Chapter 140: Dissolved
After Qiao Lin and Zhang Hu led people down from the entrance of the cave, they followed the road signs and maps left by Luo Fan in front of them, and stopped when they reached the fork in the road, and saw that there was an obvious pointing arrow to the left, but there was a different circle on the right.
What does that mean?
Qiao Lin and Zhang Hu glanced at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes.
But in the end, they followed the mark left by Rovan.
And Songzi's team, after drilling through the gap in the mountain, walked a section that looked like a newly dug robbery hole, but it was not the same as the small courtyard of the farmhouse outside, a little worse.
The width and flatness of the thief hole are not as good as the outside, but judging from the law of the shovel, it should be a teacher from the same door, but the craftsmanship is still a little less interesting.
After a period of bending and kneeling in the robbery hole, Songzi and his party entered an underground cavity, and after following the bumpy road underground, they saw a hole in the wall of a cave in front of them.
When they got inside, it turned out to be a long and narrow tomb passage, winding as if drawing a big arc, and then drilled out of the hole in another tomb passage, and came to another underground cavity, that is, the one where Luo Fan and the others fell.
It's just that when they passed the entrance of the cave where Jolene and the others came down, they were surprised to find that this place was connected to the place where they had entered, and they all felt that they had come full circle and returned to the same place.
Without saying a word, after they got the simple underground map left by Luo Fan, they immediately chased it along the underground Jolene where they left.
The two teams entered the labyrinthine underground cave one after the other.
When they entered, they saw the dense cavities in front of them, and they all felt that they had entered a honeycomb, and the next moment a swarm of huge wasps would fly out of it to attack them.
The simple map left by Luo Fan was actually easy to read, but no matter who they were, when they illuminated the place with a field searchlight, they felt that they were confused, and they didn't know which hole was marked on the map.
Although Wu Yongqiang's subordinates are all masters of survival in the wild and have seen a variety of terrain and landforms, this is really the first time to see such a complex karst cave environment underground.
But they didn't panic, but methodically studied the map and directions, and soon determined the direction and moved on.
In fact, among all the teams that went underground, there was another team, which was the team led by Wu Yongqiang to find Luo Fan and Hao Wenjie.
After Luo Fan and Fat Dahai and Hao Wenjie converged, they were looking for a path to go out, none of them expected that Wu Yongqiang would also come down to look for them, so they didn't think too much, they all thought that after they could get out as soon as possible, they would report to Wu Yongqiang about the situation of the tomb robbers Liuzhang and their group below, and then find another way to arrest or how.
But now, after Wu Yongqiang came down with people, he took the fork in the road on the right directly, and I don't know where he turned at this time.
It was an unusually empty cavern with no roof in sight, and it was hidden in darkness on all sides, except for the underground river that split into branches and flowed in different directions.
The large open space in the middle is divided into many areas by craggy strange rocks, and the underground river is divided by these strange stones.
"What kind of place is this? Doesn't it mean that there is an ancient tomb underground?" someone asked unconsciously, shocked by the sight in front of him.
A few flashlights shone back and forth on their surroundings, and they walked along the edge from above to the open space below.
Suddenly, the two people walking in front of them grabbed a stone and waved at Wu Yongqiang, "Team Wu, come and see!"
Wu Yongqiang walked over cautiously, "What's the matter?"
As soon as the words fell, he saw the scene exposed behind the stone, and suddenly he was stunned on the spot like the two of them.
Behind the stone, there is a place where the downside is about ten meters, and the area is very large and smooth, as if it has been plastered with cement by modern people.
It is a huge platform with no edge visible at a glance, and there are many buildings on it that look like they have been built by man.
The totem-like pillars are hollowed out at the bottom of the oil lamps that can be illuminated, densely arranged around the perimeter of the platform, surrounding a building in the middle that looks like a miniature version of the palace, and several corners of the building are connected by thick bronze chains that extend in all directions, and it is unknown where they are fixed.
"Oh my God! what the hell is this?" all of them leaned on the rocks and looked down, their expressions of shock almost identical.
They came to look for people, but they didn't find them, but they saw these breathtaking images.
"Captain, could this be an ancient tomb too?" someone next to him asked, "Didn't their archaeological team say that there are all ancient tombs down here?"
"Have you ever seen an ancient tomb like this?" asked someone on the other side.
"yes, it's better than my house, it's for the dead?"
The surrounding discussion began, and Wu Yongqiang did not stop it.
"Haven't you read it?"
"That's all nonsense, it's true!"
"No one will believe it!"
Wu Yongqiang exhaled slowly, "Rest in place first, pay attention to observation!"
The team members sat down under the rock to rest, but they kept talking about the scene behind them.
Wu Yongqiang didn't know where he went, and he didn't meet anyone along the way, when he first came in, he just thought that the underground was an ordinary underground cave, and at most he encountered one or two ancient tombs.
Unexpectedly, the underground space was much larger than he imagined.
Especially after seeing the place behind me, I didn't know where to go for a while.
This feeling has not been felt in many years.
In the past, whether it was training or carrying out tasks, he could command calmly and calmly every time without any mistakes.
Only this time, he was momentarily confused.
It's just an instant, and years of experience still make them quickly sort out their mood, and they keep calculating various possibilities in their hearts.
Luo Fan and they don't know what to do now, and Hao Wenjie and them, will they be like themselves, they have walked to an inexplicable place, or they have already found an exit to go out.
After eating something, drinking some water, and resting, Wu Yongqiang stood up, "All of them, let's go down and have a look!"
The sound of arranging equipment sounded for a moment, and everyone looked at Wu Yongqiang with great curiosity.
"The situation below is unknown, I heard that archaeologists have said that there may be mechanisms when it comes to ancient tombs, so after going down for a while, everyone should be careful!" Wu Yongqiang said in a deep voice.
"Yes!" each member of the team replied in a deep voice.
"Let's go!"
Wu Yongqiang waved his hand and took the lead to walk to a road next to him that could go down.
Looking down from this side, it seems to be very close, and only after nine bends and eighteen bends of the rugged rocks descended to the bottom, Wu Yongqiang and his party felt that they were so small.
Each totem pillar does not know what material it is, the whole is dark red, probably because of the long time, the red one is some black, each pillar is more than 20 meters high, and the diameter of the body is at least nearly one meter.
They stood on the edge of the platform and looked up, and there was some monster crouching at the top, staring fiercely below.
And they just looked at the miniature version of the palace connected by a bronze chain in the middle, which now looked no shorter than the two- or three-story buildings outside, and the cornices and beasts were staring angrily in all directions in the middle.
When they got closer, they realized that the huge platform was not a single piece, but a two-meter-square patchwork of stones, and there was a half-meter-wide gap between the stones, and the gap was very deep.
Wu Yongqiang asked the others to wait in place first, one of his feet stepped on the platform, there was no movement, he stepped up with the other foot, and there was still no movement.
He gestured behind him, and the team members came up one after another, each with a gun, fanning inside.
However, they had not yet walked ten meters away, and when they had just passed the two totem pillars, a "click" sound suddenly sounded in everyone's ears.
It was as if someone had pulled the bolt of the gun, and as if someone had stepped on a branch, Wu Yongqiang raised his hand, and everyone stopped in place and looked around carefully.
The sound disappeared, Wu Yongqiang waited for a while, and just as he was about to wave his hand and continue to move forward, there was a sudden tremor on the ground, not like an earthquake, but a bit like a giant truck passing by.
Everyone became more vigilant, looking back and forth around them, and the flashlight swayed back and forth with them.
Suddenly, someone noticed that a liquid flowed out silently from the gap where the stones met under his feet, and in the blink of an eye, all the stones were enveloped.
No one moved, they were all watching quietly.
The liquid flow rate is very fast, I don't know where it came from, and when the cracks of the entire platform were covered with liquid, Wu Yongqiang and the others suddenly felt that the stone slab under their feet seemed to move.
"It's not good, go back!" Wu Yongqiang shouted, and everyone immediately retreated.
As they ran quickly, some of the stones shifted and collided with the stones next to them to make a "rumbling" sound, which was particularly obvious in this huge space.
When the liquid in the gap was squeezed, it began to become uneasy, like a fish swimming in it, churning and tumbling.
"Quick!" Wu Yongqiang continued to shout, he had already jumped off the platform, looking at the two people at the back and a stone slab about to jump off.
It was at this time that the unexpected appeared!
The liquid in the gap was squeezed and splashed out by the stones, hitting the clothes of the last two, and the clothes instantly made a "squeaking" sound, and began to dissolve holes as if they had been splashed with sulfuric acid.
After the two jumped off the platform, they hurriedly slapped with their hands, but their hands were burned, and a whole piece of skin instantly became bloody and blurry.
"Don't touch it!" Wu Yongqiang was anxious, and realized that the liquid was not ordinary water at all, but something seriously corrosive.
He picked up a man and dragged him aside, and a few steps away was the underground river, and he pushed the man down with great difficulty.
"Hurry!" the other man was also brought over.
After the two fell into the water, it took a while for their heads to emerge from underneath.
"Whew! what the fuck is this?" said one man.
"Hurry up and see if there are any injuries on your body?" Wu Yongqiang asked on the shore, stretching out his hand to pull someone up.
The man grinned and looked at the clothes on his body that were already in tatters, "It's okay, but I can't ask for clothes." ”
He looked back at his companion, who stood there looking at Wu Yongqiang, his face stiffened, and he raised his hand, a hand with only bones left, "Captain......" His mouth squirmed twice, and only these two words were spoken, and the whole person was like a wax statue meeting fire...... dissolved.
"Shunzi ......" Wu Yongqiang's eyes were about to split, and he watched his soldiers disappear in front of his eyes in an instant, and the clothes and equipment on his body fell into the underground river.
"Junko!"
"Junko!"
A heart-rending shout resounded throughout the underground space.
After pulling the other person up, Wu Yongqiang and the others fished out a few relics of Shunzi, and sat there dejected and sad without saying a word.
Someone cried silently, and the companions who got along with him day and night just left.