I swallowed, feeling a little timid, and leaned closer to Liu Ruxiang: "Isn't this the mandrill's cave?"
Liu Ruxiang bent down and walked slowly towards the entrance of the cave. He lowered his head to explore and pointed at a mark. It seemed that something had dragged the ground, bringing all the wet soil into the cave.
"This cave is probably a mandrill cave. I'll go in first, and you can follow behind." After that, Liu Ruxiang handed me the dagger for self-defense, while she held a bamboo whip for use.
The hole is quite big. Liu Ruxiang had to bend down when she first entered, but I only had to lower my head slightly to get in.
The cook walked in front with a flashlight, her voice was very low, and she asked herself in confusion: "Most caves in the mountains are naturally formed, and their internal structures are mostly stones. Why is this cave filled with mud? It seems to have been dug by people."
I vaguely knew the answer in my mind, so I replied to her: "Maybe it was dug by a mandrill? After all, Meng Laoer went up the mountain and stole the little mandrill in the old cave before. He probably moved it because of this."
Liu Ruxiang agreed with my statement and continued to explore the cave. Then she heard familiar calls for help.
"Help! Help—"
I immediately put my ear to the wall, and the sound became clearer, and the tone was a bit dull and rough. It was clearly Meng Laoer's voice.
Liu Ruxiang and I looked at each other, frowned, and suddenly stopped: "This voice belongs to Meng Laoer, so what is the one we just saw in the camp?"
Liu Ruxiang's words woke me up, and I was stunned. Thinking of the mandrill's ability to change its appearance and body, cold sweat broke out on my back.
Could it be that the one just now was fake?
After hesitating for a while, Liu Ruxiang made a decision: go in and take a look before talking.
"Even if it's fake, it's just a mandrill. Am I still afraid of him?"
The cook's high-spirited look was full of confidence. I also recalled that Li Laodan, who was disguised as a mandrill just now, was defeated by one of his moves, and he knocked the thing away in a few seconds.
Even if they meet two this time, they probably have a good chance of winning.
We continued walking inside with a flashlight, and soon the cave began to expand. As the flashlight's halo shone in, we saw clearly that in front of us was a low cave as big as a threshing floor.
We saw Meng Laoer clearly. His hands and feet were all tied up with hemp ropes. He was lying in a puddle of water, calling for help while hesitantly calling out.
"Master, help me, little master, help me!"
This voice was almost exactly the same as Meng Laoer's voice I heard before. It really didn't look like it was made by a mandrill.
Liu Ruxiang didn't dare to move rashly, so she slowly took out a piece of yellow talisman paper from her pocket, turned to me and said: "This talisman paper is called a calming talisman, which has the effect of calming the mind and calming the mind. When using it, use glutinous rice milk to stick it to the human center point. , pinch the top of the head with your fingertips for a hundred times, and if you are an ordinary person, you will feel inner peace. If you are stalked by evil spirits or disturbed by guests, your limbs will twitch."
It seems that the cook wants to use this talisman to identify whether the Meng Laoer in front of him is a normal real person. If he is pretending to be a mandrill, his secret will be exposed immediately.
Liu Ruxiang prepared the talisman from a distance, held the bamboo master's whip tightly in her other hand, and walked over slowly.
Meng Laoer was calm at this time, looking at the two of us blankly, with a wry smile on his face: "I just walked down the mountain when I heard my wife calling my name from behind. But when I turned around, I saw a short old man with a grin on his face. , jumped up on me and strangled my neck. Then his eyes darkened and he passed out."
Liu Ruxiang nodded and asked him not to move. She only bent down and stretched out her hand, pressed the talisman paper on his philtrum, and then gently pinched the Baihui point on the top of his head with her fingertips.
At this time, I was holding my breath and concentrating, standing next to me with a flashlight in my hand, shining a light, staring closely at Meng Laoer's body, for fear that he would turn into a monster with teeth and claws in the next second.
Fortunately, nothing changed. The corner of Meng Laoer's mouth twitched and he said with a frown:
"You guys are overthinking it. I am just a normal person, not a monster. Even if a problem is found, it is the mandrill's fault."
Liu Ruxiang stopped worrying after seeing the result and asked me to cut off the rope tied to him.
The mandrill attacked him twice but did not cause too much damage to him. This was extremely lucky, otherwise the Heshang Pills given to him before could not have saved his life.
After Meng Laoer rested for a moment, Liu Ruxiang said in a deep voice: "Looking at your current situation, I'm afraid you will be attacked by mandrills if I let you go down the mountain. What do you plan to do, stay here to rest or come with us to find your wife?" "
"It must be with you." Meng Laoer said firmly.
In this way, the three of us continued walking deeper into the cave.
…
In the mountain, in a dark and narrow corridor, at the end is a stone wall carved with various patterns. There seems to be a thin line in the middle of the wall. You can't find it if you don't look closely. , which is actually made up of two stone doors spliced together.
This wall is weird. There is no lock on the wall, and there are no handrail pull tabs. There is only a small sink the size of a bowl at the corner of the wall. There is natural mountain spring water dripping from the sink, and it slowly flows along the holes in the sink. Go down.
And right in front of this door, on the ground with a thin layer of mud and water, there was a woman whose limbs were twitching.
It was Fang Xiaomei.
Her face was ashen, there was no blood on her face, her chest was rising and falling weakly, and her belly was much smaller than before. Through the film-like skin, she could vaguely see a humanoid monster inside, which was constantly inside her belly. Twisting, limbs are looming.
Fang Xiaomei's body was so painful that she felt numb. She had no strength to scream anymore, and she cried silently. Her mouth moved slightly, and her expression was very angry, as if she was cursing something.
This situation seems to have been going on for a long time, and now, the movement of the things in the belly is getting louder and louder.
A pair of small bulging handprints suddenly appeared on the belly that was just round just now, and the handprints pushed up hard. Fang Xiaomei was incontinent from the pain, her eyes rolled white, and she finally passed out.
But the changes in the belly did not stop, the hand prints became increasingly red, and eventually, several huge bloody cracks appeared in the entire belly. Then, like an overripe watermelon that exploded under the sun, a monster covered in blood and gray-brown skin emerged from Fang Xiaomei's belly, shouting "High, high -" and then disappeared. In the gloomy darkness.
…
We walked into the cave and found it very cool, but there was no wind. When we got inside, we could still feel the heavy humidity surrounding us. Water dripped from the rock wall above the head from time to time, and there were various gray-white stalactites, which were washed extremely smooth by the water droplets.
Liu Ruxiang took the lead and walked in front. I was at the back. I had never seen these things before and was very curious. I stretched out my hand to touch them from time to time.
As I looked around, my speed slowed down. Liu Ruxiang urged me from the front, and I quickly followed.
The cave has nine twists and turns, and may be connected to some underground rivers. There are many dead branches and leaves and other garbage floating by the water.
Until Liu Ruxiang stopped, the three of us were standing in front of a dark and bottomless earth cave.
Liu Ruxiang looked inside with a flashlight and discovered that it was a cave diagonally downwards, and there was a rope tied to the edge.
"The direction of the stepping on shoes spell is pointing here. Fang Xiaomei is probably inside."
