Chapter 27: The Shortcut
In the underground waterway, Lin Ye turned his head and walked in the direction of the Blood Moon Lake, the groundwater after the rainstorm was too dangerous, rather than going upriver against the impact of the current, it was the best policy to explore a more tenable place first.
After walking more than ten meters, the underground waterway split into two branches. One of them was very wide, the other was a little narrow, and the eyeless lizard burrowed headlong into the narrow path.
Lin Ye followed the lizard.
After walking for less than a few meters, the direction of the road changed to a downward slope, which was exactly the opposite direction to the Blood Moon Lake, which meant that Lin Ye was walking in the direction of the swamp. He narrowed his eyes and looked nervously back and forth, while slightly erecting his slightly wet fluff as he made his way down the underground waterway.
The rushing water was deafening.
Lin Ye "pricked up" his ears, perceiving any abnormal sounds that might appear around him. But every time I can't help but open my eyes to see, even if I can't see anything. This feeling of not using your eyes is really uncomfortable.
If only there was light, Lin Man tried to activate the Flame Feather Cloak. The flame fluff floated in front of Lin Ye, and it was pitch black. It doesn't have the effect of lighting at all, but it makes the underground waterways that are already invisible even darker.
Lin Ye could only take back the flame feather cloak.
The eyeless lizard was lying on top of the waterway above Lin Ye's head, with four paws with special suction cups that would not fall. Unlike the cautious Lin Ye, it walked forward on all fours, wide open and closed, and did not seem to be afraid at all.
It seemed familiar with the place, crawling over the damp rock face as it bit a large spotted slug that had been swept away by the current, and swallowed it with pleasure.
With a lizard opening the way in front, Lin Ye, who had always been on guard, was also relieved and much more relaxed.
The former is an old driver who lives in the underground waterways, and if there is really any danger in this underground waterway, this lizard with degraded eyes and enhanced smell perception will find the enemy faster than Lin Ye, who specializes in eyesight.
Lin Ye moved forward, counting his steps for a hundred years. He had walked almost two thousand eight hundred steps. In terms of the distance traveled, it was almost 1,400 meters away, and it was already close to the edge of the dense forest area.
The waterways are getting narrower and the water level is getting higher. The turbulent groundwater hit the dark stones of the river, and the water splashed onto Lin Ye's body, cold to the bone. Droplets of water dripped overhead, and the stench of a swamp came from the side.
Estimating that he might reach the end, Lin Ye slowed down, and he groped his way forward step by step.
The gaps between the rock walls on both sides narrowed, and the groundwater descended sharply, as if it were a waterfall, flowing down below.
In an instant, the smooth and round water outlet made Lin Ye's feet slip, and the whole bird was about to be planted down!
Lin Ye couldn't help but let out a low snort, and the sound echoed in the waterway.
It won't be so unlucky!!
Lin Ye shouted in his heart. This is the second time he has stepped on the air, the first time he stepped on the air when he entered the cordyceps field, and the second time is now!
Just as Lin Ye was about to fall, his tail hurt and was bitten by the lizard lying on the rock wall in time.
The limbs of this agile eyeless lizard moved backwards, and at the same time the head was thrown back, biting Lin Ye's fluffy tail, not only stopping Lin Ye's fall, but also dragging Lin Ye up little by little.
The lizard's strength is a little small, but it is still possible to drag an animal about its own size.
After half a minute, Lin Ye was finally pulled up.
Lin Ye, who was successfully pulled out by the lizard, lay on the side of the waterway and gasped. If he falls underneath, let's not say what's underneath, I'm afraid he won't want to come up again.
But just as he struggled to climb up, Lin Ye looked down at his feet. There's a bigger space down there! It seems to be an underground cave!
And there are a lot of dense little yellow dots down there, constantly moving, and there are hundreds of them!
Judging from the silver-scaled fish that I saw swimming backwards before, it may be that some silver-scaled fish strayed here, and finally fell below and began to multiply.
The silverfish does not have a fishy smell, and it tastes like sashimi, which is quite good.
If you can find a way to go down, and at the same time find a way to come up, these silver-scaled fish are a good meal, and they can also provide Lin Ye with a lot of growth value.
First experienced a misstep, and then accidentally discovered the silver scale fish, although it did not belong to the requirements of this random mission, but Lin Ye was also very satisfied with this discovery.
The lizard's forefoot clicked as if it was picking at something, and as soon as its head was topped, a stone was pushed open, revealing a faint light.
The stone rolled to the side, and the stone seemed to be blocked at the entrance of the cave, with the claw marks left by a small lean dinosaur.
He showed his head and breathed in a breath of fresh air, and the dim sunlight was shining down, and it was already dusk.
There was the sound of flowing water in his ears, and Lin Ye turned his head to see that it was a wisp of clear spring.
It's a bit familiar here.
Lin Ye was stunned for a moment, he looked around, and found that this was the only clear spring in the swamp area, and the spring was connected to the groundwater, so that the spring water continued to bubble up.
Isn't this the place where he soaked the jaw-loving dragon meat in spring water to keep it fresh?
Before he knew it, he had actually arrived in the swampy area. It turns out that the underground lake where the silverfish are staying is just below the swampy area.
In this way, it is much easier to get to the terminal of the underground waterway after it has been "reopened" to the ground. Obviously, this is a shortcut.
Back in the swamp, the lizard was a little nervous, spitting letters, sniffing east and west. As if something was determined, it quickly relaxed, as if this was its original territory.
The lizard jumped into the spring with a thud, raised its head in joy, and then rushed out of the spring, rolling merrily among the fern leaves.
Lin Ye had already returned to the dense forest area, and the lizard that was originally soaked in the spring water looked at Lin Ye, and finally followed Lin Ye in a hurry, and did not continue to stay in the swamp area. They still live in their nests in the crevices of the rocks.
With a little more follower, Lin Ye's heart was happy, and he decided to treat the lizard as a return gift for helping him at a critical moment.
He saw a centipede lurking beneath a withered leaf, and he used his feather coat of fire. A cloud of black flames fluttered and immediately pounced on the head of the centipede, which was five meters away and did not know that it was about to be destroyed.
The centipede's struggles, writhing and bouncing were all in vain, its intelligence was too low to know that the enemy it was fighting was actually the black chick five meters away. The flames burrowed into the centipede's belly, and with the smell of burnt paste, Lin Ye separated half of the roasted centipede and took it in front of the lizard.
People take food as the sky, and birds are no exception, Lin Ye has never relaxed the cooking practice of these ten days. And unintentionally, because of the need to control the heat to avoid the food being burned. Lin Ye's control over the Flame Feather Cloak was also improving little by little, and now with a movement of his mind, he could easily command the Flame Feather Cloak to move to a position accurate to the centimeter level.
Today is the first time he has shown his craft to other animals. Although there was no oil, Lin Ye also carefully controlled the heat.
The lizard was somewhat afraid of the flames of the forest night, it had never eaten cooked food.
Tilting its head, it spit out the letter and sensed the roasted centipede meat sent by Lin Ye. There was a smell of meat, and there was a hint of fat. Because there is no oil, the centipede meat is grilled a little burnt.
The eyeless lizard is a type of monitor lizard, and because of its adaptation to the environment, it has gradually evolved into its current small size, and in addition to eating insects, it also retains the nature of the monitor lizard to eat meat.
This centipede meat immediately aroused the lizard's appetite, and it ate the roasted centipede meat in two bites, smashed it, smashed it, and then raised its head to Lin Ye, as if it was still expecting something.
Seeing that the lizard liked to eat the barbecue he made so much, Lin Ye was happy in his heart, and gave the other half of the centipede meat that he had originally left for himself to eat.
In the dead of night, there were occasional insect chirps, but they stopped abruptly halfway through. A cool breeze blew from the Blood Moon Lake into the dense forest, and a Blood Moon fluttered in the air, a blood-red glow replacing the warm sunlight that illuminated the land that had fallen silent again.
On the sparkling Blood Moon Lake, blood-red tentacles churned, and the tentacles were densely packed with red eyes.
The cold wind blows, setting off waves on the lake. It was bathed in the glow of a blood moon, solemn and eerie.