Ouyang Yi did not answer me directly, but passed the thing in his hand over and said, "Look at what this is first."
When I got the thing and took a look, it was a large piece of transparent plastic cloth, covered with fine lines. I stared at it for a while, and suddenly understood what it was. He blurted out and exclaimed: "Holy crap, this can't be the skin shed by a giant snake,"
When Wen Qingshan heard this, he immediately took the transparent substance from my hand, looked at it carefully, and said, "Yes, this is indeed snake skin, and it is similar to the black water black snake we saw before. The shed skin is almost exactly the same, which means that there was indeed a huge black water snake living in this ghost place. However, I don’t know what happened to it, and its head was smashed and the whole head was twisted off. ,"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was suddenly another deafening roar. Perhaps because it was closer, the sound sounded louder than before, which made my heart beat wildly.
I suddenly thought of something and lowered my voice and said to everyone: "You think it was this roaring thing that killed the giant snake?"
Long Yi said: "Isn't it just a mandrill? No matter how ferocious it is, it probably won't be able to fight back in front of such a huge snake."
I thought so. This roar sounds almost the same as the sounds made by those mandrills before, but it is more powerful. Therefore, at most, it is just a strong mandrill, and it is probably not a giant black water mandrill. The opponent of the black snake, but if it is not a mandrill, then what kind of monster will be the one that kills the giant snake.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh: "Holy crap, what the hell is this place? How come there are so many monsters?"
Wen Qingshan also felt very puzzled. He said: "The space inside is so big after all, and it is also a closed environment without a complete food chain. What on earth does this black water black snake eat to grow to such a big size?"
The speaker was unintentional, but he listened with intent. After hearing what Wen Qingshan said, Long Yi suddenly seemed to think of something. He suddenly turned his head and said, "Do you think this staircase leads directly to the evil place? "
His speculation was so bold that everyone was shocked for a moment. After a while, Wen Qingshan frowned and said, "This possibility cannot be ruled out."
I didn't expect Wen Qingshan to agree with Long Yi's statement. I couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Boss Wen, you think so too,"
Wen Qingshan asked me: "Do you still remember the story I once told you about Black Water?"
"Of course I remember, you said that Blackwater is a real underground river, and the Blackwater Black Snake became quite huge just to adapt to the cold environment of Blackwater,"
Wen Qingshan nodded: "Not only that, I also said that the black water is most likely the legendary River Styx leading to hell, and the so-called hell may actually exist, and it is what we call the evil place. Land, according to ancient records, there are many places in the world where you can enter the land of black water, maybe this is one of the entrances,"
Wen Qingshan's words aroused Ouyang Yi's interest, and he immediately asked: "Mr. Wen, where is the black water you mentioned?"
Wen Qingshan smiled and said: "I just speculated that Black Water is a real underground giant river based on relevant ancient books, and this river is likely to lead to the evil place. As for where it is, I don't know. I don’t know,”
"Black water...underground river..." Ouyang Yi murmured a few words, then suddenly turned to Long Yi and said: "After returning home, immediately obtain relevant information on domestic underground water resources."
Long nodded, and then asked: "Dr. Ouyang, are we still going down?"
"Of course, I want to see where this staircase leads," Ouyang Yi said, and then led everyone to continue walking forward. As we went deeper and deeper, I found that the temperature seemed to be getting more and more... It was low, and there was a cold wind blowing from time to time, making people feel chilly.
A few minutes after the group of people walked along the stone steps, Ouyang Yi stopped again. I thought he had seen something again. I raised my head and looked forward. Only then did I realize that we had reached the end of the stone steps. Directly in front is an arched corridor about two meters wide and twenty to thirty meters deep. At the end of the corridor is a dark mass, and it is unclear where it leads.
In this corridor, there is a thin layer of fog, which makes it appear mysterious and strange.
"What the hell is this place? How...how does it look like an ice cellar?" Wei Zi actually started to tremble as he spoke.
I turned around and took a look, and found that the automatic rifle in his hand had a layer of hoarfrost on it.
Ouyang Yi frowned and said, "It's so cold down here. In my opinion, that evil stone is most likely hidden inside." After saying that, he twisted the cane in his hand, and the top of the cane immediately lit up. Under the red light, he raised his cane and walked slowly along the corridor.
Because we didn't know what was at the end of the corridor, everyone was very careful along the way. They didn't dare to walk too fast or step too hard, for fear of disturbing the monsters hiding down there.
It took us more than a minute to walk through the twenty- to thirty-meter-long corridor before we finally reached the end of the corridor. When we looked forward, everyone was stunned and stunned.
In front of us is a cave hall with almost no end in sight, and inside the cave hall, there is also a huge underground lake. We have no way of knowing how wide this lake is, because there is a hazy mist filling the lake. As a result, we couldn't see the other end of the lake at all. On the lake about ten meters away from the lake shore, we could vaguely see a round "island" that slightly protruded from the lake and looked like a pot lid. Of course, it was said to be a small island. In fact, it is just a platform with a diameter of about three or four meters. The platform is in a fairly standard circle. It does not look like it was formed naturally, but rather it looks like it was made by man.
After being stunned for a while, Ouyang Yi said in a daze: "Is this ghost place really the land of black water?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a roar of "Ouch" suddenly came from above our heads. Everyone was startled and quickly looked up, only to find that the top of the cave hall, which is nearly 20 meters high, is covered with thick and thin rocks. There are a lot of stalagmites, some of which are even more than four or five meters in diameter, hanging down to a length of more than ten meters. If these stalagmites fell, even a tank below would be smashed into a discus.
Everyone looked around, but did not find the roaring monster. Of course, due to the limitations of the light, it was not possible to see the monster in detail even further away. Maybe the monster was hiding somewhere in the dark. In the corner, and now watching our every move.
Wen Qingshan stared at the top of the cave for a while and said, "I know what's going on."
"What's going on?" I asked.
Wen Qingshan pointed his hand toward the top of the cave and asked, "Look what's on the top of the cave."
I looked up and said, "Isn't there stalagmites up there? This is a cave, and it's normal to have stalagmites..."
Before I finished speaking, Wen Qingshan interrupted me: "No, no, I mean besides stalagmites, what else is there?"
"What else?" I was startled for a moment, and then I stared at the top of the cave carefully for a while, and then I discovered that there seemed to be some cave entrances scattered between some stalagmites, and some of the cave entrances were quite small. With a diameter of more than several meters, it looks like a monster's bloody mouth, and the stalagmites around the entrance of the cave look like sharp fangs, making people shudder.
"Boss Wen, are you talking about those cave entrances?"
Wen Qingshan nodded and said: "This place is almost thirty meters deep underground, and the height of the cave roof is about twenty meters, so the top of the cave should be the mausoleum. From this, it can be inferred that these large and small caves The mouth is most likely the hiding place of those mandrills,"
I suddenly realized: "No wonder the sound just came from the top of the cave. It turned out to be the mandrill's lair."
Wen Qingshan continued: "Those cave entrances may have the effect of amplifying sound due to their shape, so the roar we heard before gave people a deafening feeling. Maybe what was hiding inside was actually just Just an ordinary mandrill,"
After listening to Wen Qingshan's analysis, Ouyang Yi said approvingly: "Mr. Wen is still very observant. In my opinion, this should be the case."
As soon as he finished speaking, I suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a huge black shadow above the cave roof passing between two huge stalagmites at a very fast speed. The diameter of the two stalagmites was both more than two meters. The black shadow seemed to be much larger than the two stalagmites, and I didn’t know what it was. I looked carefully, but I saw nothing.
I quickly asked the others: "Did you just see something on the top of the cave?"
Wen Qingshan immediately raised his head and looked around, but he didn't see anything. He turned to me and asked, "Shi Yu, what did you see just now?"
"I didn't see clearly what it was. I just seemed to see a huge black shadow flashing past. But maybe I was dazzled." Because no one else saw it, I couldn't help but doubt myself. After all, it is common to be dazzled, especially when things happen suddenly.
Wen Qingshan frowned and said, "Everyone had better be careful, this ghost place is a little weird."
As soon as he finished speaking, Long Yi on the side said: "The oxygen content down here is quite high, and you can breathe very smoothly, but there is a strange smell in the air."
I turned around and saw that Long Yi had taken off the oxygen mask.
Everyone also took off their masks, and I tried to take a breath of air. Immediately, a light fragrance mixed with fishy smell hit my nostrils. This smell was really indescribable, and it was actually smelly.