Chapter Twenty-Four: Bones
In the glow of the flashlight, we saw an immobile monster in front of us, and I must admit that it was a fish, because the fish's tail fin and other obvious features were still present on this monster's body.
But its body has developed in an unknown direction, such as the front and back of the fish's abdomen, corresponding to the growth of four limp-looking claws.
With the belly of the fish as the dividing line, its front half is extended, and it becomes thin and thin relative to the body, becoming a neck-like existence, which appears to be more protruding, and the tail part of the fish that is cut off at the back is more like a long tail, swinging in the water.
As for the part of the fish belly, there is not much change, that is, it looks round and large, if you only look at the fish belly plus the first half, suddenly look at it, it looks like a turtle, and the fish belly part is a turtle shell
This kind of description may not be scary, nor will it be stressful, but Xiao Chengqian and I just look at it like this, and no one can not feel pressure in front of a burly guy who is close to 20 meters long, and it is swimming less than 50 meters away from us.
Xiao Chengqian and I looked stupid, the stunned look was like seeing aliens, and I had a thought in my head, why did I throw fish into the X pool? To raise this guy, or to appease this guy?
Helplessly, I can't touch the secrets of that level, and the attitude and decisions of the top are not something I can influence and interfere with, this water monster is definitely not the only secret of the X pool, under the X pool, the intricate terrain, the water level that has not changed for thousands of years, what else is hidden?
I fell into a feeling that the world is big, but what I know is so limited, but I don't want the water monster that has been cruising to stop slowly, and then suddenly turn around and rush towards the location where Xiao Chengqian and I are!
My scalp exploded all of a sudden, even if it was a fat man flying towards you in life, it would be an absolutely stressful thing, let alone such a guy.
Xiao Chengqian and I almost subconsciously flew backwards, but the turbulent turbulence made Xiao Chengqian's bodies and I a little unstable, but fortunately we resisted!
The big face stayed at the entrance of the cave again, but Xiao Chengqian and I looked at each other in fear, didn't dare to stay any longer, and struggled towards the cave that was tilted upwards.
In the dark cave illuminated only by flashlights, Xiao Chengqian and I were extremely silent, the scene just now in retrospect, the feeling of fear is even more obvious, just because everything says a problem, this monster is wise, it just wanted to kill us by surprise!
If it has a certain amount of wisdom, we can't predict how high it will be for the time being, then it is easy to explain the thing that leaves no evidence, or is it deliberately avoided? In addition, the authorities may have touched some of the rules of the monster's behavior, and then deliberately covered it up?
I can't think about it, because this monster is obviously evolving, so how far will it evolve if it is left unchecked? Or is there something else to letting it exist like this?
I frowned and fell into my own contemplation, I didn't care about any changes around me, but at this moment I felt a lightness in my body and a pain in my forehead, it turned out that before I knew it, I had surfaced and entered the part of the cave that was not flooded.
And Xiao Chengqian had already climbed up, looking at me who had made such a low-level mistake, he seemed to be a little helpless, and stretched out his hand to pull me, allowing me to climb up smoothly.
Leaning against the cave wall, Xiao Chengqian and I gasped for breath, underwater activities were already physically exhausting, plus breathing was not as free as on land and several times of panic, we needed to take a break.
"There's nothing wrong with the air here, it seems like we're lucky, it's not a dead end, it's within the scope of positioning, we stumbled into it, maybe we've found the right place." After resting for a few minutes, Xiao Chengqian opened his mouth and said to me, smiling very pleasantly, completely ignoring that there was a water monster outside the cave, and we were short on time.
This kid was optimistic, I stroked my wet hair casually, stood up, took off my flippers, removed the oxygen cylinder, and some miscellaneous items on my body, and said to Xiao Chengqian only in a diving suit: "Since this is the case, then let's hurry up, the water monsters have been met, and we haven't found the right place yet, and that one decay word is not enough to describe us." ”
After saying that, I turned on my flashlight and walked forward, and when I reached a place where there was no flooding, the slope of this cave had steeply slowed down, and there was no difficulty in walking, and Xiao Chengqian hurriedly did the same thing to keep up with me.
The whole cave is very dry, and it is unusually quiet, there are no visible creatures to see, walking in it with a flashlight, just pay attention to the potholes under your feet so as not to trip yourself.
The cave is not long, but it is 78,000 around, Xiao Chengqian and I walked for more than 20 minutes, only to see a little bright exit, we hurriedly walked a few steps towards the exit, and then we found out that after this small hole, we actually came to a huge cave.
Standing in this cave, Xiao Chengqian and I took a deep breath at the same time, because the structure of this cave is a little peculiar, the whole is a semicircle, 50 meters long, more than 40 meters wide, the whole cave wall is unusually smooth, except for me and Xiao Chengqian in this direction, there are no other branches, and on the top of the cave more than 20 meters high, there is a crack, a very narrow crack, and the moonlight shines through that crack, which is the little light that Xiao Chengqian and I saw.
There is a sense of mystery in such a scene, so Xiao Chengqian and I took a deep breath at the same time, and we knew that if we didn't find the right place, then this would be a dead end.
'Tick' A dripping sound came into my ears and Xiao Chengqian's ears, this is nothing to make a fuss about, since there is a gap, then it is normal for the water to drop down, however, I listened carefully, the sound should be the sound of water droplets falling into the water, could it be that there is still a water source here, it is a little unimaginable.
There was plenty of time, and I didn't rush to explore the cave, but left the flashlight at the entrance where we came out, so that it kept on, because when I looked around just now, I found that we were in a position with more than a dozen entrances densely distributed, and our diving equipment was still left in our way from it, and if we wanted to go back the way we came, in order to avoid going to the wrong cave, we had to do it.
"Seiichi, where do you think we are?" After all this I did last night, Xiao Chengqian spoke.
"In the belly of the mountain, but as for the specific belly of the mountain, I can't be sure if I have traveled so far around 78,000." As I spoke, I asked Xiao Chengqian to hold up a flashlight and shine a light on that gap, where there were a few tree roots, which was a perfect shield.
"Forget it, I'm too lazy to know, let's go see if we can get anything, right?" Xiao Chengqian is a reckless person who doesn't like to think too much, just like I did back then, I really didn't bother to care if I didn't care, and walked forward with a flashlight.
I touched behind Xiao Chengqian, carefully looking at this cave, as we walked deeper in, I had already seen, in the back of the cave, there was really a pool of water, black and faint looked very deep, by the light of the moonlight and the flashlight, I saw that there seemed to be something on the edge of the pool, and in the middle of the pool there was a protruding stone pillar against the mountain wall, but I didn't care too much, just thought it was a natural formation.
Xiao Chengqian and I ran forward quickly, obviously we were attracted by the things by the waterhole, but after we ran, under the light of the flashlight, we saw the things by the waterhole clearly, and then we gasped, we never dreamed that it would be such a thing!
Dry bones, the things by the waterhole turned out to be the dry bones of people! And what Xiao Chengqian's flashlight shone on was a human skull, two circles of black holes, and gray teeth, in such an environment, at first glance, there was some horror!
How could there be human bones here? Xiao Chengqian and I were puzzled, and we also found that these bones did not leave any clothes, could it be that they came here naked?
The ground was messy, Xiao Chengqian and I held back the hairy feeling in our hearts, searched carefully, and found again in horror that none of the seven or eight corpses on the ground were complete, and all of them were missing parts of their limbs, what was going on?
And I made another discovery, that is, in this pile of bones, I found a fountain pen, and I had just picked it up, and before I could look closely, I suddenly felt a cold in my neck, as if something was breathing behind me
Is it my delusion? But the next moment, Xiao Chengqian's faces and I changed, because there was really the sound of someone's breathing and a chuckle in the cave!