Chapter 15 (I) The Secret of the Mine
The man's death and the strange giant turtle were not the only thing that surprised them, and the 12 deep holes found in the house stuffed the real mystery directly into their minds - there were no corpses in the messy barracks, weapons and guns were everywhere, there were wooden planks for sleeping on the floor, dust and garbage everywhere, and the two slightly larger tables were basically scattered with poker and empty wine bottles.
The 12 holes are located between them, with six on the floor and six on the wall on the right side next to the mountain. Each hole is about the same size, nearly half a meter in diameter, and when you look into the hole, it is black and seems to be very deep.
Tang Shuxing squatted in front of one of the holes, grabbed an empty wine bottle on the table and threw it down, then turned his head to listen, and only heard the sound of the bottle falling to the ground for a long time, judging from the sound, the depth of the hole in front of him was at least ten meters deep - this is a very terrifying distance, what can be dug up from ten meters underground?
Tang Shuxing stretched out his hand and drew an "L" shape out of thin air: "The guy who dug out the cave should dig a straight line first, dig to the bottom of the house and then dig up, but it should not be a mechanical excavation, there is no such a small hand-held mechanical excavator, and moreover, as long as it is a machine, it will produce noise and vibration, and the people above the ten meters below will immediately find out." ”
Tian Yehan looked around: "There are no traces of fighting, and there are no bullet holes left by bullets, which does not mean that the people in this camp have been attacked." ”
"Maybe it was a surprise attack." Gu Huaiyi grabbed a chair that had fallen to the ground and looked at the hole in front of Tang Shuxing. "Think about it from another angle, if a few of us are militia here, playing cards and drinking, and suddenly something comes out of a hole in all directions, we will definitely be surprised for a long time, and in addition to being surprised, this group of militiamen who have not received military training will not be the first to take weapons."
"Gouging? Wait-" Tang Shuxing suddenly remembered something, but immediately shook his head, "Unlikely." ”
"What do you want to say?" Tian Yehan asked him.
"He wanted to say that that Quinn told us about World War II a few days ago. The story of the annihilation of a foreign army loyal to the puppet government of Vichy in France. Ji Kefeng's voice sounded from outside the door. Immediately afterwards, he and Si Zhengnan appeared at the door, and pointed outside, "Si Zhengnan and I searched around the camp, and half of us didn't find it. Wherever there is a house, there are such holes. Even in cement fortifications. The concrete floor has been cut open! ”
Si Zhengnan also nodded and said, "There is no trace of a fight, everything is calm, just like a ghost does." ”
"Collect everything you can use. Then let's go. Gu Huaiyi got up and walked outside.
Ji Kefeng looked at him and asked, "Let's go now?" Don't take a break? ”
Gu Huaiyi stopped, looked at him and said, "Are you willing to sleep in this ghost place?" I'd rather be in the middle of nowhere. ”
Ji Kefeng watched Gu Huaiyi leave, then turned his head and asked Si Zhengnan: "How far is it from that mine?" ”
"If you travel overnight, you should be there tomorrow morning." Si Zhengnan explained, "The whole Ansda Mountain Range is very weird, like an 'S' shape, and the mine is in the center, it is a volcano that is still sleeping, the last time we went, Zhang Zhikhan said that the volcano is still alive, just sleeping, if it erupts, the entire Ansda Mountain Range will suffer, if the erupting flames splash on the wasteland below......"
"Wildfire, endless wildfire." Tang Shuxing looked at him and said.
"Yes." Si Zhengnan nodded, "So, let's go and come back quickly this time and pack some useful things." With that, Si Zhengnan began to rummage through the house looking for objects that could be used, and others were also looking for them.
Half an hour later, when the group met at the exit at the rear of the camp, Tang Shuxing collected grenades and the like, and there were very few flashbangs and stun grenades in the camp - the militia didn't think they were as useful as grenades.
Ji Kefeng was still carrying his Type 81 rifle, and the ammunition of the M40 sniper rifle was almost gone, so he had to throw it away and replace it with an SVD sniper rifle found in the watchtower, which he was more comfortable to use, after all, the domestic Type 85 sniper rifle was a copy of this thing.
Gu Huaiyi threw away his assault rifle and replaced it with an RPD light machine gun, and the most professional may be Shu Tian Yehan, he still took the AK47 he took from the government army, after all, the government army does a better job than the rebels in terms of gun maintenance, even if the AK47 adapts to various environments, it is not guaranteed that there will be a jamming explosion.
Tian Yehan changed his outfit again, unloaded some rifle magazines and put them into the armed belt and backpack, and brought a lot of mines and explosives, as well as flares, incendiary sticks and other things, he had a hunch that this time the matter had not really unfolded, and at the same time he also warned himself that it was time to re-understand this world.
Along the path, they began to expect to meet one or two soldiers of the National Liberation Front who were alive, but unfortunately they didn't say that they were people on the road, not even an animal was seen, everything was so calm and terrifying, just like God knew that they were going to find the Qinglong Scale Mother Diamond, and specially sent "Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals" to open the way for them.
As Si Zhengnan said, at about ten o'clock in the morning the next day, they came to the mine, but the situation in front of them was even more surprising, Tang Shuxing did not expect that the entrance to the mine was in the crater, and the crater was re-strengthened and built around the crater with steel frames, steel ladders and other objects that were easy to support and climb, and the stairs rotated down the four sides of the crater, until they reached the bottom of the bottom, which could not even be seen clearly with the naked eye, and there seemed to be a cover there.
On top of that, there were no people around the mine, and in the distance there was a simple helipad made of gravel and cement, on which was also parked a rescue helicopter with a red cross logo, but there was no one on board.
Tian Yehan looked at the helicopter with a telescope: "The S-92 helicopter, a dual-purpose type, is obviously equipped with armor on both sides, and it is hung with the logo of the international rescue organization, but it is definitely not." ”
"For what?" Ji Kefeng asked, perceiving the lower part of the crater at the same time. There is no breath of a living person, maybe it is too deep, and his perception ability cannot reach that level.
"The first armor is installed, and the weapon pylons under the ailerons on the second side are still retained, that is to say, the fire control system is retained, and the onboard weapons can be added at any time, which is an armed attack aircraft with a rescue helicopter." Tian Yehan shook his head, "But I can't be sure what organization it is, but it definitely can't be the rebels, they don't even have armored vehicles." Where can you afford this kind of thing? ”
Tang Shuxing stood there. My head started hurting again. First of all, this helicopter could not have been from Shandu, maybe it was from Yaojin or Bafang, maybe it was American or Russian, but it definitely could not have been owned by the Asaya government army and rebels. All the way. They met a lot of organizations. Japan's Green Cross, Malaysia's pharmaceutical company, and so on. These large multinational groups have their own security forces, and it's not uncommon to have such helicopters, but why would they come to the mine under the banner of a rescue helicopter? Where did the rest of the mine go?
"Master Ji. Don't feel like there's someone down there? Tang Shuxing turned his head and asked.
Ji Kefeng shook his head: "No." ”
"We've got to go down and hurry." Si Zhengnan said, and was about to walk down, because he couldn't get rid of the corpse, he found a camouflage uniform in the camp to wear, which was supposed to be used by mountain snipers.
"Hey, wait!" Gu Huaiyi stopped Si Zhengnan and asked, "When you came last time, was this what this mine looked like?" ”
"Nope." Si Zhengnan shook his head, "Under construction......"
"Stop!" Tang Shuxing came to Si Zhengnan, "This is different from the information we got before, before we came, someone told us that this mine was blown up because of the competition between the government army and the rebels, and then the government army took control of it, but when we came here, we found that the rebels were in control, and it was only in less than half a month, with the strength of the national liberation front, it could counterattack so quickly?" Can it still be built like this? No way. ”
"You don't believe me?" Si Zhengnan looked at the other four.
"It's not that we don't believe you, it's that the facts are in front of us." Ji Kefeng stepped forward and stood on Si Zhengnan's side, "You have something to hide from us?" ”
"Nope." Si Zhengnan stiffened his mouth, turned around and ran towards the entrance, where there were two improvised elevators, but they had already gone down, and it would take a long time to press the switch and wait for them to come up, and it might alarm the enemies who might still exist below, so he had to slowly detour down the stairs.
Along the way, Si Zhengnan walked in a hurry, and quickly, as if he had something in his heart and had to do it immediately. Tang Shuxing and the other four followed behind him, looking at each other from time to time, all worried that something unexpected might happen, and this crater, which was at least fifty meters in diameter, emitted a strong smell of sulfur, mixed with a strange rancid smell.
It took the five of them about forty minutes just to walk to the bottom of the crater, and there were still no people found along the way, and after coming to the bottom, everyone stood on the steel ground in the shape of a pot lid, and Ji Kefeng did not feel the breath of a living person, as if the people here were suddenly evaporated.
"Where's the entrance?" Tang Shuxing looked around, but did not find any entrances and exits, while Si Zhengnan walked straight to the right side of the steel ground, next to the volcanic wall, reached out and grabbed a handle, lifted it up, revealing the manual turntable below, and then struggled to rotate.
At the same time as the turntable turned, the sound of gears sounded, and a four-square-meter lid on the side of it was slowly lifted, until it was completely erected, Si Zhengnan let go of his hand, and when he was leading everyone to walk down, Gu Huaiyi stepped forward, grabbed Si Zhengnan, pushed him to the side of the volcano wall, grabbed his left hand, took out the dagger and stabbed it directly.
"What are you doing?" After Si Zhengnan's left palm was nailed to the volcanic wall, he glared at Gu Huaiyi angrily, and was about to pull it off, but his right hand was also nailed directly to the volcanic wall by Gu Huaiyi, and he couldn't move anymore.
"You won't be in pain, you're a corpse, unless you undo it now." Gu Huaiyi stood in front of him and said, glanced back at the other three people standing behind him with cold eyes, grabbed Si Zhengnan's chin and asked, "Say, what's going on?" Otherwise, we'll chop you to pulp here, anyway, as long as we go back with the blue diamond, as for whether you are dead or alive, I don't think the people of Shangdu will care. ”
"I'm not lying!" Si Zhengnan didn't defend himself, but what he said before biting himself to death was true. (To be continued......)