Meng Qisheng has a keen sense of distance, and he can judge his position in the dark by his own sense.
Soon, there was no darkness at the end of the flashlight. Several wooden sealing plates appeared. One side of the sealing plate was artificially damaged. Gu Tang leaned forward and took the flashlight to take a picture, and said, "From the traces, yes. Blasting technology in the 1970s."
Meng Qisheng nodded: "It's okay, it was exploded by people from Ning's history."
We climbed up the blast hole and looked around slowly. The top of our head was not a wooden structure, but a strangely rugged mountain, which stretched inward along the mountain, and the wooden structure was hidden in the darkness.
Bai Ye said: "The air is quite humid. I guess if you go deeper into the mountain, the erosion of the flowing water will be more serious, and the structure will be very complicated. How do we determine the final destination?"
"Telephone line." I tried to avoid looking at their faces. "The other end of the phone line must be connected to another landline phone. That's where we are looking."
Everyone nodded, and the telephone line stretched out from the dark mountain, sagging into the darkness we just climbed out of. Walking along this line to the dark depths, the surrounding wooden buildings and the rock walls eroded by the running water complement each other and combine into one, with an inexplicable sense of beauty.
After another distance, things started to go wrong.
The mud, stone walls and wooden buildings gradually disappeared, replaced by the densely overwhelmed Tai Sui. They squeezed around big and small, occupying any place they could occupy.
I sighed: "What can I do, quickly find out if there are any statues and feet here for us to grind?"
It is estimated that the feet of the god statue are gone. We looked at the phone line that disappeared in the depths of Tai Sui, and hesitated how to go on.
I thought about the injuries behind my back, and finally said: "From my previous experience, these Tai Sui should be non-toxic. The one behind me has been lying on my back for so long, and the wound is quite deep, so there is nothing wrong with it. So we Just run over at the fastest speed, tighten the cuffs and trousers, and don't give them a chance to attract us."
Meng Qisheng agreed: "You can give it a try."
"Then who runs the first to clear the way?" Bai Ye asked.
This Tai Sui slipped like a nose without leaving his hands. It is not realistic to step on them directly, and it is very likely that he will fall. Only if someone kicks them away can they run over easily.
Bai Ye volunteered and said courageously: "I have practiced tap dancing, can I take on the important task of opening the way?"
I glanced at him and said, "Comrade Bai Ye, your tap dancing proficiency is related to the speed of the organization. I hope you can take on this important task."
Gu Tang smiled and said, "Okay, let's make a small tool. Take down this postmodernist artwork a little bit. Let's make a V-shaped wooden frame with the tip facing the front, so that we can squeeze the Tai Sui very well. To the sides."
"It's a way." Bai Ye nodded and said, "Sure enough, the engineering background is very different from some liberal arts students who only do ideological encouragement work!"
The yin and yang in his mouth are weird, and his eyes are like an old bustard. I found that he has the potential to enter the neighborhood committee.
The group made a V-shaped wooden frame according to the intention of taking care of Tang and placed it on the ground with the tip facing forward. Two people from Gu Tang and Chongyang pushed forward, and the other three followed behind to cheer.
Bai Ye followed behind and shouted: drove—
The five people buried their heads and rushed in. This small tool really worked. The Tai Sui on the ground was squeezed by the tip and rushed to both sides, making a stern cry: It's me—it's me—
Bai Ye said: "Don't shout, everyone, wait for the next shift!"
I don't know how long I have been running with the phone line. It is quite exhausting to run so forcefully. Bai Ye and I also took a round.
I estimate that there is a behavior of mutual information transmission between Tai Sui, most of which rely on screaming, because after a certain distance, almost all Tai Sui screamed one after another. Tai Sui, who was originally quiet on top of his head, began to shrink his back. Once it was released, mucus was secreted and dripped down. Followed into the water curtain hole.
We didn't have time to deal with this. We took the time to wipe the smelly mucus on our faces and continued to rush forward along the phone line, until the Tai Sui around unknowingly sparsed out. No more secretions on the top of the head like rain.
We panted and stopped slowly and looked at the scene around us.
At the end, there are fewer man-made buildings. We are in a water-soluble rock cave. There are almost no traces of artificial excavation. At the end of the cave, there are dense and countless caves like honeycombs. The caves are not too big. , Looks like two or three meters in diameter.
The telephone line extends in the direction of these caves.
When I got closer, I could see that the entrance of the cave was crowded with white flowers. It was a pile of spherical eggs, each about the size of a fist, and each cave entrance was filled with countless such eggs.
"What kind of egg is this?" Bai Ye asked.
"Most of them are Tai Sui's eggs. I didn't expect such a disgusting thing to be viviparous."
Bai Ye said: "If it is viviparous, then it can be determined that this thing is not too old, because even if there is no unified statement, it is generally believed that too old is a kind of fungus, and the fungus cannot be viviparous."
"Then what monster did we meet?"
"Who knows."
I hesitated: "No matter what it is, we have entered their nest. With so many caves and so many eggs, not all of them are the kind of man-eating monsters we encounter below, right?"
Gu Tang shook his head: "That should be another creature. I observed that the man-eating monster is a bit similar to the coelenterate. Even the digestive system has not evolved completely. It does not even distinguish between male and female, and the reproductive system is even None of them have formed, it is impossible to produce so many eggs."
My inspiration: "Will there be a system similar to an ant nest? Although they all belong to the same system, there is a distinction between queen and worker ants."
Gu Tang nodded.
Well, the queen ant usually has relatively poor offensive actions and abilities, and is just a spawning tool, so the nest is generally relatively safer.
Bai Ye said: "The phone line went to one of the caves."
Gu Tang has been stroking the phone line. We were about to continue walking along the phone line. Gu Tang hesitated and said, "Strange."
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"This and the telephone line seem to have been moved." Gu Tang said.
"It's been moved? How do you tell it." Bai Ye is a little strange: "This cave has Tai Sui crawling past every day, and the ground is clean, and the phone line should not leave any traces after being moved. ."
Gu Tang said, "It's the mucus shell that left traces. The phone line was originally wrapped in a mucus shell. Look, now this mucus shell has been broken."
"Could it be that you broke this thread when you crossed it?"
"I paid attention to this aspect when I stroked it, and my action was to lift it up. The phone line formed a downward concave arc, and the squeezed surface was the upper side, so the crushing of the mucus shell was also the upper side."
"And what I see now..."
He raised his torch and motioned us to look at it. In addition to the upper side of the mucus shell on the old telephone line, the left side was also broken.
This shows that the telephone line moved to the left not too long ago.
Following the line, we stopped at last, and we looked at each other, and there was some seriousness in our eyes, and it was completely certain that someone had touched the phone line.
Because the last thing that appeared in front of our eyes was a cut thread. The end of the telephone line, the end of the thread, was a brand-new broken mark. (End of this chapter)