Chapter 42: Brave the Beast Cave (1)
The beast cave in front of me, the caliber can accommodate twenty elephants at the same time, the diameter is close to ten meters, if you don't look closer, you really think it is just an ordinary small hole. But it seems that it is right, if only people can enter, then how can those beasts from more than 20 years ago get down?
As it got dark, the soldiers took out their fire sticks and went back to the woods to find some dry branches and make a dozen torches.
It was the first time Jack had seen this magical fire stick, made of metal, and he didn't know how the fire was preserved in it, but after a few more breaths, the flames fell on the leaves, first the sparks, and then the flames flew higher and higher.
Because of the huge impact of the Heavenly Sword Technique, this beast cave is now spreading outward in the shape of a trumpet, and under the firelight, you can vaguely see that there are still a lot of silt accumulation in the cave as far as the eye can see, and I don't know the depth. But the crowd obviously couldn't control so much, so they could only go down.
Turks volunteered, and was the first to jump into the hole where the sludge was accumulating, stopped by the soldiers.
"All right, be careful, come down one by one! this mud is up to your knees, and it's safe!" said Turks, as soon as he landed, holding his torch and leaning his head back to the people outside the cave.
As a result, Colon and Luthor landed smoothly under the escort of the soldiers, and Jack jumped off his heels.
The cave is very large, at least four meters from the height of the cave entrance, and there is silt as a buffer. Under the light of the fire, you can see the long and dark tunnel in the north direction.
In a short time, the mud inside the cave entrance was full of people.
"Poof, what does this smell like, why does it stink so much!" said Jack, frowning and covering his mouth and nose as soon as he landed.
The rest of the people also smelled this strange sour smell, as if something was rotting, and they didn't know where the source was.
Several soldiers carried three torches in front of them, and Coren and the others followed behind.
It is a long, narrow cave with no human traces, and although the interior is only more than two meters high, it is very spacious, and if there is no knee-deep mud and excessive dampness, even humans would be willing to choose this place to hide themselves.
Jack and Tex chose to take the lead because they were curious, walking to the front, with a thick layer of mud under their feet, and helplessly inhaling the stench in their nostrils, holding torches, and walking cautiously forward.
After walking for about an hour, the long road finally came to an end and saw the mud bank ahead.
"What a place, so far away......" Before he finished speaking, a large open area appeared in front of Jack's eyes.
"How can there be such a flat ground in this place!?" Tex also noticed an anomaly.
Dozens of people followed, stepped onto the muddy bank, stamped their feet, and shook off some of the mud from their calves.
Luthor snatched the soldier's torch and took a few steps forward with it, as if scouting, and then said to himself, "I didn't expect there to be such a place!"
Everyone wondered what he meant.
The crowd cautiously moved forward again, and the soldiers divided into two groups and scattered along the rock wall.
Jack noticed that the location of the clearing should have been past the swamp by now, and perhaps they were under some mountain at the moment.
The light of the soldiers' torches began from both sides, and under Coren's gaze, they circled the clearing, and in the distance, almost two hundred meters away from Cologne, the soldiers finally met!
"What's wrong? Didn't you find an exit?" Coren sensed something was wrong.
The soldier shouted, "No other exits found!"
Coren couldn't believe what he heard: "Impossible! How could it be! The beasts are all in this hole!"
When Luthor heard this, he doubted his own conjecture.
Everyone scattered again, looking around in groups of three or five, to see if there was anything suspicious. Now that Koren was convinced that this was the place where the beasts were, there must be other exits they hadn't yet discovered.
The place was not large, but it was not small, and the ground was very level, but there was one place that caught Luther's attention.
"Come and see!" Luthor beckoned.
Jack and the others ran over to the middle of the clearing where Luther was.
"You see, there's a big patch of mud here. Luthor said.
Everyone held torches to illuminate the ground in front of them, and sure enough, they saw this mud tan, which was extremely out of tune with the surrounding flatness.
If it weren't for the torches illuminating the entrance, because of the darkness of the swamp, it would not have been possible to notice the huge oval-shaped mud tank.
At this moment, Luthor suddenly knelt down, and without waiting for others to stop him, he stretched out his arm and stretched it out.
"There's a lot of depth down there!" said Luther, intending to get a first glimpse of the depths of the quagmire.
"You don't want to say that this quagmire is the next entrance, do you?" asked Jack in surprise.
"Well, most likely! This is probably left over from the swamp backwater. Luther replied.
Turks also leaned over, looked at Luther, then at the quagmire, and said, "If so, we can't go down either......"
The people around them were silent, all in deep thought.
The darkness of the cave, with no sound at all, made the atmosphere strange and tense.
I finally came to this cave, and now I have encountered such a thing, and for a while everyone stood in place at a loss, looking at each other.
"I have no choice but to turn back. It was a long time before Luthor spoke.
Coren looked a little dissatisfied and said, "We just arrived here, and now we have to go back, isn't this trip in vain?"
"That's all you can see. It was already dark outside, and our torches were almost gone. Even if we have something, we can't do anything in the dark. Luther replied.
Luthor was right. Even if we find the herd now, how to bring them back is still a problem, so we might as well go back and adjust and be ready to discuss again. Tex also suggested.
Coren shook his head, sighed, and said, "Right now, maybe that's the only way." It's just that time is pressing, and we don't have much time left!"
They had to go back, and although there was no substantial progress, at least the quagmire still left them with some hope.
The group staggered back along the long dirt road, and finally reached the opening of the opening hole, and several soldiers offered to go up at the end, so that they could push Coren and them from the bottom to the four-meter-high hole.
So, more than 30 people climbed out one by one, and the soldiers behind the hall, deftly climbing the rock wall, also came up.
It was now completely dark, and there was no sound in the vast swamp, only the crackling and burning of torches.