After that weird baby laugh, it suddenly became quiet outside. Tang Yi sat nervously for a while, then looked back at Mercury.
Mercury listened carefully and shook his head, "There is no sound."
Tang Yi carefully unzipped the tent and glanced out.
The bonfire has been extinguished, and a few small tents not far away are silent in the shadows of the trees like graves. Tang Yi opened the zipper a little more, and the cat got out of the tent on his waist.
At first glance, there was nothing unusual in the camp, but when you lowered your head, you could see two traces on the ground.
It seems to be the mark left by something crawling over the mud on all fours, and it seems to be stuck with some dark green slime. Coming out of the woods, first circled the campfire, then circled each tent, and finally disappeared outside his tent with Mercury. Tang Yi looked around in a circle. There were only frogs croaking in the dark woods, and he couldn't hear any special noises.
At this time, Craftsman Hetian also got out of another tent, and when he saw Tang Yi, he thought it was Tang Yi who stayed up in the middle of the night and pretended to be a ghost. Me, it wasn't me just now, and I came out to see after I was woken up."
Tsuruta had no choice but to hold back his words and looked at the ground, his eyebrows furrowed tightly.
"What is this… "
Peacock came out behind him, squatted on the ground, reached out and touched the suspicious mucus on the ground, sniffed it between his nose, and her beautiful eyebrows creased in disgust, "It smells disgusting, like rotten eggs..."
Mercury looked around, "Who should be on duty now?"
"Luo Wei!" Hetian shouted, his voice drifting far away in the silent night wind, but received no response.
Tang Yi became nervous. Even if he went to pee, he couldn't have gone too far, right? Just thinking about it, Luo Wei's tent was opened, and Zixi stuck his head out and asked, "What happened?"
Tang Yi hurriedly asked, "Is Luo Wei in the tent?"
"No, he was called out by Lin Maochen to watch the night."
Because of their too much movement, others came out of the tent one after another. Tang Yi looked around and didn't see Luo Wei.
Lin Maochen tried to trace the traces that Luo Wei left on the ground, but did not find any sign that Luo Wei left the camp. In other words, a big living person just disappeared out of thin air.
The commander-in-chief ordered that the troops should be divided into two groups and searched in the woods.
Tang Yi was anxious in his heart, and shouted in the woods for a whole night. When it was dawn, his voice was hoarse, and he couldn't find his younger brother. Lin Maochen looked for traces of crawling in the camp in front of the bushes. He thought that Luo Wei's disappearance was related to the thing that made baby laughs and crawls on all fours. Although the traces of that thing somehow disappeared outside Tang Yi's tent, but at least you can try where it climbed from in the end.
"There is a cave here." Lin Maochen shouted to Tang Yi.
Zixi rushed over first. Said to be a cave, in fact, it is more like a crack embedded under the root system of a tree, covered by dense branches, and it is impossible to see at first glance. If you look down carefully, you will find that the space under the crack is very wide, with a shallow layer of water on the wet ground, and some decaying tree roots are covered with fungi and thick moss, vaguely on the side walls. There is another hole in it.
"That thing seems to come from here, maybe it's its lair." Lin Maochen pointed to a dark green liquid that was hard to find in the nearby fallen leaves, "I don't know if Luo Wei is also in it."
Zixi opened the branch and wanted to go down, but Tang Yi grabbed it, "Wait, let's talk to the captain and Hetian first."
Mercury had already called Jiang Yanfeng tacitly, and within half an hour everyone gathered in front of the deep crack.
Jiang Yanfeng looked down, "The space inside is narrow, and there is no need for everyone to go in. Lin Maochen and Hetian took Lanhuang and Peacock to explore, and the rest and I are here to stand by."
Zi Xi opened her eyes, "What about me?"
"You stay here too."
"But… "
"This is an order!" Jiang Yanfeng's tone was unequivocal and unequivocal, Zi Xi was unwilling, her hands clenched into fists, but she had to obey.
With simple climbing equipment in their backpacks, Tsuruta and the other four quickly climbed down the ropes and burrowed into the depths of the dark cave. Tang Yi saw Zixi staring at the depths of the crack without moving, and he could imagine how anxious he was at this moment.
He understood why Jiang Yanfeng gave this order. Luo Wei and Zixi have a close relationship with him, and care is messy. A little mistake in such an unexplored underground cave may have serious consequences, so they have to stay behind.
As for Jiang Yanfeng himself, walking on that inconvenient leg is okay, but rock climbing is too reluctant.
He suddenly put a hand on his shoulder and turned his head sharply, but it was Mercury who handed him a bottle of water. Tang Yi's heart warmed, just as his throat was screaming so hot, the cool water moistened his burning throat and relieved the dry pain.
"Don't worry too much." Quicksilver seemed to be trying to comfort him, though his tone was not at all convincing. Tang Yi wanted to laugh, but because he was worried that Luo Wei couldn't laugh.
Time passed by, except for the occasional report from the walkie-talkie, there was no new progress. However, the cave system below is surprisingly complex, and it has not yet been completed. It is said that there are still many small passages that have not been explored. Tang Yi waited a little anxiously, and began to quietly look at Liu Huo and the commander-in-chief.
This was the first time he had seen the chief captain take Liu Huo out on a mission. But the atmosphere between the two was a little weird.
Like now, the commander-in-chief was sweating profusely standing in front of the cave to confirm the situation with the team members inside, while Liu Huo sat far away under a short tree to enjoy the shade, looking nonchalant. Even Mercury would hand him a bottle of water, but Liu Huo showed no concern for the commander-in-chief, and his expression was even a little indifferent and a little boring.
Is this a normal behavior for a bound Kraken
Tang Yi vaguely remembered that the captain seemed to have told him that the reason why he knew that Mercury's concern for him was not really affectionate was because he had experienced disguised feelings. Tang Yi couldn't help gossip guessing, shouldn't he be talking about him and Liu Huo...
But how is it possible? He and Mercury were in this awkward relationship because of a special chance and coincidence. Liuhuo is not a clone of an ancient god, and Jiang Yanfeng doesn't have any "twin" clones, his brother and brother, so why are you pretending to be bound
Could it be that the commander-in-chief was having an affair
Looking at his melancholy and serious look, I can't tell...
"What are you thinking about again, with such a wretched expression." Mercury commented beside him.
Tang Yi punched Mercury on the shoulder, "I'm thinking you look good without clothes, right?"
Mercury was stunned for a moment, and his face was a little red, "Don't think about it!"
"Cut... I've been pretending to be an innocent little virgin..." Tang Yi pursed his lips and muttered, but suddenly screamed like a girl, causing the captain and Zi Xi to turn around and glance at him strangely. at a glance.
Of course Tang Yi was embarrassed to say that Mercury had just twisted on his waist, so he had no choice but to giggle.
It seems that when Luo Wei's life and death are unknown, the impact of such a fuss is not good... Tang Yi thought with a sense of guilt, but couldn't help being secretly happy for these long-lost petty troubles.
At this time, a chaotic and noisy voice suddenly came from the walkie-talkie. The harsh sound wave disturbed a few birds in the bushes, and I vaguely heard Tsuruta calling out for a peacock anxiously.
The commander-in-chief tried to call, but the other party did not answer. However, the positioning devices on them began to fail one after another. In the end, I only heard Lin Maochen's rude reporting, "There are mutant creatures under here, they look like monitor lizards, I'm not sure if Luo Wei is inside or not, we are retreating outwards!"
Then the communication was cut off, and after fifteen minutes there was no response.
Tang Yi couldn't bear it anymore and stood up suddenly, "I'll go down to support them!"
Zixi immediately said, "I'll go too!"
The captain pondered for a moment, and Tang Yi noticed that his eyes stopped on Mercury for a while.
"Okay. Liu Huo, you go with me too."
The blond Kraken sighed, but stood up without saying a word, walked gracefully to the crack, and jumped down.
Tang Yi was stunned as he watched the Kraken land lightly, and raised his head and shouted, "What are you doing, let's go."
Tang Yi found that when he acted with the three Krakens, he was the most clumsy human being. It took a lot of time just to adjust the climbing rope to descend. The three Krakens were already waiting for him below. . At the bottom of the cave, the skylight collapsed into a line above, and he mounted the light on his helmet and followed behind Mercury into the deeper cave.
The narrowness of the natural cave was beyond his expectations. Although the first section of the road was narrow, it was still possible to walk upright, but later on, it was necessary to lean on the waist, and after that, it was only possible to kneel on the ground and crawl into the depths of the earth. The ground was extraordinarily damp, and many worms the size of their palms fled in the lighting above his head, and some of them climbed up to his face along their arms. Legs, I saw him nauseous for a while. The space was compressed from all directions, and the uneven stone walls often knocked on his forehead, and soon he was out of breath and disheartened.
He couldn't help thinking that if the narrow corridor collapsed, they would be buried forever in the ground, unable to move, and could only wait to die in the dark.
Tang Yi quickly shifted his thoughts, forcing himself to focus on Mercury's butt in front of him...
Fortunately, a spacious internal karst cave appeared at the end of the narrow passage. Tang Yi climbed out of the corridor, sat down against the stone wall, and finally caught his breath. When he turned around, he saw that Mercury, who had been spotless before, was now covered in dust like a tabby cat, and couldn't help but chuckle.
Quicksilver glared at him, as if to say, "Where do you think you can get better?"
The three sea monsters discussed it and decided to let Liuhuo try to send out sound waves to contact the peacock and the blue god. Although it is the strongest in terms of strong sound pressure and ultrasonic attack on mercury, Ryuhuo is proficient in using low-pressure infrasound waves. In this kind of cave structure that may not be very stable, a gunshot or a shout may cause the internal collapse. I am afraid that only the fire can grasp the proportions, which can not only connect the peacock and the blue horn, but will not cause rock resonance. .
This cave has three rock passages that may lead to other places. Glazed Fire sent out sound waves to each of the passages. After a while, I finally heard a faint response from one of the more spacious passages.
Liu Huo listened carefully for a moment, then turned his head and told them, "It was the peacock responding to me. Their sound waves caused the corridor to collapse, their passageway was blocked, and the communicator was smashed."
"Then hurry up!" Tang Yi said as he was about to drill in, but was dragged back by Mercury.
"I'll just go in with Liu Huo, you and Zi Xi will wait here." Mercury ordered simply.
Tang Yi blinked, "Why?"
"Do you still want to blast rocks away with your microwave gun? Do you want to bury us all alive?"
…
Tang Yi raised his hands, "Okay, you are awesome if you have an ultrasound."
Although Zixi repeatedly asked to follow, but under Liu Huo's calm eye knife, he had to stay at the entrance of the cave with Tang Yi. Seeing the two sea monsters disappearing into the darkness, Tang Yi saw Zixi's face heavy and wanted to liven up the atmosphere, so he suddenly chuckled, "Do you think they look like the King of the Golden Horn and the King of the Silver Horn?"
Unexpectedly, from the depths of the cave, there was a threatening voice from the fire, "We heard it~"
Tang Yi closed his mouth and coughed.
Zixi has always liked to laugh, but since Luo Wei disappeared, he has been sitting on a frying pan with an anxious look. It can be seen that his attachment to Luo Wei is very deep.
But Luo Wei always seemed to be indifferent to him, and sometimes he didn't make excuses.
Tang Yi remembered that he asked Luo Wei why he couldn't be gentle with his Kraken. Luo Wei's expression at that time was a little helpless and a little bitter.
He said he didn't love Purple Breath. The binding object is arranged by the team, and neither he nor the Kraken has the right to choose.
Tang Yi remembered telling him that at least he still had the right to choose whether to fall in love, and Zixi didn't even have that right. After that, Luo Wei seemed to be a little gentler towards Zixi.
Looking at the purple-haired Kraken now, Tang Yi thought of the puppy that was abandoned by the owner. I feel really bad in my heart.
He patted Zixi on the shoulder, "Don't worry, he will be found."
Zixi nodded and looked back at him, but his face suddenly changed. He suddenly threw Tang Yi down and made a sharp sonic attack in a certain direction. Tang Yi didn't have time to put on the ear protectors, and was so dizzy that he finally got up from the ground, but his body froze.
On the top of the cave in front of him, a strange thing hangs upside down.
It appears to be a giant lizard, but the skin is an unpleasant gray color, it looks limp, and a long tail sways behind it, strangely, between its thick hands and feet Attached to the bat-wing-like structure, it seems to be able to glide. On its neck there were many squeezing sarcomas, and a pair of small black eyes stared at them coldly.
This is... the monitor lizard that Lin Maochen mentioned just now? !
It turned out to be a mutant creature... Maybe it was contaminated by nuclear waste? The water in this swamp is connected to the ocean, or is it the result of infection when humans put the red death agent on a large area of the ocean? Otherwise, how could nature give birth to such ugly animals, it would almost catch up with Lee's "cute"...
I saw that the monitor lizard opened its big red mouth towards them, and let out a piercing cry like a baby.