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Xiao Lei was groggy at the bottom of the cave, lost the concept of time, and didn't know how long he waited, Lao Qin told Xiao Lei that the slope of the cave was too steep, and the rope they carried with them was only enough to hang down, and there was no way to get Xiao Lei up. Liu Xiaowu carefully observed the surrounding cave forks, and thought that the route they had just taken was a spiral-shaped downward passage, and there should be a way to go around Xiao Lei, so he arranged for Lao Qin to connect the rope and come down to help Xiao Lei deal with his injuries. Liu Xiaowu went down the alley above and found the way for everyone to exit.

Lao Qin helped Xiao Lei simply bandage the external injuries on his body, and then took a flashlight to explore along the alleyway. Stopped about ten meters away from Xiao Lei, seemed to have found something, smeared it vigorously on the cave wall with his hand, and then fell into the evil spirit, motionless and stunned at the cave wall.

After a few minutes, Xiao Lei found that Lao Qin's face was almost attached to the cave wall, with a strange expression. After shouting to him a few times, there was no response, so he tried to stand up and moved a few steps in the direction of Lao Qin with difficulty.

When Xiao Lei leaned on the cave wall and walked to a distance of less than two meters from Lao Qin, he saw an extremely frightening scene. The wall of the cave in front of Lao Qin was smooth and abnormal, and he rubbed it like a dark mirror.

And a vague shadow was reflected on the cave wall, which seemed to be Lao Qin's own appearance, but the shadow was not floating on the surface of the cave wall, as if it was hidden in the stone wall, and it was slowly seeping out from the stone wall at this moment, and the appearance of Lao Qin on it gradually became clear.

Xiao Lei couldn't believe his eyes, he always felt that the shadow was not a projection of Lao Qin, because the shadow on the stone wall obviously noticed Xiao Lei who was approaching, and those eyes turned towards Xiao Lei, and then split his lips, revealing a hideous smile.

At that moment, Xiao Lei only felt that the blood in his body seemed to be coagulated, his brain became confused again, and the strength of his limbs disappeared in an instant. He wanted to pull Lao Qin along, but he couldn't take a step at all, he sat down on the ground, and couldn't make a sound in his mouth, only watching Lao Qin slowly take another step towards the stone wall, and his face was almost attached to the stone wall.

The flashlight in Lao Qin's hand fell down and rolled to the side, but it didn't go out. At this time, Xiao Lei noticed that the stone wall was emitting an orange-yellow glow, and he could still see everything in front of him without using a flashlight at all.

The surface of the stone wall seemed to be covered with a layer of water waves in an instant, and the shadows on it became blurred again, but the water waves themselves seemed to be extremely hot, and a layer of mist began to slowly evaporate, enveloping Lao Qin's half-pulled face. Then, the water wave turned into a viscous translucent gelatin, hidden in the mist, and covered Lao Qin's face.

At this time, Lao Qin's whole body began to tremble violently, as if he had been clicked, his facial features were completely deformed, and the gelatinous substance began to flow into Lao Qin's eyes, nostrils and mouth as if it was alive, and disappeared in an instant. Lao Qin stopped trembling, but his face turned red, and the mist still covered his face and never dissipated.

Lao Qin turned around and looked down at Xiao Lei. Perhaps it was no longer accurate to say that the gaze was no longer accurate, because Lao Qin's pupils had disappeared, replaced by countless web-like bloodshots, slowly rotating in the miserable white eye sockets.

At that moment, Xiao Lei felt that his body no longer belonged to him, his heart was beating fast as if his heart was about to jump out of his chest, but his limbs were soft and could not support his weight, he tried to turn his head and not look at Lao Qin, but his neck was stiff like a wooden stick, and he could only watch Lao Qin walk in front of him.

Lao Qin leaned down, his cheeks had turned blue and purple, all the blood vessels burst out, but the blood in the blood vessels seemed to be transparent, and it also emitted a pale yellow light, the entire head swelled in a circle, and his facial features were slightly deformed, just like a large human skin lantern. Those white mist did not dissipate, but instead overflowed more from Lao Qin's mouth and nose, and it was already close to Xiao Lei's cheeks.

At this time, the only thing Xiao Lei who was paralyzed on the ground could do was to try to close his eyes, but at this moment, Xiao Lei suddenly found a black shadow appearing behind Lao Qin and crashed towards Lao Qin at a very fast speed.

Lao Qin was stiff and unstable on his feet after being hit, but all his joints could not move normally, and his body fell straight to the stone wall on the side. With a muffled sound, Lao Qin's head smashed against the hard stone wall, rebounded back, and fell straight on his back next to Xiao Lei, half-pulling his body and pressing on Xiao Lei's legs.

But to Xiao Lei's surprise, Lao Qin's head collapsed under the heavy blow, and a large hole more than three inches long was cracked in the middle, and the skin and flesh were turned outward, and the white flowers and bones could almost be seen inside. Under normal circumstances, this wound should be blood spurting out, and the blood is flowing like an infusion, but the strange thing is that there is not a drop of blood, and what gushes out is the gelatinous matter just now, reflecting a light purple ghostly light.

The black shadow walked in front of Xiao Lei, and he didn't have the vigor he had when he bumped into Lao Qin just now, and he seemed to be faltering, but he still grabbed Xiao Lei's arm. At this time, Xiao Lei finally saw clearly that this black shadow was Dr. Chen with a tired face.

Xiao Lei's limbs were still unable to move, and Dr. Chen didn't even think about it, he grabbed Xiao Lei's arm and began to pull back. Xiao Lei is 1.8 meters tall and weighs more than 160 pounds, but Dr. Chen is thin and small, Xiao Lei doesn't know how much effort Dr. Chen spent on these dozen steps, but soon he knelt on the ground, let go of Xiao Lei, and gasped for breath.

After resting for a while, Xiao Lei felt the sharp pain all over his body again, and he used all his strength to move his arms and support himself to sit up half-way. Xiao Lei saw that Lao Qin, who was lying on his back on the ground seven or eight meters away, had been shrouded in that layer of mist, and the gelatinous material at the wound on the top of his head covered almost the entire cheek, but the light emitted was getting brighter and brighter, making it impossible to look directly.

A few seconds later, the light enveloped Lao Qin's whole body, and the cyan flames instantly rose up, more than a meter high, and the entire mine road was illuminated as if it were day, and waves of heat waves accompanied by a strange, sharp whistle sound, impacting Xiao Lei. Xiao Lei raised an arm to cover his cheek, and at that moment he felt like he was about to be melted by the heat.

Fortunately, the flame didn't burn for long, only a minute, but for Xiao Lei, it was the minute he came out of hell.

The flames burned suddenly, and disappeared simply, as if the light bulb had been cut off, and in an instant it was replaced by darkness, and the whistle became even more harsh, like the cry of thousands of evil spirits, but it clearly rose to the top of the tunnel, and then disappeared into the end of the tunnel very quickly.

Xiao Lei lay down in the alleyway again, he couldn't see anything in the dark, but he could feel that Dr. Chen had also fallen beside him, and it seemed that the situation was even worse.

Xiao Lei called out to Dr. Chen a few times, but did not hear an answer, and after a long time, Xiao Lei heard Dr. Chen muttering to himself. "Lao Dai still failed, this time the defeat is complete, and it can be over. ”

Xiao Lei and Dr. Chen lay in the dark like this, I don't know how long it took. In the anxious waiting, I slowly learned the ins and outs of the whole thing from Dr. Chen's mouth.

Roughly the same as we had previously guessed, Mr. Dai was the mastermind of this series of events, but unfortunately he always expected to be able to control everything, but never did.

Mr. Dai was the real promoter of the resumption of production at the Chengjialing Mine in the 80s. As for how he knew that there was coal essence jade buried under the Chengjialing mine, it is a mystery. However, according to Dr. Chen's speculation, the location of the preparatory team for the Chengjialing mine in the county was selected in Dongyang Village, which was not the old mine left by the Japanese. The deserted village mansion that Cao and I entered in Dongyang Village was the mansion of the owner of the Chengjialing mine in the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, Dai did not understand that there was a labyrinthine strange array below, and he was lost in it many times, but he probably figured out that the entire mine was in the shape of an inverted bell, and the coal essence jade he was looking for was in the center of the bell. He used a clumsy method to make a tunnel that sloped downward, leading from the first circle of the labyrinth to the center of the labyrinth.

And the cave where Xiao Lei stumbled and fell was the inclined shaft drilled by Dai Mine Chang back then.

In the center of the labyrinth, Mine Chief Dai found the coal essence jade, and to his surprise, it was not one piece or two doped in the coal seam, but in the innermost mine with a circumference of six or seven hundred meters, there was coal essence jade. This discovery was enough to make him crazy, although the domestic jewelry stores did not recognize this ore at that time, but the good quality, especially the water urchs in it, could be sold at a very high price abroad. Mine Chief Dai understands that the only way to get rich by relying on coal and jade is smuggling, and this must be concealed from the competent authorities and operated secretly in private. Soon, Dai found a secret channel to smuggle ore out of the country through Hong Kong.

But no sooner had than Dai began mining when an accident occurred, and three miners died of spontaneous combustion shortly after the first batch of coal essence jade was dug up, without warning or clue. Mine Chief Dai knew in his heart that the miner's death must be related to the coal essence and jade mine.

After Dai ran up and down, the matter of the mine accident was covered up by the county, but the test mine must be closed. This led to the current Mine No. 17.

(From the Taoist view, there is no value in things; in the view of things, it is noble and cheap; in the view of the vulgar, the high and low are not in themselves.) If you look at it from a bad point of view, because it is big and big, then everything is not small, and because it is small and small, everything is not small. Knowing that the heaven and the earth are meters, and knowing the end of the earth is the hills and mountains, it is almost a sight. If you look at it by merit, if you have what you have, then everything is nothing, and because you have nothing, then everything is nothing. Knowing that things are opposite and cannot be disconnected from each other means that the merit is determined. If you look at it with fun, because it is what it is, then all things are not the same, and because it is not, then all things are not the same. --Zhuangzi)