Lao An's words were like enlightenment. I had been thinking about that voice before and followed along without thinking too much. This is actually a very simple truth. The distance from here to the entrance of Shuilian Cave is very long, unless
The miserable and painful shouts are constantly moving, otherwise we would not be able to hear them outside the cave.
And having said that, I have new ideas about that sound. The sound sounds vague and real. After careful reflection, I always feel that it is a bit ethereal. Of course, this cannot be ruled out because of the influence of terrain and space, causing the sound waves to
There was a change in the transmission. Anyway, my heart was no longer calm. I stood on the edge of the huge crack, thinking left and right.
"What should we do now? Go back?" Fan Tuan asked from the side.
"No need." Lao An glanced under the crack and said, "If you must go down this road, then go on."
The shouts of the old magic stick are still ringing out. Under the crack is a large-scale stratigraphic fault zone. Dense scaffolding blocks part of the view. The people of Badu Ancient Village have been operating here for more than one generation. This scale
The scaffolding cannot be built in twenty or thirty years.
Lao An's judgment may not be good news for us, but I won't continue to think about it. Some things are just like what he said. Even if you know the danger, you have to do it. If you just want to escape and save your life, you might as well just do it.
Don’t come to Badu Ancient Village.
We started to try to climb down. The structure of this kind of scaffolding is a bit complicated, but because of this, even if there is no protective measures when people climb on it, if they accidentally miss, they will not fall immediately like a free fall. However, when
I followed Lao An and climbed down for about six or seven meters, and then I had a feeling. I felt that there were more than one pair of eyes peering at me in the darkness below.
This feeling is very bad, but there is no way to escape it. The further you go down, the larger the scale of the scaffolding and the older the traces. The population of Badu Ancient Village has never been large, because most of the newborn babies are affected by their bad habits.
It makes me think that for many years, in addition to maintaining the production necessary for daily life, they have devoted almost all their manpower and material resources to building these scaffoldings.
"Lao An." I remembered something while I was crawling. Although I still had a grudge against Lao An, I couldn't care too much about it at this time, so I still had to discuss the matter with him: "Do you still remember some of the information we got at that time?
?”
"Which aspect are you referring to?"
"About the origin of Badu Ancient Village." I said. We learned from the stories of the old Yi people and Guoji Mubu that the people in Badu Ancient Village were actually not native Yi people, they were foreigners.
After a long struggle with the earliest owners of the Badu Ancient Village, the Yi people, they finally drove the Yi people away completely and occupied their village. When I saw the deep underlying fault zone, and these front and back
After maintaining the scaffolding for many years, I wonder if the ancestors of Badu Ancient Village had ulterior motives for occupying this village? Southwest Guizhou is so vast and the population is sparse, so there is no need to fight and kill others for territory.
There is a lot of land that is ownerless.
Lao An can't tell you any new insights, but this feeling is getting stronger and stronger. I think the ancestors of Badu Ancient Village must have had special intentions in robbing this land.
"Everything has a cause and effect." Lao An said: "What you said may make sense, there will be no things in this world without a reason. What you see is sometimes just the effect, so it can make people confused, but as long as you
Once you find the real cause, everything will fall into place."
"You don't look like an uneducated roughneck at all."
I originally wanted to use this way of talking to relieve the psychological pressure. Sometimes Lao An's words are quite reasonable, but just after he said a few words, we heard a slight sound almost at the same time. The sound was like a
A very long iron chain was dragged somewhere. I don't know if there are any mechanisms between the complex scaffolding. Thick and long iron ropes are generally used in ancient and huge mechanical structures.
The sound came suddenly and seemed to be very close. When we were climbing, we focused most of our attention on our feet for fear of losing our footing. The moment I raised my head and looked around, a hand suddenly stretched out from the scaffolding.
He grabbed my collar all of a sudden.
This scratch can't do anything to me, nor will it cause life-threatening, but you can imagine that such a feeling can almost scare people to death. The flashlight is still on me, and through the light, I can see that hand
, very skinny, skin and bones, like a starving ghost.
Immediately afterwards, I saw the owner of this hand again. There were a few steel bars as thick as fingers between him and me, and he was staring at me. His body was the same as the hand, with almost no flesh, and he looked exactly like a hand.
It looked like a skeleton wrapped in skin, with sunken cheeks and eye sockets deep enough to pour half a glass of water in. I felt all the hairs on my body stand up instantly, so I inserted the flashlight into my waist like a reflex, and held it tightly with one hand.
Grasping the steel bar tightly, he took out the knife with lightning speed and cut the hand in front of him with all his strength.
The starving man hiding in the scaffolding reacted very quickly. As soon as the blade touched his skin, he quickly retracted his hand, but it was a little late. Although he was fast, he still left a deep mark on his arm.
There were knife marks, and blood spattered. The man's face had probably not been washed for a long time, and was covered with a layer of mud and grease. He suddenly retreated to a place that I couldn't touch for the time being, and there was a look on his face that I couldn't tell whether he was in pain or something.
Such an expression.
After that, he grinned a very weird smile, and I saw that he had lost a few teeth. Anyway, looking at him like this makes people want to shiver. Both Fan Tuan and Lao An reacted, but the situation is not serious for the time being.
I was at a loss, so they didn't panic too much. Then, I heard this person mutter something. It must be Chinese, but due to regional differences, the accent is too different from that of northerners. It suddenly sounded confused.
, but when I thought about it, he seemed to be saying, you are dead.
He was hiding behind a few barriers made of steel bars and wood. I couldn't reach him. As soon as the man moved, I heard the faint sound of the iron chains colliding again. When I took a closer look, I saw that he was as thick as a finger.
, a very long iron rope, and the iron rope was wrapped around his waist several times, and he didn’t know where the other end was. This ghost-like man grinned with a mouth that was missing several teeth, and suddenly pulled hard on the iron chain wrapped around his waist.
, there was a loud clatter, the complex scaffolding must have reacted in some way as he dragged it, and the clanking sounds of many metals colliding with each other kept ringing.
In an instant, there was the sound of shaking iron ropes everywhere, making people suspect that there were countless people locked up like the starving ghosts in front of them. Fan Tuan was immediately alert, stopped descending, and quickly climbed to Su Xiaomeng's side. My boss and I
An also wanted to get closer to each other so as not to be unable to take care of each other when an accident happened. The distance between us was not too far, but before we really got together, a dark thing suddenly jumped out from above my head. I
One of my hands had to hold on to the scaffolding to prevent it from falling. In this way, my resistance was weakened. I roughly discerned the trajectory of the falling object, so I shrunk my neck and stuck it inward, trying to avoid it.
, but I didn’t expect that the thing was alive. It grabbed my hair, and the huge inertia almost brought me down. I grabbed the steel bar in front of me with both hands, and my head couldn’t help but tilt back.
At the same time, several people were all attacked. The sound of the collision of iron ropes echoed back and forth in every corner around me. I heard a messy squeaking sound, like a swarm of rats emerging from a hole in the ground. Such a sound made people listen.
I felt cold all over, and the thing holding my hair was still falling hard, trying to take me down. I couldn't see what it was for the time being, but I was quite resistant to this feeling, so I Teng
He reached out a hand and grabbed it backwards, feeling like he had caught a mess of hair.
At that time, I couldn't think about anything else. I suddenly exerted my strength, grabbed the thing behind me and threw it forward. The thing shouldn't be too big, but it grabbed my hair very tightly, and I threw it away.
As I moved forward, I felt that a large strand of my hair was being taken away.
Bang......
The thing was thrown violently onto the steel bars in front, making a squealing noise. It might have been knocked unconscious by the impact and fell down, but there was a piece of iron that wasn't too thick wrapped around the thing.
The chain, the chain was put on the wood and iron, and the thing was swung back and forth a few times.
At this moment, I finally saw clearly what it was. It seemed to be a very strange monkey with a very big head, and its small arms and legs were holding a huge head. It looked funny but sinister. The monkey I threw out
After shaking for a few times, he regained consciousness, raised his hand to grab the scaffolding, and quickly climbed up again.
The noises of these big-headed monkeys were all heard before and after. I don’t know how many there were, and all of a sudden we were surrounded. It was very difficult for me to deal with it. At that time, my attention was completely focused on the monkey that came back.
, suddenly a monkey's paw popped out from the gap in the scaffolding in front of me and grabbed a handful on my forehead.
I suspect that this kind of big-headed monkey was raised by the people of Badu Ancient Village. It is very aggressive, and its claws should have been ground and extremely sharp. It grabbed it and almost scratched a piece of flesh from my face, and blood flowed down my forehead.
When I came down, my eyes were almost blinded. I didn't even have time to wipe them. I reached out and grabbed the iron chain on the big-headed monkey and pulled it outwards. The big-headed monkey was stuck in the narrow gap between the two steel bars, and its hands, feet, and body were pulled out.
Only the big head was stuck, and I couldn't get through. I showed no mercy and put more force on my hand. The neck of the big-headed monkey must have been broken. The two exposed legs twitched sickly for a few times, and then
It drooped down softly.
At this time, Su Xiaomeng screamed from above, and Niu Niu also started to scream. She was able to scare the armored man simply because those Kunlun slaves came from her hometown, but Niu Niu was powerless against these big-headed monkeys.
I wiped off the blood on my face and looked up. Su Xiaomeng and Fan Tuan were in a very bad situation. They were surrounded by a dozen big-headed monkeys.