When eight people work together, they can only lift a large stone about ten centimeters on the high side of the hillside, which is no different from when four people lift it.

Nguyen Phuc Chun stood next to him and commanded, and the eight young men circled around the big rock, but in the end, only one direction could move. Immediately ordered loudly: "Divide four people to cut down two trees to make leverage." The rest used machetes to dig up the earth and rocks around the stone down to the roots. ”

At this time, Wu Ming had already sat under the trunk of a tree next to him, leaning on his body, squinting his eyes to see Ruan Fuchun commanding eight of his subordinates to work without saying a word.

Signs that large multi-ton stones can be lifted indicate that there must be a void underneath. Moreover, the center of gravity of the large stone should be located on a relatively sharp stone that cannot be seen in the buried soil, in other words, the contact surface of the lower part of the large stone is not large, otherwise it is impossible to say anything to be moved. But no one can be sure how big the gap is below, and whether it is the hole dug by the owner of what looks like a badger or python's nest, or whether there is a cave at all.

After cutting down two thigh-thick tree trunks as levers and digging up the surrounding earth and rocks until the roots of the large stones were exposed, Nguyen Phuc Chun commanded eight people to insert the trunks into the high side of the hillside, and put a fulcrum underneath them, and four people worked hard to pry them at the same time.

"One, two, three, hard! One, two, three, hard! ”

Just as Ruan Phuc Chun shouted loudly, and the eight young people divided into two groups to pry the big stone vigorously, suddenly, with a loud "boom", even the people and the stones fell into a dark hole that inexplicably appeared under their feet!

Seeing that the earth and rocks around the entrance of the cave were still falling, Ruan Phuc Chun, who was standing at the edge of the cave, screamed in fright and staggered backwards.

The unexpected scene in front of him made Wu Mingteng, who had squinted his eyes and leaned on the trunk of the tree, stand up suddenly. Nguyen Phuc Chun, who was retreating, tripped over the vines under his feet, and then exclaimed and rolled down the hillside for five or six meters, but fortunately he was blocked by two small trees and did not roll to the bottom of the ditch. Even so, by the time he crawled back from the pain, there was no good place on his face, on his arms, on all the exposed skin.

"This ...... Could this be the treasure cave left by the French, Mr. Wu? ”

Seeing the eight people he brought fall into it together with the multi-ton stone, it can no longer be called a "hole", but a bottomless pit with a radius of almost ten meters. Even except for the intermittent sound of falling rocks, he couldn't hear any other sounds, and Ruan Fuchun, who had no command in his heart, suddenly became respectful towards Wu Ming.

"Perhaps...... Right. ”

Muttering in his heart, "The ghost only knows if it's true", Wu Ming cautiously moved a few steps towards the edge of the pit, bent down to see what was going on below. However, the pit is so deep that you can't see the bottom, you can only see the darkness.

"Mr. Wu, what should we do?"

"Do you want to call someone to help again?"

When Ruan Phuc Chun heard this, he shook his head like a rattle and said, "No, no, absolutely not." ”

"Then I'll have to find a way to go down and have a look."

"You...... I...... How to go down? ”

Not afraid is it fake, just now I saw with my own eyes that the eight people fell and there was no movement, not only Ruan Fuchun, but Wu Ming also had some drums in his heart.

Playing drums and drumming, Wu Ming, whose curiosity was completely aroused, has decided to go down to find out. However, before going down, it must be clarified whether the eight people just fell to their deaths, or were killed by the large rocks that fell at the same time, or were bitten to death by unknown beasts hiding below.

The first two are easy to say, but Wu Ming is most worried about the latter. If you don't figure it out, you will go down rashly, in case Leng Buding is attacked by a wild beast, even if he is extraordinary, Wu Ming does not dare to guarantee that he will return safely. What's more, the wound on his left shoulder has not fully recovered.

Looking around, Wu Ming said to Ruan Fuchun: "Boss Ruan has a gun on him, right?" ”

Ruan Fuchun nodded, and subconsciously reached out and touched his waist.

"So you look that way, and I'll look this way, and see if I can catch a few hares or pheasants."

"Mr. Wu wants to try something below?"

"yes, or would you dare to go down?"

Ruan Fuchun shook his head, took out a pistol from his waist, turned around and went to look for hares and pheasants as Wu Ming instructed.

Wu Ming also picked up a machete from the ground and tiptoed into the bushes in the distance. Without those eight subordinates, Wu Ming no longer had to worry about Ruan Fuchun shooting at him, so it didn't take much effort to return with two fluttering pheasants with wings. He even carried several vines five or six meters long.

Instead of shouting to Ruan Phuc Chun, who didn't know where to find pheasants and hares, Wu Ming first picked up all the vines, tied a stone weighing five or six kilograms to the front end, and then tied two pheasants to him, and then hung them down from the hole little by little. Seeing that the vines with more than thirty meters in his hands and feet were exhausted, he still didn't feel any signs of the end, but fortunately, the struggle and cries of chickens came from the dark pit from time to time, which made Wu Ming see a glimmer of hope.

He turned around and cut down a few slender vines and continued to descend. Finally, after putting it for almost forty meters, close to fifty meters, the vine reached the end. And the movement of the two pheasants still did not disappear.

Smack, smack——!

Suddenly, he heard two gunshots not far away, and Wu Ming knew that Ruan Phuc Chun should have also hit a pheasant or a hare. It's just that when Ruan Phuc Chun walked back with a hare ten minutes later, Wu Ming took a look, picked up the machete and turned around to cut the vines that were thicker enough to bear the weight of the human body.

"Mr. Wu?"

"What's the use of getting a dead rabbit? Throw it aside, come and help me chop the vines. ”

At this time, Nguyen Phuc Chun not only saw the thin vine on the edge of the pit, but also heard the sound of pheasants fluttering and crowing from below. Throwing away the hare that had been killed by him in his hand, he grabbed a machete on the ground and followed behind Wu Ming, and once again burrowed into the dense forest.

The two worked together, and in less than half an hour, they each walked back with a few vines as thick as their forearms.

After picking up the vines, Wu Ming looked at Ruan Fuchun and asked, "Do you go down or do I go down?" ”

At this time, Ruan Fuchun was very entangled in his heart, go down by himself, he really didn't have the guts. If Wu Ming is allowed to go down alone, in case there are valuable gems underneath, which are secretly hidden by Wu Ming, and come back to take them away, he will not lose a lot.

After thinking for a while, he tentatively said to Wu Ming: "Why don't Mr. Wu go down first, and then I will go down?" ”

"Okay, just do as you say."

Wu Ming first tied one end of the vine to the trunk of a big tree at the edge of the pit, threw the vine into the pit, and then grabbed the vine and wrapped it around his waist, grabbed it on his waist with one hand, pulled the vine with the other, carried his backpack, and slid down a little bit with his back to the deep pit.

"Mr. Wu be careful. Remember to shake the vines to notify me after the end. ”

"Got it."

(End of chapter)