Acting for the gods

Chapter 40 Gourd Cave

The various techniques in "The Wind After the Qimen" are really easy to use, and they can deal with all kinds of complex situations in every aspect.

With the repaired ancient ship, no one would need to venture into the water anymore.

After boarding the boat one after another, the soldiers and Xiling Lishi supported the wooden paddles and rowed forward.

Sitting on the bow of the boat, Chen Yulou vigilantly observed the surrounding situation, and found that there were many huge natural stone pillars in the water, just like corals on the bottom of the sea, with various shapes and branches, and some huge rhizomes on the top of the head, extending from above, straight into the in the water.

The terrain here is similar to a huge gourd. The starting point is at the mouth of the gourd. Following the guidance of Chen Yulou, several ancient boats rowed to the waist of the gourd.

Passing through the wide stone crevices, you can see more open waters.

Jiang Fan knew that there were Huo's undead worms and many dead drifters ahead.

Those dead drifters were still parasitic with slugs, so they didn't cast spell lighting.

All the way is illuminated by torches and horse lanterns, which means that Chen Yulou has night eyes and can see far away in the dark.

"Be careful, don't hit the stone pillar."

Chen Yulou sounded a reminder.

Jiang Fan's night vision ability was second only to Chen Yulou's, and he could see the surrounding coral-shaped stone pillars, which presumably were fossils of trees from ancient times.

"Those stone pillars should be plant fossils. Zhelong Mountain was probably a huge active volcano hundreds of millions of years ago. It is estimated that in a doomsday volcanic eruption, a mudslide occurred, and the magma engulfed the forest below the mountain. The instantly carbonized trees were immediately engulfed by the ensuing mudslides, and the temperature also cooled instantly. After tens of millions of years, with the subsidence of the earth's crust and repeated erosion by groundwater, the appearance we see today was formed. .”

Such a spectacle is really rare and hard to see in the real world.

But most people don't have the time to appreciate the beauty of nature.

"Is there something glowing in front of you?"

Chen Yulou has been tense all the time, observing the surrounding situation through night eyes, and saw a hazy white figure in the front and back of the river, with a faint blue cold light emitting from his body.

Everyone saw that although the cave was very dark, the white light of the figure became clearer and clearer.

"Water... water ghost!"

Seeing the female corpse wrapped in white clothes, Luo Xiaoliu turned pale with shock.

Jiang Fan was the first to feel a weak electric shock, and the hairs all over his body stood up instantly.

He immediately thought of the three-legged toad in the stomach of Huo's Undead Worm.

The three-legged toad was carved from the core of a meteorite, and it contains special radioactive substances, which can increase the oxygen content in a certain area, and at the same time allow the organism to grow rapidly, breaking through its original size!
As soon as I thought of this, the female corpse in the river had already floated over.

Partridge Whistle, Chen Yulou, Old Foreigner, Luo Xiaoliu and the others all took up weapons and stared nervously at the female corpse. Once they found something wrong, they would shoot randomly.

"It's a dead ticket, but how can it shine?"

After seeing the female corpse floating over, Chen Yulou was a little puzzled, he had never heard of phosphorescent will-o'-the-wisps in the water.

"It is estimated that it is the ghost of King Xian, it may be some kind of killing technique."

While Jiang Fan was speaking, the female corpse suddenly seemed to be pulled by something and sank into the water.

"Why is it gone?"

Many people had goose bumps all over their bodies, feeling that the situation was very strange.

"There may be giant toads under the water, or other creatures, don't worry about others, go fast."

Jiang Fan couldn't tell how many weird creatures there were underwater.

Whether it is a novel or a TV series, what is shown is relatively one-sided.

The radioactive substances in the gourd hole have the miraculous effect of allowing organisms to grow rapidly, so many animals and insects are larger than the usual organisms.

That's the case with the giant toad. The ghost knows how many creatures exist in the lake of this gourd cave, so it's natural to leave as soon as possible.

Everyone did as they said, and after rowing quickly through the large fossil forest, they stopped the boat and docked.

Here is a platform with a man-made excavation, and there is a semicircular hole in front of it.

This cave is not big, and only one person can pass through it.

There are many insects around, such as mosquitoes, dragonflies and the like, and they are very large.

Eighteen monsters in Yunnan, three mosquitoes and one dish is no exaggeration here.

Jiang Fan even saw a mosquito the size of a washbasin, and this mosquito could cook three dishes without any problem.

Although everyone also used insect repellent herbs, it seemed to have no effect on the big mosquitoes in the cave, and many mosquitoes still flew towards everyone.

Coupled with the black insects that look like dragonflies, they are densely packed, like black clouds passing through.

A bite of such a big mosquito is not a matter of a bag, it will kill a person.

As for that black dragonfly, who knows what it is, will it bite?
Just seeing that huge number is enough to make one's scalp tingle.

"Giggle~"

The angry rooster crowed, and the loud and clear sound echoed through the valley. The mosquitoes were frightened, and they paused for a while.

At this moment, many big tongues shot out from the water, dragging the mosquitoes flying in mid-air into the water with lightning speed.

Chen Yulou looked into the water, and could vaguely see many giant toads lurking at the bottom of the water, some were dark red in color, some were grass green, the big ones were like cars, and the small ones were as big as millstones.

At this time, the surface of the water was churning, the giant toad opened and closed its mouth, and countless mosquitoes died, just like a gluttonous feast.

Now Chen Yulou knows what these giant toads eat to grow so big!
"Don't get entangled, get out of here first."

Jiang Fan didn't come here to beat mosquitoes or toads, and there was no need to fight them to the death.

Everyone moved forward quickly, and soon approached the cave.

The Nuqing Chicken took the time to peck and kill a few giant mosquitoes, but he didn't eat them, probably because he didn't like his appetite.

The red girl ran a certain distance, wondering: "Why are the bugs here so much bigger than outside?"

"It probably has something to do with the special environment here." Chen Yulou took a breath.

The old foreigner whimsically said: "You think it's not that the mosquitoes have become bigger, but we have become smaller?"

Because after entering the mouth of the gourd, the things I saw, whether it was tree fossils, toads, or mosquitoes, were all ridiculously large. In addition, the space in the gourd's belly was vast, and in comparison, people had an illusion of smallness .

Jiang Fan said: "Don't think about it, we haven't changed, those insects have mutated, probably because there is some special radioactive substance in this cave."

He didn't say clearly that it was the three-legged toad, and he used an uncertain tone.

Others are convinced.

"I see."

Luo Xiaoliu seemed to understand, and then shouted to the soldiers under his opponent: "Check the ammunition, and be ready for battle at any time."

There are too many weird things in the gourd cave, and there are dangers everywhere, no one dares to take it lightly.

When everyone approached the cave, they found many ancient murals on the surrounding stone walls.

It records the scene of ancient ancestors offering sacrifices to mountain gods with giant toads.

Judging from the costumes above, the age of the person in the painting is even older than King Xian.

The old foreigner looked at the mural: "Brother, do you think these people catch toads to serve wine to the mountain god?"

Partridge Whistle shook his head: "Judging from the portraits, these people took out the bamboo poles, and the toads on them were not eaten, but it seemed that their energy was absorbed by something."

"The black-faced mountain god on the first painting should be the same as the mountain god statue we saw outside. Although the shape is a little different, the general situation is similar."

(End of this chapter)