Chapter 71 Professor Chen
"You ask me if there are dragons?" Li Daming said.
Wang Yuantong nodded.
"Then you might as well ask your heels. I don't know more than your heels." Li Daming teased.
Wang Yuantong chuckled, this kid is just pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.
Li Daming pointed to the innermost part and said, "Let's go." We walked in.
The more we walked, the thicker the steam became, and even I had trouble breathing. They were like walking in the desert, and every step required a lot of effort.
After walking a short distance, the three of them were panting and their heads were full of water. They couldn't tell whether it was water vapor or sweat.
Li Daming encouraged them and said that they would reach the destination if they just held on. Wang Yuantong took over all the equipment from Chen Jian. The child was like an idiot, confused and dazed, and Li Daming held his hand and told him to go and stop whenever he wanted.
Wang Yuantong was carrying a lot of weights on his body, panting like a cow, and his steps became more and more unsteady. He was walking without paying attention to his feet and fell flat on his face.
Li Daming went over to help him up, and Wang Yuantong cursed: "Fuck his ancestors, what the hell is that on the ground?"
They shone their flashlights over there, and saw a set of black things that looked like clothes lying on the ground about a meter away. The two looked at each other, and Li Daming walked over, carefully poked it with his feet twice, and then picked up the black thing with the flashlight.
When we unfolded it, we were all shocked.
This is a black diving suit, without oxygen equipment, just a water-proof one-piece suit. Chen Jian, who was in a daze, screamed: "Diving suit! My dream!"
Neither Li Daming nor Wang Yuantong spoke. Even I felt a rattling in my throat, and I felt an indescribable creepiness. This scene had appeared in Chen Jian's dream a long time ago.
Chen Jian came over to grab it: "Give it to me."
Li Daming let him take it away. Chen Jian unfolded his clothes, unzipped the back, and put them on himself, first putting his feet in, and then slowly putting them on.
By the time he put it on, it fit him perfectly in terms of size, height, weight, as if it was tailor-made for him.
Chen Jian's face turned pale as paper, and he looked at Li Daming: "Captain, my dream has come true, it's true, it's true!"
Li Daming had nothing to say.
Chen Jian was shaking like a sieve: "Captain, in my dream I entered a pool where monsters lived. Should I... go into the water soon?"
Li Daming patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't be afraid. It's up to you whether to go into the water or not. No one is forcing you."
Wang Yuantong came over and said, "That's right, don't worry, if things get bad we can just run away."
Li Daming sneered softly. His subtext was that by then it might not be up to you.
We set out again, and not far away, the space suddenly opened up again, and gradually there was light in front of us. The sound of flowing water mixed together, there was water on the ground, and there were also water drops falling in the air, and it was difficult to distinguish for a while.
The air became sticky, and the noisy sound of water in my ears made me feel irritated and I wanted to leave here quickly.
We kept walking towards the light and saw a cave. After we walked in, Wang Yuantong shouted, "Captain, look!" He shone his flashlight over there, and in the spot of light, we saw a person sitting against the wall.
The spot of light fell on his face, and Li Daming took a deep breath: "Li Changjiang?!"
This person was Li Changjiang from the team of ten, and he was the first member to set off.
Li Changjiang was extremely scary, looking like a mummy, with deep eye sockets and a wide-open mouth. In the light, three strange black holes appeared on his face. The skin on the outside was tightly attached to the bones, and the flesh and tendons seemed to have been drained away. The corpse was looking straight at the ceiling of the cave, and the death was indescribably horrifying.
Li Daming squatted on the ground and observed carefully with a flashlight.
I was watching from the side and thought to myself that Li Daming was quite capable. When I saw a corpse like this, I really didn't have the courage to examine it carefully.
"How did he die?" Wang Yuantong asked.
Li Daming shook his head slightly. "I can't tell. It looks like something drained all his energy in an instant. To become a mummy like him, one must be buried in the desert for hundreds of years at least."
"I know what's going on." Chen Jian stood nearby and said tremblingly.
Li Daming looked at him: "What's going on?"
"It's a dragon, it's a dragon!" Chen Jian stammered, "It was the dragon in the pool that sucked away Brother Changjiang's soul." He sobbed.
Wang Yuantong said: "Don't talk nonsense! There are no dragons in this world..."
Before I finished speaking, a loud roar suddenly came from the depths of the cave. The sound was so loud that all of us present, including me, fell to the ground.
I was so shocked. I have no body, but I was impacted by this huge sound wave like duckweed in the sea.
My ears were buzzing. Originally there was only one sound, but if you listened carefully you could tell it was in layers, waves coming from deep inside. This roar lasted for at least a minute, and by the end it was getting smaller and smaller, with a faint lingering sound, like the highest note of a guqin played by an expert, a buzzing and sharp sound.
It seemed like someone was calling softly in my ears, "Jian'er... Jian'er...", but the voice faded away.
We all looked pale.
Wang Yuantong's throat moved: "Listen, did you hear that? The last sound seemed to be calling someone's name."
Chen Jian got up from the ground, tears streaming down his face, and said in a trembling voice: "Long, Long is calling me, it's my name, I am Jian'er!"
Li Daming yelled, "Calm down. If there really is a dragon, I want to see what it looks like!"
He walked in front, and Wang Yuantong held Chen Jian and followed closely. We passed through the cave and the view in front of us suddenly opened up.
A large amount of light pours down from the top of the cave, like a world-class color scheme composed by an oil painting master. Under the light is a lake, and the dark water surface gently ripples. On the underground lake, there is a stone beam arch bridge without railings, spanning the entire lake.
By the light, we saw a man standing in the middle of the arch bridge, with his arms outstretched, facing the sky, and the pouring light falling on him, like a prophet.
He seemed to be standing on a stage, illuminated.
"It's Professor Chen!" I said.
Li Daming said "hmm" and gestured to Wang Yuantong and Chen Jian to stay where they were. He walked slowly along the edge of the lake towards the arch bridge. "Professor Chen, is that you?"
I followed Li Daming. Although I couldn't help much, I could remind him of danger in time.
Professor Chen murmured, closed his eyes tightly, and immersed himself in the uneven light. His lips were raised, as if he was smiling.
"Professor Chen, is that you?" Li Daming shouted again.
Professor Chen slowly came back to his senses and looked at us. Li Daming and I were very close to the arch bridge. I gasped: "Damin, on the bridge!"
"I see." Li Daming said calmly.
On the arch bridge, around Professor Chen's feet, there were corpses everywhere. It was a bit far away, so I couldn't see them clearly, but from their outlines I could roughly recognize that they were members of the ten-member exploration team.
"Li Daming, you are finally here." Professor Chen pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a sharp white light flashed behind the lenses.
"Professor, what are you doing?" Li Daming asked.
Professor Chen walked back and forth on the arch bridge. The light provided a gorgeous stage. His voice echoed in the cave. "Under our feet, in this underground lake, there is the greatest discovery in the world."
At this time, Wang Yuantong came to our side protecting Chen Jian.
We gathered together and looked at Professor Chen nervously.
"There is a dragon hidden in the depths of the lake." Professor Chen's voice is very magnetic and full of bewitching. "For a long time, the dragon has been sleeping and can't wake up. This is the dragon's sleep. I am calling it, wake it up. It shouldn't sleep. It has the power to change the world and should change the world!"
"Is it awake?" Li Daming asked.
"Just a little bit more." Professor Chen gestured with his hands: "I need to sacrifice one more person, and it will wake up."
Li Daming and Wang Yuantong looked at each other.
"You don't have to be afraid." Professor Chen grinned, "You two can survive. I won't kill you. I only need one sacrifice." He stared at Chen Jian and spoke word by word, "My son!"
Chen Jian was shaking like a sieve and subconsciously hid behind Li Daming, "Dad, Dad..."
Professor Chen walked down the arch bridge step by step, staring at us, "Son, listen to your father and come here. Dad will take you to a great life!"
Wang Yuantong said hurriedly in a low voice: "Captain, I'll handle it for a while, you take Chen Jian and leave quickly!"
Li Daming looked at him with a calm expression.
Professor Chen walked down the arch bridge and came towards us. Wang Yuantong threw his backpack on the ground, pulled out a folding shovel from it, and bent it hard, and all the mechanisms straightened out, turning it into a large shovel.
He waved it twice, held it across his chest, and prepared to fight with all his concentration .
Chen Jian was retreating step by step. Li Daming asked, "Do you want to escape from here?"
Chen Jian nodded, tears welling up in his eyes: "I'm scared. I'm really scared."
At this time, Professor Chen was approaching, and Li Daming patted Chen Jian on the shoulder: "Remember this, the more afraid you are, the more you have to face it."
Chen Jian cried silently, almost suffocating, "Brother Da-Damin, I don't know why I am so, so scared, this hole, I am so scared..."
"Look at me!" Li Daming yelled, "You can't leave! You have to face it!"
Wang Yuantong turned around and looked at Li Daming in astonishment, and stopped calling him the captain: "Li Daming, I asked you to protect the child and leave first, what nonsense are you talking about!"