"Strange, there seems to be something carved on the paws of this dead thing!" Old Wang suddenly knelt down and said.
Su Rui moved the light under the monster, and saw that there was a "swastika" symbol on its thick legs.
"Is it muddy?" Zi Yang wiped the cuticles of the gargoyle's legs and paws. The place where the "swastika" symbol was printed clearly felt a little different.
"Damn, this seems to be branded!" Zi Yang exclaimed.
Lao Wang gasped, "Who is so capable of branding tattoos on this monster?"
This gargoyle is about the size of a car, its wings are nearly six meters apart, and its legs and claws are thick. Who can tame such a bird of prey
Su Rui looked down and thought for a while and suddenly said, "Do you still remember the paintings on the stone wall? I remember one of them was a few people holding iron forks to tame a gargoyle in a cage."
"You mean this gargoyle was the one caught by Yu Xue Jun and the others? That old guy is at least several hundred years old, right? It's almost like the big eagle Yang Guo!" Old Wang exclaimed.
"Who is Yang Guo?" Su Rui hadn't seen Jin Yong's "The Legend of Condor Heroes", so naturally he didn't know Yang Guo.
Zi Yang explained to her: "Yang Guo is a character in a martial arts novel. He once encountered a magical statue. He was a horse and companion for the lonely man of martial arts, and a beast that had lived for hundreds of years."
"Oh! What a pity!" Lao Wang slapped his thigh and said sadly: "Maybe this old bird will be able to use it as a disciple, but I was stabbed to death by the knife!"
Zi Yang rolled his eyes: "You have been thinking about good things all day, and this flat-haired beast has not eaten us all, it is considered lucky!"
Lao Wang held the gargoyle's wings and shook his head and sighed: "Oh, Brother Bird, Brother Bird, don't blame Lao Wang for being cruel, if I don't do anything, Lao Li will be pecked to death by you, don't blame me for this... By the way, Brother Bird, did you hide some martial arts secrets, miracles, moonlight boxes or something?"
"Stop it, let's first figure out where this gargoyle came from!" Su Rui looked at the surrounding mountain walls warily.
Zi Yang shuddered, and Su Rui was right. For such a huge gargoyle, its lair must be very spectacular.
Su Rui twisted the miner's lamp to its brightest, and the beam of light swept across the rock wall. Except for the gap they drilled through, there was no way out on the rock wall.
"It's weird, where did this stupid bird come from? It's so big, and the stone crack can't fit its body!" The old Wang scratched his head in wonder.
Su Rui shone the light on the ground, staring at the emerald-green pool next to him in silence.
"This thing, shouldn't it get out of this pool?" Zi Yang squatted down and raised the pool. I remember that Qin Xianghe said before that this gargoyle can travel through deep water and break through the seal barrier. It seems that after living in the ground for too long, it has evolved a certain ability to ignore the drastic changes in water pressure.
Su Rui looked at Lao Wang and Zi Yang, "It seems that the only way to stay in front of us is underwater."
At this moment, the sound of the stone falling to the ground came from the gap behind him, and it seemed that the monster inside was waiting to hunt them.
"Xiao Su, I have a question. What if this pool—this sewer has no head? Don’t meet another Mobius ring! On the shore, we can take a few more breaths, just under the water. It's not so easy anymore, my oxygen cylinder can't last too long." Lao Wang said anxiously.
"Why don't I go down to find the way first?" Su Rui said.
Zi Yang shook his head: "No, even if you can find a way out, it will consume too much energy for you to turn back."
Su Rui knows what Zi Yang said makes sense. After more than 20 hours of high-intensity exercise, their physical fitness has basically been overdrawn. But they have no other choice.
"That's better than all three people being bored underwater." Su Rui insisted.
"What are you kidding? You are going to die alone, leaving our two big men here alive like dogs? No! To die and die together!" The old Wang next door said awe-inspiringly.
"I'm pooh, pooh! You can't speak human words like this dog's mouth, why are you dead, pooh!" Zi Yang spat on the ground a few times, the old Wang's words are really unlucky.
"Well, let's go into the water together. Whether we can go out or not depends on good luck."
The three stood together holding hands and walked slowly down the pool. When the water reached their necks, the three looked at each other and went down together.
As Su Rui expected, although the pool above does not look big, the water channel below is deep and wide. It's just that there are turbulent rocks and twists and turns. After traveling for an hour or two, their last underwater miner's lamp It also disappeared, and the surroundings fell into darkness.
Zi Yang messed up his hands and feet. When he was panicking, a little fluorescence suddenly appeared in front of him. It turned out to be the faint light from the diving watch in Su Rui's hand. The three of them continued to swim forward following the faint fluorescence.
Zi Yang didn't know how long this fluorescence could last. Once the light was gone, they would be completely hopeless.
After a while, they were suddenly faced with a more cruel problem-Pharaoh’s oxygen cylinder finally ran out. Seeing a trace of panic flashed in Pharaoh’s eyes, Su Rui patted Pharaoh’s shoulder to signal him to calm down, and then Unload the oxygen cylinder he carried and give it to him.
Upon seeing this, Zi Yang hurriedly took her hand and connected his oxygen cylinder to her nanosuit.
Now three people share two oxygen cylinders, but because each change of air releases a lot of gas, it undoubtedly aggravates the gas consumption.
Without reminding Su Rui, both Zi Yang and Lao Wang knew that there was not much time left for them.
The three of them swam forward with their last hope.
I can see that the fluorescence of the dive watch is getting weaker and weaker. Lao Wang ran out of oxygen again. He looked at Zi Yang desperately and made a gesture that only Zi Yang could understand.
Zi Yang knew that Pharaoh was about to give up. Zi Yang's eyes became wet, and the fear of death began to envelop his heart.
Lao Wang smiled, made a V gesture to Su Rui and Zi Yang, and threw away the respirator in his mouth.
Lao Wang swallowed a few mouthfuls of water, struggling in the water for a while, but Zi Yang watched, but could do nothing.
After a few seconds, Pharaoh didn't move.
Zi Yang reluctantly held Pharaoh's wrist, and he still refused to let go. He knew that before long, he would end up like Pharaoh.
At this moment, Su Rui suddenly pulled Zi Yang's shoulder, and there seemed to be a faint light in front of him!
Zi Yang seemed to see hope, and pushed Lao Wang to swim towards the light.
As they swam, the bright light got bigger and clearer. The two of them stepped on the water to rise quickly, looking up at the white light above it getting closer and brighter... Finally, there was a bang, They surfaced, and there was a blue sky above their heads.
Escape!
Zi Yang took off his mask, breathed in the fresh air greedily, and staggered to the shore with Su Rui dragging the "corpse" of Lao Wang.
Su Rui put Lao Wang on his back on the ground, alternately pressing his hands on his chest and pressing hard. Press Zi Yang twice to give him an artificial respiration...
After pressing for a while, Lao Wang didn't respond.
"Don't die! Don't die!" Zi Yang slapped Lao Wang two slaps with cries.
"Cough cough cough..." Lao Wang suddenly spit out a stream of water, coughing violently, and slowly opened his eyes.
"Where am I?" Old Wang said weakly.
"You are in the eighteenth floor of hell." Zi Yang choked and said.
"I, I don't believe it, there is no or no such beautiful girl in hell!" Old Wang tremblingly reached out and touched Su Rui's face.
Su Rui did not evade, let him grab his face and knead it, and said with tears in his smile: "Pharaoh, we are back on the ground, we are coming out!"
"Really? I, I don't believe it, you kiss me..." Lao Wang said vaguely, lying on the ground.
Zi Yang watched his hand touch Su Rui's face and couldn't help but get jealous. He fended off his hand and said: "Okay, okay, don't pretend to be!"
Lao Wang turned to his feet and said, "I've died once, so can't your kid be more polite and polite to me?"
"Hot you up, I just gave you artificial respiration. Why do you thank me for my sacrifice?"
"I pooh pooh! Your kid gave me artificial respiration? I would rather die!" Lao Wang spit on the ground with a look of disgust.
Zi Yang ignored him, sat on the ground and looked around, muttering: "I'm riding a horse... we're still a little short of going out."
At this time, the three people had the time to observe the surroundings, and couldn't help but gasp after seeing the situation clearly.
They were in a tiankeng 20 to 30 meters deep. This pit was like an inverted sea bowl. The bottom of the bowl was the small piece of blue sky. The surrounding rock walls were smooth and there was no foothold, and the top of the cave was small. The bottom is large and has a concave surface, which makes it impossible to climb at all.
"What is that?!" Su Rui pointed to a "mound" directly below the tiankeng and said.
The three of them approached and found that the mound turned out to be a rusty tank! I don't know how long it has been since the tank fell. The entire area was rusted to a brown color, and the turret was covered with a layer of moss and green grass.
"Wocao! Is this an alien flying saucer?" Lao Wang said in admiration, and once "dead" in the water, his imagination seemed to have broken through the sky.
Su Rui shook his head: "It appears to be the M3 light tank used by the Japanese in World War II."
Old Wang slapped his head: "I see, this sinkhole was smashed out by this iron bump, right? It was originally a hollow underground here. When this cumbersome little Japanese tank drove over from above, it directly smashed the roof of the cave. Collapsed!"
Lao Wang circled the tank, his mouth twitched: "There must be a lot of treasures in such a big iron guy, maybe we can find something to help us out."
"Don't think about it, no play!" Zi Yang said with a sigh as he climbed onto the turret.
"What's wrong, can you be more active in life, Comrade Li!" Lao Wang said dissatisfied.
"Come and see for yourself!"
Pharaoh climbed up the turret and looked in from the open hatch. There were two dirty skeletons in the tank, and the uniforms on his body had decayed into strands.
Zi Yang sighed: "There is no trick. If they can go up, the two little Japanese devils went up decades ago, and there is no need to suffocate in this broken tank."
Su Rui looked up at the blue sky and sighed helplessly: "so-near, and-yet-so-far."
"What do you mean?" Old Wang asked in confusion.
"It's close at hand, and far away." Zi Yang translated to him. "Although we escaped from the underground, we were still trapped underneath."
"I think it looks like a maximum of ten or twenty meters from the ground. What's so depressing." Lao Wang saw the lush grass and tall tree canopy on the edge of the cave and said: "We have walked out of such a deep underground, and I'm afraid This distance?"
Zi Yang spit out an air-conditioning in his nose, "Although there is only this distance, you can't get there at all without climbing equipment, unless..."
"Unless what?"
"Unless you work lightly, you can jump more than ten meters at once."
"You can try a full stomach, but I haven't eaten for a day or two, and I don't have enough energy..." Lao Wang said without embarrassment.
"Hey, your kid still wants to eat? Eat shit!" Zi Yang pulled a mud from the tank and threw it on Lao Wang.
Having been bored in the ground for so long, when they first saw the blue sky, white clouds and green grass, breathing in the fresh air, the two of them felt much more relaxed. Although they were not far from death, at least they didn’t need to suffocate, choke to death, or starve to death at most. That's it.