Chapter 6: The Hidden Cave
Long Yun looked at the sunlight coming in from the entrance of the cave, and judged from experience that it should not be noon yet. If you find a way to climb out now, you should be able to get back to the village before dark.
He carefully observed the situation in the lower cave, and from the mouth of the cave several vines grew, the vines were thicker than ropes, and should be able to bear the weight of a man, but the vines did not grow to the bottom of the cave, but hung in midair. Long Yun stretched out his hand to try, but he couldn't touch it at all, and the lowest vine was still one person high enough to touch it when he stretched out his hand. Long Yun tried to jump up and catch it, but he couldn't catch it at all, and it was still a long way off.
Long Yun was unwilling, this time he first retreated, and then ran forward, using his strength to jump. I still didn't catch it, but I jumped a little higher than before. Long Yun repeated the action just now, running over and over again, jumping, and stretching out, but he couldn't catch the vines, it was always a little bit close.
He tried like this over and over again, and suddenly it seemed as if he had stepped on something hard under his feet, and he fell on his feet. Long Yun immediately got up and wanted to see what it was. Due to the poor light in the cave, he lowered his head and searched carefully, and finally found that it was a cylindrical thing inserted into the ground, and the part that exposed the ground was about an inch high, yellow-brown, and it felt cold and hard when touched by his hand, like a metal texture.
Long Yun squatted down, holding the unknown object in his hand, and pulled it up hard, trying to pull it all out, but he couldn't pull it out after several attempts. It seems that it is still buried very deep, Long Yun thought to himself, so he began to dig down with his hands, digging to a certain depth, Long Yun once again held the end of the object with both hands, and pumped it out.
I heard a crisp sound of "bang-" and the thing was pulled out.
Long Yun took the object and walked under the beam of light shining in from the entrance of the cave to observe it carefully, looking left and right.
After a while, he suddenly exclaimed:
"This ...... Could it be a sword?"
The reason why Long Yun looked at it for a long time before guessing that it was a sword was because it was too unlike a sword. It was more like a piece of iron than a piece of iron, a piece of iron that had only been forged in the first place.
After Long Yun's judgment, this should be a broken sword, this sword is about three feet long, and the hilt and body of the sword are connected together, and there is no obvious boundary. The sword has no tip, leaving only an oblique section at the top. The blade is not sharp, and there are several notches. The entire body of the sword was covered with a layer of yellow-brown rust, which looked very old, and it should have been some years old.
Long Yun held the broken sword and pointed forward, wanting to test its weight, but it felt like it was completely different from an ordinary piece of iron. This is an ordinary old broken iron sword, Long Yun concluded.
Seeing that this iron sword was not a treasure, Long Yun slowly withdrew his mind from this sword, the most important thing he should do now was to find a way to climb out of this hole. Otherwise, he will end up like the bones of these animals on the ground.
If you want to continue to jump up, it seems impossible to catch the vine, I tried so many times just now without success, not to mention that my foot is still a little broken.
Long Yun began to turn his brain to observe in the cave, his eyes looked at the pit he had just dug to draw his sword, and suddenly he had an idea. The soil that had been dug out just now was piled up together to form a small slope, and he thought that he could dig out more soil and pile it under the vines, and wouldn't he be able to catch the vines by standing on the dirt slope himself!
Thinking of this, Long Yun immediately took action, he picked up the broken sword, and cut it on the ground. Needless to say, this sword is quite powerful at digging up the soil! He plunged the sword into the soil one by one, and then stirred the soil back and forth, loosening the soil. Make that sword "sonorous-" rattle, not to mention more energy.
Long Yun was a little suspicious of what he had in his hand at the moment, "I'm afraid this is just a farm tool, right?" he thought.
After a while, the soil around the vine had been loosened, Long Yun held the hilt of the sword in one hand, and the sword head that was not sharp in the other, bent down, lay on the ground with both hands, and pushed the soil in the direction of the vine, he now seemed to have used the sword as a plough again, and the effect was quite good, and in half an hour, a small slope half a person high was formed under the vine.
Long Yun hurriedly dropped the broken sword in his hand, stood on the small dirt slope, grabbed the vine with a slight jump, and then began to climb up smoothly.
Without climbing twice, Long Yun stopped, he looked back at the broken sword that he had thrown away, and jumped down again. He thought to himself, his dagger was lost in the fight with the beast, and there was nothing left on him to defend himself, or he should take this broken sword with him, although it didn't look useful, but it was better to be defenseless when encountering any danger.
Thinking of this, Long Yun leaned down again to pick up the broken sword, and casually pinned it to the waist rope around his waist. Then he climbed up the dirt slope again, jumped on the vines, and climbed out of the cave without a hitch.
Long Yun crawled outside the cave and lay limp on the ground with exhaustion. He turned his head to look at the hole next to him, which was indeed very hidden. The high part is covered by a tall canopy, and the ground under the trees is full of all kinds of low-rise broad-leaved plants, and the entrance to the cave is covered by these broad-leaved plants, making the hole no different from the rest of the place, and even if you get closer, you can hardly see that there is a hole here.
Long Yun lay on the ground and rested, while thinking about yesterday's events, when he was poisoned by a strange beast, and his consciousness was not at all conscious, why did he just come here and fall into this hole? Is it just a coincidence? And fell into such a deep hole without being injured, could it be that he relied on the last bit of consciousness to climb down the vine by himself? This is not impossible, but it is also unconvincing.
What's even more strange is that he clearly remembers that in his illusion, a figure dressed in white appeared, why did that figure appear in his illusion? If it is a person who knows, it is easy to explain, although in the illusion Long Yun can't see the person's face clearly, and he can't tell the person's gender, but Long Yun is sure that he doesn't know this person!
Because the unique temperament exuded by that person was something Long Yun had never felt. Who is that person? Is it just an imaginary person?
Long Yun thought about this, his mind was a little messy, and he simply stopped thinking about it. The most important thing now is to hurry back to the village, because Long Yun's grandmother and sister must be anxiously waiting for Long Yun now.
Long Yun rested, stood up, climbed to a high place to observe the general direction first, and then started to rush to the direction of home, after yesterday's life and death line, he didn't want to think about anything at the moment, he just wanted to leave the deep mountain quickly, save his life and hurry back to the house in Long'an Village, and give his grandmother and sister who were waiting for him a big hug.