"I know."
Jiang Yan nodded, patted the dust on her hands, stood up and said, "Let's go."
The branches were heavy, and the two were ready to return to the cave entrance first.
Ye Qing raised his arm and carried the bundle of branches on his back.
Jiang Yan took his submachine gun and walked to the front with a flashlight.
The two had just taken two steps when a cold wind blew out from an unknown cave.
Along with it, there was a strong, fishy stench.
The stench was like that of a severely decomposed corpse, and also like that of some large snakes.
"Yue!" Jiang Yan couldn't help but retching even though she was wearing a mask.
"Rustle--" Dense sounds spread out.
Ye Qing frowned slightly, and a bad premonition emerged in his heart: "Jiang Yan, let's go faster and return to the cave entrance first."
"Okay." As Jiang Yan spoke, her pace quickened a bit.
The rustling sound gradually disappeared behind him.
"Jiang Yan, why do I find that there seem to be fewer stones in the cave?" Ye Qing walked and looked around habitually.
When they came in before, on both sides of the walkway, in addition to the stalagmites connected to the ground, there were densely packed black boulders several meters square.
But now, the number of those stones is visibly less.
The cave is much wider.
"I don't know, let's leave here first." Jiang Yan curled her lips, and the flashlight shone directly on the walkway, without stopping for a moment.
She would definitely not tell Ye Qing that those black boulders that looked extremely hard were all collected by her in the space.
Anyway, the space is big enough, everything can be collected.
Ye Qing frowned and hurried to catch up.
When the two returned to the platform at the entrance of the cave, Song Qian and Kong Wu had not returned yet.
The light in the cave became a little darker.
A cold wind began to blow into the cave.
There was no sign of Sun Jingtao and Su Dai.
From the sound, the two seemed to be killing fish on the boat outside the cave.
At the edge of the cave entrance, there was a pile of wet dead branches.
They should have been salvaged by Sun Jingtao and his team in the water.
These branches are wet now, but after a few days of wind on the boat, they may be used later.
In the open flat ground in the middle, there was a rectangular stone stove made of broken stones.
Under the stone stove, there were a handful of dead grass and a few dead branches.
The number was not large, and they should have been picked up near the platform just now.
On top of the stone stove, there was a household screen.
At first glance, it looked like a barbecue grill.
From the sound of Su Dai and her husband talking outside, they had grilled fish tonight.
And according to Song Qian's previous analysis, they would consume the heaviest fish first.
As for the fried rice, instant noodles, compressed biscuits, etc., they would be saved for last.
It would be more convenient to carry them when there was no waterway in the later stage.
"You even dismantled this?" Jiang Yan said in surprise, looking at the screen.
The wisdom of the working people is always endless.
Ye Qing smiled and put down the bundle of wood:
"Well, I brought four or five pieces. Originally, I was thinking of putting them together to make a fish cage. Unexpectedly, I picked up so many fish on the way today."
Now, it's like going back to primitive society.
As long as something can be reused, everyone will basically not let it go.
Not to mention anything else, even Jiang Yan herself can collect all those big stones into the space.
Ye Qing picked up a piece of wood, and with a "snap", the wrist-thick wood was chopped into two halves by the fire axe.
Sun Jingtao and Su Dai also came in at this time.
Their faces were red and they smelled of fish.
Their hands were also red, but they should be frozen red by the water.
Sun Jingtao rolled up his sleeves and held a stainless steel basin in his hand. There were four or five fish that had been killed, washed, and cut in half.
Su Dai took a plastic bag filled with a large bag of fish roe, fish maw, etc.
"Jiang Yan, Xiao Ye, you are back!"
Su Dai saw the bundle of wood and said excitedly, "You actually found so many firewoods, it's amazing!"
"Well, we just found a plank road that we dismantled." Ye Qing said.
"Ah, if we demolish the plank road, how will others go in the future--" Su Dai stopped talking halfway, and then laughed self-deprecatingly:
"Well, look at me, it's already this time, what are you still thinking about in the future."
The others also smiled bitterly for a second.
"Haven't Brother Song and the others come back yet?" Ye Qing asked while chopping wood.
Su Dai nodded: "Yeah."
Sun Jingtao glanced into the cave, and finally held back some words.
The four of them actually had a lot of doubts to discuss face to face, but now was obviously not the right time.
In just a minute or two, the footsteps and voices of Song Qian and Kong Wu were heard in the cave.
There was also the dull sound of heavy objects dragging the ground.
Several people turned their heads in unison, and saw Song Qian carrying a raft tied with a hemp rope that was about to fall apart and appeared at the corner.
Kong Wu was holding a large bag in his left hand.
Looking at the scattered grass and mud on it, he should have taken away a bunch of bird nests or something.
In his right hand, he was holding a few scorpions tied with straw ropes.
A bunch of arm-long, translucent yellow-brown scorpions.
The backs of the scorpions were pierced by daggers, and the poisonous stingers on the tails were neatly cut off.
"." Jiang Yan couldn't help but take a breath.
"You guys have a great harvest!" Su Dai's pupils shrank, and goose bumps appeared on her hands instantly.
"Not bad, we've encountered everything! We can have an extra meal tonight! This is Bear Grylls' favorite high-protein food!" Kong Wu put the bag and scorpions on the ground and said happily.
Ye Qing looked at the huge scorpions and frowned slightly.
If the "rustling" sounds heard just now were made by these scorpions,
the scale and number can be imagined.
Sun Jingtao took the raft from Song Qian, looked at the scorpion, and said, "Brother Song, this--"
"It's most likely mutated. These scorpions are extremely aggressive. We just found a lot of skeletons in other caves. They should have taken refuge here before.
The clothes on their bodies haven't faded much, but there are only a pile of bones left."
Song Qian finished his words concisely and arranged Kong Wu, "Kong Wu, go to the boat to get some gasoline."
Su Dai was a little puzzled, "Brother Song, we will make grilled fish later and use alcohol to ignite it. I'm afraid that gasoline can't be used for grilling."
"It's not for grilling, it's for defending against those scorpions." Sun Jingtao on the side glanced at his wife and gave her some scientific advice:
"Scorpions are carnivorous animals with a very sensitive sense of smell. They are particularly afraid of irritating smells such as paint, gasoline, and kerosene. We will apply gasoline at the entrance of the cave later, which should be able to temporarily repel the scorpions for a while."
It was getting dark outside.
The few people had finally found this temporary shelter, so they would certainly not be scared away by a few mutant scorpions.
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