Mermaid Reef

"We can't stay here. The flood is too powerful. Once the cave collapses, this will be our grave."

Professor Terekin's theoretical knowledge is very rich, and he immediately raised the biggest hidden danger at present.

What can Juan say?He just nodded.

Professor Terekin entered the tent by the light of the fire to count the supplies.

Among other things, these things must at least be put into a backpack, or be easy to carry, otherwise they can only be thrown away no matter how useful they are, such as the stew pot.

"Wait! Juan, what kind of fuel is used for the fire? It hasn't been soaked by the flood?" Terekin asked suspiciously.

"Uh, it's solid alcohol. We were lucky. This thing was stored in a sealed jar. I thought it was sugar or salt. When I pried it open, I found it was fuel."

Juan was telling the truth, but the source of the thing was not in the flood, but in the hands of the evil god.

It was really lucky, because the evil god didn't know what it was, and it was caught in a pile of supplies, and it was a surprise that Juan discovered.

Even Juan couldn't refuse a hot meal in a bottomless, dark cave.

What is unreasonable?

Gut says it makes sense!As for excuses, you can make them up when you're full!

Juan felt guilty for his surrender, but if he had to choose again, he would still choose to light a fire with solid alcohol in an iron can and eat a hot meal of beef stewed with potatoes.

"What about the fire source?"

"..."

Juan took something out of his pocket, shook it, and said calmly: "This lighter is waterproof, but there is not much kerosene in it, and it can only be used twice."

"Hey, don't say it twice, we may not be able to go out even after two days!"

Professor Terekin shook his head, turned and went into the tent.

Juan breathed a sigh of relief.

Terekin felt sore all over his body and had bruises all over his hands and feet.

He originally thought it was an injury caused by the flood, but this kind of soreness didn't look like an injury. Instead, he felt like he had been walking in the wild for three days, and the pain was hard to get rid of after the accumulation of lactic acid.

Terekin lowered his head to check his clothes, and found that the fabric on his elbows and knees was severely worn, and some places were scratched by sharp rocks, as if he had crawled forward in a cave.

At last his eyes rested on the soles of the shoes.

Wait, something is wrong!

How could the soles of the shoes be worn by the flood?The gravel and marks on the soles of these shoes, as well as the clothes...

Professor Terekin didn't think too much, he suddenly opened the tent, only to see Juan thrown to the ground by a black shadow.

Terek was startled, and subconsciously looked for a weapon, but fortunately there was a fire, and he saw the face of the black figure.

"Mr. Rota? Calm down!"

Terekin rushed over to stop him, but the Frenchman was very strong and knew fighting skills, with amazing explosive power, he firmly pressed Juan's shoulder.

After struggling twice, Juan knew that there was no way to escape.

He thought that Rota was in a state of madness, but when he saw it, although Rota's eyes were red and his face was pale, his eyes and expression showed that he was awake.

"I won't believe your fabricated lies! Who are you guys? What's your purpose?"

Rota pressed Juan, but his eyes were fixed on Jansen. He roared viciously: "I have temporal joint problems. When I was in a coma, I clenched my teeth tightly. If I break them hard, I will be injured... But I am not injured, so the food It wasn't someone who poured it into me, but I ate it myself, but I didn't eat it voluntarily, because I didn't use the chewing habit to prevent the disease. Now when I talk, my cheek joints are making noise! ​​This Not one meal, two meals, I definitely haven't eaten 'properly' in three days."

Juan: "..."

Get it, he has no criminal talent and is full of flaws.

But who would have thought?Juan sighed in his heart, the original chewing habit and wrong rhythm can be preserved as evidence.

"I don't know, maybe your joints were misplaced by the rocks in the flood." Juan tried his best to defend.

Terekin saw that Mr. Rota was indeed in a worse situation than himself, with many small wounds on his face and more ragged clothes.

——That's for sure, after all, this guy really floated in the underground river for several hours until he was picked up by Jason.

Terekin is more emotionally inclined to Juan. Although he also found some doubts, he believes in Juan's character. Juan has no need to lie. Why they are here has nothing to do with Juan. It is impossible to think that it is Juan's conspiracy.

"Yes, Mr. Rota, calm down first!"

"I can't calm down. One of my assistants died. Now you say that the camp collapsed and everything was washed here. What about Alice... my other assistant, was she also killed?" Luo Tahong Roaring with closed eyes.

Juan was silent.

The fire continued to burn, and the light shone on Jason's profile,

— This is not at all like a mountaineer exploring the Caucasus Mountains.

The clothes on Jason's body are too complete, which is also a flaw, but Juan can't persuade the evil god to tear the clothes.

Just when Juan was frightened, he saw Jason pointing to the flood and saying, "Someone is floating over."

what?

Juan, Teretin and Rota all turned their heads.

I saw a gray-black shadow in the torrent water waves illuminated by the fire light.

There are really people!

Juan was shocked.

Mr. Rota let go, rushed directly into the current, and dragged the person onto the "shore".

Then they fell into a dead silence.

It was a corpse, half of the body was crushed, and the clothes and face were still recognizable.

"It's him, the soldier who has been patrolling in front of our tent these days." Terekin said with a pale face.

Rota didn't speak for a long time.

The fact that the camp collapsed was true, and the flood did bring people, but this person was unlucky.

Juan really wanted to ask Jensen what happened to Mr. Rota's female assistant, but there were Rota and Teretin here, so he couldn't ask directly.

"We can't stay here, the cave will collapse." Terekin repeated, and he patted Rota on the shoulder, trying to awaken the latter's will to survive.

Rota turned his head stiffly, stared at Juan and asked, "How long have we been in the cave?"

"I don't know, I've been here since I woke up."

Juan can only bring up the reason of amnesia.

He...has experience with things that mysteriously cause amnesia.

Juan said sadly: "Since we heard that strange sound in the cave, I turned around and ran, and fell into the underground river. After that, the three of us were separated. I was with Professor Teretin. I only remember my Dragging the professor desperately through a narrow cave, and then lost consciousness in the water."

Telekin compared his memory before coma and found that this was indeed the case.

"Hey, this kind of thing is very common. After coming into contact with mysterious humans, memory confusion will appear after a high fever. We may have experienced a great escape." Terekin looked down at the soles of his shoes, rubbing the sore Muscles, imagining his heroic performance in the face of mutant creatures.

"What mystery?" Mr. Rota raised his head.

In his eyes, Terekin and Juan were also in the same group, saying some words that others could not understand, and singing in harmony.

"Listen, it's not that we don't want to explain, but you won't believe it... OK, I say!" Juan raised his hands, trying to make his tone as sincere and friendly as possible, "There is a monster deep in this cave, I Guess those soviet guys already told you about it, in fact we almost ran into it before, this monster is powerful, there are some scholars who specialize in this stuff. You must have heard, the occult... oh no Divination, crystal balls, witchcraft and other deceptive things, they study a strange creature, they existed longer than dinosaurs, and they are recorded in some ancient books and ruins.”

Rota stared at him without speaking.

Juan continued in a tone that archaeologists and explorers can understand: "There are legends about monsters all over the world, and many of these monsters are unique. They are not a species, they are hideous in shape, and they all love to eat people. When you meet them All human beings are dead. Those descriptions are vague, such as hiding under the bed and seeing a huge and weird shadow, such as seeing it in a dream with multiple heads and breathing fire..."

"Prehistoric creatures? Journey to the Center of the Earth?" Rota asked in a sarcastic voice.

Juan: "..."

"Stop retelling science fiction novels. No matter how bizarre our underground experience is, we can't make up a Journey to the Center of the Earth." Rota finished speaking angrily, and pointed at Jason, "You don't think this person Is it strange? If you believe there are monsters deep in the cave, why don't you suspect this person's origin?"

"Uh?"

Professor Terekin thought about it carefully, and suddenly became vigilant: "Could it be that he is..."

Juan held his breath.

"...A cultist?"

After hearing the second half of the sentence, Juan held his breath and didn't know where he went.

Jensen has been watching them argue, persuade, and blame each other.

Now that the three people were staring at him, Jason was not nervous at all, and said calmly: "I don't know, Juan told me that I was washed here by the water, but the collapse of the camp is true." Yes, I saw it with my own eyes."

Juan: "..."

Yes, what the evil god said is all the truth.

Jason did see the ruins of the camp and found a lot of supplies!But to understand it, it's like Jason fell into a cave and fell into a coma. Like them, he woke up and couldn't remember what happened in the cave.

"Professor Terekin repeatedly reminded that the cave may collapse and bury us here. I don't think this is the time to quarrel."

Jason reminded very seriously, "I think when this kind of plot happened in the novel, we have all scolded the characters for being insane. How can they remember to quarrel and not run for their lives when they are in danger? It doesn't matter what the monster is, what is important We're alive and trying to get out, aren't we?"

Rota gasped for breath, and Professor Terekin nodded desperately.

Juan wondered if the evil god had so sincerely substituted into the human roles of the expedition team?

Jason gave Juan a look as he passed by.

Juan felt a chill behind his back.

He understood that the flood is real, so the passage in the mountain will really collapse.

They hastily packed supplies into four packs.

A spare tarp wrapped the body and placed it next to the extinguished fire.

They waded through the water and walked to the depths of the cave, and did not choose the upstream of the flood, because Professor Terekin and Mr. Rota were very sure that this kind of passage washed by the strong current would collapse from top to bottom.

Going upstream is tantamount to seeking death, it is better to follow the current to find a fork.

Terekin and Rota had just passed their high fever and were very weak, so they naturally fell behind.

But Rota didn't trust Juan, let alone Jason, and insisted on choosing his own direction.

Juan was very worried that Rota would fall to his death, but he couldn't persuade him.

Rota seems to have experience in cave exploration. He judges the direction by lying on the ground to listen to the sound and knocking on the rock wall.After walking for three hours, they came to a channel with significantly less water accumulation, and the slope of the channel went up all the way.

Everyone was very happy, and at this moment, the cave suddenly began to shake.

"No, it's going to collapse!"

Terekin yelled and put his head in his arms.

Juan watched helplessly as a stone fell from the roof of the cave and landed on the passage between him, Terekin and Rota.

Juan shouted the names of those two people loudly, but more and more rocks fell, and when he got up, he found that it was completely blocked.

"Juan!" Terekin was also very sad.

Juan replied loudly: "I'm fine, how are you?"

"Mr. Rota and I were not hurt, hey, Juan..."

"Mr. Jansen and I need to find another way, you go first! Let's meet on the surface!" Juan said firmly.

There are also supplies at Terekin, and it is not a big problem to support them for four or five days.

As for Juan himself, of course he has to complete the commission of the evil god.

"The collapse just now—" Juan looked at Jason.

"I did it."

Jason looked at Juan, nodded and asked, "You are very embarrassed, you can't make it up anymore, aren't you?"

Juan: "..."

Who is to blame?