Mystery Leaks

Chapter 394 Inexplicable Urge

This is obviously not a human footprint, although it is also five fingers, but the proportion is wrong.

The length of the five fingers of a person's foot generally only accounts for about one-fifth of the whole sole of the foot, and the toes of this sole occupy almost half of the length.

The soles of the feet are wide in the front and narrow in the back, a bit like the footprints of a gorilla, but not so big, only two-thirds of the palm of an adult.

Without thinking about it, I immediately blew a whistle to call for backup. The timing of this thing's appearance was wrong, and it felt like it was aimed at me.

After following Huang Mao and Hu Lai for so long, I also learned some tracking skills. After leaving an identification mark on the spot, I immediately chased them down.

From time to time, I can find a clear footprint. Obviously, it does not mean to hide from me, but seems to lure me somewhere.

This walk quickly left the [-]-meter distance limited by Huang Mao.

When I was about three or four kilometers deep, the footprints disappeared, and I suddenly lost my direction and didn't know what to do.

"Meng Lei, what's the matter?"

Soon, Huang Mao and Hu Lai rushed over after hearing the news.

When I told about the strange thing I found before, both of them became suspicious.

Huang Mao said with certainty: "That thing is deliberately luring you here, and it has the same effect as Feng Daniu. Be careful, there must be something strange in this area."

I nodded, and hurriedly used the flashlight to look around, and found that this place is indeed different from before. There are a lot of vines, and the vines are entangled with each other, like a net after another, everywhere, on the trees, under the trees, on the ground. , and between the branches.

At first glance, I thought I had entered a spider hole.

"What kind of vine is this?" I asked, the vines are black, and the vine knots look very well-proportioned and strong.

I was taken aback for a moment, and then suddenly remembered, isn't there such a pattern of rattan stripes on my Nine Star Wheel roulette.

I hastily flipped the Nine Star Wheel in my palm and found that it was very similar.

"I don't know, but I feel that the vines are very sinister, especially those underground." Hu Lai shook his head and said suspiciously.

"wrong!"

Huang Mao suddenly thought of something, looked at his feet fiercely, drew out his iron sword, and stabbed fiercely at the rattan on the ground.

"Whoosh!"

The iron sword bent slightly, and then pierced fiercely.

Huang Mao's expression changed, and he said, "The bottom is empty!"

"what?"

"No way?"

Hu Lai and I were taken aback.

Then Hu Lai pulled out the iron sword, and Hu Lai and I took a look, and it was really dark underneath, not dirt, but a cave.

Hu Lai suddenly realized: "We are standing on top of a cave, covered with dense vines, making us mistakenly think it is the ground, and the yin energy below is coming up from the cave."

"Be careful, I'll cut it open." Huang Mao said.

We nodded and each stood on guard. Huangmao swung his iron sword and kept cutting. After a few minutes of busy work, a dark hole suddenly appeared at our feet.

This is really a burrow covered by vines. The vines are layered on top of each other, as thick as three feet, as solid as the ground, and we didn't realize it for a while.

"What kind of hole is this?"

I shone the flashlight in, and found that there were dead rattan rot everywhere, and many saprophytic fungus-like things grew. It was very humid and about five or six feet high.

Huangmao folded a few fluorescent sticks and threw them in, illuminating a small area. Hu Lai took a closer look and said, "The cave is smooth and flat as a whole, and there is an obvious tendency to extend downwards. It's a bit like a dry cave. River."

"The river course?"

I froze for a moment, then nodded slowly. There are many rivers with very large volumes in this barren land, all of which flow into the Falling Demon Abyss and disappear, as if being swallowed.

If the river is diverted, there will indeed be a dry channel.

But the question is, how is such a river different?
"Come on, let's go down the terrain and see where it leads." Hu Lai thought about it and said hastily.

"Okay." Huang Mao responded, and immediately pulled some dead branches and leaves to hide the cut hole, and then the three of them walked along the relatively low-lying place.

After about 10 minutes, we reached the edge of the cliff, but to our surprise, there was no river mouth on the edge of the cliff, and there was no trace of water washing.

In other words, the river did not rush into the Demon Falling Abyss in this area.

"Going somewhere else every now and then?" I tried to explain.

"No, the places we walked were all the lowest-lying places, and judging from the direction of the previous river flow, they almost all rushed straight to the Demon Falling Abyss." Hu Lai shook his head, and then said: "There can only be one explanation, that once It's an underground river, it didn't flow through the surface, but dived into the Demon Falling Abyss from the ground, and that hole should be the section where it jumped out of the surface."

"You mean, that river leads directly to the Falling Demon Abyss?" Huang Mao was taken aback.

I was also shocked, since we came to this secret place, we walked around it for almost two days, but we didn't find any way to the Demon Falling Abyss.

Unexpectedly, a suspected path appeared here, and it was another dry underground river.This point is exactly the same as what happened when we robbed the tomb in Jinpen Township.

No matter how tightly surrounded the place is, it cannot prevent the changes of the underground river. This is like a "BUG" set by God.

In this world, there is no perfect existence.

"Based on this alone, I'm only [-]% sure, but combined with something that just appeared to lure us there, I'm [-]% sure." Hu Lai said.

Huangmao nodded, "That's right, that's the reason. We are not allowed to enter. The existence that lured us here has made arrangements for us at the most critical point."

"Then...should we go down?" I felt chills down my spine.

To be honest, this feeling of being calculated every step of the way is uncomfortable and even more disturbing, because I don't know whether this kind of temptation is good or malicious.Judging from the fact that Feng Daniu was so fascinated that he was so tired of spinning around in circles that his whole body was cramping, it might be difficult to call him goodwill.

But Grandpa's letter said that it was not accidental, but inevitable that he came here.

It is worth this one, but I dare not stop, for fear of missing something, after passing this village, there will be no more shops like this.

"Since we found it, let's go down and have a look." Hu Lai said, "But not now, wait until tomorrow daytime, it will be safer."

Huangmao and I both nodded. It was too cloudy at night, so for the sake of caution, it would be safer to wait until dawn.

So we returned to the campsite, Cao Nan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw us back, and said, "Damn, what's going on, you're scared to death?"

We briefly explained the matter, and Cao Nan was also shocked, saying: "This is because there is a lack of a door. There is also a way to reach the strange place. If there is no way, it means that the way has not been found."

Afterwards we chatted for a few more words, and we were already a little tired, so we planned to take turns sleeping at night.

I let the three of them sleep first, and at midnight Huangmao woke up to replace me, lay down, and fell into a deep sleep.

But after not sleeping for a long time, Huang Mao woke me up by patting me, and said in a very small voice: "Don't move, there is something wrong."

I was shaken all over, and I immediately took off my pajamas, but I didn't move or open my eyes according to Huang Mao.

The yellow-haired finger reached out to my palm and wrote on it, and it became a sentence: That thing appeared again, at the direction of five o'clock when you sat up, at a distance of 50 meters. it.

With a move of my finger, I wrote the word "good" on his palm.The yellow hair is very smart, this is using tricks to paralyze it.

After that, Huang Mao got up and walked towards twelve o'clock, away from that thing. Soon, the sound of waterproofing came from there.

As soon as I slapped the ground, I jumped up, turned around and ran in the direction of five o'clock.

At the same time, Hu Lai and Cao Nan jumped up with me.

Yellow hair, this is a bubble and three rings!
This strategy really worked. You know, we are all practitioners, and the distance of 50 meters is only a few breaths away.

But we jumped out 30 meters before the black shadow realized it, turned around and fled.

This time I finally saw it clearly. It was an ape-like thing, covered with dark red hair, running fast, and the undulating terrain was flat to it.

My speed was the fastest, but it turned out that I couldn't close the distance. I was a little anxious, Huangmao's careful design, but it couldn't achieve the effect.

At this moment, Hu Lai shouted, "Meng Lei, stop chasing him."

I was taken aback, and hurriedly stopped, and with just one effort, that thing completely disappeared.

"Leizi, come quickly, it left something behind." Cao Nan returned to Hu Lai and looked at it, then immediately waved to me.

I was puzzled, so I ran back immediately, and saw that the bark next to me had been peeled off, and there was a line of flamboyant words on it: If you go to the abyss at night, there will be trouble in the morning.

I was immediately surprised, this ghost looks like evil at first glance, but this handwriting can be called calligraphy, the font is strong and powerful, penetrating three points.

"Good word!" Hu Lai also praised it, and said, "Maybe this thing was changed by people."

"What do you mean, let us go down to the abyss overnight?" Cao Nan said, and asked again: "Tianming is in trouble, what's the trouble?"

I am also puzzled, trouble, is it possible that the dry dark river will disappear at dawn?

More importantly, should we listen to it?

Hu Lai murmured, his face was equally bewildered and he couldn't make up his mind.

After a pause, he said, "Go back and erase the words."

I nodded, took out a knife, and cut off the trunk of the lettering, and then the three of them returned to the campsite; Huangmao was also undecided after learning the content of the lettering.

Something written by someone who has not gained our trust may be helping us, or it may be tempting us.

This kind of thing is difficult to decide.

After a pause, it was Cao Nan who spoke and said, "Why don't you just ignore it, Feng Daniu can't walk yet, so you can't leave him?"

The three of us looked at Feng Daniu and nodded slowly. Feng Daniu has not fully recovered yet, it can be said that he is paralyzed, we have no mobility, unless we separate, leave one person to take care of Feng Daniu, and the other two go down.

But the risk is high in this way, our techniques all cooperate with each other, and one is indispensable.

Of course, there is another layer behind this, but we didn't say it, the existence that lured us here was calculating every step of the way, almost calculating us to death.

And the line just now indicated that there seems to be something wrong with its calculations. It is in a hurry. We have "autonomy" for the first time. Faced with such a situation, of course we have to jump out of the rhythm set by it and add or subtract some variables.

So, we chose to ignore it and continue to take turns sleeping at night.

The second half of the night was uneventful, and we slept until the sun rose before we started packing.

After a night of rest, we all recovered and were full of energy. Feng Daniu was also much better, and there were no major problems in action.

After eating dry food for breakfast, we walked towards the location of the dark river.

As a result, when I passed the tree that was written before, I was surprised to find that there was a new line of words on it: Your troubles are coming.

My heart jumped, and I had a very bad premonition, Huang Mao and Hu Lai also frowned, uncertain.

"boom……"

"rumble……"

"..."

At this moment, on the distant skyline, a big tree crashed down, followed by a second and a third.

A huge gully appeared on the ground, heading towards the abyss.

In the rear, many figures appeared indistinctly, chasing behind the extended ravine.

"This is..." Huang Mao's face changed drastically.

Hu Lai's eyelids twitched even more, looked at us, and slowly said two words: "The Insect King."

……

(End of this chapter)