Chapter 66: The Entrance Is Found
The group continued to move forward, and with the lesson of the last time, everyone was extra careful. From time to time, weapons and torches were used to strike nearby rocks and uneven ground. But those killers never appeared again.
Dili Matthews walked in front with a torch in one hand and a short knife in the other, striking the ground with the short knife from time to time.
Suddenly, Dili Matthews stopped, and then struck the ground with his short knife.
"What's wrong?" Aeolia asked.
"It looks like it's empty down here." Dili Matthews said.
Wen Bufan directly knocked it with a burning stick, and the bottom was indeed empty.
"Smash it open!" Aeolia said.
Dili Matthews smashed down with his scabbard, and after a while, a round hole appeared, the hole was not big, and he shone it at the entrance of the hole with a torch, and it was dark below, and Bao Mei threw a small stone into it, and heard the sound of the stone falling into the water for a long time.
Wen Bufan glanced at the hole, it didn't look like it was dug by hand. Moreover, the entrance to the cave is not large, it is difficult for a person to pass through, and it is also surrounded by rocks, and it is difficult to widen.
"It looks like it's just an ordinary passageway, and there's an underground river down there." Aeolia said.
"Hmm!" Wen Bufan nodded.
A few people walked on again, and along the way they found seven or eight more such holes, the largest of which was just big enough for one person to pass through.
One hole is enough, and the appearance of so many holes obviously doesn't look like a passage, but more like a vent! Wen Bufan thought in his heart. I couldn't help but look at Isabel.
At this time, Isabel's eyes also looked at Wen Bufan, and the two nodded knowingly.
Then Wen Bufan found a branch and lit it, and threw away a hole.
The branch fell slowly downward, and when it was about ten meters down, the flames suddenly moved, and then the light suddenly dispersed a lot. "There's a cave down there!" Several people said at the same time.
"But where is the entrance to the cave?" Bao Mei said.
The group fell into deep thought again.
"Except for the fact that we saw some rocks that had been cracked in the place where we first entered, it seemed that we hadn't seen them for a long time." Isabel said.
"yes. I didn't see those after I met them at this moment. Dili Matthews said.
Isabel pondered for a moment and said, "Isn't the entrance in this valley?" Is this just a hypocrisy? ”
"Then let's go out and have a look." Wen Bufan said. Judging from those passages, this underground cave is at least more than ten meters above the ground, and it is indeed unreasonable for the entrance to be so high.
The group returned to the outside of the valley the way they came. After breathing in the fresh air for a while, Wen Bufan looked at a hillside not far away and said, "Where are we going?" Something like an entrance. ”
The group climbed to the slope closest to the valley and looked carefully at the scene around the valley, but except for the valley, it was surrounded by high mountains, and there was no place that looked like an entrance.
"Could it be that the underground cavern is connected to one of these caves in the mountains?" Bao Mei said.
Everyone knows that Baomei has a point, but if you find it like this, you don't know when you will find it.
"We can go through the biggest passage." Dili Matthews said.
"No! Although the entrance to the cave can be entered by one person, there seems to be a narrow part of the way! Wen Bufan said. When he just threw the branch downward, Wen Bufan had already noticed, "And even if we pass through that passage, the height of that cave, it will be difficult for us to fall." ”
After speaking, Wen Bufan turned his gaze to Isabel who had not spoken.
Isabel looked at Wen Bufan and said, "I'm wondering, the crushed traces we found are a hundred and ten miles away from here, why is it so far away?" I've just seen it, and if you come here from the original place, it's going in the wrong direction! It happens to be crossed, and there is no need to press out that trace. ”
"yes!" Bao Mei said.
"You mean, the trail leads to the entrance to this underground cavern?" Wen Bufan said.
"Hmm!" Isabel nodded.
"Chief, is there a spring or a deep pool near the place we visited before?" Wen Bufan looked at Aeolia and asked.
Aeolia looked at Dili Matthews.
Dili Matthews recalled the terrain that he had inquired about with the local hunters and woodcutters, thought for a while and said, "It seems that there is a waterfall!" ”
"Let's go! Let's check it out! Wen Bufan said.
The group walked back again.
Dilimatsius sent the guards out to find out if there were any Orion woodcutters nearby. Finally a woodcutter was found, and the woodcutter knew where the waterfall was.
Under the leadership of the woodcutter, the group turned several ridges and came to a waterfall, the waterfall is not big, and it flows to a deep pool, which is not small, and the surface of the pool is dozens of meters wide.
"Brother, do you know that crushed tree?" Dili Matthews asked.
"Of course you know? It's over there! The woodcutter said.
"Over there, how far is it?" Dili Matthews asked.
"Not far, more than ten miles away!" The woodcutter said.
Dili Matthews glanced at Aeolia and asked if he wanted to ask anything else, Aeolia shook his head, and Dily Matthews understood, took out a piece of broken silver and handed it to the woodcutter, saying, "Thank you, brother!" ”
The woodcutter didn't want to shirk it, but Dili Matthews simply stuffed the silver to the woodcutter, and the woodcutter couldn't get rid of it, so he took the money, and seemed to feel uncomfortable, so he said, "Are you here to find something?" ”
When Wen Bufan and the others heard this, looking at this woodcutter, Wen Bufan opened his mouth and asked, "What else do you know?" ”
"Oh! A few days ago, I happened to be chopping wood not far away, and suddenly I heard a loud noise, as if something big had fallen into the water, probably here! The woodcutter said.
"What else do you see?" Wen Bufan asked.
"But I'm curious. I ran over, but when I came, there was nothing but a lot of water splashing outside. I saw that it was nothing, and left! The woodcutter said.
Wen Bufan set his eyes on the deep pool again. The woodcutter looked at Dilimatsius, who looked at Aeolia again, and Aiolia waved his hand to signal that the woodcutter could leave.
The woodcutter looked at the men and walked away, puzzled.
"Don't tell anyone about today!" Dili Matthews said as he looked at the woodcutter. So saying, he handed the woodcutter a piece of silver.
The woodcutter seemed to see the difference between them, took the money and left quickly.
All eyes were on the pool, and it seemed that the entrance to the cave was here.