Chen Tao was half-hunched up as he climbed in the deep cave. He couldn't help but look back and glance at the little sandbag again. Thinking of the child's miserable condition, he felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.
It is a kind of desolation. No one can predict his own life or death. If a person lives a lifetime, won't he be just a pile of bones under the loess in the end? This child must have experienced pain that Chen Tao could not imagine during his lifetime, but at least now, someone has come to pick up his bones.
But what about Chen Tao himself?
Chen Tao looked at the endless darkness. If he died here, would anyone pick up his bones for him?
Suddenly, Chen Tao's eyes suddenly blurred. The small sandbag where the child's body was buried suddenly emitted a faint layer of fluorescence. When Chen Tao took a closer look, he suddenly found a child squatting on it!
Chen Tao was stunned. The child was squatting on the small sandbag, wearing a gray coarse cloth robe. The wounds on his body and face were gone. Chen Tao looked at the young and resolute little face with some trembling. The child actually smiled at him, raised his pale arm and waved to him!
Chen Tao was completely confused. He didn't know if he had a brain twitch or something. He actually raised his hand and waved to the child, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"Taozi, what the hell are you doing! Can you stop freaking out here!"
Seeing Chen Tao standing in front of him for a long time without moving, looking straight behind him and waving his hands, Haozi was frightened by his strange behavior and slapped Chen Tao's waving arm away. He got looks like he was crazy.
There was a pain in his hand, and Chen Tao came back to his senses. He swallowed dryly and wanted to say something. His mouth was open for a long time but no words came out. Then he looked closely at the cave behind. It was pitch black and there was nothing there. Where was the child?
What a hell! Chen Tao muttered in his heart, is he really crazy, or is the world crazy?
"Don't be stunned, let's go!" Ye Rong urged in a low voice from behind. Chen Tao shook his head and tried to clear away the messy thoughts in his mind before continuing to walk deeper into the cave. .
This fork seemed to be an upward arc. Not long after climbing, a hole appeared in front of them. When the three of them poked their heads out of the hole, they were dumbfounded.
"Are we... coming out again?"
At this time, the three people were standing on a huge sand plate, which was seven or eight meters wide. What surprised everyone was that the sand plate was not flat. There was a huge hemispherical sand cover in the middle. It looks like a large bowl turned upside down on the sand plate, with only less than one meter wide from the edge of the sand plate.
The three of them stood at the entrance of the cave and stared blankly for a long time. Then they stepped on the sand tray with their feet. After making sure that the sand tray was stable enough, they carefully climbed out of the hole.
Chen Tao lay on the edge of the sand tray and looked down. He saw Big Beard and the others underneath. A few minions had climbed up the stone wall and were drilling into the hole. The sand table where Chen Tao and the others are located is about six or seven meters from the ground. With the help of Big Beard and the others,
It can be seen from the torch light that there are several sand trays of similar size around the sand tray, with several large bowl-like sandstone lids on them, which are round and round like steamed buns.
Chen Tao looked at the river. There were countless sand trays like this on the stone walls on both sides. Could it be that each one had such a sand cover fastened on it?
What are these big bowl-like sand lids?
Thinking in his mind, Chen Tao carefully stepped back to the sand cover behind him and touched it with his hand. Although the sand cover of the big bowl was very hard, it didn't feel like a stone. Then he lightly tapped it with a short knife a few times. Wherever the blade passed, a deep path was left, and a layer of fine sand flowed down the tip of the knife.
The lid is actually made of sand. I don’t know what kind of materials are mixed in it. It looks like a big upside-down bowl made of mud. There are obvious traces of dried sand on it. If you look closely, You can also find that there are layers of ripples on the sand cover, which should be piled up in circles surrounded by sand and mud.
Haozi and Ye Rong also discovered this problem. The three of them looked at me and I looked at you. No one knew what these lids were used for.
Haozi believed that these large sand lids should be the tombs of Tatunaan people. There must be something inside, and maybe a few treasures could be taken out. However, Ye Rong shook her head in confusion. According to what she knew about Tatuna From my understanding of Naan culture, the Tatunaan people would not bury them in such a strange way. Even the slaves who were sacrificed were buried directly in the yellow sand. It is basically impossible to use sand to make a tomb like this. possibly exists.
Chen Tao took a peek at the bearded man underneath. There were holes everywhere on the stone wall. The group might not be able to find this place for a while, so he mouthed to Haozi and Ye Rong: "We can't stay here for a long time. We have to Find a way to escape!"
Ye Rong nodded and looked at the bearded people below, who were also frowning and thinking about countermeasures.
At this time, I heard Haozi whisper: "Hey, have you heard any strange sounds?"
"Sound? What sound?" Chen Tao didn't understand what Haozi was talking about, but looking at him, he seemed to be listening to something with his eyes squinted and his ears open.
"Are you talking about the voices of Big Beard and the others?" At this time, Big Beard and the others were climbing up the stone wall. The noises made by so many people were infinitely spread and amplified in this empty and quiet river. It even sounded like a human being. It feels a little weird.
"No, it's not this, it's another voice, very small, very light, and it's right next to us!" Haozi lowered his voice as much as possible, and Chen Tao looked at his mouth for a long time before he understood what he was saying.
Is that voice among us?
Chen Tao stopped talking and listened carefully. The river was not closed. The holes and cracks on the stone walls on both sides seemed to be connected to the outside. From time to time, there would be a tiny breeze blowing through the gaps. The sound was heard It spread and resonated in the various holes in the river, and finally converged into an extremely strange sound. It seemed that countless people were whimpering and whispering.
Big Beard and others are here
Below, I stabbed the stone wall with a knife to climb up. Occasionally, I could hear the sound of gravel and fine sand rolling down, and a few words that Chen Tao couldn't understand. Other than that...
Chen Tao worked hard to calm his heart and captured every little movement around him.
Dongdongkaka...dongdongkaka...dongdongkaka...
As Chen Tao concentrated more and more, a strange sound that was extremely weak, dull, but very rhythmic seemed to appear in his ears.
Dongdongkaka...dongdongkaka...dongdongkaka...
The sound was very small, but the frequency of the sound was very dense, and it sounded like it was right next to them.
Strange, what is this sound?
Chen Tao listened carefully to the direction of the sound. As soon as he turned his head, his eyes focused on the large bowl of sand cover in front of him.
Could it be that there is something in it?
Chen Tao put his pierced ears against the thick sand shell and squinted his eyes to listen carefully.
Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump
As he got closer to the sand shell, the strange sound became clearer and clearer.
That sound actually came from the sand shell!
Chen Tao and Hao Zi looked at each other, and they both saw a hint of panic in each other's eyes.
There is something inside this sand shell, and it is alive!
The two of them were shocked when they saw a strange roar suddenly coming from below. One of the bearded men had climbed onto the sand tray and was reporting the situation to the bearded man below.
Chen Tao and the others were lying on the sand table. Their position was higher than that of Big Beard and the others. From their angles, they could just see all the movements of Big Beard and the others.
The bearded man inserted the torch into the crack of the rock, asked the two people on the sand tray to put down the rope, and climbed up the sand tray with Haymorton and several other men. A group of people circled around the sand cover above, but they probably didn't see anything interesting.
It seems that the bearded man does not fully know the situation of Tatunaan. At least he has never been to the river below. Chen Tao guessed in his mind and continued to look at the bearded men below.
The bearded men looked around Sha Gai for a while, but found nothing useful. A few people didn't know what they said, but they saw Haimoton pull out the long knife from his waist and chop it hard on the sand cover a few times. Then he took the rifle from the hand of someone next to him and used the gun. Tuo hit Shagai hard.
Chen Tao and the others were lying on it. The light from the torch was not very sufficient, and the position where Haymorton hit was blocked by a person, making it impossible to see clearly what was under the sand cover. Seeing that the bearded group seemed to have discovered something, the rest of the men also picked up their gun butts, and those without guns pulled out their scimitars, slashing and smashing at the sand cover.
Dong dong dong... dong dong dong... clang clang clang...
The sound spread far in the empty and deep river, and there were strange echoes.
In the middle, the sand cover that Big Beard and the others were on was broken bit by bit, and the broken sand quickly rolled down along the sand plate, and the originally silent river suddenly became noisy.
"Are these people crazy?" Haozi pointed downwards, and then pointed at Dashagai behind him in the distance. While making gestures, he said to Chen Tao with his mouth: "If they come up later, let's go first." Hide behind this sand cover.”
Then, he handed the rifle in his hand to Chen Tao, and he carried it under the stone wall first, holding the spike in his hand and getting ready to go.
Haozi is very confident in his flying nail technique. It may not have much effect against the big ghost-faced bat, but it is no problem against people. After giving the rifle to Chen Tao, as long as anyone comes out of the hole, Haozi will kill him with a silent nail.
The three of them were hiding on the sand tray in a defensive position, watching the situation below while guarding against someone suddenly coming up.
After a heavy blow, the thick sand shell was finally smashed by Big Beard and the others. When they saw what was underneath, the expressions of Chen Tao and the others changed.
"What the hell is that?"
(End of chapter)
