Chapter 20: The Sinkhole

The next day, I was woken up by the heat.

I looked at my watch, and it was almost ten o'clock.

opened the tent and found that San'er was already stretching his muscles, and there was a rice bowl next to him, probably just finished breakfast.

I sat up, and all I felt was soreness all over my body, yesterday I tossed until almost the early hours of the morning, and the day was full of high-intensity activity, which filled my muscles with lactic acid.

It seemed that everyone felt the temperature rise, and everyone walked out of the tent listlessly.

Lao Ma looked at the sky dissatisfiedly with his collar and muttered, "Do you want to heat Lao Tzu to death, slimy." ”

Also, for a person like him who doesn't like to bathe all year round, it is indeed uncomfortable enough to be in this environment close to the tropical rainforest.

After eating something casually, Lao Ma took out the positioning device, he looked at it, and said: "We ran far enough yesterday, and now we are very close to the target location, and we will probably be able to arrive tonight." ”

This is probably the most exciting news to date.

After learning such good news, everyone's spirits seemed to be much better, and they packed up their things and got up to hurry.

We didn't say anything until the sun set, and we finally came to the designated place, but after some inspection, we found nothing, so we had to set up camp, and in the early morning of the next day, everyone couldn't hold back their excitement and searched everywhere.

We split into two teams and looked at them separately. Unfortunately, Lao Ma is on my team.

In addition to his unclean mouth, this hooded man really likes to nag very much.

After looking for more than ten minutes and not finding any progress, Lao Ma muttered again: "This damn equipment is not easy to use, it is said that it has arrived at the location, but there is not even a ghost shadow, you say, what is the difference between this broken place and the woods we have seen before?" ”

I said impatiently, "I'm talking about the old horse." Can you close your broken mouth, are you nagging these useful, 100,000 mountains and 100,000 mountains, this place is so big, it is normal to have a little error, look for it carefully, maybe the gold leaf wooden box is around here. ”

Tony opened the folding fan to drive away the mosquitoes that kept attacking, and said: "We don't think so, the address on the old horse's device is only the last address of the previous expeditions to lose contact, at first we thought that this place would be dangerous, and all the people before us were sacrificed here." But now it seems that we have been here for more than ten hours, but the wind and waves are calm, maybe there is just some problem with the magnetic field here, which can block the signal, and does not necessarily represent the direction of the gold leaf wooden box. ”

When Tony said this, I suddenly became discouraged because he had a point.

One of the misconceptions we had from the beginning was that we mistakenly thought that once we arrived at the designated location, we would be able to find the gold leaf box.

Actually, as Tony said, this may just be a strange location, and the other expeditions have lost their signal connection here, and there may be a long way to go.

If that's the case, we'll have a problem with which direction we're going next, and we'll feel like we're blind.

I sighed and said, "Well, I really hope this is the hiding place of the gold leaf wooden box, even if it is dangerous, we have a target, otherwise it is really as you say, I will cry." ”

Dahu said: "Shopkeeper, I think the gold leaf wooden box may be here." ”

My eyes suddenly lit up, as if I had grasped a life-saving straw, you must know that the big tiger is a disciple of Dong Lao, maybe there is a slightly ventilated soul hidden under this honest appearance.

I asked, "Oh? fast

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Why? ”

Dahu looked at me with some confusion and said, "I said the reason, I think." ”

I stuck my head out and looked at him incredulously and asked, "You...... What do you think? You mean the reason is...... Do you think it's right here? ”

The big tiger nodded stubbornly, and I was so angry that I rushed over and kicked him in the ass, and the painful idiot spun around in place several times.

Dahu covered his ass and muttered, "It would be nice if my master was here, maybe there is a tomb or something down here, and the gold leaf wooden box is hidden in the tomb." ”

I shouted angrily, "Are you stupid? Yes? In this deep mountain, old forest, barren countryside, which fool would choose a tomb for himself here? ”

The big tiger said sneeringly: "I will." ”

"You ......"

I put my hand on my forehead, and my head really hurt, more painful than talking to Zhang Genhuo.

When Dahu saw my appearance, he said a little dejectedly: "Your temper is really getting worse and worse, the shopkeeper. ”

As he spoke, he gradually began to move away from me, as if he was afraid that I would kick him again.

Just walking, he suddenly said loudly again: "Shopkeeper! I made a discovery! There's a wild rope here! ”

I was about to burst into foul language: "Did you let Zhang Gen kick alive in your brain?" What the has rope is wild! Wait a minute...... Rope? ”

I suppressed my anger because I seemed to hear a useful word.

I rushed towards the big tiger, and he was so frightened that he ran away with his butt covered.

When I arrived at the position of the big tiger just now, I found a very thick rope on the ground, and I called San'er over.

San'er leaned over to check it and said, "This is a special rope for climbing. ”

Then he took the rope to one end, and when he came to the end, he found that the rope was tied to a thick trunk, and he began to go in the opposite direction again, and I watched him pass by me again, and suddenly a glimmer of hope rose in my heart.

It's just that he walked about four or five meters before he stopped.

As his footsteps stopped, my heart sank and I asked, "What's wrong?" ”

San'er turned around and said, "The shopkeeper is a cliff." ”

"Cliffs?"

Where did the cliffs in the jungle come from?

I walked over in disbelief.

Pushing aside the grass in front of me, I was surprised to find that there was really an unfathomable cliff in front of me!

It's just that there are tall trees at the bottom of the cliff, stretching as high as the nearby bushes, that we don't notice a fault here.

Hearing this, Tony also rushed over, squatted on the edge of the land, looked at the scene in front of him, also frowned, and sighed: "It's so strange! Bring me the binoculars. ”

Hearing this, San'er handed over a telescope, and Tony raised it up and looked around, his expression becoming more and more solemn.

I couldn't help but ask, "Brother To, what did you see, why did you have this expression?" ”

Tony returned the telescope to San'er and said, "This is not a cliff. ”

"Isn't it?"

Tony nodded and said: "This is the hinterland of the 100,000 Great Mountains, it is impossible for such a large fault to divide the 100,000 Great Mountain area in two, otherwise the elevation at the other end will definitely show a lot worse, we just used the telescope to look at the nearby terrain, like the tall trees under this fault, only grow in a general range, that is, this may be a big pit." ”

I said in disbelief, "Pit? ”

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Ony nodded again and said, "That's right, it's a pit, but the scope of this pit may be very large." This is not surprising, in our country, there are many similar sinkhole phenomena, and no one can explain how it was formed. ”

At this moment, San'er suddenly interjected: "Shopkeeper, this rope goes down from this fault, you see the turf near the fault, it is very seriously worn, someone must have gone down, judging from the indentation, it should not have been down for long." ”

I got excited again and shouted, "Do you mean ......?"

Tony nodded at me.

I clapped my hands, and sure enough, the gold leaf wooden box must be right underneath.

The old horse had been listening to us behind him, and when he knew that we had confirmed that the gold leaf box was roughly below, he was taken first, and shouted anxiously, "Let's go down quickly!" Otherwise, you won't even be able to drink the soup! ”

Lao Ma has always been an old fritter, but he has always been very irrational and anxious about the gold leaf wooden box.

I grabbed him and said, "Don't worry. ”

Lao Ma's face was full of impatience: "Can I not be in a hurry, the people in front don't know how long it has been going down." ”

I said, "It's useless if you're in a hurry, listen to me." If you look at these unusually tall trees, they can adapt to the environment and grow so tall to absorb the sun, then we have reason to suspect that a unique ecosystem has been formed under this sinkhole, and everything below may be unfamiliar, so it is not a good thing for them to explore the way. ”

The old horse stopped, and he said, "What then?" Or...... Let's just wait here, and when they find the box back, let's cut off the beard? ”

I shook my head again and said, "No, no one knows if there will be any other exit down here, what if they leave somewhere else?" ”

The old horse was a little irritable for a moment, and said, "Oh, this doesn't work, that doesn't work, what's going on?" ”

I said: "I will definitely go down, but it's not a reckless way like you, San'er, send a signal, gather everyone over, let's be properly equipped and go down in an orderly manner." ”

Hearing this, San'er took out a firework from his backpack and shot it into the sky.

Although the fireworks do not have any dazzling light during the day, the unique sound still attracts the attention of others.

Sure enough, within twenty minutes, the others gathered around me in the direction of the fireworks.

I told everyone about the incident, and everyone's mood that was a little low because they didn't find a clue suddenly lifted up.

The black bear had a gloomy face, and actually said the same thing as me: "Everyone is ready and orderly." ”

It seems that this guy is really not reckless.

I called out to the captain and asked, "Team Yu, do we have a similar rope to climb?" ”

Captain Yu nodded, and asked his men to make a firm splice of the rope on his body, and bolted one end to the other thick tree trunk.

I nodded, two ropes, going on more quickly, and taking care of each other.

The only thing I'm worried about right now is whether the rope is long enough.

But after Captain Yu unfolded all the ropes, I was instantly relieved, it turned out that the big tigers all had the same ropes, not very thick, but very strong, professional climbing ropes, usually do not occupy much space, and when everyone's ropes are unfolded, the splicing can actually reach more than 100 meters.

After the rope was ready, I looked at the group and shouted, "Get out of the pit!" ”

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