Volume 2 Chapter 182 Exploring the Cave
I was a little bored after a wish, and if I had planned, I should have started building roads or building bicycles, but I didn't!
Digging for stones for a period of time is very exhausting, and now I have no interest in any work in front of me, so I want to rest.
But when I was bored, I didn't think about anything else but the mysterious cave near the saltpeter mine......
Humans have always shown a deep curiosity about the unknown and the mysterious, and I am no exception!
Of course, I was not very interested in a natural cave, and what aroused my great interest was that there were traces of human activity in a natural cave on a deserted island.
Although these traces have long since faded, perhaps they were left 30, 50 or even 100 years ago, and they are almost impossible to detect without careful observation.
But since I found out, I've always had curiosity, but I've always suppressed it.
Now the fire in my heart is burning again, and like a raging fire that is difficult to extinguish again, I can only make a compromise in my mind and prepare to go to the cave.
I'm mentally prepared, and if there is dangerous terrain and other conditions, I will definitely retreat as soon as possible, and if everything is normal, it will be a recreational activity.
Adventure is also a popular sport, and many people are so enthusiastic about it that they even love it to the point of paying for it!
And I'm just trying to satisfy my curiosity, and if I don't go to this experience, I'm probably going to dream about it every night.
However, it is necessary to do the preparation before you go, not only to do it, but also to do it quite adequately.
Because there is hardly a person who walks into a cave in the middle of nowhere, without any modern equipment and light source, and he has never had such an experience!
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In fact, there are not many things to prepare, mainly practical, including a rope tens of meters long, several giant torches tightly wound with dry bark, and in addition to carrying a paulownia and two fire folds.
Several giant torches are particularly eye-catching, with a dash of mutton fat and flammable resin in addition to the bark, which can be lit for at least a quarter of an hour.
Other things don't seem to be necessary, after all, I often collect saltpeter near the cave to go back and forth, and I know very well that there are no poisonous snakes and beasts in it, and if the cave is too deep, I will give up decisively!
The only thing that makes people unsettling is the unease of the unknown and all kinds of speculations about the terrain and darkness, and sometimes it is easy to magnify the truth.
The weapons were much simpler, with only a spear and a dagger on the body, not even the all-important bow and arrows and long knives, and everything was practical.
From an objective point of view, I don't think there will be anything that can threaten me, and I don't have to scare myself half to death before I set off, so there is no need to go in, and I will only feel uncomfortable when I go in.
After a simple preparation, I set off, and the mood along the way was quite uncalm, maybe everyone has the gene of adventure deep in their hearts!
After a long time, I came to the mysterious cave again, and when I saw the deep environment inside, I even had the urge to interrupt the plan at the first time, and the dark and strange environment was always full of unknowns and reverie.
But since I've come here, I don't have the reason to give up, and my enthusiasm hasn't diminished in the slightest because of seeing it!
After putting down the weight on your body, you don't plan to rush in directly for the time being, but sit on the ground to rest first, after all, climbing a mountain of one or two hundred meters is also very tiring, and you need to meet the challenge in a better state.
I haven't reached the top of the mountain for a while, and there is still no change in the vicinity, so I can move on to the next action without distraction.
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There are still a few traces of human activity at the mouth of the cave, and two rusty bullet casings are still at the scene, but when you scan the ground, there is a new discovery.
On the side of a stone, I saw a rusty object, and when I picked it up, it turned out to be a dagger with even more exaggerated rust.
This dagger is half sunk into the soil, and the small part of the exposed ground is also completely rusty, and it is impossible to find that it is a dagger when you hold it in your hand, until you smash the layers of rust and break it from the middle to see its true face.
The two bullet casings and a dagger were of no use to me, but it was direct proof that there had been human activity here before, and that there had been other people on the island before I came, but what happened to me is unknown.
The state of the dagger can decipher a lot of information, especially time, and it will take at least decades to completely turn a metal tool into a pile of rust in dry conditions.
The two bullet casings show that someone fired a gun, and why the dagger, a survival weapon, was abandoned on the ground, and the multiple clues are all weird, which makes me more interested in the cave, and my curiosity is about to explode!
Twenty minutes later, everything is ready, the body and mind have returned to normal levels, and the mind is as calm as possible, and then it is time to lift the veil of mystery......
The first step was to tie one end of the rope I was carrying to a tree and the other end to my waist, so that I could climb back down the rope in case of a fall, a torch being extinguished, or even getting lost.
Some of the unimportant items are left outside, with only a few necessary tools to minimize some unnecessary burden.
When everything is ready, a giant torch is lit and ready to officially start the action.
As for the matter of entering a dark and strange cave, I guess I will have a rather violent fear before this year, and I will never dare to venture into it for curiosity.
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But this is not the same as in the past, and don't forget the long and arduous process of digging the cellar, not only staying in the dark and claustrophobic space for almost a month, but also worrying about the cave collapsing and burying yourself alive!
The purpose of the cellar is not only to store food and cool down, but also to build it to train my courage to be extremely tenacious, and at this moment there is little psychological pressure to enter a dark cave, and it is within the acceptable range.
Under the light of the Big Mac torches, the entrance to the cave was illuminated for several meters.
Plenty of light helps me see the environment better, and the blazing flame is more emboldening, but luckily I don't have to use the candle with a brain!
Contrary to the rugged terrain I had thought before I came in, the ground inside the cave was flat and quite dry.
The only thing that is not so good is that there is a musty smell that is not very pleasant, but I am also a person who has experienced strong winds and waves in the original fishing boat, and this musty smell is not worth mentioning at all compared to the smell in the cabin at the beginning.
The length of the cave is not short, and the end of the cave cannot be seen by the light when you reach the five meters, but I believe it is not too long, and the diameter of the summit is limited, and it is estimated that it will not exceed 50 meters at most.
More human objects and metal objects appeared on the ground than the ones outside the cave entrance, the common denominator being that they were old and difficult to identify.
I stopped moving forward a few meters to seven or eight meters further in, and the first few meters were calm, but at this time there were some small sounds in the cave, which sounded very weird!
These sounds are not heard at all when placed outside, or simply ignored, but they are very noticeable in the open and quiet cave, and the environment is simply numb.
At this time, the situation is like walking at night in a strange wilderness, and it is the kind of rural country road, the slightest movement will make the heart hairy, and the pores will open!
After stopping, I began to lean against the wall and listen to the movement with my ears pointed, and my eyes widened to see what was inside, and even the spear in my hand clenched a little tighter.
As a result, I didn't hear anything, I didn't see anything, so I could only continue walking slowly inside.
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However, this state only lasted less than a minute and then changed, and the truth was revealed when it was only three meters forward and only ten meters away from the entrance of the cave.
There was actually a group of bats inside, dozens of bats were still enduring the fire at first, but they were not at ease, and after I got three meters closer, they couldn't stand it and had to flee in a hurry.
They were scared to the point that they were urinating, and I wasn't much better, and the fluttering sound of a swarm of bats suddenly rushing out of it was almost scaring people to death.
Exited several meters backwards, and only stopped when they were almost at the entrance of the cave, although the result was only a false alarm, and the process was full of panic!
Turning around again and walking inward is even more daring, as caves with bats should be quiet enough that there are no other large creatures. But the negative impact of this group of bats is also obvious, the bats live in it for a long time, and the feces produced can be quite a lot, which seriously aggravates the smell inside.
The smell is ten times stronger than when it was at the entrance of the cave, and it seems to be back to the feeling when I first entered the fishing boat.
At first, I was glad that the smell had little effect on people, and I didn't pay attention to it at all, but I didn't expect the speed of the slap in the face to be so fast......
For this reason, I had to go back to the cave again, and put a cloth soaked in water over my face as a face towel, and then I returned to the cave again.
When I returned to the position just now, I just walked forward two meters before I made a rather terrifying discovery, which stunned me for the first time, and immediately had the urge to turn around and run away!
The sound of the torch burning emboldened me so much that I didn't run out again, and the first thing I found was not a valuable object, but the remains of a human body!
I wondered if I should go on because I still believed in a little bit of ghosts and gods, especially in this eerie scene.
In the end, I think it is necessary to find out the truth, otherwise I will definitely be curious again tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
It was only a rough outline of the skeleton that could be found, because the bones had already decayed, and if it weren't for the skull and the little clothes left over as a reference, I wouldn't have thought it was a human at all.
I can't imagine how many years ago there were people here, and finally died here!