Chapter 3: Cave Exploration
Cold Spirit City, Spirit Mine Mountain Range
After a lot of hard work on the plank road repair, the plank road destroyed by the rock beast can basically be restored to traffic, but because the damage is too serious, the plank road after the temporary emergency repair is only allowed to pass in a single row.
The wolf guard stood on the edge of the plank road cliff, and after looking at the plank road repair situation, he frowned a little dissatisfied, and turned his head and shouted angrily: "Hurry up and carry out the emergency repair, and be sure to recover all within today!"
"Obey!" The soldiers behind him who urged the repair of the plank road knelt on the ground in fear and walked to the side of the plank road with great vigour. Without any words, he whipped him fiercely, and whipped it at the slave porters who were rushing to repair the plank road.
"Smack!", with a sturdy whip sound, the blood whip landed on the back of a male slave, and instantly drew out a bloody whip mark. "Woo woo~", the male slave let out a dull whimper, and turned his head to look viciously at the soldier with a leather whip in his hand, his eyes full of anger and hatred...... Helpless, people are like ants, so they have to endure the scorching pain on their backs and the anger in their stomachs, and continue to work in anger and without words.
"Give Lao Tzu the time to do it! Don't be lazy! Hurry!" The soldier with a leather whip in his hand proudly issued a shouting order to the slaves who were buried in the repair.
Due to the inability to escape before, Qiye was unfortunately caught in this emergency repair team, responsible for cleaning up the rubble that rolled down on the plank road. Because he was too young to do too heavy rough work, he was arranged to clean up the stones that fell on the plank road. Qiye's rough little hands have been cut by the gravel and sharp water chestnut, and countless small wounds have been cut, although the palms are already bright red, Qiye is still silent. Again and again, he squatted down, and with great effort, he pushed the stones that weighed like winter melons to the side of the plank road little by little, and then pushed them off the cliff.
After the wolf guard finished inspecting the scene, he saw that everything was going in order, and was about to turn around and leave. Suddenly, a cold wind blew from the cave where the rock beast had escaped before, and after blowing through everyone, it swept along the mountain stream into the distance.
Feeling the caress of the cool breeze, the wolf guard was suddenly stunned, and his body trembled slightly, and the footsteps he was about to take immediately stopped. ......In the blowing of the cold mountain wind just now, he faintly felt the existence of a trace of aura, although it was only for a moment, but his keen spiritual perception still captured a trace of unusual aura.
Stopping and feeling and screening again, that kind of aura does not seem to be the cold quality exuded by the ordinary cold spirit stones that are often touched, but a purer and more condensed deep cold aura.
"Is it a Thousand Grade Spirit Mine, or is it a superb .....?" After the wolf guard was surprised in his heart, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and an evil smile appeared on his face unabashedly. He quickly turned around, looked at the huge cave on the cliff, and said excitedly, "Go, come with Ben!" After saying that, he walked straight forward without waiting for the soldier to respond.
The soldiers who were overseeing the work followed in confusion, looking at the huge cave with a sense of fear. But he didn't know why the wolf guards suddenly turned around and remembered to look at the cave where the rock beast had just appeared, and then thought that an unlucky slave had just been dragged in and bitten to pieces by the rock beast, and a kind of cold lingered in the hearts of every soldier. Helplessly, the military order is like a mountain, and there is also General Wolf Bingwei with him, and the soldiers can be regarded as comforted in their hearts.
Just as the wolf guard took another step towards the cave, a soldier immediately stepped forward and clasped his fist on the side of the wolf guard and reminded: "Lord Wolf Guard, the cave is unpredictable, for your safety, do your subordinates think it is okay to send a slave to explore the way ahead?"
The reason why the soldiers reminded them was not entirely for the sake of the safety of the wolf guards, if the group entered the cave and encountered any danger, the wolf guards could naturally ensure that they were out of trouble by virtue of their own strength. But the other ordinary soldiers who followed were not so powerful, and when the wolf guards left them alone and fled, they would definitely fall victim. In that case, why not send these lowly slaves to the front to find the way for everyone?
"Hmm......" The wolf guard paused, pondered and nodded slightly. Then the cold gaze swept over the slaves who were rushing to repair the plank road in front of them, and finally landed on the small figure of Qiye who was working hard to clean up the rubble on the plank road, and then showed a sinister and playful smile. The soldiers swept away the wolf guard's gaze and locked on Qiye's body, and their eyes were as cold as if they had found prey.
Qiye, who was working hard, sensed a group of soldiers staring at him like wolves and tigers. Suddenly, my heart was shocked, my vest was cold, my young body trembled slightly, and an inexplicable panic came to my heart. An instinctive idea of running away struck, but he was firmly locked by everyone's gaze as if he were looking at his prey, and his legs stood stiff in place, unable to escape.
A soldier stepped forward, unceremoniously screwed Nanaya, and brutally grabbed the wolf guard. The wolf guard smiled and said, "Little one, Lord Bingwei wants you to help me lead the way, are you willing?"
Seeing the disgusting smile on the wolf guard's face, Qiye suppressed the uneasiness in his heart. After seeing the terrifying strength of the wolf guards just now, how dare Qiye resist. Under the unrefusable momentum of the wolf guard, Qiye nodded as if he was dead, and trembled softly: "I... Sincere... Meaning"
Seven nights were then taken to the entrance of the cave, and a flaming torch was received with a trembling hand. Looking at the dark and deep cave in front of him, Qiye's face stiffened with uneasy fear, and he choked up uneasily, and was violently pushed by a ruthless hand behind him, and then a soldier's urging voice came from behind: "Hurry up and lead the way!"
Nanaya, who was pushed into the cave, staggered to his feet, and looked back to see the wolf guards behind him staring at him coldly, and his face still maintained a smiling face. Turning his head, Qiye bit his lips tightly, and struck a hard blow in his heart: Remember for me, everything I have suffered today must be recovered in the future! Even if I die, I will become a terrible ghost to get it back!
While cursing in his heart for seven nights, he also kept secretly praying in his heart: pray that there would be no more rock beasts in front of him, otherwise he would really be killed in this cave today, and when he thought of the slave who was dragged into the cave by the rock beast and chewed with a clattering sound, a suffocating fear "cooled" his whole body.
In the cave, Qiye held a torch in his left hand, and with the faint light of the fire, his right hand slowly groped on the dark cave wall, and walked towards the cave step by step, step by step. A dozen soldiers behind him also held torches, keeping a certain distance from Nanaya, and followed unhurriedly. The rock walls are cold and moist, some of the crevices are still covered with turquoise moss, and the occasional biting cold wind whistles from the depths of the cave, and the burning flames are also in danger of being swept by the mountain wind.
But Nanaya had no intention of paying attention to the things around him, his eyes were locked on the depths of the dark and deep cave, from where he always had an unfathomable feeling and a kind of uneasy fear. Cautiously groping forward, there were occasional small pools of water on the ground, and the roof of the cave was constantly ticking from the sound of water falling into the pool.
"Tick, tick, tick......" The cave was unusually quiet and cold, and Qiye still cautiously explored inch by inch, listening intently to whether there was any abnormal sound in the quiet.
The wolf guards who followed behind kept a certain distance from the seven nights in front, and constantly explored the unknown of the darkness ahead through their spiritual power perception. However, what puzzled him was that the spiritual power wave he emitted had been heard from after falling into the darkness, and no spiritual wave echoed as if it was swallowed by the darkness, while the wind blowing from the depths of the cave had a faint aura. All kinds of signs are too unusual, able to devour spiritual power perception fluctuations, undetectable spiritual power existence, wolf guards thought for a while, and after thinking hard to no avail, they couldn't help but frown. The soldiers around him were also at his side, shivering in the darkness ahead.
In this way, in such a quiet, cold dark cave, Seven Nights didn't know how far he had walked or how long he had walked. The rock wall beside him grew moist and cold, and the light and shadow of the flames in the cave became darker and darker, until at last all that remained was the flames that were still burning strongly, and the torches seemed to be about to burn out soon. The cave was still unfathomable, and Seven Nights stopped his stiff and cold footsteps and exhaled lightly. It was safe to walk up to now, and the cave was so quiet that there was no unusually unsettling sound. It's just that before receiving the order to stop from the wolf guards behind, Qiye didn't dare to stop too much, let alone stagnate.
After gently reaching out to wipe the sweat on his forehead, he was about to move on. Qiye's eyes were suddenly startled, and he was surprised to find that the wound on his palm, which had been cut densely by a sharp stone, had actually disappeared, and a layer of moist mucus was attached to the rough palm. After walking in the cave for so long, Qiye was engrossed in staring ahead, but he didn't know when, the palm that was groping on the rock wall could no longer feel the pain before. Qiye looked at his hand and stayed in place in a daze.
"What's wrong?" In the Wolf Guard's concerned but emotionless inquiry, Qiye suddenly came back to his senses and whispered, "No, it's nothing ......", and then naturally lowered his palm, so as not to make the Wolf Guard suspicious.
"Then move on!" the wolf guard ordered as he looked at the weak light and shadow in front of him in the darkness, but he still didn't find anything so far, which made the wolf guard extremely unwilling to gain nothing.
After hearing the order of the wolf guard, Qiye's heart, which had just been slightly relaxed, immediately tensed again, looked at the dark and deep cave, choked again, and then reluctantly stiffened his head, and continued to move forward slowly.
Looking at the endless darkness, Nanaya's heart couldn't help but tremble. The cold wind blowing from the depths of the cave made his body tremble, but the pent-up fear in his heart made Nanaya's face pale and powerless.