I couldn't help but bend down and take a look, and found an ant on my calf close to my ankle.
It turned out to be an ant, and I breathed a sigh of relief quietly. But why does an ant bite hurt so much?
Just when I was confused, another ant climbed up to my ankle and bit me hard. I hurriedly swept the ant off with my hands, but a shocking scene appeared. My calf
As well as the ankle, two pieces of skin about the size of thumbnails were cut off by these two little ants. Blood was oozing out and the pain was unbearable.
I must have shouted, thus alerting my teammates at the entrance of the cave.
"Zhou Cang, what's wrong?" Xiang Yu asked.
"It's okay. The bottom of the cave was slippery and I fell." I felt a little embarrassed to say that I was bitten by an ant, so I lied.
"You're not injured, so be careful. It's too dark at the bottom of the cave, and we can't see you from above." Zhang Jisheng said.
I was just about to say hello when I suddenly discovered that the four walls of the cave were densely covered with the same kind of ants at the moment I spoke.
Oh my god, are they trying to party on me?
I feel my scalp is numb, and I shudder a little when I think of the severe pain just now. If these thousands of troops bite me at the same speed at the same speed just now, I will be left with only one pair in less than half an hour.
Bones.
There was still a little space in the cave. Seeing this, I couldn't help but move my body towards the center of the cave, trying to keep as far away from the ants as possible that filled the four walls.
In the process of moving, my feet seemed to suddenly step on something hard.
Oops, the house is leaking and it rains all night. It must be caused by some mechanism.
I felt like I was about to cry, so I slowly moved my feet away a little, but I didn't dare to weaken the strength under my feet, for fear that some ancient mechanism would be activated if I fell into a trance.
However, just as I was rubbing the hard object with the soles of my feet, my feet suddenly slipped and I fell backwards and fell to the ground.
I thought to myself, goodbye to this world.
However, after lying on the ground for a while, I found that everything was calm. I stood up and saw that what I had just stepped on seemed to be a rectangular piece of metal.
I couldn't help but squat down and turn it out myself.
It's actually a voice recorder.
It seems that I am not the first person to fall into this cave.
There is no peace in the depths of Wawu Mountain.
I wiped the recorder clean with the corner of my clothes and tried pressing the switch, but nothing happened.
I don't know if it's out of battery or broken. I don't know yet.
Thinking of this, I put the recorder into my backpack and thought about charging it with a power bank when I got out of the cave to see if it could still be used.
Probably because I had been silent for a while, my teammates who had been guarding the cave entrance started calling me again.
"I'm here, but there may be some trouble in this cave." I raised my head, and the light from the cave entrance shone in my eyes, making people lower their heads to avoid it.
At the moment when I was hiding from the sun, I glanced and noticed that the ants gathered on the wall of the cave seemed to form a picture.
Or it should be said that there are some places on the walls of the cave where ants dare not climb, so the blank spaces left in these places outline a picture.
"Zhou Cang, how are you? What's the trouble in the cave?" Wang Zhishui's anxious voice came from above.
"There are many ants in this cave. They are a little different from ordinary ants. Their teeth are very sharp and can bite off a small piece of my skin in an instant." I said, but my attention was on the small pieces on the cave wall.
Ants composed on lines.
"Ants? Zhou Cang, can those ants cut a circular wound on your skin in one go?" Xiang Yu asked.
"Yes, it hurts very much."
"It's a bit like leaf-cutting ants. These ants are very powerful, but not poisonous." Xiangyu said.
"We have found the vines and are now twisting a few vines together. Please wait a moment." This was Wang Zhishui's voice.
"Okay Professor Wang, I'm fine for now."
I responded, but my eyes were fixed on the ants that had started to move on the wall, but no matter how the ants moved, the picture still remained the same.
I think this picture must have been deliberately painted in this cave, but it may have been so old that the colors on it have fallen off, and the light in the cave was very dark, so I didn't notice it at first.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but take out my mobile phone from my backpack and take a photo of this mural.
In fact, the painting of an ant colony is very simple, and can even be said to feel a bit similar to a stick figure.
The picture seems to depict a gravel beach, with a group of people walking. The portraits of the characters are very special. Each corner of the mouth looks like it is holding a fish. There is a big mountain in the distance, and two lanterns are hung on two cypress trees at the foot of the mountain.
Before I had time to study the content of the ant mural, a thick vine was already hanging down from the hole above my head.
"Zhou Cang," this time it was Chen Mo's voice, "Tie the vines around your waist and we will pull you up."
I put the phone away, then pulled the vines that had hung to the ground, tied them tightly around my waist, and grabbed the vines with both hands. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain under my feet.
I was so focused on taking pictures that I ignored the ant colony sneaking towards me.
At this moment, there were several ants crawling on my calf. I seemed to be able to hear the sound of them chewing my flesh and blood. I hurriedly slapped the ants on my calf with both hands, slapping them away.
"Press hard on the stone wall with your two feet."
Someone reminded me at the entrance of the cave, so I quickly followed it and slowly climbed up.
"Zhou Cang, are you okay? Did you get hurt after falling into such a high cave?"
Xiangyu asked with concern as soon as he came out of the cave.
"Fortunately, the ground is full of soft mud. I didn't get hurt, but I was bitten by ants." I smiled and comforted Xiangyu, then lifted up my trousers to check the wounds on my calf. Sure enough, there were several more wounds.
"It's so serious. I'm going to get alcohol to wash your wound." Xiangyu said.
"This ant is so powerful, it can actually bite the leg like this." Zhang Jisheng said.
Wang Zhishui handed me a kettle and comforted me.
Chen Mo saw that Xiangyu was already applying medicine to me, and his attention had shifted to the gravel beach.
"There won't be only one trap on this gravel beach. We may need to study our strategies on how to proceed next." He frowned and said.
Hearing what Chen Mo said, Wang Zhishui also stepped forward, "This stone seems to be a stone mirror. I have had this vague feeling since entering the gravel beach, but stone mirrors are only recorded in ancient books, and there are still many in reality.
I haven't noticed anything before, and there didn't seem to be anything unusual with us along the way, so I refrained from saying anything."
"What is a stone mirror? Is it a stone like a mirror?" I had already applied the medicine and stood up and asked.
"It's almost the same. Wang Jia of the Jin Dynasty recorded in "The Supplementary Notes of Zhou Lingwang": At that time, a jade figure was offered in a different place and a stone mirror was offered. The stone was as white as the moon and looked like snow when it shined on it. It was called the 'moon mirror'."
"So, this stone reflects light because of the principle of a mirror." Xiangyu said while putting the medicine back into his backpack.
"Knowing that this is a stone mirror, there is no way to help us determine which stone has a trap underneath. Is it possible to open up each stone and take a look?" Zhang Jisheng said.
"There should be a huge mechanism here. It may be that the stone Xiangyu stepped on opened the mechanism of the stone under Jisheng's feet. That's why I said that we might have to study it carefully.
"Chen Mo said.
I thought of the painting in the corner of the cave. In the gravel beach in the painting, some stones are hollow and some are solid. Will there be traps and traps underneath the hollow stones?
Thinking of this, I told my companions about the mural found in the cave, but the recording part was concealed.
Chen Mo stared at the picture on the phone for a long time, and then said: "This should be a group of pictures, not a separate one."