Chapter 233: The First Meeting with a Middle-Aged Man
After listening to Xuanhan's description, Jiang Huo immediately left the camp and went to look for Professor Liu.
"Jiang Huo, I'm back." Professor Liu, who was sitting in the tent eating, saw Jiang Huo, and immediately smiled and stretched out his left hand to greet Jiang Huo: "Come on, come on, come and sit." ”
Beside Professor Liu, all the old professors from Shuangdan University were seated, and everyone looked like they were gray-faced, as if they had come out of a black cave.
"Jiang Huo, have you eaten lunch? If you don't have one, go to the cafeteria and get one. The old professor asked Jiang Huo with concern as he picked up the food in his mouth.
Jiang Huo shook his head and said, "I ate a lot of snacks in the car, I'm not very hungry now, thank you for your concern." ”
After thanking the old professor for his concern, Jiang Huo immediately opened his mouth to inquire about the progress of the excavation of the mausoleum.
As Xuanhan said before, when Jiang Huo raised this matter, the old professors present put down their dishes and chopsticks one after another, their faces were full of sadness, they sighed again and again, and told all the progress of the work in the past two days.
After listening to the old professors' narratives, Jiang Huo realized how tricky things were now.
"Jiang Huo, to tell you the truth, the passage made by the construction team is not so safe, to this point, all the participants in the underground agreed to the violent excavation, but when we took the drill bit and began to make a hole, we found that the huge stone gate in front of us was not as easy to open as imagined, with its solidity, no wonder it can stand under the yellow sand for hundreds of years."
In the process of descripting, each of the old professors had a look of disbelief on their faces, and they still could not accept this fact, a fact that was enough to break their values.
Jiang Huo and these old professors continued to talk for a while, and after seeing that they could no longer ask for any useful information, they found an excuse to get up and leave, and ran quickly towards the construction site.
There was no one in the construction office except for those who were resting in the tents. Jiang Huo asked the staff member who had given him the equipment to go down the shaft before, and prepared to go down to investigate.
"Are you going down alone? No, no, everyone in the tunnel has withdrawn, and there is no one inside, if you have any problems down there, how can you ask us for help? The staff who was eating directly rejected Jiang Huo's request, he wiped his mouth, and said, "If you want to go down, it's better to wait after two o'clock, and at that time, you will follow the large army, and you will have a little to take care of." ”
"Do you have to wait until then? Can't really go down now? ”
Jiang Huo continued to ask the other party, although she could use means to hide everyone's sight to enter this underground tunnel, but it would inevitably attract the attention of Xuanhan and the old monk Qing Shui, for the sake of safety, Jiang Huo felt that it was better to be cautious.
"It's really not good, this is the captain's rule, don't be embarrassed for me, if you really want to go in, don't you just go to the captain?" As soon as the staff finished speaking, they put down the lunch box in their hands, stood up, and greeted the people behind Jiang Huo: "Captain." ”
Jiang Huo had already sensed that someone was slowly approaching behind her, but she didn't turn back immediately, and after hearing the staff's words, she turned around and looked at the other party. When Jiang Huo saw the other party's face, his slender willow eyebrows wrinkled unnaturally.
Isn't this the person in charge within the base at the edge of the desert? How did he suddenly come to this place?
Before Jiang Huo could think about it carefully, the other party directly pointed to the equipment placed on the side of the tent, and said to the staff who were eating: "You don't care about your meal, I'm just here to get the equipment, and I want to go down the well to have a look." ”
As soon as the staff heard this, they immediately bent down, picked up the equipment on the ground, handed it to the other party, and then asked with a straight face: "Captain, do you need me to arrange someone to accompany you?" ”
The middle-aged man waved his hand, twisted his neck, pointed at Jiang Huo and said, "Doesn't she want to go down, the two of us are enough, so many people are staying in the tunnel, aren't you too bored to panic?" ”
When the staff heard this, it was not clear what the situation was. He quickly picked up another set of equipment and handed it to Jiang Huo.
Jiang Huo held the equipment, and the doubts in her heart became even stronger, but she didn't say anything, but followed the middle-aged man, came to the side of the tunnel, tied up the safety equipment, and slowly descended to the bottom of the well.
The middle-aged man went down one step ahead of Jiang Huo, and when Jiang Huo stepped on the solid ground, the middle-aged man had already lifted the cable on his body and was waiting there.
"Need help?" The middle-aged man looked at Jiang Huo's slightly clumsy movements and asked.
"Thank you." Jiang Huo unceremoniously turned around and showed his back to the other party.
After all the ropes were lifted, the middle-aged man pulled the ropes hard, and the staff who got the signal immediately pulled all the ropes back. The two of them, towards the passage, walked slowly.
Walking in the deep passage, the middle-aged man seemed to be unable to stand the dull atmosphere, he turned his head and asked Jiang Huo: "I heard that you are a student of Shuangdan University and have an excellent memory, so you will be left by the old professors as an exception, so as not to encounter an embarrassing situation when inquiring about information?" ”
Hearing the other party's voice, Jiang Huo smiled, two dimples appeared on her cheeks, she shook her head and said: "This is just a compliment from the professors, my memory is only a little better than that of ordinary people, and it all depends on the love of the old professors to stay." ”
The middle-aged man stared at Jiang Huo and said in a low voice: "As soon as I came to the base, they kept describing your importance to me, but I just saw the appearance of you untying the rope, it seems that your movements are not very sharp, right?" In your situation, how did you manage to climb those three-story stone pillars with your bare hands? Without waiting for Jiang Huo to reply, the middle-aged man clasped his hands behind his head and said lazily: "I just came here yesterday, so I went to try it, except for the carved text patterns on the stone pillars, there is no place to borrow, it is very difficult to climb up, and it is not as easy as you are!" ”
Hearing this, Jiang Huo's face gradually turned cold, and his eyes were also cold.
Is this man here to test me?
So why don't you ask at the edge base?
"I've loved this kind of extreme sports since I was a child, and I've also participated in all kinds of rock climbing activities, so I have a little more experience in this area than ordinary people, and I have a slight advantage in climbing." Jiang Huo tried to explain to the middle-aged man in a way that even he couldn't convince.
"Really?" The middle-aged man shrugged his shoulders undeniably.