Chapter 45: The Danger Is at Stake
I immediately stretched out my hand and motioned for everyone to be quiet.
Everyone didn't know what was going on, and they looked at me suspiciously.
I pointed to the location of the hole and whispered, "There's someone outside." β
Immediately, everyone's eyes widened, alerted, and ears pricked up to listen to the sound.
If anyone out there knows our hideout and wants to dig it up, it's the only one.
The location we are in now is in Yanqiu's snow cave, could it be that the unicorn wants to dig Yanqiu's hole in the middle of the night and have a plan? I was instantly angry, and motioned for Yan Qiu to speak with an angry expression.
Yan Qiu asked tentatively: "Who?" β
There was no answer outside, but the sound of digging snow stopped.
I lay down where the sound came from and listened outside, it was still the sound of the whirring wind, and there were no other strange sounds, could it be that I heard it wrong just now? Why has it been that since I entered this snow cave, I have been in a trance, and I am always suspicious? Am I really claustrophobic?
Hearing that there was nothing unusual outside, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The fat brother complained to me: "Zhanxiao, people are scary and scared to death, can you not be startled?" Didn't you say it before? All the movement outside is blown by the wind, so you should put your heart in your stomach and think about our next move. β
As soon as the fat brother reminded me, I immediately remembered another important thing, and I asked Jiang Li: "You said that you went east during the day, but what did you see at the bottom?" β
Jiang Li looked at Su Rina.
Su Rina understood that Jiang Li didn't want her to know, so she immediately hid away a little wisely.
As soon as Su was about to turn around, I said to Jiang Li: "There's nothing to avoid, you say, she is not an outsider now, she has no other friends here except us." β
Jiang Li nodded, and then said, "Didn't I say that there was a whirlpool before?" When I got here, I understood that the bottom of the whirlpool was in that lake, and the aura outside moved in a spiral, and finally it became a point, and this point was the lake, and it was all sucked into the lake. β
I said helplessly, "Then you mean you have to go down to the lake to find out?" β
Jiang Li shook his head and said: "No, this air flow is not only in and out, I found that at the bottom of our mountain, there is a slow air flow that spreads out, and then spreads out, very pure." It's as if it's an oversized air purifier that sucks in the turbid essence and then releases the pure essence to nourish all things. So when I got here, it wasn't as I thought it would be, and there was no grass. β
I understood what Jiang Li described, but I still couldn't understand what she saw, so I could only make up for it by myself.
I asked Jiang Li: "Then you mean to say that this is a good thing, not a bad thing?" What does that have to do with going east? β
Jiang Li said: "Yes, it's a good thing, under the eastern slope of the mountain, there seems to be a big opening, and the air flow comes out from there, I am very curious and want to see what is going on." β
Su Rina suddenly asked, "What are you discussing now?" Why didn't I understand a word? β
The fat brother smiled and said: "We are serious professional knowledge, you still have to learn a few more years, otherwise you really don't understand." β
Now we are faced with two choices, first, we will turn back tomorrow morning, take advantage of the unicorn not to pay attention, and walk away together, anyway, there is nothing bad, we will be a tourist this time. Second, according to the clues provided by Jiang Li, it is possible to go down the mountain to the east to find the entrance of the cave, which may solve one of our doubts and satisfy our curiosity.
I prefer the first one, now our specific situation is that we can't live without a single horn, if we leave the single horn, our survival here is a problem, and we can't take the single horn with us, after all, we can't explain what happened to him, and we can't believe it lightly.
But starting from home, we have experienced too many things along the way, and there are too many questions, all the clues have put all of our life experiences in a layer of mystery, if we go down, we can solve these problems, then death is also blind, if we turn back now, then this trip is completely in vain, there is no gain.
I really couldn't decide, so I had to say to everyone, "Let's vote by show of hands, do we go back, or continue?" Raise your hand in agreement to continue. β
What I didn't expect was that except for Surina and me, the other three all raised their hands.
I thought that at least there was someone as rational as me, but Su Rina said: "I don't have to raise my hand, I have to follow the one-horn, I can't leave if you go back, I have to arrest him." β
I said to Surina, "You obviously failed this mission, and now the unicorn has no action to kill rare animals, and he has no intention of finding you a colorful deer if you stay." Without proof, what are you still doing with him? Keep looking for evidence? β
Surina picked up the little doll in her bag and said to me with a smile, "Do you know what this is?" The miniature tape recorder, everything the unicorn said along the way, I recorded. β
I said that when the mercenaries confiscated the equipment, why didn't she want to hand it over, Xuanji was here, I thought she was a little girl's mind, and she hung a doll on her bag to look good, it turned out that she was a means of covering up the scheme, oh my God, I only blame me for being too stupid and naΓ―ve.
I gave a thumbs up helplessly and said to Su Rina: "Gao, the soldier is really smarter than the thief." β
The vote was four to one, and then we had to continue to endure this annoying wilderness according to everyone's decision.
I summarized the content of the meeting and said to everyone: "Then it's settled now, starting tomorrow, we will continue to follow Dujiao and try to lead him to the position Jiang Li said." By the way, along the way, observe more and observe what is wrong with the unicorn, and see what secrets he is hiding. β
Before everyone could add anything, the sound of digging snow came from outside the cave again, and this time not only did I hear it, but everyone was stunned. We immediately silenced ourselves and went to the entrance of the cave to listen.
The wind outside had stopped, and the sound of digging snow was exceptionally clear, and not only this sound, but also a scattered sound of rustling, as if the sound of countless ants crawling on the ground was amplified. It was definitely not a one-horned sound, it felt like there were a lot of snakes out there, burrowing into our snow cave.
We can't tell what the sound is for a while, so we can only try not to make any movement, whether it is dangerous outside or not, and hope that it will leave as soon as possible.
I was listening intently to the movement outside, when suddenly there was a movement near my snow cave, and we crawled over to take a look, and there was a big claw that reached out from the mouth of my snow cave, and was stuck in the ice that I had cast with water, and vigorously opened my hole.
Judging from that claw, it was definitely a creature I had never seen, with five claws on the size of a bear's paw, and the claws were all gray with long pointed nails, and on the claws, they were covered with scales the size of a ping-pong ball, and there were some red furs in the gaps between the paws, short and few, only faintly visible.
I suddenly remembered the two dragons in the mirage, and I glared in horror and said, "Could this be a dragon?" See how this claw looks like a dragon's claw? β
Immediately I had an image in my mind of the outside of the cave, perhaps a huge dragon that had wrapped its entire body in the snow, and the sound we had just heard was the result of its body rubbing against the snow.
I told everyone what I thought, and the others couldn't figure it out for a while.
The fat brother said: "If it is really like you say, then its head is here, its tail is on the other side, and my snow nest is at the back, let's go and dig a hole to see if we can see its tail." β
It was a good idea, so we half-crouched, ran to the other side, carefully dug a basketball-sized hole, and squeezed into the hole to look out.
The wind outside had indeed stopped, and the big moon shone on the snow as bright as day, and on the white snow, we didn't see any long dragons at all, but we saw large black animals, like large crocodiles, crawling towards us from the direction of the lake, and at first glance, there were at least fifty or sixty of them. The paw that had just reached into my hole was the one in front of them.
The fat brother's eyes widened and shouted: "It's the black dragon, Zhanxiao, those are the black dragons, it's over, the black dragon has grown legs." β
I looked closely, and I saw that on the side of the animals, there was a row of glowing organs, like small blue lights, flickering on and off.
We've seen this kind of animal, isn't that the black dragon guarding the Bagua Array in the water under Wangtan Temple? almost killed the fat brother. It was in the lake at the top of this mountain that Dolgon caught this animal and put it there for his use, but he did not expect that many years had passed, and this animal had not become extinct.
I said to the fat brother, "But the black dragon we saw has no legs." β
The fat guy shouted, "Evolved." β
Either way, the sound of our speech had alarmed the beasts, and they were speeding up their pace and swarming towards us.