Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 105
"Why don't you hurry up and wait for the corpse exorcists from a whole village to come and make trouble?" Seeing me looking at her, Miss Qiu raised her eyebrows.

After a short rest, we walked into the cave. Unexpectedly, the entrance of the cave looked spacious, but when we walked in, we found that only one person could pass through.

"Could it be that this is the bird path?" I touched the surrounding stone walls, and it was more like a secret passage than a cave.

With a cigarette in his mouth, Lao Yan said in a vague tone: "Probably not, then Li Bai didn't say that the bird path connects Mount Taibai and Mount Emei, and this place is still far away."

I was a little disappointed. After wandering around Taibai Mountain for many days, I almost fell into the hands of the exorcists, but the bird road was still like a legend, still holding the pipa half-hidden to us.

"However, we are definitely on the right path! Look at the stone wall, there are obviously traces of artificial excavation." Lao Yan touched the mountain wall, and said with emotion: "It is hard to imagine that such a huge project, the ancients How did you do it?"

"The wisdom of the ancients has always been difficult to explore." Yazai walked and touched the stone wall, and said slowly: "There are still too many mysteries that cannot be explained in the archaeological world. Unless we go back to that era, these questions will never be solved." answer."

Miss Qiu patted Yazai on the head: "That's right, I'm getting more and more like your master."

Yazai seemed a little embarrassed by what he said, but he kept staring at the stone wall. Even through the sunglasses, I could feel his eagerness, and I could understand his behavior when I remembered the bronze statue.

The cave is long and long, and we walked in it for more than ten minutes without seeing the end.

"Do you feel that you are getting higher and higher?"

I held the flashlight and touched the chill on my arm, only to feel that the temperature seemed to be getting lower and lower.

Kunbu, who was walking in the front, shook his head and said, "No, there is water in front."

have water?

Sure enough, within 5 minutes after Kumbu said this sentence, we stepped into the stagnant water. I bent down to hold a handful of water, and felt the cold was overwhelming.

With the emergence of stagnant water, the cave gradually widened. Finally, even if the five of us walked side by side, it didn't seem crowded, but the stagnant water under our feet was getting more and more, almost reaching our ankles.

"Where did this stagnant water come from?"

I looked around, and although the mountain wall became wet, it was obviously caused by stagnant water.

Yazai put his arms around my shoulders, and said with a smile: "Isn't it normal for there to be water in the mountains? It looks like it should be groundwater."

groundwater?
I shook my head: "Impossible, don't forget that we are not at a low altitude. If this is groundwater, wouldn't the whole mountain be submerged in water?"

"It seeped up from the ground." Lao Yan pointed to the front and said: "The water is getting deeper and deeper, but we can't see the source. It probably really seeped up from the ground."

I looked forward and saw a small river meandering in the cave, and the surface of the river was green and green reflected by the moss.

I walked forward slowly while drenching the water, then turned around and asked, "Is this water really coming from the ground?"

"Hey, that's normal. Although we are at a high altitude, the groundwater doesn't have to come up from the bottom! You see, we encountered a lot of mountain springs along the way, maybe it seeped up from there." Yazai said slowly Slowly explaining, he also said a bunch of nouns that I didn't understand, such as mountain water diversion, probably because I didn't understand, so he added such a simple and clear sentence.

I groaned and didn't look into it carefully, but the water got deeper and deeper as I walked forward, slowly from the ankle to the calf and then to the knee, and the small river seemed to be only halfway through.

"Won't the water be deeper in front of here?"

Lao Yan tied a thick layer of waterproof tape on his leg before he went into the water, but even so, the icy cold water still seeped into his leg, and the wound that had finally healed was stretched open again, excruciatingly painful His lips were pale.

I saw him expressing that he wanted to carry him behind his back, but he avoided it directly: "You don't even look at the injury on your shoulder, don't let us jump into the water together then."

"I come!"

Yazai chuckled, and Lao Yan looked him up and down, quite distrustful.Yazai got anxious, grabbed Lao Yan's arm and pulled it up on his back. Lao Yan laughed twice and didn't argue with him, lying on his back and telling him to slow down.

The water was already waist-high, and everyone no longer had the energy to laugh. Even Kunbu and Miss Qiu, who were not injured on their bodies, were soaked in the cold water, their lips turned white, and they were trembling when they spoke.

"Why, why, it's so cold?" Miss Qiu rubbed her arms, took out a fire pocket from her bag and lit it to keep warm, but the temperature of the fire pocket didn't work at all at this moment, but it was just a little psychological comfort.

I reached out to touch the water, and just about to say something, I seemed to see a black shadow swimming through the water, but when I looked carefully, there was nothing there.

I rubbed my eyes and stared at the bottom of the water in some surprise.

"What's wrong?" Kumbu, who was standing beside me, asked.

I shook my head: "It's nothing, I guess it's just my eyesight."

Kumbu was not at ease, he must have asked me what I saw, so I told him, but his face changed instantly, he signaled the team to stop first, and then released the pathfinding Gu worm.

Originally, he released the Gu worms when he first entered the cave, and he took back the Shadow Gu worms only when the accumulated water got deeper and colder. First, it was because the damage to the Shadow Gu was very large in such an environment, and second, Nothing happened along the way, so there was no need to make such unnecessary sacrifices.

Shadow Gu lost its trace as soon as it hit the water, and returned to Kunbu's palm after about half a minute, shaking his buttocks.

"There are things under the water, everyone be careful!" Kunbu took the Shadow Gu back and instructed with a solemn expression.

As soon as he said there was something, I thought of the shadow, and couldn't help but grab the dagger in my hand!
Now that we have reached the middle of the river, we can't go back at all. If the things in the water are aggressive, it will be difficult for us to parry.

Lao Yan asked each of us to walk in the water with an iron rod, so that we can find things in time if they approach.

"Let's go."

Kumbu took the lead and walked forward. Miss Qiu and I stood by the side of Yazai. He was carrying Laoyan on his back. If he was really attacked, he would have no way to fight back.

Everyone's physical strength was almost exhausted in the water, but now they heard that there was something in the water, they could only barely cheer up.

The light of the flashlight shone in the water, making the already green water look even weirder, and it always made people feel that something would pop out of it at any time.

We just walked forward for five meters and nothing happened. Kunbu and I looked at each other and felt a little strange. The boy said carelessly that it might be just a small fish under the water. We made too much fuss.

"Fish? Do you think it's normal to have fish in this kind of water?" Old Yan slapped him on the head angrily: "If there are fish in it, a tender child like you will take one bite at a time."

The boy muttered: "Hey, Lao Yan, don't forget that there is Chang'an who is more tender than me here, even if he bites one by one, he is the first to eat."

I was speechless listening to their coming and going, but my spirit was highly tense.

If it weren't for Kumbu's confirmation, I might have thought I was dazzled, but with him, the more I thought about the black shadow I saw before, the more panicked I felt, because the black shadow was definitely not small, and it was definitely not a fish.

We walked in fear, the water was getting deeper and deeper, and it had already reached our abdomen, but the so-called underwater things still didn't appear.

"Maybe it really is an aquatic creature." I wiped the sweat from my forehead due to nervousness.

But who knew that Yazai's complexion changed: "Chang...Chang'an, why is your iron rod missing... a piece of it?"

Because I was sweating, I lifted the iron rod. I didn't feel anything at first, but when I heard what he said, I suddenly felt something was wrong.This iron rod is obviously more than one meter long, but now it is nearly a half short...

What broke the iron rod, but I didn't feel it at all?

"Be alert immediately!"

I roared, staring into the water, not letting go of any movement.

But there was nothing, as we stopped, the water here seemed to freeze, without any fluctuations.

My forehead is sweating non-stop. If something rushes up directly, we still have a way to deal with it, but this thing that gnaws without making a sound really makes my scalp numb. I don’t want to find out when I walk. Half of my legs are missing.

Everyone held their breath, Kumbu had already released several kinds of Gu worms, even Xiao Jin who was good at attacking.But these Gu worms seemed to be greatly affected in the water, even Kumbu couldn't make them exert their full strength!
(End of this chapter)