Mountains and seas can be flat

The walls of the cave are covered with stalagmites, and the edge of the lake is very neatly rounded, smooth and flat, not like a natural formation.With so many artificial traces, Fang Zheng believes that it is real as one of the entrances to Cangwu Abyss.

In the same way, Fang Zheng concocted the second mouse and hung it on the stalactite at the high place just now. The fat mouse screamed in vain for a while, but there was no movement in the pool below. Fang Zheng turned his head and asked Big Copper Tooth: "Since they don't come, why don't they come?" What's the use of your mussel?"

The big copper teeth were a little embarrassed, and whispered: "It's not used now."

"When will it be used?"

"The darkest, the darkest time." The big copper teeth paused.

"When was that?" Fang Zheng wondered.

But Big Copper Fang shrugged, indicating that he only knew so much.

Fang Zheng tried it, and the clam was closed, and it could shake in the water.It would be nice if it could handle crocodiles.The children, grandchildren or wife of this giant crocodile may be gnashing their teeth in some dark corner to prepare for revenge. Fang Zheng decided to shake them all the way after entering the water, killing them.

Fang Zhengzhi would put on the fish skin jacket even in the wind, it was very slippery, and Fang Zheng felt like being poured over his head by a bucket of cold water.The fish skin coat covers the body and limbs, only the face is exposed.Fang Zheng also stuffed the deerskin pocket on the inside of the fish skin coat and stuck it on his chest and abdomen.Holding the bronze sword in one hand, the clam vessel was tightly closed in the other, and while making a "ding ding" sound, it stepped into the water.

The edge of the pool was very shallow at the beginning, and it was a sloping beach artificially smoothed. Fang Zheng walked in front, and Lian Feng followed him.After walking two meters forward, it suddenly became deeper and couldn't reach the bottom. Fang Zheng stroked the water a few times, and used his copper sword to pull the hovering corpse of a giant crocodile away, and approached the column that was said to be the "door".

Fang Zheng looked back, but Lian Feng didn't wade into the deep water area, Fang Zheng thought the same, his body is too heavy for the water.How do I get in here?

"I'll open the door first, and then pull you over." Fang Zheng tied one end of the rope to himself, and threw the other end to Lian Feng to hold, "I'll pull you to swim later, just hold your breath."

Lian Feng connected the rope and tied it around his body. If he came alone, he would have to crawl through the water, and he would undoubtedly have to hold his breath for a longer time.It must be paid back... Zifeng's psychological pressure increased again.

The cylinder is small at the top and thick at the bottom, showing a truncated conical shape, with obvious artificial traces.

Fang Zheng let out a "huh".

"It doesn't seem like a stone."

Fang Zheng swam to the side of the column and touched it. His hands felt lubricated and cold. It turned out to be a smooth and flat jade column polished by jade.Fang Zheng touched around, and there was an area on the back that was uneven, densely carved with things, and there was an obvious groove in the middle.That must be the handle of the "door" that the big copper tooth said.

Fang Zheng didn't forget to shake the clam vessel all the time, and tried it in the water, and it did make a sound.The surroundings are very quiet, there is no sound of sudden changes in the water flow.

Fang Zheng wanted to ask the big copper tooth, "Do you want to open the groove on this jade pillar", but when he turned around, the big copper tooth was gone, and he shouted in the direction of the dirt road, "Don't run away."

However, it was useless to shout, the big copper tooth had already crawled back along the tunnel.Zu Xun cannot see the opening scene.

Fang Zheng suddenly drummed vigilantly in his heart, but he was unwilling to delay the time. He told Lianfeng, "I'm going to drive, if it's not right, you run to the shore."

Lian Feng nodded solemnly.Fang Zheng stretched his hand into the groove, and there was indeed a strong spot in it. He pulled it out, and the jade pillar was opened from the middle.

The inside of the jade pillar is hollow, like a deep well, and like a pipe, water rushes into it and sucks Fang Zheng down.Fang Zheng pulled on the rope, but the suction force was so strong that Lian Feng was sucked in.A torrent engulfed Fang Zheng and drilled into the waterway in the jade pillar.The water flowed outside the cold fish skin, sucking him in like a whirlpool.

Fang Zheng didn't know how deep the water channel was. He only knew that it had been more than two minutes since he held his breath from the beginning, and it hadn't reached the end yet. Two to three minutes is the limit for ordinary people to hold their breath.Even if Fang Zheng has practiced, his physique has been changed by Tai Sui, and he can hold back for 3 minutes at most.He didn't know how long it had passed, and the cells started screaming. He tried to paddle, but he was still rushed down by the strong current.

Fang Zheng felt the water flow from his mouth and nose into his lungs, and stars began to appear in front of his eyes.While choking, he squeezed his palms tightly to prevent himself from passing out.In a trance, someone surrounded him, and then something warm and moist touched his lips, bringing the oxygen that all the cells in his body were clamoring for...

Vaguely, Fang Zheng felt that someone was supporting him in the water, and a voice whispered in his ear: "Repay."

Like Zifeng's tone.

After a while, Fang Zheng began to spit out the water he choked in. Someone was slapping his chest and abdomen hard. He opened his eyes with effort and found that he had rushed out of the long and narrow waterway. The surrounding was very dark, and he could only hear the stream beside him. Flowing sound.

Fang Zheng vaguely saw a silhouette in front of him, and Lian Feng cast a concerned look from above: "Brother Zheng, you're awake."

Fang Zheng was startled, he grabbed Lian Feng's arm and sat up, asking: "I was in the water just now, was it you who gave me the breath?"

"Brother Zheng, I don't know what you're talking about." Lian Feng showed an innocent expression, "I was washed over here a little later than you. It's dark here. I found you lying unconscious on the shore when I touched the rope."

Zifeng can't let Fang Zheng know about this, and he can't confirm the answer himself, but he will always remember a picture.

The moment he was out of breath, he opened his eyes in the water to see Fang Zheng's closed eyes.The faint fluorescent purple shimmer comes from tiny creatures in the water, illuminating Fang Zheng's slender eyelashes.

Fortunately, Fang Zheng was still dizzy, raised his eyebrows in a little doubt, and didn't go into it further, thinking that he was dreaming.

"You, are you okay?" Fang Zheng was a little puzzled and heard that Lian Feng was breathing normally, "The waterway is so long just now, you can hold your breath?"

"Star priests have the ritual of emptying their bodies before death. They stay in a cauldron without eating or drinking, and there is very little air. They will practice extreme breath holding methods on weekdays." Lian Feng said, "But I almost couldn't get out of that. Shui Dao, fortunately Brother Zheng pulled me over."

The ropes tied to Lian Feng and Fang Zheng are still intact.Fang Zheng was puzzled by what just happened for a moment and then put it behind him. Even the wind bone is so heavy, and the buoyancy is different from his own. If he wants to hug himself in the water, he must rely on the strength of his limbs to row to Fang Zheng. Can even the weak little strength of the wind be able to do it?

In fact, Zifeng can already do it now.

Fang Zheng touched himself, and found that the fish skin coat was intact, and the deerskin pocket placed on the inside was not torn.But the flint and tinder inside were wet.After all, in this era, there is no such thing as a fully airtight pocket.Fang Zheng shook his head and said, "I can't light the fire, so I have to find another way to see the light."

Lian Feng said: "Brother Zheng, give me the flint."

"You know how to order?"

"No, my pocket isn't wet, it dries faster."

Fang Zheng gave the flint to Lian Feng according to his words. In fact, the lack of torches is not a big problem for the time being.After Fang Zheng's eyes adapted to the darkness, he could see many things clearly.Immediately, Fang Zheng realized that no matter how good his eyesight was, he would not be able to see anything without a little light source.Those faint light sources come from the water.

Lian Feng pointed to the water and said, "Brother Zheng, there."

Fang Zheng saw clearly that it was a kind of fluorescent purple jellyfish floating around. They were dotted along the direction of the flow of the stream, outlining the outline of the stream.

With the weak light source, Fang Zheng can roughly see that they were washed into a spacious underground water cave by the stream. The stream passed through the middle, flowed to the edge and then drilled into the underground channel. , there is a round jade pillar that is exactly the same as the pool above.These round jade pillars have one every tens of meters in the water, facing each other far away.

There are not many artificial traces in this water cave. Fang Zheng looked up and saw a huge stalactite hanging from the dome, and the end was carved into a statue of a four-legged beast. The light is too dark to see clearly, but it is definitely not a natural formation.

Fang Zheng felt that the jade pillars in the river seemed to be guiding. There was no other way but to walk along the river. Fang Zheng said to Lian Feng: "How is your sight? If you can't see clearly, follow me. The rope Fasten it again."

"I can see it clearly." Lian Feng tied the rope firmly to his body as he said, and followed Fang Zheng. His feet were occasionally slippery. It was moss, but there was no sunlight here, and the moss was not turquoise, but dark red.

Fang Zheng listened while walking, the cave was not too quiet, there would be small blind fish churning in the river, and besides the fluorescent purple jellyfish, there was another kind of light source dotted above the cave wall.

"Firefly?" Fang Zheng gently closed one with his hands, and the other small light spots scattered away. They were indeed glowing firefly insects, but they were smaller than those on the ground.Fang Zheng reached out to stop Lian Feng, and said softly, "Don't move, there is something big ahead."

Fang Zheng's hearing and sense of smell played a prior preventive role, and Lian Feng vaguely recognized many hairy things on the wet gray moss, like dozens of shriveled cats with their limbs stretched out in front of their chests.And in the heights of the water-karst caves that can be seen, there are such mummified animals hanging in many places.They are twisted into twisted poses.

That's - Lian Feng realized, spider web.

At the same time, something in the darkness rushed towards Fang Zheng's face door, and was blocked by Fang Zheng's sword, but there was no impact sound, it was soft, sticky, and stuck to the sword, like something that couldn't be shaken off with a big mouthful. Thick phlegm.

Fang Zheng dragged his sword and retreated quickly, the mass of "thick phlegm" was pulled quickly, the stickiness was very strong, stretched several feet long, Fang Zheng wrestled as if fishing, and "fished" out of the shadows. Huge snow-white spider.

The spider's eyes have degenerated a lot, but its legs and other sensory organs are more developed. The spider silk spit out from its mouthparts is generally used as an attack method. When hunting large prey, the advantage is that they live in groups.

From the shadows, the second and third... more than a dozen snow-white spiders quickly crawled out. Each of them was the size of a human head, with eight legs stretched out as big as a wheel.They sprayed out sticky silk and spit towards Fang Zheng.Fang Zheng stepped back quickly to avoid being sprayed by the mucus, but his sword was stuck with the sticky silk sprayed out by a spider, and he couldn't shake it off.

Fang Zheng asked for two crossbows from the Jiuli tribe, shot at the spider group once, hit one of them, and they scattered for a moment and then gathered again.Lian Feng also had a crossbow in his hand. Fang Zheng saw a flash of fire, and the crossbow. The arrow was ignited and shot at the spiders.

In the brilliant flames, the extremely flammable spider silk crackled and burned, causing the snow-white spiders to writhe violently in the flames, and soon became scorched black.

"Flint can be used?" But Fang Zheng didn't understand, how did the crossbow and arrow fly over with fire?

Lian Feng returned the flint to Fang Zheng: "It's dried. I just wiped the crossbow before shooting the arrow, and there were sparks on the arrow. I was also shocked."

Fang Zheng thought uncontrollably of meeting Zifeng's companion Chi Zhao back then, the little warrior who had a bear as his companion, lit a ball of arrows and shot them into the torch stand in the air.

It is not easy to start a fire with flint. Fang Zheng has been here for three years. When using flint to start a fire, tinder, stones, and wooden utensils are indispensable. Usually, it takes more than ten times to rub it to sparks.According to Lian Feng, just now when he struck the crossbow arrow with a flint, there was a spark, and not only did not extinguish it when he flew over at high speed, but fueled the fire to make it burn. This kind of skill is unusual.

Moreover, Lian Feng actually has the strength to shoot crossbows and arrows now?

Even Feng's secret, now is not the time to inquire about it, Fang Zheng kept this matter in his heart, and quietly searched for the burnt black spider residue.

With fire, many things are easy to handle.

"Dry your body first, I'll get you something to eat." Fang Zheng said to Lian Feng.

Fang Zheng first found a fresh-looking animal corpse from among the animal corpses hanging by the cave wall, and threw it whole into the fire, letting the fire burn the spider silk and fur outside together.Beep beep beep peeling sound, showing the appearance of a scorched ground badger.Fang Zheng washed the copper sword with stream water, and then put it on the fire and roasted it repeatedly until the spider silk mucus on it was completely turned into ashes.Then Fang Zheng cut open the badger's stomach with a copper sword and took out the internal organs. The remaining meat continued to be roasted until it was burnt, and then he gave half of it to Lian Feng, who asked him to tear the inner part of the meat to eat.

"The blood was sucked dry by the spider." Fang Zheng said to Lian Feng after inspecting several kinds of corpses, "It's like dried bacon..."

"What is bacon?" Lian Feng asked.

In the past few years, Fang Zheng has promoted the use of salt to cured meat and fire to smoke meat in the valley, and the practice of bacon has been well promoted.But Lian Feng didn't eat it.

"I'll cook it for you when I get back." Fang Zheng said.

Lian Feng had a stalk in his heart, and on the one hand he couldn't help thinking excitedly: I can eat the food he cooked again.On the one hand, the troubles and pressures are doubled: you have to pay it back again.

But if it's that kind...it seems to be good.

But his heart was always stalking, and Zifeng simply didn't know what to do.

Lian Feng kept staring at Fang Zheng's lips. His stomach was rumbling and his hunger became more obvious. He quickly took a big bite of the badger meat.

"These animals have also been polluted by the things in the grave?" Lian Feng sighed, but he couldn't do without eating.

"It's an expedient measure." Fang Zheng said, "Eating a meal or two will do nothing."

Even if it is excessive heavy metal precipitation, it will take a long time to accumulate to a certain amount.Filling your stomach is the most important thing right now.

And as far as it is concerned, no large-scale tomb structures have been seen yet, and the artificial traces are very shallow, so the pollution will not be serious.

After he was full, Fang Zheng collected some remaining active spider silk, tied it to a spider's leg, made a sac, stuffed a lot of degraded and low-profile "fireflies" into it, and it became a small spider silk. Small "lights".

"Fluorescent light is a cold light source, and fire is used when there is an emergency." Fang Zheng said while holding the "spider lamp".

With light sources, they explore caves more efficiently.The meandering creek is like a thread, connecting the caves like pearls. There are jade pillars every tens of meters in the water.Fang Zheng guessed that they were still in the very outskirts of the tomb, at most equivalent to the "Shinto" area of ​​later generations.The snow-white blood-sucking spider seems to be the top of the food chain in that small ecological area.When Fang Zheng walked to the next area, the situation was different again.