Chapter 24: The Secret Path

Then, the monkey and I continued to dial in the ashes, seeing that there was nothing to find, we were ready to go back to discuss the next plan with Lao Zhao and Kuroko, when I was about to leave, I suddenly felt that the root of the torch in my hand touched a little hard thing in the ashes, it seemed to be a small pebble, I felt very strange, and my heart said how could there be a stone here!

I used a flashlight to shine on the root of the torch, and the thing like a stone was pulled out with the ashes, the monkey, Lao Zhao and Heizi saw that I seemed to pull something out of the ash pile, so they all came around, I wiped off the dust on the thing and looked, it seemed to be an iron bead with a diameter of about five or six millimeters, Lao Zhao took it in his hand and looked at it, only to see that his face showed a very surprised expression, he immediately said: "Look again, see if there is anything inside!" ”

I didn't know what was going on, judging from Lao Zhao's expression, there must have been a discovery, so I continued to look in the ashes according to Lao Zhao's words, and sure enough, I found two more, Lao Zhao took the two I just found out and looked at them carefully for a long time, only to see him sigh, and then said: "This is a lead bullet, which should be fired from a civilian shotgun rifle!" ”

We were all taken aback when we heard this, and I immediately said, "No, it was shot with a gun, and we modern people have been here before us?" Lao Zhao nodded and said, "Yes, it should be that after encountering human corpses, they use shotguns to defend against the enemy!" ”

After hearing this, the monkey shouted: "Damn, look at the people, everyone comes in with guns, we don't have any weapons, just a short dagger for each person, if you touch a human corpse, you have no defense at all!" ”

I have long felt that the preparations before we entered the mountain were not very sufficient, who told us to break into the crypt even though we have no experience in going to the ground, what is the use of regretting it now! However, for the sake of Lao Zhao's face, I can only say this in my heart.

But after thinking about it, this corpse is completely manipulated by the water-absorbing Gu in the body, even if there is a gun, it can't help it, this water-absorbing Gu is afraid of fire, but unfortunately we don't have many torches left.

At this time, Kuroko said: "If there are people who have come here before, then they must come in and go out through the hole above our heads, judging from the stones piled up at the entrance of the cave before we come down, those people must have been pursued by human corpses, and after they escaped from the entrance of the cave, they used stones to block the entrance of the cave, because they were afraid that the human corpses would crawl out of the hole, and the human corpse that we burned before should be one of the human corpses that pursued the group of people. Seeing that the water source of the living person who was about to arrive at the mouth escaped, and this posture was maintained until the water absorption Gu hibernate again, so there was the scene where the human corpse stared at Brother Yang dead before. ”

After listening to Kuroko's analysis, I seemed to have a little less palpitation at the strange scene when the human corpse stared at me when I first came down from the cave entrance, although this is only speculation, but it sounds very reasonable.

Then the monkey said, "Regardless of whether anyone has been here before, don't think about all that nonsense, the most important thing now is to find the way quickly, the hole above our heads can only be looked at now!" ”

The monkey is right, we need to find a way out of nowhere, and if dozens of human corpses suddenly emerge from somewhere, we really have only one way to die.

I turned my attention to the surroundings of this place, which is not small or small, and it will take us a while to find it if the four of us go to find it one by one.

At this time, Lao Zhao said: "We don't have to look everywhere, there is a weak air flow here, as long as we find the source of the air flow, we will also find the entrance to the dark channel!" ”

After Lao Zhao finished speaking, he took out a fire fold from his pocket, blew it hard, and ignited it, only to see that the flame kept flickering in one direction, and then we all looked in the direction of the flame, and that was where the corpse on the steps was before.

Then, we slowly walked to the top of the steps following the traces of the human corpse rolling down the steps, and when we got closer, there was indeed an irregular hole less than a meter high where the steps and the stone wall intersected, just enough for a person to crawl through guò.

The surrounding air was sucked into the hole, and nothing could be seen in the dark of the cave, so I shone it into it with a flashlight, only to see that the cave was obliquely downward and could not see the bottom, it was like a bottomless abyss.

Judging from the size and shape of the cave and the traces of the tunnel's excavation, this cave was by no means built when the underground building was built, but was manually dug out by intruders like us in the later period, because with such a large and regular underground project, the entrance to the passage must have been controlled by the guò mechanism button, but we didn't find it, and it is impossible to be so small and irregular and exposed here.

Several of them also saw this, and then the monkey said: "This hole can be seen at a glance by the tomb robber, and it is just behind the human corpse, it is very likely that the human corpse came out of here, do I enter or not?" ”

Kuroko stared at the entrance of the cave for a while, and said, "I'll go first to explore the way, if there is no corpse, you can go in again!" ”

I really admired Kuroko's arrogance and courage, and I said that I was always a little afraid to stay with a few of you, and you dared to go into the cave alone.

Before I could react, Kuroko lit a torch and crawled into the hole, so I had to say to the Kuroko in the hole: "Be careful, if the situation is not right, come out quickly!" Kuroko let out an "oh" and climbed straight down.

Kuroko climbed very fast, and soon went down more than ten meters, and after about ten minutes, the torch aperture in Kuroko's hand was already as small as a firefly, but this cave was like a pipe, and the sound propagation effect was very good, and the sound of Kuroko crawling in it kept coming, and we heard it clearly.

A few of us were waiting outside the entrance of the cave in a little hurry, the monkey scratched his head and said: "I said, why don't we go in too, if there is really a corpse crawling out of it, there are also sunspots in front to help us block for a while, we are not in a hurry to withdraw again, if there is no corpse inside but there is no cave, wait for the sunspot to come out and report to us, won't it delay time this time!" ”

What the monkey said is not unreasonable, but this cave is diagonally downward, and if we encounter a sunspot halfway through and come back to report that there is a corpse, we will have to retreat upwards and go back, which will be more troublesome.

So I told the monkey not to worry, just wait and see. Then I looked into the cave again, and I was stunned when I saw it, and I found that the torch aperture of the sunspot was gone, and it was probably disappeared while talking to the monkey just now, and the cave was dark again, could it be that there was a turn in the depths of the cave, or was something going on?

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