I stayed in the cave for five hours, waiting for the soldiers to rest.
Josiah and the gene soldiers set out first, clearing the way ahead.
ten minutes later.
Little Eric took the team to keep up. Because of the need for rotation, more than 200 soldiers left half of them to stay in the cave.
"Strange, I haven't seen a monster for a long time? Do they know we're coming and hiding? " Griffin has been careful, but he found that his worry is a bit superfluous. After walking in the dark mud swamp for a long time, no animal appeared, let alone attacked.
"This may be an anomaly." Lin Dong, please be careful.
"No movement or abnormality?" Griffins don't understand.
"Yes." Lin Dong nodded.
"Why?" Even fox next to him was curious.
"There are no animals around. If there are some powerful animals on the surface outside, they will threaten and make animals disappear. For example, the tiger, its appearance will let the animals in the forest compete to avoid. In the same way, if it's snakes, if King Cobra appears in a place, then all kinds of snakes in that place will disappear. The rats we met before are very powerful, hungry and crazy, but there is not a mouse here, not even an underground creature, which is unreasonable! " Lin Dong cited these examples to illustrate.
"Hiss!" The Griffin took a cool breath: "if you say so, isn't there a monster here that is much more powerful than the rats?"
"I hope not." Lin Dong said that everyone felt numb immediately.
"Now what? Back in the cave? " Little Eric doesn't want to have a super monster that's more terrifying than rats to come out of the dark.
"What we need more is calm. Maybe we are in the hunting range of monsters. If we show weakness, the situation will be more dangerous. You've been here many times before and haven't been attacked by this powerful monster, so it may be dormant or completely ignoring our existence. I hope humans are not in each other's diet. After all, powerful monsters don't lack food like rats. " Lin Dong said that everyone's heart was finally comforted.
"We have to get out of this place and speed up the March." Josiah, who was on the way ahead, was also shocked when he heard the report from little Eric.
The soldiers oppressed fear.
Speed up the pace.
About an hour and a half forward, the distance of the dark sparse finally have all kinds of movement.
The soldiers were moved when they saw a few mutant giant rat like shadows darting away from the flashlight.
Finally escaped, did not experience the threat of death, simply can't imagine so shadow over the bottom of the heart of terror!
After walking more than half of the marsh mud, there began to be large rocks in some places on the ground, with countless luminous mushrooms growing on them. These luminous mushrooms can not provide lighting, on the contrary, they emit a kind of faint light, which looks very strange. Lin Dong examined these mushrooms with a flashlight and found that there was a food chain system around them.
Mushrooms glow and attract insects or small animals.
The long legged spider hidden in the mushroom will kill these cheated prey and suck them into mummies. The excrement of long legged spiders, as well as the remains of insects and small animals, turns into nutrients for mushrooms.
Next to some mushrooms, there's a giant frog that's higher up the food chain.
Each of them is estimated to weigh several kilos and is generally large in size.
It's ugly beyond description.
Mouth and back, there are a variety of black thorns, very few species even eyelids have thorns, it looks disgusting.
"Mr. wood, why are you interested in these little animals?" The female soldier in charge of escorting Lin Dong couldn't help but wonder why he was interested in such ugly giant frogs and long legged spiders. In contrast, isn't the huge mutant rat group worth studying? However, seeing that Lin Dong was interested, she volunteered: "do you want me to catch one back?"
"No, I just want to see the level of radiation pollution around here. According to the genetic variation of organisms, I'm afraid it won't be far away from pollution. At least, this direction is correct. " Lin Dong made his judgment.
"Do you want to move on, or do you want to take a break before you start?" Young Eric asks Lin Dong for advice.
"Go on!" Lin Dong is not a bookworm.
Another three hours.
Josiah in front stopped.
He came back with the gene soldiers, frowning, with a very serious look, and said to everyone, "the road we explored before has disappeared!"
How could the road explored disappear?
You don't want to take us there, do you?
Philip and fox look at each other.
Big Ivan wanted to talk, but Philip shook his head at him.
Josiah looked at Lindong and explained, "we have marked the road we have explored before, but the marked place is flooded. The place we passed before was a swamp with a small amount of rocks, but now it has completely become a land of glory. Not to mention the ground, we can't even find half a rock. "
"How long has it been since you last explored?" Lin Dong thought about it and asked.
"Less than a month." Josiah road.
"Depth of water?" Asked Lin Dong.
"We've tried. The depth of the water is more than two meters in a few steps." Josiah said that the soldiers are too heavy to swim across armed forces. Besides, this is an underground world. If there are monsters in the water, they will be wiped out.
"Maybe it's the infiltration of groundwater. Have you ever touched any mechanism before?" Lin Dong raised the possibility.
"I don't think so. We've always been careful." Josiah said so, but big Ivan suspected that this guy was lying. According to Uncle Sam's urination, if they saw any mechanism, they would not touch it? It's the cowboys who don't know what to do! Without touching the underground mechanism, it is impossible to suddenly find many large-scale areas with a water depth of more than two meters at the bottom of the earth without any reason. It's just that up to now, people are too lazy to tear them down.
"Take a detour!" Lin Dong does not think that swimming in unknown waters is a right thing.
"However, we haven't explored the detour area, which is likely to bring about unknown changes and dangers!" Josiah suggested that we should be cautious. It's better to withdraw the cave for a while, and then re explore it when we have a good rest. Anyway, there's a lot of time.
"Go and have a look first. Maybe more places will be flooded next!" Lin Dong suspected that this kind of area was just the beginning.
Once the groundwater penetrates, the total amount is very large.
Maybe the whole swamp will turn into a big lake.
Fortunately, at present, Ze district is only a low-lying area. Since the swamp passed, there was obviously a downhill. When the long slope was finished, then it was Ze district. A vast expanse of water, in the dark underground space, I do not know how broad. It's really stupid to swim from above. However, the next question comes again. If we really want to make a detour, how can we make a detour?
"Mr. wood!" The female soldier escorting Lin Dong suggested: "Mary has an inflatable raft in her backpack, but it can only be used by two people!"
"Our soldiers also have some inflatable rafts. We can do this. We can go there first, and then send the soldiers back and forth, so many times. On the one hand, it does not affect our progress; on the other hand, it does not need to take a detour on unfamiliar roads that have not been explored. " Professor Jeffrey made the best of both worlds suggestion.
"If the waters are safe, that's a good idea!" Lin Dong used a flashlight to shoot slowly on the dark water.
There was no vision at first.
But.
It's been a long time.
We found that there was a strange light on the water surface, like fireflies, but they couldn't fly.
Fox and the women soldiers, quickly help to shine with the flashlight, Griffins they have joined, hoping to see what those firefly like light is. Soon more light spots appeared, too many to calculate, and floated on the water.
"Is that a glowing insect?" Big Ivan's voice trembled. He knew it was not, but he hoped that Lin Dong would confirm his guess.
"Crocodile eyes, at night, crocodile eyes are like this." The Griffin cursed loudly: "Damn, the water is full of crocodiles. Fortunately, we didn't get into the water, otherwise, we would be their happy snacks!"
"It's not a crocodile!" Fox put down his telescope.
"It's not a crocodile. What's that?" The Griffin grabbed the telescope in her hand, and the whole person was stunned.
Because he found that the water was full of monsters that looked like crocodiles. Their eyes are tiny, but their bodies are surprisingly large. From their floating back, they are a bit like toads. Different from toads, they also have a very thick and slightly flat tail behind them. This cunning species has been hidden under the water, until the flashlight light attraction, just slowly floating up.
If it wasn't for Lin Dong, I would have listened to Professor Geoffrey's suggestion to take an inflatable raft.
I'm afraid more than a hundred people can't even get rid of the dregs.
Professor Geoffrey was livid.
Little Eric swallowed a mouthful of saliva nervously and waved to the soldiers to step back and leave the dangerous waters.
"Try it out!" Josiah's courage was like cast iron. He ordered a soldier to pick up the rat meat that had been sealed before, weigh it, and then hurl it into the water tens of meters away.
The meat of the rat was thrown on the water and splashed.
Those monsters seem very timid.
It sank in an instant.
Disappeared without a trace.
For a long time, this creature did not appear again, as if scared away by that piece of rat meat.
"Ha ha ha, these cowards! I dare say they are vegetarians, otherwise they would not be so huge! From their ugly and defensive appearance, this kind of "crocodile frog" should be a relatively low food chain. They may eat some fish and shrimp, or eat some insects, but they can't attack humans. They don't have the aggressiveness of carnivores at all, and only low-level creatures can attract light! The most important thing is that crocodile frogs are gregarious. Even if they are gregarious, large carnivorous creatures will not exist in thousands. This is the patent of vegetarian animals, such as wildebeest or buffalo in the prairie! Don't panic. Crocodile frogs don't attack people. They may just be a kind of frog, but no matter how they change, they are still a kind of frog! Judging from their variation, we are not far away from the source of radiation pollution! " Professor Jeffrey laughs and is eager to save face. He not only throws his schoolbag to analyze each other's carnivorous habits, but also claims to name the creature crocodile frog as a kind of frog.
"Try another piece!" Lindong asked Josiah to continue.
"Dong!"
Another piece of rat meat was thrown into the water.
However, the sinking crocodile frog did not respond at all, as if it had been scared to run away.
Looking at Lin Dong, is this really a frog with a false appearance? How big is Bai Chang?
Lin Dong motioned to the female soldiers nearby to untie the backpack, pour out the contents, and then put on a large stone. At the same time, he told the female soldiers to help: "give me an inflatable raft! I'll test it again! "
The inflatable raft inflated quickly.
Lin Dong put the backpack with stones on it. After thinking about it, he motioned to the female soldier to take off her clothes, and even put her submachine gun on the edge of the inflatable raft.
The woman soldier did it with a little shyness. She took off her bulletproof jacket and showed a body-building figure in a vest. Fox and Griffin help push the inflatable raft into the water.
The inflatable raft drifted forward slowly under the driving force.
There has been no movement.
However, when it was about 20 meters offshore, it slowly drifted to a position 30 or 40 meters away from the sinking area of crocodile frog.
The water roared, and the whole inflatable raft soared into the sky. Several crocodile frogs burst out of the water with lightning speed, opened their ferocious mouths, and fiercely devoured the inflatable raft in mid air and the backpack thrown up.