Volume 1: I Am the Celestial Master Chapter 127 Enter the Ancient Tomb
I stopped and looked at Liu Huzi and said, "If you can, you two can collect the empty bottles, and I will build a small dam about a mile down here." Go there and get some water, boil it, cool it, and then go back to the empty bottle. "I want to arrange for them to get some water, and more water is always better.
"Roger!" Liu Huzi made an OK gesture at me.
When we came to the entrance of the cave, we gently tidied up the irregular places, so that the people who went down were more calm.
I took off my headlamp, let them hold my feet, and hung my upper body first. I looked around with my headlamp, but I didn't see the boundary of the cave, and I didn't see the shadow of my soul. The entrance to the cave is less than two meters from the ground, so it is not difficult to go down, but it may be difficult to come up. I could see the general direction of the cave, which was heading towards the camp, so I asked them to pull me back first.
I made an area in the other direction of the cave and told everyone that they needed to dig this place, and try to dig it as flat and spacious as possible, so that it would be easier to get out of the hole when the time came.
I told everyone my own thoughts: "It's better to divide into two groups, one group to explore the cave first, I didn't see the depth of the hole just now, and it is recommended that the group with a little older age and more experience is recommended." The other group is responsible for digging the hole first to make it easier for us to get in and out, which is manual work, and it is recommended that the young and strong group do this. ”
Everyone unanimously agreed to start their own grouping. I paid attention to it, so naturally everyone chose first, and in the end, I was placed in the group that stayed outside.
I used a shovel to open the hole a little more, and Li Ge was the first to go down, and then caught Uncle Zhao. The four Heavenly Masters went down to the bottom of the cave, and I asked them to control the number of headlamps and try to turn them on for 30 minutes, because we didn't know how big the cave was. There is Uncle Zhao, who is with a watch, to be optimistic about the time, at most an hour, and he must return the same way.
Everyone responded, began to arrange the order of use of the headlamp, and gradually went inside.
I was at the entrance of the cave, and when I heard their voices, I felt that the hole was not small, and my heart suddenly hung again.
Worried that it wouldn't help, a few Heavenly Masters and I began to change shifts between the two of us and dig up the soil. Because they are all young and strong, they can continue to dig for a quarter of an hour, and then replace them to continue. In just an hour, I dug the entrance I had planned, and made it a hole that could be entered and exited without climbing, with a slight bend of the head.
We took a break and started to sequence the headlights, and we had to go in and pick them up.
I thought that the rope might be needed, so I told them to rest for a while, and then went back to the camp and took off the rope of Brother Zhang and Liu Huzi. Each rope is 50 meters long, I opened one first, tied one end to the trunk of a bucket not far from the entrance of the cave, and handed it to Xiao Li to hold.
"Brother Li, I'll go to the front to open the way, you follow behind, and put the rope as you go." Although everyone calls him Xiao Li, I still have to call him Brother Li.
"Okay, Roger." Xiao Li took the rope and wrapped it around his arm.
This time, I don't have to say anything, I have to take the lead. I'm not afraid of the soul or anything, I'm afraid of going in and encountering that kind of empty cave, the kind where there is no way to go. No one has ever come, there is no road, and the light is so dim that if one of the people in the cave is not careful, they may sleep here for a long time, and gang up with the other souls in the cave...... I'm still a little scared when I think about it.
When I entered the cave, I walked ahead and kept an eye on the situation in the cave.
The cave felt wider and wider, and from the slight bowing of the head at first, we gradually straightened up, and sometimes we could walk in two. I also reminded the Celestial Master who had a watch to pay attention to the time, and if we came in for an hour and did not get anything, we had to go back the same way first.
However, in this kind of place, it is natural to walk very slowly, about ten minutes, Xiao Li shouted in the back: "The rope is over." ”
I took the rope off my shoulder and handed it back to him for him to attach it.
I asked Xiao Li to turn on the headlamp to connect the rope, and asked Zuo Hua to shoot his headlamp forward, because I always felt that there were a pair of eyes quietly staring at me out of nowhere.
The light in front of me seems to have dispersed all at once, and there is no reflection of the object, but if you look closely, it seems that there is a slight reflection from the cave wall. Tie the rope and we move on. Xiao Li turned off his headlamp as usual, and put a rope on the ground all the way.
The light of the headlamp shone on the ground, and we could see the traces of people walking in front of us, and the light suddenly dispersed, and we seemed to enter a larger cavern.
"Everyone turned on their headlamps and looked for traces on the ground." I hurriedly stopped and said to the person behind me.
We all turned on our headlamps and started looking for clues.
Inside the cave, there is a huge circular area similar to artificial excavation, and where we stand, it is only one of the seven or eight branch openings. I looked overhead, about three or four meters above the ground, and I was sure that it was not a natural formation, but indeed an artificial excavation. The intersection where we entered, and the other branch holes, how do we find the person who has been kidnapped by the soul? They haven't eaten for at least fifteen or sixteen hours, and how are we going to wake them up when we find them?
Thinking about it so much, I almost had a mental disorder and my mind almost went black.
"There's a mark here, they should have been in here." Zuo Hua said at the mouth of a branch hole.
We followed the cave wall to the right and came to the entrance of the cave that Zuo Hua had explored. Indeed, the ground was cut deep by the ordnance shovel with an arrow mark, indicating that they had gone there.
"So what else do you want? Let's keep up. "After saying goodbye to the Celestial Master, you have to keep up.
"Wait." I stopped Xiang Hua from Xidu.
"They should be returning soon, and we've been to the same place they've explored...... Why don't we mark it and go to the second hole. In this way, we will meet again in an hour and exchange ideas with each other. "I stated my thoughts.
"This can't be a tomb! Do you have any experience? Xiao Li couldn't help but ask.
"Is it not important that the ancient tomb is not important, the key is how to save those two people?" I said as I carved a mark on the ground.
"With so many mouths, I think we still have to divide our troops into two ways, otherwise, the more time passes, the more dangerous they become." Zuo Hua kept a clear head.
I looked up at him and showed my support.
Xiang Hua and Xiao Li looked at each other and agreed.
I asked them to work in groups first, and I used my headlamp to look closely at the inner walls of the cave. Now, I am more convinced that this is a cave dug by hand in ancient times, and the entrance to the cave we entered may have been a passage dug by tomb robbers. However, the passage distance of more than 50 meters is not like what a tomb robber who cannot borrow construction machinery can dig up. Or rather, when it was built, it was a winding passage in all directions, just to confuse those who strayed into it...... In other words, the road, including the one we came in, was not actually the designed exit, but it was just very old, and there was a partial collapse there, exposing one of the passages. I recalled the situation in which I came in, and it was indeed a bend and a bend, just to delay the time.
They were also divided, Zuo Hua took Xiao Li, and Xiang Hua and I were in a group.
Xiao Li put the rope in the center of the large cave room, and entered the second passage along the right with Zuo Hua, and Xiang Hua and I entered the third.
Without rope to mark, we had to carve the handwriting near the openings of each branch. In the direction of entry, I carved an arrow, and at the branch where the first group entered, I carved a one, and carved the word 'etc.'. Then they rotate counterclockwise, carving two and three respectively, so that when they come out and don't see us, they should meet here and wait.
I walked in front with my headlamp on, and Xiang Hua followed behind with the reflected light. Sure enough, it was more and more like what I expected, and there were no regular left and right turns in this passage, but there was no obvious purpose. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but quicken my pace a little, and in less than a quarter of an hour, I came to the end.
There wasn't much at the end, just a small square room, but there were traces of souls gathered here, but not much.
"Perhaps, the souls inside went out to play last night and were killed by us......"
Xiang Hua also saw the traces of the soul gathering, and I, I couldn't see it, but it peeked into my eyes in the dark, and I felt even more profound. It's like somewhere in the wall of a cave, there are two holes, and those glasses are right in the back, looking at us closely.
I kept turning my head and shining the light on where I thought my eyes were, but no, it was just a bare cave wall, where there was no light, and it was completely dark.
"Let's go back." I asked Xiang Hua to turn on the lights, put out my headlights, and let Xiang Hua lead the way and return the same way.
I deliberately took two steps behind and thought to myself, 'Yao, do you have feelings?' I always felt like someone was watching us. ’
"Yes, Childe, I feel that way too."
Xiang Hua stopped, raised his hand to stop me, and motioned for me to stop.
"Shh......h I seem to hear a voice, Xiao Yang, have you opened the eyes of heaven? ”
"It's on."
"Strange, I've been driving it all the time, is there a soul that can't be seen even by the eyes of the sky?" Xiang Hua is serious.
"What do you hear?"
"The ancient soul voice probably sensed us coming in."
"It's okay, maybe it's from the cave next door, let's go back first." I'm looking for other reasons to prevaricate.
Back in the cavern, the voice of the first detachment came from the cave they had entered.
"Hey...... I didn't see it, Miss Du is not fat, she is quite heavy. ”
Listening to the voice, it was Uncle Zhao from You Jiang.
As soon as I was excited, I hurriedly went to the entrance of the cave and shouted inside, "Sister Zhang, has you found it?" "I really don't want to have one or two fewer teammates when I go back. Although we don't know each other, it's hard for me to accept the misfortune of my teammates, maybe because I'm used to being alone, and it's easy to worry about temporary teammates at this critical juncture.
"Found it, come in and pick us up." It was Rigo's voice, clearly following behind.
Xiang Hua and I hurriedly entered the cave, and Xiang Hua followed behind me, shining his headlamp on me and walking inside.
After turning two corners, I met Uncle Zhao, who was at the head of the row, sweating and carrying Du Jiale's feet, and was struggling to walk outward. I was busy missing my body, so I asked Xiang Hua to help pick up my feet, I went to the back to replace Feng Heng, and carried Du Jiale outside. After Feng Heng was replaced, he went to the end, and another heavenly master, the two dragged Sister Zhang's shoulders and head, and the one in front of him lifted his feet, which was a little easier.
When we came out of the cave, Zuo Hua and Xiao Li were already waiting for us there, and when they saw us coming out, they hurriedly turned on the lights and found a place to rest.
Helped the two of them to sit down against the wall of the cave, fortunately, they breathed evenly, their pulse was steady, and they were not overly frightened or other uncomfortable symptoms.
Significant progress has been made in the operation, and it is inevitable to be happy. When answering our inquiry, Rigo's voice naturally rose with confidence and pitched up.
"Who are you? What are you doing here...... "A woman's voice sounded, making me feel cold under my feet.