Chapter 41: The Cave
I waited in my room for another hour, and there was still no movement.
I was so anxious that I walked around and walked around the house rented by the Copper Lock. It can be seen that Copper Lock didn't want to live in this house at all, and there was no furniture at all, only a simple marching bed and some toiletries. I dug out an ordinary flashlight under his bed, the brightness certainly can't catch up with the professional wolf's eye, but it's enough.
I went to the living room and circled around the hole, should I go down? There must be no gloves, and if you slide down this thin rope, your hand will hurt, and you don't even have a partner around you in a hurry, so you will get lost in it.
But if you don't go down, you're troubled again, seeing such a hole here, and the wild thoughts in your head can't sit still.
After thinking about it, I gave up the idea of going out on my own, and if something happened, it would cause trouble for the others, so let's wait and see.
I went to the back room and dragged out the camp bed, put it next to the hole, and then went to the bed and lay down, shining a flashlight on the deep hole. Under the light spots, you can only see the abandoned old wall, the wall is mottled and eerie, and nothing else can be seen.
I turned off my flashlight, crossed my shoulders and pretended to sleep on the bed, listening to the movement below, and then I didn't know when I fell asleep.
When I got up again, there was sunlight outside, I was very dizzy, I sat up for a long time and didn't slow down, looking at the strange scene in front of me, I was in a trance for a while, and I forgot what kind of place I was.
It took a long time for the memory to slowly recover, and when I remembered last night's events, I suddenly looked at my watch, and it was six o'clock in the morning. The room was quiet, and there was no sign of anyone but me.
My brain "buzzed", which means that the three people who went down to the cave last night didn't come back at all!
Getting up from the bed, I searched for my shoes, and suddenly I noticed that something was wrong, there was a row of gentle footprints on the ground, coming out of the hole, and winding forward and out of the door.
Last night when I was sleeping, someone crawled out of the hole and was right next to me?! Then walked out.
Because of the hole in the ground, there was a fine layer of ash on the ground, and the person who came out of the hole obviously didn't notice this, he was just careful not to wake me up, and he didn't expect to leave footprints.
I wiped the cold sweat from my head, carefully followed the row of footprints, and came to the door, where there was no ash outside, and the shallow footprints were left here, as if the man had evaporated out of thin air in the corridor.
I went back to the living room and grabbed the hammer as a self-defense, and carefully checked the whole house inside and out, and there was no one there, only me.
Well, there is only one possibility, that person went out through the gate after coming out of the hole in the ground.
I thought about it calmly, it shouldn't be one of the three of Li Damin, Li Yang and Copper Lock. If it were them, they would have woken me up when they came out and talked about what was going on, and they wouldn't have walked away so quietly.
In other words, there are other people in the huge space of the three floors below.
This is actually normal, I don't believe that such a large space will exist for so many years for no reason after it is sealed. At the very least, the property and builders of this building know this secret, and such a large space will definitely be used. I suddenly thought of a possibility, it couldn't be some organization engaged in illegal activities here, some kind of drug processing factory or something, the three of them were found out after they went in, and they must have been killed.
I shuddered at the thought of this. There is a feeling of helplessness.
The more I stayed in this room, the more uncomfortable I became, and I always felt like someone was watching me. Those lawbreakers tortured Li Damin and the three of them, asking them how they got in, and they tortured them but said that, the criminals would be able to find this place immediately......
The more I thought about it, the more scared I became, my whole body was shaking, what should I do? Call the police?
I quickly dispelled this idea, if I guessed wrong, I called the police, and Li Damin could complain to death about me.
I gritted my teeth before and after thinking, and just went down and had a look! It's really a sin to wait here, so it's better to fight.
I went to the back room and pulled out a notebook and pen, tore off a page of paper, and left a note on it, saying that I was going to go down to the ground, and also wrote down the incident that someone had sneaked into the room last night. Once the three of them came back and saw the message, they knew about my removal.
I remembered that there seems to be a hardware store outside the community, where you should be able to buy labor protection gloves for work, which is better than nothing.
I didn't have a key, so I didn't lock the door when I went out, and I used a small wooden block to put it on the corner of the door for fear of locking it. It should be fine, Lang Lang during the day, he will not come to the thief to pick the lock so much.
I took the elevator all the way to the first floor and walked out of the building, the bright sunlight outside almost stunting me. I didn't sleep well last night, and now I'm still a little dizzy, so I went out of the community to find a hardware store, and there are really labor protection gloves for sale, so I bought two pairs. By the way, I went to the supermarket again and bought a set of five water-based pens.
When I got back to the building, I was about to enter the elevator when I heard someone shouting, "Slow down, young man." ”
I saw a man who didn't look good running over, and I quickly stopped the elevator and waited for him to come up. There were only two of us in the elevator, and I was about to press the ninth floor, who knew that this man was one step ahead of me and pressed the ninth floor first.
For some reason, I felt a pang in my heart, and I had a feeling that I couldn't explain it. After a moment's hesitation, I pressed the button on the thirteenth floor.
The elevator went up one floor at a time, no one spoke, I stood behind the side, looked at this man, and thought to myself that he was a resident on the ninth floor? It doesn't have anything to do with me, is it too sensitive?
"Ding" to the ninth floor, the door opened, and the man stood at the elevator entrance and did not go out. I looked at him, my mind went blank for a moment, and I didn't have any thoughts.
"Something," the man said suddenly, "if you don't understand, don't understand, live your own little life, right?" ”
Before I could react, he stepped out of the elevator. The elevator doors closed slowly.
I had a thrill, and I didn't know where I felt the urge to hold the elevator door tightly the moment it closed. The elevator doors slowly opened again, and I saw the man's back walking forward, turning the hallway.
It was obvious that what he had just said to me, and I had a strong intuition that he was the one who had snuck out of the hole in the ground.
I opened the elevator door and hurriedly chased after him, and when I reached the hallway, the man was gone, and he must have entered a house.
I walked cautiously, looking at the ground in front of every house, hoping to find clues, but found nothing. Finally I came to the rental house of the copper lock, and when I got to the door, I thought to myself, that person won't enter here, right?
I looked at the door, and there was a gap open. I opened the door, removed the wooden block at the foot of the door, locked the door behind my back, and my heart pounded.
The room was still quiet, the three men had probably not come out yet, and there was an indescribable atmosphere in the air throughout the room, like a terrifying swamp slowly spreading. I went to the living room and took a closer look at the ash floor, the traces were all left in the morning, indicating that no one had been there just now.
I rubbed my temples, was I too sensitive, always so suspicious, my nerves were about to go out of sorts.
Looking at the time, it was already past seven o'clock in the morning. They went down to the cave at about nine o'clock last night, and it was ten hours away now, even if the speed of the snail should have come out, there must have been an accident inside.
I turned on my flashlight and shone it into the hole, plucking up the courage, putting on my gloves and tugging on the rope. The protective gloves were so hard-wearing that I could barely feel the friction of the rope in my hands, so I took a deep breath and cautiously burrowed into the ground. The whole body was hanging from the rope, swaying down with the rope, both shoulders were sore, and finally went to the bottom, and his feet fell to the ground.
It was pitch black all around, so I quickly flipped out my flashlight and pushed the button, and the darkness on all sides was faintly illuminated. You can see the mottled walls, the years are too long, the paint has fallen off, revealing the cement color inside. I flashed my flashlight and walked around the corner, the air was fresh, which was very wrong, if it was a sealed three-story building, closed on all sides, the air must be very dirty, some breathless, but there was no smell.
Around the corner, I took out the water-based pen I had bought and drew an arrow sign on the wall. This came to me last night, and my dad said a long time ago that when you go on an adventure in an unfamiliar environment, you must remember to mark the map.
After drawing the arrows, I went around the corner and went in, and there were long walls on both sides, so I couldn't see the doors and windows, and I couldn't see the house, forming a corridor like a place.
I carefully recalled the terrain, and if I had followed the normal layout of the building, I would have been walking in the homes of the residents by now, but there was no sign of the structure of the houses.
Well, most likely, it has been remodeled, and all the houses have been demolished and rearranged.
I walked down the corridor for a long time, and I made signs every five meters or so, but the corridor was still not finished.
The surrounding scene hasn't changed in any way, it's still surrounded by high walls, with an eerie dark corridor in the middle, only my flashlight flickering in the middle.