Almost out of instinctive reaction, Lu Dachuan shouted at Liu Changleg while pulling out a knife in his hand: "Quickly turn on the headlights and see what is in front of you!" ”

Long Legs turned on the high-power lights, and in the bright and somewhat dazzling light, we saw a huge stone wall as large as the whole cave slowly moving towards us, and suddenly all the people stopped in their tracks, staring at the stone wall in amazement, as if frozen in time.

After a full minute, it dawned on me: "I understand, I understand, there are rocks growing here, the whole cave is going to be filled, there is no way out, there is no way out, there is no way out, we are finished!" ”

Lu Dachuan grabbed me by the collar and pulled it in front of me: "What did you kid say?" ”

"I said there was a stone in this hole that was growing, and it was growing, and all the space was going to be filled......"

"You're scared silly! Animals grow, plants grow, how do stones grow? Lu Dachuan shook me, "Wake up and think about what is going on?" I don't know if we're really going to be finished! ”

I grabbed Lu Dachuan's hand: "There may be a problem with what I said, it's not that the stone is growing, it's that something is growing into a stone." ”

"Isn't that the same?"

"How can you understand!" The stone wall was getting closer and closer, and I was so anxious that my eyes were red, and my hands were clutching my hair tightly, "Quicksand, yes!" Now that you think of the stone wall that is coming at us as quicksand, you can understand what I mean. ”

Lu Dachuan let go of me, staring at the moving stone wall and thinking about my words.

I saw that Lu Dachuan understood a little, and continued to explain: "When we were about to enter the underground cave, countless human-faced bats flew from the village into the big pit behind, and when we walked out of the stone chamber of the lonely mountain, there were countless rootless trees going to the top of the cave, we didn't know the reason at the time, but now you think about it, there is a stone on the other side of the stone bridge that is constantly getting bigger, bigger, bigger, so big that the space in the hole is filled, and there is also a stone near the lonely mountain that is constantly getting bigger, bigger, bigger...... It is also possible that the two places are open, and only one stone is getting bigger. ”

"The living space of human-faced bats and rootless trees is constantly compressed, so they have to flee for their lives!"

I nodded.

"Judging from Lao Liu's matter, this thing is soft in the long process, and it quickly becomes as hard as a stone when it stops."

"Makes sense! I just don't know if this is a mechanism in the cave, which was inadvertently activated by us, or if it was the ghost of those two stone men. ”

The stone wall is getting closer. Lu Keqin and Lin Xian'er hugged each other in fright and trembled. Liu Changleg listened to the two of us not hurrying to think of a solution to the problem, but chatted, and hurriedly urged: "You two don't talk, what should you do quickly?" ”

I looked at Liu Peng: "No way, we're finished." ”

Lu Dachuan looked at me with a disheartened look, and scolded: "I really don't know if you are smart or stupid, other bats and rootless trees still know how to escape, how can we be doomed!?" ”

"What else can I do?"

"Find a way to go down!" Lu Dachuan opened his eyes and pointed to the big pit under the artifact.

Although Lu Dachuan's momentum is shocking, I know in my heart that if we want to go down to the bottom of the unfathomable big pit, we have only one way: jump.

Regardless of my induction, Lu Dachuan turned back to Liu Changjiao and Ma Qiang and said, "Gather all the ropes, pitons, rock plugs, and steel drills to work!" ”

Liu Changjiao and Ma Qiang have followed Lu Dachuan on many expeditions, and they have long been accustomed to obedience in critical situations, so as soon as Lu Dachuan finished speaking, they moved their hands.

I glanced at the stone wall that was overwhelming like waves, and turned around to sit next to Lu Keqin. Lu Keqin leaned towards me, holding one of my arms with one hand, resting her head on my shoulder, and pulling Lin Xian'er against her with the other hand.

I looked at the foggy big pit and the busy Lu Dachuan, I couldn't control my panic, I was both afraid of the coming death and didn't feel like it was real, I thought in my heart that if I went over to help, at least I could make the time before death pass a little faster, but I really couldn't hold my heart, and after thinking about it, I felt that it was better to talk to Lu Keqin, not to mention that there would be no chance in the future, so I said: "Sister Keqin." ”

"Huh?"

"Are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid!"

"I'll tell you the story of Yang Hongqi!"

"Hmm."

"Where am I?" I thought for a moment, "Yes! After searching and rescuing the plateau to no avail, Yang Hongqi and Comrade Huang reluctantly accepted the reality that everyone else had been sacrificed, and returned to Beijing with a heavy heart. Yang Hongqi returned to the army and lived painfully every day immersed in memories of the past. Comrade Huang plunged headlong into the study of that stone.

Five years later. Because they had experienced life and death together, Yang Hongqi and Comrade Huang had become good friends at this time, and they knew that his identity was a researcher at a scientific research institute.

One day, Comrade Huang asked Yang Hongqi if he would like to take another trip to the plateau? Yang Hongqi remembered his dead comrades-in-arms and said, of course he would like to. Then Comrade Huang told Yang Hongqi that he had finally figured out the secret of the stone, which itself was a key, and the pattern engraved on it was a map of the place where the key could open the door.

In this way, Comrade Huang organized another scientific expedition team, and Yang Hongqi and some other comrades-in-arms were responsible for protecting their safety. Because of the experience of the past, after arriving on the plateau this time, they recruited a large number of excellent hunters to be guides. ”

Lu Keqin interjected: "Then Daddy Boba and they will go to apply." ”

"Hmm. From the time they followed the guide to the point where we are now, no one was chasing after us except the back of the buttocks, and after passing more or less than us, I wouldn't be verbose.

After arriving here, just like Professor Wang did back then, Comrade Huang and the others also divided the team into two groups. He and Yang Hongqi walked with a group of heads, and the rest were led by the old man with glasses we saw below, resting in place for half an hour before following.

No one thought that it was this half hour that killed them! It is also strange that there was no such advanced equipment as it is now, and for fear that the lack of oxygen in the cave would cause sudden suffocation, Yang Hongqi, who was walking in front, specially lit a torch. The heat released by the burning of the torches attracted a large number of rootless trees in the surrounding area to gather in the clearing in front of the lonely mountain.

The group of Yang Hongqi in front of him successfully entered the cave on the lonely mountain, but the other group who came half an hour later rushed to ......"

Lin Xian'er on the side interrupted me: "Didn't the rootless tree swallow the prey it caught into tentacle-like leaves, store it and slowly decompose it and absorb it?" How could they be like that? ”

"That's a good question! This question is also a question that has bothered Yang Hongqi and them for a long time, I will buy it first, and it will be boring to say the answer in advance. "I was talking to Lin Xian'er, but my eyes were looking at Lu Keqin, who was leaning on me, and I felt a warm current in my heart, and suddenly felt that death might not be so terrible," Yang Hongqi said, after they safely entered the stone room on the lonely mountain, they saw that the walls were full of precious petroglyphs, and they forgot about the people behind them. By the time I remembered it, several hours had passed, and seeing that the people behind me had not yet come, I hurriedly walked to the entrance of the cave to see the situation.

Seeing that the wide area under the lonely mountain was empty, they did not know that those people were killed below, and thought that something had happened in the well, so they hurriedly sent someone down to see, but one person disappeared after sliding down the rope, and another one disappeared after sliding down...... Within a few minutes, three in a row disappeared under their noses, not even a sound, thinking that those people might also disappear out of thin air, they were terrified to the extreme.

Because they had learned some information about these cave ruins in the petroglyphs in the stone chamber in the previous few hours, they returned to the stone chamber and went crazy to study, hoping to find relevant information that could solve the cause of their disappearance as soon as possible. ”

"Aren't most of the petroglyphs we see covered up? Did they get it after reading it? ”

"It's not."

"What's going on? What are the contents of the petroglyphs? ”

"We asked Yang Hongqi about this, and he said that we remembered this part of the notebook we found, so let's read it slowly."

After answering the questions raised by Lu Keqin and Lin Xian'er, I continued: "Comrade Huang, they worked day and night, and it was not until more than 20 years later that they deciphered a text on the ground on the third floor of Gushan and found the night vision goggles that Yang Hongqi gave us in a stone room stacked with a large number of living utensils, and solved the mystery of the disappearance of the other group of the scientific expedition team. At this time, there were very few people alive in the entire expedition team.

As for those people who have been dead for so many years and still strangely maintain the posture of when they were alive, it is quite cruel to say......" I thought about it, bypassing the death process of those people, "Since rootless trees do not rely on the root system to absorb the nutrients they need, it becomes particularly troublesome to reproduce the next generation, the tree must first shed the mature seeds in the storage of nutrients at the root of the leaves, and after the seeds germinate and grow into saplings, the tree also has to wrap its leaves around a large enough animal, secreting a toxin that makes the animal's nerves anesthetized, the epidermis waxed, The interior slowly decomposes before allowing the sapling to come out of the reservoir. It tends to be an instinct, and the branches and leaves of the sapling will cling to the decomposed animals inside to absorb nutrients until they grow into small trees that can feed on their own by the branches and leaves......" At this point, I suddenly thought of a question, and I stopped unconsciously.

At that time, when Yang Hongqi told us this intermittently, I was just shocked, and now I have told it again from beginning to end, and I suddenly remembered the story of Zawang's resurrection, could it be that there was also a rootless tree in the cave where he rested for a night after he got lost, he was poisoned by the rootless tree, and after returning home, the poison attacked, and the family thought he was dead, so they pulled him to the sky burial, and when the back was cut by a knife, a large amount of blood with toxins flowed out, and he came back to life under the stimulation of pain, And the vultures that disappeared under the nose of the celestial burial master were devoured by the leaves of the small rootless tree attached to him......

These thoughts flashed in my mind, and I wanted to think about it again, but Lu Keqin moved in my body: "My mother! It's clearly like an animal, how can it be said to be a plant? ”

Her train of thought was interrupted by her, thinking that she was about to die, and it didn't matter if the truth of the matter was really as I deduced, so she said to Lu Keqin: "I also think it's an animal, but Yang Hongqi said that the big vat and pot like metal in the cave are made of wood without roots." ”

"Really? I remember you didn't even pick up a thin lid, how heavy must a big tree be, and they can walk around silently? ”

"I think it's because its eight leaves are much larger than the tree's, and it's soft enough."

"Alas...... It's a world full of wonders! ”

"Yes! If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you wouldn't have believed anything. ”

Lin Xian'er didn't say anything, but she was also full of emotion in her heart.

"And then?"

Later, in the process of deciphering the remaining words in the cave and sorting out the notes, the surviving members of the scientific expedition team ran out of oil one after another, and finally only Yang Hongqi was left alone. He has carried out two important missions in his life, the people he protected are dead, and the close comrades-in-arms who carried out the mission with him are all dead, and his spirit has been strongly hit, and his body has become like that again, so he has given up the plan to get out alive......"

I finished speaking, Lu Dachuan and the others were also ready, he greeted, and we stood up with each other's arms......