Chapter 192: The Heartbeat of the Earth
I'm going to go down anyway, and I'll listen to whatever he says. Even if this kind of steel cable can't bear the weight of dozens of tons, it should be more than enough to carry the weight of me and the two uncles.
At this time, Xia Shibo also came over, he glanced at the steel cable, and said to me: "The cave under the ground has been dug by us, and under this cave is the top of a tower. ”
I nodded: "We have already gone up to the stone tower before, and Yin Yu was found on the top of the tower. ”
Uncle Xia said again: "How high is that tower, have you gone down to the abyss?" ”
I immediately understood what Uncle Xia meant, he was probably worried that the length of the steel cable was not enough.
While thinking back to the scene when I climbed the tower, I said to Master Xia: "When we climbed the stone tower, it took about an hour and a half to two hours, but that was also because the stone stairs in the tower were too difficult to walk. At that time, I roughly counted the number of floors of the stone tower...... It should be about 100 floors, and the height of the floor is about four meters. ”
To be honest, I was taken aback when I said this statistic. The stone tower in the evil tomb was more than 400 meters high! High-rise buildings like this are extremely rare today, but the tomb was built very long ago, not to mention that the stone tower was built underground and suspended in mid-air.
After hearing my words, Master Xia frowned and asked me, "Have you gone down to the abyss, how deep is it?" ”
This time I could only shake my head: "No, we didn't go down to the abyss." ”
Uncle Xia raised his head again and shouted to a senior brother not far away: "Youzhi, how long is this steel cable you made?" ”
At that time, the man was squatting at the entrance of the cave in a daze, and when he heard Uncle Xia's shout, he raised his head and responded: "The steel cable is one thousand meters, it should be enough, right?" ”
Only then did I see clearly that the person in front of me was Senior Brother Shi Youzhi of Yuxian's lineage, when Senior Brother Bao came to our house, he came with him, yes, he was the "Sven scum" next to Senior Brother Bao.
Xia Shibo glanced at the steel rope a few more times at this time, and still looked very uneasy.
Uncle Zhao patted my Uncle Xia on the back and said, "Okay, let's go down first, anyway, we can't get a longer steel cable now, if the length is not enough, let's think of another way." ”
Uncle Xia sighed and said that this is the only way to do it at present, and then he asked Senior Brother Geng to fix one end of the steel cable on the stone bolt, and urged me and Uncle Zhao to hurry up and prepare, and go down the hole when they are ready.
I found that when Uncle Xia said the word "down the hole", he had a strange expression on his face.
And he's been preparing me since the beginning, but I don't know what to prepare.
Before, Uncle Xia said that he would go down to the cave in twenty minutes, but after that, more than half an hour later, he urged me and Uncle Zhao to leave.
Because I have already entered the evil tomb once, I know the situation inside, and there is no one else who can take the lead except me. Uncle Zhao followed behind me, and Uncle Xia was the last to go down the hole.
We all have locks and pulleys connected to the steel cable, when sliding down, the lock and pulley must be controlled, the speed of falling can not be too fast, and the body must also try to maintain balance, try not to swing and rotate on the steel cable. Before going down to the cave, we all wore safety helmets with headlamps on them.
I slid down slowly, and I looked up and looked up from time to time, I didn't believe in the abilities of Zhao Shibo and Xia Shibo, but the two of them were elderly, so I was afraid that the two of them couldn't stand the evil spirit in the tomb, and something would happen.
When we were about a hundred meters down, I was concentrating on controlling the pulley to slide down, when suddenly I felt a wave from the steel cable above, and before I could react to what was going on, the wave suddenly became strong, and I immediately jammed the pulley and the lock, and by this time the steel cable was already shaking very much, and all three of us were swinging in the air along the amplitude of its swing.
But when I looked up at Uncle Zhao and Master Xia, I found that this wave was caused by Master Zhao, and when I looked at him, he was still shaking the steel cable vigorously while looking up at me Master Xia.
And Xia Shibo hugged the whole person on the tightrope, looking extremely nervous.
At this time, Uncle Zhao was happy, and shouted in his mouth: "Senior Brother Xia, hurry up, the wind is blowing, oops, it's so windy!" The tightrope is swinging! ”
Hearing him shout like this, the expression on my Uncle Xia's face became even more nervous.
It was also at this time that I found out that Uncle Xia had been closing his eyes since just now.
It turns out that this is the case, no wonder Uncle Xia dragged on outside for so long before going down the cave, it turned out that he and Liang Houzai had a problem, afraid of heights!
But Uncle Zhao is so troublesome, and he is really a little lacking in morality.
I couldn't stand it anymore, so I shouted at Uncle Zhao: "Uncle Zhao, don't make trouble, let's get down to business first." ”
Only then did Uncle Zhao stop shaking and shouted to Uncle Xia: "Alas, the wind has finally stopped." When he was done, he turned his head and smiled evilly at me.
I was also speechless, ignoring Uncle Zhao, continuing to control the lock and pulley, slowly sliding.
We slipped all the way down to the stone platform that connected to the stone tower, and I saw that Xia Shibo's face was already very ugly, so I proposed to Xia Shibo that we take a rest on the stone platform now, and then go down to the abyss when we have eased up.
Who knew that Uncle Xia shook his head: "No need, let's go down quickly, we have to take advantage of the fact that the matter of the evil tomb is finished today, and the old Huang family still has some tricky things to deal with tomorrow." Okay, there is a way, lead the way. ”
Since Uncle Xia said so, I didn't say anything more, and continued to slide towards the bottom of the abyss.
When we first got out of the cave, there was still sunlight shining in along the hole overhead, but as we went deeper and deeper, that ray of sunlight could no longer penetrate the abyss beneath our feet.
And when I looked up, the two two-meter-wide holes had turned into small spots of light.
As we went deeper, the smell of blood and life in the air became more and more intense.
Before, Uncle Xia and the others suppressed the big demon, and the anger coming from the bottom of the abyss was already very weak, but even so, that kind of breath still made people feel very uncomfortable.
After sliding some distance further, I heard Master Zhao panting and shouting at me: "There is a way, slow down." ”
When I looked up at Uncle Zhao, the light on his helmet hit him in the face, and I saw that his face was pale and he still had a worried expression on his face.
Uncle Zhao looked around for a moment, and then shouted at me, "This place is indeed wrong. ”
I thought to myself, of course, something was wrong, and there was nothing wrong with the evil tomb.
But then Uncle Zhao said a word, which made me nervous suddenly, he stretched out a hand, pointed to the stone wall not far away and shouted: "It's moving!" ”
I immediately looked in the direction of the stone wall, and as the white beam hit the stone wall, I saw that some small stones and fine pieces of sand were falling into the darkness below.
I leaned against the steel cable and stared at the stone wall, and after about a minute or so, I saw the stone wall suddenly tremble twice, the first heavy and the second light, like the beating of the heart.
This stone wall really moves!
I looked up at the top of my head again, and I saw that Master Zhao and Master Xia were looking at the stone wall at the same time, both of them with shocked expressions.
When I shifted my gaze to the stone wall again, it trembled twice, one heavy and one light, as if it were a heartbeat.
I heard Master Xia asking Master Zhao above, "Zongxin, this wall ...... What's going on? ”
Uncle Zhao was silent for a long time before responding: "It's alive, the land here is alive." I have heard Master say in the past that when the land is nourished by the spirit all year round, it can become as refined as animals, and the land here is ...... It's alive. ”
The surrounding space was very empty, and when Zhao Shibo spoke, his voice was amplified many times by such a space, and at the bottom of the abyss, there were also bursts of responses from time to time.
The land here is alive.
It's alive!
At that time, all the goosebumps on my body were up, and I felt a chill on the back of my neck. I don't know what the concept of the earth is, but I do know that the abyss is surrounded on all sides by such stone walls, and if this living land is hostile to us, then we are now in its bloody jaw, and if it wants to, it can crush us to pieces in an instant.
At this time, I heard Uncle Zhao asking Uncle Xia: "Do you want to continue to decline?" ”
Uncle Xia seemed to be groaning, and I could only hear him muttering something in his mouth, but his voice was so low that I couldn't hear what he was saying.
After a long time, Xia Shibo said to me Zhao Shibo: "Continue to slide, this time there will be no danger in going to the tomb." ”
Uncle Xia is a master of fortune telling, and since he has said so, there will definitely be no danger.
I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart and continued to slide down, and Zhao Shibo and Xia Shibo also moved one after another, and I could hear the sound of pulleys and locks rubbing against the steel cables coming from overhead.
The further down you go, the more the walls throb, the more intense the air becomes, and the temperature around you rises.
It wasn't until there was a red patch under my feet that I stopped slipping.
At this time, what appeared under my feet was a very large blood pool, and the steel cable that Senior Brother Shi Youzhi prepared for us was just long enough, and the head of the steel cable was suspended about ten centimeters above the blood pool at this time.
I looked up and shouted to the two uncles, "Two uncles, let's go to the end." ”
Zhao Shibo slid to the top of my head before locking the lock, and twitched a military flashlight from his pocket, this kind of flashlight is the same as the headlamp we embedded in the helmet, it is also a white light, but the light of the headlamp is more scattered, the light cover area is relatively large, but the penetration is slightly worse, the military flashlight in Zhao Shibo's hand does not have this problem, not only the light cover area is large, but also the penetration is also very strong, the only drawback is the electricity consumption, which is why Zhao Shibo did not take it out until the bottom of the abyss.
Zhao Shibo turned on the flashlight and first shone at the blood pool.