The scene in front of me was only illuminated by a flashlight that flew down, but it was enough to give my heart a strong shock. This large pit that was suspected to be jade veins was not particularly deep. I saw a huge ant nest like a super ant nest.
The same thing is in the center of the pit. It is simply a castle. Countless insects are moving in and out of the insect nests in the pit. After thousands of years of changes, the stone has been arched out one after another.
The holes are like passages in this castle. The bugs in the nest cannot be described with specific numbers, they can only be said to be countless.
It was a kind of bug with mucus, like a huge earthworm. With the insect nest as the center, the bugs almost covered the entire bottom of the pit. The mucus left behind by them crawling was everywhere. This pit was definitely not a dead pit.
There is probably a passage leading to other places at the bottom of the pit, otherwise these bugs would not survive, but who has the courage to jump down here?
I had no room to think, so I scratched the cracks in the stone at the edge with both hands. It was too slippery and I couldn't bear the effort at all. I felt like I couldn't hold on any longer.
"Pull me! Pull me..." I yelled with all my strength, hoping that Li Fusheng and the little gangster could come over in time, but they couldn't run too fast in this situation.
As my fingers became more and more weak, I had a very bad premonition in my heart. Maybe in less than a minute, my hand finally slipped helplessly from the edge, and my whole body suddenly fell towards the insect in the deep pit.
He fell from the nest. As soon as his body fell, his brain immediately went blank, with only one thought in his mind: It's over this time.
I don't expect that I can stick to the stone wall like a gecko in this desperate situation, but in this case, the human body's instinct is to try its best to grab everything that can be grasped. My hands kept on the sticky stone wall.
I kept grabbing and buckling, and the stone wall was full of bugs. However, I couldn't care less about the nausea at this time. I couldn't grab anything that I could use my strength to hold on to, but with all my strength, my body slid down a little slower.
In the blink of an eye, I felt that I was about to fall to the bottom of the pit twenty or thirty meters away. At this moment, I suddenly felt that my waist was suddenly grabbed tightly by something, and then pulled hard. I vaguely felt that
I noticed that it was a pair of hands, but I didn't react much. Immediately afterwards, I was pulled into a hole in the stone wall and fell hard. There were stars in front of my eyes.
But my reaction was very quick. When I fell down, I got up as soon as I turned over. I immediately saw a light shining in front of me. Through the light, I saw a mile in the hole in the stone wall, which was not too big.
There are two people living outside.
"Monk! It's you!" I shouted, and the fear caused by the fall was instantly washed away. I saw the monk and Kuang Haige. They looked a little embarrassed, but neither of them was injured.
"Why are you here?"
Maybe to save battery, they only turned on one flashlight. After I called out, Kuang Haige also turned on the flashlight. Just as I was about to speak, I felt a tingling sensation on my thigh. I felt like I had to take off my pants to watch.
The bug that only got into my pants was like a giant leech, biting the flesh of my thigh tightly and sucking blood. I quickly pulled the bug off and threw it out.
While Kuang Haige was applying anti-inflammatory medicine to me, I simply asked about the situation. I only saw the two of them, and the other guy was not in the cave.
"Where's the other one?"
The monk stood guard at the edge of the hole and kept fighting out the bugs that tried to crawl in. While fighting, he looked at the bottom of the pit and said, "He is down there."
"What are you doing down there?" I was stunned for a moment, but then I realized that the guy must have slipped and fell.
"If it hadn't been for him, I might not have been able to get down." The monk said casually. Judging from his tone, it was probably that the man made a mistake while exploring the road or testing the path, which got him involved.
"There are people up there, let them know."
"It can't be too loud." The monk immediately shook his head, and Kuang Haige also followed the silent signal to indicate that it was not okay.
"how?"
"We all suspect that there is something underneath the large swaths of insects at the bottom of the pit. Once the sound is too loud, it may be scared out." The monk pointed to the castle-like insect nest at the bottom of the pit and said, "For now.
We can’t take the risk yet.”
"It's actually very simple." Kuang Haige interrupted: "There are people up there, right? They will definitely find a way to come down to you. We are waiting here."
"Holy crap! It's really a bit nonsense..." I felt like I was suffocating in my chest. The rope we brought is now in my backpack. Li Fusheng and the little ruffian probably don't have the ability to climb down with bare hands.
, the stone wall is too slippery.
The three of us discussed it, but we didn't know how to go up. At that moment, the little gangster's voice came from above. I quickly pointed the flashlight diagonally towards the top of the cave entrance, so that he and Li Fusheng couldn't see it.
I, but you should be able to see the light I emitted.
But in this way, I gave them a very vague signal. From the light alone, the little gangster and Li Fusheng didn't know what I wanted to express. After shouting a few more times, the little gangster closed his mouth, probably because of Li Fusheng.
Fu Sheng discussed how to come down to rescue me. I also temporarily took back the flashlight and sat down on the same spot. However, when I thought of the countless bugs at the bottom of the pit, my scalp immediately started to feel numb, and I subconsciously wanted to move inside.
When I took back the flashlight and was about to move, I saw a small piece of dim light at the edge of the hole, like a little fluorescent light in the dark night, very weak. Then, I saw the thing that I had thrown out before.
There is a worm, it is in the center of the faint halo, struggling as if it is running for its life.
This kind of bug can glow like fireflies? I hesitated for a moment, but I thought it was wrong. If bugs could glow, the bugs under this deep pit would be enough to illuminate the surrounding scenery. At this time, the monk who was closer to me also looked at
When he arrived, he dragged one leg over and looked down.
Suddenly, the struggling intensity of the insect in the faint halo reached its peak. At the same time, it did not know what changes had occurred. The light yellow body that was originally dragging a layer of mucus began to slowly turn brown.
The bug was about ten centimeters long. In a short period of time, the bug completely turned dark brown, and its size also shrank invisibly. Finally, it curled up into a ball and became motionless.
"What happened?" I shook my head and wanted to pull the insect out, but the monk suddenly grabbed me. He looked at the dark brown insect curled up into a ball and looked at it intently. I didn't understand.
I looked up at him, but when I looked at him, I noticed that there seemed to be a hint of vague fear in the monk's eyes.
I also panicked. A fierce man like the monk was not even afraid of death. What else could scare him? I immediately thought that something was coming up from the bottom of the pit, but after further observation, I found no movement.
"Monk, what's wrong with you?" I patted him.
"I remembered something." The monk turned to look at me, the fear in his eyes still existed. He was not distracted, he was just thinking about something.
Kuang Haige also walked a few steps from the cave. The three of us stood there, looking at the motionless insect curled up into a ball. The insect seemed to be dead. The faint halo around the insect continued for a while, and slowly
disappeared. The monk waited until the halo disappeared, took out a knife, and scraped hard on the stone at the edge of the cave entrance. The traces of long-dried mucus on the surface of the stone were all scraped off. We saw that the mucus was covered
The stone underneath has a milky white color after solidification. It seems that this is not an ordinary stone, but jade.
"Before we came down, we had guessed whether this deep pit was the place with the richest jade veins. People in the past mined jade from here." I said to them, "That's what it looks like.
This is an abandoned jade mine."
After hearing what I said, Kuang Haige wanted to get closer and take a closer look, but the monk stopped us. His expression was very solemn, and he took a step back and said, "Don't move, this is not jade."
"Not jade?"
"Definitely not. I started getting into antiques and doing local goods business when I was less than twenty years old, and I have been doing it till now. This is not jade." A drop of sweat seemed to slowly fall from the monk's bald head. He swallowed, and slowly
He said slowly: "If I remember correctly, this is a very scary thing, very scary."
Kuang Haige and I looked at each other, not knowing what the monk wanted to express.
"The three of us came down one after another. Fortunately, there were no external injuries. Otherwise, we would have died a long time ago, and we would have died miserably." The monk looked at us and said, "He died in a way you can't imagine."
"Monk, please speak clearly."
"Look at that worm, how did it die?" The monk pointed to the worm that had curled up into a ball.
"Who can see this?" I answered casually, but I could tell that the small, very dim halo seemed abnormal.
"It died of old age. It quickly completed a long journey in a short period of time and died of old age." The monk stepped back while constantly checking the stones in other places in the cave and said, "This kind of jade-like stone has died of old age."
The stone is very scary. Once it is accidentally touched, no one can stop it. We must be careful! Be extremely careful! Don't let blood flow to the stone!"
The monk hurriedly explained to us while inspecting the cave wall. I don't know his past experience, but I can tell that he has definitely seen this kind of jade-like stone before. The monk said that if blood accidentally drips on
On this kind of stone, in the small cave we are in now, even a drop of blood could have serious consequences.