Chapter Twenty-Six: The Bottomless Devil's Cave
In the tropical rainforest, the road is very difficult to navigate, we have walked for a long time before, not to mention ordinary people, even cultivators, we are exhausted, but after hearing this scream, everyone quickly recovered to their senses.
After Ma Yiao listened, he said to others: "Hou Zi and I will take Xiaolou to have a look, you stay here and don't move, be careful of everything around." ”
Li An'an is not far away, he wants to follow, and An Li is the same, Ma Yiao said with a serious face: "It's very dangerous here, the enemy may come at any time, what if the formation collapses and someone takes the opportunity to cut it off?" In this way, Sifan, you also follow us and keep in touch at any time. ”
When people go to the mountains, all the electronic communication equipment has no signal, and they can only rely on people to transmit them.
He said it seriously, and it was also very reasonable, and the rest of the people, even if they had opinions, would not question them in person.
We felt in the direction of the screams, because it was night, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the walk was not smooth, but fortunately my eyes had mutated in the lava, and I could see things at night, but not so clearly, barely worked.
After walking like this for about twenty minutes, the previous screams disappeared very early, like night owls, swept by, but we still found the scene with the help of induction and breath.
It was next to a small stream, surrounded by pebbles and dirt, and beside a large rock, lay two people, surrounded by blood.
Before I stepped forward, I couldn't feel the breath of the people on the ground.
It means that we are late, and people are already dead.
Ma Yiao walked the fastest, he had a stick in his hand that was folded casually, used as a crutch, stretched out one end, and pressed the corpse lying prone on the ground, and then lifted it over, I saw that the man's face was full of tumors like fish scales, squeezing the whole face into shape, plus the viscous yellow liquid next to him, infiltrating and festering facial features, like evil ghosts, knowing that these two corpses were patients in the leprosy village.
But how did they end up here?
Who made the scream that looked like Ma Qi just now?
If it's Ma Qi, where are the others?
I was full of doubts, and Ma Yiao checked the cause of death of the two people on the ground, and after a while, he said to me and Ma Sifan after the examination: "Instrument attack, the sharp knife pierced the heart and died, the blood is still hot, the traces of the fight around are obvious, they should have gone north." ”
Ma Sifan asked, "Who are the people who are fighting with them?" ”
Ma Yiao shook his head and said that he didn't know, but ...... It may be our old classmate Tang Dao.
Yes?
Ma Sifan was a little surprised, and said that the Heavenly Machine Office is also here?
Ma Yiao nodded and said yes.
He obviously also heard the scream just now, which was from Ma Qi.
If it was Li Hongjun, he would definitely cooperate with us, but Tang Dao is a person who is taciturn by nature, doesn't like to talk, and is very indifferent to emotions, which is very consistent with his identity as a "nine-life cat demon", and he is naturally cold, so I'm not sure what his reaction will be if we appear here.
But having said that, although this is the case, I personally don't have any opinions about Tang Dao, in fact, I think his heart is actually quite rich, and he treats us well, but he is just negligent in expressing it.
So if he's in danger, it's hard for me to stand by and watch.
Ma Yiao looked at Xiaolou with a face full of fear and asked him, "Do you know these two people?" ”
Xiao Lou looked at the two people who were like evil ghosts, a look unbearable, some didn't dare to look, I stepped forward, looked at him, forced him to look, Xiao Lou looked at it, shook his head, and said I don't know, except for my father, I can't recognize anyone else.
After the onset of leprosy, especially in this later stage, the skin and facial features are all mutated, and countless scales, tumors and scabs are wrapped, and it is indeed difficult to regain their original appearance.
We understand this matter, and we see that Xiaolou can't stand it at all, and we are not reluctant.
There were blood stains at the scene, all the way to the north, and Ma Yiao turned his head to look at me, apparently asking for my opinion.
I thought about it for a while, and said I'd go over and take a look.
In the final analysis, the Heavenly Machine Department and us are actually allies, and there is no need to make too much trouble.
We continued to grope and soon came to a cave in the shade of a hill, the mouth here is narrow, and there is a ditch about two meters wide in front of the cave, next to the ditch, there is a corpse lying on the back, we went up to look through it, but found that it was a completely normal person.
Ma Sifan shone a flashlight on the man's face, a little puzzled, but I recognized him at once.
I've seen this man.
On that day, Tang Dao chatted with me at the Nanhai Guanyin Puja and warned me not to meddle in the matter, and then left with a few people, and this person next to the ditch was one of them.
I still remember his face at that time, extremely indifferent, just like Tang Dao, and at this moment, he died here.
Ma Yiao first looked around, and after making sure that it was safe, he checked the cause of the man's death and found that he was hit by an arrow in the chest, which pierced through the heart and killed him on the spot.
On the other side of the cave, there are still messy marks of fights and footprints.
Judging from this situation, there must be a lot of people who have clashed here just now.
But when we arrived, it was already empty, and judging from the analysis of the surrounding traces, both groups of people should have gone into the cave.
Ma Yiao and I were a little hesitant to go in, but at this time, Xiao Lou trembled and said, "Demon, bottomless demon cave." ”
Ma Yiao reacted and asked, "What do you mean?" ”
Xiao Lou said with a panicked face: "This place, called the Bottomless Demon Cave - the name is not taken by me, it is the old man in the village has been talking, legend has it that in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, a group of demons came out of here, some were covered in flames, some were able to fly high, some also ate human flesh raw, all kinds of ferocity, many villages in this area were wreaked havoc, no one survived, and later angered the people of the whole island, the leaders of the Miao and Li people went to the mainland to invite the heavenly master, after defeating the devils, Sealed them back......"
He trembled all over, and said tremblingly: "When I was very young, I used to come here with the older children, and in the cave, I did pick up a lot of dead people's bones, and I also saw many strange ghost drawings on the mountain walls and pillars, and I felt that the legend should be true, but only once, we picked up the bones and some gadgets home, and after the adults found out, our legs were almost broken......"
Hearing Xiaolou's story, Ma Yiao looked at Ma Sifan next to him and said Sifan, you go over, tell An An and them about the situation here, and let people come over quickly.
Ma Sifan was a little worried, and said you won't go in, right?
Ma Yiao smiled and said that we are not so reckless, no one knows what is going on inside, and if we break in without any preparation, I am afraid there is only a dead end - we will guard outside, you go and go back quickly, be careful on the way, if you meet people from the leprosy village, try not to fight.
Ma Sifan is a person from the advanced research class, and he is very familiar with these, nodded, turned around and left, and said no more.
After he left, we stayed at the entrance of the so-called "bottomless demon cave", waiting patiently, beware of people and things that would appear at any time - the demon that Xiaolou said just now was actually just a misinformation that was reconstructed by the fools of the countryside.
Those so-called demons, Ma Yiao and I actually understand, are just some night walkers in the mountains and Nozawa, probably angered by something, so they rushed out of the cave where they lived and wantonly killed people.
This demon cave must be a place where nightcrawlers live.
But are there still Nightkin in there?
What does it have to do with the land lord who brought bad luck to Jinglong Village?
We were full of suspicion, and at this time, in the cave and crypt, there was a sudden muffled roar, Ma Yiao and I became nervous, and I even directly touched the lava rod.
With a sudden shake, it turned into a long stick shape.
At the moment when the lava rod was formed, out of the swarthy hole, a leper covered in wounds rushed out.
The man's face was full of numerous sarcomas and hard lumps, full of red and yellow mucus, which was shocking to see, while Xiao Lou beside us was trembling and shouted: "Dad, it's me, I'm Xiao Lou." ”
When the man heard this voice, he was stunned suddenly, and then walked towards this side, Xiao Lou saw his father, full of excitement, and walked towards the man, the two approached, and when they were about to be next to each other, the leper suddenly let out a beastly roar, waved his hand suddenly, and grabbed Xiao Lou.
I saw that his eyes were red and glowed with a faint blood, and his heart jumped, and the lava rod pointed forward, directly between the two of them, and then the rod turned, emitting a fiery breath, and pressed the person to the ground.
The man struggled desperately, but he still couldn't break free of my lava rod.
When he gave up resisting, his eyes regained a trace of clarity, he saw the small building next to him clearly, stretched out his hand, and a few words popped out of his throat: "Xiao, Xiaolou, go, go away, get out of here......"
After saying this, the word seemed to be stuck in his throat, and it stopped suddenly.
Then he died, never to be heard again.
Xiao Lou was crying, and at this time, I found out that there was a bleeding wound in his heart.