Taking this opportunity, I went to pick up the things scattered around. When I was fetching water, I found that we were at the connection between an underground river and the gap in the mountains. I shined a flashlight on it.
, the height from the top of the cave is about ten meters.
The stones on the top of the mountain are irregular, but they look solid. I walked along the underground river for a few minutes, but couldn't find the end. I walked upstream for a while, but there was still no end. However, when walking to both sides,
I noticed that the stone walls on both sides were shrinking, making the space smaller and more oppressive.
In fact, the water hole in the underground river is only about two meters wide. After walking out for two minutes, I could only walk forward with my waist bent. Moreover, the water in the underground river is not very deep, and the deepest part only reaches the knee level.
I was worried that there would be huge creatures similar to the two monitor lizards in the river, and they would turn back after walking for a while.
When I came back, Master Jiu was sitting in front of the smokeless stove, doing exercises and meditating. He made finger gestures and raised his heart to the sky. His posture looked like a martial arts master in a martial arts novel who was doing exercises to heal his injuries. I knew that he was using
Use your own Taoist and magical powers to heal yourself.
I wasn’t very clear about the method of healing, and after looking for a long time, I couldn’t find any way. I didn’t want to disturb him, so I stood beside the lit smokeless stove and picked up the half box of biscuits left by Xiaopang and gnawed it.
a little.
At this time, I saw the little fat guy running around with a flashlight in the triangle area connected by stone cracks and water holes. His injuries were not minor, and his upper body was covered with bandages, but this guy was energetic
Energetic is not as tired as we imagined. Seeing the beam of the flashlight swaying in the dark cave, I really admire his leisurely spirit.
I sat on the ground, crossed my legs and rested for a while. It was okay if I didn't rest. As soon as I relaxed, I immediately became extremely tired. It didn't take long for me to feel all sorts of discomforts all over my body. I lay down on the ground and never wanted to get up again.
"Hey, hey, hey, Boss Lu, come here and have a look! What do you think this is!?" As if he had picked up some treasure, the little fat man in the distance suddenly shouted.
"What?" He stood up with a grin on his face. I glanced at it but didn't take it seriously. I thought that this kid had picked up some gold and silver jewelry among the bones, but I didn't expect that the little fat man looked at me with little interest.
He shook his face seriously in my direction twice: "Damn it, don't fall asleep. Look, there's something on this lizard!"
"Huh?!" When I heard this, I quickly sat up and dragged my tired body over. I saw the little fat guy squatting there and picking at something...
"What are you doing?" When I got closer, I squatted down and asked doubtfully. Hearing this, the little fat guy pulled hard, and then, an iron chain that was more than one meter long and as thick as a wrist was pulled out by it.
I don’t know what age the chain is. It has been eroded by rust and has become motionless. The dark red rust is like the red soil clinging to the surface of the iron chain. It looks more like a rope.
"Look, this lizard... seems to be tied up..." Xiaopang said, tilting his head and taking a picture of the lizard's body.
Following the direction of the iron chain, we pushed away the huge half-lying corpse, and indeed we saw a two-finger-thick black iron ring suddenly "growing" on the upper part of the lizard's back. The iron ring was very
Large, the diameter of light is one foot,
Half of it is exposed, like an arch bridge across the monitor lizard's back. The end of the long arc is deeply embedded in the monitor lizard's "shoulder blade". From the outside, it looks very much like the "shoulder blade" of the monitor lizard.
The traditional torture of "piercing the lute bone".
I dragged the iron chain a few times, but it didn't move. It was a long time ago, and the black iron ring had long grown together with the monitor lizard in front of me.
"Tell me, are these two big guys being raised to guard their babies?" Xiaopang said, holding a flashlight with a look of luck on his face.
"It's hard to say. Maybe some master was afraid that they would make trouble and imprisoned them here. Because of the passage of time, the iron chain was corroded and they escaped." I shook my head and said.
"That's not right. Look at this iron chain. How many years does it take for the chain to rust like this? It really takes that long. Wouldn't this thing have starved to death long ago? I think the idea I just thought is more reliable.
These two lizards were left behind by the owner of the tomb to guard the treasure!" Xiaopang said and nodded preconceptionally. Seeing him like this, I smiled helplessly.
In fact, what Xiaopang said makes sense. Ordinary people will not raise such a monster-level terrifying creature. Besides, even if they want to raise it, ordinary people really can't afford it. Look at their size, they are comparable to lions
Tigers can still eat. In the past, people's living conditions were very poor. They were well fed and clothed. If you want to raise them, even if you feed them big radishes every day, they can eat people up against the wall, let alone make them fat.
He has grown so strong and strong.
Judging from the rust of the iron chain, this giant lizard must be very old. However, its age is not so scary that it can be traced back to ancient times. In the pre-Qin Dynasty, there were very few iron tools. Since it appears on the iron chain
If the iron is rusty, it proves that this monster only existed after the Qin and Han Dynasties.
What is more speechless is that this iron chain seems to have been added later, because its material is different from the black ring on the back of the monitor lizard. If this idea is true, then everything becomes unfathomable.
Well, apart from anything else, the age of these two monitor lizards is the problem.
Why do they appear here?
Could it be that, as Xiaopang said, someone deliberately placed them here to protect something?
Confused, I got up and walked towards the body of another monitor lizard. I ran to one side and took a look. Sure enough, I found the same ring on the body of the other monitor lizard. However, the iron on this ring was
The chain was shorter than the one on the previous one. I looked carefully at the broken part of the iron chain. The degree of rust in that place was indeed very high. Comparing the two, I can basically confirm that the two monitor lizards broke free.
The chain came out.
In this case, the question arises...where did these two guys run out from?
What is certain is that they will not get in through the cracks in the rocks we blasted. If this is the case, then the two water holes running through the left and right behind them become the most likely way for them to come and go here. Think about it again.
The words of the miserable child who had just been snatched away by the giant lizard in the cracks in the rocks made people suspect that this place was somehow connected to a hidden ancient tomb.