Chapter 250: Cave Totem
Youxi was not familiar with the road in the valley below the cliff. There was a dense forest underneath. She was afraid that she would get lost if she took a detour from other places and could not find the exact place where the bus crashed, so she used the old method.
She asked Lin Wu to park the car at the edge of the cliff where she climbed up last time. The slope down here was gentler, and there was no need to climb the rope. As long as she slowed down, she could go directly down to the valley.
Youxi put the car away, and the three people spent more than 20 minutes following Youxi to the place where the bus fell.
The frame of the burned bus had been dismembered and taken away, perhaps because they were afraid of leaving any clues that would be discovered.
The people behind the scenes probably didn't expect that not only did someone witness the bus accident, but also someone went down from a cliff more than 100 meters high to the valley half an hour after the bus accident. Before they used the fire to cover up the truth, they discovered that all the people in the bus were missing. Where
did those people go?
The three people from Youxi put on backpacks, sun hats and masks, held trekking poles, pretended to be hikers, bypassed the area burned by the fire, and looked for the pool used for pumping water nearby.
The introduction I saw before described it like this: There is a large waterfall on the mountain, and there are deep pools and caves in the valley below the waterfall. It is a good place for adventure lovers to ride and explore.
It is said that there is an underground river inside the cave. The water in the underground river is fast and it is rumored to lead directly to the sea.
So, the pool, the cave and the underground river are all together. However, the stories about the underground river are just rumors and have never been confirmed. In fact, those adventure lovers have never found even the shadow of the underground river.
They followed the sound of water and soon found a pool of water next to a steep mountain wall behind a dense forest. It is about a thousand meters away from the bus fire.
The pool is not big. It is surrounded by mountain walls on three sides. It never sees the sun all year round. It is deep, quiet and cool. The water is dark green and looks very deep.
The waterfall above the mountain wall falls from the highest point, passes through the mountain wall several times to block and slow down. When it flows to the bottom, the water flow is not too fast, but the waterfall is very large, like a large white water curtain, making the surrounding mountain walls full of water mist.
At this distance, she should be able to hear the sound of water from the bus, but it was raining heavily that day, and the sound of the rain completely covered the sound of the waterfall.
I don’t know if it’s because of the accident of the nearby bus or the influence of the "blood man", but there are no tourists around here at the moment.
"Wait, I'll go down and take a look." Lin Wu took off his hat, mask and other items, took off his shoes, put on a snorkeling mask and a mini oxygen tank, and jumped into the water.
Tang Yatong sat down on a rock next to the tank and couldn't help sighing: "It's good to have a boy in the team, don't you really consider it?"
Youxi:? ?
Tang Yatong's expression seemed more surprised than her: "Don't you feel it?"
Youxi shrugged innocently:? ? ?
"..." Tang Yatong held her forehead, "Forget it..."
You Xi saw that Tang Yatong wanted to touch the cigarette again, and hurriedly took out a few small packages of chocolate and handed them to her: "Smoking too much is not good for your health."
Tang Yatong wanted to say "This is not my body", but seeing the other party's serious eyes, she still took it, and then pinched her face: "Little girl, housekeeper."
You Xi: ...
You·Old Youth·Xi decided to go to the nearby area to find the cave first. Five or six minutes later, when she found the entrance to the cave on the mountain wall behind the waterfall, Lin Wu also came out of the pool.
"The pool is fine, there is no secret passage or undercurrent, it is just a very ordinary pool." As he said, he took out a dry towel from the space, wiped his head and face, and then took his shoes to the back of a large rock on the side.
Soon, he changed into clean clothes and came out.
Tang Yatong handed him his backpack and hat: "Xiaoxi found the cave, shall we go in now?"
"In." He nodded readily.
The two were about to go over, but suddenly heard Youxi's low cry.
"What's wrong!" Lin Wu rushed over the waterfall without having time to go around.
Youxi walked out of the cave with a happy look on her face: "It's okay, I just wanted to try it just now, but I didn't expect it to be confirmed to be successful." She handed him the screen of her mobile phone, "Here is the site of the hidden station!"
Tang Yatong also walked quickly around the waterfall from another way at this time. Hearing this, she also smiled, and then noticed the clothes on Lin Wu.
Well, the dry clothes that I just changed into are wet again.
"Do you want to change into another one?" Tang Yatong couldn't help but teasing.
"No, it's just a little wet. It's hot, so it'll be dry in a while." Lin Wu took out a flashlight from the space, "Let's go."
**
Lin Wu has been to many caves, but this is the first time he has seen such a structure. Not only is the entrance of this cave small and the inside is big like a gourd,
but it's also an uphill road all the way inside. Although the col is a valley, it is actually much higher than the coastal area of the island in terms of terrain. The cave is opened on the mountain wall, and it is dark and cool inside. As they go deeper into the cave, this coolness gradually turns to cold.
The cave is winding and undeveloped, and it is not a tourist attraction, so it is very primitive inside. The road surface is uneven, but fortunately there are no gravel cracks, so it is easy to walk.
However, they did not see a single snake, insect, rat or ant along the way.
The surroundings were very quiet and dark, with only the light of the flashlight flickering. At the first fork in the road, they saw a wire hanging from the opening with a sign saying that there was a collapse ahead, and a large red warning sign.
But since it has been verified that this is a hidden station, there must be something wrong with this cave, not to mention that Youxi has already smelled the faint smell of blood in the cave.
They ignored the warning signs and continued to move forward after Youxi chose the direction.
After that, they encountered several forks on the road, and in the end, Youxi chose to continue forward.
The reason for her choice was: the sound of water.
She heard the faint sound of water flowing from deep in the cave. After passing the fifth fork, Tang Yatong and Lin Wu also heard the sound of water. Probably because they were closer to the water flow, they could even hear two kinds of water sounds.
One was the sound of water falling from a high place, and the other was the sound of running water.
Finally, at the next fork in the road, they saw a large cave hidden in the rolling hills. On the opposite wall, water fell from the top of the wall, forming a small waterfall on the rock wall.
The bloody smell in the cave was a little stronger, and the air was very cold. This coldness made them feel very uncomfortable, as if something was drilling into their bones. With their physical constitution, ordinary coldness should not make them feel this way.
"It's not just cold." You Xi stroked the back of his hand, "It's more like a dark and gloomy substance, very similar to the feeling in the waters around the tidal island yesterday."
If it is described in a more understandable word, it is: Yin Qi, or dark matter.
Lin Wu thought of Wukong City: "It seems that this station still has something that goes against common sense."
The three of them approached the waterfall and found that there was a fragment of sky light here, as if it was the light coming from the top where the water flowed in. The top was very high and the flashlight could not reach the top.
The water from the waterfall fell into the depression below, forming a cave river, flowing forward along the mountain wall. At the end, there was a horizontal mountain wall, which seemed to cut off the water flow, but the bottom of this mountain wall should be hollow, and the river swirled here and disappeared below the mountain wall.
"Underground river? Judging from the direction, it does flow from west to east." Lin Wu used a flashlight to check the horizontal mountain wall, then reached his hand into the water to probe, "The water flow is very fast, and the height difference of this underground river should be very large. The tidal island is very close to the cliff. If the underground river passes under the seabed, it is indeed possible to reach the bottom of the tidal island directly." "
Come and have a look." Tang Yatong stood in front of the mountain wall on the other side, with the flashlight facing the rock wall in front of him, "There are pictures on the rock wall here."
They soon discovered that not only the rock wall where Tang Yatong was had paintings, but almost all the rock walls of the entire cave were painted with various strange patterns. This picture seemed to be painted with a special black material, and the brushwork was very abstract and simple, not like a product of this era.
Some of them seemed to be paintings of a large-scale activity scene, with abstract black figures surrounding a huge black object in the middle, seemingly kneeling.
Some seemed to be some special graphics that appeared many times, like some totem.
Some of them seemed to be paintings of the sea, with black figures standing on the shore, and the sea rolling up more than ten times its height.
There were also some detailed movements, with several black figures lifting another black figure towards the huge black object in the middle, and a hole was drawn on the black object, which looked like an open mouth...
"This seems to be recording some scenes, such as disasters, kneeling for prayers, and sacrifices." You Xi looked at them one by one. She had a basic knowledge of painting, so she analyzed the pictures on the wall to Tang Yatong and Lin Wu, "Did we see this totem when we went to the Heibola tribe that day?"
"Not only the Heibola tribe, there are many fountains in the built-up area on the island, and there are such totems on the stone pillars beside the pools."
"What is this?" Tang Yatong raised the flashlight. There was only one thing painted on the rock wall here, a huge black creature, very similar to the open-mouthed creature surrounded by the black men before, but now it was painted alone and magnified several times.
Youxi walked over and said as she checked, "It should be the god these people believe in, but I can't tell what kind of creature it is."
Even though she had experience in redrawing the Classic of Mountains and Seas and had checked a lot of information on alien beasts, gods and monsters to perfect the painting during that period, she still couldn't tell what kind of beast this was. It
was pitch black, with no head or tail, no wings or claws, and looked like two black stones, one high and one low, put together.
However, Lin Wu on the side suddenly said: "Island..."
"What?"
"This huge black thing seems to be the island we are on."
**
If the thing being worshipped and sacrificed in the mural is this island, it means that the people who painted these murals believe that this island is alive, and they will use living people as sacrifices to this island.
In the mural, the black giant "opened its mouth", and the black little man threw the living people into it and fed them alive.
Tang Yatong shuddered subconsciously, and the three of them turned back to look at the dark river with turbulent water.
After the water meets the horizontal mountain wall at the end, it continues to flow forward from the bottom of the mountain wall. There is no light there, and there may be no air. There is only a rapid flow of water heading east, carrying some "stuff" along the way, through this underground line, and sending it to the bottom of the tidal island. The
bus that was tampered with, the missing passengers, and the cave only a kilometer away from the scene of the incident. The
faint smell of blood in the cave, the invisible substances in the cave that make people feel cold and uncomfortable, and the mural of the sacrifice.
The dark substances and the same cold feeling that permeate the waters around the tidal island, the creatures that run out from the cracks in the reefs due to tidal changes or other unclear reasons...
They have been looking for the nest of the "blood man" creatures, thinking that if they find them, they can find the missing people, and they may also find the tourists on the bus who are still alive.
But now, they seem to have discovered another truth.
As missing people, the disappearance of a single tourist who was caught by clues or pictures on the seaside does not seem to be the same thing as the disappearance of this bus of tourists.
For a moment, they all thought of the strange situation at this station.
No living creatures can be seen on the entire platform, only the platform itself and the blood all over the platform. In other words, this time the platform is the monster itself.
It also metaphorically represents the situation of this stop - the entire Paradise Island is the monster itself, and the "blood man" creature is just an extension of the tragedy.
It is actually very simple to verify the conjecture.
You Xi sighed and said in an affirmative tone: "The blood man was formed because of the sacrifice on the island."
Almost at the same time, the mobile phones of the three of them vibrated.
Congratulations on finding the reason for the formation of the "blood man".
Congratulations on winning the hidden reward (choose one of two): 1. Ticket (one stop); 2. Prop: Invisibility sticker (validity: 1 hour).
You Xi chose the ticket without hesitation.
Congratulations: The validity period of the ticket has been extended by one stop (two stops left)
Similarly, Tang Yatong and Lin Wu's rewards are also two choices, and the first option is the ticket.
Lin Wu's second option was: Easter egg fragment locator, which can directly give precise positioning after sensing the Easter egg fragment. Tang Yatong's second option was to add two item slots.
However, they chose a one-stop ticket like her.
This reward is obviously better than the previous bus reward, after all, tickets have always been in short supply.
After a moment, a new prompt appeared on the phone, indicating that they could continue to investigate the reasons for the islanders' sacrifice and the way the "blood man" left the altar (tidal island), and they could also get hidden rewards.
But the three people looked at the dark river and had no intention of going into the water to continue the investigation.
This is not an ordinary river, this is a passage for sacrifice. Perhaps countless living people were forcibly thrown into this dark river.
They were washed by the cold water and struggled in the dark river. Maybe they would encounter a breath of air halfway, but in the secret water passage with no exit and no light, living would only make people feel more desperate.
No wonder the breathing bubble has a validity period of 4 hours.
"Forget it, we're not going down. We've already got the tickets and have stockpiled so many things. This stop is about the end." Finally, Tang Yatong made a decision.
When the three wanted to leave, they found another passage in another part of the cave.
This passage was still tortuous and complicated, with several forks, but Youxi said it didn't matter, because she felt the flow of fresh air in each fork, and these forks should eventually lead to the outside world.
They chose a way to continue going up, and after more than half an hour, they passed through a narrow passage and walked out of the cave.
The entrance of the cave was covered with green vines, and the half-human-high weeds grew everywhere at the entrance, indicating that no one had ever walked this road.
The three of them carefully looked out and found that they were at the highest point of the hill. In the valley opposite the hill was the village of the Hebola tribe that they had visited before.
There were no outside tourists in the village at the moment. The tribesmen, big and small, were gathered in the square of the village, and seemed to be discussing something fiercely.
In the crowd, there was a local man whose clothes were obviously different from those of the tribesmen. He was surrounded by several older tribesmen and asked for help.
On the stretcher next to them, there was a wounded young tribesman lying, and a middle-aged female tribesman was kneeling there, covering her face and crying.
"I remember now." Tang Yatong said, "The child who went missing last night didn't seem to be a tourist's child. He was said to be a local..."
Youxi shook her head: "So, is the backlash starting now?"
Lin Wu checked the area nearby and found a way to leave: "Let's go back to the villa."
**
An hour later, they took a detour to leave the hills and the village area, and drove around the northwest side of the island towards the coastal avenue.
When they passed the airport, they were stuck on the road. The situation here was even more chaotic than yesterday.
Tourists who wanted to leave blocked the place so tightly that no one could get through.
You Xi curled up in the passenger seat, checking the post that was posted online not long ago about the sacrifices and blood men on Paradise Island. His original intention was to try to see if it could be sent out to prevent other uninformed tourists from coming to this cannibalistic island.
The post had been sent for half an hour, but the clicks were still 0.
For this site, they are completely closed. Not only is there a boundary line, the person himself cannot leave, any attempt to contact the outside world is unsuccessful, and no message can be sent.
For them, the entire site is like being cut off from other time and space, intercepted and placed in a barrier.
But other than that, everything else is normal.
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