||->-> Chapter 406 of the main text Steep Wall Cave

The book is picked up again.

Seeing Wu Zhanzhan doing it, Ding Ermiao didn't dare to disturb and watched silently. Gu Qinglan was even more amazed by the magic of the Maoshan technique, and held her breath on the side. Li Qingdong stroked his beard while looking at the terrain, thoughtful.

In the middle of the night, Wu Zhanzhan, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, suddenly changed his gesture, and said in his mouth: "Huh! Why is there a hole in this steep wall? Oops...... Oops! ”

Ding Ermiao was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, junior sister?" ”

"Oh......, it's nothing, the crane is lost." Wu Zhanzhan stood up, rubbed his eyes, looked at Ding Ermiao and the others and said:

"The bottom is unfathomable, and the paper crane flew down two miles, but still did not reach the bottom of the valley. Then the crane flew up again, and on the steep wall, it found a circular hole that could allow people to enter and exit, and did not know where it led. I was about to control the crane to fly in to check, but there was a huge wind that sucked my crane into the hole. ”

"Where's the hole?" Ding Ermiao asked.

&n≡ ≠ book ≡≠ Xiao ≠ said bsp; With intuition, Ding Ermiao felt that there was something wrong with the entrance of the cave.

Wu Zhanzhan pointed to the east with his hand: "It's about three hundred meters over there, and one hundred meters down the next hundred meters, which is the entrance of the cave." ”

"Then go over and see, if someone enters and exits that hole, on the edge of the cliff, there will definitely be traces." Ding Ermiao waved his hand and beckoned everyone to go east together.

To the east, it was even more difficult to walk, and the cracks in the rocks were full of thorns, and there was no way to find them. Ding Ermiao had no choice, so he used 10,000 people as a firewood knife, split a small path alive, and led everyone over.

"Almost, right here." Wu Zhanzhan stopped, walked to the edge of the deep valley, and looked down.

The clouds below are still ethereal and unpredictable, only the cliff under your feet is even steeper, almost like a knife cut, straight down. But looking at the opposite peak, the nine waterfalls are much clearer than before, and you can see the flow of white flowers.

Gu Qinglan looked around, then squatted down again, broke a dead branch, stirred with the floating soil underground, and suddenly said, "There have been people walking here before, and they often walk. ”

Ding Ermiao and the others surrounded them together, looking at the ground in front of Gu Qinglan, but they didn't find anything.

"You see, the rocks on the ground here are very smooth, and they are obviously different from those over there." Gu Qinglan pointed to the ground and explained:

"It's a pedestrian walking, grinding out the soles of their feet. The ground next to it was untouched, and the rock surface was much rougher. According to this trace, a long time ago, there was a path to the north that led to the edge of this cliff. ”

Ding Ermiao nodded, pulled out 10,000 people again, and followed the direction of Gu Qinglan's finger to open up a clearing to the north. Then squatted down to take a closer look, and sure enough, it was the same as what Gu Qinglan said.

Who walks this road to the edge of the cliff? There was no way ahead, and the path stretched to here, and the only purpose of the pedestrians seemed to be the hole in the steep wall below.

Looking at this thorny scene, this path has been abandoned for at least a few decades.

"I guess this thorn should have been transplanted later. Because of such a long walk in the mountains, no similar thorns have been found anywhere else but this area. Gu Qinglan continued:

It can be seen that someone deliberately concealed this road. There must be some secret to the steep wall of the cave below. ”

"Miss Lan has good eyesight, so she can reason ......" Li Qingdong straightened his beard and frowned: "It seems that the hole under this cliff must be strange." But at a distance of nearly 100 meters, how can we go down? ”

Gu Qinglan threw away the dead branch in her hand, patted the dust on her hand, and said, "I have a mountaineering rope, if it is only a hundred meters high, it should be enough." ”

With that, Gu Qinglan opened the suitcase. It turned out that her so-called mountaineering rope was a circle of string that was used as a sleeping pocket when she was looking for Wang Xiang and made a net on the mountain.

The rope is less than the thickness of the little finger, but it is mixed with copper wire, and it is very strong.

"This boulder should have been used by the people of the year to tie the rope." Gu Qinglan walked to an abrupt boulder on the edge of the cliff and tied the rope to it.

In the middle of the boulder, a circle of grinding marks can be faintly seen. It seems that Gu Qinglan's analysis is correct, this is the mark left by the long-term friction of the rope.

"Sister Lan, let me go down." Ding Ermiao put his sword back into the sheath and said with the umbrella on his shoulder.

The four people here, Gu Qinglan and Wu Zhanzhan are girls, and Li Qingdong is an old man. So the expedition charged, Ding Ermiao had to step forward. After all, what is hidden in the cave below, no one knows.

"No, have you ever trained in rock climbing?" Gu Qinglan categorically rejected Ding Ermiao's proposal, and then took out his belt, headlamp, mountaineering gloves and two walkie-talkies from his suitcase, and said, "I have received climbing training, I am sure, you don't have to worry about it." ”

"But ......"

"Don't be!" Gu Qinglan stuffed an open walkie-talkie into Ding Ermiao's hand and said with a smile: "You guys are just watching from above and keeping in touch at any time." As soon as you hear me cry for help, you pull me up, rest assured, it'll be fine. ”

Li Qingdong straightened his beard and said, "Since Miss Lan has undergone professional training, Uncle Ding should not be reluctant, let her go down and have a look first." This road has not been walked for decades, indicating that the cave below has not been used for many years, and it should not be in great danger. ”

Wu Zhanzhan also nodded on the side in agreement.

"Okay, keep in touch." Ding Ermiao had no choice but to give in.

Gu Qinglan nodded and smiled, fastened the safety rope around her waist very quickly, put on a headlamp, hung the walkie-talkie on her waist, then put on gloves, grabbed the rope, faced the steep wall, and jumped down.

The movements are light and agile, and it is really the demeanor of a climbing veteran.

Ding Ermiao, Wu Zhanzhan, and Li Qingdong all stood on the edge of the cliff together and watched down. Li Qingdong was too old to dare to get too close, standing a little farther away, stretching his neck hard.

After jumping down for twenty meters, Gu Qinglan paused, raised her head, smiled at Ding Ermiao and the others, and made an OK gesture to signal everyone to rest assured.

"Sister Lan, be careful!" Ding Ermiao put one hand to his mouth and shouted down.

Gu Qinglan smiled, took out the walkie-talkie from her waist, and said, "Don't be so loud, there is a walkie-talkie, you talk on it, I can hear it." ”

......Uh, Ding Ermiao's face turned red, put the walkie-talkie in his hand to his mouth, and said, "I haven't used these high-tech things, and I can't think of them for a while, hehe......"

Gu Qinglan under the cliff waved and smiled, still hanging the walkie-talkie on her waist, and continued to jump down.

didn't go far, Gu Qinglan disappeared in the thick clouds, her figure gradually blurred, and finally disappeared.

Ding Ermiao and the others on the cliff looked at the slightly swaying rope, and they all sweated in their hearts.