Chapter Seventy-Four: The Chrysalis
The fifth master took me and the fat man to check all the remaining passages, and found that there were intricate and intertwined black caves at the end. Finding this situation, I had no idea for a while, the three of us turned around and walked from the new digging ground, on the way back, I asked the fifth master: "Fifth brother, where are we going?" ”
In fact, the answer is about to come out, that is, there is no answer at all, no matter which one you choose to take, the four passages all lead to the same underground cave group, but the direction of entering is different.
The choice of passage is no longer a problem, but the key to the problem is not how to enter, but how to travel in the face of the huge and chaotic underground cave group after entering. The purpose of our coming out this time was to find people, and we barely brought any equipment with us, and the lighting equipment was two or three flashlights, so if we walked in this intricate cave complex, even if we used light, it was easy to get lost.
However, having come to this point, we can't help but go in, and now everyone's minds are actually waiting for a person with the backbone to take the lead to express their opinions, no matter what the choice is, everyone will gladly go, and this backbone is the fifth master.
Everyone's eyes were staring at Fifth Master Zha in unison, Fifth Master Zha was also very clear in his heart that he had to make a choice now, I saw that he seemed to take a deep breath and said, "Go." ”
With that, we walked to the passage we walked into for the first time. After a short passage, we stepped into a myriad of damp caverns.
Fifth Master Zha looked around for a moment, and then walked straight forward. Everyone followed him silently.
I know what Fifth Master Zha thinks, since these caves are connected in a circle, then it is good to go straight forward in a straight line.
The idea and the reasoning are simple. But it is extremely difficult to implement, all the caves are not connected in a straight line, and it is inevitable that there will be times when there are seven turns and eight turns, at this time, the fifth master will make a mark on the wall of the cave where he turned in.
The caves we walked through Guò were really varied, some low, some narrow. Some are separated only by thigh-thick cylinders. However, the common denominator of all caves is that they are very damp, and the walls of the cave are soaked with water beads everywhere. It's not at all like the terrain environment that a desert should have.
We turned and turned, and turned and turned, and had no idea how far we were from the empty depression, maybe only a few dozen meters in a straight line. But we've covered almost a kilometre.
The cave is hot and humid. I'm already sweating, I see that the collar of the fat man is soaked, and everyone is not carrying water with them, what kind of sin are we suffering now?
The fifth master led the way in front silently, and his face was not very good-looking, I thought: His mood should not be much better?
We wandered through the intricate dark caverns like lonely ghosts, and gradually everyone felt bored and depressed. That's when it happened. We walked into a very large cavern that could accommodate all of us at once without feeling crowded. In front of this cave, there are only two dark passages, and there are no other connected caves.
The fifth master asked everyone to stop and take a break here for the time being.
Everyone rejoiced as if they had heard the decree, and despite the dampness on the ground, they sat down on the ground and rested against each other.
Fifth Master Zha said to Kun Ba, who was resting, "Master Kun, you send two people to check the situation in the passage in front of you." ”
After hearing this, Kunba immediately assigned two people to check on each other, everyone was exhausted, and it was not easy to sit down and rest, and the assigned person immediately showed reluctance, stood up slowly, and slowly walked forward.
The fifth master of Zha told behind them: "Don't go too far, just go in and have a look, and talk about it when you come back." ”
When the two of them heard the words of the fifth master, they turned around and saluted, and then walked to the two ends respectively, and when they parted, they were still very friendly to each other and cheered each other on. I said in my heart: Kunba is not a good person, but the people under his hands are very likable.
Everyone sat on the ground to rest, and I found that several people were asleep, and they could still fall asleep in such an oppressive environment, and I had to admire how big their hearts were!
Although I was very tired, but more distracted, I couldn't help but look at the black hole in front of me, and began to calculate the time silently in my heart, about a cigarette time passed, I saw a person walk out of the passage on the left, and the other people also found him, Qi Qi shot his inquiring eyes at him, he walked back under the gaze of everyone, and reached the ground with a decadent expression: "At the end of the other side, there are still criss-crossing cave groups." ”
As soon as everyone heard this, their shoulders immediately collapsed, when will this chaotic underground cave group come to an end?
When everyone heard the news, they all sighed and didn't know what to do next. At this time, there was an exclamation from the passage on the other side. Then, I heard someone running quickly, and from the chaotic footsteps, it was clear that this person was very panicked now.
When everyone heard the exclamation, they all stood up in surprise.
I screamed in my heart: Oh no, something happened!
After everyone stood up, they all hurried to the passage on the right.
As a result, as soon as everyone approached the dark hole, they saw a person stumbling out of it and falling out of the passage at once.
Everyone picked up the person who fell to the ground, and Kun Ba immediately asked, "Second son, what's the matter?" What do you see, the ghost crying wolf's howl? ”
The man named Erzi, the same person who had just walked into the passage on the right, replied in surprise, "Bone bones." ”
Kunba anxiously asked him, "What bones?" ”
The second son swallowed his saliva and said in a trembling voice, "Everyone's bones." ”
Kun Ba rolled his eyes, knocked on the door of the second son's head and said, "The craftsman of the inverted fight, are you still afraid of the dead?" Hearing you screaming, I thought you had seen a ghost. ”
Hearing what Kun Ba said, I snickered in my heart, this Kun Ba was not afraid of dead people's corpses, but of those unknown and intangible things. However, most of the craftsmen who fight backwards have this mentality, dead corpses are not terrible, what is terrible is those unknown things that are beyond life and death.
Everyone heard that there were dry bones in the cave on the right, and they all thought that it must be a burial chamber, and they no longer asked the second son specific questions, and everyone rushed into the passage, walked quickly through the narrow passage, and stepped into a cave.
This underground cavern is very large, but all you can see is scattered bones everywhere, and there are several human skulls, sunken in the muddy ground, and the black hollow eye sockets look particularly hideous.
Everyone cautiously stepped into the cave and found that the earth walls around the cave were covered with a large number of spider webs, and on the top wall in the distance, there were countless things like silkworm cocoons, which were different in size and size, and had been densely extending inward, and there were countless specific ones.
The crowd began to walk inside curiously, wanting to get closer and look at the cocoons hanging in the air.
I leaned against the wall and walked inside, and the fat man followed closely beside the object and asked me, "Lao Zheng, do you think we should have entered the Pansi Cave underground?" ”
I laughed and teased the fat man and said, "What? You finally admit that you are the second junior brother? ”
The fat man approached the earthen wall beside him, pinched the spider web in his hand and said to me, "There can't really be spider spirits here, right?" ”
I came to a silkworm cocoon, poked it with my finger, and said with a smile: "You are not Zhu Bajie, and I am not Sun Wukong, where did the Pansi Cave Spider Spirit come from?" ”
Others were also curious to look around, scattered around to see this terrifying cave. Suddenly, the people who had gone to the deepest part of the cave let out an exclamation, and everyone immediately gathered around, and saw the cocoon chrysalis hanging in the depths of the cave, some of which had turned gray and the parts of the cocoon's body had cracked, revealing that it was wrapped inside.
When everyone saw the contents of the contents, they almost didn't spit it out, and saw that there was a hideous-looking human corpse inside, the skin on the bones was shriveled and wrapped around the bones, there was no trace of moisture, and the swarthy was terrifying, and there were bursts of chills.
I immediately turned around and looked around, and saw that the cocoons in the depths were much older than the ones at the entrance, and many of them had cracked open, revealing the contents inside.
And the volume of the cocoon chrysalis here is different, because the size of the package inside is different, the small cocoon chrysalis is wrapped in relatively small creatures, and the details seem to be rabbits and civet cats, and the largest cocoon chrysalis is wrapped in animals such as antelopes and horses, but there are no small animals such as birds and reptiles.
The fat man said to me in a staggered manner: "Lao Zheng, I told you that this is Pansi Cave, and you still don't believe it." See, these are all food hunted by spider spirits. ”
Kun Ba still habitually brushed his fingers at the nonsense on his mouth and said, "I heard that there is a poisonous spider that will inject a toxin into the living body, and then the muscles and fat of both animals and humans will immediately turn into blood for them to suck. After Kun Ba said this, it was very successful in causing goosebumps on all the listeners' bodies.
The fat man asked me puzzled: "Lao Zheng, you said that this spider does not build webs on trees, how can it dig burrows underground to live?" ”
I explained to him, "As far as I know, there are burrowing spiders, which we generally call 'ground spiders'. They dig holes in the soil to build silk burrows, and there are traps at the entrances that can be opened at night to prey on insects that pass near the holes. The largest of the spiders is the "venomous burrowing tarantula", which lives in desert and semi-desert areas and digs burrows near areas with abundant water. However, the circular burrows of the largest venomous burrowing tarantulas are no more than five centimeters in diameter and less than one meter deep, and their lifespan is very short, at most two years. However, if you look at the vast caves here, these dry and purple corpses, old and broken cocooned chrysalis, no matter how you look at them, they are at least more than a few decades old. (To be continued......)