Chapter 474: Bifurcation
Tichai no longer hesitated, and immediately drove the wheels into the air, and soon after Azanji opened his eyes, his face had recovered a lot, "Is there any news from Zhang Qiang?" ”
I looked down at my phone, and after a while, I shook my head with a wry smile, "The signal here is not good, even if Zhang Qiang has already succeeded, there is no way to send a message to me, and the mobile phone will not work at all in the rainforest." ”
Azanji frowned and said, "Since this is the case, then we have to take one step at a time, we have bought them a lot of time, and if we are lucky, they have already returned to Siem Reap with their things." ”
I reluctantly said, "I hope so, and for the sake of caution, we must visit the mausoleum of the Cuban master again." ”
Azangi nodded in agreement, and after half an hour of driving, we came to the foot of another deep mountain, and Tichai pulled over and said, "The car couldn't get in, so I had to get out of the car and walk." ”
I looked around and asked Tichai to drive the car into a hidden place and hide it, find a lot of branches to hide the car, and then walk into the mountain.
Not far ahead, Azanji found a lot of marks along the way, and immediately beckoned me to go over to check, these marks are the marks that we have discussed with Zhang Qiang before leaving, and finding these marks means that Zhang Qiang is not far away from us.
I sighed and said, "Looks like we've found the right route, but we don't know what the situation is up ahead." ”
Azanji looked up at the sky, shook his head, and said, "It's so dark, it's hard to find the mark, my suggestion is to fix it for the time being, and wait until dawn." ”
"Nope." I immediately shook my head and vetoed, "I know everyone is very tired, if it is in normal times, I don't need you to remind you, I will also ask everyone to stop and rest, but the current situation is different, Nami's people are very good at finding this side along the way according to the wheel marks we left, the location of the mausoleum will be exposed sooner or later, and we must not wait any longer." ”
Azanji hesitated slightly, but nodded and said, "Okay, listen to you, let's hurry into the mountain as soon as possible!" ”
The fog in the jungle is very deep, this area is full of dense coniferous forest, we walked very slowly, while walking, while looking for the marks left by Zhang Qiang along the way, through the forest for more than two hours, Azanji suddenly pointed to the empty space in front of us and said, "Look over there!" ”
I swept my gaze in response, and saw a "small hill" bulging up in the flat valley less than 500 meters away from us, and there were obvious traces of tools digging under the soil bags, and in the soil that had been turned out, there could also be a black hole, presumably Zhang Qiang and the others went down this robbery hole.
There are also a lot of tools used to dig the earth at the entrance of the cave, which proves that Zhang Qiang did not come up after going down, and if they have already got something, they will never let these tools be piled up here casually.
I immediately said in a deep voice, "Lao Zhang hasn't come out yet, I guess he can't be much ahead of us, let's hurry down and help!" ”
After saying that, I was about to enter the cave, but Azanji suddenly grabbed me, frowned and said, "After all, this is the mausoleum of the Cuban master, I don't know if there will be a mechanism under the tomb, and the pursuers may feel it at any time, it is too risky to go on like this." ”
His words made perfect sense, and I immediately became confused, and after a few seconds of silence, I said, "Well, how about you go down to the tomb with me, and let Azan Shinu and Tichai stay on it?" ”
Azanji nodded and said, "That's a good idea, it's right in my heart!" ”
Then we turned our attention to Azan Shinu, after all, this old man had followed us all the way in order to obtain the yin material and the black magic mantra from the tomb, and I don't know if he would stay on it to answer it.
Azan Shinu didn't speak, he lowered his head, as if muttering something, Tichai took the initiative to speak, "Make a decision quickly, time waits for no one!" ”
Azan Shinu nodded and said, "Go down, I will keep watch at the entrance of the tomb to prevent anyone from going down to disturb you."
Azangi immediately said, "Don't worry, what has been promised to you will never be less." ”
Azan Shinu said, "I can trust you! ”
Now that the plan of action has been agreed, we will not delay any longer, I will go down the cave first, and Azanji will follow closely behind me, the hole is only half a meter in diameter, the tunnel is not deep, but the smell of earth in the air is quite strong, after entering the hole, the environment in front of me suddenly fell into darkness, I raised my phone, turned on the lighting tools, and scanned back and forth in the deep and long passage, and soon after, I saw rows of footprints left on the ground.
I slowly crouched down, examined the footprints carefully, frowned, and said, "It seems like there are more than four footprints." ”
We were a group of eight people, and we were divided into two teams, in addition to our team, there were only Yuzhu, Zhang Qiang, Brother Yong and Sang Tong left in the other team, but there were more than a dozen footprints here!
Azanji also found the footprints on the ground, frowned and said, "It seems that the location of the mausoleum has been exposed very early, and Zhang Qiang and they are not the first people to enter the entrance of the cave. ”
I was shocked and immediately said, "How could someone have arrived before us?" ”
"It's not surprising!" Azanji shook his head calmly and analyzed, "Have you thought about it, our road map was obtained from Nami, and who took Nami's topographic map?" ”
I frowned, and Azangi continued unhurriedly, "Obviously, the first person to get the road map was neither Nami nor us, and maybe the mausoleum had been opened before the road map was auctioned off. ”
I whispered, "Isn't that a trip for nothing?" ”
"Not necessarily!" Azanji shook his head and said, "If the first people to go down to the tomb have already got everything they want, how can they just make a topographic map and put it up for auction?" Are you trying to cheat money? I don't think it's possible! ”
I said, how so? Azangi immediately explained, "There are a lot of yin treasures under this mausoleum, and the value is far greater than the profit from the auction of that road map, who would lose the watermelon and pick up the sesame seeds?" ”
Azanji's words made me confused, and seeing that I was confused, he said, "There can only be one reason, that is, there is something under this mausoleum, so that the first group of people cannot go deep into the core, and the other party has to give up, so I plan to sell the road map." ”、
As soon as he said this, I immediately reacted, and immediately sank my face and said, "There is another possibility, the other party does not plan to give up this mausoleum, but wants to find more people in this way to act as pawns for them, and after the resistance in the mausoleum is destroyed and all the black materials are unearthed, these people will come forward to fight for them." ”
"There is indeed such a possibility, it seems that you must be careful, this mausoleum may not be as simple as imagined!" Azanji cautiously scanned his surroundings, ready to defend at any moment.
We continued to go deeper along the underpass, about twenty meters away, there was a fork in front of us, one left and one right, respectively presented in front of us, the two holes were almost identical, there was no difference at all, the mobile phone light shone, the eyes were bottomless darkness, and there was no end to it.
Azanji stopped and said, "What should I do?" ”
I thought for a moment, pointed to the fork in the road in front of me, and said, "It seems that these two passages are traps to prevent people from digging up the grave, and we must choose carefully, if we enter the one that leads to the trap, it is very likely that we will die without a place to bury." ”