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Yang Xue was a little excited when she said this, she seemed to want to get up from lying down, Lao Yang and I hurriedly went over to help her up to see what she wanted to say. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I finally remembered who the man who was sealed in the ice was!" Yang Xue said in a slightly excited tone but still weakly, "That person is very tall, still a woman, we not only know but also saved her, do you remember?" The girl we brought out in the sinkhole world? ”

I was immediately shocked when I heard Yang Xue say this, but I quickly reacted that Yang Xue really seemed to have a fever caused by an infection in the wound, so that she was hallucinating. What a joke, how could that caveman girl be sealed in the ice and wear an ancient costume, although she was slightly similar in stature, it could not be the same person. This Yang Xue is simply paranoid, but she can't be blamed, the redness, swelling and inflammation of the wound may make her brain a little confused, and people are indeed prone to illusions when they are in a state of mental distraction.

Yang Xue saw that I didn't believe her, her face suddenly turned red, and she said angrily, "Why don't you believe me?" Why? I really saw that person was her! I knew very well that there were no hallucinations or conjectures about the wound, and that I did see her! Although I didn't see her appearance clearly, judging from the contours of her face, mannerisms, and body proportions, she was indeed the caveman girl we brought out of the sinkhole world. The intuition between women is very accurate, and I remember the girl's physical characteristics very clearly! What are you doing in a daze? We've got to get back and get her out of the ice, huh? ”

"I think you're the one who needs to be treated."

Lao Yang unceremoniously replied, "You're really crazy!" ”

"I'm not crazy!" Yang Xue shouted very stubbornly, "How could I be crazy? Trust my brother! I'm really not crazy, let's hurry up, it's too late, the girl has already woken up from hibernation, if you don't get her out of the ice in time, she'll suffocate to death! ”

After Yang Xue finished speaking, she threw a plea of help at me. I don't know why she suddenly associated the frozen ancient corpse with the caveman, but I surmised that it must have been the similarity between them that caused Yang Xue to misunderstand that it was the caveman she knew. I didn't dare to ignore her unreasonable trouble, for fear that she would be angry for a while, but fainted to death, so I had to be patient and kind to soothe.

"Even if it's that caveman, we can't go back!" I resolutely said to Yang Xue, "If we go back, we will be tantamount to sending us to death, are you willing to let us all go to death in order to save an irrelevant person?" Isn't our life as important to you as a strange girl? ”

As soon as I said this, Yang Xue closed her mouth and was speechless for a while. Indeed, if she thinks about it carefully, Lao Yang and I must be more important to her than the so-called cave girl. It's just that Yang Xue is pure by nature, and when she sees innocent people in danger, she wants to lend a hand, and sometimes she even loses her mind, but I am different from Lao Yang, we are all quite rational people, although we may not be as meticulous as Yang Xue thinks about things, but the means of dealing with things are much tougher and more stable.

"But......" Yang Xue still had something to argue, but it seemed that she had lost her confidence, "but she is indeed a living person, do we really want to see death and not save her?" ”

I saw that she still didn't stop, thought for a moment, and asked her, "How can you be sure that she is the caveman girl?" Is it just based on physical and mental appearance? That female corpse was dressed in an ancient costume and looked to be at least a hundred years old, how could it have anything to do with the caveman girl we brought out? These are basically two people from different time and space, although their bodies are similar, but there are too many people in this world who look alike, it is not surprising! ”

Yang Xue still shook her head vigorously: "No! I can't be wrong! She ......"

"She's a thousand-year-old female corpse!" I shouted at Yang Xue, "A ghost! Once you release it, the consequences are unimaginable! ”

Uncle Ma on the side saw that we were arguing, so he hurriedly pretended to cough a few times, and said: "What is there to quarrel with the two young people, in my opinion, Xiaolong is right, that corpse behaves very strangely, and she can't be easily confused by her appearance." When my grandfather was still alive, he often told me that the more sinister and vicious the ghosts, the better they were at disguise, and when people approached or let their guard down, these cunning ghosts would take advantage of the opportunity to enter and kill the living! ”

"Leave my sister alone!" Lao Yang said abruptly at this time, "She is too injured now, talking nonsense, our top priority is how to find a way to get out." ”

Yang Xue was dissuaded by the three of us again and again, but she didn't say anything anymore, she realized that no matter how she argued with us, she couldn't convince us, and finally sighed, closed her eyes, and fell into a half-asleep state wrapped in a life blanket.

Lao Yang and I were greatly relieved to see that Yang Xue was no longer making trouble, and discussed the next plans with Uncle Ma. According to Lao Yang's meaning, we should follow the flow of this underground dark river, because the river is wider, and the huge drainage should be a certain mountain and lake leading to the outside world. Uncle Ma meant the opposite, he felt that we should sail against the current, trace the source of the underground dark river, find the cave in the crack of Baiyun Mountain in Luojiazhai, and find a way out through that crack.

"The iron gate above the cracked stone wall is in disrepair," Uncle Ma reminded us, "it must be possible to break it open with stones, so why should we risk finding another exit?" ”

Lao Yang retorted:

"How can you be sure that this cave must be connected to the chasm? And, according to your own account, there is a fiery monster lurking in the cracked cavern, and we are not falling into the net by walking like this? ”

Uncle Ma shook his head disappreciatively and said:

"Definitely! I have lived in this county for most of my life, and I have traveled all over the county, except for Baiyun Mountain in Luojiazhai, I have never heard of any hot springs or volcanoes in other places. Think about how big a county-level city can be in a remote area, and if there are other special areas of hot springs and volcanoes, can it not spread? Have you ever heard of the volcanic zone other than the Baiyun Mountain Crack Hot Springs? Believe me, old man, don't waste any more time along this underground river, we might as well go straight to that crack cave and find a way out there. As for those legendary fiery demons, maybe they are some bat-like creatures, the so-called blessing is not a curse, it is a disaster that cannot be avoided, since we have entered here, can just rumors easily scare us? ”

Uncle Ma said so much that he wanted to persuade us to walk in the opposite direction along the underground river, but Lao Yang has always been stubborn, and I can't say anything when I am caught in the middle, so I have to tell the two of them my own thoughts:

"In my opinion, it's better to follow Uncle Ma's wishes first, let's look up and see, and if the situation is not right, we will turn back immediately."

When Lao Yang heard me say this, he sighed helplessly, and had no choice but to agree. We had made up our minds, and rested for a while by the steaming underground river, where we wiped our faces with wet towels, and felt that although the water smelled of sulphur, they felt refreshed and comfortable after wiping their faces. I wiped Yang Xue again, saw her open her eyes, and told her about our decision. She just nodded slightly, as if she didn't care where we were going, and kept her expression sluggish and lost in thought, as if she was still haunted by what had just happened. Soon after, we packed our bags and began to travel up the underground river, the road was not easy to walk, and we moved very slowly.

As I walked, I observed the rushing river, and found that there seemed to be a transparent fish living in the shallow part of the river. The finger-thick, somewhat domesticated goldfish, has long fins that can latch onto rocks in the water and feed on rare plankton. I was very surprised and amazed at the super adaptability of the fish, not to mention the lack of food sources in the deep caves hundreds of meters underground, just the water temperature of up to forty or fifty degrees, this fish is still tenaciously surviving, it can be described as a small strong among the fish, the tenacity of vitality, breathtaking. However, it is clear that it is difficult to have large fish or other terrestrial creatures in such harsh waters, and the lack of food and high temperatures can discourage ordinary creatures.

We walked about 10 kilometers upstream along the underground dark river, and still didn't see the end of the cave, nor did we see the ground crack cave that Uncle Ma said, so we couldn't help but panic a little. It stands to reason that Wanjiang Town is only a little more than 20 miles away from Luojiazhai, which is almost 10 kilometers away. And after a long trek, with a sick number, and this troubled river embankment, the difficulty of walking soon made us unbearable.

"Don't go!" Lao Yang couldn't help but shout, "If you go any further, once the power of the flashlight runs out, it will be difficult to turn back." It's better to turn back to the shore as soon as possible. ”

Uncle Ma said with an ugly face:

"Young man, let's go two or three kilometers further, and if it doesn't work, turn around and come back. But you don't feel it, the further we go upstream, the hotter the cave gets, and I think I'm right, we're already very close to the volcanic hot springs. ”

Uncle Ma wiped his sweat as he spoke, and the surroundings were indeed starting to heat up.

I don't remember exactly when the temperature started to get hot, but when we stopped, several of us were already sweating profusely, and our close-fitting clothes were soaked with sweat. Not only was the temperature of the river quite high, but the heat was difficult to dissipate in the cave, so that the temperature of the surrounding space also rose sharply, and a fog with a strong sulfur smell was formed, and visibility instantly dropped to a difficult level.

We resisted the heat current, braved the fog with extremely low visibility, and continued to go about 2,000 meters deeper, and at a corner, we suddenly found a crack that was tilting upwards, and this crack was located far away from the river bank, which seemed to be the Baiyun Mountain crack that Uncle Ma said. The gap is about twenty meters high, and the further you go, the higher it seems. The bottom part is more spacious, but the top is gradually closed, and the whole crack looks like a high-waisted triangle from a distance, but it is clear that there is a fundamental difference between the fissure formed by the tear of the mountain, not the cave formed by tens of thousands of years of erosion by flowing water.

"I didn't lie to you, did I?" Uncle Ma smugly pointed to the crack in the cave, "Without further ado, let's hurry in, it is estimated that it won't be long before we can find the exit." ”

Uncle Ma said and began to wipe the beads of sweat from his forehead again, I saw his anxious appearance, and there was a little excitement in my heart, did I really find an outlet? After being trapped in this cave for so long, can we really get out alive? At this moment, I suddenly felt a lot of emotion, remembering the determination I had when I first came in, but by this time it was long gone, and I just wanted to be able to escape from the demon cave for a long time, and not to covet any treasures to restore the country.

Lao Yang and I helped Yang Xue, and together with Uncle Ma, we cautiously walked towards the crack. When we got closer, we found that the crack was larger than it had just appeared, and there was more gravel at the bottom, and the road was not smooth, but extended up with a slight slope. The crack was still filled with the sulfurous mist, and the temperature showed no signs of abating, and we supported each other into the crack, almost exhausted, but we didn't want to stop and rest at this time.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked into the crack for more than 100 meters, Uncle Ma found a box full of silver dollars and a skeleton lying nearby on the ground. The box is not big, just enough for one person to hold, and from the outside, this person is afraid that after a long journey with this box full of silver dollars, he will faint here due to physical exhaustion, and finally slowly collapse and die. Because this person is not hideous in his death, he still holds the box firmly before he dies and refuses to let go, he is a mortal who died for money.

"Poor thing, it's so close to the exit, and you still don't hold on......"

Uncle Ma sighed at the skeleton while loading the silver dollars in the box into his backpack, "We are lucky, we are about to go out, and we don't want to meet a fortune boy on the way!" ”

Lao Yang was stunned for a moment, and also helped Uncle Ma pick up the silver dollars on the ground, and asked me how much such a box of silver dollars could be sold for at the current market price.

I told them that at the current rate of 500 yuan per silver dollar, this box of silver dollars would be worth about four or five hundred thousand yuan.

Uncle Ma's eyes widened when he heard this: "So many? ”

"It's not much......," I replied absentmindedly, but at this moment I suddenly saw a larger box not far ahead, and the contents were glittering golden in the light of the flashlight, and the fog was hazy, and I couldn't see what it was. (To be continued.) )

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