my dream adventure

Chapter 173 Mandarin Duck Hot Pot (43)

"I finally saw a little light in the darkness." Lin Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Go around the big rock in front, and you can almost see the entrance of the cave." Sister Moon pointed to the big rock blocking the exit, which almost covered half of the exit passage.

"It's so strange that such a big stone is blocked, and I don't know how Xiao Man got out of this place." Lin Yuan straightened his waist and faced the tall stone with two people in a daze, there was no gap at the corners, It seems that if you want to, you can only climb over the stone abruptly.

"The hardness of this stone is not high. It should be ordinary limestone. Its soft surface is easy to leave marks. If Xiaoman crawls over this place, it is impossible for there to be no scratches on the top of the stone." The boy hurried on the stone with a torch sweep.

Over the years, many traces of vegetation erosion have been left on the limestone, and even moss is well covered on it. It can be seen that no one has passed this place for at least ten days and a half months.

"Could it be that Xiaoman didn't go this way, she went deep into the cave, but we found traces of Xiaoman's walking on the passage before, didn't we?" Lin Yuan couldn't help but feel a little more anxious.

"Don't worry, passers-by, maybe she stopped suddenly halfway, and we didn't find her when we met, and she didn't dare to come out to meet us?" Sister Moon comforted his emotions .

At this time, no one should panic. Once there is chaos, everyone will not be able to calm down and discuss countermeasures.

"Then what should we do? Do we have to go back to find her? It will take a lot of time now, and we don't know where Xiaoman is." Lin Yuan rubbed his hair impatiently and forced it Kneaded into a messy bird's nest.

The teenager wanted to laugh when he saw it, but considering the current situation, he just laughed, which seemed a little too heartless.

"Okay, I have a hunch that she shouldn't be too far away from us, why don't we shout together and see if she can respond?" The boy made a suggestion.

Anyway, it doesn't take much time to shout a few times. If Xiaoman heard it, he might respond to them.

"Okay, let's split up. You go to look around, I'll go to the front, remember not to go too far, and come to the original place to gather before the torches burn out." Lin Yuan ordered to go down and light the last three torches. Ignite them separately, and let the three go down and act separately, so that the search will be more efficient.

"Hey, I don't know where my silly little sister has gone, and I always cause trouble for my hard-working brother. Could it be that she was born by the goddess of fate in the previous life to be right with me?" Lin Yuan held up his hand. Walking with a torch, he looked carefully at his feet and in the dark, while thinking helplessly, his tone full of helplessness towards Xiaoman.

"Xiao Man, where did you go, come out quickly, come out quickly, let's cancel our previous grievances, don't lose your temper, or I will take all the things you did when I get home Tell mom, let her come back and treat you well!" Lin Yuan said a lot, and he was also a worry-loving one.

Sometimes he can't save face, and indeed he can't stop arguing with his younger sister. He is already a big man, but in front of his own sister, sometimes he can't help showing his childish and ridiculous side.

"Xiao Man, if you come back, how about I buy you candied haws, one candied haws, two candied haws, three candied haws..."

In the empty cave, Lin Yuan's rhythmic counting sounds echoed. Although he seemed to ignore Xiao Man on the surface, he was actually very worried in his heart.

I have been carefully looking at the potholes where the light cannot shine, and even the places where only a small mouse can hide are very carefully inspected.

"Xiaoman probably won't be able to fit in this kind of place, no matter what, she's 120 catties in stature. If she can hide in this kind of place, I'll bet on a hundred candied haws!" As he spoke, he began to babble. , if there are bystanders here now, they will definitely think that he is a psychopath who took the wrong medicine.

Not far away, the boy suddenly yelled, "Hey, come quickly, I seem to have found something!"

"What, Xiaoman found it, where is it?" Lin Yuan hurried over, and almost stumbled over the sunken tree roots on the ground.

I saw the place the boy was pointing at, there was the rabbit ear hat that Xiaoman had been wearing on his head before, and a bunch of messy shoe footprints, it seemed that there had been a big fight.

"This is Xiaoman's ear. How could her things stay in such a place?" Lin Yuan grabbed the rabbit ear hat on the ground, gradually tightening his hand, and the doubts in his heart became deeper, "Could it be that someone took it away?" Xiao Man."

Sister Moon squatted down to check carefully, and found an inexplicable pool of blood and the mutilated body of a poisonous snake on the ground.

"Is this bloodstain left by Xiaoman? Could it be that he encountered a poisonous snake and fled to other places in a hurry?" She made an inference.

The young man shook his head, "No, I found bloodstains just now, but only in this place, and no bloodstains were found in other places. This blood may be left by a poisonous snake and has nothing to do with Xiaoman. And the footprints in your land , don't you think there's something wrong?"

"You mean, these footprints are of different sizes, maybe they weren't left by the same person?" Sister Moon's reaction was very quick, and she quickly understood what the boy wanted to express.

"That's right, the footprints were left by at least two people with completely different shapes. If I'm not mistaken, Xiaoman accidentally encountered a poisonous snake in this place, shouting and attracting the nearby aborigines to help her kill the snake. A poisonous snake, and took away the unconscious Xiaoman, so she didn't even have time to leave us a message." After the analysis, the teenager reconstructed the entire scene of the accident.

"It sounds reasonable. What do you think, brother passer-by?" Sister Moon turned her head to look at Lin Yuan who was silent at the side. The other party was standing by the side without speaking, and her inner emotions were slowly calming down.

"According to what you said, where did the aborigine go after taking Xiaoman away? Why is there no trace of him left on the stone at the entrance of the cave? Could it be that this aborigine has Xiaoman on his back as a living person, can he disappear out of thin air?" Lin Yuan quickly grasped the most critical question.

"The only explanation at the moment is that they haven't left the cave yet, so there are no traces of them left on the stone. It's even possible that these natives live in this cave." The young man gave a bold guess.

"You mean, they didn't leave, so why didn't we find any trace of them when we came?" Sister Moon asked suspiciously, which was obviously a question that people couldn't understand.

"Aboriginals living in caves? The whole cave has water and food, and avoids the large carnivores outside. It is really suitable as a refuge." Lin Yuan lowered his head, thinking of the cave wall before. The murals seen above.

The ages of those murals are different, and it seems that some people have gone to maintain them recently, which shows that the tribal peoples in them have not been completely extinct, and it is very likely that they are still living in this cave.

"If I can't find Xiaoman, I won't leave here. Big guys, are you willing to stay and help me?" Lin Yuan turned his head to face the other two, their eyes were as firm as Lin Yuan's.

"There is no need to talk about these nonsense, passer-by, we will definitely not leave here, we are a team." Sister Moon showed a confident smile, which greatly encouraged Lin Yuan.

He smiled slightly, turned his head and looked at the young man again, "I've always caused you trouble along the way, I'm really sorry, I didn't expect the first team copy to fail like that, and my sister was in deep danger, I this As an older brother, I really don't know how to face her in the future."

"Okay, don't say so many provocative words. When you cry later, I won't be responsible for wiping your tears." The boy deliberately teased him, and the whole provocative scene suddenly became funny.

"It's not serious, well, I won't say much, now we'll see if we can find Xiaoman, do you have any ideas?" Lin Yuan wiped away the tears in front of his eyes, and his expression changed quickly.

"This passage and other forks are not marked on the map, but it doesn't mean that we and the people who drew the map have misread it. We walked all the way just now. Did you find anything strange?" The boy spread out the map , looking in Lin Yuan's direction with slightly tired eyes.

Lin Yuan rubbed his chin and thought for a while, but he didn't know what the young man was referring to.

"Brother Sanyue, why don't you just say it straight, neither of us have as keen insight as you." Sister Moon said bluntly.

"Well, it's actually like this." The boy drew a curve on the map with a piece of charcoal. "This is the water source we found in the cave before. I was curious about the flow of this water source, so I observed it all the way."

"Water source?" Of course Lin Yuan remembered this water source. Xiao Man squatted on the ground and scooped up water for a long time before, but he didn't expect this thing to be a clue to find Xiao Man.

"Water sources always have springs. I was looking for the source at the time, so I definitely didn't miss it. The water source was cut off at a place I didn't want to be from the entrance of the cave. It was at this position at that time." a little.

That location is not far from the exit, and less than 100 meters away.

"What does this have to do with Xiaoman's disappearance?" Lin Yuan muttered, looking at him suspiciously.

"There is no spring in the cut-off place, and the shape doesn't seem to seep directly from the ground, but there is an opening in the rock wall, and the water flows out from here. Speaking of this, you should understand, There is a secret passage in that place." The boy repeatedly clicked on the location marked on the map.

(End of this chapter)