Chapter 168: The Sea of Bats

The failure to track Liang Hu twice in a row made Manager Du lose control of Liang Hu's tracks, so he had to divide his men into several groups and go into the mountains and forests to find the traces left by Liang Hu after they passed. However, these harshly trained subordinates never came back after entering the mountain forest, and the mountain opened its bloody mouth like a monster, devouring the people sent by Chief Du one by one, and even took in a number of masters who came from other places to reinforce it, so that General Manager Du was in a difficult situation to ride a tiger.

These people went in completely different directions, even if one of them met Liang Hu and failed to escape, it would not be the end of the current annihilation, after the painstaking search was fruitless, Chief Du began to suspect that there was another force in this mountain, he didn't know how many of his subordinates were drowned by this force, and he didn't dare to rush into the mountains and forests, after discussing with the strange person Mu Lao next to him, Chief Du decided to return to the place where Yi Xinzhu left the vehicle, hoping to become a farmer who waited for the rabbit。

When the dawn of the morning brightened the eastern sky, Mr. Du finally walked out of the mountain and stood on a mountain beam that could overlook the meadow at the foot of the mountain outside, he looked at the many cars parked there, and finally had a little smile on his face, although there were many things in front, at least now there is a chance to make amends, thinking of this, Mr. Du turned around and was about to say a few words to the old man Mu beside him, but saw that the old man's body was torn apart like a watermelon, and the plasma sprayed out and stained his clothes red.

Manager Du was shocked, and hurriedly lay down and crawled behind a large piece of rock, curling up his body as much as possible. After confirming that he was safe for the time being, Mr. Du recalled the previous situation, but found that the shot was really weird. The tragic condition of Mu Lao's corpse can only be caused by a large-caliber anti-materiel sniper rifle, but Manager Du didn't hear the sound of any gunshots at all just now, nor did he hear the sound of bullets breaking through the air, this situation has exceeded Manager Du's cognition, even if he wants to break his head, he can't guess what is going on.

Just when Chief Du was puzzled, a bright red dot appeared on the brown rock where he was hiding, and after seeing this red dot, Chief Du's whole person became stiff, and pushed back according to the position where Mu Lao was shot, and the person who fired the shot should be on the mountain beam about two or three kilometers away from him, because only from this angle can he see himself standing at the mountain beam. But now how did the sniper shine the infrared rays used to aid aiming from behind him, and was there a second sniper in that direction?

Mr. Du watched with a desperate gaze as the red thread behind him disappeared from the rock, and before he could react, a sharp pain came from the vest, and the brown rock in front of Mr. Du was painted bright red in an instant. After a few minutes, a dark figure slowly rose from the spot not far from the rocks where Chief Du was hiding, and finally a shadow figure standing in human form appeared. A fresh breeze blew, and the shadow of the human figure floated in the air like leaves, quickly dissipating into obscurity under the rising morning sun.

β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”*β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”*β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” a guard slowly walked down the pitch-black cave with a torch, the air in the cave was quite hot, and there was a faint smell of fish, as if there was some kind of living thing. Several guards armed with military miniature submachine guns followed closely behind, carefully on guard in order to respond to threats emerging from the darkness. Although Yi Xinzhu and the others brought enough glow sticks and flashlights, they still equipped the team with four burning torches, and the jumping flames can not only deter the invasion of wild beasts, but also detect the surrounding environment, and if there is a lack of oxygen, it will alert the entire adventure team to pay attention to it at the first time.

Liang Hu walked in the middle of the team, and in front of him were Yi Xinzhu and Han Yu, who were supporting each other. Liang Hu kept shaking the flashlight on the stone wall next to him and the road under his feet along the way, carefully observing the surrounding environment through the light. After walking for almost half an hour, Liang Hu did not find any traces of artificial excavation, and this underground karst cave should be naturally formed. The entrance to the cave is secluded, and it is located in the middle of the mountains that are inaccessible, so it is not surprising that no one has systematically explored this place before.

When Liang Hu and his party walked out of the narrow passage and entered a very spacious cave, a strange buzzing sound suddenly appeared in everyone's ears, and several vigilant guards used flashlights to shine back and forth around the cave, and found countless bats hanging upside down in the rock crevices. The bats are about a foot in size, and they retract their wings so tightly together that when the light hits the bats, they immediately make an astonishing change in the quiet bat colony.

"Don't!" Liang Hu and Qu Yao stopped almost in unison, but unfortunately their warning was too late, and the bat, which was alarmed by the light, fell from the crack in the rock, and then flapped its wings vigorously and flew in the middle of the cave. Countless bats huddled together next to each other, forming a huge shadow, crushing down from top to bottom towards the ground Yi Xinzhu and his party.

When the bats approached, Liang Hu could see the sharp teeth on their mouths very clearly by the light, and secretly screamed "not good" in his heart, and hurriedly took a few steps forward and swept past Yi Xinzhu and Han Yu, and at the same time shouted loudly in warning: "Go back! Yi Xinzhu and Han Yu, who were blocked by Liang Hu, turned around and left without hesitation, but the few guards at the front of the team did not have this good luck, they were surrounded by thousands of bats, and soon there were cries of pain.

"Da Da! Da Da!" The attacked guard saw that things could not be done well, and he forcefully hooked the trigger of the weapon in his hand, and the muzzle of the military miniature submachine gun spewed bright flames, harvesting the life of the bats that attacked him around him. A frenzied burst of firing filled the feet of several of the guards with corpses, but it alarmed more bats, and the entire cavern reverberated with a dense "buzzing" sound, presumably from the bat's flapping of its wings, and then the guards saw the black rock wall above their heads crush down on them as if they were falling.

A bat is no threat to adults, but when 100,000 bats are closely arranged to form a shadow, even Liang Hu does not dare to sweep its edge, he does not hesitate to activate the "Peak Talisman" talisman, and then activate the "Frost Blade Talisman", allowing his hands to grow two-foot-long blades. The transparent ice crystal armor reflected the colorful glow under the reflection of the light, making Liang Hu transform into a warrior stepping on colorful auspicious clouds, he wielded the frost blade in his hand to kill into the group of bats that trapped several guards, and every time the frost blade as thin as a cicada's wings rose and fell, it would bring up endless blood and minced flesh.

Ten minutes of slashing and killing finally succeeded in rescuing a few guards who were covered in bruises, everyone didn't care to thank Liang Hu for saving his life, turned around and ran towards the entrance of the narrow passage, Liang Hu fought and retreated for everyone, the frost blade in his hand and the ice crystal armor on his body had already exhausted the aura of the talisman and disappeared, but as long as he was not surrounded by endless bats, Liang Hu's quenching jade body was enough to make him retreat from the bite of countless sharp teeth.

I don't know if the passage is too narrow for a large group of bats to move, or if this place is far away from the place where the bats live, and when Liang Hu stepped back to the passage, the large group of bats dispersed and flew back to the rock crevice of the cave to hang upside down to rest, and the whole cave returned to its previous calm. Liang Hu didn't care about resting, and went to check the situation of several injured guards as soon as possible, and found that their sturdy training uniforms were bitten and full of holes, and everyone was covered with countless tooth marks and dazzling bloodstains, these bats were not big but their teeth were quite sharp, but fortunately they did not contain toxins, and they only needed to apply some ointment to bandage them simply, and they would not be life-threatening.

It's not a simple matter to get through so many bats, no one knows how deep the entire cave is, how long it will take, as long as there is an accident along the way, everyone will be drowned in a sea of bats that are enough to suffocate, those well-trained guards can't do it all over, how can Yi Xinzhu and Ling Bingxue, who have no combat ability, ensure their safety?

After a brief discussion, everyone returned the same way and returned to the woods on the ground, compared with the dark and damp underground cave, the woods outside were obviously much more refreshing and cool, and the sun above their heads shone on their bodies, making people lazy and unable to lift their spirits. According to the method discussed by Liang Hu and Qu Yao, the four guards took machetes to chop the branches of the surrounding trees, and firmly tied them with the ropes they carried. Bats are more afraid of dense fog and bright light, and these moist branches sprinkled with insect repellent powder and ignited should be able to do both, perhaps with miraculous effects.

After lunch, Yi Xinzhu and his party re-entered the cave, and they drove to the entrance of the cave where the bats lived, each covering their mouths and noses with soaked strips of cloth, and then lit the torches emitting thick smoke and carried them into the cave. This method may really work, but it's a pity that Yi Xinzhu and his party are only a dozen people, even if each person holds two torches in their hands, it is still a drop in the bucket for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of bats in the huge cave, on the contrary, the bats that were awakened by the smoke flew up and rushed down to the ground without a head, but everyone suffered enough, and it was almost impossible to go down the lì tong guò cave in this chaotic environment, after two consecutive attempts, Yi Xinzhu reluctantly announced that he had given up.