Chapter 35 Is This the Old Man's Cave?

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Chen Bing is the leader of this group, and I don't know what he has in mind, but instinct tells me that this is definitely not a good omen.

I glanced at my watch, and it was three o'clock in the morning, and we began to follow the six little bamboo rafts along the river bank towards the west, or southwest to be exact.

We walked very secretly, trying not to make any noise, and in order not to expose us, we were also separated by a large distance. I felt exhausted and struggling, but I knew that I couldn't stop at this time, because I knew that as long as I stopped, I wanted to get up and walk again, it would be a difficult thing.

After about two or three hours of following, the rain finally stopped, and the dark clouds on the horizon finally dispersed, and although the sun was not yet alive, the eastern sky was already showing the whiteness of the fish's belly. The surrounding fir leaves were covered with dewdrops, and the ground was wet.

We didn't have much drinking water in our kettle, and we were excited to hear that there would be water here, but when we came here, we knew that the water would never be clean. And, almost intuitively, we felt that the river must not be simple.

In the early morning, the air is a little cool, and occasionally we can even see our haze, and the wet clothes are tightly attached to the body, like plastic wrap wrapping you, wet and cold, not to mention how uncomfortable it is.

We walked along the bank of the river and found that the river was unusually straight, although it was not a big river, but in terms of its volume and potential, it was definitely rare in the deep mountains and old forests. The straight river channel itself is actually not a normal phenomenon, because of the geostrophic deflection force, the topography and sediment accumulation, etc., almost all the rivers in the world will flow in an S-shaped curve more or less, even those large rivers, although they have different shapes on the map, but from a microscopic point of view, they are still meandering rivers.

As the sun became more and more abundant, we had to slow down and keep ourselves farther away from the riverbank in case we were spotted by the mountain boys.

By about nine o'clock in the morning, the mountain boys had stopped talking all night because they had reached their destination.

This is the source of the river, the water is very urgent, but the river has become very shallow, the only thing that remains unchanged is the color of the river, which is still the color of the turbid and dusk yellow, however, this small river does not have the majestic momentum of the Yellow River, even if the water flow is very fast, but this small river still gives people a very depressing feeling, and the flowing river under the water seems to have something unknown to give people a sense of mystery.

Even though the current is so turbulent, the speed of the bamboo raft against the water is still unabated, and it still swims forward slowly side by side, and there is not even a little undulation on the bamboo raft.

Bu Jin, who was standing in the last position on the last bamboo raft, didn't say a word from beginning to end, I don't know if she noticed that we were following her, all in all, her eyes kept looking ahead.

We didn't dare to follow up, so we could only hide in the bushes and watch what was happening in front of us.

I saw that the birthplace of this river turned out to be a cave, and the entrance of this cave looked like the bloody mouth of a huge python from a distance. A few of us looked at the trend of the mountain, and found that this small mountain turned out to be the high mountain we saw in the stone statue before.

"This ...... Could it be the old man's cave? Old man Yuan hesitated. Although he is an old man, however, China is a vast land, and there are countless strange things, sometimes, you have heard of something, but you may not have the opportunity to experience it in your life.

"I guess that's it." Hong Yi said.

At this time, the information I consulted before my departure showed their usefulness at this time. I clearly remember that in the information I consulted, the so-called old man's cave should be a cliff cave. Caves, as the name suggests, refer to those caves that have evolved over the years of weathering or erosion on the cliff faces. This is in line with the legend about the hanging coffin cliff burial and the old man's cave.

However, this cave in front of you, it is not a cliff cave, to be precise, this is a cave, which is very different.

I told them what I thought, and Ryazan smiled and patted me on the shoulder and said, "Okay, Lord Peixi, Shibei for three days, you should really be impressed." ”

I shook my head and smiled bitterly, I didn't know what he was talking about, even if Ryazan was praising me, I always felt that there was a hint of irony in his words.

Old man Yuan said: "It doesn't matter if it's an old man's cave or not, so many mandrills have entered such a cave together, which in itself already shows that this cave is definitely not simple." ”

We all nodded in agreement, and in any case, the river, and the cave where it originated, was the only clue we had right now, and we didn't even have any other options. If this cave is the old man's cave, then this river should be the Styx River that Jiang Daolin said.

Styx? Why do you call this little river the River Styx?

Just as I was thinking about this question, Hong Yi's words woke me up all of a sudden, and I only heard him lower his voice and say, "Brother Bing, look, there is something crawling out at the bottom of the river." ”

When we heard this, we were shocked and looked at the river. This look not only saw the monster that Hong Yi said crawled out of the bottom of the river, but also explained the reason why these bamboo rafts would go against the current.

I saw that the source of the river in the cave and the ground only saw that there was still a certain height difference, the drop was not large, but how to say that there was also a height of about half a meter, this section, the river water is already very shallow.

I saw that when the bamboo raft at the front approached this gentle slope, suddenly a layer of reverse water splashed on the surface of the river, and a monster with a translucent body, gray body, and a big mouth without eyes came out of the water. When we looked closely, we only found that the monster's body was bloated, and its whole body was somewhat similar to that of a slug, but the difference was that this monster had four limbs, and those limbs were very different from their bodies, their limbs were abnormally thin and thin, and the joints of the limbs grew strangely in reverse. These monsters don't have necks, their heads are directly connected to their bodies, they have a sticky membrane attached to them, and there are three slits where they should have ears, which I suspect are gills.

These monsters were the size of an adult, and, to our surprise, there was more than one, and almost at the same time, another monster poked its head out of the river.

We were surprised to find that the two monsters had a strange rope attached to the small bamboo rafts, which were able to travel against the water seemingly without any external force.

We saw the two monsters slowly climbing up the gentle slope, their mouths letting out a low roar. The head of the mountain boy, who was sitting on the first bamboo raft, stretched out his two fingers and claws, and at once ripped off the ropes on the two monsters. So, the two monsters climbed into the cave.

At the same time, the six small bamboo rafts, which had been very stable, immediately became chaotic in the turbulent water, but the mountain boys were very dexterous, and they jumped left and right, and jumped into the cave in a few strokes, although the water in the cave was also very fast, but after all, the water surface was very shallow, and even the low dwarf-like mountain boys were only half submerged by the river.

The last one to jump onto the entrance of the cave was naturally Bu Jin, and the other mountain boys who walked in front didn't mean to wait for her, only the mountain boy standing in front of Bu Jin whispered something to Bu Jin at the entrance of the cave. To be honest, this shot reminds me of a famous fairy tale about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

However, this joking spirit of mine quickly faded. I saw that after Bu Jin listened to what the mountain boy said, he nodded silently, then straightened up, and suddenly turned his head to look at the woods on our side, stunned for a while, didn't say anything, and turned around again, bowed his head and went into the cave.

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