Chapter 19: Strange crabs and snakes run rampant
Suddenly, there was an exclamation of "oops" from a distance behind us, and the repeated echoes of the cave walls made the sound of the urn angry, and there was no distinction between men and women. Cao Ye and I turned our heads at the same time, the deep cave was very gloomy and gloomy, and further inside it was even more thick and bottomless darkness, and there was no figure of Du Xin within the sight. I thought badly, I had to discuss the Morse code, but the girl who guarded me was gone. In the depths of this cave in the barren mountains and mountains, who knows if it will be the villa of the old man with white bones? Even if it is a few fierce beasts and poisonous insects, it must be very dangerous to break into it by mistake.
"Du Xin! Is that you? What's wrong? Cao Ye shouted into the depths of the dark cave, and at the same time lit the flashlight in his hand and shone it inside, the bright and flickering professional flashlight light was very strong, penetrating the darkness at once, and hit a stone wall directly forward, which was the cliff at the bottom of the cave, he immediately shook the flashlight up and down, left and right, and there were only mottled stones, thick and slippery moss, water droplets dripping down the cracks in the stone and snake-like roots struggling to drill.
The old Ah Cuo and Ai Qingying, who were roasting the fire at the entrance of the cave, heard Cao Ye's shout, took out a few burning firewood as torches and quickly surrounded them, and the pants named Liang San were not worn, and they followed with shoes and big colored pants.
At this time, there was another shout mixed with buzzing echoes in the cave, and we carefully distinguished, it was clearly Du Xin, and she was shouting: "Come and see." We stared at the cliff wall under the flashlight not far ahead, and there was still no shadow of Du Xin, but there was really her voice.
"Where's the chick? Caught by a ghost? Or did you go to a magic school? Ai Qingying rested, her energy was replied, there was a taste of excitement in her tone, and then she raised her eyebrows at me and Cao Ye provocatively, which was very annoying.
Old Atso didn't think so, he walked forward with a torch, and walked to the cliff at the bottom of the cave and hurriedly beckoned to us, so that we could go together, and we saw that he was moving briskly and his expression was relaxed, and he knew that he had found something, so he rushed to him. At the end, I found that there was a corner close to 90 degrees to the right, but the hole was suddenly narrowed, and only two or three people could walk side by side.
There is a left corner more than a dozen steps forward, and I said in my heart that Du Xin, this girl is really bold enough, and she dares to run into the depths of the cave alone, I don't know if she has a big heart or has no common sense of survival in the wild? Before I finished complaining, I was shocked by the scene in front of me.
At this time, the space in front of us suddenly opened up, as if entering a huge mountain cavity, there is a thin crack above the hole, the sky light leaks down from the gap bit by bit, although the whole cave is very dark, but the scenery in the whole cave is generally faintly visible. Those huge stalactites and stalagmites were born in front of each other, like the teeth of giant beasts, some of which were bitten together to form dozens of thick stone pillars connected from top to bottom, and between the stone pillars were some black pools of unknown depth, and some bare rocks with green moss crawled all over the bare rocks between the pools. The countless fluorescents on these mosses formed two parallel green and shining bands of light slowly forward, flowing out of the darkness on one side of the cave like a shining river, across the entire cave, meandering to the darkness on the other side of the cave, Du Xin stood at the disappearing end of the fluorescent river, beckoning to us.
I was fascinated by this strange river of fluorescence, and tried to see what it was, but from a distance, I could only see some activity under the fluorescence, which was a dark red, holding a starry fluorescence, and between the two fluorescents, there were countless slender black shadows. Cao Ye shone his flashlight as he explored the way, trying to figure out what was going on as soon as possible. We held on to the cave wall, one by one behind Cao Ye and tried to move forward, slipping step by step, and the direction of travel and the direction of fluorescence flow formed an acute angle, so when we were still half a distance away from Du Xin, the strong light of the outdoor flashlight crossed the river composed of fluorescence, and we could clearly see that it was actually two rows of red crabs sandwiching countless small snakes forward! If you look closely, these snakes on the inside are black or green, red or blue, and some are colorful, of different lengths, but they are not thick, and the raised heads are all triangular, which are clearly poisonous snakes, and the letters that spit out from time to time are creepy; And that faint green fluorescence was actually emitted by the big claws raised in front of those crabs! These crabs are quite stout compared to small snakes, and what makes them even more striking are their large fluorescent claws, each the size of half of their own body. The snakes swam forward silently in a dense group, and the crabs on both sides faced the snakes sideways forward, neat and strange.
"What's going on? The snake group has a meeting, the crab bodyguard? This crab is also interesting, aren't all living crabs cyan? Does this make people cook? Ai Qingying said in surprise, Liang San, who was wearing big flower pants behind him, didn't care what he said, he just echoed "yes" and "Mr. Ai is really knowledgeable". Cao Ye, who was walking in front, just said: "The color of this animal is affected by the pigment cells of the dermis...... Seeing that everyone was staring at the strange scene in front of him, he also closed his mouth in amusement. was touted by Liang San sparing no effort, and Ai Qingying, who had confidence, also turned on the flashlight, and hit the same place as Cao Ye's flashlight, and it was suddenly bright.
But when these two lights clearly shone on them, the group of snakes covered by the aperture suddenly paused, stopped swimming, and then turned their triangular heads to us as if they were being commanded, as if they were not afraid of the stimulation of this strong light at all, and then, the snakes suddenly became chaotic, and they began to twist their bodies in various colors, entangled and tried to leave the team, forming several colorful balls, rolling towards the waterhole next to them, and several of the leading snakes swam faster, and they got into the gap that tried to swim the crab queue.
At this moment, something unexpected happened, the crabs walking sideways like bodyguards suddenly waved their claws and grabbed the necks of these snakes, and with a sharp force, the whole head of the snake was cut off by brush, and rolled into the pool with its big mouth full of fangs.
Just in an instant, seven or eight snakes were beheaded by the crabs like this, and the snake's body was still rolling and twisting, spraying blood everywhere, and blocking the way of other snakes, instantly squeezing into a huge colored pimple, and the crabs on both sides saw this, and actually waved their big claws to rush into the pimple together, and involuntarily cut it indiscriminately, and suddenly splattered a blood mist, rising a scarlet blood-colored flower.
Soon, the blood mist dissipated, and the lump was gone, replaced by a narrow passage and on both sides of the water, covered with fragments of broken snakes cut into small sections.
Then, several crabs weighed in a row, leveled the giant claws in front of them, and pushed the broken snake pieces into the nearby waterhole like a bulldozer, and a few crabs still had the severed snake heads that bit their bodies, but they didn't care, and their actions did not affect in the slightest, as if it was just the medal they were wearing, as the waterhole was stained with a scarlet blood, the other snakes were obviously shocked, and no longer dared to have any delusions, and the team returned to normal and continued to move forward.
We were stunned by the sudden change and the bloody slaughter in front of us, and the air was filled with a thick bloody breath, which made people vomit. Liang San exclaimed in a rough voice: "It's so dark that Lao Tzu, this hairy crab is not a bodyguard, it's a snake to rush away, tsk, it's really ruthless." Then he heard a "pop" sound, and Ai Qingying pulled his head: "Speak Mandarin!" ”