As soon as I heard this, I was stunned, and two bloodshot eyeballs immediately appeared in my mind, so I said what eyes, don't scare me. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

I froze in place, and after a while, I dared to turn my head back and see that there was nothing behind me.

Yang Xue pointed to the "door" at the end of the ancient road and said, "I...... I saw a pair of red eyes, flashing there, and then they were gone, was it really dazzled? ”

I said that you must be dazzled, what red eyes, the eyes of the white giant salamander are red, but, how can it get into that "door" with such a big head, you must have been scared enough to choke, leaving a psychological shadow.

Yang Xue nodded, saying that she was really dazzled and hallucinating, so she picked up the needle and thread, disinfected it with alcohol, and began to stitch up the wound for me.

I grew so big, only once I accidentally broke my jaw when I was playing, I had a few stitches in the hospital, and I also took some anesthetics at that time, and I felt that it hurt so much. What kind of man bleeds without tears, at this time, it's not that you want to cry, but a physiological reaction, you can't restrain it, according to me, it should be a man crying It's not a sin to cry.

This "minor operation" lasted for about ten minutes, and after sewing up the wound, not only me, but even Yang Xue's forehead was covered with beads of sweat the size of beans. She sewed up the wound for me, rubbed some antiseptic solution, bandaged it with gauze, and finally applied waterproof tape to it.

I was in so much pain that I couldn't help but scold: "The person who attacked me just now, judging from his size, should be Captain Li, that turtle grandson, in order to escape for his own life, he did not hesitate to use us to blame, which is really poisonous!" ”

Yang Xue wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead and said to me:

"Speaking of which, I remembered that the group of giant salamanders suddenly swam away, as if they had been summoned by some kind of summoning......"

"What calling?" I was taken aback, "Who can summon a divine beast?" ”

Yang Xue shook her head and said, "I can't figure it out, I was scared and didn't pay attention, but I seem to faintly hear the sound of hitting stones." ”

I said, "It's really weird, could it be this group of white giant salamanders, or is it someone's pet?" It's impossible, when we were underwater just now, we all saw it, not only those bullies in the water, but even those black mutant giant salamanders, all of them regard these white monsters as natural enemies, such powerful creatures, who can keep them as pets? ”

Yang Xue said I don't know, maybe I heard it wrong, for now, let's rest for a while, and then go up to see what is going on inside that "door", and whether there is an exit to connect to other places.

We each ate a packet of compressed biscuits in the river, and the biscuits gradually swelled in our stomachs when they met the water, and the intense hunger pang soon disappeared. We put away our flippers, changed into shoes, and climbed up the stairs left by the ancients. When I climbed to the end, I saw that the inside of this "door" was originally a mine.

It is said that it is a mining cave, but it is not true. In this case, it is semi-artificial and semi-natural, that is, there may have been a smaller cave here, which was later expanded and enlarged by artificial excavation.

As soon as you walk in the door, it is a relatively large "room", which is called a room because there are many traces of human life left in it. How to put it, this place is more like a grotto, a horizontal space, on the left there is a simple stove made of rubble, there are various altars and jars, and in the middle there is a small pit for burning fire, which is full of old ashes. On the right side of the "room" are several stone beds made of stone, with slats on them, but they are almost rotten. At the end of the "room" was a "door" supported by wooden beams, black and dark, and I didn't know where it led.

We examined the "room" and found some rusty tools, and a smoke-blackened "roof" with several huge beams propped up in it, rotten and not sure if it would collapse.

I was fascinated, but for some reason, Yang Xue squatted down by the "door" and looked on the ground with a pocket flashlight. She looked at it, beckoned me over, pointed to the plaster that had been deposited on the ground, and said:

"I wasn't dazzled just now, you see, there's still a trail of footprints here......"

I was short-sighted, and I couldn't see clearly when I was standing, so I squatted down, and when I looked, I saw a few pairs of footprints on the ground. This footprint is huge, I tried it with my foot, my height of 1.86 meters, stepping on it, can't cover this footprint. Judging from the pattern of the footprints, the owner of the feet should not be wearing shoes, we followed the direction of the footprints, and in the blink of an eye, we chased to the "door" at the end of the room, inside the door is a deep tunnel, because there is less sedimentation inside, the footprints have been indistinguishable.

Yang Xue and I looked at each other, and after a long time, I asked her

"These footprints seem to have been left by humans, could it be Captain Li and them, but how could they be barefoot?" Does that make sense? Also, this footprint is too big, we don't seem to have such a tall person in the team, right? ”

Yang Xue analyzed: "I think this footprint should be left by the owner of the pair of eyes I saw just now, I was startled at that time, I only saw a pair of blood-red eyes glowing in the dark, and before I could use the light to shine, it was gone." ”

I speculated, "Could it be that there are others in the depths of this mine?" ”

Yang Xue ignored me, continued to observe, and soon made a new discovery, she pointed to the ground sediment and said to me: "Look, there is another row here, huh?" Judging from the lines, this row of footprints should have been left by shoes, could it be that Captain Li and them also entered along this mine? ”

After a few seconds, Yang Xue suddenly picked up a bullet case from the ground, leaned under the headlamp and looked at it for a long time, and said, "This bullet case is still hot!" ”

I took the bullet case from Yang Xue's hand, and sure enough, I felt a trace of residual heat coming, look at the caliber of this bullet case, isn't it shot by Captain Li?

I thought about it for a while and analyzed: "In my opinion, Captain Li and the four of them also came ashore from here, and like us, they entered this mine, and they may have clashed with the owner of the big footprint and fired. However, this is also too strange, what is it like inside this mine? Are there still ancient miners living in it? ”

I told Yang Xue that at the moment we have no other path to follow, although there is a boat on the water, but there is no exit at all, now it seems that Captain Li They are going into this mine, this is the only passage, we might as well go in and have a look, anyway, there is any danger, they are carrying it in front, we don't have to worry, just use them as free cannon fodder.

This mine is also semi-artificial and semi-natural, from the point of view of the excavation process, the age of this mine should not be too long, because before the Ming Dynasty, the mining hole is generally used in the "explosion method", the cave wall is heated with fire, and then poured with ice water, the stone is cracked, easy to excavate. However, after the Ming Dynasty, mining technology has progressed rapidly, and basically the "grinding method" has been adopted, and the efficiency has been improved a lot by using machinery to excavate.

According to my analysis, this mine is very likely to be a gold mine, otherwise, how could the ancients not hesitate to use such a precious material as gloomy wood as a ship to transport ore? Also, the rough gold ore we found on the shore of the underground lake should have come from this cave. Speculate from the geographical location, the possibility is also very high, according to the Ming "Tiangong Kaiwu - Hardware" in the record: "Gold more than the southwest, take the cave mountain to more than ten zhang, see the gold stone, you can see the gold, its stone is brown, one end is like a fire black. ”

We walked along this mine hole, walked for about half an hour, there were three forks in the road, the left and right sides are of the same size, the middle of the mine is the largest, straight forward, I discussed with Yang Xue, and decided to temporarily follow the middle of the mine, walk in to see, according to the logical thinking of ordinary people, will definitely pick the largest mine hole to enter, Captain Li They are very likely, also entered the middle of the mine.

The cave went straight ahead, getting bigger and bigger, and after walking for a short time, it was blocked by two huge iron gates. This iron door is about 4 meters high, it looks very heavy, the façade is covered with **** nails connected to the wooden board, the strange thing is that for some reason, this door is densely hung with iron chains, these iron chains are very thick, front and back, left and right, deeply embedded in the cave wall, the two huge iron doors are firmly locked. Originally, the iron gates were already big enough for ordinary people to shake, and so many iron chains had to be added, what was it to lock things up?