Pata, pata, pata——

The clear sound of water is transmitted along the cracks of the stones. Several rounded stone nests about the size of basketballs represent that the dripping water has been dripping here for an unknown period of time, and has been polished to form the mirror-like depressions.<

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Li Heng raised his head and looked sideways, and couldn't help but sigh slightly: "Such a hidden place..."

The dense wild shrubs outside are stacked and growing together, almost fitting together with the mountain wall. There is only an extremely inconspicuous entrance at this slanted angle.

Without this old cow finding another way, it would be difficult for anyone to find the main forest without razing it.

"What expansion is this?"

Li Heng suddenly became excited.

"Could it be that just like Yang Guo, I also met a Brother Eagle, not...Brother Niu? A certain senior's peerless secrets have been buried in this cave for thousands of years, just waiting for me to come and practice?"

"Or if you are more bold, you may guess that this old cow is the green cow that I rode when I went west to Hangu Pass. What is inside is the supreme Taoist fruit left by the old man in the world, just waiting for me, the destined person, to get it?"
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"Or is it that this cow is actually the reincarnation of the great sage Pingtian, the powerful bull demon king, and there are secret treasures of the seven great sages of the ancient demon clan buried in it!"

Once he opened his outrageous and bizarre imagination, he couldn't stop it. It was just nonsense anyway, so Li Heng simply let his imagination run wild and resurrected the dead memory of fantasy online articles to attack him crazily.

While thinking nonsense in my mind, I continued to follow Lao Niu's footsteps and stepped into the crack.

A faint cold wind blew slowly along the rock wall. This air flow proved that this cave was not a dead end, and there was no need to worry about air quality when walking inside.

However, the further inside it became, the more dank and dark it became, and the visibility soon dropped a lot. Li Heng had to take out his mobile phone and turn on the flashlight.

Then he saw clearly the interior scene of the slowly descending cave. Some scratches could often be seen on the original and natural rock walls, which were obviously caused by external forces, but they were extremely irregular and most likely not caused by humans.

"It looks like an animal came here frequently and left traces of its movements on the rock wall. Is it the nest of some creature?"

Soon he saw some evidence,

A pair of withered white sheep horns appeared not far ahead. They were almost completely decayed, and even the hard horns were powdered.

There is a relatively "live" skull on the other side, with some fur stuck to it that has not yet rotted.

As we continue to go deeper, there are more and more of these animal remains. From the scattered ones at the beginning, they can hardly be displayed individually at the end. A large number of remains that have turned into bone meal are piled up together in this deep mountain fissure cave.

It looks weird and spectacular.

Li Heng was even surprised to find a pair of antlers somewhere!

You must know that wild deer have long since disappeared in this land, although according to county records, deer did grow near Pingshan in ancient times, and there are records of deer being presented to the court as a specialty.

But it was precisely because of this move that the small number of deer in this mountainous area completely disappeared. It took at least several hundred years before the last deer disappeared.

"In other words, the antlers in this cave are at least the remnants of deer that died here hundreds of years ago, while the other remains that have been turned into bone powder or even corrupted into mud are already animals from countless years ago.

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Li Heng was suddenly startled. In his impression, there seemed to be a place similar to this place in the records.

"Thousands of years... no, even the burial ground of countless animals for thousands of years..."

"This is actually a tomb of beasts?!"

At this moment, the old cow that had been walking slowly in front finally stopped. Under its feet was a patchwork of scattered rocks, covered with gray bone meal and other humus that had accumulated over the years.

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The four hooves slowly bent, and the old cow knelt down and lay down on the "stone bed".

"Moo——"

It raised its old head and called out one last time in the direction of Li Heng. Then it lowered its head, its eyes slowly closed, and then it stopped moving, as if it was sleeping there.

Li Heng walked up to it and gently touched the tip of the old cow's nose. He no longer breathed, but his breath was calmer than ever before.

This creature, which has been working hard all its life, finally ushered in the ultimate peace and leisure at this moment.

Li Heng sighed softly, and finally touched the scar on its neck.

"A domesticated old cow, who only works in the fields or grazes in the cowshed all day long, can actually find such a primitive burial ground that has been inherited from ancient times before dying."

"Is this the magic of nature...or the mystery of life?"

He had only heard rumors about wild elephants having premonitions before death. An old wild elephant would leave the herd alone before the last moment and come to a secret place that it had never been to but was born to know.

Burying oneself is the so-called elephant grave.

This rumor has been popular for a long time, and many people believed this story, but in the end it was proved to be a false rumor. It was just a lie made up by human poachers who forced the elephant herds to migrate, and by unscrupulous rumor makers.

But today he is actually here, witnessing such an incredible scene deep in his hometown, what should he say?

"Sighing at the vastness of the world, how many unknown mysteries are hidden in the world? When can we finally get a glimpse of the whole world?"

Li Heng continued to move forward with his mobile phone in hand. The cave was far from the end, and the touch under his feet was different from before.

It is no longer as hard as the pure rock before. The ground here has been replaced by the remains of decayed creatures in the past, and it has a weird fluffy feel. But fortunately, it is basically the remains of long-term decay, and the smell has long since dissipated.

But even so, a unique ecological environment has been formed here.

Li Heng could see a thin layer of green algae growing on the rock wall. This was an algae he had never seen before.

In addition, there are some layers of fungi covering the humus layer, growing on the remains of these decaying organisms accumulated over thousands of years.

Some fungi look similar to the mushrooms outside, while others are much more bizarre. For example, he saw a fungal aggregate that looked like an arm with many fingers swinging back and forth in the airflow, which was quite magical and weird.

There are also white flower-like fungi, and biomes that are staggered up and down like sawtooths...

Li Heng's limited biological knowledge cannot fully explain the environmental phenomena in this mountain chasm. He can only say that the unique ecological environment here has structured all this.

The fungi that grew on countless corpses attracted many strange insects to come here to feed and live. More than ten species of insects, large and small, in different communities lived here, and they fed some of the animals that fed on them.

Small reptiles...

This is like a complete and exquisite little ecosystem!

Just when Li Heng was sighing, a large centipede with a bright black body and hundreds of pairs of sharp legs suddenly crawled out from the corner, biting the small flower beetle that was feeding in the bacteria and quickly killed it with a pair of poisonous claws.

Die.

On the other side, a small lizard was sticking out its tongue to catch the gathered flying fireflies one by one, but it didn't notice that a black-striped viper not far away was also staring at it, with its entire body full of energy.

The power is emitted like a spring, and the fangs bite it instantly.

Not only that, Li Heng also saw the forearm-long flower-faced geckos entrenched on the roof of the cave, waiting for prey to come into the hunting range; a black scorpion wielding terrifying pincers and a menacing stinger on its tail; there were two

A fat toad the size of a fist and covered with pimples squatted in the crack in the corner of the cave, almost becoming one with the rock, waiting for the rabbit...
Chapter completed!