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Chapter 116 Exploring the Cave and Encountering the Nether River Again
Lin Yan took out the cloth map and carefully compared the surrounding environment.

On this map, the area on the lower left clearly coincides with the valley in front of me, and the red dot marked on it is at the upper right of the map, and there is a curve that is probably a river, reaching that red dot.

"So, go find the river in the valley first, and walk along the river to reach the red dot mark."

At this time, Lin Yan's physical fitness was greatly improved, and his hearing was also extremely strong. Soon, he found a stream in a valley covered with dense jungle.

The stream is at most an arm's width, and it actually presents an orange-red color, exuding a pungent sulfur smell, winding its way deeper into the valley.

Lin Yan moved forward along the stream, gradually descended along the hillside, and went deeper into the valley. The plants along the way became more and more shady and green, with many plants like banana trees growing. The air became more and more humid, and water could come out with a touch.

Soon, they came to the bottom of the valley, a narrow cave entrance with the height of three people and the width of one person.

The stream flowed quickly inward along the cave mouth, making a faint sound of water flow, and submerged in a gloomy darkness, as if being swallowed by a cracked mouth.

"I didn't expect it to be a cave. This is the place marked by the red dot. The stream kept wading in, but it didn't fill up the cave. There must be a cave in it."

The entrance of the cave is a golden-yellow rock mouth, and the rock wall inside is smooth and damp, with a little gray moss growing on it, and then there is a black hole inside, and nothing can be seen.

Lin Yan looked left and right, but the surrounding trees were all damp, so he had no choice but to climb up the valley slope again, found a thick dead tree, made a torch, and then came back to the cave again.

Inside the cave, a thin and hazy white mist leaked out, and there was a stream below, and the left and right rock walls were polished smooth by the water.

Lin Yan didn't want to step into the water, so he made a claw with one hand, clasped it on the rock wall, and entered sideways.

The sky light fell behind, and the environment suddenly went down. Lin Yan held the torch forward, and the cave in front of him was extremely deep and winding, and the dim light of the fire could not fully illuminate it.

Climbing along the rock wall quickly, the darkness became thicker as it went deeper, but the rock walls on the left, right, up, and down were all opened up, making the inner space open.

"There are some traces of excavation here, like some abandoned mine."

There should be some mineral components nearby, especially the sulfur smell is stronger.

There was a sound of a waterfall falling on the rock wall, and Lin Yan soon came to a large crack in the ground.

Here the stream forms a cascading waterfall.

It didn't go down in a single path, but went down one or two feet, forming a muddy and yellowish pool, and then continued to overflow from the edge and go down, winding and twisting, until it went deep into the ground.

"The nearby rock surface is as smooth as the rock wall just now, indicating that the crack has existed for a long time, rather than a recent earthquake."

The waterfall bends and flows. When Lin Yan was illuminated by the fire, he leaped across several feet of darkness, jumped onto the rock wall opposite the water pool below, inserted one hand into the rock wall, and hung himself firmly.

There was a bottomless abyss of black holes underneath, and the moist water droplets gathered on his hand along the rock wall, only a small piece of fire glowed.

At this time, Lin Yan looked to the left side of the rock wall, and there was a thick and long iron nail nailed into the rock wall.

"Not much rust, it was recently nailed on."

Naturally, he didn't need nails to make a ladder, he directly concocted it according to the law, jumped down again, and jumped to the rock wall opposite the pool below.

Just jumping down like this, he kept going down the rock wall.

Along the way, the waterfalls merged into streams again, and even in some areas, a large area of ​​jagged pebbles was exposed, so he stepped on the ground to walk.

Going down like this, I don't know how deep it went. I only felt that the surrounding was extremely hot and stuffy, and then I heard the sound of rumbling water.

"This sound, there is a big pool of water underneath!"

Lin Yan walked forward, and there was another underground rift in front of him, which turned out to be an underground cliff!

The water flowed down the cliff and fell into the darkness of unknown depth, making the sound of rumbling water.

"Aren't these on top blood stalactites? This depth is already deeper than the underground black market in Ding'an City!"

Lin Yan found the smooth rock wall beside the waterfall, bit the torch in his mouth, and using both hands and feet, he climbed directly down the smooth rock wall.

The rock wall presents a translucent white jade color, which should be some kind of special mineral, which has been polished extremely smooth by the washing of the water, as if it can reflect a human figure.

Iron nails were also driven into it at intervals.

The faint fire light flipped up and down, Lin Yan obviously kept moving, but still had an illusion of stagnation, as if in an infinite darkness, moving in place along a mirror that could never climb to the bottom.

Fortunately, this rock wall has a bottom. After climbing for a long time, Lin Yan obviously felt that the water vapor below increased greatly.

He took off the torch and took a photo, his eyes narrowed slightly: "What a big pool!"

Below this rock wall, there is actually a water pool with a radius of more than ten feet, showing a kind of amber-like dark green, and there seems to be a vortex in it.

In the center of the pool, there is also a huge black rock standing in it.

Amid the sound of roaring water, Lin Yan's torch swept across, and the underground space was surprisingly large. There was a jagged rocky field full of square pebbles beside the pool.

He turned over so that he was stepping across the rock wall, and with a sudden force from his feet, he ejected himself like a slingshot and landed on the open space beside the pool.

Sweeping the torch left and right, a silver dragon-like waterfall above poured down and landed in the center of the pool, with deafening roars.

But the water surface of this pool didn't rise at all. Presumably, there is a deeper seepage channel under it, and all the water flows gather here and are silently swallowed by it.

Shock appeared in his eyes. Who would have imagined that in such a deep underground world, there is actually a silver waterfall flying down three thousand feet!
suddenly.

Lin Yan frowned.

He slowly approached the pool, carefully shining the torch on the pool.

In the dark underwater depths, there is a huge black shadow lying quietly!

Its appearance looks like some kind of fish, but its body is about the size of two adults. It lies quietly in the deep water without moving.

Lin Yan held his breath, picked up a stone from the ground, and threw it into the water vigorously with his wrist!
boom!
There was a muffled sound.

The water wave suddenly became chaotic, as if there were creatures rolling and moving under it.

When the water calmed down again, Lin Yan took a torch to see, and the black shadow had disappeared!

Only the dark and deep water layer remained.

"It's really alive! Is there such a huge fish in this underground pool?"

This water pool obviously cannot support such a big fish. It seems that this water pool leads to a larger and deeper river.

"Huh? What is this?"

On the surface of the water, a black shadow the size of half a palm floated up, floating on the surface of the water, spinning continuously along the current.

Lin Yan lowered the torch, raised his eyebrows slightly, and it turned out to be another fish!

No, it's half. It looks very vicious, like a carnivorous species, but its whole body seems to have been soaked in acid, and more than half of it has been corroded, leaving only the most mutilated body.

"These teeth look really weird..."

Its teeth are protruding, two in each of the upper and lower jaws, but they are all hook-shaped, the tips stick together, but the center cannot be closed, like a ring, if you put someone's finger in it, no matter how much it bites, I can't bite.

suddenly!

Lin Yan's wrist tightened slightly, the eyes of this strange fish moved!

It has only one fierce fish eye left, it seems to have sensed the fire, and it is actually staring at the fire!

"It's all like this and still alive?"

However, the strange fish suddenly opened its upper and lower jaws at a strange angle of 180 degrees. It frantically swung its tail, opened and closed its bite frantically, and swam towards Lin Yan in the direction of the fire!

"This vitality is too tenacious! This fierce temperament is definitely a piranha!"

The strange fish originally had a mutilated body. With the huge range of movements, fluid and viscera could be seen leaking out of its body, but it unexpectedly swam to the edge of the pool with such a mutilated body, and then...

Flopped among the jagged cobblestones, dying, motionless, killing himself.

Lin Yan took a torch to shine it on, his eyes were dimmed, and he was completely dead this time.

But the strange thing is that its blood is actually green, which is somewhat similar to the green pus and blood of the corpse Buddha cockroach.

"Are the creatures in this underground water so weird..."

Stepping down with one foot, the strength exploded, and directly trampled the strange fish carcass, Lin Yan just turned around and continued to explore.

In the tunnel behind the water pool, the rock wall color is obviously different, black and yellow are intertwined, like spider web patterns, and it is a rock formation that can only be seen in extremely deep strata.

"There is actually an oil lamp nailed on the rock wall. There is only a little rust on the oil lamp, and the oil inside has not evaporated, which means that it has not been long. It seems that someone has already been here before me."

Lin Yan raised the torch and lit the oil lamps on the rock walls along the way one by one, and the entire dark tunnel immediately became much brighter.

"I didn't see it just now. There are still footprints and drag marks on the mud on the ground. It looks a little blurry. It means that there were people working here before, dragging something."

Lin Yan continued to go inward along the tunnel, but after walking in a circle, it turned out to be a blind road, a dead end.

"Impossible, the tool rope that was dragged will not be left behind, right?"

Lin Yan turned around and searched carefully inch by inch along the way.

"here!"

I saw a corner near the center of the blind path, a pile of huge black and yellow rocks scattered on the ground.

"These rocks are not here naturally, but were piled up later."

If Lin Yan hadn't observed carefully and saw a gap as thick as an arm, which was leaking air, he wouldn't have realized that there was a hole under this pile of boulders.

The rocks were huge. Lin Yan moved a few small ones around, but the huge one in the middle was terribly heavy, probably weighing tens of tons, and even he couldn't shake it.

Reluctantly, he directly exerted all his strength, grasping with both hands, as if grasping dough, and clawed the stone down from the stone one by one.

Naturally, he could crush it with one punch, but in this way, the broken and scattered stones are very likely to fall into the entrance of the cave below and block the entrance.

The fire flickered, making out the silhouette of him digging the stone hard.

Soon, a lot of rubble was scattered around him, and only a thin layer weighing about a thousand catties remained of this huge rock, which was overturned by his hands when he lifted it.

"Huh? This is..."

Lin Yan's eyes narrowed slightly. The lower part of the stone was covered with bloody scratches, criss-crossing, and human fingernails embedded in the stone, which showed the despair of its owner!

"Is anyone trapped down there?"

Looking down, there is an abyss gap that extends vertically downwards under the cave. The entrance is only the size of a person, and the gap is extremely narrow and bottomless.

Lin Yan was secretly vigilant, followed the entrance of the gap in the abyss, and climbed down the rock wall.

The crack is extremely narrow, only enough for one person to climb down, with his chest and back against the rock wall, which saves effort.

On the rock wall, there are many iron nails nailed, and many ropes are hung, obviously there are traces of someone climbing.

Reminiscent of the scratches all over the place just now, is there really someone down here?
Compared with the above, the rock wall here is obviously much rougher, and the traces of fault splitting are obvious, and the cracking time must not exceed half a year.

About three to forty meters down, the surrounding space suddenly opened up.

Moreover, a thin layer of faint blue halo appeared from nowhere, coating the surrounding rock formations with a layer of mysterious faint light.

"This is... the light of the Nether River!"

But the depth of his descent has already surpassed the depth of the underground black market in Ding'an City, that is to say, the height of the Nether River should be at least two or 300 meters above him!
How can it be here?
Lin Yan grasped the rock wall and quickly climbed down.

The surrounding space is getting bigger and bigger, like an inverted funnel, the further down, the more open the space.

Finally, the front and back rock walls suddenly became clear, and Lin Yan's eyes narrowed slightly. A blue, mysterious underground river, emitting a strong light, flowed through the underground cavity below!

This cavity has a huge area, surrounded by blue-gray rock walls, jagged and tortuous, and there is a huge open space by the river, which is full of jagged and huge stubborn rocks.

Stepping on the stubborn stone, Lin Yan slowed down his breathing slightly, it's really a ghost river!

What secrets are hidden in the underground space of this world?
What is going on with this Nether River?

It looks like ghosts and ghosts, but there are actually different heights? !
The light source is sufficient, and Lin Yan's field of vision is wider.

He walked to the Nether River, a flat open space, where the stones were removed to enclose a hollow area, with several tents set up in the middle, and there were pots, pans, and other traces of human existence.

On the left side of the camp, there were several baskets neatly placed, which contained some gray-black stones. Lin Yan walked over and picked them up to have a look. They were just ordinary scraps, nothing special.

But there was only one figure in sight.

Lin Yan originally thought that someone was trapped under this seam and wanted to push away the boulder blocking the passage, but he couldn't get out, so the criss-crossing bloodstains were left behind.

In his mind, there were also many tragic situations where a group of people were trapped in the dark underground without food, and in the end they could only compete with each other and feed each other... and so on.

It can be checked around, everything is well preserved, and there is no sign of fighting, struggling or blood.

Everything is peaceful except no one.

Did this group of people go somewhere else?
Lin Yan looked back to the other side of the river, like a horizontal tunnel leading to nowhere.

But if there is another way out, why are there such hopeless scratches left under the boulder?
Lin Yan couldn't figure it out for a while, so he raised the torch and walked up the river step by step.

(End of this chapter)