readx;?“ Don't eat? I couldn't help but exclaim, "What creature can survive without eating?" ”

Uncle Ma didn't answer my question directly, but just asked me rhetorically, "How can you conclude that those monsters belong to the earth?" They are said to come from hell......"

I saw that Uncle Ma was so speechless that I ignored him, and I fell into deep thought. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info If we say that we are leaving the ice cave now and happen to walk into the so-called fire cave, but according to Uncle Ma, the cracks in the fire cave have been sealed by the villagers with stones, and we don't have **, so we can't open the stone wall. Having said that, I don't believe that it would be such a coincidence, so we just walked into the fire cave from here, after all, Wanjiang Town is dozens of miles away from Luojiazhai.

There is only one wind tunnel left, and we don't know if it exists, and whether the exit, like the fire cave, will be blocked for some inexplicable reason, we don't know. But now that we are in prison, we have no way back, and the demons sealed in the clay cup have probably been released by them, and in case they are possessed by the demons again, none of us can guarantee that we will be able to get out alive. For now, we had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue along this branch cavern.

Unexpectedly, the further you went inside, the warmer the branch cave became. Originally, when we were in the ice cave before, it was already cold enough, and even our breath was frozen into frost, but we didn't expect to go far, and the temperature gradually rose, and this short period of temperature ups and downs made it difficult for people to adapt and feel uncomfortable. After a few minutes, there were no ice crystals in the branch caves, and the temperature was about the same as the usual caves, and it was slightly cold. We continued to go deeper, and after about an hour of walking through a narrow strip, the slope of the cave gradually increased.

We didn't dare to stop, so we went down the slope, and during this time we found no other passage in this branch cave, but the further we went, the more the slope seemed to be, and it seemed that it was once a rushing stream during the flood season. The cave is not wide, and in some places you even have to bend down to pass through it, and the foot is washed away by the stream into many sunken lines and gravel, which is very inconvenient to walk. However, after walking for about two hours, suddenly there was a vertical shaft cave in front of us, and the flashlight shone into the depths of the depths, judging by the sound of falling stones, it must be an underground river or lake or something. We discussed it in the same place, and then we were ready to spread the rope and descend from here to see, and if we found an underground river, then we could follow the flow of the river. In this way, although we do not have diving equipment, the possibility of finding an exit is relatively high.

Lao Yang's backpack also had some ropes and locks, he immediately contributed, I asked Uncle Ma to help, fixed the rope above the shaft cave, I pulled it to make sure it was correct, then fastened the belt with the lock, and told them to let me go down first to see the situation.

Recently, I have forgotten how many times I have fallen vertically like this, and the whole person has begun to become numb, completely without the original fear of height and unknown darkness, the only thing I am worried about is whether I can find an exit below, so as to take Yang Xue to the hospital for treatment, looking at her condition, I am afraid it will not last too long.

I had descended about forty or fifty meters when the sound of running water suddenly came to my ears, and then I felt a wave of warm heat rushing over my face, and the temperature seemed to be even higher below. I temporarily stopped in mid-air, took out the cold light stick prepared in advance, broke it and threw it down, through the blue fluorescence I saw that more than ten meters below was a rushing underground dark river, the river was very deep, after the light stick fell into the water and sank, even the halo disappeared.

"There's an underground river down there, and the cavern seems to be very wide!"

I yelled hard at the top and told them I was going to keep descending to the bottom to see. If you're sure there's no danger, give them a code.

It didn't take long for me to descend from a height of more than ten meters, and by this time I had entered the huge cavern where the underground river was located. I took out a flashlight from my pocket and took a closer look around, and there was a vertical cave wall opposite, dozens of meters high, a bit similar to the feeling of the cliff of Huashan. At the bottom of the cliff, a steaming underground river rushes through, and the water temperature seems to be quite high, and it flows out of nowhere. Moreover, the river also has a large drainage, and it is estimated that it is an underground dark river that does not dry up without seasonality.

I followed the rope and landed among the gravel on the bank, and after unlocking it, I immediately bent down and touched the temperature of the river, and sure enough, the temperature of the underground river was as high as forty or fifty degrees, and it was slightly hot at the touch. In addition, the water vapor emitted is clearly mixed with a strong smell of sulfur. This is the first time I have encountered such an underground Wen River, and I was unconsciously shocked, remembering what Uncle Ma said before about the cave hot spring in the cracks of Baiyun Mountain in Luojiazhai. However, even if there is some kind of connection between the two, the place we enter should be in a different location, so let them come down for the time being, and then we can discuss the countermeasures together.

I tossed the rope and gave them a code, shouted a few more times, and then picked up my flashlight by myself, and wanted to walk up the river in the opposite direction to see what was ahead.

The cave where this underground river is located is tens of meters high and more than 20 meters wide, and the bank of the river is made of sediment and gravel piled up in a corridor two or three meters wide that resembles an embankment. I walked in the opposite direction along this "corridor", but after a few dozen meters, the cave in front of me suddenly expanded even more, and the flashlight shone it out, as if it were endless.

I stopped where I was for a moment, watched for a moment, and when I didn't notice anything unusual, I returned alone. At the same time, Uncle Ma and the others had already hung down the rope, and after they saw that this underground dark river turned out to be a Wen River, they couldn't help but be amazed, Lao Yang even wanted to go down to the river to take a dip and go to get rid of the cold left by his body in the ice cave, but I dissuaded him.

"Don't act rashly until you know the situation......," I warned Yang, "although the water temperature is as high as forty or fifty degrees, it cannot be ruled out that there will be ...... such as extremophiles and bacteria in the river."

Lao Yang shook his head and teased me:

"You've become a frightened bird."

I nodded self-deprecatingly, "I'd rather be a vigilant bird than a cold corpse." ”

Lao Yang shook his head and stopped talking, picked up the flashlight and walked downstream, saying to take a look. I didn't stop him this time, I haven't been downstream, so it's good to let him go a few dozen meters ahead to see the situation.

I settled Yang Xue on a stone by the river, her face was frighteningly white, I uncovered the blood-stained gauze on her waist, and found that the wound had appeared slightly red and swollen, so I hurriedly took out the disinfectant and wiped it for her, and replaced it with a clean gauze.

In fact, she has fallen into a semi-comatose state, although she can still walk with our support, but she is completely at our hands to carry her, she is like a patient with a high fever at the moment, her brain has already fallen into a mess, and sometimes she even forgets where she is. I fed her some water, talked to her for a while, encouraged her to hold on, and said that she would be sent to the hospital as soon as she got outside.

"Now it seems that you are right." I said to Uncle Ma on the side, "I'm afraid we really walked into the cracked cave of Baiyun Mountain in Luojiazhai......

Uncle Ma sighed and said, "Young man, it seems that everything is providential, but you don't have to worry, on the cracked stone wall of Baiyun Mountain in Luojiazhai, there is actually an iron gate, although it is locked and no one opens it, but if we are lucky, we can ask the villagers passing by to help." ”

"Oh?" I exclaimed, "There is still a door?" ”

Uncle Ma nodded and continued:

"Yes, young man, it is said that because the effect of the hot springs is so miraculous, the villagers sometimes can't help but run in to take a dip, of course, they will only venture into it when they are sick and have no choice but to enter."

I was talking to Uncle Ma when I suddenly heard Lao Yang calling me below, and listening to his tone, he seemed to have discovered something. I saw that Yang Xue fell into a coma again, so I asked Uncle Ma to help take care of it, and said that I would go and see what was going on. Uncle Ma was kind, and readily agreed, and told me to be careful not to go too deep, after all, the flaming red monster from hell is probably still living somewhere in the cave.

I walked forward fifty or sixty meters, and found that the water flow of the underground dark river gradually flattened, and I couldn't help but be stunned.

The direction of the river has changed, so the momentum of the current has flattened.

I walked over and patted Lao Yang on the shoulder, but he didn't react at all, and he didn't look back, just took a flashlight and signaled to me and asked me to follow his spot.

I didn't know what he had discovered, but seeing how strange he was behaving, I hurried into the river as he had indicated.

The beam of Lao Yang's flashlight was firmly fixed in the water, and if you looked closely, it was close to the river bank, the water level was shallow, and there seemed to be a white bone in the gravel at the bottom. The bones were clearly human bones, with skeletons and leg bones, but the rest of the body was missing, and it was clear that the scattered bones had only been washed by the water of the underground river. In this case, the bones should have come from the upper reaches of the river.

I dived into the water to pick up the skull, looked at it carefully, and after confirming that it was correct, I said to Lao Yang:

"It seems that Uncle Ma is right in that legend, this skeleton is probably the food residue left after being attacked by those fiery monsters."

Lao Yang said disapprehantly:

"Not necessarily, there are too many strange things in this cave, maybe it is the bones of the treasure hunter who was attacked by the mountain ghosts?"

I say:

"This possibility is not impossible, but according to the current situation, the possibility that Uncle Ma said is more likely, and we should probably guard against those legendary fiery monsters now......"

Lao Yang diverted the topic and said, "Oh yes, there is one thing I need to tell you about, it is about the food of mountain ghosts. ”

"Oh?"

"I'm afraid you'll be even more surprised when I say it!" Lao Yang said unhurriedly, "I accidentally broke into a cave by mistake before, and smelled an extremely strong smell of feces, and then I quietly approached to take a look, and found that those creatures called mountain ghosts were hunting their companions!" ”

The question of what the mountain ghosts feed on has been lingering in my mind, listening to Lao Yang's tone of voice seems to understand the inside story, I can hear the interest, and hurriedly let him continue, how can those mountain ghosts prey on their own companions? If they had fed on their companions, the entire population would have been extinct long ago! Oh yes! They......

I suddenly thought of a very critical point, but was interrupted by Lao Yang's voice, and I only heard him continue:

"There is also a dark area near that mountain ghost's lair, so I guess they are hunting mountain ghosts from another dimension...... Do you understand what I'm saying? ”

"Of course I do!" I said a little excitedly, "They originally survived by this, through the coherence of space, so countless parallel spaces intersected, and the mountain ghosts that Yang Xue and I met before survived by preying on the same kind in other spaces, and I am afraid that it has been like this for decades!" Of course, when they found out about me and Yang Xue, the two intruders, they didn't care about changing their tastes! ”

As I said this, the ugly image of the mountain ghost suddenly came to my mind, that creature was so terrible that it had survived in this cave in this way for decades, and it would continue to live in this way.

"But there's one thing I don't quite understand," Lao Yang said in a slightly puzzled tone, "how do they use to distinguish their kind from the same kind in other spaces?" ”

"Voice!" I shouted at Lao Yang, "They can make all kinds of different shouts, if I guess correctly, with their terrifying intelligence, they must have invented a sound signal that belongs to their own space, so as to screen the same kind in other spaces, and then hunt and kill." ”

"So smart!" Lao Yang couldn't help but sigh, "This creature is simply smarter than humans!" ”

It is an exaggeration to say that they are smarter than humans, but in some respects, they do surpass humans, but the human development base far exceeds them, and the population is also countless times that of them, so it is probably impossible for them to replace human domination over the earth through continuous evolution.

Lao Yang and I were discussing the matter of the mountain ghosts, but at this time there was a shout from Uncle Ma, who told us to go back quickly, saying that Yang Xue had woken up, and there was something important to tell us, and we had to go over.

Lao Yang and I looked at each other, thinking about what kind of nerves Yang Xue was going to have, and I didn't know what hallucinations had arisen in the daze, so I shook my head helplessly, and walked back.

After passing, I found that Yang Xue was actually half-upright, and when she saw us approaching her, she hurriedly shouted in a weak voice:

"I remembered who the man was in the ice!" (To be continued.) )

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