It is strange that the fire I set was put out by someone with water, but when I escaped from this place, there was no second person here, and who put out the fire?

I was wondering in my heart, but I heard a soldier on the other side of the cave shouting, "Lord Huang, there is a dark hole here." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The soldier stood behind the last iron cage, and his voice was suppressed as he spoke, but when it echoed through the cave, it became loud again. I was taken aback, and hurriedly ran over with Su Qingyao.

Running over the iron cage to the soldier, I followed the direction of his finger, and saw a wooden door on the stone wall of the cave, and this wooden door was scattered with large and small gravel on the left and right, and the wooden door was half-closed, and it was pitch black inside.

I took the torch from the soldier's hand and probed it into the wooden door, only to see the fire on the torch "whirring" and swaying suddenly.

Behind him, Huang Zhutou whispered: "There is wind in this dark hole, you can go outside!"

I nodded, and the fact that wind was blowing in the dark cave meant that the cave was not the entrance to the Death Cave. I stretched out my hand and pushed the wooden door, and the wooden door squeaked to one side, and as soon as I pushed the wooden door open, a fishy cold wind blew out of the door. I frowned, held my breath, and took a cautious step forward, handing the torch in my hand to illuminate the scene behind the door.

Behind the wooden door was another cave, but this hole was not as big as the one outside, and could only accommodate seven or eight people, but it was nothing, and to my surprise, there were two half-man-high passages on the walls of this cave.

These two passages were very different from the one we had just walked through, they were mud holes, so small that one had to bend down to enter them, and the walls in these two passages were smooth and round, not like they had been dug out, like a hole drilled by a huge snake. And on the edge of the passage on the left, I saw a patch of green slime. It's the mucus on the worm.

My heart tightened, and it seemed that there were indeed worms that had burrowed into these two passages. I just don't know where these two passages lead, if they lead to a corner of Chenzhou City, I'm afraid it's too late for us to chase them over. But if it doesn't lead to Chenzhou City, or there is still a bigger hole at the other end of this passage, maybe there are snakeflies in that cave as well.

The two openings, one on the left and one on the right, resemble two large nostrils. I looked into one of the passages, where the dirt was dripping from the top and the whole passage looked damp at first glance.

At this time, Su Qingyao handed out the torch, probed into another passage, and said with a frown: "This is a wormhole dug by the worms. ”

Huang Zhutou said: "If it is a wormhole, where do these wormholes lead?"

As soon as he said this, we all fell silent. I saw that the military attaché's face was ugly, and there was a faint desire to leave this place, and several soldiers around him also had timidity on their faces. In fact, not only them, but even me, I was a little timid in my heart, even though I had met with the worm many times, but now looking at these two dark passages, my heart was still uneasy.

I didn't feel scared when I was fighting the worms, even if I was very close to them, but now when I look at these two dark holes, I am still afraid.

Fear may be more terrifying than what the eye sees, right?

Su Qingyao shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, now I can only go in and take a look, and find the worm that escaped as soon as possible, if there are any worms left in it, we can also kill it in time." ”

I couldn't help but pout, he said it very lightly, it was so easy to kill a worm. Besides, in this narrow passage, if there are really worms rushing in the middle of the way, even I am afraid it will be difficult for me to deal with it. Probably these officers and soldiers thought the same as me, so they would show an ugly face, and the people in their army were well aware of the danger of being attacked in the middle of the road, and if there were really dragonflies appearing, such a small passage would be quite difficult to retreat.

At this time, the military attache said: "These two passages are very strange, and we don't know where they lead, if we rush in, in case of a surprise attack by snakes, I'm afraid that we won't be able to deal with it." According to what the lower officials see, it is better to report this matter to Lord Lu first, and let the adults decide the matter. ”

Su Qingyao shook his head and smiled, and said, "When you report this matter to Lord Lu, I'm afraid that the worm has already made a fuss in the city." ”

I nodded secretly, the worm is extremely poisonous, and the people who are bitten and killed by it will become worms in a short time, and if you delay a little longer, I am afraid that more and more people will become worms. The military attache must have known this.

As soon as I thought of this, I saw this military attache turn his head to look at me and said with a smile: "Gu Darttou, what do you think?"

He suddenly looked at me, and I couldn't react a little, and I didn't know what to say for a while. This kind of thing is really not something I can decide, speaking of which I am just a dart, maybe Su Qingyao can, but I am afraid that I don't have the capital to speak.

I hesitated a little, pondered for a moment, and said, "Actually, I agree with Senior Su's opinion. ”

The military attache paused, looked at Huang Zhutou, and Huang Zhutou said: "That's the case, without further ado, I will divide the troops into two ways and go to this fellow Dao to investigate." ”

The military attache didn't say anything after all, although he was a military attache in the army, but after all, his official position was not high, and he was still in the city of Chenzhou or the people in the state government, so he naturally wanted to listen to Huang Zhutou. It's just that I wondered why he didn't ask Huang Zhutou directly, but asked for my opinion first.

At this time, there is no delay, Huang Zhutou did not hesitate to finish speaking, and immediately divided the soldiers into two teams, with Huang Zhutou and Su Qingyao leading a team of people to enter from the passage on the left, while the military attache and I led people to investigate from the passage on the right.

As soon as I entered the passage, I felt like I was walking into a puddle of mud, and before I had taken two steps, my feet were covered with slimy mud. I walked in front with a torch, and when I looked back, I could only see the military attaché, but I could not see the person behind the military attaché. The passage was so small that people had to hunch over and walk forward, and their bodies were almost rubbing against the walls of the passage. If you walk on a crawl, it won't look so crowded.

It seems that our bodies have blocked the passage, and the wind blowing from the passage has eased, but the fishy smell wafting through the passage has not diminished in the slightest.

If I hadn't known there were worms hiding here, I would have felt like I was digging a hole in the ground. We have already made a deal with the Yellow Catcher, and if we don't find any worms after two hours, we will go back the way we came and meet in the burrow.

I hope I don't really run into a worm.

As he was walking, the military attache behind him whispered, "Gu Darttou, is that worm really powerful?"

Thinking that when this military attache followed Lu Jingzhao to the state office, he saw the worm that the prisoner had turned into at the gate of the state office, and I said: "The power of the worm is very great, and it is difficult for one person to compete with it. What's your name?"

The military attache said: "Gu Darttou, in Xia Feng Dingsheng, is an overlord under General Shi. ”

I said, "Ticks are not trivial, not to mention powerful, if a person bites them, they will become worms." ”

Speaking of which, at first I thought that I would become a worm only if I was bitten by a worm, but when Su Qingyao told me that being bitten by a worm would also become a worm, I didn't believe it until I rushed into the prison to save people and saw the prisoner turn into a worm alive in front of me, I knew that being injured by a worm would also turn into a worm.

Feng Dingsheng didn't say anything more, I didn't say anything more, our group walked slowly and wordlessly, and only the footsteps and wheezing of us could be heard in the passage.

The passage did not point forward, but zigzagged like a hole dug by a cricket. And the further we walked, the more I felt my breathing dull and the faint air warmed.

At this time, we have come a long way in the same way, and we really don't know how this passage was dug up. I'm somehow worried that this passage will suddenly collapse, this place is deep underground, and if that's the case, then we're really going to be buried alive.

"Tsk~~~"

As the cat was walking on his waist, suddenly, a faint insect cry came from far away from the depths of the passage.

I was taken aback, and quickly stopped, Feng Dingsheng and the others also stopped behind me, Feng Dingsheng said, "Gu Darttou, what's wrong?"

I listened intently for a moment, but at this time I couldn't hear the sound of the worm, I frowned, and said, "Didn't General Feng hear the cry of the worm?"

Feng Dingsheng exclaimed softly: "Worm?!"

I nodded, and said, "Now that voice is gone again, let's go, I think the exit of this passage is very close to us." ”

I didn't wait for Feng Dingsheng to say anything, and immediately sped up a few steps and walked forward. My back was already sore after walking in the passage for so long, and I really didn't want to be in this passage anymore if the exit was not far from us.

After we had walked some distance, a fork in the road suddenly appeared in front of us, separating the passage we were in left and right, revealing two passages.

I was a little stunned, looking at the two passages in front of me and making a difficult choice for a while. I walked to the passage on the left and squatted down at the fork, Feng Dingsheng walked to the passage on the right and squatted down, and said, "Gu Darttou, there are two forks, should we go to that passage?"

I never expected the appearance of two passages, I don't know if there was also a fork in the side of Huang Zhutou, at this time the air in the passage became more and more dull, coupled with the smell of smoke emitted when the torch burned, I was also a little impatient.

Calculating the time, we have been walking in the passage for about half an hour, I looked at the passage on the left, and said, "General Feng, you take people to the passage on the right to pursue, and I will start from the passage on the left." In half an hour, whether you and I find out the whereabouts of the worm, how about we return here?"

It took us more than half an hour to get here, and half an hour to divide into two ways again, and if we still didn't find the whereabouts of the worm by then, it took us exactly two hours to return the same way, which also coincided with the time when the two hours met in the cave that Huang Zhutou said earlier.

Feng Dingsheng hesitated a little and said, "Gu Darttou, I'm afraid you ...... alone."

I said, "Don't worry, I've fought with that worm, and I still have the ability to protect myself." ”

Feng Dingsheng was still a little hesitant, and thought for a while before saying, "That's the only way, then we'll see you in half an hour." ”

After he finished speaking, he was about to drill into the passage on the right, but he didn't take two steps and turned around, handed over a big knife, and said with a smile: "Gu Darttou, you be careful." ”

After saying that, he led the people to the right lane without looking back, and when all the dozen or so of them walked into the right passage, I turned around and walked towards the left passage.

Not long after walking along this passage, I turned around and looked, Feng Dingsheng and their voices could no longer be heard in the empty passage, and in the passage at this time, except for a bright place in front of me, both ends of the passage were pitch black. I shuddered, gritted my teeth, and walked on.

In fact, if I encounter a worm in the passage, it will be easier for me to deal with it alone, and if I really fight, Feng Dingsheng and them will not be able to help me if they follow me. They all have spears in their hands, and if they want to fight with the worms in their fellow ways, they must also have some of their own formation routines, and if you think about it, it's better for me to separate from the people in their army, so that they can do their best and it will be easier to deal with the worms, right?

I continued to walk forward with the torch, the fire on the torch was already burning most of it, and the fire was swinging backwards, making a "whoosh" sound. Listening to the sound of the torches, I felt a little more settled, at least I wouldn't be so lonely.

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I still wouldn't have believed that there would be such a strange insect in the Western Regions, but I'm afraid that I still think that witchcraft is just raising some small insects that specialize in harming people. What I didn't expect was that Cheng Fuhai already knew about the appearance of worms in Chenzhou City, which surprised me, but also filled my heart with curiosity about him, and I could only use "unfathomable" to describe Cheng Fuhai in my heart. Now that I think about it, Cheng Fuhai deliberately asked Su Qingyao to say that Meng Hanyan was in the Death Swamp in the Western Regions, I'm afraid he just wanted me to go to the Death Swamp, right?

But I don't understand, since Cheng Fuhai wanted me to go to the Land of Death, why didn't he tell me clearly, but instead sent a Su Qingyao to inform me? And why did Cheng Fuhai let me go to the Death Swamp instead of anyone else?

It's also possible that Cheng Fuhai didn't mean anything else, just told me the whereabouts of Meng Hanyan.

Dream of cold smoke.

I couldn't help but smile wryly, maybe it was really my wishful thinking.

Just as I was thinking wildly, suddenly, there was a fishy smell from the depths of the dark passage. I came back to my senses, paused, and stopped where I was.

The torch in my hand didn't shine very well, and I couldn't see what was in the darkness ahead, but the smell of shame was familiar to me. When I was trapped in a black hole underground, the seven worms in the iron cage smelled like this. The prisoner and the master of the darts emitted a very strong rancid smell when they turned into worms, and the seven worms in the iron cage emitted a very strong smell of rancidity.

And the smell of this fishy smell is getting stronger and stronger.

It was dark in the depths of the passage, and I couldn't make out what was there, but my gut told me that something was slowly approaching me in the passage ahead. I handed the torch to my left hand, held the knife in my right hand, lowered my body, and slowly held my breath.

After waiting for a few breaths, suddenly, a very soft voice came from the passage ahead.

"Poof"

My heart jumped, and I gripped the hilt of my sword tightly, my eyes fixed on the front.

But I heard two more "poofs", and then the sound seemed to disappear and no longer sounded.

I waited in place for a long time, and when I was sure that the voice did not sound again, my heart was slightly relieved, and I slowly took a breath of breath, and my heart was just a false alarm.

Suddenly, just as I was relaxing, a hairy head slowly poked out of the darkness of the passage.

(To be continued.) )