() I saw Li Qi neatly put the rope on his body, the whole set of tools was relatively neat, and there were fixed belts and buckles to ensure stability and safety, such climbing equipment was already excellent in this kind of embarrassment.

Seeing this, Bai Rong and Ning Zhou were a little surprised, and asked in unison, "Why do you have a rope?" ”

When mentioning this, Li Qi rarely showed a little pride: "I am an explorer, non-professional, but it is by no means a second-rate technology, if I concentrate on development, there will be no shortage of competition trophies." ”

Then she lowered her head, as if caught up in some memory of the past: "There was a time when I embarked on the road of searching for the truth because of my father, and then I found that I didn't need to explore how many true and false theories there were in this world, I just had to be myself. ”

Seeing that there was still a string of small pendants like mascots hanging on the buckle of the rope, Bai Rong looked at her and smiled slightly: "But you still like the feeling of adventure, don't you?" ”

Li Qi also smiled, and responded warmly: "Yes, after a long time of contact, I gradually and truly fell in love with the "career" of exploration, I don't regret that I chose to run out and run around, otherwise I would have missed many people and things after that." ”

She really likes the freedom and adventure of exploring outside, whether it is dangerous or mundane, she remembers it in her heart, it is the treasure she has discovered during her exploration.

Ning Zhou then raised concerns: "But Bai Rong and I are not professionals, it is so high here, can we really go down?" ”

"I'm not worried about you, so I'll go down to find out the situation below, I'm more experienced, and I won't be so easy to get into trouble." Li Qi proved himself again and again, and began to stabilize one end of the rope, ready to climb down.

"Then you be careful, if there is any danger, shout out, and the two of us will pull you up immediately." Bai Rong asked worriedly.

"No problem, don't worry, wait for my news." After Li Qi said this, he kicked the wall, shook his body, and slowly slid down, and soon he couldn't see the shadow.

Staring at the dark opening, the two became more and more anxious.

I don't know how long it took, Ning Zhou stayed up and kept the ticking watch silently reciting the time, but soon accidentally interrupted himself: "Why do I feel as if a long time has passed, why did Li Qi arrive."

It hasn't come up yet, has it? ”

"Shhhh Bai Rong approached the entrance of the cave.

In the next second, Li Qi's head poked up, and she gasped slightly: "Whew, I'm back." ”

"Great, are you alright?" Bai Rong reached out to help bring her up.

Wiping the sweat with the back of his hand, Li Qi replied: "No, this cliff is not very steep, and there are a lot of places for people to settle down, I climbed down very smoothly, when I stepped on the ground, I found that the light was not as dark as above, I could see the things around me, and we would search slowly when we all went down." ”

Ning Zhou proposed that he take the lead this time: "Then I'll go down first, Li Qi, it took a lot of physical strength for you to climb down and climb up, first slow down, I'll pick you up below." ”

Hearing this, Bai Rong nodded: "You be careful, when you get to the bottom, knock a few times on the wall with a stone to let us know." ”

"Then I'll go down." Ning Zhou swallowed his saliva, took a deep breath, and then carefully fell down.

Probably because he didn't have Li Qi's climbing experience, Ning Zhou had to take a long time, and after waiting for a long time, he finally heard the sound of stones slowly echoing from below, and Bai Rong breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's your turn, I'll go down one last." Li Qi reminded the places that needed attention, and at the same time helped Bai Rong tighten and fix the rope.

Because she had encountered a similar situation in ancient times and needed to climb down the cliff, Bai Rong was not afraid this time, but in the face of the dark environment around her, she was a little worried, and she stepped on the air without paying attention on the way down, which made her exclaim.

"Ahh

There was an anxious inquiry from the bottom and above: "Bai Rong, what's wrong, are you okay?" ”

After calming down and stabilizing the body that had lost its center of gravity, after relieving himself, Bai Rong raised his voice and replied to them: "It's okay, it's just that I stepped on a loose stone, and the rope is still tied tightly." ”

Li Qi comforted her on it: "That's good, you take your time and be careful." ”

After some tossing, Bai Rong landed smoothly, Ning Zhou continued to wait with her below, and Li Qi, who was familiar with the road, also quickly climbed down, and when the two turned around, they found that Ning Zhou was gone.

"Ning Zhou, where have you been?" The two panicked slightly, afraid that Ning Zhou would lose contact with them, so they hurriedly searched around.

Not far away

The boat ran back, beckoning, a little excited: "I'm here, you guys come and see, I have made a new discovery." ”

He led the two of them to a corner, and found a few dim but obviously visible glimmers, Bai Rong squatted down to check, and quickly came to a conclusion: "These are ores, no, to be precise, this piece may be ore veins, and there are traces of mining." ”

The impact of man-made is easy to see, even if Bai Rong has no experience in mining caves, he has seen a lot of documentaries, and he can always see many clues.

"Looks like this is a mine." Li Qi also concluded.

Ning Zhou curiously groped for the ores that emitted a ghostly light, and after hearing their conversation, he asked, "Could there be anyone else there?" ”

If there were other people, maybe they could ask them for help and get out of here.

But Bai Rong then shook his head: "Look at these traces are from a long time ago, there are still some new mines here, even if there were mining teams that came before, they should all be evacuated now." ”

After a pause, she added: "Evacuate before the mining is finished, I'm afraid something has happened here, such as a collapse." ”

If there had been a collapse, it would have been bad news for them, as there was a high chance that the exit would have been buried, which could have been the reason why the mining team did not continue mining here.

This means that there may be no exit.

Hearing this, Ning Zhou was a little hairy, and rubbed his arms: "Ah, will there be any more here, and that kind of thing?" ”

After all, if it collapses, there may be human lives, so wouldn't there be dead people here? Will they walk and come across corpses or something? That's scary.

Seeing that he was suspicious, Li Qi was a little helpless: "I can't rule out that there will be people who have been killed or injured, but it's not our turn to think about it so much, the top priority is to find a way to find an exit to leave, if they have evacuated here, there should be a way out." ”

Bai Rong also agreed with her, and then the three of them continued to explore, and found that there was only one way forward, so they chose to move on.

Although the environment here is slightly brighter than above because of the light source of the ore, some of the places where there are no ores are still relatively dim, so everyone tries to get together as much as possible to avoid getting scattered.