"What should I do, Taozi, I can't get out!"

Chen Tao touched the stone wall with both hands and said: "Don't panic, this passage is so hidden, it won't be dug here for no reason, there will definitely be an exit!" The passage on the stone pillar is still open, and the bearded ones may find out at any time, we don't have much time, so look for it! ”

"Chen Tao, come here!"

Ye Rong seemed to have found something, Chen Tao looked along the place where Ye Rong was, and saw that she was touching a hole in the stone wall with her hand.

"This one looks like the one above!"

Chen Tao took a look, and sure enough, there was a square hole on the stone wall that was exactly the same as in the previous stone pillar.

Chen Tao took out the beast box, asked Haozi and Ye Rong to take a step back, and inserted the beast box into the square hole.

"What's going on, there's no reaction at all!" Haozi said urgently.

Chen Tao pressed the beast box hard again, but there was no movement at all.

Shouldn't it? After the beast box was inserted above, the mechanism was opened, could it be that this was a fake?

No......

Chen Tao touched the beast box and tentatively turned the beast box.

Click-click-click-la.......

The three of them took a few steps back, staring at the stone wall in front of them without blinking, and saw that part of the originally flat stone wall suddenly recessed in, and then slowly lifted, and there was a hidden stone door hidden in the stone wall!

Click-la-la-la-la......

As the stone gate slowly rose, a dark and secluded passage appeared in front of him.

Chen Tao threw the signal torch in his hand, and before he could throw it far, the torch seemed to have hit something and fell to the ground with a flick. In the light of the signal torch, I saw that this dark passage was less than a meter wide, but it was very long and deep, and I didn't know where it led.

"Let's go!"

The situation was urgent at the moment, and the three of them didn't have time to think about it, Chen Tao bent down and got in, picked up the signal torch on the ground, followed by Ye Rong, and Haozi at the end.

Before entering, under Chen Tao's advice, Haozi pulled out the beast box on the stone wall, only to hear another click and click, and the stone door that had been pulled up in the air was slowly descending.

Haozi was taken aback, but fortunately he was agile, and he rushed forward, rolled on the ground and got up, only to hear a loud bang behind him, and the original stone gate was blocked again.

"Why is this mechanism so familiar, it looks like the one on the cliff of Heizigou before!" Chen Tao glanced at Shimen Dao with some surprise.

"Don't say it, it's a bit like that!" Haozi touched the stone door that had fallen, "It's strange....... The machine expansion setting is the same, could it be that the Tatunans also understand the art of the mechanism? ”

The secret passage is short and aggrieved, and people can only bend over and half-hunch their legs inside, and it is very difficult to walk. Haozi handed the beast box back to Chen Tao, and the three of them cautiously half-crawled and half-walked towards the depths of the dark passage.

In order to guard against the bearded man and their sudden intrusion, Haozi grabbed the rifle with both hands and was on guard with all his might, Chen Tao carried the backpacks of himself and Haozi in front of him and held the signal torch to open the way, and Ye Rong was in the middle at any time

Post-support.

"It's so spacious above, why is it so aggrieved to the bottom!" Haozi said

"This secret passage is indeed a bit strange, with no rules and turns." Chen Tao replied.

"From what I know about Tatunaan's culture, they wouldn't bury a two-story tomb hall under the temple, and there shouldn't be a tomb hall under this passage to store corpses, let alone the entrance to Tatunan, and it was impossible for Tatunan's army to come out to fight from this kind of place."

The three of them speculated for a long time, and they didn't know what this secret passage was used for, so they had to give up, but Chen Tao felt that since this secret passage had his grandfather's mark, and he remembered it in that strange way when he was a child, it must not be an ordinary place, and it was very likely that it was a secret entrance to the ancient city of Tatunan.

However, it is impossible for him to say these words to Ye Rong.

After climbing not far, the dark passage had already reached the end, and the three of them got out of the hole, and their eyes were immediately straight.

I saw that the space in front of me suddenly opened up, with a high sandstone roof above my head, and yellow sand all underneath, with no end in sight on the left and right, extending into the endless darkness.

The three of them were dumbfounded, there was a dry underground river outside!

At this time, they are on the stone wall on the bank of the river, the three of them came down from the hole, only to see that the river is extremely wide, and I don't know how deep it is from the ground now, there should be a very large underground dark river here, the sand and gravel still retain the traces of water washing, the stone walls on both sides are covered with large and small sand discs, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, extending all the way to the darkness along the river, in the desert that I don't know how many meters deep, constituting a shocking and peculiar landscape.

What surprised the three of them even more was that there were many holes in the rock walls on both sides, the size of the hole they came out of. The entrance of the cave is just randomly distributed, and there is no pattern, densely packed like honeycomb coal, as if the entire river channel has been hollowed out.

Chen Tao looked at those holes, his throat moved unnaturally, what a good thing that so many sand holes could not be seen!

The three of them stood under the hole and looked around, and saw a broken wooden boat on the opposite shore, and they don't know how many years it had been here, and the wood was rotten, leaving only a keel and a few bare wooden poles on it.

Chen Tao looked at the boat opposite, his eyes were in a trance for a while, and a strange thought suddenly flashed in his head.

How did the boat itself see it somewhere?

The river in front of him was full of yellow sand, and for safety reasons, Chen Tao threw his backpack up, and the backpack rolled out on the yellow sand, and then there was no movement.

"There shouldn't be quicksand, be careful!" Chen Tao admonished, first holding the signal, he walked to the middle of the river and picked up his backpack, and then walked to the side of the search boat.

The people got closer, and they found that the boat could not be described by the word ship, the hull of the ship had completely fallen apart, and even the sawdust was almost gone in the sand, leaving only a small keel that was still intact, but it was also deeply buried in the sand, and it seemed to be about to break if it was touched.

"This ship...

Chen Tao looked at the rotten wooden boat that had been put on for an unknown number of years, and his mind began to think uncontrollably, and in the next second, the river in front of him suddenly surged with surging water, cold and piercing, and the water was turbulent.

He was lying on his stomach in a small boat and swaying with the waves, paddling the oars in his hands, and the waves kept slapping on his face.

Chen Tao knew in his heart that this paddling man was not himself, but he couldn't control everything he saw in front of him, and he could even feel the despair and horror in this person's heart at this moment, as if he was hiding from something terrible.

"Taozi, what's wrong with you?"

A hand suddenly slapped on his back, and Chen Tao woke up from that strange state, his forehead was full of cold sweat.

When I looked down, I saw that I was standing on the edge of the ship, my fingers caressing the half-cocked keel, which I don't know what wood was used, but it hadn't broken yet.

"It's nothing, I ......." As soon as he was halfway through the words, Chen Tao's hand touching the keel suddenly stopped, and his two eyes widened as he looked at the position of his hand, his eyes full of disbelief.

Where he touched, there was a mark!

This is!

Chen Tao's heart was beating wildly.

The mark of the Chen family, and it was engraved recently!

Chen Tao looked at the notch on it, it was obvious that it was engraved on it with a dagger or other knife, and the time was not far from standing.

Then, this mark must have been left by Uncle Long!

After looking for so long, I finally have a clue from Uncle Long!

Chen Tao suppressed the excitement in his heart and carefully identified the information contained in the mark.

"Master Long is dangerous, there is someone behind!"

Chen Tao was horrified in his heart, the person who left the mark turned out to be an old cat! And it's a warning to Uncle Long.

What does he mean by that?

Judging from the photos at the beginning, the old cat and Uncle Long were together, could it be that he and Uncle Long have been separated?

Chen Tao's heart tightened, and he hurriedly turned around and asked Ye Rong, "What position are we now!" ”

Ye Rong was taken aback by Chen Tao, and realized in her heart that since they were held hostage by the bearded man, they have not been well positioned, and immediately turned out her locator and Uncle Long's road map from her backpack.

"No signal!" Ye Rong's face changed, and she tinkered with the locator for a long time, and a red line appeared on it.

"This is where the signal last disappeared, and we've reached the place where they're missing!"

Looking at the two intersecting lines on the locator and the map, and thinking of the mark left by the old cat, Chen Tao felt a strong uneasiness in his heart.

Uncle Long, their current situation may be extremely dangerous!

"The two routes are different, but the location where they disappeared in the end is about the same, my sister...... Oh no, Dillon must have entered here from somewhere else. Ye Rong's mouth suddenly froze, and then hurriedly said: "At the beginning, Takji said that there is a well in the ruins of that ancient city, and there is an underground dark river connected below, it may be this one!" ”

Chen Tao was worried about Uncle Long's safety, and when he saw Ye Rong talking about the underground dark river, his heart moved, the most precious thing in the desert

The most expensive thing is water.

Wherever you can live in the desert, there are either big rivers, or oases, and no matter how bad you are, there are underground water veins.

The route left by my grandfather leads directly to this dark river, which may be the source of water for the Tatunans to survive in the first place.

Thinking of the map in the box at the beginning, Chen Tao felt a burst of regret in his heart.

He couldn't read that map before, but now that he thinks about it, it's probably the road map to Tatunan!

It's a pity that he didn't bring the box with him, otherwise he wouldn't have had to spin around like a headless fly like he does now.

Uncle Long, their life and death are uncertain, what do you have to do to find them?

Looking at the depths of the river, Chen Tao's heart had never been so anxious as it was now, and something seemed to be tumbling in the dark, and finally formed a face that he was familiar with.

Grandpa, Uncle Long, the old cat who originally disappeared but suddenly appeared in the desert, a ghostly Qianshu Hongde, and the beautiful suffocating desert saint......

(End of chapter)