Dragon?

"Guide, if you are familiar with the route of Suolong Cave, have you ever seen a dragon?"

"Yeah, I'm bored anyway, do you have any local anecdotes to tell us?"

After communicating along the way, everyone had a certain understanding of the only stranger in the car, and the topics gradually increased.

"Just call me He Rui," the man smiled, and moved his eyes to the rolling mountains passing by outside the window: "Dragon, I haven't seen it with my own eyes... But there are quite a few people who have seen it in this area."

"After all, it is a creature that has left so many documents and legends..."

It was getting late and the wind was getting cooler.The bus staggered forward on the rugged mountain road, and the red light of cigarettes swayed in the car with the lights off.

He Rui told a story about his childhood.

The story of Emperor Yanqin's prisoner of the dragon has been passed down for thousands of years. The locals all know that there is a cave for locking the dragon, but no one can tell exactly where the entrance is.

When children are eight or nine years old, they are the most skinny. There is a child named Wang Jian who has become the king of children because of his age.Digging out bird nests, stealing eggs, and hiding other people's clothes to dry are not uncommon things. Tian Wangjian led them to "find the Suolong Cave".

They went out very early that day and marched ignorantly and fearlessly into the depths of the mountain. The children didn't know how tired they were, they chased each other and played games, and they walked for a long time without knowing it.At lunchtime, the younger children were clamoring for food, and they realized they were lost.

In the winter season, there are shriveled trees all around, with little difference in the growth of each root.They seem to be blocking the way, making people unable to find the way back and blocking the way forward.

The child had no idea, so he clamored to find Wang Jian and said he wanted to go back.How could Wang Jian know the way? He could only grit his teeth and be a hero at this moment, asking everyone to follow him, and it was evening when he walked.

Jin Hui was cast in the forest, and the shadows of the trees were stretched long and thin. Except for Wang Jian, all the children couldn't support it.

He Rui thought that Wang Jian was also tired at this time, but he was their "boss", so he couldn't afford to rest with everyone.He carried the youngest child on his back, saying that he would find a way to send the child back first, and then come to pick them up.

The children who couldn't walk waited until the early morning when they were found by villagers holding torches.This night, almost everyone in the village was dispatched.

And Wang Jian came back three days later.

With a tired look, Wang Jian danced and said that he had found the Suolong Cave.

He let A Yuan in, and A Yuan saw the dragon.

Wang Jian held something in his hand, it was very white.

"We can clearly see that what he brought back was a human leg bone."

"A Yuan, the youngest child, did not come back with Wang Jian."

"After he 'saw the dragon', he disappeared."

The car kept driving into the mountains.

Everyone's expressions were blurred in the darkness, and the surroundings were quiet.

"Has your lord gone to look for him? If Wang Jian takes your lord to find A Yuan..."

"I found it." The cigarette ash shook from his fingertips, and He Rui said softly, "That's right, it's gone."

What a sad story.

"You are not the first to bid for the villagers to take you to the Suolong Cave. It is your skill to find me... Unknown things are dangerous, but they can't stop people's curiosity. You have to risk your life to find out."

The man took a deep breath of his cigarette and leaned back in his chair.

"Don't blame me for not telling you in advance, that Suolong Cave is an evil door."

"Then why did you agree to be our guide?" A voice came from the back row of the car.

The tone was emotionless, a little cold.

"Because you are here to find the dragon."

Looking at the dark mountains outside the car, the man's deep eyes revealed a bit of confusion.

"And I also want to know if there are dragons in the world..."

After driving for a while, the night fell, and the road ahead was so narrow that the car couldn't drive any further.

All the people in the car got off, packed up their equipment, and set up a simple tent in the wild.In the deep mountains and old forests, there is no mobile phone signal, but there are no stars in the sky.

After resting all night, it was daylight, and they set off again.

The air in the early morning is humid, and the clothes seem to be full of water, which is amazingly cold.

A group of people followed He Rui through the dense forest.There are birds hiding in the depths of the forest, and the dark chirping sounds surround the top of the head, as if there is something happy, the chirping is strangely joyful.

When the sun came out, they reached their destination.

The feeling of gradually overlapping what I saw with my own eyes and the story is amazing.

Everyone seemed to understand the story He Rui told yesterday.In the story, Wang Jian, the boy Wang who likes to lead, why didn’t he lead the battle by himself after seeing the entrance of Suolong Cave, but asked A Yuan to go in.

—The hole is too small.

It was a landslide caused by natural causes, and it was only about the size of an adult's two feet combined. Only a very small child could get in.Looking in with a flashlight from the entrance of the cave, it was pitch black...

Members of the team have taken out instruments to measure the probability of forcibly digging up and causing a second landslide.

Seeing that everyone was busy with something, He Rui, who was standing quietly by the side, said something indifferent.

"I think there are other entrances to Suolong Cave."

Yu Shou stopped comparing the data in his hands, and looked up at him: "Where is it?"

The man stared fixedly at the entrance of the cave, and the smile on the corner of his lips was somewhat confusing and ironic.

"Don't you know?"

"..." The people in the research team felt that his question was inexplicable.

"You are the guide. If you know an easier entrance, you should be the one who took us there." Qin Wanjin replied naturally.

He Rui shrugged: "I don't know."

I owe a lot of beating.

So do you think they can listen to all directions with equipment?

No one pays attention to him any more. When this small episode is that he is idle and bored, looking for a sense of presence, everyone continues their work.

He worked hard until noon, and finally cleared the hole.

Senior Jiang asked Qin Wanjin to find He Rui, and they could go into the cave after lunch.

"Hey, Hori, smoking here again!"

After the preliminary work was completed, Qin Wanjin was in a good mood: "I'll inform you about dinner."

He Rui pressed the cigarette in his hand on the stone, and his expression was a little gloomy for some reason: "Yeah."

It seems that He Rui has been behaving strangely since they arrived at the entrance of the cave.Probably because of fear?Although he is a grown man, he might feel a little uneasy going into an unknown cave, not to mention what happened to his childhood friend...

Qin Wanjin turned around to leave, but turned around after thinking about it.

"By the way, the hole was cleaned up, and we found that it was a sacrificial pit."

When he said this, his two eyebrows were slightly frowned, and his tone was too serious, like a teacher who popularized scientific knowledge.

"So, Wang Jian brought back a white bone, which is normal and not a supernatural event."

He Rui couldn't help but look at him a few more times, and finally nodded at him.

Sacrificial pit.

It seemed that the panic-stricken screams of the villagers that year sounded in my ears: That dragon, eats people!

……

The people in the team are quite professional.

Dragging the equipment into the hole, crawling on the ground in the narrow road, the arms and body will inevitably touch the bones of the bones that died here many years ago. Hu Xiao Song and the elderly Jiang Jiang did not slow down the progress.

The scariest thing is the team leader.

After passing through the narrow hole and reaching the wide area, He Rui turned back to meet him.

He heard the sound of the last person coming into the cave, and when he was about to help, he saw the one who came out of the cave first... a pair of long legs.

That person crawled upside down.

The hand wearing the white rubber glove carried a perverted but unprovoked beautiful scholarly atmosphere.He Rui watched helplessly as the man calmly and perfectly reset the last bone that they messed up.

He did it naturally, as if he quietly put away the shoes in the entrance after arriving at someone's house.

When he got up, Yu Shou twitched the corners of his mouth at him—probably a polite smile representing "thank you for coming to help".

Then, the silent two returned to the team.

No light from the outside can penetrate into the cave, and there is no difference between day or night here.The light prepared by the team is sufficient, but it is still not enough for them to see the whole picture of the hole clearly.

It was so dark that only a small area where they were standing was lit.

How big is it here?

"Be careful!!" Yu Shou grabbed the colleague who was exploring the front with a flashlight.

"Wow——" A few small stones replaced the caught person and fell straight down.

The light of the flashlight was shot down, and the colleague's legs suddenly became weak.

The place where they drilled out was not flat ground, but mid-air.The stone melts silently into the blackness of the soles of the feet, as if thrown into a truly endless hole.

Senior Jiang, the most experienced in the team, thought for a while and said.

"We are divided into two teams, one team goes to the left, and the other team goes to the right. If there is no way ahead, we will turn around and meet the opposing team. See you at the current place in two hours."

It is impossible to know the situation in the cave, so we have to find out their terrain and location through this method.

"Okay," Yu Shou nodded: "In case of an emergency, the signal flare will notify you."

Qin Wanjin and Senior Jiang lead the team to the left, while Yu Shou is with He Rui.

The fact that someone almost fell into the deep hole made everyone feel terrified, and walked cautiously close to the mountain, taking every step carefully.

The dark area is quiet, as if something fell asleep there.

Suolong Cave, if there really is the creature they are looking for here... Is it sleeping in the deepest part of the cave with its giant tail coiled up at this time; or has it opened its eyes in the dark and found them?

"Team leader," the team member swallowed, "do you think our road is going down?"

"I think." Yu Shou said.

Under their feet, a road built along the mountain has no protection on the outer edge, but the width of the road is always the same, obviously artificially and accurately designed.

Moreover, the road continues to extend downwards.

Yu Shou frowned: If the purpose is to lock up a dragon, why make the way for people to walk so cumbersome?

The red lights of the flares are illuminated from directly above them.

——The team was obviously going in another direction, but now it appeared above their heads.

"boom!!!"

Before he could react in the future, Yu Shou heard gunshots.

Something shattered.

From the top of the hole fell a blunt object.

It was supposed to fall straight down, but it reversed its momentum the moment it crossed paths with Yu Shou...

Bounced into his arms.