Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Poison Nest in the Cave (Part II)
The cave is dark and cold, and I don't know how wide it is, and the bright light of more than a dozen torches can only shine more than ten zhang, and it is impossible to see the situation in the cave at all. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Although the artists are bold and enter the caves, entering an unknown environment, the closure and darkness invisibly make people uneasy and afraid. The successive shocks made everyone's nerves inevitably tense, and the pony's shocked appearance at this time was even more disturbing.
The Grimace Hall Master flickered, swept to the pony's side, glanced at it, and said in a deep voice, "Fire Ghost, Shangliangzi." ”
A lean man walked out of the crowd and gave an order. Quickly jumped high, holding a bow and crossbow of ingenious workmanship, and very quickly threw egg-sized green fireballs in all directions. After falling back to the ground, two were thrown upward, and they collided in mid-air, fluorescent and blazing, emitting a dazzling green light.
The scattered fire beads collided with the ground, and in an instant, a dazzling light bloomed, and more than a dozen dazzling green lights continued to shine, and the scene in the cave could be roughly seen clearly.
This is an irregular natural cave shaped like an oval, there are some traces of artificial digging, the most spacious place is more than 100 zhang, and the narrowest place is also 40 or 50 zhang wide.
The place where the pony and others settled happened to be on an artificially dug platform at the edge of the cave, and three or four feet further ahead was a deep pit more than three zhang deep. The cave is illuminated by fluorescence, and everyone finally understands why the pony looks so strange.
The bones of the beasts in the pit were full of fragments, and the remains of one hundred and ten poisonous lizards were incomplete and rarely complete. And the air-dried one just now happened to be at the edge of the deep pit, sticking its head out, which suddenly startled everyone.
"This is a poison lizard's den. It's hard to imagine what happened here back then, so many violent and ferocious monsters were destroyed and turned into dry bones. Murong Yuxin approached the pony's side, doubts written on her face.
Pony looked at the eerie bones in the green light and groaned, "If I'm not mistaken, their extinction was caused by cannibalism caused by hunger." ”
"Cannibalism?" asked Murong Yuxin.
"Yes, you see that although this cave is naturally generated, you can still see the traces of human repair, these poisonous lizards should have been bred by the people of Taoyuan Village a long time ago, and the bones of so many various animals in the deep pit could not have broken in by themselves. Taoyuan Village was wiped out, and these poisonous lizards had no food source, so they could only bite and eat each other when they were hungry. This bloody and cruel life-sustaining battle ended in half a year at most, in as little as ten days and half a month, and after more than ten years, only this wreckage and broken bones remained. ”
"But with so many poisonous lizards, the demand for food should be quite large, how did Zhurong's descendants do it?"
"There are many birds and beasts in Tianmu Mountain, and the Zhurong clan must have explored some unique and effective hunting methods in thousands of years of reproduction and development. Moreover, there should be passages or entrances in the cave as a means of transporting and distributing prey. ”
"So we're really entering the altar. It's just four stone walls, but I don't know where the entrance is. Moreover, there is one thing I don't understand, Taoyuan Village was destroyed twenty-three years ago, why did it survive sixteen years ago?"
"That's what I can't figure out, even if they're survivors of that survival war, how have they survived for the past six or seven years? The pony frowned, vaguely sensing that something was wrong. However, now is not the time to think about this, as the map shows that there is a stone gate connecting the opposite rock wall. The cave is surrounded by steep rock walls, and there is no way to go, and you have to reach the opposite side through a deep pit full of bones.
Pony tells everyone what he thinks, and repeatedly tells him to be careful as he travels, because the pit is full of poisonous lizard remains, and if he accidentally hurts himself, he may be afraid of his life. The master of the Grimace Hall waved his hand, said go, and had floated down, standing among the bones of the beast.
The ponies are very skilled, so they naturally follow easily, and some of them climb the cliff and slide down the cliff if they have a little skill in the Blood Monster Hall.
The smell of the bones of various animals and poisonous lizards from thousands of years in the pit is disgusting and disgusting. Feet on the ground where the white bones had accumulated, making a crisp sound, and the thick and huge bones of the poisonous lizard were all around him, as if walking through a forest of bones. At this time, the green light gradually weakened, and the cave became darker and darker, and everyone couldn't help but speed up their pace.
For a moment, the creaking sound of bones cracking in the cave was accompanied by muddy, heavy gasps.
"Wow" There was a strange sound, unusually harsh in the darkness, someone stepped on the gap between the bones and fell down, hitting the skeleton of the poisonous lizard next to him, the skeleton lost its balance and collapsed, and the sharp bone spurs passed through the skull and back, and he had time to let out a miserable cry in the future.
Blood seeped into the pile of bones, and there was a faint rustle below, as if something was crawling, and soon the sound became louder and louder, and the pony felt a slight vibration of the bones under his feet, and countless insects rushed towards the corpse like a tide, and in an instant only a pile of bones remained.
All the changes were instantaneous, and the insects attracted by the smell of blood apparently sensed the breath of the living and began to rush towards the pony and the others.
"Run. The pony exclaimed urgently, took Murong Yuxin's hand and rushed forward. Everyone woke up like a dream, and they all ran wildly.