Chapter 938: Underground Tracking
After passing through several stone houses in succession, we found a third note in a patch of grass and wood ash, which read: "There is a master, retreat quickly." ”
Judging by the last two notes Balth left behind, it seems that he was in a hurry to get us out of here.
"Master ......" Lao Zuo held the note, and muttered quietly while shining a flashlight on the note.
I said, "It seems that Buzhou Shan attaches great importance to this place, and it is possible to send the most powerful masters in the sect in." ”
Lao Zuo shook his head: "The masters in our industry, hidden and not hidden, I have basically seen them, I am thinking, who will be the master mentioned above." ”
"If you don't get it right, it's the ancestral witch of Buzhou Mountain."
"Maybe."
Lao Zuo picked the corner of his mouth and threw the note aside.
Don't look at this guy who always looks humble and peaceful on weekdays, in fact, he still has a little arrogance in his bones, although Lao Zuo is never arrogant, but sometimes, such arrogance will still be revealed inadvertently.
The way he looks now, he obviously doesn't take the word "master" on the note in his eyes, this is not a light enemy, just a simple attack of arrogance.
He is a little arrogant, but he never underestimates the enemy, he is a little high-minded, but he never overrides others, this kind of person is actually very rare.
I was reminded of the words that the practical had repeated in my ear; "People, you must think that you are smart, this is self-confidence, but you can't think that you are smarter than others, this is stupid."
Although I often use this sentence to spur myself, I can't guarantee that I can achieve the unity of knowledge and action, Zuo Youdao may not have heard this sentence, but he can be confident and not conceited.
To be honest, sometimes I really admire him.
Then we continued to move in the direction of the appearance of stone houses, often shuttling through honeycomb holes, and after a long time, there would be a very strange feeling.
I just feel like I've become an ant shuttling through the ground, and this intricate ant nest was built for me by someone else.
It's like in a potion-smelling lab where scientists create an artificial ant nest in a glass box and then put us little ants in it.
It was as if several pairs of huge eyes, clinging to the darkness of the foreign aid, staring straight at us, just as scientists quietly watched the ants in a glass box.
As this feeling became more intense, I finally understood what Balth meant by "we are in the urn."
Lao Zuo at the back of the team suddenly shouted: "Stop first." ”
I immediately stopped and turned to look at him, who didn't look at me, but looked up with a focused expression on his face.
At this time, we had just drilled out of the hole, in a very large underground canyon, thirty meters above our heads was the top of the rock with the stalactites inverted, but Lao Zuo did not turn the flashlight upwards, and what he saw when he looked up now was only a darkness that could not be seen by his fingers.
After a long time, Lao Zuo spoke: "We seem to be caged by something." ”
I said, "It's really caged, and there's a big rock top above your head." ”
As he spoke, Liu Shangang picked up a flashlight and illuminated a rock top and a large cluster of upside-down stone stalactites.
Lao Zuo shook his head: "I know that the top of my head is the top of the rock, but I'm not talking about this, I mean, there is an unknown Qi field that cages us, and that Qi is neither good nor evil, it is very faint, and it is almost difficult to feel." It was said that such a faint Qi field should easily dissipate, but I condensed my mental power just now, and I couldn't blow it away. It has been hanging like a cage over our heads, and wherever we go, it follows. ”
Not to mention, as early as half an hour ago, Lao Zuo did condense his telekinesis once, at that time I thought that something was wrong, and there was an immediate meal under my feet, but Lao Zuo quickly dispersed his telekinesis, and he didn't give any warning signs, so I didn't think much about it.
It may be that the Qi field in Lao Zuo's mouth is indeed ridiculously faint, and I didn't notice its presence at all.
Sometimes I think that maybe in the fourfold space, there are also some Qi fields that are neither yin nor yang, neither righteous nor evil, but they are so thin that I can't sense them at all, if Lao Zuo can follow me into the fourfold space, with his ability to sense the Qi field, maybe he can find some mysteries that Wu Lin and I can't discover.
I asked Lao Zuo: "Is that Qi field still there?" ”
"All the time."
"Lao Zuo, do you have a feeling of being spied on."
"Yes, two hours ago."
When he said this, the people around him nodded their heads in agreement, and it seemed that everyone felt the same way.
Perhaps, the reason why we feel this way is because we are enveloped by that Qi field.
Lao Zuo asked me, "How far have we come?" ”
I said, "It's only thirteen kilometers further on, why do you suddenly ask this?" ”
Lao Zuo pondered for a moment, but after all, he didn't say anything, just raised his hand and signaled to move on.
When I first started talking about my story, I said that I would tell the book, and Lao Zuo would organize it into a text and carry out what he called artistic processing. It just so happened that I was talking about this, and he was writing about it, so I couldn't help but ask why he asked such a question at the time.
Lao Zuo said that because at that time he had a feeling that he had been spinning in place, and this feeling was very real, as if he had been circling around a tree.
And the reason why he chose not to say it was because he didn't want to add psychological pressure to the people present.
Except for Lao Zuo, others really don't have similar feelings, which may have something to do with his strong Qi field sensing ability.
After passing through a few more honeycomb holes, we finally left the labyrinthine cave area and came to the riverbed of an underground dark river, where there was no trace of any man-made structure, and Li Huaishan could only identify the direction, but could not tell me which direction to take.
Lao Zuo tried the river water and said that the water quality was very clear and should be drinkable. Li Huaishan and Liang Houzai immediately took out the kettle to fill it with water, while Huang Yuzhong and Liu Shangang turned on their flashlights and searched carefully along the river.
I don't know what they're looking for.
As soon as Li Huaishan filled the second kettle, Huang Yuzhong hurried up to me and said that he had found a clue on a stone stalactite along the river.
At the top of the stalactite hung a small piece of cloth, dark in color, close to black, with torn threads around it, which looked like they had just been torn from their clothes.
In addition, there was a trace of blood on the root of the stone stalactite, because the moisture beside the river was too heavy, the blood stain was almost completely melted, and Huang Yuzhong also spent a lot of effort to find it.
That is, Huang Yuzhong specially pointed it out to me, so that I could see the blood stains and cloth pieces on the stone stalactites, which were too small and too faint to be noticed.
It seems that there had been a rather tragic battle here before we arrived, but it is not clear for the time being whether it was the Balth men who were fighting among themselves, or whether they were in some other danger.
Not long after, Liu Shangang also found something near the river.
There he found a distorted copper coin, the face of which seemed to have been chiseled by an iron cone, and the whole thing was bent into an "L" shape, and there were faint scorch marks on the edge of the coin, as if it had been burned by flames.
Huang Yuzhong sniffed the copper coin and said to me, "There is a smell of cow dung." ”
A few years ago, I lived in the old village for a while, and I knew that the place where Yoda lived was very close to the cowshed, and at that time there were no more cattle in the cowshed because of the colorful tigers, but the last time I returned to the village, I found that there were three or four new cattle in the village.
This copper coin should have been dropped here by Yoda.
After a moment of contemplation, I raised my chin at Huang Yuzhong, "Let's see if there are any other clues." ”
Huang Yuzhong didn't say a word, immediately lit the flashlight, and walked upstream along the river, and Liu Shangang also followed.
When they first came to the river, the two of them still walked downstream, and then probably because there was nothing downstream, they searched all the way upstream.
It didn't take long for the two of them to find a cloth buckle that had fallen to the ground.
Buttons made of wood and cloth like this are extremely rare in modern clothing, but they can occasionally be seen on the traditional costumes of the villagers.
Huang Yuzhong said that it was a spare button, and the buckle hole had not yet shown signs of wear by the thread.
After that, we found a number of scattered objects, most of which could be assumed to have fallen from Yoda, and some of which were of unknown origin.
However, it has been determined that Balth and his party have been walking upstream along this river.
Finally found the whereabouts of this group, of course, we did not dare to slack off, and immediately accelerated the speed of the march.
The length of the river was completely beyond our imagination, and after seven or eight hours of continuous walking, we finally saw the source of the river, a water hole of considerable volume, and next to the water hole, there was a very irregular opening, and a large amount of rubble was scattered around the hole.
Liu Shangang approached the breach, shrugged his nose, and whispered, "It was blown up with gunpowder." ”
After saying that, he looked into the cave again, and then said, "It is made of steel chisel, and this is a robbery hole in the rock wall." ”
Lao Zuo asked him: "When was this hole dug?" ”
Liu Shangang responded: "No more than a day." ”
Lao Zuo and I glanced at each other, Lao Zuo pointed to the back and motioned for me to go to the back of the team hall, and then he quickly shrank back and got into the hole.
The hole is not deep, and it took a few minutes to climb the whole process, and before leaving the hole, Lao Zuo specially reminded everyone to turn off the flashlight.
Outside the cave is a large naturally formed karst cave, most of the area is pitch black, but in the far ahead, you can vaguely see the fire beating, as if someone has lit a bonfire, and there seem to be human figures flickering around the firelight.
It's too far away for the ghost eye to see that far, and although the naked eye can see the light and shadow flickering, it can't really see it.
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