55. Another vertical cave
Gu Yuexi then glanced at Wang Wenyuan and reminded him to pay attention to vigilance, and then, she held her breath and followed the voice, walking slowly towards 2 o'clock.
After a while, she was stopped by a small river with a strong current, and at a cursory glance, she found that the river was about ten meters wide, and the water was a greasy yellow-green color, and it emitted a disgusting stench, no different from the smell of rotten eggs.
"Girl, I think there must be a volcano around here." Wang Wenyuan came to her with his nose covered and said with a serious face.
"Indeed." After all, the gas emitted by the volcano contains a large amount of sulfur, and the air contains a large amount of hydrogen, and the chemical reaction between the two will form hydrogen sulfide with a pungent taste, which is the origin of the so-called rotten egg taste.
"Wenyuan, you stay here and don't move, I'll go to the other side of the river to explore." Gu Yuexi picked up the grappling hook gun as she spoke, pulled the trigger on a big cyan stone on the other side of the river, and then galloped, somersaulting, and landed steadily in an open area on the other side of the river.
Looking around, she finally found the source of the sound, which was a very small and rather hidden cave on the hillside next to the riverbank.
"Girl, did you find it?" Wang Wenyuan watched her figure gradually disappear, so he couldn't help but shout loudly.
"Found it, don't worry, I'll go back as soon as I go." Gu Yuexi waved at him, and then trotted along the gentler side of the hill to the outside of the cave.
After careful observation, she found that the cave was somewhat similar to the vertical cave in the underground space of Sadiya Village, that is, the caves all extend vertically downward, the walls of the caves are rough rock faces, and the bottom of the caves is moist sandy soil.
But there are some differences, for example, the length of this cave is much shorter than that of Sadiya Village, that is, between 30-40 meters, so she does not have to retract the grappling hook in the middle of the cave, and the cave is more spacious, if Wang Wenyuan comes with her, the two of them can enter the cave side by side.
When she fastened the grappling hook to the boulder at the entrance of the cave, she was surprised to notice that the slightly painful moan had disappeared in an instant.
"Eighty percent of them are in a coma." Gu Yuexi sighed softly, then held the grappling hook gun, stepped on the cave wall, and slowly advanced towards the depths of the cave.
All went well, and after 2 minutes, she pulled the trigger, retracted the grappling hook, and made her way to the bottom of the vertical cavern.
After a brief inspection, she found three important things, the first is that the vertical cave has two similarities with the vertical cave in the underground space of Sadiya Village, that is, the area at the bottom of the cave is larger, and both are connected to the dark river; The second is that on the stone next to the dark river, there is a burly man in black; The third is that directly in front of her, a ...... appeared inexplicably Cycads!
In the next second, the cycad actually shook slightly, as if it was under human control.
"Oops." Gu Yuexi's face changed suddenly, and she had to dodge behind the boulder on her side in a hurry.
However, the other party was not a good stubble, so that it could see her true purpose at a glance, so it quickly turned into a green thorn ball, and a tumbling one blocked her way in an instant.
"It's pretty cunning." Gu Yuexi didn't have time to hesitate, and hurriedly jumped on a big round stone, and then rolled around and came to a pile of rocks.
The angular black gravel on the ground s......liced through her arms, back, and calves in an instant, but because of the blunt corners of the stones, the wounds seemed shocking but were not serious.
Seeing this, the cycads immediately returned to their original state, thinking that they must have felt that they were sure of victory and did not need to take too risky actions.
And Gu Yuexi took this opportunity to come behind a relatively hidden stone, and at the same time clenched the long knife, ready to break the net with it.
But at this moment, she coldly heard a slightly hurried footsteps in the direction of her right front.
Turning sideways, she happened to see a thin woman in red, holding a white tube-like object, and slammed it into the cycad.
With a dull sound, a depression more than ten centimeters long appeared on the cycad's body in an instant, and in addition, patches of frost also appeared around the depression.
"Hmph, it's pretty good." Seeing this, Gu Yuexi decided to step forward to assist him and defeat this monster who was neither human nor ghostly.
But what she didn't expect was that this cycad was much more difficult to deal with than she expected, only to see that it first turned into a thorn ball, cleverly dodged her turn attacks, and then trembled violently, and the dents and frost on its body surface disappeared in a very short period of time.
"Not good." Gu Yuexi immediately decided to go to find a convenient place to hide, hoping that it would not immediately release the "rain of arrows".
Of course, cycads didn't want to waste this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so they stood firm and locked on to the target, and in an instant it was an "overwhelming" "thorn rain".
"Girl, be careful." The next moment, Wang Wenyuan, who was hiding in the shadows, rushed forward with an arrow and threw her to the ground, and then he only felt a sharp pain in his body, and he lost consciousness in an instant.
"Wenyuan!" Gu Yuexi, who was frightened, hurriedly stood up, but saw that his back was already covered with sharp thorns more than ten centimeters long, and he could even see that among the spikes, a blue liquid was seeping outward and slowly injecting into his wound.
Looking at what was happening in front of her, she only felt that her brain had fallen into a state of extreme numbness, which of course did not last, and it was quickly replaced by an emotion of extreme anger.
Turning around without hesitation, she happened to see two short people fighting to the death with cycads, one of the women in red was Li Youer, as for the other man in white and holding a long sword, she was a little unfamiliar, but he should have a certain degree of contact with Wang Wenyuan, after all, Wang Wenyuan himself could not cross the river with extremely high water temperature.
Gritting her teeth, she didn't care about the wounds on her body, saw the right time, and quickly joined this slightly fierce battle.
But what she didn't expect was that the situation on the battlefield did not change because of her participation, but made the cycads shrink and focus on defense, which invisibly increased the difficulty of winning.
So after a hard battle, the physical strength of the three of them was exhausted, as if in the next second, they would die of exhaustion.
As if sensing that the three were physically and mentally exhausted, the cycads planned to return to their original state, and then broke them one by one.
However, at this moment, the originally calm surface of the river suddenly had some ripples, and then there was a monstrous wave, which carried the mud and gravel at the bottom of the dark river, and roared towards the shore.