I asked back: Where do you start talking about the three of us getting smaller and smaller?
Said to me: The nearby objects that can be referenced, including plants and insects, as well as a large number of ancient tree fossils, are all unusually large, so I wonder if there is something mysterious in this gourd-shaped cave.
The bodies of people who come in gradually become smaller.
This thing sounds really unbelievable. Now we are floating in the boundless underground water. It is difficult to judge for a moment. I said to me: Even if the body may be reduced, can even the clothes and shoes be reduced? I look here.
Because of the special environment, the ecosystem formed is larger than the outside world.
But I am not even sure what I said. This cave is really like the red gourd in the mountain temple. The entrance is small and has a large belly, and it is in the shape of a trumpet arc. The walls of the cave will gradually expand as you go deeper, and there is no artificial processing or construction.
The traces are completely natural. Maybe this is an older relic than the tomb of King Xian. The locals may regard the gourd-shaped cave as a sacred place and enshrine a gourd statue in the mountain temple. As for whether this cave really contains anything
It's really hard to describe what's so special. After all, our eyes are completely dark now, and the range we can see is only within a distance of about twenty meters. It's difficult to detect changes in ourselves or the environment a little further away.
The nearby insects are much larger than normal, especially the fossils of ancient trees are even more terrifying. One after another sticks out of the water with claws and teeth, and is entangled with the vines hanging from it, like old dragons.
of strange claws.
I think we should find some targets like plants and use them as a reference to make sure that our bodies have not gradually become smaller after entering this gourd-shaped cave. Otherwise, we will not be able to move forward and will have to retreat the same way we came.
Go back and think about it again.
However, the thickness of those old vines is almost the same as that of the human body. There are also such thick vines in the jungle outside, so it is impossible to use vines and plant rhizomes as reference objects. The most direct way at present is to dive into the water and look at the nearby aquatic plants.
The size of algae has its own unique properties and will not vary in size due to changes in the environment. It is almost the same no matter what the environment is.
But when I thought about the ghostly female corpse that suddenly appeared and disappeared underwater, I felt a little frightened. At that moment, I had to hang the safety lock on the inflator bag, say hello to Fatty and the two of them.
Don't move forward for now, wait until I get into the water to find out the situation.
I put down the diving goggles on my mountaineering helmet and dived into the dark water. The tactical spotlight on my mountaineering helmet should have a lighting range of fifteen meters even in the water, but there are a lot of impurities in the groundwater here.
The visual range of plankton, microorganisms, and algae and aquatic plants has been reduced to the limit, less than five meters.
The water is very deep and cannot be touched to the bottom. I feel that it is not time to use oxygen yet. I just rely on my own water quality, hold my breath and swim underwater continuously. Through the diving goggles, the underwater world is even more blurry and dark.
, I could vaguely see a large group of dark objects floating slowly on the bottom of the water. Due to the lack of light source, I could only see that the thing had a car. I couldn’t tell whether it was an underwater animal or some kind of aquatic plant.
At this time, the dark object at the bottom of the water was closer to me. I thought that fish did not have such a shape, and it should be some kind of aquatic plant. Could it be that the aquatic plants were tangled together and grew into such a big group? What if it was
If the aquatic plants are so big, we will really be in big trouble.
Thinking of this, I stretched out my hand towards the dark object, ready to grab a handful in front of my eyes to see if it was a big ball of waterweed. But as soon as I stretched out my hand, the thing suddenly jumped forward and stabbed diagonally.
It bounced towards the water above the head, stopped one or two meters away from the water, and lurked there quietly.
When the wheel-shaped object was jumping under the water, I could clearly see that it was not a large group of water plants. When the object was huddled together, it looked round, and when paddling, it stretched out two bows.
Its hind legs and forelimbs were entangled with a lot of water plants. It turned out to be a huge red-backed toad, and there seemed to be more than just this one around, and there were many others, all gathered about one meter away from the water, in a dark place.
It was hard to tell how many such large toads there were in the group's underwater depths, and whether there were anything bigger.
How could there be such a big toad? I was so shocked that I almost took a sip of the groundwater. I felt that I couldn't hold my breath anymore. I had no intention of diving to the bottom of the water to look for algae plants. I hurriedly floated up and pushed out of the water. I
As soon as my head came out of the water, I took a deep breath and said to Fatty He: There is something under the water. We have to get out of here quickly and climb to the fallen fossil tree first.
On the water surface of the underground cave here, there are fossils of an entire ancient forest. Some of the fossils of large trees collapsed and broke due to natural reasons. Those fallen fossil trees rested horizontally on the surrounding fossils without sinking.
Under the water, natural stone bridges are formed in the dense fossil forest.
Not far in front of us, there happened to be such an old fossilized tree trunk that had fallen across the water and was stuck by other fossils. There were many branches on the trunk.
The three of us hurriedly put the weapons we had just taken out back into the waterproof bag, and quickly swam towards the fallen fossil tree. When we swam close, we reached out and grabbed the branches of the fossil tree. The fat man and I held her feet.
, first helped climb up the fallen fossil tree, and then I climbed up too, hanging down the climbing rope to the fat man. The fat man who stayed in the water quickly released the air in the inflatable bag, and hung the backpack on himself with the climbing rope.
I pulled and pulled the fat man up the tree trunk, and finally hoisted the equipment backpack up.
We stepped on a stone and felt a little more at ease in our hearts, but the three of us still didn't dare to slack off and took the weapons out of the waterproof bag as quickly as possible. The fat man asked me: Li Xiangyang can scare you like this, water
What's down there?
He also asked me: Did you see the female body sinking at the bottom of the water?
I pointed to the water surface and said: There is no Li Xiangyang, and there is no female corpse. There are big toads under the water, which are big toads. They are as big as a cart wheel, and the small ones are as big as a bucket. The bumps on the backs of these guys are very big.
There are many poison glands, so you must not come into contact with them, otherwise you will be in danger of 120% if you are poisoned.
We raised the wolf-eye flashlight and swept the beam of light towards the water surface where we just stayed. It was already quiet there, with only the water ripples caused by our rapid swimming just now. Under the dark water surface, there was no special sign. After two glances,
Eyes turned, he turned to me and said: When doing experiments in the past, toads were often used. I remember that this kind of animal should hide under rocks or among grass in the damp soil during the day, and only come out to be active at dusk and night. Why?
It will appear in such deep water, did you read that correctly?
I shook my head and said: To be honest, this is the first time I have seen such a big toad today, but I will never be wrong. I think your pettyism may not be appropriate here. I am underwater.
We are only three meters away from the big toad, and we can see it very clearly. They are floating not far from the water. We don’t know what to do. I am worried that it will be detrimental to us, so I asked you to climb here quickly. No matter what, we
Let’s take a closer look first. I always feel that something is not quite right about this fossil forest submerged by groundwater.
The fat man suddenly made a silent gesture and asked us to look not far ahead. At the area where mosquitoes gathered, countless giant dragonfly-like mosquitoes were making a harsh buzzing noise. It was very close to where we were staying.
, you can also see very clearly with the light of the wolf-eye flashlight. Since those mosquitoes like a wall of insects have no eyes, they are not sensitive to the light of the wolf-eye flashlight, and they still surround the plant roots like headless flies.
Swirl around in dense places.
He whispered to us: The plants on the ground are too dense, resulting in a lack of nutrients and water, so the extending plants are desperately growing downward in order to grab water, so as to directly contact the groundwater here. Those flying insects seem to be just
They gather there to lay eggs.
Just now I dived into the water, and there were many big fish. Unlike the blind fish that always grow in the underground environment, these fish have eyes. This shows that although this groundwater flows through underground holes, it is open water.
Connected with the outside world.
However, the environment here is too unique. Plants and insects are independent ecosystems. As long as there is open water that can lead to the outside world, we should be able to follow the water flow and enter near the main tomb of King Xian's Tomb.
The most urgent task now is to find out whether the human body gradually becomes smaller as you go deeper into this large gourd-shaped cave, or is it because of the unique trumpet-shaped topography of the gourd-shaped cave that the space becomes larger as you go inside?
, as well as large plants and insects growing in this special environment, causing us to have the illusion that our bodies are getting smaller.
Suddenly there was a commotion on the water surface, and large tongues several feet long stretched out from the water at lightning speed, attacking the large mosquitoes on the water surface. With one roll of the long tongue, ten mosquitoes were wrapped up in the water.
Then countless big mouths emerged from the water, swallowing the mosquitoes with their long blood-red tongues in their mouths. It turned out that it was the big toads floating under the water. When the time was right, they all jumped out of the water to prey on those who were gathering.
A large swarm of mosquitoes.
At this moment, the water surface in front of the fossil tree turned into a mess. Just as the toad's mouth opened and closed, countless mosquitoes had lost their lives. Each of those strange toads was astonishingly large, and their eyes were like two red lights.
They are so densely packed that it’s hard to count how many there are.
The three of us were lying on the fallen fossil tree. When we saw the bumpy glands on the backs of the big toads, we felt extremely sick. We really didn’t want to look at it anymore, so we had to lower our bodies climbing on the tree as low as possible and temporarily put our heads down.
We lowered ourselves down and didn't look at the situation on the water, just hoping that those toads would eat their fill and disperse as soon as possible so that we could get into the water again, leave this weird hole, and reach our final destination before dawn.
When I lowered my head, I found that there were many tiny sand holes in the fossil tree. This fossil tree had been soaked in water for tens of millions of years and had countless sand holes washed out by the water flow. I am afraid that it would not be able to withstand the staple food of the three of us.
Break from it.
So I turned off the wolf-eye flashlight in my hand, turned on the more energy-saving spotlight on the mountaineering helmet, then called to the fat man, made a gesture, and led them to a relatively flat stone platform on the left.
The stone platform on the left is very solid and stable, and the area is not small. It is more than enough to accommodate three people. In this fossil forest with crisscrossed branches, this square stone platform looks a little different, quite boxy.
It is not neat and tidy, and it is obvious that there are traces of chiseling by someone, but the surface and surroundings are covered with vines, and there is also a lot of wet moss.
I said to Fatty He: I wonder if this place is a relic left when the tomb of King Xian was built. If so, what purpose was it used for? Is it related to the female corpse we saw under the water?
The fat man said: No matter how stupid you are, you can tell that this is a man-made stone platform. Did we see a burial trench full of ivory before? Most likely, this place is also a place where valuable artifacts are placed. Say this
Then he pulled out his engineering shovel and shoveled away the wet moss and plants on the stone platform to see if there was any hidden cabinet underneath.
Seeing that the fat man and I had already taken action regardless, we had no choice but to help him with lighting. Not far away, the big toads were still devouring mosquitoes and stirred the water loudly. It seemed that they wouldn't be able to finish the work in a while.
The fat man moved like the wind, and in the blink of an eye, he had cleared half of the stone platform. There was no stone box with any mechanism underneath, but one relief after another. The composition was complicated and contained a lot of information, but you would know it just by looking at it.
, these reliefs record some kind of secret sacrificial ceremony in ancient times. This is a very bizarre and mysterious ancient ceremony that we have never seen before. The ceremony was carried out in this gourd, and this stone platform
, is a special altar. Book Alliance
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