Chapter 120 Demon Cave
As soon as the sailors shouted and shouted, the two demon bodies carrying the trunk of the tree shook the trunk with a roar, picked up the net and threw it against the wall of the cave on the side, and we were dizzy and broken. I felt numb, I didn't feel any pain, and I lost consciousness for a while.
It didn't take long for me to feel a light coming through from not far away. The light was mottled and trance-like, and I wanted to open my eyes wide to take a closer look, but I found that my eyes had been opened to the fullest, but I still couldn't see very clearly.
Gradually, the sound of running water was heard from a place where the light was shining. The sound of the water was different from the sound of "ding dong" and "bang" heard along the way, but like a huge current rushing, rumbling and shaking the earth.
As the light grew stronger and the sound of the water grew louder and louder, an exit appeared in front of it, blocked by a wall of water, a huge waterfall that poured down from the top of the cave and crashed against the rocks below the cave with a deafening sound. The light from outside the cave shines into the cave through the water wall, and the light and shadow are messy, illusory, and colorful.
The monsters didn't stop and walked straight into the wall of water.
Walking to the middle of the waterfall, I found that there was a river outside the cave, and the water that washed down from the waterfall fell on the rocks and flowed into the river with a bang.
There is a slab bridge on the river that is two zhang wide and five or six zhang long, which is erected at the mouth of the cave and on the bank outside the cave. It was this bridge that the monsters walked.
Walking on the bridge, the huge current rushed down and hit the body, hurting like a whip. He Xuanya and the sailors were startled by the water, woke up from their coma, and were so excited by the current that they screamed.
We were carried out of the waterfall, up the riverbank, and outside the cave.
I looked around, and the place I went to was a circular sinkhole, the bottom of the sinkhole was hundreds of meters wide, extremely smooth, surrounded by dozens of zhang high smooth cliffs, impermeable, above the cliffs, but surrounded by peaks.
A red sun hung obliquely in the sky, and most of the bottom of the sinkhole was covered in shadows, except for a crescent-shaped ray of sunlight. At this time, I couldn't tell the difference between the east and the west, and I didn't know if it was morning or dusk.
Looking ahead, facing the entrance of the cave where we came, the distant rock wall was densely packed with caves of various sizes, and the cave was divided into many layers, each of which was connected by a staircase carved into the rock wall. At the bottom, near the ground, there is a black hole several times larger than the other caves, right in the middle of the cave complex.
When I reached the center of the sinkhole, I looked back and saw three waterfalls hanging on the cliff wall, the middle one was the widest, but the shortest, the water flowed down from the valley between the two peaks at the top of the cliff, and there should be a wide mountain river on the top, and behind that waterfall was the entrance to the cave where we came out. On the left and right sides is a long, thin waterfall, like two long ribbons, flowing from the stone crevices halfway up the two symmetrical peaks above the cliff face.
The Demons made their way through the sinkhole, leading the three of us into the largest cavern on the surface.
As soon as I entered the cave, I heard a strange sound inside, very noisy, as if there were many living creatures living in it, but except for an area at the entrance of the cave, the depths of the cave were dim, and I couldn't see anything clearly.
Except for the two monsters carrying the trunk of the hanging net, the rest of the demon immersion bodies scattered and disappeared into the darkness. The three of us were led into a tunnel that led underground.
At the end of the tunnel was a dungeon-like place, dark and damp, with no light in sight.
Through the faint light leaking through the dark passage, I saw several large cages inside, all of which were more than a man high, some were four or five meters wide, and some were two or three meters wide, all of which were scattered on the ground crookedly.
The monsters opened the door of a cage and threw us into the net, then hurriedly closed the door and locked it. Then he pulled the trunk out and threw it aside.
The two monsters wandered around, looked into the cage next to them, and grunted into the dark passage, and walked towards it.
In the dark, He Xuanya said, "Are you two okay?"
I said, "It's okay, I just can't move." β
The sailor said, "Are you under me?"
He Xuanya said: "Then don't move yet, wait for me to untie the mouth of the net, this should be the rope that binds the mouth." β
As the net attached to us tightened a few times, there was a bang, and all the net pockets were loosened, and the sailor fell off me.
"Alright! He Xuanya shouted with a little excitement.
The three of us crawled out of the net, and I felt that my legs were numb and painful, and I couldn't stand up at all, so I had to crawl to the edge of the cage and sit against the wooden fence.
The sailors and Kazuga also climbed over, and I sat side by side.
"It seems to be a couple of children. β
"These brutes who have lost their conscience are even children. β
"It's pitiful to suffer this sin at such a young age. β
Faintly, from the cage a few meters away from us, there was a slight sound of talking.
The sailor said, "There seems to be someone in the cage over there." β
I shouted in the direction in which I spoke, "Excuse me, were you also captured by monsters?"
A nervous, deliberately suppressed voice came from the cage over there: "Child, be quiet. Those monsters are unreasonable, and when they hear some movement below, they are going to come down and beat people. β
He Xuanya said: "We are not afraid, let them fight, I just want to clean them up one by one." β
The cage over there said, "Heyββ, this girl is probably frightened and mentally abnormal." Iniquity, iniquity. β
The sailors and I laughed. As soon as the sailor grinned, he took a breath of pain and quickly put away his smile. When I looked at it, there was a long hole in his face, and when I looked at his body, there were wounds everywhere, and there were several places, and his flesh and bones were exposed, pus and blood were everywhere, and his clothes were all soaked with blood.
Looking at He Xuanya and myself, it's the same. I suddenly felt pain all over my body, but I gritted my teeth tightly and silently endured without making a sound.
Someone in the cage next to him asked softly: "Babies, are you also from Shangjiazhuang? Whose family are you? How many of you are there?" β
Before I could open my mouth, He Xuanya replied: "There are three of us in total, and we are not from Shangjiazhuang, but we passed by Shangjiazhuang last night and happened to encounter a monster, so we were arrested here." It's been a few days since you were captured, and the monsters didn't do anything to you, did they?"
"We don't know how many days we've been, we've been in this dungeon since we were brought here, and we don't know day or night." Anyway, we fell asleep three times, and they delivered six or seven meals, so that's about three days. β
In the darkness, although they were only a few meters apart, I couldn't see how many people were in the cage, so I asked, "How many people are there over there?"
The cage over there said, "Seven." β
I asked curiously, "So, the monsters have caught seven people in your farm in a month?"
The cage over there said, "You don't know, before we were arrested, one or two hundred people in the village had already been taken away. β
I asked, "What about those people?"
The cage over there said, "We also wonder, we are locked up here, and we have not seen any living people except for you three babies." I don't know what happened to the people who were taken away before, and where they were held. β
As he was talking, there was a snorting sound from the dark passage, and then three or four demon immersion bodies walked down from the dark passage.
The monsters walked to the cage where the seven Shangjiazhuang people were kept, unlocked it, opened the cage door, put their big hands into the cage, and grabbed the people inside one by one like catching chickens.
Then, each monster had two people under their armpits on each side and walked towards the dark passage.
Not long after, there was movement in the dark passage again, and this time, it was not the demon immersion body that came out, but seven or eight middle-aged people.
The group walked straight to the cage where we were kept. Outside the cage stood in a semicircle.
One of them stepped forward and said, "A few distinguished guests, our lord has an invite. Ask a few of you to go up and talk about it. β
As he spoke, he opened the cage.
The three of us struggled to get to our feet holding on to the frame of the cage.
The two men in the back were about to come up and lock us up with chains.
He Xuanya said: "Since we are distinguished guests, why do we still need to be shackled." What kind of lord of yours is that hospitable?"
The leader waved his hand back, and the two men in handcuffs immediately stepped back, standing in the middle of the semicircle.
As she walked out of the cage, He Xuanya asked, "Who are you, and how are you mixed up with those demons?"
The leader didn't say anything, turned and walked towards the dark passage.
The three of us got out of the cage in turn, followed behind, and the rest of us lined up in two rows, one on each side, sandwiched us between them, and walked towards the dark passage together.
When I came out of the dark passage and walked out of the big cave, it was already dark. Outside, a large bonfire is being lit in the Tiankeng Square, which is burning brightly, and the flames are dozens of meters high.
Hundreds of demonic bodies cheered in the square, and strange cries came out of their mouths, like shouting slogans, like random shouts of excitement.
We were led up the stairs carved into the cliff face, and after two turns, we came to a doorway directly above the large cavern below.
Entering the cave door, there is a cave the size of three or four rooms, and the four corners of the cave are lit with four huge torch basins, which illuminate the whole cave brightly.
There was a small amount of furniture in the chamber, but it was richly decorated and glittered with gold.
An old man of seventy or eighty years old sat on a chair in the center of the main hall of the cave, wearing a black and white robe, his face was not square or round, but it was large at the top and small at the bottom, in a triangular shape, and the beard on his chin was like a pennant with tassels.
Seeing us enter, the old man with the pennant stood up and said with a smile: "I heard that three wonderful young men and women have come today, and one of them will also use the demon removal seal made by the Xi Mu of the Wa royal family. Looking at the appearance of the three, it is really extraordinary. β
He Xuanya asked, "Who are you?"
The pennant burst out laughing. He stroked his beard and said, "Don't ask me who I am yet." What are you here for?"
He Xuanya sneered and said, "This should be what we want to ask you, what are you bringing the three of us here for?"
The pennant said, "Why are you following my demon warrior?"
He Xuanya said: "They are a scourge to the world, and we must eliminate the harm for the world." β
The pennant laughed again and said: "For the sake of eliminating harm in the world, you are too self-conscious, just rely on your three little dolls, and you still want to turn the sky upside down." β
He Xuanya said, "What do you want to do with these demon obstacles?"
The pennant did not answer, but said: "This world is about to change dramatically, you three might as well follow me, I promise that you will become heroes in the world in the future." β
He Xuanya said: "You are delusional. It turns out that you are raising these demonic obstacles because you want to bring disaster to the world. I advise you to stop from the precipice as soon as possible, and not to become a sinner through the ages, otherwise you will become a clown who will be reviled by all eternity. Also, quickly release all the people you arrested from Shangjiazhuang. β
The pennant said, "Even if I release them now, do you dare to let them return to the Wa royal family?"
He Xuanya said, "What did you do to them?"
The pennant burst out laughing.
He walked to the wall of the cavern with a curtain, reached out and pulled it open, and a round window appeared in the wall, facing the bonfire in the middle of the square.