XXIV. Another bronze mask

"Shhhh The old man stopped me from talking to the fat man with his hand.

"What sound?" The fat man asked with a big grin.

"No sound?" I listened carefully for a while, and was surprised.

"Don't gasp, rest for a while and wait for your mind to calm down and listen, the sound is coming from far away along the river." The old man said patiently.

"On the other side of the river?" I looked at the dark sides of the river and asked.

"Behind you is on the left."

"Left?" I calmed down and listened slowly, but there seemed to be only the sound of the wind.

"Forget it." The old man said to me after a while, "Don't listen, there's no voice." ”

"None?" I was really puzzled by what he said, and hurriedly wondered, "What kind of voice are you talking about?" ”

"It's like a roar." The old man's unhurried narration is "like the wail of a creature before death." ”

"What a joke." Xu Ming panted and said angrily, "What the hell is this place?" How can there be so many weird things. ”

"What is this?" The old man seemed to be trying to strike us a little deeper, and he said to us, "Didn't you notice? What kind of place are we going to go down all the time? We've already gone through two faults when we come down here, so where do you think that so-called windy exit leads? As he spoke, he looked at both sides, and I also looked at the place where I found that the terrain of this river was getting lower and lower, and there were quite high stone walls on both sides of it, but the ones on the left were much shorter.

“。” I was a little worried when he said that, can we still go out? We've only been here for less than a day, and weird and weird things have come together, and if we go on like this, can we hold on?

"About Cordyceps, in fact, I guess it was specially buried by the ancients, there are many ways to bury in ancient times, in addition to sky burial, cremation, sea burial, hanging coffin, there are many are lost, this kind of Cordyceps as a foreshadowing I think is also one of them, but I can't imagine that this thing still has such an effect." The fat man said: "So there are actually traces of people in this place, maybe it's an ancient tomb, maybe there will be a mechanism, but these things can't stand the washing of time, but no matter what, it's better for us to be careful." ”

After 1 hour, Wang Lei woke up slowly, and he looked at us in a daze and didn't speak.

"Silly?" The fat man scolded with a smile.

"Nope." Wang Lei said: "Do you smell a smell? ”

"Taste?" I was amazed, "I said the sound and the taste." What exactly did you find? ”

"It's smelling, it's blood." Wang Lei said to us suddenly, and then ran towards the stretch of the river.

"What should I do?" I looked at their current situation, me and the fat man, they still had to figure it out, and I saw Wang Lei running out like this: "Do you want to keep up." ”

"Keep up." I also wanted to know what it was, so the old man picked up the thing on the ground and ran out.

"Well, it's not like a patient." I said helplessly, soon we came to a low-lying area, it is undeniable that the river is very large, and it is also very deep, now we are 2 to 3 meters away from the ground above, there are stone walls on both sides of the river, and there is a crack in the middle of the stone wall, there is a lot of water seeping out of it, and after a while I found that the current situation has turned my mind upside down, at first I thought that a straight down river, but things are not what he imagined, a few channels, Several entrances, which are undoubtedly fatal to a caver. In front of it is a naturally formed arch bridge of stones, under which is a thin trickle that flows from the side of the mountain wall.

"Double-decker river." Xu Ming sighed: "Nature is really wonderful! ”

We were standing on the stone bridge, and there was still a lot of distance from the ground above, "How are we going to go up later?" I worried.

"Stacking ladders, right?" Xu Ming replied.

"No, it's too tall here." The old man denied Xu Ming's idea, and while they spoke, I looked to the side and saw that on the left side of the stone bridge was a mountain wall, and there were five or six small holes in the mountain wall, from which thin water continued to flow out, accompanied by a constant strong wind.

"I wonder what kind of place it is?" The fat man frowned, then waited for a while, found that no one paid attention to him, and instead said, "Otherwise, we will climb up the crack later, and I will have a secret weapon." ”

"Salty. Is it seawater? "Suddenly I heard the old man's voice, and I saw that he had taken someone and licked it when he heard the fat man's words.

"This river channel used to be part of the sea area, but I don't know why, it is estimated that the changes in the submarine mountain have highlighted this place, and after 10,000 years of changes, it has become a sinkhole, and where we are now, I think it is not a river channel, but a submarine fissure, that is to say, a trench, I came here before to see some of the plants in the trench are indeed plants that can only be found in very deep trenches, and the characteristics of these plants are that they grow particularly tall, don't believe you."

"Wait." Hearing this, I interrupted the fat man, "It may be true to say that it is a trench, but don't you think it's far-fetched?" Have you ever seen such a small trench in an ocean? ”

"No, he has a point, maybe it's really a trench." The old man stood at the top of the stone, holding a flashlight, looking into the darkness in the distance: "I don't think our situation is optimistic. It used to be a big trench, but there were some places that arched as the mountain squeezed, and as you can see, the outermost stone wall was very high and the inner stone wall was relatively low. ”

When I heard this, I immediately understood what the old man meant: this place is a natural labyrinth!

"There's a bend on the right." The old man spoke to us again, and then his voice gradually became quieter, as if he had seen something and his attention was immediately focused, and we waited for the following to look up curiously to see what it was.

"It's a mask." The old man immediately jumped down and said to me, "It's a bronze mask." He took the flashlight and flickered past a turnaround and immediately disappeared from our sight.

Mask? As soon as this word came to me, I jumped up, although I had missed a mask before, but no one knows where this mask came from? But whatever it was, at least it told me that someone had been here, and as the old man ran over, and turned a corner, I was greeted by a sediment, and it seemed that this place should be the lowest end of the trench, and these were the relics of the sedimentary type of caves, which should have been left here many years ago as the river dried up, what hairs! Bones! There are also some miscellaneous things that make me sick to my stomach.

"That's not right." I stopped suddenly, and the old man was squatting not far in front of me, but I didn't run over at once, because I felt that the things here scared me even more, and there were still hairs and bones here, and there were a lot of them, and it was obvious that this was a slaughterhouse! I shouted in my heart, I won't die here, right? What could kill a species taller than the two of me, and I picked up a bone with blood on it, which was half my height.

It seems that all those sounds and smells came from here, right? My heart was pounding, and I immediately ran to the old man's side. "How's it going, me."

I was still thinking about how to tell the old man about it, but when I saw this mask, I was dizzy, it was exactly the same as the mask in the video. "How is that possible?"

"What's impossible." This thing just got killed.

"Just killed?" I immediately thought of that bone, it couldn't be that monster, right? No way? What a tyrant it is to wear such a beautiful mask to a monster? I sighed in my heart.

"Put things away." We continued walking, and when we saw the fat man they followed, the old man immediately gave an order, and I knew that the mask really wanted to get closer and closer to me, but the poor fat man and they didn't understand what was going on, so they immediately ran after it.

"There's a voice up ahead." The old man said to me as he ran, "Your mask seems to be more than just a mask. ”

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