Chapter 47: The Sinkhole
As soon as I looked around, I noticed that the jaw of one of the corpses was slightly open. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info I was startled, and my heart said is it really a corpse? Hurriedly let the monk stay away.
At this time, the monk suddenly found something boring? He blew on a fire fold and then used his knife to pry open the corpse's mouth. I looked at it from the back and was furious, and I thought to myself, this guy can really get his hands dirty.
And at the moment when the corpse's mouth was pried open, a dark green viscous liquid flowed out from the corner of the corpse's mouth. At the same time, an extremely fishy smell came to the nostrils, instantly suppressing the smell of corpses.
I almost threw up, and my stomach suddenly turned backwards. The smell was so unpleasant that I felt like I was going to suffocate.
"Monk! What are you doing? ”
The monk pinched his nose and said, "It's not good. Changshan, what do you look at here? ”
I resisted the urge to vomit and held my breath to lean over to take a look. The monk leaned over the fire fold, only to see a thumb-sized thing curled up in the corpse's mouth, which was red all over.
My heart said is it a blood cicada? But when I looked closer, I found that it was not, and this thing looked like a cicada chrysalis.
"What is this?"
The monk frowned and said, "The larvae of the blood cicada." We've got to get out of here, this thing is about to change. ”
I hurriedly said, "Is it too late to burn it now?" ”
The monk said, "No, it should be a few hours before the transformation." And if anyone comes down from the hole, this guy can just help us with our worries. ”
"We need to get out of here before we get out of shape."
The monk made a few simple torches out of fire oil. The two of them packed up their things and hurriedly groped their way to the depths of the cave. The stone tunnels in these caves are completely natural, so there is no pattern to where the exit will be. The torches didn't last long, so the monk in front walked fast. I didn't dare to be distracted, and I didn't dare to fall a single step.
The cave was eerily quiet. And we didn't go far before the monk noticed that there was something going on. The torches shone past, and we saw a sarcophagus not far in front of us. However, in some areas in the south, there is indeed a custom of cave burial, so it is normal for coffins to appear here.
When we got over, we saw that the sarcophagus had been opened. The monk examined it and found that there was nothing in the sarcophagus except for a layer of rotten clothing laid at the bottom of the coffin. There were no funerary goods, not even bones.
The monk speculated that the long-haired monster that attacked him before was likely to run out of this coffin bed. I was worried that the night would be long and I would have too many dreams, so I beckoned the monk not to stay for long. But at this time, the monk suddenly found something interesting on the sarcophagus.
"Chang Shan, look at this pattern, is it familiar?"
The monk pointed to the sarcophagus lid that had fallen to the side, and I reached for the torch and recognized it at a glance.
"Zhu Wang Qing?"
The monk nodded and said, "It seems that this sarcophagus is not an ordinary coffin. I have a hunch that we're probably going to stumble into each other by mistake. ”
"You're saying that this cave has the potential to lead to the Yelang King's dungeon?"
The monk said: "There is indeed such a possibility. The karst caves here extend in all directions, and there should be more than one road to the underground palace. And since there will be a sarcophagus engraved with bamboo king green here, it means that the underground palace is likely to be nearby! ”
I said that you are too one-sided, these eight characters have not been skimmed, just a sarcophagus, you can judge the location of the underground palace?
"Keep walking, if that's the case, then the two of us are really a blessing in disguise."
The two of them continued to grope along the cave, but as we continued to go deeper, the monk's statement did not seem to be true. If the dungeon is indeed nearby, then there will definitely be traces of man-made rest. But along the way, we didn't find any traces of human activity except for the sarcophagus.
The hope that had just been ignited in the hearts of the two people was extinguished in an instant. But the appearance of the sarcophagus engraved with bamboo king green here is really incredible.
And this cave doesn't seem to be as long as I thought. We walked back and forth for less than an hour before we came near the exit. But what we didn't expect was that the exit of the cave was not directly connected to the outside world, but was connected to another water cave. And the scale of this cave is much larger than what we have walked before. In contrast, one is like a mainstream, and the other is like a tributary.
For a moment, the two people stood near the exit a little overwhelmed. I couldn't help but feel a little lost, and the monk was stunned for a long time, then looked back and forth with a torch, and beckoned me to continue walking. There was no other way now, I followed in his footsteps, and the two of them continued to walk into the depths of darkness.
But this time, it didn't go far. The monk who was walking in front suddenly stumbled and almost fell. I hurriedly grabbed him from behind, and the monk shouted, "Quick, hold me!" ”
The monk was so frightened that his legs went limp, and his mouth recited Amitabha. I don't know how yet? The monk pulled me and hurriedly retreated. I asked him what was going on? He wiped the cold sweat on his face, and said with palpitations: "It's really fucking hanging, just looking around, not paying attention to the situation under your feet, and almost dying." ”
As he spoke, he shook the torch forward, and I was stunned when I saw what was happening in front of me.
I saw an incomparably huge sinkhole, which appeared in front of us without warning, and the entire cave was almost divided into two.
The lighting range of the torches is very limited, and the scale of the sinkhole is not visible at all. The monk blew a fire fold, and then threw it vigorously towards the opposite bank. In the darkness, I saw that the fire fold quickly turned into an orange point of light, and after sliding forward for a distance, it was not blocked in any way. Then it quickly fell into the sinkhole in an arc. Immediately after, it completely disappeared from our sight.
Suddenly, I let out a "pop" in my heart, and said that this sinkhole is at least dozens of zhang wide. We will never get past it under any circumstances.
The monk was also apparently taken aback. I was stunned for a while, at a loss.
And now, there is only one path ahead of us. It's about going back the way you came, and then looking for another exit.
But the monk has always been a person who does not hit the south wall and does not look back. When he came back to his senses, he began to ponder back and forth along the edge of the sinkhole. I said that no matter how much you think about it, there will be no result, and this time it is a dead end in front of us, and there is no negotiation at all.
The monk disagreed: "That's not necessarily, look at what I found?" ”
I said in my heart that you found nothing useful. But the monk called out to me at this time and asked me to come and help. I see he's been squatting there, and I don't know what he's messing with? Curious, I walked over.
When I got closer, I realized that there was a behemoth lying in front of the monk.
"What is this thing?"
The monk didn't raise his head and said, "Haven't you seen it?" This guy is a heavy repeating crossbow machine, which is old, but it's a pity. ”
"It's a pity?"
He nodded and said, "It's been too long, and the crossbow machine has been scrapped." You see, even the caliber of the embrasures is different from the current regulations, which shows how old this crossbow machine is. ”
I have no idea about it, so I don't quite understand what he's trying to say.
"Changshan, come and help. This guy is so heavy that I really can't handle it alone. ”