Chapter 158: The Iron House
"Nope."
After I answered, Senior Brother Bao was silent for a long time before he said on the walkie-talkie, "Okay, I know." ”
After that, there was a noise on the other side of the walkie-talkie, and I don't know what Senior Brother Bao was doing.
About half an hour later, there was a grinding sound in the direction of the wellhead, which was not loud, but the bottom of the well was silent, and I could hear it clearly even when I was standing in the courtyard.
I knew that this was the big stone that Senior Brother Bao was moving the wellhead, so I hurriedly ran to the bottom of the wellhead and waited for them.
Another few minutes passed, Senior Brother Bao, Liu Shangang, Liang Houzai, and the three of them went down the well one after another, and when they came down, they also brought the tools used to demolish the stone wall.
When Liu Shangang came down, I deliberately shook a flashlight in his face, and I saw that his eyes were still red, and it was obvious that he had not calmed down from his anger.
When he saw me, that angry expression immediately turned to complaint, apparently because I didn't take him down the well.
Seeing Liu Shangang's appearance, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.
After everyone had landed, Senior Brother Bao took a pair of pliers and pulled out the steel nails embedded in the wall of the well.
The master pointed the beam of the flashlight at the steel nail, pinched the tail of the nail with the thumb and index finger of his right hand, and slowly turned the nail while examining it very carefully.
After a moment, Senior Brother Bao tossed the steel nail with his hand, as if trying to estimate its weight. After that, Senior Brother Bao re-checked the inlays on the wall of the well.
Senior Brother Bao put the steel nails into a small iron box, handed the box to Liu Shangang, and finally said to me: "The volume of this steel nail is slightly larger than the ones I took out of Li Daochang's body. ”
I thought to myself, have you come to such a nonsense-like conclusion after studying for most of the day, when I first went down the well, I just swept my eyes with my big eyes, and I knew that the diameter of the steel nail in front of me was much thicker than the bullet on Li Daochang's body.
But then Brother Bread said: "If you increase the volume of a bullet like this kind, the volume of the firearm will be about doubled, otherwise it will not be able to provide enough caliber and elasticity to fire this kind of bullet." Therefore, I think that this kind of large steel nail should be an unconventional bullet prepared by the other party in order to deal with special situations. But why did they fire such bullets in the well, and did they encounter some special situation at that time? ”
When Senior Brother Bao spoke, he kept looking at me with an inquiring look. But even he can't figure it out, and it's even more impossible for me to figure it out.
I was a little distracted by him, so I smiled wryly and didn't speak.
Senior Brother Bao lowered his head and pondered for a while, he seemed to have no clue, he shook his head helplessly, and asked me again, "Where is the courtyard you said?" ”
I took a hammer from Liang Houzai's hand and said to Senior Brother Bao, "Come with me." "While walking in the direction of the courtyard.
Due to the darkness around them, after leaving the wellhead, Senior Brother Bao and they couldn't identify the direction, not only them, I was also blind in this environment, in fact, the real leader now is Xian'er, but neither Senior Brother Bao nor Liu Shangang can see her.
When he entered the courtyard, Senior Brother Bao probably smelled a strong smell of blood in the air, and I saw him frown twice.
After that, I took out a few iron vertebrae from the tool bag that Liu Shangang carried, combined them with Liang Houzai, and first used a hammer to knock them into the wall, until the stone wall was covered with cones, and then Senior Brother Bao and Liu Shangang took the hammer and began to break the wall.
This stone wall looks thick, but because it is close to the dark river, it has been damp for many years, and it is far from being as strong as it seems, and Liang Houzai and I have already made holes before, Senior Brother Bao and Liu Shangang smashed it with a few hammers, and the stone wall was completely cracked, and a large amount of rubble mixed with soil rolled down.
It is estimated that Huang Changgui chose this place as his escape route in the first place, and he also had the idea of hitting this wall, and he probably knew the existence of the dark river behind the wall, and also knew that the stone wall had been eroded by moisture for many years and had become very fragile.
The whole demolition process lasted only about an hour, and when the stone wall was punched into a hole two people wide and one person high, the dampness suddenly filled the entire courtyard, and along with the dampness, there was an even stronger smell of blood.
Senior Brother Bao's expression became a little solemn, and he asked a few of us to take the hammer, and then took the lead in entering the cave.
When Xian'er said that there was a dark river on the other side of the stone wall, I thought that on the other side of the wall there should be a natural passage washed by the river, but after entering the hole, I saw clearly that behind the stone wall was actually a place similar to a sewer.
The place looked like it had been repaired by man, with a long and narrow vault of blue bricks above our heads, and a stone paved road of bluestone beneath our feet.
There is a groove more than a meter wide in the middle of the road, and the water flows from there, because the light is very dim, and I can't tell how deep the artificial river is, but I can only tell by the sound of rushing water that the river is very fast.
And in the upper reaches of the Earth River, as Xian'er said, the light can be clearly seen, and the light there seems to be a little dim, not like normal sunlight.
Brother Bao walked cautiously in the direction where the light came from, and I saw that he was clutching the long pole of the hammer tightly with both hands, and seemed very nervous.
Liu Shangang also had a nervous expression on his face, and he followed me closely, his cheek almost touching my shoulder.
Speaking of which, Liu Shangang has followed Senior Brother Bao for more than a year, and he can be regarded as having experienced life and death, but he probably has never been in such a strange environment.
On the contrary, Liang Houzai and I, because of the experience in the tomb of the Dragon King, the environment in front of us will not make us too nervous.
The tunnel was very long, and it took about half an hour before we reached the exit upstream of the river.
Senior Brother Bao stopped suddenly, first made a silent gesture towards a few of us, and then he pointed at Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai, and made two gestures that I couldn't understand at all.
It's not just me, when Liang Houzai saw the gesture made by Senior Brother Bao, he also had a puzzled expression on his face. Only Liu Shangang nodded at Senior Brother Bao.
Senior Brother Bao sighed helplessly when he saw the expressions of Liang Houzai and me, and then said to us in a very small voice: "Rush out quickly, be careful in everything!" ”
After speaking, he rushed out of the tunnel with a hammer, and Liu Shangang followed closely behind and rushed out.
This time, it was me and Liang Houzai who were half a beat slower, which is also a helpless thing, I and Houzai are warlocks, Senior Brother Bao and Liu Shangang should be regarded as mercenaries, they are in completely different industries, have different experiences, consider different things, and act at different paces.
The saying that interlacing is like separating mountains still makes a lot of sense.
Actually, I didn't want to rush out so quickly, so I planned to wait and try to sense if there was any evil aura outside the tunnel.
I guess Liang Houzai should think the same way.
But who knew that Senior Brother Bao was so arbitrary, and he rushed out without discussing it with us, and Liang Houzai and I had no other way but to go out with them.
After walking out of the tunnel, a very large iron house appeared in front of us, and Senior Brother Bao put down the hammer in his hand and began to look around.
Like the strange courtyard we had passed by, the house was closed on all sides, with walls made of iron plates covered with red rust, a round hole about two meters in diameter in the roof, and a huge bronze mirror hanging from the left side of the opening.
The bronze mirror looked a little old, covered with dust, but it was still very smooth, and a ray of light shot straight through the hole in the mirror, and through the reflection of the mirror, it fell on the rusty floor, making the rust on the floor take on an eerie color between red and orange.
In this place, the smell of blood became stronger, and at the same time, there was a very mellow yin qi that permeated the air.
Liang Houzai also looked around at the iron walls on all sides, and said to me with some doubts: "This is Huang Changgui's escape route?" It's a dead end. Could it be that we have already walked the road? ”
I shook my head and said to Xian'er, "Look to see if there are any mechanisms." ”
Xian'er actually gave me a big white eye, and then she pointed to an iron wall facing us and said, "What else are you looking for, isn't there a door there?" ”
The place where she pointed happened to be the most heavily shadowed area of the entire iron house, and the place was so dark that no one could see what was inside.
I turned on my flashlight and shone it in that direction, and sure enough, I saw a very narrow iron door in the corner between the two iron walls.
Liang Houzai walked over, grabbed the doorknob with both hands and pulled it violently twice, but the rust on the door had already glued it tightly to the wall.
At this time, Liu Shangang suddenly rushed over, rounded the hammer, and slammed it against the door.
I first heard a loud "pound" thud, and then the iron walls were affected on all sides, and there was a violent tremor and a continuous buzzing sound that made my scalp tingle.
I was particularly annoyed by this noise, and rushed to Liu Shangang with an arrow step, grabbed his hammer, and glared at him fiercely: "What are you doing!" ”
At that time, my flashlight hit Liu Shangang's face, and I saw that his eyes were red, like a leopard about to go crazy.
He dodged the beam of the flashlight, pointed at the iron door and yelled, "I just don't like it!" ”
Seeing him like this, I was also annoyed, so I yelled at him: "! Do you know what's out there and you smash it? Stay in the back! ”
When I spoke, Senior Brother Bao kept looking at Liu Shangang with a very nervous look, as if he was afraid that he would suddenly burst out and hurt people.
Liu Shangang was in the shadows, and I couldn't see what his expression was, but I felt as if he was looking at me all the time.
After a while, Liu Shangang said to me: "Brother Dao, don't be angry. I didn't mean it, sometimes I just couldn't control myself. ”