Volume 1, The Lost Valley Blood Tree Chapter 23, The Underground Factory
said hello to Uncle Long, Chen Tao grabbed the rope and jumped down, while Uncle Long kept watching him from above.
In the past, Chen Tao had never done such a thing at all, at most he just hung on a tree and swinged with Haozi. Grabbing the rope, although Chen Tao kept cheering himself in his mouth, he was still a little nervous in his heart.
As soon as I went down, I felt that my body sank, and I slipped down a lot in an instant, and all the strength was concentrated on my hands, and I almost fell down without grasping it steadily.
In a hurry, Chen Tao used both hands and clamped the rope between his two legs, which stopped falling. Feeling the soreness from his hands, Chen Tao broke out in a cold sweat.
"It's good that I'm wearing gloves, otherwise this time, the flesh on my hands would have come down!"
Straightening his mind, Chen Tao tilted his head and looked below, it was pitch black, someone was shining a flashlight on him, the flashlight was just reflective, Chen Tao couldn't see who it was.
"Hold the rope up and down with both hands, hunch your body, and kick down little by little with the force of the wall over there!"
Uncle Long's voice came from above, Chen Tao nodded secretly, shook his feet like in TV, and kicked hard against the wall, feeling that the whole person was swinging in mid-air, and then his body lost control, rotated, and crashed back into the wall with a snap.
His shoulder slammed into the hard concrete wall, and his body plummeted, almost freeing him from the pain.
"Sure enough, it's all a lie on TV...... Forehead...... Maybe it's because I'm too vegetable......" Feeling the sharp pain in his shoulder, Chen Tao thought wildly.
"Uh...... Forget it, I'm wearing gloves anyway, so you can slide down slowly and don't kick the wall......"
Uncle Long touched his forehead above, was speechless for a while, and shouted downward: "Mountain ghost, you take him!"
"Okay, Master Long, little boss, you just come down, I'll pick you up!"
Hearing the words of Uncle Long and the mountain ghost, Chen Tao didn't toss anything anymore, his hands and feet loosened slightly, and the whole person began to fall straight down.
All the attention is used to control the strength of the hands and feet, and in a trance, I feel a tightness on my body, and I am held in my arms by a pair of big hands. Chen Tao looked at it and turned out to be a mountain ghost.
In fact, it is not very deep from the hole of the collapse above to the bottom, and it only takes a few seconds to slide down. Uncle Long asked him to kick the wall, just to take this opportunity to teach him some rope skills.
Smiling at the mountain ghost, Chen Tao was liberated from his somewhat embarrassing posture. There was a sound of rope rubbing on his head, and when he looked up, he saw Uncle Long grabbing the rope and kicking his feet against the wall, and his body fell rapidly with a whoosh.
Uncle Long deliberately came down like this to show Chen Tao, throwing away the rope, Uncle Long stepped forward and touched Chen Tao's shoulder and said, "Was it okay just now?"
"It's okay, it's just a little painful." Chen Tao shook his head and said.
"It's okay, learn more in the future, this time it's over, let the mountain ghost take you to practice and teach you something."
"Hmm!"
The three of them stopped talking nonsense and walked straight forward. Chen Tao looked up, but saw a figure walking over.
"Taozi, you can't do this, come to me to see if you're stupid?"
Haozi shook a flashlight and walked over, and was about to touch Chen Tao's head, but Chen Tao slapped his hand and said:
"You're stupid, just now there was a second cargo who kept shaking my eyes with a flashlight, aren't you? Yes? Isn't it you, you say! ā
"Hey, don't I care about my 'revolutionary comrades'! Besides, if I hadn't stayed and looked back at you, how could I have the opportunity to witness our Chen Tao's superlative skill of trapeze dog eating! Haozi squeezed his eyebrows and said.
"Fuck off!" Chen Tao didn't bother to pay attention to him anymore, and knew that he was waiting for him and Uncle Long when he stayed, so he took out the wolf's tooth flashlight from the side of the backpack with his hands behind his back and looked around.
"Damn, what a big place!"
I didn't feel much when I looked down from above, but when I stood here, I realized how high the stone walls around me were! This is supposed to be an underground passage, separated by concrete walls several meters high on the left and right, and bare black rock formations above.
Chen Tao held up the flashlight and took a picture before and after. The place where they came down was almost the end of the passage, and not far behind them was a collapsing boulder, blocking the passage behind them. The cement on the surrounding walls has been severely eroded by water seepage, and it is covered with black and white markings, and it seems that you can still see what marks are still painted on the walls.
In front of it is a long underground passage, and the light of the wolf's tooth flashlight shines past, and you can see several figures shaking not far in front, which should be Yang Lixuan and Boss Zhang and others who came down before.
The air in the passage was a little damp, and there was water in some places on the ground. The debris from the previous explosion fell from the hole, smashed into the puddle and splashed everywhere, and there were still a few black bugs crawling on some of the stones. Chen Tao stepped forward, bent down to look at these black insects, and said in his heart:
"These bloodthirsty black insects, which terrify the locals, are now just like ants on the ground, and they can no longer pose any threats...... Who is that Yang Lixuan? And what was that strange potion in his bottle? ā
Chen Tao knew in his heart that those garlic and ginger alone would never have this effect, and the most important thing was what Yang Lixuan added later.
At this moment, Chen Tao's mind couldn't help but feel a little trance. Because he suddenly found that in the group of people in front of him, Uncle Long couldn't see through, and Haozi had changed a lot now. The mountain ghost has always followed Uncle Long, and now there are more Uncle Wang and Yang Lixuan, as well as Boss Zhang's group. Chen Tao suddenly felt that everyone here had their own reasons and purposes for coming here, but he was the only one who was stupidly kept in the dark and didn't know anything.
"Well, it's a bit unpleasant!" Muttering in his heart, Chen Tao looked up at the top of his head, and couldn't help but wonder:
"Huh? Why is the rock layer up there getting lower and lower? ā
"When it was first built, it was probably a huge mountain cavern, and someone found it and built some kind of structure here! The place where we blew up happened to be the weakest part of the rock formation in this space...... It seems that the group of people must have known about the structure below, so they chose to bomb that place. Uncle Long looked around and said:
"Before I came, I had investigated some information, and it was rumored that during the Anti-Japanese War, Yan Xishan and Yan Laoxi'er once built a secret underground military factory here, could it be this?"
"Underground military factory?" Chen Tao suddenly became interested, "Let's go, let's go find them!" See what you find. ā
A few people stopped and stepped up their pace to move forward. It wasn't long before some shards of rotten wood, broken iron shelves, and some metal parts were rusting in the passageway. Chen Tao walked to a pile of waste, and stepped lightly on something similar to a heating pipe segment, and the pipe segment immediately deflated, and it was almost rotten into slag.
As soon as I got closer, I heard Boss Zhang's gong-like voice,
"Oh, I said Master Long, you guys are really slow, we've been waiting for you here for a long time!"
Uncle Long smiled a little apologetically and asked, "How is it, have you found anything?"
Uncle Wang used a flashlight to shine a flashlight on a place on the cement wall and said, "There used to be a light bulb there, but now it's gone, and the wires on it are almost rotten." You see, there are traces of that on the walls on both sides at distances of a few meters, indicating that in the past, there were lights on this road. ā
"If there is a light, there should be electricity here!" Chen Tao said.
"Well, it's deep underground here, it can't be connected to the electricity outside, there should be a generator or something. There are still a few rotten shelves over there, so let's look separately and see if there are any other things and clues. Uncle Long raised his hand and looked around.
From the cave roof collapse to here, it is like an upside-down sloping cover, although the height of the rock layer at the top is decreasing, but it is a large space. Judging by the scrap iron racks and wooden counters scattered around, it was once a large concentration area. Such a huge space is enough for hundreds of people to move here.
"It looks a bit like a big factory!" Haozi said.
"Maybe it's really an arsenal! I don't know if there will be anything good left. ā
Chen Tao and Haozi searched in one direction, and when they approached the corner, Chen Tao found a rotten iron bucket. Haozi stepped forward and took a folding shovel and cut it open, and the inside was empty.
Chen Tao squatted down, took a flashlight and shone the black slimy thing on the bottom of the rotten bucket and said, "This is ......"
He picked out a little with a shovel and smeared it on the ground, it was thick and mushy, and there was a strange smell.
"This is, oil?" Haozi said.
"It's supposed to be a mixture of oil and some impurities slag precipitating." Uncle Long didn't know when he came over. "There are many such iron buckets over there, and you see, the ground is black and white, and there is a thick layer of oil in many places. Some places have a unique shape, and there should have been some machinery and equipment on them. ā
"So, is this really an arsenal?" Chen Tao asked.
"It's possible, looking at the situation around here, they were in a bit of a hurry when they retreated, and everything else was thrown here except for some important equipment."
"Come and see, there's a discovery!" The mountain ghost on the other side shouted. Hearing this, everyone walked in that direction.
"Look, there's writing on this wall!" Mountain ghost road.
"What does it look like?" Yan squinted his eyes and said.
The corrosion marks on the walls were severe, and everyone struggled to make out the faint marks on them.
"It's a ...... Zā¦ā¦ What's H...... 0ā¦ā¦ 5ā¦ā¦ What is it...... 79ā¦ā¦ 6ā¦ā¦ 8ļ¼ Chen Tao read word by word. The marks on the walls are too faint to make out what is on them.
"Probably...... It will be the number of this area or the thing which was placed here at that time. Uncle Wang guessed.
Everyone shook their heads, and no one knew what it meant.
"Huh? What is this? Haozi followed a crooked path under the wall.
Everyone looked at Haozi's flashlight, and saw that in the corner of the wall, a black slender and slender thing was shrinking there.
"! It's a snake! I don't know who shouted, Chen Tao only came and hurriedly retreated.
Syllable......
Suddenly a gunshot rang out in the silent and empty factory, and the piercing sound waves overlapped and spread through the dark passage, causing strange echoes one after another.
The gun was fired by the mountain ghost, the gun was drawn, loaded, aimed, and the trigger was pulled, and almost at the moment when someone shouted that it was a snake, the mountain ghost completed this series of actions.
"What a fast gun ......" This is the first time Chen Tao has seen a mountain ghost shoot, but he didn't expect him to be such a master.
The bullet pierced through the black shadow and hit the concrete wall next to it, and a large gap appeared in the wall in an instant, and at the same time as the dirt splashed, the black slimy thing seemed to be interrupted and flew out, falling to the ground with a dull impact sound.
"Damn, it's so dark all around, and Haozi's flashlight just now was just a flash in a hurry, how did he do it?" Chen Tao was speechless in surprise.
"When it's over, I have to learn from him!" Paying attention in his heart, Chen Tao turned on his flashlight and walked towards the small black shadow that had just splashed out.
"This ...... It doesn't seem to be a snake ......" Chen Tao looked down at the thing, leaned over and picked it up, "This is ...... Plant vines? ā
"Vines? How can there be vines in such a place? ā
Everyone gathered around and looked at what Chen Tao was doing. In his hand, indeed, was a broken vine. Just now, the mountain ghost's shot directly broke a large section, and the fracture was like a jagged fang, and there was black liquid oozing out of it, slimy.
Chen Tao put the vine in front of his nose and smelled it, and he felt a wave of nausea in his stomach, vomited, and almost vomited.
"Damn, what the hell is this, it stinks!"
Chen Tao directly threw the truncated vine aside, holding his stomach and retching. He never dreamed that there would be such a disgusting smell inside, this smell, Chen Tao had only smelled when he followed the professor to open a well-closed coffin, it was the smell of rotting corpses!
Seeing this, everyone also took the vine and looked at it for a while, and then took a flashlight to look at the original corner of the wall.
"I'll give you a lung, it's too ......"
The light of the flashlight moved around the corner of the wall, and at the crack of the rattan, drops of black viscous liquid were dripping down. And behind the broken vine, there are countless crooked and twisted thin vines of different thicknesses growing on the ground and on the wall.
Following these branches and vines, there was a gate-like passage in the distance, and all the black vine branches stretched out from the passageway, clinging to the surrounding walls and ground, like a black demon flower blooming from a dark and deep mouth. There, the entire passage is covered with this black branch vine. The thick and thin ones were twisted and twisted like black vipers.
Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them, including Chen Tao, who was hunched over and vomiting.
"This ......"
Everyone was speechless for a long time, and only after a long time did they hear Yan's cynical voice say: "This rotten tree is still refined, and it will still bleed!"
"When I came here, I looked at the feng shui terrain here, and I only felt that the wood in this place was vigorous, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to grow!" Uncle Long looked at the intersecting black vine branches in the distance in surprise.
"What kind of plant is this, and how can it smell so disgusting!" Finally relieved, Chen Tao wiped his mouth and said.
"I don't know......" Uncle Long shook his head and said: "The feng shui in this place is a little weird, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, something that shouldn't be grown!" Uncle Long frowned and said with a straight face.
There was nothing else to be found around, and everyone had to step on the vine branches of that place, and move forward deep and shallow towards the depths of the passage.
Further inside, the space is not as wide as the outside, and the top of the head has become a gray cement roof. Just when everyone had not walked far, Yang Lixuan's voice sounded in front of them.
"Here, there's a door!"