Chapter 41: The Basin
As soon as I saw that the road had been blocked by a falling boulder, it seemed that I couldn't go back to the cave where the boat was parked, and in the panic, I didn't have time to think about it, so I dragged Yang Xue and ran to the mine in the middle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Like a torrential rain, the gravel continued to fall from the top of the cave, smashing on our helmets, shaking our heads numb, the number and size of the gravel continued to increase, and several of the wooden beams supporting the mine could not bear the strength, and the waist collapsed with a "click", and in a few minutes, the whole mine was about to collapse.
Yang Xue and I just rushed to the end of the mine, and when we looked around, sure enough, the huge door and the chains wrapped around it were blown open. The two huge iron gates, which were now falling behind, revealed a natural circular cavern, which looked unfathomable, and could feel a faint cold wind rushing towards them.
I hurriedly told Yang Xue, let's run in to avoid the limelight for the time being, the cave inside seems to have no signs of collapse, before I finished speaking, I was hit on the shoulder by a gravel above my head, this gravel is the size of a watermelon, hit my shoulder with great power, I was knocked to the ground at once, the whole person rolled, just landed next to the dumped gluttonous statue, face to its strange mouth, almost didn't kiss it.
I only heard a very sharp cry from the hollow belly of this gluttonous statue, which sounded like a baby crying, very terrible, and I shuddered, and before I could get up from the ground, a puff of black smoke suddenly erupted from the strange mouth of the statue, and went straight into my mouth and nose. The black mist was extremely pungent, as if it was a mass of carrion with maggots, and the smell reached my throat, and I couldn't resist it for a moment, and as soon as my throat tightened, I retched.
At this time, I suddenly heard the sound of a wooden beam breaking behind me, crackling, ringing, I turned my head sharply, and saw that it had collapsed all the way from the outside of the mine, and the entire roof of the cave had fallen. When I looked up, my heart was not good, and I saw that the whole rock formation above my head suddenly cracked and fell off, and it was about to bury me alive.
Between the lightning and flint, but her legs were pulled by Yang Xue, she made a fierce force, and instantly pulled me into the cave inside the giant gate, at the same time, the rock layer at the top of the cave collapsed, making a dull loud noise, stirring up a large amount of dust, if it was half a second slower, I am afraid that I will be smashed to pieces by this huge rock formation.
Yang Xue and I leaned against the cave to breathe, and it didn't take long for the noise to subside, and when the dust gradually dispersed, we saw that the mine where we came was completely blocked by the falling rock formation. It seems that the structure of these caves has long been unstable because of their age, and the impact of the explosion finally triggered a chain reaction, and the sweeping collapse buried this ancient mine hole in the depths of the rock forever. Thinking of the danger of Fang Cai, I couldn't help but feel palpitations, but fortunately, the structure of this natural cave inside was relatively stable, and it was not affected by the collapse of the mine outside, otherwise, we would have died ugly.
I thanked Yang Xue for saving her life and said to her:
"I see that we have no choice at the moment, we can only continue to go deeper along this cave, and I don't know what demons and monsters are inside, what kind of monster is it that hit the giant gate, we need to be careful when we go, these dangers have escaped death, it seems that God doesn't want to accept us."
Yang Xue also ignored me, looking at her, she hadn't recovered from the fright, too, a woman, who was the age of her husband and godson, came to this cave to suffer this crime, and she felt a little aggrieved when she thought about it. However, Yang Xue was much stronger than I expected, and she rested against the cave wall for a while, then beckoned me and followed her inside.
The diameter of this cave is about 6 meters, the slope is large, and it has been extending downward, and we have not walked for long, and it suddenly became clear in front of us, and we came out of this cave, but suddenly entered a very huge space.
How to describe it, this hall looks more open than the underground lake we saw before, take a flashlight to shine, before and after the left and right can not shine at all, our position is in a small hole above the cave wall of this hall, the foot is nearly 100 meters of cliff, below the cliff, as far as the light reaches, overgrown with stalagmites up to tens of meters, standing in the middle of the forest, densely distributed, forming a natural "stalactite forest".
We took the light to look at the roof of the cave again, and found that the roof of the cave was too high for the light to reach at all, and the darkness in the distance swallowed up the circle of light, which looked a little unsettling. Judging from the cave wall where we are, this hall is more like a huge "basin", distributed in a circle, and under the cliff, it is the belly of the basin, and I don't know what is hidden in those craggy strange stones.
I've never seen such a large underground space, and I've never reported any larger hall than this, and our discovery is almost certainly the first of its kind in the world. The area of the Miao Hall in the Gebihe cave system in Guizhou, China, is only 116,000 square meters, which is already the second largest in the world. In terms of length and scale, this cave may not be the longest, but in terms of the spatial volume of a single hall, I am afraid that it is difficult to surpass it.
It's just that we don't have flares and can't spy on the whole picture of this "basin", but judging from the sound of impact coming from behind the giant gate just now, there must be some kind of huge creature hidden in this huge "basin", which can shake the power of thousands of catties, this kind of creature is also very rare on the earth, although I am afraid, but my curiosity is suddenly raised.
I was shocked by the vast and spectacular scene in front of me, but Yang Xue asked me to pay attention to my feet, saying that in the stalactite forest below, there seemed to be a few clouds of light moving.
I retracted my mind, followed the direction pointed by Yang Xue, and fixed my eyes, and sure enough, there were several shadows in the chaotic stones. I analyzed it at the moment and said that these guys are not Captain Li, who else will they be? We searched around this cliff and immediately found a rope that was going down vertically, and it turned out that Captain Li and the others had already descended down this rope to the bottom of the "basin".
Yang Xue said "Huh" on the side and said:
"It's strange, why are they crouching there and not moving, as if they are giving us some code?"
I took a closer look, and saw that one of them was holding a flashlight and scratching around the wall of the cave around us, not knowing what he was trying to convey.
I couldn't help but say: "They must not be at ease, they were almost killed by them underwater before, now no matter what they say, don't believe them anymore, let's take our Yangguan Road, they cross their single-plank bridge, we will not interfere with the river ......water in the future."
Yang Xue suddenly pulled my clothes and interrupted me:
"No, look at this person, it seems that he is using a flashlight to write on the wall of the cave next to us!"
As soon as I heard Yang Xue say, I immediately woke up, followed the pillar of light, looked at it for a long time, and saw that the person kept scratching the wall of the cave with a flashlight, and the action was very anxious, and I only recognized the word "no".