me a new flashlight. Looking around, I saw that the floor we were on, and there were many slender cracks in the walls below.
The cracks look unusual, very thin, some are only a book thick, and I don't know what they're used for, but they don't seem to be natural at a glance.
I can't help but think of those immortals in the movie, holding swords in their hands and slashing on the wall. In some places, large pieces of gravel have fallen off, and milky white veins can be seen under the gray-green rock surface.
There was something wrapped in the texture, like a crystallization of some dark color.
As soon as Dadong looked up and saw a few of us standing in front of him, he immediately felt like he had eaten pork liver, and his face was red and black.
I looked at him and laughed wildly, wanting to hurt him a few words, but I was afraid that he would hit me, so I covered my mouth and coughed twice, suppressing the smile back.
Nothing to say all the way.
We turned down four or five times, and we didn't know how long we walked, only to see that the road surface suddenly changed, and the spiral staircase was gone?
"What the hell?" The girl was surprised.
Dadong looked around and nodded.
The stench had reached its extreme at the moment, and it almost made me faint. I didn't even dare to take a big breath, I covered my nose, I just felt dizzy.
Along the way, I was always worried about what kind of demons and monsters I would encounter at the bottom of the cave. But at this time, the light of the flashlight shone into the distance little by little, and in front of me was a large open space, in a space the size of half a football field, empty, nothing.
However, it does not mean that it does not exist, it is just that we cannot see it at the moment.
"It's down, what now?" The girl asked again.
"Find out if there's a new mark." Dadong replied.
So we followed Dadong's steps and walked towards the center of the clearing. If you don't know you're underground. Walking in such a place is actually the same as walking in the square in the middle of the night, only it is darker - the moonlight can still be seen in the square. And here, you can't see anything but the tips of your own shoes.
I asked if there would be a trap for Dadong. Dadong said that there must be. I was about to faint, and I said was it really good to move forward so rashly? Dadong asked me, what if I don't do this? I can't answer......
As I approached the middle of the clearing, I noticed that cracks began to appear under my feet, and in some places there were deep craters, like craters, so deep that even the rock formations in the ground were exposed.
There was also some gray fluff on the ground, which was exactly the same as the one I had seen in Jiaxiu Building before, and I thought to myself that it must not be a coincidence that this thing appeared here. So I bowed down and picked up a handful to see what it was, when Dadong, who was walking in front of me, suddenly stopped, I didn't brake, and my nose hit his back.
"What's wrong?" I hurriedly asked.
I saw Dadong raise his hand to signal me to be quiet, and then stared motionlessly at the left-hand side. His flashlight shone into the darkness, and I followed it closely, but I couldn't see anything. Dadong's face became more and more wrong, and I looked at him and broke out in a cold sweat.
What's going on? I wanted to ask, but I was afraid that if I made a noise, I would disturb some monsters. I was depressed, and at this time, I heard Xiao Rong say, "There's something over there!" ”
"What is it?" I asked in a low voice.
"A pair of bells."
Miscellaneous...... What the heck?
I was taken aback and looked at Xiao Rong in bewilderment.
"What is a 'bell'?"