Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Skeleton That Was Hung Up
What do you mean by what I say in my heart?
Just as she was thinking, Yang Xue had already pushed open the iron door, stirring up a burst of old dust, which was very choking. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
I followed her, coughed a few times, and when the dust cleared, I looked up and saw that it was a relatively large "room", half of the walls were artificially excavated, and the other half was a naturally formed cave. I glanced at it, and saw that there was no exit except for a crack in the wall of the hole in the corner of the "room", which was so small that we could barely get into it while we were crawling. But by this time, I was already firmly attracted to a skeleton in the center of the "room".
This skeleton is very large, two black iron chains pass through the collarbone, hanging this skeleton in the air, how to describe it? Let's put it this way, the skull of this skeleton is a bit like a wolf's head, with a protruding long beak, a wide sternum, in addition to the forked leg bones below, there is a straight white bone in the middle, from thick to thin, if it is not its little brother, it should be the tail, and the strange thing is that at the end of the arm bones on both sides, there are actually four phalanges each, a bit like claws, but they look terrible.
I couldn't help but ask Yang Xue: "What animal has fingers longer than the body?" ”
Yang Xue ignored me, walked a few steps closer, shone a pocket flashlight on this white bone, and looked at it carefully, before replying:
"Why does this skeleton look so much like a dragon?"
I saw that the arm span of this skeleton was at least more than 4 meters, and the height was close to 2 meters, and I couldn't help but think: "Could this be the skeleton of an extinct pterosaur?" You see that this phalanx is so long, it looks a bit like a vertebrate, but as far as I know, the wingspan of this prehistoric giant pterosaur is at least 12 meters, and even the teeth are 10 centimeters long. ”
Yang Xue shook her head and said: "This is not like a pterosaur, I have visited the dinosaur museum before, I have seen a pterosaur fossil, its mouth is more pointed, like a bird's beak, you look at this skeleton, the top of the mouth is slightly round, a little similar to a mammal, it will never be a pterosaur." Besides, you see, this skeleton was hung here in chains, and it is likely that it was the work of the people who opened the mines, and I wonder what connection this skeleton has with the creatures behind the giant gate? And why are you hanging here? ”
My mind flashed, and I analyzed: "You just talked about mammals, I remembered, think about it, if it's not a prehistoric animal, it belongs to the mammals, and it has wings and can fly, what kind of animal is this?" ”
Yang Xue made a very surprised movement, opened her mouth into an "O" shape, and said incredulously: "Could it be ......?"
I nodded to her and said that in addition to this possibility, what else could it be, in our modern nature, there is only one animal that meets the above conditions.
Yang Xue still couldn't believe it: "This can't be a bat, according to the records, the largest bat in the world is a large Malayan flying fox, the head looks like a fox, although the size is large, but the wingspan is only 1.8 meters, how can there be such a huge bat in this world?" ”
I told her that since we entered this cave, all living things cannot be measured by the standards of the outside, this is completely an isolated ecosystem, and there is no basis for what kind of monsters can be produced, as for why this bat is so huge, I think, it may have something to do with those mutated giant salamanders, but I don't want to meet this skeleton of a living creature, seeing that its head looks like a wolf, it must be a carnivore. And bats always appear in groups, and if we run into them, there is only one way to die.
Yang Xue said: "Have you ever thought about it, how can such a big animal live in such a narrow mine?" It doesn't make sense, I guess the miners caught this monster from somewhere and hung it here, but I really can't figure out what their purpose is. ”
I said if you can't figure it out, don't think about it, for now, let's still think about it, how to get out of this hellish place, look at the crack in the corner, it seems to be quite deep, should we go in and have a look?
As I spoke, I snatched Yang Xue's flashlight and looked at the crack under the cave wall. This crack was probably torn due to the change in the structure of the mountain, and I took a picture of it, and found that the crack was very deep, and it seemed to be gradually opening up, and I didn't know where it led. But now, we might as well go in and try it, if this crack keeps tearing out of the mountain, then we can't escape and ascend to heaven?
Because the crack was so small, we had to tie the oxygen cylinder and backpack with rope, hang it behind us, and drag it slowly. Yang Xue was small, and she volunteered to be the first to get into the crack, saying let me follow behind and don't get separated.
After climbing in, the whole person was a little depressed in an instant, this hole was too small, and the shoulders had to be slightly shrunk before they could barely climb forward.
Yang Xue was lying in front, completely blocking my view, and there was a backpack and oxygen cylinder in the back, I felt as if I was trapped, and I was so panicked.
Just climbed more than ten meters, Yang Xue suddenly stopped for some reason, I didn't hold my posture, put my head on her buttocks, and asked her what was wrong, why did she stop.
She didn't reply for a long time, and froze there, as if she had frozen. I was itching, so I went to pull her leg and asked her what was wrong. Unexpectedly, as soon as my hand touched her calf, she suddenly became nervous, and kicked backwards violently, and I couldn't turn over in the cave, and she kicked her in the face, and I was so hurt that tears flowed out.
At this time, I didn't know what she saw in front of her, so she twisted her ass desperately and shouted in front:
"Quick! Get out of here! ”
I was very panicked when I heard her scream, and I subconsciously wanted to retreat, but my backpack and oxygen cylinder were stuffed behind me, and I couldn't move away for a while.
I saw Yang Xue moving back desperately, and I guessed that the matter must be very serious, and I didn't care about anything else at the moment, so I stretched out my legs and kicked the backpack and oxygen cylinder outside. But, nevertheless, because this hole is so narrow, no matter how dexterous you are, lying here as if you are being caught in a stone, you cannot use your hands and feet, and progress is very slow.
Yang Xue saw that I hadn't withdrawn, so she was even more anxious, pushing her knees against the ground and squeezing back, and my face and shoulders were kicked by her at once. As I busied myself kicking my gear outwards and trying to move my body, I wondered what was it that made her so flustered, could it be the skeleton deity outside? No, it's so big, how can you get into such a small crack?
I haven't retreated far, Yang Xue doesn't know what's wrong, suddenly screamed, trembling all over, as if she was bitten by something on the shoulder, I saw her whole person struggling a few times, her body immediately softened, and she was suddenly dragged forward, and within a few seconds, she was dragged out more than 10 meters, turned a corner in the depths of the crack, and disappeared.