Chapter 128: Descending the Hanging Ladder

Chapter 128

After the person who sent the notice came to take over with the technical team, we began to return the same way, because the command has been returned, a few of us did not retreat according to the arrangement, but left in the team of Liang Qian, on the way back, I deliberately looked at the ear chambers on both sides, and found that almost every box had traces of someone moving, but what people couldn't understand was that after moving, Changle Palace did not transport the treasure out for the first time, it felt a little strange, maybe Rui Yun Jinghong had other plans, I didn't think much about it, anyway, it has nothing to do with me.

The team went down to the platform one after another, and after we went up, the technical team set up lights here, and the overall light was much brighter than when we were resting here, but when we walked to the edge of the abyss and looked down, it was still dark, which was normal, I don't know if you had ever dug a stone when you were a child, sometimes there was only a small stone on the ground that was a finger high, but when you went to dig, you would dig out twice the depth of the ground and you could not find the bottom of the stone.

The mountain is actually like a small stone on the ground, where we break the broken dragon stone and come in, it can be called the foot of the mountain, but it is definitely not the bottom of the mountain, we go from the broken dragon stone to the platform, although it has been walking for a long time, but it is not very high, because after deducting the time of the battle, most of the rest of the time is walking on a gentle slope in the circle, to put it bluntly, it is the same as we climb the mountain, a mountain of two or three hundred meters basically has to climb for half a day, for example, the famous Mount Tai in Shandong, from the red gate to the summit, ordinary people basically have to walk for about five hours, but you know how high it is, two hundred and forty meters!

However, we will face the situation and the scenic spot of the sightseeing channel is not the same, to go down the abyss, we are straight up and down, the time will definitely be far lower than walking, I have a rough estimate of the distance after coming in, converted into a straight line height may only be about one hundred and forty or fifty meters, not much high, but who wants to take this distance to infer the depth of the abyss, it is a joke, the power of nature is not human beings can guess, I exaggerate, the depth of the abyss, theoretically can even reach ten times the height of the ground, but the theory is theory, you still have to go down to explore。

Rui Yun Jinghong observed beside the abyss for a while, and when everyone was almost down, Rui Yun Jinghong instructed Liang Qian, "Put the drone." ”

Liang Qian asked people to find out two drones loaded with cameras from the materials, turned on the computer and connected the wireless signal and began to control the flight, a group of us gathered around the computer to watch the picture transmitted by the drone, from the screen you can see the black and white pattern of the camera's infrared imaging and the descent height, because there is no auxiliary light in the abyss, the infrared imaging of the camera is not very clear, the penetration is also very poor, there is no scene on the screen at all, it is gray, and when the descending height on the screen is displayed to more than 140 meters, the pattern transmitted by the drone begins to intermittently appear stuck, to a depth of 200 meters, the picture suddenly turned into a snowflake.

Rui Yun Jinghong looked at the guy who was operating the drone suspiciously, this guy was not very old, and he looked more capable, after he saw Rui Yun Jinghong's gaze, he shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "The distance is too far, and the short wave used to connect the signal can't be transmitted so far." ”

Rui Yun Jinghong was silent, this is something that can't be helped, Rui Yun Jinghong was about to ask him to withdraw the drone, I stopped it loudly, "Wait a minute, little brother, let me ask you, the camera picture can't be transmitted back, probably because the signal volume of the video is too large, if it is only used to control the drone to show the descent altitude, can it continue." ”

The guy thought for a while and said, "The distance that the drone receives the signal will be farther than the camera, but the situation in the cave is special, and the signal transmission process will be interfered with by the stone wall, and it is difficult to say how far it can be." ”

If you can continue, I said, "Yes, please continue to let the drone descend until it hits an obstacle or loses signal." ”

The little guy was a little undecided, he didn't know whether to listen to me or not, he couldn't help but look at Rui Yun Jinghong with questions, Rui Yun Jinghong didn't speak, just nodded, the little guy saw the palace master nodding, and he had no worries in his heart, he controlled the drone to continue to descend, and I stared at the descent height displayed on the screen, every time the number increased a little, my heart sank a little, the deeper the abyss, the greater the danger, and the smaller the hope of our survival.

After the descent height reached three hundred, he stopped, and after the young man operated on the computer for a while, he reported with a depressed face, "Palace master, it's not bottoming, if it bottoms out, the drone has a self-protection mechanism, and it can be pulled back, and now the instructions can't be replied to, I think it should be lost." ”

Everyone's face has become not very good-looking, the loss of contact means that there is no end, but no one knows how much is left, the known depth has exceeded three hundred meters, I can't even think of a way to go down, everyone's eyes are looking at Rui Yun Jinghong, objectively speaking, according to the current level of science and technology, even if Changle Palace has everything, it is estimated that it will not be able to transport materials to the bottom of the abyss construction project, let alone the ancients two thousand years ago, and now the most reliable inference is that we all guessed wrong, Wang Mang's coffin is not here, and the abyss is just an ordinary abyss。

Out of the desire for life and the fear of the unknown, I can see that the guys in Changle Palace hope that Rui Yun Jinghong can stop the action and declare it over, after all, the treasure has been found, and it can be exchanged between the upper and lower and the internal and external, and it is not cost-effective to continue to risk huge casualties to find the corpse of an ancient.

Rui Yun Jinghong frowned and didn't make a sound, she didn't know what she was thinking, she waited for a long time, until someone came down from above and said something to her, Rui Yun Jinghong ordered with a firm face, "Notify the dragon hunting team to send someone in and go down the ladder." ”

There was an uproar at the scene, but it soon quieted down, after all, these people are the descendants of Changle Palace, not a rabble on the rivers and lakes, no matter how surprised they are, they must maintain their due quality, Lu Worm and I glanced at each other respectively, and we didn't understand why Rui Yun Jinghong would make such a decision, this is not a joke, more than three hundred meters of abyss, after descending to a certain depth, the interference of the airflow will seriously endanger the safety of life, we have already lost some of our manpower before, if there is any more loss, what else to use to confront Zhou Gongpin?

More than half an hour later, the dragon team came in with tools, they want to erect the suspension ladder is not the same as the soft ladder we usually use, the length of the daily soft ladder will not exceed fifty, the weight is only a few hundred kilograms, the dragon team brought this, is made of steel pipe with wire rope, I looked at the thickness of the wire rope, estimated that it can be lifted to move one or two tons of items, you don't think one or two tons of how powerful, an adult man's weight is about seventy or eighty kilograms, one or two tons to put it bluntly, that is, more than 20 people, and then considering the wear and tear caused by shaking left and right during climbing, the safety factor is not as high as imagined。

More than 300 meters of the ladder, the weight is also very amazing, the dragon hunting team took so long to arrive, just to open the ladder to facilitate transportation, after all, large equipment can not enter, if the ladder is not opened, the gods can not move.

In addition to the people who erected the suspension ladder, there are also people who are distributing safety ropes to us, the safety rope buckle is specially designed, if it falls off suddenly on the suspension ladder, the safety buckle will lock the step of the suspension ladder to prevent falling.

When I tied the safety rope according to the instructions, the first section of the suspension ladder had been erected, and the dragon hunting team was connecting the second section, and the connection was very strong, and I had to visually measure the diameter of more than 24 millimeters.

I noticed a detail, when I said that I needed four sections of the suspension ladder, the expression of the guy of the dragon hunting team was a little solemn, I am not engaged in technology, I don't understand what needs to be calculated behind the 400-meter suspension ladder, but I can read the feeling of worry from his face, no wonder, the 400-meter suspension ladder, I have never climbed it, it seems that this operation is not optimistic.

The speed of the suspension ladder is getting slower and slower, the longer the hanging ladder, the heavier the weight, the idle guys increase the manpower to help the dragon team pull the suspension ladder in batches, several dragon team guys are holding an electric drill to rumble to the anchor point of the suspension ladder, no one will be idle anchor point and feel trouble, you must know that after the action begins, the weight of the suspension ladder plus the weight of the personnel should be several tons, once the anchor point falls off, the people who stay on it can not pull the suspension ladder anyway, and everyone's life is pinned on the anchor point, who dares to be careless.

After the suspension ladder was finally erected, everyone began to discuss the order of going down, there is no doubt that the first person to go down is the most risky, and can only choose a person with strong ability, Changle Palace is now present to be qualified to go down, there are Rui Yun Jinghong, Liang Qian, Chen Zhong, Rui Ren Zexiu and four Changle Lingwei, Rui Yunjinghong as the palace master of Changle Palace, can not be in danger alone, Changle Lingwei wants to protect her closely, and will not take the lead, relying on Liang Qian alone They are not enough, it is indispensable to pull the three of us together, thinking of this I can't help but smile bitterly, this invitation to Changle Palace is a loss, not to mention that the danger has increased several times, Jianmu has not seen a shadow, and was also involved in the internal fighting of Changle PalaceWhat is this?

As a result of the discussion, among the first batch of twenty people, Liang Qian and several of their big shopkeepers were all with us, Chen Zhong and Rui Ren Zexiu took the lead, I was in the middle with Lu Worm, Liang Qian and Chen Mo Palace, and the rest of the shopkeepers were interspersed among us, so that they could take care of each other, we each checked their own equipment, and the dragon hunting team sent a small downhill bag to one of us, to be honest, this height, the downhill bag didn't play any role at all, but in the spirit of talking better than nothing, I still took it and carried it on my body.

Everything was ready, we lined up on the edge of the abyss, Chen finally lit up a few cold fireworks and threw them down, I took a look, the light of the cold fireworks quickly disappeared into the darkness, I don't know if it was because the abyss was too dark or the abyss was too deep, and I didn't see a few meters more than them with night vision.

There was no hope for the cold fireworks, Chen Zhong and Rui Ren Zexiu turned on the small spotlights on their shoulders, buckled the safety rope onto the suspension ladder, and began to climb down.