I took over the radio equipment, and Captain Cao's voice came from inside: "Did the troops receive it?" I'm Captain Cao! ”

"Roger!" I said, "Did you go underwater to save people?" ”

"Yes! Have you heard that recording? ”

"Heard!"

"Because the situation is urgent, and we urgently need to hire people, we don't have anyone left to respond. I'm just going to leave that recording, and I'm sure you'll understand it when you're done. ”

"How's the first companion to go in?"

"I don't know the situation yet!"

"Didn't you find them?"

"We couldn't move forward when we got to the stone gate that the first team members talked about."

"What's going on? Didn't the stone gate be blown open by the team members? ”

"A hole was blown out, but the hole was blocked."

"Is it the mechanism inside that is activating and blocking the door?"

"No, it seems to be artificial!"

"What?" I was surprised and said, "Who's in there?" Is it ......?"

"It seems that the first soldiers to go in deliberately blocked the hole with stones! We wanted to blow up the stone door, but Professor Chan said that the structure could collapse if we used another blast, so we had to slowly clean the stone from the hole. ”

"How so?" I said in surprise.

I was not the only one who was surprised, but everyone who heard the news was very surprised. At the very end of the recording, the first group of members to enter the underwater space said that they would retreat. But why did you block the stone gate when you came to it? Didn't they plan to come out?

Master Zhang took the communication equipment and said, "It's possible that they don't want the contents to come out!" That's why I had to sacrifice myself! ”

"That's what I deduced! But we had to go in and find out! Captain Cao said.

"How far has it been cleaned up now?" Master Zhang asked.

"Finish clearing the stone from the hole!"

"Let's pause and quit! Let's think long-term! ”

"We're almost digging through the hole, and the team members are waiting for us to rescue us."

"Listen to me, quit first, don't put your lives on the line!" Master Zhang's tone was resolute, "I will let you go in again as soon as possible to save people." ”

Because of Master Zhang's resoluteness, Captain Cao had to retreat first. Master Zhang left with several PLA fighters. I know they're going to open the mechanism to get into the underground ruins.

After about twenty minutes, Master Zhang returned. The entrance door is opened. Captain Cao, Professor Chen, and two soldiers came out of it. At this time, the four of them looked very haggard because of insufficient rest and overwork. Professor Chen, in particular, is in his forties despite being relatively young among the experts, and he used to endure hardships when he was an architectural apprentice, but it was a long time ago.

Captain Cao asked, "Master Zhang, what do you want us to come back for?" My team members are dangerous inside! ”

"Master Zhang, you seem to know something?" Professor Li said.

Master Zhang was busy taking out some things from his backpack, and he said as he took them: "In the recording, the first team members said that those things have no physical form, but they can harm people!" What do you think it will be? At this point he took out two bags of powdered things, one red and one yellow. Then take out some yellow runes.

"Do you want to say that it's not a human, it's a ghost?" Captain Cao said.

"People tend to push some unknown things onto ghosts and gods, and I don't know if those disembodied things in underwater space are ghosts." Master Zhang said, "As long as you believe that there are ghosts, they are ghosts!" If you don't believe in ghosts, let's assume that they are phenomena that cannot be explained by science! But based on the experience accumulated by our ancestors, we have to prepare some ways to deal with ghosts! ”

Master Zhang mixed the two powders together and turned them orange. Then Master Zhang dispensed the orange powder little by little to the yellow rune, and then folded the rune into a triangle. He made more than a dozen of these triangular talismans and distributed them to each of them, saying, "This is a talisman handed down from metaphysics, which can drive away evil spirits and ghosts!" If necessary, you can burn it and put the residue in water to drink it, which can drive away the evil energy on your body! ”

"Are you in a hurry to ask us to come back just to give us this?" Captain Cao, who had always been calm, was furious, "Do you know how dangerous my team members are inside? Maybe they've all died when I'm out, and if we keep going, maybe we'll be able to save them in the meantime. ”

I was frightened by Captain Cao's sudden anger. But I can understand. Because we suffered so many casualties in the underground ruins, he blamed himself all the time, but he didn't show it because he wanted to maintain the calm posture of a leader.

Master Zhang said very calmly: "This is only one of the reasons. Another reason is that we can't do without your command here! The general cannot be a pioneer. You have to know what you do, or you won't have to play this game! ”

Captain Cao took a deep breath, he seemed to understand what Master Zhang meant, and said, "I'm sorry, I ......"

Master Zhang patted Captain Cao's shoulder and said, "Young people are bloody and strong, I understand!" Hurry up and arrange someone to go down to the rescue! ”

After Captain Cao calmed down, he immediately organized personnel to enter the rescue. This time he arranged for four PLA officers to go in. He stressed to the four PLA members that no matter what happened, they could not block the door. Let's talk about what to withdraw. Be sure to go back to the place where there is a signal within three hours and report the situation inside.

Then a second rescue team entered the underwater space.

Soon after the soldier entered, the entrance closed automatically. In order for the soldiers inside to evacuate quickly, Master Zhang asked several PLA soldiers to go directly to the place where the mechanism was opened, and if there was anything wrong with the second batch of rescue teams, they would immediately open the entrance and let them out.

The second rescue team initially reported the same as the first team. After entering through the entrance, there is a straight road, and at the end of it is the stone gate. The stone gate was blown open and the opening was sealed with stone from the inside by the soldiers of the first ranks. But the stone was almost cleaned by Captain Cao and them before.

Captain Cao asked the soldiers of the second group to clear the stones, and then be alert to whether there was an ambush around the entrance, and at the same time carefully search the vicinity. According to the report of the second team, there was nothing in it except some stones. They moved on.

After entering the stone gate, the signal began to weaken. Subsequently, no reports were received at all for the second group.

Waiting is painful, and everyone knows that. We are again plunged into a painful and long wait. Three hours felt like waiting days. I constantly look at my watch. It seems that I have been waiting for more than ten minutes, and it has only been a minute since I finally looked at my watch. It seemed like an hour had passed, and three minutes had passed when I finally looked at my watch. What an agony it was!

I thought I would have to wait at least three hours, but after more than two hours, the radio communication equipment rang.