Chapter 54: The Strange Cave

The route was parallel to the cliffs, and the situation was similar to when I came up, and the rocks had fallen off leaving rows of holes, so it was easy to settle, but the only trouble was that the vegetation here was much denser than before, and I had to stop occasionally and clear it with a short knife.

As I progressed, I heard the water getting louder and louder, and I realized that I was approaching the waterfall. Could it be that this road led there in the first place?

The further I went, the heavier the moisture became, and as I carefully rounded a slightly raised rock, I was surprised to find a hole hidden under a patch of weeds and vines hanging down in front of me!

As I approached the entrance of the cave, I also noticed that there were also many eye-like patterns carved on the cliff wall, but perhaps because of the dense vegetation here, the patterns carved on it were much lighter to be eroded by the wind and rain, so they were much clearer than the eye patterns I saw before. It is precisely because of this that I can see that not all of these eyes are open, and many of them are closed.

It reminded me of those eyes I saw in the passage of the offering altar. Could it be that the carved eyes here have the same meaning as there? I still remember Wenmo telling me that kind of situation is called Void Eyes. Could it be the same here?

I made my way through the hole in the cliff face and came to the cave. I picked up my flashlight and carefully shone along the side of the hole, and I could see something scattered on the ground, but it was covered with a thick layer of dust, and I couldn't tell what it was.

Not far away, a waterfall rushed down and the mist drifted to my face. Suddenly, I had a strange thought, I must have found the water curtain hole!

I grasped the edge of the hole with one hand and stepped into it with one foot, but the problem was that since the last hole in the cliff was far from the edge of the hole, if I wanted to buy the other foot, my remaining injured left arm would have to be strengthened. Although I do feel a little dazed when I think of the pain before, I have come to this point, and there is absolutely no reason to go back.

I gritted my teeth and comforted myself: no matter how much it hurts, this is it. I thought about it for a moment, took a deep breath, and suddenly lifted the remaining foot, and then with a hard push of my left arm, I was in the hole at once. At the same time, I felt a piercing pain in my left shoulder, and I screamed and crouched on the ground. Beads of sweat the size of beans instantly soaked all over my forehead, and it was not an exaggeration to say that the pain made me a little dizzy at this time.

It took me a long time to recover, and I stood up and looked around with my still stinging shoulder, and by the light coming in from the hole, I suddenly saw a black shadow with teeth and claws in front of me!

I was startled, instinctively like to step back, but as soon as my foot took half a step, I stepped on the edge of the hole, and I quickly stopped my body. I turned my head to see a cliff nearly seven stories high behind me, and my legs couldn't help but go numb.

I made up my mind, gripped the knife tightly, and looked up again. I noticed that in front of me was a stone platform, and above the stone platform there was something similar to a statue, but this statue looked very strange, regardless of its appearance, but at first glance, it would be very blurry.

I rubbed my eyes, and my vision gradually adjusted to the dim light in the cave. I got closer to the statue, and then I noticed that the outside of the statue was covered with a thick layer of spider webs, so now I could only see the general outline of the statue, and the statue was completely covered by spiders.

I looked around, and the space was not very large, only about 20 square meters. There were some broken vessels around, and shards that couldn't tell what they were.

The ground was covered with a thick layer of dust, and the top was covered with large and small cobwebs, almost connected together. It seems that this place should have been untouched for thousands of years.

I looked around and didn't find anything of value. At this moment, I suddenly heard someone outside calling my name, which was the voice of Lantern Festival. So I quickly turned around and walked to the entrance of the cave. Carefully leaned out, and just heard the shout of Lantern Festival: "Zhuo Ran!" Where are you!!! You're not really going to fall, are you!! Zhuo Ran!! ”

I opened my mouth and responded, "Am I here!! Lantern Festival, can you hope that I will be good!! ”

"Where??" At this time, I saw that at the top of the cliff above me, Lantern Xiao's big head poked out.

"Here's it!" I endured the pain of the wound and waved at him.

Lantern Xiao touched it around, saw me, and waved at me, "Why did you run there?" ”

I pointed behind me, "There's a cave here!" ”

"Caves?" Lantern Xiao listened to my words and was slightly stunned, "What's in it?" ”

I shook my head, "It's nothing, it's just a statue, it should be the place where God was worshiped back then." ”

Lantern Xiao then said: "Find out if there are any good things in it!" ”

I knew what he was thinking about, so I just let him die, "There is nothing complete in this except for the statue, don't worry about it!" ”

Lantern Xiao thought for a moment, "Then do you look at the weight of that statue?" Is it possible to move out? ”

"Fuck your uncle! Get lost! ”

Lantern Xiao couldn't help but sigh, but she still didn't give up, "Can you do it yourself?" Do you need me to go down? ”

I hurriedly waved my hand at him, "No need, I'm okay, you guys can find a way to get me up." ”

Lantern Xiao nodded, raised the rope and waved his hand, signaling him to come to the position directly above me now and put the rope down. I made an OK gesture and went back to the hole.

I looked around again, but there was really nothing useful, and I was about to walk towards the entrance of the cave. But the moment I turned around, I saw the statue on the stone platform again. My heart couldn't help but move, I looked up at the statue and was stunned for a moment, and gradually my heart had an irrepressible urge to peel off the spider webs on it and see the true face of the statue.

So I carefully climbed up to the stone platform and stood in front of the statue. I don't know why I suddenly started to feel nervous, my heart was beating and breathing faster, I took a deep breath, and just wanted to use the short knife in my hand to pick up the cobwebs on the statue, and suddenly I noticed that the cobwebs on the statue's face moved.

I was startled and immediately stopped what I was doing. But when I saw my undulating chest, I couldn't help but smile, scolding myself for what kind of brain, the spider web is so light, it must be my own breath blowing, I really scared myself!

So I held my breath and used my short knife again to pick up the cobwebs on the statue's face. To my surprise, the cobwebs moved again. And it moved very strangely this time, no longer like the fluttering just now, but a kind of writhing, as if something was about to break through and break free from it.

My expression changed dramatically, and I hurriedly jumped off the stone platform, thinking in my heart, this statue will not be able to move, right? But it's impossible! It's just handmade by people, it can't be alive, it can't be here to be refined by the sun and the moon, and become a sperm, right? This is really a Journey to the West!

As I was thinking about it, the statue suddenly began to shake, and I was taken aback and said, "No!" Is this statue really a refinement?

I couldn't help but look around, wondering how I would dodge if the statue came after me in a moment. However, things were not as mythical as I had imagined, the statue shook and suddenly fell forward, and I hurriedly jumped backwards to avoid the fallen statue.

With a "boom", the statue fell to the ground, because the ground was all a layer of extremely fine dust. All of a sudden, all the dust on the ground rose into the air, and in an instant the sight in front of me was obscured by the dust, and I was choked and coughed.

I immediately covered my mouth and nose, turned and ran to the entrance of the cave. And just as I was about to stick my head out for some fresh air, I suddenly heard a strange laugh behind me! This laughter is very strange, as if a person is making a very nervous sound, and it is a skin that does not laugh.

In an instant, I felt like my whole body was numb and my scalp was all blown up. I felt the voice not far behind me, and I forced myself to calm down while holding the dagger across my chest.

I adjusted myself a little and then turned around sharply, and at the same time, I swung the short knife in my hand backwards vigorously. But before I could look up, I could clearly feel that my knife had slashed.

I looked at the dust in front of me, which had begun to drift away, and realized that there was nothing there!

Due to the fall of the statue just now, many cobwebs on the top of the cave were torn off together, and some white things hung on the roof of the cave, making me feel that there were many white shadows around me. Some extremely fine spider silk also floated up to my neck, and it felt very itchy, so I hurriedly wiped it with my hands a few times.

I looked down at the ground, where the statue had fallen to the ground and shattered into several pieces, and I noticed that it was hollow inside. I remembered the weird writhing of the spider web outside the statue just now, and an idea suddenly popped up in my heart, could it be that something was hidden inside just now, so the situation just now appeared!

But where has it gone now? All of a sudden, I felt a sudden chill in my back!