City's Best Divine Doctor-Chapter 1554 - 1553: Bats in the Cave

There are wild wolves, tigers, wild boars, and so on. These rescuing soldiers even brought guns, feeling much safer that way.

However, Ye Qiu and the other two were empty-handed, not knowing what they might encounter.

Therefore, they hoped to find the three of them within the golden time of seventy-two hours. After all, it would be troublesome if they exceeded this timeframe.

...

Wen Xin and Zhou Wenting looked at the pitiful Wolf King hanging from the tree by Ye Qiu, struggling continuously. They wondered if it would die.

"Ye Qiu, won’t this kill it?" Zhou Wenting asked.

"No." In Ye Qiu’s eyes, many people were just ants, let alone these wild animals. This was nothing to him.

However, Zhou Wenting and Wen Xin couldn’t sleep anymore.

The two girls leaned on Ye Qiu’s shoulders, sitting around the fire. By around six in the morning, they had rested well. Ye Qiu picked up the curved blade, cut the vine holding the Wolf King with one chop, and as the Wolf King fell heavily to the ground, Ye Qiu led the two girls away from there.

Last night, Ye Qiu thought for a long time. He felt he should leave and avoid this place, and not get lost again. Indeed, after two hours of walking, Ye Qiu saw that bare mountain again, with mountain caves beside it.

Although he had gone around yesterday, Ye Qiu actually knew the general location — deviating far from the original place was why it happened.

Now, with the two girls, he continued to climb towards the mountain caves. Probably after another two hours, when they stopped to rest, Ye Qiu found they were quite close to the caves.

Effort does not disappoint the person who is determined. Ye Qiu knew that in one or two more hours, they should be able to reach the place, but descending might be difficult.

Ye Qiu climbed a tall tree, and standing at the top, saw a manor in the distance, but it was actually quite far from there.

It looked quite close, but in reality, when walking personally, one could find it was really far.

"Wen Xin, Wenting, let’s keep going."

...

"Sergeant, it seems like someone was here last night." As the soldiers continued their search and rescue, they quickly discovered several traces of fires.

These soldiers had some survival experience in the wild, and during careful investigation, they saw chicken feathers and vines on the ground.

The vines were used to quench thirst, and the wild chickens were likely roasted.

However, these soldiers felt that Ye Qiu and the others were young and from the big city, likely having little wilderness survival experience, but they left things here. Could a hunter have rested here overnight?

Moreover, last night they heard the calls of tigers and wolves, and the howling of wild boars, probably from this mountain area. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"Sergeant, I think it was left by a hunter, the poaching kind."

"That’s very likely, but we have to continue searching. Dr. Ye and Miss Zhou’s identities are not simple," the sergeant said.

As the three of them carefully searched the fire site, they found a lot of wolf fur in addition to everything else. Then, notifying the rest of the soldiers via radio, they continued the search.

Surprisingly, after a large circle, they found they were lost and had returned to the original place.

"Damn it, we’re lost. Quickly, bring out the compass."

The army’s compass is unlike ordinary compasses in the outside world, having more comprehensive functions. Generally, getting lost using these compasses is impossible, unless the magnetic field here has significant problems, greatly interfering with the compass.

Several soldiers took out their compasses, followed their directions, and quickly got out of the lost loop. However, they could find no more traces of anyone having been there, suggesting maybe no one had ever been to this area.

At this time, Ye Qiu continued climbing the mountain with Wen Xin and Zhou Wenting. Around eleven in the morning, they finally reached the entrance of the Shandong cave.

Ye Qiu peered inside; the cave interior was pitch-black, scaring the two girls considerably.

Their phone batteries had been used up last night, so they couldn’t have any light.

Ye Qiu knew they could only make simple torches to go in, otherwise, it would be entirely dark inside, and they wouldn’t see a thing.

Now that they had arrived at the cave, there was no need to worry about getting lost again.

They found tree vines and branches at the bottom of the cave to fashion torches, then lit them, and each person took two torches, lighting one first as they entered the cave.

As soon as they entered, a cold breeze brushed against them.

When walking, the three felt very hot and sweaty, but now felt chilled to the bone. Upon inspecting the interior, it didn’t look like a natural cave but resembled having traces of human activity inside.

Could it be man-made?

However, Ye Qiu thought it unlikely — who would come all the way here to dig such a cave?

But after walking another seven or eight meters deep, his fire nearly burned out, and Ye Qiu lit the second torch. Zhou Wenting pointed ahead and said, "Ye Qiu, quickly look, what’s that?"

Suddenly, a flurry of black creatures flew out, making strange noises.

Without needing explanation, Ye Qiu knew they were bats.

The local bats were entirely different from the red-eyed, white-furred bats he had seen in France.

"These are bats; it’s very normal to find them in caves. Moreover, this place is damp and the environment is very suitable for these bats to live," Ye Qiu said.

After hearing they were bats, the two girls felt relieved.

However, what surprised Ye Qiu was seeing more things inside, resembling coffins.

Yet they didn’t quite look like it.

"Are those coffins?"

Coffins?

The two girls looked over and found that inside the cave, there were smaller caves, each stuffed with something resembling coffins.

Because only a section was visible and the torchlight wasn’t very clear, Ye Qiu couldn’t be sure if they were coffins.

If they really were coffins, he found it even stranger — who would bring coffins to such a high place?

"I don’t know, but it’s very possible!"

For some reason, both Wen Xin and Zhou Wenting felt the place was eerie, making them very frightened. No wonder they had felt gusts of cold wind upon entering and chills down their spines.

"My intuition tells me that the source of the contagious disease might very well be here."

Here?

The two girls didn’t understand.

Ye Qiu had seen the swarm of black bats making strange noises, flying out and back in, sweeping past the three’s heads. If not for their torches, these bats might have flown directly at them.

Of course, bats don’t use their eyes to navigate; instead, they rely on sound. They only feared the heat of the torches.