Chapter 56
Ren Wei rolled all the way down and hit the ground for more than ten seconds.
After stopping, Ren Wei opened his eyes and sat up, and found that it was pitch black in front of him.
After adjusting his state, Ren Wei "saw" the surrounding situation clearly: he was in a hollow area that was not very spacious, surrounded by mud, and from time to time there were not solid earth and rocks falling from above.
"Where is this?" A voice of confusion sounded in front of him.
Ren Wei remembered the moment when the ground collapsed, and he subconsciously protected Avril in his arms.
Releasing his arm, Ren Wei asked, "It is estimated that we are now in the mountain." What do you think? Did you get hurt in any way? ”
"I'm fine! What about the captain and Horton? Avril worried.
"I don't know, but they fell with us, they should be nearby, let's look for it." Ren Wei proposed.
"But it's so dark, I can't see anything, how can I find it?" Avril was a little worried.
"Leave it to me to find it, you just have to hold on to me." Ren Wei relied on his special ability and said with confidence.
As he was talking, Ren Wei's face suddenly showed joy.
"Found them! Above us, going down, approaching us. However, ......" changed his tone, and Ren Wei frowned. "The two of them are not in good shape, let's go and pick them up."
Ren Wei and Avril Lavigne shouted loudly as they moved towards Charles and Horton, so that they could find them.
Four people converge at a short ramp.
I saw Charles holding a flashlight in his hand, and Horton supported each other, moving step by step.
"How are you doing?" Avril said eagerly.
"I'm fine, but Horton is in a bit of a serious situation." Charles, who was walking with a slight limp, said. "He got stuck in a gap during the fall, and after being buried in the dirt, when I found him, he was almost unconscious, and although he is awake now, there is nothing wrong with the appearance, but I am afraid that his internal organs will be damaged."
"It seems that the top priority is to find a way to get out of here, and I don't know if Shrek and they have chased it down." Ren Wei looked up.
"I'm afraid it's going to take a lot of effort for them to catch up." Charles said. "There was a lot of gravel, dirt, and tree trunk stumps on it, which buried most of the hole when we fell."
"Aren't we trapped here, then?" Ren Wei was taken aback when he heard this.
"Not necessarily, because ......" Charles just wanted to tell Ren Wei what he found when he came down, when suddenly there was a loud "boom" and "boom" above his head, which was endless.
Immediately afterward, their position began to shake violently.
"Not good! Run down! Ren Wei didn't care about anything else, grabbed Charles and Horton with his left and right hands respectively, and rushed back.
The mountain crumbled behind them, catching up with them.
The group didn't dare to stop for the slightest, and after running past the position where Ren Wei had just been, they continued to move forward.
Suddenly, the ground under Ren Wei's feet cracked, and the four of them fell down before they had time to react.
Fortunately, the distance was not high, and Charles and the others were not hurt too much.
The shaking gradually stopped.
"Everyone's okay?" Charles got up, looked around with his flashlight, and asked after spotting everyone there.
"It's fine!" Ren Wei shook the soil on his body and said.
"I'm fine, too." Avril replied.
"It's fine!" Horton's breath was a little struggling.
"That's good. The collapse that just happened, I guess it was probably Shrek's use of the guide. The shells bombarded the craters. Now that the hole leading to the top is completely blocked, there will definitely be no more pursuers attacking us, and we are safe for the time being. Charles said. Next, as long as we can find an exit, we can get out of trouble. ”
"Charles, you seem to have mentioned that we may not be trapped, is there really another way out? On what basis did you base this judgment? Ren Wei couldn't help but ask.
"Then I'll tell you what I guessed, and you can see if it's reasonable. First of all, here we are less than 100 meters deep vertically from where we fell, and it is safe to speculate that the horizontal line we are now on is slightly lower than the bottom of the river we were going to use to escape, and it may even be flat, you don't object to this; Besides, if you look at our surroundings, it can't be a cave. With that, Charles also shone around with a flashlight.
Ren Wei didn't look at the surrounding situation, just nodded, and asked again: "You're right, but what does that mean?" ”
"If you think about it, the environment we are in is not good enough to form a space similar to a cave, and we are sure that we are 100% not in the cave. Do you think that there are hollow faults in the middle of the riverbed not far overhead, and the intricate roots of the dense forest trees not far overhead, and not far from the side are the solid riverbed of the surface river? Charles asked rhetorically.
Ren Wei pondered for a moment, and his eyes lit up. "You're saying this place didn't come naturally?"
Charles affirmed: "That's what it means, if it's by hand, we still have a good chance of finding the exit." And didn't you notice, the walls of this cave seem to have been reinforced by something, but I haven't seen any supports until now, maybe that's why part of the cave collapsed in the shaking caused by the explosion. ”
When Ren Wei heard this, he walked to the cave wall, and when he got closer, he reached out to buckle it, and it took a lot of strength to buckle a piece of non-stone and non-soil down.
"It's different!" Ren Wei crushed the thing in his hand, and while speaking, he was secretly surprised by the hardness of this thing.
Throwing things away, Ren Wei said to Charles: "Indeed, as you said, we have a good chance of getting out of here." ”
"In that case, without further ado, let's go at once." Charles said after seeing that Ren Wei was not confused.
The four of them began to look for a way out.
"Be careful! There's a hole here! She hadn't gone far when Avril, who was exploring the way ahead, suddenly reminded her.
The other three approached and saw that there was indeed a hole in the ground with a diameter of about four meters and extending downward.
Avril shined her torch downward, and the end of the hole was faintly visible.
Ren Wei closed his eyes and sensed it.
"The passage is about five meters deep, and the space below should be about ten meters high, and it should be relatively large, I can only detect one side of it."
"Is this also true?!" Charles was amazed.
So far, Ren Wei has not hidden it, and directly admitted: "Yes, this is also the ability I feel I have now, it's amazing, isn't it?" I think it's incredible, too! But if I had the choice, I'd rather not have these abilities! ”
Charles didn't say anything, just sighed.
"Okay, let's not talk about that, let's continue to look for an exit." Ren Wei just mentioned it in passing, and he didn't want to continue this topic.
So the four of them paid no attention to the hole.
But after going around, Ren Wei and the others didn't find any exits, but saw two more holes that were the same downward as before.
"What to do? Do you want to go down? Avril asked Charles.
"We have no choice, we can only go down and have a look, but we don't have a rope, according to what Ren Wei said, there are fifteen meters to the ground below, how can we go down?" Charles frowned.
"I'll try it!" Ren Wei spoke. "Lend me your and Horton's field knives."
Charles didn't say a word, took out two daggers and handed them to Ren Wei.
Ren Wei took the dagger, held one in each hand, walked to the hole, leaned over to the inner wall of the hole and stabbed it, and the dagger went straight to the handle.
After trying to test that the dagger could support his weight, Ren Wei relied on the two daggers to alternate positions and descended to the other end of the hole.
With his body suspended in mid-air, Ren Wei once again used his perception to scan the terrain below.
Charles, Avril Lavril, and Houghton, who seemed to be fine, hurried to rest and guess the origin of the cave.
"I really didn't think there would be such a place in the mountains, and I don't know when it was built. What is it used for? Is it a refuge? Avril said.
"It's really weird, I don't remember any resources that need to be developed and excavated in this mountain, so it shouldn't be a mine, but this scale is not smaller than a mine, you may not have noticed, counting the space that Ren Wei is exploring now, there is already a four-story structure here. At first, Horton and I fell on the first layer, while you and Ren Wei stayed on the second layer, and Shrek's bombing caused us to fall to the third layer," Charles was also puzzled. "And I've found that the scale of these four floors is bigger than the first, and we don't know if the lower floor is the last, if not......"
Charles didn't finish speaking, but Avril and Horton also heard that if there were really a few floors below, the situation would begin to exceed their expectations, and they would face more and more variables without supplies.
As he was talking, suddenly, Ren Wei, who was probing the situation below, let out a miserable howl.
The three Charles were so startled that they stood up and threw themselves at the entrance of the cave.
I didn't want to get close to the entrance of the cave, and a huge black shadow rushed out of the hole, and it was a beast roar when it landed.
In a hurry, Charles and the three could only roll away on the spot to avoid the momentum of the black shadow. Charles and Horton then pulled out their pistols and fired a round at the shadow.
The black shadow stood in place, holding his head in his hands, as if in pain.
Avril used a flashlight to shine at the black shadow, also to let Charles and Horton see clearly and make it easier to aim, but when she saw the appearance of the black shadow, she couldn't help but exclaim: "Ren Wei?!" ”
After hearing Avril's shout, Charles and Horton couldn't help but look at each other, and then they also realized who the black shadow was and stopped firing.
"How did he become like this?" Horton incredulous.
Avril had the same doubts in her heart, and she tried to step forward, but at this moment, the mutated Ren Wei suddenly lowered his hands and rushed in one direction.
"Quick! Keep up with him! Charles immediately ordered.
The three of them chased Ren Wei away.
No one noticed that on the fifth basement floor or even deeper, something was awakened, and in the midst of the commotion, there was a rustling sound.