I asked Shirley Yang, "The three of us are getting smaller and smaller? Where do you start?"

Shirley Yang told me: "The objects that can be referenced nearby, including plants and insects, as well as a large number of ancient tree fossils, are unusually large, so I wonder if there is something mysterious about this gourd-shaped cave that gradually reduces the body of the person coming in."

This incident sounds really incredible. Now we are floating and undulating in the endless groundwater, and it is hard to tell for a moment. I said to Shirley Yang: "Even if the body may be smaller, can even clothes and shoes become smaller? I think this is because of the special environment here, so the ecosystem formed is larger than that of the outside world."

But I am not sure about this. This cave is really like the red gourd in the mountain temple. The entrance of the cave has a small belly and is trumpet-shaped arc. When you go deeper, the cave wall will gradually expand. There are no traces of human construction. They are all naturally formed. Maybe this is a ruin that is older than the tomb of King Xian. The locals may have used this gourd-shaped cave as a holy place to worship a gourd statue in the mountain temple. As for whether this cave is really special, it is hard to say. After all, we are now looking dark, and the range we see is only maintained within a distance of about twenty meters, and it is difficult to detect changes in our own or slightly distant environment.

The insects nearby are much larger than normal, especially the fossils of trees in ancient times, which are even more terrifyingly large. They poked out of the water with their teeth and claws, and were entangled with the vines hanging from them, like the strange claws of old dragons.

I think we should look for some plants and use them as references to make sure that our bodies have not gradually become smaller because we entered this gourd-shaped cave, otherwise we would not be able to move forward, so we had to go back as the same way first and then pay attention to it.

However, the thickness of the old vines is almost the same as that of the human body. In the jungle outside, there are such thick vines, so they cannot use the vine basket and plant rhizomes as reference objects. The most direct way at present is to dive into the water and see the size of the nearby aquatic plants. The algae have their own unique properties and will not grow in different sizes due to environmental changes. No matter what the environment is, they are almost the same.

But when I thought of the sudden appearance and disappearing underwater, like a ghostly female corpse, I felt a little scared. I had to hang the "safety lock" on the "air bag" and say hello to the fat man and Shirley Yang, asking them not to move forward for the time being, and wait until I go into the water to find out the situation.

I put down the diving mirror on the hiking helmet and drilled into the dark bottom. The tactical spotlights on the hiking helmet should have a 15-meter lighting range even in the water. However, there are many impurities in the groundwater here, including a large number of plankton and microorganisms, as well as algae and aquatic plants. The visual range is reduced to the limit, less than five meters.

The water is very deep and I can't touch it. I feel that it's not time to use oxygen. I just rely on my own water properties to keep swimming down the water. Through the diving lens, the underwater world is even more blurred. In the darkness, a large group of black objects are floating slowly at the bottom of the water. Due to the lack of light sources, I can only see that the thing is the size of a wheel, and I can't see whether it is an animal at the bottom of the water or aquatic plants.

At this time, the black object at the bottom of the water was closer to me. I think the fish do not have such a shape, but they should be some kind of aquatic plant. Could it be that the aquatic plants are entangled together and grow into such a large group? If the aquatic plants are also so big, then we will really be in big trouble.

When I thought of this, I reached out to the dark object, preparing to grab a handful of it and see if it was a large ball of water plants. Unexpectedly, as soon as I reached out, the thing suddenly jumped forward, bounced out of the water surface on my head, stopped one or two meters away from the water surface, and lurked quietly there.

When the wheel-shaped object was rushing under the water, I could see clearly that it was not a large ball of water plants. The thing looked round when it was shrinking together. When paddling, it stretched out its two bowed hind legs and forelimbs, and a lot of water plants were wrapped around it. It turned out to be a huge red-backed toad, and it seemed that there were more than one around it, and many others gathered about one meter from the water surface. In the dark bottom of the water, it was difficult to tell how many such large toads were there, and I don’t know if there were any bigger things.

How could there be such a big "Lao Toad"? I was shocked and almost took a sip of groundwater. I felt that I couldn't hold my breath anymore. I didn't want to dive to the bottom of the water to find algae. I quickly floated up and pulled out the water. As soon as my head came out of water, I quickly took a deep breath and said to the fat man and Shirley Yang: "There is something under the water. Let's leave here quickly and climb to the big fossil tree that fell horizontally."

On the water surface of the underground cave here, there are fossils of the entire ancient forest, and some of the fossils of large trees collapsed and broke due to natural reasons. The fallen fossil trees are mounted horizontally on the surrounding fossils without sinking to the bottom of the water. In the dense fossil forests, natural stone bridges have been formed.

Not far ahead of us, there happened to be a fossil of an old tree that fell across the water and was stuck by the other fossils, with many branches and forks on the trunk.

The three of them hurriedly put the weapon they had just taken back into the waterproof bag and swam quickly towards the fossil tree. When we swam closer, Shirley Yang first reached out and grabbed the branch of the fossil tree. The fat man and I held her feet and helped Shirley Yang climb up the fossil tree. Then I also climbed up and hung down the mountain climbing rope for the fat man. The fat man left in the water quickly cleared the air in the inflatable air bag and hung the backpack on himself with the mountain climbing rope. I pulled and pulled the fat man up the trunk, and finally hung the equipment backpack onto the backpack.

When we stepped on the stone under our feet, we felt a little stable, but the three of us still did not dare to slack off and took the weapon out of the waterproof bag as quickly as possible. The fat man asked me: "Li Xiangyang scared you like this. What exactly is under the water?"

Shirley Yang also asked me, "Did you see the female corpse that was sinking to the bottom of the water?"

I pointed to the water surface and said, "There is no Li Xiangyang, nor female corpse. There are big toads under the water, that is, big toads. The big ones follow the wheels and the small ones are also big. *******. There are many poison glands behind these guys. You must not contact them, otherwise once you are infected with the poison, you will be in danger of 120."

Shirley Yang raised the "Wolf Eye" flashlight and swept the light column toward the water we were just staying. It was already quiet. Only when we were swimming quickly, the water marks caused by the dark water surface were not seen. Shirley Yang glanced at it and turned to me and said, "I used to use toads when I was doing experiments. I remember that this animal should be hidden in the wet soil during the day, under stones or among grass, and only came out to move at dusk and at night. How could it appear in such a deep water? Have you read it wrong?"

I shook my head and said, "To be honest, this is the first time I have seen such a big toad today, but I will never read it wrong. I think your book-benzism is probably not suitable for use here. I am only three meters away from the toad at the bottom of the water. I can see it very clearly. They are all floating not far from the water surface. I don't know what to do. I am worried that it will be bad for us, so I asked you to climb here quickly. No matter what, let's see it clearly first. I always feel that something is wrong in some places in this fossil forest flooded by groundwater."

The fat man suddenly made a ban on the sound, asking us to see that the area not far ahead was gathering, and countless dragonfly-like mosquitoes were making a harsh noise, which was very close to where we were staying. The light of the "Wolf Eye" flashlight can also be seen very clearly. Since those mosquitoes that were like adult walls had no eyes, they were not sensitive to the light of the "Wolf Eye" flashlight, and they were still like headless flies, surrounding the densest place of the plant rhizomes.

Shirley Yang whispered to us: "The plants on the ground are too dense, causing a lack of nutrients and water, so the extended plants are desperately growing downwards in order to grab water so that they can directly contact the groundwater here, those flying insects... they seem to be gathering there to lay eggs."

I just dived into the water and found that there were many big fish. These fish were different from blind-eyed fish that always grew in underground environments. They all had eyes. This shows that although this underground water flowed through the underground cave, it was bright water, which was connected to the outside world.

However, the environment here is too unique, and plants and insects are independent ecosystems. However, as long as it can reach the clear water outside, we should be able to flow along the water and enter the near the main tomb of the "King of Xian".

The most urgent task now is to figure out whether this large cave, which looks like a gourd-shaped body will gradually become smaller the deeper it goes, or whether it is because of the unique trumpet-shaped terrain of the gourd-shaped cave, the larger the space it goes, and the large plants and insects growing in this special environment, we have the illusion that we mistakenly think that our bodies are getting smaller.

Suddenly, a commotion came from the water surface. Large tongues, several feet long, extended out of the water, attacked the large mosquitoes on the water surface at a speed of lightning speed. With a roll of long tongues, it wrapped dozens of worms. Countless big mouths floated out of the water surface, swallowing the mosquitoes that were wrapped by blood-red tongues into their mouths. It turned out that the big toads floating under the water were ripe and jumped out of the water to prey on the large groups of worms that were gathering together.

At this moment, the water surface in front of the fossil tree was chaotic. Just as the toad's mouth opened and closed, countless mosquitoes lost their lives. Each of the strange toads was astonishingly large, with their eyes like two red lights, densely packed, and they couldn't count how many.

The three of us lay on the fossil tree that was falling horizontally. When we saw the lumps on the back of the big toads, we felt extremely disgusted. We really didn't want to look at it anymore, so we had to lower our bodies as much as possible and temporarily lowered our heads to see the water surface. We just hope that the toads would dissipate as soon as possible after they were full. We could go into the water and move forward quickly, leave this strange cave and arrive at our last destination before dawn.

When I lowered my head, I found that there were many tiny sand holes on the fossil tree. The fossil tree body had been soaked in the water for tens of millions of years and was washed out of countless sand holes by the water flow. I am afraid that the weight of the three of us would break from the middle.

So I turned off the "Wolf Eye" flashlight in my hand, turned on the more energy-saving spotlight on the mountaineering helmet, then called Shirley Yang and Fatty, made a gesture, and led them to a relatively flat stone platform on the left.

The stone platform on the left is very solid and stable, with a large area, and is more than enough to accommodate three people. In this fossil forest with branches and forks, this square stone platform looks a bit unique, square and neat, and it is obvious that it is traces of someone's repairs. However, the surface and around are covered with vines, and a lot of wet moss is also growing.

I said to Shirley Yang and Fatty, "I wonder if this place was a ruin that was flown when the "Tomb of King Xian" was built. If so, what is the purpose of this place? Will it be related to the female corpse we saw appearing at the bottom of the water?"

The fat man said, "No matter how clumsy your eyes are, you can tell that this is a stone platform built by artificially built. Didn't we see a burial ditch with ivory? Eighty-mostly this place is where there are expensive bright objects." As he said that, he pulled out the engineer shovel and shoveled off the wet moss and plant layers on the stone platform, wanting to see if there is any dark pavilion equipped with "bright objects" below.

Shirley and Yang, seeing that the fat man had started to do anything, had to help him illuminate. The big toads not far away were still swallowing mosquitoes, stirring the water loudly, and it seemed that it would be fine for a while.
Chapter completed!