Chapter 13: The Secret Passage
The old prostitute was the first to go under the tree hole to check, and he told us to wait outside, and then inform us to go down after he saw the situation below.
When the old prostitute went down, Wang Jingang and I also went into the tree hole, but we didn't follow the old prostitute. The inside of the tree hole was not as large as it looked from the outside, except for a space the size of a double bed, with a row of steps leading down to the secret passage below.
When the old prostitute was about to go to the bottom, she suddenly stopped on one of the steps below, and then quickly walked two steps up, and quickly squatted down. At the same time, the light of his flashlight also dimmed, as if consciously shining under his feet.
Wang Jingang and I both saw this scene, but neither of us spoke up to ask. After all, we don't know what's going on below, so none of us dare to shout loudly, and we can only judge what is happening below through the body movements of the old prostitute.
At first, we thought that the old prostitute had seen something dangerous, so she suddenly changed direction and walked back. I thought that he stopped and the flashlight dimmed out for safety reasons, but he only stopped on that step for a few seconds, and then immediately stood up and continued to walk down, and the flashlight began to shine elsewhere.
Seeing that there was nothing unusual about the old prostitute, I was also relieved. But I vaguely noticed that the old prostitute had one more thing in her hand. When he went down, he had a flashlight in his left hand and nothing in his right hand, but now he had something in his right hand, and what was it? The distance is a little far and I can't see clearly.
"What's in his hand?" Wang Jingang said without raising his head.
"I can't see clearly, I should have taken it from the step where he squatted."
After the old prostitute went down into the secret passage, the flashlight below gradually dimmed, and as he walked farther and farther, the bottom became darker and darker.
After more than five minutes, the old prostitute walked back, and as soon as she came up, she said to me, "The previous person should have walked from here, you see this."
I took what the old prostitute handed me, and it was a strip of cloth. If you look closely, you will find that this is a modern industrial fabric, and there is a strong smell of laundry detergent, which looks like it should have been scraped off the trouser leg.
"Did you just find this cloth on the steps?" I asked.
"Yes," the old prostitute nodded.
I asked the old prostitute again, what is the situation?
He said that the secret passage below was very long, and he had walked a long way, at least two or three hundred meters, but he did not see the exit. However, there was air flow in the secret passage, and he felt that those people must have entered the secret passage before, and it was difficult to deduce where the secret passage leads.
I asked everyone to prepare, no matter where the secret passage leads below, since modern industrial cloth has been found underneath, it proves that those people before have gone down.
It seems that this is the same as my previous judgment, senior brother, they must have a map about this place, or relevant information, otherwise it is impossible to find this camphor tree directly. They must have known that there was a secret passage under this camphor tree before they entered the gate.
It's still the old prostitute who walks in front, and we follow behind. As I walked down the steps, I realized that these were not actually steps, but the roots of the camphor tree, and the forty or so steps were made up of roots of different sizes and thicknesses. And the spacing between each step is very irregular, some are more than 20 centimeters high, and some are half a meter high, fortunately this step is not very long, otherwise it is a foot deep and a foot shallow, and it is easy to fall below if you are not careful.
Descending the steps of the tree root leads to the secret passage below. This secret passage is made of stones, with a vault and a paved floor of stones, which looks very much like the corridor in the tomb, but it is by no means a corridor, because the corridor will not be so wide. The passage is wide enough for a truck to drive and three meters high, and it is hard to imagine that if this was a corridor, the tomb would be even more majestic than the imperial tomb of Qin Shi Huang.
As soon as I took two steps in the passage, I was attracted to the marks on the ground in front of me. There are two deep ruts on the ground, which are obvious traces of ancient chariots and horses.
"How can there be ruts here?" The thin monkey looked at the rut and said in amazement.
The appearance of ruts also puzzled me, if I found this kind of rut on the ancient mountain road, I would not be puzzled, after all, it is the place where ancient chariots and horses walked. But this place is different, although this is also a deep mountain old forest, but this secret road is under the camphor tree, when I came down, I roughly calculated, here from the ground above must be seventeen or eighteen meters high, ruts appear here, a little confusing.
We don't know why the ruts are here, but one thing is for sure, the carriage must have walked thousands of times in this secret passage, and the fact that the things on the cart would not have been very light, otherwise the stones on the ground would not have been crushed, and the ruts would not have been so deep.
I wanted to take a closer look at the steps I came down again, but the old woman said that she didn't need to look at it, and when he came down, he had already looked carefully, and there were no other secret passages there, and the ruts led from here to the depths of the secret passages.
I took a quick look, and it was, and the location we came down was a dead end. There is no other passage other than this secret passage.
"Actually, it's a good thing to have ruts, at least we don't have to worry about there will be mechanisms here." Wang Jingang continued: "The role of this secret passage is already clear at a glance, and it should be a simple transportation channel."
"It does look like a transport corridor, but I think it's a little strange here." The thin monkey hesitated for a moment before he continued: "Since this is a transportation passage, why don't you just make a ramp to the ground, why do you have to get it under the tree hole." If you look at these steps, not to mention moving things up and down, it's hard to walk. ”
"My god, what do you want to do with this, as long as there is no organ in the transportation channel, what are you doing so much, you can't fucking carry things for the ancients." The thin monkey who choked on a word of the old prostitute was speechless.
Although the weirdness of what Skinny Monkey said has nothing to do with us now, I listened to his words. I think he's right, this transport corridor seems a bit of a departure from human intelligence. I think the ancients who built this transportation passage must also think of what the thin monkey said, as for why the passage was not repaired directly to the ground, there may be something unknown here.
Everyone has been walking along this secret passage to the depths of darkness, and everyone is guessing what the end of the secret passage will be. In fact, our answer is that it is an ancient tomb. After all, this is underground, and this secret passage looks like a transportation passage when building an ancient tomb.
When I first came down from the tree hole, I really didn't think that this secret passage had anything to do with the ancient tomb, but when I thought that there would be an ancient tomb in front of me, I felt that this secret passage was a transportation channel for building an ancient tomb. People are often like this, when you think of something, you will inexplicably bring the surrounding environment into it.
We walked for more than forty minutes before we saw a very strange red light in the distance. It wasn't until we approached the red light that we realized that everything was not what we had imagined.