"Keep walking, you will reach the end sooner or later." Hu Yandong said with a smile.
Everyone stopped talking, and there were only the sounds of a few people's footsteps in the dark cave. The further inside, the lower the temperature became. At the end, the few people started to shiver, and it was initially estimated that the temperature in the cave was already below zero.
Fortunately, several of them were prepared in advance. They each took out thick cotton coats from their backpacks and put them on, as well as thick hats. After dressing up, they immediately stopped being cold.
"Tap tap tap..."
Unconsciously, I walked more than a hundred meters, and there was still no end in sight.
"This cave is too deep," Ma Xiaoyao said to himself.
"Why do I feel... there is something sinister here..." Ouyang Zilan tightened her clothes, and her two bright eyes kept scanning the surroundings, "Oh!" Ouyang Zilan suddenly screamed,
Ma Xiaoyao and others were frightened.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?! What happened!" everyone asked in unison.
"I...I seemed to have seen...a person just now..." Ouyang Zilan's face looked a little pale.
"People? Where are they?"
"just in front……"
"In front? No?"
"I was there just now..."
"Did you see it wrong?"
"Isn't it possible?" Ouyang Zilan herself began to wonder if she was too nervous just now and had hallucinations?
"There shouldn't be anyone else here except us." Ma Xiaoyao held up the fire folder and looked ahead a few times. The front was dark and he saw nothing.
"Maybe I saw it wrong." Ouyang Zilan bit her lip.
"Let's go deeper." After Ouyang Zilan calmed down, Ma Xiaoyao led everyone to continue walking deeper into the cave.
Ouyang Zilan was silent along the way. She secretly thought, had she really seen it wrong just now? But why was the scene so real? The more Ouyang Zilan thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. She opened her mouth to say something, but she was afraid
To create pressure on Ma Xiaoyao and others, she could only bury her doubts in her heart. Now she just hopes that she was wrong, otherwise...
"Huh? There's a fork in the road ahead." Ma Xiaoyao suddenly stopped.
Everyone looked up and saw three forks in the road ahead, one to the left, one to go straight, and one to the right.
"Which way should we take?" Ma Xiaoyao asked everyone's opinions.
"Just go straight." Hu Yandong suggested.
"I also choose the middle path." Ouyang Wuwei agreed with Hu Yandong's point of view.
"Ah!!!" Ouyang Zilan screamed loudly: "I saw it again!"
"What did you see?" Ma Xiaoyao's expression changed.
"That person just now... I saw it again... This time it was definitely not an illusion... It was not an illusion..." Ouyang Zilan's face turned pale: "Just now... he... smiled at me... his smile was so scary...
"
"where is he?"
"It's just at the fork on the left...and now it's gone again..."
Everyone looked up and saw that the fork on the left was empty. Where was anyone?
"You have to believe me, I'm definitely not mistaken this time. It's indeed a person."
Everyone, you look at me and I look at you, and you don’t know what to say.
Finally, Ma Xiaoyao asked: "Is it a man or a woman?"
"It looks like he's a man." Ouyang Zilan leaned closer to Ma Xiaoyao. She was still shaking at the moment: "That man's face is pale and pale. He looks like... a ghost..."
"Don't talk nonsense." Ma Xiaoyao frowned: "There are no ghosts in this world."
"It seems that besides us, there are other people here." Hu Yandong's expression was a little solemn: "And the other party seems to be eyeing us... The road ahead will probably not be peaceful."
"Just now Zilan said that the man was standing at the left fork in the road. Now he has disappeared. He should have entered the left fork in the road. In this case, we will take the other two forks and try to avoid him." Ouyang Wuwei suggested.
After some discussion, a few people decided to take the fork in the middle. Because they found a "stranger", everyone became extra vigilant. Every step they took, they used fire sticks to shine around, and everyone took out their weapons.
Keep it in front of you in case of unexpected events.
After entering the fork in the middle, Ma Xiaoyao and others felt that the air had become humid, and they also smelled a faint smell of rancidity.
"Isn't there poison in the air?"
"Everyone should take an antidote pill."
"It never hurts to be more prepared."
…
"Crack!"
"I seem to have stepped on something..."
"...It's bones...human bones..."
Under the light of Huozhezi, you can see that the road ahead is full of skeletons, scattered in various directions, there are at least dozens of them.
"These people must have been dead for many years. Not only have their bodies rotted away, but their bones have also begun to turn black." Hu Yandong knelt down and took a closer look: "These bones are all intact, no scars can be seen, I don't know.
How they died..."
"I was probably scared to death." Ouyang Zilan said: "It's so gloomy and weird here. Maybe there's something messy here."
"There is a possibility of being scared to death, but it is very small." Hu Yandong shook his head.
"Huh?" Ma Xiaoyao suddenly exclaimed, then picked up a bone from the ground: "Look... there are many small holes on this bone..."
Everyone came over to take a look, and sure enough they found that there were some densely packed holes in the bones. They were very small, smaller than the eye of a needle. You couldn't find them at all if you didn't look carefully.
"This bone also has..."
"I noticed that too……"
"How did this come about?"
…
Everyone carefully examined the bones at the scene and found that all the bones had small holes, but the positions were different. Some were in the skull, some in the neck, and some in the shoulders... These small holes were densely packed, like insect eyes, and looked very...
scary.
"Everyone, please be careful, this place is really weird." Ma Xiaoyao said with a solemn expression: "I solemnly ask, if you want to exit now, it's still too late. If you go deeper, you might be in danger."
"I will not quit!" Ouyang Zilan was the first to express her stance.
Hu Yandong and Ouyang Wuwei have also stated that they will not quit. Since they have discovered the clues to the Tiangong map, they must find out, otherwise they will not be able to rest in peace.
"Since no one is willing to quit, then we will continue to move forward, but everyone must be prepared to encounter danger." Ma Xiaoyao took a deep breath, and then continued to move forward. Ouyang Zilan, Hu Yandong and Ouyang Wuwei stood in a tight circle.
Follow closely behind.
Unconsciously, after walking a few dozen meters, the terrain in front became narrower. At first, two people could walk side by side, but later, only one person could walk.
"Did you hear any noise?" Ma Xiaoyao suddenly stopped.
"Sound? What sound?" Ouyang Zilan asked doubtfully.
"There is no sound." Hu Yandong and Ouyang Wuwei also looked surprised.
"It was there just now... and now it's gone again..." Ma Xiaoyao frowned: "I heard a sound just now, like the sound of some kind of animal crawling... Uh, the sound came again...
"
"Is there really a sound?"
"The rustling sound is indeed like the sound of some kind of animal crawling."
"Oh my god! Look, what is that?"
…
I saw a large white spot of light appearing in front of me, densely packed and rushing towards this side as if covering the sky. Ma Xiaoyao raised his hand and threw the Huozhezi over. With the help of the firelight emitted by the Huozhezi, he finally saw clearly the white spots of light.
True appearance...
"Why does it look like an ant? This is the first time I have seen white ants." Ouyang Zilan murmured to herself.
"Pfft!"
Huo Zhezi fell into a swarm of ants and was eaten up by the ants in an instant, leaving not even a bit of residue behind.
"Damn! The teeth of these ants are so sharp. The fire folding piece is made of yellow pear wood. It is very difficult to break even if it is cut with a knife, but it was easily bitten by these ants..."
"Run! There's something weird about these ants!"
"Walk!"
…
When the four of them saw that the situation was not good, they turned around and ran away.
"Shashasha..."
Swarms of ants quickly caught up with them. Despite their small size, they crawled very fast and caught up with Ma Xiaoyao and others in the blink of an eye.
"Smash them with the bones on the ground." Ma Xiaoyao had an idea, picked up a corpse with his feet and smashed it towards the back. "Plop!" A large number of ants were knocked over on the spot. Ouyang Zilan and others were not slow to react.
They picked up the bones on the ground and threw them at the ants.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
Dozens of corpses were all thrown out, killing and injuring a large number of white ants, temporarily blocking the pursuit of ants.
"Crack, click, click..."
An unpleasant piercing sound came from behind. Ma Xiaoyao took the time to look back and found that all the dozens of corpses had been eaten by ants. Then he saw the ant army chasing them again, at an unbelievable speed.
"No, they are chasing me again." Ma Xiaoyao's expression changed.
"Use fire to attack, animals are afraid of fire." Ouyang Zilan took out all the fire sticks on her body, lit them, and then threw them out with all her strength, "Puff... puff..." More than a dozen fire sticks fell from high altitude and hit hard.
He fell into the ant army, and after only a short delay, more than a dozen fire sticks were devoured by the ants.
"No, the flames of Huozhezi are too small to cause much harm to those ants." Ma Xiaoyao said in a deep voice.
"I brought some kerosene, but I don't know if it will be effective." Hu Yandong took out a porcelain jar from his backpack, opened the seal, and immediately smelled the pungent smell of kerosene: "You all stand back, be careful not to get hurt.
." Hu Yandong stuffed the lit huozhezi into the jar and threw it out with all his strength.
"Whoosh!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
The jar exploded in mid-air, and countless flames fell from the sky, killing and burning a large number of ants on the spot. The pungent burning smell filled the air. Maybe they were frightened, and the white ants stopped chasing.
