Chapter 36: Lost
The Sumeru gourd was covered with a layer, and Yang Qing cut off the useful materials on the hooked snake python, washed the blood on his hands in the dark river, and looked at the dark river in a daze.
Yang Qing secretly thought, "This dark river will definitely lead to the waterfall where Yang Qing has stayed for more than six months."
The water of the waterfall is unusually cold because the stalactite-laden stream flows into the dark river, which gushes to the ground to form a waterfall.
At this time, Yang Qing wanted to go back to the cold iron mining area, and during this time, he lived in isolation and lived with demon beasts, which made him feel that he was going to become a demon beast.
There is no one around me who can talk, and I am quite lonely in my heart.
Now, in a desperate situation, my heart is up and down, and I want to find someone to talk to.
If you want to go from the cold iron mining area, you must first return to the waterfall, Yang Qing was chased and killed by thirteen people, and he didn't choose the way to escape in a panic, which direction he ran to, and how far he ran away.
The mountains here are high and forested, and if you want to return from the land, it is difficult to find the right direction, and if you take the wrong path, you will only waste time and increase the danger.
This dark river is a shortcut, my heart is determined, there are still some drums, this dark river is turbulent, and the body hits the rock wall is either black and green, or the head is broken and bleeding.
Under the dual effect of the temptation and curiosity of this shortcut, Yang Qing tightened his robe, tucked the Sumeru gourd, scratched his left arm, and touched his bald head.
"Puff"
Carrying a steel rod and jumping into the dark river, this dark river is a little deep, after jumping in, it is not above his head, the cold river water did not make Yang Qing feel uncomfortable, but the turbulence of the water made him unable to control his body.
Yang Qing held his breath and entered the fetal breath, and he didn't use his hands and feet, and his body followed the surging water flow, moving forward naturally.
After practicing in the waterhole for half a year, he didn't learn to swim, but he got rid of the fear of water, relaxed his body, and released his consciousness, Yang Qing was like a swimming fish, moving along the river.
This karst cave has a length and width of 100 zhang, and after a while, Yang Qing was taken out of the karst cave by the dark river and walked through the rock wall.
Entering the underground mountain, the river narrows, the river is more turbulent, Yang Qing swings with the current, ups and downs, his consciousness is released, edges and corners, and bends can be avoided in time, and there is no danger.
The steel rod whipped from time to time, deftly dodging, Yang Qing felt that his idea was very wise, it didn't take much effort, the river took him more than a mile away, and the river washed his body, a different kind of comfort.
In this underground monster, it can be regarded as completely disoriented, there is nothing to refer to, and there is no way to know where it is at this time.
The water slowed down, stacked on top of each other, the water level rose, and the rushing river behind it crashed against the waves several feet high in front of it.
Ahead, the river narrowed again, and only three people could pass side by side, squatting, Yang Qing's divine sense observed such a situation, concentrated his mind, and responded in advance.
Bring your legs together and slow down your body, closing the steel rod in your body.
"Bang, bang..."
The steel rod whipped through the narrow hole, and the speed of the narrow channel into which the river water entered increased dramatically. Yang Qing relied on the power of the steel rod to maintain his body in the middle of the current.
"Suck..."
Yang Qing poked out his head and took a long breath, this narrow river channel was half a mile away, and the steel rod was constantly whipped, close to the fetal breath, and it was difficult to maintain.
After this section, the river widens, the river slows down, the water level drops, and it is difficult for the body to float in the water.
Yang Qing stood up, the river was waist-deep, the river was very low, Yang Qing had to brave his waist to advance, the river was slightly turbid, in the river for so long, I didn't see a single fish, it may be caused by the river water being too cold.
After walking for two or three miles, the river passed through a cave again, but this cave was much smaller than before.
Yang Qing observed in the cave, there were about 100 streams of water in the cave that flowed into the dark river, and the 100 or so streams also had an extremely light blue and white milky color, if Yang Qing hadn't carefully distinguished, he wouldn't have noticed it at all.
That layer of viscous, rich stalactite essence, I don't know how many thousand years it will take to form, Yang Qing realized that he had obtained a treasure, and couldn't help but tuck the Sumeru gourd repeatedly.
Advancing along the dark river again, when the terrain is low, Yang Qing lies in the water and advances with the current, when the terrain is high, sometimes standing and walking, sometimes crawling forward.
The river widened and paved four or five feet, and Yang Qing stood in place and encountered a problem.
Not far ahead, the river branched out in three places, flowing in three different directions, and Yang Qing was dumbfounded when he looked at the three holes.
If he could see the moon and stars at this time, Yang Qing would be able to identify the direction, at least find a branch that flowed to the periphery, and when he reached the periphery of the Dongju Mountains, it would not be difficult to find a way back to the cold iron ore area.
At this time, the north and the south are not distinguished, the east and the west are not clear, and when the choice is made, how to make a choice.
If it was a road to the dark, Yang Qing would admit that he had no choice but to be forced to move forward.
Yang Qing looked at the three branches in front of him, and finally realized his recklessness, Qi Xiaohu and the others had said this to him, and he didn't care.
"Going back?" Yang Qing muttered to himself suspiciously, turning his body to look ahead, and then behind him.
"Let's go!"
The steel rod whipped the river, and the white splash splashed high, running towards the three branches, and the middle one walked over.
"What's coming, then it's coming," Yang Qing said secretly in his heart.
Walking into the middle branch, the amount of water decreased, and I could not rely on the river to float, so I had to walk on foot.
After stumbling for an hour and a half, the river spread and entered a cave that was about the same size as the one Yang Qing had fallen.
In this cave, it is dark and damp, there are no stalactites, only sharp and protruding stone moats, and the dark river converges into one place to form a waterhole, which spreads the bottom of the cave and then flows out of the cave.
There was a faint glow of light shining through the outflow of the river.
"Exit!" Yang Qing said in surprise, after walking for so long, the things around him were the same, and he suspected that this branch had no end.
Yang Qing walked in a waist-deep pool, and the pool water was carried by him.
"Gollum"
The waterhole at the bottom of the cave was blistering, and the bones of a beast floated up, Yang Qing took a closer look, and in this pool, there were more than a dozen bones of beasts floating.
The bones had been soaked in water for a long time, and all of them had turned black.
That's it!
In the pool beside Yang Qing, something suddenly burst out, extremely fast, turned into a black shadow, and went straight to Yang Qing.
Yang Qing stared intently at the beast bones, startled by the movement beside him, and without waiting for his eyes to look, the stainless steel rod came out sideways.
"Poof..."
The steel rod slid against the shadow, shattering it and scattering the flesh.
The feeling that the stainless steel rod conveys to Yang Qing is that it is soft and greasy. If the power is lighter, you can only knock it away.
With the sound of 'poof', dense black shadows burst out of the pool, and even the top of the cave also poured down a group of black shadows.
"Squeak..."
Overhead, under the feet, in all directions, there are black shadows on the ground, overwhelming.
This cave was dark, and the speed of the black shadow was extremely fast, Yang Qing's eyes couldn't catch it at all, and his divine sense unfolded and shrouded down.
Yang Qing was immediately frightened by what he saw, and out of the water was a winged black fish, with a hideous head, covered with spikes, and a mouth full of crooked fangs, which were tilted outward.
Pressed down from the top of the cavern was a black bat larger than a pigeon, with small round eyes that shimmered with bloodthirsty light, bared fangs, and sharp hooks.
Yang Qing didn't have time to take a closer look, the steel rods danced, the wind was strong, the pool water splashed, and a black curtain appeared in front of Yang Qing.
"Poof, poof, poof..."
The sound of flesh breaking was endless, and with this dense sound, a cloud of blood exploded in the cave.
The humid air was filled with the smell of blood, like a bucket of red ink poured into a waist-deep pool of water.
There are too many strange fish with wings, and the shady curtain can only block one side, and strange fish are also emerging from behind Yang Qing.
"Squeak..."
A shrill cry sounded overhead, and the sound was layered, and the water in the pool in the distance rippled.
The huge bat, with its sharp claw hook, hooked the soft body of the strange fish, flapped its webbed wings, and flew to the top of the cave.
At this time, there was chaos in the cave, and the strange fish attacked Yang Qing together, and the dense bats took the opportunity to grab the strange fish.
"Poof"
The strange fish attacked Yang Qing from the water, although Yang Qing did not look down, but he knew, raised his feet and stepped on it, and the strange fish shattered, leaving only the hideous and terrifying, hard fish head, palm-sized scales, floating to the surface of the water.
Yang Qing looked forward, back, and feet, but the black bats with bloodshot eyes on the top of his head crowded and collided with each other, and some bats couldn't control their bodies and hit Yang Qing's head.
The bat fell down in a daze, and before it could fall into the water, it was bitten and dragged into the water by a strange fish in the air.
Rough!
Yang Qing took a gap and raised the stainless steel rod high, and ten stick shadows appeared instantly.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
"Ponto, pun, pun..."
The strange fish that rose up could not stop the slightest shadow of the stick, the strange fish and bats turned into blood mist, the pool water exploded, splashed up a few feet high, wrapped in a ball of blood dance and minced meat, and fell back into the pool.
The minced meat that fell into the waterhole was frantically eaten by the strange fish, and even the bats also dug their claw hooks deep into the water.
The strange fish behind him saw Yang Qing's back wide open, and all of them swarmed up, and their sharp and twisted teeth collided with a 'click' sound.
This kind of tooth of the strange fish is bitten, and it cannot be taken off without tearing off a piece of meat.
Yang Qing knew the crisis behind him, and took advantage of the short calm in front of him, his body suddenly rushed forward, and the steel rod was thrown back. Whipping the black fish.
"Poof, poof,"
You don't need to control the angle of the throw, just a dozen is a piece.
The pool of water was cut open by Yang Qing's extremely fast figure, and he went straight to the light in front of him.
Storm the waves! Sprint forward again!
The strange fish had been hungry for too long, and when he saw the minced meat in the pool, he frantically scrambled for it. The scene was tragic, but it left room for Yang Qing.
The dim light was getting closer and closer, and when it arrived, Yang Qing crawled out of the human-high cave and finally left the underground dark river.
"What the fuck is this place?"
Yang Qing looked at the few strange fish hanging on his legs and waist, and said with a bitter face.