Chapter 8: The Insides of the Cave

The sky was overcast, fog lingered, and the wind blew, rolling up a veil of mist.

We continued to move forward, and the guide in front of us was saying, saying that in this weather, snakes, insects, rats and ants are hibernating, and it is the best. If it was said that they would come at the turn of spring and summer, the ghosts would not dare to come, because there were too many snakes, and they would fall from the book and wrap themselves around their necks as they walked. The guide's surname was Jin, and he was a man of nearly fifty years old, with a metal front tooth, and his steps were like flying. Listening to Director Wang's introduction, it was said that the villagers of Zhongyang Village often went into the mountains to collect medicinal herbs and mushrooms.

I asked the golden guide, "What's the matter with the fog?"

He said that he didn't know, but the Houting Cliff has always been foggy, and it may be that the humidity here is relatively large. But don't worry, this fog is nothing, it's not the miasma you think. He has been in the mountains for forty years, and he often sees fog here, so it's okay. My heart moved, and I said, Have you ever seen a dwarf mule? He asked, "Do you mean the dwarf man?" I said yes. He said that he hadn't encountered the real thing, but he had encountered a number of things, inexplicable, but it felt like a short old man had done it.

He worships God, prostrates in the morning and burns incense in the evening, does not speak indiscriminately, and is not afraid.

He led the way, and we walked through the valley road between the cliffs, and passed under the cliffs of the back pavilion, where the dense forests were in winter, and there were clumps of green shrubs growing around, and there were blue-red fruits on the ground with the size of a thumb, growing out of season. The golden guide said that this was a snake, some black and purple, black red, and some bright red, which had been licked and eaten by snakes, stained with saliva, and poisonous. We walked further and saw a huge green umbrella appearing in the mist, more than 20 meters high, two connected trees, intertwined, like a canopy.

Ma Haibo pulled Li Decai over and asked him if this was the thousand-year-old tree?

Li Decai said that the cave was in front of the slope behind the big banyan tree. With the goal in sight, we picked up our pace again and came to the foot of the big tree, which was full of foliage and shade. Li Decai began to tremble at this moment, and his teeth were chattering. Ma Haibo asked him what was wrong, and he said he was scared. I said I was afraid of a hair, pulled a yellow paper talisman, stuck it on his chest, and said don't be afraid, I have a soul talisman here, which can save your life.

When he had listened, he got better, and he followed, leading the way with the guide.

Ma Haibo asked me if that thing was really a "soul fixing talisman"?

I smiled and said how is it possible, Li Decai is a cowardly person, I just gave him a confidence that it would be good not to break things.

Passing through the foliage area of the banyan tree, we came to a shady hillside where there was a cave entrance, surrounded by vines, green and low, revealing a black hole just the size of an adult to pass through. There is a puddle next to the entrance of the cave, two meters in diameter, which looks like a deep pool, and the water is green, as if there are many algae. As soon as Captain Wu gave the order, the soldiers immediately stood on guard and pointed their guns at the entrance of the cave. I asked Li Decai how deep the hole was, and he shook his head and said that he didn't know what to do.

I said, isn't it a dirt cave? Why did it become a cave again?

Li Decai was so hesitant that he couldn't say a complete sentence.

I asked how many of the mules there were, and he didn't know what to say. Ma Haibo discussed with Captain Wu and said that he would send someone in.

Why don't you gas it?

First of all, this poison gas is a strictly controlled weapon, and it is impossible to obtain it in the countryside; Secondly, even if there is, this cave does not know how deep the tunnel is, and if there are other vents, it will be blind. Dwarf mules are nocturnal creatures and do not like light, at this time, it should be the time for them to sleep, holding a gun, should not be afraid. Whom will they send? Four armed police soldiers and one police officer were dispatched, and Ma Haibo and Captain Wu led the others to press the formation outside.

Ma Haibo forced Li Decai to go in too, but Li Decai shook his head and refused. As soon as he arrived here, he was weak, his face was pale, and the temperature was more than ten degrees, and he was stunned by beads of sweat dripping down his beans. After arguing for a while, Captain Wu looked at me and said Isn't Advisor Lu an expert in this area? Why don't you let Advisor Lu go in and take a look? ——Ma Haibo has been very polite to me these days, but I have not shown the corresponding ability, which makes this young soldier a little unbearable, and always thinks that I am swaggering.

I said I could go, give me a pistol.

I dare to say this, but there is actually some certainty. The dwarf mule has several powerful points, the most powerful is illusion, which is almost real, and those who are not strong-minded are easy to be doubted; Secondly, these guys, each agile like a monkey, jumping for several meters, the last behind, the dwarf mule is also good at raising silverfish, repelling insects and attacking people. And because I have the Golden Silkworm Gu and Duoduo, I am not too afraid of illusion, and my skills are good, the Golden Silkworm Gu has a powerful aura, and ordinary silverfish dare not get close. These dwarf mules have killed people many times, they play too much, and in my hometown, I naturally want to get rid of them.

Besides, the reason why I agreed to be so happy was because I looked at their weapons and wanted to play with guns.

Captain Wu asked me, will it be opened?

Except for the military training when I used to study, I played these at other times, but I can be regarded as a pseudo-military fan, and I know a little bit about it, so I stalked my neck and said of course. He looked at me suspiciously, then asked Ma Haibo's opinion, and took out a black pistol from his waist, which was the 64 style. He hesitated for a while, but finally didn't hand it to me, saying that he would go himself. I was happy in vain, squatting down and making glutinous rice.

Some of the methods I have told them before to contain dwarf mules are of course the most effective is to sprinkle them with glutinous rice.

In this world, there are many things that cannot be explained by science, such as glutinous rice, which is just a kind of food, growing in the ground, steaming and eating is very sticky, but it is very fragrant, and that's it, but when it is sprinkled on the body of dwarf mules and other yin things, it can make this thing festering and smoking all over the body, which is really magical.

Although I didn't have a gun, I followed Captain Wu and five other people into the cave with a flashlight.

Outside during the day, however, as soon as I walked into the cave for more than ten meters, the whole space suddenly darkened, and it also warmed up, and the temperature increased by several degrees. This is a karst cave made of ordinary karst landform, the cave is more than two meters high, and the cave wall is rocky to the touch. Because I had talked about the ferocity of the dwarf mule, the seven of us chewed the licorice in our mouths and walked slowly, not daring to make a sound. After walking for a few minutes, a fork in the road appeared, and several people discussed it intensively, decided to make a mark with chalk, and then concentrated on walking all the way.

When I was choosing the left and the right, Captain Wu glanced at me and said that since it is called Lu Zuo, then go left.

As we walked on, the cave grew darker and darker, a sticky black that seemed to swallow up the light of a flashlight. We walked all the way for ten minutes and came across three forks in the road, and Captain Wu said to go left. All the way to a place, suddenly there was a sound of a thin rope in front of them, this sound appeared very abruptly, everyone immediately stopped, did not dare to move forward, took a flashlight and probed to the source of the sound in front.

As soon as the light shone, a black shadow jumped across the sky and ran forward.

"Chase!" Captain Wu shouted in a low voice, and rushed forward with his gun. The others followed closely, and for a moment there was a messy sound of footsteps in the hallway. After chasing more than ten meters, the space in front of him suddenly opened up. Before we knew it, we had run into a hall of nearly 200 square meters. There were stalagmites in the middle of the hall, and there were inverted pillars on it, and the sound of ticking water was echoed, and when we stopped our steps, it suddenly became very loud.

Five or six flashlights shone around, but the black shadow was never seen again.

I looked at the rock face, which was not gray and white, but with rough murals carved into it. The mural is made of stone, black and white, with simple and bright lines, strange and strange, horizontal or vertical or rounded, and there is no confinement to the shape at all. ), life, labor, festivals, hunting...... The person described in it is eccentric, small, with three eyes, and the eyes on the forehead are depicted in a square. The mural has what appears to be a part of a sacrifice, and countless small people jump into the flames, and their souls are sublimated.

I looked at the wall again, and saw that it was a fragmented spider web, with countless small circles in the middle of the space, which looked very strange, and there were lumps falling from the ground, like lime lumps.

As he was looking, he suddenly heard a loud scream, which was sharp and miserable, and made people's hearts suddenly creep. I immediately looked over and saw that it was a small warrior who made this noise, and he was in the middle of the hall, and in front of him was a large natural stone, like a table. Everyone immediately gathered around, and the little warrior pointed to the things on the table and shouted tremblingly, "Heart...... It's the heart! ”

I looked up at the table, and there were a number of withered and shriveled organs on the table, the black juice had become viscous and dry, and these organs had a heart, a lung lobe, and a stomach...... Of course, visually, it's all black and red pieces of meat. Captain Wu walked over, pulled out a knife, picked it with the tip of the knife, and said suspiciously, "...... It's human entrails! ”

He seemed to see something, and the tip of the knife was inserted into the fourth piece from left to right, inserted and removed, and turned back to show us the tip of his knife, and we leaned over to see that there was obvious thick black blood on the tip of the knife.

He died not long ago......

The only policeman suddenly shouted: "The deceased Li Jiang who was killed by Li Decai, his kidneys and part of his lung lobes are missing, we thought he had eaten it at first, this is ......"

Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly let out another sharp squeak from the passage on the other side.