Hearing that there were people in the Taoist priest, I immediately became nervous and asked if it was the mayor's gang, he shook his head and said that he didn't know yet, but the alarm installed was triggered, and when he and Yang Mengqing rushed over, they only saw a shadow burrowing into another hole and forking the road, because they were worried that there might be an accident if they chased down, so they turned back to discuss countermeasures.

The bonfire had been extinguished at this time, but there was still smoke, and I saw that the direction of the smoke was the direction in which the Taoist priests returned, so I said to them: "The caves here extend in all directions, and many of them are connected to the outside, you see the direction of this smoke, it must be that the smoke of the bonfire was blown by the wind along the cave to the location of those people, and they followed the smoke to find it, we must be exposed now, we must hurry up!" ”

The Taoist priest agreed with my words, and then everyone began to pack up their things and entered another cave in the opposite direction of the smoke.

Because of my sudden improvement, my plan was nullified, and we discussed what to do next. Lin Qiao'er said that since I'm fine, then we will accompany Yang Mengqing to find her parents, we unanimously agreed, the Taoist priest was a little unhappy, but he had promised to advance and retreat with us before, and now that my body has recovered, he can't find an excuse to regret it, so he can only hum and agree.

We thought everything would go according to plan, but we didn't expect to get lost at this time. We have always been led by Lin Qiaoer, because this karst cave group in Yushugou is too complicated, there are many caves, and it extends in all directions, only Lin Qiaoer can remember the route we have taken. But she can only remember the route she has taken, and when she experienced the corpse crisis just now, she panicked for a while, and there was no entrance to the cave when she came, so the route after that has never been taken, and no one knows where it will lead.

I thought that if we went around a little more, we would always be able to get out, but it turned out that we still underestimated the complexity of this cave group, we set off at exactly twelve o'clock, and now it is more than two o'clock, and we have walked for more than two hours, but we still have endless karst cave forks in front of us.

Lin Qiao'er's face was ugly, and she said that she had completely lost her direction, and now she would either return the way she came, or continue to walk directionlessly.

It is naturally impossible to return the same way, who knows if the corpse has left, if it is still on the way to come, we will return the same way but we will be in the net, but it is not a way to continue to look like a headless fly, our physical strength is limited, if we can't find the exit, sooner or later we will starve to death inside.

I thought about it for a while, and suddenly thought of the figure that the Taoist priest saw, and my heart moved, and I said to them: "I have a proposal, didn't you see a figure drilling into a hole just now?" We'll go back there, and we'll use the smoke to go down, and if we can find someone, we'll be able to get out. ”

As soon as the words fell, the Taoist priest immediately retorted: "How do you know who those people are, in case the mayor of that dog day and his broken security team are there, how can the five of us who are half starved to death fight with others and go to send sacrifices to them?" ”

"Alas, it's okay, let's be careful all the way, they are in the light and we are in the dark, as long as they don't get discovered, they will always go out, and then they can go out after them."

I persuaded the priest, and the others had no opinion, so we turned back. We had spent more than two hours exploring the road just now, but we had been wandering around the nearby cave, not far from our previous position, and in less than twenty minutes, we had returned to the location of the campfire.

The campfire was extinguished, and no one had come to find it, or someone had already been there when we left.

I picked up a half-burned piece of firewood, and then the Taoist priest led us into the hole where he saw the figure, and after not going far we came to a fork in the road, and I lit the firewood to burn the carbon shavings over that section, and the smoke suddenly rose.

Under the guidance of the smoke, we walked for more than ten minutes, and suddenly there was a hole in front of which was very different from other karst caves, boxy, just more than one person high, and there were horizontal logs on the top and all around, and at a glance we knew that it was a mine hole dug by man.

The smoke drifted right into the hole, indicating that the wind was blowing in, and the air outlet must be in this direction. I made a no-talk gesture to everyone, motioned for the priest to turn off the flashlight, then took out the camera to turn on the night vision function, and got into it first.

There was no flashlight, it was pitch black, and the rest of the people had no cameras and couldn't see anything. I told them to follow me so that they didn't fall alone, and walked slowly into the mine.

The mine was very wet, and there was deep water in some places, so I kept an eye on the situation around me and reminded them to watch their feet. After about fifty meters of progress, after turning a corner, a faint fire came in at the end of the mine.

My heart jumped, knowing that we had found the right place, so I whispered hello to the rest of the group, and then leaned as lightly as I could towards the light source.

As I got closer to the light source, the firelight made night vision useless, so I put away my camera and continued to move forward with the light shining in front of me. Seeing that he was about to reach the end of the mine, there was a sound outside the mine. I listened with bated breath and realized that it was the sound of flowing water, and the sound of people talking. The water was too loud for me to hear what they were saying, but I could tell from the sounds that there weren't too many people outside.

The Taoist priest patted me and asked me to move his position, but he squeezed up, leaned on the stone wall of the mine with great dexterity, and slowly climbed to the mouth of the mine and looked outside.

We didn't know what he saw, so we waited anxiously. After a while, he climbed back and said that there were three people outside, all cooking fires, and that it seemed to be a mining field outside, and there was a river passing by it.

When I heard the priest talk about the mines and the river, I instantly thought of the cave where the gold was smelted, and I was excited, and I hurriedly lowered my voice and told them that we might have found a gold mine.

As soon as the Taoist priest heard the gold mine, he immediately opened his mouth wide: "Alas, the immeasurable Tianzun of his grandmother, the ancestor has appeared, this is the rhythm that wants to make the Taoist master make a big deal?" ”

I knew what he wanted to do, so I kicked him and said, "Don't mess around, our goal now is to get out of the cave quickly, and it's useless for you to take the gold ore, the ore that has not been smelted and purified, you take a few hundred kilograms and it is estimated that it is worth ten thousand pieces, besides, just your two hands, how much can you take?" ”

When the Taoist priest heard that the gold ore was so worthless, he was immediately deflated, and muttered that when he went out, he would have to find a developer to dig up all the gold mines. I was amused when I heard it, and I didn't bother to pay attention to him, and the group discussed how to leave.

Yang Mengqing said that the river outside the mine must be the Fengqing River that flows through the Yushugou karst caves, she heard the old man say when she was a child, the source of the Fengqing River is in the depths of the Yushugou, as long as we follow the river all the way up, we will definitely be able to leave the karst caves and enter the canyon.

We discussed it, and the Taoist priest said that it was only three people, and he could settle it alone, and seeing that he was very sure, we decided to face it hard and kill it.

As soon as we made a decision, the Taoist priest drilled out of the cave first, and we also picked up some wooden sticks from the mine to use as weapons, but before we could get there, the Taoist priest had already neatly put down all three people, two of them were knocked unconscious, and the remaining one was a smaller one who wanted to get the gun on the side, and was beaten by the Taoist priest, and carried it up like a chicken.

I gave the priest a thumbs up, and then looked around and saw that it looked like an erosion cave washed by flowing water, with a large area surrounded by large smooth bare rock walls. At the edge of the cave is the Fengqing River that runs through the entire karst cave area, about five meters wide, due to the lack of light, the depth can not be estimated, straight at both ends of the karst cave to scour out a large gap, into the cave group below.

In the middle of the cave is a flat tidal flat the size of a football field, on which many hills of ore are piled up. I saw the small wooden boats stored in the metallurgical caves along the riverbed, and I knew that my previous suspicion was correct, that the townspeople had brought the gold ore to the metallurgical caves by river.

However, what the Taoist priest said just now was not right, this cave is just a place where the mined ore is stacked, and the real ore veins should be in the few caves near the mine pile with torches.

The Taoist priest was still in a daze, torturing the poor fellow, I leaned over and was about to ask him some questions, but suddenly there was a frightened cry from the cave near the mine pile, and someone was running out at the same time.

I was taken aback, I didn't expect that there were more than these people here, and I just wanted to call the Taoist priest to withdraw, but I immediately found that something was wrong with the situation. The faces of the first few people who ran out were terrified, and their voices were even more desperate, and they didn't even look at us when they ran out, and rushed straight into the stone path where we came.

And the few who ran out after that, as soon as they came out of the hole, convulsed and fell down, letting out a painful wail, and soon stopped moving.

This strange scene made us feel that something was wrong, and the Taoist priest threw him out with the man in his hand, beckoning us to run to the rift above the river, and at that moment, a burst of white light suddenly erupted from the mine.