Chapter 44: Brave the Beast Cave (3)
The woods at this time were so quiet that it was terrifying, and the rustle of the leaves, the sound of everyone's breathing, was clearly thrown into Jack's ears.
No one knows what happened here, whether the footprints came out of the cave, and if the reason why the footprints disappeared was that the creatures that left them could fly?
Luthor gently took the soldier's sword, clasped it in both hands, and slowly paced from the side where the footprints had disappeared to the swamp, turning his head from time to time to watch for danger that might arise at any time.
Above the low altitude of the swamp, the miasma is still dense, and the "pontoon bridge" that was simply built yesterday has now been scattered because of the rise of the swamp level, but fortunately the beast hole has not been sealed again.
However, the dense miasma in front of him should have to trouble Tex to perform swordsmanship again.
However, without determining whether you are in danger or not, any noise you make can be fatal.
"Is there anything unusual over there?"
Coren had his soldiers split up and search for anything suspicious in the forest, but from the looks they gave back, there was nothing unusual around.
But this mysterious footprint makes people nervous.
There was no trace of everything, and everyone consulted, so it was better to go down to the beast cave first.
Tex performed another Heavenly Sword Technique, leaving the Soul Eater Sword on the ground, the aura shielding the miasma from it, and they went down to the Beast Cave without any problems.
The deep black cavern, now illuminated by the light of the fire, waded through the muddy sludge aisle, and they were again at the edge of the mire.
"Do you want to clean this Tan little by little with a wooden barrel?"
Jack asked in surprise when he saw two soldiers carrying buckets.
Coren nodded and said, "Well, that's the only stupid way to do it right now." ”
But because the quagmire does not know the depth, so someone has to go down first, fortunately there is no shortage of sacrifices in the Missu country, and soon, a person tied his waist with a rope and took the initiative to ask to enter the quagmire.
Coren greatly appreciated his courage and immediately let the man on the shore hold the other end of the rope and let him go down.
At first, the soldier just climbed on the side of Tan and went down with his legs, and after trying, he immediately submerged all his body except his head into the quagmire.
"This quagmire is very deep! I'll dive and try!" Before anyone else could speak, he took a sharp breath and buried the whole person in the dark quagmire.
The people at the edge of the pool nervously grasped the rope in their hands, for fear that if their hands slipped, the other end of the rope would be sucked into the quagmire with strong adsorption force forever.
After a while, there was a gentle tug on the end of the rope, and they knew that it should be the person who asked to come up. So he pulled the rope back quickly with all his strength.
In the quagmire, the soldier who had just dived down did not bother to take a few breaths of oxygen and wipe off the thick mud on his face, so he said: "Your Majesty! This quagmire is not two meters deep, at most. The bottom part should be blocked, and when you touch it, it feels like it may be some rocks, and you can dig it through!"
Coren was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked someone to pull him up and arrange for him to rest on the side.
"Okay, since that's the case, then we can get through it now!"
So, under Cologne's arrangement, the four soldiers took turns to go into battle, and it took less than an hour to clear the mud from the pool with buckets, and when the torches were found, they could see the stones piled up inside.
That's great news!
Coren couldn't contain his excitement, and then arranged for people to try to clean up the stones, perhaps because of the perennial sedimentation, the rubble on the ground accumulated over time, blocking the passage below.
Sure enough, with the help of Jack and Tex, when one of the stones was lifted first, a wind blew upside down from the bottom of the tank!
"Father, there's wind down there!" exclaimed Tex.
Coren was very happy, and hurriedly asked them to continue carrying the stones, if it weren't for his age, he himself would have wanted to go down and help himself.
In the morning, as more and more stones were cleared, a passage appeared on the side of the bottom of the pool!
"Torch!" Turks shouted up.
Then, a torch was given to Tex with a rope, and Tex took the torch and carefully walked into the huge passage with a height of five meters.
Those who were on top were now completely blind to what was happening below, and could only communicate with Jack and Turks with their voices.
"Is it safe down there?" called Cologne.
From under the quagmire, which had been dug to a depth of nearly ten meters or so, Tex's very small voice came: "We are moving forward. ”
Hearing the answer, Coren was much more relieved.
"Cologne, let the two of you stay here later, and we'll both go down. Judging by the wind blowing in this quagmire, there should be other outlets. Luthor analyzed.
Luthor is right, Coren also knows this truth, the light is in front of him now, and when the Turks at the bottom get the news, Coren can go down and see for himself.
Suddenly, from under Tan, there was the sound of Tex's and Jack's screaming!
Coren leaned over to the edge of the pool and shouted down, "Tex, Jack, what's wrong!"
"There are bats!"
Before Colon could react, Luthor grabbed Colon by his clothes and pulled him back from the edge of the pool!
"It's dangerous!" Although it was a false alarm, Coren still pinched a handful of sweat, turned his head to Luther and said thank you, and then stretched his head to the edge of the pool: "Turks! are you all right?!"
After a while, from the bottom of the pool, Tex's voice came to announce safety: "It's okay!
How could it be that the herd was not huge, but it had to have three thousand heads, at least, how could it be so soon?
Strangely, he continued, "Hey, Turks, look at it again, it's impossible to get to the end, have you found anything else!?"
There was silence and no answer.
After a while, a bright light appeared at the bottom of the pool, and Turks and Jack came out.
Coren had the rope drop and pull them both up, asking if anything had been found.
The dirty Turks wiped the mud from his face and said, "It's right to say that you found it, and it's right to say that you didn't find it." We had just walked a long way below, looking at the environment on both sides, and found that there was a huge karst cave below, but probably due to the perennial biological activity, the cave had changed some color. We kept walking along the river bank below the cave, because the torches were about to get wet with dripping water, so we chose to come back. ”
I think that Jack has gained a lot from this trip, he has never had such an experience, and now he is even a little indescribably excited.
The group rested for a while, preparing to enter the cave later.