"Senior Nan, come and see, the smell of the sea is wafting from behind this shelf. ”

Ye Zhenzhen stood in front of the shelf, from left to right, from top to bottom, and from right to left, from bottom to top, and looked around.

There are several glass jars on the shelves, and the jars are various formalin-soaked seahorse specimens, and unlike other specimen shelves, there is a layer of wooden planks behind the shelves.

Curiously looking at the wooden planks behind the shelves, the color of the planks is lighter than the color of the shelves, as if they were nailed later.

Reach through the gap between the two specimen jars and tap your fingers on the plank behind them.

"Knock knock knock ......" is a very hollow sound.

The planks clinged to the wall, as if they were embedded in the wall.

Nan Zhi Qiao and the boat owner both walked over, Nan Zhi Qiao observed the shelf, the specimen jar on it was also covered with dust, and there was no trace of movement under the shelf, and the dusty cobwebs on the surrounding walls were connected to the shelf.

Approaching the gap between the back of the shelf and the wall, the smell of the sea smelled air coming out of it.

"Here, move this shelf to the side. ”

Nan Zhiqiao gave the order, and the three of them worked together to push the shelf, slowly pushing it from left to right, along the wall to one side.

The specimen rack was not heavy, and the three people easily pushed the shelf to the side, revealing the wall behind the shelf.

In the concrete wall, a square opening appeared.

The entrance of the cave is more than one person high, the wall of the cave entrance is rough rock, the cave is pitch black, I don't know the depth, only the cool wind with the smell of the sea blowing in the face.

I didn't expect that there would be a hole behind the specimen shelf, it was still a very rough hole, the cement wall around the hole was knocked off a large piece, and the rock at the mouth of the hole also had traces of artificial excavation.

The owner of the boat was very surprised, and stretched out his head to look into the cave, "Good boy, this hole seems to be very deep, and I didn't find it when so many people came last time." ”

The wind blowing from inside the cave was fresh, diluting the smell of formalin in the basement.

Ye Zhenzhen: "This cave has air circulation, which means that it is not a dead hole, and I don't know where the other end of the hole leads?"

"Just go in and have a look. ”

The cave was pitch black, and Nan Zhiqiao shone a flashlight inside.

The hole is too deep, and the light of the flashlight is endless, and it only feels like a black hole.

Within the reach of the flashlight, inside the entrance of the cave is a man-repaired tunnel rail, the track is no more than a meter wide, which is the kind of railroad track that is common in mines.

The rails were brand new, not rusty, but covered with a thin layer of dust, which seemed to have just been built and had been abandoned for some unknown reason.

The owner of the ship poked his head out, looked at the railroad tracks, and analyzed curiously: "It can't be that the people in the marine biology research base wanted to expand the basement before, so they installed such railroad tracks, right?"

"Probably not. Ye Zhenzhen raised a different opinion, "If it was done by the people from the Marine Biology Research Base, they didn't need to do it so secretively, and they also used specimen racks to block the entrance to the cave, and the surrounding area was obviously camouflaged, just didn't want people to find out here." ”

Nan Zhiqiao also added: "Judging from the newness of the rails, this track has been installed here for half a year at most, and the rails have not been worn, which means that they have not been used much." ”

"Half a year, who would have dug a hole here half a year ago?" the shipowner wondered.

As soon as the ship's boss said this, he thought at the same time that half a year ago, Nanmu Group's development of the coastal islands in Y City, "Is it Nanmu Group?!"

Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen did not talk.

Ye Zhenzhen knew in her heart that although this place was nominally developed by Nanmu Group, the real behind-the-scenes operator was probably Dr. David at that time, and with Dr. David's madness, he didn't know what he planned to do here.

Nan Zhiqiao used his mobile phone to take a few photos around the entrance of the cave and passed them to the local police, with two words "evidence".

After passing the photo and putting away the mobile phone, Nan Zhiqiao waved his hand, "Let's go, go in and have a look." ”

Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen walked side by side in front, and the boat owner followed, each holding a flashlight in his hand, and walked forward in the middle of the railroad tracks.

The cave is manicured and spacious, and the cold wind blows from the depths of the cave.

Along the railroad tracks, more than two hundred meters straight, the light of the flashlight suddenly shone to the end of the cave.

A natural rock wall stands in the way not far ahead.

Nan Zhiqiao squinted, trying to see the situation in front of him, and kept walking forward.

Suddenly, Ye Zhenzhen grabbed Nan Zhiqiao beside her, and shouted at the same time, "Be careful!"

At the same time as Ye Zhenzhen's voice, there was also the sound of stones clattering to the ground.

Ye Zhenzhen looked at the ground in front of her with a panicked expression, Nan Zhiqiao's original attention had been on the rock in front of her, and when she saw Ye Zhenzhen's expression, she also looked at the ground under her feet.

I saw that a hole with a diameter of more than three meters appeared on the ground, and the edge of the circular hole was close to the tips of the two people's feet.

The sound of the stone clanging to the ground just now was the gravel on the edge of the hollow that fell under the feet of the two people.

Nan Zhiqiao was also shocked into a cold sweat, and hurriedly took a step back, just looking at the rock wall in front of him, in the dark, he didn't notice the hollow under his feet that blended with the darkness.

The owner of the boat followed closely behind the two, and when he saw the two of them retreating, he gave way to the side, looked sideways, saw the hole in the ground, and exclaimed, "My mother, such a big hole." ”

The shipowner leaned forward again, craned his neck, and peered under the hollow.

It was pitch black below, and the shipowner shone down with a flashlight, but the beam could not reach the end, "It's too deep, you can't see the bottom, this is going to fall, it will definitely fall into a meatloaf." ”

The shipowner stepped back, also terrified.

Ye Zhenzhen quickly recovered from her surprised state just now, and used the light of the flashlight to observe the surroundings of the hole.

The ground is flat with cement around and inside the cavern, and it is a vertical tunnel dug by hand, and the bottom of the tunnel leads nowhere.

On the inner wall of the cave on the right, an iron escalator is fixed to the stone wall from top to bottom.

Nan Zhiqiao also found the escalator, walked along the edge of the hole, walked to the escalator, and tested the sturdiness of the escalator with his hands, and it was very strong.

Nan Zhiqiao sorted out the equipment on his body and freed his hands, Ye Zhenzhen followed suit, and the boat owner was surprised: "You two want to go down?"

"Yes, do you want to stay on it, or do you want to go down with us?"

The boat owner encountered such an exciting thing for the first time in his life, excitement overcame fear, and he was busy learning from Nan Zhiqiao's appearance, fixing the flashlight on his body, and freeing his hands, "It's all here, of course I want to go down with you." ”

The three of them descended down the escalator, one by one, to the depths of the hollow.

The hole is very deep, and when you go down more than 100 meters, you still can't see the bottom of the hole.

The shipowner felt furious in his heart, and began to regret a little in his heart, maybe it would be better to stay on it, and this deep vertical tunnel did not know where it leads?

The ship's owner asked worriedly, "Mr. Nan, why aren't you at the end of the day?"

"The center of the earth is still far away, but we are already below the surface. ”