Everyone was surprised to find such a huge lake so deep underground.
"Boss, how can we cross such a big lake?" Xiao Bing was worried.
"Let's divide into two teams and look to the left and right along the lake shore to see if there are any boats or anything like that! We will meet here in an hour!" Han Feng said.
The expedition team was divided into two, with Han Feng leading the people to the left, Xiao Bing and Bayar leading the people to the right, and slowly searching along the rugged lake shore.
"Han Feng, do you think there is a water monster in this lake?" Ai Li looked at the dark lake, feeling very worried.
"Water monster?" Han Feng smiled.
"It's something like the Loch Ness Monster! What if there is an ichthyosaur or a snake-headed dragon or other monster in this lake that is big enough to swallow a boat?" Ellie became more and more frightened as she spoke.
He couldn't help but tremble.
"No way? Things like snake-headed dragons are prehistoric giants, and the possibility of surviving to this day is extremely small. Although there are many rumors about water monsters around the world, none of them have been confirmed. If Weiyang Kingdom is on the other side of the lake
, then they must have frequented the lake thousands of years ago. If there was a water monster, wouldn't it have been discovered long ago?" Han Feng comforted Ellie.
"But, after all, another thousand years have passed. Who can be sure that there are no other water monsters in the lake now?" Ellie asked again, worried.
"Of course we can't be sure about this!" Han Feng smiled, then shined a flashlight on the dark lake surface, and muttered: "There may not be water monsters, but there may be bigger and more ferocious fish!"
"Fish? I'm not afraid of this, because cave fish are all blind fish, and they're not big!" Ai Li was happy when she heard what Han Feng said.
Xiao Bing here didn't go far when he discovered a strange thing: groups of strange-shaped things that were originally perched on the trees on the shore were disturbed by the noise and came out of the tree holes or tree grooves, "crackling".
They swung their tails cracklingly, one after another, connected head to tail, and swam back to the lake along the stone bank.
Several people gathered around to take a look. Xiao Bing was very surprised and asked: "Captain Bayar, what are these?"
"Wood climbing fish!" Bayar looked at it carefully and said.
"What? A wood-climbing fish?" Xiao Bing was really surprised, "A fish can actually climb up a tree to inhabit? In other words, 'looking for a fish based on a tree' is not such a fantastic thing anymore?"
Bayar and several team members laughed.
"Captain Bayar, I don't understand something, and I want to ask you for advice!" Xiao Bing paused and said.
"You're welcome, please tell me!" Bayar smiled. He liked Xiao Bing, a brave and optimistic young man.
“Does Weiyang Kingdom really exist?”
"What? You still have doubts now?" Bayar said in surprise.
Xiao Bing nodded and said: "If Weiyang Kingdom really exists, how can these people live in this dark underground with no sunlight at all?"
Bayar pondered for a moment and said: "Since the Weiyang Kingdom is mentioned in the history books, it means that they had very frequent contact with the outside world and could not have lived so deep underground. According to local chronicles, there was a major earthquake in this place thousands of years ago. It is said that
The sky collapsed, the earth collapsed, the rivers and lakes flowed backwards, and the mountains were leveled. I think it was probably the big earthquake that caused part of the earth's crust to sink, which made the Weiyang Kingdom buried deep underground and became what it is now!"
"But, judging from the current situation, they should be living in caves!" Xiao Bing said doubtfully.
"Yes, judging from the information we have now, the records in the history books may be wrong. Their capital city may be built in a shallow cave near the surface, so they can easily enter and exit the cave for farming, commerce, hunting, breeding, etc.
Activities are not isolation from the world in the current sense!"
"You mean there really is a paradise in the cave?" Xiao Bing was even more surprised.
Bayar smiled, he liked Xiao Bing's drive to get to the bottom of things.
"This statement is worthy of verification! Records of cave dwellers are mostly found in literary and unofficial history. In addition to the well-known "Peach Blossom Spring" by Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there is also a similar record in "Yesterday's Dream Record" written by Kang Yu of the Southern Song Dynasty: '...Quote from Yu
Entering the mountain, there is a large cave. The old man entered, and Yang followed him. The cave gradually became smaller, and he was helped to enter it. It gradually became wider after about thirty or forty steps. After another thirty or forty steps, he came out of the cave, where he found fields, soil, chickens and dogs, and a large settlement of residents.
Also...Unfortunately, the world is in chaos. If you seal the cave with a pill of mud, how can people come here...' If these records are true, then Utopia is not just an unattainable ideal for people in a turbulent society, they may actually exist.
." Bayar paused and then said: "Actually, during this inspection, we may be able to find out the truth and correct history!"
Xiao Bing was about to say something, but was interrupted by the shouts of the team members in front, "Captain Bayar, come and see, there is a boat here!"
An hour later, when Xiao Bing and several team members returned to the meeting place in two small boats, Han Feng and the others were already waiting there.
They were left empty-handed and it seemed they had failed to achieve their goal.
Han Feng smiled when he saw two boats that were still strong and sturdy after thousands of years.
This boat is actually not too small. Each boat can accommodate about six to eight people. The two boats can carry ten expedition members and equipment, which is more than enough.
The boat rowed gently into the lake.
The team members were very excited. Being able to row a boat in such a deep underground lake is definitely a dream. I believe everyone has never thought of it before.
The water in the lake is incredibly clear. When you hold it in your hand, it seems as if it is pure and does not exist. What surprised the team members even more is that there are colorful and strange cave fish everywhere in the water.
Some of these fish have no eyes, some have only two pure white fat globules, and their bodies are smooth and scaleless. Some have protrusions on their heads and bodies, and some have thick tentacles around their mouths. These blind fish have no eyes.
The fish are colorful, including pink, bronze, silvery white, apricot...like a flowing picture, dazzling.
Everyone was stunned.
Xiao Bing grabbed a fish from the water very quickly. It was nearly 30 centimeters long and eight centimeters wide. The whole body was apricot yellow, the head and cheeks were white, and it was duckbill-shaped. The mouth was thick and long, and the jaws were stretched back.
It reaches the base of the chest and has a square body. The most amazing thing is that you can clearly see the spine, gills, heart, eggs and other internal organs in its body with the naked eye. It looks like a transparent glass fish.
Xiao Bing couldn't put it down and exclaimed: "It's really eye-opening!" Then he asked everyone: "Hey, has anyone seen a glass fish with a duck's mouth?"
Ellie heard from the side and couldn't help laughing and bent over. She rubbed her belly and said, "Silly boy, what kind of glass fish? That's the golden thread barbel unique to our country!" She looked at the fish swimming around,
Then he said: "This kind of cave fish is originally very rare in number, but I didn't expect there to be so many in this lake!"
The team members were rowing while admiring the fish in the lake. They were full of interest and did not feel tired at all.
Time passed unknowingly while talking and laughing.
Suddenly, a team member pointed to the water surface illuminated by lights in front of him and said, "Look, what is that?"
Everyone followed the direction of his finger and saw a huge round umbrella-shaped object floating on the lake in front of them. It was pink. The diameter of the umbrella cover was about one meter. Countless ribbons several meters long were slowly floating on the edge of the umbrella body.
.It is headless and tailless, crystal clear and soft as silk. It opens and shrinks in the water, floating up and down, leisurely and contented, like a parachute moving slowly in the air. It looks extremely graceful in the clear and transparent lake water.
Bayar looked at it for a while and couldn't help but marveled: "I didn't expect that this place is actually a paradise for rare creatures. Not to mention the terrifying snow bats before, let's talk about this thing in front of me. It is a real 'living fossil'!"
Everyone was stunned.
"Don't you know?" Bayar said with a proud smile: "It is the "ghost jellyfish" that is said to have been extinct long ago! If we announce this news, it will definitely cause a sensation all over the world!"
The team members were immediately overjoyed.
After paddling for a while, when everyone felt tired, sparkling waves suddenly appeared on the water. Han Feng was the first to notice the situation. He reminded everyone to concentrate and pay attention to the movements on the lake.
The waves were getting bigger and bigger, and the sound of water gradually started to sound. Just as the team members were wondering, several huge black shadows suddenly appeared from the dark lake in the distance.
"Water monster!" Ellie shouted in fear. The team members on the boat suddenly panicked.
"Don't panic, hold the flashlight and look carefully before speaking!" Han Feng ordered calmly.
These things quickly rushed near the boat. Under the illumination of the light, everyone could see the true face of these guys: their bodies were gray and ugly, each one was more than five meters long, and their huge mouths were open, and they could almost swallow half of them.
It's a small boat, and what's even more frightening is that its mouth is full of white teeth, like two rows of sharp knives, which make people feel like they're flying into the sky.
"Piranha!" Bayar exclaimed.
But who has ever heard of such a big piranha? No wonder Ellie thought it was a water monster.
Six huge piranhas suddenly surrounded the boat.
The team members were all frightened, and the poetic and picturesque atmosphere just moments ago disappeared without a trace.
The piranha kept circling near the boat.
Huge waves rolled up, and the two boats were like leaves in the waves, bumping up and down between the peaks and troughs.
The piranha finally got impatient and began to attack.
A piranha first rushed towards the wooden boat on which Xiao Bing was riding.
Xiao Bing pulled out his pistol and fired. With a "bang" sound, the bullet instantly penetrated into the back of the fish. However, this small bullet had no effect at all. The piranha did not slow down and continued to rush towards the boat.
Seeing that the boat was about to be overturned, Xiao Bing was annoyed. He reached out and pulled out a spas military shotgun from his backpack. There was a bang, and the shot exploded on the piranha's head. The huge fish
The head was instantly penetrated by countless steel balls, steel arrows and small lead balls, turning into a pile of fragmented rotten flesh, and slowly sank.
Xiao Bing followed suit and soon the three piranha corpses sank to the bottom of the lake.
Over there, Han Feng also killed one with his gun.
But the remaining two piranhas became smarter.
They no longer attacked blatantly, but dived from the water under the boat Han Feng was riding, then suddenly jumped out and turned the boat upside down.
The people on the boat suddenly fell into the water.
The gun no longer worked, Han Feng pulled out his spur and rushed towards the piranha. He knew that only by intercepting the piranha's attack would his companions have a chance to be saved.
"Boss!" Xiao Bing shouted and ordered the team members to use electric lights to illuminate the lake. He fired continuously, forcing the other piranha to stay away from the team members who fell into the water.
The piranha seemed to be angered by Han Feng's arrogance, and pressed against Han Feng like a hill.
The moment the piranha hit his body, Han Feng suddenly sank underwater.
At the same time, the sharp spines opened a long gash in the piranha's abdomen, and the blood instantly stained the lake water red.
The piranha was hit hard and went even crazier, stirring up huge waves in the lake.
At this time, the people who fell into the water had already turned the capsized boat over with the help of their teammates, and climbed onto the boat one after another.
The team members all looked at this rare mermaid battle in horror.
Suddenly, Han Feng shot up from the water like a sharp arrow. He was in the air, his body bent, and he rushed towards the ferocious piranha.
The piranha also jumped out of the water, its huge mouth opened, and its sharp teeth cut towards Han Feng.
Everyone couldn't help but exclaimed.
In the blink of an eye, the mermaids collided with each other. Han Feng used the momentum to turn around and avoid the piranha's sharp teeth. With a backhand wave, the thorn sank deeply into the piranha's head.
The piranha's body fell into the lake with a "plop" sound, causing waves several meters high.
Han Feng had just climbed onto the boat, but before he could take a breath, the only surviving piranha sneaked up again.
Everyone was congratulating each other, and no one noticed the danger coming.
The piranha suddenly jumped out of the water, closed its giant teeth, and bit into Ellie's backpack. It flicked its head and dragged Ellie into the water.
When Han Feng saw this, he jumped into the water.
Han Feng grabbed Ai Li's hand.
The two people were dragged by the piranha and sank to the bottom of the lake.
Han Feng knew that Ellie's water quality was mediocre and she would definitely not be able to do it after a long time.
Strong water pressure surged toward Han Feng like a mountain.
Han Feng struggled to cut off the backpack straps on Ellie's body with a military thorn, and pushed Ellie out of the lake.
Ellie was about to suffocate.
The team members struggled to get Ellie onto the boat, but Han Feng was missing.
Ai Li was saved, but Han Feng was dragged into the deep bottom of the lake by the piranha.
There was calmness on the lake, and this calmness made everyone's hearts ache.
Xiao Bing's face turned pale, and there was a deep bloody mark on his lip.
Suddenly, there was a violent explosion under the silent lake. Suddenly, huge water columns rose into the sky, and the waves rolled with terrifying force. Two small boats in the distance were almost capsized by the huge waves.
"Boss!" Xiao Bing screamed heartbreakingly and was about to jump into the lake.
Bayar and other team members held him tightly.
"Boss..." Xiao Bing burst into tears, and other team members also burst into tears.
Ai Li had woken up and knew that Han Feng had died with the piranhas in order to save her. She cried so hard that she fainted several times.
Xiao Bing was unwilling to give in, his eyes were red, and he rowed around the lake like crazy. He searched for Han Feng for a long time, but Han Feng seemed to have sunk to the bottom of the lake, and there was no news.
The king of special forces of a generation just disappeared into a dark underground lake?