Chapter 5: The Strange Cave
There was nothing to say at night, the sky was bright, Gao Feng punched in the morning light, and then woke everyone up. At breakfast, Lao Lin said that he knew that there was a mountain road stepped by medicine pickers, and as long as everyone was careful, it should not be a problem to walk down the bottom of the pit.
After a night's rest, everyone's spirits recovered well, and the group talked and laughed, and followed Lao Lin to the bottom of the pit.
The sinkhole is more than 100 meters deep, and the bottom of the pit is filled with a thin layer of white mist, which looks more and more mysterious. Everyone walked slowly down the rugged mountain road step by step, walked for more than an hour, and finally reached the bottom of the pit without danger.
Yang Peng sat on the ground and shouted, "I'm tired!" ”
The bottom of the pit is overgrown with grass and trees, and there is a waterfall on the pit wall that falls to the bottom of the pit, and the water mist stirred up by the roaring rapids reflects a colorful rainbow in the sunlight.
Liu Zhenyi was puzzled: "So much water flows down, where does the water go?" ”
Lao Lin pointed with a hunting knife: "There are sinkholes and underground rivers under the bottom of the pit, and legend has it that Shennongjia has a mysterious crack that is hundreds of meters deep, where the surface water and groundwater of the entire basin are gathered, and flows into Zhushan through the sinkhole, and injects into the blocked river, which is the source of the blocked river." ”
Everyone followed the direction of his finger and came to the cliff where the waterfall was located, and sure enough, they saw several dark caves. An underground dark river meanders down, the river is about seven or eight meters wide, sparkling, like twinkling stars in the sky. On the side of the river, there is a narrow road lined with strange rocks.
Gao Feng walked four or five meters forward, found a natural stone step, came to the place where the underground dark river was turbulent, picked up a handful of water in his hand, washed his face, turned around and asked, "Do we want to go in and have a look?" ”
Lao Lin frowned; "These caves are undeveloped, there are many forks in the road, not only is it easy to get lost, but I don't know how many snakes and insects are hidden......" The girl seemed to be born with resistance to the dark, and after listening to Lao Lin's words, they nodded in agreement.
In the middle of the controversy, Liu Zhenyi pointed to a section of trees blocking the entrance of the cave and said, "What is that?" ”
Everyone stepped forward to take a look, and saw a handful of red hair hanging from the dry branches.
"It's a wild man!" Yang Peng's whole body trembled with excitement, Gao Feng and Liu Zhenyi were also emotional, and they were shouting to go into the cave to have a look. Lao Lin still disagreed, he thought that the situation of the cave was unclear, and it would be even more dangerous if there were still wild people. The best way to do it is to wait for the rabbit at the entrance of the cave, and as for whether you can meet the wild man, just try your luck. As a result of the dispute, Gao Feng and the three of them went down to the cave to explore, and Lao Lin took the three girls to wait outside the cave to answer.
When they parted, Yunni took Gao Feng's arm and whispered: "Pay attention to safety, and come up quickly if you find danger." ”
"Don't worry, I'll be careful." Gao Feng reached out and pinched her small nose. Winnie blushed and stood on tiptoe, her soft cherry lips like rose petals imprinted on Gao Feng's mouth.
"Don't talk to me anymore, come with me!" Liu Zhenyi borrowed Lao Lin's hunting knife and jumped off the cave first. Gao Feng kissed Yunni's forehead gently, holding a cane in one hand and a powerful flashlight in the other, and Yang Peng followed one after the other.
The cave was pitch black, and the three powerful flashlights combined could barely illuminate more than ten meters, and the three of them did not dare to frolic as usual, so they concentrated on exploring cautiously.
After walking about seventy or eighty meters, he suddenly heard the sound of the dark river, and Liu Zhenyi was frightened: "My mother." What a big anaconda! ”
By the light of the flashlight, a speckled snake tail the thickness of a bowl rolled on the surface of the river, and then disappeared.
"This snake is at least ten meters long!" Yang Peng smacked his tongue.
"The cave is getting more and more interesting." Gao Feng's mood was even more excited. The three of them are all bold people, and they have practiced some punches and kicks, so of course they will not be intimidated by a python.
After walking for more than half an hour, the Yongdao and the dark river gradually branched off, the sound of running water became smaller and smaller, and only three people were left in the Yongdao to breathe. As he was walking, Gao Feng found that Yang Peng, who was walking behind the most, suddenly stopped, and was about to open his mouth to ask him, but Yang Peng opened his mouth first, and said a little nervously: "I...... I felt like I heard a slight rustle behind me, like a ...... It was as if someone was walking lightly after us......"
Gao Feng hurriedly looked back, there was nothing, and asked in disbelief, "Did you really hear clearly?" ”
Yang Peng nodded and said, "Really! I've heard it several times, and I'm ...... At first, I was afraid that you would laugh at me, I was always suspicious, and I didn't dare to say it......"
Seeing that Yang Peng's expression didn't seem to be joking, Gao Feng and Liu Zhenyi didn't dare to take it lightly, stopped, turned around, carefully observed the rear, and irradiated the back with a powerful flashlight, but still saw nothing empty.
Gao Feng smiled bitterly: "I see that you are not suspicious, but psychological!" Is it that I have read too many tomb robbery novels and unconsciously produced psychological hints......"
Yang Peng looked puzzled, did not speak again, lowered his head and continued to walk. After walking for a while, a new fork appeared in front of him, and Liu Zhenyi suggested choosing the bigger one, and left a mark at the fork.
The more he walked through the forks, the more he was busy, and Yang Peng, who was making a mark, was very busy. Suddenly, the one who was walking in front of Liu Zhenyi stopped.
Gao Feng hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Liu Zhenyi shone the flashlight for a while, paused, and then replied: "Bones!" It's like a dead man's bones! ”
Gao Feng and Yang Peng stepped forward to take a look, sure enough, they were the bones of dead people, and there were quite a few, there were more than ten skulls alone, and the bones of the rest of the body were very scattered, and they had long lost their human form, and they were scattered on the ground in the cave.
The three of them looked at each other, and a hint of ominous feeling passed through their hearts, "To withdraw or not to withdraw?" Yang Peng's voice trembled a little, although exploration is a common hobby of the three of them, but after all, it still can't be compared with life.
Gao Feng thought for a while, nodded and said, "The ferocity of the wild man is beyond expectations, so let's withdraw!" The three of them turned around and walked more than a dozen steps, and they all gasped, only to see that more than ten meters away in front of them, densely crawled with countless large centipedes, most of them were the size of chopsticks, and their heads were bright blood red.
Yang Peng's throat was dry, and he said astringently: "No wonder I always felt that there was a slight rustling sound behind me just now, and my feelings followed a big nest of centipedes!" ”
Liu Zhenyi gritted his teeth: "There is no way back, continue to move forward!" And the three men no longer cared about the bones on the ground, and ran away. ran more than 100 meters. A new fork in the front appeared.
Gao Feng had an idea, pulled the other two into the smaller one, and then took out a bottle of insecticide spray from his hiking bag and sprayed it towards the ground. In an instant, the cave was filled with the pungent smell of potions.
The centipede was really afraid of the smell of insecticidal water, so it bypassed the cave where they were and crawled into another fork.
Yang Peng let out a long breath, patted Gao Feng's shoulder and said, "It's so dangerous, fortunately, you kid is clever enough." ”
Before the words fell, he suddenly heard Liu Zhenyi shouting angrily, and then there was a "peng" sound, and his whole person flew out of the air and hit the cave wall.
"It's a wild man!" Gao Feng only felt that the red shadow flashed in front of him, and before he could think about it, the wooden staff in his hand stabbed out obliquely. "Whew" A strange cry was made, and the wooden staff stabbed at the other party's body, snapping into two. At the same time, Yang Peng's cane also stabbed over.
The red shadow retreated sharply, and Gao Feng saw clearly that this monster was two meters tall and covered with long red hair, no different from the legendary savage.
There was a thick bloody smell in the air, and Gao Feng knew that the staff he had just stabbed the wild man, and immediately pulled out the dagger on his waist, rubbed his body and put it on again. After several fierce battles, Yang Peng stabbed the wild man with another cane, and the wild man screamed, punched Yang Peng away, turned around and fled into the cave.
Gao Feng hurriedly helped Yang Peng up and asked; "How! Is it serious? ”
Yang Peng stretched out his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, gasped and said, "I didn't hurt my bones, it shouldn't be in the way, let's see how Lao Liu is injured?" He seemed to be silent......"
Gao Feng walked over, laboriously turned Liu Zhenyi's burly body aside, and reached out to probe his snort, fortunately, there was still breathing, and he should have just been knocked unconscious. It was only found that the clothes on his back and buttocks were torn, and blood was slowly oozing outward.
At this time, there was a "whoosh" from the depths of the cave...... "Whoop", one long and one short, echoes each other.
"Oh no, the wildlings are calling for their companions!" Gao Feng picked up the hunting knife that Liu Zhenyi discarded on the ground, and said to Yang Peng: "You carry Lao Liu on your back and go first, and I will break it later." ”
"Okay, be careful yourself!" Yang Peng didn't talk nonsense, with the help of Gao Feng, he picked up Liu Zhenyi on his back, and ran out with a flashlight.
Gao Feng held a hunting knife, guarded the entrance of the fork cave, waited for a while, and saw two red figures walking out of the dark cave.
The wild people also saw Gao Feng, they seemed to be quite afraid of the hunting knife in Gao Feng's hand, standing dozens of meters away, squeaking and screaming, but they didn't dare to step forward.
The two sides looked at each other for nearly half an hour, and the wild man began to become more and more impatient, snorting and panting, and slowly approached forward.
Gao Feng thought in his heart that Yang Peng should have walked a distance, and he didn't dare to fight at the moment, he held a hunting knife in his hand, and made a gesture to pounce forward, taking advantage of the savage's stunned kung fu, he turned around and ran away. Unexpectedly, after running a few steps, the back of the head suddenly banged, and a sharp pain hit. "Holy! These guys actually throw stones. Then he passed out completely.