[Laughing, no supplies can compare to Brother Lu’s own handicrafts!]
…
An underground river about ten meters wide rushed past, and Lu Liran soon saw Luo Qi and others emerging from the water one by one.
Ah Kang had fallen unconscious and was fished out of the water by Luo Qi.
One by one, the group of people climbed onto the shore and lay on the shore in embarrassment, catching their breath.
Jiang Kun couldn’t help but look up at the big hole where they fell, gasping and murmuring: “What a fucking bad luck…”
They fell more than ten meters to the ground. Fortunately, there was a river underneath, otherwise no one would have survived.
Looking over, the hole was more than ten meters high from them, and it looked like a huge, overturned funnel.
And where they were now was at the bottom of this huge funnel. A long river appeared in front of them. It flowed so slowly that it was almost invisible to the naked eye, like a calm lake.
There are even some dwarf trees growing on the left and right banks, about one meter high with thick branches. And around these dwarf trees and on the moist soil along the underground river, there are even small purple-pink flowers blooming.
——Even though they don’t get the sun all year round, they don’t seem to be wilting, but rather vibrantly flourishing.
Several lepidopteran moths and butterflies flew on the small flowers, and their fluttering wings sprinkled fluorescent phosphorus powder, which looked particularly dreamy in the dim cave.
Everything around here looks a bit incredible. It doesn’t look like it’s more than ten meters underground, but like it’s in another vibrant space.
[Wow…Is this underground?! It’s completely different from the underground I imagined!]
[Are there trees and flowers?! And butterflies! I don’t read much, don’t lie to me]
[The question is, this place is so high from the ground. How to get back?]
[It’s a question]
[This should be @wilderness survival expert Lu Liran]
Jiang Kun suddenly felt that he seemed to have fallen into a hole, but he seemed not to be in the hole.
This feeling was a bit strange, but standing here, looking at this empty underground space, he couldn’t feel his own existence at all, and he seemed to become extremely small.
The surrounding area is both open and narrow. The reason for the narrowness is that the light in the surrounding area is extremely poor. Except for the sun’s rays projected directly below the entrance of the cave, no matter where they looked, it was completely dark, which made people feel panicked and gave rise to an indescribable sense of depression.
Luo Qi and Jiang Kun coincidentally took out their flashlights for lighting. The beam of the flashlight illuminated the surrounding area, but after a startling glance, it suddenly went out.
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He took out a flint and chipped out sparks, lit the tinder, and then used a torch wrapped in cloth and dipped in animal fat. Suddenly, a bright orange light lit up the dark cave.
Lu Liran took out these things from his backpack, and finally created a purely natural lighting tool out of thin air. It was so easy to use that Luo Qi could see it without blinking.
Jiang Kun was also stunned. Even though these things had passed through his hands, he didn’t expect that they could be used like this!
At first, Lu Liran asked him to wash the intestines and scrape the fat. He thought this person was deliberately making things difficult for him. Those disgusting things made him almost not eat all night, but he didn’t expect that they would come in handy here!
[Brother Lu’s treasure box is real]
[Hahahahaha, the expressions of the two people behind Brother Lu are very similar to me when I watched Brother Lu’s live broadcast for the first time]
[Laughing, no supplies can compare to Brother Lu’s own handiwork! —— SoySauce-flavoredSaltedDuck gifted the anchor 1x Top-Quality Wagyu Beef]
The lighting range of the torch was limited, so Lu Liran could only hold the torch and fumble in the dark until he got close to the cave wall.
He stroked the rocks on the cave wall, and he didn’t know whether he was talking to the drone lens or to Ke Ji: “It’s an extremely thin ring of calcite, and it’s uncertain how many tens of thousands——or even hundreds of millions of years of day and night precipitation to form such a scale.”
“The calcite ring is very fragile. I didn’t expect that there would be such a large group of calcite underground in the Ghost Forest Swamp.” Lu Liran suppressed his surprise and whispered.
Since the rock walls here are mostly composed of calcite, Ke Ji’s previous super mecha was indeed not suitable to appear here.
The slightest movement of such a huge iron giant is very likely to cause the entire cave to collapse.
When Jiang Kun heard what Lu Liran said, he suddenly understood. No wonder those huge rocks could create such an exaggerated hole. The structure of this area is already fragile. It is only due to tens of thousands of years of precipitation that its surface looks solid, but in fact it is still empty at its core.
The sound of water sounded again from the underground river. Luo Qi and the others looked through the collapsed cave entrance and saw clearly that the person in the water was Nan Guo.
He climbed onto the shore dripping wet, like a water ghost.
Lu Liran looked around, frowned slightly, and asked: “Where is Mao Mu?”
Luo Qi and Jiang Kun’s faces froze. After a few seconds, Luo Qi said hoarsely: “Gone.”
“He was entangled by the anaconda. In just a few seconds, his eyes were bloodshot and his bones cracked. Then he was violently thrown out and hit a tree.” Jiang Kun recalled and closed his eyes hard, “When we went to pull him, we found that all the bones in his body were broken. When we pulled him, it was like…pulling a piece of flesh.”
He even shuddered as he spoke.
When Nan Guo heard what Jiang Kun said, he raised his eyebrows slightly and moved his lips, silently calculating how many pounds the anaconda’s strangulation power could reach…it was really a terrifying natural killer.
“The person cannot be saved, and the giant anaconda turned to use again, so we had to run.” Luo Qi continued.
Jiang Kun nodded: “And then it was what you saw…”
He paused as he spoke and asked Lu Liran and Luo Qi: “When I fell, I felt like I saw something. It was very big. I thought it was a mountain wall. Then it popped up after falling into the water and disappeared. Did you see it?”
Luo Qi shook his head. When he fell, he closed his eyes subconsciously and saw nothing.
Not to mention Ah Kang and Nan Guo.
Jiang Kun scratched his hair and said: “Maybe I saw it wrong. I just squinted and couldn’t see anything clearly.”
“What are we going to do now? How do we get out?” He asked again.
The most difficult thing in this underground place is to identify the direction. It’s pretty good here, there’s still some light, but if they go further, that means being completely blind, looking in one direction everywhere.
The cracked hole above their heads was very high, and it was simply unrealistic to climb up ——The cave where Jiang Kun and the others fell was only a few meters high, and it was already difficult to climb, let alone this place.
When Jiang Kun asked, he looked at Lu Liran, and even he himself didn’t realize that he carried a full trusting river of expectation in his eyes.
“Walk along this underground river.” Lu Liran said. He quickly had a plan in mind. He held a torch and stuck a tree stick in the shallow water near the river bank, while saying, “But we are walking upstream.”
If he encounters a river on open ground, Lu Liran will choose to walk along the lower reaches of the river. Most of the representative facilities of the civilized world, such as indigenous tribes and roads, are built along the lower reaches of the river.
——Going downstream naturally means getting closer to being rescued.
But the underground river is not the same, in front of them is also a ten meters wide huge underground river and is likely to disappear as it flows. It does not dry up, but flows into an invisible deeper depth.
In this underground, the ground is extremely dangerous, with countless ground cracks, shafts and sinkholes everywhere.
If they walk along the underground river, they will be completely trapped in the underground world.
As for rock climbing, Lu Liran once climbed a cliff nearly 20 meters high with his bare hands, but it was different here. The calcite-based rock structure increased the risk of climbing here many times. Even Lu Liran was not willing to take such a risk.
Lu Liran tied the canteen to the branch that was stuck in the water, then lengthened the rope and let it float outward with the current.
The flow rate of this underground river is very slow, similar to that of swamp waters on the ground. The changes are almost invisible to the naked eye. Lu Liran can only use this method to identify the direction.
Ah Kang was still in a coma and couldn’t move, so the group had to stop and rest on the spot.
“A river like this can only move about thirty meters a day. Let’s put the canteen here first and see how far it floats and where it floats later.” Lu Liran explained to the drone camera.
As he spoke, he twisted the rope, tied a knot every one and a half meters, and tied it around everyone’s waist to ensure that no one would disappear while walking.
Luo Qi didn’t raise the slightest objection, he was just helping Lu Liran.
Seeing this, Lu Liran nodded to the other party and continued: Seeing this, Lu Liran nodded to the other party and continued:
“The water of the underground river and the water of the above-ground river are connected, which means that their mainstream directions should be the same, that is, from east to west.”
“After knowing this basic information, it will be much easier to identify the direction underground.” Lu Liran said easily, but Jiang Kun listened with his eyes straight.
Can it still be like this?
Luo Qi clapped his hands excitedly: “It can still be like this!”
Learned!
Because Jiang Kun and Luo Qi had just fallen into the water, they struggled to light a fire. Lu Liran put out the torch first to avoid wasting it.
Several people sat together around the campfire, and no one spoke for a while.
It was Jiang Kun who was the first to break the silence and spoke: “Didn’t you say before that there was only one anaconda of that size here? Why is there another one? Is this one big, or the one you guys ran into before?”
He asked, looking at Luo Qi.
Luo Qi was stunned, and after recalling it for a few seconds, he replied: “That’s still bigger than this one, much bigger.”
Jiang Kun gasped.
“But didn’t you say before that there won’t be more than two large creatures in the same territory?”
Luo Qi nodded slightly confused: “That’s right, there should be nothing wrong, unless…”
“Mating season.” Ke Ji said coldly from the side.
Luo Qi nodded: “But the mating season for anacondas and pythons has passed. The female crocodile-faced anaconda we met before had so many formed little anacondas in its belly, which means that the mating season has passed for at least a month, and male anacondas should not appear here.”
Lu Liran also knew that what Luo Qi said was right, which was why he was so surprised when he saw another anaconda.
The mating season has passed, and according to the laws of nature, male and female anacondas will separate.
Unless something attracts them, or stimulates their estrus, causing them to enter passive estrus?
Lu Liran thought about it, his eyes darkened, and he stared at Nan Guo.
Give us a sneaky estrus and another baby 🫣😘
Lolololol Nan should have played the part of the water canteen and practiced his face down floating
Oh so it could have been a male-female pair.
I was shuddering, thinking of the eggs from before. What if that giant python was actually just one of the babies in the clutch 😖
💐💖💐💖