It seems that he has been here for a long time, and he should have heard all the conversations I had with Li Liang just now.

In addition to Liang Houzai, Liu Shangang also came, he stood beside Liang Houzai and gave me a guilty look.

As soon as I looked at his eyes, I understood, it must have been heard by him when I was talking with Senior Brother Zhuang in the courtyard, and he and Liang Houzai pretended to concentrate on playing chess on the surface, but in fact, that mind was all on the conversation between me and Senior Brother Zhuang.

It must have been Liu Shangang who told Liang Houzai that Li Liang was now in Shandong, and after that, he couldn't stand Liang Houzai's pleas or threats, so he brought Liang Houzai here and eavesdropped on my conversation with Li Liang.

I walked up to Liang and patted him on the shoulder, but he still didn't look up and didn't respond.

I sighed in my heart, greeted Liu Shangang again, and took him out of the room where Li Liang was, Liang Houzai was still sitting under the window, bowing his head and saying nothing.

When I walked to Senior Brother Zhuang's side, Senior Brother Zhuang asked me with some concern: "What should I do about Houzai and Li Liang?" ”

I glanced back at Liang Houzai, sighed, and said to Senior Brother Zhuang, "Let Houzai make his own decisions about this matter." Let's not stay here, leave some room for their master and apprentice. Senior Brother Zhuang, take me to the tomb first. ”

Senior Brother Zhuang looked at the thick load again and asked me, "Don't you bring the thick load?" ”

I said, "To go down to that tomb, Liang Houzai must go along." This time, let's just wander around the tomb, and when Houzai has taken care of his own business, let's do something about it, and then explore further. ”

"Okay." Senior Brother Zhuang responded and glanced at Liang Houzai, and then beckoned Dawei and asked Dawei to take us to the excavation point, while he went to the supermarket diagonally opposite the park, saying that he wanted to buy water.

When we turned to a path paved with cobblestones and white stone bricks, I looked back and saw Liang Houzai open the door of the hut and walk in sullenly.

Liu Shangang came up to me and asked me in a low voice: "Brother Dao, you said, Brother Zai won't fall out with his master, right?" ”

I shook my head: "If Liang Houzai is really angry, he won't quarrel, if he really has a cold war with his master, then it's really troublesome." ”

Liu Shangang: "Huh? After a while, he said a little anxiously: "Then let's hurry up and take a look, Brother Zai finally met his master, don't make a fuss between the two of you." ”

I still shook my head: "With his thick temperament, if we don't go over, he should be able to understand Li Liang, but if we are by his side, he really doesn't know what to do." In fact, he doesn't want us to get involved in this matter now. ”

Liu Shangang: "Why? ”

I said, "Houzai is that kind of character." In short, you don't care about him and Li Liang, let's see him later, if he doesn't take the initiative to talk about Li Liang, let's not ask more. ”

Liu Shangang stared at me for a while, and then asked me: "If Brother Zai doesn't take the initiative to say, does it mean that he fell out with the old man named Li Liang?" ”

I said, "Not necessarily, in short, don't worry about it, and don't talk too much after seeing Liang Houzai." Remember, don't talk too much. ”

Liu Shangang looked a little impatient: "Okay, I don't ask." ”

I ignored him and walked silently behind Dawei.

When I reached the end of the path, I saw a very high mound of dirt in the lawn beside the road, which had not yet dried out, and showed a damp brownish-black color, which had just been dug up.

Behind the mound, the sound of iron pickaxes and the ground crashing was heard from time to time.

After walking a little further, I saw two men dressed as workers digging hard with pickaxes, but next to them, there was a hole that had been dug.

When these two men started work, there were still people around.

I felt as if the two were engaged in some kind of competition, and they were very hard to get off their picks, looking up at each other from time to time, and there was a little determination and a little provocation in their eyes.

And those who watched them move their pickaxes all had expressions that didn't make a big deal to see the excitement.

As soon as Dawei saw their actions, he immediately frowned, and shouted at the two groundbreakers: "Liu Daxi, Mao Xiaoxi, what are you two doing!" ”

At Dawei's shout, the two men stopped at the same time, straightened their bodies, and stood up in a military posture facing us.

I wondered in my heart, why did Dawei stand in a military posture as soon as he opened his mouth, and was there a rule in the army that superiors and subordinates must stand in a military posture as soon as they spoke?

I'm not asking a rhetorical question, but I really don't know what the rules are in the army.

Dawei raised his chin at one of them: "Liu Daxi, what are you two doing!" ”

"Report chief, we are ......" One of the slightly burly men saluted Dawei, first said these words in a very loud voice, and then seemed to be a little cowardly, his voice weakened, and a timid smile appeared on his face: "We just want to expand this entrance a little more." ”

Dawei glared at him: "Nonsense, all day long, all day long." Mao Xiaoxi, you say. ”

I saw another person straighten his chest and said, "Liu Daxi said that I am small and boring, so I will compare with him, dig a hole by myself, and see who digs deep and big in ten minutes." ”

This kid is solid enough, and when I saw the two of them just now, I knew they were competing. I just don't know what they think of their behavior, and whether they will be punished.

I really didn't have much interest in how Dawei disciplined his soldiers, so while he was lecturing, I pulled Liu Shangang to the entrance of the cave.

Liu Shangang took out a searchlight flashlight and shone it into the hole, and saw that there was a dirt road supported by wooden beams directly below the hole, and because the tunnel was a horizontal extension, I couldn't see the depth clearly when I stood at the entrance of the cave, so I planned to go in and take a look.

But before I could jump in, David shouted at me from afar, "You can go in now?" ”

I said, "Take a look around the perimeter and see what's going on." What is the air quality underneath? ”

"It's okay, I'll go down with you," Dawei said as he ran up to me, and before he could go down the cave, he turned around and shouted at Liu Daxi and Mao Xiaoxi: "You two, push-ups!" When will we come out, when will you stop. ”

When he shouted to the two men, I had already jumped into the tunnel, and the distance between the bottom of the tunnel and the entrance of the cave was about three meters, and when I landed, I quickly curled up my knee to dissolve the impact of the fall.

Liu Shangang followed closely behind, Dawei was the last to land, and then he turned on the flashlight and quickly came to me.

I glanced deeper into the tunnel, which was still quite long, stretching up to two hundred meters away.

David said to me, "After passing through this tunnel, there is a soft ladder, and from there I climbed down more than 100 meters before entering the tomb. ”

I smiled and said, "Dawei, you can do it, it's only been a few years since you became a 'chief'." ”

Dawei was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "What chief, in fact, there are only a few soldiers under me, but we are a special service force, and my level is a little higher, haha." ”

Out of curiosity, I asked, "Those two people just now seem to have a good relationship." ”

Dawei gave me a thumbs up: "Or say that you people are amazing, the two of them are indeed the best brothers, as good as one person, but they are often unconvinced by each other and love each other." The taller one is called Liu Daxi, and the shorter one is called Mao Xiaoxi, both of whom have the word 'Xi' in their names, and the relationship is very good, so some people gave them a nickname and called them 'Double Happiness'. Although these two guys are a little mixed, but in real terms, they are the best soldiers under my command, and when I am discharged from the army one day, this team is estimated to be led by the two of them. ”

I said, "Yo, then I'll have to get to know them, and maybe one day I'll become a colleague." ”

Dawei: "This time, you will take the two of them with you, right?" ”

I looked at Dawei: "Do the two of them have any experience in going to the grave?" ”

Dawei shook his head: "No, but isn't this thing of experience also accumulated slowly." To tell you the truth, I really want them to go down to the grave and see the world. Alas, think about it a few years ago, when I followed you down to the bronze tomb, it was because of my inexperience, and I almost broke a big thing. ”

I nodded: "Okay, you can take it with you if you want, but let's say it first, once you get to the depths of the tomb, it will be life and death, and I can't guarantee that I can protect them." ”

Dawei was happy at me: "I understand." ”

I didn't say anything more, and walked quickly to the end of the tunnel.

Out of the tunnel, there is an abyss as far as the eye can see, a soft ladder of metal structure is fixed to the earth wall at the edge of the tunnel by six iron nails, and extends down to the depths of darkness.

I asked Dawei, "Did you get this soft ladder to be strong?" ”

Dawei smiled: "Don't worry, I can bear your weight." ”

I didn't talk nonsense either, and went straight up the soft ladder.

The soft ladder in front of me seems to be reinforced, and there is no feeling of fluttering when you step on it, and the retaining pipe is also very thick to the touch.

I climbed down some distance and looked up again at the nails fixed to the earthen wall, and although the people on the ladder moved, the nails did not shake at all, and were indeed very firmly wedged.

A 100-meter-deep abyss, at first glance, the number "100 meters" doesn't seem to be particularly deep. In fact, 100 meters is equivalent to the height of a 30-story building.

While I climbed down, I was worried about Liang Houzai's fear of heights, plus I had to climb the soft ladder, the more I went down, the more the ladder swayed, I was worried that he would be like when he was in the old Qiang village in Yunnan, he was so scared that he couldn't open his eyes halfway, the last time he slid the tightrope in the old village, he was so scared that he closed his eyes, or Luo Fei dragged him to the other side.

When I came to the bottom of the abyss, I jumped down from the soft ladder, and I felt that there were many irregular bulges on the ground, and I felt a little awkward to step on it.

By the light from Dawei and Liu Shangang, I saw that there were large reliefs on the ground, and the dampness in this place was very heavy.

All the reliefs depict things are basically the same, it is an animal between a snake and an earthworm, and its body is the same as that of snakes and earthworms, it is a long one, but it does not have a distinct head like a snake, nor is it difficult to distinguish the head and tail like an earthworm.

Its body is wide in the middle and narrow at the ends, it does not have the "knots" of earthworms, and its head is not like that of snakes, which can be easily identified from a long distance, it does not seem to have a head in the strict sense of the word, but it has a strange face at one end of the body: a pair of narrow eyes and a mouth full of sharp teeth. Those sharp teeth are so long that it simply can't close the mouth completely.

Liu Shangang glanced at the relief on the ground, and then asked me: "What kind of thing is this, it looks so crazy." ”