Volume 1 The Land of Yama Chapter 30 The Mysterious Cave
Hearing the shouts of the Lantern Festival, I hurriedly ran over. I saw that under the cliff, a barren grass was scattered with many green chain-like objects. Lantern Xiao reached out and picked up a piece, held it in his hand and tossed it, "It should be bronze, it seems to be a long time ago when it rusts like this." "With a rub of his hand, the bronze chain turns into powder.
"But how can there be so many chains?" I looked around, and it seemed like it was really only here.
Lantern Xiao looked up, "I think this should have fallen off from above, this place is very humid, and the bronze is easily oxidized." After a long time, it could not bear its own weight, so it broke. ”
I also looked up, but the fog had not completely cleared, and I couldn't see it very clearly, and I couldn't find exactly where it broke from. "So, the bronze chain is hanging down from somewhere above."
"That's right, what do you think about hanging a chain here? It is nothing more than transporting things or leaving, which shows that there should be a road above, rather than being trapped here, it is better to be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and go up to break through! "Lantern Festival is analyzing the matter, and I think it makes sense when I listen to it.
We picked up all the broken chains in the grass and carefully rearranged them on the ground. Basically restoring these broken chains, we measured the length of the chain to about 30 meters, so that we can roughly estimate that we have to lie at least 30 meters high before we can reach the other end of the chain.
For the two of us who had only experience climbing walls, thirty meters meant about ten stories high, and we both looked at each other and saw a little fear in each other's eyes. But we have no way back, and moving forward has become our only chance!
We sat on the floor, ate something to regain our strength, and then pulled out the pickaxes in our backpacks. This reminds me of Shi Tao again, this mountaineering pickaxe is what he prepared for us. Although the contact time was not long, I was impressed by him, reliable and brave! Although he doesn't talk much, he can always stand up at a critical moment. I have thought more than once that if Shi Tao had not been injured at this time, our situation would have been better. I don't know how he's doing now.
"That's it! Don't hesitate, let's go! The Lantern Festival interrupted my thoughts, and I had already started to climb upwards.
I also clutched my pickaxe and followed. Fortunately, this cliff has been eroded by rain and snow, and there are many rock protrusions on the surface, which has helped me a lot in climbing. We first smashed into the crevices of the rocks with a pickaxe, and then looked for the focus point under our feet, not fast but steady, and we moved up little by little.
I don't know how long I climbed, my arms were already a little sore, and I was going to look back at the height I had climbed, but when I looked down, I instantly felt a wave of dizziness. If you stand on a ten-story building and look down, you may think that it is too much, but if you climb a cliff like I did, and look down, the height of the ten-story building will definitely surprise you. I felt my body shake, quickly tightened the handle of the pickaxe, lay down on the cliff again, closed my eyes to calm down, shook my head and continued to climb upward.
"It's coming! I saw a big cave up there! The Lantern Festival, which was a little above me, suddenly shouted excitedly, and my spirits were also lifted when I heard it, and I couldn't help but speed up.
At this moment, Lantern Xiao suddenly shouted in horror, "Ah!! Immediately afterwards, his hand, which had already grasped the lower edge of the cave, suddenly slipped off due to fright, so the Lantern Festival sank down, and his whole body suddenly swung to one side. Fortunately, his hand that grabbed the pickaxe did not let go, so it did not fall, and Lantern Xiao hurriedly stood firm again, lying there with a long breath.
This kid is in danger, but I was caught off guard below, and was kicked heavily in the face by him, and a smell of blood immediately filled my mouth, I endured the pain and grabbed the rock and the mountaineering pickaxe tightly, and I didn't care about rubbing it, so I quickly asked Lantern Xiao in a little panic: "What's wrong?" What's wrong? What do you see? ”
Lantern Xiao "leaned" and snorted with his mouth, "There's a dead man on the edge of that cave?" ”
"Dead people? Fresh? I asked.
"What's TM fresh?! What is new about this dead man? You're afraid that it won't taste good if it goes bad! "Lantern Xiao made a disgusting motion.
I glared at him, "Don't talk nonsense, what the hell is going on?" ”
"There's a skeletal shelf with a human body."
"Holy!" I'm a little speechless, I said to my heart you kid TM neuropathy! Sixteen skulls just now, you are like a bracelet in your hand, you are not afraid, what kind of weak youth are you pretending to be now! I said loudly to Lantern Xiao, "Weren't you still a little expert at skull search just now?" What kind of innocence to pretend to be now! ”
Lantern Xiao looked a little aggrieved, "It's different from just now, this time I just poked my head out of the lower edge of the cave, and suddenly I saw a skeleton lying there, looking at you with a straight face to face, there is only one centimeter between the two of us at most, who is not afraid!" ”
"Alright, alright! You're mentally prepared now! Then hurry up and get up! In such a posture, Lao Tzu can't hold on anymore! ”
Lantern Xiao cautiously climbed up. We were prepared, and we all avoided face-to-face contact with the skeleton.
The entrance of this cave is really spacious, and it looks like it is more than 50 square meters. The skeleton was lying on the edge of the hole.
"Is this guy trapped here and dying?" Lantern Xiao looked at the skeleton on the ground and said.
"Probably not! If it were me, I would rather fall and die than starve to death! I looked at the posture of the skeleton, and suddenly thought of a possibility, "Lantern Festival, did you say that this person is, planning to climb out and escape, but it didn't work, and he was killed by something that caught up?" ”
"I'll go! Don't scare anyone! It's evil enough along the way! Don't talk nonsense! Lantern Xiao looked into the depths of the cave with some horror. Otherwise, let's continue to see if there is any other way out? With that, Lantern Xiao walked to the edge of the cave and looked up, but he looked at it and suddenly said "Huh", and I hurriedly went over: "How did you find another way?" ”
"It's not!" Lantern Xiao continued to look at it without moving, and stretched out his hand to reach for something.
I asked him, "What are you doing?" What did you find? ”
Lantern Xiao turned to me and said, "Zhuo Ran, you hold my legs, hold on tight!" "I didn't know what he was going to do, but I held on to one of his legs. I saw that Lantern Xiao leaned out of the side of the cave as much as possible, reached out to reach something, and after a while, Lantern Xiao retracted her body and held a mountaineering rope in her hand. One end of the rope was held in Lantern Xiao's hand, and the other end went out from the hole and extended upward. The rope was new and clean, and it was clear that someone had just descended into the hole not long ago.
For this discovery, Lantern Xiao and I were both excited and nervous, we saw all kinds of strange and strange things along the way, and we were of course very happy to finally see the same kind again, but after thinking about it, those who can come here are not idle people, and may even be outlaws. And the two of us are completely half-assers who broke in by mistake, will they be killed directly!
Despite our apprehensions, if we meet other people, we still have hope of getting out. We decided to go inside the cave first.
"Hey, Zhuo Ran, why is your mouth bleeding?" Lantern Xiao turned her head to look at me and said.
"Nonsense! Not because of you! It was the moment your hand slipped just now, and I was under you, and I was kicked hard by your kid! As I spoke, I wiped the blood from the corner of my mouth and spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.
"Really! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! ”
"Alright, don't be pretentious! Let's go! Just stop hurting me! I interrupted the Lantern Festival, turned on the flashlight and walked deeper into the cave.