Chapter 44: The Ancient Well
I stared at the footprints at the door, and I was overjoyed, and immediately followed up to see if I could find any clues.
When you enter the house, the first thing that catches your eye is a black campfire on the ground, and around the ashes, you can also see some plastic packaging bags, in addition, the footprints inside are very messy, it seems that the group of people have been stationed in this room, about overnight.
We had speculated that the gang was either tourists, an expedition or a treasure heist gang, and now that they have been found in this oasis, the possibility of the latter can be ruled out.
In these years, many people who have time like to explore to find the meaning of life, Han Zitong said, she has met a lot of such people, even if they are reliable, many unreliable ones are often in danger or trapped in the deep mountains and old forests before they begin to regret it, and then call the police and mobilize a large number of police forces to rescue. In her words, don't learn from foreigners to form expeditions without two brushes.
I figured that this group of people must be the expedition team, and I walked around the room, and there was no information left by them except for some garbage.
I tossed around with the ashes a few times, a little disappointed, and then suddenly I heard a rustling sound behind me.
The sound immediately pulled my thoughts away, and at this moment, I was facing away from the gate, and outside the door was the dense vegetation, and the sound of rustling was like the sound of some animal alarming the vegetation. I immediately turned around and looked behind me, and sure enough, I saw the plants on the ground shaking.
The ground plants here are mostly vines and seed grasses, and there are many kinds of cacti, because the surface is covered by plants, so there are many cavities, walking in them, one is not careful, tripping and stepping on the air, needless to say, it is easy to be pierced by cacti and other plants.
At this moment, something seemed to be crawling under the vines and seed grass, causing the leaves of the plants on the surface to shake and rub between them.
It's a lot of movement, I thought, what kind of animal? Snakes can crawl under vegetation? I guessed correctly, and after a moment of observation, I realized that there was indeed a snake underneath the vegetation. I'm not a biologist either, and I don't know any of them, except for the more common and well-known snakes.
At the moment, the snake is hidden in the grass, revealing only a black back with a diamond pattern, I don't know what kind of breed it is, but although it doesn't show its full appearance, at least it has the thickness of a baby's arm, which is a big snake.
It was normal for this oasis to be uninhabited, and it was normal for flora and fauna to flourish, so I was not too surprised, so as not to disturb the rhombic snake, I squatted in place and did not move, intending to wait for it to go away.
But soon, I felt that something was wrong.
Why is this snake so long?
Due to the abundant vegetation, I can only see the snake's back through the gaps exposed between the vegetation, it has been swimming forward, it stands to reason that a snake is estimated to be about a meter long, but I squatted in place for a long time, although the black snake's back has been swimming, but it has not disappeared at all.
I was a little nervous, and my heart said what kind of strange snake is this?
In order to see more clearly, I stood up lightly, standing taller, the coverage of the line of sight was naturally wider, this look, I almost didn't startle the sound, only to see that the vegetation group, there were all black shadows, as if it was not a snake, but a large number of snakes swimming forward in groups. Because of the dark color of their bodies and the number of them, one after the other, they were crowded one after another, so I didn't even notice it before, and thought it was a snake.
Snakes are very sensitive animals, and I believe they must have spotted me, but they didn't attack me. Snakes generally do not take the initiative to attack people, on the contrary, they are actually afraid of people, so there is such a word as startling snakes. In ancient times, when people walked on mountain roads, where there were many weeds, they would take a stick and beat them in front, and the snake noticed the movement, and before anyone approached, he slipped away.
Of course, most of the snake bite incidents are nothing more than two situations, one is that some people are afraid when they see a snake, and when they are afraid, they naturally want to get rid of it, and the snake will increase the bite incident while resisting. The second is that although snakes like to migrate, they are also very territorial, and when humans and snakes meet head-on, they either stay still or run, of course, provided that you have the confidence to run past it. If you rashly enter its territory and arouse its sense of territorial defense, the snake will take the initiative to attack people.
I'm in a pretty regular situation now, not in the middle of the snakes, standing in the room in a regular way, neither making a sound nor making a move, probably because of these reasons, so they are not interested in me.
Thanks to the animal world, otherwise I would have been scared soft.
Seeing that they didn't mean to hurt me, I calmed down and decided to wait until they were gone. At the same time, I wondered how so many snakes could gather in one place. Snakes aren't social animals.
Now that they are heading east in droves, is there something in the east that attracts them?
The scope of my search is in the east, and now that I am on the same road with these snakes, won't I have to change my plans? These thoughts were only in my mind for a moment, and after about five minutes, the snakes finally left, and I breathed a sigh of relief and walked out of the room, hesitating to continue east.
At this moment, standing in my position, there are many houses covered with plants, which shows that the residential area to the east is very wide, and there are traces of human beings found in this room, so it is very likely that the group will go east.
After thinking about it, I decided to follow along, as long as I didn't get too close to the snakes, it should be fine, right?
Thinking about it, I found a wooden stick on the ground and held it in my hand, and walked forward while exploring the way, because I was worried about encountering your snakes, so I walked unhurriedly, so that the search was more detailed, and sure enough, about a hundred meters away, I really found a well.
The surface of the well, which was also covered with vegetation, was crawling on top of it, and at first glance it was impossible to find the well. If it weren't for my slow walking, so I looked very closely, I might have missed it.
When I saw this ancient well, I suddenly had a thought: That person's companion would be in the well, could it be that he stepped on his foot and fell into the ancient well?
Judging by the degree of camouflage of this ancient well, this possibility is really quite large.
Thinking of this, I squatted down and observed the wellhead, and found that the plants at the wellhead were densely wrapped, and if someone had really fallen into or crawled out of the well, then these plants would certainly not be so intact and tight.
It doesn't look like this well.
I got up to leave, but at that moment I heard something coming from the ancient well, like some kind of echo, and I couldn't really hear it.
The valley ** does not come to the wind, the empty valley does not echo, if there is nothing in the well, how can it echo again?
There's no wind here, so it can't be an echo of the wind.
When I heard this, I paused in my step, what if I was in this well? It's safer to make more confirmations.
Immediately, I picked up the plants on the surface of the wellhead, and looked down, the well was dark, it seemed that there was no water, and the wall of the well was very dry, but the well was very deep, and the sunlight could not penetrate it, so it was dark inside, and I couldn't see anything clearly.
I shouted, "Anyone?" Suddenly, the voice echoed in the ancient well.
Before the echo dissipated, in the darkness, a black shadow suddenly poked up from the ancient well, the speed of the thing was so fast, I didn't even have time to be surprised and frightened, the whole person was already swept up by it, and dragged directly into the well.
The next second, I fell into the well, into the dark and narrow mouth of the well, and the feeling was terrifying. The first feeling of the well is that it is deep, and then it is narrow, and if you fall into such a place, it means that you will not see the light of day.
Of course, if there is water in the well, it will be even worse, and if you fall down with your feet down, you can still hold on for a while if you can swim, and you can even climb up the well wheel. But if you fall headfirst into the well, even if you can swim, you will not be able to turn over in the well, and you will have to drown alive.
So at this moment, I didn't even think about what was grabbing me, but instinctively felt a great fear of falling into the well.