Chapter 211: Sinkhole
Even so, I didn't dare to relax at all, I let Wang Yue wait in place, avoiding the giant snake, and came to another cave entrance. This time, I took a special look, and the smooth hole indicated that something would crawl out inside, so I only picked up the rougher hole to check. The distance between each hole is about one meter, which means that we can climb up these holes, and as for what will be on it, God knows!
The serpent is quite scary, but if you can't attack us, it's a useless ornament. It's just that I can't understand how it survived without eating or drinking here for so many years, and what is the purpose of the tomb owner trapping this snake here and not allowing it to move freely! The ancients did things really strangely, and people couldn't figure it out.
I looked at it, and only the hole was smoother, and the others were rough stone caves, and even if the serpent could poke its head out of the other holes, we wouldn't have to worry, at least it hadn't gotten back yet. Of course, if I'm wrong and there's more than one snake here, that's a different story. Anyway, we still have to take a gamble and climb up from here, otherwise there is only a dead end.
I said to Wang Yue: "Come here, do you see these stone caves, we have to climb up, but we must pay attention to whether anything will climb out of the cave entrance."
Wang Yue nodded, handed me the flashlight, and began to climb up the stone cave. If you want to talk about climbing, I asked myself if I could compare to her, Wang Yue had neat hands and feet, and after a while, she had climbed to a height of several meters, and then she turned back to me and said, "Everything is normal, come up quickly."
As soon as she finished speaking, I was about to go up, but suddenly I saw a huge head poking out of the hole, and it was at the entrance of the hole next to Wang Yue. I sweated for her and kept staring at her, but I didn't pay attention to the serpent, and when I looked back, I realized that the serpent had retracted and poked its head out of the hole above.
Wang Yue screamed, and as soon as her hand was released, she fell from it. Fortunately, I kept watching her from below, and I caught her with both hands so that nothing would happen.
Queen Wang Yue patted her chest in fear and said to me: "It seems that this method will not work, or we should find another way out!"
I thought about it for a moment and said to her, "If you can't do it, you have to do it, there is no other way, do you want to go back and be eaten by insects, or do you want to jump into that bottomless hole and fall to your death!"
Wang Yue looked at me with tears in her eyes, looking pitiful. I realized that my tone was a little heavy, she was a girl after all, it was not easy to go all the way, I shouldn't have hit her fragile heart at this time! I smiled and said to her, "Listen, Sister Xiaoyue, now there are only the two of us left, we must succeed, and we can't let Li Yuan sacrifice in vain!"
Wang Yue wiped her tears, nodded to me, and climbed up again. At this moment, the serpent was still in the hole above, with a bloody mouth open, looking at us with fierce eyes.
With the experience of the past, Wang Yue was very careful this time, she specially looked for those holes that looked rough, so as not to collide with the giant snake.
Soon she was already climbing up, and I put the flashlight in my mouth and climbed up after her. The serpent tried to swallow us several times, but unfortunately it couldn't bite us, and although it could poke its head out through other holes, it couldn't bite us.
The higher I climbed, the smaller the hole became, and there was slime on the stones, so I dipped some of it with my hand and put it in front of my nose and smelled it, and it was so fishy that it smelled like the smell of a rotting corpse.
Fortunately, nothing came out to attack us, and I looked down, and at this moment the giant snake was still looking at us upwards, and its eyes were full of unwillingness and anger.
The hole grew smaller and smaller, only the size of a bowl was left, and soon there was no point on it, and I had not yet seen the end of the sinkhole.
After a few minutes, we couldn't find a place to borrow, and when we looked up, we could vaguely see the edge of the sinkhole, but it was more than ten meters away from us. The stone walls are smooth, and there is slime on them, and if you are not careful, you may fall, unless we can fly, it is harder to go up than to climb to the sky!
Wang Yue gasped and looked at me with wide eyes in horror: "What should I do, I can't go up!"
"Don't worry, there will always be a way, since the ancients would design this passage, there must be a way to go up!" I comforted her. I don't know if this sinkhole was designed for people, maybe it's a place to keep big snakes, but we went the wrong way and came here by mistake.
Wait, raise the serpent, and suddenly a terrible thought flashed through my mind. Since this big snake can't get out of the sinkhole, and it hasn't died for so many years, it means that it has enough food sources, and this food is ......
Could it be that this slime is something left, why is there so much slime on the stone wall, and there is a fishy smell!
Before I could figure it out, Wang Yue's hand loosened and almost fell. This frightened me, so I quickly moved to her along the fist-sized hole, helped her, and told her, "Don't scare me, I'll ask someone for money if you die!"
She barely squeezed out a smile and said to me: "I knew it would be so difficult, I wouldn't let you come anyway, for my own sake, to ask you to take such a big risk, Li Yuan has even ...... Already ......"
I sighed and said to her, "Now that we've come to this point, it's too late to say anything, something is going to happen, and no one can stop it, even if we don't come, someone will still come and put this painting back."
Wang Yue frowned and asked me, "You said that since this painting is so spiritual, why were those people able to bring it out in the first place?"
I thought about it for a while and said to her, "You're stumped on me with this question, we're here to return the painting to its original owner, not to handle the case."
"Ah, look......" Suddenly, Wang Yue's face became ugly, and she pointed in the direction behind me for me to see.
I clasped one hand to the hole in the stone wall, stepped on the other with one foot, and then cautiously turned my head. Shining a flashlight on the stone wall, I saw a lot of glowing worms lying on the stone wall, these worms were the size of adult mice, and their bodies were covered with slime, and even without flashlights, I could see a glimmer of light.
The sudden scene suddenly confused me, I had guessed that there would never be only a giant snake to survive alone, but I never expected that this disgusting worm would appear. They are attached to the stone wall and are a potential threat to us!