The Thirteenth Gap (Part I)

Changbai Mountain is a potential active volcano, according to historical records, the last small-scale eruption should be 1000 years ago, although the volcano is now silent, but the nearby geothermal heat is extremely rich, many geological crevices and lava craters during the volcanic period are maintained at extremely high temperatures, behind this dragon sealing stone, maybe there is a hot crack in the ground, will come out of the smell of sulfur.

This is undoubtedly good news for us, in such an environment, it is definitely more economical to have a stable heat source than to light a bonfire, but the huge Panlong Sealing Stone of Black Sรจ is pressed on it, and it weighs more than ten tons by visual inspection, and we don't have any mountain opening equipment, so it is really a bit difficult to turn it over.

The fat man is a man of action, he raised his arm and beckoned us to move the stones, and a few people went up to try to carry the stones twice, and a group of people were sweating profusely, their faces were red, but the stones did not move.

The fat man panted and scolded: "No, old man, I said earlier that our equipment is not good, you look at the current situation, how good it is to have some explosives." โ€

Monk Hua said that if you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, our old man has crossed more bridges than you walk, and it is right not to bring explosives, you said that we are now at the bottom, and the snow is above your head, you can just put a cannon hole there, shake the snow on it, and bury it alive at once.

The fat man didn't have anything to refute, and then I saw that there were many stones of different sizes stuck on the lower edge of the Panlong Stone, and I had an idea and said to them: "Maybe you don't need explosives, let me come." โ€

Saying that, I took out a masonry hammer from my luggage, walked to the side of the Panlong sealing stone, carefully checked the following several relatively large stones, and then aimed at one of them with a knock, the stone was subjected to more than ten tons of pressure on the one hand, and received my lateral hammering, and immediately cracked a crack, and then Carrara a series of stone friction sounds, the upper coiling dragon sealing stone because of the sudden change in support, began to slide along the stone slope.

We hurriedly retreated, and the Panlong Sealing Stone slid down a few inches, and began to tilt again, but the stone was too heavy, and it stopped after sliding a little bit, but despite this, we still saw the back of the sealing stone, revealing a rock crack in the mountain.

The crevasse is head-wide, and a person can barely pass through. Looking at the edge of the cave entrance, it is in the form of a rock layer torn, there is no trace of artificial excavation, and the smell of sulfur comes from inside.

The fat man turned on the flashlight, reached in and looked at it, turned his head and said, "It's very warm inside, but the angle is too uncomfortable to shine anything, and besides, there seem to be words on the stone wall inside." โ€

"What's written?" I asked.

The fat man squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, and said, "I don't understand, I don't know what to write." โ€

Saying that, he tried to get into it, but the fat man was indeed too fat, and this hole was obviously not suitable for him, and he squeezed it several times, but he couldn't squeeze in. Finally, he took off his coat and barely managed to get inside.

Chen Pi Ah Si asked Ye Cheng, Lang Feng and Pan Zi to stay outside, and there was something to take care of. We followed the fat man and got into the crevices.

The whole place is a rock crack that was cracked during the movement of the mountain, and when you enter, you find that the gap is a steep downward trend, and it is very dark inside. It looks extremely deep, and I am afraid that it leads to the interior of this mountain.

There is not much space at the opening of the gap, two people cannot be side by side, and it is very difficult to walk in the gap, the bottom is full of large stones, sharp edges and corners, the smell of sulfur in the hole is very strong, the temperature is at least thirty degrees, touch it, even the stones are hot.

We took a few steps forward with our hands and feet, and the fat man shone his flashlight to the side and said, "Look, what are these words?" โ€

I turned my head, and the words were not carved on the wall of the gap, but on a horizontal bottom stone, all of which were a few unfamiliar words, a bit like Chinese, and a bit like Korean, and the carving was very messy.

Monk Hua leaned over and looked at it, and said with certainty: "This is the Jurchen character." โ€

"What is written?" The fat man asked.

Monk Hua said: "Wait, I'm not that powerful, I have to see it to know, I'll draw it down first." โ€

We waited for a while, Monk Hua copied these words into the notebook, the fat man took the head, we lined up and continued to walk to the depths of the cave.

It is said to be walking, and there are more opportunities for its hands than feet, and the whole gap is almost thirty degrees down, and there are no steps, almost all of them rely on climbing down, and the inside is sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, sometimes high and sometimes low, and in some places people have to sit to pass.

The only thing that was comfortable was that it was so much warmer that we were all starting to sweat as we crawled and had to unbutton our clothes. At this time, the fat man asked: "Old man, did you say that the stone blocked this crack, is it not accidental?" โ€

Chen Pia Si Yin said: "Kaitong to build a mausoleum, local materials, there are so many messy stones outside, it should be a stone quarry used to quarry when the mausoleum was built, maybe this crack was found when they quarried stones, I don't know why, and finally it has to be pressed with a sealed stone."

Less than a hundred meters, the smell of sulfur is getting stronger and stronger, and the rocks are getting darker and darker, all of which begin to show the brilliance of glass, which is the traces of mica melting at high temperatures, I sighed, I was already thinking in my heart, this should be a lava crater of a volcano, Changbai Mountain is a potential active volcano, if it suddenly erupts, magma erupts from the inside of the mountain, we will not die.

Thinking wildly, suddenly, the two people who took the lead stopped, and the flashlight shone away, and the crack in front of it shrank sharply, and the stones overlapped, leaving only a very small gap to go down.

I crouched down and shone a flashlight inside, which was caused by the collapse of the gap, and the gap inside was so small that it looked like I had to crawl to get in.

Chen Pi Ah Si looked at the entrance of the cave, knowing that his physical strength could not climb in, so he discussed it, and I asked Monk Hua to accompany him and wait for us. I, the fat man and the stuffy oil bottle, went in and saw what else was inside.

We took off our coats and kept our volume as small as possible, this time with the stuffy oil bottle on the head, and the three of us went down and down, squeezing into the crack little by little.

I thought that this section of the collapse was only temporary, climb a few steps forward, there will inevitably be an exit, if it is real, we can also turn around in time to go back, but I didn't expect this section of the gap is very long, climb for a long time, the front can still pass, unexpectedly deep.

The sharp points of the stone inside were very sharp, and I climbed a few steps, and the clothes on my body had been torn in several places. The rocks were squeezing my lungs, and as the temperature was getting hotter, I was getting harder to breathe.

The fat man in the back felt the same as me, grabbed my foot and said, "No, there may be a problem with the air quality here, let's come in without probing, it's too reckless." โ€

I want to look back, the space is too small, there is really no way, thinking that I just crawled over a long distance, I can't go back, and now in this situation, I am afraid that it will be more painful to climb backwards than when I came, so I said: "Let's take a few steps forward, if we haven't finished yet, we will quit." โ€

The fat man answered, and at this time, suddenly, the stuffy oil bottle in front of him shouted: "En? โ€

I turned my head to look ahead, but it was empty, and the bottle of stuffy oil that was still blocking me just a moment ago was gone, leaving only a dark stone passage, and I didn't know where it leads.