Chapter 367: A Strange Bell
The man saw that he couldn't stop me, and said all right, but you have to be more careful, I have been here for more than an hour, and I find that every ten minutes, there is a crisp tapping sound in the village, because it is too far away and there is smoke, so I don't know what is happening.
I nodded to reassure him, and slowly approached the edge of the village through the bushes!
The yellow smoke floating in the air is indeed dust, but this dust is obviously controlled by man, because the wind can't blow them away, and they don't fall to the ground, they keep floating like this in mid-air, what would it be if they weren't controlled?
The path at the head of the village is still very familiar, but when I got closer for more than ten meters, the path suddenly broke off, and a huge crater dozens of meters deep appeared in front of me!
It was so foggy below that I couldn't see what was at the bottom, and now the visibility was only a few meters away, and I walked a few meters to the left and right along the edge of the crater, and I found that I had reached the border.
It seems that the whole village has really fallen, and the clinic of Dr. Duan, which I was familiar with before, my home, Su Che's home, and the impressive ancestral shrine are already underground!
Thinking of this, I can't help but sigh very emotionally, I didn't expect that the village would become what it is today, and I didn't expect that the ancestral shrine that changed my fate will never be seen again.
As I thought so, I heard a clanging sound!
The sound was clearly coming from the bottom of the crater, and it was very crisp, apparently made by the metal striking each other.
I thought back to the scene in the village in the past, and I only remember that there was an iron bell hanging on the square outside the ancestral hall, which was left many years ago, and when people were still living in the production team, ringing the bell meant that a new day's work was about to begin.
When we were kids, we used to ring the bell naughtily, so I still remember the bell.
Now that is the sound I heard, I couldn't help but wonder, could it be that someone was trapped in the village and was now using this voice to call for help?
Thinking of this, I suddenly became nervous, but this cliff is very steep, I just want to go down, it is impossible to go down without ropes and helpers, and the bell below is a little strange, why does it only ring every ten minutes, if someone is really trapped, shouldn't it be struck all the time?
Maybe the people below were injured?
It is also possible that the village will definitely be injured if it falls into such a deep pit all of a sudden.
As soon as I thought of this, I couldn't stay a little bit, and my heart said that I should hurry down, if it is a villager, we must find a way to save people, if it is an enemy, we can organize their conspiracy!
But I can't go down alone, because the people behind me haven't come yet, and if I go down alone, everyone will definitely blame me.
After waiting for about half an hour, everyone rushed over, and they were very surprised to see the scene in front of them, although they were already mentally prepared, but no one expected that the matter would be so serious.
At this time, the fourth bell rang and Su Che also heard it, so he asked me, "Is there someone trapped below?" ”
I nodded, saying that I thought the same thing, but I wanted to wait until you all got there before I went down and checked it out.
Shen Qin stepped forward, looked at the bottomless pit, and said Don't act rashly, what if this is the enemy's trap?
I said there's no way, we're already here, we can't just go back, right? We need to find out what's going on, and besides, the enemy might be plotting down there, so we're going to stop them.
Shen Qin frowned and thought about it, and said that even if we go down, we must be fully prepared, so he immediately arranged for those Cloud Gate disciples to be brought, and let them make a long rope with the mountaineering rope they carried with them, one end slowly put into the big pit, and the other end was fixed on a huge pine tree.
"Let's split up and look for anything suspicious around this big pit, and then go down." Shen Qin said to everyone.
We divided into two groups and walked to both sides, Su Che and I walked a few hundred meters before turning back, and everywhere was like this, as if the whole village had been smashed into a big pit out of thin air, surrounded by steep cliffs.
"I can only go down from here, and there is no place to fix the rope anywhere else." After coming back, everyone said to Shen Qin.
"Well, it seems that the enemy is not doing anything to prevent it, they may be speeding up to do bad things down there, let's go down one by one." Shen Qin nodded and said.
Of course, I was the first to go down, needless to say, I grabbed the rope with both hands, and then kicked on the cliff little by little, slowly falling down, because of the friction, my palms of both hands became hot and painful, fortunately my speed is not fast, otherwise the meat on my hands will soon be gone, right?
It took me more than ten minutes to reach the bottom, and then I was surprised to find that the path that had been cut off before now appeared in front of me, and after a few steps forward, I found that the road seemed to have happened at all.
If it weren't for the huge cliff behind me, I would have thought I was back in the village, falling from such a high place and not destroying the whole village?
The rope shook a little, and someone came down, and this time the person who came down was Su Che, who climbed down after me because he was worried about my safety.
Everyone, like me, was amazed to see the village at the bottom of the cliff.
There was no yellow dust down there now, so the whole village was in full view, and there was a vague shadow in the square outside the ancestral shrine, and it was there that the bell rang.
"Everyone be careful, the atmosphere is a little weird, don't fall into the trap of the enemy." Shen Qin reminded everyone in a low voice.
The people she brought with her were left behind, and if there was a fight in the future, they would have little combat power, but would become a drag on us, and those people just had to watch the rope on it to prevent anyone from breaking it.
Everyone is moving forward, and I am naturally in the vanguard position, so that if the enemy attacks us, then I will fight back as soon as possible.
We walked very slowly, at this time, we naturally can't be the same as when we returned to the village, we can move around freely, the whole village is just like what Shen Qin said, giving people a weird feeling, the bell just now is not ringing, the whole village is quiet like a dead land!
When I finally walked to the head of the village, Dr. Duan's clinic appeared in front of me, and my heart was sour, the house was still there, but the people were no longer there.
Moving on, we soon reached the outside of the ancestral shrine, and now everyone could see clearly that the bell hanging on the big tree was still there, but it was not a person who rang the bell, but an iron rod attached to it.
I don't know what drove the iron bar, so we heard a sound on it.
Everyone looked at each other, and they all knew that this matter was very strange, could it be that there were people here just now, and now that we are here, the person who rings the bell is hiding?
We waited under the tree for about ten minutes to confirm that the bell would not ring again, and then we walked to the ancestral shrine!
As I said before, the last time the enemy trapped Su Che here, one was to detain him conveniently, and the other was also for the secret of the ancestral shrine, we all felt that if the enemy came again this time, then they would definitely be here!
Gently pushed the door of the ancestral hall, the wooden door creaked, because the surrounding was really quiet, this sound seemed to spread throughout the village!
Everything is normal inside the ancestral shrine, the collapse has not caused damage to the building, everything is exactly the same as the last time we left.
It's just that there is no one here quietly, and there are no footprints on the ground, we can't help but wonder, is this really an accident of nature? The enemy didn't come at all?
I stepped forward and walked into the room with the basement entrance, and the crowd followed closely behind me.
There was nothing unusual in the room, and the entrance was still open.
We didn't close the passage last time we left, and it's still open.
I crouched at the entrance and listened carefully for a moment, and there was a dead silence below, with no sign of human activity at all.
I made a gesture to everyone, signaling for them to go down and take a look, but Su Che stopped me.
He meant to go down with everyone, and everyone was now nervous about a string in their hearts, and it felt like the situation was too weird.
Of course, I knew there would be danger down there, but the space down there was so small that so many people would become very crowded at once, and if we ran into an enemy, we wouldn't be able to do it!
Everyone argued silently with their eyes a few times, and Shen Qin was in a hurry, picked up a brick from the ground and threw it down!
Everyone was stunned, no one expected her to be so direct, only to see that the brick hit the ground with a popping sound, and then a puff of white smoke suddenly rose from the ground, instantly surrounding the brick!
In everyone's shock, the white mist slowly dissipated, and the bricks had turned into a pile of residue!
Everyone is stupid, fortunately, no one has gone down just now, such a powerful trap, even if I go down, I don't have time to react, and then I will be corroded into a pile of white bones by the white mist, right?
I couldn't help but feel scared for a while, fine beads of sweat gradually appeared on my forehead, looking at the ground that had returned to normal, and asked everyone in a low voice, "What now?" ”
Shen Qin obviously didn't expect such a thing to happen, and frowned and said: "This thing seems to be a kind of miasma, but it is too powerful, the enemy should be hiding underneath, this is their means to prevent us from entering." ”
Everyone understands this truth, but the more we are not allowed to go down, the more we have to go down, how can we avoid the terrifying white fog now?
"Try the fire!" Shen Qin said, then took out the fire talisman from his pocket, lit it and threw it down!
The white mist reappeared, surrounded the fire talisman, and then Peng turned into a cloud of sparks with a bang, and when the white mist dissipated, the fire talisman was gone!
"It doesn't seem to work!" I said helplessly.
"Then another way, I don't believe I can't deal with this thing!" Shen Qin gritted his teeth and said.