Dragon?

"Joe... Joe..."

Looking at his empty hands with out-of-focus eyes, Yu Shou muttered something, as if haunted by hallucinations.

"Team leader! Team leader!"

"Did you just see that something got into his arms?"

"Yes, yes, I saw it!"

"Hey, don't talk nonsense!"

The scene was chaotic.

The echo from the gunshots caused a sharp tinnitus. Everyone was saying something, and the messy information piled up. Yu Shou shook his head, feeling that the dizziness in his head had not disappeared.

——Clearly walking in the opposite direction, but now the team appeared above them. They didn't know what happened, and they wanted to send a signal flare notification.

——What was it that threw itself into my arms just now?How did the clips you saw come from?

He rubbed his temples and thought for a while.

——"Haha, badass Joe, you can't move around in the shower, hahaha, you like me to scrub you, don't you?"

——"Stop jumping! I'll just hug you."

The scene of the ancient boy getting along with the egg jumped out unexpectedly.

what.

I have a terrible headache.

The red light of the signal flare could only maintain its brightness for a while, and now it dimmed again.

The voice above also disappeared.

He Rui, the guide in the team, used the most primitive method of contact—yelled a few times over there, but got no response.

What filled that corner was a dead blackness.

Xiao Song looked worriedly at the team leader who suddenly became abnormal. ——He was staring at an open space, with a strange expression... His brows were tightly frowned, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised; it seemed to be joyful, but also sad.

The man raised his eyes and met his gaze.

That face is even more inexplicably attractive in the dark place, and it is shockingly beautiful.

Xiao Song was startled, and called him hesitantly: "Group, group leader?"

"Yeah." His eyes flashed and he smiled at him.

Seeing that the team leader returned to his usual appearance, Xiao Song heaved a sigh of relief.

Yu Shou woke up, and the eyes of the team members gathered.

Before they could ask about the situation, he spoke first.

"Did you see, a thing... escaped?"

Yu Shou closed his eyes and sorted out the information in his mind a little bit.

"The diameter is 32 centimeters, and the height is about 41 centimeters; it just fell from the top of the cave and entered my arms..."

He actually didn't see it very clearly, but according to the picture in the phantom...

"Probably, an egg." Yu Shou said.

"I saw it."

He Rui, who happened to be next to him when the incident happened, stood up: "It didn't escape, it disappeared in your arms."

This is quite mysterious.

—Some kind of substance that can be invisible?

Yu Shou was silent for a while, and said: "I deduce that it has hallucinogenic ingredients. After touching it, I saw some strange pictures."

In order not to cause panic in the team, he did not continue to speak, but only stretched out his hand.

"Excuse me, help me extract the residual substance on my hand for inspection."

One prepared the sealed bag, and the other handed out the cotton swab smoothly... With the team leader present, the team's collaboration became more organized.

While doing collection work here, Yu Shou didn't stop to observe the road above his head. —When the flares came on, he could see clearly that there was a way.

How did they get to that position?Could it be that after the two teams parted ways, there was another fork in the left road?What kind of road is it?The signal flares, the shooting, and the current loss of contact all show that the other team must be in a very dangerous situation...

"Cao Dong," Yu Shou pointed to the name of a team member: "Bring on the tranquilizer gun, I'll go left with you."

The team member called Cao Dong nodded, and immediately began to carry out his instructions.

"The rest of the staff are repairing on the spot. If we don't come back within an hour and a half, and we don't send the blue signal flare representing safety, you can continue to the right as originally planned."

Yu Shou's voice was not loud, but powerful.

They understood what he meant, and they looked at the team leader with painful eyes at this moment.

In the team that stayed in place, He Rui, who knew the situation in the mountains best, was accused of being the leader.

……

Along the way, Yu Shou, who had a much clearer mind, kept thinking about the boy and the egg he saw in his vision.

They appeared so inexplicably that he cared a lot.

"Qiao Zhi", this name has a special sense of intimacy, as if I have heard it many times before.

——But specifically, he couldn't tell where it was.

Yu Shou and Cao Dong buried their heads and walked for nearly an hour, and they had already passed the sacrificial pit they found when they first came in.

What's unusual is that they didn't run into Senior Jiang and Qin Wanjin's group; wherever they went, they didn't see traces left by them.When they parted at the earliest, the two teams agreed that they would return to the sacrificial pit for a rendezvous two hours later. According to the reasonable time, they should have met them when they turned around.

Light can't bend, and in the dark and deep cave, the two lights in the hands of the two were only weak enough to illuminate the road under their feet.

It was too dark and too quiet, as if there were only the two of them left here.

The monotonous footsteps are the only sound here...

Yu Shou grabbed Cao Dong's arm.

"What's the matter, team leader?" Cao Dong looked at the people around him suspiciously, feeling that the expression on his face was a little weird.

Yu Shou turned his head and pointed the light source behind them, as if he wanted to find out something.However, after looking at it for a while, he still signaled Cao Dong to move on.

"Cao Dong."

After walking a few steps, he stopped him again.

"Footsteps, there is one more."

This time Cao Dong didn't look at his expression.

Cao Dong froze in place because of his words.Those words went through in his mind again, and Yu Shou's overly calm tone made him gradually chill. ——The team leader, who has always been rigorous, used an affirmative sentence.

Cao Dong swallowed his saliva.

He didn't know what he was thinking, so he hurriedly stepped forward, and Yu Shou naturally followed him.

Then Cao Dong heard it with his own ears, the sound that was synchronized with Yu Shou, and what he said, "extra steps"...

What would a normal person do in this situation?

Of course... run! ! !

"Cao Dong! Cao Dong!"

The explosive power of the middle-aged man should not be underestimated, and he ran a hundred meters away in a flash.

Cao Dong heard Yu Shou's call.He heard it, but thought to himself—team leader, why don't you run quickly! !

Seeing that the man could not be chased back, Yu Shou sighed.

"When he ran, his footsteps were just one person's. You haven't left yet."

After entering this hole, Yu Shou felt that he had also become distracted... For example, now, he was talking to an invisible unknown creature.

"I'll look for it, where are you?"

He raised the corner of his mouth and moved his eyes to the ground under his feet.

"Not the ground."

Yes……

The slender fingers with white gloves gently caressed the mountain wall.

The lifeless dead thing was cold, and a figure appeared on the wall as if it had been soaked in water.

The raised neck, the shoulder blades full of power, the lower abdomen with nothing covered.

The chains all over the limbs firmly imprisoned it here.

The moist touch that oozes out the figure is not water...

Yu Shou twitched the white gloves whose fingertips were dyed bright red, and sniffed them under his nose.

--is blood.

"Are you... Qiao Zhi?" Yu Shou asked the figure.

This name is really special. When he said it, he had an indescribable feeling. ——It seems that there is some connection with myself.

Not only that, but when the boy was with Big Dan, that chubby smiling face, that strange egg wrapped in rags, that warm and almost false image always lingered in his head.

"Maybe you are, Joey?" he said.

The shadow will not answer.

"..."

It's a shame, but luckily there's no one else here.

Yu Shou laughed at his own stupidity, opened his backpack, and prepared to collect blood samples from the mountain wall.

When he turned around, he caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye, a small pink tail flashed quickly in the darkness of the way he came.

--dragon?

Yu Shou didn't forget what they were doing here.

——No, it’s almost like a lizard, with such a short and thin tail.

what is it then……

After weighing his priorities, Yu Shou took his tools and chased in the direction where the tail disappeared.

……

Cao Dong was grabbed from behind.

He was so scared that he wet his pants.His chest was heaving violently due to the desperate running, and he desperately needed to take a big breath to get some fresh air, but he just... didn't dare to make too much noise.

With the footsteps that appeared out of thin air, and the hands that appeared out of thin air behind him, he knew he couldn't escape this time.

"Cao Dong!" A soft voice whispered in his ear.

——The ghost who captured him still knows his name? !

wrong……

The man pulled him into the mountain wall with all his strength, and Cao Dong discovered that there was a hidden secret door where he ran before.

"Qin Wanjin!"

Wiping the sweat off his forehead, Cao Dong looked at the person in front of him and said without exaggeration: "I almost peed on you!!"

Qin Wanjin showed a speechless expression.

Looking around, Cao Dong realized that behind the secret door was a large room cut directly into the mountain wall, where most of the colleagues from the left team were.

The floor was strewn with large, quaint chests, some of which had been opened.

What room is this?Why do you do this in Suolong's cave?How did the colleague discover the secret door?what's in the box ——It seems that the situation they encountered here is also quite complicated.

but……

"Qin Wanjin, let's go out and have a look together, the team leader should have come running behind me!"

"Ah, ah..." Cao Dong, a burly man, almost couldn't help crying when he thought of his useless abandonment of the team leader just now: "I, we are here to look for you, but just now... ..."

"What are you talking about?" Qin Wanjin interrupted him with a pale face.

Cao Dong's face was wrinkled, and the gazes of his colleagues made him think that he was being blamed.

"I'm sorry, I didn't do it on purpose! I don't know what to do when I suddenly have footsteps, the team leader..."

"Cao Dong, we saw Yu Shou."

The colleague pressed his shoulder and said coldly: "We hid here because of him."

"what??"

"Yes, that Yu Shou..." The team member next to him took a deep breath, as if remembering something terrible: "Long hair, ancient costume, holding a sword! It's covered in blood!!"

Cao Dong was puzzled.

"You can see him through this gap."

Qin Wanjin pointed out the direction and asked him to look there: "We have been watching him for a long time. It seems to be blocking the way, blocking us not far away."

Cao Dong was sweating profusely, wiping more and more, and his expression gradually became confused.

"So, what are you talking about? Who's running after you?"

"Fuck...how did this happen..." Cao Dong stared at the person on the other side of the gap, and Cao Dong got goosebumps on his arms.