Chapter 16: The Cave Labyrinth
The imaginary collision did not hit, feeling the impact of the waterfall above his head, and the wet hair and clothes, Yan Ming looked at the dark environment in front of him a little speechlessly.
However, Yan Ming didn't care about the damp clothes on his body, after all, he was covered with thin shorts and short sleeves, and it was still summer, with the physical fitness of Yan Ming and the people of the Pokémon World after training now, he would not catch a cold and fever.
Now what makes Yan Ming even more concerned is that the back of this waterfall is actually hollow, there is a cave, now that I think about it, no wonder the catty dog noticed something strange when he came to the waterhole for the first time, before Yan Ming thought that the traces of the Lin Yi brothers were detected by the catty dog, and now I think that I have already discovered this place.
But now you still have to find the catty dog, it's too dark here, but fortunately, there are props to deal with this situation in the tool that Yan Ming exchanged before.
Yan Ming took out a small military flashlight from the bracelet that could still be used under the water, turned on the light source, and a warm yellow beam of light radiated into the stone cave.
The cave is quiet and damp, about four or five meters wide and three meters high, and the surrounding stone walls are pitted with green moss in some places.
The light shone around and downward, and he saw that the catty dog was watching him not far in front of him.
Seeing Yan Ming's light coming in, Kati Dog looked at Yan Ming's hair that was still dripping, the flames on his body ignited, and slowly approached Yan Ming, keeping an appropriate distance to provide warmth for Yan Ming.
Yan Ming looked at the cave that suddenly lit up, felt the heat from the Katy dog, and his heart warmed.
"Alright, it's okay Cutty Dog, I won't catch a cold, you can go first Poké Ball."
I don't know what is in the cave, considering that the catty dog has just recovered from the injury, Yan Ming is afraid of danger, so he should let the catty dog into the Poké Ball to recuperate.
Katy snorted, shook his head, and moved closer to Yanming.
Understanding what Katy Dog meant, Yan Ming smiled helplessly and compromised.
"Okay Cutty dog, when I'm done, you're going back to the Poké Ball."
Hearing this, Katy Dog nodded.
Looking for a seemingly clean stone block and sitting down, Yan Ming's eyes looked into the dark and deep distance inside the cave.
What will be in it ....
In fact, he was a little nervous to let Yan Ming enter this cave alone, because he was once locked at home by his mother at night when he was a child, and it happened that the power went out at home.
For a long time after that, Yan Ming didn't dare to expose his head outside the quilt while sleeping, although it was hard to say, but it was much better than staring at the door and window all the time, for fear that some demons and monsters would come to catch him.
Although after getting used to being alone at night, Yan Ming can not be suspicious, but for the dark and unknown places, Yan Ming is still a little resistant, and as he gets older, he also has his own views on things like ghosts.
You still have to get rid of this problem quickly, otherwise there may be big problems in the future.
Thinking about it like this, Yan Ming also cheered himself up in his heart and cheered up.
As for releasing the catty dog together, Yan Ming didn't plan to do so, not only because of the injury of the catty dog itself, but also in case there was any accident, so that Yan Ming couldn't react and put the catty dog in danger.
After a while, when the clothes on his body were dried by the flames on the catty dog, Yan Ming put the catty dog into the Poke Ball, patted the dust on his pants, and Yan Ming shone the flashlight in front of him and walked towards the cave.
......
On the other side, Mu Qili and his party searched outside for a few days, and they searched the mountain carefully, not to mention the Dark Stone, and there were not even a few elves, which made them uncomfortable to death.
Shamu sat on the grass and panted as he looked at Mu Qili who was cleaning the stains at the water's edge.
"Ha~ Mu Qili, when are we going to find it, why don't I think this is a place where there can be dark stones, why don't we change the mountain and find it?"
Mu Qili tidied up the dirty clothes that had been messed up because of the search for days, and he said angrily.
"Who knows, really, the captain doesn't give accurate information, this trial time is so tight, and let's find a stone in this large area, when will this be found, I really don't know what to think, and I don't know if DM has got a map."
Shamu had no choice but to spread his hands.
"No way, after all, we are sheltered by them, we still have to complete their tasks, the reason why we have better elves and resources than other trialists is also given by them, maybe other trialist missions that are also selected are not as good as the two of us"
"As for DM.... You know, we've only had a few deals with her, and you know her changeable personality, not to mention that the Viper Instructor's system shouldn't be so easy to hack into. ”
Mu Qili sighed when he heard this.
"Also, if DM could easily invade, it wouldn't have asked us so many resources, and if the map was in hand, we wouldn't be running around here like headless flies now, but then again, what are the names of the two teams that the captain took a fancy to them in the previous trial? What are their tasks? ”
Sandwood thought about what seemed to come to mind, and pouted.
"Judging from the information given by DM, it should be Musashi and Kojiro, and the mission, it seems... It's about catching an elf. ”
Mu Qili screamed when he heard this.
"What?! It's that easy? ”
Sha Mu waved his hand, signaling Mu Qili not to be so startled, damaging her image.
"This is also no way, Musashi seems to be a descendant of a cadre favored by the chief, and Kojiro's net worth is not simple, of course they will have privileges, which of us can compare, now they should have become official members, and they are on a mission outside."
Mu Qili looked up to the sky and sighed.
"Hey, it's really more popular than people...."
While the two were sighing, two figures, a man and a woman, hurriedly ran from a distance.
"My lord! We've found an anomaly! ”
Mu Qili and Sha Mu glanced at each other, and they both saw the happy expressions in each other's eyes.
Finally, there is good news.
.......
Walking towards the depths of the cave for more than ten minutes, the more he walked inside, the more Yan Ming found that the space in the cave became more and more spacious, and there were countless stalactites in the cave, large and small, hanging on the stone wall.
The sound of sneakers stomping on the stone floor inside the cave echoed through the empty space.
Yan Ming frowned slightly.
As the cave deepened, gradually, the light emitted by the flashlight in Yan Ming's hand could no longer shine on the stone wall, except for a small handful of ground in front of him, the surrounding area was pitch black, staring at the darkness, which made people infinitely reverie.
Swallowing saliva unconsciously, Yan Ming pursed his lips, his nerves tensed, and his eyes moved around, guarding against possible dangers in the dark.
"How could I have thought of coming in here...."
There are some words in my heart that I regret slandering, but Yan Ming has come to the present, and it is not good to give up halfway.
In this way, time passed minute by minute, and the tense nerves for a long time brought Yan Ming's increasingly uneasy heart.
"How big is this hole, why hasn't it reached the end yet..."
Breathing began to get heavier, Yan Ming's palm holding the flashlight clenched involuntarily, and he stopped from time to time and looked back at the dark space behind him.
"No, if you continue like this, you won't be driven crazy."
Thinking like this, although I was still curious about the depths of the cave, I had to give up my plan and start to go back the way I came.
After walking for a while, looking at the space around him that was still pitch black, and the clicking sound that there was no echo, Gradually, Yan Ming realized that something was wrong.
The pace accelerated, Yan Ming trotted, speeding up, when he came in to explore before, in order to prevent accidents, Yan Ming did not increase his speed, and now he went back along the road, Yan Ming did not have this worry, but even so, Yan Ming ran and breathed a little disordered, but he still did not see the wall.
"Damn, I'm disoriented."
The exact same environment around him, coupled with the fatigue caused by the tense nerves that had been tense for a long time before, caused Yan Ming's direction to be misjudged, and Yan Ming suspected that the direction he went back was definitely wrong.
Thinking of this, Yan Ming stopped his pace, rested on the spot, and began to think about countermeasures.
I also thought about whether there would be the so-called top-level dark stone in the cave behind this waterfall before, and the Katy dog came in first, so Yan Ming didn't think too much about it, so he kept coming over like this.
But this can't be blamed on Yan Ming, who can imagine, obviously the waterfall is on the mountainside, it doesn't look so deep, Yan Ming estimated, the first half of the walk for half an hour, the second half of the run for more than ten minutes, with the speed of Yan Ming's training, you can imagine how deep this cave is, and it is the same as a maze.
Grinding his chin, Yan Ming suspected that the depths of this cave should be downhill, otherwise it would not have been so deep.
The first thing I have to do now is to find a direction, and I have to touch the wall first, so that even if I walk slowly against the wall, it is better than running around with a headless fly like this.
But.....
In the next second, Yan Ming released the catty dog.
As soon as the catty dog appeared, he looked at the dark environment around him and looked at Yan Ming with some doubts.
"Kati, can you find the smell of me when I came?"
Hearing this, the catty dog sniffed around, and after waiting for a while, the catty dog shook his head at Yanming.
Seeing the catty dog like this, Yan Ming also eliminated the plan to find a way back with the catty dog, it seems that the breath circulation structure in this cave is still sufficient, otherwise the catty dog will not be able to smell the general direction.
Wait, good ventilation.....
With a flash of inspiration in his mind, Yan Ming took out some bandages from the bracelet, wrapped them around the end of some remaining wooden sticks and fixed them, and then took out some vegetable oil and poured them on the white bandages.
"Cutty dog, use the spark against this white place."
Hearing this, Cutty nodded, then spewed a breath of flames and set the bandage on fire.
Suddenly, the wooden stick in Yan Ming's hand lit up a fire, illuminating the surroundings, and a simple torch was successfully made.
Yan Ming first looked around, unexpectedly, it was still pitch black, and then Yan Ming looked at the torch in his hand and looked at the direction of the firelight beating above.
The firelight kept swaying in the air, and as Yan Ming's hand stabilized, it gradually began to stabilize, and the smoke from the flame drifted towards Yan Ming's side.
"There's a vent there!"
It's not clear if the direction of the air flow is the exit, but at least there can be a direction, and if necessary, the words can also make the catty dog blow up a gap.