Chapter 25: A Warning
Yang Xue and I saw Lao Yang standing in front of a stone wall with a solemn expression, with his back to us, carefully observing something. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 At first, I thought he had listened to me talk to Yang Xue about my college experience, and I was a little emotionally lost and wanted to be alone and quiet. Later, he suddenly beckoned us to gather around, saying that it was strange that a passage had been carved on the wall of the cave.
I walked over and looked at the top of the stone wall, and saw the inscription on it: Don't go in, dragon ears.
Of course, there is no comma in this passage engraved on the cave wall, but a whole paragraph that is connected, that is, six words, like a warning. I wondered if it was a warning from my grandfather, but I didn't know who this "dragon ear" was. That's right! Dragon ears, dragon two...... Is this a warning to me?
I expressed my speculation, but Yang Xue didn't seem so sure, and she said to me:
"If you look at this font, it's a modern simplified character, and if you look at the traces of this carving, the surrounding and even the inside of the font are almost covered by growing stone flowers. If it is a warning left by your grandfather, first, he was born in the Republic of China period, and at that time he used traditional characters, and this passage was engraved in modern simplified characters; Second, this font looks hundreds or even thousands of years old, how can there be modern simplified characters? It's incredible! ”
I said if it was the mark left by Zhang Laodao on my grandfather, but my grandfather's name is not called Long'er? And the font is not right. If this so-called dragon ear does not refer to me, then who does it refer to?
We talked about it, but we couldn't say why, so Lao Yang said that maybe it was really a mark left before liberation, let's leave it alone, let's hurry up and go inside.
But ever since I read this passage on the cave wall, my heart has always been full of doubts, and I even can't help but have an extremely ominous premonition. I think I've seen warning signs when I've been caving in the sinkhole before, and although the person who left the mark is someone I know, but in terms of the mark itself, it should have been given some kind of meaning to try to warn people about possible dangers. Moreover, the possibility of prank is not very high, and the words of this warning in front of me are really mysterious and weird.
Ignoring the marker for the time being, we continued to follow the path of the underground river and head deeper into the cavern. This underground river is unlike anything I've seen before, it is made up of many almost isolated pools of water, formed by tiny connections. Also, the shallow waterhole is crystal clear, and you can occasionally see palm-sized fish swimming underwater. Some of the fish are blackbacked, probably washed in from the outside after a rainstorm when the water level rises; In the deeper pools, there is a carp that has completely depigmented, which is larger but relatively sluggish due to the loss of vision.
Seeing these fish in the cave, I was reminded of the experience of the three of Lao Yang more than ten years ago, and I sighed, so I asked Lao Yang: When you told me that there were fish the size of a coffin in the bandit cave, did you scare me or was it really something?
When Lao Yang heard me mention the past, his tone couldn't help but be a little excited about reminiscing about the past, and said to me as he walked:
"Fish that rush into the cave, especially those in this pool, are generally trapped here and have a hard time escaping. They thrive here, and they don't have natural predators like outside, so they can grow boldly and confidently, and over the years, there may indeed be fish that big in larger pools. I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but I've heard from the old man Zhang in the village that when he was young, he had seen such a big carp. You forget, when we were in the bandit cave, we saw buckets of water! ”
Then I remembered and hurriedly said: "Yes, I thought it was a water ghost looking for a stand-in, and I was so scared that I peed my pants at that time, but you didn't notice it at the time, because my pants were wet with water, and I couldn't see it." ”
Lao Yang and I chatted about the past years together, reminiscing about those long childhood pasts, and the originally heavy atmosphere finally became relaxed. We had not walked long when a large pool of water suddenly appeared in front of us, blocking our way. It is possible to climb through the cave wall, but it is very troublesome and dangerous to place ropes and pitons. I suggested that we put on life jackets and swim slowly, because it didn't look like it was long. Lao Yang nodded and agreed with my suggestion, but Yang Xue said that he was a little tired from walking, so let's take a rest on the shore now, eat something and then leave.
After we sat down, Yang Xue suddenly gestured to me and Lao Yang, asking us to gather around, and then, she glanced behind her a little strangely, and said to us in a low voice:
"I feel like someone is staring at us from behind......"
When Lao Yang and I heard this, we both subconsciously looked behind, only to see that the road we came from was pitch black, and we couldn't see anything clearly. I asked Yang Xue if you were mistaken, there is nothing behind. Yang Xue looked very solemn, it didn't look like something out of nothing, she said that we didn't pay attention just now, she did see a little farther behind us, there was a point of light moving.
As soon as I heard it, I couldn't help but shudder, saying that it was a ghost fire?
Yang Xue said with great certainty:
"It's not like a ghost, it's like a human. Because when I stopped to look back, the other party seemed to notice me and immediately turned off the lights. ”
Lao Yang frowned, and suddenly said:
"I probably know who it is, it's okay, let's get inside."
I asked him who he was, but Yang was silent, and then kept urging us to hurry up.
When I was a child, I knew Lao Yang's personality well, but after so many years, he has suffered inhuman experiences again, and his personality must have changed dramatically. I wasn't sure what he was trying to mean, so I asked him if he didn't say it, so I thought he should have his own reason.
We ate a casual bite to eat, then put on the life jackets we had prepared and flowed into the waterhole. In the summer, the water in the cave is extremely cold, and as soon as I enter the water, I can feel a chill coming in. However, I was more worried about what would happen underwater, so I asked them to walk side by side with me, and if something unexpected happened, at least there was a response.
My worries were obviously unfounded, there were no monsters under the cave, and we swam more than a hundred meters, and after turning a corner, we made it to the opposite shore. At this time, Lao Yang suddenly beckoned to us, told us to quickly hide in a sunken rock wall on the shore, and whispered to us:
"Wait here for a while, that person should be over right away......"
After Lao Yang said this, he signaled us to quickly turn off the lights, and then took out the mountaineering pickaxe as a weapon, saying that when that person came, he would subdue the other party first.
We turned off the lights, held our pickaxes tightly, and lay in wait and listen. Soon we heard a very faint sound of entering the water on the opposite side of the pool. It seems that the man has started to swim towards us. (To be continued.) )