Chapter 17 The Secret Corridor at the Bottom of the Lake
Yu Xing erased the characteristics of his voice left in the big white flower, and prepared a cross talk surprise for the newcomers, then ignored the flower and carefully stayed away.
The second mountain was very big. He walked in the mountain with low visibility for almost two days. He stopped and stopped along the way and encountered nearly a hundred vines trying to attract him, as well as two nests of large gray worms. Finally, he reached the end.
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At this time, he could already find many man-made traces on the ground, such as hastily discarded supplies, mixed knife marks on the ground, marks carved on trees, and wet shoe prints. It seemed that the farther back, the earlier
The more people there are, the less time they have to cover up their whereabouts.
I don’t know whether I encountered danger or had a premonition that the tomb was just ahead, so I was too excited to care about it.
Crossing a tricky corner, Yu Xing heard the sound of gurgling water. Judging from the sound of water splashing, there should be a mountain waterfall ahead.
Sure enough, Yu Xing brushed aside the densely packed slender leaves and tiny ginkgo fruits in front of him, and the thick fog suddenly opened, and he suddenly became enlightened.
A two-meter-wide waterfall flows out from the mountain in front. The amount of water is not much, but it has formed a lake below over the years.
Yu Xing’s eyes lit up and he went to the river to take a look.
He didn't know how deep the lake was, but the water was clear. It looked like living water at first glance. A few miscellaneous fish were swimming in it. He stretched out his hand to fish it out and felt that the water was fine. The cool humidity soaked into his wrists, making him suffer from the weather in the mountains.
The skin is soothed.
There were no vines or other dangerous things around, because on the other side of the lake there were a few birds with gray background and white flowers fluttering down. They were jumping around on the ground as usual, talking to Yu Xing that Yu Xing couldn't listen to.
Understand the language of birds.
"Ahem, take a shower here, I guess... no one will see you." Anyway, conditions allowed, Yu Xing didn't want to have to wrap himself in uncomfortable clothes. He hesitated for two seconds, then took out the shelf from his bag.
I picked up a bunch of branches and set them up by the lake. I spread a layer of leaves on the branches and lit them with a lighter.
He neatly took off his jacket, T-shirt and overalls, revealing his forearms and legs covered with a thin layer of strong muscles. He washed the clothes in the lake, dried them on the rack and warmed them over the fire.
Meditation on the lake.
Should you take off your underwear?
There's no telling what kind of accident will happen in this place. After all, he's the only one there, so he won't have time to react when an accident happens... Forget it, just keep it on and cover it up with your body.
He also took off his vest, disposed of it in the same way, and slid his whole body along the shore of the lake into the lake.
At this point, Yu Xing, who was 1.85 meters tall, actually didn't step on the bottom. He let out a sigh. Generally speaking, this kind of lake goes from shallow to deep, with the middle being the deepest, and the two sides gradually sloping inward.
But this lake actually looks like a water cup. The shore of the lake is like a cliff. Once you enter, you can't see the bottom. This is obviously not a natural formation. Combining the layout of the waterfall and the lake, Yu Xing guessed that there must be a living water outlet at the bottom of the lake, which is connected to the other side.
There is a water surface, and most likely this lake has been artificially developed.
He narrowed his eyes, returned to the shore, dug out a waterproof flashlight, held his breath and sank into the water, turned on the flashlight and shined it towards the lake wall.
The aquatic plants and plankton on the lake wall are unmistakable. They are perfectly integrated with the surrounding environment, and there is no visible violation. This shows that the lake was not developed recently, but a long time ago.
Yu Xing shined the light towards the bottom of the lake again, and the extremely penetrating light drove straight in, dispelling the darkness that had been at the bottom of the lake for many years. Even Yu Xing's eyesight had to adapt to it for a while before he could see clearly.
The bottom of the lake is about four or five meters deep from the water. This is a depth where people can easily drown. Fortunately, Yu has a special physique and can float freely in the water. He can stay for a long time without deliberately holding his breath. Others cannot. If you want to find a hole at the bottom of the lake,
, I’m afraid you need professional diving equipment or a trained swimmer.
He did not stop where he was, but swam downstream. The fish gradually disappeared into the darkness, and his surroundings became silent and full of oppression. The only sound in his ears was the rumble of the water.
The flashlight swayed and finally stopped when it flashed across a small slope at the bottom of the lake. Yu Xing approached the small slope as nimbly as a swimming fish, and then turned to the hidden back side of the small slope.
As expected, the flow of the surrounding water made him realize the location of the hole at the bottom of the lake, just below the small slope!
Behind the slope is a deep and narrow corridor going downwards. Even with a strong flashlight, Yu Xing could not see the end. He could only see the neat and flat side walls of the corridor.
In addition to man-made construction, this cannot be explained by any other reason.
Apart from the recent legend of evil spirits that has attracted tomb robbers, who else would have spent manpower and material resources here many years ago to transform the lake and build it into a secret passage?
There is only one answer, and that is the demon himself!
When he built his own mausoleum, he left a passage leading to other locations at the bottom of the lake. The specific reason is not yet clear to Yu Xing, but this is definitely a very important discovery and may affect the entire tomb.
Palace exploration progress.
Yu Xing thought for a while and swam back to the water instead of entering the channel. All his things were on the shore, so it was a pity that he had lost them.
He surfaced, clung to the shore of the lake and took a deep breath. His slightly long hair was wet and covered his eyes, which prevented him from noticing the extra things on the shore at the first time.
When he wiped his face and regained his sight, he saw a pale little face with dark eyes staring at him unblinkingly.
Yu Xing: "..." What the hell?
He leaned back suddenly, and then he could see the full picture of the thing in front of him.
It turns out that this is a three-dimensional paper man as big as a human head. The face of the paper man has black facial features drawn with a marker, and his face looks innocent.
Seeing Yu Xing’s reaction, the paper man hugged Yu Xing’s arm and refused to let go. The expression on his face actually changed and became extremely aggrieved, as if Yu Xing was a bad father who abandoned his child.
"Carlos?" Yu Xing couldn't say anything as he looked at the cute and coquettish paper man. He couldn't understand why a man like Carlos had such a girlish ability. As a result, he heard a familiar voice coming from the paper man's mouth without opening it.
the sound of.
“San, long time no see.”
Yu Xing's eyes became even weirder. He stretched out his left hand expressionlessly, pinched the paper man holding his right arm, brushed it and threw it away: "Long time no see, magician, you really like to spy on others taking baths."
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The last time he was on the boat, he had just finished taking a shower when he accidentally crushed a small paper figure that had been standing there for who knows how long at the bathroom door.
"Don't throw it away yet!" Carlos' urgent and helpless voice came from the paper man, "I'm not a pervert. Let's see what you are doing in the shower. Although you are handsome, I am not interested in men. This is all a misunderstanding...
…”
The paper man fell to the ground under Yu Xing's gaze. It rolled over, got dizzy and looked for its direction for a long time before running unsteadily towards Yu Xing on its short legs.
While running, Carlos's voice came out: "That's it~ In order to find you, I left too many paper figures in the mountains and forests, and my power was scattered. Now I can't control them, I can only see them through their sight.
The scene, and the message came over, it hugs you, not me hugging you, don’t think too much~"
“You can’t control the paper figures, so how can they listen to you?” Yu Xing made no secret of his doubts.
"They are now acting exactly according to the orders I left when I made them. In fact, the order I gave to each paper man is the same, which is to hide until I see you, step forward to show your presence, and then notify me."
There were no loopholes in Los's explanation, and the reasons he gave were enough for Yu Xing to accept it logically, so Yu Xing did not continue to pursue this matter.
He watched the little paper man pounce on him again, clinging to him, and it was hard to imagine what Carlos was seeing.
"So where are you? Have you entered the tomb?" Yu Xing pulled the paper man down again and warned it with his eyes that if it moved again, he would tear it into pieces.
The paper man became honest now and sat down on the ground, insisting on staring at Yu Xing.
"Not yet. I saw that you are in Live Tail Lake now, right? From this waterfall up is the range of Chongyin Mountain. After my team and I went up, we found that the terrain of Chongyin Mountain was too complicated. There were three forked roads at the beginning.
We walked to the left and in the middle, but it didn't work. The end of the road was either a dead end, or there was a trap that couldn't be passed. Apparently, the demon road had set up a special trap to prevent future generations of tomb robbers."
Yu Xing listened quietly to Carlos' almost detailed explanation and understood that this was Carlos' sincerity in inviting him to join the team.
The information given for free is not worth it. Yu Xing listened and summarized and analyzed it.
Carlos’ team entered the mountain more than three days earlier than Sun Ge’s team that Yu Xing joined, but they were faster and arrived at the waterfall four days ago.
Now Yu Xing knows that this waterfall is called "Living Tail Waterfall", and the lake is Living Tail Lake. Above the waterfall is the Chongyin Mountain that everyone is looking for, and it is also the first line of defense of the tomb in the true sense.
Carlos's team made the mistake of taking the left and middle paths. It took them more than a day to go back and forth on each road. Now, the team is heading forward on the right fork.
If nothing else happens, this should be the right way. Carlos said that once the location of the gate of the tomb is determined, he will come back to pick up Yu Xing and go in together.
Because the tomb is dangerous, multiple reliable companions will give you more hope of survival. Carlos serves as the explorer in the team and has a strong say. He recommended San, also known as Yu Xing, to the team leader, and the team leader has agreed to let him
San, who belongs to the Strange Incident Investigation Studio, is here to get a share of the pie.
“Except for the topography, is there any difference between Chongyin Mountain and the previous two mountains?” Yu Xing wanted to know if there were any new weird things in it.
"Yes," Carlos said, "it's very cold and windy here. I always feel like eyes are staring at me, but I can't find my position. The same is true for the people in my team. In Chongyin Mountain, it's easy for us to
I'm driven crazy by the ever-present sense of prying eyes. But it doesn't matter, we are almost successful, and we will be able to get rid of this kind of gaze by then."
Hearing Carlos mention the situation on Chongyin Mountain, Yu Xing raised his eyebrows.
Two of the three forked roads have already gone wrong. Everyone who was exploring the third road exhaled a tight breath, because they believed that even if the demon road did not leave a way for their tombs to escape, the workers who built the tomb palace back then would
Will definitely stay too.
So there must be a path that can be passed. Carlos' tone has become relaxed, but Yu Xing thought that the lake he was soaking in was itself a passage!
Carlos and his team have not yet found the entrance to the tomb. An idea flashed in Yu Xing's mind - maybe this one in the lake is the real door to the tomb, and the so-called Chongyin Mountain is just a way to attract people.
It's just the tactics of a tomb robber.
Since the demonic path wants to guard against future generations of tomb robbers, it will never give the tomb robbers a chance to make a new choice. It is not in line with common sense to choose one of the three forked roads, but they can still choose again if they are wrong.
If it were Yu Xing, he would not place a trap to block the road at the end of two wrong roads. He would only place a trap that kills people, otherwise the arrangement would be in vain.
If this is the case, the third road Carlos’ team took was not a guarantee that they would be able to pass, but a road of death that lowered their vigilance!
When Yu Xing realized the truth, he was also a little confused. He didn't think Carlos couldn't find the loopholes in it. For now, he could only think that Carlos had impure intentions for him and wanted to trick him into entering the right fork in the road and kill him.
, or Chongyin Mountain had a certain influence on Carlos and disrupted part of his thinking.
"Be careful. The path you are taking now may not be the right one. If you encounter danger again, come back to Live Tail Lake. I have a new idea." Yu Xing lowered his head and said to the paper man, "Of course.
If you really find the specific location of the tomb, then just pretend that I didn’t say anything."
Carlos’s voice paused: “Do you have any new clues?”
“It’s not really a clue.” Yu Xing denied, pretending to be serious, “I just walked along the way and made some discoveries. Maybe I can use these discoveries to find the tomb.”
"Hmm... well, with your words, I have a backup plan. Now that I have found you, I only need to leave one paper man next to you to confirm the location, and I can put away the other paper men. This way
My strength will not be hindered." Carlos laughed, "I am still moving forward, and we will discuss it in detail when we meet."
After saying that, the voice in the paper man disappeared. The little paper man stood up on his short legs and suddenly pointed the back of his head at Yu Xing.
Yu Xing squinted at it, preparing to see what kind of trouble it was going to cause, but he saw a line of text suddenly appear on the back of the white head of the paper man.
“You just stand here and don’t move around, I’ll find a tomb.”
Yu Xing: "...Young man, you are a bit arrogant."
It was obviously telling him to stay here at Living Tail Lake for the time being to wait for the results of Carlos' investigation, but he chose to use such awkward words.
He unilaterally announced that he would not listen to Carlos and wait here. He had to go and see what dangers a team that made a wrong judgment would suffer, and assess the strength of the new team by the way.