31, or leap into the abyss (below)

After making their decision, the three of them rushed to Yan Han's hometown of Suiyang, a city surrounded by mountains and green river valleys. When he was on the road, Song Wenbin saw the large and small karst cave attractions here, and there were many tourists.

This made him look forward to the future trip a little less, where there are so many people, if there were dragons, they would probably have been discovered a long time ago. can think of Sutina's life plan, but he was a little resolute for no reason.

Fortunately, Yan Han's hometown is in a local village, because it is a village of the Dai people, it still maintains a relatively primitive style, and there are no people.

After coming here, Song Wenbin was pleasantly surprised to find that many wooden buildings here were actually carved with dragon-shaped horns, and when the film crew photographed the riverside, there was also a workshop for carving stone stele wood, and the stone stele wood was all carved with dragon patterns, and the dragon patterns were much more simple than those exaggerated pictures on the Internet.

With curiosity, Song Wenbin stopped the car, and took the film crew and his colleagues to the workshop for consultation, there was only one master and two apprentices in the workshop, the master looked to be in his sixties, and he didn't know Chinese.

"Uncle, I see that the decorations here are all based on dragon patterns, isn't there anything to pay attention to." Song Wenbin and the TV reporter generally asked.

When the apprentice saw that they were carrying a camera, he politely helped translate it, and the master who was planing wood said after hearing this: "The dragon blesses the rain, so that there is water in the drought year, and the dragon can also control the water, so that the river does not flood too much when it is flooded." ”

After the apprentice finished translating, Su Tina suddenly realized, and said excitedly to Song Wenbin: "I know what a dragon is!" Dragons are dams! It's a reservoir!! ”

Song Wenbin: ......

Huo Yu ignored Su Tina's madness and said to his apprentice, "You ask your master if the dragon is an animal in his impression. ”

The apprentice translated Huo Yu's words, and the master shook his head when he heard it, and said a few words.

The apprentice said, "My uncle said that dragons are not animals, they are fede. ”

Sutina raised an eyebrow and folded her arms.

"You ask him if he's seen a dragon?" Huo Yu asked again.

After hearing the translation, the old man shook his head, his face full of regret.

The apprentice said, "He said he hadn't seen it, but some of his elders had seen it, in the cave outside their village. ”

Su tina pursed her lips, most people have said this along the way, either the elders have seen it, or they have heard it said, or it is something that is completely unverifiable more than half a century ago, which made her feel quite disdainful, she leaned in front of Huo Yu, raised her chin and asked, "Just, I've been staying in the cave." ”

"When it rains, it flies out."

"Old man, how do dragons fly?"

"He said that fetishes can naturally fly."

"Okay."

Su Tina spread out her hands and said to Song Wenbin and Huo Yu: "Come on, this is no different from the previous ones, I bet that what kind of dragon is this place called, what cave attractions are not a thousand but eight hundred, and the local residents will say that they really have dragons, if everyone is true, then there are 10,000 dragons in the whole of China." ”

Song Wenbin was embarrassed and didn't speak.

But the apprentice didn't know that Su Tina was saying this to his colleagues, and he gave his master a translation, but the old man became anxious after the translation, and talked a long way.

The apprentice said, "My master said that others are all fake, but our Black Dragon Cave is true. ”

"Okay, yes, it's true, what does the dragon eat?" Sutina asked again, "What does such a big creature eat if it lives underground?" ”

"Oh, my master was about to talk about this stubble, someone used to feed them." The apprentice translator said.

"Huh?" Song Wenbin was shocked, this was a new statement that he had never heard before, and he hurriedly asked, "How did you feed it?" ”

After listening to a few words, the apprentice translated: "In the past, when my grandfather was in his generation, he led the cows and sheep to the cave, and after a few days, the cows and sheep died. ”

Sutina rolled her eyes: "It's not... Old man, if you throw the cow and the sheep into the hole, you will not die a ghost, and you will starve to death. ”

"Ah, it's not a normal way to die, my master said, they were all sucked out of blood and died, and there was not a drop of blood left." The apprentice said mysteriously.

In broad daylight, Song Wenbin didn't know why he had goosebumps.

Huo Yu on the side was stunned, and said in surprise: "Grandpa, you're not lying to me, are you dragons or vampires in this cave!" ”

"What is a vampire?" The old man asked confusedly.

"It's ......"

Huo Yu tried to explain to the old man about vampires, a mysterious creature imported from the West, but after thinking about it, he gave up and could only spread his hands.

"Could it be that the bats suck it, in the general cave, there will be a lot of bats, and the bats are blood-sucking." Song Wenbin speculated.

"yes, bats are blood-suckers!" Huo Yu said, and looked at Su Tina, hoping to get scientific certification, but Su Tina, who has always regarded herself as a scientific spirit, frowned and turned a blind eye to Song Wenbin's rare scientific speculation.

After bidding farewell to their master and apprentice in the workshop, they found a cave in the mountains on the east side of the village, near which there were several dry pools and dense vegetation, and it took some effort for the three of them to open a path to the cave.

This cave, known as the Black Dragon Cave, does not look big, it does not have the grandeur and grandeur of other caves in Suiyang at all, the deflated entrance of the cave is like a toad mouth, only one person comes to the height, Song Wenbin can only enter it by bending down.

Although the hole is not big, the inside is extremely steep, and they did not go far, they saw the bottom of the pit straight down a shaft, four or five meters in diameter, which is bottomless, black and not slippery, which is daunting.

"Hey!" Sutina shouted at the shaft like a fool, and it took a while for an echo to come up, and she threw another stone into it, and the echo was almost inaudible.

"That's one or two hundred meters deep, to say the least."

Sutina said as she cowered in the corner.

Song Wenbin didn't dare to approach, the big pit of the black hole reminded him of the deep sea.

"Is it such a deep hole?"

Huo Yu was as bold as ever, she stood next to her and probed her brain, "The dragon that those villagers said lives here, and the voice that Yan Han heard came from here?" ”

"In this kind of place, when it rains, torrents, and wind, any strange sound can be produced." Sutina said, suddenly raised her voice and shouted twice: "Is there a dragon??" Is there a dragon at home? ”

Her voice echoed through the cave, each time becoming more eerie.

Huo Yu hurriedly slapped her and said, "Don't shout, what if there is really something." ”

Sutina laughed, "Don't you expect something?" ”

Huo Yu glared at her.

"Shall we go down and have a look?"

Song Wenbin said with some uneasiness, this abyss-like place is really suffocating.

"I don't want to go down." Sutina replied: "No, I'm not afraid, I just don't want to spend time and energy on meaningless things to take risks, I put my words here, even if we go to the center of the earth, it is impossible to find the dragon, get a drone to go down and shoot." ”

"Shall we go down then?"

Huo Yu looked at Song Wenbin, Song Wenbin originally wanted to refuse, after all, he was not a professional caving professional, and it might be dangerous to go down rashly. Seeing Huo Yu's eyes, he thought of the deep sea of Indonesia for no reason, after two years, the once terrifying and dangerous was now covered with an ambiguous veil and became wonderful.

If you go down alone with Huo Yu, do it again......

"For the sake of the shooting mission, it is appropriate to take a little risk." Song Wenbin said solemnly.

Huo Yu turned his head and rolled his eyes.

Sutina's eyes widened, "What? So I decided to go down, and now you know what's there, I can tell you, the underground cave is very dangerous, very, very dangerous, no one knows what the terrain is like here, in case of a flash flood, you're gone, you know? ”

"We've been to space, we've been to the deep sea, we've never been to any dangerous places abroad, and now we can't go down a hole when we return home." Huo Yu waved his hand impatiently and said to his colleagues in the film crew, "I'm going to prepare for the purchase of caving equipment, you guys should also prepare, this is a new challenge!" ”

"Eh, I don't think my colleagues in the film crew have to go down." Song Wenbin hurriedly said, he didn't want anyone to ruin the fun of him and Huo Yu exploring the cave alone, so he hurriedly spoke out to stop it.

"Why?" Huo Yu asked in surprise: "How can they shoot if they don't go down?" ”

"We brought a head-mounted camera, and two selfie sticks were enough, so that there were fewer people to go down, and if something happened, the people on top could call the police and find a professional to help. This is all down, there is no signal below, in case something really happens, all the inside, that is called the heaven should not be, called the earth is not spiritual. Song Wenbin gave full play to his expertise and talked eloquently.

When Huo Yu heard this, it seemed that this was indeed the truth, but seeing Song Wenbin's eyebrows and eyes smiling, she suddenly understood, and couldn't help but be silent for a few seconds.

"Okay, then I'll go check the equipment needed for exploring the cave, if there are two sets, it should be soon..."

"Three sets!"

Sutina said loudly.

Song Wenbin's heart sank, and he asked casually: "Why are there three sets, aren't you going down?" ”

"Huh? Did I ever say I wouldn't go down? ”

"You just said you weren't going down." Song Wenbin pointed to the camera.

"You heard it wrong, it's an illusion."

Sutina said without blushing and without a beat: "Three sets, I'm going too!" ”