Volume 1: The Three Dragons' Protector's Cave Chapter 2: Tracking
After a long time, they all decided to follow them and see if there was a way to get out.
Fortunately, it was not far from the place where the group of people were talking just now, and it took more than an hour to clear out a crawlable passage, I illuminated it with a miner's lamp, and found that this place had been specially treated, the space of about ten meters was very solid, and the stone wall that shook down was consolidated with reinforced concrete, and there was a stone gate on the other side of the stairs, and the second uncle they went in and out almost every day, and they didn't find it, which shows that someone has been deliberate for a long time.
But what is their purpose in doing so? Is it just to take the lives of a few of us?
This doesn't make sense, looking at this project, it shouldn't be completed in just a few days, and the second uncle reasoned that the mine was drilled to this place about a month ago.
I remember that time, the contractor said that he had hit a big boulder, and he needed explosives to blow it up, and the construction site lacked explosives, and everyone had a week off.
It is estimated that it was built at that time, that is to say, someone has been planning this time for a long time, at least a month, and it is estimated that it will be more than that.
The Sichuan Yankees went over and pushed open the stone door, which was very heavy, and the squeaky and dull sound was uncomfortable to hear, as if pushing open a gate to hell.
The stone gate is made of steel, and there is a layer of stone on the outside, exactly like the edge of the well wall, including the special treatment of the passage, if it is not for some places that have been shaken down, it is really difficult to find at the bottom of this dark well.
A few people gently drilled into the stone gate, a gentle passage was only enough for one person to pass, it was dark, I walked in the middle, and I didn't know what was in front of me.
Fortunately, the passage is not long, and it is estimated that it is less than ten meters away, and it is very rough to dig.
Walking through the passage, there was a dark room inside, I used a miner's lamp to shine it, and I couldn't see the whole picture, about twenty square meters.
There were two shelves on both sides of the dark room, and in one corner there were a few large boxes that could hold adults, silver-gray, with a strange mark printed on them, and a few simple strokes sketched a cat-like head, but the eyes were narrow and eerie, and it was not very comfortable to look at.
"Lao Tzu is a fucking banban, what are these turtle sons doing when they hide these dry foods." The Sichuan guy untied a sack on a shelf, and it was full of dried beef jerky.
After hearing this, Brother Hemp also hurriedly untied the other sacks, and sure enough, all of them were dry food, which was enough for ten people to eat for a month.
The locals ran over to the silver-gray box, opened one and fumbled for a while, and I saw him pull out something wrapped in black oiled paper, the length of an adult's arm, shaped like a gun seen on television.
"Come and see, is this a gun?" The locals' voices trembled, and they couldn't tell the panic.
Everyone is an ordinary person, who has ever seen a real gun, that is, I have been in contact with my previous work, it is worn by the bank escort staff, and I don't know what model it is, it looks like a gun I saw when I was a child.
In my village, many families have guns, with slender rods, and after compacting the gunpowder, iron beads or iron bars are placed in it, and the iron balls are ejected through the gunpowder explosion, which is very lethal at short distances.
The firing was so loud that I had only seen people hit me from afar, and I wasn't interested in them, and I hadn't touched them.
Marijuana Goliso tore open the oil paper, and it was really a brand new gun, like the submachine gun shown on TV.
"This is the MPT96 submachine gun, the latest Austrian production, I read it in magazines." Brother Marijuana was very excited and introduced to himself.
He had been a soldier for two years and was very interested in military news, and had time to go to town and occasionally come back with a few military magazines.
Seeing the real gun, Uncle Ercai was trembling and almost collapsed, the management of guns in China is very strict, if ZF knows who has a gun, he will arrest you in minutes, it is even more positive than catching crimes.
Several people hurriedly opened the other boxes, and sure enough, they were all gun types, and one of the boxes was full of bullets.
The second uncle felt that the matter was serious, who dared to collect so many guns? It's a death sentence to be discovered.
And why are they hiding so many guns? Is it a military gangster?
The arms dealers on TV are all ruthless, they like to kill people when they have nothing to do, and they can't imagine the consequences of discovering us.
Could it be that one of us has accidentally discovered their secret? Or do they suspect that one of us has discovered their secret?
Guys, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do.
"Lao Zhang, what do you say now?" The local Yankees asked in a whisper, everyone habitually asked the second uncle when they encountered problems, and usually people would ask the leader when they encountered something imperceptibly.
But the second uncle is an honest ordinary person after all, if you ask him about coal mines, he can still answer a few words, now this kind of thing is beyond the scope of our lives.
"What can I do? Everyone took the gun and fought with his mother, Lao Tzu didn't want to die. Brother Hemp's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness, I have never seen this hideous side, it is scary.
"Marijuana, murder is a crime, and the death penalty will be imposed." Uncle Ercai stomped his feet and pulled Brother Hemp's bitter persuasion.
"What then? Tied up and killed by them? Brother Marijuana's retort silenced us all briefly.
Yes, if you don't resist, you can only be killed, but if you resist, you can't die?
Which of us has the guts to kill? Like me, even if you don't kill people and don't break the law, you can't do it, from childhood to adulthood, you haven't even killed chickens, so you call me to kill?
It's impossible, it's impossible to kill people in this life, I secretly deny this practice, and I don't dare to imagine the scene of killing.
"I approve of marijuana, I just want to live." The Sichuan guy gritted his teeth and made a decision.
The locals agreed, and there seemed to be no other way out in front of us, and resistance was the only chance of survival.
Although they were innocently involved, we still discovered their secrets, and we were known that there was only one way to die, and there was no way out of this mine, so it could only be like this.
After a short period of thought, the second uncle finally agreed, everyone picked up the gun, Brother Marijuana taught us how to use it, kicked a submachine gun himself, pinned three or four pistols to his waist, four or five magazines, just like a Rambo dress, as if he was alone in the enemy.
"Brother Marijuana, aren't you tired of so much? The other party seems to have only a dozen or so people, and you can play a next company. "I'm speechless when I look at Brother Marijuana.
"Yuanwa, you don't understand, usually this kind of arms dealers are collective activities, it can't be just so many people, if we can destroy this criminal gang, maybe ZF will reward us well." Brother Hemp is eager to try, looking like a hero who can't wait to enter the battlefield and fight against a hundred.
I didn't want to argue with him, so I picked a lighter pistol, and learned to fill it with bullets, which was heavier than I expected, and finally thought about it and took a dagger and stuck it between my belts.
A few people were ready, and they were full, but they didn't bring dry food.
Thinking that it shouldn't be too long to leave, there is no need to bring dry food.
There is also a door on the other side of the darkroom, made of the same material, the door is open, and a tunnel is diagonally downward, not as steep as the tunnel.
Led by Brother Hemp, we walked into the tunnel in turn, step by step, and the miner's lamp was only turned on by Brother Hemp, and covered with a cloth, so that it was not so conspicuous in the dark.
The tunnel was so long and narrow that it didn't take long for people to lie on their stomachs and not be able to straighten their waists at all.
This is more physically demanding, and he has to rest before he climbs far, especially Brother Hemp, who has more than thirty pounds of equipment, which is really embarrassing for him.
The more I climbed, the more suspicious I became, even if they had been digging two weeks ago, they should not have dug so long, and they only dug such a small passage, and it was still crooked, and it was inconvenient to transport soil and start construction, which did not make sense at all.
I said my thoughts, and the second uncle and they were also suspicious, and they were experts in burrowing in the ground, so they immediately stopped.
The second uncle turned on the miner's lamp, shone it, and found that the cave wall did not look like it was dug with tools, and the traces were more like the claws of animals.
"What is this digging for? Pangolins? I asked.
"How big is that pangolin? Yuanwazi, have you read Rusty Bean? Brother Marijuana scolded.
Yes, it is impossible for pangolins to dig such a large passage, I secretly want to smoke myself, what do I think.
"Locals, have you ever heard of this animal that is good at burrowing in the ground?" The second uncle asked.
The local didn't squeak in the dark, and I didn't know if he was shaking his head.
"Don't worry about it, those people must have gone out from here, except for this passage, can they still get out?" Brother Marijuana said a word, and then crawled forward.
Also, apart from this road, they can't go out, as long as they go ahead, they can always go out, and now they should be worried about what to do if the meeting is right.
A few people climbed forward silently, and they didn't know how long they had climbed, and the passage would go up and down for a while, leaving and right, as if there was no rule at all.
I don't know how long I climbed, my hands and feet were numb, this passage seemed to have no end, and the general direction was actually down, is this really an exit?
Along the way, I saw the traces left by the group, and even some things fell in the passage, indicating that we were in the right direction.
But what the hell is crawling forward with such a strong force? Is the exit underground?
I have to admire the meticulousness of these arms traffickers, it seems that it is quite hard to do this business, not to mention taking risks, such painstaking hiding is not something ordinary people can do.
After climbing for some distance, the front finally became more spacious, and we were more careful, stopped and listened carefully to make sure that there was no one in front of us.
Brother Hemp leaned out cautiously and made a few "pis" in his mouth, signaling that no one was there.
Everyone climbed out of the passage in turn, this is also a dark room, a little smaller than the previous one, at this time I didn't think so much, as soon as I climbed out of the passage, I moved to the side, the whole person lay on his back, not moving.
Suddenly, I felt the back of my hand touch a soft, wet mass of something, and habitually touched it with my hand.
Picking up a piece of softness, like touching raw pork, I thought to myself, are these people still running underground barbecue?
Turning his head, he reached out to turn on the miner's lamp, and the scene in my eyes made me unforgettable.
I saw a pair of eyes almost bulging out, staring at me deadly, the whole face was scratched by something, the gums were exposed, and the tongue was all pulled out.
The uncontrollable sieving chaff in my body alarmed the people next to me, and the second uncle quickly suppressed my trembling body, and slapped both of us before I came back to my senses.
I can feel that the second uncle's body is also trembling slightly, indicating that he is also afraid, but after all, he is older and has experienced more things than me, and the dead are not too scary.
I didn't dare to look at it anymore, but the more I wanted to see it, the more this person's curiosity really kills people, and sometimes the more terrifying or mysterious things are, the more I want to find out.
After a few glances, it was a dead corpse, its face was scratched by something, there was no skin in sight, its internal organs were hollowed out, and the parts below the waist were missing.
I can't tell who it is from this appearance, and I don't know if I recognize it.
This shouldn't be artificial, if it's artificial, then how perverted does the murderer have to be?
After a long time, I finally recovered, and at this time everyone else was also solemn, and I didn't know why there was a corpse here.
I looked at the dark room, it was supposed to be a naturally formed cave, and looking at the traces on the wall, it should have been around for a while.
There were sacks and hydration bags stored here, which looked like dry food in a dark room, and some bullets were piled up there.
"Could it be that they started a fight?" Brother Marijuana pointed to the corpse and whispered.
I resisted my stomach, tried not to close my eyes, I always felt that the terrifying face appeared in front of me as soon as I closed my eyes, I really believe that people can be scared to death, if I come a few more times, I guess I won't be able to hold it.
"You've ever heard of murder so perverted?" I tried to divert my attention, and then said, "Look at his wound, it looks more like a sharp claw, perhaps the beast that hit this cave." ”
"It's going to make holes, and it's so ferocious, what kind of animal is it?" Brother Marijuana asked.
A few people didn't know, and finally looked at the locals, after all, he was the most likely to know, and several of us were from other places, and we couldn't think of what kind of animal and beast it would be, maybe it was an endemic animal in this area.
The local man pondered for a moment, then said from afar: "I can't remember, I haven't seen this kind of animal that can make holes and is very ferocious, and it is not small, maybe it is really a rare big pangolin." ”
"Don't pangolins eat ants? Even people ate it? Brother Marijuana said suspiciously.
"Who knows, maybe you'll meet a full-fledged pangolin." I retorted, and then asked the locals, "Have you ever heard of any legends about this?" ”
The local guy thought for a while and said: "I've really heard that when I was a child, I heard that there was an animal called the mud monkey, which was extremely fierce and powerful like an ox, and liked to live deep underground, and would come out to attack domestic animals at night, and it was often used to scare disobedient children in my hometown, but no one had seen it before, and I didn't know what it looked like." ”
Mud monkeys? What the hell is this?
No one has heard of it, and the locals can't describe it completely, but I guess most of them are imaginary, and I can't describe any ghostly animals in my head for a long time.
Several people were resting in place, and it was really too physical to climb the narrow hole, and a layer of skin was worn off on the hands and knees, but the desire to survive made us not give up.
I was about to fall asleep in a daze, when suddenly the hemp brother next to me elbowed me and whispered, "Someone is coming." ”
I woke up immediately, crawled up on my bones, my mind was confused, and I didn't know what to do all of a sudden, did I really fight with that gang of criminals?
They must be a gang of vicious and ruthless people who do this, can we beat it?
If they rush in, will I be killed? What will happen to my parents if I die?
Thinking about this and that, it's something that doesn't matter.
Suddenly, his head was slapped heavily, and the second uncle's low roaring voice sounded in his ears: "What the hell are you thinking, don't turn off the miner's lamp!" ”
I hurriedly turned off my last miner's lamp, and the cave suddenly fell into darkness, without a trace of light, as if I had been abandoned in a dark hell in an instant, and I couldn't even feel the people around me.
Sure enough, the sound of panicked footsteps sounded from the other end of the cavern, and even the sound of panting could be heard.
Isn't there a little hole ahead that can only be crawled on?
"Bang!"
There was a sound like firecrackers, but it was extremely harsh, and then it crackled like firecrackers, and there was a panicked "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
"Is there really infighting?" Brother Marijuana muttered.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the group could be heard panicking, and suddenly a woman's voice shouted, "Climb in, Applejack guard the entrance to the cave." ”
No way! They got in, can't they shoot?
I looked nervous and wanted to see the second uncle and listen to his instructions, but I couldn't see the hair in the dark.
At this time, Brother Marijuana shouted: "Don't move, I'll shoot if I come in again!" ”
Although he was a soldier, he always bragged to me about how he was in the army, but I knew that he was a logistics soldier and had never killed anyone at all.
"Bang!"
As if to let them know that we had a gun in our hands, Brother Marijuana fired a few bullets at the wall of the passage, and sure enough, the gang was shocked.
"Is it marijuana? Don't shoot, have something to say. A voice shouted, embarrassed and impatient.
This voice was the driller Brother Ying, they really entered this passage, and they didn't know what happened.
"Say that your mother pulls a B, surnamed Cheng, you want to kill Lao Tzu, don't you know when Lao Tzu?" Brother Hemp remembered that he almost died in the mine, and he couldn't help but be furious, and almost threw a bullet into the passage.
"Don't be angry, we are also forced to do so, can you let us in first? Hurry up, it's too late. "Brother Ying was very flustered, and they shot more and more frequently, as if they didn't want money, they didn't stop at all.
"Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang, are you there? Let's go in first, and I'll give you a satisfactory explanation. Ying Ge said.
The second uncle pondered for a while, and then said, "Lao Cheng, you still have to explain first, we have known each other for so many years, I will give you a chance." ”
Thinking that I was almost killed by them, it would be nice not to shoot directly, but if it was grumpy, explain it? Go to hell and explain.
"I'm out of bullets." An unfamiliar voice shouted.
Applejack stepped down, Daiki on top. Miss Luo's voice was calm and decisive, not too flustered, this kind of person is terrifying, he can be calm and calm in the face of any difficulty.
"Friends, if you don't let us in, we'll die, and I promise you won't survive, and you won't be able to deal with those things without us. I can promise that as long as we get out alive, we will give each of you a million as compensation for the mine accident. Miss Luo said again.
Her voice was pleasant, but with an impersonal indifference.
"A million?!"
I felt suddenly, I have never seen so much money in my life, but I just opened my mouth so much, will it be a trick?
"Lao Zhang, don't worry, we have known each other for so many years, I have never lied to anyone, I can guarantee that what Miss Luo said is true." Brother Ying hurriedly said.
We were all a little confused, what had happened to them? It's not like you're fighting with someone.
And what Miss Luo said just now, not people? Could it be the mud monkey that burrowed in the ground?
In terms of combat effectiveness, we are definitely inferior to Miss Luo and them, if they really die, we estimate that they will really die, the only advantage is that we have guns in our hands and guard the entrance of the cave, and those things can't easily get in.
But what if we run out of bullets? The hell knows how many things there are, Miss Luo, they must have enough ammunition with them, and even they can't stop them, can we really stop them?
And at this time, they are trapped in the passage, and the way left for them is either to kill them or to come in hard, the former possibility I can't guess, after all, I don't know what the situation is on that end, and the latter possibility, really want to come in, can't shoot?
I've never decided the life and death of others, and I've never had this kind of thinking, I think the second uncle is similar.
After thinking about it, I think it is better to let Miss Luo and them in, and there seems to be no other choice.
I quickly told the second uncle my thoughts, and the second uncle was silent for a moment, and then said, "Okay, Lao Cheng, I can let you in, but don't fool me about what I promised just now." ”
A million is a lot of money for any of us, and what coal do you dig with a million? I'll have a lot left after I've paid off all my debts.
Brother Marijuana and several of them also swallowed their saliva, the temptation of money was too great.
The second uncle told us to turn on the miner's lamp, and the group climbed in from the cave one by one, and it was the driller Brother Ying first.
This group of people is very embarrassed, many of them have wounds on their bodies, most of them are bruised, think about it, in this dark hole in the ground, it is normal to have bruises.
I secretly counted it, there are eight people in this group, and several of them have been seen in ordinary times, like Brother Ying, the dog in charge of blasting, and one is also drilling, they call him Caisheng.
The other five didn't know each other, one was quite old, with thick glasses, trembling in shock, and a strong man was especially protective of him, and he seemed to have a very high status.
The most eye-catching thing is that Miss Luo, wearing a tight-fitting black leather coat, very capable and neat, outlining a curvy figure, slender and slender, this figure alone makes people look ready to move.
Miss Luo is very beautiful, with a melon seed face and very white skin, but she feels very indifferent, and she is the calmest person in this group.
She gave us a brief look, didn't say much, and swept her gun into the passageway.
I don't know what kind of animal it is, so I curiously shone a miner's lamp into the passage, and broke out in a cold sweat.