Endless route

Chapter 148 55.

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

The two ghost generals jumped down into the cave one after another. The flashlights hanging on their bodies illuminated the bottom of the cave. The entire cave was blue, and it looked no different from before.

Waited for a while.

After confirming that there is no danger below.

Zheng Yun and Jidao also went down together, leaving only a blackened lock box covering directly above the entrance of the cave.

Soon the two landed.

The flashlight glanced left and right.

There is an ice passage ahead. You can still vaguely see the firelight lighting up from the end. The yellow light is like sunset, covering half of the ice wall, spreading from the distance to the corner in front.

A few people remained quiet.

Zheng Yun controlled the ghost to move forward, and at the same time listened carefully to the surrounding movements to prevent danger from approaching.

Walk slowly 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. The fragments of wood on the ground were burnt by Kedster, leaving only thick ashes.

But Kedester wasn't there.

Only a faint sound could be heard in the depths.

Zheng Yun and the others continued to go deeper, and their field of vision gradually expanded. They saw the whole place clearly. Because the ancient ship was demolished by Cadest, there was only a long, narrow and deep passage left here.

“How much has this guy demolished?”

There was a hint of anger in Ji Dao's voice.

In the entire right-hand direction, not even a ship could be seen at a glance, and the ground was pitch black and covered with wood and ashes.

But the left hand was not removed.

The ancient ship on the left has only a hole.

Zheng Yun observed carefully and couldn't figure out why Kedester only dismantled the ship on his right hand but not the ones on the left.

Soon they walked to the fire. Hu Ruihua and the others had lit a fire before, but it was later extinguished by Hu Zi. The current flames should have been lit by Kedester later.

Next to the fire were piles of firewood from ancient ships, as well as an almost blunt ax with a worn handle.

The voice came from the right hand.

Cadest went deeper.

This place gives people a very dangerous feeling. The hole in the wall of the ancient ship on the left is pitch black and bottomless, and the ice passage on the right is deep and blue, and it is not clear where it leads.

The flames on the fire crackled, and although there was no wind, the flames kept dancing brightly and darkly, illuminating the surroundings and spreading a strange atmosphere everywhere.

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

Zheng Yun did not look for Kedester first, but carefully scanned the environment, looking for the holes that Hu Ruihua and Huzi had mentioned, and he quickly made a discovery.

There are holes in many places.

These holes are like ant tunnels, twisting and turning in the ice, and they are so dense that they have eaten away the large areas of ice under your feet, turning them all white, and they no longer have the transparent blue texture.

The sizes also match.

The same thickness as the extreme cold Gu worm.

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

And there's another problem.

These wormholes seem to be going around this passage. They have not penetrated the ground or the ice. They have even drawn arcs to avoid them. They connect the outside and the inside of the ancient ship passage. It is unclear whether they are coming in from the outside or escaping from the inside. Go.

How was Cadest captured?

He could only see the ice cave, not the Gu worms at all, and even if there were more worms, they wouldn't be enough for him to eat.

"Go over and have a look."

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

I don't know what this Kedester is tinkering with. It sounds like he is smashing wood or an ice wall.

Ji Dao nodded and drew his sword.

Several people headed to the right.

The further they walked, the louder the sound became. They did not cover their whereabouts and kept shining the flashlight deeper into the area. Logically speaking, Kedester could find it, but the sound never stopped.

I walked two to 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 cold clothes were black. He was surprisingly dirty. He was squatting on the ground holding his head.

He is Kedester.

As if unconscious, he huddled deep in the corner, trembling and trembling all over, as if he was extremely frightened.

Zheng Yun also shrank his pupils.

He is squatting here. Who is smashing the ice in front of him? Is it a tongueless thing that escaped accidentally, or a cold fairy?

"Kedester?"

Zheng Yun spoke tentatively, and at the same time asked the ghost generals to be on high alert ahead and run away if there was any danger.

Ji Dao took a few steps forward.

Stare at the end of the passage.

"I am Kedeste, I am Kedeste, who are you, who are you, squat down, hide, my hands are eaten, your hands will be eaten too."

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

"..."

Zheng Yun looked at him carefully.

There were many ulcers on his skin. It was unclear whether he was frostbitten or infected by something. In addition, although he looked miserable, his body fat rate did not seem to be very low. He was thin, but not into an inhuman shape. appearance.

Where does the fat intake come from here?

Even if he could smash the ice and 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, they planted a curse on me, so that I can't leave here, so that I will always suffer here."

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. Warm yourself by the fire?"

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 into the distance with disheveled hair and eyes, and whispered in a sinister tone: "I'm very cold, but I know it's a curse. I can't get close to 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 state 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 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."

Kedster 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 frozen fish 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 Han Xian.

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 hands were eaten, my legs were eaten..." Kedester's eyes lost focus.

"Knock him out."

Zheng Yun spoke softly.

The ghost general drew out his sword, and hit Kedste accurately on the neck with the scabbard. Kedste 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 the Gu worm at a glance. Maybe he wanted to wait here until the Gu worm crawled over?

"Master Immortal, shall we take him with us?"

Jidao understood Zheng Yun's plan. Since Han Xian won't eat this person, then use him as a talisman. He doesn't even need to catch the poisonous insects. He is easier to use than the poisonous insects.

"Bring it with you, let's go back and take a look."

Zheng Yun asked Gui Lai to sneak up Cadesti, and then immediately returned to the original route and ran towards the previous bonfire, not daring to stay in this ice channel for too long.

After a while.

Everyone returned to the bonfire.

Zheng Yun asked the ghost general to pick up Kedest with a knife. The ulcers on his body were unbearable to look at, but there were no bugs inside at all. It was hard to tell what had been done to him twenty years ago.

That's for sure.

He must have been judged by the Orientals, probably using Triton's set of laws of gods and ghosts, which made people neither human nor ghosts. He could avoid the death penalty, but could not escape the living penalty.

But what we don’t know now is what the Orientals did to him to keep him alive to this day.

"Look for any skeletons nearby."

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

This is actually not a dead end.

Although I have never seen the gap connecting the ancient ship along the way, this ice cave is the only one. If Kedster cannot come up from this ice cave, then he will not be able to get out.

But Kedester can walk along the ice corridor made by the ancient ship chain and walk to any place where the ancient ship exists.

For example, near the Fairy Cave.

There are ancient ships on the left and right sides of Jixiandong.

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

The sound of the ice being knocked just now could also come from something without a tongue.

If Hanxian really didn't attack Kedester, then he would have a chance. Going along this passage to eat the corpse of the Tongueless Thing near the Immortal Sacrifice Cave is the reason why he is still alive today.

Maybe I have to take this path myself.

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

Then there is no need for a box.

Because it is too narrow, the burnt box cannot pass through. Even if it passes, it will not be long before it has to be abandoned.

"I am searching."

Ji Dao immediately looked around.

Zheng Yun also picked up the flashlight and looked around.

But after searching for a long time, they didn't find any corpse of the tongueless thing. It might have been burned to keep warm, or it might have been eaten by Han Xian.

After thinking for a moment.

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