PS: PS: See the comments on haha315. First of all, thank you, thank you for reading this book carefully, thank you. Yes, the Great Worm is the overlord at low temperatures. The blue light gathered by the scorpion looks a lot like artificial light, isn't it? There are many things that the person concerned has experienced before feeling deeply, and I hope you understand. You also talked about the title of the book, yes, it's a science fiction title. I would prefer you to focus on the story itself, and the title of the book cannot be changed. Thank you again for your comments.

Jack's words gave me two messages. One is that AOE is an organization with an official background of the US government, so I don't believe in the government's funding, but I don't interfere with the nonsense of its research direction.

Another is Robson Walton, who started our trip to Lop Nur and the Beipan River. This matter is further complicated by the appearance of this character, who went to Lop Nur to investigate, and where he suffered great injuries and deep painful memories. The most important thing is that he has first-hand information that I can't know, has he ever entered the underground passage?

I had to put a question mark in my mind about this.

While I pondered, Jack remained silent. I had to remind him to "go on, keep up with your words." ”

Jack shrugged, "No." ”

My fire came up all at once. "Are you making fun of me? After swearing and gambling for a long time, and as a result, no valuable information was provided, you should at least tell me where you got the biological samples, and what the biological samples were. ”

I turned my head to stare at Jack and saw a little embarrassment on his face. However, the skin of this product is thick enough, and it will return to normal in an instant.

"Obtaining biological samples is the work of other departments, and I have never seen the physical objects myself. That's all I can say, and if you want to know more, I suggest you go to AOE headquarters, and I think Mr. Robson Walton would be interested in talking to you, and maybe he'll give you more information. ”

"Yes." I said angrily, "I'll meet Mr. Robson Walton if I can get out alive." ”

That's what I mean by that, and I'd love to meet this old man who had inspected Lop Nur decades ago. See what he knows. Of course. He's going to live until I find him, and I think he's very old, and he's in his last years.

Of course I'm disappointed that Jack didn't say anything, but I'm going to keep the conversation going.

"If I hadn't walked out of here this time. I ask you to provide this information to the fat man. I hope this information will help him find Xiao Guolin. Can you promise me? ”

Jack's expression grimened. Staring at me, he asked, "Zhang, are you hopeless about getting out of here?" ”

I don't want Jack to misjudge, so I can only say what I really feel.

"Yes. At least I don't think we'll all make it out alive. It is necessary to be mentally prepared for this. It seemed like a fate to me. I've been prepared for this for a long time. But I'm going to do my best to keep everyone safe, but it's difficult, and I think there will be unknown dangers down the road. I don't know if we'll be able to handle it. What if..."

"I promise you." Jack interrupted me.

Maybe I'm being too hypocritical? I thought Jack would say something encouraging, like you're not going to have an accident, but I didn't expect him to be so straightforward, as if he thought I was going to die.

"If I'm dead," said Jack, pulling out a glass bottle from his backpack and looking ahead with his eyes ahead, "engrave this line on my tombstone." Jack the intrepid explorer. Preferably in English. ”

I listened to him say it so easily, and I felt more and more hypocritical. I laughed though.

"Okay, I'm bilingual in Chinese and English. This place is in China, and it is not suitable for Chinese. ”

Jack smiled and handed me a cigarette.

Jack and I didn't alarm anyone when we returned to the campfire, and both the Vietnamese and the Laotians were asleep. I took a closer look at Ah San, and it seemed that he was sleeping deeply.

Walking down the underground river, Ah San and I were not burdened, and we were not very tired. But we hadn't rested for a long time, especially without closing our eyes, and after sitting by the warm campfire for a while, I fell asleep unconsciously.

Sleep until you wake up naturally, if you wake up hungry. When I woke up, the campfire was still burning, but apparently rekindled, and Mi-san and Fumi were sitting by the fire and carefully eating a small bag of food in their hands.

Maybe they woke up hungry too, or more likely from freezing, and without a campfire to keep them warm, it was hard to fall asleep in this place. When I woke up, my body was curled up, and it was evident that the campfire had been extinguished for a while.

My food is also in my pocket, it's too little to put in my backpack. I reached out and felt in my pocket, and there were three small packets of food, and when I took it out, it was two packets of compressed biscuits and one packet of dehydrated beef. I tore open the package of compressed biscuits and ate it with the same care as the other two, without dropping a single crumb.

The sound of compressed biscuits eating was very loud, especially in such a quiet place, and the three of us were very focused on the food in our hands. Soon the sound of "clicking" nibbling on cookies woke up the other two people. The two men immediately jumped on the bandwagon of chewing food.

I would have eaten this small packet of compressed biscuits in two bites, but this time I chewed for ten minutes, and after making sure that there was no residue in the bag and that it was clean between my teeth, I clapped my hands and said, "Let's go." ”

When I was sorting out my backpack, I saw Jack looking at his watch, and I didn't ask him the time, and frankly, I didn't care much about the passage of time.

Downstream, the space of the underground river continues to expand, the difference between the water surface and the river bank continues to shrink, and the river bank is no longer eroded by the current into a steep embankment, and gradually becomes smooth, so that the river and the river bank no longer have a strict dividing line, in some places the river water can flood the river bank, and walking close to the river will get wet shoes.

The river flows more slowly, and a large amount of wood chips is pushed up the river bank, creating a long dam of wood chips on the river bank. The surface of the water gradually widened, and at one point, the light of the one-eyed flashlight could no longer reach the other side.

There are always many stalactite pillars that bulge from the ground and hang down from the roof of the cave, and the further down you go, the more huge stalactite pillars that can connect to the roof of the cave are gradually becoming more and more common. The ground is not flat, large and small stalagmites and stone pillars are crammed on the road, and there are some cracks that can sink into the feet, so we must be careful.

However, there was so much debris on the ground near the river that we had to leave the underground bank and continue downstream away from the river. Fortunately, there is a long dam of debris along the bank of the river, which lets us know where the underground river is flowing and keep a certain distance from it.

My first glow stick was scrapped and thrown away, and of course, Jack's glow stick was gone, and we all got new glow sticks.

Because the ambient temperature is getting colder, we have to stop and warm ourselves up often. By the time we roasted the fire for the third time, we were already faced with a situation where there was no food to replenish. Everyone put on what they could wear, even the rope they wrapped around their body to keep them warm.

I was surprised that there were no creatures in the river or on the ground, could it be that I had misjudged?

The answer, of course, is NO. (To be continued......)