I swallowed my saliva, couldn't help but feel a little timid, and leaned closer to Liu Ruxiang: "This can't be the cave of the mandrill, right?" ”

Liu Ruxiang bent down and slowly walked towards the entrance of the cave, looked down, and pointed to a mark with his finger, which seemed to have been dragged by something on the ground, bringing all the damp soil to the cave.

"Most of this cave is a mandrill cave, I'll go in first, you follow behind." After that, Liu Ruxiang handed me the short sword for self-defense, and he used it with a bamboo master's whip.

The entrance to the cave is quite large, and Liu Ruxiang had to bend down when I first entered, but I only had to lower my head slightly to get in.

The cooker walked in front with a flashlight, her voice was very low, and she asked herself in wonder: "Most of the caves in the mountains are naturally formed, and the internal structure is mostly stone. Why is this hole full of mud, it seems to have been dug by people. ”

I had a faint answer in my heart, and replied to her: "Maybe it was dug by mandrills?" After all, Meng Lao Er went up the mountain to steal the little mandrill in the old cave before, and it is estimated that he moved the nest because of this. ”

Liu Ruxiang agreed with my statement, continued to grope into the cave, and then heard a familiar cry for help.

"Help! Help—"

I immediately put my ear against the wall, and the sound felt clearer, and the timbre was a little dull and rough, which was clearly the voice of Meng Laoer.

Liu Ruxiang and I glanced at each other, frowned, and suddenly stopped: "This voice is from Meng Laoer, what is the one we saw in the camp just now?" ”

Liu Ruxiang's words woke me up, I was stunned, thinking of the mandrill's ability to change its face and body, and cold sweat broke out on my back.

Could it be that the one just now was fake?

After hesitating for a while, Liu Ruxiang made a decision: go in and have a look.

"Even if it's fake, it's just a mandrill, I'm still afraid that he won't make it?"

The high-spirited appearance of the rice cooker was full of confidence, and I also recalled that Li Laodan, who had just carried a mandrill on his back and disguised himself, was defeated by one of his moves, and knocked that thing away in a few clicks.

Even if you meet two this time, it is estimated that you have a good chance of winning.

We turned on the flashlight and continued to walk inside, and soon the cave began to expand, and as the glow of the flashlight shone in, we saw that there was a low cave the size of a threshing floor.

We saw Meng Lao Er clearly, his hands and feet were all tied with hemp rope, lying in a puddle of water, calling for help while crying out to us.

"Master, help, little master, help me!"

This voice is almost exactly the same as the voice of Meng Lao Er that I heard before, and it really doesn't look like a mandrill.

Liu Ruxiang didn't dare to move, slowly took out a piece of yellow rune paper from her pocket, turned her head and said to me: "This rune paper is called a tranquilizing talisman, which has the effect of calming the mind and calming the mind. When using, stick glutinous rice milk to the position of the central acupoint, and pinch the top of the head with your fingertips, if you are an ordinary person, you will feel inner peace. If you are sneaked up by an evil god and make trouble, your limbs will twitch. ”

It seems that the rice cooker wants to use this rune paper to identify whether the Meng Lao Er in front of her is a normal real person, if it is pretended to be a mandrill, she will immediately reveal the filling.

Liu Ruxiang prepared the talisman paper from a distance, held the bamboo whip in the other hand, and walked over slowly.

Meng Lao Er was also calm at this time, looking at the two of us in a daze, with a wry smile on his lips: "As soon as I walked down the mountain, I heard my wife calling my name behind me. As soon as I turned around, I saw a short old man with bared teeth, who jumped up and jumped on me and grabbed me by the neck. After that, his eyes went black and he fainted. ”

Liu Ruxiang nodded and told him not to move, only bent down and stretched out his hand, pressed the talisman paper on top of his person, and then gently pinched the Baihui acupoint on the top of his head with his fingertips.

I also held my breath at this time, standing next to me with a flashlight in my hand and shining the light, staring at Meng Laoer's body, for fear that he would become a monster with teeth and claws in the next second.

Fortunately, there was no change, the corners of Meng Laoer's mouth twitched, and he frowned and said:

"You think about it too much, I'm just a normal person, what kind of monster is it, even if the problem is found, it is also the bad of the mandrill."

Liu Ruxiang was no longer worried when she saw the result, and asked me to cut off the rope that was tied to him.

The mandrill attacked him twice, but it didn't hurt him too much, which was very lucky, otherwise the combined injury pill that he had eaten earlier would not have saved his life.

After Meng Lao Er rested for a while, Liu Ruxiang said in a deep voice: "Looking at your current situation, if you let you go down the mountain, I am afraid that you will be attacked by mandrills, what are your plans, stay here to rest or go with us to find your wife?" ”

"It's definitely with you." Meng Lao Er was resolute.

With that, the three of us continued to walk deeper into the cave.

……

In the middle of the mountain, in a dark and cramped road, at the end is a stone wall carved with various patterns, and in the middle of the wall there seems to be a faint thin line, which is not found if you don't look closely, which is actually made of two stone doors spliced together.

The wall is strange, there are no locks on the wall, there are no handrail tabs, only a small bowl of water in the corner of the wall, on which natural mountain spring water drips down and gradually flows down the hole in the sink.

And just in front of this door, on the ground with a thin layer of muddy water, lay a woman whose limbs were twitching.

It was Fang Xiaomei.

Her face was as dead as ashes, her face was bloodless, her chest was slightly heaving, her belly was much smaller than before, and through the film-like skin, she could see that there was a humanoid monster thing inside, writhing in her stomach, and her limbs looming.

Fang Xiaomei's body was numb with pain, she didn't have the strength to scream anymore, and turned into silent tears, her mouth was gently agitated, and her expression was very angry, as if she was cursing something.

This seems to have been going on for a long time, and now the movement of things in the stomach is getting louder and louder.

On the belly that was still round just now, a pair of small bulging handprints suddenly appeared, and the handprints pushed up vigorously. Fang Xiaomei was incontinent in pain, her eyes rolled white, and she finally passed out.

But the changes in the stomach did not stop, the hand prints became more and more red, and finally, several huge blood-colored cracks cracked into the entire belly. Then, just like a watermelon that was overripe and exploded by the sun, a monster covered in blood and gray-brown skin came out of Fang Xiaomei's belly, shouting, "High, high-" and then disappeared into the gloomy darkness.

……

We walked into the cave and felt very shady, but there was no wind, and when we got inside, we could feel the heavy humidity around us. The rock wall above the head drips water from time to time, and there are various gray-white stalactites, which are washed by the water droplets and are exceptionally smooth.

Liu Ruxiang took the lead in the front, and I was at the end, I was very curious if I hadn't seen these things, and I reached out to touch them from time to time.

As soon as I looked around, the speed slowed down, Liu Ruxiang urged in front, and I quickly followed the footsteps.

The cave has nine twists and eighteen bends, perhaps it is also connected to some underground rivers, and there are a lot of dead branches and rotten leaves and other garbage floating at the water's edge.

Until Liu Ruxiang's pace stopped, the three of us all stood in front of a dark and bottomless earth cave.

Liu Ruxiang shone a flashlight inside, only to find that it was a cave that was diagonally downward, and there was a rope tied to the side.

"The direction of the small shoe spell is pointing here, and Fang Xiaomei is probably inside."