Chapter Twenty-Eight (II) Strange Passages
Fifteen minutes have passed, but Tang Shuxing and the others who were waiting in the abandoned building did not see any vision happening, there was no natural phenomenon mentioned by Iron Tooth, and there were no other strange things happening, all that could be heard was the sound of a helicopter flying rapidly over the building, and even the conversation between the military and police who were originally approaching during the search had completely disappeared.
After a few minutes, even the sound of the helicopter was gone, and the island was dead silent, unable to hear anything but their own breathing and heartbeat, as quiet as if they were in a morgue.
"Why is there no movement?" Tang Shuxing listened close to the wall, and when he turned around, he accidentally dropped something out of his pocket, and he picked it up with his backhand and found that it was a needle, an injection given to him by Lei Yu on the flight, a drug that could control his ability to control the corpse without the help of external forces.
Lei Yu said that it was Gu Yunqing's gift.
Tang Shuxing held it in his hand, hesitated for a while, and still stuffed the thing into his pocket.
"What's that?" Ah Yue looked at Tang Shu and asked.
"My medicine." Tang Shuxing said with a smile.
"That's a medicine that can make his illness worse." Ji Kefeng joked.
When several people were talking, Ah Ling suddenly broke free of Ah Yue's hand, lying on the ground on all fours, staring at a corner of the room, everyone felt strange, wondering if Ah Ling had discovered the military police who were about to attack, and they all immediately picked up the weapons in their hands, but when they looked at the angle of Ah Ling's gaze, they unexpectedly found that there was a flame floating slowly in the corner of the wall.
After the flame completely emerged from the ground, Ah Ling immediately pounced. The flame immediately dodged along the side of the corner as if it were alive, and Ah Ling chased after it like a cat, trying to catch the fire with both hands, but allowing the flame to escape.
The flames slowly moved to the center of the room, and the five people scattered, surrounding the flames and watching.
Tang Shuxing slowly lay down, looking at the bottom of the flame at least 5-6 centimeters above the ground, and then said, "This should be the supernatural phenomenon that happened on this island that Iron Tooth said, right?" It's not spontaneous combustion, it's coming out of the ground. ”
Then, Ah Yue turned around and came to the corner of the wall where the flames appeared earlier. I saw that there was a gap in the corner of the wall.
Ah Yue put her finger in her mouth. After moistening his fingers, he put them in the gap, and then he felt a slight coolness in his fingers, and immediately turned his head and said, "There is a wind blowing up from below." There are either basements or caves down there. ”
Gu Huaiyi hugged the computer. Contact Ami who is far away in the Gu hunting ground again. Asking Ami and Yanke to find the blueprint of the building on the island, Yanke replied, "I searched for it when you approached it, but I didn't find it." But to my surprise, I found a blueprint from the server of an American import-export trading company that was built before they bought the island, which was a hundred years old British architecture, which should not be of much use. ”
Tang Shuxing pointed around and said, "Let's split up and see if we can find the entrance to the basement." ”
After that, the five people acted separately, just when Ah Yue was about to take Ah Ling to the next room to search, Ah Ling broke free of her sister's hand again, slammed the door of the room open, sniffed around, and then walked to a position similar to the storage room for sanitary tools, squatted there and opened an iron door 2 meters wide on the wall with her hands.
"Ah Ling, what are you doing?" Ah Yue stepped forward and said, just when Ah Ling opened the garbage door, she smelled a damp and moldy smell gushing out, and immediately subconsciously covered her mouth and nose, and then a cool breeze blew out, completely blowing away the smell, and Ah Ling stretched out her hand and shook it left and right in that position, signaling that there was something below.
"Xing Er, you all came to me, I seem to have found a passage, but it may be unhygienic." Ah Yue glanced at that position, originally planning to throw the burning stick down, but worried that there was biogas below that would detonate, so he replaced the glow stick and threw it down.
The other 3 people arrived one by one, looking at the garbage port, although the mouth was very wide, but no one dared to jump down, but everyone also found the strangeness of this thing - it stands to reason that the garbage disposal port should not be on the first floor, even if there is such a passage on the first floor, the foundation of the first floor should be about two meters above the ground, so that the external connection can be directly connected to the outside garbage can, which is a special design of European and American architecture.
"Look at this, there should be a garbage disposal station down there." Tang Shuxing looked downward, but he couldn't see the glow stick that Ah Yue threw down at all, indicating that there was either a corner underneath, or the depth was beyond their expectations.
"You're all going to come and see this." Gu Huaiyi took down a schematic diagram of garbage disposal from the wall, handed it to everyone, pointed to it, and said, "The schematic diagram only says that the garbage will be thrown down from here, but it does not understand how the garbage should be sorted or how to take out the discarded garbage under the passage, what does this mean?" ”
"It means that the people who work here don't know what's going down the tunnel, and when we came before, we didn't see an external passage or a biogas digester or anything like that, so they didn't take the garbage that was thrown down." Ah Yue looked at the schematic diagram.
While everyone was deliberating, a light appeared at the mouth of the garbage passage, and everyone turned their heads to look and found that a flame about the same size as the previous one was slowly rising, floating to the treatment port and moving out, and then slowly falling to the ground, but still 5-6 centimeters above the ground.
"We don't have a probe or anything like that to look at, so we have to rely on people, so we have to find someone to go down and explore first." Tang Shuxing said and looked at the others, "Raise your hand in agreement with Ah Yue's down!" After speaking, Tang Shuxing was the first to raise his hand, but the others did not respond.
Ah Yue smiled, instantly put away her smile and looked at him and said, "Raise your hand to agree with Tang Shu's punishment." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone raised their hands, and even Ah Ling understood, and raised her hands high.
"Damn, you're too unkind!" As Tang Shuxing was talking, Gu Huaiyi had already taken out the rope he had found from the armory earlier. began to tie around his waist.
Gu Huaiyi said while tying it: "The rope is thirty meters, this kind of high-strength military cable can pull the car, unless you weigh dozens of tons, it will not break under normal circumstances, rest assured." ”
"What am I going to do?" Tang Shuxing looked at Ah Yue and said, "She's thin and flexible, and women come first!" ”
Ah Yue walked to the treatment mouth and tried to raise her chest, then retreated and shook her head, which means: My chest is too big, it will be stuck!
"What the fuck is okay?" When Tang Shuxing was still complaining. Gu Huaiyi had already tied the rope for him. Tighten the rope in your hand with the others and signal that he can go down.
Tang Shuxing grabbed the left and right of the handle, tightened the strap of his backpack, and turned around and rolled his eyes at the others. Then he grabbed the rope and slowly slid down. Others lay the rope slowly.
After a drop of five meters. Tang Shuxing didn't feel anything other than the stones used for consolidation in the mouth of the elephant well around him, so he had to turn on the shoulder lamp. Looking around, it was found that in addition to the stones, there were also circles of red bricks on the four walls of the passage, and it seemed that cement was used in them, indicating that the time for building the passage was only a few decades.
"Continue to delegate to Lu, it's not over yet!" Tang Shuxing pressed the intercom and said, the rope began to slide down again, and his body began to continue to fall slowly, and after another five meters, the soles of his feet stepped on a slope that was not smooth, the slope was towards the lower right, and there was a lot of garbage around him that had not slipped down the slope.
"Put it down another meter, then stop, there's a slope here, I'll have to lean down and take a look." Tang Shuxing said, propped his feet on both sides of the passage, and then used a very difficult posture to look at the bottom of the slope, who knew that as soon as Lu Dao leaned over, his right shoe slipped and the whole person rolled down directly.
"Pull tight!" Gu Huaiyi, who was close to the garbage disposal port above, felt the rope sinking, and immediately pressed his feet against the wall below the disposal port, and Ah Yue and Ji Kefeng in the back immediately wrapped the rope around their arms.
Under the passage, Tang Shuxing, who was hanging on the slope with half of his body, stopped instantly, panting and looking around, a large sweat dripping down his forehead, he was afraid not only because of the previous slippage, but mainly because of the posture he maintained, he was already able to see the outside of the slope clearly, but it was completely dark outside, so black that he couldn't see his five fingers, and even his shoulder lamp couldn't illuminate a meter away.
"Don't hold on, I'll take a closer look at what's down there!" Tang Shuxing shouted to the intercom, then turned the shoulder lamp to the maximum, took it off and looked around, and as soon as the lamp in his hand turned, he saw a dried corpse hanging at his feet, next to the stone wall of the disposal mouth below.
The dry corpse grabbed the short sword nailed to the wall with both hands, and his whole body hung there in the air, completely unaware of how this person died, but judging from the hard hat he was wearing and wearing, he should have been a worker who had purchased this island company before, and he should have accidentally fallen or been pushed down, but fortunately, there was a short sword underneath, and he slipped and grabbed it.
"How long is the rope? Put it down another two to three meters. Tang Shuxing said again, and then the rope above began to slide, and he slowly lowered the rope to the position of the dried corpse, and after parallel to it, he found that there was not only a short sword nailed to the stone wall below, but also a lot, one left and one right, one up and one up.
"It looks like someone is using a dagger as a support, trying to go down or up." Tang Shuxing informed the above of what he was seeing, and then raised his foot and stepped on the short sword that could live below, and then used a little force, and found that he could completely bear his own weight, and when he was happy to have support, he heard Gu Huaiyi's anxious voice in the intercom, "Xing Er!" Someone is coming, is there a support point below? ”
"Yes, yes, but ......" Tang Shuxing was saying when he was interrupted by Gu Huaiyi.
"We have to all come down! It's too late! After Gu Huaiyi finished speaking, the communication was cut off, and then Tang Shuxing heard the sound of someone sliding down above, and it sounded like they all jumped down.
"Hey-" Tang Shuxing just said a word into the intercom, and as soon as he raised his head, he saw a black shadow slipping out of the slope and falling directly towards the abyss below, he quickly reached out and grabbed the person, only to find that it was Gu Huaiyi.
"Crazy Gu, do you see the short sword pierced into the stone wall? That thing can hold the weight of a person, hurry up and grab it! Tang Shuxing shouted, Gu Huaiyi immediately clinged to the wall, and just when he stepped on the hilt of the sword and grasped it steadily, three people, Ah Yue, Ji Kefeng and A Ling, slipped out of the mouth of the passage one after another.
The moment the three of them rushed out, because of factors such as weight and sliding speed, they directly rushed out of the range that Tang Shuxing and Gu Huaiyi could grab, and the two had to watch the three of them fall down at an extremely fast speed, just when Tang Shuxing was so anxious that he almost let go and jumped down, the rope around his waist was suddenly tightened, and he was almost dragged down by the weight of the other end of the rope - Ji Kefeng and the three of them tied the rope to their bodies before coming down, otherwise the three of them would not be crazy enough to slide directly vertically. (To be continued......)