Without shouting "Help", Qi Chen choked on a large mouthful of water, his nose was sore and his eyes swollen, and tears were streaming down his face.
Although the river water from the Westport has been treated, the pollution is not extremely serious, but it is definitely not clear where it goes. The taste of the entrance is simply indescribable.
The extremely cold river water stimulated his whole body to become numb, his calf cramped for a while, and his muscles were so tangled that they were so painful.
He couldn't shout, his eyes were too uncomfortable to open, he struggled and couldn't move, his whole body was tightly bound by Lao Yuan's arms, he only felt that his lungs, nose, ears and throat were choked with water, and it was painful and sore. No relief.
The oxygen in the lungs is rapidly losing, and the feeling of suffocation is getting heavier.
After the whole body became numb from the cold, a heart-piercing pain began to grow from the crevices of the bones. The coldness was so cold that even the heart could freeze to death.
Lao Yuan looked like he was in his fifties and had no energy. Not to mention his strength compared to young people. With his thin physique, he probably had enough strength compared to his peers. In the house before, even chasing Qi Chenlongya up to the second floor was a little anxious, and at first glance, it seemed that he didn't exercise his hands and feet very much.
But at this moment, his strength is as strong as made of copper and iron.
Qi Chen only felt that the bones of his arm were about to be crushed by his iron palm.
As the last bit of oxygen in his chest was squeezed out, suffocation became Qi Chen's only feeling.
The feeling of being so anxious that he wanted to grab a life-saving herb, the feeling of being so painful that he was about to die dominated all of his consciousness. The sting is negligible.
He only felt that he seemed to be getting further and further away from the river surface, and further and further away from the hope of living. Being dragged by Lao Yuan, he seemed to sink directly to the bottom of the river.
Just when his brain was suffocated by the extreme suffocation, his hands and feet were weak, and he was about to lose consciousness, the strength that had been pinching him suddenly disappeared—
Lao Yuan suddenly released him without warning.
At the moment when Qi Chen was released, he instinctively struggled, grabbing his hands in an unruly manner, trying to grab some life-saving straw.
But before he struggled a few times, he felt that the vest had been kicked with a sudden kick. This kick took away most of Qi Chen's strength, and the whole person sank weakly.
After sinking for a short distance, Qi Chen, who had only a trace of consciousness, only felt that he seemed to have landed near a vortex—
The left side seemed to have a pump installed, and a huge suction force rolled Qi Chen over.
After a tumultuous turn in the stomach, the stagnation force that had been hindering the movement suddenly disappeared, and a large stream of air with a damp and decadent smell suddenly poured into Qi Chen's mouth and nose, and then he felt himself falling heavily. on the ground.
The ground is not very hard, on the contrary, it is somewhat soft.
But no matter how soft it is, it is powerful to fall. The half-dead Qi Chen was hit by the soft ground, and he still felt that all the bones in his body were about to disintegrate, especially the arms that were pinched by Lao Yuan.
But he couldn't handle that anymore.
As soon as he took in the air again, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, like it was the first time someone who had been hungry for three months saw food.
It wasn't until the chest cavity was filled with air that it was very full that Qi Chen felt alive.
He moved with difficulty, turned over, and then spread out on the ground in a large font, slowly easing the fatigue and soreness around him.
After a while, he felt that his hands and feet that had been numb for a long time finally regained consciousness, and the frozen blood flowed again in his body. Then he moved his eyelids and opened his eyes.
What caught my eye was a dark sky…
After he blinked away the water vapor in his eyes and his vision gradually became clear, he realized that it was not the sky, but a stone. So facing him.
He seems to have fallen into a cave...
Qi Chen was stunned for a few seconds, struggling to get up from the ground.
But when his palm rested on the ground, he was stunned again, because the touch of his hand was so strange—
The place he pressed was a little firmer, and the place not pressed by him was like a thick layer of mud on the ground, but the mud was loose and had a sticky feeling. In short, the touch was very uncomfortable. Comfortable.
He frowned, turned over and stood up while enduring the discomfort with a sullen face. Some weak feet almost failed to support his body for a while, and it took two steps to stand firm.
So, the amazing scene in this cave fell into Qi Chen's eyes without warning—
It was a pile of skeletons like a mountain, densely surrounded by a circle along the wall of the stone cave, and the muddy ground less than two meters in diameter on which he stood was the only open space in the pile of skeletons.
The state of these bones is somewhat similar to that of the old lady's son last time. They are also white. They have been piled up in this hole for many years, but there is no trace of yellowing and black decay at all. The whiteness is a bit fake. .
And the heads embedded in it face the open space in the middle without exception. It is not like it was naturally piled up by being sucked in by the vortex, but more like it was deliberately placed like this. …
There are small bean candles on the top of the four walls of the stone room, and I don't know how long it has been burning quietly here, and how can it not go out.
The candle light was not bright, it was dim and old, and it gave off a faint ghostly aura. The bleak light fell on the mountains of skeletons below, casting flickering shadows, which made the dark eye sockets of the skulls even more eerie and terrifying. .
Qi Chen suddenly wanted to understand what the soil under his feet was not firm at all, and the tentacles were still a little sticky—
Nine times out of ten, the corpses of Chengshan decomposed into mud and fell down. Over the years, they were spread layer after layer...
Qi Chen: "..."
He suddenly didn't even know where to put his feet!
Apart from hanging in the air, he couldn't find a place where he didn't really need to touch these bones and flesh.
What the hell... what kind of fucking situation is this? !
On the one hand, he felt that it was not good for him to stand on the body of others who were smashed into dust. He had been with Longya for a long time, and he had experienced a series of strange and chaotic things. The ghost knows that these seem to be dead. Did the old man leave a little bit of soul here? If there is, then he seems to be working hard to die by standing like this.
On the other hand, he had to force himself to put aside these messy thoughts, settle down, find a way to find an exit, and get out of here as soon as possible.
The thoughts of the two parties were intertwined, so that he did not move, nor did he move. On this fake and shoddy mud, he stood on a glorious and hard coffin board, surrounded by mountains of skeletons and quietly watched.
Really onlookers…
Qi Chen's cold sweat was about to be seen by those skulls.
He froze in the middle, staring at the eyes of countless dark eye sockets, the intensive phobia was about to be cultivated, and there were some unformed thoughts in his mind—
This cave exists very abruptly, going up to the top of the cave full of stalactites, down to the bottom of the cave covered with rotten things, there is really no place to connect to the outside. Even Qi Chen couldn't imagine where he fell in, and it was a coincidence that he landed on the only open space in the middle.
Unless the cave is not naturally formed at all—
In other words, if an ordinary person were to use a normal method to touch the water in this river, he might not be able to find the slightest trace of this cave at all.
If you want to find the entrance of the cave and enter this cave, you probably have to use a very human method.
And if getting in requires a very human approach, then getting out should do the same.
Thinking of this, Qi Chen immediately regretted it - why didn't he usually pester Team Leader Long to learn some crooked tricks? At least at this time, I can still squeeze out a few plans in my mind to try, instead of being like now, there is no way, standing here stupidly, the tree has become an isolated and independent club.
The stone room was extremely quiet, except for the muffled sound of the wet water dripping from Qi Bangmai's body on the "mud" ground, and there was no other sound at all.
Qi Chen listened to the sound of water droplets, and stood for a while, and a new conjecture appeared in his mind—
The scale of these skeletons is too frightening, and the position and way of placing the skulls are so strange that they seem to be deliberately placed... It makes Qi Chen feel like he is doing a ritual, or looking after something...
Is it the exit that is looked after
Qi Chen was so puzzled in his heart, and turned his neck to look around again.
All the heads and dark eyes around them were facing where Qi Chen was standing.
And Qi Chen just broke in. These corpses have been placed here for an unknown number of years. Naturally, it is not aimed at him... but should be aimed at the things that were originally surrounded by the middle.
Qi Chen twitched the corners of his mouth, squatted down slowly, took a deep breath, then endured the nausea and discomfort, stretched out his hand stiffly, and said in a low voice, "Sorry." soil".
This layer of "dirt" is so thick that Qi Chen can't imagine it, but after all, it's not firm, so it's not difficult to pick it up.
Qi Chen scratched for less than ten minutes, and then he dug out a piece of bare ground in the middle.
And the exposed stone ground is indeed not smooth, but has been carved. Qi Chen felt a carved curve, and he groped along the curve little by little...
It was not until I touched the first end that I found that this curve drew a circle.
I don't know if this circle couldn't see the light or what, Qi Chen just wanted to remove the pile of "dirt" in the middle to see if there was anything else engraved in the circle, and saw that the circular circle suddenly lit up.
It was as if someone had poured some fluorescent water into the carved gully, and the light just flowed forward little by little along the curve like water, and finally met end to end.
At that moment, Qi Chen saw a glimmer of light in front of his eyes, and four dark yellow talisman papers appeared symmetrically around the edge of the circle, which were filled with incomprehensible runes like ghostly drawn talismans.
Seeing this scene, Qi Chen was stunned for a moment—
Because it is so familiar, it is exactly the same as the circle around the skeleton of the old lady's son.
Qi Chen recalled what Long Ya did at the beginning, and after thinking for less than two seconds, he followed it as if he was going out-
Seeing him take a breath and settle his mind, he closed his eyes and kicked his legs, raised his hands and tore off the paper charms that were pressed on all sides of the circle one by one.
Just as the last paper talisman was torn off, the entire cave shook violently, and the mountain of skeletons collapsed and rolled to the ground.