Chapter 30 Chapter Thirty: Air Eyes Hidden in the Water

The underground river was as clear as a piece of pure crystal, and even the impurities in the water could not be seen. The bluestone sculptures at the bottom of the water were knocked down by the snapping turtle and turned into a mess, but there were a few yellow soft lights below them.The yellow soft light appeared more and more, and soon the entire underground river bottom was shining. After the refraction of the river water, the cave became swaying and dazzling, just like being in a crystal palace. "A river is full of miasma mothers, it's good now, we can't get out." Hao Dali said dejectedly, "It's a pity that this foreign king is not too big, if the six of us get in, then don't worry Miasma mother."

"Mr. Huang, you said that it is very difficult for miasma mothers to form, but this cave is not sultry, and even a bit shady. At most, the water temperature has risen a bit. Why do miasma mothers keep appearing after we come in?" Lao Yue asked Huang Qianshan. Huang Qianshan looked down at the river, and said with a headache, "I don't know. The villagers came in the same way decades ago. They are fine, and you are fine. I really don't know what's weird in the cave." "In the mountains, we have seen human figurines hidden in the water. They can attract small snakes with green scales. Could it be that the blue stone carvings in the underground river are also like the figurines, and the miasma mother is related to them." Liang Xiaoyu woke up. The sound is much stronger.

"It doesn't matter why it has a miasma mother now, the key is to save its life." Cai Minmin corrected. "But the water is the only refuge, and now the water is full of miasma mothers, where should we hide." Gu Changtian spread his hands and said. Huang Qianshan glanced at the end of the cave, the miasma mothers gathered there had begun to show signs of shedding, and they couldn't dawdle any longer.Huang Qianshan thought about it, Gu Changtian was right, the water is the only refuge now, if you don't jump, you have to wait for death.However, miasma mothers also appeared in the water, it was useless for them to jump in, maybe they would die faster.Huang Qianshan's two eyeballs moved left and right. He wanted to find a gap at the bottom of the water. The miasma mother cannot threaten the human body in the water. As long as there is a large enough underwater space without the miasma mother rising from the bottom, they can hide there temporarily. .

The seven-color miasma mother's air rolled in, and Huang Qianshan was in a hurry. He suddenly saw the boulder ball lying on the bottom of the water, so he had a plan, so he had to continue to borrow this boulder ball.Although miasma mothers with soft yellow light emerged from the bottom of the water, they will not take shape until they emerge from the water surface. As long as they are not attached to the surface of their bodies by miasma mothers at the bottom of the water, they are considered safe.The boulder ball has a large surface area, enough for six people to lie on it, and it occupies a large area of ​​the bottom of the water, so Miasma is squeezed aside.As long as there is not too much current in the water, Miasma Mother will come out of the water in a straight line and will not touch them at all.

"But what if the water flow changes..." Gu Changtian hesitated and refused to go into the water. "Nothing is perfect now, Brother Gu, if you are worried, just stand on top." Huang Qianshan can't control that much anymore, now it's just a gamble, if you win, you will live, if you lose, you will die. "Fortune tellers always say that we have great fortune and destiny. This time it is time to test whether he is talking nonsense. Let's go into the water together to see if our horoscope is strong." Hao Dali was not very worried. "Changtian, don't worry about it. Before the miasma mother appears at the bottom of the water, dive to the stone ball right away. This is our only way." Lao Yue persuaded patiently.

"Miasma mother has no effect on you, of course you said that." Gu Changtian muttered softly, but everyone heard it. The miasma mother had rushed to the front, and the miasma mother's light ball at the bottom of the water also began to pass through the piles of bluestone carvings. Huang Qianshan stopped talking to the others, and got into the water first.Cai Minmin and Huang Qianshan jumped into the water almost at the same time. Fortunately, when they entered the water, they both moved lightly, the water did not splash, and the miasma mother in the river was not disturbed by the undercurrent to dance around.Lao Yue asked Hao Dali to take care of Liang Xiaoyu into the water, and then she dragged Gu Changtian into the water together, but Gu Changtian refused no matter what.The miasma mother was already close at hand, Gu Changtian had no choice but to let Lao Yue go into the water first, and he said that he would follow later.

The boulder ball was pressed against the bottom of the water and remained motionless. Its top was still about one meter above the water surface. Many plant roots hanging down from the cave went deep into the water. After entering the water, Huang Qianshan and others grabbed these roots to fix themselves so as not to slip to the bottom of the water. .Before the miasma mother came here completely, Huang Qianshan and others put their heads out of the water and kept breathing until the miasma mother swept over before submerging their heads in the water.Gu Changtian's movements were slow. After Lao Yue went into the water, Huang Qianshan saw Gu Changtian flipping through the things in his arms again, as if he wanted to make sure that the oil paper had wrapped it properly. Gu Changtian was not willing to go into the water until he was sure. .

This time the miasma mother was more violent than last time, when the bright gas rushed across the water surface, Huang Qianshan opened his eyes and saw that there were small waves on the water surface.Fortunately, the bottom of the water was not affected by the water surface and remained calm, otherwise the miasma mother would have been blown onto them.Miasma Mother left very quickly, and the strongest wave blew past at once, leaving only a faint glow that was slowly dissipating.Huang Qianshan and the others were flushed from holding back, everyone was shaking their roots like cramp, someone kicked the stone ball at this time, and under the action of the quiet water flow and buoyancy, the boulder ball turned towards the cave. Roll away at the end!

Although it was only a slight roll, there were miasma mothers slowly rising out of the water on all sides of the stone ball. At this moment, several miasma mothers just rose to the level where they were.Huang Qianshan lay on the side of the boulder ball. After the boulder ball rolled, Hao Dali and Cai Minmin were moving towards a dense miasma mother group, and they would soon be absorbed by the miasma mother group.Seeing this, Huang Qianshan didn't even think about it, he let go of the roots in his hands, and quickly swam behind Hao Dali and Cai Minmin, trying to stop the boulder ball from rolling.

Reluctantly, the inertia of the boulder ball is slightly greater, and it is difficult to deal with it even in the water. Huang Qianshan was only close to succeeding—although he blocked the boulder ball from rolling, half of his body was already contaminated by the glowing miasma mother .The miasma mother brushed past Huang Qianshan's body, and he felt that the temperature of his body was being taken away rapidly, leaving only the pain like being cut by an ice skate.Huang Qianshan choked in pain, but was poured into the mouth of the river, and a trace of glowing miasma also flowed into his mouth.

The rolling of the boulder ball was temporarily stopped, but Huang Qianshan's actions just now stirred up more water flow. He was too anxious to think about it at the time. After stabilizing the boulder ball, he brought the water flow from the other side.I saw that a piece of miasma at the bottom of the water was slowly floating towards Lao Yue and Gu Changtian on the opposite side. Huang Qianshan felt sorry, but he couldn't go over to block them immediately. At this moment, he suddenly thought of a sentence "Zhu Bajie looks in the mirror, There are no people on both sides." Just when the miasmas rushed behind Lao Yue and Gu Changtian, they seemed to have been whipped, and the miasmas that rolled over immediately bounced away.Lao Yue and Gu Changtian didn't know what happened, because they were facing Huang Qianshan's side, so only Huang Qianshan's side could see what happened behind them.Huang Qianshan was curious about Miasma Mother's reaction, why Miasma Mother wanted to kill her, but left suddenly.Could it be that miasma mothers also have snobbish eyes, they think that Huang Qianshan has no money, so they ravage to their heart's content, Lao Yue and the others are richer, so they dare not provoke him? Although Huang Qianshan felt strange, it was a good thing for others to be safe, so he didn't bother to think about it.Finally, after the Miasma Mother's Qi dissipated, everyone grabbed their roots and emerged from the water.As soon as Huang Qianshan came out of the water, he grabbed the roots of the tree and panted heavily, his face turned blue and white, like an actor with painted face.Huang Qianshan had just been exposed to miasma mother in the water, now his body is weaker than before, he kept shaking in the water, no different from convulsions. "Mr. Huang, are you okay? Thank you just now... Dali, hurry up and take Mr. Huang ashore with me!" Cai Minmin said anxiously. At this time, there was no miasma mother left at the bottom of the water, Hao Dali wiped the water on his face, and without saying a word, he picked up Huang Qianshan and walked to the shore, but Huang Qianshan suddenly found the air hole hidden in the water.Huang Qianshan has always been puzzled, the underground river is clear and bright, even if the venom spit out by the green-scaled little snake flows into the underground river, it is not sweltering here, and it is reasonable to say that miasma mothers cannot form.When Hao Dali was about to carry him out of the water, Huang Qianshan lifted his head feebly but saw grains of light swimming neatly in the water. These points of light are hard to spot unless you look very closely.Huang Qianshan pushed away Hao Dali and Cai Minmin, and put his face close to the water surface, looking for the source of the light spots one by one.The light spots are the scattered miasma mothers. Single grains of miasma mothers have no obvious toxicity. They complete the final growth of miasma mothers after they are glued with the body fluids of insects and snakes in the water. However, Huang Qianshan has always been curious about how the miasma mother's gas came from .After careful observation, Huang Qianshan discovered that the specks of light did not flow from the bottom of the water, but from the water very close to the water surface. "So that's how Miasma Mother came here." Huang Qianshan coughed twice after finishing speaking. "What's the matter, brother Huang, do you know how they appeared, didn't they come out of the water?" Hao Dali swam up and down in the water holding on to the roots of the tree. "Have you noticed that there are many plant roots penetrating through the soil in the cave, and we are all holding them in our hands." Huang Qianshan said tremblingly. "That's right. Few people come to the West Region. The vegetation here is very primitive. It's not surprising that it can go deep into the ground, right? Some plant roots are so long that they can circle the earth." Lao Yue looked at Huang Qianshan in puzzlement. "Plant roots have nothing to do with miasma mother, right? They are not rotten, at least rotten can become one of the factors of miasma formation. This is what you said before, Mr. Huang. Can it be overthrown?" Gu Changtian said Confused. "The miasma mother has a lot to do with the roots of these plants." Huang Qianshan gritted his teeth and said, "Look, there are almost invisible light particles in the water. They are the clones of the miasma mother. When they are mature, they will gather into light balls and float out." "These light particles come from..." Liang Xiaoyu knowingly looked for the source of the light particles in the water. Cai Minmin was a step ahead of Liang Xiaoyu, and she immediately said: "Mr. Huang, these light particles are drilled from the roots of plants. Look at the roots I grabbed, and there are many particles sprayed out at once!" Huang Qianshan smiled wryly, and said, "That's right, I thought it was the bottom of the water, or there was something wrong with those stone carvings, but I didn't expect it to be the roots of these trees. The soil on the ground may have been mixed with medicine, and these plants grew on the soil and absorbed the medicine. The composition of the light particles thus produced microorganisms like light particles, the light particles are the source of miasma, and the roots of these plants are all the gas eyes. The cave under this mountain may not have existed thousands of years ago. You have also discovered , the hill next to the ancient temple is the shortest one, and it is likely that this hill is man-made rather than natural." After hearing Huang Qianshan's words, everyone checked the roots of the plants around them one after another. Sure enough, each root had emitted more or less light particles, and these light particles sank to the bottom of the water, waiting for the next eruption.The roots of the plants in the depths of the cave are the most, almost forming an impenetrable wall of roots. Perhaps this is why the place where the miasma first broke out is at the front of the cave.Lao Yue saw Huang Qianshan's haggard face, so she urged them to go ashore, and said that since the air hole was found, they should cut off all the roots, so as not to harm others.Gu Changtian said that they didn't have much time, and they would find time to cut the roots or remove the whole mountain when they were alive, anyway, the soil on the mountain was mixed with medicine. Before going into the water, Huang Qianshan and others threw their backpacks on the shore. After they got ashore, they found some snacks and ate them, lest they would become starving ghosts.Hao Dali originally thought that snacks were for girls to eat, but now that he was so hungry, he also thought that snacks were delicious, and it was particularly exciting to eat.Huang Qianshan picked up some herbs and chewed a few mouthfuls. He felt a pain in his back, so he took off his coat and sweatshirt while chewing the herbs.Cai Minmin and Liang Xiaoyu happened to be standing behind Huang Qianshan. When they saw Huang Qianshan's back, they cried out in fright, because Huang Qianshan's back had already festered a lot, and spongy tissue could be seen in some places. "Mr. Huang, you should look around in the cave. Didn't you say that wherever poisons appear, there is a way to detoxify them?" Lao Yue suggested. "That's true, but at that time I hadn't found the air hole. Now that I know where the air hole is, I have a problem." Huang Qianshan sighed. "What's the problem? Can't you walk? Then I'll find it for you." Hao Dali said with a mouth full of snacks. "Yeah, let's solve any problems together." Cai Minmin said with rare tenderness. Huang Qianshan glanced at Cai Minmin, and said: "What Miss Lao Yue just said is true, but that is what happens in nature. Now we know that caves and even forests on the ground are man-made. This kind of It is difficult to produce opposites of yin and yang in places, unless it is natural here, but unfortunately it is not, so I think there is no way to detoxify nearby." "Then...then we're going to die?" Hao Dali asked in surprise. "I think there is another way, and that is to find out why Miss Lao Yue is not poisoned by the miasma mother." After Huang Qianshan finished speaking, he asked Gu Changtian to help apply some herbs on his back, and then said, "If you find out Now, maybe we can save ourselves." "But Sister Yue has been with us since she entered the mountain. She eats and drinks the same. She doesn't know why she's fine." Cai Minmin said sadly. "I really don't know what I did to avoid the influence of Miasma Mother." Lao Yue explained sincerely, after she ate something casually, she said, "We are almost at the end of the cave, let's go out first and then worry about it. " "Alright, let's go out first." Huang Qianshan agreed. The six people limped forward, the lighting tools were damaged a lot, the searchlights were also broken, and only a few headlights were still usable.The roots in the cave became denser as they went forward, and they had to be brushed away when walking over, but they soon hit the face again, causing pain and itching.Gradually, the surface of the river in the cave became smaller and its banks became wider. Finally, the underground river went deep underground and disappeared from their sight. Finally, a dazzling white light appeared in front of them, and a group of six people found the exit.There are many monkey bones piled up near the exit. Huang Qianshan looked at the monkey bones in a daze. He wondered why the people of the ancient Guo State put the monkey bones in the cave. Is it really just a simple decoration?Huang Qianshan was so distracted that he didn't find Lao Yue in front of him, so he bumped into her.Huang Qianshan took a step back in embarrassment, but immediately remembered what he saw in the water. At that time, the miasma mother group was about to meet Lao Yue and Gu Changtian, but they bounced away immediately. This scene has always puzzled Huang Qianshan, could it imply the key to Lao Yue's resistance to the miasma mother, but what is the difference between Lao Yue and them?