Chapter Twenty-Three: The Ink Jade in the Cave

I took off my mud-covered coat and walked over to Liang Ruoyi.

When we walked over and looked, we were all stunned: what appeared in front of us was a dark bottomless hole, with a diameter of almost more than two zhang, and there were several huge rocks on the edge of the hole, and two small streams flowed from a distance and slowly plunged into the hole.

The place where we were standing was about three or four feet above the entrance of the cave, and it was so dim that if Liang Ruoyi hadn't walked over, we really couldn't see it.

"Look outside." The seventh master said suddenly.

Everyone turned their heads to look again, and from this angle, they could just see the scene outside the exit on the other side - the canyon. From our point of view, the width of this valley is only about seven or eight zhang, and on the peak on the left side of the canyon, we can still faintly hear the sound of mudflow flowing, which should be halfway down the mountain......

"Pig's head, will it follow the mudflow......" I said, looking at the peak.

"Maybe." The seventh master frowned and smiled bitterly: "Now it seems that this possibility is much greater, if this is the case, it will be difficult for us to find him......"

As soon as the words fell, a dark red light suddenly flashed in front of our eyes, and everyone was stunned, and they all looked back at the entrance of the cave, and saw a red light shining in the hole, like a lamp shining below.

"Dragon's Blood Ink Jade?!" The Seventh Master was the first to react and said in surprise.

"Dragon's Blood Ink Jade?!" I also let out a sigh of surprise, and then I felt that this color was indeed very similar to the dragon's blood ink jade: "Such a big piece?!" That palm-sized dragon carved jade plaque is a priceless treasure, if there is such a big piece, wouldn't it be able to buy a small country?! ”

"Hmm......" the Seventh Master muttered, "If you don't have such a big piece, how can it be called a secret realm!" However, what I am thinking about now is, if Gaozu Liu Bang found this place at that time, why didn't it be mined? Such a large piece of jade, just like Xiao Gu said, is priceless. ”

"Let's go down and see." Liang Ruoyi seemed to be a little uncontrollable.

"Don't worry!" The seventh master hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Let's wait for tomorrow morning, it's a little late now, and we are very tired after walking for a day, and I don't know what the situation is below." Miss Liang, I'd better bother you to build a bonfire, we saw the bones of a wild wolf outside just now, and I'm afraid there will be wild beasts or something like that here at night. ”

Liang Ruoyi pursed his mouth, a little reluctant, but what the Seventh Master said also makes sense, now we who have just escaped from the mudflow are physically and mentally exhausted, and the situation under the cave is still unknown, and now if we go down, the danger factor is very high. The ice beauty thought for a while, nodded and walked to the side to get firewood.

I cautiously jumped from it, walked to the edge of the hole with my flashlight, and shone inside.

The Seventh Master and the Budai Monk also walked over, and at this time, the burst of red light had slowly weakened and soon disappeared.

I turned the flashlight to a strong high beam, and it could shine about 20 meters, but it still couldn't hit the bottom of the hole. However, we can see that the walls of the cave in the mouth of the cave are uneven and pitted, there are many raised stones, and the water from the two streams on the opposite side floats down into the hole, and is hit by the flashlight light, and falls like jewels, which is beautiful in an instant.

"Tomorrow morning, let's go down." The seventh master turned around and walked up, I knew that he wanted to wait for the news of the pig's head.

I smiled at the Budai monk, stepped forward, and asked softly, "Seventh Master, how is the old clam?" ”

I've always wanted to ask this question, but I've never asked it.

"Old clam, I can only say that I can live like a normal person now." The seventh master said with a wry smile while walking towards Liang Ruoyi: "I suddenly found that he is almost like me when he is not poisoned, and the organ functions of his body are much weaker. ”

I nodded and didn't speak. It seems that the seventh master is also a little calm now: the old clam is seriously injured and can hardly inherit his mantle, and the pig's head here does not look like a good material, plus the seventh master himself has also been poisoned, it is better to be calm at this point in life.

Liang Ruoyi had already built a bonfire, and the three of us sat in front of the bonfire, eating, and Liang Ruoyi actually took away our mud-stained coats, walked to the stream at the entrance of the cave, and washed them.

I looked at the Seventh Master with wide eyes, and then looked at the Budai monk: "This, why is this still sexual?!" ”

The seventh master laughed: "It's not good to change sex?" There is only one girl in the team, you should be diligent! ”

The last five words, the seventh master lowered his voice and said with a bad smile, I shrugged with a smile, and simply got up and went over to help.

At eight o'clock in the evening, everyone had eaten dinner and rested around the campfire. The one-armed cloth bag monk sat on the ground, twisting the Buddhist beads and reciting the scriptures, and the seventh master stood in front of the exit over there, staring outside. Everyone knows that the seventh master doesn't say it, but he is very worried about the pig's head in his heart.

Liang Ruoyi and I stood under the hole we had fallen into, and when we listened, the mud flow had slowly stopped, and the weeds at the entrance of the cave were very dense and tangled, just enough to stop the mud.

"These mud ......," I muttered as I looked up at the hole, "won't you kill them?" Why is it flowing? Where did it all go? ”

Liang Ruoyi turned his head and glanced at me: "This is a swamp, look at the humidity outside, how can it be dried up!" The reason for the flow is probably the seepage of the underground river, and I don't know where it goes......"

I shrugged, turned back to the campfire and sat down, pulling out my phone, which luckily worked and had a signal. I called Xiaoxiao, but it was still "inconvenient to answer", I sighed, I could only browse the webpage, and then turned off the phone and rested.

The sleep was deep, and there was no so-called beast to disturb it. When I woke up, I saw several rays of early morning sunlight at the exit from afar, and I suddenly felt a lot more comfortable.

Liang Ruoyi and they had already woken up, the old monk was in the morning class, and the seventh master and Liang Ruoyi were eating.

I got up and stretched, went to the entrance of the cave, washed my face with the water of the stream, and came back eating bread and asked, "Well, you say, why was the light in the cave a little brighter last night?" ”

"It should be refracted or reflected." The Seventh Master explained: "Otherwise, it is that huge piece of dragon blood ink jade that is moving, and it happened to move under the cave entrance at that point in time last night. ”

I let out an "oh" and didn't ask anything more.

There was obviously a trace of anxiety on the seventh master's face, the pig's head had been missing for more than ten hours, and he didn't see anyone alive or dead, and he didn't know what had happened.

After breakfast, everyone waited tacitly for a while, until more than nine o'clock in the morning, there was still no news of the pig's head, the seventh master stood up and said, "Clean up, let's go down!" ”

Twenty minutes later, the four of us hung on a big stone outside the entrance of the cave, and the seventh master was the first to go down to explore the way.

There was a searchlight on the hard hat above our heads, and the three of us were holding flashlights on it, watching the seventh master slide down little by little.

Because the best ropes are in the pig's head's backpack, the pig's head is missing, and the rope we can take out is only twenty meters long, if we can't get down, we can only think of another way.

The seventh master has experience, and soon went down to a depth of more than ten meters, and the light of the flashlight can only make us vaguely see a figure continuing to go down.

The three of us held our breath, looked at the seventh master, and suddenly, there was a strange sound of "pop" not far away! I was stunned and hurriedly turned my head to look over!