Zi Yang woke up in a dazed manner from a coma, feeling a splitting headache, his forehead and head were cut by a knife, and his hand was sticky and wet, not knowing whether it was blood or filth.
Zi Yang wanted to sit up, but found that his whole body hurts fiercely when he moved. Both arms and legs seemed to be injured, and the bumps in the passage just now were not light.
He looked up and looked around, and found that he was lying in a dirt pit, looking up at the top, and saw a hole a few meters above his head, which should be the passage where they fell just now.
Fortunately, it's not very high from the ground, otherwise it will be disabled if it falls down and survives.
Where is Jin Guoqiang? Zi Yang suddenly remembered that he had fallen down with Jin Guoqiang. He touched the rope on his waist and found that the other end was empty.
"Old Jin?!" Zi Yang shouted in panic.
"Shh" Jin Guoqiang crawled over from the side. Under the bright light of Ye Mingzhu, he saw that his head was covered with blood, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he seemed to have fallen very hard.
"There is something above!" Jin Guoqiang squatted on the ground and pointed his finger to the side.
Zi Yang grabbed the edge of the hole with his hand and looked out with the probe. He saw a huge flower hanging on the wall of the cave ten meters away. The stem of the flower was as high as one person, and the bucket was thick and bright red, like a one. The upside-down pig cage—it is the giant flower that emerged from the sarcophagus before.
Under the flowers are the branches like purple-leaf gentian pythons, spreading on the wall in twists and turns. Looking into the distance along the branches of the purple leaf gentian, Zi Yang not only opened his mouth in surprise.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never believe that the scene before him was real.
In the distance is a huge underground space. The place where Zi Yang and Jin Guoqiang are located is on the edge of the cave.
This underground cavity is about the size of a dozen football fields, with a large bottom and a small top, forming an inverted cone. The highest dome is at least a few hundred meters above the ground.
The purple-leaf gentian crawls everywhere on the cave wall, and the thick vines and bright leaves spread upward against the cave wall and grow up to the top of the dome. Giant gentian flowers are scattered scattered among them.
The ground is covered with a layer of moss-like flowers and plants. Compared with the huge purple-leaf gentian, these flowers and plants are very short, verdant and faintly fluorescent, reflecting the entire canyon like woodland under the moonlight. It makes people feel like being in a fairyland.
Zi Yang squatted down and looked at Jin Guoqiang gapingly. Everything that happened before him was dreamlike and unreal.
Jin Guoqiang was much calmer than him, and pointed to the center of the canyon below. "When you were in a coma, I observed from a distance. We guessed it was correct before. The roots of these purple leaf gentian were concentrated there—then. The light on the side is different from other places, do you see it?"
Zi Yangqian got up and looked in the direction that Jin Guoqiang pointed. There was a circular high platform in the middle of the canyon below, and the high platform was shrouded in a layer of blue-violet haze. What is even more shocking is that the rhizomes of several purple-leaf gentian trees near the base of the Longpanqiu are stronger than those they have seen before, like prehistoric giant pythons entwined together, magnificent and beautiful.
It seems that all the branches of the purple-leaf gentian tree spread from there, spreading from the ground to the dome, gradually branching and bifurcating, becoming thinner and longer.
Zi Yang squinted his eyes for a while, then suddenly turned his head to look at Jin Guoqiang and said, "Weird... there seems to be someone on the high platform!"
Jin Guoqiang also got up, observed carefully for a while, and wondered: "I haven't seen anyone, are you dazzling?"
Zi Yang rubbed his eyes and stared at it for a while.
There are two or three hundred meters away from the high platform. Zi Yang's eyesight is a bit short-sighted, but Jin Guoqiang is a bit hesitant to say that, "Yes, it is possible, maybe the purple-leaf gentian tree inside is moving."
Jin Guoqiang lay on the edge of the pit, staring at the high platform silently. Zi Yang was sitting on the ground with his back leaning against the wall of the pit, suddenly feeling frustrated.
Such a huge root system, even if they can approach it smoothly, I am afraid they cannot be destroyed in one fell swoop. From here, the thickest rhizome is at least 1,2 meters thick, and the only C4 explosive they have left can break at most one, but there are at least a dozen in the vicinity.
Thinking of explosives, Zi Yang suddenly realized one thing, "By the way, where did Su Rui and A Chong go?"
Jin Guoqiang shook his head and said, "I didn't see it. When we rolled down just now, I fell into a daze. I didn't have time to see the way. Maybe they took another channel."
Zi Yang raised his head and scanned the cave. The terrain here is slightly higher, and the terrain becomes flatter towards the bottom of the canyon. Standing here, you can see most of the canyon, but the closer to the edge, the steeper the terrain and the rugged rocks. Fortunately, the place where they fell is relatively flat. If they fall on those rocks, they will inevitably suffer from stomach problems.
"Or, let's go find them?" Zi Yang hesitated.
Jin Guoqiang said: "They may be in a certain corner. The area is too big for us to search for in a while. It's better to go to the high platform at the bottom of the cave and talk about it. They will come and meet when they see us."
Zi Yang nodded. What he was even more worried about was that if A Chong and Su Rui entered a passage to other places and fell into another space... In such a strange underground, nothing is impossible. If that were the case, they would never see each other again.
"Clean up and get ready to go, check the dzi bead stone first." Zi Yang touched his chest, the string of dzi bead stone was still there, and he secretly rejoiced in his heart that it was not left in the fall just now, otherwise the purple leaf gentian would be everywhere. It's hard to move in the hole.
Jin Guoqiang returned the Ye Mingzhu to Zi Yang. The fluorescent brightness of the vegetation in this place was enough for them to see the surroundings clearly, and no additional lighting was needed.
Zi Yang stood up, although his whole body was still hot and painful, but fortunately, the skin and flesh were injured, and the bones and muscles were not serious.
Jin Guoqiang pointed to the side and said, "We walk around from here. There are relatively few purple leaf gentians here."
Zi Yang carried Jin Guoqiang on his back and walked slowly, looking down at the ground as he walked, stepping on the fluorescent vegetation, leaving bright footprints, sparking purple fluorescence, and they left. Later, the ground slowly returned to normal. Zi Yang felt in a daze that he was walking above the stars.
As he walked, Zi Yang slammed a plant that looked like a dandelion at the foot of the plant. A bunch of fluorescence on the top of the plant suddenly dispersed into countless stars, flying around him, reminding Zi Yang of chasing fluorescence in the night when he was a child. Worm time.
Jin Guoqiang was not in the mood to appreciate these, he lay nervously on Zi Yang's back, and his eyes scanned the surroundings vigilantly.
Although there was a dzi bead stone body, the two of them carefully avoided the denser purple leaf gentian. Occasionally there are one or two that are really unavoidable, and they will automatically curl up and shrink back when they approach, as if there is an invisible barrier around them.
"Did you feel very hot?" Zi Yang walked for a while, sweating on his forehead and feeling hot all over.
Jin Guoqiang said apologetically: "I'm sorry, am I too heavy?"
"I'm not kidding you, I'm sweating all over my body!"
Jin Guoqiang yelled, "Don't tell me, it seems to be true. I haven't realized just now that the temperature in this cave is at least 20 or 30 degrees!"
The two of them were still wearing the down jackets they used for mountaineering, and they were tumbling all the way and it was dirty and not look like, and some places had been torn open, revealing the feathers inside.
Zi Yang took off his down jacket and wrapped it around his waist, carrying Jin Guoqiang on his back, and suddenly remembered something: "You said this underground is so hot, is there an active volcano or something nearby?"
Jin Guoqiang did not answer him. He stretched out his hand to cover Zi Yang's mouth and leaned in his ear and gave a soft "hush".
Zi Yang stopped and raised his head, looking at him with a horror.
Above them, a huge gentian flower was hung, only one meter from the top of their heads. Unlike other flower stems, the opening of this gentian flower is tightly closed, and something seems to be squirming inside the huge flower stem.
Zi Yang was so frightened that he didn't dare to move, wondering why this gentian flower didn't seem to be afraid of two people
Suddenly, an old voice in the shadows said softly: "Be careful not to move, this flower is not afraid of Dzi Beads!"
There is someone nearby!