Chapter 5 Chapter 4 The Cave Monster

Hawthorne asked, "Do you believe in monsters?" Linfeng replied: "I don't believe it." Hawthorne said, "You'll believe it!" Captain Hawthorne gave the order to set off. There was no flashing lights, no one to see him off, only the wind from the wilderness was blowing slowly. However, this was the greatest miracle in the history of archeology. It was the first time that human beings entered the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which had been dusty for two thousand years.A group of people put on chemical protective suits, descended from the Well of the Wilderness to the bottom of the cave, and walked along the underground river.

They saw a mushroom as big as a house, which was made of stone, and lotus rocks as high as a building, layered on top of each other, and the top was like a flat lotus pot with water overflowing from the pot.Going forward, getting better and better, what you see is a spectacular stone waterfall. Dense stalactites hang down from the top of the cave, as thin as vines and as thick as pillars. Every stalactite is dripping with water and swimming in the water. Rare blind fish.Under the illumination of light, this blind fish has a slender pink and transparent body, and you can clearly see the spine and internal organs inside, just like small glass fish.Blind fish are all blind, living in the dark for a long time, with degenerated eyes, and rely on many small sensitive whiskers to swim.Light means danger to them.

In a rugged and narrow place, Captain Hawthorne led everyone to dive. They saw a kind of blenny in the water. Under the illumination of the light, the blenny was coiled together at the bottom of the water, and there were many hagfish. They thought they were in danger. , spit out blisters one after another, and then plunged their bodies into the blisters. The archaeological team swam through the sinkhole and surfaced in a karst pool. They were stunned again by the strange karst cave landscape. A large stone forest stood on the ground, and there were cave beads in the depression. Shine like a sky full of stars.Captain Hawthorne said that not only spiders can weave webs, but bowerbirds in South America and butterflies on the African continent can also weave webs. This strange fluorescent creature is called a small fungus gnat, and its adults look like a large mosquito. They live in In the cave, the hanging silk nests, relying on unique autofluorescence to trap insects.

Walking onto a natural suspended stone bridge, Dora picked up something from the ground, "Grandpa, I found out, is this an emerald chopstick worth hundreds of millions of dollars?" Huo Sauna came over to take a look and smiled, "It's just an ordinary plastic chopstick." Professor Lu Li said: "It should be dropped by a geological prospecting team. You know, they worked very hard. They lived in the open air, and they all carried food in their backpacks. An investigation team came to this cave. Three people died, and the other died in the cave. Hospital." Hawthorne said, "What was the cause of death?"

Lu Li shook his head and said, "I don't know, there must be some monsters in this cave, everyone be careful." Linfeng didn't speak, but held a military dagger tightly in his hand. The suspended stone bridge is formed by the collapse of the ground. The water in the underground river is constantly eroding, and countless diving holes have been washed out under the bridge. The sound here is very strange. The archaeological team stopped talking and continued to move forward silently. Dora Glancing under the bridge, she yelled, Hawthorne asked her what was the matter, and Dora pointed to the bridge and said:

"I saw a big blood red tongue!" Everyone looked down and saw that there were piles of things in each diving hole under the bridge. Under the illumination of the beacon lights, they looked like piles of purple grapes. They were soaked in water, crystal clear and transparent.The grave robber Keith threw a stone under the bridge, and the stone fell into a pile of "purple grapes", and there was no movement except water splashing.Keith said to Dora, "The nose of a lying child will grow longer, so how can there be a big tongue?" As soon as the words fell, red tongues spewed out from countless diving holes and licked the air.

Everyone felt creepy, Professor Lu Li said, "It should be some kind of cave animal, and those grape-shaped objects are their eggs." Hawthorne carefully identified the eggs and said, "It's a newt, let's go." At this time, some lizard-like and crocodile-like animals crawled out of the hole one after another. They looked extremely ugly, with irregular orange-red spots on their abdomens, crawling on all fours, sticking out their long tongues.Salamander is a kind of amphibious animal. There are about 400 species in the world. The red-bellied salamander and blue-tailed salamander are more common in China.This kind of animal is generally not aggressive, and in Japan, it is often used as a pet animal.

Keith said: "They don't eat people, don't worry, I have eaten their meat, it is salty." Hawthorne said: "Come on, it's the salamander's egg-laying season, and hens can peck people when they lay eggs, let alone this carnivore." A salamander climbed up the stone bridge and made a cry like a frog, and then all the salamanders screamed. There was a deafening sound from the cave, and there seemed to be some kind of anger in the sound. More and more salamanders The salamander climbed up the stone bridge and blocked the back road. Suddenly, the cry stopped abruptly, and a huge fiery red salamander appeared in front of the stone bridge. The archaeological team was trapped in the middle of the bridge, in a dilemma.

Dora said, "Uncle Gies, don't they really eat people?" Gith smiled wryly, "They don't eat people, they just bite." The huge fiery red salamander was three meters long. It showed evil eyes and spit out a message like a snake. It approached step by step. There were also dense salamanders behind the archaeological team, and the bridge became crowded.Hawthorne showed no signs of fear, but there was nothing he could do. The group kept backing away. It wouldn't take long for them to be bitten into pieces... The giant salamander bared its teeth, and its tongue had already licked the feet of the archaeologists. The female team doctor jumped up in fright. At the critical moment, Linfeng stepped forward. The giant salamander roared and opened its mouth to bite Linfeng's leg. Linfeng did a beautiful side somersault to avoid the attack. As soon as he landed, the giant salamander's tail rolled over again. Linfeng didn't dodge this time, but took advantage of the situation to hug the salamander's tail, turned around and threw it off the bridge.

Ji Si praised Linfeng: "I always thought you were an idiot." Linfeng looked down the bridge vigilantly. The giant salamander did not fall to his death. It got up and walked on the rock wall like a gecko.Gith yelled, and everyone fled. Only Linfeng stood on the bridge. The giant salamander was obviously very angry. It jumped up from the rock wall and rushed towards Linfeng. With a swift and sharp side kick, it hit its stomach.The giant salamander landed on the bridge, staggered back two steps, and fell dead. After getting down from the bridge, the terrain gradually flattened out, and a huge underground lake appeared in the cave, and there was a door looming on the lake near the rock wall.Everyone in the archaeological team was excited. This door leads to the underground palace of the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, the greatest tomb in the world.Master Ju was silently recording all this with a camera on his shoulders. Hawthorne and Professor Lu Li were discussing how to wade through the water. Dora was squatting by the lake, playing with the water with her hands. Suddenly, she screamed in fright——there was something under the water. A face was smiling at her.

Hawthorne and Lu Li ran to the lake, and there was a dead body in the water. The deceased should be one of the four members of the exploration team. The surface of the lake is very calm, but everyone is aware that there are unpredictable dangers in the lake. They don't know what monsters are lurking. The giant salamander just now made them terrified, and now they have to face a new test, trying to reach the door , must swim across the lake.No one flinched, Hawthorne took the lead, and then, Geese and Professor Lu Li swam over, and then, the videographer Master Ju and the female team doctor waded through the water and reached the steps of the door. Dora said to Linfeng: "Can I be with you?" Linfeng nodded, biting the military dagger with his teeth, the two walked into the lake and swam forward slowly.Halfway through the swim, the water was choppy behind him. I don’t know what kind of monster followed from behind. Its speed was very fast. Linfeng and Dora climbed up a big rock in the middle of the lake, and saw a big sticky lump behind them. Objects came to the surface, with two large, evil eyes in a round, flattened head, looking at them. There is a kind of animal with high intelligence, which can walk on two feet like humans, and mimics sea snakes, lionfish, corals in the water, and can change the color of its body according to the surrounding environment, and sometimes attacks ships, even Sharks cannot escape its clutches. The name of this animal is octopus. What Linfeng and Dora felt at this moment was indescribable fear. This big octopus climbed up the rock, it glowed faintly green like a ghost, and then changed to red like a rock, with eight long tentacles, each like a demon snake, capable of tightly entwining its prey , There are two parallel rows of suction cups under each tentacle. If you entangle a person, that person will see the suction cups on the transparent tentacles slowly turn red, which is his own blood. The octopus started to attack, and the two tentacles whipped towards him like a whip. Linfeng used a volley kick in extreme karate, and kicked away one of the tentacles. However, Dora was caught in the air by the other tentacles. The octopus was about to drag her into the water, but with a wave of Linfeng's hand, the military dagger flew out and hit the octopus in the eye. The octopus felt the pain, let go of Dora, and crawled back to the other side of the rock. Linfeng said: "Go quickly, I will deal with it." "You will be eaten," said Dora. Linfeng said: "Leave me alone." Dora said, "No." Linfeng roughly pushed Dora into the water, and Dora swam desperately, looking back with concern while swimming.Standing on the rock in the middle of the lake, Linfeng raised a big rock above his head, it seemed that he wanted to smash the head of the octopus, but the octopus disappeared. "It's up there," Keith yelled. Linfeng looked up, one of the octopus' whiskers was grabbing the stalactite on the top, and the other seven whiskers suddenly attacked Linfeng, Linfeng didn't dodge it, because he knew he couldn't dodge it. The stone fell to the ground, and two tentacles entangled Linfeng. These tentacles were flat and smooth, as tough as rubber, and as cold as a cold night.The third tentacle stretched out again, whipped Linfeng's ribs, and then stuck firmly.Linfeng felt as if there were countless lips clinging to his body, wanting to drink his blood.The three tentacles of the octopus wrapped around Linfeng tightly, rolled it up in the air, and then prepared to stuff it into its anus.For its anus is also its mouth, as its hands are its feet.Optimists believe that it takes five minutes for an octopus to eat a person, while pessimists believe that two minutes is enough. Dora swam exhausted to the front steps, Hawthorne helped her up, and they looked back together.The octopus is hanging on the stalactite, and its tentacles are tightly wrapped around Linfeng. This is a terrifying picture.Don't believe in any miracles, Gies said, because the existence of octopuses is a miracle in itself.Dora turned her head away, unable to bear to look any further, and began to cry. However, a miracle happened.The moment the octopus was about to stuff Linfeng into its mouth, Linfeng pulled out the dagger stuck in the octopus' eye, and then stabbed the other eye of the octopus. This bought him a little time, and he stabbed the tip of the knife into The flat squishy head of the octopus, digging a circle around it, he cut off its head. The headless octopus was still waving its tentacles, and gradually lost its strength. Linfeng threw away the head of the octopus and slid down from the air along one of the tentacles. He swam to the crowd in one breath. Dora said to Linfeng: "You are amazing, I wanted to tell you a long time ago, but I'm sorry." She spoke quickly, with tears in her eyes. Linfeng said calmly, "It's nothing." "It's really nothing, because the real danger lies ahead," Hawthorne said. They looked at the door that was half hidden in the water. That door leads to the tomb. Now, they walk in! What they entered was a sewer tunnel. Professor Lu Li was very excited. He knelt on the ground and stroked the ground gently with his hands.The bricks paved on the ground are the same as those of the Qin Great Wall, and some patterns are carved on some bricks.Dora asked what the patterns meant.Professor Lu Li said: "This is the big seal script of the Qin Dynasty, one of the oldest characters in China. These eight characters are 'Holding full of Tao, making the world rich.'" The archaeological team walked along the sewer channel, which was like a maze without end.The huge and complex drainage system in the underground city of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is amazing.Professor Lu Li used sonar detection equipment to find an exit. The exit was located above a passage, which had been sealed with bricks.Keith looked at the exit and said, "Obviously, more than two thousand years ago, there should have been a ladder here, and the workers who built the sewers came down from here." The archaeological team got through the exit, and Hawthorne was the first to get in. Hawthorne's voice trembled, as if he saw something unbelievable: "This is impossible." The rest of the people are below, and they don't know what Hawthorne saw...