"What's that? Look! At this time, I saw a monument erected at the entrance of the cave in front of me, and hurried up to check the situation.

Looking in the direction of my finger, I saw a stone tablet standing tall, with two rows of strange words engraved on it, but it looked new, "This tablet should not be carved for too long, it must be within two or three years, you can see the chisel marks on it, it is still very distinct." ”

"If the expectation is good, the words on this tablet should be done by the guys of the ancient Tibetan sect." I judged.

"Since the old monk said that the Holy King's Cave is the only way, then even hell we have to break through!" Cheng Yiyun frowned, "Lin Kun, what do you think?" ”

"When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins, you can give it a try."

As soon as a few of us approached the entrance of the cave, we noticed a pale blue light inside.

"How can there be light? Could it be that this cave is not too long, and the exit is not far away? ”

"I don't think it's that simple."

Dolma trembled terribly.

"Big brother, I'm cold."

"Don't be afraid, everything will be fine when you get out of the hole." I glanced back, but I still didn't dare to let my guard down, "We have to go into the cave quickly, otherwise the people from Mawanggou will catch up with us." ”

I took out my lighter and tried to light the way ahead, "There shouldn't be a lack of oxygen in the cave." Since this is the way out, the other end must be ventilated. ”

This place is more gloomy than the ghost cave, the strange rocks in the cave are craggy, damp and dark, from time to time there are bats passing by, and the ghost light in front of the cave appears from time to time, like a pair of demonic eyes.

I walked with my head down, for fear that the stalagmites protruding from the top of the cave would break my head. Cheng Yiyun led Zhuoma to walk behind, several people were nervous and depressed, and they were speechless all the way.

The light seems to be pointing us out, and it seems to lead us into an endless underworld.

"That's not right! You can't feel the convective wind in the cave at all, and it seems that the cave is at least a few miles long and curved. I broke the silence with one word.

Cheng Yiyun looked at Zhuoma and asked, "Zhuoma, is there any origin of this Holy King Cave?" ”

"I heard my father say that more than ten years ago, a python spirit came to the mountains and lived in the Holy King's Cave. Those who enter the cave only look in but do not see. ”

"Python spirit?" I was stunned and said to Cheng Yiyun, "This is terrible, don't you know, I entered a ghost cave with Xu Qian before, and met a blood python there!" ”

"Blood python?" Cheng Yiyun didn't seem to know where this blood python came from, so she immediately craned her neck, "Are you injured?" ”

I smiled and said to Cheng Yiyun, "That's not true. ”

"However, this legend may just be made up by people, and it may not necessarily be true, if it is really a python spirit......"

"That's right!" Something suddenly occurred to me, and my mind flashed, "Could it be?" ”

"What is it?"

"Snakehead Banshee!" I speculated, "We found in the cave the earliest witches of the ancient Tibetan religion, she was supposed to be a tribal leader or priest or something, she had mastered a kind of witchcraft that could make people immortal, but she would become like a snake, and she also had the power of a terrible snake soul." ”

"Lin Kun, don't scare yourself, isn't it a python, let's say python, even if it's really a banshee, I'll still cramp and peel her."

At this moment, I saw Dolma's expression freeze, looking straight ahead.

Feeling uneasy, I jerked my head back, only to see that the glow suddenly became thick, and the cave was a foreign deep blue.

"What kind of light is it?" I tightened my grip on my pistol.

Turning a corner, there is a dark river two or three feet wide blocking the way. The two banks of the river were piled with bones, and phosphorus fire flashed.

"It turned out to be a phosphorus fire glowing!" I was momentarily stunned by the sight in front of me.

Although I have seen such a terrible scene of yours, in the narrow and sheltered cave, dozens of bones are dephosphated, and it still looks very terrifying.

"If this place is a place created by modern people, then this person is absolutely crazy!"

Cheng Yiyun picked up a stone and threw it into the river, and the waves stirred up turned and sank.

"The water is deep. The surface of the water looks calm at first glance, but there is an undercurrent underwater, which is very rapid. ”

I reached out and tested the water, and it was bitterly cold.

"What should I do?" Cheng Yiyun was puzzled, "Even if the two of us can pass, how can Zhuoma pass?" ”

I looked at Dolma, her thin body really couldn't withstand the biting ice water.

I stroked Dolma's shoulder and asked, "Dolma, do you know how to swim?" ”

Dolma shook his head childishly: "Brother, I can't swim." ”

I smiled helplessly and said, "Yiyun, there is no way, Dolma can't swim, so I can only take her across the river." ”

"But......" Cheng Yiyun was puzzled, "the river is too cold, and it is so turbulent." ”

"There's no other way." I pointed ahead, "Now I can only move forward, not backward." ”

I gritted my teeth and said, "Dolma, hold on, come, put on your clothes!" ”

Cheng Yiyun's coat has the effect of waterproofing, and after the whole piece is put on, it can almost wrap her whole person, which can ensure that she will not be frostbitten by the cold river water in a short time.

I put my arms around Dolma, got into the water, crossed the river, and lifted Dolma ashore. The biting water of the river froze my muscles. Although the river is not wide, I found that the turbulent water is almost impossible to walk, and the most terrible thing is that the cold water has made my whole body spasm, and even moving has become very difficult.

Cheng Yiyun and I wasted all our efforts to send Zhuoma safely to the other side, and by the time we went ashore, it was basically like an ice sculpture, and our legs were frozen and numb.

"Yiyun, how are you?" I rubbed Cheng Yiyun's calf with my hand, "Can you still hold on?" ”

Cheng Yiyun had a trace of joy on her face and said with a smile: "I'm fine." ”

Before the words fell, there was a flutter on the water, and I immediately stood up and saved, "Hurry up!" ”

With a thud, the thing sank again.

"There's something in the water!"

"Is it a python?" Cheng Yiyun grabbed a submachine gun and fired at the river, and after a shuttle of bullets went down, the river became calm and silent.

The river is silent.

"Big brother, I'm afraid!" Dolma was so frightened that she slipped into my arms and sobbed.

"Don't be afraid, Big Brother will protect you!"

Half an hour had passed, and the river was still calm.

The wind in the cave is cold.

The air movement becomes apparent.

"Let's keep walking."

"Hmm."

We cautiously left the shore and walked on for a while, until we had reached a slope and the cave became open, and in a short time we reached the entrance of the cave.

The mountains and forests are quiet, there is no wind, and the snow is falling tightly.

The snow in the deep mountains and old forests was thick, and the three of us supported each other and struggled.

I breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, it was winter, and the python was hibernating, so we didn't alarm it along the way." ”

"Yikes!" Dolma exclaimed, "Look, sister, there's someone over there!" ”

There is a hole in the rock not far away, a five- or six-foot square, and a waterfall gushes out of the hole, and in winter the river begins to freeze, and the waterfall is sparse.

Below the waterfall is a ditch, and on the shallows next to it lies a man lying on his back.

We walked over and saw that the man was already dead, his body was rotting and covered with slime, and he had been dead for at least half a month.

"This person is dressed like a local, but it shouldn't be from Mawanggou, it may be a mountain man on the other side of this mountain." I judged, "If you look at the firewood knife in his hand, it is estimated that he has come up to collect medicine." ”

"Look......" I pointed to the rotting thigh.

"There are wounds." Cheng Yiyun tore open his trousers, and a wound was vaguely visible on the ulcerated muscle tissue, about six or seven inches, very similar to a python bite.

At this time, a python more than a foot long surfaced, and the straightened snake body rippled. The python floated motionlessly, and upon closer inspection, it turned out that the python's stomach had been pierced by a bullet.

"Yiyun, it seems that this snake was killed by you."

The gunshot wound on the stomach was very obvious, and the high-speed and dense bullets of the submachine gun left a large circle of bullet holes in the belly of the python, and the muscle tissue under these bullet holes had long been messed up by the bullets.

"It turned out that I hit it, and then the dark river swept it away and washed it out of the waterfall."

"I guess so."

At this moment, I vaguely sensed that something was wrong, "No, I think there is something strange." Wouldn't it be strange if the dozens of corpses on the river beach were also mountain people here? ”

"Yes, the people in the mountains have a lot of experience in surviving in the wild, and when they see so many corpses piled up by the river, will they still go in?"

"It is said that pythons have a natural instinct that their bodies are at their most bulky and weak for a period of time after they have eaten, because they need a lot of physical strength to digest their food. At this moment, snakes are most afraid of being attacked, and they tend to hide back in their nests to digest slowly. ”

"What do you mean......"

"Could it be that those corpses are bones excreted by pythons after digestion? And the whole cave is actually a snake's nest! ”

I trembled and my stomach churned, and I was surprised: "How big should the snake that can swallow life be?" So the one you just killed isn't the biggest one...... There's a bigger ......"

"Could it be ......" Cheng Yiyun was also a little scared.

Dolma held her breath, her face bloodless.

The wind behind us became strange, as if a large area of air had been sucked into a black hole, and the air flow suddenly intensified.

"Suck in—" The soul-sucking voice was breathtaking.

Cheng Yiyun turned around in shock, only to see a bucket-thick python tearing open the blood basin and revealing its fangs, and its eyes were blood-red with copper bells, staring at Cheng Yiyun fiercely.

"!" I subconsciously protected Dolma.

Cheng Yiyun was unusually calm at the moment, took off the grenade, pulled the ring, threw it into the mouth of the giant python, and then fell to the ground.

The grenade exploded, the remnants of flesh flew sideways, and the giant python instantly split into two parts.

At this time, Cheng Yiyun felt afraid, she was amazed by her calmness just now, and sat on the ground with her buttocks, drenched in cold sweat. When they looked at me, I was also pale.

"It's dangerous!"

Zhuoma also came back to his senses after a while, "Big brother, where should we go?" ”

"Find a cave to escape the cold." I picked up Dolma on my back and walked into the forest.

Before we came to a steep cliff, Dolma noticed a cave not far away.

The cave is more than 30 square meters and is located in a low-lying area, which can avoid the cold wind. Then, I picked up a lot of dry wood and dead leaves, and spread a thick layer on the ground for Dolma. Leave a portion for heating.