Chapter 429: Distress in the Cave
After making the phone call with my cousin, we immediately made a decision to return to Old Man Ouyang overnight.
So, we immediately went back to our hotel room and started packing our things. After being reminded by my cousin, we realized that this hotel was too dangerous.
When we checked out at the counter, we found that something very unusual, for example, when we checked out at the front desk of the hotel, we saw two or three people in waiter uniforms, looking at us sneakily next to us, whispering a few words, and then walked away. We know that many waiters in the hotel are actually Lao Lu's people, so we pay great attention to their every move, and this detail has also been observed by us.
This place really can't stop for a moment.
After leaving the hotel, my cousin and Xiao Lei reminded us to see if anyone was following us, and then we went to the cave where we came. Therefore, as soon as we got out of the door of the hotel, we did not go directly to the cave, but pretended to go in the other direction, and after walking for about ten minutes, Xiao Lei whispered: "There are indeed people following behind."
A few of us discussed it in a whisper and decided to use the "Monkey Eagle" to scare them off. So, we kept walking, and let the "monkey eagle" hide quietly, and if the people who were following us came by, it would fly out and scare them.
After we walked forward for about four or five hundred meters, suddenly, we heard a few screams behind us, and we could see a few flashlights, and we knew that this was the person who was following the "monkey eagle" frightened, so everyone turned around and walked towards the entrance of the cave.
In the dark night, we walked deep and shallow, because through the observation of the past few days, we are more familiar with the surrounding terrain. So, I quickly went around to the entrance of the cave again, and waited for the arrival of the "monkey eagle".
We originally thought that the "Monkey Eagle" would come with us soon, which was also our agreement in advance, but the development of events was very unexpected to us, and we could not wait, and we still did not come.
Is there something unexpected?
This made each of us very anxious, especially the old man Ouyang, who wanted to go back and see it several times, but was stopped by us, and everyone comforted him and said that with the attack ability of the "Monkey Eagle" and wisdom, it would definitely be fine. Although we said this, we all knew in our hearts that the Japanese soldiers we faced were all descendants of ninjas, and many of their abilities were beyond our imagination.
Madman Six looked at Old Man Ouyang, anxious and worried about becoming like that, so he whispered to everyone: "In ten minutes, if the 'Monkey Eagle' hasn't come yet, we will go back to find it, do you agree?" β
Of course, we unanimously agreed, the "Monkey Eagle" saved us more than once, and without it, I am afraid that we would have died a long time ago, not to mention that without it to lead the way, we would not have been able to pass through this cave at all.
Six or seven minutes after this decision was made, we heard a noise, and through the lights of the hotel area at the foot of the mountain, we vaguely saw a big bird flying over - it was a "monkey eagle", but it flew a little stumbling, was it injured?
Old man Ouyang was the first to rush over, holding the "monkey eagle" to check carefully, and we hurriedly turned on the flashlight.
After some careful inspection, we were a little relieved that the "Monkey Eagle" was not injured, but the two claws were tied together - and the claws tied to it were still a red rope, when the old man Ouyang stretched out his hand and tried to untie it, the madman six hurriedly stopped: "Slow, this is not a rope, but a worm." β
We were all taken aback - what? Is it a bug?
I saw the madman Liutao take out a lighter and burn it at one end of a "rope".
Sure enough, after being burned by Crazy Six like this, the "rope" suddenly squirmed, and then fell to the ground, and squirmed violently on the ground.
Old man Ouyang stepped on it violently and crushed it with his feet, because this is a stone mountain, and of course the ground is also a stone, after the old man crushed it so hard, we all felt that the insect would definitely be crushed.
But what we didn't expect was that when Old Man Ouyang took his foot away, the insect was unharmed, as if it wasn't hurt at all, I didn't expect it to be so tough, it was still squirming desperately on the ground, it seemed to be burned by the fire, although it was extremely painful, but it was not hurt.
Xiao Lei hurriedly took out the lighter again and burned the red bug, the bug writhed more violently, but it still didn't die. And even the color of the body did not change, and we took turns to crush it with our feet, but this insect was as tough as a nylon rope, and we tried our best to crush it, but did not cause any damage to it, at this time we were all a little panicked, is this an "immortal worm".
We know that the only way to deal with all kinds of unknown monsters is to rely on the madman six.
Maniac Six looked at the worm on the ground, thought for a moment, and then took out a little "Monkey Eagle" from the bag - the kind of red excreted by "Monkey Eagle", which is our magic weapon against "Ninja Incense".
I saw that he carefully took out a little bit and sprinkled it on the red bug's body, and then took out a bottle of water and poured some water on the bug.
Strange things happened, I saw the worm struggling in pain, and its body gradually turned black, and finally turned into a puddle of pus.
At this time, suddenly the "Monkey Eagle" screamed twice, and Ouyang was very anxious to translate: "The 'Monkey Eagle' is to let us go quickly, saying that it will be dangerous if we don't go." "It took us three or four minutes from the time the "Monkey Eagle" flew back to the time when this strange worm was killed, and we did not dare to delay any longer at the urging of the "Monkey Eagle", and immediately got out of the torn barbed wire and went into the cave.
Just like when we came, the "Monkey Eagle" was in the arms of the old man Ouyang, guiding us the way. We walked through the labyrinthine tunnels, but our mood was completely different from when we cameβnow we felt more worried and afraid. Because the more we know, the more worried we are about "bad things" happening.
We have all thought before that this labyrinthine cave is likely to be connected to the cave where Lao Li lives, not only that, but even the cave where the Japanese live, if this is the case, will they sneak up on us in the cave?
Of course, this is all speculation, and as for whether these caves are really connected to each other, we don't know for sure.
When you come, the most dangerous moment is to encounter that kind of "scorched smoke bee", what will happen on this journey back?
We walked through the cave with trepidation, and after thirty or forty minutes, everything was still going well, and we felt a little more at ease.
Hold on a little longer, and you'll be able to get out of this hole.
But just as we were about to pass through this cave, an accident happened - when we turned a corner under the leadership of "Monkey Eagle", we found that there was no road in front of us, but a stone wall.
The heart, which we had put down a little bit, was suddenly lifted up again.
We all know that in this labyrinthine cave, if you get lost, it often means death - you will be trapped alive in it.
Everyone was flustered for a while, and hurriedly turned their eyes to the "Monkey Eagle", the old man Ouyang was also very nervous, this kind of thing, he said that he had never encountered it before, he hurriedly asked the "Monkey Eagle" if it was taking the wrong way, and the "Monkey Eagle" shook his head again and again, which made us even more panicked.
What are we going to do? There are thousands of other forks, we don't dare to walk around, otherwise we may never be able to get out of the "monkey eagle" is our only guide, it says that this road, but in front of it is a cliff, what can we do?
My sweat came down all at once. Suddenly, I felt that the air in this cave was extremely oppressive, making it a little difficult for me to breathe, and I really wanted to be able to walk outside the cave and take a big gulp of fresh air, but the more I thought about it, the more frightened I became.
The madman six advised everyone to calm down, he walked to the stone wall in front of us, picked up a stone, knocked on the stone wall vigorously, listened, as if he did not believe his ears, knocked again, then turned around, slightly disappointed, and said, "It should not be hollow." β
This makes us even more desperate.
Old man Ouyang hurriedly asked "Monkey Eagle" again: "Is this the same road as when we came?" β
"Monkey Eagle" nodded.
It must be that the "Monkey Eagle" remembered wrongly, if it was the same road as when it came, how could the terrain change in a few days?
But if the "monkey eagle" is wrong, who should we rely on as a guide?
At this time, Xiao Lei suddenly thought of something and took out the compass, and the madman Liuyi saw that Xiao Lei took out the compass, and his face immediately showed excitement, and he quickly took out his compass.
I couldn't figure out what they were trying to do. The tunnels here are extremely tortuous, some places are within a meter, there is a bend, and there are countless forks, in this case, what is the point of using a compass to determine the direction?
But when the two men pulled out their compasses, the next action was even more bizarre - they looked at the compass in their hands, walked a few steps to the stone wall in front of them, then took a few steps back, moved a little to another fork in the road, and then retreated, all the while keeping their eyes on the compass in their hands.
I heard Sister Li behind me muttering softly: "It's bad, at this critical moment, are these two people's brains also broken, I think we're really going to die here." "All of us, just standing there, watching the two of them behave strangely.
After about two or three minutes, Madman Six said, "That's right, the wall in front is artificially made of magnetic ore. "It turned out that when they changed the direction and position just now, they found that the compass pointer was changing subtly, and if they were a little farther away from the cliff wall in front of them, the compass would point in other directions, and once they were closer to the cliff wall, the compass would point in the direction of the cliff wall, which of course showed that the stone wall in front of them was magnetic.
"Didn't you just knock it with a stone? And say that the stone wall in front is solid? The female translator asked puzzled.
Crazy Six nodded and said: "Well, I made a mistake just now, because the density of magnetic ore is very large, and the texture is very different from ordinary stones, so I misjudged just now, in fact, this situation is the same as the situation we encountered next to the canyon and in that passage." β
As soon as he explained this, we learned what was going on. It must have been the Japanese who did it, just as they sealed the fork in the passage, but how can we break through this stone wall?