Chapter 32: The Underground Cavern
After the beard finished speaking, he held the dagger in his backhand and slowly touched it forward, after all, the thief hole is narrow, I am afraid that there will be many people, but I will not be able to show my skills, so I can only worry about it with Lu Tao in the back.
After a while, a whistle sounded from the front, and the three of us crawled towards the fork.
Beard leaned against the hole on the side in front and said, "I ran to the hole over there, the inside is too narrow, and I dare to chase after it." ”。
I asked, who is that?
Beard frowned and said, "It's definitely not our gang, it's like an old man." But that guy is ghostly, I'm not sure if it's a human or a ghost. He was looking at us at the entrance of the cave just now, and if it weren't for the light of the flashlight reflected in his eyes, I really wouldn't have noticed. ”。
From his disapproving tone, there should be no danger.
I heard him say this, and I secretly wondered in my heart, could that person be Old Man Qi? If it's really him, then what is he doing here?
All the question marks appeared in my head for a while.
I have to admit that I was also interested in the things in this tomb at this time, but I clearly remember that I was a police officer, and the main purpose of coming here was to solve crimes.
I thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we go in the direction that the man fled?" ”。
The appearance of this fork in the road completely disrupted our position, and we didn't feel very sure where to go. This time, there happened to be an old man in front of us to go to the thunder, so why not.
Beard also knew this, nodded and went to the thief hole on the left.
The rest of the journey was boring, and at the same time the fear of the confined space tormented us. We climbed for almost forty minutes.
The cave is spawned diagonally downward, and I have the illusion that if we continue like this, we will not end up in the center of the earth. It's scary to think about.
Glancing at Qi Yuying in front of me, I sighed in my heart, "Accompanied by beautiful women, it's not bad if you really die here like this."
We didn't meet the bearded guy along the way, maybe the guy was climbing a lot faster than us. But at the same time, I thought to myself, will Old Man Qi have such physical strength?
Suddenly, the beard at the front stopped with a curse.
The beard didn't know what he had found in front of him, so he kept shining around with a flashlight, and said, "Open your eyes."
It wasn't until we came out of the cave that I understood what the beard meant, 'Eyes open'.
I saw that there was a large underground space in front of me, and there were artificially dug stairs that rotated like a winding mountain road to the bottom.
We are standing on this huge stone staircase, and although there are many traces of artificial construction around us, most of them are naturally formed.
Here, it turned out to be a huge underground cavern.
Because the area of this underground cavern is so large, the wolf smoke flashlight is not enough to illuminate all the space.
Beard took out a small flare from his backpack and muttered, "Good things should be used in places like this." ”。
After saying that, we hit the air, and in an instant we finally saw the true face of this place.
I took a cursory scan of the surroundings, which was the size of two football fields, and there were many small pavilions built against the walls of the cave in addition to the steps that extended downward. The pavilions were made of wood, and had deteriorated badly because of age. There is an unknown stone statue in the pavilion, and there are some animal corpses hanging there, which should be in the shape of human corpses.
The bottom of the cave was six or seven stories high from where we were, and there was a stone platform at the bottom. There is a river around the stone platform, and I think there must be an underground river running through it, otherwise the water here would have dried up long ago.
From a high vantage point, the stone platform does not look very large, but the strangest thing is that there are two smiling fox statues on the platform, and a white coffin is placed in the middle of the statues. He actually used a fox to be a tomb guarding beast, and I don't know what the owner of this tomb thinks.
We looked up and were stunned to see that the roof of the cave was sealed with blue bricks, and the roof of the cave was arched with some huge net-like things hanging on it.
If you look closely, you will be shocked to see that there are huge spider webs on it, but there is no trace of life.
I think that even if there were such a large spider, they would have been extinct long ago in such a place where there is no food.
Suddenly, Lu Tao dragged me and said, "Look there."
I looked in the direction he was pointing, and saw an old man with gray hair walking down the steps below.
I really saw it, it was the old man Qi who raised ghosts.
I beckoned the beard to pursue there.
Each step here is more than one meter wide and more than half a meter high, and I don't know how much manpower and material resources are needed to build such a place, which is an absolute big project in ancient times. It's just that for some reason there is no legend about this here.
Huzi asked me what the old man was doing while running, he was so old, could it be your grandfather?
I didn't bother to explain it to him, I just urged him to hurry.
I don't know why I'm in such a hurry, maybe I've been in this place for too long and I'm in too much of a hurry to get out. And my instincts told me that this old man must know how to get out here.
We didn't run slowly, Qi Yuying, this girl didn't give us any more extraneous branches now, and kept following us behind.
I calmed down as I ran, this place was so weird, not to mention the huge cobwebs on the top of the cave, but the small pavilion that appeared every few steps caught my attention.
I saw that in this pavilion there were stone statues of women riding corpses of the kind I had seen before, and the corpses of a person were hung around each of these statues. It's so old that there's only a skeleton left there. It's weird to look at.
Gradually, I slowed down. This place is evil, it's better not to be so reckless.
The beard caught up with him panting behind and said, "You fucking don't want to die, is that person your father or something." No matter how much you greet you, you won't look back".
I looked at him embarrassedly and said, "That's a murderer, let's ..... He killed all the people in our village.
I suddenly remembered the identity of the beard, so I changed my words in time.
Hu Zi said, don't worry, I looked at the bottom of the cave just now, there shouldn't be any exit, he can't run.
I said, it's so big, you won't find out if there's an exit.
Qi Yuying and Lu Tao also followed behind at this time, and Lu Tao said: "Yang Zi, slow down, I always feel wrong in this place." Just now in the back, I heard the laughter of a woman and the crying of a child. Let's not be reckless."
When he said this, it reminded me of the woman in blue and the child in red I met in the ancestral tomb, nodded and took out the dagger that Wu Kai gave me.
I shook my head at my beard and said, "No matter what, I've got the old man to do today." ”。
Damn, I'm really angry after being played by this old guy for a night. I thought that I would solve him here, and I would save him from being at large because of insufficient evidence after getting out.
What I was holding in my hand was the miner's lamp that the beard had given me, illuminating the range many times stronger than my phone. After a night of fright, I grew a lot bolder, and now there is a kind of arrogance spreading in my chest.
With a miner's lamp in his left hand and a dagger in his right hand, he walked to the bottom of the cave below.