The Sinister Cave (Part 2)

Mo Li couldn't believe his senses. Not long ago, Wei Dengke was joking with him, so how could Wei Dengke be dead in such a short time? The contrast was too great!

Stunned for a full four or five seconds, Mo Li reached out to check Wei Dengke's breathing again. The result was still no breath. Mo Li was completely panicked. There were only three of them on this snowy mountain, and now they had been dragged into a cave by a Yeti. If Wei Dengke was really dead, then it would be just him and Zhong Lichun left.

Trying hard to calm himself down, Mo Li started searching himself, but as soon as he did, Mo Li became depressed. His clothes were already riddled with holes from friction. Most importantly, the pockets of his pants had also worn through, and the small flashlight he had inside was long gone.

With his lighting equipment gone, Mo Li had to search Wei Dengke's body. However, Wei Dengke had too many strange parts hanging on him, making the search very troublesome. Mo Li wondered why his own clothes were worn out, but Wei Dengke's straps for holding things were still intact, and the small items hanging on them hadn't fallen off. It was too sturdy.

After searching for a long time, Mo Li finally found a glow stick in a large pocket on Wei Dengke's right leg. He casually picked up two and bent them hard. The glow sticks reacted and emitted a faint green light.

After throwing the glow sticks next to Wei Dengke, Mo Li began to examine Wei Dengke's body with the light. Fortunately, Wei Dengke was wearing a hat and was fully protected by his ski suit, so there were no injuries on his body. However, there was a bruise on his right forehead, which was clearly caused by hitting something while being dragged by the Yeti.

Looking down at the rope tied to Wei Dengke's waist, Mo Li rolled his eyes. Due to the pulling force, the rope was extremely tightened, and Wei Dengke's waist was deformed by the rope. No wonder this guy couldn't breathe. If he were tied like this, he wouldn't be able to breathe either!

Mo Li reached out to untie the rope around Wei Dengke's waist, only to find that the knot had become impossible to untie by hand due to the pulling. The more anxious Mo Li became, the less he could untie it. Wei Dengke had been strangled for a long time, and if he wasn't untied quickly, he might really suffocate to death.

In a moment of desperation, Mo Li didn't care about anything else. He turned around and looked for the military knife that Zhong Lichun had used before. However, Mo Li was very pure and didn't dare to touch her randomly. He only searched her arms and calves. Fortunately, the military knife Zhong Lichun carried with her was not in a particularly awkward place, but was inserted into her boots. Otherwise, Mo Li would have been embarrassed.

Drawing the military knife, Mo Li cut the climbing rope tied to Wei Dengke's waist. Then, he performed artificial respiration on Wei Dengke. With Mo Li's efforts, Wei Dengke finally resumed breathing after coughing violently twice.

Looking at Wei Dengke, who had resumed breathing, Mo Li sat down on the ground and showed a relaxed expression.

After saving Wei Dengke, Mo Li finally had time to look around. This was clearly a cave in the mountain. However, Mo Li noticed that the cave walls were very smooth, as if they had been artificially polished. Was this cave artificially excavated? Or was it a natural cave that had been tidied up by humans?

Who would excavate a cave here under such harsh conditions? What was the purpose of this cave?

Staring at the cave wall for a while, Mo Li seemed to see something on the cave wall. However, because the range of the glow stick was too small, Mo Li couldn't see clearly.

He glanced at Wei Dengke and Zhong Lichun. After confirming that they were fine, Mo Li picked up a glow stick from the ground, then stood up and walked to the cave wall, bringing the glow stick closer to the cave wall to see what was on it.

With the light, Mo Li finally saw that there were many irregular black patches on the cave wall. These patches didn't feel like just colors, but rather like some kind of moss or other plant.

To see more clearly, Mo Li brought his face closer, almost touching the cave wall. As soon as he brought his face close to the cave wall, the black patches that looked like moss moved strangely. All the patches began to recede rapidly and move towards the top of the cave wall.

Mo Li was startled by this situation and instinctively pulled his head back, taking a step back to distance himself from the cave wall.

Fortunately, the moving patches did not cause him any harm. Instead, they seemed to be hiding from something as they all disappeared into the darkness at the top of the cave. After the patches in this area completely disappeared, Mo Li was stunned by what he saw.

On the cave wall, there was a mural that looked very old. The colors of this mural were very monotonous, with only brown-gray and white pigments. The painting style was also very rough, only slightly better than a child's scribbles.

The mural depicted more than a dozen humanoid figures. Some were shorter and seemed to be holding spear-like weapons, while others were tall and seemed to have long hair on their bodies.

Based on Mo Li's understanding, the shorter figures holding weapons in this mural should be humans, and the tall, hairy figures opposite them should be Yetis. Although the picture was simple and abstract, Mo Li was very sure that this mural depicted a scene of humans fighting Yetis.

Discovering this mural immediately piqued Mo Li's interest. After all, there were large patches on the cave walls. If there were such murals under every patch, then there would be a lot of information here!

Although Mo Li was not an archaeologist, he was always curious. He had lived here for ten years, but he didn't know there was a cave here with murals on the walls. This should be considered a major discovery.

He moved closer to another larger patch and brought the glow stick in his hand closer. To Mo Li's surprise, although the light illuminated the cave wall, the black patches did not recede as they had before.

This made Mo Li wonder why these unknown black patches had retreated before, but now they were unresponsive. Had he triggered some condition before that made these patches leave? But what had he done before?

Recalling his previous actions, Mo Li subconsciously began to repeat them. He raised the glow stick in his hand again, then brought his face close to the cave wall. Because he was a little nervous, Mo Li's breathing became a little rapid.

A magical scene appeared. As Mo Li brought his face close to the cave wall, the black patches that had been unresponsive before began to scatter like a tide, quickly receding and disappearing into the darkness at the top of the cave, just like before.