Hearing these words, my doubts deepened.

Wu Lin even knows the soil structure underground?

How did he know that we wouldn't encounter stones and roots as we excavated?

Could it be that Wu Lin tried to make a hole in the top of the mountain a long time ago?

I can only think about these questions in my heart, and even if I ask them, Wu Lin will not give me any answers. I always felt like he had been deliberately avoiding me these days because he was afraid that I would ask him these questions.

It was night, the stars and the moon were gone, a thick layer of clouds was shrouded in the night dome, and a heavy rain was about to fall.

But we've seen the weather forecast before, so there should be no rain today.

It is very dangerous to dig a cave on a rainy night, because the heavy rain can easily wash away the soil near the cave, resulting in all the people in the cave being buried alive.

But Wu Lin insisted on acting tonight, he said, there will definitely be no rain tonight, no matter how thick the dark clouds in the sky are and how low the pressure is, it will not rain.

When he said this, Wu Lin was like an extremely experienced prophet, his eyes wandering back and forth between wandering and firm.

This guy is getting more and more abnormal, and I am very worried.

But no matter what, at Wu Lin's insistence, we still took advantage of the night to touch the Lady Mountain, and brought all kinds of tools used to fight the cave to the mountain bag pointed out by Xishui Youlong.

But when he reached the top of the mountain, Wu Lin became a little hesitant again, he asked everyone to wait for a while, what to say, this is not the time to break ground.

He was the one who insisted on acting tonight, and now he was the one who said that the time had not come, I couldn't help it, so I could only ask: "Wu Lin, you seem to know the situation here very well, you must have been here, right?" ”

As a result, Wu Lin gave me an ambiguous answer: "Not necessarily." ”

I immediately frowned, and Liang Zi and Tang Yan were also suspicious.

After a short while, Wu Lin spoke again: "I don't know how to explain it to you, in short, you just listen to my arrangement." ”

Liang Zi and Sister Ma didn't care, but Tang Yan didn't seem to trust Wu Lin so much, but he probably saw that no one else spoke, so he also chose to be silent.

We arrived at the top of the mountain at about ten o'clock and waited for two hours, until twelve o'clock in the morning, when Wu Lin beckoned everyone to break ground.

The most strange thing is that when he was the first to walk near the mountain rock with the Luoyang shovel, a lightning bolt suddenly exploded in the gloomy night sky, and we first saw the light current channeling, and then we heard a sharp sound from behind the clouds into the mortal world.

Click-

The lightning struck obliquely on the highest peak of Madame Mountain, and Wu Lin immediately stopped, turned around and looked at the peak that had been struck by lightning, his face was extremely solemn.

But in addition to being dignified, there is also a trace of happiness and firmness.

It's hard for you to see the expressions that a living person should have on Wu Lin's face on weekdays, not to mention that so many expressions appear at the same time.

I followed Wu Lin's gaze and finally fixed my gaze on the mountain top in the distance.

Before I came, I checked some historical materials, which said that there was a bell tower on the peak of Lady Mountain, and the bell rang every night, and the aftersound could be repeated for more than ten miles, until the late sixties and early seventies, when the bell tower that had stood for hundreds of years was destroyed in that mighty movement.

And the place where the lightning fell at this moment should be the place where the bell tower once stood.

But I can't tell what kind of connection there is between this lightning bolt and the old bell tower, or if there is no connection between the two at all, and it is a pure coincidence that the lightning can fall there.

At this time, Wu Lin waved quickly to everyone: "Do it!" ”

As soon as the words fell, he waved the Luoyang shovel and flew the first handful of soil next to the rocks.

Next, everyone joined in, Wu Lin and I were responsible for digging holes, Liang Zi and Tang Yan were responsible for transporting the soil that was taken out, and Sister Ma helped us control the wind.

The clouds in the sky were getting thicker and thicker, and I could feel the moisture gradually gathering overhead, as if they were about to reach the top of the mountain.

A rainstorm is about to come out, but it refuses to come to the world anyway.

Wu Lin and I used the fastest speed to dig a robbery hole with a vertical depth of seven and a half meters and an extension distance of about ten meters, and the entrance of the hole was relatively narrow, and only one person could be allowed to drill at a time.

In order to speed up, the two of us took turns digging and taking turns to rest, I first tried my best to dig for a while, and I felt that the efficiency began to decrease, so I changed Wu Lin to go in, and when my physical strength recovered, I took over Wu Lin, and so on.

When the vertical depth of the cave reached seven and a half meters, the face of the bronze bell had already appeared in front of me.

This clock is very old, due to the acidic soil of this generation, resulting in serious rust and rot of the clock face, it can be seen that a large section of text was originally engraved on the clock face, but because the patina is too thick, it is impossible to distinguish the content of the handwriting.

Originally, I was going to just smash the clock face so that I could see what was pressing under the bell.

But as soon as I had this idea, Wu Lin and I shared our vision.

I can see the forest outside the cave through his eyes, and he can see the clock face clearly through my ghost eyes.

I asked Wu Lin in my heart: "Just break the clock face, right?" ”

Wu Lin immediately objected: "If we break this bell, we won't be able to find the entrance, bypass the bell and continue to dig down, it is estimated that it should be almost there." ”

"Where are you going?"

"Where we're going."

After saying that, Wu Lin quickly disconnected the connection.

I reminisced about the tone of his voice when he spoke just now, and I vaguely felt that when he spoke, there seemed to be a little uncertainty.

It seems that Wu Lin only roughly guessed what was buried under the big bell, but he was not particularly sure whether his guess was right or wrong.

Since he said that he wanted to bypass the big bell, I could only recruit and dig this section of the thief hole wide first, until the Luoyang shovel could be erected so that it could make a hole vertically downward, and then I started digging a channel that extended vertically downward next to the big bell.

The hole was so deep that it was impossible for the diggers to carry the earth back and forth, so after the tunnel had reached two meters, I came in with a large canvas bag with a steel cable attached to the corner of the bag.

Each time, I stuffed the dirt into the bag, and then someone outside dragged the steel cable to pull the bag full of dirt out.

When I pushed the passage vertically to a depth of about two meters, I shoveled down again, but I felt that as soon as the shovel head touched the ground, the soil under my feet began to loosen in a large area.

It's not good, it's going to collapse!

My heart tightened, and I quickly spread my elbows and knees and pressed hard against the wall of the cave that stretched vertically downward.

Thanks to my quick reaction, as soon as I was sturdy, I heard a "bang" sound, and the soil under my feet collapsed to the bottom, and even the canvas bag on the ground sank down with it.

Beneath me was a bottomless pit less than a meter wide, but bottomless, where the earth and canvas bags had fallen for some distance before disappearing without a trace, and I could only see a quiet darkness.

It was like a pool of black water that would never stir up waves, silently swallowing up the broken earth and the half-filled canvas bag.

I tried to pull up the steel cable next to me, and the canvas bag trapped under the wire cable was indeed gone, and what I picked up was only a half-truncated lock, which was very flat and smooth like a mirror.

"What's going on over there?" Wu Lin's voice came to his mind.

I didn't bother to answer, just looked at the bottomless pit beneath my feet, and the strange broken section of the steel cable.

Wu Lin was silent for a moment before he said to me: "If you dig a robbery hole horizontally, you should be able to find a tomb road, and you have to find a way to fill this hole under your feet. ”

"Give me another canvas bag and a tightrope."

I answered briefly, and then I propped my feet on the cave wall, swinging the Luoyang shovel with both hands, and dug a passage across the cave wall.

Wu Lin soon sent the canvas bag and steel cable in, I used the steel cable to wrap into an octagonal net, and then buried all the eight corners of the net into the vertical hole wall, in order to make a support, and then spread the canvas bag on the support net, and finally spread the newly dug soil layer by layer on the title structure, and compacted and reinforced layer by layer, to ensure that when they came down, the newly pressed soil layer would not be trampled.

While I was reinforcing the soil layer, Wu Lin had already dug the hole that extended horizontally for nearly a meter and a half, and because he pushed all the broken soil directly to my side, I also ate a lot of dirt and was splashed with wet soil.

After filling the soil layer, I wanted to complain to Wu Lin, but I heard a message from Wu Lin: "It's dug through, you go in first, I'll go outside to deal with the broken soil, and by the way, make a cover for the robbery hole." ”

He turned around and drilled outside, and I looked at his back and suddenly remembered something.

After digging for so long, we really didn't encounter anything like gravel or tree roots in the process of breaking the ground, which is obviously not normal.

It's as if the mountain was built up artificially with soil, rather than formed naturally.

When Wu Lin walked away, I leaned into the horizontally extended robbery hole, crawled less than two meters, and then drilled into a tomb road with no end in sight.

The burial path is indeed man-made, because the shape of the vault of the tunnel is so regular that it cannot be formed naturally, but there is not half a brick slab to be found in the tunnel, and as far as the eye can see, except for the endless darkness is the soil.

Due to the lack of circulation in this place, the ghost eye was once again useless, but in my right eye, I could faintly see the occasional light purple light flashing in the darkness.

The light felt very hazy, and sometimes I felt like I did see them, but other times, I thought they were hallucinations.

I turned on the flashlight and lit up on both sides of the tunnel, only to find that the tunnel was actually only seven or eight meters long, and beyond the tunnel, it was surrounded by pure darkness.

The flashlight beam does not disappear naturally from near and far, but a bright white pillar of light can be seen one moment, and the next moment, the path of light is suddenly cut.

(End of chapter)