Chapter 11: The Nest
"Moreover, the water here is very calm, unlike the torrents, where did the whirlpool that sucked Brother Xia come from?" Dabao continued.
At this moment, my heart has begun to waver, if it weren't for Lei Hong might be here, I would definitely not continue to walk, and I am still very afraid of what I just encountered, if the few conditions that Dabao just said are true, then what is the thing encountered in the water?
The more I thought about it, the more scared I became, so I quickly pulled the winter ice and continued to move forward, maybe this way I could get rid of the shadow just now.
The low hole in front of it gradually increased, and there was no need to squat and walk on his legs, and when I took a flashlight and looked inside, I found that we had come to the inside of a huge cave, which was actually a natural cave, full of stumbling and protruding rocks, and there were no artificial traces at all.
This is wondering, why is there a low cave carved out by hand on the outside, but there is a natural cave on the other side of the connection? There was no connection between the two in the first place, but now they are forcibly connected, and I secretly wondered: could it be that the waterway at the mouth of the well should have been built later, in order to lead to the inside of this cave? I am afraid that the traces of those carvings have been very many years, and at that time, it was impossible to spend so much effort to dig up such a waterway purely for fun, plus the big toads in the town river above, and the strange woods like 'ghosts covering their eyes', so that after calculating, there must be some big secret in this cave.
Then a strange thing interrupted my thoughts, and the sound of chains swaying from unknown sources sounded in the cave, and the tinkling was very subtle, especially in the dead silence of the cave.
Although the light of the flashlight is strong, it is also limited, in this dark hole without five fingers, it can't shine far at all, the three of us groped forward, carefully walked forward for a while, and saw a vertical crack in front of it bent from top to bottom to crack down, the width was only one centimeter, and there was no room for an arm to pass, let alone a big living person.
A fresh cold wind blew in from the crack, and the sound of the Yangtze River flowing could be faintly heard, and this crack should be a direct river, but unfortunately the crack was not big enough, so we could only blow the river breeze inside.
I shook my flashlight at Dongbing and them, signaling that it was time to go, just to see what was the point of staying here again if I couldn't get out, and turned back, the road was still endlessly dark, and after walking for a while, the sound of the chain swaying came again, this time it was obviously much clearer than the last time.
Soon we were sure of a bearing. Immediately rushed to that place, there were a lot of rocks in the cave, and sometimes we could even step on the white bones of the forest, and the light was too dim, so we didn't distinguish whether it was a human or an animal.
The further I went, the more strange I felt, how did the sound of the chain come from? Suddenly, I thought of the corpses walking with chains under the bottom of the river, could it be...... Did they come to this cave with chains?
I was taken aback by the idea of my own.
But after thinking about it, it is already unbelievable that the corpses in the water have gone by themselves, how can they still pull the chains and come here by themselves, maybe I am dazzled by myself on the boat, and I may not be sure.
The sound of chains stopped.
But there was another sound of waves rolling.
A cold wind blew on our wet clothes at once, instantly made the three of me shiver together, the cold one stomped his feet, the flashlight looked in the direction of the wind, there was a cliff cave in front of him, the hole was flowing live water, and then to the right a light, it was a cracked gap, the hole was facing the direction of two o'clock, pointing to the sky, there was a hole below, the hole was relatively spacious, but not high.
Then the light of the three flashlights brightened, and I realized that the three of us were on the edge of a natural cave more than ten meters high on the left side of the cave, and if we had just taken one more step, we might fall down and fall into the river.
I looked at the water, and saw how many broken planks there were, and the wooden hull through the big holes, and I secretly wondered: how could these ships sink here?
Before I could think further, Dong Bing pointed to the top of our heads and said, "Bamboo, look at the wood!" ”
I hurriedly raised my head and shone the flashlight overhead, only to see that there were one or two hundred large round trees overlapping on the cliffs on both sides above my head, some of which were very long, directly from this side against the opposite cliff wall, intersecting each other, without any rules, but one thing is for sure, these woods definitely do not grow naturally here.
Dong Bing tugged at the corner of my clothes and jumped out by himself, which startled me, thinking that he was crazy and couldn't think of jumping down.
The next second, seeing him standing steadily in mid-air, he looked at his feet with a flashlight, and it turned out to be a log about one meter wide, I asked puzzledly: "What are you doing standing up?" I don't know how long these pieces of wood have been piled up here, and if they collapse, they won't kill you. ”
Dong Bing shrugged his shoulders and said, "No way, you two look at the other side carefully!" ”
After saying that, he took the lead and walked up on the wood first. I gritted my teeth and jumped over to the log, glanced at the opposite side, and found that there was a hole in the opposite cliff face, could it be that the wood under my feet was still a bridge?
When he was halfway there, Dabao suddenly shouted in fright: "Brother Xia, what is hanging on the top of your head?" ”
Looking up, a very long black shadow hung upside down from top to bottom, looking like a belt from a distance, but how could there be a belt twenty or thirty meters long, the three of us took a picture with a flashlight, and we were almost not frightened.
A snake-faced probe was staring at us.
In a panic, I pulled Dabao and was about to run back the same way, but Dong Bing grabbed us and said in a deep voice: "No, it's not alive, it seems that there is only one skin left." ”
I stabilized my panicked mood and looked at the snake's face again, and after a few seconds, I breathed a sigh of relief, and sure enough, as Dong Bing said, the thing was just a shell.
No, I immediately realized that this was clearly the skin of a snake.
Twenty or thirty meters long snake has shed its skin, so how big does it have to be now? I told Dong Bing and the others about this guess, and Dabao's legs were weak and he almost didn't plant.
"Let's go!"
Dong Bing and I both knew that this place couldn't stay for long, and that the logs piled up in this cave were probably the lair of this big snake, and it even looked like this guy had almost turned into a dragon.
At this moment, the sound of the chain sounded again from the hole on the other side, closer and clearer.
PS: This chapter is late, forgive me! Today's family reunion!