The next day we woke up, had breakfast, and started preparing for the cave. We had limited power from the flashlights we carried, and we didn't know how long we would have to go to the cave, so in order to prevent the lack of electricity from affecting the lighting, the monkeys and I went to make our own torches.

We cut some withered sticks with nodules, and then we got some pine grease from the pine trees, first pierced some dense holes in the nodules with daggers, and then put the sticks with the nodules into the pine grease and soaked them, so that the nodules were full of pine oil, and the nodules full of pine grease ignited as soon as they caught fire, so that the torch was made.

We made dozens of these torches one after another in case we needed them. In order to prevent getting lost when there is a fork in the cave, Lao Zhao used a dagger to cut some tree vines, and then connected these tree vines to form a rope that is two or three hundred meters long, so that before we go down to the cave, we first tie one end of the tree vine to the big stone outside the cave, and then lead the other end of the tree vine into the cave, so that even if there is a fork in the road, we will not get lost as long as we return along the original road of the tree vine.

It took us nearly two hours to prepare the torches and rope, and to check the food and water, enough for a week. As soon as we were ready, we were ready to enter the cave.

We brought all the equipment and tied one end of the vine to the big stone outside the cave, Lao Zhao walked in front with a torch in one hand and the other end of the vine in the other, I followed closely behind Lao Zhao, and the monkey walked in the rear, also holding a torch in his hand, in order to save the consumption of torches, so we only lit two torches at a time, and I walked between Lao Zhao and the monkey, so there was no need for torches.

The three of us followed the steps on the side of the cave and began to walk deeper into the cave. It is a passage about a meter wide made of stone with diagonal downward steps, the passage is flanked by smooth stone walls, and we walked down for a while, the passage was straight all the time, and there was no turn.

Every seventeen diagonal steps down is a platform one meter wide and two meters long. We have been walking down for more than ten minutes, the passage is still diagonally downward, as if it has been going to the center of the earth, we walked for a while, suddenly, the passage is no longer diagonally downward, but a sudden ninety degree left turn, flat through, we continue to walk along the channel, not long, the passage is a 120-degree right turn, and not long, and not long, another 90-degree left turn, one after another, the passage turns left and right for a while, turning so that we are all dizzy, At first, I was still remembering the direction we were turning, but now I was turning left and right, and my mind was so confused that I couldn't remember where we were in relation to the cave exit.

Then the monkey scolded behind me, "Damn, where the fuck is this going, turn left and right, I'm about to fucking throw up!" When I heard this, I smiled and said to the monkey: "Damn, this is not a fucking car, and you will get dizzy when you walk?" "When the monkey saw me making fun of his motion sickness again, he inevitably scolded me again.

Just as I was scolding the monkey, Lao Zhao suddenly stopped and motioned for us not to make a sound, and the monkey and I saw that Lao Zhao suddenly stopped, so we both stopped scolding. Suddenly, the passage was extremely quiet, except for the sound of torches burning.

At this time, Lao Zhao said softly: "Listen! Seeing that Lao Zhao looked stern, it didn't seem like he was joking, so we both calmed down and listened carefully, through the coaxing sound of the torch burning, I vaguely heard a strange sound, only to hear a "whew" that seemed to come from the depths of the passage...... The sound of "...... is like the sound of a person who is choked by the neck and cannot breathe, this sound makes me feel creepy, and the cold hair stands on end, how can there be such a sound here!

At this time, the monkey immediately leaned over and almost stuck to my back, and the monkey stammered, "Old ...... Lao Yang, let's ...... Get closer, if you go out in front...... What's going on...... Monsters, too, have a ...... with each other Have a photo...... Reference! The monkey trembled for a long time before he finished his sentence, and I saw that the monkey was frightened like this, and if I had usually started to make fun of him again, but now I could not laugh, and I myself was frightened by the eerie voice.

Lao Zhao was unusually calm, only to see him holding a torch in one hand and holding the navigation tree vine in the other, and actually began to continue walking, I was surprised to see the monkey, I immediately whispered to Lao Zhao: "Lao Zhao! You don't want to die! Maybe there is some monster ahead, and you dare to move forward? Lao Zhao turned around and said calmly: "It's okay, just follow me!" Saying that, Lao Zhao continued to walk forward, the eerie voice was still coming, I and the monkey were already so frightened that our legs were only trembling, who knew that Lao Zhao would continue to walk forward, and the monkey and I didn't have the courage to turn around and go back, so we could only follow Lao Zhao slowly.

We continued to walk forward, the sound seemed to be getting closer and closer to us, we continued to walk for about five minutes, I felt that the ghostly sound source was less than three meters away from us, then Lao Zhao leaned the torch forward, the passage in front of it was suddenly illuminated clearly, only to see that the passage was more than two meters away from us and a ninety degree left turn, and the wall at the turn of the passage seemed to have a round hole the size of a palm, and the eerie sound seemed to come out of this hole.

We took a closer look, and sure enough, it was a palm-sized hole, and the hole was sealed with a piece of cloth, and there was a small hole in the center of the cloth, and the ghostly sound came from this small hole, and now we were so close to the source of the sound, "Whew...... Whew" made me feel a chill down my spine.

I raised my hand to the entrance of the cave and shook it, I felt that there was a suction force at the entrance of the cave, and I only felt the air around my fingers being sucked in, and I suddenly realized: "Is this a vent?" Lao Zhao also raised his hand to the entrance of the cave and felt it: "Brother Yang is right, this is indeed a vent, and this ghostly sound should be the sound of the air flow rubbing against this cloth-like thing when it passes through the opening on it." ”

Lao Zhao said and ripped off the piece of thing at the entrance of the cave, and suddenly, the eerie "whirring" sound disappeared, and the passage was quiet all of a sudden, and then I and the monkey calmed down, but I didn't expect that it was this rag that scared the two of us so much that our legs trembled.

I took the cloth from Lao Zhao's hand and looked at it, and felt that it was an ordinary cloth, so I asked Lao Zhao: "I said Lao Zhao, since this hole is a vent, why do you use a piece of cloth to seal it?" Lao Zhao was silent for a while and said: "This is not an ordinary cloth, it must be useful to put it here, since it is sealed on the vent, it may be used to filter the air!" ”

When the monkey heard this, he immediately exclaimed, "Filter? Is it poisonous in the air? I was shocked when I heard it, and Lao Zhao scolded: "Fart, don't fucking shout, if the air is poisonous, we would have been poisoned to death." "As soon as I heard it, I thought that since we were all fine, there should be no poison in the air, so what is this thing used to filter or something? Where is the other end of the vent?

Lao Zhao continued: "Since there is a special vent here, it is very likely that the other end of the vent is where we will end up. Saying that, Lao Zhao pinched the cloth in his hand and touched it, suddenly, as if he had found something, he handed me the torch in his hand, and asked me to shine it on him with the torch, only to see Lao Zhao rub the cloth twice with his hand, and then a cloud of white dust escaped from the cloth, and then Lao Zhao said: "If I guess correctly, this piece of cloth should be full of soda lime!" ”

As soon as I heard Lao Zhao say that the cloth was coated with soda lime, I remembered that in high school chemistry, soda lime is mainly used as a desiccant and can absorb moisture in the air very strongly. So I asked, "Is this cloth for drying the air?" I saw Lao Zhao nodded, and Lao Zhao said: "At the other end of the vent, there must be a secret room, and the contents inside must not be exposed to water!" It's just that I don't know when it broke in this cloth, and I don't know if the contents are still intact. ”

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