Chapter 20: The Lair of Terror

Being anxious is not the way, I gritted my teeth and said to Lao Tsering, Le'er wants to see people and corpses when he dies, I don't plan to go out of the valley, and I am ready to look for it on the spot. Old Tsering did not flinch this time, and firmly expressed his willingness to go with me.

After analysis, Lao Tsering and I determined that there must be a monster here that is terrifying in size and strength, and it is familiar with the terrain and is good at hiding. The main thing is that it can kill its prey in the shortest possible time and take it away from the scene.

However, the terrain around here is not very complicated, and if the monster is too large, it is not very easy to hide its whereabouts. So where is it hiding?

I thought about it calmly for a while, and came to the following results: 1. The first time our horses were killed and disappeared, we put away our tents and left because we were afraid of it, and we didn't observe the surrounding environment, so this monster should have left some clues. 2. There are a large number of beast carcasses in the ditch in front, and it can be judged that first the wolves ambushed the wild donkeys, and then the wolves were attacked by some kind of animal. 3. This animal frequently commits crimes in this area, and it can be said that this is definitely its sphere of influence, and we can search carefully in this area or wait for it to reappear in the same place. 4. We have turned to this place, and we have not found any abnormalities, indicating that this monster does not appear from time to time, but has a certain intermission. If so, it's hard to tell when it will appear next. We don't think it's advisable to wait where we are, so let's start with a search.

Clue 1 is to find if the monster has left footprints, and clue 2 is to check whether there are blood stains on the ground. Lao Tsering and I searched around the neighborhood, and the footprints were quickly found, and it turned out that there were many large thorns that had been flattened nearby, and there were also blood stains, just following the direction of the footprints.

It's just that the footprints are strange and not like the footprints of giant animals such as elephants, lions, etc. Due to the thorns and weeds that are everywhere in the valley, it is difficult to see the shape of the footprints from the grass and trees that have been flattened by the monster, and it can only be seen that the footprints of this monster are arranged in a very strange way.

I found a piece of paper and zoomed it out in actual proportions roughly according to the density and length of the footprints, and I saw that this creature looked like some kind of multi-legged creeping beetle, and the footprints followed the direction of its movement, leaving a dense straight line on both sides, as if the monster had several feet on each side.

Damn, the distance between its feet is about twenty meters! According to what old Tsering saw when he was a child, a small tail is seven or eight meters, and it is as thick as a bucket. What the hell is this? If it's a reptile, my day, is there such a big reptile?

Damn, Brother Animal World has also seen a lot, why don't people who shoot Animal World come here to find new species? Exercise!

Lao Tsering and I can only walk on foot now, but fortunately the dead donkey is still carrying the baggage. We took a lot of necessary supplies and equipment, carried more than 100 catties each, and followed the monster's footprints and the faint blood stains on the ground.

More than 100 pounds of things are packed in huge backpacks, satchels and large and small pockets on his body, and his brother has become a "travel friend", holding a trekking pole in his hand, and it is difficult to walk.

After walking for more than an hour, we found a fork in the road, which was almost covered by a large area of dense grass, and the slopes before and after the fork in the road could easily create a visual difference and think that the slopes were connected and there were no forks.

Following the monster's footprints, we followed the secret fork in the road for a while and then turned two corners to the right in succession.

The footprints lead us into a smaller valley full of grass and bones, and I don't know how long they have been here.

Holy shit, there's a place like this hidden in Death Valley, and if it weren't for monster footprints, you wouldn't really be able to find it. It seems that we haven't traveled around this Death Valley, and there may be many such hidden corners.

After walking along the small valley for a while and turning to the right again, Lao Tsering and I saw that on a slope on the left side of the valley, there was a huge hole that was very conspicuous!

I don't know how deep the cave is, there is a yin wind blowing outside, and there is a faint fishy smell, maybe this cave mouth can stretch out to the monster's lair.

I was going to go down alone to find out, and Old Tsering didn't want to stay alone at the entrance of the cave. After discussing it for a while, we walked in with torches in hand.

Damn, this cave is big and deep, and after walking for more than ten minutes, the light at the entrance of the cave has already become a point of light in the upper corner of the head, but we still haven't found anything.

Eventually, he made another turn along the diagonal downward cavity, and he couldn't even see the point of light above his head.

After another while, we estimated that we were already a few hundred meters deep, and the sound of roaring gradually came to our ears. If I'm not mistaken, there must be a dark river beneath this cave, and this roar should be the echo of the dark river.

Sure enough, in the light of the torches, we found that the stone on the wall of the cave was very wet, and a little further down, and even water was dripping from the top of our heads.

I don't know where we're going down this bottomless hole. The time has been walking for more than half an hour, as the sound of water gets louder, we finally came to the edge of the underground dark river, at this time the surrounding space suddenly opened up, forming a huge underground cave area.

The light from the torches is very limited, but fortunately the oxygen content is relatively sufficient, and it seems that there should be other ways to get outside in the cave area on this underground river to keep the air circulating.

We searched for a while, and finally found a path by the dark river. The path follows the Dark River and goes all the way down.

There is only one road left, and it is difficult to see any footprints at this time, so we can only follow it.

After walking for more than ten minutes, we were getting farther and farther away from the dark river, and the roar of the river became smaller and smaller. I don't know where this road turns, and I keep feeling the yin wind blowing in the dark depths with no end in sight, which only makes people cold and damp, which makes my brother shiver.

The wind grew stronger and stronger, blowing the torches almost to extinguish. Holy shit, I'm amazed at how windy it came from hundreds of meters underground.

After walking a short while, I suddenly realized that there was no road under my feet. There is an invisible darkness at your feet, it turned out to be an abyss, and for some reason a big cold wind blew out of this abyss, no wonder the wind gusted when you walked ahead.

Damn, after searching, there is no way left and right, and there is a bottomless abyss ahead. We came to a dead end!

Seeing that the first torch in our hands was about to be extinguished, we each prepared only two torches, one for the next and one for the return. There is no way out now, and it seems that there is no choice but to go back.

Just as I was turning my head to leave, damn it, there was a sudden neighing from below the abyss!

How could there be a neighing of horses in my day? Tsering and I were taken aback.

I pulled out a large piece of previously cut canvas from my backpack, poured it on diesel fuel and lit it, and threw it into the abyss.

Due to the updrafts from the bottom up, the lit canvas descends slowly, allowing us to see a wide range of things not far below the abyss. Holy shit, this is the abyss, get out of a prison alive.

It turned out that there were many small holes in the walls of this bottomless abyssal cave, and these small holes were extremely small, like small cells trapping many animals, and Tsering and I saw wild wolves, wild asses, and wild bears.

Most of the animals lay motionless in their holes, and a few of them did not fall asleep when they saw the lit canvas.

Holy shit, I don't want to wake up that monster that only imprisons "prisoners". At this moment, Tsering and I both heard the neighing of horses again on our left-hand side.

Looking at the sound, it turned out that in a hole more than 30 meters below the left, there was a horse neighing at us, and there was a person lying at the horse's feet! Fuck, that's right, it's Le'er! Unfortunately, I found that Le'er was lying flat in that hole, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

The canvas went out, and silence returned to the surroundings for a moment. What to do, I have to go down and save Le'er.

Judging from the situation just now, there are many raised stones on the cave wall of the abyss at your feet. So I came up with a way to do it.

Tsering and I each had two large loops of climbing ropes tied around our waists, which were more than enough vertical length, and we also had short ice axes and small hooks for climbing.

My plan was to tie a hiking rope around my waist and crotch, and let Lao Tsering use a protruding boulder on the edge of the abyss as a winch to lower me little by little.

Since it was extremely inconvenient to hold a torch in my hand, I had to take out the outdoor professional supplies that I had planned to use for the last time. After putting on my outdoor hat with a flashlight and getting my other gear ready, I jumped off the edge with my back to the abyss and started a cliff drop.

This trick really worked, and as I descended a little, I gradually reached the level of the hole where He Le'er was. In front of me, there was also a small hole, and through the outdoor flashlight installed on my hat, it turned out to be a wild bear!

Fatally, the bear was apparently awakened by the light of my flashlight and saw me with a turn of its head.

I was in the air at this time, and there was a wild bear in front of me, and my brother's heart was directly half cold.

Probably the black bear had been locked up for a few days, and as soon as he saw my meal at the entrance of the cave, he crawled over with a grunt. Looking at it like this, I treat my brother completely as a meal on its plate and meat in its mouth.

Seeing that the black bear was already standing in front of him, the big bear paw waved and was about to slap it with one palm. I was scrambled around the cave wall, and I found a rock protrusion, kicked it violently, and swung to the left.

The funny thing is that after the black bear slapped the air with a strong and ambitious palm, due to inertia and a stumble under his feet, he actually fell headlong into the abyss.

Oh my God, my brother escaped again.

On the wall of the abyss cave, he kept finding protruding rocks hanging in the air and flying with his strength, and after several transfers and adjustments, my brother finally came to the small cave where Le'er was.

Probed the carotid artery, but fortunately, Le'er was still alive. I patted Le'er's face and pinched her middle point, the little girl seemed to react a little, and her eyelids moved a few times.

Just as I was about to wake up Le'er and take her up, the rope on my waist that connected to it was violently pulled by Old Tsering. Fuck, what happened to the old Tsering? According to the agreement when I came down, if I pulled sharply, it means that the person has found the person ready to climb, and if the old Tsering pulls violently, it means that something suddenly happened above.

I hurriedly stuck my head out and shouted at it: "Hey, old Tsering, what's going on?"

"No, it's terrible, countless little scorpions are pouring in from outside, God. Yang, Yang Wei, I'm going to come down the rope, you fix the rope underneath. Old Tsering was flustered and didn't care to say much, so he grabbed the rope and slipped off it.

It is normal for one or two scorpions to have one or two scorpions in the Gobi Desert, but according to the words of Lao Tsering, it seems that thousands of scorpions are rushing into this abyss. Fuck, how can this be?

Old Tsering was forced to jump off the wall like a dog, and an old bone was agile enough to clamp the rope with his legs and retract a few times before jumping into the small hole where Le'er and I were.

When I saw that the old guy had come down, he had not noticed that there was a scorpion crawling on his shoulder, and I hurriedly knocked the scorpion out with a short ice axe.

"Yang Wei, run, run, run. Not long after you went down, there was a rumbling in the hole when we came, and I turned on the flashlight and shone it over, oh my God, the scorpions poured into this abyss like a tide, and there was definitely no way out of it. Old Tsering's face turned white with fright.

As he spoke, the rope on it fell off, and it seemed that the end of the rope had been bitten by the scorpion above.

I hurriedly picked up Le'er and looked up from the entrance of the cave with Old Tsering. My God, from the edge of the abyss within reach of the flashlight, countless scorpions are pouring down like a purple tide, and these scorpions are all burrowing into small holes.

I finally understood the meaning of the existence of the small holes in the walls of this abyssal cave, which were specially prepared to feed these scorpions, but what could have arranged it all so cleverly?

Seeing the tide of small purple scorpions crawling along the cave wall and about to climb into our cave. At this point, it is impossible to go back the way you came, and there is a bottomless abyss under your feet, and the rope has been bitten from above by a scorpion.

Just when my mind was in chaos and I didn't know what to do, the abyss suddenly turned red above.