Li Huaishan looked down at the hole under his feet, and his throat kept swallowing.

I set him aside and grabbed a flashlight and shot it into the hole.

Directly below the opening, there is darkness that the flashlight can't penetrate at all, but if you deflect the direct angle of the light, you can see a large cluster of greasy reflections.

"Ergou, go, bring the rope from the car." I put away the flashlight and said to Li Huaishan.

Li Huaishan's eyes widened and asked me, "You want to go down?" ”

I nodded: "Go down and see the situation, I suspect that the matter of the Pansha Formation is not as simple as Bao Useful said." ”

Li Huaishan obviously didn't agree with my temporary idea, he hesitated for a moment, and then said to me: "Otherwise, you should discuss it with Sha Wenxiao." ”

"Don't discuss with her, you go get the rope quickly."

With that, I stopped leaving him, raised my pickaxe, and smashed it into another slightly loose stone at the base of the dam.

Li Huaishan probably felt that he couldn't persuade me, so he didn't talk nonsense, and went to the van stupidly.

It is also a stroke of luck that the workers who built the fish pond almost dug up the remains of the old dam, but did not do much to the dam roots, and if they did not bury the dam roots at that time, but continued to hammer them down with pickaxes, they would have found a deep hole in the ground.

However, another possibility cannot be ruled out, that is, the reason why the workers did not continue digging was because they were obstructed by the two mercenaries.

I threw off my arms and smashed down with a few pickaxes, finally knocking the second stone off, and the hole in the ground was doubled wide enough for a man to walk through.

It didn't take long for Li Huaishan to return, and he brought the longest steel cable, as well as three long steel nails and a hammer.

We first nailed three steel nails to the ground, and then wrapped the steel rope around the nail head of each nail until we were sure that the steel cable was strong enough before we decided to go down the hole.

Before going down the cave, I lit a cigarette and threw it into the hole.

The wind in the cave was strong, and the cigarette butt fell less than half a meter before it was swept away.

Originally, I was going to follow the spark on the cigarette butt to see how deep the hole was, but this time I was completely blind.

It was also because I was too inexperienced at that time that I thought of the bad idea of using cigarette butts to measure the depth of the hole, you must know that the light of the fire on the cigarette butt is almost invisible when it is 20 meters away, and to measure the depth of the hole, you still have to rely on signal flares.

Li Huaishan looked at the dark entrance of the cave and smacked his tongue one by one: "It feels so deep, let's not go down and not be able to come up in the future." ”

I didn't answer, I just asked him, "Is the flashlight ready?" ”

He directly handed me three flashlights: "Don't have two on your waist, hold one in your hand, if the three flashlights are almost out of power, we have to hurry up and come back." ”

I lifted my jacket, pinned the two flashlights to my waist, and then grabbed the wire rope with one hand and went down the hole.

I can hang my body firmly on the steel cable with one hand, loosen the force on my hand from time to time, let my body slide down about a meter, and then hold the steel cable tightly to zero my descent speed.

But for Li Huaishan, such an action is almost impossible to complete, not to mention that he can't contain his weight with the strength of one hand at all, that is, the skin on his hand can be rubbed twice on the steel cable.

So soon, Li Huaishan and I distanced myself, and while I slid down meter by meter, I shook my flashlight to illuminate the scene around me, and Li Huaishan moved on it.

The wind in the cave was almost vertically upward, hanging from the steel cables, and the whole jacket was blown up by the wind, and at this time there was a bottomless darkness under my feet, and five meters away from me, there was a circle of stone walls that reflected a greasy sheen.

I am at a depth of about ten meters underground, and I have seen some words describing stone stalactites in the feng shui books of the family, which says that it is almost impossible to have a large area of stalactites in such a shallow place, or even a large area of rock formation.

But the stone walls, which reflect a greasy sheen under the flashlight, look like carbonate rocks that have been corrupted by moisture for a long time.

After descending nearly twenty meters, and the darkness under my feet was still impenetrable by the beam, I shook my flashlight and looked around, and found that there was a large area on the left hand side that was also bottomless darkness.

There should be a very deep hole in the stone wall.

"Ergou, where are you?"

I first raised my head and shouted, and then I raised my flashlight to shoot directly above.

Li Huaishan is now nearly ten meters away from me, he is struggling to climb down, and when the light shines on, he deliberately changes his posture and blocks his eyes with his elbows.

It wasn't until I re-struck the flashlight at the hole in the stone wall on the left that he answered, "I'm above you." ”

Nonsense, you think I won't know if you don't say this kind of thing?

We can't continue to descend for no other reason, except that the length of the steel cable is only forty meters, and no matter how we descend, we will not be able to reach the bottom of the cave.

Now my only option is to swing into the hole on my left.

It didn't take long for Li Huaishan to descend on top of my head.

I craned my neck and said to him, "Jump on me? ”

Li Huaishan's extremely shocked voice immediately came from his head: "What did you say? Don't make a fuss, big brother, I'll fall to my death if I don't jump. ”

I suddenly became a little impatient: "I'm right below you, how can you not be able to jump?" Sharp! ”

With that, I put the flashlight in my mouth.

Li Huaishan didn't move or speak for a long time, but just when I was thinking about whether to urge him again, the steel rope suddenly shook violently - Li Huaishan came down.

This guy is probably too nervous, and when he falls, he has a lot of movement, either his elbow hits the tightrope, or his leg kicks on the tightrope.

Now we're thirty meters underground, a place where the steel cables will shake whenever they are hit.

At that time, the steel cable was about a meter or so swinging back and forth, and when Li Huaishan fell, I happened to be shaken off with the steel cable, and he almost rubbed my shoulder and fell.

Because there is light on my side, Li Huaishan knew very well that he and I had passed by, and immediately screamed at the top of his voice.

But before the scream could be fully completed, I reached out and grabbed his arm.

Li Huaishan raised his head and stared at me, shouting: "Don't let go, don't let go!" ”

I gave him a blank look, and said in my heart that you are nervous, can I still let you slide down with your weight of a hundred pounds?

Because of the flashlight in his mouth, these words can only go through the motions in his head, and it is impossible to say them.

Before Li Huaishan could recover from the shock, my back had already begun to exert force, making the entire steel cable swing up with a greater amplitude.

Li Huaishan's shouting became even more piercing: "If not, what are you going to do!" ”

I ignored him and went on.

As the cable swayed more and more, when the cable swayed to the pole on the left, I was able to see the situation in the hole by the light.

The cave is relatively wide, the entrance is about three meters in diameter, and there is a tunnel connected to the hole, and the floor in the tunnel is relatively flat, probably paved with stone bricks.

When the steel cable shook towards the left pole again, I saw the opportunity and shouted at Li Huaishan: "Protect your head!" ”

At the moment when the words fell, I quickly threw Li Huaishan into the hole.

Although Li Huaishan was frightened, he still hugged his head in mid-air, and then I heard a muffled sound of "bang" from the entrance of the cave, obviously Li Huaishan landed.

Next, I shook the cable again, and when the cable approached the left pole for the last time, I let go of my hand and flew into the hole by inertia.

The moisture in the cave was heavier than outside, and the tunnel floor was also very slippery, and when I landed, I didn't step on my foot steadily, and it was a king who fell on the spot, and even the flashlight in my mouth fell far away.

Li Huaishan rubbed his arm and walked up to me, and said complainingly: "Can you say it in advance next time you do this kind of thing?" I thought I was going to hang up. ”

As he spoke, he reached out again and pulled me up from the ground.

I took two steps back, picked up the flashlight on the ground, and shot the light out of the hole, the wire cable not far away was still blocking the way, and I estimated the distance between us and the wire, and if we didn't move, we should still be able to get out of this place with it.

Seeing that I didn't respond to him, Li Huaishan made a noise behind me again: "If not, I'll talk to you." ”

I turned and looked deeper into the tunnel: "Do you feel that there is an uncomfortable aura everywhere in this crypt?" ”

Li Huaishan: "Don't change the topic......"

I interrupted him halfway: "It's better not to talk in such a place, and beware of evil spirits entering your body." ”

Li Huaishan opened his mouth again, but after a while, he closed his mouth very unhappily.

I had told him a long time ago that his cultivation was too low, and he didn't have a bad qi to protect his body, so it was best not to talk when he arrived in this kind of environment where the Qi field was silted, but why didn't he have a long memory.

After that, I walked towards the depths of the tunnel with my flashlight, and Li Huaishan also took out the flashlight, and while following me, he shook the flashlight and lit it around.

In addition to the flat ground, the shape of the tunnel is very close to a regular circle, which at first glance looks like it was artificially built, but on the curved walls, there are many stone nodules that resemble round stalactites, which look like they are naturally formed.

Even this flat ground is not paved with stone bricks, but is formed in one piece, let alone in ancient times, even with modern technology, it seems that it is difficult to build such a large flat stone brick that can go straight to the bottom of the tunnel.

After about two minutes of walking, a three-meter-high stone temple appeared in front of us.

Through the miserable white flashlight, it is clear that it is a building similar to the Land Temple, but the walls and roof of this temple are covered with a large number of natural stone tumors, making it impossible to distinguish whether it is from a human arm or a miracle born from nature.

(End of chapter)