I asked Shiryy Yang: "Where do you start saying that the three of us are getting smaller and smaller?"
Shiry Yang told me: "The objects that can be referenced nearby, including plants and insects, as well as a large number of ancient tree fossils, are all unusually large, so I wonder if there is something mysterious in this gourd-shaped cave.
People who come in gradually become smaller.”
This matter sounds really incredible, and it is difficult to determine for a while.
I said to Shiry Yang: "Even if the body may be reduced in size, can the clothes and shoes also be reduced in size?
I think the reason here is because of the special environment, so the entire ecosystem is larger than the outside world."
However, I am not even sure what I said.
This cave is really like the red gourd in the mountain temple.
The entrance of the cave is small and has a large belly, and it is in the shape of a trumpet arc.
It will gradually expand as you go deeper.
There are no traces of artificial processing and construction, and it is completely natural.
Maybe this is an older ruin than the tomb of King Xian.
The locals may regard this gourd-shaped cave as a sacred place and enshrine a gourd statue in the mountain temple.
As for whether there is anything special about this cave, it is difficult to say.
Our eyes are now completely dark, and the range we can see is only about twenty meters, so it is difficult to detect changes in the environment further away.
Everything nearby is much larger than normal, especially the fossilized trees, which are even more frighteningly large.
One after another sticks out of the water with claws and claws, and is entangled with the vines hanging from it, like the branches of an old dragon.
Strange claws.
I think we should find some reference objects to confirm that our bodies have not gradually become smaller after entering this gourd-shaped cave.
Otherwise, we will not be able to move forward, and we will have to go back the same way and then think about it.
The most direct way at present is to dive into the water and use aquatic plants as a reference.
Algae have their own unique properties and will not grow in different sizes due to changes in the environment.
But when I thought about the ghostly female corpse that suddenly appeared and then disappeared underwater, I felt a little frightened.
I had no choice but to hang the safety lock on the inflatable bag, say hello to Fatty and Shiry Yang, and let me know.
The two of them should not move forward for the time being, waiting for me to go into the water to find out the situation.
I put down the diving goggles on my mountaineering helmet and dived into the dark water.
The tactical spotlight on a mountaineering helmet should have a lighting range of fifteen meters even in water.
However, there are many impurities in the groundwater here, including a large number of plankton, microorganisms and algae.
The visibility range is as low as less than five meters.
The water was very deep and I couldn't touch the bottom.
I felt it was not time to use oxygen yet, so I just relied on the water, held my breath and kept diving down.
Through the diving goggles, the underwater world became even more blurry.
A large black object was vaguely floating slowly on the bottom of the water, the size of a wheel.
It was unclear whether it was an animal or aquatic plants.
At this time, the dark object at the bottom of the water was getting closer and closer to me.
I carefully identified it.
The fish did not have such a shape.
It should be some kind of aquatic plant.
Could it be that the aquatic plants were entangled together and grew into such a big ball?
If the aquatic plants were this big, we would really be in big trouble.
Thinking of this, I stretched out my hand towards the dark object, ready to grab a handful in front of my eyes to see if it was a large group of aquatic plants.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he stretched out his hand, the thing suddenly jumped forward and bounced diagonally towards the water above the head.
It stopped one or two meters away from the water and lurked there quietly.
At this time, I could see clearly that it was not a large group of water plants.
The thing was round when it was huddled together, and when paddling, it stretched out its two arched hind legs and forelimbs.
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It was entangled with many water plants.
It turned out to be a huge red-backed toad.
And there seems to be more than just this one around, there are many others gathered about one meter away from the water.
In the dark water bottom, it is difficult to tell how many large toads there are, and whether there are bigger things.
How could there be such a big toad?
I was so surprised that I almost took a sip of the groundwater.
I felt that I couldn't hold my breath anymore, so I hurriedly floated up.
As soon as my head came out of the water, I quickly took a deep breath and said to Fatty and Shiry Yang: "There is something under the water.
Let's get out of here quickly and climb to the fallen fossil tree first."
There are some fallen fossil trees in this fossil forest, stretching across the surrounding fossils, forming natural stone bridges.
The three people hurriedly put the weapons they had just taken out back into the waterproof bag and quickly swam towards the fallen fossil tree.
When we swam closer, Shirey Yang reached out and grabbed the branch of the fossil tree.
Fatty and I held her feet and first helped Shirey Yang climb up the fallen fossil tree.
Then I climbed up too and hung down the climbing rope.
To the fat man.
The fat man who stayed in the water quickly exhausted the air in the inflatable air bag, and hung the backpack on himself with a climbing rope.
I pulled the fat man up to the trunk of the tree, and finally hoisted the equipment backpack up.
We stepped on stones and felt a little more at ease in our hearts, but the three of us still didn't dare to slack off and took the weapons out of the waterproof bags as quickly as possible.
The fat man asked me: "Li Xiangyang scared you like this.
What is there under the water?"
Shiry Yang also asked me: "Did you see the female body sinking at the bottom of the water?"
I pointed to the water and said: "There is no Li Xiangyang, and there is no female corpse.
There is a big toad under the water.
The big one is as big as a wheel, and the small one is as big as a bucket.
Damn, these guys have bumps on their backs."
There are many poisonous glands in this place, and you must not come into contact with them, otherwise you will be in danger of being infected with leprosy. " Shiry Yang raised the wolf-eye flashlight and swept the beam of light towards the water surface where we just stayed.
It was already quiet there.
There were only a few water lines left by our fast swimming just now.
There was no sign under the dark water surface.
Shiry Yang looked at it twice, then turned to me and said: "When doing experiments in the past, toads were often used.
I remember that this kind of animal should hide in the damp soil, under rocks or among the grass during the day.
They only come out at dusk and night, how come they appear in such deep water?
Did you read that correctly?”
I shook my head and said: "This is the first time I have seen such a big toad today.
But I am absolutely not wrong.
I think your bookishness may not be appropriate here.
I was with that big toad at the bottom of the water."
They are only three meters apart and can be seen very clearly.
They are all floating not far from the water.
I don’t know what to do in this fossil forest submerged by groundwater. " The fat man suddenly made a silence gesture and asked us to look at the area not far ahead where midges gathered.
Countless large dragonfly-like midges were making a harsh "buzzing" noise.
It was not far from where we settled, and we could see it very clearly with a wolf-eye flashlight.
Those midges that gather like a wall of insects have no eyes, so they are not sensitive to light.
They still circle around the densest parts of plant roots like headless flies.
Shiry Yang whispered to us: "The plants on the ground are too dense, resulting in a lack of nutrients and water, so in order to grab water, the plants that extend down are growing downward desperately so that they can directly absorb the groundwater here.
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Those flying insects, they It’s like laying eggs.”
I just dived into the water and found a lot of big fish.
These fish are different from the blind fish that live underground all their lives.
They all have eyes.
This shows that although this groundwater flows through the cave, it is open water and connected to the outside world. .
Suddenly there was a commotion on the water, and large tongues several feet long protruded from the water, attacking the large midges on the water at lightning speed.
The long tongue rolled up and wrapped up hundreds of midges.
Countless large mouths emerged from the water and swallowed the midges wrapped in the long blood-red tongue into their mouths.
It turned out that when the time was right, the large toads lurking under the water jumped out of the water to prey on the large swarms of midges that were gathering together.
At this moment, the water surface turned into a mess.
Just as the toad's mouth opened and closed, countless midges lost their lives.
Those strange toads were so big that it was hard to count how many there were.
Their eyes were like two red lights.
They were so densely packed.
The three of us were lying on the fallen fossil tree.
When we saw the lumpy gonorrhea on the backs of the big toads, we felt extremely sick.
We had to lower our body lying on the tree as low as possible, hoping that the toads would be full as soon as possible.
Let's disperse so that we can get into the water again, quickly leave this weird cave, and reach our final destination before dawn.
I found that there are many tiny sand holes on the fossil tree.
This fossil tree has been soaked in water for thousands of years, and countless sand holes have been washed out by the water flow.
I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand the weight of the three of us and will soon break from it.
So I turned off the wolf-eye flashlight in my hand, turned on the more energy-saving spotlight on the mountaineering helmet, then called to Shiry Yang and Fatty, made a gesture, and led them to a relatively flat stone platform on the left. .
The stone platform on the left is very solid and stable, and the area is not small.
It is more than enough to accommodate three people.
In this fossil forest with crisscrossed branches, this square stone platform looks a little different.
The square shape was quite neat, and it was obviously man-made, but the surface was covered with vines and there was a lot of wet moss.
I said to Shiry Yang and Fatty: "I wonder if this place is a relic left when the tomb of King Xian was built.
If so, what is the purpose of this place?
Is it related to the female corpse we saw appearing under the water?"
The fat man said: "No matter how clumsy you are, you can tell that this is a man-made stone platform.
Didn't we see a burial trench filled with ivory before?
It's almost certain that this is also a place where valuable artifacts are placed."
Then he pulled out his engineering shovel and began to shovel away the wet moss on the stone platform to see if there was any hidden cabinet with exposed weapons underneath.
Shiry Yang and I saw that the fat man had taken action regardless, so we had no choice but to help him with lighting.
Not far away, those big toads were still devouring midges and mosquitoes, stirring the water loudly, and it seemed that they wouldn't be able to finish their work for a while.
The fat man moved like the wind, and in the blink of an eye, he had cleared half of the stone platform.
There was no stone box with any mechanism underneath, but reliefs one after another.
The composition was complex, but you would know at a glance that what these reliefs recorded was Some kind of secret sacrificial ritual in ancient times.
This is a very bizarre and mysterious ancient ritual that we have never seen before.
The ritual is performed in this gourd, and this stone platform is a special altar
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