Chapter 6: Immortal Wall (Part 3)
In the flashlight, countless bats danced like demons, covering the sky and the ground. The group walked forward with difficulty.
Ten minutes later, Temulun cursed in Tibetan under his breath and said through gritted teeth: "Why won't this bastard leave?!"
Yes... the bats were always above them, unwilling to leave, just like... a lion seeing a sick antelope and patiently waiting for the latter to run out of energy.
"It's these luminous plants." Jiang Xian said fiercely through his teeth, "Bats are slightly phototactic. This is because they like to catch luminous mosquitoes. And these luminous plants... perfectly simulate the swarm of insects. They create an illusion for the bats. So... the bats won't leave unless the spores disperse!"
"Then... why did they attack us?" Zhao Boli asked with some embarrassment as the group stood back to back.
Jiang Xian said coldly: "Because bats are omnivorous. Most of them eat fruits, but they also eat mosquitoes and moths! They rely on sound waves to locate us. In their eyes, we are just large moving insects or fruits. A bite is no big deal!"
He looked at Zhao Boli deeply and said, "As for you, you have been bitten by so many bats. You are infected with countless viruses. If you cannot get to the hospital within a few hours, I'm afraid... it depends on how strong your life is."
"Then why are we moving forward?" Temulun asked anxiously.
"I want to go back too! Can we get up the rope? I don't know if I can be obedient!" Jiang Xian turned around and shouted, "Bats adapt to light very quickly! As long as we go up the rope, we will be attacked immediately! The spores of all the luminous plants are in the air! That's where the bats are most densely populated!"
He turned around and spat: "This is a fucking trap, a trap that someone else had already set up!"
Spraying spores, mimicking insects, seducing bats... serial killings complement each other. This is the last warning from the master here. However, they have crossed this line.
Temulun opened his mouth, turned his head away and cursed, "Fuck!"
Jiang Xian's chest was heaving violently. He calmed down and said after a moment's silence, "The reason we are moving forward is because bats will not stay in a place without light. The presence of light means there is an exit. At the speed these bats are flying, it may take us more than an hour to get there. But... this may be the only way out."
How did the beast get through? Jiang Xian suddenly had this question in his mind. But it was obviously not something he could solve at the moment. He had already quickened his pace: "Hurry! We must go as far as we can before the bats here get used to the strong light!"
At this moment, he suddenly felt a pain in his back. Before he could twist his body, a flashlight had already hit his back, and a bat screamed and flew away.
"How can they come down?!" Zhao Boli's voice was a little hoarse. He stared at the bats dancing in the sky, and it felt like they were going to rush down in the next second.
"Their speed of adapting to light is not too slow!" Jiang Xian has already started running: "Don't you see that there may be bats lying on incandescent lamps? And there are bats flying around the electric lights in rural homes! Hurry up! Run at full speed! Run as far as you can!"
The group of people ran quickly.
Five minutes... ten minutes, bats kept falling and being driven away. The dim light of the five lonely flashlights cut through the darkness and passed through the dark clouds of bats. Just after thirty minutes, one of the lights suddenly dimmed. Then... it flashed.
Swish, swish, swish! Everyone looked over. Zhao Boli pushed the flashlight in his hand desperately, but the light could not be restored to the original level.
The dancing darkness seemed to pause as well.
"What are you standing there for! Get the battery from your backpack!" Song Lianshi shouted. Zhao Boli nodded blankly, and then... he actually fell down.
The place where he fell happened to be exactly in the direction of Zhao Yazhi. Because it was too sudden, Zhao Yazhi was not prepared at all, so... With a thud, he looked at the flashlight that rolled to the ground not far away.
Time seemed to stop at this moment.
No one had expected such a sudden change. At the moment when the flashlights in Zhao Boli and Zhao Yazhi's hands fell almost at the same time, a sharp hissing suddenly broke out from the dark, menacing sky.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak!!”
Immediately afterwards...black clouds turned into ink!
Oh shit!!
Jiang Xian only had these two words in his mind. He knew very well that the more explorers there were, the better. If their teammates died one by one, it would probably mean that they would never get out of this canyon again. Moreover, he never had the habit of selling out his teammates.
Without having time to speak, he turned over with the flashlight in his hand, and in the blink of an eye, he was lying on top of the unconscious Zhao Boli and the fallen Zhao Yazhi, his body curled up, but the flashlight in his hand was still waving straight up at the sky.
Time seemed to freeze. Jiang Xian huddled in his clothes. He didn't know if he would be able to make it in time. Perhaps the next second, a rain of bats would fall. He even stopped breathing. In his heart, his mind was more empty than ever before. He counted attentively: one, two, three...
In less than three seconds, two and a half seconds, he opened his eyes and stared at the sky.
He didn't pounce down... He only felt his fingers trembling so badly that the flashlight was almost scratched. His entire vest was cold. He only had the flashlight in his hand, and he instinctively pointed it upwards.
It was this instinctive action that scared the bat back at the critical moment.
"Are you okay?" This voice seemed to come from another world. Jiang Xian stroked his pounding chest and shook his head with dry lips. Then he stood up desperately, looked directly at Song Lianshi and said, "This won't work."
"We can't make it that far!"
He pointed to the road ahead. Although they didn't know where the road was, the green Milky Way floating in the sky was their signpost.
"The further we go, the more spores and bats we see! These luminous plants rely on bats to spread their spores! I suspect these spores even have hallucinogenic properties! However, they are not for humans, but for small animals! We can't afford to delay!"
"Then what should we do?" Song Lianshi pursed his lips tightly. Even he had never experienced such a scene.
This is a hundred times more terrifying than being a criminal.
Jiang Xian closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. Three seconds later, he opened them and said calmly, "Fire!"
"If I remember correctly, there is kerosene in the backpack! Take off your clothes and light it! Bats are more afraid of high temperatures than strong light! Fire is the source of fear for all beasts! As long as we make a big torch and use a flashlight to illuminate the back, we can rush through here!"
Just as he finished speaking, there was a sound of rummaging beside him. Temulun panted and brought a bottle of kerosene: "Do you want more?"
"Enough!" Song Lianshi took off his camouflage uniform without hesitation, took out a trekking pole, wrapped a big circle around the pole head, then sprinkled kerosene on it and ignited it with a lighter.
boom--!!
The extremely high temperature and boiling flames instantly ignited. Bats from all directions screamed together and suddenly spread out in a large circle. Even the luminous spores could not attract them.
This is an innate fear that is engraved in the bones of wild beasts.
"Run!!!" Jiang Xian pulled up Zhao Yazhi, Song Lianshi carried the unconscious Zhao Boli on his back, Temulun was in front holding a torch, and the other four were behind, rushing forward at a full speed of five kilometers.
Zhu Rong cleared the way, and all the bats moved aside as he passed by. Under the beautiful yet murderous green Milky Way, he burned a path!
When you are in extreme emotions, you cannot feel the passage of time.
You can only feel the changes in your body belatedly.
They didn't know how long they had been running, sprinting at full speed, maybe twenty minutes, maybe only ten minutes, adding all other flammable materials to the torches. Just as Song Lianshi was panting like a bellows and asked, "How far is it?", Jiang Xian's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Stalagmites?" He blinked, his eyes were a little sore from staring at . When he looked at the stalagmites, he almost shed physiological tears.
"What means?"
Jiang Xian didn't have time to answer, he looked carefully. The more he looked, the brighter his eyes became.
Not just a stalagmite...but also, a stalagmite forest!
"This is a cave!" He turned around and whispered excitedly, "Since it's a cave, it means... there is an underground river nearby!"
"What's wrong with the underground river?" Temulun was almost dying and asked hoarsely.
Jiang Xian said in a deep voice: "Plants need water to grow! The underground river...I'm afraid that's where the luminous plant spores will end up!"
Survival of the fittest. In extreme environments, this evolutionary rule will be evolved to the extreme.
As long as you rush past the final landing point of the spores, the bat will not become a killing target!
Hearing this news, Song Lianshi didn't know where he got the strength from. He roared like an ox, and actually exerted more strength, carrying Zhao Boli on his back and rushing to Jiang Xian. The speed of several people, just like Cao Jun in the story of looking at plums to quench thirst, once again accelerated.
Two minutes... three minutes... and five minutes later, an extremely faint light appeared before their eyes!
Sunlight.
"Am I... hallucinating?" Song Lianshi stared at the light in a daze, but his body moved instinctively like Kuafu: "Leader... you said... bats won't stay in a place where there is no light. The presence of light means there is an exit... um, um, remember it..."
"It's the exit." At this time, you can't say maybe or possibly. You just need to give them some support.
" Ah ...
A cave entrance appeared vaguely at the end of the field of vision.
Strands of sunlight quietly fall from inside.
It was like a shot of stimulant. Before we saw it, everyone was guessing and worried. But when it really appeared, it was like an athlete injected with stimulant. Everyone lowered their heads and rushed towards the cave entrance without saying a word.
Three hundred meters... two hundred meters... one hundred meters!
Swish! As they rushed through the hole, everyone's pupils slightly opened.
The long-lost sunshine... the fresh air... was just like an exhausted traveler in the desert drinking a can of water, draining away all the energy in his body. Everyone collapsed at the door, gasping for breath, and no one had the energy to speak.
"Heh..." Everything in front of him was equally shocking, but Song Lianshi no longer had the energy to marvel. He leaned against the stone wall, tiredly opening his red eyes and breathing heavily.
Next to him, the unconscious Zhao Boli was lying. Next to him, Zhao Yazhi took out a water bottle from her backpack and took a few gulps. Then she collapsed to the ground like a noodle.
Temulun seemed to have his soul sucked out of him. He leaned against the stone wall and looked up, greedily absorbing every ray of sunlight.
Only Jiang Xian did not relax. Because... they were still in the cave.
What appeared before them... was an endless underground river!
No...it's an underground lake.
The water flow was very calm, not like the rushing underground river. The flow was barely noticeable. And the weird thing was… rays of sunlight were projected from above, forming misty bands of light on the lake.
It's like the Garden of Eden after a catastrophe.
