Chapter 148 55

Chapter 148 55.

After the action was ready, Zheng Yun borrowed the rope left by Hu Ruihua and others and let the ghost general go down first.

The two ghost generals jumped down the cave one after another. The flashlights hanging on them illuminated the bottom of the cave. The whole cave was blue and looked no different from before.

Waited for a while.

After confirming that there was no danger below.

Zheng Yun and Ji Dao also went down together, leaving only a burnt buckle box covering the top of the cave entrance.

Soon the two landed.

The flashlight scanned left and right.

There was an ice passage ahead. Faintly, you could still see the fire light up from the end. The yellow light was like the sunset, covering half of the ice wall, from the distance to the corner in front.

The few people kept quiet.

Zheng Yun controlled the ghost general to move forward, while listening carefully to the movements around him to prevent any danger from approaching.

Slowly move forward along the passage.

The yellow light became brighter and brighter.

When they walked around the corner, they saw the bow of an ancient ship and the fire in the cave.

The ancient ship was also part of the chain, but it had been dismantled long ago. There were broken pieces of wood on the ground, which were burned by Kadester to almost nothing, leaving only thick ashes.

But Kadester was not there.

Only a small sound could be heard from the depths.

Zheng Yun and his companions continued to go deeper, and their vision gradually expanded. They saw the whole picture here, because the ancient ship was dismantled by Kadester, leaving only a long and deep passage.

"How much did this guy dismantle?"

Ji Dao's voice was slightly angry.

In the entire right hand direction, there was not even a ship to be seen at a glance, and the ground was dark and full of wood ashes.

But the left hand was not dismantled.

There was only a hole in the ancient ship on the left.

Zheng Yun observed carefully, but he couldn't figure out why Kadester only dismantled the ship on the right hand, but not the ones on the left.

Soon they walked to the fire. Hu Ruihua and his men had lit a fire before, but it was later put out by Hu Zi. The fire should have been lit by Kadester later.

There were a lot of ancient ship firewood piled next to the fire, and an almost completely blunt axe with a worn handle.

The sound came from the right hand.

Kadester went deep.

This place gave people a very dangerous feeling. The hole in the wall of the ancient ship on the left hand was dark and bottomless, and the ice passage on the right hand was deep and blue, and no one knew where it led to.

The flames on the fire crackled. Although there was no wind, the flames flickered from time to time, illuminating the surroundings and spreading a weird atmosphere everywhere.

The shadows of several people were extremely long, standing next to the fire, like living targets, and they felt very insecure. It would be safer to put out the fire.

Zheng Yun did not look for Kadester first, but carefully scanned the environment, looking for the holes that Hu Ruihua and Hu Zi said the insects had drilled out of, and then he quickly found it.

There are holes in many places.

These holes are like ant tunnels, winding and winding in the ice layer, and the large ice layer under the feet is eaten white, and there is no blue and transparent texture.

The size is also consistent.

It is as thick as the extremely cold Gu worm.

This matter is a bit strange. Ji Dao said that the Gu worms raised in the Heavenly Palace have not eaten or drunk for 20 years and have not moved a few times, but the wormholes here are bottomless and numerous.

And there is another problem.

These wormholes seem to be going around this channel. They did not drill out of the ground and the ice layer, and even drew arcs to avoid, connecting the outside and inside of the ancient ship channel. It is unclear whether they came in from the outside or escaped from the inside.

How did Kadester catch it?

He could only see the ice hole, and could not see the Gu worms at all. And even if there were more worms, they would not be enough for him to eat.

"Go and have a look."

Zheng Yun pointed the flashlight at the source of the sound.

This Kadester didn't know what he was doing, and it sounded like hitting wood or ice walls.

Ji Dao nodded and drew his sword.

Several people walked forward to the right.

The sound became louder as they walked. They did not hide their tracks and shone the flashlight deep into the cave. It was reasonable that Kaedest should be able to find it, but the sound never stopped.

They walked two or three hundred meters in one breath.

Zheng Yun saw a ragged middle-aged man in a small ice cave. His hair was disheveled and his winter clothes were black. He was extremely dirty and squatted on the ground with his head in his arms.

He was Kaedest.

As if he was unconscious, he curled up in the corner, trembling all over, as if he was extremely scared.

Zheng Yun's pupils also shrank.

He was squatting here, so who was smashing the ice in front? Was it the tongueless creature that escaped accidentally, or the cold fairy?

"Kaedest?"

Zheng Yun spoke tentatively, and at the same time asked the ghost general to be highly alert in front, and they would run if there was any danger.

Ji Dao took a few steps forward.

Staring at the end of the passage.

"I'm Kadesit, I'm Kadesit, who are you, who are you, squat, hide, my hand has been eaten, your hand will be eaten too."

Kadesit's eyes were shaky and trembling. After hearing his name, he subconsciously raised his head. The expression on his face was so terrified that his pupils lost focus.

"..."

Zheng Yun looked at him carefully.

There were many ulcers on his skin, and it was hard to tell whether he was frostbitten or infected by something. In addition, although he looked miserable, his body fat rate didn't seem to be very low. Although he was thin, he didn't look so thin that he didn't look like a human.

Where does the fat intake come from?

Even if he could break ice to fish, it wouldn't be enough.

Could he have eaten something tongueless?

Through previous observations, Hanxian actually has a habit of killing people first and then eating the prey after killing it. For example, the corpses of the scientific expedition team above. If Kedester seizes the opportunity, he can drag the corpses down. Grilled and eaten.

"I'll rescue you, will you leave?" Zheng Yun tried to communicate with Kedester to see if he was sane.

"My legs were eaten, my hands were eaten, they were all eaten." Kedester held his head.

"Jasi Irene, Christina, your wife, your daughter, are all waiting for you in England."

Zheng Yun spoke again.

These two names should be the most important in his life. Even if the former is not, the latter must be.

"Ah! Jas Eileen, Jas Eileen...she is a bitch, Christina, Jas Eileen is mine...is my daughter, is she waiting for me?"

Kedester suddenly raised his head, staring directly at Zheng Yun with a pair of light blue pupils. He could see with the naked eye that his vision returned to focus, aimed at Zheng Yun, and looked at his face.

"Yes, your daughter is waiting for you."

Zheng Yun sighed silently and nodded.

"You are an Oriental." Kedester suddenly spoke. His body no longer trembled. The words were very smooth and natural, but his tone was still extremely frightening: "Orientals will not save me. You are lying to me, Orientals." It's the devil."

"What did the Orientals do?"

Zheng Yun frowned slightly and said quickly.

"They trampled on my life, they imprisoned us here, and they planted a curse on me so that I can't leave here and keep me here in pain."

Kedster's pupils were about to collapse again.

When Ji Dao heard this, he glanced back at Kedester, curled his lips, and then turned back to monitor the depth ahead.

"Your daughter Tina wants to know what curse the Orientals have placed on you." Zheng Yun kept his distance and continued to talk.

"They left me here and I ate worms and they grew out of my body. I have no feeling in my hands and I have no feeling in my legs. They were all eaten."

Kedester's body also began to tremble.

But his hands and feet were obviously intact.

Zheng Yun really couldn't tell whether he was being hallucinated by the gas or whether this was really happening, so he asked tentatively: "Your daughter Tina asked me to ask you, do you feel cold now? Yes. Warming up?"

When Kedester heard this question, his body suddenly trembled violently, and he convulsed on the ground holding his head, as if he was having an illness. Zheng Yun was so frightened that he subconsciously took two or three steps back.

Half a minute passed.

Kedester just raised his head, looked at the distance with disheveled hair and eyes, and whispered in a sinister tone: "I'm very cold, but I know that this is a curse. I can't go near the fire. I remember it very clearly. , I can’t get close.”

"Why didn't the white devil attack you?" Zheng Yun asked again, seizing the time to get something out of him.

Kedester's condition is very unstable. He probably has no chance to regain his consciousness. He has inhaled too much hallucinogenic gas, and the damage to his brain is already irreversible.

Maybe next moment.

He will be confused again.

Not a single question could be answered.

"Because they need me and need me to open a way for them. I can dig holes and take them out from here. They won't attack me, and they won't attack bugs either."

Kedester murmured.

"Your daughter wants to know, can you communicate with the white devil and make a deal?" Zheng Yun asked with a frown.

"No one can communicate with it. It has no intelligence at all, because these bugs, the bugs in my body, are its companion creatures in the food chain."

"I have researched it. There is no food source here. It needs insects to drill holes and take it to other places to find food. It will eat everything. It will eat everything."

Kedester suddenly murmured this sentence.

Zheng Yun thought for a moment. Kedester had stayed in this place for twenty years. His words were credible and similar to the conclusions he had drawn. However, his reasoning process actually involved the food chain and accompanying organisms.

How is this reasoned?

Can it still be involved in the food chain?

It does make some sense when you think about it. There is a lack of food sources in this glacial mountain range, but there are many fish that have been frozen to death in the ice. Every year during the ice period and the ban on navigation, these creatures are accidentally frozen in the ice. , will be replenished.

After millions of years of evolution in this environment, a creature may evolve that specializes in drilling holes in these ice layers to eat these frozen creatures, whatever they can find.

The Extreme Cold Gu Insect might be it.

It can live for twenty years without eating or drinking, which meets the prerequisites for this way of survival. Even if it digs holes for a year, it will be unlucky and it does not find any food. It will not die of hunger and can wait until next year. Keep digging.

Creatures without this ability can't even think about finding food in the vast ice, and will definitely starve to death.

But what does this have to do with Hanxian.

The hole dug by the Gu insect is so small, how could Han Xian get in, but Han Xian can disappear and appear out of thin air...

"Are you sure the white devil won't eat you? Where did you catch the bugs from?" Zheng Yun no longer thought about it, but took the time to ask, asking all the questions first.

"Right here." Kedester suddenly moved, and there was a small hole under him that he could reach into.

"How many Easterners have you seen? What did they do to you? Did they say anything to you or hear anything." Zheng Yun frowned. There was nothing in the cave.

"My hand was eaten, my leg was eaten..." Kadester's eyes lost focus.

"Knock him out."

Zheng Yun spoke softly.

The ghost general drew his sword, and the scabbard hit Kadester's neck accurately, and Kadester slowly collapsed to the ground.

Zheng Yun went to the small hole to take a look. There were indeed some wormholes in the hole, but he didn't see any poisonous insects at a glance. Maybe he had to wait here until the poisonous insects crawled over?

"Master Xian, should we take him with us?"

Ji Dao understood Zheng Yun's plan. Since Han Xian didn't eat this person, he would use him as a talisman. He didn't even need to catch the poisonous insects. He was better than the poisonous insects.

"Take him with us, let's go back and take a look."

Zheng Yun asked the ghost general to pick up Kadester, and then immediately returned the same way and ran to the vicinity of the previous campfire. He didn't dare to stay in this ice channel for too long.

After a while.

Everyone returned to the campfire.

Zheng Yun asked the ghost general to use a knife to pull Kadester. The festering on his body was unbearable to look at, but there were no worms inside. It was hard to say what had happened to him twenty years ago.

What was certain was that.

He must have been judged by the Orientals. They should have used the law of gods and ghosts of Triton, making him neither human nor ghost. He could escape the death penalty, but he could not escape the living crime.

But what is unknown now is what the Orientals did to him to keep him alive until today.

"Look for any skeletons nearby."

Zheng Yun picked up the flashlight and looked around. He still suspected that this Kadester had eaten something tongueless.

This is not a dead end.

Although he had not seen the gap connecting the ancient ship along the way, this ice cave was the only one. If Kadester could not get out of this ice cave, he would not be able to get out.

But Kadester could walk along the ice corridor made by the ancient ships to any place where there were ancient ships.

For example, near the Sacrifice Cave.

There were ancient ships on both sides of the Sacrifice Cave.

This cave is actually only separated from the Sacrifice Cave by a river, and the living tongueless creature was also on the left hand side. These two places may be connected.

The knocking sound on the ice just now may also come from the tongueless creature.

If Han Xian really doesn't attack Kadester, then he has a chance to go along this passage to the Sacrifice Cave to eat the body of the tongueless creature. This is why he is alive now.

Maybe he has to take this road too.

Because if they return from the original route, they need to pass the iron chain bridge, enter from the front of the frozen attic, and then follow the gap made by the scientific expedition team to get into the Sacrifice Cave.

Then there is no need for a box.

Because it is too narrow, the charred box cannot pass through. Even if it passes, it will be abandoned after a short walk.

"I'll look for it."

Ji Dao immediately looked around.

Zheng Yun also picked up a flashlight and looked around.

But after searching for a long time, they did not find any corpses of the tongueless creatures. It may be that they were burned for warmth, or they may have been eaten by Han Xian.

After thinking for a while.

Zheng Yun decided to go up and take a look first.