Wang Mian did not show the diary to Xiaowen, but quietly put it away, at this moment, Wang Mian felt that no one could trust it, only he could trust it, and sometimes, people couldn't even believe it.

The two went out of the mine manager's office, although Wang Mian looked very casual, but after Wang Mian came out, he saw a steel rope hanging on the derrick in a distance, and slowly walked towards the derrick.

The derrick is a general derrick, it looks very strong, judging from the paint above, obviously, this derrick has been used a lot, after all, the value of this kind of thing is still quite large, many times, it is a pair of derricks, to be used at the same time on multiple construction sites.

Wang Mian poked his head and looked at the bottom of the well, it was pitch black, he couldn't see anything, and the place where he could see was at most a dozen meters deep, and then down, it was basically black.

Wang Mian found a few dry and cracked branches from the side, lit them with a lighter he carried with him, and threw them down vertically, the burning branches burned very well in a place of more than ten meters in front, but when they went down to more than ten meters, the flames were extinguished at once, and only a trace of green smoke came up, and finally even the sparks were invisible, and after several minutes, he did not hear the sound of the branches falling to the ground, Wang Mian picked up a piece of a few pounds and threw it down when he was next to him, and the stone was like throwing it into a sponge, and there was no sound. Wang Mian thought that the mine was too deep, so he threw a stone that he could barely move, and listened to it by the mouth of the well, but after more than ten minutes, there was still no sound.

Xiaowen on the side also listened attentively, the two glanced at each other, Xiaowen frowned and asked, "How deep do you estimate this mine is?" ”

Wang Mian shook his head, judging from the results of the current test of this mine, the depth is immeasurable, and Wang Mian is not completely sure. In this way, the two of them left the mine and walked around the entire mining area, but there was still no one in the mine, and it was obviously abandoned, and there were no workers to work here.

In the end, Xiaowen said: "There is a village chief near here, why don't we go to the village to investigate, maybe we can learn some information." ”

Wang Mian looked at the old man at the door and nodded, this old man was deaf and dumb, and he really couldn't ask anything, so he had to give up and go to the village, maybe there would be a trace of progress.

The car soon arrived at the village, as long as Wang Mian mentioned this mine, almost everyone was far away, and no one was willing to answer Wang Mian's question, which made Wang Mian feel even more surprised, what is so strange about this mine, but everyone doesn't want to mention it?

On the edge of a wall at the entrance of the village, several old men sat together and chatted, gossiping, knocking on their cigarette pots, chatting with spittle, Wang Mian was far away, did not hear what these people were talking about, and walked up with Xiaowen.

"Uncle, do you know the mine in the north?" Wang Mian asked.

Just this sentence, the seven or eight old men who were chatting scattered a lot at once, and only one old man looked at the sun in the sky, lazily leaning against the brick wall and did not leave, but for the words of the crown, it was as if he had not heard it.

Xiaowen and Wang Mian glanced at each other, Wang Mian took out a 100 yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into the old man's hand, the old man opened his eyes, carefully identified the authenticity of the money, and then said: "You are asking the Li family's mine, right?" ”

Wang Mian's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Uncle, do you know? ”

The old man said thoughtfully: "That mine, in fact, everyone in the village knows it, but it is too gloomy, and everyone is reluctant to mention it!" ”

Wang Mian didn't interrupt, the old man knocked on his cigarette pot on the sole of his shoe, then loaded new tobacco, took out a box of matches, the match burned on the smoke pot, the smoke pot mouth was smoked "Click, click" sounded, Xiaowen waved her hand in front of her, sweeping away the smoke in front of her.

"That mine, in fact, was discovered a few years ago, and several groups of people have been replaced, and dozens of people have died in the village!" The old man said as he smoked his own pot.

"At the earliest, it seems that a group of intellectuals found it, hired a few people in the village, fought for a few months, but there was no result, and then they resold it, they said it was a gold mine, but later people said that it was not a gold mine, of course, there were also said that it was a black gold mine, which was worth a lot more than gold, and the boss who came to buy it also came to buy a batch, only to see dead people, and never saw the things mined above."

The old man continued to smoke his smoking pot, most of the pot of cigarettes had been burned, and the smell of smoke was even more choking, Xiaowen couldn't help coughing a few times.

"The year before last, a scientist came, bought this mine, did not hire people in the village, he has been tinkering there, until a few months ago, it was sold to the Li family, the Li family came in four batches, three people died, the village can no longer find anyone, so I went to the village to find, and then a few more people died, the Li family gave up, this mine has been idle for more than three months."

When the old man finished smoking, he knocked on the cigarette pot on the sole of his shoe, poked the inside of the cigarette stick with a wire he carried, poked out a large pile of black impurities, and then grinded it on the soles of his feet.

Wang Mian asked, "There is an old man watching the field over there, is he deaf?" ”

The old man raised his head and looked at Wang Mian in surprise, then shook his head and said: "I know, the old man used to live there, he was a beggar, he just built a shed near the village at the beginning, and then I don't know what the reason, so I built the shed over there, no, I found out that there was a mine there, and the old man naturally became the caretaker there, and he took a few hundred yuan a month, enough to spend." ”

After a pause, the old man said: "Actually, the old man watching the scene is not deaf, we can't understand what he says, he can't understand what we say, I don't know if it's from the above places, some people say it's an ethnic minority from Xinjiang, but I don't feel like his words are the words of ethnic minorities, it's quite strange." ”

"Why is that useless?" Wang Mian asked.

"You're talking about the minecarts, which were bought very early on, and have always been covered with canvas, and every time they transfer them, they remove those canvases, and they can sell them for a little more money." After the old man said this, he got up and was ready to leave.

"What do you village dead look like, can you tell me?" Wang Mian saw that the old man had the intention of leaving, and hurriedly asked.

The old man turned around and said, "Almost everyone is completely black, and there is a black substance flowing from the seven holes, and I don't know what those things are, as long as someone touches that kind of thing, they will die in a few days." With that, the old man turned around and was gone.

Wang Mian wanted to ask something, but the old man walked with his back to him, and he didn't speak, just waved his hand.