Chapter 16 Chapter Fifteen

Suddenly, there was a strange sound in front of them, and everyone hurriedly leaned over. The sound was particularly creepy in the quiet cave. "Snakes!!" Yasha was the first to hear it. If she was not in a special environment, she would have screamed out, "There are more than one! At least... there are a dozen! It looks like... a black mamba!" Although Hailu's big house is made of the same material as ordinary tribal houses, both of which are mud houses, the inside is completely different: almost the entire wall is covered with colorful animal skins, although it looks a bit dazzling to outsiders. , but in primitive tribes, this can be regarded as the most luxurious "decoration"!

Half of the big house is Hailu's bedroom, and all kinds of exquisite original handicrafts can be seen everywhere in it. On the north wall, there is a rattan chair that can be described as "giant".On the only wall above the rattan chair that is not covered with animal skins, there is a giant spirit snake totem painted on it. Standing below and looking up, the ferocious giant snake pattern will shock everyone and involuntarily generate a sense of awe. But at this moment, Ouyang Kai, Luo Hong and Fu Xiaofeng would never feel any sense of awe in their hearts. They wanted to know one thing more urgently: where did Hailu go?Ran?But when he clearly saw him running into this house just now, Yasha was 100% sure that he saw the right person. Although Hailu was a little fatter than a few months ago, it hadn't changed much.

Everyone searched every corner of the big house, but there was no trace of Hailu.Ouyang Kai thought that there might be secret tunnels in this house, but everyone searched urgently, but still found nothing. "Yasha, what are you looking at?" Luo Hong suddenly found that Yasha was standing silently in front of the spirit snake totem, staring at the totem for a long time, so she asked in surprise. "I was thinking, how did this damned Hailu do those shameless things in front of the snake god!" Yasha said through gritted teeth. "Yasha! What's the use of thinking about this?" Fu Xiaofeng walked over anxiously and said, "It's not too late to ask Hailu about these things! If we can't find Hailu, our mission will be a failure!"

"Shotgun, let's get out of here quickly!" Luo Hong walked up to Ouyang Kai and said hastily, "Those tribes are about to be killed, we have to retreat quickly, and when the big army arrives, we can directly attack the Holy Land! I'm afraid Sharina will run away after a long time!" "Let's go!" Ouyang Kai was extremely frustrated and could only make this decision. "Shotgun, don't be discouraged, every mission can't go smoothly." Luo Hong saw Ouyang Kai's frustration, looked at him sincerely, and tried her best to comfort him.

Ouyang Kai didn't speak, but looked at Luo Hong gratefully. Outside, the members of the Hailu tribe had rushed into the residential area, clamoring to surround the big house where Hailu lived. The highly poisonous arrows were already on the strings, just waiting to be shot. "Yasha! Let's go!" Luo Hong had already walked to the door, and suddenly found Yasha kneeling on the ground, still praying and saluting the totem of the spirit snake. Suddenly, her praying voice stopped suddenly, and her eyes froze for a moment. Staring fixedly ahead. "Hurry up, Yasha, what's the matter with you?" Luo Hong was really anxious.

"Look! Look!" Yasha shouted, pointing to his front, where there was a huge bear skin, just under the big wicker chair. "What's going on?" Ouyang Kai turned back urgently, looking in the direction of Yasha's finger.One corner of the big bear's skin is slightly tilted up. Although there is only a small angle, a narrow gap can be vaguely seen underneath! Ouyang Kai's heart moved, he stepped forward and kicked the big rattan chair aside, and then stomped his foot to the bottom of the rattan chair, there was a "dong" sound! Everyone just searched anxiously, only noticed the walls and the floor, and really ignored the bottom of the big wicker chair.Ouyang Kai held back his excitement, and pulled the bear skin aside. The underside of the bear skin was facing the original base of the rattan chair, revealing a 50 cm square wooden board!

"Knife!" Ouyang Kai excitedly took the steel knife from Luo Hong's hand, inserted it along a gap in the wooden board, pried it suddenly, and with a "creak", the wooden board was quickly lifted up, revealing a The dark hole.Ouyang Kai took out a bright flashlight to shine down, the hole was two meters deep, there were two steps in the middle, and then extended to the east. "I'll come first!" The hound didn't wait for Ouyang Kai to make a move, jumped down first, then lay down, turned on the white light sight of the carbine, and couldn't help but exclaimed, "My God!"

"Hound dog, be careful!" Ouyang Kai urgently reminded Fu Xiaofeng, and immediately jumped down. "Shotgun! What's going on?" Luo Hong outside the cave shouted anxiously. "I found a mouse hole, I guess it leads to the holy place!" Inside the hole, Ouyang Kai's tone was both excited and excited. As soon as Xinta saw the "mercenaries" coming from outside, he shot, the questions raised by the hunters when they encountered the gunmen just now, and Hailu's sudden disappearance without a trace... All these circumstances convinced Ouyang Kai My guess is right.

"Come down, everyone, let's take a gamble!" Ouyang Kai said with determination, and then ordered, "Hound, report this news to the troops of country D!" "Yes!" The hound replied, and turned on the switch of the intercom. There are hundreds of tribe hunters surrounded outside, the risk is no less than this unknown cave entrance.Yasha followed and jumped down. Luo Hong was the last one to go, holding the square wooden cover with one hand, and yanked the bear skin with the other hand. The moment the bear skin covered it again, she jumped down. The first cover was put back in place, just covered again by the bear skin.

Outside, hundreds of Eku hunters surrounded the big house from a distance, and countless poisonous arrows aimed at the gate of the house.Someone suggested rushing in, but no one had the guts to do so; someone suggested setting it on fire, but they were afraid of burning their chief.Everyone shouted for a long time, but there was no response, and finally decided to set fire, but still no one wanted to be the first to throw the torch, so they continued to argue... In the cave, the four people turned off all the light sources, carefully alternately covered and groped forward.The cave is not spacious, and the widest part is only three or four meters, and the height cannot be seen in the dark.Some parts of the wet and slippery cave walls are rough, which should be formed naturally; some parts are so smooth that you can even touch the stripes chiseled out by chisels.The whole cave was filled with an unpleasant damp smell, and the stale air was disgusting.

The four of them walked along the dark burrow for twenty minutes without finding any danger, and the front seemed endless. "Shotgun, will there be any problem?" Luo Hong groped and approached Ouyang Kai, and asked in a low voice. Ouyang Kai replied softly: "If it really leads to the Holy Land, at our current speed and distance, even if it is a straight line, we will need to walk another half an hour to reach it, but now it seems that it is not straight ...Everyone, be careful, spread out as much as possible, so as not to be ambushed!" "Hiss—" "Hiss—"... Suddenly, there was a strange sound in front of them, and everyone hurriedly leaned over. The sound was particularly creepy in the quiet cave. "Snakes!!" Yasha was the first to hear it. If she was not in a special environment, she would have screamed out, "There are more than one! At least... there are a dozen! It looks like... a black mamba!" Everyone felt their scalps go numb, and the black mamba implanted with a special virus appeared in their minds.Encountering such a black mamba at this time, let alone a dozen or so, even if there is only one, is tantamount to a disaster! The sound is getting closer and louder, and everyone can be sure that those poisonous snakes are swimming towards this side quickly! "Everyone back! Back quickly!" Ouyang Kai ordered in a low voice. "But we...we can't outrun the snake!" Yasha cried out in despair. "Quickly go back! There is a big bend where you walked just now, go back there!" Although Ouyang Kai was calm, his voice was full of anxiety. Regardless of the darkness in front of them, the four of them almost scrambled and ran back.Fortunately, the big bend was not far from where everyone was just now. After retreating wildly for a few minutes, everyone finally returned to the other end of the big bend. "Yasha, take this and get back! Quick!" Ouyang Kai handed Yasha his bright flashlight, and urgently ordered Luo Hong and Fu Xiaofeng: "Use a pistol and add a silencer! Lie down and get ready!" shooting!" The two immediately understood, pulled out their pistols urgently, screwed on the silencer barrel, and lay down on the ground.Ouyang Kai himself pulled out the Glock 19 pistol and screwed the silencer on the modified threaded barrel. At the other end of the curve in the cave, the terrifying "hissing" sound from the group of snakes is close at hand! "Yasha, we will hit wherever your strong flashlight shines, and don't leave any blind spots!" Ouyang Kai ordered calmly. "Understood!" Yasha held the flashlight in both hands, and put his finger on the switch button of the flashlight. "Bright!" Ouyang Kai let out a low cry, and Yasha immediately turned on the flashlight.Under the glare of the pale light beam, the leading two black mamba snakes raised their coffin-shaped rectangular snake heads and appeared at the end of the curve, with dark green fangs faintly visible in the slightly opened black snake mouth. ! Ouyang Kai and Luo Hong pulled the trigger without hesitation. With two slight gunshots, the heads of the two black mamba snakes were smashed to pieces by the precise bullets, and the headless snake bodies twisted back and forth on the ground roll. However, the approaching two poisonous snakes had just been dealt with, and a dozen of them rushed out from one end of the bend! Ouyang Kai, Luo Hong, and Fu Xiaofeng were lying at a distance of more than 20 meters from the corner. The pistol was pulled in the direction of the beam of light in Yasha's hand, and the bullets accurately hit the snake's head and neck. .The fast-moving poisonous snakes were obviously stunned by the sudden attack, but they quickly became crazy again, and the last few survived madly rushed towards the crowd. More than 20 meters, for the crazy black mamba, it only takes a moment to reach. When the last poisonous snake was killed by Ouyang Kai, it was only less than one meter away from him.The highly poisonous snake blood almost splashed on Ouyang Kai's body, he retreated urgently and narrowly escaped. A short but intense battle was finally over, but everyone's heartbeat couldn't calm down for a long time, and the whole cave was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and snake blood. "Go ahead, everyone must be careful!" Ouyang Kai took the strong flashlight from Yasha, looked around carefully, and heaved a long sigh of relief after confirming that there were no living poisonous snakes. The narrow and long valley is more like a huge cave because the ray of sky above the head cannot be seen in the dark night.In the entire hot forest, this place is gloomy all day long. The slightly hot wind from the mouth of the valley blows in, as if the air has been filtered by a compressor, becoming extremely cold and penetrating into the bone marrow. The holy land of the Eku people is located at the foot of the big valley. The temple built by the primitive people with all their efforts thousands of years ago was once magnificent, no less than the well-known miracles outside, but now it has become ruins, leaving only A scattered huge cyan rock. In the darkness, two muscular black figures were in front, and another slightly bloated figure stumbled behind. The three walked around several large rocks several meters high, and walked towards the deepest part of the ruins.A huge hole appeared behind the last big rock, and there was a faint roar in the hole.The sound made the whole valley resonate with a "buzzing" sound, and then suddenly there was no sound. After everything calmed down, only the heavy breathing of three people walking quickly was heard.Suddenly, a light came from the dark cave. "Chief Hailu, you're lucky!" The person walking in the front smiled and said to the slightly bloated man, Chief Hailu, "As soon as you came, the generator stopped, otherwise you would My ears are numb and my head is dizzy from the shock of that thing!" "Chief Hailu is our god of luck, and he always brings us good luck—the venison you sent someone to deliver last time tasted really good!" The other said jokingly. The two heavily armed mercenaries joked a little unscrupulously, as if in their eyes, the great chief was the best joke target.And Hailu, who was out of breath, really had nothing to do with them, he just shook his head dumbfoundedly, pointed to the cave and asked in a low voice: "Is the goddess... in there? Take me to see her, this time it's really a big deal." Already!" "Why are you panicking?" The first one looked at Hailu with a somewhat disdainful face, "Isn't it just a few hunters rebelling? What? Haven't Starr and the others solved it yet? These guys really have nothing to do with it." use!" "Hurry up and take me to see the goddess. Things are not that simple. When I came here just now, I saw the envoys sent by the goddess... they are... all dead!" Hailu didn't care to joke with them. , said anxiously. "What?" The two mercenaries were taken aback, their faces no longer smiling, "You mean, all six of Starr and the others are dead? Are those hunters doing it? How is it possible?" "No! There are other people on the other side! I saw a strange oriental man, and he killed all six messengers! He looks like a devil!" Hailu said with lingering fear. "Then what are we waiting for?" The expressions of the two mercenaries suddenly became serious. This time without Hailu's urging, they led him into the cave at a trot.Just a few steps into the cave, there was a rush of footsteps in the cave, and a dozen mercenaries with guns and live ammunition ran out nervously, just in time to meet the three people who went in. "John, what happened?" A mercenary walking with Hailu anxiously asked his companion who was running towards him. "We lost contact with Starr and the others." John, who led the team, said anxiously, "The Goddess told us to check the situation quickly... Great Chief Hailu, why are you here?" "I escaped from the secret passage." Hailu said with a sad face, "The six envoys sent by the goddess are all dead! They were killed by the Orientals from outside! My tribe is also in chaos!" "It seems that we have to go back quickly." John shrugged, his expression extremely dignified. As soon as the voice fell, the two groups of people hurried towards the cave at the same time. Hailu followed the crowd as they rushed towards the cave, and suddenly stopped as if shocked by an electric shock, looking straight at the surroundings of the cave. On the walls of the cave on all sides, small grids chiseled out by hand are neatly arranged.At this moment, Hailu's eyes were scanning those small grids, his eyes were a little dazed and complicated. It turned out that the small grids cut out on the cave wall were filled with directional mines from various angles. There was no doubt that these things were definitely not what Hailu should see. "Chief Hailu, what are you still dawdling about? Go inside and report the situation outside to the goddess!" John shouted back in confusion. "This...here...here..." Hailu pointed at the small grids incoherently, and finally shouted with great effort, "Here, where are the ashes of the ancestors of the Eku tribe? Why are they all gone?" "You're talking about those ashes." John explained with a sneer, "A few days ago, the goddess ordered us to clean up the residence and strengthen the defense here. We think those things have been here for many years, and they are really too dirty, so... ...throw it all away!" "Ah?" Hailu felt a sudden blackness in front of his eyes, staggered and almost fainted, he hurriedly supported a stone pillar in the cave, "But...but those are all holy objects of the Eku tribe... You... how can you do this? Didn't the goddess stop you?" "Hailu! You should first distinguish which is more important!" John pointed the m16 automatic rifle in his hand at Hailu's chest viciously, "Do you really fucking think those ashes are more important than our safety?" "This..." Hailu couldn't say anything. Of course, it doesn't make sense to say anything now.Several mercenaries came forward and almost carried him to the deepest part of the cave. This cave was originally a natural cave, just behind the Eku temple.For thousands of years, after the death of the chief of the Eku tribe, the ashes will be placed in the small squares cut out on both sides of the cave wall to accept the worship and offerings of the tribe. A few years ago, when those people arrived here, they built some log houses among the big rocks in the Holy Land, and assured Hailu that they just needed a secluded environment to "do things" and would never affect Eku The tranquility of the ancestors of the family.Hailu didn't raise any objections. At that time, his brain was filled with the ambition of the "Great Chief" and various promises made by Sharina and others. Later, they discussed with Hailu to continue excavating a section of the large karst cave as their laboratory.Hailu didn't want to agree, but he couldn't help it at that time, because Sarina had fulfilled the most important promise: let him successfully "conquer" the scattered Eku tribe in the forest.Another point is that Hailu really saw the "curse of the goddess", and he really didn't want this curse to befall him!He had no choice but to send his own tribe's tribe to work in the cave for a full year, completely opening up the original cave and the following forks. The current situation is that he has completely lost all dignity, and was dragged by a group of mercenaries to meet Sharina. He began to realize that he was just a tool used by others from the beginning. Therefore, when he was carried by mercenaries to pass through several gate posts in a row, and finally entered the big iron gate, and looked at the ugly-faced Sarina, he was a little bit hopeless. "What's going on?" Serena stood in front of him, her eyes and tone were unprecedentedly sullen and domineering. Hailu had no choice but to truthfully tell Sharina what happened in his tribe.Sharina's gloomy eyes flickered all the time, and her face became more and more ugly: "You mean, you found the Orientals? How many of them are there?" "I only saw one!" Hailu said tremblingly, "That one, he was as fast as a black mamba snake, he easily killed the six envoys you sent, as for the others, they Hiding behind the house, I didn't have time to see clearly..." "It must be him..." Serena's face twisted and twitched a few times, and then she turned around with a disturbed expression.All the people present looked at the "Goddess"'s actions in amazement, not knowing who the "he" she was talking about was.Sharina pondered for a moment, then suddenly turned around and asked Hailu, "Did you put the snake in after you came out of the secret passage?" "Let it go!" Hailu nodded, "I'm also worried that they will find out my whereabouts, and put those poisonous snakes in as soon as I reach the exit..." "Damn it! You shouldn't have come at all!" Serena suddenly became furious, and pulled out a p228 pistol from a mercenary's waist and pointed it at Hailu's forehead.Hailu trembled in fright, knelt down on the ground, and shouted in despair: "Goddess! You...how can you say that? Over the past few years, I have done so many things for you. There are so many ethnic groups for you to experiment with, and those Chinese people... they must have found it now!" "What? Are you trying to settle the score with me?" Sharina suddenly put away the gun, with an inexplicable smile on her face.That smile aroused Hailu's sense of fear more than the vicious look just now, because he had seen this kind of smile many times. "Take him to the back!" Serena continued to order the mercenaries with a smile. "Goddess, do you want him..." John asked tentatively. "This is the doctor's order!" Hearing this, the great chief Hailu immediately let out a heart-piercing pleading, but it was too late, several mercenaries rushed up, abruptly picked him up, and walked towards an iron gate on the side . "John, take your people and seal the secret passage, and then go back to their respective posts." Salina turned her gaze to the mercenary leader John, "I hope they don't find the secret passage, or... It would be better if you bite him to death!" "Yes!" John responded happily, and then waved to the others, and a dozen mercenaries filed towards the cave entrance. An iron door behind her suddenly opened slowly, Sharina's expression changed, and she hurried forward, saluting respectfully to the person who came out.