I couldn't help but ask, "How can there be such a strange smell?" ”

Wen Qingshan raised his nose and sniffed, then turned his head to me and asked, "Shi Yu, have you ever heard of Long Danxiang?" ”

I immediately nodded and replied: "Dragon birthday incense, sandalwood, agarwood, and musk are called the four famous incense, of course I have heard of it!" But why did you suddenly ask about this? Could it be that this strange smell is the fragrance of the dragon's birthday? "I've heard of dragon incense, but I've never smelled it, so I don't know what it smells like.

Wen Qingshan smiled and said, "This smell is not the Dragon Birthday Incense, but I think it may be similar to the Dragon Birthday Incense." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Do you know how the dragon incense is produced?" Wen Qingshan asked me rhetorically.

I shook my head: "I don't know, but I heard that there is a dragon birth wood, is it related to the dragon birth incense?" As soon as my voice fell, Long Yi on the side smiled and said, "Hehe, Brother Shi Yu, don't think that there is any connection between the two just by name, they are completely different things!" This dragon incense is the secretion of sperm whales! ”

"What!? Secretion? Could it be that the feces pulled out by the sperm whale are not successful? "I was a little surprised, but it was the first time I had heard that the feces pulled out by animals were actually fragrant.

Ryuichi said: "Strictly speaking, it is not the feces of sperm whales, but the secretions produced by sperm whales when they have intestinal obstruction. The basic diet of sperm whales is spearfish. During digestion, the sharp beak of the spear fish punctures their intestines, and the ambergris substance secreted in the intestines of sperm whales is the medicine for their intestinal wounds. Eventually, the sperm whale will excrete the congealed ambergris from the body by vomiting or excreting. ”

Wen Qingshan nodded, and continued with Long Yi's words: "The dragon incense that is excreted in the way of excretion is mixed with feces, so it smells very strange, and there is a faint smell in the fishy smell, only after a few years, when the fishy smell of feces slowly fades, the fragrance of dragon birthday incense can be completely emitted." ”

"Listening to you two say this, the smell we smell now seems to be a little similar to the dragon birthday incense! Could it be that there are sperm whales in this lake!? ”

Wen Qingshan said with a smile: "Hehe, that's not it, this fragrance is not the same as the dragon birthday incense, maybe it is secreted by other animals, of course, it is also possible that the fragrance comes from other substances." ”

As we were talking, Chen Biao, who was in charge of guarding, found something about four or five meters away from us, and he shouted at us: "Come and see this!" ”

Everyone hurriedly walked over, looked at the ground, and couldn't help but be surprised. I saw a huge footprint on a piece of soft soil!

The footprints were one and a half feet long and nearly a foot wide, and they had five fingers, and from the footprints, the front of each finger was very sharp, presumably because of the nails.

"Holy! What the fuck are these animal footprints? I said in surprise.

Everyone squatted down around the footprints and looked at them carefully for a while, Wen Qingshan frowned and said, "This footprint is a bit like it comes from a reptile. ”

"Reptiles? Mr. Wen, what do you mean? Ouyang Yi asked.

Wen Qingshan replied: "For example, crocodiles!" ”

"Crocodile!?" Long Yi immediately waved his hand and said, "This is absolutely impossible!" If such a big footprint comes from a crocodile, how big does this crocodile have to be? Moreover, crocodiles are cold-blooded animals, generally growing in the tropics or subtropics, if they are in such an environment, I am afraid they will not be able to survive at all. ”

He is not unreasonable, crocodiles have high requirements for temperature, it is said that as long as it is lower than 20 degrees, the crocodile will gradually enter a state of hibernation, and the temperature below is probably around zero degrees, not to mention that a yin wind blows from time to time, not to mention crocodiles, even I feel too cold to stand it.

However, Wen Qingshan had a different opinion, he said: "If it is an ordinary crocodile, it is true that it cannot survive in this environment, but the ecosystem of this ghost place is completely different from the outside world, so we can't think with conventional thinking." For example, under natural conditions, pythons are tropical creatures and generally do not appear in places that are too cold, but the black water snake can not only adapt to a very cold environment, but also has a much larger body size than pythons. So, it cannot be ruled out that it is a new species that is closely related to crocodiles. ”

Wen Qingshan and Long Yi argued, and at this moment, Weizi seemed to have discovered something again, and he suddenly let out a "huh". Chen Biao immediately turned his head and asked, "Weizi, what's the situation?" ”

Weizi pointed his hand to the middle of the lake with both eyes, and said in a daze: "When I first came in, I saw that there seemed to be a small island there, why is it missing now?" Did I just read it wrong? ”

Hearing him say this, I hurriedly looked at the lake, and sure enough, the round platform that I had seen protruding from the lake and like a pot lid was gone.

I couldn't help but be taken aback, and everyone else was shocked.

"What's going on?"

Long Yi analyzed: "That platform is very flat, it looks like it was artificially built, and in my opinion, it must be a mechanism that can move." ”

"You mean, we accidentally touched something?" I turned my head to see that the uneven ground was completely natural, and there was not a trace of artificiality, so I couldn't figure out where we had touched the mechanism.

Ryuichi understood the doubts in my mind and explained, "Touching the mechanism does not necessarily have to be touched, sound, light, and even changes in aura can be the trigger of the mechanism. ”

"But if it's a mechanism, why don't you make a sound at all, and just sink silently?" I asked, puzzled.

"It's a distance after all, maybe it's a sound, but we just didn't listen." Long Yi said.

"And what's the use of this mechanism?" I pressed on.

Long Yi shook his head: "I don't know about this yet. ”

Ouyang Yi stared at the lake where the original platform was located and muttered for a while, then turned his head and asked Wen Qingshan: "Mr. Wen, what do you think?" ”

Wen Qingshan frowned and said, "Brother Long's analysis is not unreasonable, everyone had better be careful." He finished speaking, and suddenly a deafening roar came from above us.

Everyone hurriedly looked up and couldn't help but be surprised, only to see a number of burly mandrills coming out of the cave mouths on the top of the cave. The mandrills screamed and clung to the stalagmites on the roof of the cave as if they were on the ground.

The mandrill swarms descended the cave wall to the surface and quickly rushed towards us.

Ouyang Yi hurriedly shouted, "Get out of here!" ”

We didn't care so much, so we turned around and walked towards the corridor where we had entered, but before we could reach the entrance of the corridor, several mandrills jumped down from the stone wall and stood in front of the entrance.

The rest of the mandrills also rushed to the front, but in the blink of an eye, they had surrounded several of us, but I don't know if it was because they were afraid of the strong light from our helmets, the mandrill group did not pounce immediately, but basically kept a distance of about four or five meters from us.

A horde of hideous-looking mandrills bared their teeth at us and made a "whoop" cry, seemingly angry, perhaps the mandrills were furious that they considered this place their territory and that we were the invaders and had killed their companions.

Looking at the hundred and ten fierce mandrills in front of me, my heart was almost desperate, I have seen the power of mandrills, not only extremely explosive, but also amazingly powerful, if so many mandrills pounce together, I am afraid that it will not take a moment to tear a few of us to pieces.

Everyone else also seemed very nervous, only Weizi, when we were fighting with the mandrill before, he was in a state of being possessed by a ghost, so he didn't know how powerful the mandrill was, and he raised his gun to shoot, but fortunately, Chen Biao's eyes were quick and he raised his muzzle.

Chen Biao said in a low voice: "As long as your gunshots are fired, this group of guys will immediately pounce and eat a few of us alive, and we can't deal with it at all." ”

Weizi was a little puzzled: "Isn't this just a group of monkeys, won't they all scare away as soon as the gunshot sounds?" ”

Chen Biao said coldly: "Monkey? This monkey is comparable to King Kong! And they are not afraid of the sound of gunfire at all, not only does it not scare them away, but it angers them, and the barrel of Lao Tzu's gun is broken by this thing! ”

"So how do you deal with it, or don't you blow them up with grenades!?" Weizi said, and immediately took a grenade from his body and held it in his hand. Seeing this, Ouyang Yi hurriedly stopped: "Brother Weizi, don't act rashly!" ”

As soon as Ouyang Yi's words fell, suddenly another deafening roar came from the top of the cave, and when he heard this roar, the group of mandrills that were originally "howling" immediately quieted down, and they took a few steps back.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel a little surprised, raised my head and glanced at the top of the cave, who knew that it was okay not to look, this look, I was so shocked that I almost didn't shout. I saw a huge black shadow, emerging from the largest cave on the top of the cave.

The speed of the black shadow was extremely fast, and it slid down quickly along a stalagmite with a diameter of about four or five meters, almost ten meters long, and the tip was almost hanging to the ground.

This mandrill landed on all fours, and even then, its body was three or four meters tall, and if it stood on two legs, it would probably be five or six meters tall! Such a huge size is probably comparable to the largest land creature in the world today - the African elephant!

Everyone was stunned by the beast, and all eyes looked at it, and they couldn't say a word for a while.