Chapter 177 - A New World
When the army was moving towards the south from the north of the Huang Lian Mountain Range, Xiao Bai and I separated up at a mountain peak in the northwest of the Huang Lian Mountain Range. The place the Spider Queen is currently at is also the place where I, Xiao Bai and the female Boss were separated from each other back then.
Back then, Whitey and the others had fallen off the cliff and there was no news of them ever since. That cliff was right below the cliff. Was it possible that Whitey and the others had fallen into the rift?
If Lil 'White and the others fell into the rift, they would most likely die.
Thinking about that girl, Xiao Bai, who only knows how to speak simple words, and female Boss, who has always been by my side the whole time, I felt my heart ache.
Am I never going to see them again?
Thinking about Little White and female Boss, I couldn't help but lower my head, not daring to look at that mountain peak, that cliff.
"Then, enter the mountain."
After the Spider Queen heard Qing Han's words, he pondered for a moment before coldly ordering his subordinates to lead the way into the mountain. However, Spider Queen added, "You will be at the front."
As expected, Spider Queen did not completely trust Qinghan, so she still allowed Qinghan Ye to lead the way.
Qing Han's face withered. She didn't say anything. She just looked at me deeply before lowering her head. Her long hair fell down as she walked to the front of the group.
"Qing Han!" I couldn't help but call Qing Han, but she didn't turn around. Instead, it was Spider Queen who gave me a dark and fierce glare.
Seeing Spider Queen's expression, I clenched my fists and shut my mouth.
After that, the Spider Queen's Golden Lion was also put down the carriage. With only one hand holding onto the iron chain, he followed behind Spider Queen like a pug.
When the female bandit s let the Golden Lion off the carriage, I paid attention to the number of off-road vehicles parked at the edge of the forest. After roughly counting, I discovered that the number of off-road vehicles had increased to 20. Weird, previously on the road, I remember the number of off-road vehicles is 21, now why did it return to its original number? Was I wrong?
I didn't pay much attention to this detail, because soon enough we were all in the jungle and I had to follow.
Although I had reached a dead end, it was probably because of the memories of the 21st century. When I entered the forest, my mind suddenly recalled the dark jungle from the game "Underground City and the Brave Warriors" in the 21st century.
Right now, the forest covered the sky and the ground. The ground was covered with moss almost 10 centimeters thick, and there was even a thick fog that lingered in the forest. It was quite a mysterious atmosphere from the adventure film. Wooden vines could be seen everywhere in the rain forest. Some were as thick as 20-30 cm and as long as 300 meters. They climbed from tree to tree, from tree to tree, from tree to tree top and from tree top to tree top. They intertwined and intertwined like dense webs.
Although it was broad daylight, it was still very dark inside the forest. Within the primeval forest, there would be banyan trees that were hundreds or even thousands of years old every few dozen meters, and there were also countless Twin Leaves that were covered with plants. The primeval forest was truly the kingdom of plants.
If I were to walk alone in the forest, my biggest worry would be that I would run into a wild beast, but this time it would be different. Spider Queen brought a giant lion with him.
After the giant lion entered the forest, under the whip of the Spider Queen, it let out a loud roar. The terrifying roar of the lion shook the entire area, shaking the heavens and the earth, the terrifying roar drilled into the gap between the trees, spreading far into the distance.
Since ancient times, China had always had the idiom of a river lion roaring, and the terrifying roar of a lion could be imagined. Under the roar of a giant lion, the wild beasts in the forest began to flee, and the little wild beasts hiding in the forest, like moles, hyenas, hares, hedgehogs and so on, all ran away very fast. They all escaped from the bushes and ran desperately into the depths of the jungle. As for the wild birds in the forest, they flew towards the sky in large groups. For a time, there were wild birds flying about everywhere in the forest like clouds.
"Hahahaha" Seeing those wild animals fleeing in panic, the Spider Queen laughed out loud. After laughing, she pulled the giant lion's chain and indicated for us to continue moving forward.
Everyone was shocked by the Spider Queen's deterrence. Although this woman was crazy, she was not simple.
The Spider Queen removed all the obstacles in the way easily, and during the rest of the journey, we didn't encounter any wild beasts that suddenly appeared. Traveling through the dense forest was as easy as walking through a desert.
After we had traveled through the forest for almost an hour and a half, the trees ahead of us became sparser. Then, a black rift suddenly appeared in front of us all.
It was a 10 kilometer long ravine. I don't know what kind of earth-shaking fissure caused by the earth's crust movement, but when I approached it, I was really shocked.
The rift's shape was similar to a cut watermelon, but it also looked like a half-opened mouth. The rift was dark and deep, the opening wasn't big, it was only about ten meters long, the narrowest place was even just one meter long, but the bottom of the rift looked very scary. This rift seemed to be a structure of upper and lower width, the further down the rift the wider it became, and because the rift was relatively narrow, the bottom of the rift couldn't be seen.
Looking from the edge of the ravine, the ravine was hundreds of meters wide. Vines hung down from the cliffs on both sides of the ravine, intertwined, and became a network of dense webs that were covered with all kinds of moss and dangerous trees that grew horizontally.
Although this rift was very deep, it was not without a way down. There were two sloping underground mountains at the two ends of the rift, and they were like a staircase that allowed people to walk down.
Spider Queen stood at the edge of the rift with her giant lion and narrowed her eyes. After looking around, she ordered the members of the search for treasure to follow the edge of the rift and walk all the way to the end.
Almost no one spoke along the way. We walked about five kilometers down the rift, finally stopping at a narrow triangular gap where there was a slope to go down.
The bottom of the rift was extremely dark, with no end in sight. No one could guess what kind of earth-shattering secret was hidden underneath. However, all the female bandit s were in high spirits, as if they had already seen a golden city.
Spider Queen ordered the members of the Treasure Seeking team to investigate the terrain around the rift. After confirming the general topography, she ordered them to go down through the gap in the rift.
"Earth!" "Let's go!"
The Spider Queen led her lion, her military boots stepping on the ground, she walked majestically in the middle of the crowd, while Qing Han and a few other female bandit led the way. Qing Han looked very nervous, after all, she knew the place she was going to very well, and all she knew was the password and information recorded in the ancient books.
"Darling, let's go."
Spider Queen turned her head and gave me a charming and dark smile. I squinted my eyes and followed the group down the slope of the rift.
I don't know how many mosses and leaves I stepped on along the way, but as we went down into the valley, the light grew dimmer and dimmer around us. The lush forest and grassy land became a wall, and those with claustrophobia would probably break out in a cold sweat at the sight of the damp and dark mountains that surrounded us.
The ravine was hundreds of meters deep, and the slope was longer. We walked down for more than a kilometer, and by the time we reached the bottom of the ravine, I could smell the thick musty smell of fallen leaves, but the light from above was already very dim.
The further down they went, the more humid the ground became. The temperature in the tropics was very high, and the air was filled with the smell of rotting plants and animals.
After walking for about half an hour, the hundred of us finally reached the bottom of the valley. When we reached the bottom, I was stunned once again.
The forest here was very tall and thick, and was even older than the ground. Furthermore, the leaves were sparse, and the leaves were dark, as if it was trying to absorb more sunlight to make them darker.
Underneath the rift, there was actually an ancient Dark Forest. It was truly an eye-opener.
What was even more surprising was that this dark forest didn't grow on mud, it was filled with spacious swamps, meandering streams, and potholes. Most of the trees in this dark forest were rooted in swamps, and some even drilled straight out of the water.
The sight of the Rift Valley was indeed an eye-opener, but compared to the Golden City, it was not enough to make anyone feel pity. Under Qing Han's lead, the treasure hunt continued forward.
Although the underground crevices are filled with swamps and pools of water, there are also some narrow highlands that people can pass through.
The soil on the ground was soft and wet, and although I tried to walk where there were no swamps, my military boots would sink into the ground, making it very difficult to walk.
As the treasure hunt went deeper, we gradually entered the Dark Forest. After entering the Dark Forest, the surrounding light became even more dim, and the members of the treasure hunt had no choice but to take out their searchlights to illuminate our surroundings, this way we could ensure that we could clearly see our surroundings and avoid falling into the swamps.
I followed the group and traveled through the Dark Forest for a few hundred meters. The next moment, the people in front of us stopped and the panicked cries of the female bandit came from up ahead.
"Clocker Drip (Crocodile)!"
I didn't know Vietnamese at the time, so I didn't understand what they meant, but when I looked ahead, I was shocked.
This was because in the middle of the dark forest in front of them was a huge swamp area, and at the edge of the swamp were dozens of giant brown crocodiles. These crocodiles had long, slender bodies, crocodile skin covered in lumps, and their long, pointed tails were like spikes.
What was even more chilling was that each of those crocodiles was over 3 meters long!
Just as I was panicking, a shout came from behind us.
"Clocker Drip (Crocodile)!"
Hearing this sound, I hastily turned my head around and discovered that there were dozens of terrifying Iron Giant Alligators crawling out from the relatively small swamps behind us!
Shit, we're surrounded by crocodiles!