Chapter 10: Entering the Underground
It was just dawn in the morning, a few of us got up to eat, packed our luggage, and prepared to follow Lao Wu Tou to find the entrance of the Xuanming Divine Palace, and we drove for more than half an hour to arrive at the destination. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
This place is the outskirts of Xintai City, in addition to the barren grassland, there is only one Chaiwen River flowing quietly, there is no human figure at all, the withered grass is towering all around, people stand in the withered grass, it is difficult for others to find, the pheasant cries constantly from the grass, and the sound makes people's hearts hairy.
After getting out of the car, the fat man and A Ning were packing their luggage, and then packed the things into four huge backpacks, Yang Zhi looked into the distance with a knife on his back, and he didn't know what he was thinking, Lao Wu Tou and Qiangzi kept walking around with a compass, and a few of us looked at the two of them from a distance, expecting them to find the location of the entrance as soon as possible.
The fat man picked up the backpack, kept dancing the iron rod he bought in his hand, and said excitedly: "I'm going to go down in a while, if there is really a monster in it, see if my fat master doesn't beat it down with a stick." ā
After the fat man finished speaking, he raised his head, and suddenly found that a crossbow machine was aimed at him, and the official A Ning who was holding the crossbow machine, A Ning smiled and said to the fat man: "Raise your hands, otherwise be careful of your head." ā
The fat man shouted in horror: "Eldest sister, don't, do you know how to play, buy this thing, don't don't, I surrender." ā
A-Ning looked at the fat man's scared appearance and couldn't stop laughing, and said to the fat man: "I'm abroad, and I've always been the champion in shooting competitions, not only bows and crossbows, but also guns, which are my strengths." After Aning finished speaking, he picked up the crossbow machine and aimed it at the river and pulled the trigger, only to see a crossbow arrow off the string and shoot into the water. The fat man didn't react except at the ripples of the arrow on the surface of the water, and laughed.
The fat man said: "Okay, eldest sister, don't brag, waste crossbow arrows, save some, maybe it will be useful to go down for a while." ā
A-Ning didn't pay attention to the fat man, just pointed to the water surface that he had just shot, and the fat man looked disapprerovingly from the new water, only to see a big carp slowly floating on the river surface that was still calm just now, and the fish had a crossbow arrow stuck in its belly, and the fat man saw this and said to A-Ning in amazement: "I take back what I said just now"
Just when a few of us were idle, Old Wu Tou stood in the distance and shouted at us: "Come on, I found it." ā
Hearing Lao Wu Tou call us, he said to A-Ning, the fat man and Yang Zhi: "Put on your backpack and follow me." After saying that, he picked up my backpack and walked towards Lao Wu, and the three of them followed me all the way.
Coming to Lao Wutou, Lao Wutou looked at us carrying bags, and said with a smile: "I said everyone, what are you carrying so many things now, we haven't dug a hole yet, can you go in?" ā
Listening to what the old Wu Tou said, I was disappointed, indeed, the cave is not yet, how to get in. I asked the fat man to put his luggage down first, and asked, "Then let's start digging white." ā
Old Wu Tou shook his head and said, "The land under your feet should be the general location of the Xuanming Divine Palace, but I don't remember where I dug the hole at that time. ā
"So what do we do?" I looked at the old man helplessly, thinking to myself why this old man was so unhappy.
Old Wu Tou thought for a while and said: "Go down to the probe shovel, as long as you use the probe shovel to probe the white plaster mud, you can find the air-raid shelter, and if you find the air-raid shelter, you can find the Xuanming Divine Palace." ā
Hearing the words of the old Wu Tou, I nodded secretly, and then I and the old Wu Tou and the strong man began to dig holes in the surrounding ground with a probe shovel to lift the soil, at the beginning of several in a row there were no clues, but I found that the soil here is strange, the first layer is sand, the second is soil, the third layer is sand, the old Wu Tou told me that this soil is easy to cause landslides, let us be careful.
When we were all a little disappointed, complaining that the old Wu Tou was looking for the wrong place, Qiangzi brought up the shovel and shouted to us: "Detect the white plaster mud", hearing the shout of the strong son, we hurriedly walked over and looked at the mud brought out by the probe shovel, and really found the white plaster we were looking for in the soil raised by the probe shovel. After finding the white plaster, Lao Wu Tou picked up the white plaster and looked at it, telling us that this was the white plaster we saw back then. Then a few of us started digging holes with iron drills, and as I had found before, the holes here were particularly easy to dig because they were all sand with a small amount of dirt. After more than an hour of taking turns to work, we finally saw the white plaster.
The fat man looked at the white plaster and shouted excitedly: "We dug it, long live." ā
Old Wu Tou: "Qiangzi, prepare an iron pickaxe, and smash the concrete in a while." ā
The fat man heard that the old Wu Tou was going to use an iron pickaxe to smash the dirt, and his face was helpless, the fat man wiped the man on his forehead and said: "I said Old Wu Tou, didn't you bring explosives, just blow up this place and use coolies, we are all tired to death." ā
Old Wu Tou was very unhappy when he heard the fat man's nagging, and said to the fat man: "Use gunpowder? Let's not talk about explosives that will cause landslides, aren't you afraid of bringing the police in? ā
The fat man had no choice but to keep silent when he heard Lao Wutou's words, and the fat man knew that this time the matter could only be carried out secretly, and he couldn't let others know.
After we shoveled off the white plaster, we dug out a lot of yellow mud, but we didn't see the cement that Lao Wu Tou said, which was beyond my expectations, and I thought that it didn't seem that the white plaster mud was concrete under it, but I didn't think much about it, and continued to dig down, and finally when we dug nearly a meter deep, we saw the concrete we were looking for. Fat and strong man with iron pickaxes and chisels and other tools on the concrete to attack, but the concrete is really strong, the fat man finally anxious, picked up a sledgehammer, with all his strength smashed down, with a loud noise, the concrete leaked out of a hole of about one square, the fat man did not hold the sledgehammer, the sledgehammer fell into the hole from the hole with a swish, and then there was a huge sound of landing, frightened the fat man hurriedly backwards a few steps.
"It's opened, it's opened," the fat man and the strong man shouted loudly to the ground, and at this time, I stood at the entrance of the cave with Lao Wutou, looking at the open concrete, and I found that the concrete layer was nearly 5 meters deep from our ground.
We pulled the fat man up with the strong man, waited for the air to move in the cave, and then went down again, and went in if there was any poison gas or something down there, but it wasn't a joke.
Lao Wu Tou lit a candle, and then put the candle into a bamboo basket, the handle of the basket was tied with a thin rope, Lao Wu Tou slowly put the basket into the hole, watching the candle in the cave continue to burn, the flame is still shaking, this time we are relieved. A few of us put on our backpacks and prepared to go down the cave.
We put a headlamp on our heads and slid through the rope to the cave, Yang Zhi was the first to go down to the hole, and then shouted at us in the hole: "Come down, no problem." ā
Hearing Yang Zhi's words, several of us slipped into the cave one after another, and when A-Ning was the last to enter the cave, there was a sudden loud noise above us, and then the hole we had just opened was also constantly falling sand. Old Wu Tou looked up and suddenly shouted to our aunt: "It's not good, get out of this position quickly." ā
After the old Wu Tou finished speaking, he pulled the strong son and ran to the front of the hole, we heard the words of the old Wu Tou, and quickly ran with the old Wu Tou, when we ran out a few meters, we looked back again, only to see that the hole we dug had been completely blocked.
"The robbery hole we dug outside just now should not be buried by the sediment of the collapse, God forbid, if we collapsed when we were digging the thief hole, we would have died a long time ago" Lao Wu looked at the blocked thief hole and sighed.
Fat man: "Old Wu Tou, aren't we trapped in it now?" ā
Old Wu Tou smiled: "At least we didn't die." ā
At this time, I looked up at the environment where we were, it was really like what the old Wu Tou said, it was really a place similar to an air-raid shelter, let's call her an air-raid shelter, the air-raid shelter was 3 meters high, about 2.5 meters wide, the length was not very clear, there was a thick layer of dust on the surrounding walls, wipe off the dust with your hands, it seemed that there were water stains, it was estimated that it was the rainy season, there should be water here, and the road under your feet was very flat. Looking at the thief hole that has been blocked, I can't help but sigh, just come in and give us a dismount, it seems that the next road must be cautious.
Old Wu Tou and Yang Zhiqiangzi walked in front, and I walked behind with Ah Ning Fat Man, carefully observing the surroundings while walking, the road in front was pitch black, Ah Ning took my hand and said, "Brother Xiao Jiang, do you say that there are really dried corpses here?" ā
Fat man: "What a dry corpse, I think it's what Lao Wu Tou thinks about, how can there be a dry corpse, and even if there is, I think it's lying straight on the ground, and it won't move around." ā
The fat man said disapprovingly, but I didn't say anything, facing the darkness all around, and I didn't find anything like a dry corpse. For the dry corpse really exists in this world, on the one hand, after death, due to the burial environment and the like, the corpse did not decompose, but lost moisture and became hard, and our country has also found a lot of dried corpses in the past archaeological activities. But those dried corpses are no different from dried bacon or something, just a dry corpse. But the dried corpses of the activity, I really haven't seen it when I'm so old, if I have seen it, it is in American movies, and I have seen it in some zombie movies made in Hong Kong, but I really haven't found anything. But I can't say no, after all, people's cognition is limited, and many things that we haven't seen are normal.
A few of us kept walking to the depths of the bomb shelter, and Old Wu Tou kept trying to find the thief hole he dug when he entered the Xuanming Divine Palace, but we searched for a long time, and we didn't find anything.
Old Wu Tou kept observing the wall of the air-raid shelter with a flashlight, no longer walking forward, while shining a flashlight, scratching his hair, and muttering to himself: "Hey, strange, where was the hole I dug at that time?" ā
The fat old Wu Tou was talking to himself, and said impatiently: "I think, let's rest for a while, let's eat something, we have done so long of hard work when we are outside, and we have walked for so long after coming down, and everyone is tired, or we will rest on the spot, eat something and then continue to walk!" ā
A-Ning also said: "Yes, let's rest for a while before moving forward." ā
Lao Wu patted his head dejectedly, walked over, a few of us sat on the ground, took out the food prepared before, and ate it, A-Ning said to everyone while eating: "Everyone pay attention to saving, this time down, we don't know how long it will take to go out, that's all the food, eat a little less." ā
I took out a bottle of liquor and took a sip, then handed the bottle to Lao Wutou, who took a sip of wine and said, "How do I feel that this is not the air-raid shelter I entered back then, but it should look right." ā
"Don't worry, we're just going somewhere, maybe we're ahead." I comforted Old Wu Tou.
Old Wu Tou nodded, the fat man ate a roast chicken, Yang Zhi ate some compressed biscuits, the fat man put the roast chicken aside, reached over to take the wine, picked up the wine bottle and drank a few sips, smiled at everyone and said: "Don't say it, in this cold environment underground, it feels much better to drink some wine." ā
A-Ning looked at the fat man with disdain: "I said you, you eat less, I don't think these meals are enough for you to eat alone."
The fat man disagreed, saying, "I know, I'll just eat less." After speaking, he picked up the roast chicken and took another bite.
This time we came out, the main food we brought was compressed biscuits and water, but compressed biscuits were our war food, and the fat man also bought some convenience food, after all, everyone couldn't stand eating biscuits.
Just when everyone finished eating and cleaning up, Yang Zhi suddenly pulled out the Tang knife behind his back, held the knife in his hand, stared at the depths of the air-raid shelter with a serious face, and said, "There is a voice." ā
We heard Yang Zhi say that we were all nervous when we were busy, and the old Wu Tou and Qiangzi were also trembling and nagging: "It's bad now, is the corpse coming, my God." ā
"Shut up, what are you afraid of with us," the fat man scolded.
I listened carefully to the sound in the cave, but I didn't hear any sound except for the breathing of a few of us, so we slowly relaxed our vigilance, but Yang Zhi still stood there with a knife and looked at the cave vigilantly, and Yang Zhi looked in the direction of the air-raid shelter we had walked before.
Qiangzi looked at Yang Zhi and shouted: "I said buddy, let's not make this kind of joke, okay, it scared me to death, we just came from there, what is there." ā
Fat man: "That's it, you're going to scare people to death." ā
A-Ning said seriously: "I feel that Yang Zhi definitely heard something, but we didn't hear it." ā
Before A-Ning's words fell, we heard a faint sound from the depths of the black cave, and everyone became nervous again, A-Ning raised the crossbow machine, the fat man also held the iron rod tightly, the old Wu head held the gossip mirror, and the strong man took out a bottle with black dog blood, and everyone looked nervously at the depths of the air-raid shelter.
Looking into the swarthy distance, listening to the murmuring voices getting louder and louder, I thought to myself, is there really a moving corpse here?