We stayed at the entrance of the cave for a long time, discussing the possibility of this cave, during which Chen Pi Ah Si suddenly froze for a while and then miraculously recovered. We were puzzled, but Chen Pi Ah Si didn't seem to want to mention what had just happened at all, and there was no choice but to turn his attention to this strange ice cave.

We gathered around the edge of this cave to discuss the specific problems of the next cave, although several of us have experienced a lot of cave exploration, but they are all in the plains and mountains, which are very different from here, and we need to think about it in the long run.

This hole was inclined about 40 degrees down at the beginning, the bottom is very deep, it is not easy to walk, just now the fat people they fell down, if you can't control the posture, it is also very dangerous, it is likely to roll in the hole, that fall to the low head may be flattened.

Pan Zi threw down a glow stick, and the cold light of Huang Sè quickly rolled down, bounced a few times in a long distance, and disappeared.

If Monk Hua's statement is correct, recalling the trend between our two snow-capped mountains, this cave must be a "V" route all the way down and then up, because the two snow-capped mountains belong to the same mountain range, so the elevation of the canyon between the peaks is also very high, and the distance of this "V" route should not exceed 5 kilometers.

Of course, if the craftsmen at that time liked the "Z" shaped excavation, then we can't do it, but this kind of unreasonable things should not be considered.

Since it is a passage dug out by hand, there is no need to worry about the problem of oxygen, and after we discussed, we decided to explore the cave by Panzi first. This time, the weapon was prepared, and in case the corpse was still inside, it would be disposed of on the spot.

Pan Zi dragged it in just now, very shameless, and took out the mountaineering rope with a spit on his hand. While tying it to the fat man's waist, he threw down the hole and climbed down first. It took a cigarette before I heard his cry and told us to go down.

We also climbed down the cave one after another. The tunnel was very rough, and the stones went in and out, and the buttocks were cut all the way down. I climbed and looked at the rocks on the side. These are the basalt rocks that emerge during volcanic eruptions, with a large number of bubbles on them, and the density of these stones is very unstable, some are hard like iron, and some are soft like tofu. I don't know what it was like when it was excavated.

One by one, we went down, and the fat man was the last to come down, and all of a sudden a bunch of people crowded at the end of the slope of the stone path above, panting for breath. We see a lot of black sè fluid here, which must be the body fluids of the corpse, but there is no trace of the corpse, and it may have gone deeper into the cave.

This narrow hole under the ice sloped down, and when it came to the place where it turned below, it became erect and narrow, and further inside, the height of the cave seemed to continue to increase, and suddenly it became larger, and the space seemed to become larger, but it was pitch black, and the flashlight could not shine into it.

At first, I thought that this was when they were digging the tunnel, they deliberately set up a relatively wide tunnel, which was also particular when we opened the thief hole, called the pigeon room, this place is used to store air and place 'soil', of course, the pigeon room is complicated, you dig such a large space in the ground that can allow two people to turn around, without turning out a little Saturn from the thief hole, there is a very, very ingenious trick.

But as soon as the flashlight flashed, we were stunned, it turned out that this row had reached the end here, and it contracted and narrowed rapidly in front, and finally there was only a stone gap in front that could only be entered sideways by a person, like an irregular sword mark, piercing deeply into the mountain rock.

Pan Zi asked, "Didn't you say that this is the secret way for craftsmen to escape?" Turned into a strip of seams? Is this still in the past? ”

Monk Hua thought for a while, and suddenly made a sudden expression of enlightenment, and said: "I think this row of roads may be the use of natural volcanic caves, volcanic caves are very common in the rock formations of the volcanic zone, extending in all directions, the longest volcanic cave can reach thousands of kilometers in length, like a spider web densely covered underground, maybe this volcanic gap can lead all the way to the opposite Sansheng Mountain, because of this, they can dig such a long secret passage, it turned out to be the use of nature's pre-set passage." ”

The fat man said, "Is it possible that we also have to go into this crack?" You're all okay, I'm choking on my body. "The fat man said that he wanted to lose weight in the submarine tomb, but it didn't work out so far, looking at his figure, it was still really enough.

Monk Hua said: "There should be no need to worry, this kind of volcanic karst caves are all dendritic structures, these holes should lead to larger gaps, which are called underground corridors in geology, some underground corridors are very large, and they will even form their own unique ecosystems inside, I believe that the gaps will definitely widen soon after entering, because this kind of geological destruction starts from the inside." ”

Monk Hua said it well, but I didn't believe him very much, but at this time there was really no reason to refute him, so everyone rested for a while, straightened out their equipment, and continued to crawl towards the gap with the fat man.

It was pitch black inside, and the flashlight was useless, because the darkness was all-encompassing. In Europe, all such crevices are considered to be passages to hell, and Tibetans also consider caves to be demonic territory and never enter them. I've had many of these experiences, but the moment I entered the gap, my heart beat uneasily.

After closing our abdomen one by one and entering the gap, we walked sideways like crabs, the cave wall of this place had no artificial traces, and it was almost impossible to turn our heads inside, looking ahead, our eyes were full of traces of glazed flowers, and a large number of karst dropdrops of various kinds of faces covered all the rocks, which were covered with crystalline and transparent frost, evenly arranged like condensed water columns.

I studied a little bit of geology when I was studying architecture, and I have a vague memory in my head that what was supposed to be a volcanic eruption rock, the same crevice in the volcano that we took refuge in during a snowstorm. This kind of landform is different from the common volcanic caves, this kind of gap is formed at the moment of volcanic eruption, and then rushes out at a very high speed to the pyroclastic flow, it is characterized by the formation of volcanic fractures are extremely long, but the tunnel is single, and will not form a labyrinth cave group like a volcanic cave.

The first part of the gap was very narrow, and we had to learn how to break dance. Within fifteen minutes, I was already tired and sore, thinking about the craftsmen who fled back then, it was not easy to climb out. But as I walked, the gap was really as Monk Hua said, gradually widening, and finally I turned around and moved forward.

It was pitch black inside the gap, but the surrounding glaze and melted mica reflected the flashlight, making the surrounding light produce a magical effect, and the large area of lava thorns, rope-like crust lava, and lava bells covered by volcanic debris made people dizzy, very beautiful.

As we walked, we gradually noticed some signs of human activity. For example, the traces of discarded rusty tools and campfires are very old.

Didn't run into anything strange along the way. The inside of the gap is very clean, and after only walking for nearly six hours, we have reached the tunnel of the scale of the underground corridor that Monk Hua said, and the gap in it is very, very wide.

When the gap came here, I found a lot of signs of artificial construction, on the wall of the gap on one side, a lot of simple steps were carved out for the repair, all the way up, this step is said to be a step, but in fact it is just some protruding stones, if the foot is as big as a fat man, I am afraid that if you take a few steps, you will be dizzy.

We stopped to rest, and I did a little math, the distance we had traveled and the slope we had descended, and found that we were at an altitude below the snow line, probably under the canyon between the two peaks. If these two peaks were to walk on the surface, even if they were to walk in a straight line, it would take at least eight hours, and now we have saved a lot of time by walking underground, and the border line above, if it knew that there was such an underground corridor, would definitely be shocked.

At this point, if we continue to walk at the bottom of the gap, then we may have to go to the center of the earth, these simple steps probably indicate that this tunnel has entered the second stage, and the end of the steps may be the mysterious underground palace of Genting Heavenly Palace.

After resting for a while, several people couldn't help themselves, so they immediately set off again, but this time, the road was not so smooth.

Several of us used climbing ropes to connect with each other, and then try to stick to the cliff on one side, step on the joking "stone stairs", little by little up the up, at first fine, and when we climb to a certain height, I immediately feel like a rock climber, but I don't have any experience in rock climbing, not to mention how panicked this feeling.

The fat man's feet are big, and he steps on these stairs like stepping on stilts, so he hasn't taken a few steps, and his feet have begun to tremble, and I see him reciting Amitabha Buddha directly.

Fortunately, I walked carefully along the way, almost like a woman doing needlework, climbing up little by little. Soon, there was already a pitch-black abyss below, and it was impossible to estimate the height, and I would have dizzy when I looked at it, and if we hadn't come up from below just now, I would have thought that there was a hell down there.

In the following hours, we walked higher and higher, and finally we couldn't judge where we were, nor could we judge the time, and several people entered a state of confusion. But no one proposed to rest, I don't know if it is the natural greed of the tomb robbers, or because the environment here is really impossible to rest, you can imagine that you have one foot on a palm-sized stone, one foot is suspended in the air, and there is a cliff below, how can you rest and enter?

As I walked, I suddenly heard the sound of water all around, and when I turned on the flashlight, there were several springs and waterfalls on the cliff on one side, flowing along the cliff, and the size was different. I don't know where the hot spring water comes from, but the sound of the water is very loud, and it seems that there is an underground water vein activity nearby.

The fat man asked us to climb over and wash our faces to be comfortable, the nearest hot spring was only a hand's distance from him, in fact, we were already very tired all the way, plus the memory of resting on the edge of the hot spring last time, several people wanted to stop here, but Junko shook his head and said, "No!" As he spoke, he pointed to the rocks on the edge of the hot springs, and when we looked at them, we didn't find anything at first glance, but when we looked closely, we almost shivered.

I saw that there were a lot of very strange lines on the rocks on the edge of the hot springs, and I thought it was volcanic patterns at first glance, but when I looked closely, my hairs stood on end, and it turned out that these lines were not on the rocks, but actually an arm-thick worm on it. These meandering faces are exactly the same as the glazed volcanic stones on the side, and they can't be distinguished without looking carefully.

When we looked around, we saw that the rocks were almost crawling with these things, motionless, as if they were all dead.

All of a sudden we all quieted down, and the fat man whispered, "What's the matter, how did we get into the worm's nest?" ”

Junko said softly: "The creatures on the snowy mountains are generally concentrated on the edge of the hot springs, so don't think about going down to be comfortable as soon as you see the hot springs, some hot springs are even full of leeches." But now the temperature is still cold, these things are in a half-dead state here, and they won't wake up without a particularly strong stimulus. Let's go, we'll be fine after this point. ”

Several people started immediately, and the fat man crossed his feet and asked as he moved, "What does a particularly strong stimulus mean?" ”

Before the words fell, Junko suddenly waved her hand and told us all to stop.

We didn't know what was going on, so we stopped and stayed there like wooden people, staring at Junko, but Junko was looking at a dark cliff abyss.

After a moment of silence, we gradually heard a hair-making 'thinning' sound, as if countless feet were rubbing against the rocks of the cliff, approaching us.

"Turn off the flashlight." Junko said softly.

We immediately turned off the flashlight, turned our heads and looked, **, almost the entire cliff around, as far as the eye could see, were full of large and small faint green sè points of light, the number of which was as vast as a sea of stars. In this darkness, this billions of photoelectric light are like magic, and we are like being in the universe of stars, which is so spectacular that it cannot be expressed in words.

However, when I looked down, I suddenly found that the scene around me was really nothing, only to see that in the void black sè under the abyss, a green sè Milky Way meandered away, like a gorgeous jade tassel on the dark sè curtain, through the boundless darkness, from one end of the sky, all the way to the other.

I opened my mouth wide and couldn't believe what I saw, the number of worms down there was probably in the hundreds of millions.

Just when we were shocked by this spectacular, almost fairyland-like scenery, suddenly from the light points below, a few huge red sè fluorescence flashed, those few fluorescences distorted, moved in the sea of stars, and disappeared into the darkness again......