Chapter Seventy-Nine: Retreating
"What are you wondering about?"
"I'm thinking about those monsters in that lake, they must have other passages, or they wouldn't have survived this long!" Liu Bao looked at me with a serious face.
Liu Bao is not wrong in what he said, there must be other passages in the lake, otherwise there would not be so many eight-legged lizards.
As he was talking, the old professor coughed a few times, opened his eyes in some pain, his lips were a little dry, it should be because he hadn't drunk water for a long time, except for being a little weak, there was nothing else serious!
I hurriedly took out a bottle of water and handed it to him, and asked, "Old professor, what do you think?" ”
The old professor nodded, indicating that he was fine, but his body was extremely weak and needed to rest, so he had to get up, but it was a little difficult!
I hurriedly helped him, picked him up, and let the old professor rest against the head of the bed.
Now the situation inside this swamp should only be known to the old professor, after all, he is the first person to find inside!
"How's the black dragon doing?"
The old professor noticed the black dragon on the side, only to see that the black dragon's face was pale and his stomach was wrapped with a white cloth, and the old professor's face was naturally a little worried.
"Don't worry, he's fine, now that the rest of the bandages have been done, he should wake up tomorrow morning."
I smiled and said, and told the old professor about the black dragon.
After hearing this, the old professor was relieved.
"By the way, old professor, how did you find that lake within a lake?"
At this time, Xu Jinxiu asked, and her face was also full of worry, if it is really as Liu Bao and I guessed, there are really other roads leading to the place, then this must be the place we are looking for.
"I ......"
The old professor was about to answer, but suddenly paused.
"What's wrong?" Xu Jinxiu asked eagerly.
Liu Bao and I also looked at the old professor, hoping that he could tell us about the lake within the lake, after all, the old professor was the first person to walk in from the swamp.
"Hey...... It's a long story! The old professor sighed, and then said slowly: "That night I found something that did not belong to this swamp, so I thought I would go to the swamp pond to see what was going on......"
According to the old professor, that night, he went alone to the edge of the swamp, and he wanted to see if there was anything unusual in the swamp pool.
But he didn't expect the soles of his feet to slip, and the whole person fell down directly, and he hurriedly saw the white bones under the swamp pool.
Originally, he wanted to escape, but he was pulled by a white bone, and he couldn't break free for a while.
He panicked and tried desperately to break free, but eventually fell into the mud again because he used too much force!
At that moment, he was terrified and struggled desperately!
Just when he was about to despair, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his ankle, looked down, and found that an unknown creature's claws were grabbing him, and before he could react, he was suddenly dragged inside.
When the old professor came to his senses again, he found himself on a meadow, thinking that he was out of danger.
I didn't notice that countless eight-legged lizards appeared next to him, and their target was the old professor, and when they saw that the old professor was awake, they rushed towards him!
This group of eight-legged lizards was very fast, and they surrounded the old professor in an instant!
"Help me!"
The old professor shouted desperately, but there was no response from the surroundings!
Although these eight-legged lizards are extremely aggressive, because they live underground all year round, they have weak eyesight without light, and can only rely on their sense of smell and hearing to catch prey!
The old professor discovered this habit, so he took out the mosquito repellent he carried with him, touched it and then fell to the ground and pretended to be dead, so he escaped.
After listening to the old professor's words, I glanced at Liu Bao, no wonder the more we moved down there, the more fierce those guys became.
"So, there must be another passage in that lake, since these monsters exist, then they must be there to protect something?"
Liu Bao pondered for a moment and said.
The old professor also nodded.
"Old Professor, in your experience, let's see if there's anything in that one we're looking for."
I looked at the old professor and asked, if the inference is correct, what are those eight-legged lizards guarding them? It's like a forest ranger.
The old professor shook his head, sighed and said, "I can't say the specifics!" The only thing I'm sure of is that there must be an important secret hidden in that place, but I don't know exactly what it is! ”
Liu Bao raised his eyebrows, then turned his head to me and said, "Do you want us to go down again?" ”
"Go down?"
I frowned and said, "Didn't we almost die at the hands of those brutes just now?" Wouldn't it be a sheep to go now? If you want to go down, be prepared. ”
Liu Bao smiled, slapped me twice and said, "What are you afraid of?" I noticed that the brutes seemed to be afraid of explosives, and I went down this time with more explosives to blow them up. ”
I was stunned, and before I could speak, the old professor spoke first.
"He's not afraid of explosives, it's explosives exploding, it's too loud for them to bear, and if I'm guessing right, they are mainly identified by hearing, and their sense of smell, although it is also a way, is not sensitive."
The old professor's explanation made me pause, it was indeed like this, using explosives to confuse them, and the explosives were powerful enough to kill them.
After some discussion, we decided that we would go down when the black dragon woke up tomorrow morning.
The old professor said that there should be another space under the lake in the lake, and there must be other dangerous things in that space, but he didn't know the exact degree of danger.
The old professor only occasionally heard a strange noise coming from under the mysterious lake, like the roar of a wild beast, and the sound of a human scream.
In short, when he heard that voice, he couldn't help but tremble, and even sometimes it scared those eight-legged lizards.
After a few of us had finished discussing, we dispersed.
I lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, and the old professor's words flashed in my mind, if those eight-legged lizards were really guarding something, then this trip must be dangerous for us.
After all, this swamp is an unsolved mystery, and the white bones at the bottom of the swamp, coupled with the eight-legged lizard in the lake, are becoming more and more interesting.
The moment I opened my eyes the next day, the black dragon was already standing at the head of my bed, staring straight at me.
"What are you doing here?"
Subconsciously I got nervous, could it be that this black dragon was possessed by some powerful ghost?
"It was my fault last time, and from now on, I will listen to you wherever you say you go and when you act."
The black dragon suddenly seemed to be a different person, which made me a little uncomfortable.
Is this still the arrogant and indifferent black dragon I knew?
"Are you in trouble?" I looked at the black dragon and asked, this guy usually doesn't even bother to look at me, but this time he actually took the initiative to show favor.
"Nope." The black dragon said lightly, "When I woke up last night, I figured out something. ”
Looking at his appearance, I wondered even more, what the hell is going on?
"What have you figured out?" I said suspiciously.
"I figured it out." The black dragon looked up at the roof and muttered, "You are more experienced than me in this area, and for our safety, we should listen to you!" ”
"Uh-huh."
Black Dragon's realization surprised me a little, is he completely convinced?
"Okay, how are you feeling now? If we can act, let's eat something and go down again! ”
I stretched and got out of bed, and looked at my watch to see that it was nine o'clock.
The black dragon nodded, turned around and walked out.
When everything was ready, we were back on the swamp again.
The environment has changed, albeit only after one night.
There was a large crater in the place where I was on a business trip, and the smell of corpses on the whole swamp was particularly obvious.
"It's like there's a thousand corpses thrown inside."
Xu Jinxiu frowned, it was the first time she had smelled such a thick wet smell.
"Hurry up and get ready, we'll go down later."
I found a relatively hard place, fixed the anchor point there, and after everything was cleaned up, let a few members of the Heiling team stay on it, after all, they are all wounded now, and it will add chaos when they go down.
"Let's go!"
After taking some anti-miasma pills, one person swam directly into the place where he had been before.
The black dragon and I dived one after the other, and the others followed, and it didn't take long for us to find the lake within the lake, but because of the collapse above, the lake within the lake had been flooded in a large area, and only a barely accessible passage remained.
Luckily, the eight-legged lizards weren't waiting for us when we entered.
By the time we all went ashore, Liu Bao had already had the explosives in his hands.
"Brother Chen, you can watch me this time, I'll blow them up as soon as those beasts come out."
As soon as Liu Bao finished speaking, an eight-lizard jumped down from the cliff above.
Its speed was so fast that Liu Bao didn't even see where it jumped from.
Liu Bao was so frightened that he threw away all the bombs in his hand.
A few of us hurriedly ducked behind the nearby stone wall, only to see the eight-legged lizard land not far from us.
"Where's your explosives?"
I glanced at Liu Bao who was hiding behind me, he was still talking big just now, and at this moment, his legs were trembling a little.
"Otherwise, Brother Chen, you should go." Liu Bao said tremblingly.