Chapter 339 [Ice Cave] (Part 2)
Luo Lie screamed in secret, and he whispered, "Hurry, leave here..." Before he could finish his words, he heard a loud rumbling sound from outside, and the light from behind was blocked by a huge rock from outside.
Luo Lie and Zhang Changgong came to the entrance of the cave. They worked together to push the stone that blocked the entrance of the cave. The two of them tried their best, but the stone did not move at all.
Zhang Changgong said angrily: "Damn it, I've made someone plot!"
Luo Lie could only smile bitterly at this time. He remembered that Li Yuanqing was just a child under three years old, and felt more helpless. Li Yuanqing did not escape because of fear. He consciously led them here. The footprints pointed into the cave were the ones he left behind. But after entering the cave for a distance, he changed to climbing from above the top of the cave. Even Luo Lie did not see through his layout. After chasing Zhang Changgong into the cave, Li Yuanqing took the opportunity to seal the entrance of the cave.
Zhang Changgong slapped the huge rock that sealed the hole and said, "Maybe only the wild boar can arch open."
Luo Lie laughed: "There must be a road before the car arrives at the mountain. Let's go in and take a look." He doubted whether this cave was connected to the place where Li Yuanqing was detained before.
Without choice, they could only continue to move forward, walking through the place where the footprints were broken just now, and getting wider as they walked, but the temperature became colder and colder. The four walls under their feet had turned into thick ice, and they had already come to a natural ice cave.
Both of them were strong physically constituents. Zhang Changgong stroked the ice rock with his hand and whispered: "There are many such ice caves in Pale Mountain that have existed for countless thousands of years."
What Luo Lie noticed was the engravings on the ice. His fingers moved along the words, but he did not identify what was written. He used the beam of the flashlight to illuminate the lines of words and found that they were just some pictographic symbols.
Zhang Changgong said: "Someone has been here in the past."
Luo Lie nodded and said, "This proves that there should be a way out." Although his tone was very certain, he was not sure in his heart.
Going further forward, I saw a huge bat frozen in the ice rock. The bat was as big as a vulture and had a wingspan of more than two meters.
Zhang Changgong exclaimed: "What a big bat!"
Luo Lie saw the bat frozen in the ice rock. The bat had a triangular white hair similar to the mouth of the black bear's heart, and the eyes were also white. Luo Lie said: "Bear Bat!"
When Zhang Changgong heard what he said, he looked at the bat again, nodded and said, "No, it really looks like a bear."
The bear bat was not named by Luo Lie. He had never seen this creature before. He had only seen its paintings on the Sanquan Picture of Song Changjin. According to records, this creature has been extinct for tens of thousands of years. The reason why this creature can remain so complete is because it was frozen.
Since there are records of bears and bats on the Sanquan map, it proves that the ancestors of the Luo family have been here. The Luo family makes a living by touching gold and robbing the tomb, which means there should be a tomb nearby.
Luo Lie tried hard to recall the content on the Sanquan map. The text about the bear bat shows that this creature was in the tomb of Suyantuo, the national master of the Jin Kingdom. If the records of the Sanquan map are correct, they accidentally entered Suyantuo's tomb.
Because the entrance of the cave was sealed, the two had no other choice but to continue moving forward. The ice cave was tilted upward. Because the ice surface was slippery, the two had to choose to use their hands and feet together. They struggled to move in the cold ice cave. The terrain of the ice cave was complex, like a maze. They walked in it all based on their feelings. They walked around in circles several times and found that they were back to their original place. Fortunately, they were both extraordinary in terms of exploration. Although they took a lot of detours, the overall direction did not deviate too much.
After walking through the narrow ice cave for nearly half an hour, the front suddenly became clear. This was a natural hall formed by the erosion of ice rocks for thousands of years. The ice cave seemed to have reached its end. They looked for a way out. After surrounding the ice cave for a week, they found a vertical ice wall that was dozens of meters high. There was a hole about ten meters away from the ground. Zhang Changgong used a dagger to climb up the ice wall, and then put down the rope. Luo Lie grabbed the rope and quickly climbed onto the ice rock. In terms of climbing ability, few people could compare to Zhang Changgong.
After receiving the injection from Ando Ink, Zhang Changgong was worried that he would mutate for a long time, but as time went by, this worry gradually faded. His appearance did not change at all, but he had super self-healing ability, and his abilities in other aspects were also enhanced. It seems that the drugs developed by Ando Ink later have minimized the side effects of the god-healing hormone.
The two continued to move forward, and there was an ice crack not far ahead, with a crack of about three meters. Such a distance could not help them. The two of them jumped gently and crossed the crack. Luo Lie found a chisel on the opposite side of the ice crack. Zhang Changgong whispered: "It seems that someone has come."
Luo Lie touched the chisel marks, and there were many fine ice chips around it. From this point of view, the chisel marks should have been left shortly after. Luo Lie lay on the ice surface and shone the light beam of the flashlight toward the plane. He could see shallow footprints. Judging from the patterns on the soles of the footprints, they were the same as those they were wearing, and they were both military boots issued by Xu Beishan's army.
Luo Lie nodded to Zhang Changgong, and Zhang Changgong silently said a name - Song Changjin.
Only a few of them were wearing this type of military boot, and even fewer people sneaked into Senluogou. It is not difficult to judge that the person coming was Song Changjin.
This discovery surprised the two of them. If they could find Song Changjin, it would not be difficult to go out with him.
The two of them walked forward a few steps and smelled a scent of gunpowder. They couldn't help but speed up. Before they walked far, they saw a huge gap in the ice wall ahead. The gap was obviously generated by an explosion.
As night fell, the entire Flying Eagle Castle showed unprecedented sadness and loneliness. Preliminary statistics show that after several explosions, about half of the people in Flying Eagle Castle were killed, which did not count the seriously injured.
Li Changqing's expression was solemn, and his heart was filled with unprecedented depression. The Feiying Castle, which had always been impregnable in his eyes, was so vulnerable. Fighting and killing in the mountains and valleys did not enhance his vision. The Qing Dynasty was destroyed, the times changed drastically, and the era of winning the world with a few rifles was completely over. They were helpless in the face of the plane flying over them, and they could only be slaughtered.
Lao Lu came to his side, and the people sent out did not find Lan Ximei and others.
When Li Changqing heard the news, he slowly shook his head and said, "It's okay if you can't find it. Now, they are no longer important."
Lao Lu said: "I think they are the insiders. I have checked the records of entering and leaving Feiying Castle in the past few days. Only three of them entered our Feiying Castle. They must be the ones who secretly placed explosives in Feiying Castle." After saying that, he paused and gritted his teeth and said, "Even if I dig three feet into the ground, I will find them."
Li Changqing said: "What's the use of finding them now? Can the dead be resurrected?"
Lao Lu didn't speak, so of course the dead could not be resurrected.
Li Changqing looked up at the night sky and said, "No one can rest tonight."
Lao Lu said: "Brother, do you think they will launch an attack?"
Li Changqing nodded, not doubting, but affirming, this tragic disaster was brought about by Feng Jiuqing and his son.
A shrill wolf howl sounded from above. Everyone looked up and saw a wolf standing proudly on the cliff on the north side, and a round and large moon slowly rose up behind it.
Lao Lu said: "It's fifteenth today!"
The people who were cleaning the battlefield not far away suddenly became panicked because they saw more than ten blue-gray figures climbing the cliff on the right side descending at an astonishing speed.
Li Changqing couldn't see what the rapidly moving figure was, but he intuition judged that it must be an enemy. Li Changqing shouted: "Let's fire!"
All the people with weapons raised their guns and aimed at the moving figure. The lines of fire intertwined into a firepower net and covered the moving creatures. The creatures did not rush into the valley, but walked through the cliffs with amazing speed and agility.
Lan Ximei and others were also alarmed by the gunshots. They saw the scene on the opposite cliff. Lu Weilin picked up the rifle, observed and enlarged his figure from the scope. After watching for a while, Lu Weilin whispered: "Wolf!"
Lan Ximei said: "Have you seen a wolf walking on a cliff like a flat ground?"
Tiewa shook his head, he had never seen it before.
Arnold said: "Is it a werewolf?" The werewolf he mentioned is a monster in Western legend. Every night on full moon, the werewolf will transform.
Lan Ximei said: "They are obviously attracting firepower."
Wu Jie held the bamboo pole in both hands and stood behind. Although he couldn't see it, he could feel the critical situation at the scene from the dense gunfire.
Lu Weilin locked the target and fired a shot. The bullet pulled out a straight line of fire. A blue-gray figure running at the end shot into its eyes. The creature let out a wail and fell straight down from the cliff.
Arnold said, "Good marksmanship!" But Lu Weilin took out another bullet with a blue light.
Li Changqing soon realized that the purpose of those creatures running on the cliff was to attract their firepower and consume their ammunition. Li Changqing thought of his arsenal and showed a sneer on the corner of his lips. He even shot for three days and three nights, and the ammunition in Feiying Castle would not be used up.
However, they have been shooting for so long and have not hit the target. I don’t know if it is because the creatures run too fast or they are simply invulnerable. After more than ten minutes of fire, good news finally came. They shot a target and the target fell off the cliff.
The subordinates dragged the captured corpse in front of Li Changqing. Li Changqing thought it was a wolf, but when he approached, he saw that the creature had just a wolf's head, which was much larger than a wolf's body, with shorter front limbs than hind limbs, and more like a human.
All the onlookers took a breath. They had never seen such a strange creature in Pale Mountain for so many years.
Chapter completed!