The Tale of the Kraken

Chapter 456 Underground Lake

Because of Yang Yang's insistence, he saw those traces, but the others were busy with other things at the time and didn't pay attention.So in the end, I decided to ask Yuzhongwu to go back and have a look first. Among all the people, he has the best water quality.

After some preparations, Yu Zhongwu got into the water with his dragon tendons tied, and swam upstream against the current in the direction they had just come from.

After dancing in the rain and entering the water, Ning Yuan kept staring at the watch in his hand. After more than ten minutes, there was some movement from the dragon tendon.A few people looked up and saw Dancing in the Rain, swimming along the current towards the shallows.

Yang Yang looked at Dancing in the Rain leisurely in the water, and couldn't help sighing, "It's worthy of being a dragon."It is different from mortals like them, and it is much more dexterous and convenient in the water.

Biting on Yu Zhongwu's mouth was the same thing as the fish scale that Ning Yuan had just picked up, paddling the water quickly with both hands, and returned to the shallows in a short while.

He stood up, shook his hair, took the thing out of his mouth, and threw it on the ground.Then he said: "I'm sure, what Yang Yang said is correct, the traces on the rock wall are indeed left by these scales."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and glanced at Yang Yang, and said with a smile, "I didn't expect your eyes to be quite bright."

Yang Yang was a little unaccustomed to being praised by him so suddenly, he smiled embarrassedly, but said nothing.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Wu Zhongwu didn't continue to struggle with it, but just found a place to sit down, and said to a few people: "I just took a closer look at that rock wall, and the traces on it are bigger than those in our hands. The scales are slightly smaller, and it seems to have been left a long time ago. But the shape is almost the same, and it should be left by the same snake."

After he finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at the top of the cave, and said: "I saw those traces, and they disappeared near here. I think the snake should be similar to us. It ran aground near here, and then disappeared. .”

What he said made Yang Yang break out in a cold sweat. Now that the big snake ran aground near here, what will happen next?

The Tengu seemed to be very sensitive to the scent of the transformed snake, otherwise, it would not have been able to find that scale after being so far away.But since he didn't find the body of the snake around here, it proved that the snake probably didn't die.

This cave is not small, but it is big, and it is not really so big that they can't see the edge.The witch seemed to understand what people were thinking. He raised his hand, and the blue-green fireball floated to the top of the cave.

Now, several people could see clearly what the cave looked like.It looks like any other underground cave except for a few huge stalactites.Yang Yang has seen such a cave in many documentaries. This cave is not particularly big, and there is nothing unusual about it.

Just when he felt a little disappointed, Yu Zhongwu suddenly raised his finger and pointed in a certain direction and said, "Look there."

They looked in the direction he pointed, but they didn't see anything. Before Yang Yang could speak, Ning Yuan asked, "What's wrong over there?"

"From there, the speed of the water has accelerated. I think there should be a big waterfall not far ahead."

Said Wu Zhongwu squatted down, drew a Y shape on the ground with his hands, and then pointed to the vertical one.Then he said: "I just observed it. Our current environment is almost like this. We should have come down from here. And because of the accumulation of sand from the upper stream, we are now in this place."

He pointed to the place where the three lines intersected, and explained to everyone: "Because of the accumulation of sediment, the current shoal is formed. The water flow slows down and gradually divides the water flow into two sides. One side goes towards the one I just mentioned. The place is gone, and the other side is slowly slowing down because of this shoal."

He pointed to another bunch of slashes in it: "According to the speed of the water flow, I think there should be a dead end ahead. In other words, there is no big exit, which makes the water so slow."

"Then are we here now?" After listening to his analysis, Yang Yang pointed to the place where the word Y forked and said, "But when we just came here, the witches have already said that the direction we are going is Go straight along the shallows."

"I have seen in some documentaries that the drop of the underground river can sometimes reach more than several kilometers. I think that if it is not necessary, we should not go to the waterfall."

After Ning Yuan finished speaking, he looked at the symbols on the ground and said: "Since we are now in the middle of two forks, one side is a waterfall, and the other side is very likely to be a dead end. Then I think the best way now is to follow the instructions of the witches. Said, go in the previously established direction. No matter what is ahead, take a look first and then talk.”

Everyone supported this proposal.After everyone dried their clothes on the simple small stove, they packed up their luggage, ate something, and continued on their way.

Compared with the previous one on the cliff, the traveling speed of the few people was obviously much faster this time, because the road conditions were very good.Since the Tengu found the scales, except for a whimper, the journey was very quiet.

After walking for about ten minutes, several people gradually felt that the top of the cave was getting closer and closer to them.At the beginning, no one paid attention to it. When they noticed, the roof of the cave had dropped by at least four meters compared to when they first arrived at the shoal.

That's about two floors away.Such a distance may not be felt in normal times, but in such a dark cave, it is enough to create a sense of oppression.

At this time, Yang Yang said: "Is it my illusion? Why do I feel that we are going higher and higher? Or is this cave getting lower and lower?"

"It's not your illusion, the cave is getting lower and lower." Yuan Mu raised his head, looked around, and said, "This also proves that we are getting closer and closer to the outer edge of the cave."

When he said this, Yang Yang immediately understood.

The whole cave is like an upside-down bowl, which is curved.In the middle of the cave, the cave is the highest, and the closer to the periphery, the lower the top of the cave.They feel more and more depressed now, but they are getting closer and closer to the periphery of the cave.

And the more he walked in, the more he confirmed what Wu Zhongwu said just now.This shoal formed by the impact splits the underground river into two.On one side is the surging current, on the other side is extremely quiet, like a pool of stagnant water.

Several people walked faster and faster, just when Yang Yang felt that he was about to be unable to keep up, the witch descendant in front suddenly stopped.Turning around to look at them, he said, "Here we are."

Hearing his words, Yang Yang was shocked and immediately looked forward.I saw a gap about four meters high and two meters wide behind the witches. Above the gap was an invisible stone wall.

"A line of sky?" For some reason, the first term that popped up in Yang Yang's mind was a line of sky.So he said what he thought, and there was a burst of laughter.

"A ray of sky? It's quite appropriate." After hearing what he said, Wu Yi smiled and said, "It's just that I can't see the sky."

After saying this, he stretched out his hand and pointed, and the blue-green fireball above his head floated in along the gap.He turned his head to look at the crowd and said, "I don't know the exact route, I can only roughly perceive the location of the ley lines. But I think it should be not far ahead."

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately turned around and walked into the gap, and the others followed.The purpose of their coming here is to search for the leylines with the Malays.Although a few people don't say anything, they all have a question in their hearts: how far is the earth vein.

But now, the Malays told them that the leylines were not far ahead.Everyone's emotions suddenly rose, and even their pace quickened a lot.

But to their disappointment, after passing through the gap, they did not see the leylines mentioned by the Malays.What greeted them was another shoal, and in front of the shoal was a huge underground lake.

Dancing in the Rain stood on the shallows, with the blue-green fireball above his head shining brightly.He frowned, and said suddenly, "There's a very nasty smell here."

"A nasty smell? What is that?" Yang Yang moved his nose and took a sniff while talking: "I don't smell anything."

After hearing his words, Yu Zhongwu turned to look at him: "You can't smell it."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and looked at Yuan Mu: "This shoal is very small, and there is a large lake in front of it. I guess there will be something on the other side of the lake. Get ready, let's cross the lake."

As Yinglong, Dancing in the Rain should have the final say on water matters.Several other people had no objection to his decision.Everyone quickly unloaded their luggage, shared some food with each other, and began to prepare for exercise.

The water in the underground river is very cold. If you rush into the water without making preparations, you will definitely suffer from cramps.The last time they dragged each other, even without those preparations, nothing happened, but that can only say that they were lucky.

This time, due to the unfamiliar place, how wide the lake is.Coupled with Dancing in the Rain's vigilance at the beginning, several people were unwilling to continue taking risks, and made serious preparations.

Although none of them could figure out from Dancing in the Rain what the nasty smell he was talking about was.But the smell that could make even an ancient monster as powerful as Dancing in the Rain find it disgusting, probably wouldn't be a good thing.

(End of this chapter)