Snap!
The white light flashed again, but this time there was no shrill cry, and the white light was far away from us, flashing in the wide underground river.
"Escaped?!"
Lao Bai said: "Did he escape so far in the blink of an eye?"
"How could he run so fast..."
Zhang Xinya cried: "Obviously there is more than one here!"
This situation was too unexpected. The cry sounded like a ghost, and there was a strong light flashing when it appeared. We couldn't figure out what it was.
In order to avoid accidents, several of us closely followed Brother Yaozi, fully alert.
Brother Yaozi seemed to be unsure, but he was just angry. After walking just a dozen steps, cold sweat had already appeared on his forehead, which looked shiny under the mining lamp. When he reached the river, he directly picked up a short hammer, tiptoed, leaned forward and looked into the water!
The strong light lit up again under Brother Yaozi's feet. Old Bai, the coward, immediately shouted "Oh my God!", which frightened Brother Yaozi so much that he almost jumped up. He instinctively smashed the hammer in his hand into the water, and with a "splash", the water splashed everywhere.
The flashlight in our hands had long been shining on the water area. The moment the short hammer fell, we clearly saw a black shadow flashing in the water, rushing forward along the riverside and disappearing between several rocks, suspected to have drilled into the cracks in the rocks.
Brother Yaozi quickly chased after it, and jumped like a monkey onto a protruding boulder in the underground river, and then squatted down to look carefully among the rocks.
"Hey, it's you, you bastard!"
Suddenly, Brother Yaozi shouted, raised his hand and grabbed the rocks, and directly pulled out a thing more than one meter long, like an earthworm, with its body still curling and twisting in the air, trying to wrap around Brother Yaozi's arm, but Brother Yaozi swung it and slammed it on the stone twice, and it immediately stopped moving, as if it was killed.
When Brother Yaozi returned, we finally saw the appearance of this thing under the light. It was very similar to the Bungarus krait, but the color was more conspicuous, with red and yellow on the body, gills on both sides of the head, and two fins not far away.
The most interesting thing is that this thing has a layer of transparent membrane on the back between the two cheeks, which seems to be a cyst gland. When poked with a knife, the cyst gland exploded with a "crack", and some sticky white liquid flowed out, glowing in the dark.
"Isn't this a mud stripe?"
Lao Bai scratched his head: "But what is this gallbladder-like thing on its back? I haven't heard of a mud stripe having this thing!"
"Maybe it mutated here?"
Zhang Xinya muttered: "The mud stripe has very good teeth and can chew stones. It often lives in some caves. I think this gland should be the thing that makes it glow. It may have swallowed something similar to fluorite. The phosphorescent material inside is stored in the body. When it encounters a threat, it will emit strong light to protect itself."
I figured it out. Everyone here knows the business, but I am confused. I couldn't hold it in, so I opened my mouth and asked, and then I knew that the mud stripe they were talking about was a strange creature called a bighead carp.
This creature is very rare, but it has definitely existed longer than humans. It is extremely afraid of light. It may be encountered in some sparsely populated karst landforms. Some people have also seen it on the other side of Kunlun Mountain. It is said that a climber once found a frozen bighead carp in the ice of Mount Everest. As for the Loess Plateau, this is the first time it has appeared since the beginning of time. Moreover, this bighead carp is obviously different.
"Anyway, this thing can only be seen occasionally in some naturally formed and very ancient rivers and water bodies."
Zhang Xinya's eyes were bright, and she smiled: "The Loess Plateau is originally short of water. There are very few natural water systems originating from the Luliang Mountains. One is the Fen River and the other is the Sanggan River. However, the Sanggan River flows to Hebei, which is completely opposite to the flow of this underground river. To put it bluntly, this underground river can only be connected to the Fen River. Where is the source of the Fen River? In Guancen Mountain! The bighead carp we saw is very likely to have swam all the way from your hometown!"
There was too much guidance in her words, and it was obvious that she had thought a lot.
The Fen River is very long, hundreds of kilometers in total, and flows through several cities. The bighead carp is notorious for dying in the light. If it really came from the source of the Fen River, then it must have left the source of the Fen River and drilled into this underground cave not long after.
To put it bluntly, this cave may be more than 100 kilometers long. You have to walk along the underground river from the west of Shanxi to the northwest of Shanxi, and the exit is at Guancen Mountain near my hometown! !
I am overwhelmed, and I can think of more things. From the doorstep of our hometown, we can enter an underground cave, and then directly cross to this stacked tomb building. Is this really a coincidence?
I don't like to believe in coincidences. In my subjective consciousness, the only possibility is that the last ritual official did too many things that interfered with the secular world. It is difficult to judge right or wrong. The method of closing the coffin is not effective at all. For some people, you can't say that they are not good even after closing the coffin. I think he himself may have thought that the fate of his descendants would not be too good. This underground cave is very likely to be the opportunity he left for his descendants...
Unfortunately, our family has always been rooted at the foot of Guancen Mountain and has never moved. For thousands of years, generation after generation of people have been looking for the earth spirit beads and this demon burial tomb all over the world, but no one has the heart to look for it in front of their own door!
"This is the fate of your Wei family. You buried so many people, including those who should be buried and those who shouldn't be buried. It's God's punishment for you, so the way out is right under your noses, but you can't see it at all! However, these are all old things. Don't even think about sighing and lamenting now, even if you slap your thighs and cut the basket, it's useless. You see, I am simpler than you, and I live a real life. In my eyes, this mud strip doesn't have so much information, just one word - eat!"
Lao Bai muttered that he couldn't hold back since Brother Yaozi fished up the mud strip. His eyes were red when he looked at the mud strip, and he looked like brothers who didn't need to be polite. He took out his short knife, chopped off the head, peeled and cleaned it with a clean knife. His technique was quite skillful. However, when he cut open the belly of the mud strip, a lot of frog eggs gushed out of it. They were black and purple, and smelled terrible. It didn't smell like something that had just died.
"It's a female?! Never mind, I'll treat it all as caviar."
Lao Bai was very virile. He didn't let go of any edible things. He picked up a handful and was about to stuff it into his mouth, but was stopped by my master.
"Do you want to have a bite too?"
Lao Bai was rarely generous in front of my master and directly handed a handful of black and purple eggs to my master.
My master simply picked up one of them with his paper armor and rubbed it gently with his fingertips. When the black-purple egg was slightly dry, he immediately squeezed it and it burst open, splashing black pulp and smelling stronger.
"If you don't want to die, you'd better not eat this kind of thing."
My master raised his eyebrows and whispered, "This is not caviar, it's called black mustard, a terrible poison recorded in ancient books. As for the mud strip in your hand, it's not an ordinary mud strip. To be precise, it's called Long Po Niang."
Lao Bai was stunned by my master's words. His hand was as if it was pierced by a poison needle. He kept shaking. Without thinking, he threw the black-purple eggs on the ground.
The black-purple eggs seemed to have life. After landing, they were squirming, as if the life nurtured inside would break out of the shell at any time and place.
This scene was really a bit creepy. Lao Bai was covered in hair. He rushed forward and stomped on the black and purple eggs. The thing burst with a crackling sound, just like frying beans, but it finally stopped. For a while, the smell of mutton was so strong that it made people sick.
My master looked uneasy. He stood up and looked around. He even stood by the river and closed his eyes to feel something silently. After a long time, he suddenly opened his eyes and sighed: "It's our bad luck. We killed a dragon. This place is not very safe. Let's get on the road first and talk while walking. If we stay any longer, I'm worried that things might change!"