"Old gentleman? Village chief? Are you coming too?" I shouted outside.
The old man stammered: "No! No! We are here to guard you. If you have any trouble, we can just ask for help outside and let the fire brigade or something come in to rescue you!"
"That's fine! It's always good to have a few guarding outside! I think this way, our dry food will be enough for three days. If we haven't come out in three days, you can call the police again!"
"Okay! Master Zhang, be careful!"
I took the miner's lamp and rope from the old gentleman and the others and walked forward immediately.
The old gentleman and the others were at the entrance, watching us with bated breath.
It got darker and darker as we walked inside.
I looked up and saw a thousand-meter cliff above my head. The vines on both sides of the cliff were densely intertwined. Just ten meters out, I heard a brother exclaim: "Look, snake! What a big snake!"
I raised my head and illuminated it with a miner's lamp, and sure enough, a dozen meters above my head, there was a python as big as a bowl, white all over.
"White snake? Wow! What a beautiful white snake! Is this Bai Suzhen?"
This girl Gu Ling is indeed trained by the devil. Such a big snake didn't scare her.
The rest of the people all had pale faces.
Brother Dasha said: "Why is this place so cold? Boss, let's see, let's not go in, right? It's none of our business to talk about rhinos, droughts, tyrants, etc.? This time we come to Wangjiacun, it's a battle of wits. Now that Brother Dong is done, just..."
As soon as Brother Dasha said this, he suddenly stopped because he felt as if he had stepped on something.
"I'll go! Boss...is this...is there something wrong with this situation?"
Brother Dasha shined a miner's lamp at his feet, and a skull rolled out.
"There are skulls! It seems like a lot of people have died in this place!"
I lowered my head, squatted on the ground, and picked up the skull with my hands. This girl Gu Ling is not afraid of snakes, but she is terribly afraid of skulls. She hurriedly called me: "Boss Zhang, what are you doing? Throw it away! This thing is so disgusting..."
I smiled, observed slowly, and smelled it with my nose.
"Don't be afraid, everyone, these skulls are from at least hundreds of years ago. This river stopped flowing hundreds of years ago. These skulls may have washed here from other places before.
I put the skull down and asked Dasha and the others to pick up a few stones and build them together for burial.
Everyone continued walking inside, and after walking a few hundred meters, it was completely dark!
"There is no light, and I can't feel the wind! This is the end of the canyon. Let's look for anything unusual. I used a miner's lamp to shine everywhere, and everyone stood back to back and carefully looked around.
"Boss! This earthworm is so weird!"
Gu Ling had a more delicate mind. He broke open a stone and used a miner's lamp to shine on the earthworms under the stone.
"What a big earthworm!"
Everyone was attracted at once.
When I saw it, the earthworm was as thick as a chopstick. It was all white and the blood vessels in its belly could be seen.
"White earthworms, white rhinos! White snakes! Why are all the animals here white?"
I was in a state of confusion, and I always felt that something was vaguely wrong here.
Is it because of the soil? Or is it because of the water source?
If it's because of the water source, why don't people in Wangjiacun have gray hair?
So what's the reason?
Because there was no road ahead, everyone had to find a stone to sit down.
Except for occasionally seeing a few skulls and small white animals from hundreds of years ago, there is nothing unusual around here.
"Where did the old man who saw the white rhinoceros see it? Could it be here?" I murmured to myself.
"I don't think it's here. Maybe there is a cave nearby, leading to the Yin River that the old village chief said. Otherwise, not to mention the size of a rhinoceros, even a wolf wouldn't be able to survive in this place. Can’t you jump from the top of the mountain?”
After Gu Ling finished speaking, he used the miner's lamp in his hand to look at the dense vines above his head.
I thought to myself, the only beasts that may appear here are probably snakes and apes. They can follow the vines and come down from the top of the mountain. Other animals that cannot climb are unlikely to appear here.
Thinking of this, I lay down on the ground and listened carefully with my ears.
Brother Dasha asked me: "Boss, what are you doing?"
"Let me listen and see if there is a cave down there! Do you know how Wu Taoist got Xiao Wang's coffin into the tiankeng? That's because Master Qiu taught me how to listen to the sound of earth. I can listen to the earth's surface. Listen to the sound of falling to determine whether there is a hole underneath suddenly. After hearing the hole, put Tai Chi halo on it to make Wu Taoist think it is Kuai Zhen Long Land!"
After hearing what I said, Gu Ling and the others found it unbelievable.
"Boss Zhang, can you tell with your ears whether there are caves under the surface?"
"Of course! Some animals have more sensitive hearing than humans because their ear structures are different from humans. Mr. Qiu gave me something to eat that can change the internal structure of the ears. Coupled with some experience in identification, it is almost the same. !”
As I spoke, I climbed down and continued listening.
After listening to the entire space from all directions, I finally found the cave.
"Brothers, try digging two shovels first!"
I pointed to a piece of soil under the rock wall and asked Dasha and the others to dig it.
Several brothers took turns digging around. The monkey egg was very strong. He dug down with a shovel and directly dug out a skull. I pushed the skull aside and discovered that there was a piece of corrupted armor next to this guy.
"This is a general!"
Sun Shenyan used the lantern to shine on the skull and armor.
"Look carefully, which dynasty is it from?" I asked Sun Shenyan.
Sun Shen looked at it for a long time and said: "It should be from the late Ming Dynasty!
"Strange, how come there are the remains of a general from the late Ming Dynasty here, and the remains are well preserved? Is it possible that there really is a big tomb here? Or is this general here to rob the tomb?"
Gu Ling raised such a question, and I thought for a moment and said: "This possibility cannot be ruled out. However, there are many situations about what happened hundreds of years ago. For example, war! Escape! The general was buried alive, or, here is a An ancient battlefield or something doesn't necessarily have to have a big tomb. Brothers, keep digging!"
Under the leadership of Brother Dasha, the brothers were full of energy and soon felt a cold wind blowing from inside.
"Boss, we dug it! There is indeed a cave!"
Everyone took the miner's lamp and looked down. It was dark inside and turned out to be a natural cave.
Sun Shenyan was a little disappointed and lit a cigarette and took a few puffs.
"His uncle! It turned out to be just a cave, I thought it was a tomb or something!"
Gu Ling said excitedly: "What happened to the natural cave? Who stipulates that graves cannot be buried in natural caves? Have you ever heard of hanging coffins? Don't they all put coffins in caves on the cliffs?"
