What Hanif said is true.

Lynch's group of Pinkerton detectives swam to the bottom of the lake and landed in a dark cave, and then lit their lanterns.

They waited for a long time with their necks crossed, but they didn't wait for Lynch to crawl out of the water.

"Sir, shall we go back and have a look?" A detective asked the adjutant.

The adjutant was a little hesitant, he had been a little unable to understand Lynch since the last Lincolnshire defeat.

If it had been before, he would have waited until Lynch came over.

But now, he couldn't tell, and he couldn't guess what his chief was thinking.

"Holy, what is this?"

The exclamation of one of the detectives drew everyone's attention from the lake to his side, and the crowd gathered around.

They saw the monster's corpse.

"It's a fish, isn't it?"

"Fart, you've ever seen a fish with long legs? I think it's a lizard. ”

"You're talking nonsense, why are the lizard's front and rear limbs so uncoordinated? Eh, look at those fangs, you say, what would it be like to be bitten by those fangs? ”

"Afraid of what? If I have the ability to run into it again, I will catch a live one and sell it to my uncle, he is a circus man, and the people in Kansas are cute to see this thing. ”

……

A group of detectives were still talking about it, but the adjutant couldn't stand it anymore:

"Is this the time to discuss this?"

He kicked the monster's corpse, and when he was sure it was dead, he pulled out the revolver on his waist: "Let's go, go down this underground river." ”

A detective volunteered to carry a lantern and walked at the front of the line.

He was the nephew of the circus owner, the one who claimed to catch a living monster.

The cave was narrow, and the light of the lantern was dim, but it was enough to illuminate the road ahead.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew from inside a dark cave on the side, causing the lantern in his hand to shake.

"Sir, it looks like the exit is here." He stopped, pointed to the cave where the wind blew, and turned to the adjutant behind him.

But the adjutant did not speak, his gaze went over the detective's shoulder and looked behind the detective.

The detective noticed something was wrong and slowly turned his head back.

In the darkness at the entrance of the cave, countless pairs of blood-red eyes suddenly appeared, staring at them deadly.

The detective is ready to strike first, and he draws his gun and prepares to shoot.

But it just so happened that the two monsters closest to him thought the same thing.

By this time it was already dark outside, and it was time to go out to forage for food, and the Chupacabla, who had been wandering in the valley before, poured into the cave.

They just happened to run into the Pinkerton detectives.

Before the detective could draw his gun, the two monsters rushed out and rushed towards the detective.

The lantern fell to the ground, and the gun in the detective's hand did not fire until he died. His neck was bitten by one monster while another gnawed on his thigh.

The next few followed, quickly sucking the detective who had the head into a human.

As a warrior who aspires to be a "monster hunter", this detective can be regarded as benevolent.

Gunshots rang out in the cave, and the lieutenant and the other Pinkerton detectives engaged in a desperate fight with the monsters.

It stands to reason that no matter how terrifying a monster is, as long as he is still a carbon-based life, as long as he can be broken, he will not be able to take advantage of kinetic weapons.

But it's hard to say in the dark environment and close range.

The environment in the cave was cramped, and the detectives with the lanterns were quickly thrown to the ground.

The Pinkerton detectives, who have lost the light, have lost the last chance to fight the monsters.

The cave turned into a one-sided slaughter, and the blood-squirming monsters who had been hungry for three days feasted on it.

Hanif was chatting with Johnny and them outside the cave, and they had built a bonfire waiting for the people below to come out.

He also heard gunshots and wails in the cave.

Looks like Pinkerton's gang is really here.

Hanif took Johnny and Li Sifu to pick up the gun and approached the edge of the cave.

He was ready to shoot anyone as soon as they came out of it.

But the sound of gunfire from the cave grew fainter and weaker until it was almost none.

Hanif was about to look over when a rush of footsteps and curses came from inside the cave.

A man cursed as he shot backwards and rushed out of the cave.

Hanif was about to shoot him, but there were already "people" who had already stepped forward.

Two or three monsters chased straight out of the hole, pounced on the man, and began to suck the man's blood.

The light of life in the man's eyes vanished, and his skin quickly dried up, like the skin of a balloon that had been pumped out.

Seeing this scene, Hanif gasped, and he subconsciously touched the glands in his pocket.

After a while, there was no more movement in the cave.

Hanif was sure that these Pinkerton detectives should be dead, even if they were lucky enough to escape two or three, they would not dare to come back for a while.

He breathed a sigh of relief, confessed to Donnie and Li Sifu, took a shovel himself, climbed down the rope, and then followed the mark left by Chen Jianqiu and them to make it easy to return.

Hanif still couldn't resist the temptation to be the first to see those treasures, not to mention that Chen Jianqiu had made such a promise to him.

"How about it, whichever one you like, you can choose." Chen Jianqiu was very generous.

Hanif looked at the black things and was stunned, he picked up the pottery seal from Holmes's hand, and looked at the symbol on it in fascination.

"Don't worry, it's no cheaper than gold jewelry." Chen Jianqiu was "kind" to comfort the bounty hunter.

"No, I think I've seen this symbol somewhere." Hanif looked at the seal repeatedly.

"When did you peek at my notes?" Holmes raised his eyebrows angrily, the human skin map had always been in his and Chen Jianqiu's hands.

Hanif shook his head and pointed in the direction he had entered: "It's on the wall of the cave over there, next to the mark you left behind, and I touched your mark all the way." ”

Holmes looked surprised, he left the mark, but when he left the mark just now, why didn't he notice the Aztec symbol?

He was still puzzled, but Chen Jianqiu had already walked over with a torch.

He walked to the bottom of the stone staircase, to the edge of the cave wall.

Under the light of the fire, someone carved Aztec hieroglyphs on it.

He turned his head and looked at Holmes, "What does this symbol mean?" ”

The expression on Holmes' face was a little embarrassed: "It's a referent for direction, which means ,,, forward. ”

Chen Jianqiu was stunned, isn't this the same as what he encountered before, the chalk writing on the side of those alleys, "500 meters ahead here"?

The two of them followed the cave wall all the way until they were almost at the edge of the lake.

Holmes found two more rows of symbols on the wall.

"What do you mean this time?" Chen Jianqiu asked the geologist, "It can't be 'don't touch', right?" ”

Holmes pulled out his notebook, flipped to the page where he had written the Aztec script, and glanced at it by the light of the torch.

Then he raised his head and looked at Chen Jianqiu with a puzzled expression: "Chen, how do you know?" ”

Chen Jianqiu was taking the small water bag on his waist to drink, and when he heard Holmes's words, he almost squirted out the water in his mouth.

"Well, actually, that's the meaning of the lower row of symbols, and the upper row of symbols means, 'water outlet'."

As he spoke, Holmes approached the wall, touched the wall, looked at it closely, and then pressed his head against it.

Then, in full view of everyone, he took the shovel from Hanif's hand and began to pull the stone from the cave wall.

"This cave wall is not natural, it was sealed with a stone the day after tomorrow, because too much time has passed, so it is not easy to see." Holmes said as he tugged.

Chen Jianqiu took the shovel from him.

As a veteran miner, he knows this job well.

The stone quickly fell sparsely, revealing a hole, and the geologist poked his upper body into it, observing the walls of the hole.

When he retracted his body, his face was full of shock,

"These descendants of the Aztecs must have dug an aqueduct from a nearby underground river more than a hundred years ago, and there are traces of water flowing on the walls of this cave."

Holmes's gaze looked at the lake beneath their feet:

"This lake is artificial!"

Chen Jianqiu immediately understood the geologist's clothes, he took off his clothes, took a few steps back, took a deep breath, and plunged into the water.

This time, he didn't want to go crazy in the water.

The lake is still pitch black, but thanks to Holmes' discovery, the lake has completely lost its mystery.

This time, Chen Jianqiu went straight to the bottom of the lake.

He swam straight into the depths, and in a few moments, he reached the bottom of the lake.

His fingers touched something hard, very cold, metallic.

He grabbed the thing in his hand and turned around and swam towards the lake.

Approaching the surface of the lake, Chen Jianqiu jumped upward, rushed out of the water, and swam back to shore.

The crowd hurriedly gathered around with torches.

Chen Jianqiu wiped a handful of water from his face, stretched out his other hand, and released his palm.

Something lay quietly in the palm of his hand.

In the light of the fire, the thing glowed with a golden sheen.

A gold bar.

The treasure they sought rested in this lake at their feet.

Thank you all for your monthly passes, thank you very much, I won't thank you one by one for space reasons.

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