The air around us froze, and the suffocating atmosphere enveloped me and the bamboo pole as the two of us stood at the top of the staircase, looking out of sight at the other end of the staircase. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In this place, there are only two people, me and the bamboo pole, and there are two skeletons lying there quietly. Quietly, I could only hear the sound of my own restless breathing, mixed with a strange aura.

The two of us glanced at each other, encouraging each other's apprehensive feelings.

"Jing Che, let's go!"

"Hmm!"

I took a deep breath and tried to calm my nervous mind that I didn't know was about to face the secret that was hidden.

The staircase is more spacious than when I came here, and I walked side by side with the bamboo pole without feeling crowded. The two of us walked down the stairs carefully.

There was only pure darkness below, and as we walked slowly, the previous darkness was lit by oil lamps on both sides, but only new steps emerged from this darkness. Then another darkness continued to cover the road ahead.

The faint flickering light of the oil lamp was barely enough to illuminate the road a meter or two nearby. Although the light is weak, it at least makes me feel a little more at ease, after all, the light is on means that there is still air flowing here, and even if it is a little difficult to breathe, it is enough to maintain the basic needs.

I walked cautiously with the bamboo pole for about an hour or two, and although the pace was not very fast, I had already walked down a lot of steps in my heart, and the place still did not come to an end.

"Jing Che, why is this place getting hotter and hotter?"

I wiped the beads of sweat off my forehead with the back of my hand, indeed, as the bamboo pole said, this step was like a way to the sauna, and as the two of us went down, the temperature of the place would gradually rise, and there were naughty beads of sweat on my forehead from time to time to "breathe".

But as the temperature slowly increased, I faintly felt that the position of my chest was exuding bursts of cold air.

"This stone?!"

I touched my hand to my chest, and to my surprise, the cold sensation was actually emanating from the stone found in the corpse's clothes above. At this time, although the temperature around the stone is gradually rising, the higher the temperature becomes, the more obvious the coldness emanating from the stone will be.

The bamboo pole also noticed the strangeness of the stone, and pulled another stone out of his pocket. The two of us held the stone and looked at each other in confusion.

"Jing Che, I thought at first that these two stones were just on top because the environment was cold, so these two stones would feel cold and cold. Now that the temperature in this place is slowly rising, I didn't expect these two stones to still feel so cold. ”

In fact, I thought the same as the bamboo pole, and I didn't pay much attention to these two stones before, but I just thought that the owner of the two corpses only carried this stone with him when he died, and there should be some reason why he brought them with him.

Now the temperature of the environment is slowly rising, but fortunately, I have this stone in my hand, relying on the cold air it emits, so that my body will not be hot to the point of sweating, and I will still adapt to this temperature.

"That's right!" The bamboo pole seemed to remember something, his fingers kept waving, and he looked at me with a suddenly realized expression, "I seem to have seen a record in a document in our bureau before, saying that the government once found a very small number of stones in Inner Mongolia, those stones look similar to ordinary pebbles on the outside, but the stones will emit a cold air from themselves, like ice cubes, and the emitting time is maintained for a long time, in an extremely hot environment, it can maintain that temperature for a year." So the stone was named the Ice Stone... ”

"Icestone? Are you saying that the two stones we have now are the ice stones you saw in the record? ”

"I'm not sure, because I haven't seen the actual appearance of the ice stones, but as things stand, they look a lot like the ones they are. Let's just assume so?。。。 ”

"If yes—" I heard that the bamboo pole was not completely finished, but suddenly stopped, and I probably thought of it with him, and just wanted to speak, but there was silence.

After thinking for a while, he spoke again: "If these two stones are the ice stones you said, then the people above should have carried these stones to resist the heat. And the number of these ice stones that survive is very small. It is conceivable that if you want to get this stone among the people, it must be more difficult than climbing the sky. But the above two people are one hand, then, the biggest possibility is..."

"They're all government people, just like us!"

"Hmm... If it's government people, then why are they here? ”

"There are only two kinds of people from the government who have come to this island, one is the intelligence department like us, and the other is the ****** person we are looking for on this mission!"

"Indeed, it is either a comrade-in-arms or an enemy. If it's my own people, then I think the biggest possibility is the people who gave us the ****** about these islands in the sea. If it's an enemy, it's likely that we're close to the secret services of ******. ”

Regardless of the identities of those people, I am very sure of one thing, that is, those two people will never come to this island just the two of them, and this island must have someone on this island, or a corpse, in addition to these few people in our team, plus those two corpses, there must be people on this island, or corpses in some corner of this island.

Those two people died at the top of the stairs, and with Wang Xun and the chatterbox who disappeared in front of my eyes, there must be some secret in this place, and it is very likely that it is at the end of the stairs.

Although I smell a little dangerous, but gradually get closer to the truth, maybe I want to return to the real world as soon as possible, to find Yuwen, who is still alone somewhere on the island at this time, I don't feel scared now, but a little excited.

"Li Qi, you should be similar to what I thought. It feels like we're going to have to pick up a bit of a bit and can't afford to waste too much time on this step. Desperate to learn the truth, I put the ice stone back into my breast pocket.

"Jing Che...," the bamboo pole suddenly stopped me, "There may be secrets of this island ahead, but there may also be dangers, or should we consider it?" ”

I know that this person has the courage to do so, and now that he has expressed his concerns, it is not so much that he is timid, but that he is afraid of more unknown things in his mind.

But I'm not in Jing Che's memory world now, no matter what danger it is, it shouldn't affect my return to reality, besides, I heard Jing Che say that everyone in the team was killed on this island. So the bamboo pole in front of me is a dead man sooner or later, so naturally I don't have to worry about anything. I only want to learn the truth as soon as possible, and I don't plan to give the bamboo pole more time to entangle, so I simply grabbed him and continued to walk down, taking two or three steps from time to time.

I walked down with great interest, but as time passed, except for the gradually slowing pace and the diluted interest, there was no change in front of me, it was still an infinite cycle of steps, darkness, steps, darkness.

"Jing Che! Wait a minute! The bamboo pole walking next to me suddenly stopped and grabbed me.

"What's wrong?" I was taken aback by his unusual behavior, and I felt like I was looking back at him.

"Look, isn't there something strange about this place?"

"Yes?"

At first, I just watched the steps under my feet carefully, and then maybe I was too excited and walked forward. When I was told by the bamboo pole, I calmed down and thought about it, but I didn't take a closer look at the environment.

I looked around again, and by the dim light, there were only a few steps in front of me that could "break through" the darkness, and now in front of our eyes, everything else was completely engulfed in darkness. If you look at the side, it's just a smooth wall that has been trimmed.

"Li Qi, except for being a little dark, there's nothing wrong with this place?" I looked at it carefully for a long time, and I didn't find anything strange, so I asked about the bamboo pole.

"Jing Che... I think.. This place, have we been here? ....”

"I've been to ???"

The bamboo pole hesitated and slowly said what he felt strange from his mouth, and when I heard him say that we had been to this place, my back instantly itched like hair.

"Been here? Don't... We've been walking on this stairs for so long, just going around in circles? ”

"Look at this oil lamp, is there some crack in the glass around the wick? I think I've seen a similar light before. ”

I approached the bamboo pole and looked at the oil lamp next to the bamboo pole, and it was indeed the same as he said, the glass outside was a little broken, and some cracks appeared in the lower right corner of the glass.

I looked at the oil lamp on the other side, and the glass of the lamp was intact. It seems that broken glass is not available in every lamp.

"It's... Why don't you take a few steps and see what the lights in front of you look like? ”

In order to figure out the situation, Bamboo Pole and I decided to walk to the oil lamp in front of us. We walked a few more steps down and soon came to the new two oil lamps.

The bamboo poles and I looked at each one carefully, and strangely enough, the two lamps were also intact, and there were no cracks in the glass.

"Jing Che, could it be that lamp the one I saw earlier? Are we really going in circles? ”

"Let's go ahead again!"

I still don't dare to say that there is a problem with the glass of every few lamps.

As we continued to walk down, there were dozens of lights passing by, but we were surprised to find that they were all in good condition!

"Li Qi, are you mistaken?" Maybe it's just that the bamboo pole is tired, and after staying in the dark for a long time, he saw a lamp with cracks in the glass and hallucinated, so he asked the bamboo pole and asked him to think about it.

But the pole became very sure, and told me that he had seen the lamp twice, and that the cracks felt like the same place.

I began to mumble again in my heart, if the bamboo pole did indeed see the same light twice, it meant that we were indeed making circles on the steps. Now that I think about it, we did waste a lot of time on this step, but there was no end to it. After walking for so long, the physical strength of me and the bamboo pole was naturally consumed a lot, and if we were really trapped in this dark step, I was afraid that sooner or later we would starve to death. As soon as I thought of this, my stomach also made a fuss in response to the situation.

It seems that we have to hurry up and walk out of the steps, whether it is to go back or find the end, at least we have to fill the vacancy in the lower stomach first.

"Li Qi, let's go further and see if we can see that light again."

"Well, I remember the crack in the glass, and I won't be wrong if I see it again!"

I decided to keep walking, no matter what, at least to see the light again, or I really couldn't convince myself, and I just let myself worry in vain.

The two of us walked on, and every time an oil lamp came out of the darkness ahead, we would take a closer look.

In this way, one by one, oil lamps passed by, and time gradually slipped away.

After walking for a few more hours, I looked at hundreds of lights, but I didn't see that light again.

"Li Qi, it seems that we are thinking too much, and you see that the light is not seen at all."

"I hope so, I don't want to see it again," said the bamboo pole, and sat down on the ground.

After walking for a long time, I also felt a little "deflated" in my legs, and I sat on the ground.

"Jing Che! Isn't that the light! ”

Not long after I sat down, the bamboo pole still said the sentence that made us the most "afraid".

I stood up again, looked over to him, and let out a sigh came out of my mouth.

There is this crack in the lower right corner of the glass of that lamp!

"It's not that coincidental," I still couldn't believe what I saw, "although there are two lights every few meters in this place, and we have walked for so long, it means that the stairs are still quite long." There are so many lights, it should be possible that one of two or three is problematic."

"That Jingche, you can't keep guessing like this, let's find a way to find out for sure."

"Hmm... Bamboo pole, put your dagger on the ground, let's continue to walk forward and see if we can find this dagger, if we do, we can really be sure that this step is boring. ”

"Okay."

I don't want to keep myself thinking that what we carry with us is more convincing than a lamp. The bamboo pole got up and put the dagger on his body on the ground. After that, the two of us hurried down the steps.

This time, I'm so tired that I don't have the concept of time. Hunger and exhaustion took turns beating my nerves, and looking at the oil lamp around me, it even began to shake in front of my eyes from time to time.

Gritting his teeth, he walked mechanically on the steps, but the dagger was still not found on the ground. No matter what ferocious monsters will come out in front of me, even if I lose the dagger, I won't be sorry now, I just hope to get out as soon as possible, let me rest and rest...

"Boom!"

Just as my legs began to weaken and I was about to fall to the ground from exhaustion, a crisp sound sounded in our ears, in this dark space, surrounded for a long time, and did not disappear for a long time.

And this voice, I and the bamboo pole clearly know what it is. The sound was like a bullet that passed through our heads. I secretly cursed in my heart for being unlucky, stunned in place, and looked at the bamboo pole on the side, at this time he was also timid, his eyes widened, and his eyes met mine.

"Jing Che, this... It's true! ”