Chapter 39: The Water in the Cave
My attention was only focused on Chu Xiangnan's voice in front of me, I didn't pay attention to my feet at all, I didn't even have time to react and rolled out, and struggled to grab my hands in the confusion, trying to catch anything that could stop me, but the tentacles were full of slippery moss and lichen, and occasionally there was some mud and sand, and my hand slipped down directly, and after dozens of turns, my body was cold, and I fell into the water.
The swamp I fell into was a swamp that began to sink rapidly as soon as I entered, but luckily the swamp was waist-deep, and there were countless pieces of wood and roots in the mud around my feet, which were hard and poked at the slightest movement. I gritted my teeth and stood waist-deep in the muddy water, touched it up and down, and immediately screamed in my heart that it was terrible.
This time I fell suddenly, not to mention the crowbar emergency light in my hand, even the bag I had brought on my body was gone, and there was a faint light in the direction behind me - I suddenly turned around and found that the emergency light fell in the muddy water not far from me, and the light was facing the sky, I was happy in my heart, and I was saying that my luck was not bad, but as soon as this thought came to mind, the light suddenly flickered a few times and went out, and the whole world suddenly became dark.
it! It's a little too back!
I took a deep breath to calm myself down and began to observe my surroundings - although the lights were gone, as time passed and I became accustomed to the darkness, a faint, imperceptible light emanating from the rocks of the surrounding mountain walls, from which I could get a general idea of what was going on.
Now I should be in a swamp, like a basin, and the towering part of the rock wall around it is the underground forest with vines and roots just now, a bit like a basin in a rainforest, a swamp in the basin, the only difference is that the basin is in the center of the earth and not the ground.
I wondered in my heart, if this is a basin, then what is the sigh I heard on it just now, could it be that Chu Xiangnan was floating above the basin just now? Otherwise, she is hiding under the cliff? But why did she lead me down? Why is that?
I shouted a few times, hoping to be heard by Tang Mu or Chu Xiangnan, but there was no response, I felt depressed in my heart, and I couldn't help complaining about why I was so impulsive, and at the same time I began to wonder if I was dazzled, and I recalled it a little, and felt that what I saw just now was indeed true, and the doubts in my heart were even heavier......
The water in the swamp was cold and bitter, and I didn't notice it at first, but as soon as I calmed down and thought about it, I felt that my whole body was cold, and I quickly realized that now was not the time to think about such a thing, and I had to think about it first--I was thinking about it, and I suddenly noticed a few faint points of light flashing in the darkness, and suddenly turned around, and found that in the center of the swamp, at some point, a huge rock, or mound, had appeared, several feet above the water, and looked almost bigger than a basketball court.
Those faint, blue dots of light flickered and flickered on the mound, but quickly disappeared.
I suddenly realized that this mound must have existed for a long time, but it was ignored by me in the dark, if there was anything in it, it would definitely be in it, so I quickly made a decision and prepared to go up to the mound to have a look, maybe Tang Mu or Chu Xiangnan would also be on it.
I immediately began to move in the direction of the mound, stepping deep and shallow in the swamp, and struggling forward.
The mound of rocks is about five or six hundred meters away from me, and as I see that I am getting closer and closer, the scene of this mound is becoming clearer and clearer, and I am walking forward and observing, when suddenly I step on something, soft, and there is a feeling of burrs, and some kind of image instantly becomes a shadow in my mind, and I suddenly realize that this may be a person!
It was really creepy to come across a dead man in the dark environment, and my first instinct was to stay away, not wanting to touch it, but my reason told me that since this person died here, I should check it out, and maybe there was something on him that could get out of the darkness!
Holding back the nausea, I leaned down and dragged the corpse out of the mud, my hands flipped around, and I actually turned out a wolf-eye flashlight from him, and tried it, this flashlight can still work, and I immediately lit it.
In front of him was an old man in his fifties, thin and thin, although he had been soaked in water for a long time, he could still tell that the muscles on his body were very solid, and his hands were thick calluses, like a person who was used to doing hard work.
I looked at his face closely, it was puffy and white, his eyes were a little hideous because of the bulge, his right eye was obviously asymmetrical with his left, and his skin was frighteningly white, as bleak as white paper - I shivered, and suddenly understood what was going on!
Paralyzed, this person must be the legendary Mao slanted eye, the one Kansai said, the hair slanted eye that has become a monster!
Then I noticed that something was very wrong, the corpses in the water did not seem to be this one, I struggled to touch the water, and found that the bottom of the mud was full of dead people, all sunk in the mud, and the limbs were intertwined, like a mass grave after a massacre, although I don't know how long they had been dead, but they were not decomposed, and they were all soaked in this waist-deep silt ice water.
I shuddered, and suddenly I remembered that I felt a lot of similar things in the mud when I first came down, but the corpses were already decomposed and only skeletons, so I felt that they were branches or wooden blocks—could it be that the corpses here were two periods, one part was the old corpses, which had rotted over time, and the other part was fresh, so they remained to this day.
Where did these people come from? Did they come in from outside, or was Kansai completely lying, and there weren't just nine people coming?
I suddenly thought of the sigh just now, and said in my heart, is this not Chu Xiangnan's voice at all, but the unjust soul here, who wants to guide me to discover this place, and then expose the insidiousness of this guy in Kansai?
Is he the real F-chan I was talking about, the one hiding next to me?
I suddenly thought of Kansai's description of Mao's squint, saying that his right hand had become a structure similar to a tree root, and I immediately shone a flashlight at his hand, but what I never expected was that this guy's hand was actually broken with his forearm, and the palm of his hand didn't know where it went, so there was no way to talk about distinguishing his hand.
A feeling of extreme uneasiness swept over me, this place was too hanging, I had to leave immediately!
I hurriedly stuffed the things in the old man's pocket into my bag, a lighter, a wolf's eye flashlight, a compass and even a wallet, and then lit it with a flashlight, and quickly moved towards the position of the mound, and after more than ten minutes I came to the side of the mound.
The edge of the mound was not too steep, and the rocks were towering, so I reached out and grabbed the rocks and vines, and pulled hard, and at the same time kicked my feet in the mud, and finally crawled out of the mud, and the whole person fell to the ground.
I was not in a hurry to get up, and I gasped heavily on my back, and at the same time moved my hands and feet to drive away the numbness in my body, but at this moment, the whole swamp suddenly shook, and at the same time a dull roar came out from afar, as if there had been a sudden earthquake!
I was stunned, and a bad premonition rose to my heart, but before I could think about it, a few small stones had fallen from the dome, and I suddenly woke up in my heart, and I rolled towards the edge of the rock next to me.
There was a crackling sound in my ears, and I don't know how many stones had fallen into the swamp, splashing mud and water, and from time to time large rocks falling into it, making a dull popping sound - the rocks next to me had not much cover, and I could only get as close to the stone wall as I could, hoping to use it to resist the loose rockfall of the earthquake, and at the same time hold my head in my hands and curl up as much as I could.
The earthquake stopped, and the rubble stopped after a few moments, and when the rubble stopped, I cautiously got up and began to look into the mound.
It's really just a mound, but in the middle of the mound, there is a huge human sculpture half-hidden in the soil, it feels like something similar to Easter Island, straight and upright, but slightly fat, and there is a half-standing trumpet human sculpture next to it, the appearance is strange, the two carvings look different, the color difference is huge, and it feels like genuine and high-imitation A goods are placed together.
Although the two portrait sculptures look weird, they are only sculptures after all, whether they are stones, wood, or terracotta figurines, and they have little to do with me, and now my concern is only whether the earthquake will knock down the hole, or whether it will block the way out - with this strange mentality, I just glanced at it and immediately looked elsewhere.
There was nothing else on the mound except here, and I couldn't help muttering in my heart: Could it be that I guessed wrong, this is not an important place at all, but that we are going the wrong way, in fact, you old ghosts and they have another place to go?
I was thinking about this, when I suddenly heard a shout, and suddenly looked up, only to see a few bright lights suddenly flashing on the opposite mountain wall, shaking again and again, followed by a person also rolling down from above!
It was too far away, and I couldn't see who it was, but I just felt like Tang Mu, so I shouted loudly, but I saw that he fell into the swamp without a head, and then got up from it with great effort, waved his hand in my direction, and shouted loudly, and it was really him!
This guy fell down and also lost his things, but after all, he had my flashlight to guide him, and soon swam straight towards the mound, and about half an hour or so he arrived at the shore, I reached out and pulled him up with all my might, and before I could ask him what was going on, this guy was already busy grabbing me, and hurriedly shouted:
"Enron, have you caught up with your sister?"
"My sister? Anyi, you say? My second monk was puzzled: "I saw Chu Xiangnan just now, and I went to chase her-why did it happen to An Yi again?" "No, no, no, you're wrong, it's not Chu Xiangnan, it's An Yi, it's definitely An Yi!" Tang Mu retorted categorically: "You just went out from the stone wall, and then you ran away shouting, I followed up to take a look, and I saw you chasing An Yi's back and went... An Ran, your sister and I know each other very well, I can't be mistaken! ”
Tang Mu said resolutely, and the look in his eyes didn't seem like he was lying to me, I suddenly chuckled in my heart, and involuntarily shouted: "It's not good, we have been tricked!" ”
In the same back, I saw that it was Chu Xiangnan, Tang Mu saw that it was An Yi, needless to say, Xiaojun and Guan Xi must have seen the people they cared about - although the tricks are different, but I can be sure that this must be some kind of hallucination, or rather, this is some kind of hallucinogenic drug that makes us feel this way! (To be continued.) )