Chapter Thirty-Six: Fireflies
Out of the robbery hole, I was a sigh of relief, only to feel a cool breeze blowing, the whole person sobered up a lot, and then checked the surrounding situation, it seems that this is not a tomb, but a naturally formed rock vein, the surrounding rock wall is very rough, there are large and small circular holes, should be caused by perennial wind and sand corrosion.
Huzi inhaled the air and said to us, "Hey, I said brothers, did we come out of that ancient tomb?" It was windy, and the air was a lot fresher. ”
I stayed in the ancient tomb for too long, the air inside was turbid, mixed with a smell of old decay, listening to Huzi say this, I also felt that the air was a lot fresher, and when I looked up, I found that there was a bright light overhead, one after another, and I instinctively thought that it was the stars.
But before I could be happy, suddenly two points of light moved quickly, and I was shocked, it seemed that the light above it was not a star! So he raised the flashlight and shone it up, only to find that the top layer of the entire vein space was crawling with a kind of fluorescent yellow beetle, and the point of light came from the back of this beetle.
The seventh master looked up, then made a silent gesture to me, then turned on the flashlight, shone it in front, and motioned for us to go forward, trying not to make a sound.
I have never seen this kind of beetle, and I don't know if it is aggressive, the seventh master has the most experience in this regard, so we walked very carefully towards the hole in front of the rock vein according to the instructions of the seventh master, and almost didn't dare to take a breath in the atmosphere.
The space of this rock vein is very large, we walked for about five or six minutes to reach the entrance of the rock vein, the entrance of the cave is more than two meters high, boxy, the top of the cave and all around the appearance of wooden shelves, it seems to be to prevent the cave from collapsing deliberately built, it should be a cave built by man.
The seventh master turned around, looked at the three of us, and after making sure that we were not left behind, he turned around and entered the cave, I hurriedly followed, this cave is dotted with this kind of beetle, although it is not as dense as the distribution in the vein space, but every other section of the road can always see one or two, the further you go, the less this kind of beetle, about half an hour of walking, this kind of beetle is basically invisible.
At this time, I saw that a layer of sweat had oozed from the forehead of the seventh master, and he turned back to me and said, "This kind of insect is a firefly, I saw it once when I was in Yunnan, it is very aggressive, it is generally in groups, similar to bees, once it is disturbed, it will attack the enemy in groups, it has a liquid similar to yellow phosphorus in its body, the ignition point is very low, as long as it is hit, this liquid will splash out, and it will catch fire immediately, one or two are easy to deal with, so many just now, if one is not careful, all pounce down, we will definitely burn to death inside." ”
Hearing the explanation of the seventh master, I was afraid for a while, this ghost place is too evil, almost refreshed my cognition of living things, if anyone accidentally sneezed just now, it is estimated that we will all have to hang up.
Thinking of this, just a gust of cold wind blew from the other end of the cave, I couldn't help shivering, raised the flashlight and shone it forward, and found that the cave was not a straight line, not far ahead, there was a bend, and there seemed to be a black thing on the ground, and I couldn't see what it was.
When I walked in, I found that it was a charred corpse with a black body all over his body, which looked like it should have been burned to death, and his arms and legs were struggling, and he must have been in pain when he died.
Huzi pointed to the miner's hat on the corpse's head that had been burned and deformed: "Lao Bai, this guy is a miner!" ”
"It seems that this should be a mine road, since the wind is blowing, it is estimated that the exit is not far ahead!"
The Seventh Master nodded in agreement.
Wang Chuyi said, "Let's just go out like this?" I haven't gotten anything yet. ”
As soon as she said this, she was opposed by Huzi, "Damn, if you want the unicorn eyes in the tomb, we won't stop you, you can go back yourself." ”
Wang Chuyi was very embarrassed by Huzi's words, looked back at the mine, and really wanted to go back.
I hurriedly patted her on the shoulder and said, "We don't know how big this ancient tomb is, we don't know how big this tomb is, this way, you and Huzi have hung up the lottery, and now if you go back, isn't it just to chat with Lord Yama?" Even if there is a big treasure in it, we have to have the life to take it out, right? ”
Wang Chuyi glared at Huzi, looked at me, and said, "This is like a human sentence." ”
The seventh master coughed and said to Wang Chuyi, "Don't keep thinking about Boss Jin's business, this time you entered this tomb, it is obvious that the information is not complete enough, so many people have been broken at once, and even your master has died at the entrance of the robbery cave, how dangerous this tomb is, naturally I don't need to say more, now we have a chance to go out, you better go back to Beijing and ask your boss Jin, what information has not been clarified." ”
Wang Chu glanced at the Seventh Master, didn't say anything, picked up the flashlight and walked out, it seemed that he was said by the Seventh Master.
It took us about an hour to come out of the cave and see the stars in the sky, and I felt that I had really escaped death, and it seemed that the trade of buying tombs for money was really not suitable for me, and now I was only thinking about returning to our city, and then setting up my night market stall.
The seventh master found some wood near the mine and set up a bonfire, we sat like this, you look at me, I look at you, each has its own thoughts, didn't say a word, it was just spent until dawn, only to find that we are in a depression surrounded by mountains, all black, all corpses, about five or six hundred people, looking at the corpses all over the ground, it is difficult to imagine what happened back then, can burn so many people at the same time, this tragic scene, it is simply purgatory on earth, In my heart, I mourned in silence for these tragic deaths, and walked towards a dozen small houses not far away.
On both sides of the door of these dozen or so houses are two white-painted wooden boards that read, "I will dig iron ore for the motherland and build a new revolutionary homeland!" It seems that it should be a product of the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
I carefully walked through the corpses, entered one of the houses, and found that the furnishings were very simple, but very neat, the old-fashioned white tea jars, hot water bottles, and military green quilts were also neatly stacked, and on the other side of the house were the workers' tools, shovels, pickaxes, and nothing special, so I walked towards the other room.
After arriving in this room, I found that the most obvious place was that there was an extra table than the one just now, and the middle drawer was still ajar, and there was a yellowed notebook in it.
"What did you find?" The seventh master asked me.
I shook my head, "No, it's all ordinary utensils, it looks like a production team in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China." ”