Chapter 124: Exploring the Dragon's Lair (I)

After saying this, Zhao Xuan remembered Lin Ling's speculation before, and said to Song Shaofeng: "By the way, Lin Ling also guessed another thing......

Zhao Xuan was about to continue speaking, but was interrupted by Song Shaofeng and said with a smile: "You really don't plan to go to sleep?" So I went to sleep? ”

Zhao Xuan scratched his head, only then did he realize that it seemed indeed a little inappropriate.

I have to be on duty all night, which is related to the safety of the whole team, and if I don't rest well, I am indeed a little irresponsible.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xuan stood up, nodded at Song Shaofeng, and said, "Then I'll go to sleep, you continue." ”

Song Shaofeng also stood up and waved at Zhao Xuan, signaling that he understood.

Nothing else happened during the night.

After getting up the next morning, the wound on Zhao Xuan's arm was completely painless, and it didn't even affect the movement of his arm, and the spirit of the others was much better than last night.

After a night of adjustment, the bruises on my face have disappeared a lot, and I have regained my interest in chatting and farting.

After breakfast, everyone first gathered a large pile of animal and insect corpses for a brief treatment.

In the summer, if you leave it like this, when the people from the research institute arrive, it will all stink.

The morning went by, and the crowd was sweating profusely, and some large animals, such as black bears and bison, were not so easy to move, even if most of them were burned to charcoal.

As for embalming, there is no good way, so I can only use a pickup truck to pull all the corpses to the sand a few hundred meters away.

During this period, Zhao Xuan told everyone about Lin Ling's guess yesterday, some agreed and some opposed, but everyone was unified in one thing, that is, the evidence was insufficient.

Therefore, Zhao Xuan also put this matter behind him.

After tossing this bit of it was already noon, everyone had lunch, rested for a while, and then prepared to leave and go to the cave not far away to check it out.

Zhao Xuan was arranged to lead the way at the front because he had been here before.

Zhao Xuan, who couldn't cry or laugh, took everyone into the cave.

The scene in the cave was indeed not much different from what Zhao Xuan had seen before, but there was no previous fluorescence, and the ground under his feet was also pitted due to long-term erosion.

"Go straight this way, go into the next hole, there are three forks in the road over there, oh no, one collapsed, there should only be two left."

Zhao Xuan dutifully acted as a "tour guide" and led everyone to continue to walk into the depths.

Everyone was amazed by the vastness of the cavern, shaking their flashlights, and each of them looked around.

After more than ten minutes, everyone walked through the first hole.

The entrance of the second cave, for unknown reasons, collapsed in half.

"I feel a little unsafe." Hu Ziming held up his flashlight, looked at the collapsed hole, and asked, "Do you want to continue to enter?" ”

Zhang Yuan leaned closer, took a closer look, and replied, "Enter." These collapse marks are about the same time as the weathering marks on both sides of the cave entrance, and there should be no risk of collapse in the near future. ”

Zhang Yuan, who majored in archaeology, can be regarded as half an expert in this regard, and since he said that there is no problem, everyone will naturally listen to him.

The second hole was a mess.

The left half has completely collapsed, and on the right, there are many signs of collapse.

And the hole on the right-hand side, which resembles a "dormitory", collapsed even more seriously, even if it was Zhang Yuan, it was not recommended to go in.

The crowd continued to walk forward, at least the road ahead seemed to be open for now.

Zhao Xuan walked in the front, holding a flashlight, and strafed forward.

In a trance, Zhao Xuan seemed to see a figure on the stone wall.

Zhao Xuan was taken aback, and hurriedly shone the flashlight back there.

It's not something weird, it's just a humanoid hole.

Zhao Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the pit in front of him curiously.

The humanoid is estimated to be less than 1.7 meters tall, with its feet spread and hands hanging down, posing in a figure of eight, which looks similar to the classic celebratory action "siu" of the famous football star Cristiano Ronaldo.

The light of the flashlight shone on the stone wall, reflecting a white light, only the crater was black, and it looked like a human figure.

Seeing Zhao Xuan stop, the others turned their heads and also found this pothole.

Zhang Yuan walked to the front of the pit with curiosity and took a flashlight to shine a picture of the pit.

The pit is not deep, at most about two meters, from the outside to the inside, the same shape, neat and tidy.

"Wow!" Zhang Yuan exaggeratedly shouted: "If you come to the palm of God!" ”

Zhang Yuan's description is indeed appropriate, but the palm technique that falls from the sky is lying flat, and this one is vertical.

Zhao Xuan listened to Zhang Yuan's ridicule and did not respond, but frowned.

The pothole in front of him, in Zhao Xuan's eyes, always has a sense of déjà vu.

But after searching in my memory for a long time, I didn't find anything corresponding.

Zhang Yuan didn't notice Zhao Xuan's expression, and pulled Zhao Xuan to the pit with an excited face, took a step back, stretched out his right hand, opened his five fingers slightly, and pretended to push towards Zhao Xuan.

"Wait!"

Zhang Yuan was taken aback by Zhao Xuan's words, retracted his hand, and then said angrily: "Even if my master, my miraculous skills, can I really shoot you to death?" ”

"It's not." Zhao Xuan waved his hand again and again, pointed to the pit behind him and said, "It's not natural, it's beaten!" ”

"Huh?" Zhang Yuan looked surprised.

"It's like a god's palm." Zhao Xuan opened his legs, raised his hand slightly, and said while demonstrating: "People were beaten like this, and then smashed inside!" ”

As soon as Zhang Yuan made a move, Zhao Xuan reacted, where did the sense of déjà vu just come from.

In the illusion, when he flew the red dragon to the stone wall again and again, it was like this.

It's just that the dragon's body is slender, and when it hits the stone wall, it can only draw out arcs, so Zhao Xuan didn't react at all for a while.

"Punch a hole of more than two meters in the stone, you tell me it's a person?" Zhang Yuan said incredulously: "Even if it is an abnormal humanoid, this strength is a bit outrageous, right?" ”

"Huh? Wrong. After Zhang Yuan finished speaking, he denied his idea again, picked up Zhao Xuan, who was standing in front of the pit, squatted down, lowered his head, and watched carefully with a flashlight.

After looking at it for a while, Zhang Yuan stood up and said, "Damn, it's true." ”

"What is it?"

"It's unusual." Zhang Yuan shook the pit with a flashlight, gestured, and said: "This pit has been formed for no more than three thousand years, and the possibility of natural formation is very small. ”

"You can tell when it was formed?"

"Stone epitaphs are not also stones." Zhang Yuan glanced at Zhao Xuan, with an expression that the master disdains to explain to you.

Zhao Xuan didn't bother to raise the bar with him, but asked, "How accurate can you analyze?" ”

"One Hundred ...... Two or three hundred years. Zhang Yuan's tone was a little weak.

Zhao Xuan explained to everyone how he noticed that this pit was not naturally formed, and described what the traces of the red dragon being beaten on the stone wall in his memories were.

After hearing this, Hu Ziming nodded and said, "Let's look for it." ”

If you can find the traces of the red dragon's beating, on the one hand, you can confirm the authenticity of your own memories, and on the other hand, you can also provide some clues to study "Zhao Yi".

Everyone turned back again, started from the entrance of the second cave, searched carefully, and finally found an arc-shaped trace at a distance of dozens of meters from the humanoid pit.

The arc is one meter high, about three meters long, and it is only a few tens of centimeters deep into the stone wall, and it is one person high from the ground.

It looks like a normal cave with signs of weathering, so no one noticed it before.

Compared to the humanoid pit before, this pit is much shallower. Pascal doesn't lie to me.

Zhang Yuan leaned closer without reluctance, and after only looking at it for a few seconds, he retreated.

Zhang Yuan affirmed: "Don't look at it, at the same time." ”

"So casual?"

"Master, this is called professional!"

"More professional casual?"

Song Shaofeng interrupted the two who were trying to continue arguing and asked, "Can you see the details clearly?" ”

"Nope." Seeing Song Shaofeng ask, Zhang Yuan stopped bickering and replied: "It has a history of at least two thousand years, and it has long been weathered. ”

"But according to Zhao Xuan's recollection, the stone carving at the door should be the same time, how can it still be seen?" Song Shaofeng asked.

"That nick is deep." Zhang Yuan said: "Even so, there are not many remaining nicks. What ...... this?"

Zhang Yuan shook his head, raised his hand and pointed to the stone wall behind him, without much explanation, but the meaning was already obvious.

"Okay." Song Shaofeng nodded, no longer entangled in the traces on the stone wall, walked forward, and said, "Then take a look forward." ”

Zhang Yuan confirmed that the time was between 2,500 and 3,000 years ago, which is the same period.

Basically, it can be concluded that the trace of the humanoid form is the "person" in Zhao Xuan's memory, or the humanoid is abnormal.

Continuing on, a similar trace was found not far from the third hole.

But this time, the position on the stone wall is more than ten meters high, and there is no way to observe it directly.

Zhao Xuan walked all the way and did not participate in the search, but kept his head down, recalling the fight in the environment.

From beginning to end, the fight was a one-sided "torture and killing", and there was no sign of being beaten at all, but the reality of the situation clearly showed that this person was at least beaten hard.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xuan opened his mouth and asked, "You say, will the memory be faked?" ”

"Lie to yourself?" Zhang Yuan pursed his lips: "Cover your ears and steal the bell." ”

Lin Ling, who rarely spoke up, retorted: "That's not right. There is another possibility. ”

Lin Ling said calmly, "Vampire. ”

"Hmm......" Zhang Yuan didn't raise the bar with Lin Ling, but speculated along Lin Ling's train of thought: "Memory loss? Active? Not enough hard drive to delete files? ”

"Yes." Lin Ling saw that Zhang Yuan's analogy was just right, and he didn't explain it anymore.

When Zhao Xuan was discussing with Zhang Yuan, he thought of another matter.

If it is really as Lin Ling said, only the highlight fragments in the memories are left, then the battle on that prairie and the battle with Director Zhang are also interceptions?

A narrow victory in a bloody battle on the grassland?

The last time Yinlong and Director Zhang attacked together, it was a fiasco, not an active retreat?

Everything is based on one of Lin Ling's assumptions, there is no evidence, it is all pure speculation.

Zhao Xuan thought as he walked into the last cave.

If that's where the big bug came out, then maybe there's something else, the "birdman".