The corridor behind the entrance of the cave was dark and narrow, and I couldn't see my fingers. When I climbed in, I felt a little inconvenient to move, not to mention Xiong Mingming, who was as big as a brown bear.
After this kid managed to crawl forward for a while, he suddenly called me: "Hu Tian, wait a minute!"
I stopped and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Here...here you...here!" Xiong Ming said as he fiddled with something behind him. After a while, I suddenly felt a light coming from behind me, and then Xiong Ming waved a 1980s figure with a big wave of his hand. An aluminum flashlight was thrust into my hands.
I took it and looked at it, and saw that it was still rusty all over, and the edges were full of signs of damage. I couldn't help but think to myself: "Good guy, this flashlight is probably about the same age as me, right?"
Thinking of this, I turned my head slightly and asked Xiong Ming: "Where did you get such a flashlight?"
Xiong Ming smiled and said: "I just dug it out in the house. I was careful at that time. All our equipment was left in the car. If we were to go into a tunnel or something, there wouldn't even be a lighted object." !”
As Xiong Ming spoke, he fiddled around behind me again. I measured myself and shined a flashlight on it. I found that not long after this kid, he took out a similar aluminum flashlight from his waist and patted it twice in the palm of his hand. After a squeaking sound of electricity, the flashlight in his hand first flashed twice, and then a steady, dark yellow light beam emitted from it.
Xiong Ming saw that the flashlight in his hand also lit up, so he grinned and said: "Hehehe, fortunately, Mr. Xiong, I just found two. If I encounter some kind of trap later, Wouldn’t it be a big loss if there wasn’t even a little light?”
I looked at Xiong Ming's pouty face and couldn't help but smile: "Don't tell me, you have some rough and tumble moments, so I'll give you a credit this time."
After saying that, I held the flashlight in my right hand and crawled deeper into the corridor little by little.
Although the aluminum flashlight is a bit old, the light and lighting range are not as good as today's professional wolf-eye flashlights, but as the old saying goes, "the legs of a fly are also meat." In this environment, light is better than complete darkness. A hundred times.
Due to the narrow corridor, Xiong Ming and I did not climb very fast. I carefully observed everything in the corridor with a flashlight. Apart from some vague handprints stained with ambergris on both sides of the stone wall, there was nothing else. Something else happens.
However, slowly I found that the bloody handprints began to become more and more dense as the two of us went deeper.
At the beginning, there were only one or two bloody handprints every few meters, but now there are dozens of handprints stained with ambergris saliva appearing on the walls on both sides of the corridor every ten centimeters.
What’s even stranger is that these bloody handprints don’t look like they’re messy, but more like they were left deliberately for us to discover.
Some of them are three in a row, in front of the fingers; some are five in a circle, drawing the shape of a mandala flower; and some are seven or eight handprints superimposed and pressed together, which looks very similar to the outside. Those disgusting green snails...
The two of us crawled forward for a while, and Xiong Ming finally asked, "Hu Tian, don't you think there's something wrong with these fingerprints?"
I whispered: "Of course I think there is something wrong with them. Although I can't tell what they mean now, I always feel that these fingerprints are arranged according to some inexplicable rules, as if they are some kind of special symbols." , or it’s like a password, conveying some information to us.”
Xiong Ming nodded and said, "I feel the same way. But, what on earth are those four girls from the Hua family trying to tell us?"
I shook my head and said, "I don't know either!"
And just before I finished speaking, there was suddenly a rustling sound coming from behind us.
The sound was not loud at first, just appearing and disappearing, but after a while, the scalp-numbing sound began to come in waves. At the same time, waves of crawling insect-like creatures The unique sound of the jointed limbs rubbing against the ground was also mixed in, and came along.
After hearing this sound, I suddenly felt a chill running down my spine and shouted, "No! Those damn green snails are catching up with me, Xiong Ming, crawl forward!"
Xiong Ming also yelled: "Nonsense! What the fuck do you need to say? Hurry up, those damn big cockroaches are almost crawling to my feet!"
I cursed: "Grandma, how did these guys come so fast? Didn't you block all the doors and windows?"
Xiong Ming scolded: "How the hell do I know? I even sealed the doors and windows tightly, who knows how these green snails crawled in?"
I wondered loudly: "Did someone take advantage of us to climb into the tunnel and let them in?"
Xiong Ming cursed: "Grandma, if this is really the case, Master Xiong will have to pull out his skin after I catch him!"
I said loudly: "Stop talking about useless things, let's get out alive first!"
After saying that, I started to crawl forward desperately.
But the house leaked and it rained continuously all night, and the boat was late and caught in the wind. Just when I struggled to climb about ten meters, a three-way intersection suddenly appeared in front of the corridor.
Three almost identical intersections.
Xiong Ming was not prepared at all and I stopped suddenly. He accidentally bumped into my foot, so he cursed loudly: "Your uncle, why don't you brake and turn on the taillight? You stopped so suddenly, if you killed the bear Father me?"
Xiong Ming scolded me for a long time and saw that I didn't respond, so he pushed me hard twice, "Hu Tian, what's wrong with you? Why can't you move?"
I turned back and shouted to Xiong Ming: "Suddenly there are three more roads ahead, I don't know which way to go!"
And just as I turned around, the tidal wave of green snails behind me flashed dark red and came towards the two of us.
Not only that, I scanned it with my flashlight and found that the dense crowd of green snails was also mixed with countless centipedes 17 or 18 centimeters long. They were rolling towards us one by one like crazy.
A dozen faster green snails had already arrived at Xiong Ming's feet. In an instant, the boy seemed to have turned into a big loach fish that had been scalded by boiling water, kicking his legs vigorously. , kicking away the green snails that crawled in front of him.
And seven or eight smaller green snails crossed Xiong Ming and attacked me. I knew how powerful these guys were, so I didn't dare to hit them with my hands. Instead, I raised my feet and trampled them all to death on both sides. On the stone wall on the side, a dark red and smelly pus suddenly splashed out.
"Hu Tian, run quickly! Find a way to crawl out first! If this continues, we will both die in the mouths of these big cockroaches. I don't want to be their lunch!" Xiong Ming struggled while struggling. Struggling and shouting loudly.
And at this moment, I suddenly saw a black figure appearing in the stone corridor on the far right.
However, due to the limited illumination range of the aluminum flashlight, I couldn't see clearly who this person was. But I am sure that the person in front of me is not Hua Muling, because this person is not tall, very thin and very small. Like a child who has not grown up.
Seeing me looking at him, the figure calmly stretched out a pair of thin little hands that looked like those of African refugees, and waved at me, as if to say, "Come! Follow me! Come this way." Walk!"
As the saying goes, anything abnormal must be suspicious. This is the style of doing things that I have always believed in. So when I saw the black figure's behavior, I did not crawl towards him immediately, but scanned it again with the flashlight out of vigilance. The two stone corridors on the left and in the middle were still empty, except for darkness.
And when I moved the flashlight light back to the corridor on the right, the black shadow disappeared.
I couldn't help but be shocked, "Where is he going?"
But before I had time to think too much, a scream suddenly came from Xiong Ming behind me,
I looked back and found that dozens of large and small green snails had climbed onto Xiong Ming's body, and dozens of large spotted centipedes were struggling to get into the boy's trouser legs.
Seeing that the situation had become so critical, I no longer hesitated, crawled back a few times, used a flashlight to knock off more than a dozen green snails on Xiong Ming's body, and then grabbed the boy by the collar and lifted him up twice. He said loudly: "Is your kid dead? If not, crawl to the left!"
Xiong Ming used my strength to pull him upwards a long way, and managed to break out of the swarm of insects. Then, like a brown bear rubbing against a tree, he rolled back and forth on the ground, crushing all the large spotted centipedes that got into his clothes.
After a lot of tossing, the kid yelled: "You, Mr. Xiong, I'm so stubborn! Even if you die, I can't die! You kid doesn't want me to be eaten by these bugs, so hurry up and crawl forward!"
After saying that, he followed me and climbed towards the corridor on the left.
I took the lead and climbed for about five or six minutes. Suddenly the corridor began to slope downwards, and then the originally narrow corridor began to gradually become wider. Not only did the distance to the left and right begin to widen a little bit, but the height above and below also began to increase a little bit. .
At first, Xiong Ming and I could only crawl forward a little bit. By this time, the two of us could already bend forward and trot forward.
As the corridor gradually widened downwards, the two of us could not only stand up straight, but even run forward side by side. But we ran fast, and those damn green snails chased us even faster. After another ten minutes, the group of green snails that looked like a red tide were less than two meters away from the two of us.
What's even more terrible is that a stone wall suddenly appeared in front of the corridor at this time!
"What? There is no way?" I couldn't help but take a breath.
