Chapter 25 Petroglyphs in the Mountains

Lying at the entrance of the cave, I shone it in with a wolf's eye flashlight, and inside was a straight tunnel, deep and long, which seemed to lead straight to the belly of the mountain. However, there was a drop of more than one meter between the floor of the tunnel and the entrance I had opened, and I had to jump to get in.

I was afraid that there would be a trap, so I asked Qingfeng behind me to hand me a piece of diamond earth and threw it down.

With a bang, the adamantium earth hit the ground and made a hard echo. After waiting for a while, there was no movement, and then I was relieved, holding on to the entrance of the cave, and jumped into it carefully.

Not to mention, after going down, I clearly felt that there was a hard bluestone slab under my feet, and I was completely relieved. I stood below and stretched out my hand to help the Yuan sisters down in turn.

The three of us walked down the damp tunnel into the depths.

The tunnel was dug very high, more than two meters, but it was very narrow, barely enough for two people to walk side by side, and the rough rock walls around it seemed to be squeezing together, which made people feel very depressing, because we were wearing gas masks, but we didn't realize how bad the air quality was. I just feel that the humidity of the tunnel is very high, and the bluestone slabs under my feet are full of water droplets, and it is very slippery to walk.

To be on the safe side, we lined up. Just in case I noticed something unusual in the front, the people behind me wouldn't be in danger together.

We walked about a hundred meters to the top of the mountain, and it became eerie and cold. Bursts of damp and cold wind blew out from the depths of the tunnel, sending chills down the tunnel. We were all wearing hiking clothes, but since it was summer, no one thought about keeping warm.

This time, it's miserable. Soon, my hands and feet were a little stiff from the cold. As a last resort, we had to speed up and use exercise to maintain our body temperature. It's a bit risky, but it's much better than having hypothermia.

Fortunately, after we had traveled more than 50 meters, the tunnel in front of us suddenly became narrow, and we could only slow down and bow our heads to drill through in turn.

I drilled out of this narrow area, immediately in a vast cave, I used the wolf's eye flashlight to shine, a few steps ahead of the dark underground river, enough to be more than ten meters wide, looking up, dozens of meters high, very empty, the wolf's eye flashlight barely shined to the top of the cave. This is supposed to be a natural underground cave.

I don't feel so cold standing here.

The sisters of the Yuan family came out of the narrow mouth one after another and came to me, and when they saw this deep underground cave, they let out a vague sigh together, holding a flashlight and shining a random photo.

Since there is water and wind here, it is not necessary to worry about the air quality, anyway, I am not used to wearing a gas mask, so I just took it off. Suddenly, my breathing was much smoother.

I walked to the edge of the dark river and shone it with a flashlight, and the water was extremely clear, two or three meters deep. In the light of the flashlight, you can see a school of small pink fish swimming around. The bottom of the river is hard sand. But I reached out and tested the temperature, and it was bitterly cold. You can't go into the water without a wetsuit.

This is a problem, and the lifebuoys I had prepared were left in the pickup truck, because there was too much equipment, so I didn't bring them. Now I'm blind, and it seems that someone has to go back and get it. Otherwise, this dark river will not be able to cross at all.

When I asked someone to go back to the car to get the lifebuoy, the Yuan sisters looked at me very strangely, and then Qingfeng asked suspiciously, "Then why don't you go yet?" ”

“OK！” I'm also drunk, and I don't want to say, who made me a man! Suddenly I understood a truth, why men are called men, it's really difficult!

I unloaded all the equipment on my body and went into battle lightly, one hundred and fifty meters from the tunnel to the pickup truck, three hundred meters from the hole to the pickup truck, less than a kilometer back and forth, simple!

"You guys take a rest here first, and I'll go back as soon as I go!" Don't walk around, it's probably not safe. As I spoke, I took a look, and the wide underground river, which was black and swarthy, led straight to the depths of a large hole in the belly of the mountain, like flowing into the dark river of yellow springs.

"Let's go, we're not kids!" Qingfeng said nonchalantly. But her expression was far less relaxed than she had suggested.

I smiled secretly, and the little trick succeeded. Hurriedly left, just after passing through the low tunnel, Qingfeng asked Yuan Meng worriedly, "Sister, he won't go back forever, right?" ”

"Don't worry!" Yuan Meng had a faint smile on his face, "He'll be back." ”

When the sisters spoke, I was already far away. I was familiar with the road, so I quickly climbed out of the tunnel and headed straight for the pickup truck hidden in the shade of the trees on the side of the road.

I took a telescopic ladder and three lifebuoys, and quickly returned the same way, and when I crossed the narrow area again and came to the edge of the dark river, I was shocked to find that the two sisters of the Yuan family were all gone! There are only three hiking bags on the ground, but what about them?

I hurriedly searched around with a flashlight, and there was no figure in the river, but it was where the flashlight could shine, and the farther away was completely immersed in ink-like darkness and could not be seen clearly. But there's no way they're going to go straight into the water without waiting for me to come back!

In this case, I had to look along the river bank to both sides, and I put down the lifebuoy and ladder. Walk to the left-hand side first, and the river bank of more than 20 meters will soon come to an end, and there will be nothing! I had no choice but to go back the way I came, look to the right, didn't go far, and under the beam of the flashlight, I finally saw two black shadows shaking in front of me.

I couldn't help but get a little angry, saying that I wouldn't let them walk around, and they were messing around, and if they were in danger, I wouldn't be able to save them!

"What are you two doing?" I said aloud. Unexpectedly, as soon as I spoke, the two figures in front of me disappeared.

Holy, what a situation! I was startled and quickly stopped, it wasn't them, otherwise they wouldn't have heard me and ran, if it wasn't them, what the hell was that! And where did the two sisters go?

I hesitated in my heart, but I was afraid that Yuan Meng and Qingfeng would really encounter danger, so I knew that there was something strange, so I had to move forward.

Just a few steps forward, Yuan Meng's voice suddenly came from the darkness ahead, "Is it Xiao Soul?" Wait a minute, we'll be right over. ”

I immediately breathed a sigh of relief, not only did I say angrily, "What are you two doing, it scared me, I thought you were missing?" With that, I walked briskly towards them.

"Oh, don't come here!" Suddenly, Qingfeng screamed, her voice full of fear.

Oh no, they're in danger. My head buzzed and I flew over.

At the end of the river bank was a small tunnel in the opposite direction, and as soon as I ran around the corner, I saw Yuan Meng and Qingfeng huddled on the edge of the rock, cowering in the light of my flashlight, looking extremely unnatural.

"Are you alright?" I asked nervously, relieved to see that the two of them were not injured, "Why don't you turn on the flashlight," I asked strangely.

As he spoke, he held the wolf's eye flashlight and shone it into the depths of the small tunnel, but found that it was very shallow, only three or four meters deep, and there was nothing empty. That's what scares them.

"What have you encountered?" I asked, puzzled.

"This ......" Yuan Meng said with a twisted expression, huh? I looked at Qingfeng behind her again, and it was even more unbearable, not only was her face super red, but she didn't even dare to raise her head. This, which one of them are singing!

I was completely lost.

They didn't say that I had to find it myself, I swept it with a flashlight, and I found that there was a trace of water on the bluestone slab not far from my feet, what was that? Is it bloodstains?

I walked over, and was about to bow my head to take a closer look, Qingfeng hurriedly said, "Alas, don't ...... you"

But she was still a little late, I had already bent down to go, the water was clear, but a little embarrassed, oh, I see!

I hurriedly straightened my waist, very embarrassed, I said that they didn't let me come, it turned out that they were here to relieve themselves!

It's a big mess! How to resolve the embarrassment? I scratched my ears and cheeks anxiously, and looked left and right, and suddenly found that there were rough petroglyphs on the rock wall in front of me.

"Hey, what is this?" Walk over with a flashlight.

I saw that on the rough rock wall more than one person above the ground, there were dozens of petroglyphs of all sizes, and the more I thought about it, the more petroglyphs there were.

Unfortunately, most of the colored petroglyphs have been blurred and unintelligible, apparently eroded by the damp water vapor here. What can still be read is all monotonous stone carvings. The technique is very bad and unaesthetically pleasing. And most of the content is very nonsense, there are pictures of beheading people, five horses splitting the corpses, and even carving a monster directly, and then a few crooked words are written next to it, what "Wu Laogou must not die well", "Sun Xiaoer, my day your grandmother", "Sister-in-law Li's ass is white and big"

Grass, what the hell is this! No matter how you look at it, it looks like a prank from my own childhood.

Finally, I saw useful information in a piece of garbage graffiti, which was very large and realistic. The center of the rock carving is a high mountain, and there is a cave at the foot of the mountain, and a stream of water flows into the cave from a distance, and there seems to be a lot of wood floating in the water, and it floats into the cave one after another. In the caves, there are many laborers working on both sides of the stream. Some people are hauling drifting timber ashore, some are sawing, some are moving, and many people are gathered in one place as if they were building a huge project, which looks like a ship.

I had a flash of inspiration, Yuan Meng once said that the ship in the mountains was mentioned in the code words about the ruins. The original saying is "There is a boat in the mountain, a coffin on the ship, and a good place in the box". Could it be that the ancient ruins they are exploring today are a giant ship in the mountains!

It's possible. This secret ancient road is built so hidden that I am afraid that no one has entered it for at least a few hundred years. The people who left these various rock paintings can only be the original craftsmen.

In this way, things are clear: when the craftsmen who worked here in the past were working, when they rested here in the small tunnel, they were bored and scribbled a lot of petroglyphs to relieve boredom. Although most of it is nonsense, there are still people who have left real scenes of work at that time.

But what I don't understand is what kind of man has to build a big ship in the middle of the mountain, and what is he doing with it after he has built it? Graves, places of hidden treasure? It's all like it, it's not like it, and the real purpose is only known when you actually board the ancient ship.

I was looking at the petroglyphs in a daze, and suddenly felt so quiet around me, and when I turned my head, Yuan Meng and Qingfeng disappeared again, as if I was the only one left in the empty dark cave!

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