Soon, we got into the throat of Big Mouth. As the scenery changed, my attention was completely attracted by the magnificent caves all around.

There are all kinds of strange stones everywhere here, some look like animals, some look like human faces, and some look like furniture. We seem to have entered the showroom of an abstract master, and these wonderfully crafted stones are quietly waiting for guests to appreciate them.

The water in the underground river reflects a light blue light, and combined with the flashlights of several of us, it paints the entire cave with a psychedelic color.

I thought I would report this place to the tourism bureau when I go out. Wouldn’t it be such a waste to have such great resources quietly hidden in the mountains?

The team suddenly stopped. I turned on my flashlight and looked ahead - there was no way.

We searched in several directions, and found that besides rocks, there was only a stone wall inside the throat.

Glasses asked uncertainly: "Is the direction wrong? Should we go with the current?"

"You're so stupid. Look, the water is still flowing. How could it be a dead end?" Donghuang seemed to have a lot of experience. "There should be a road under the water."

"***, you want to go into the water again? My clothes have just been warm and dry!" The mouse spat, picked up a stone and threw it into the underground river. He squatted next to it and waited for a while and said, "The water is very slow, but it is definitely flowing from our direction.

from."

"Then let me go down and take a look." The weirdo took off his shoes and shirt, put the flashlight in his mouth, and walked down step by step.

Seeing the water gradually submerging his knees, waist and shoulders, I couldn't help but feel heartbroken and uncomfortable. How brave you are! If it were me, I would have gone back the same way. I would have killed myself if I didn't dive into the water to find my way!

He took a deep breath and dived in.

Donghuang patted me and asked: "Mei Yao, you said we fell in from the hole just now. This place should be inside the mountain, right?"

I recalled the structure of Jiuli Mountain and said with certainty: "Yes, the entrance of the cave is at the belly of the mountain. We have fallen down for a while, and we should be almost at the bottom of the mountain by now."

The mouse gave a thumbs up and said in admiration: "My boss is so awesome, who would have thought of moving a mountain and digging down again!"

I wondered: "Who is your boss?"

"The Overlord of Western Chu—Xiang Yu!"

I burst out laughing. It was the first time I heard such bragging. Who is Xiang Yu? What kind of high branches are you trying to reach?

Seeing my unconvinced expression, Mouse proudly continued to brag: "In China, the most awesome tomb is the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. Xiang Yu stole the Qin Mausoleum. He is the well-deserved boss among our industry!"

I looked at their equipment and asked curiously: "So, you are a tomb robbing gang?"

"No, no, no!" Donghuang hurriedly bowed his hands, "Only Mouse is the one, the rest of us are all decent people!"

"I don't like hearing this anymore. I also rely on labor for a living, right? Why is this so unserious!" Mouse extended his middle finger to Donghuang with a confused look on his face.

"Boom, boom, boom"

There was a rhythmic tapping sound coming from the stone wall.

Glasses picked up a stone and knocked it regularly on the stone wall.

"Bang bang" Stone Wall responded again.

"Let's go, there is a road under the water, our Brother Dao is waiting on the other side." Glasses picked up the shoes left by the weirdo and waved to us.

"I warmed my clothes all the way in vain!" the mouse cursed and jumped into the water helplessly.

I really don't want to touch the water again. I almost drowned an hour ago.

"It's okay, I'll go down with you."

As expected, the older one is the most reliable. Donghuang smiled slightly and helped me, who was shaking, into the water slowly.

I took a big breath and dived down. Under the illumination of Donghuang's flashlight, I discovered that there were small creatures swimming freely in the dark river! But before I could see clearly, they fled from me one after another and turned into

Small black dots swam out of the beam of light.

Dong Huang was still carrying a bag, so he swam very slowly.

Just when I regretted jumping down so recklessly with a stranger, a light spot suddenly appeared deep in the water. It was a rat standing there, giving us a signal with a flashlight.

When I swam closer, I discovered that there were a row of blocked holes hidden in the weeds under the stone wall!

The rat freed up his two hands inside and dragged us both through the hole and against the current. The weirdo caught up with us on the water and lifted me out.

I was so frozen that I used the puppy shaking trick to shake the mouse. He rolled his eyes at me and tried to use the same trick, but unfortunately his hair was really short and it had no effect at all.

"Master Dong, we have really come in." The weirdo pointed at the center of the river.

When I shined my flashlight, I saw a huge rock protruding from the center of the underground river, with an indistinct stone pillar standing on it.

"Great, we really went to the right place for Children's Day!" Mouse rubbed his hands excitedly, "Hurry over and have a look!"

"Wait a minute." Donghuang stopped him and shined a flashlight on the top of the stone pillar. "It's not normal. Take a look at this first."

We all looked up and saw many motionless, bat-like things hanging upside down in the large and small holes on the top of the wall above the stone pillars.

The mouse took a breath of cold air and asked doubtfully: "What's so good about this? It's a bit big, but isn't it the most normal thing to have bats in the cave?"

"That's not normal! What do they eat?" The weirdo's left eye seemed to be a little reflective in the dark.

"What to eat? How do I know, eating rats? Anyway, they can't eat them as big as I am."

I looked around and there were no other exits on the ground. I also felt very strange: "Bats can't swim and can't get out of underwater holes. How do they survive?"

When I asked this, the mouse became more vigilant: "**, that's right! What can they eat to survive here?"

"Keep your voice down, don't wake them up yet." The weirdo whispered, "Master Dong, turn on the small light."

Donghuang quickly removed the light spot of the flashlight from the huge bat, took out what looked like a searchlight from his bag, opened it and placed it on the ground.

The searchlight emits a soft and diffuse light, but illuminates a wide range. We all turned off the flashlights and gathered together to observe the surrounding environment.

Obviously, there is no other passage except the waterway. There are a lot of gaps in the stone mountain that can let air in, but it is absolutely impossible to get out with the size of a bat.

"Do you think those are stone statues? They are very different from the bats we have seen." Glasses took out his telescope and observed carefully, "Their claws are very big, and...it's strange, they are white!"

"White bat? Isn't that a sanitary napkin?" The mouse suddenly laughed very evilly.

"Shut up, there are women and children here, be careful!" Donghuang glanced at me.

In fact, I have heard of this joke. After all, I am also a senior in high school. I heard this joke from a male classmate in my class: After a bat died, he asked God to grant him three wishes: one is blood, the other is women, and the third is

It was holy, so God allowed it to be reincarnated, and finally turned into a white sanitary napkin.

The person who made this joke must not have thought that white bats actually exist.

"There is flowing water here, could they be fish eaters?" Sunglasses suddenly thought.

"Bats eat mice, insects, and blood. Why do you think they are ospreys?" Although the mouse said this, he still looked towards the river.

Donghuang took the telescope and looked at it for a while and said, "It's very possible. This seems to be a big-footed myotis bat."

Seeing that we all had puzzled expressions, Donghuang passed the telescopes to us one after another.

"This species has been found in a cave in Fangshan District, Beijing before. Look at their claws, which are as sharp as fish hooks. Scientists have found fish organs in their intestines, which is enough to prove that there are indeed bats that eat fish to survive.

Yes, but that kind of bat is not white!"

I took the telescope and observed it closely for a while. Although the light was very dim, it was enough to see that the big bat did indeed have a snow-white coat and big ears. It was completely different from the evil and ugly creature in my impression.

"Maybe it's because there is no light in the cave." The weirdo suddenly said.

The little light bulb in my head clicked. I had seen this thing in a book!

"This is the 'fairy rat' recorded in ancient Chinese books!" My mind went back to the afternoon when I was squatting in the library and eating steamed buns. "It is said that fairy rats can live forever if they drink the water in their holes. They are isolated from the outside world and their bodies will remain healthy after thousands of years.

The color will change from black to white. "Baopuzi" says: 'The thousand-year-old fairy rat is as white as snow. When gathered, it hangs upside down, so the brain is heavy. If you get this thing and dry it in the shade before taking it, you can live a long life.'"

"Hey, you little brat is quite knowledgeable?" Mouse looked unconvinced, "Then you mean, this bat has lived here for thousands of years?"

"It is definitely impossible to be a thousand years old, but since the ancients have records, there is a certain reason." Donghuang pressed his temples with both hands, as if thinking in pain, "If I were an ancient person and saw this kind of bat living in a cave, during the day

It's motionless, and it doesn't let me see you catch fish at night, so I think this thing can survive by just drinking water!"

"As Brother Dao said, there is no light in the cave, so their color becomes lighter and lighter from generation to generation. After a thousand years, they evolved into white sanitary napkins?" Mouse also followed Dong Huang's example and pressed his temples to add.

.

I thought about it carefully and said, "There is no loophole in this explanation. As for whether eating it can help you live ten thousand years... If you are interested, you can try it."

"Then what are we afraid of? After all, it's just a bat!" The rat's impatience grew again, and he turned on the flashlight and was about to jump into the river. "Let's go, swim to the middle!"

The glasses pulled the mouse's feet: "I think there is still a problem. At least the first batch of bats did not fly in by themselves. This cave is completely closed to them, and their existence is obviously man-made."

"You mean someone brought in bats to raise?"

"I can't say for sure, but there must be some meaning behind their appearance here, right?"

The mouse pulled out a short knife from his boot and said, "At worst, I'll chop them to death. Do you want to sit here and wait for them to wake up?"

Donghuang stood up, packed his backpack, turned off the searchlight, and the surroundings fell into darkness again.
Chapter completed!