Chapter 21: Under the Dome
"This pile of rotten meat is not an ordinary smell, maybe it is mixed with something else, it is the most smelly corpse smell I have ever smelled, please don't let me go down and dig it, please!" The stallion was so stinky that it rolled its eyes.
"You two take turns digging down and see if the entrance is here as he says it is." Takuyu's decision to hook up gave the stallion a sigh of relief.
There are no big trees on the mound, but fortunately there are many of us this time, unlike before when we and the old yellow-headed father and son struggled to hang ropes on Momo Mountain to enter the altar, we pulled a rope for every two people to hang the selected one down, and the position where the black ball exploded was just enough to accommodate two people to work on it.
In addition to the stallions hiding far away, I also lay on the mound like the ribs and looked at the black ball below and thought about what it was, in addition to the black ball that was thrown by the fat intestine with a flying knife, there were several identical things distributed on the same horizontal line, which looked very weird.
"Little master, why don't I pop all these balls?" Fat Gu took out a flying knife and asked as he played with it in his hand.
"Don't!" I stopped the stallion at the same time, the stallion is afraid of smell, and I plan to see how they dig before making the next decision.
The people who went down to dig the cave were all wearing the masks I gave them, and they were digging hard with sapper shovels, except for the part of the flesh that was exposed, the black balls embedded in the cliff wall and more flesh were dug out, and as they dug deeper, it was ordinary earth and stone, a large number of dirt and stones were dug out, and they changed two people to work in turns every half an hour.
After several shifts of people, we ate dry food on it, and after a long time, it was already dark, and just as I was about to put up my tent and sleep, "Brother Dajiu, we dug up something like a branch!" The pit planing team finally heard a faint sound from the tunnel.
"Come up and let me go down!" Dajiu was particularly active, after all, this is the ancient tomb of the ancestors of the Miao people in Apeng Valley, so the four of us didn't say anything, anyway, we haven't entered the ancient tomb yet, so it's not a big deal for him to go and see it first.
After a while, Takujiu came up from below, "This black thing looks like it grows from a branch sticking out of it, and the inside has been dug through, and there is a big branch at the end of the tunnel, which should be able to enter the ancient tomb along the branch." Taku's face was not very good-looking.
Also, there has been a mutation in the ancient tomb of his ancestor that looks absolutely abnormal, and no one will look good if they are replaced.
"It's useless to talk too much, so let's go in." Ribs don't want to waste any more time.
"Come in later, check your equipment, and be ready for battle." I said, then turned my head to look at Dajiu and said: "I hope you can keep the agreement, the underground world is unimaginable, I don't want to order you to do anything, I also went into the ancient tomb with another team of brave men, but they all died, and I almost died, so I don't want to see any more senseless casualties, don't forget that my grandmother is from the Aphong Valley, and a quarter of my blood is also from the Aphong Valley." ”
"Okay, if you enter the tomb from here, I'll let everyone obey your command." Dajiu hooked and finally moved.
"Trouble Uncle Ribs and Fat Intestines go ahead, then twenty knife hands, me and the stallion are in the middle part of the knife hand team, Dajiu, you go to the end of the line, you have no opinion on this arrangement, right?" I asked.
"Why should I go to the end? Don't believe in my abilities? Tatsuku asked.
"No, on the contrary, this tomb is not simple, if the people in front of you encounter an accident, you don't come to save us, escape as soon as possible, and then return to Miao Village, tell everything you see to Ge Di Badai, and at the same time seek help from the outside world, whether it is a missile or a method, in short, we can't let what can destroy us exist in the world, otherwise we will definitely regret it." I replied solemnly.
“。。。” Dajiu didn't say anything, but he didn't object either, which was a tacit acquiescence to my arrangement.
"I'm sorry, there are only a few gas masks, the rest of the people wear masks, this is enough, I will wear a dozen and a dozen belts every time I come out, don't be too troublesome, it's better to wear them, because I have seen someone open his mouth wide in surprise in the ancient tomb, and something took the opportunity to get into his throat, and in the end he died a miserable death." As I spoke, I handed a bag of masks to Dajiu and asked him to distribute them to the other Miao people.
Dajiu Gou wanted to refuse, but after I finished speaking, a Miao person took the initiative to apply for a mask, and he took it and sent it down one by one.
"Everyone, keep up!" We took local materials, bolted the climbing ropes to these stone tablets that were inserted upside down on the top of the huge sealing mound, and climbed down into the pit one by one in an orderly manner according to the order I had just arranged.
These ropes are just bought, which saves a lot of trouble, because although the rope can bear at least 1.2 tons of weight, it is very squeamish, for example, whether you are wearing socks or barefoot, do not step on the rope, because stepping on it will allow some sand particles that are not easy to see with the naked eye to drill into the rope, and slowly cut the rope skin or core fiber as you use it.
In addition, if you wear crampons, you must be very careful not to step on the rope, because there is no scar on the surface of the rope, but the nylon fiber inside may have been cut. I have enough money now, and of course it's safe to buy the latest ones.
It took us more than an hour for all the people to enter the tunnel, because if you want to use the climbing rope to climb correctly, you must not use the method in the movie to fall down quickly like dumplings one by one, and the temperature generated by the high-speed drop will destroy the rope skin; Jumping rappels can place a very large and unnecessary load on the anchorage points and ropes.
A total of 25 of us had to climb down in batches, with at least 5 minutes between each batch, and the rope could be injured when climbing down, so we should try to rappel down the rock wall unless necessary, but this terrain could not be rappelled, only down, so it was delayed for a lot of time.
We waited in the pit next to each other for the ribs and fat intestines to start walking forward, this time I also bought a few hats with miner's lamps, and Dajiu also received one, so although the five fingers could not be seen in the tunnel, but under the illumination of the miner's lamps on several miner's hats, the figures of the ribs and fat intestines who had been submerged in the dark reappeared in our field of vision.
In fact, not only miner's lamps, we also have a lot of wolf-eye flashlights, one for each person, and the torches brought by the seedlings, which can be used in a spacious place.
"Everyone, keep up!" The ribs and fat intestines slowly crawled forward. Although digging this pit takes a lot of time, it can only dig a pit that can accommodate the size and width of a half-adult, which is already the limit, otherwise it will delay I don't know how much time, and what I need most now is time, grandpa's body is being eroded by shadow Gu all the time.
"It's strange, why the strange hands just now are gone, this is something that everyone has seen." The stallion's muffled voice came from the front through the gas mask.
"It's a bit strange, I didn't see any traces of anything crawling out, maybe the traces were destroyed when I excavated just now, but it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you enter the ancient tomb, you will definitely be able to solve all the mysteries." I glanced back, and the miner's lamp on Taku's head was shining around, presumably he was also looking for clues about the strange hands.
We crawled forward for a while, and suddenly I felt that the front stopped moving forward, I looked up at the vague shadow of the ribs and fat intestines, and then the ribs took off their gas masks, only to hear him shout: "Little master, come and see!" What the fuck is this? It's like a big tree growing under a dome! ”