Chapter 2 The Cave (I)
"Captain, the black wolf seems to have discovered something?!" The youngest officer of the search and rescue team was holding the hound, and at this time he leaned back and used all his strength to barely hold the police dog Black Wolf. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the black wolf stuck out his tongue, staring at the hillside not far ahead, his front paws churning in the air. It seems that as soon as you let go of the leash, it will be impatient to rush over.
The leader of the search and rescue team raised his hand alertly, and asked everyone to follow the black wolf step by step.
Today's weather is good, and you can clearly identify the various vines and parasitic plants in the forest, crisscrossing the ancient trunks and mountains. I can clearly see that there is nothing unusual on the hillside not far away, it is also well covered by vegetation, and there is no trace of people coming. The crowd crept forward. Yu Yue felt uneasy, and pulled the corners of Zhuo Fan's clothes, "Teacher Zhuo ......"
Zhuo Fan turned around, "Xiao Yu, take your steps carefully and keep up." ”
Yu Yue saw that Zhuo Fan quickly turned his gaze back to the front, so he didn't want to disturb him, so he had to move forward with them.
Just as Yu Yue was engrossed in walking forward, he saw a black shadow rushing forward, like a black lightning, and disappeared in an instant. Yu Yue was startled and stopped his steps. "Black wolf!" It turned out to be the police dog black wolf who rushed forward. Three or two times submerged into the mountain in front of him and disappeared without a trace.
The captain's face sank. The police officer who grabbed the police dog panicked, "I don't know what's going on, it's clear that the chain is very tightly bolted." He whistled twice, and nothing happened in the silent jungle. Everyone looked ahead of the jungle, only to hear each other's heavy breathing, and their hearts seemed to stop.
It stands to reason that police dogs are professionally trained, and they will come back when they hear the whistle or not, whether they find the target task or not. However, this time, the black wolf did not return. The anomaly of the black wolf shocked everyone. Yu Yue was shocked, but she noticed a slight coolness on her back. She couldn't help but rub her arms.
The captain's lips were tightly closed, probably he also realized that the black wolf was unusual, and he said calmly, "Maybe the black wolf entered the cave before us, let's go in too." ”
"But where is the entrance to the cave?" At this time, Zhuo Fan, who had not spoken from beginning to end, spoke.
His words brought the advancing group to a halt again. Yu Yue looked around, just now he only paid attention to the black wolf, and he didn't notice that there was a reckless jungle all around, and there was no bare hole under the rocks at all.
The deputy leader of the construction team pointed not far ahead, "Our highway is on this, and the surveyed karst cave is under the road, that is, on the mountain wall in front." Let's take a look. ”
"Yes, the black wolf also ran there and disappeared, there must be a hole there." The youngest officer put away the leash and clutched it tightly in his hand.
When they came to the mountain wall, they looked left and right, and said, "This is just an ordinary mountain wall." Yu Yue touched the thick and craggy vines.
"The mountains and forests here are quite old and uninhabited, and over time, vegetation has probably covered the cave entrances." The deputy leader of the construction team is a middle-aged man in his fifties, with a sturdy physique and a burly build. There is a long scar on his face. I heard that it was scratched by a falling tile during a construction trip. The scars are wrapped around the face like jagged dead branches, and it looks scary.
The leader of the search and rescue team felt justified and ordered the police officers of the search and rescue team, "Everyone carefully touch the back of the vegetation to see if there is any finding." ”
As soon as the words fell, the deputy captain of the construction team stopped, "There are probably poisonous snakes and poisonous insects on this mountain wall, so don't use your hands." After speaking, he took out his folded saber, cut off the branches of a small tree next to him, and handed them to the police officer one by one.
Yu Yue was standing in front of the mountain wall, stubbornly trying to look through the vines. As soon as she turned her head, she saw that the captain was carefully looking at the deputy captain of the construction team, and she couldn't help but be curious. Walked over and asked, "Captain." ”
The captain was stunned for a moment, and came back to his senses, "Miss Yu." ”
Yu Yue was hesitating whether to ask the doubts in his heart, when he suddenly heard a loud and powerful shout from behind him, "Here!" ”
Everyone threw down the branches in their hands and gathered over there, and the captain urged, "Miss Yu, we have found the entrance to the cave." ”
Yu Yue swallowed the words that had just reached her mouth and walked over. The officers moved quickly and cleared the vines and trees at the entrance of the cave. A small hole appeared in front of him.
"So small!" Yu Yue couldn't help but exclaim.
"Could this not be the entrance to a cave, but a cave of some kind of animal?"
The deputy leader of the construction team pushed everyone away and walked to the entrance of the cave, supported both sides of the hole with both hands, and put his head in.
Yu Yue gasped, according to what Teacher Zhuo Fan said, if this is really a cave of some kind of animal, the behavior of the deputy leader of the construction team is too dangerous.
The deputy captain of the construction team pulled his head back, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips like a steel carving, "This is it." ”
Ever since he saw the captain of the police team staring at the deputy captain just now, Yu Yue was concerned intentionally or unintentionally, and at this time, he looked at the eyes of the deputy captain of the construction team, and now he was full of suspicion.
The captain's eyes were cold and sharp, and he calmly asked, "How can you tell it?" ”
The deputy captain breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had buried his head in the hole for a long time, "I heard the sound of water flowing in the hole." If it is an animal's burrow, there will be no echo of the current. Moreover, the carbon dioxide content in this cave is extremely high, and it is basically impossible to breathe. ”
Yu Yue heard the deputy captain say that it was reasonable, but the captain still didn't seem to believe it, "Bring the torch!" ”
"It's useless, the carbon dioxide content in the cave is very high, I'm afraid that the torch has just entered and has not had time to illuminate the cave, and it has already been extinguished."
Ignoring the opposition of the deputy leader of the construction team, the captain lit the torch, and the torch about one meter long slowly stretched into the hole, and saw that the fire was getting smaller and smaller, and the torch was completely extinguished after two-thirds of the way in. The captain nodded in satisfaction and ordered, "Go to the camp and get some oxygen tanks." ”
Several officers quickly left. Everyone was on guard. Zhuo Fan surveyed around, taking pictures here and there. Yu Yue originally stayed where she was, but everyone didn't speak, she felt that the atmosphere was a little awkward, so she followed Zhuo Fan.
Zhuo Fan stood in front of the mountain wall, looking up at the sky. Seems to be thinking about something.
"Teacher Zhuo."
He noticed Yu Yue and looked at her with a smile, "Yu Yue, I'm not used to coming here for so many days, right?" ”
Yu Yue smiled awkwardly and nodded. "I learned a lot from Teacher Zhuo."
Zhuo Fan smiled very cheerfully, "Everyone in the company is reluctant to accept this interview, so I can only let you come, which can be regarded as giving you a chance to practice, after returning from here, I will apply to my superiors to let you become a regular as soon as possible." ”
"Really?" For the first time in so many days, Yu Yue tasted happiness again. Ever since Ah Shen's incident, she has been immersed in grief and forgotten everything. A few times, she even hallucinated, and Ah Shen was still by her side. Yu Yue forced herself to return to reality, she looked at the reckless jungle, "Life is really short, not as short as nature, it can experience tens of millions of years." People are really too small. ”
Zhuo Fan saw that her eyes were full of sadness, and patted her on the shoulder, "It is precisely because life is short that we should look forward." ”
The chiseling sound sounded, and Yu Yue and Zhuo Fan both looked at the source of the sound. The deputy leader of the construction team is directing several police officers to dig holes in the mountain wall.
"What's wrong?" Zhuo Fan asked.
"We can't get into the original hole, if I'm not mistaken, this hole won't be so small, it must be the rocks that fell during the landslide that blocked the hole, we only need to chisel open a layer of rocks outside before we can enter." The deputy leader of the construction team said,
It didn't take long for the police to get oxygen, and at this time, the hole had been chiseled open, as the deputy leader of the construction team said, and sure enough, behind the rocks was a large opening.
The leader of the search team ordered several police officers to wait outside, and six people, including Yu Yue Zhuofan, entered the cave together. As soon as Yu Yue entered the hole, her feet were empty, she let out an "ah", her feet fell to the ground, and she realized that she had stepped into the water. The water didn't reach her calves, and she glanced at the deputy leader of the construction team gratefully, thinking to herself that if he hadn't reminded her in advance that there were many snakes, insects, rats and ants in the forest, the climate was changing rapidly, and everyone would have to get wet if she had to walk in waterproof hiking boots.
Zhuo Fan also felt the same way, and said loudly to the deputy captain of the construction team who walked in front, "Yes, the deputy captain reminded us to wear mountaineering rain boots." ”
After a few steps, the voice of the leader of the search and rescue team came from the front of the team, "It's over." "The leader of the search and rescue team walked first, and the miner's lamp on his head hit the rock wall,
The miner's lamp on Yu Yue's head also told her that the captain's words were right. In front of them was a craggy stone wall, and water was slowly flowing down the stone wall.
Yu Yue couldn't help but look back at the way he came, "It's really small, it's less than ten meters from the entrance of the cave here." ”
"Originally, the radar detected a small karst cave." A police officer explained.
Everyone looked around at the cave, and the miner's lamp above his head shot orange light, hitting the cave wall back and forth.
Yu Yue has seen photos of the karst cave scenic spots in many tourist places, and the caves are colorful and beautiful. But the cave she was in now was all dark. If it weren't for the six miner's lamps shining around, she wouldn't have seen anything.
This cave is no different from the cave in her impression, the only difference is that there are no stone stalactites from the top of the cave to the bottom of the cave, although there are a few small ones, hanging down from the top of the cave, but if you don't look closely, you will hardly find it.
"Is this really a cave? It looks like just a normal cave."
"This can only be said to be an early karst cave, I'm afraid it hasn't been formed for a long time."
"However, doesn't it mean that based on the growth of vegetation outside the cave, it is concluded that a landslide hundreds of years ago covered the entrance to the cave? That said, the hole has been around for at least a few hundred years. ”
As soon as Yu Yue finished speaking, he saw Zhuo Fan's approving gaze through the goggles.
The leader of the search and rescue team pondered for a moment and explained, "I heard that people here lived in a cave a long time ago, and this cave is not large, so it should be the residence of people at that time. ”
Seeing that Yu Yue and Zhuo Fan no longer argued, the captain of the search and rescue team seemed to agree with his explanation. Ordered everyone to scatter and search the cave to see if there were any clues.
As soon as he finished speaking, a whistle sounded beside Yu Yue. Only then did Yu Yue remember that the black wolf broke free from the chain just now, and it may have entered the hole. This whistle is used to summon the black wolf.
However, after a few whistles, there was no sound in the cave except for the occasional sound of water dripping from the ceiling of the cave. Everyone was a little depressed, but they still scattered to search according to the captain's order.
It was only a few moments, and all the places in the cave had been searched, and the captain was obviously a little disappointed, "Let's go out." ”
Zhuo Fan said lightly, "No wonder, the entrance of the cave is so small, how can the captain of the construction team be in it." ”
When this cave was discovered, everyone's attention was attracted by this hole, and they didn't think of this possibility at all, and now listening to Zhuo Fan, the leader of the construction team immediately ordered everyone to withdraw from the cave.
In the dark, Yu Yue followed everyone out of the water. She and Zhuo Fan were left behind, and there was only one police officer behind them. The sound of rushing water resounded beneath his feet. As soon as Yu Yue looked up, perhaps because she was close to the entrance of the cave, the white light coming from the entrance of the cave made her eyes a little uncomfortable, but she still felt strange. She was so shocked that she almost exclaimed, "Wait! ”
Her voice trembled a little. Everyone stopped, and the orange light of the miner's lamp hit her face in unison, illuminating her pale face.
Zhuo Fan asked kindly, "What's wrong?" ”
"Are we missing one person?"