Tomb Raiders: Beginning Qinglong Bloodline

Chapter 54 Chapter 54
After everyone has eaten, they can take a good rest to relieve the fatigue of the journey.

Ye Haochu took the tea brought by the peacock and walked out of the inn.

Outside the inn, you can clearly see the true face of Zhelong Mountain.

A towering mountain, with a layer of white gauze clouds on the mountainside, and a dense jungle below.

At this time, the peacock came over curiously.

"Brother Ye, are you going to Zhelong Mountain?"

Ye Haochu smiled: "That's right, we're going to climb Zhelong Mountain to catch some butterflies and insects."

After hearing this, the peacock turned pale and shook his head like a rattle.

"Don't go there, Zhelong Mountain is haunted by ghosts! Anyone who has been to this Zhelong Mountain is dead!"

"They're all dead?" Hu Bayi's voice came from behind.

Hu Bayi also finished his meal, and now he is coming out with a telescope, and he also wants to take a closer look at the topography of Zhelong Mountain.

Peacock nodded upon hearing this.

"All of us who have been to Zhelong Mountain have died. I heard that there are ghosts that eat people on the mountain. No one dares to go up the mountain now."

Then Ye Haochu took the peacock back to the inn, and called the fat man and Yang Xueli over.

According to the proprietress and the peacock, the ghosts on Zhalong Mountain are so fierce that no one dares to go up, and no one knows the way now.

People who have been to Zhalong Mountain have either died of old age or died unexpectedly, and there is not one left.

If there is no guide who is familiar with the local terrain, it is impossible for a few people to climb this kind of mountain that spans from the tropical jungle to the snow-capped mountains.
On the contrary, whether it is haunted or not, it is not a big problem.

Both Hu Bayi and Yang Xueli were frowning.

The fat man saw that there was no anxious expression on Ye Haochu's face, and he moved over in his heart.

"Lao Ye, tell me, is there any other way?"

Ye Haochu grinned when he heard this.

"It depends on the peacock girl."

After Ye Haochu finished speaking, the eyes of several people were all focused on Peacock.

"Sister Peacock, think about it carefully, is there any other shortcut?"

Peacock hesitated when he heard the words, but still said: "There is really a shortcut. You can take the tunnel."

"Tunnel?" Yang Xueli asked curiously.

The peacock nodded and said: "Yes, there is a tunnel under Zhelong Mountain. There is a waterway in the tunnel, and you can pass through Zhelong Mountain on a bamboo raft."

After Hu Bayi heard this, he immediately laughed out loud.

"That's great. If you go by water, you don't have to worry about getting lost, and you don't have to climb mountains, which can save you a lot of time."

Yang Xueli also nodded when she heard the words.

Using bamboo rafts to walk by water is much less time-consuming and labor-intensive than climbing mountains and forests.
Peacock's face wrinkled again: "But there are a lot of dead people in the tunnel, I heard it's haunted."

"Peacock, tell us everything you know about the tunnel." Ye Haochu said patiently.

Peacock nodded.

It turned out that at the bottom of Zhelong Mountain, there were originally many densely packed tunnels like spider webs.

Probably there were karst caves in the first place. Legend has it that the ancient ancestors dug some more to open up these karst caves and form tunnels.

Later, local rebel bandits occupied the tunnel under Zhelong Mountain.The officers and soldiers who suppressed the bandits had nothing to do with the bandits in these tunnels.

The tunnels and karst caves at the bottom of the mountain are too complicated, and those who are not familiar with them will not be able to get out at all.

In the end, the officers and soldiers thought of a poisonous plan and sealed all the entrances and exits of these tunnels with stones.

It is said that all the people inside were trapped alive.

According to local legends, hundreds of years later, on the stones outside the tunnel, you can still hear the desperate cries of ghosts inside.

Originally, the tunnel was blocked and there was no way to pass. Who knew that in recent years, some people here in Zhelong Mountain plucked stones and sold them for money.

These people discovered that when the flood came out, another hole rushed out, and the river water flowed into the hole that came out, forming an underground river.

The underground river passes through the mountain and flows all the way to the Snake River on the other side of the mountain.

The underground river is quite deep, and you can walk on bamboo rafts.And because there is a waterway, as long as you walk along the underground river, you don't have to worry about getting lost in the cave tunnel.

But on both sides of this underground river cave, there are many strangely shaped bones.

These skeletons are numerous and die in different shapes.

No one knows who, when, and how they died here.

The underground river and mountain caves are dark, with dead bones on both sides. If you are timid to go in, you will be scared crazy.

Moreover, there is a valley and jungle opposite the mountain, there is no human beings, and the miasma is still heavy.

So apart from people who went there curiously at first, no one left after that.

After everyone listened, they quickly decided to build a raft and take the waterway.

"Okay, then it's settled. Have a good rest tonight. Tomorrow we will go to explore the road and get a raft. If the weather is all right, we will set off."

Although the rest time was not so sufficient, everyone didn't say anything. What kind of harsh environment did they not stay in?

The next day, a few people slept until it was almost lunchtime, they were really exhausted from walking all the way, except for Ye Haochu, they were all exhausted to death.

After everyone got up and checked that there was no problem with the equipment, the four were led by the peacock to the entrance of the cave under Zhelong Mountain.

There happened to be a bamboo forest here, just enough to make a raft.

"Lao Ye, Fatty and I are going to cut bamboo, and you and Yang Xueli can make a raft."

Ye Haochu nodded, and at this moment the fat man suddenly said, "Lao Ye, can you let little sister be our tour guide?"

Ye Haochu said angrily: "Fatty, how dangerous is the place we are going this time? We may lose our lives at any time, and you still want to take other people's little sister?"

After hearing this, the fat man immediately said: "Then we can't let her go, it's still safe at home, let's not talk about it, hurry up and finish this trip, let's go back to Peiping."

Afterwards, the reluctant peacock was sent away, and it took them an hour to finally make the raft.

At this time, there was a thunderous sound from the sky.

"We have to set off as soon as possible. The climate in the mountains is changeable, and it will be troublesome when it rains heavily." Yang Xueli reminded.

"Okay, let's go!"

Soon the four of them propped up the bamboo raft and rowed towards the tunnel cave.

After the four of them entered the cave, darkness came to them, but before they entered, they turned on the headlights on their helmets.The speed of the raft is not fast, and the tactical lights on the headlights are enough, and the lights can be on for 6-8 hours, which can fully cope with the moment.

The fat man started to palm the penny, and the others started shooting around the cave with the wolf-eye flashlights they brought.

There are strange stalactites everywhere in the tunnel.Under the light of the flashlight, it looks like a ghost.

Soon, apart from the gurgling sound of running water, there was no sound in the cave.It's scary to be quiet.

Hu Bayi fixed the World War I glare tactical searchlight in front of the bamboo raft.

In order to get out of here quickly, Hu Bayi and the fat man supported the penny on the left and the right to let the raft swim faster.

Yang Xueli sat on the bow and turned on the searchlights every once in a while to check the situation in front of the cave.

And Ye Haochu was sitting at the stern, his eyes kept looking around.

He knew that the tunnel was not flat, and he should meet human figurines later.

(End of this chapter)