Chapter 62: Traps and Traps
&Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, book friends! I would like to thank my four friends who have collected this book, it is your silent support that gives me the motivation to continue writing. I would like to express my deep apologies to those brothers who have asked for a return visit under the guise of having collected this book. It has been more than five months since this book was uploaded on May Day, and the update has just exceeded 150,000 words, which is very slow, but my writing speed seems to be really difficult to improve, please forgive me, and please believe that I will continue to write until the book is completed. Here, once again, I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival in 2014! When I just updated, I found that there was one more person in the collection, and I was really happy, hehe! )
Inside the doorway is a straight passage, the four walls of the passage are covered with vines and plants to completely shade both sides of the passage, and the torches are slightly shaking, obviously the air in the passage is in good condition. The further you go in, the wider the passage becomes.
There are many forks in the passage, and the three of them walked forward for dozens of meters, and they encountered more than a dozen forks, both left and right, and up and down, as if the whole mountain was hollowed out, forming an unprecedented huge labyrinth.
The three of them looked at each other blankly, and in such a huge labyrinth that extends in all directions, it is almost inevitable to get lost without a detailed map.
At this time, Chen Erwa walked to the front, carefully observed the ground, and chose a downward branch road. For a seasoned hunter, tracking prey is obviously a very important skill, since the expedition team members have entered here, even if it lasts for three years, they will still leave some traces more or less, especially the vines and plants in the passage, in the eyes of an experienced hunter, those traces are as eye-catching as fireflies in the dark night.
Ling Feng's sense of direction has always been very poor, and at this time, he can only believe in Chen Erwa's ability to track, but Ling Feng is still a little puzzled, the scientific expedition team members must not only be the one who died at the door, how can Chen Erwa identify that it is not other scientific expedition members who left traces. Just in case, Ling Feng quietly made marks at every fork in the road.
Wang Teng followed silently with a torch.
Ling Feng has never trusted Wang Teng very much, not because of Wang Teng's previous behavior of turning his back on his teammates under the cannibal tree, but because of an intuition. However, like this kind of temporary team, it is impossible to expect the members to share life and death, blessings and misfortunes, as long as Wang Teng does not make trouble at the critical moment, Ling Feng will also go with him.
Soon, Ling Feng was immersed in the learning of Chen Erwa's tracking skills, analyzing the growth of weeds on the ground, the fracture of vines on the wall and other very subtle traces, so as to determine the direction of the tracking object, this kind of tracking skills requires a lot of experience accumulation, what he lacks is this accumulation, but he is also a little happy to be able to learn some of the tracking skills taught by Chen Erwa.
In the process of learning tracking skills, Ling Feng was also using superhuman memory and analytical skills to memorize the terrain of the passage. The trio walked a fork in the road all the way down, passing through several caves, and a large number of exquisite murals could be seen faintly among the plants. On a few occasions, Ling Feng clearly felt that Chen Erwa had chosen the wrong fork in the road, but after walking a distance, he was surprised to find that the channel Chen Erwa chose was always right.
For an old and spicy hunter, tracking is essential in addition to skill and experience, and bestial intuition.
Ling Feng still has a lot to learn.
The passage gradually became wet, and the three of them did not know how deep they had gone into the ground, and the rock walls of the passage looked more and more dilapidated under the erosion of vines and water vapor.
& Down, Lao Chen. Ling Feng suddenly spoke.
Chen Erwa stopped as she said and looked at Ling Feng puzzled.
Ling Feng stepped forward and carefully peeled off the vines that were entwined in front of the stone wall on the right, and a decaying corpse was nailed to the stone wall by a barbed piece of horizontal log. The corpse was also wearing a blue field uniform, which was obviously the same as the corpse outside the door.
The end of the barbed beam is sunk deep into the stone wall, making it impossible to see how the mechanism works. But what is certain is that from this point on, there will be a lot of such deadly traps hidden in the road.
Chen Erwa stretched out his hand and groped at the end of the crosswood, without any clue at all, he turned around and was about to speak, when suddenly, he only heard a crisp sound of "click". Almost at the same time as the sound sounded, Ling Feng instinctively pulled Chen Erwa away, and with a "swish", another section of thorny horizontal wood hidden in the stone wall suddenly popped out, swept out horizontally, and disappeared into the stone wall like lightning. The spikes at the very front of the horizontal wood almost grazed the back of Chen Erwa's head.
Wang Teng hurriedly jumped out from the stone wall, stood in the middle line of the passage, and no longer dared to move forward next to the stone walls on both sides of the passage.
Chen Erwa glanced at Ling Feng gratefully.
Since there was a mechanism, it showed that Chen Erwa's choice of the fork in the road was correct, Ling Feng pulled Chen Erwa behind him, and he should be at the front of the team first. Chen Erwa originally wanted to say something, but when she saw Ling Feng's resolute expression, she was silent.
Wang Teng is still unhurriedly hanging at the end of the team, for this kind of cunning old Jianghu, as long as it is not himself who is exploring the path in front of him, he will definitely not volunteer to take the lead anyway.
The so-called older the rivers and lakes, the less courageous they are.
The passage gradually flattened, the terrain slowly rose, and there were no more forks in the road along the way.
Ling Feng was on guard, except for the mechanism hidden in the stone wall, there were no other life-killing traps along the way.
Turning a corner, a deep pit about five or six meters long suddenly appeared at the corner of the bend, if it weren't for Ling Feng's constant caution and quick reaction, he almost fell into the pit with one foot in the air.
Ling Feng waved his hand to stop Chen Erwa and Wang Teng behind him and continued to move forward, squatting in front of the pit to observe carefully.
This pit is at least six meters square, looking inside, it is pitch black and bottomless, and the sound of flowing water can be faintly heard, it seems that this pit is actually connected with the underground river in the mountain.
& It's a pit. Chen Erwa observed for a moment and came to a conclusion.
In this way, someone once triggered the mechanism here, and then fell into the pit, even if they didn't die, they would be washed away by the underground river and didn't know where to go. Moreover, the location of this pit is at the corner of the passage, which is the blind spot of people's habitual thinking, and no one can expect that there will be such a deep pit at this corner, and people who come from the other side may more or less fall into it.
The person who set up this trap really figured out people's hearts to the extreme.
The wisdom of the ancients is really not to be underestimated.
The artificial passage is now extinct.
Ahead seems to be an irregular path that has formed naturally in the mountain, and not far from the other side of the crater, there is some faint sunlight shining through the cracks in the mountain.
Chen Erwa's expression was a little inexplicably sad, he was thinking about who triggered this trap mechanism? Is it Daddy Chen Laogen and the rest of the northerners, or the scientific expedition members who went deep into the Tranquility Forest a few years ago? If it was Chen Laogen, it was likely that he would be dead and dead.
The trap was at least five meters wide, and the two sides were tightly attached to the stone wall of the passage, Ling Feng estimated that he could barely jump over, but Chen Erwa and Wang Teng must be choked enough. They didn't dare to borrow from the vines and plants on the stone wall, who knew what inexplicable deadly mechanism was still hidden.
On the rock wall four or five meters above the trap, there was a thick dead tree, and Ling Feng felt that if he threw the rope up and wrapped it tightly, he should be able to swing through the pit, but he doubted that the tree that had basically withered on the surface could bear the load.
However, it seemed that the three of Ling Feng had no other better choice.