Chapter Seventy-Five: Down the Tomb
He sat on the stone and waited for fifteen minutes, during which nothing happened, until his cousin came back with a large backpack on his back, and the two policemen who were traveling with him also carried a large backpack.
In front of us, my cousin opened two of the backpacks, which contained all sorts of things for going down into the cave, including power ropes for outdoor exploration, searchlights, flashlights, waterproof hiking boots, jackets, helmets, knee pads, elbow pads, gloves, walkie-talkies, whistles, portable gas masks, and other things I didn't recognize.
But just what I knew, I felt that my cousin was well prepared, and I had seen these things on outdoor adventure shows on TV before, but I didn't expect them to be useful.
Soon, my cousin picked out five of the thirty policemen and asked us to put these things on our bodies, and the five policemen were ordered to put on the things quickly, after all, they are all professional policemen who should have specially learned how to wear outdoor equipment, but Wei Lin and I dragged our feet.
Wei Lin had an injury on his hand, and looked at the people who had already taken action embarrassedly, at this time Huang Xuan took the initiative to come over to help Wei Lin put on the utensils, although he had always been worried that we would follow his cousin down, but now is an extraordinary time, my cousin insisted on taking us, and he also knew that there was no time to argue with them, so he also carried it out silently.
Everything else was fine, but Welling's hands were bandaged and he couldn't wear gloves.
Seeing that everyone was about to get dressed, Wei Lin thought for a moment and said to Huang Xuan, "Officer Huang Xuan, can you help me remove the bandage?" ”
Then he explained: "Actually, there is nothing wrong with my hands, but the doctor is afraid that I will be infected so he wrapped it like this, and I think it is better to take it apart when I have to go down to the tomb." ”
Huang Xuan hesitated for a moment and said, "Are you sure it's okay, you can't wrap it back when you dismantle it." ”
Seeing Wei Lin's affirmative nod, Huang Xuan carefully unwrapped the bandage on Wei Lin's hand, revealing Wei Lin's hand, there were many wounds on the palm of his hand but they had all scabbed, and his hand was still barely free to move, Huang Xuan looked at it and made sure that there was no problem before carefully putting gloves on him.
After my cousin put it on, he also came to help me put it on, after these things were put on, it was equivalent to arming the teeth, and when all of us were dressed, he began to arrange the rope at the entrance of the cave, and after the rope fixing point above was arranged, the cousin had to go down to observe the situation at the bottom of the cave, after all, this is a tomb, although the hole has been open for so long, allowing the air to penetrate in, but it is not clear whether it can let people go down, although there are gas masks but after all, it is convenient, and the effect of filtration is not so strong, If there is miasma, poison gas or something, there is still a great danger.
Weylin and I stood by like two outsiders, watching them maneuver my cousin down into the tomb, and we could only tell him to be careful.
The cousin looked relaxed, gave us a reassuring look, and before going down the cave, he pulled Huang Xuan aside and quietly didn't know what to say, I could only see Huang Xuan's brows furrowed slightly, his expression was surprised for a while, and then he was a little more solemn, and finally nodded.
After whispering to Huang Xuan, the cousin put on a gas mask and buckled the safety rope down to the cave.
To be honest, worry is just the natural emotion of family affection, anything is always right to leave to professionals, in my impression my cousin never puts himself in danger, and doing things is very reassuring, the most important thing is that I don't need to think too much, when I was a child, many things were solved by him, so with him I can stand here so calmly, I don't feel any fear for going down to a tomb, but I still feel a little excited and nervous, This is also the normal state of human beings.
When the cousin arrived in the cave, we could keep in touch through the walkie-talkie, Huang Xuan kept asking about his condition, and the cousin continued to report that he was safe.
After a while, my cousin's voice came from the walkie-talkie again: "The humidity is normal, the air is normal, everything is normal, let them come down." ”
Hearing his cousin's voice, Huang Xuan asked the two policemen to go down first, and then Wei Lin and I followed closely behind, with a safety rope buckled, under their guidance, even a novice like us could quickly adapt to the fall, Wei Lin's hands hurt and he couldn't use his strength, so he basically relied on the safety rope to hang down.
The light from the searchlight on the helmet can let me see everything in the hole clearly, as the rope falls, I am also looking at the hole, the whole hole is slowly widening with the slow fall, the whole cave wall can be very simple to see the traces of artificial construction, because it is too smooth, and on the cave wall I can see the traces carved on it from time to time, like what words are engraved and what symbols are like, but I can't understand any of them, and I don't know when this is engraved here.
The rope kept going down, and I didn't have time to look closely, all the way down to the bottom, my cousin held a flashlight on us, and when I stepped on the ground, I saw that the whole space here was very spacious, if I wanted to describe it accurately, the hole here was like an upside-down funnel.
Removing the safety buckle, I can look at this huge space through the light, it is very dry underneath, with the stuffiness that has accumulated in the enclosed space for a long time, but it is true that I can breathe normally, and my cousin has already taken off his gas mask.
Cousin, they are still picking up the whereabouts of the three policemen in the back, I don't dare to get too far away from them, after all, this is not the road outside, it is said that there will be some mechanisms in the tomb, and I am afraid that I will accidentally step on some mechanism and die inexplicably like those TV shows.
Seeing my cautious appearance, my cousin seemed to have guessed my concerns, and said to me with some amusement: "Don't worry, there should be no mechanism here, those black-robed people here don't know how many times they have come down before, you can still see some footprints when you look carefully at the ground, and it shouldn't be very big, after all, the diameter of this mountain is not very long." ”
Hearing my cousin say this, I looked at the ground, and I could indeed see traces of footprints, and I was a little relieved, and boldly took a few steps to look at the surrounding environment.
Wei Lin also looked left and right curiously, but we all subconsciously did not stay far away from them, and only by following them would we feel safe.
Where we are standing now seems to be a corner, next to these walls, I turned on the bright flashlight and shone into the distance, only to see some stones and stone walls, and in the distance it was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything clearly.
"Hey, what's on this?"
When I looked into the distance, I heard Wei Lin's puzzled voice, I heard the sound and walked next to him, and saw him holding a flashlight to shine on a stone wall, and I saw along the light that there were many black marks on the smooth stone wall, and they were all connected together, at first glance it looked like a symbol, and it seemed to be a word written when I looked closely, but the traces were too big to cover the height of the entire stone wall, but I looked at it carefully, and it seemed to feel a little familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere, where was it?