Qiao Sanpang turned around impatiently, his little eyes suddenly widened, and he almost let go and threw Lin Chuan down, but luckily Lin Chuan caught his arm.
"Run! This is the evil wind! The evil wind is coming..." The third fat man didn't care about the others, he ran to the edge of the stone and slid down, running towards the village.
Yellow sand roared across the sky, and among the yellow sand there was a towering tornado, which was rushing toward them. It left no trace of armor in its path. Cypress pines as thick as a bowl were uprooted, and boulders as big as millstones were uprooted.
hovering in the wind.
"This is... a sandstorm. If you don't want to die, don't go back to the village! Go to the cave under the stone and take shelter!" Lin Chuan squinted his swollen eyes and shouted loudly. He slid down the boulder, pulled Wan'er and went into the cave. Sandstorm
It happened a lot at the border. He heard the old man talk about it in the palace.
Pockmarked, bald, and toothless, the three of them suddenly panicked and looked at each other. When they heard Lin Chuan's words, they followed Lin Chuan into the cave without hesitation.
Rumor has it that there is a giant python in the cave under the boulder. In the dead of night, you can hear a "hissing" sound coming from the cave, as if the giant python is swallowing a message.
But after all, it was just a rumor, and no one had ever seen the giant python come out of the cave. Over time, the cave became a means for village adults to scare rogue children, and the bolder children even dared to play hide-and-seek in the cave.
Lin Chuan led them seven or eight feet deep. They didn't dare to go any further when there was no light inside, and were ready to wait for the sandstorm to pass before going out. Suddenly, the mountain shook and the earth shook, and the gravel and dirt splashed in the cave. Lin Chuan hurriedly protected Qiao Waner, and the cave
There was thunder outside, and dozens of boulders rolled down, sealing the entrance of the cave.
It took a while for the situation to subside. The cave was pitch black and he couldn't see his fingers. Lin Chuan groped for the entrance of the cave and pushed hard, but the stone, which was about ten feet high, did not move at all.
"Brother Achuan... can we... not be able to get out?" the bald boy asked in a trembling voice.
"Don't be afraid! We will definitely get out!" Lin Chuan could feel Qiao Wan'er's little body bones starting to tremble and said deliberately loudly, pulling her against the rock wall and walking deeper into the cave.
Huo Yazi and the others seemed to regard Lin Chuan as their backbone and followed him.
Although the entrance of the cave is small, there is a cave inside. Lin Chuan and the others walked zigzag for about an hour, and there was a faint light in front of them.
Lin Chuan felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Brother Achuan, it's light! There is light there! Good! We can go out!" Qiao Mazi shouted excitedly.
"Shh..." Lin Chuan was about to speak when he suddenly covered Mazi's mouth.
"Hiss... hiss..." A gust of wind blew by, mixed with strange noises. The five people in the group immediately remembered the rumor, and all of them were horrified and silent.
After a cup of tea, there was no sound at all, and Lin Chuan let go of Mazi. The back of his hand was wet, covered with the cold sweat shed by Mazi.
With no way to retreat, he had to keep going forward. Lin Chuan thought to himself, even if he was eaten by a giant python, it would be better than being trapped in this pitch-black hole and starving to death.
We walked like this cautiously for more than a mile, during which the strange "hissing" sound appeared twice more.
The light in front gradually became apparent, but there was no joy on everyone's faces because the strange sounds appeared more and more frequently.
The rock wall became cooler and moister. Lin Chuan took his palms off the rock wall, wiped them on his clothes, and looked back at them. All of them had pale faces, looking at him pitifully.
"Don't be afraid, we're going out soon!" Lin Chuan smiled stiffly and pulled Qiao Waner forward.
"Brother, there seems to be no road ahead..." Qiao Waner said with sharp eyes and a trembling voice.
Lin Chuan let go of Wan'er's hand and stepped forward quickly. The cave was blocked by an underground river, and the direction of the underground river was exactly the source of the light.
The river was only a few feet deep and was crystal clear. The water flowed suddenly and slowly, and the sound it made when it flowed through the narrow channel was exactly the "hissing" sound they heard before.
Lin Chuan couldn't help but laugh at himself.
"Why are you looking at me? No matter how cold the water is, you have to wade through it." Lin Chuan took off his shoes, rolled up his trousers and just put his feet into the water, then he shrank back and turned around to find the four of them nervous. Stare at yourself.
"Hey! You're such a small body that you can't even get out of the water! Come on up!" Lin Chuan looked at Wan'er who was rolling up her trousers and couldn't help but feel dumbfounded. He walked to her and turned his back and squatted down.
Lin Chuan carried Qiao Wan'er on his back and got into the water first, with Baldhead and the others following closely behind. Their teeth were chattering from the cold, and they kept sighing.
"Ah! What is that?!" Lin Chuan looked at his feet, but was startled by Wan'er's scream. He looked at where she was pointing and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
The bottom of the water ahead was covered with broken bones, with more than a hundred human skulls. Not to mention how these people died, the problem was that they had to step over these bones if they wanted to get out.
The most difficult time before has been over, and now these children are much calmer.
"Brother Achuan, let me come first!" Huo Yazi patted his chest and smiled flatteringly at Lin Chuan, thinking that he would have to rely on Lin Chuan after he went out, so he had to behave well now.
"Hua Yazi, you have short legs and walk slowly, so let me do it first!" The little bald man also stepped forward at this moment.
Only Qiao Mazi hid at the end without saying a word, not even daring to look.
"Follow me, everyone!" Lin Chuan said without changing his expression as he handed the shoes in his hand to Hua Yazi beside him, thinking that the minds of these village children were not much worse than those of the powerful children in the imperial city.
Lin Chuan supported Wan'er on his back and whispered: "Be careful where you step, these bones are sharp!"
After saying that, he stepped into the pile of bones step by step, thinking that the scene under the Naihe Bridge in the underworld would be nothing more than this! In the underground cave, the turbulent river water slowed down and then became calm, and only Linchuan and the others could be heard wading in the water. The "squeaking" sound.
"Brother Achuan, the river seems to have risen again." The little bald man said, stepping forward and helping to push up Lin Chuan's trousers.
"Well, there is a rock in front of us. Let's go up and have a rest." At this time, the river water had reached Lin Chuan's knees. The water was not as cold as before, maybe because it was close to the light source.
"Ouch!" Qiao Mazi, who was walking at the end, exclaimed, raised his right foot, and made a thumb-wide cut on the sole of his foot, and the bright red blood kept dripping into the river.
Everyone looked back and continued walking forward.
Qiao Mazi was so aggrieved that he limped after him with his lips deflated.
"Don't move!" Lin Chuan roared, and Baldhead and the others immediately stopped.
The calm water surface began to tremble more and more violently. Lin Chuan turned his head and couldn't help but gasped. Thousands of small red-finned fish swam from behind Qiao Mazi.
The fish is no more than three inches long, with a lizard-like head and a mouth lined with fine, sharp teeth that allow it to swim for several feet by opening and closing its mouth.
"Run!" Lin Chuan yelled, turned around and ran. The little bald man and Hu Ya Zi behind him reacted very quickly and ran in front of Lin Chuan.
Only Qiao Mazi, who ran last, stumbled and fell into the water with an injury on his foot. The fish came in an instant and gnawed at Qiao Mazi crazily.
"Ah! Ah...save me...save me..." Qiao Mazi's face was distorted, and he twisted his body crazily in an attempt to shake off the red-finned fish on his body, howling miserably.
Lin Chuan and the others hurriedly climbed up to the rock they had seen before, and saw that Qiao Mazi had been chewed into a bloody mess, and was almost gone.
The river water was dyed bright red, exuding a pungent smell of blood, and fish were constantly emerging from the depths of the underground river.