Chapter 45: The Serpent in the Cave (1) The Underground Cave
I watched as the others descended one by one at the entrance to stand beside me, and they should have been as nervous and excited as I was, excited that we had been the first to find this mysterious place that had not been discovered in hundreds of years, and that it was so easy to find it, with little time wasted around the bend (thanks to Neil's brilliant mind, of course). Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoAs for the nervousness, of course, it's because of the legendary giant snake.,Judging from the snake head pattern on the stone door.,It's basically certain that the legend should be true.,Thinking of really going to fight with such a terrifying monster.,It must be another vicious battle.,It's really hard not to be nervous.。
The last rope to come down was Bard, who didn't seem to have any energy, walked slowly, and didn't have his usual hippie smiley face, but he sweated a lot, maybe he was a monkey group, his body hair was heavier, and he could sweat so much in such a shady underground, I really don't know how he survived in the desert heat, and he really suffered.
We then walked cautiously forward together, and the passage was gradually inclined downward, and it was constantly winding and circling, like the body of a snake, and of course we would be in trouble if there was such a big snake, and there was nowhere to hide in this secret passage.
"It's so dark and damp in here, Captain. Alan said behind me.
Indeed, it is covered with moss, the walls are full of water stains, and there are many small puddles on the ground, I really don't know where so much water comes from in this soil dragon stone mine, this is the middle of the desert! The road has become very slippery, and the slope of the ground is getting bigger and bigger, we are very careful to walk, holding on to the wall and walking slowly, for fear of accidentally falling down like a slide and sliding directly into the bottomless abyss.
All the time we clenched our weapons tightly, for fear that a giant snake would suddenly come out of nowhere and attack us. In this way, we slowly walked for an unknown amount of time, and it felt like we were getting farther and farther away from the ground, and we were almost to the deepest part of the earth.
Finally, after turning a corner, we saw the exit, which emitted a faint yellow light that guided us forward.
"Wow~~" We walked out of the exit, and everyone couldn't help but blurt out an exclamation, and the scenery in front of us made people never think that this was seen deep in the desert underground.
This is a huge underground cavern, and we are now standing on a high platform about three meters high, and there is a stone forest under the high platform, and there are countless stone pillars of different sizes, most of which are strangely shaped, like trees made of stone, and there are many broken stones scattered on the ground. In front of the strange rock forest is a large underground lake as far as the eye can see, the clear surface of the lake is sparkling, and from time to time you can hear the sound of water droplets falling into the lake from the top of the cave.
The top of the cave is dozens of meters high from the ground, and there are countless long strips of original ore of earth dragon stone hanging upside down, so many ores gather together to emit a shimmering pale yellow light, and the entire wide lake reflects the spectacular scene on the top of the cave, like a golden ocean, although I have never seen the sea, but I feel in my heart that this scenery will definitely not be worse than the sea. I really can't believe that there is such a large space and spectacular scenery in the depths of the desert, how the hell did Nicks find this place?
I told Alan to stay at the exit and observe, while I jumped off the platform with the others and walked towards the stone forest. Everyone was still very cautious and walked slowly, on the one hand, the stone forest was full of rocks, and it was very difficult to walk, and on the other hand, they were still worried that the giant snake would suddenly emerge from somewhere and turn itself into stone.
"Let's disperse first, otherwise there is a chance that everyone will be petrified together, and scattering will expand our search range, and also improve our own survival chances, as long as one person can kill the giant snake, everyone else will be able to return to their original state!" I said to everyone.
"Makes sense, it's a good idea!" Link said with a nod of his usual pose.
"Let's try to be as quiet as possible, and whoever finds the location of the giant snake first should whisper to each other, don't startle the snake, it's best if we can work together to kill it as soon as possible!" Neil added.
"No problem, just leave it to me!" Jack said confidently, holding a cigarette.
So everyone kept a certain distance and began to walk forward slowly, while searching for the Ultimate Earth Dragon Stone to see if it was hidden in this vicinity, and Emma also turned over the stone to see if it was hidden underneath. I don't hope to find the Ultimate Dragonstone so quickly, after all, Neil and I have witnessed the dazzling brilliance of the Ultimate Wind Dragonstone together, and I believe that if it is the Ultimate Dragonstone, the light it emits will definitely not lose to the Ultimate Dragonstone, it must be easy to see, how can it cover its dazzling brilliance in this pile of rocks? Now I'm afraid that the Nyx has set up some magic enchantment or mechanism to hide the Ultimate Earth Dragon Stone inside, just like the way the Garrison School places the Ultimate Wind Dragon Stone, then it will be difficult to find it. Now we have to take a closer look at this large cavern to see if there is anything different, and maybe we can find clues to the ultimate earth dragon stone, just like we found the snake head pattern on the cliff face before.
I walked forward slowly, my eyes swaying from side to side, searching carefully, and Anne followed me not far from me. I had been walking a distance when I heard Anne's "ah" exclamation, and I hurriedly turned my gaze to her to find out what had happened to scare her like this.
I saw Anne covering her mouth with her right hand, pointing to a small stone pillar with her left hand, with a frightened expression, not moving, it really scared me to death, I thought she was petrified!
I stepped forward to inspect it, and realized that this small pillar was not an ordinary stone at all, but a stone statue of a man dressed as a magician. At this moment, he was looking straight ahead, and his posture was still standing normally, as if he suddenly saw something that caused him to be completely caught off guard and petrified in an instant.
I didn't expect that there were petrified people in the stone forest, it seems that the legend that the giant snake can petrify creatures is true, and we are not the first person to discover this underground cave, the more we go forward, the more humanoid stone statues we find, all kinds of postures and expressions, some of them have hideous faces, as if they want to fight the fish to die and break the net, Some of them were huddled up in a ball with fear on their faces, as if they didn't want to see anything, and some of them were quite funny, holding up a large mirror with both hands, trying to make the monster see that their eyes were petrified?
In addition, we also found more than a dozen white bones in the depths of the stone forest, could it be that they were poisoned by snakes and died? Although they were not petrified, the result was the same. We also found a lot of snake skins on the ground, probably left by the snake when it molted, the smallest of which was as thick as an arm, could it be that the giant snake was left by molting when he was a child?
At this time, Neil walked up to me and said to me: "It seems that we are not the first to discover this place, there should be many people who have found this underground cave in the past few hundred years, and I just took a closer look, and the secret passage leading to here is not only the one we just came over, you see..." Neil pointed around to me, and I realized that there were indeed several passages leading to here, and there was a hole in the top of the cave, I don't know where these passages lead, this earth dragon stone mine cave is really complicated.
"Look at these petrified people, most of them are dressed as magicians, some are warriors, maybe they came in groups, but they all have gone and never returned, it seems that the giant snake is more powerful than we thought!" Neil continued.
I nodded and said to Neil, "There's a good chance that the giant snake will emerge from an unexpected place, so be careful!"
As we were about to walk out of the stone forest, I looked back at the huge stone statue standing behind me, and I couldn't help but open my jaw: it was a stone statue of a giant, no wonder it was so big, and it looked like a strangely shaped stone pillar from behind. I saw that his eyes were wide open, and his mouth opened wide as if he wanted to fight the giant snake to the death, but unfortunately he never had this chance...
I looked at the face of the giant statue, and wondered how such a huge giant could have come in through the secret passage, where there was no room for him, could it be that some other magician had teleported it in with magic?
I was thinking about it when I saw a huge snake head slowly emerge from the mouth of the giant statue, and at the same time turned its head to look at me...