"Do you really think there are dragons, even if it's only, so a little possibility?" Song Wenbin whispered Su Tina.

"Nope." Sutina immediately denied it, she held her head high and said, "I'm just thinking about something, what's in this hole, let's go and explore." ”

"Tell me," Song Wenbin pestered Sutina, "what are you thinking?" ”

Sutina still didn't say anything, but her expression was a little annoyed, and she was full of sales.

It wasn't until the three of them came to the end of the cave that another shaft appeared in front of them, which was ten meters wide in diameter and went straight down, and under the searchlight, the stone walls of the shaft were smooth like a giant intestine, which was spectacular.

The size of this cave is far beyond Song Wenbin's imagination, and the underground in the Yunnan-Guizhou region is even more complex and changeable than the surface.

Looking at it, Huo Yu stepped on something, making a creaking and crunching sound.

A few people took the lamp and found a large number of bones on the ground, the same bones of animals, more and denser than when they first entered the cave. They were scattered around the edge of the shaft, as if they were silently telling something.

"These boiled nitrate guys are quite edible......"

Song Wenbin said, he was restraining the uneasiness in his heart.

"Not necessarily." Huo Yu squatted down, checked the bones and said, "You see, these bones are facing the shaft, except for those bones outside, we didn't see many bones along the way, but there are a lot of them here, it should be intentional." ”

Sutina also crouched down to inspect the edge of the shaft, and after checking it, she called, "Come and see here." ”

Song Wenbin hurried to Sutina's side, only to see her pointing to the edge of the shaft, where there were some remaining brown marks, which were obviously darker than the yellow stones around her.

"What is this?" Song Wenbin asked.

She said with a solemn expression: "This should be a residual blood stain, because there is iron in the blood, and the imprint formed after a long time of drying up can form such a mark, indicating that someone has let blood here." ”

Song Wenbin lay on the ground, followed Su Tina's finger and took the lamp to shine on the stone wall, and the brown mark extended down the stone wall, with no end in sight. Looking at the dense bones around him, he couldn't help but feel a little creepy, there are hundreds of skeletons here, what kind of madness are these people going on, and they are carrying out large-scale bloodletting activities here.

"There must be something wrong with these people not using blood for food, but letting it flow into the shaft instead of using it for food." Sutina muttered.

"What do you think is wrong? They're feeding the dragons. Huo Yu's eyes widened.

"Isn't Weilong a spicy strip?" Song Wenbin tried to shake the spirit to dispel the uneasiness in his heart.

"That's not called feeding the dragon, if you have to say, the ancients called this thing a dragon." Sutina whispered.

"Finally don't play stupid, right?" Huo Yu suddenly sneered.

"What?" Sutina was puzzled.

"I say! Do you know a lot about dragons? But I just don't want to share it with us!! Huo Yu said viciously.

Sutina said, "I repeat, I don't think there are dragons, I don't believe in dragons!" But I do know some small stories from history, but that doesn't mean I think there are dragons, stories are just stories! ”

"What a story, tell me about it." Song Wenbin rubbed his hands beside him.

Sutina hummed for a long time before she reluctantly said: "If it's just eating cattle and sheep, or just exaggerating the atmosphere, the old man has ten thousand ways, but he just mentioned the matter of blood sucking, which makes me a little concerned." Because I suddenly thought of an allusion, a little story from the Ming Dynasty. The allusions recorded in the "Geng Si Compilation". ”

"What an allusion."

Huo Yu was also interested.

This allusion is the author Lu Can's record of his ancestor's experience, talking about his grandfather, Ji Zongdao's experience when he was young, Ji Zongdao once served as a patrol inspector in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, one day of travel, picking up a giant egg as big as a liter, he took the egg back, let the chicken hatch for more than 100 days, and gave birth to a strange thing. The ancient books say that this thing is - like a snake, four-legged pale, scales and armor all over the body, its length is not more than a foot, and the line is raised with its head high, like a beast. ”

"Wow!"

Song Wenbin sighed, he didn't understand the last paragraph too much, but he felt very powerful, and it was a shame that Su Tina could remember it, this brain was really not an ordinary good worker.

"And then?" Huo Yu asked obsessively.

"Ji Weng's family first fed it with rice juice, after a few months the creature gradually grew up, like to drink raw blood, every time Ji Weng's family slaughtered pigs and sheep, when they had to go over to take blood and drink raw, after a long time this thing was domesticated, where Ji Weng weng, this snake-like creature followed, Ji Weng most often did is to take it to sleep on the edge of the bed, with his hands to stroke its scales, cold as iron, the family called this creature a little dragon."

Song Wenbin's lips opened slightly, stunned.

Sutina continued: "Later, many people in the surrounding area heard that Ji Weng had raised such a strange thing and came to watch it. Fearing that word of mouth would eventually lead to disaster and harm to the family, he kept it in the brook behind his house and told him not to worry about starvation, and that he would send someone to feed it every day. It's just that it can't just come out of the pool.

As soon as Ji Weng left, the serpentine creature followed, and Ji Weng reprimanded him, saying, If you are disobedient, I will kill you.

The creature understood what Ji Weng meant, and returned to the deep pool.

Later, Ji Weng often sent people to put the blood on the edge of the pool, and as soon as it was released, it appeared in the pool to suck it, and after a long time, it actually grew to more than a few zhang.

However, one day, the daughter-in-law of one of Ji Weng's colleagues went to the pool to wash clothes. The woman was dressed in red, and the serpentine creature thought that another person had come to deliver blood, so he swept it away and sucked it to death.

When his colleagues heard about this, they were furious, saying that Ji Weng was raising monsters, and he wanted to stab this matter to Shangguan, and he would definitely let Ji Weng's family die.

Ji Weng was terrified, pleaded and made amends with heavy gifts, and only then was he liberated. Afterwards, Ji Weng thought that the basilisk could not be kept, so he took a knife to the edge of the pool, still lured it out with blood, and then slashed it with a knife. The thing ran away in fright, and only broke its tail, and the thing never appeared again, and no one knew if it was dead or alive. ”

Sutina's story is not long, but after listening to it, Song Wenbin's body is already trembling, this kind of story is okay no matter where it is told, but in this pitch-black underground cave 100 meters deep, on the edge of the shaft full of bones and even blood stains, no matter how ordinary a small story has become a top-level horror story.

Huo Yu also listened to it, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

Su tina saw that the two colleagues were fascinated, so she waved her hand and said: "This allusion is called Ji Weng Fenglong in the book, in ancient times, I am talking about the ancient times of the pre-Qin period, saying that there was a special official position in the palace of the Xia Dynasty, called Fenglong Guan, among which the famous name is Dong's father, and the current surname Dong is derived from this." ”

"Good fellow...... What else is there you don't know......"

Song Wenbin muttered to himself.

"So dragons actually drink blood??" Huo Yu was surprised: "You already know what dragons eat, and you keep asking us!" You know we don't know!! ”

"I didn't say dragons drink blood!!"

Sutina said loudly, "In fact, there are many similar records of the ancients, and they are not limited to dragons. In the Song Dynasty's "Ink Artist Waving the Rhino", there is a more detailed paragraph. Said, the shape of the Jiao is like a snake, its head is like a tiger, the elders are several zhang, and most of them live under the stone cave in the brook, and the sound is like the roar of a cow. If he sees a pedestrian on the shore or in a valley, he will make a person fall into the water with the fishy saliva in his mouth, and suck his blood under his armpit until the blood is exhausted. ”

"Look, look, it's a lot!" Huo Yu shouted.

"There is a lot of fart, "Ink Wavering Rhino", like "Geng Si Edit", is not an official history, more like a kind of monster, and its authenticity is doubtful. How can you believe it all! ”

Sutina paused and emphasized: "Besides, it is also drinking blood, and the ink man has become a Jiao in the rhinoceros, and it is also said that its head is like a tiger, which is very different from the description of the dragon, can you imagine that the things that live in the water have tiger heads, which shows that this matter is mostly fantasy, not reality!" ”

"Alright, okay, you can be quiet!!"

Song Wenbin saw that these two people were going to make a loud noise when they came to this ghost place, so he hurriedly pleaded in a low voice and anxiously, for fear that their voices would attract some blood-sucking snakes that were several feet long.

But no one paid attention to him, Huo Yu was not afraid, she said proudly: "I don't care, the dragon drinks blood, this is not running, and this just shows that the dragon is a creature, right?" Otherwise, why would the old man just talk about bloodsucking without saying anything? ”

"No, oops....it's really hard to tell you...."Sutina said irritably, "I'm thinking, I mean, these accounts may be apocryphal, fantasy, but fantasy must have a prototype. Just like vampires and bats, elves and Celts, dragons and lizards, but in China, since ancient times, there has not been a single aquatic creature and blood closely combined, whether in fresh water or seawater, there will be no animal that specifically feeds on blood, dragons or Jiao are the only isolated cases, so I speculate that in ancient times, there should be an amphibian that lived on blood, which is the prototype creature of dragons or Jiao. ”

Song Wenbin asked in a low voice: "You are right, is it a locust?" ”

Sutina: ......

Of course, Song Wenbin is just a clever man, he doesn't think that someone will kill cattle and sheep on a large scale to sacrifice locusts.

After being silent for a long time, Huo Yu laughed, she patted Sutina on the shoulder, and said proudly: "You finally admit that you were wrong, right, there are dragons in the world." ”

"What the!!" Sutina made a rare rudeness: "I really can't tell you clearly." As long as no one comes to me and tells me how a wingless thing flies into the sky against gravity, I will never believe that there is such a thing as a dragon in the world. But if you want to say that there is a creature that we have not found before, feeding on blood, then I admit that there is such a possibility, and now it seems that the probability is not small! ”

"Okay, okay! I'm kidding you~"

Sutina's rare compromise made Huo Yu very satisfied, she crossed her waist and said very old-fashionedly: "The world is very big, and there will always be unknown things waiting for us to discover." Whether there is such an animal as you are talking about, we will find out if we go down and see. ”

The hairs on Song Wenbin's body stood up, and he was really a little scared now: "No... Don't put... I think it's scary......"

The cavern was so big that the thought of them going down in search of something that lived on blood, and which might not be small, was scary enough to think about it.

But in the face of Song Wenbin's timidity, Huo Yu showed disdain on his face and said: "What are you afraid of, how many years has this bloodstain dried up, even if there was anything in it, it has been abandoned for so long, and I am starving to death." ”

"I ......"

"Yes, the bigger the creature, the more food it needs, that's an iron law. In all the documents, all those related to the dragon are all royal or big, which shows that this archetypal creature is in great demand, otherwise it would not be possible to put so many skeletons here. Such a demand, which has not been fed for so many years, should have been sent a long time ago. But if we could find bones, even a few samples of scales, it would be enough to cause an earthquake in the entire biological world. ”

Sutina whispered, her voice filled with irrepressible excitement.

Song Wenbin looked at his two colleagues, stunned. For the first time, he discovered that after leaving civilized society, he was so powerless.

"How many meters are left on the rope." Huo Yu asked.

"Two hundred meters." Song Wenbin said reluctantly.

Huo Yu kicked a stone into the shaft, then listened to the falling sound for a while, and said, "It should be enough, let's go down and have a look." ”