Chapter 2: Skeletons
This white shadow turned out to be Zhou Hao's hunting dog, the mountain tiger. Since this morning, after working in vain for most of the day, a man and a dog have gone separately to search for traces of their prey. And Zhou Hao's long howl was to summon the mountain tiger to join him and search for the bighorn deer together.
In fact, this mountain tiger is not a dog, but an extremely rare snow mastiff! It was picked up by Zhou Hao from a snow nest in a snowstorm more than half a year ago. There are a total of three mastiff cubs in the snow nest, and the other two have frozen to death, leaving only the smallest one, which is extremely vigorous. Not only was he not frozen to death, but he also crawled around with all his strength.
The people in the village said that this was a white-eyed wolf cub, and he would definitely not be able to raise a family, so he persuaded Zhou Hao to throw it away quickly. Only Zhou Hao's grandfather was well-informed, and after a closer look, he recognized that this was an extremely rare snow mastiff!
Zhou Hao was pleasantly surprised, and gave this little guy the most common name of a hunting dog - Mountain Tiger! Under Zhou Hao's careful care, this little guy regarded Zhou Hao as his only relative, and he never left Zhou Hao's side.
After raising it for more than half a year, although the mountain tiger has not yet reached adulthood, it is about the same size as an ordinary hunting dog, and it is far smarter and more ferocious than ordinary hunting dogs, which is really Zhou Hao's best helper.
But today's performance of the mountain tiger was really abnormal, dragging Zhou Hao into the depths of the dense forest, ignoring Zhou Hao's repeated inquiries.
A man and a mastiff walked through the forest for three quarters of an hour, and after passing through the entire dense forest, they came to a silent canyon more than ten feet wide.
As soon as he stood at the mouth of the canyon, Zhou Hao suddenly felt a chill on his back, and a faint fierce aura rushed from the depths of the canyon!
Not only that, after taking a closer look, Zhou Hao found that although this canyon was lush with vegetation, there was no trace of the activities of birds and beasts! Even the most common insects and frogs in the mountains and forests could not be heard here at all!
Looking up at the blood moon still hanging in the sky, Zhou Hao's heart moved slightly, and he said softly: "Mountain Tiger, where are you going to take me?" This canyon is a little weird, do we have to go in?"
The mountain tiger raised his head slightly and threw Zhou Hao a look that seemed to be disdainful.
"His grandmother's, he actually dares to despise the master!" Zhou Hao raised his eyebrows, kicked on the round ass of the mountain tiger, and continued: "If you enter, you will enter, the master is still afraid of something!"
Zhou Hao followed behind the mountain tiger, and walked around for a quarter of an hour in the winding canyon, except for the ferocious aura getting stronger and stronger, there was nothing abnormal.
Rounding the last turn, a bald mountain is a hundred feet high and barren, towering abruptly at the end of the canyon.
Looking at the mountain in front of him, Zhou Hao muttered: "This earthquake is really powerful, even the mountain has collapsed!"
I saw that this bald mountain was shaken by the earthquake and collapsed a small half, and countless rocks collapsed, completely blocking the entire canyon.
Halfway up the mountainside that was collapsed, a dark hole with a radius of two zhang was revealed. As soon as the mountain tiger saw the entrance of this cave, he immediately became excited, and shook his head and tail around Zhou Hao.
Zhou Hao's heart moved, and he asked the mountain tiger: "You guy is going to take me to this cave?
"Wang!" the mountain tiger cried excitedly, and its big fluffy tail wagged violently.
Seeing the excitement of the mountain tiger, Zhou Hao confirmed his guess, and his heart was suddenly happy.
Without saying a word, he cut down a few dead branches, tied torches, and led the tiger to climb up in the direction of the cave.
Halfway up the mountain, a man and a mastiff just stood at the mouth of the cave, and the fierce aura suddenly became countless times thicker, and there was a kind of coercion from the ancient wilderness, which made people feel breathless.
Although this coercion makes people feel very uncomfortable, it is nothing to Zhou Hao, who is bold enough.
A man and a mastiff have just burrowed into the cave, which is a winding passage that extends all the way underground.
Zhou Hao held the torch and walked unhurriedly in the passage. As far as the eye can see, I can see that the stone wall of the passage is full of large and small cracks, and the sound of "ticking and ticking" is constantly coming from the cracks. On the ground, there are still many large and small gravel that have fallen, and judging by the new stubble on the gravel, I am afraid that it also collapsed because of today's earthquake.
And inside the passage, there was a trace of blood-red mist, emitting a heart-palpitating blood-red light. The deeper you go, the thicker this blood-red mist becomes. Later, even without a torch, the red light emitted by the blood-red mist was enough to see.
This strange scene made Zhou Hao have to slow down and be on guard as he walked.
But the scene was weird, but nothing happened. In the bottomless passage, only the footsteps and breathing of a man and a mastiff kept echoing, and it was really terrifyingly silent.
I don't know how long I walked, Zhou Hao estimated that he had reached a depth of at least two or three miles underground, and the mountain tiger running in front had long since disappeared.
Just when Zhou Hao doubted whether this passage would never end, he suddenly heard the cry of a mountain tiger in front of him, his heart was slightly relieved, his feet accelerated slightly, and he went around the corner in front of him.
As soon as I turned the corner, the passage finally came to an end. What caught Zhou Hao's eyes was a huge cave hall with a height of more than 100 zhang and a width of more than 200 zhang!
As far as the eye could see, the entire cave hall was filled with a blood-red mist as thick as plasma, and the ubiquitous red light illuminated the huge cave hall even brighter.
The inner walls of the entire cave hall are all made of extremely hard, metallic iron gallstones, and they were not affected by the earthquake in the slightest.
But these Zhou Hao didn't see it, and what firmly attracted Zhou Hao's attention was the huge skeleton lying in the center of the huge cave hall!
The skeleton was forty or fifty zhang long from head to tail! Even if it lay on the ground, it was six or seven zhang high, and the whole thing was a hill made of skeletons!
The shape of the entire skeleton is like a mixture of a dragon, a giant bear and a giant crocodile, and it makes people shudder just by looking at it from a distance.
Every bone of this skeleton is a strange blood-red color, and a trace of blood-red mist is constantly escaping from the skeleton. The kind of coercion that Zhou Hao could feel outside the cave was a hundred times stronger here.
And on this skeleton, the most incredible place is the huge and incomparable giant mouth!
I saw that the huge mouth was more than a dozen zhang in size, accounting for more than one-third of the total length of the entire skeleton! The mouth was densely covered with hundreds of sharp giant teeth two or three zhang long, which could only be hugged by two people. The mountain tiger lying next to the giant mouth is not even qualified to plug the teeth between these giant teeth.
"What the hell is this?" Zhou Hao, who was shocked, forcibly held back the fear brought by that coercion, and while pondering, he slowly walked to the giant mouth of the skeleton and looked at it carefully.
The skeleton in front of him, although it was a strange blood red, but every bone was crystal clear, exuding a faint luster like jade. If you take a small piece of bone and sell it as blood jade, I'm afraid some people will believe it.
Zhou Hao gently put his hand on the skeleton and felt it quietly.
This skeleton feels like no gold or stone, without the roughness unique to bones, but is extremely cold and smooth, giving people a jade-like touch.
Gently stroking the skeleton, Zhou Hao, who felt that he was as small as an ant in front of this skeleton, pondered: "I'm afraid that only the legendary ancient divine beast can have such a huge size! Such a rare giant beast, although it is only a skeleton, can be regarded as a treasure! Unfortunately, this treasure is too big, how can the master help it?"
Hearing Zhou Hao's sigh, the mountain tiger stood up, shook his head around Zhou Hao and barked twice, and then turned his head and drilled into the giant mouth. Seeing this, Zhou Hao's heart moved, and he hurriedly followed the mountain tiger and got into the giant mouth from between the gaps between the two giant teeth.