195. Three anomalies
It was an unrecognizable corpse, cause of death: blown up!
The marks were too obvious, the whole body was charred, even broken, and I didn't want to think about where the rest of his parts were blown up, and it was inferred in principle that this person could not be someone I knew. Everything I know is in conflict with Yan Jiu's bombing of the passage in time, so this person is likely to be Yan Jiu's subordinate, as for why he was killed here, it is strange.
I had no intention of thinking about it, carefully stepping over the charred corpse. It had been discovered just now, and two meters outside the corpse, there was a fork in the road, one continued to slope down gently, the other turned sharply upward, and without hesitation, he chose the upward one.
Due to the existence of gravity and free fall and other kinetic inertia, there is no trace of explosion in the upward slope passage, because the four-layer mud rushing into the passage will only be blocked, and it is impossible to go upstream. The crawling process was relatively smooth, but I felt that the space seemed to be very wet, and I soon understood the reason, there was a pool at the end of the passage, and the space was suddenly opened, just by browsing around, you could see that the pool was covered by a small stone mountain.
The top of the pool was filled with white mist, and it was as expected that it was an ice spring. It seems that I am close to the third floor, and this pool is connected to the ice fountain. Suddenly remembered that Brother Liang said that he and Han Dongling were dragged elsewhere by the newt and "accidentally" fell into the passage, while He Jianguo and Yu Qiuyuan "inadvertently" fell into the passage at the concentration point of the ice spring.
Meaning that there were two entrances to this passage from the third floor, I tried to raise my hand as high as possible so that the glow of the orb could illuminate the top, and soon found a straight down passageway, less than five meters from the pool. The technique of this passage is very similar to the structure of the mezzanine when I first came down from the hole one after another.
To use the blind spot staggering method, due to the height, you have to stand at just the right angle to see where there is a gap. I wasn't in a hurry to climb up immediately, because in case this was Brother Liang's entrance, I would have to spend time searching for the way back to the Ice Fountain concentration point when I reached the third floor. Crossing the mouth and walking towards the pool, in the white mist, I found that the green light of the ball could penetrate through it, and slowly illuminated the entire small space enough to be able to see clearly.
His gaze swept over every inch, and after two minutes, it was certain that it was an enclosed area, and there was no second exit. Therefore, the dividing point between Brother Liang and He Jianguo is above the exit that was discovered just now.
No longer hesitate to climb up directly, drill into the blind area of the passage, and find that the inside is much steeper than before, at an angle of more than 60 degrees. If it is at an absolutely high fulcrum, then the speed of sliding down is absolutely fast, and even if you fall out of this mouth, this momentum will make people continue to slide forward. Therefore, it is very likely that Brother Liang and the others did not find that there was an ice spring pool.
While my mind was flipping, I used my feet together to go up quickly, and soon I saw that there were two forks, one steep and one slightly oblique, and I chose the steep one. Relative to the geographical location, the steep one is closer to the third floor, and it is inferred from the principle that the area where Brother Liang falls is more remote.
As it turned out, my choice was correct, and when I climbed out of the passage probe and went outside, I only looked around a little and I could discern that this was exactly where Yan Jiuyi's people were. The open space, about 100 square meters, came out of the place behind the hidden rocks. I didn't bother to look closely, my eyes searched all over the ground, and soon I saw a sack-style backpack that seemed to be a madman in the corner.
Three steps and two steps to run over, yes, it was his. I opened the bag and saw that the things inside were too miscellaneous, so how could I have time to look for it carefully, I wanted to turn it over, but after thinking about it, I still pulled up the bag and threw it on my shoulder. After taking two steps, I saw that there was a black bag that had been turned over on the ground, and the things were basically scattered outside, most of them were water and food.
It's not that I'm too big or greedy, I've been lost in the rock wall with one after another, or trapped in the mud of the four-story ditch, or I was blocked in the passage along with the mud and was blown up by Yan Jiu. Then the food and water are very important at the moment, and they are necessary for us to continue to survive in the ancient cave in the future.
When I mentioned the entrance of the passage, I threw the black bag into it first, the madman may have medicine in it, but I still carry it on my shoulder. When he went down the passage again, his eyes swept over the white-spitting pool next to him, and he didn't think much about stepping into the passage again.
It was difficult to climb up, but it was smooth to go down, and it was smooth all the way down, because the slope was too steep, and the back could not brake, and people rushed out at the second exit. When my buttocks hit the ground, it hurt so much that I bared my teeth and sucked in cool air, and with this momentum, I slid forward for nearly twenty meters or so to stabilize my body. After that, I hurried up, and when I got to the middle point, I first instinctively stared ahead, but my heart was cold.
Before leaving, I was sure that I had left another orb with Succession, and at this angle and position, I could see the green light, but at this time, it was dark ahead, and I didn't even see a trace of light.
Comforting himself that it will be fine, maybe the ball has faded its halo for some reason, but as soon as he looked down, he saw that the one in his hand was shining green as usual. So will it be a fork in the road on the way back? As soon as the thought turned, through the light, I saw the charred corpse lying not far away. Gritting his teeth, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, bury his head and continue to climb forward, no matter how much he has to see is believing.
It's just that the closer you get to the mouth of the fourth-floor passage, the more your heart trembles, and there is no second person's breath in the space except for your own breath. There are only two possibilities: first, they are gone one after another; Second, it is still there, but ...... No breathing.
Neither the former nor the latter is what I would like to see, pray for the third scenario. God will always give you a head start at the right time and tell you what reality is. When I climbed to the entrance of the passage, my mind went blank, and I was really gone......
After a short period of distraction, all kinds of regret poured into my heart, how could I be so mixed up that I left him here alone? What's the use of throwing the maniac's bag on his shoulder to the ground? What's the use of having an antidote pill in it? He's gone!
On the verge of an emotional breakdown, a trace of thought rushed into my mind, and one after another, I woke up to find that I was not looking for me? So where will he look, outside? I climbed on my head without thinking about it, the stones and the mud were still sealed, and I couldn't push it away, and the mud dried up immediately when it came out of the water, and I kicked with my feet in anger, and I didn't even kick the exit open after a dozen kicks.
I turned around and rummaged through the maniac's backpack, trying to find tools at my disposal, and just as I did find a sharp cone, my mind cleared up. If he does go to the outer layer to find me, will he need to seal the hole again?
Turning his head in shock, he looked into the depths of the darkness, if he didn't go outside, then I didn't meet him when I came, then he went to the fifth floor one step ahead of me? In the next moment, my man swept forward, picking up his bag.
After climbing for a while, I suddenly stopped, what about the corpse? He passed by the charred corpse twice, but there was no obstacle when he came down just now. Looking back at the darkness, I felt that my scalp was numb, and I tried my best not to think about the ghosts, but the human mind was completely uncontrollable under the panic and panic. I almost crawled down the ground, silently thinking in my heart that I should not care about others, but only look for succession.
It only took two or three minutes to go down to the fifth floor, and because it had been blown open, the passage was so spacious that people could bend over and run at the back. When I got to the fifth floor, I was at a loss, this space was so big, where would he go? Am I going to look aimlessly in this? Leaning against the stone wall, he took several deep breaths, told himself to calm down, to think from his mind, when he opened his eyes and found that I was not there, what was his first reaction and what kind of judgment would he make?
But my heart was a mess, and I couldn't calm down at all, so I could only think chaotically as I walked according to my instincts. In the end, I made a judgment intuitively, and when I felt the wind blowing overhead, I subconsciously looked up, and a black hole was facing me. After staring at me for a full five seconds, I reached out and grabbed the rock on the inner wall of the hole, and my body folded upward.
When I climbed in the passage again, I didn't think about anything, and since fate was in front of me, I had to face it head-on. A passage was unobstructed, and there were no imaginary people, and there was no trace of any snakes, and soon climbed to the end to the fourth-story ditch.
I walked down the ditch with my head down, step by step, until I reached a pile of wreckage, staring at the closed passageway, leaning limply against the wall. It was only then that a steady stream of thoughts poured into my mind, and I misjudged at the beginning.
If he wakes up one after another, with his calm mind, he will not rush to look for me immediately, and he may act when he does not see me return. Without thinking of any reason for me to run to the fifth floor to deliver the sheep into the tiger's mouth, he would definitely be able to tell where I had gone.
But I didn't meet him, and there was only one possibility: he didn't wake up. The snake venom was so severe that he fell into a deep coma. Since he didn't wake up, he couldn't have walked by himself, but he didn't disappear in place, so someone must have been to the passage.
Is it Yan Jiu? I can't think of any reason for him to go up from the left passage, track it down to the mouth of the passage on the right, and when he finds the trace, he doesn't immediately lift the sealed stone and go in to arrest the person, but goes back to the original way and takes the person away from the bombed passage. It's not logical!
If it wasn't Yan Jiu, who would have taken it away? Thinking back, I thought of the first anomaly, after I and I came up to the four-story ditch one after another, only a part of the black-skinned snakes tracked over, and they were restless and even panicked. Then when we went down the passage again, we didn't hear any voices coming, why didn't Yan Jiu and the three of them come up at this time?
The second anomaly is that Han Dongling's father and daughter plus Yu Qiuyuan suddenly disappeared in an instant. Under the circumstances, it was impossible for them to know that Yan Jiu and others were chasing after them with snakes in the rear, and they turned around to avoid other places. In particular, the basis for the serpent's tracking is the blood on their body.
These two anomalies and successive disappearances add up to three points in one. I silently turned back and walked back, at first slowly, then faster and faster, until I came again to the passage where I had descended. Squinting his eyes and staring at the bottomless inside, the thought that came to his mind was: the answer is here.