Chapter 356: Adventure on the Mountain
Although these strange people looked terrifying and spoke fiercely, they did not seem to be cruel, and in the process of bringing Huang back to his residence, they neither tied him up nor pushed him, but walked forward in a huddle of Huang, and looked Huang up and down curiously from time to time.
Huang was very bold, although he was still scared when he first saw these strange people, but he soon returned to normal, and on the way to be "escorted", he carefully observed the environment of this mountaintop plain.
The birds here are fragrant, the climate is pleasant, and there are rare birds and beasts from time to time, and these rare birds and beasts have never been seen in Huang.
Huang felt as if he had arrived in another world.
What puzzled Huang was why these strange people didn't live on the ground, but in caves. The climate above ground is pleasant, with the singing of birds and flowers, while the underground is dark and damp, which makes people very uncomfortable.
But Huang had no choice, he could only live with these weirdos, because since he was brought back by these weirdos, he found that he had completely lost his freedom, and at least three weirdos would follow him all the time.
In this way, Huang was like sitting in a dungeon, never having a chance to return to the surface, but could only live in a dark and damp underground all day long, which made him very uncomfortable and very uncomfortable. However, Huang found that these weirdos like to live underground, and when they are fine, they don't seem to want to go out at all.
And Huang also found that these strange people have an unpleasant smell, Huang felt that this smell was familiar, he thought about it, and then remembered that this smell was very similar to the smell of corpses.
Especially when he arrived in the cave, due to poor ventilation, the smell of this corpse was even more unpleasant, it was simply suffocating, and when Huang first came, because of this smell, he vomited wildly for several days, only vomited and had no strength, and Huang felt that he was about to die.
Later, the strange people poured him a decoction, which is strange to say, as soon as he drank this decoction, Huang suddenly felt that the seven orifices were refreshed, not only did he no longer vomit, but also had a great appetite, and began to eat the worms that the strange people gave him.
Through the dim light in the tunnel, Huang can vaguely see these white insects, very similar to maggots, at first he felt disgusting, no matter how hungry he was, he had never eaten it, but for some reason, since drinking the decoction, Huang no longer felt disgusted with these insects, and felt very fragrant to eat.
In this way, I don't know how many days have passed, judging from the beard that has grown to his chest, the days when he came here should be very long.
Huang longed to escape and return to his familiar life again, so he began to secretly plan to escape. But Huang found that this was really difficult, because he always had at least three weirdos around him, and these weirdos were extremely large and reacted very quickly, even though Huang was young and strong, but if he fought, he would definitely not be the opponent of these weirdos.
Just when Huang was desperate, an unexpected opportunity came. A shocking secret of these weirdos was discovered by Huang, and it was this no secret that allowed Huang to find a way to escape.
What kind of secret?
Huang found that not far from the tunnel where he lived, there was a large pool, which was the size of several acres of land, and there were countless torches around it, illuminating the pool.
Such a large underground pool, Huang has never seen it.
Because the days went by, these weirdos also relaxed their care of Huang a little, they allowed Huang to walk back and forth in the cave, and sometimes there were no more weirdos around him, but it was absolutely impossible to get back to the ground.
So, almost every day, Huang would take a walk around this pool, and after a long time, Huang discovered all kinds of wonderful phenomena about this pool.
First of all, Huang found that the water in this pool was always rolling like boiling water, but it was not hot at all. And that's not the strangest of all—the strangest thing is that these weirdos often fish out of the pool some living creatures, and these creatures are so ugly and frightening that they are the size of a fist.
However, what shocked Huang even more was that these fist-sized creatures, after being fished out, would develop into "weird children" in a very short period of time - that is, they would become basically the same as these weirdos, but only smaller.
Based on these, Huang speculates that these weirdos have developed in this way.
Not only that, Huang also found another strange thing - some weird people often go down to the pool to "bathe", and the bath is not "weird", but Huang found that the weirdos who went down to take a bath have a pair of double ru on their chests, and it is likely that this is the woman among the weirdos, and the weirdos without double ru have never gone down alone.
For Huang, these weirdos all look about the same, and Huang can't tell the difference between them at all, the only difference is that some weirdos have pairs of pairs on their chests, while others don't, maybe this is the difference between weirdos, men and women.
That is to say, among these strange people, only women will go down into the pool, and men will not, and with Huang's cleverness and thoughtfulness, combined with all the strangeness of this pool, Huang suddenly thought of one thing--the women of these strange people, who went down to this pool, may not be bathing at all, but "laying eggs"--like toads, and those ugly living creatures developed from the eggs laid by these "women".
These aroused Huang's curiosity even more, and he paid special attention to this strange pool. As time passed, Huang discovered another shocking secret of this pool.
Once, as usual, Huang walked around this pool, and under the bright torches, Huang Shui stared carefully at the "boiling" water, and from time to time there was that ugly living creature looming, and Huang had become accustomed to it.
Suddenly, Huang saw something, and it was this thing that made Huang stand there in shock, the boss with his mouth open, he couldn't believe his eyes.
Because that white thing seems to be a human skull!
How can there be a human skull in this pool?
Huang suspected that he had seen it wrong, so he rubbed his eyes and looked carefully into the pool again, when the skull-like thing disappeared again, and Huang thought that he might have been dazzled.
But just as he was about to go on, the skull-like thing floated out of the water again, and this time it was very close to him, almost at the edge of the pool, and Huang could see it clearly, it could not be mistaken, it was indeed a human skull!
And floating on this skull were a few of those ugly creatures, playing with the skull like a fish playing with aquatic plants.
When Huang saw that it was indeed a human skull, he was terrified, and a terrible thought welled up in his heart: Could it be that these ugly creatures feed on human corpses?
To find out, Huang stayed at a corner next to the pool. Because Huang has been here for a long time, the strange people's care for him is much more lax than at the beginning, as long as Huang can't reach the ground, these strange people don't interfere with him much.
After Huang settled next to the corner of the pool, he entered a state of high vigilance, and he paid attention to the movements around the pool all the time, but there was no abnormal situation around the pool.
I don't know how long it took, Huang, who had been asleep in a daze, was suddenly awakened by a noise, he quickly hid around the corner, held his breath, and secretly looked towards the edge of the pool.
When Huang saw a qiē that happened not far away, he was deeply shocked.
I saw dozens of strange people, coming out of the mouth of a black hole not far away, and carrying corpses and throwing them into the pool, and these corpses were the corpses of normal people under the mountain.
Huang was shocked that his original conjecture was indeed true, but this was not the most shocking thing for him, what shocked and puzzled Huang the most was - how did these corpses get up the mountain?
It would have taken several days for Huang to climb up from the bottom of the mountain, but it would have been almost impossible to climb up with these corpses. But how do these weirdos do it? Do they have another way?
After these strange people threw the corpses into the pool and dispersed their bodies, Huang was ruthless, gritted his teeth, and decided to go to the mouth of the black hole to see, since these strange people carried the corpses out of it, what mystery would there be in the cave?
Huang tiptoed his hands and feet against the wall of the cave, slowly touched the entrance of the cave, saw that there was no one around, and then got in. And when he got inside, something happened that he couldn't have dreamed of.
When he got into the hole, it was pitch black, and for some reason, he felt a cool breeze blowing from the hole, which made Huang's heart suddenly become extremely excited—could it be that this hole led to the ground? How else could there be such a cool breeze?
Huang groped his way into the cave in the dark, and when he turned a corner, he felt that the terrain inside the cave was going down, and it was spiraling downward.
In this way, Huang is in this hole, along the spiral downward tunnel, constantly moving forward, stop when he is tired, fall on the sloping ground to sleep for a while, wake up and continue to walk forward, just like this, I don't know how long I walked, the more I walked, the more I felt the cool breeze; The more I walked, the stronger the thought in my heart became - I must go out to see the sunshine, even death is worth it.
Finally, Huang felt the terrain beneath his feet slowly become gentle.
After walking for a long time, Huang suddenly felt a little light not far away, so he ran over without hesitation, although he fell a few times, he didn't feel any pain at all.
When the light became stronger and stronger, Huang was extremely pleasantly surprised to find that this hole was indeed leading to the outside, but when he climbed out of the hole, he suddenly found that this was no longer a plain on the mountain, but already under the mountain.
When Huang woke up, it was already early afternoon, the sun was shining warmly on him, and Huang felt like he had a nightmare.
Since then, Huang has become the only person who has come down from the mountain alive, and he told the people down the mountain in detail about his various adventures on the mountain, which makes people amazed.
After listening to Huang's story, many local old people said that the strange people Huang saw looked very similar to the little ghosts in the legends and the underworld, and what was even more coincidental was that these "little ghosts" also stole people's corpses.
It is likely that a long time ago, the locals saw the strange people in the mountains stealing corpses, and they thought they were imps in the underworld, with green bodies and toad-like heads, which looked terrifying.
In the area below the mountain, the corpses buried after death are often dug up inexplicably, and people do not know the reason, so there are legends that people go to the underworld after death.
The matter of Huang going up the mountain has been widely spread in the local area, but after Huang, no one has ever gone up again, and no one has ever found the hole that leads to the mountain.
Later, a few hundred years later, there was a very violent earthquake, and half of the mountain collapsed, so that it was not so difficult to climb the mountain - the mountain became no longer so steep, and you could slowly go up the collapsed mountain.
But when someone went up, they never saw the weirdos Huang said again.
However, the local legend says that in fact, on that mountain, there is a pool, and the water in that pool, as Huang said, is called "the water of the underworld", and in that pool, there will be human corpses from time to time, as well as that kind of looming living creatures.
What my cousin said was so weird that all of us were stunned when we heard it, but is it true? I think it's just a legend, how can there be such a wonderful thing in the world?
But if the legend is fiction, then the well water seen today is indeed very similar to the legendary "water of the underworld", how can this be explained?