Ai Qingying led the way in front, from running to walking, from walking to rubbing, now she is almost lying there and no longer moving forward, and the flashlight she is holding no longer shines in front, but keeps shining on the stone wall of the cave, as if she is looking for something.

Suddenly, he turned around and asked, "How long have we been running in?" The light shone on our faces, so bright that we couldn't see anything, so we had to raise our palms to block it, and he suddenly realized something, and hit the flashlight on the ground.

We ran all the way, and no one had the heart to calculate the time, but everyone already felt that something was obviously wrong - we entered the cave from the mouth of the cave where the fire was made, and we only turned two or three turns, and walked dozens of steps, and the way we ran back, we had already turned an unknown number of turns, and our legs were already wooden, sore, and we were already sweaty, this was definitely not the way we came, we went wrong.

Cao Ye couldn't hold back, and asked Ai Qingying with a rough breath if she was taking the wrong path? As a result, before Ai Qingying denied it, Liang San angrily asked Cao Ye what he meant, saying that Mr. Ai led everyone out, the road must be right, maybe it was a "ghost hitting the wall", there may be something crooked in the deep mountains and old forests, everyone peed together, this thing was broken, saying that he took off the only flower pants on his body and urinated against the mountain wall, Ai Qingying nodded and smiled beside him, and praised Liang San for his strong execution, and he must give him a salary increase when he goes back, which caused Liang San to laugh.

I didn't believe in any ghost hitting the wall, and I didn't want Ai Qingying to fully control the situation, so I asked Lao Atso if he noticed that there were other holes that were wrong, and we hurried back to avoid getting lost. The result was very disappointing, Lao Atso shook his head again and again, saying that he was following behind Ai Qingying, and he could see clearly, there was only this one way to go, as for why he couldn't get out now, maybe he really provoked the Crab Ancestor and the Mountain God Master, saying that he was going to kneel down again and apologize, but he saw that Liang San was urinating next to him, making it all over the ground, so he gave up.

I dragged Cao Ye in front of Du Xin again, and then asked loudly if there was a scientific explanation for the so-called "ghost hitting the wall", Cao Ye sighed and said that if it is in an open place, the reference object is not obvious, and the footsteps of the people are different, it is possible to go around in a circle somewhere, but it does not match the current situation. I had no choice but to sigh, saying that we must have gone wrong, and we might as well go back, but everyone seemed to be worried about the poisonous snake group and the crab army behind them, and no one agreed.

Liang San released it happily, a shiver shook, the waterline was off, and it happened to urinate in the place where Ai Qingying's flashlight was irradiated, the floating soil was washed away, and a black object was exposed, he said "Huh", it was not too dirty, he picked it up and rubbed it on the big flower pants, and then the flashlight of the person next to him shone it for everyone to see, it turned out to be a fountain pen, a typical Parker-style cigar-shaped thick pen.

We didn't expect to find a fountain pen in this place, this completely unexpected discovery, but immediately everyone became excited, there are pens to indicate that someone has walked here, then it is likely that there are many exits from the cave just now, we just chose the wrong one at most, and we will definitely be able to go out if we go forward. People always like to have inexplicable expectations and good feelings about the unknown to support their own progress, and we are no exception, selectively believing that the road ahead is bright to drive our feet.

Liang San proudly pinned the pen to his big flower pants, like a medal obtained by hard work, and took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the front of the road, perhaps in his mind, finding the exit is another credit for him to show off, and maybe he can increase his salary a little.

I don't know if it's the credit of Liang San's release of water just now, soon, the narrow tunnel quickly widens and becomes taller, a gust of wind comes out, the feeling of crampedness around suddenly dissipates, the flashlight shines in all directions, the low top of the cave on the head is gone, the craggy cave wall on the left and right is also gone, only the foot is a stone beam obliquely downward, the stone beam is five or six meters wide, it is very smooth, as if it has been repaired artificially, and then look outside, it is a piece of black pitch, I don't know the depth. This is obviously another cave, and the space should be quite large, not only is there a continuous wind blowing, but in the distance slanting ahead, through the thick darkness, there is also a slightly triangular white light, obviously it is a cave entrance.

We breathed a sigh of relief, although we don't understand why the road in and out are different, but Guizhou is a typical karst geological feature, the water veins are vertical and horizontal, the karst cave is through, and it is very possible to inadvertently take the wrong road.

The exit is the direction, the exit is the hope, there is an exit to get back on track, the tense nerves are relaxed, and the fatigue is like a vigorous and fierce vine wrapped around the whole body, but on this stone beam, it is really not a place to rest, so someone proposed to sing a song to lift the spirit, although just someone sang two sentences because it was too ugly to be scolded by everyone to shut up, but the atmosphere became warm, Liang San took the lead, "black mole" responded loudly, jokes, jokes, meat words and cursed crabs from time to time swear words one after another, Like an outing procession.

After laughing for a while, I heard Ai Qingying suddenly say seriously: "Old Acuo, what did you say about those crab ancestor worshippers?" ”

The others were also very interested, so they stopped laughing and waited for the old Acuo to explain.

Lao Acuo walked cautiously at the front of the line with a flashlight, stopped and looked back at us, and tried his best to explain in Mandarin in his voice, with a hint of pride in his tone: "You people in the city can't think of this, even if you haven't heard of it in other places, you can only see it here." ”

In the dark, with only a few flashlights, we followed each other so closely that when he stopped, we almost collided together. Ai Qingying was impatient again, raised her voice and shouted: "Stop, just say it, make it look like your characteristic landscape here." ”

Old Atso was choked, turned around and led the way, muttered something vaguely, and then sorted out his headscarf, and explained to us somewhat reluctantly, saying that this thing is in the magic of their mountain, and it can't be seen anywhere else, and in fact it is not a strange thing, that is, the crab cubs are offering sacrifices to the ancestors of the crabs.

Legend of the old generation from generation to generation, thousands of years ago, a big crab spirit for the world, was sent down from heaven by the giant spirit god pressed in this mountain, the giant spirit god did not go back, it became a mountain god to look at it, the crab ancestor only woke up once in decades, there was no food or drink, its crab cubs could only drive some small snakes, frogs and even rabbits to the crab ancestor's mouth, to feed it to live. He himself had seen once when he was a child, in the mountains deeper than the Black Cat Ridge, countless crabs drove all kinds of small animals to a place, and the team leader could not see his head and circled the mountain several times.

Old Atso then sighed, fortunately, we didn't stop the crab cubs from sending sacrifices to the crab ancestor, otherwise the ancestor didn't eat, he would be angry, even if he was pressed at the bottom of the mountain, he could try his best to lure people over to eat, before the liberation, there was a team that didn't know where it came to Black Cat Ridge for some reason, and it never went out again, and hundreds of people were estimated to have left the crab ancestor as a meal.

We wanted to learn the reason for the crab's abnormal behavior from Lao Cuo, but we heard a more unreliable myth and legend, Cao Ye was well-informed, and said to Du Xin and me a little mockingly: "This old Cuo, I guess I heard the legend of Heizhugou from somewhere, and settled here." After all, Heizhugou is not far from here. The voice was not loud, but it happened that no one was talking at this time, and everyone was so close that they all heard it clearly. Lao Acuo hurriedly turned his head and explained repeatedly: "No, no, this is what we do here, and many people in our village know it." But everyone became interested in Heizhugou, ignored him, and urged Cao Ye to tell him what was going on in Heizhugou.