Chapter 229: The Cave Under the Cliff

Several people in the cavern below had already made a fire, roasting clothes that had been stained with water as they pierced the waterfall.

The Timber Wolf poked his head out, and in the sound of the waterfall, he discerned the horse's hooves that were fading away.

"It looks like it's gone."

He turned his head and walked towards the cave.

Several people breathed a sigh of relief, but Ning Wuji nervously held his mahogany box and glanced at it, but fortunately it was unscathed.

Only then did he relax, "It seems that my poisonous snakes are still useful, and they have all been driven away." ”

Xin Nianyan squinted at him, "You are really bold, the cliff is only about twenty meters high, are you not afraid that the six relatives of the poisonous snakes will not recognize and climb down?" ”

"Don't be afraid, I can detoxify." Ning Wuji smiled heartily and pointed to the turbulent waterfall at the entrance of the cave.

"And the water is so urgent, it's hard for them to get in."

Xin Nianyan didn't play poverty with him anymore, twisted his wet sleeves and shook them to the fire, and glanced back at the cave behind him.

When I was drifting just now, my shoes were also wet, so I was just baking now.

"What now, the horses are gone, shall we walk back to the city?"

Kui Timber Wolf stepped back and sat down beside Liu Shu.

"Yes, yes, but I'm afraid that they will lead troops to block us on the path outside, and if we are blocked on foot, we will ......"

Liu Shu frowned and analyzed.

After listening to him, several people did not speak again.

He said it very well, but this is someone's territory, and the path they can see on the map must be better known than they are.

And it takes an hour for the horse to run over, and it has to go around a forest road, and if you really walk back, I am afraid that you will have to go until dawn.

The temperature in Yecheng at night is too low, I'm afraid it's not easy to carry.

Xin Nianyan frowned and pondered, and the sleeve in his hand was so burned that he didn't pay attention to it.

"Childe ......" Shi Wu hurriedly pulled her hand, and Xin Nianyan came back to her senses.

She tapped her sleeve, only to see that the smoke was not drifting towards the hole, but in the other direction.

Only then did she notice that the smoke from the campfire was drifting into the hole.

Xin Nianyan raised his eyebrows and looked in.

"You say, 'What's in there?'

The cave was wide, as if it led to a very distant darkness.

The entrance to the cave is close to the water source, so there is a lot of moss, but the cave is very dry.

She took a signal firework out of her purse around her waist and dipped it in water, but it still worked.

She held up the signal firework and ripped the lead at the bottom of the hole.

[Whew-]

A sharp sound echoed in the cave, and fireworks spread all the way into the cave, illuminating the spacious and straight cave clearly.

Until the inside exploded with a bang, and the fireworks didn't touch the bottom.

Several people glanced at each other, and Ning Wuji spoke first.

"Go in and have a look?"

Xin Nianyan is waiting for this sentence, the cave is spacious and warm, at least you don't have to worry about freezing to death outside, and you can retreat at any time.

She immediately turned her head to look at Liu Shu, "Liu Su, you are doing a good job, bring some snake repellent medicine and take down our dry food." ”

When they came, they prepared a lot, and the five of them saved some food, and they could eat for a day or two.

Then he looked at Kui Mu Wolf again, "Kui Su, you can bring some food in a while and go to the front to explore the way." ”

"Do you still have the signal fireworks from the Flying Smoke Pavilion, go to the position just now, make sure it's safe inside, and put another one inside, we can hear it."

"Okay, my subordinates understand!"

Both of them should go down at the same time.

Ning Wuji took out the snake repellent and crushed it, and slapped it on Liu Shu's body, and Liu Shu turned around and walked out.

In a few moments, he jumped down from it with a few bags, a few swords pinned to his waist, and a pot on his back.

Xin Nianyan didn't even know how he brought so many things down.

"What's going on above?" She asked.

"A few horses have been poisoned, and there are poisonous snakes crawling on the ground, but they are much more honest than they were crazy before."

He put down his bag, and the rice tubes in his hands clanged together, and Xin Nianyan was hungry.

"Let's eat something before we get to work."

She spoke, and several people did as she said, and set up a pot to cook the rice cone.

There were a lot of dry bushes and branches in the cave, and they burned quickly, and several people soon ate fragrant meals.

Xin Nianyan chewed the pliable jerky inside, thinking that this thing was good, portable and delicious, and it would be introduced to the capital in the future.

After eating, Kuimu Wolf carried a sword, hung two rice tubes around his waist, lit a torch and walked inside.

The remaining four waited outside.

There was only the sound of rushing water, and I only felt that time passed very slowly, and there was a kind of waiting torment.

Xin Nianyan scratched her head, she changed her direction, smoothed the sand on the ground, and drew nineteen grids horizontally and vertically.

When Ning Wuji saw it, he naturally knew what she meant, and sat down opposite her with his knees crossed.

"It's a great way to kill time."

He raised his hand to pick up a dead branch, "I draw circles, you draw forks?" ”

Xin Nianyan nodded briskly, "Cheng." ”

The two started to play against each other in the cave, and Liu Shu and Shi Wu on the side were a little speechless for a while, and said in their hearts that these two could really sit still.

But after watching their game for a while, the attention was quickly taken away by the chess game between the two.

Of the four people in the cave, two of them were engrossed in playing chess, and the other two were attentive, showing surprise from time to time, with an expression of 'it can still be like this'.

The murmuring of the water outside sets off a different kind of tranquility.

[Whew-]

A sharp sound pierced the silence, and several people were stunned and glanced inside.

Soon, there was a bang.

It's the Kui Timber Wolf that is putting flares.

"Let's go."

Xin Nianyan spoke, stood up from the ground, and lifted his own bag.

Shi Wu walked in the front, and after Liu Shu broke off, Xin Nianyan and Ning Wuji were separated in the middle.

Each person holds a torch in his hand, illuminating the dry and quiet cave as bright as day.

The cave is about two meters high, and the further you go inside, the quieter the waterfall becomes outside, until it gets quieter and quieter, and only the footsteps of a few people and the sound of burning torches can be heard.

"You say, such a straight passage will be staying here?"

Xin Nianyan thought about opening her mouth.

Such a straight hole can't be naturally formed, right?

"It's old, but it's still recognizable."

Ning Wuji looked carefully at the cave wall above and reached out to touch it.

"This hole is made out of it."

Several people nodded thoughtfully, it was typed from the inside, that is, it is not known where it leads to it, but it must be through it.

Soon, they walked to the place where the fireworks had landed earlier, and there was a lot of black ash from the burning gunpowder scattered on the ground, and a faint smell of gunpowder wafted in the cave.

"What about Kuisu, didn't you tell him to wait for us first when he got here......"

Xin Nianyan glanced inside puzzled, and could vaguely see a little light inside.