Chen Tao suddenly shouted, making everyone feel frightened. They finally got rid of the Soul-Destroying Rat, and no one wanted to experience something like that again.
Yan's strength was so strong that he couldn't break free at all. Chen Tao patted Yan's arm and motioned for him to let go.
"Huh...you can't pinch me like this, it's too uncomfortable." Chen Tao gasped, "But I was indeed careless."
While talking, everyone else climbed down from the stone pillar. Uncle Long walked up to Chen Tao, glanced at him, raised his hand and slapped Chen Tao on the head.
"You bastard, I'm going to give you a heart attack!"
"Hehe..." Chen Tao rubbed the back of his head and giggled, not knowing what to say. Seeing Yang Lixuan behind the crowd, he nodded to him and said, "Thank you just now."
"fine."
"Just because you saved Tao Zi's life, I owe you a favor from now on." Hao Zi patted Yang Lixuan's shoulder carelessly, and it seemed that his wariness and nervousness towards Yang Lixuan had eased a lot.
Haozi was no taller than Yang Lixuan, and he could only reach Yang Lixuan's mouth. Looking at this scene, Chen Tao suddenly felt a little interesting, especially the bulky gas mask on his head, which was really funny.
Yang Lixuan glanced sideways at Haozi, said nothing, and walked to the shore on his own.
"Hey, this kid!" Haozi was a little dissatisfied. Chen Tao smiled and patted his shoulder, and the two walked to the shore together.
Everyone came ashore one after another, looking around with flashlights. The river is deeper than expected, and you can't see the bottom with a flashlight. The rivers in front and behind are long and wide, twisting and turning into the distance with no end in sight.
"It's strange, it's just that the stone is black, why is the water also black?" The mountain ghost looked at the flowing river.
"It may be due to the light, or there may be some ingredients in the rock formations here that affect the quality of the groundwater." Uncle Wang said.
"When I came here, I heard from the locals that many people start to grow white hair at a young age, and their skin will have some black spots inexplicably. Even their teeth are a little different from ordinary people. Could this be related to this?" Yan said.
"We can't rule out this possibility... This place is still very barren, and many villagers drink groundwater directly from wells. It seems that you have put a lot of effort into it?" Uncle Long responded.
"Only when you know yourself and your enemy can you make a good pot..."
Yan's answer was very light and seemed to mean something else, but it was hard to tell what he wanted to say. Chen Tao didn't understand it anyway.
"I'm just afraid that if the pot is not level, some soup will inevitably spill out."
Uncle Long smiled and replied to Yan, and after that, the two of them never spoke again.
Looking at the two people playing riddles, Chen Tao couldn't help but have the urge to go crazy, and thought to himself:
"This Yan is probably not as simple as an ordinary person..."
"Then, which way should we go next?" Uncle Wang asked, looking at both sides of the river.
"Although this underground river is tortuous, you can still see some of the terrain trends..." Uncle Long stood on a protruding rock and looked at the upstream and downstream channels of the river:
"The upper reaches are narrow and tortuous, while the lower reaches are flat and wide. The Yin Dragon comes out of the mountain, walks flatly on the blue clouds, and the wood energy rises into the water... I didn't expect that there is such a hidden vein that is rare in the world hidden underneath!"
"By saying so much, what do you mean?" Boss Zhang asked.
"This is a hidden dragon. If you follow the direction of the water flow, you will definitely gain something!"
Uncle Long's tone was very certain, and it was obvious that he was very confident in his judgment.
"The wind... is coming from that way," Yang Lixuan pointed to the back of the river.
"Since there is wind, the air should be safe. There may be an outlet upstream." Uncle Long took off his gas mask and said.
Everyone took off their bulky gas masks one after another. Chen Tao let out a breath and said, "I can finally get some air. This thing is so suffocating!"
"Let's go, be careful!"
Uncle Long jumped off the boulder and called everyone to move forward.
The river is very wide, and the rock walls on both sides are towering. Long vines can be seen twisting and climbing everywhere. The roots of some vines are deeply embedded in the rock formations, and they seem to grow out of the black rocks.
"What on earth are these vines? They even penetrated the rock formations. Are they growing out of the rocks?..." Chen Tao asked doubtfully.
"Let me tell you, the crack was caused by these vine branches. You still don't believe it!" Haozi looked around and suddenly exclaimed,
"There's something on those stone walls!"
Everyone looked in the direction of Haozi's flashlight. On the dark stone wall, under the crisscrossing vines, there seemed to be a square stone cave. The cave is located very high and is covered by vines. If you don't pay attention, you can't see it at all.
"Wait, there's not just that one, there's also one here, there, and there!"
Soon, they discovered that at some point, many square grottoes began to appear on the stone walls on both sides of the river, and each grotto was covered with vines.
"We have to go up and take a look. The rock walls here are so smooth. We don't have tools, so we have to find a way." Uncle Long said, looking at the grottoes.
"Let me try."
Yang Lixuan stepped forward and looked at a relatively nearby cave above his head.
"Hey, are you serious? That stone wall..." Before Haozi finished speaking, Yang Lixuan had already moved.
"Take it." He casually threw the flashlight towards Chen Tao. Chen Tao, who was still stunned, hurriedly grabbed it in his hand. He saw Yang Lixuan raised the long stick to his chest and twisted it with both hands. The long stick suddenly changed into It became two short sticks.
He took a few steps back, looked up, and flicked his right hand back. The sharp blade of the gun popped out with a clanging sound from the gun body, and the cold light was threatening.
Yang Lixuan ran forward a few steps and jumped hard. Using the inertia, he raised his feet and kicked on the stone wall for several steps. He held the gun in his right hand and stabbed hard at the stone wall. In just a short moment, he had already rushed up to the top of the stone wall. Six high.
He held the short gun in his right hand and hung his body on the stone wall. He raised his head and glanced at the grotto diagonally above. He exerted force on his right arm and kicked his foot sideways. Under the surprised eyes of everyone below, he jumped up again. By falling and stepping on the short spear on the wall, the whole person flew up.
Whoosh...
Yang Lixuan flicked his left arm in mid-air, and the short spear in his hand flew towards the grotto above like an arrow from the string. A crisp sound was heard, and the short spear was firmly pierced into the inner roof of the grotto.
The thin rope on his left hand was connected to the end of the short spear. Yang Lixuan quickly pulled the thin rope and climbed into the grotto above. The eyes of the people below were straightened, and they were stunned in place.
"Is this...this...is Yang Zai talking about Wia?" Boss Zhang stuttered.
"No wonder the price is so high, there are indeed a few brushes!" Mountain Ghost said as he touched his head.
The corner of Yan's mouth tilted slightly, revealing an unpredictable evil smile, his eyes flickered,
"It seems that we still need to consider plan C..."
"Okay, this kid is indeed quite powerful..." Haozi's expression was a little strange. He was probably unconvinced, but he had to admit that Yang Lixuan seemed to be much more powerful than he thought.
Chen Tao felt that he no longer regarded Yang Lixuan as a human being. He held a flashlight in one hand and looked up at the grotto quietly. Yang Lixuan had been inside for a while.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
There was no movement in the grotto above. Just when Chen Tao was about to call Yang Lixuan, a figure jumped down from above.
He kicked, turned over, landed on the ground, and pulled back the two short spears stuck on the wall. Yang Lixuan combined the short spears into a long stick and walked in front of everyone. He raised his hand and held something in his hand and said:
"Each of these grottoes has a wooden coffin like that, and inside the coffin are ancient corpses wearing waistbands."
Seeing the familiar black waistband in Yang Lixuan's hand, everyone began to feel a little clearer.
"It turns out that the Japanese moved those ancient corpses up from here."
"One more thing." Yang Lixuan motioned for everyone to turn off the flashlights and turned on the ultraviolet light on the headlights.
After a short period of darkness, as streaks of purple light lit up, little bits of fluorescence appeared on the originally dark stone wall. On the stone pillars, on the vines, on the hanging stalagmites... wherever the flashlight light shined Like countless stars, people can't help but have the illusion of being in the starry sky, like a dream. If there is enough light, this place must be like a fairyland.
Yang Lixuan didn't need to say anything more, everyone understood what he meant. There are black insects here, and their numbers are terrifying. Only then did Chen Tao remember that along the way, he had been covered in various liquids. He lifted up his sleeve and smelled it. Even though he was wearing a gas mask, he could still smell an indescribable smell.
"After I go out, I don't know how long it will take to take a hot bath to remove it. I may have to waste a lot of shower gel..." Chen Tao thought wildly.
Continuing forward along the river, you can see a grotto symmetrically placed on the stone walls on both sides about ten meters apart, covered with black vines.
"This... seems to be intentional. Why should they be buried on the stone wall?" Chen Tao said.
"Don't you think what this arrangement looks like?" Yan said.
"It's a guard! This river is a burial pit!" Chen Tao suddenly realized.
"Using the river as a burial pit... This is the first time I have seen such a burial system. I always feel that this place is not simple." Uncle Long looked at the grottoes and said, "Could it be that...we are already in the tomb?"
