Volume 1: The Mystery of Dunhuang Chapter 40 The Blazing Cave
Fat Wu's eyesight is not very good, so at such a distance, he only sees a point of light.
After getting closer, Fat Wu could see the magnificent dragon head of the mountain peak clearly, and he couldn't help but feel excited.
When I reached a distance of 100 meters, I could already see the door clearly.
It was not so much a door as a hole, a cave that looked like a natural formation, uneven, not like it had been carved out of artificial rock.
The entrance to the cave was exceptionally bright, with red and yellow light flickering in it, and the boiling heat gushing out of the hole, making us feel the warmth of the oncoming face even though we were a hundred meters away.
From falling into the biting lake to the present, my body and Wu Fatzi have been in a state of low temperature, and if it continues like this, it is likely to directly endanger our lives.
So this warm current is really too timely, and for the two of us, it is undoubtedly a relief in the snow.
"Dongzi, can you go?"
Fat Man Wu turned his head to look, after so many thrills along the way, Fat Man Wu also changed his recklessness in the past and knew how to act cautiously.
After I nodded, Wu Fatzi couldn't wait to run towards the mouth of the hole where the heat was gushing.
"Dongzi, this cave entrance is too comfortable, too warm, you hurry up!"
In a short time the fat man was already approaching the entrance of the cave, but he did not go in, but stood at the door and waved and shouted at me, obviously waiting for me to go over and enter again.
I had been observing the situation of Wu Fatzi all the way, and when I saw that nothing had happened, I was relieved.
"It's coming!"
I said yes and walked towards the hole.
I walked very fast, because now I was really cold, and my whole body began to shiver, and I also wanted to feel the warmth as soon as possible.
Suddenly.
When I was less than ten meters from the hole, I stopped abruptly, my brow furrowed, and a cold sweat immediately ran down my forehead.
I suddenly had a strange feeling, I was so close to the entrance of the cave, all I felt in my body was the warm wind coming from the front, but just now, there was a piercing chill on the back of my neck, as if there was a ghost blowing at me behind me.
If it were just that, I might think it was my body's instinctive reaction to cool off, but there was also a strange sensation that filled my sensory nerves.
At that moment, I felt like there was a pair of eyes staring at me right behind me, and it was so intense that it didn't look like I was thinking about it.
I clenched the short knife that Fat Wu gave me before, gritted my teeth and suddenly turned behind me.
However, when I turned around, there was nothing in front of me, and the feeling of being stared at disappeared, and the huge space in front of me was as silent as death.
"Dongzi, what's the matter...... What's wrong? ”
Seeing that I turned around suddenly, Wang Fatzi hurriedly asked eagerly.
"It's okay, maybe I'm too nervous."
I replied, and then stood there for a few moments before moving again towards the entrance of the cave.
Am I really too nervous?
No, because the feeling of being stared at is really too real, and it is by no means an illusion that occurs due to mental stress.
When I came to the hole in the mouth of the huge stone dragon, the coolness of my whole body was almost swept away.
If it was cold and biting just now, now it's warm and pleasant.
I didn't rush in, but stood at the entrance of the cave and looked in, and I found that the hole in front of me seemed to stretch so long that there was no end in sight, and it was still on a slope upward course.
If this is a passage that leads to another place, it should be possible to go back to the previous level.
Only when you get there can you meet the three of them.
I asked for my opinion again, and after I nodded in agreement, Wu Fatzi couldn't wait to step into the hole.
I followed, striding towards the entrance of the cave.
But at the moment when my foot just stepped into the hole, the feeling of being stared at just now appeared again, and it was even stronger than before.
Once again, I turned around alertly with the dagger in my hand, but I still didn't see anything.
Everything was so silent, and the cold surface of the lake was as calm as a mirror.
The feeling disappeared again, as if the moment I turned around, it suddenly disappeared.
"Dongzi, you're going to go!"
Fat Wu had already walked far away, and he stood there and urged me again.
I had already entered the hole, and even if I really saw the weirdness, I wouldn't face it directly, so I didn't hesitate too much, and hurriedly turned around and followed quickly.
What I didn't know was that shortly after I turned to leave, a small rockfall rolled down from outside the hole, and on the dragon-shaped boulder there was a huge black shadow, staring faintly at the place below.
Walking in the naturally formed passage, Wu Fat Man was still running all the way in front of him, but as time went by, Wu Fat Man gradually slowed down, and finally even walked a little hard.
Not only Wu Fatzi, but I also felt strained without any fat on my body, not to mention Wu Fatzi's two-hundred-pound body.
There are two reasons why it has slowed down.
One point is that this passage is an uphill section from the beginning, and it is getting steeper and steeper, and now the slope in front of us has reached 30 degrees, and walking on such a section is like climbing a mountain.
The second point is that the temperature in this channel, why didn't I feel anything at first, but the higher it went, the higher the temperature around me, and the water in the body was also evaporating rapidly.
At this moment, Wu Fatzi and I were tired and thirsty, and even had an impulse to simply run back along the passage, run to the space before, and plunge into the lake water one by one.
Wu Fatzi couldn't walk at all, but he just stood with his hands supported on his knees.
The reason for this is because the whole passage is piping hot, and if you sit down, I'm afraid your ass will have to be burned off a layer of skin.
The shoes we wear are specially prepared before coming to the Gobi Desert, which is specially designed to cope with the extreme weather of the Gobi Desert and has the effect of heat and cold resistance.
So under such high temperatures, we can barely stand, but this is just a matter of time for us, once our body is seriously dehydrated and we can't even stand steadily, there are 100 pairs of these shoes to use as mattresses for us, it is all in vain.
"Dongzi, I can't do it anymore, I'm tired and thirsty, and my throat is dry and smoking!"
"Fatty, hold on, when you get out of here, you'll have water to drink!"
I cheered up Fat Wu and told him not to give up.
This is probably the only thing I can do at the moment, because even I don't know if I'll ever make it out of this passage alive.
"I can't do it anymore, I want to sit down and rest for a while......"
Fat Wu really couldn't support his fat body anymore, and his body fell towards the hot ground as soon as his body was crooked.
Seeing this, I hurriedly rushed to him and held him steady, which failed to make Wu Fatzi take off his skin because of this.
I have a lot of strength, and I'm covered in tendon meat that I have cultivated by digging graves alone.
But now the tendons and flesh of this body are no longer working, I support Wu Fatzi's dead body, and my legs are beginning to become more and more weak.
I don't know how long I'll be able to hold out, maybe in a minute I'll be completely crushed.
At that time, Wu Fatzi and I will stay here forever and be baked into two people.
Just when I was desperate to survive, I suddenly heard a noisy sound in my ears, which sounded like the voice of a human being!