Mystery Leaks

Chapter 79 Finding Insects in Jinpen Ridge (3)

Huang Mao didn't speak, and immediately ran to the pool, and Cao Nan and I hurriedly followed.

When I got to the edge of the deep pool, I saw that the mud was just exposed, and in some places, fish and insects could still be seen struggling in the mud.

"The water leaked from that black hole!" Cao Nan pointed to the dark hole on the wall of the pool.

My heart skipped a beat. How could the deep pool that has existed for countless years be missed? It’s unimaginable. Seeing the live fish in the mud happened last night.

Could it be that python did it?

To make a hole in the wall of the pool must require a lot of brute force, otherwise, it is unheard of for the water to leak out of the pool overnight.

"Go and have a look!" Huang Mao immediately walked around the edge of the pool. There was too much mud in the center of the pool, and it was too troublesome to go directly through.

Soon we got close, and Huang Mao climbed down the layered stone wall washed by the pool water, and Cao Nan and I followed suit.

When I arrived at the entrance of the cave, I saw that the edge of the tan was made of stone walls, three or four feet thick, and now it was broken open, revealing a bottomless mud hole slanting downward inside.

Huang Mao took a closer look at the stone wall, pinched something in a crevice of the stone wall and pulled it out, and suddenly a coin-sized, dark slice was pinched in his hand.

"What is this?" Cao Nan and I asked at the same time.

Huang Mao took a look at us and said, "The scales on the python's body!"

My scalp was numb. It was really the damage caused by the python. In this way, Hu Lai must have found a big bug if he didn't return at that time, or even an emergency situation, and he couldn't return.

Here comes the question, where is he now?

With a feeling, all three of us looked into the dark cave, where cold air was whizzing out, blowing goosebumps all over our bodies.

Cao Nan turned on the flashlight and looked inside, but it couldn't reach the bottom at all. The entrance of the black hole was like the mouth of a monster with fangs, trying to devour everything that entered it.

"We... shall we go in?" Cao Nan swallowed and asked.

I was also terrified, maybe the python was inside, and as soon as we went in, it swallowed us up.

Huang Mao didn't say a word, he stretched out his hand and pressed Cao Nan's flashlight down, and it showed a footprint on the mud, which was obviously a mess.The footprints obviously passed through the water, but they were kept deep because they were stepped on. The long toe prints are highly recognizable and unmistakable.

The meaning is obvious, you must go in, because Hu Lai went in.

So we all turned on our flashlights, entered the wormhole step by step, and explored the depths.

Hu Lai's footprints were always clear, but what surprised us at the same time was that the corpse monster that followed Hu Lai also entered, because we also found its footprints in the latter part.

The wormhole is very long, obviously the python used brute force to break through the soil layer to break into it, and the soil here is clay deep in the ground, it is very smooth, and there is no doubt about it collapsing.

"This is already inside the mountain!" Huang Mao said, and the echo echoed on both sides, making one's back chill.

After walking for five or six minutes, we stopped, and there were two holes, one big and one small, in front of us. The small hole was directly in front, and the big hole was on the side.

The bottom side was obviously formed by the python drilling down, and it dived back to the ground, and most of the water also flowed into the deeper ground along the big hole, with obvious traces.

But it was the little hole that really attracted us.

Rather than saying it is a hole, it is better to say it is a gap. The wall was originally made of bluestone, but now a gap is opened to allow two people to enter and exit, and the broken bluestone is everywhere.

"How can there be artificial traces inside this mountain?" Cao Nan was shocked.

I also took a deep breath, this was obviously broken open by the python on purpose, it forcibly drilled in from the outside of the pool and smashed through the bluestone wall, and then burrowed back into the ground after success.

Actions and intentions are clear at a glance.

My first reaction was that there was a mausoleum inside, and the bluestone was in a long strip shape, and it was piled up, and the artificial traces could not be more obvious.

And this is the inside of the mountain outside Jinpen Mountain. What will be built inside the mountain?

It can only be a mausoleum, and it is still a high-level mausoleum. It is impossible for ordinary people to have such a pattern.

I instinctively thought of the gang of tomb robbers. The pythons came here from the Yellow River in the northern country. Could it be their conspiracy?

There are some things that people can't do, and the risk is unknown, but it is possible to drive a python to do it. There are dangers to the python, and it is big and powerful, so it is easy to use.

If nothing else, let’s just talk about efficiency. If the mud hole is three to five minutes away, if it is manually excavated, it will not even be considered in two months, not to mention there is a pool outside, and it will take ten days and a half months to pump water.

Is there any connection between Grandpa's tomb and the suspected tomb here?Otherwise, why does this python always circle around the mansion where the dead live?

"Let's go in and have a look, be careful, no matter what you see or hear, don't yell." Huang Mao said to us seriously.

Cao Nan and I nodded hurriedly and followed Huang Mao to the entrance of the Qingtiaoshi Cave.

We walked cautiously to the entrance of the cave and took a flashlight into it, and the three of us opened our mouths again.

What a big mountainside space!
The flashlight photo is still bottomless!
The ground is all paved with bluestone bricks, neat and indistinct, and I saw a bridge at the deepest point that the flashlight could reach.

Huang Mao cautiously looked around and walked in. Cao Nan and I followed up. After a closer look, this space is really too high and too big. You can’t see the sides around you, and you can’t see the top above. It feels like Hollowed out the entire mountainside.

The surrounding darkness pressed down like a dense fog, making the light of the flashlight weak like a candle, which couldn't shine too far.

"There seems to be a bridge ahead!" Cao Nan said in a low voice.

"Hush!" Huang Mao hissed softly, signaling Cao Nan to stop talking, looked around, and continued to move forward.

After walking for a while, the thing that looks like a bridge is getting closer. It is really a bridge. Eight large copper cables that are as thick as the mouth of a bowl lead to the other end that is so dark that it can’t be seen at all. Over the years, thick bluestone slabs were laid on the copper cables.

There is a stele standing next to it, with eight big blood-colored characters written on it, the fonts are winding, and the obvious ancient characters, at first glance, it looks like it is written on it with blood, bloody and murderous.

The font was too old, I didn't recognize it, and Cao Nan was the same, so he looked at Huang Mao at the same time.

Huang Mao read: "The iron chain is dark, and strangers should not enter!"

I can't help feeling numb in my back, Nether?Why does it sound so evil?
I took photos around, and although I was wondering what the hell this place was, I didn’t have to go deep into it. The problem now is that the big bug has gone back to the ground, where did it go?
How can there be his figure in the empty place, not even a light, so it can't be followed by the hole drilled by the python, right?

"Will Hu Lai pass?" In the end, I could only look at the Chain Bridge and ask with a numb scalp.

"Impossible." Huang Mao shook his head and said, "Hu Lai is only interested in the big worm. If the big worm burrows into the ground again, he won't go too far even if he's curious."

I nodded, Hu Lai was only interested in Chong Bao, and there was something wrong here, and it was unlikely that he would cross the bridge.

"Look around and follow me closely," Huang Mao said.

I made an agreement with Cao Nan, one left and one right followed Huang Mao's side, and kept scanning the surroundings with the flashlight, looking for it.

I walked for about ten minutes and found nothing.

Just as I was gradually muttering in my heart, I suddenly felt something flash past the corner of my eye.

I immediately turned around and took a photo with my flashlight, but there was nothing, it was empty.

"what's the situation?"

I murmured in my heart that it felt like something was there, but I was not so sure. Just in case, I took a closer look, and turned around and followed after I found nothing unusual.

But in the end... I turned around and almost peed immediately.

There was darkness behind him, Huang Mao and Cao Nan were gone!

It took him only three to five seconds to turn around, and when he turned around again, the two of them disappeared.

The darkness all around me rushed towards me, as if it was going to swallow me up.

I just felt a chill rushing from the soles of my feet to my forehead, and my whole body was shivering.

A good living person can walk seven or eight meters at most in three to five seconds, how could he disappear?

Hit a ghost!
It was like this when we went up the mountain last time. I slept soundly. When I woke up, Cao Nan and He were gone.

Come again this time!

I didn't dare to leave, last time I just ran around by myself, Huang Mao and Cao Nan couldn't catch up after chasing, and finally scattered.

The dirty thing must have played some kind of trick, they can't go, stay here and wait for the yellow hairs to come back.

But... that's just the beginning.

"Clap!"

I suddenly heard a sound of walking behind me, just one step.

I instinctively thought it was Huangmao and the others, and turned around like an electric shock, but I didn't see anyone.

A dozen steps away, a pair of fresh footprints appeared, neither belonging to me nor Huang Mao and Cao Nan.

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(End of this chapter)