Chapter Seventy-Five: The Cave
Wu Kui fell into the pit with the giant beast, and was covered by gravel, branches, leaves, and other debris. After fainting for a while, he was awakened by the noise above, and he saw through the dead branches and leaves covering his body that he saw several people looking down from the pit.
After a while, a large iron frame was erected on the pit, on which steel cables and iron hooks were hung. Several local soldiers pulled up a few net ropes from the mouth of the pit and were trying to hang them on the iron hook. Wu Kui found that these nets were connected to a large net, which was now under him, and it turned out that he had fallen into a trap.
Wu Kui immediately took off the clothes of the Dafeng army he was wearing, hid them in the pile of sand and gravel, and only a trouser fork was left on his body. While he was hiding his clothes, he found the hairy troll that had fallen into the pit with him, and it had also woken up and was struggling to get up.
Only then did Wu Kui see that this monster was not a monster, it was a giant similar to him, and he had an apron wrapped around his waist, but this guy was covered with mixed hair, and even had fine hair on his face, like a huge monkey, taller than him.
At this time, the rope began to be pulled up to close the net, and Wu Kui felt that the large net under him wrapped him and the giant beast together, tighter and tighter, and began to lift upward.
After a while, the two of them were pulled to the top of the pit, and Wu Kui saw dozens of Tufan soldiers surrounding him, babbling something.
Wu Kui has been escorting goods to the Tufan territory all the year round, so he also knows some Tufan language. He could tell what they meant: they had caught two Bigfoot, and one was a cub, and it hadn't grown hair yet.
Wu Kui knew that they were referring to him, he was smaller than the troll next to him, and he didn't have so much hair on his body, so he looked whiter, and those Tufan soldiers thought he was a cub who hadn't grown hair yet.
He heard them saying that the little boy was useless, arguing about whether to kill him, and then a person who looked like a non-commissioned officer said that he had to keep it, and now it was getting harder and harder to catch Bigfoot, and the small ones could be filled, and they would go back to make good friends.
Finally, the two of them were hoisted onto a cart drawn by six horses. After the soldiers had secured them on the cart with ropes, they set off with a wagon.
Because the big net was tightened tightly, Wu Kui and the monster were close to each other. The monster seemed to understand that it had been ambushed and hunted by others, but it still seemed to have a grudge against Wu Kui, thinking that if it weren't for him, it wouldn't have fallen into someone else's trap.
Wu Kui whispered a few words to it, and found that this hairy monster couldn't understand human words, including Tufan dialect, and Wu Kui couldn't understand what the whining sound from its mouth meant. Still, Wu Kui managed to let it know that his name was Wu Kui.
The hairy monster rushed at Wu Kui, and made a "ghost" in his mouth, and then smiled, it patted itself with its hand, and made two sounds of "Budong", Wu Kui understood that it was called "plop", he thought it was funny, and he couldn't help laughing.
It was very bumpy along the way, Wu Kui and Pu Tong were also shaking around in the car, bumping into each other from time to time, Wu Kui's face hit Pu Tong's chest several times, he felt that there was something strange on Pu Tong's chest, he took a closer look, and saw two small balls of flesh under the long hair on its chest, and finally he figured out that Pu Tong was a mother (girl), he suddenly felt very embarrassed, and tried to twist his body to the side.
The carriage had been winding along the mountain road for four or five hours, and it was not known how far it had gone, before finally pulling them into a huge cave. The entrance of the cave is guarded by many local soldiers, and it looks like it is heavily guarded.
After asking for the password, the five soldiers at the entrance of the cave began to push a large roulette wheel, and an iron fence in the cave was slowly raised, allowing the carriage to slowly drive in, and the accompanying soldiers followed in.
The carriage dragged them further into the depths of the cave, and the further they went, the wider the hole became, and the road was flat, with a lamp every few feet away. After a few turns in the cave, the carriage pulled them into a relatively separate space, and at this time, Wu Kui noticed that the soldiers who followed them had disappeared at some point. After the car stopped, the driver of the car also got out of the car and left.
After a while, Wu Kui saw a man wearing a long robe and a square crown on his head, who looked like a monk and a Taoist approach, his face was covered with a cloth, covering his mouth and nose, and only a pair of eyes were exposed.
The man came to the carriage, lit a handful of incense-like things in his hand, and blew them out, and suddenly a thick white smoke came out. The man raised the incense in his hand and waved it as he walked around the carriage, chanting something in his mouth.
Wu Kui pricked up his ears to hear what he was reading, and suddenly felt dizzy and fainted again.
When he woke up again, he found that he had been locked in a small cave, which was obviously carved out of the cave wall, and it was said to be a small cave, but it was not small enough to accommodate three people as big as Wu Kui inside, and there was a heavy iron fence door at the entrance of the cave, and a large iron lock hung outside.
He looked up and saw a groature locked in the cave on the opposite side, and when he looked closely, he saw that it was a plop, and it was also waving its arms in the opposite direction. There were several caves next door to the plop, and it was estimated that they were all locked up with what they called Bigfoot or Bigfoot, and from time to time the roar of a giant beast could be heard from the side, echoing through the cave.
After a while, a few Tufan soldiers came over with a wheelbarrow and placed a pot of cassava at each hole, which was considered a meal. Wu Kui had no appetite to eat again after eating two, and he saw that the plop on the opposite side had eaten up all the pots full of cassava.
It didn't take long for a few more Tufan soldiers to put a large pot of green soup at the entrance of each cave, and a few small fish and shrimp were floating in it.
Wu Kui smelled something strange about the soup, as if it was made from some kind of toxin-containing herb. Wu Kui has traveled north and south since he was a child, escorted spices, herbs, silk and other commodities, dealt with various bosses, and has some understanding of spices and herbs. He smelled something wrong with the soup, so he didn't drink it, picked it up and poured it out.
He hurriedly called out to her, signaling her not to drink the soup, and he poured the soup in the basin to the ground in front of the plop, while desperately waving his hands, and grabbed his throat with his hand, making a painful appearance, indicating that the soup was poisonous.
Finally, he understood what he meant, and did not drink any more soup, but still reached out in the basin to take out the small fish and shrimp and put them in his mouth to eat, and then poured the rest of the soup on the ground.