Chapter 179: The Cave
At the bottom of the pond, there is a stout python swimming around, this snake is not like other water snakes, its skin is earthy yellow, its body is thick, it does not seem to be a good hand in the water, but it swings its body violently to break the resistance to advance, and in its mouth, it holds two cards, both of which are glowing with white light, resisting the invasion of water.
Swimming, the python reached the edge of a place, and then swam into a place covered by aquatic plants without looking, and its thick body slowly disappeared into the aquatic plants. Although it did this series of movements clumsily, it was not slow in speed for ten times, but it disappeared from the pond in a moment, and when it disappeared, many good swimmers had already jumped out of the water, and they began to look for their superior.
In a dark cave, the sound of water rushing is endless, and in this empty cave, the sound of water dropping on the ground is also clearly visible, as if there is no sound here except the sound of ticking.
Suddenly, the surface of the water was broken, a giant python from the middle, came out, its huge body crawled out of the water in an arc, because of the mouth of the card, so it can not spit out the snake letter to perceive the surroundings, the bright eyes are just decorations, so it swims, and bumps into a lot of gravel between walking, some natural blades are extremely sharp, that is, the scales are hard, hard as iron, it climbed out of more than ten meters or was cut two deep gaps on the body.
Maybe it knew that it was safe, or it could be tired, the python stopped swimming, walking, it coiled its body in a circle, pillowed its head on its body, and spit the card in its mouth on the ground, which made a painful scream, and then its body began to emit seven-colored light.
At the same time, the two cards that it spit out fell to the ground, and they also came with the light, and for a time the cave was lit up, waking up the owners who were hanging upside down, and the bats made a cry and began to fly wildly, probably because the animal instinct knew that this light was not easy to mess with, so although they did not like these uninvited guests, they did not dare to attack.
After a while, the light gradually faded, and the thick snake body disappeared, replaced by two cards, and the original cards became two big living people, both of them were wet, their faces were miserable white, and their mouths instinctively spit out the water in their stomachs.
After some time, one of them moved his hands, and then his breathing became heavier, and his body began to rise and fall with his breathing, while the other man remained motionless, bleeding from his shoulder-length wound, which had already stained half of his body red.
"Remember, never be discouraged, we will always believe in you, Dragon Wing is your eternal home" A voice appeared in the brain, over and over again, so that the drowsy brain began to have signs of being woken up, the sound changed from mechanical to emotional, slowly, the awakened brain began to operate, it began to recognize the voice, it felt familiar, but it couldn't remember for a while.
"Forever!" In which simple sentence appeared three in a row, this word was also deliberately emphasized, so the brain remembered the deepest, it repeated, suddenly felt many pictures appear in the brain, those faces in camouflage uniforms smiling at themselves are all so familiar, when more than twenty faces appeared, they cycled again, only this time these people changed into the clothes they had always dreamed of, white trench coats.
Envy! sighed in my heart, but more than that, I was happy for these people I was familiar with.
As the picture looped to the last person again, the slide in his brain did not end as he expected, but flashed, and a figure appeared again, this is a lewd middle-aged uncle in military uniform but like a turf, he is lazily lying on a Taishi chair, with his hands on his stomach, holding a water cup, which is still steaming tea, looking very uncomfortable.
Teacher Teng Xiaoyi Teng, yes, that voice is his. The brain suddenly recognized the owner of the voice, and as the brain gave the command downward, the limbs began to move with it, and in a few moments, two bright dots appeared in the dark cave, and one of his eyes opened.
Li Xiang opened his eyes and saw that it was pitch black, he thought that there was something wrong with his eyes, closed it and shook his head, but it was still the same when he opened it again, making him realize that it should be night.
After regaining consciousness, the wound on his body came with pain, especially the mouth under the left armpit, which hurt hotly, and at the same time, the water he drank in the pond also turned upside down, so that he who wanted to scream could only turn his head to one side, spit out the water in his mouth to the side, and spit it out for a while, making him feel better, but the strength of his body was almost vomited, so he ignored the water stains he spit out on the side, lay on the ground and put up big characters, gasping and breathing.
I remember that I should have fought hard with Zhou Bo in the pond, how did I get here? The exertion of the body did not hinder the functioning of the brain, and Li Xiang began to think back to what happened under the pond.
He broke one of the other party's arms, and then the two fought together, during which he seemed to hear the dragon's groan and the snake's roar, but his mind was all on Zhou Bo at that time, and he didn't listen carefully, and after a while, the two couldn't hold their breath because of the vigorous exercise underwater, and choked on water in their mouths almost at the same time, and then he remembered that it was dark in front of him, and when his body sank, it seemed that something caught him behind his back, it was very soft, and it was very comfortable to lie on it, which made him feel very kind.
Could it be that Teacher Teng sent me out? This is the only explanation that is plausible at the moment. After relieving for a while, he felt that his limbs had some strength, and slowly got up from the ground, because he couldn't see his five fingers, he could only use his hands in front of him to explore the way, like a blind man, groping a little bit, he really wanted to take out the card to materialize the torch or other lighting tools, but his physical condition did not allow it, although he couldn't see it, but he knew that now his face must be ugly, and his limbs were also weak, so he could only get to the ground on his knees, and grope in front of him with his hands, It's as if it has degenerated to the age of walking on all fours.
In a few steps, he touched another person beside him, because he touched the other party's wound at the first time, so he immediately determined the identity of the other party, this guy should be the special soldier, Zhou Bo.
After knowing the identity of the other party, he was nervous for a while, but then he didn't care about it, because he couldn't feel a little beating from the other party, that is to say, the other party was probably dead, in order to verify, he groped with both hands, slowly touched the other party's face, and probed in front of his nose, feeling that although the snort was weak, it still existed, knowing that this guy was not dead, it was almost the same, and it should not pose a threat to himself, so Li Xiang didn't care about him, and began to touch other places.
When he touched the two cards, he was already physically and mentally exhausted, and he no longer had the strength to move his body, his limbs were weak, and he lay on the ground, unconscious.
In the thatched hut, Teng Xiaoyi and Zhao Ping have already changed into formal clothes, and a military uniform makes both of them look extraordinarily energetic, even the obscene Teng Xiaoyi is lazy and in excellent spirits. This is the fourth day that Li Xiang and the others disappeared in the pond, and they should have withdrawn, but the supreme commander of the defenders outside was very attentive and ordered that people must be found, and they must see people alive and dead to see corpses, so only the large troops withdrew, and some special forces still stayed.
On Long Yi's side, all except Teng Xiaoyi and the others were evacuated, and they were left behind because Teng Xiaoyi was discovered by a special soldier when he went into the water, so the commander thought that this guy was doing it, so he angrily asked him for someone, and threatened that if he didn't hand it over, let him be a farmer here for a lifetime and raise fish for a lifetime, and let him leave when he returned the person.
"You mean, there's a hole down there, the nest of a crocodile that appeared in the pond three years ago?" After listening to Teng Xiaoyi's words, Zhao Ping asked in surprise.
Teng Xiaoyi smiled and nodded proudly, but then he suffered from a serious expression, and said softly, "Originally, I wanted to hide Li Xiang in it and bring it out when the matter passed, but who would have thought that I would encounter a python when I went down, and Li Xiang and Zhou Bo hugged each other, and the light on their bodies had begun to appear and turned into two cards, and the big snake saw me, with a pair of cold eyes, even I also felt a trace of danger, so I didn't dare to take it lightly, but who would have thought that the beast bit the two cards in his mouth, And he took an offensive stance against me, and as you know, I already have the ability to get close to animals, so I felt that the other party just wanted to protect the card, so I pointed out the location of the cave to him."
"In other words, you're not sure that Li Xiang and the others will be saved? Then you were still full of confidence at that time," Zhao Ping said in a cold voice with some displeasure after listening to it.
"His fate still has a long way to go, and it will definitely not be the end here" Looking at Teng Xiaoyi's appearance, he seemed to be making himself believe in this sentence, and the serious expression on his face became a little worried, he can only believe in those bullshit prophecies now, hoping that his temporary cramming of a pseudo-believer can be sincere.
In the cave, with the sound of ticking, a few drops of water fell on Li Xiang's face, with the coldness, his eyelids moved twice, and slowly opened, feeling that the cave was still pitch black, but a little bit of light, although it was not real, but vaguely, he could already detect that he was in a cave. Straightening up with difficulty, he looked towards the place where he woke up last time and touched Zhou Bo, and found that the other party had also woken up, and the wound had been bandaged simply, and he was leaning on a protruding big stone, staring at himself with a pair of eyes, and although his right hand looked weak, the silver-like weapon was still held in his hand, and it seemed that he was ready to fight to the death.
With a light snort, Li Xiang stopped paying attention to the other party, this guy had lost too much blood, and he was not a threat to himself at all, although he covered it up well, Li Xiang was a doctor for a long time, and he always lost too much blood, so he could naturally accurately see the true condition of the other party, Zhou Bo was just holding on, maybe he would pass out in the next second.
First picked up the two cards beside him, and saw that it was his Teng Dun and Dragon Knife, Li Xiang was very happy, at first he was really afraid that he would lose these two cards, if it really fell into the pond, not to mention the problem of card waterproofing, that is, with the size of the card, it was just a needle in a haystack to find it himself, and now seeing that they are all there, he is naturally excited.
After receiving the card, Li Xiang began to look at the cave, and found that the cave was very large, and it could be seen from the traces on some stone walls that it should be naturally formed, and there were some bones on his left side, which seemed to be crocodiles or lizards. Behind him was a puddle, which didn't look very deep. Looking to the right again, there is a place in the high place where some light is in, obviously there is a hole, but it is too high, and it is a bit unrealistic to want to get out of there. Looking at his head again, the black pressure was full of bats hanging upside down, which scared him enough, but if he looked closely, these vampires were sleeping quietly, and he was relieved.
After checking all around, he only found a thin crack in the stone wall behind Zhou Bo, looking at the size, it is enough to pass a mouse, people want to go over, that is not to think about it, other than that, he has not seen a way out.
"No need to look for it, there is no other way out except for the hole above, and in your current state, if you want to get out, you have to cooperate with two people, but do you think I will cooperate with you? Hahahaha" Zhou Bo's voice suddenly came, it sounded a little tragic, especially the last laughter, which made Li Xiang feel chills all over, secretly thinking that this guy didn't have a brain problem, did he really want to be trapped here with himself?
As Zhou Bo said, there is only one hole above, because the two of them are weak limbs, so they just rest in place with each other, and when it gets dark at night, the original owners, bats flew out from the hole above, one of the largest ones, it seems that the big bats of the bat leader noticed these two uninvited guests, probably knowing that they couldn't run, so they first took their troops out to forage, and if they couldn't find it, they came back to eat these two guys.
"Huh" saw the bats flying out of the hole, the nervous two felt their bodies loosen, the bat leader showed, so that both of them felt the identity of their food, knowing that when the bats came back, they might have to die, the two unconsciously looked at each other.
Finding that Li Xiang also looked over, Zhou Bo snorted coldly and twisted his head to the side, now his body does not allow it, if he can, he will definitely rush up to find Li Xiang desperately, which is clear from his eyes.
And Li Xiang really wants to escape with Zhou Bo, the two of them have no deep hatred, even if they want to arrest themselves, they will fight with their own abilities when they get out, but now there is a potential threat of bats, this special soldier is still playing ruthless with himself, so he really wants to scold, but he also knows that there is only one way to survive now, that is, to cooperate with the other party, so it is not the time to scold.
This book was first published in Reading Rim