Chapter 9: The Well
In the blink of an eye, the three of us ran in the dense forest for about two or three hours, but time stood still here, if we calculated according to the time outside, the sky should be cloudy and bright at this time, but it was still as dark as night.
Every time I walk through a section of the woods, I will find that this place is exactly the same as the previous place, fortunately, the three of us have also passed through the wind and waves, and there is not too much panic, I looked at the hanging corpses, and I couldn't help but wonder, could they have accidentally fallen here and lost their way, and finally in despair, they chose to end themselves in the painful way of hanging?
In the end, the three of us were too tired to walk, so we simply gathered a thick layer of leaves on the ground in a pile under the watchful eyes of the whole corpse, lit it with a waterproof lighter, and baked a bonfire to warm up and recover our strength.
The three of them were silent around the campfire, and no one took the initiative to break the deadlock, because no one had a clue in their heads and didn't know what to say.
I sighed and threw a handful of leaves into the fire, watched the leaves burn into the fire, and said, "If Weizi hadn't disappeared, how good it would have been with us, maybe he would have known a thing or two about something like this." ”
Dong Bing snorted, stared at the flames burning high, and said: "Who knows where he is enjoying it now, if he really treats us as brothers, he shouldn't greet or beat himself and run away alone, some things are just carried by everyone, everyone in the water and in the fire wade over, and at the critical time, he is pretending to be a hero, and we are all inexplicable now." ”
"I can't say that, what if Brother Wei knows that thing is very terrifying and dangerous? And he made up such a big panic, it can't be just for a Qinhuang slate, right? There are many more valuable things than that, so there must be something terrible recorded on the slate, so it's inconvenient for us to look at it. Dabao said.
"I hope so!"
I fiddled with the leaves a few times, and suddenly found that the flames were a little shorter at some point, but the leaves on the fire were not burned at all, and gradually under our watchful eyes, the flames became smaller and smaller, almost two or three times smaller than before. Dong Bing stood up suddenly, touched his buttocks and found that his palms were wet, and couldn't help but say, "How can there be water on the ground?" ”
Not only him, but Dabao and I also felt that our buttocks were cold and wet, and when we got up, we found that the pants on our buttocks were wet, and I quickly threw away the leaves to expose the dirt on the ground, only to see that the soil had become very wet somehow, and even turned into mud in some places.
Dabao said suspiciously: "Will the water rise?" I don't think it's very high. ”
What he said unintentionally reminded me of the boatman who had said on the ship that he was a stranger to the place, as if he had never been there. Could it be that the high tide and low tide are obscuring the landscape? That's why he said that?
At this time, the flames were completely extinguished, and we had to turn on the flashlight again, and suddenly Dong Bing made a silent movement, pricking up his ears to listen to something, and before he could tell us, a huge wave of water rang out, and then it rumbled and rang non-stop, like something behemoth in the river fluttering in the water.
Dong Bing looked at the endless woods in disbelief and said, "This sound of water should come from the Yangtze River, right?" What's going on in the river? ”
I shook my head, I might know from such a distance, and suddenly I slapped my head and said, "Damn, I almost forgot, why don't we just look for the voice." ”
Dong Bing's eyes lit up, and he also felt that this method could be tried. So the three of them hurriedly cleaned up and immediately ran towards the place where there was a huge sound of water just now.
The mud on the ground is getting wetter and wetter, as if it feels like your feet are stuck in the mud, and the more you get to the back, you can already step on the water, and even in some places you can overflow the instep of your feet, so it won't become a puddle of pond, right?
After walking for a while in the ankle-deep water, the forest did change a little, and it was no longer repeated as before, because now there was a mountain cliff standing in front of us.
The cliff is very high, and it is definitely impossible to climb it, but it seems that a crack has been torn by a giant in the middle, which is very spacious, and you can still see a few crooked neck trees growing inside.
Looking at the strange trees and strange stones inside, Dabao whispered, "Do you want to go in?" ”
"When I used to be a soldier, I used to run outside, and I heard some sayings that mountain monsters and tree monsters must have demons. Look at this place, it's too evil, it's either a big toad or a dead man's forest, and what else is in the cracks in this valley, none of us can guarantee it, or forget it, let's go and see other places. "Dong Bing has always been untimid, this time it is estimated that there is nothing to call on his hands, so he said this for safety.
The sound of 'gurgling' came out of the crack, like a cow drinking water, the sound was so loud that it was difficult not to hear it, I frowned and thought for a while, but I still decided: "Go in!" If there is something terrifying, we will immediately withdraw from it. ”
They couldn't restrain me, so they had to go with me to take a look.
The sound of a cow drinking water just now should be right in front of the crack, and it may not be too far to come clearly. When we stepped in and walked one or two hundred steps, we vaguely realized that something was wrong in this crack.
The surrounding rock wall began to appear similar to artificial traces, and then go forward for dozens of meters, a standing stone carved archway stands impressively in front of our eyes, the stone pillars on both sides of the archway are entangled with a strange stone carved dragon, the body is scaleless, single horn, and even the feet are only a pair.
What's even more peculiar is that there are no eyeballs in the dragon's eye sockets.
I immediately thought of what Liu Xiancheng had said before: "Carve the dragon craftsman, carve the dragon and put the finishing touch." ”
Could it be that a dragon carver has ever been here? I walked to the stone pillar and gently touched the stone sculpture with my hand, it was cold and cold, it was just an ordinary stone sculpture that could not be ordinary anymore, but why there was such a miraculous statement, we have no way to witness it.
The sound of gurgling water sounded again, and when I looked for the sound, I saw that there would be a well under the archway. The wellhead is octagonal, but the rocks under the wellhead fly out irregularly, as if it was originally an exposed hole, but a wellhead was built on it.
The sound of the water came from the well, and there were still traces of water waving out of the well, so could there be anything else in the water? I looked carefully into the well, and the water level was very high, but I couldn't see what was going on, so I went over and tried it.
Hiss~
I groaned softly, and quickly retracted my hand like an electric shock, and the well water pierced my hand like ice water that had just melted. Even though it's summer, I feel a cold chill running through my bones.
Dong Bing seemed to have found something nearby, and took an oxygen mask to show me, but the oxygen mask seemed to have red blood stains inside it and had not dried, no need to say it, I also understand this well, the Long family has gone down.
In other words, there is another mystery underwater.
PS: That's all for today, tomorrow will be a little busy, try to do two more tomorrow, thank you again for voting for me, I feel very motivated with your support!