Chapter 18: The Haunted Place
Zu Long was asked, thought for a while, and said: "It's nothing special, it's just that there is a very thick door on the ground before entering this cave, which seems to be also made of steel, but it flashed, and I didn't care."
After hearing this, Rowan bounced up from the ground, and pulled out three revolvers from behind him to guard the surroundings, Zu Long was startled, and instinctively conjured two moon knives, and the two tacitly guarded back to back. Zu Long hurriedly asked, "Damn, what's wrong?" ”
Luo Wen's eyes kept wandering throughout the cave, and he whispered, "Have you noticed how many bones we have encountered since we got off this underground base?" ”
Zu Long thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "I don't remember, but not much." ”
Rowan continued: "That's right, I was just thinking about how there are individuals in this group of rats who have intact visual power, although the proportion of the population is very small, but the number is amazing. There are so many rats that it would not be possible to sustain the daily feed intake of such a large population by relying solely on the occasional animals that enter by mistake, so I have only one explanation for it, and that is that some individuals often leave this underground base to forage for food. That is, it is up to them, who have relatively intact vision, to bring back food, so their vision is not as degraded as it is to be, and I can launch the Evil Eye on them. ”
Rowan paused for a moment, "If that's the case, then they should be more than just ordinary low-grade yin beasts, it's obvious that an organized and disciplined race has been formed!" Those rats whose vision is not completely degraded should be like a hunting party, which can also be seen from their pursuit of us, these rats have always been in the lead, they may have a certain IQ, and there is a high probability that there are more perfect evil spirits behind them! ”
Rowan paused, lowered his head and thought for a moment before saying, "From this, it can be inferred that such a large group must have a huge feed intake, so it is difficult to be satisfied. Then the occasional prey must have been gnawed by these rats to the bone, or another explanation is that they dragged the prey to a more secluded place, possibly a nest, so the bones are rarely seen. ”
Zu Long felt that it made sense, but he was inexplicable, so he asked, "What does this have to do with our current situation?" ”
Rowan sometimes felt powerless at the investigator of this half-monk's mysterious institute, so he went on to explain: "In their eyes, we are their food for maintaining the population, so there is no reason for the rats to give up when they see us, and the noses of rats are much more sensitive than those of dogs, especially in the visually degraded underground, most of these rats rely on smell and temperature perception to prey." But now it's been almost ten minutes.,The illusion I created should have been lifted a long time ago.,For this kind of monster, there will be no brain fantasy self-derivation.,So they will accept whatever I give them.,After the illusion period of the evil eye, the illusion is over.。 But now? I didn't see half a mouse. ”
Zu Long turned around and glanced at Luo Wen, and asked in surprise, "You mean..."
Rowan nodded, "There's a monster here that scares even these crazy rats!" ”
Luo Wen was thinking about the situation at the moment, it would definitely be a dead end if he got out, and the nearly 100 Yin Beast Rats could not resist it without heavy weapons, and it only took an instant for the two of them to be gone.
And the situation in the cave in front of him is unknown, it is very likely that there is a greater threat, here is to sit and wait for death, rather than waiting for death, it is better to find out first, at least report to the Lord of Yama, he is also a ghost, and Luo Wen's curiosity began to stir again.
Rowan made up his mind and walked towards the depths of the cave with a gun, but as soon as he stood up, he unexpectedly saw a shaking reflection not a few meters away, this reflection should be caused by the shoulder lamp, but what is there?
Surrounded by stalactites and stalagmites, the two of them held back their sleepiness and forced their spirits to bypass the stalagmites, the closer they got to this reflective surface, the more pungent the smell became, and the stronger the fishy smell became. The two of them couldn't help but be surprised when they got closer, there was actually a waterhole a few meters away from the place where they were resting just now!
This waterhole is more than 100 meters wide, pitch black and bottomless, opposite the waterhole is a mountain wall, which is wet as if there is groundwater seeping out, the reflection that the two of them saw just now should be caused by this mountain wall, and there is no other way out.
Zu Long took out a cold light stick from the other side of the tactical bag and threw it into the pool, as soon as the cold light stick entered the pool, it fell to the lower left, and after three or four seconds, there was only a small point of light left, and then in a flash, the cold light stick disappeared from the field of vision of the two.
But it was this flash that made Rowan sure that he should have seen something! To prove it, he lit up all four of the remaining cold light sticks in the tactics pack without saying a word, and threw them towards the left side of the pool.
The brightness of the four bars greatly improves the clarity of the water in this area, and as the rods sink, the rocks below the pool are gradually revealed, and the traces of erosion are obvious. But just when the light of this cold light rod gradually decreased, Rowan and Zu Long were suddenly shocked at the same time!
Immediately, a feeling of adrenaline rush hit the brain, and even the scalp exploded, and an electric current instantly reached the Tianling Gai from the heel, and in this gentle cave, the two of them shivered for no reason, because a big orange eye was staring at the two of them motionless under the water!
The four cold light rods suddenly disappeared in a flash, but in the process of falling, in this pool of water with good visibility, it was enough for Rowan and Zu Long to see everything clearly.
At the bottom of this pool, although there was only a flash, the two of them clearly saw that there was a big snake coiled tightly!
This large snake is covered with scales, which are especially noticeable under the cold light stick, and the body is flattened, a bit like a centipede. At this moment, the huge body is tightly coiled together, the triangular head has two horns that are not long, and a pair of big orange and yellow eyes are not blinking, and they are staring at the two of them!
As the light of the cold light rod disappeared, the waterhole in front of him suddenly returned to the darkness just now, and after a short suffocation, Rowan took out a cigarette from his pocket and took a hard puff. After such a long time, this puff of cigarette made Rowan a little dizzy, he took off his glasses, pressed the tense muscles between his eyebrows with his middle finger, and then leaned on a stalagmite beside him and smoked one after another.
Zu Long didn't dare to disturb, he knew that Dao Luo Wen's mind was now making a choice, and he himself was quite surprised by the scene just now, and he was still building a common-sense guide for himself.
Since Zulong returned to the mystery with Rowan, he has seen a lot of strange things, but there are few monsters of this size. Rowan extinguished the cigarette butt with his hand, looked at Zu Long with a frown, and said, "What the hell is this place!" ”
Zu Long squatted on the ground and looked at Rowan with his head raised, but he still said with a smile on his face: "Come on, say it." ”
Rowan frowned and pointed to the waterhole and said: "If I remember correctly, the monster in this is called the hooked snake, the demon beast in ancient times, no one has seen it for hundreds of years, and they all thought it was extinct. An adult hooked snake is twenty meters long, but you look at it! ”
Rowan pointed to the waterhole: "It's at least forty to fifty meters!" The hooked snake is very venomous, and you can see the shape of its head just now, which is obvious. In ancient times, some people saw the two horns on the top of its head, and thought that it was the dragon that it had incarnated after the catastrophe, and they were in awe of it, and even some people who claimed to be strange people and strangers worshiped and raised, but they didn't know that they were actually two poisonous sacs! Moreover, it is recorded that the venom of the hooked snake is extremely toxic and highly corrosive, according to the data, it is inferred that its 0.01 mg venom can penetrate the steel plate, and then kill two whales! The tail is forked, and they all have long barbed hooks, which divide mountains and stones, and are infinitely powerful, and extremely dexterous, like the hands of this hooked snake. ”
"Damn!" Zu Long exclaimed, "Then why doesn't it attack us?" ”
Rowan looked at the waterhole and said: "Generally, snakes can't chew, they use venom to paralyze the nerves of their prey, or even poison them to death, and then after swallowing the prey, they rely on tree trunks, rocks and other rubbing with their vertebrae to break off the prey's spine and kill it completely, and then decompose and digest it by digestive juices." I don't know if you noticed it just now, the hooked snake is very tight, and the whole body is obviously in a state of extremely contracted muscles, I can be sure that it has swallowed a large enough prey, so it is digesting, and it should not have time to take care of us in a short time, as long as we don't provoke it, this is considered our luck. Otherwise, its stomach will be finished early, let's come. ”
After Rowan finished speaking, he took out another cigarette and lit it, Zu Long looked at the waterhole and asked, "What are you going to do next?" ”
Luo Wen lightly spit out a smoke ring, watched the smoke ring fly straight towards the smoke, and then said: "There is not even a little wind here, the air circulation speed is too slow, there should be no other exit." Even if there is ...... This air must be poisonous, and this pungent fishy smell should be the venom of the hooked snake, which is released after mixing with the pool water, but it is much smaller after being diluted by the pool water, otherwise we should be killed on the spot. Even the diluted venom has caused us to feel lethargic. ”
Luo Wenzhi said that he couldn't wait here, and he waited here, just waiting to add a dessert to this hooked snake. So after weighing it, the two of them took some antidotes and checked their equipment, and walked towards the door where they came in again. There was indeed a steel door at the door as Zu Long said, but this steel door was extremely thick, it should be more than forty centimeters, and now it was crooked on the edge of the hole, and there were obvious signs of deformation on it. Rowan scrutinized the steel door by the light of the shoulder lamp.
This deformation mark should be knocked from the outside to the inside by a huge amount of force, it seems that the time is not too long, and the degree of deformation is very large, but I have not been able to find a very favorable clue to know what the road is made of, but it can be sure that it was left by a blunt impact, similar to the battering hammer used in the siege.
Rowan knew what he knew, so he carried the gun and the ancestral dragon out of the cave one after the other, and walked into the corridor again, and soon entered a corridor. Rowan squatted down and looked at it, and then the light of the shoulder lamp, it was easy to identify the footprints of the ancestral dragon, and after weighing it, Rowan felt that he would retreat in the direction of the footprints.
But I didn't go far to a huge hall, which was huge because it used to be a garage for tanks and cars, and the tracks and tire marks of different shades on the ground were very clear, so it was very easy to deduce.
The distance from the top of the head to the ceiling was more than ten meters, and the air was filled with a thick smell of dust, and the echo formed by the footsteps of the two people reverberated back and forth in the hall, and the high and low staggered sounded softly in the ears.
Rowan guessed that since this was originally the garage of the entire underground base, if that was the case, there should be a direct gate to the outside world for vehicles to enter and exit, and now the hall of thousands of square meters was empty, with only a few scrapped military trucks remaining on the ground.
"Get there first" echo buzzed in his ears, and Rowan pointed to the opposite side, there was indeed an exit that still looked very small at the moment.
The two of them did not delay, and walked straight to the opposite exit, and when they walked forward, they brought up a thick layer of dust on the ground, but the deep and shallow animal footprints could be seen everywhere in this huge hall, which made Rowan's vigilance can't help but add another point.
But just as he was about to walk to the exit, the ancestral dragon's shoulder lamp just swept to the ground at the mouth, and a rat yin beast poked its head out of the exit. As soon as it saw the two of Rowan, it immediately lay on the ground on its front legs in an attack shape, its long front teeth were all exposed, and its mouth let out a piercing scream!
"Not good! Hurry back! Rowan blurted out, and as soon as the two turned around, they rushed to the door where they came!
But it was too late, one, two, ten, hundreds of rat yin beasts poured towards the two of them from the corner of the wall of the hall, and the two who had just run to the center of the hall were surrounded by a wave of rats!