Chapter 12: Lost Again

"Let's go back the way we came, and let's go back to the place where we rested before!" Sun Ruhai ordered.

When everyone heard Sun Ruhai shouting, they no longer hesitated to leave.

Li Weimin originally wanted to put the corpse snake parasite on the ground into a bottle as a specimen, but Wu Ze stopped him, who knows if it will use the smell to attract other members of the same kind to come to take revenge?

Wu Ze has heard a lot of about some underground creatures taking advantage of the smell of corpses of the same kind to form a group to take revenge, and in this dark and mysterious underground, he can't take this risk.

Hearing Wu Ze say this, Li Weimin stopped and hurriedly chased after everyone who was walking away.

This time when they returned the same way, everyone walked cautiously, and at the same time increased their speed, Sun Ruhai asked people to look behind from time to time, worried about when a corpse would suddenly emerge from behind again.

Fortunately, after walking a long distance, no corpse snakes were found, let alone corpses, so everyone was relieved.

It's just that while walking, Wu Ze found that something was wrong, and soon everyone began to be dumbfounded again, everyone originally returned the same way according to the passage, but found that everyone was not walking the same road as before.

Are you lost again? This underground space is so weird that it's easy to get confused, because in the dark, everything looks the same.

The original gray corridor, at this time the wall has become a rock wall, and there are quaint patterns carved on it, which looks like the ancients, but I don't know what those patterns mean.

Further on, there is a dark tunnel, a smooth and clean road, and occasionally there will be the Devil Division truck that I have seen before, but they are all rusty, the tires are shriveled and about to fall apart, some of the cars are covered with tattered tarpaulins, and when I tear it open, the carriage is empty.

Going back the way you came?

Think about the corpse snake just now, what if there is a group of corpses? That's no joke, and more importantly, no one can be sure if they can go back the way they came.

Obviously, at this time, everyone can no longer turn back, so they can only go down, and can only hope to find a way out.

Now that everyone has discovered the secret of this underground, many people originally came in with the intention of making a fortune, but now they are only thinking about how to survive and get out.

From the beginning of entering the cave to the present, after repeated fears and fright, everyone is really hungry and tired, not only physically, but also mentally unbearable, this place is much more difficult and dangerous than ordinary ancient tomb exploration.

Click, click, echoing everyone's footsteps all the way.

However, this dark and straight tunnel seems to have no end.

Just when Wu Ze was hesitating whether to let Sun Ruhai ask everyone to stop and rest, everyone's vision opened up again, and it was a huge underground space.

The people who finally walked out of the tunnel no longer had the physical strength to take even one step forward, and they sat down on the ground one after another, took out the ready-made high-energy food from their respective packages, and devoured it, no longer thinking of eating hot food.

Wu Ze was a little lucky, but fortunately, this time he didn't know for what purpose, Sun Ruhai asked everyone to prepare double food supplies, if they couldn't get out of this underground for a while, at least everyone wouldn't be hungry.

However, this underground is cold and dark, and it may not be easy to survive for a long time.

……

A bonfire was lit.

Everyone's luck was good, and not far from the stone gate, a pile of wood covered with oilcloth unbelievably appeared, and there were many old construction trucks of devils on the other side.

Thinking about the crackling of the fire, Wu Ze, who had eaten something indiscriminately and replenished his physical strength, relaxed a little and observed the surroundings.

As the crackling sound of burning wood sounded, the entire underground space lit up and everyone discovered something more.

In addition to the neatly stacked giant trees around, the old construction vehicles were also placed very neatly, and Wu Ze wondered if these cars could be driven if he could get gasoline or diesel.

Looking further on, there are still many prefabricated parts on the ground that have been processed, as well as scaffolding, partition boards and other materials, but many of them are now highly rotten.

This seems to be the Devil's Division, and in a material storage center underground, a lot of steel bars and bags of high-grade cement are hoarded here.

Due to the passage of time, the cement has condensed into a hard cement ball, and the steel bars are also rusty.

Judging from the storage of these materials, there should be some major projects to be carried out underground, and now Wu Ze is becoming more and more confused, the Devil's Southern Army was already very difficult at the end of the Anti-Japanese War, and its strength and national strength were not as good as before, so why did the devil spend such a huge amount of resources in this underground cave?

Was it an order from the headquarters of the Devil's Legion, or was it the act of a certain division alone? I really don't know!

Wu Ze looked at the outdoor sports watch, if calculated according to the time outside, it was already late at night at this time.

Piles of bonfires, to the people who have been terrified since entering the underground, brought warmth to the body and mind, Sun Ruhai arranged several people to take turns to watch the night, everyone can no longer take care of much, get into the sleeping bag by the bonfire, and fall asleep.

Wu Ze also wanted to sleep upside down, but was helplessly pulled by the historical expert Li Weimin, saying that he wanted to accompany him around to see if there could be any new discoveries, Wu Ze looked unhappy, but when he saw Li Weimin's pleading eyes, he was embarrassed to refuse.

What's more, he remembered what Li Weimin said to him when he first went down to the cave, what did he mean by saying that there were strange things underground.

And this Li Weimin, who is an old acquaintance with his grandfather Wu Huaiyuan? Can you get some news out of his mouth?

When Wu Ze began to ask, Li Weimin, the old boy, talked about him left and right, and just kept moving forward.

Since people refused to talk about it, Wu Ze had no choice, and he was afraid that something would happen to this old man alone, so he had to follow behind him.

I don't know if Li Weimin is lucky, or Wu Ze's luck, he didn't take two steps towards the wooden pile on the left, and they actually found an inscription, this stele didn't want to be brought from the outside, because the inside of the stele is deep into geography.

If you look closely, this stele is full of words, which are some ancient seals.

Li Weimin became a little excited, looked at the small stone tablet in front of him, and read it quietly.

The time recorded in the inscription is about the Han Dynasty, but at that time, this area of southern Xinjiang did not belong to the direct rule of the imperial court, and I don't know why this inscription was written with ancient seals.