endless route.

Chapter 148 55.
After the operation was ready, Zheng Yun borrowed the rope left by Hu Ruihua and the others to let the ghost general go down first.

The two ghost generals jumped down from the cave one after another. The flashlights hanging on them illuminated the bottom of the cave.

Waited for a while.

After confirming that there is no danger below.

Zheng Yun and Ji Dao also went down together, leaving only a blackened buckle box, which was covered directly above the entrance of the cave.

Soon the two landed.

The flashlight scans left and right.

There is an ice tunnel ahead.You can still vaguely see the fire light from the end, the yellow light is like sunset glow, covering half of the ice wall, from a distance to the front corner.

Several people kept quiet.

Zheng Yun controls the ghost general to move forward, and at the same time listens carefully to the movement around him to prevent any danger from approaching.

Walk slowly down the passage.

The yellow light is getting brighter and brighter.

When they walked around the corner, they saw the bow of an ancient ship and the fire in the cave.

The ancient ship was also a part of the chain, but it had been dismantled long ago, and the fragments of wood all over the ground were burnt down by Kaideste, leaving only thick ashes.

But Cadster wasn't there.

Only crackling sounds could be heard in the depths.

Zheng Yun and the others continued to go deeper, and their vision gradually enlarged. They could see the whole picture of this place clearly, because the ancient ship was dismantled by Kaidest, and there was only a long, narrow and deep passage left here.

"How much did this guy dismantle?"

There was a little anger in Ji Dao's voice.

In the entire right-hand direction, even a boat could not be seen at a glance, and the ground was black and covered with ashes of wood.

But the left hand was not removed.

There is only a hole in the ancient ship on the left.

Zheng Yun observed carefully, and couldn't figure out why Kadster only dismantled the boat on the right hand side, but not those on the left side.

Soon they walked to the fire. Hu Ruihua and the others had lit a fire before, but it was extinguished by Hu Zi later. Now this pile of flames should have been lit by Kaideste later.

Beside the fire were piles of old ship's wood, and an almost blunt ax with a worn handle.

The sound came from the right hand.

Cadster went deep.

This place gives people a very dangerous feeling. The hole in the wall of the ancient ship on the left is pitch black and bottomless, while the ice passage on the right is deep and blue, let alone where it leads.

The flames on the fire were crackling, and although there was no wind, the flames kept beating from time to time, illuminating the surroundings, and at the same time spreading a strange atmosphere everywhere.

The shadows of several people and others stretched extremely long, standing brightly beside the fire, like living targets, very insecure, it would be safer to extinguish the fire.

Zheng Yun didn't look for Kadest first, but scanned the environment carefully, looking for the holes that Hu Ruihua and Huzi said, those bugs drilled, and then he quickly found out.

There are holes in many places.

These holes are like ant tunnels, twisting and winding in the ice layer, and the large ice layer under the feet is completely white, without the blue and transparent texture.

The size also matches.

It is as thick as the extremely cold Gu worm.

This matter is a bit strange. Ji Dao said that the Gu worms raised in Tiangong have not eaten, drank or even moved a few times for 20 years, but the wormholes here are bottomless and extremely numerous.

And there is another problem.

These wormholes seem to be going around this passage. They didn’t drill out of the ground and ice, and even drew arcs to avoid them, connecting the outside and inside of the ancient ship passage. It’s hard to tell whether they came in from the outside or escaped from the inside. to go.

How did Kedster catch it?

He could only see the ice cave, but couldn't see Gu worms at all, and no matter how many worms there were, they still wouldn't be enough for him to eat.

"Go and have a look."

Zheng Yun pointed the flashlight at the source of the sound.

This Cadster was tinkering with something, it sounded like he was smashing a log or an ice wall.

Ji Dao nodded and drew his sword.

Several people moved forward in the right direction.

As they walked, the sound became louder. They did not cover up their whereabouts, and the flashlight kept shining into the depths. It is reasonable to say that Kadster could find it, but the sound never stopped.

Walked 300 meters in one breath.

In a small ice cave, Zheng Yun saw the figure of a middle-aged man in ragged clothes. His hair was disheveled and his warm clothes were blackened. He was terribly dirty and squatted on the ground with his head in his arms.

He is Cadster.

As if delirious, curled up deep in the corner, trembling and trembling, as if terrified.

Zheng Yun also shrank his pupils.

He is squatting here, who is that smashing the ice in front?Is it a tongueless thing that escaped by accident, or a cold fairy?
"Cadester?"

Zheng Yun opened his mouth tentatively, and at the same time asked the ghost generals to be on high alert ahead, and they would run away if they were in danger.

Ji Dao took a few steps forward.

Stare at the end of the passage.

"I am Kedust, I am Kedust, who are you, who are you, squat down, hide, my hand is eaten, your hands will be eaten too."

Cadster's eyes were distracted and trembling. After hearing his name, he raised his head subconsciously. The expression on his face was so frightened that his pupils lost focus.

"..."

Zheng Yun looked at him carefully.

There were many ulcers on his skin, and it was hard to tell whether he was frostbitten or infected by something. In addition, although he looked miserable, his body fat percentage didn't seem to be very low. He was thin, but he was not so thin that he was inhuman. look like.

Where does the fat intake come from here.

Even if he can smash ice and fish, it's not enough.

Could he have eaten something without a tongue?
Through previous observations, Hanxian actually has a habit, it will kill people first, and then eat the prey, such as the corpses of the scientific expedition team above, if Kadster seizes the opportunity, he can drag the corpses down Bake and eat.

"I'll rescue you, can you go?" Zheng Yun tried to communicate with Kaedest to see if he was sane.

"My legs have been eaten, and my hands have been eaten, too." Kedster held his head.

"Jass Irene, Christina, your wife and your daughter are waiting for you in England."

Zheng Yun spoke again.

These two names should be the most important in his life, even if the former is not, the latter must be.

"Ah! Jas-Irene, Jas-Irene... she's a whore, Christina, Gase-Irene is mine... is my daughter, is she waiting for me?"

Cadster suddenly raised his head, and stared straight at Zheng Yun with a pair of pale blue pupils. He could see with his naked eyes that his gaze had regained focus, aimed at Zheng Yun, and looked at his face.

"Yes, your daughter is waiting for you."

Zheng Yun sighed silently and nodded.

"You are from the East." Kaidester said suddenly, his body no longer trembling, his words were very fluent and natural, but his tone was still extremely frightened: "The Orientals will not save me, you are lying to me, the Orientals It's the devil."

"What did the Orientals do?"

Zheng Yun frowned slightly, and said quickly.

"They trampled on my life, they locked us up here, they put a curse on me so I couldn't get out of here, and I've been here to suffer."

Cadster's pupils were about to collapse again.

When Ji Dao heard this, he turned his head and glanced at Kedster, curled his lips and turned back to monitor the depths ahead.

"Your daughter Tina wants to know what curse the Orientals have placed on you." Zheng Yun kept his distance and continued.

"They dumped me here, I ate worms, worms grew out of my body, I didn't feel my hands, I didn't feel my legs, it was all eaten."

Cadster's body also began to tremble.

But his hands and feet were apparently intact.

Zheng Yun really couldn't tell whether he was hallucinated by the gas, or if this kind of thing really happened, so he tentatively asked: "Your daughter Tina asked me to ask you, do you feel cold now? Think Warm up?"

When Kedster heard this question, his body suddenly shook violently, holding his head on the ground and convulsing, as if he had an illness, Zheng Yun was so frightened that he subconsciously took two or three steps back.

Half a minute passed.

Kaidester just raised his head, disheveled hair and looked at the distance with resentment in his eyes, and whispered in a sullen tone: "I'm cold, but I know, it's a curse, I can't get close to the fire, I remember it very clearly , I can't get close."

"Why didn't the white demon attack you?" Zheng Yun asked again, taking no time to get the words out of his mouth.

Kedster's state is very unstable. He probably has no chance to recover his sanity. He has inhaled too much hallucinogenic gas, and the damage in his brain is already irreversible.

Maybe the next moment.

He will be confused again.

Can't answer a single question.

"Because they need me, they need me to open a way for them, I can dig a hole to take them out from here, they won't attack me, and they won't attack the bugs either."

Cadster murmured.

"Your daughter wants to know, can you reach a deal with the white devil?" Zheng Yun asked with a frown.

"No one can communicate with it. It has no intelligence at all, because these bugs, the bugs in my body, are its companions in the food chain."

"I have researched it out. There is no food source here. It needs bugs to drill holes and take it to other places to find food. It eats everything, it eats everything."

Cadster suddenly murmured such a sentence.

Zheng Yun thought for a moment. Kadster has stayed in this place for 20 years. His words are credible and similar to his own conclusions. However, his reasoning process actually involves the food chain and accompanying organisms.

How is this reasoned?
Can it be involved in the food chain?
It does make some sense when you think about it. There is no food source in this glacier mountain range, but there are many frozen fishes frozen to death in the ice layer. Every year during the cold ice period and the no-sail period, this kind of creature that is accidentally frozen in the ice , will be replenished.

After millions of years of evolution in this environment, a kind of creature may have evolved to drill holes in these ice layers to eat these frozen creatures, and eat whatever they have.

The extremely cold Gu worm might be.

It can live for 20 years without eating or drinking, which satisfies the preconditions of this way of life. Even if it digs a hole for a year, it will be unlucky. If it does not dig any food, it will not starve to death. dig.

Creatures without this kind of ability don't even try to find food in the vast ice layer, they will starve to death [-]%.

But what does this have to do with Hanxian.

The hole dug by the Gu worm is so narrow, how could the Han Immortal get in, but the Han Immortal can disappear out of thin air...

"Are you sure the white devil won't eat you? Where did you catch your worms?" Zheng Yun stopped thinking, but took the time to ask, asking everything first.

"It's right here." Kadster suddenly moved, there was a small hole under his body, and he could reach in.

"How many Orientals have you met, what did they do to you? Did they say anything to you, or did you hear anything." Zheng Yun frowned, there was nothing in that hole.

"My hands have been eaten, my legs have been eaten..." Cadster's eyes lost focus.

"Knock him out."

Zheng Yun spoke softly.

The ghost general pulled out the knife, and the scabbard hit Keidester's neck precisely, causing Kaidester to slowly collapse on the ground.

Zheng Yun went to the small cave to have a look, there were indeed some wormholes in the cave, but he didn't see the Gu worms at a glance, maybe he wanted to wait here until the Gu worms crawled over?

"Master Xian, shall we take him with us?"

Ji Dao understood Zheng Yun's plan, since Han Xian didn't want to eat this person, he would use him as a talisman, and he didn't even need to catch Gu worms, he was better than Gu worms.

"Take it, let's go back and have a look."

Zheng Yun asked the ghost to come, lifted Kedester up, and then immediately went back the same way and ran to the vicinity of the previous bonfire, not daring to stay in this ice passage.

After a while.

Everyone returned to the campfire.

Zheng Yun asked the ghost general to use a knife to slap Kedester. The festering on his body was unbearable to look at, but there were no bugs in it at all. It is hard to say what was done to him 20 years ago.

It is certain.

He must have been judged by the Orientals. He must have used Triton's set of laws of gods and ghosts to make people neither human nor ghost.

But what is not known now is what the Easterners did to him to keep him alive until today.

"Look for any bones nearby."

Zheng Yun picked up the flashlight and looked around. He still suspected that this Kadster ate tongueless things.

It's not a dead end here.

Although along the way, I have never seen that gap connecting the ancient ship, this ice cave is the only one, if Kadster can't come up from this ice cave, then he can't get out.

But Kedust can walk along the ice corridor made by the ancient ships to any place where there are ancient ships.

For example, near the Xianxian Cave.

There are ancient boats on the left and right of Jixian Cave.

This underground cave is actually only separated by a river from the Xianxian Cave, and the tongueless thing that was alive before is also on the left hand side. These two places may be connected.

The crackling sound just now may also come from the Tongueless Thing.

If Han Xian really didn't attack Kaedest, then he would have a chance, along this passage to eat the corpse of the Tongueless Thing near the Xianxian Cave, which is the reason why he has survived until now.

Maybe I have to go this way myself.

Because if they returned from the original road, they would need to cross the chain bridge, enter from the front of the frozen attic, and then follow the gap made by the scientific expedition team into the Immortal Sacrifice Cave.

Then there's no use for the box.

Because it is too narrow, the scorched box cannot pass through, even if it passes, it will have to be discarded after a short walk.

"I am searching."

Ji Dao immediately looked around.

Zheng Yun also picked up the flashlight and looked around.

But after searching for a long time, they didn't find any remains of the tongueless thing. It may have been burned to keep warm, or it may have been eaten by Han Xian.

After thinking for a moment.

Zheng Yun decided to go up and have a look first.

(End of this chapter)