At this time, the moon has turned westward, the night wind has stopped at some point, and the surroundings are unusually quiet except for the chirping of autumn insects. But our mood is the opposite of this tranquility.

"Alas, it would be nice if I had a rope, if there was a rope, I could climb the rope down and see if there was a hole in the rock wall, I don't think the 'vine demon' was really that terrible, didn't I just cut it off with a dagger and in a few strokes?" Xiao Lei said regretfully.

After listening to Xiao Lei's words, everyone didn't say anything, and everyone was thinking hard about what to do next.

At this moment, the madman Liu didn't say a word, he kept observing the surrounding environment, and after a while, he suddenly slapped his thigh, as if he thought of something, and said excitedly: "Yes."

His words shocked everyone's spirits, and they all looked at him, only to see the madman Liuhuo stand up suddenly, and without saying much, he turned around and walked straight to a pine tree behind him.

We quickly stood up and followed him closely, not knowing what he was doing.

The pine tree is more than ten meters away from the cliff, the trunk is very thick, it takes two people to surround it, there are many pine trees on the mountain, but such a thick pine tree, I really have never seen it.

But why did Maniac Six suddenly notice this pine tree?

We were all confused, under the moonlight, the madman was stern on his face, and we watched his every move silently, but no one spoke, as if we were afraid to disturb his thoughts.

Madman Six first circled around the pine tree, suddenly raised his legs, kicked the trunk a few times, and then turned his head and asked us, "Have you found anything?" ”

What did you find? We looked at each other for a moment, and everyone looked confused—wasn't it just a pine tree? Is there anything special? If so, why didn't we see it?

"Do you always say this trunk is empty?" Only Xiao Lei suddenly thought of this.

Crazy Six nodded excitedly and said, "Well, Xiao Lei is right, I kicked the trunk a few times just now, and judging from the sound I made, this trunk is empty."

"Cavities in the trunk? This is not surprising, many ancient trees in the mountains have cavities in their trunks, large or small. I thought to myself, but before I knew it, I muttered.

When Madman Six heard this, he smiled slightly, nodded, and said, "Yes, there are indeed many ancient trees in the mountains that have cavities, which is not strange, but they are certainly not pine trees, because once a pine tree has a cavity, it will die soon like a bamboo blooms." But this pine tree is strange, judging by the sound of the knocking, the cavity inside should be very large, but you look at this tree, it is still so luxuriant, this is too contrary to common sense, there must be something strange in it."

As soon as the trunk of a pine tree becomes hollow, the tree dies? I hadn't really heard of it before.

The madman paused and continued: "Not only that, but I also found something very strange just now, that is, I smelled a fishy smell of vines, you may not know, vines generally have a bad fishy smell, especially after being crushed, the fishy smell will be more obvious.

The juice of the vine can be used as medicine after crystallization, I have concocted a lot of this kind of medicine before, so I am more sensitive to this fishy smell, just now a breeze blew, I suddenly smelled the fishy smell of this vine, if this smell is from the cliff side, it is not strange, but it is from the pine tree, this is too strange, why does this pine tree have the smell of vines? When you come over, you can be completely sure that the fishy smell of the vines is indeed coming from this pine tree, you can smell it and see if it is? ”

Hearing what Crazy Six said, we all quickly twitched our noses and sniffed it carefully, and sure enough, we noticed that this pine tree did not have the pine fragrance of ordinary pine trees at all, but a faint fishy smell!

"What does this mean?" The delicate Japanese female translator couldn't help but ask Crazy Six.

In the moonlight, the madman squinted slightly, and replied to the female translator in a loud but unusually clear voice: "It means that this is no longer a pine tree at all, but has been parasitized by vines." ”

As soon as Madman Six said this, all of us were shocked!

Oh my God, pine trees can be parasitized by vines, we've never heard of them before! The discoveries of Crazy Six are like a thunderclap to us.

Maniac Six further explained that the pine tree had actually died a long time ago, and that the lush branches and foliage on it should have been vines, because some vines had leaves that were similar in shape to pine needles, so they could not be found at first glance.

Somehow, hearing Madman Six say this, I felt an inexplicable fear, although I couldn't tell what I was afraid of.

But what does this have to do with the blind man we are looking for?

None of us kept up with Crazy Six's train of thought. Seeing that we were all falling into the clouds, the madman six broke free from his own contemplation and explained to us in detail:

"We all already know what happened just now - there are 'vine demons' on the cliff wall, and there must be vines where the 'vine demons' live, and the more vigorous the vines grow, the faster the 'vine demons' will reproduce.

But have you noticed, the cliff is as vertical as a knife, so that the vines that grow on the cliff wall are very difficult to get enough water - on the cliff wall at almost 90 degrees, it is difficult for the rain to pour on the vines, and this mountain is not a hill, but a stone mountain, and it is difficult for the vines to get enough water from the roots alone, you know, the vines are the least hardy plants, and they cannot survive without enough water.

So how do the vines get enough water?

It is by this pine tree that when it rains, the rain can flow through the cavity of the tree into the mountain and then water the roots of the vine.

Not only that, but you see, this pine tree grows lower than all around, like a small pit, so when it rains, the surrounding rainwater also collects into this pit and seeps in through the roots of the tree. ”

"You mean to say that there is a hole under this tree that leads to the cliff? Am I guessing right? Before the madman six finished speaking, Xiao Lei deduced excitedly.

"You guessed it, that's what I meant."

After Xiao Lei's reasoning was affirmed by the madman six, all of us became excited-if that was the case, we might be able to enter through this entrance, which was much more reliable than climbing directly down the cliff.

But we didn't have shovels or anything like that, so how do we dig down, do we have to go back and get them?

To our surprise and surprise, Xiao Lei actually carried the sapper shovel in his backpack!

This sapper shovel is a German product, it is the latest type of sapper shovel, its handle can be folded four times, not only that, even the shovel head can be folded, it is very convenient to carry.

In addition, the shovel head part also has pickaxes, saws, hammers, axes and other functions, all of which are of the highest quality steel, extremely hard and sharp, and this sapper shovel also has an original leather bag.

I know that this sapper shovel is Xiao Lei's favorite, and I often see him regularly wiping oil for maintenance, and we have used it in previous operations.

Xiao Lei said that in every operation, he will load this sapper shovel in his bag, but not every time he has the opportunity to use it, but this is one of the necessary equipment for field operations.

Since we have such a good tool, we no longer have the slightest delay, under the command of the madman six, Xiao Lei first pulled out the hacksaw of the shovel head, and the two of us grabbed one end and began to saw the tree.

When we sawed in about six or seven centimeters, we found that it was empty, and there were tangled vine stems, so that a pine tree that could only be surrounded by two people holding hands, in less than forty minutes, actually sawed through almost completely, and of course, the stems of those vines were also sawed off by us.

When the sawing until the trunk was about to break, Xiao Lei stopped, and then asked all of us to push hard from the side of the saw, and after everyone shouted "one or two" softly, they pushed hard, and the big pine tree creaked and fell.

In the stump of the tree that remained, we were amazed to see a large black hole that went straight to the ground, and this hole was more than a meter in diameter, like a well, and I felt my heart beat wildly.

You don't have to dig any other holes, you can easily get in from this hole in the stump.

We examined the canopy again—and sure enough, the lush foliage was full of parasitic vines that emerged from the hollow trunk and branched out of the canopy.

When I was about to shine a flashlight into the hole, I was grabbed by Xiao Lei, and he reminded me softly: "Don't do this, it's dangerous!" ”。

It was then that I realized that I had been too rash - it was easy to be attacked from the cave by taking such a bold probe.

At this time, Xiao Lei asked everyone to take two steps back, and then motioned for everyone to be silent, he quietly got a few vines from the canopy and tangled them, then bolted one end to the stone next to him, and held the other end in his hand, and then whispered a few words to me, telling me how to cooperate with him.

According to Xiao Lei's instructions, I picked up a big stone from the side and smashed it into the hole in the stump, only to hear a grunt, the stone seemed to hit the bottom of the hole, and then, before everyone could react, Xiao Lei grabbed the vine and jumped into the hole.

And the big stone that fell down was to eliminate the potential threat in the hole for Xiao Lei, and he followed the stone that fell down to enter, which should be the safest way to enter the hole, and we couldn't help but worship Xiao Lei again - it is really worthy of being a professionally trained special forces.

The hole didn't seem to be too deep, and Xiao Lei's flashlight shot out from inside, signaling that it was safe inside, and we could go down.

Before everyone went in, Madman Six wanted the Japanese female translator and two other Japanese women to stay outside, so as not to be cut off from above, but the Japanese female translator insisted on going down again and again, and finally Madman Six couldn't resist her, so he had to leave two Japanese women on it, and the Japanese female translator also went down to the cave with us.

After so many actions, we are no strangers to caves, and we have entered all kinds of terrible, all kinds of weird caves. But this time it was different - the hole was just over three meters deep, overgrown with vines, and the direction of the hole was just as we had imagined it to be the direction leading to the cliff.

In the past, when we entered the cave, we would see all kinds of strange monsters or terrible human bones, but this time there were only seemingly ordinary vines, but each of us knew that the danger we were about to face may be unprecedented, because the terrifying 'vine demon' may be hidden in this layer of vines, if it suddenly attacks, do we have a way to resist it?