Chapter 3: The Endless Passage of Depth
The whole passage extends forward in an arc, and the further you go, the more you get away from the pothole, the more pitch black it becomes, and the walls of the cave are coated with light-absorbing carbon black, and you can't see your fingers. Zhuo Fan www.biquge.info didn't bring a flashlight, so he could only follow behind the poker face and walk forward with the poker face.
"What the hell is this place? Why can't you see anything? Zhuo Fan couldn't help asking.
Lao Jiang said, "Yes, poker face, this black ground is too unusual, why can't you see anything." Look at this flashlight. As he spoke, Lao Jiang shook the flashlight, and the light from the flashlight seemed to be engulfed in darkness, "It's completely impenetrable." ”
"The walls are coated with a special light-absorbing substance to hide the passages in this labyrinth."
Lao Jiang shook the flashlight again, "It's true, I really can't see anything around here, let alone the place where I turn the corner." ”
"You say, it's a labyrinth?"
Pokerface nodded, "Yes, it's a big circular maze, and we're on the outermost part of the maze right now. ”
"So how do you get out of the labyrinth?" Zhuo Fan asked suddenly. After speaking, he began to look around.
"The labyrinth has been blown up, and we just came in through the crater of the explosion." Lao Jiang explained to Zhuo Fan, and urged the poker face to move forward.
But Pokerface didn't want to go, and suddenly, he said, "We seem to be stuck in a labyrinth." ”
"Didn't you say that the Rice Community Chest was blown up? And we didn't turn at all from just now, how could we be stuck in a maze. Zhuo Fan suddenly became nervous, "If you want to go out, just walk back along the way you came in." ”
"yes, poker face, don't scare me, it's weird and scary, you can't see anything. We didn't turn a corner just now, why did we get stuck in the maze? Lao Jiang swept the flashlight back and forth, left and right, as if to confirm their statement, but the poker face said categorically, "I have calculated before, the radius of this circular maze is ten kilometers, according to the degree of curvature of the arc, we have walked for so long, we should have reached the position where the maze collapsed, but until now, there is still nothing." ”
"Could it be that you are mistaken?" Lao Jiang asked again, but he had begun to believe in the poker face analysis, because from beginning to end, the conclusions that poker face said were correct.
"How do you know so well? Have you been here? Zhuo Fan asked curiously.
"When has this been, I'm still curious about this." Lao Jiang interrupted the poker face, "We won't really be trapped in this, if we are trapped inside, we should be able to get out soon, after all, this maze has collapsed." Right? ”
Poker Face looked thoughtfully at the darkness ahead and stepped forward, "Go further." After speaking, he raised his right arm, stroked the wall of the cave with his fingers, and began to walk forward.
"What is he?"
"We all despise this labyrinth, but we didn't expect it to collapse and trap people." Lao Jiang changed his hand to hold the flashlight, stretched out his opposite hand to Poker Face, touched the cave wall on the other side with his fingers, and walked forward side by side with Poker Face. He turned back to Zhuo Fan and raised his chin, "Follow, you go in the middle." ”
Zhuo Fan suppressed the unstoppable doubts in his heart and followed obediently.
The cave wall was damp, and the fingers of the poker face seeped into the slightest coolness, and it was not until Lao Jiang spoke that the poker face stopped.
"Do you think we're going down?" After speaking, he looked at Zhuo Fan, "You should be able to detect it." ”
"I thought you all knew." Zhuo Fan said, "I have always felt that I am going downhill, have you only noticed it now?" ”
Poker's face remained calm and said, "Since it's going down, let's take a look." ”
Lao Jiang just started, and suddenly stopped, "I always feel a little strange, you said that we are in the outermost layer, but from just now, we have been all the way down, is this maze inclined down?" ”
"You've been walking for so long and you haven't found a fork in the road?" Zhuo Fan pointed to the poker face and Lao Jiang's hand, "I've been touching the cave wall, is there no other passage?" ”
Zhuo Fan's words shocked Poker Face and Lao Jiang, just now he only cared about this gradually descending passage, and he didn't care about going all the way and didn't encounter a fork in the road.
Poker Face and Lao Jiang looked at each other in the dark, and they could only see each other's vague faces, but the two of them continued to walk forward as if they had made a unanimous decision.
"Still walking?" Zhuo Fan had palpitations, after all, he couldn't retreat or advance, so he could only follow Poker Face and Lao Jiang.
After walking for a while, the road was still slanting down at the same angle, but Poker Face noticed something strange in his fingertips, and he pinched a small piece of mud from the cave wall and rubbed it on his fingertips with the light of a flashlight.
"What's the problem?"
"There's something mixed in the soil, the sand and the rock."
"What's that?" Lao Jiang and Zhuo Fan both imitated the poker face, pinched a small piece of dirt, and carefully observed it by the light.
"I didn't notice any difference, it's all dirt." Zhuo Fan crushed the fine soil between his fingers, and the soil fell to the ground sparsely.
Lao Jiang put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, then licked it with his tongue curiously, and suddenly frowned and shouted, "Salty!" At this point, he seemed to have understood, "It's salt, and there's salt in the soil." ”
"Salt? How can there be salt? Zhuo Fan was puzzled.
"Probably because there's a salt lake above our heads."
"Where is the salt lake around here?" At this point, he was immediately interrupted by Lao Jiang, who suddenly seemed to wake up and said, "Moonlight Lake?" ”
"You're saying we're under Moonlight Lake now?"
"There is a large salt crust around Moonlight Lake, and it is likely that, as we see now, salt has penetrated into the formation. Here it is. Poker shook off the sand from his fingertips and muttered, "It's just ...... like that."
"Poker Face, what are you thinking?"
"yes, Poker Face, you've been here, you should know what's going on?" Lao Jiang added.
Who knows, Poker Face shook his head and said, "Impossible." Only then did he turn his head and explain to Lao Jiang, "This is not the passage of the labyrinth. ”
Pokerface said this, and began to analyze it in detail, "At that time, the four of us passed through the collapsed hole and passed the ground on another road from the underground lake. Mayisha's grandfather used to map the labyrinth, and I remember very well that there was no bigger passage outside the passage where we went ashore. ”
"So where are we now?" Lao Jiang suddenly got goosebumps all over his body, "This passage should have been dug by the people of the Moonlight Clan." So where does this passage lead? ”
Poker Face looked at the darkness and shook his head again, "It seems that this is not a labyrinth passage at all, but a straight down passage." Gradually, where does it lead? ”
The darkness extends infinitely, casting a shadow in the hearts of Lao Jiang and the others. "Shall we go back?"
Zhuo Fan interrupted and insisted, "We walked for hours to get here, maybe we will be able to reach the end soon." ”
Lao Jiang looked at the poker face hesitantly, "Poker face, you say it, I'll listen to you." ”
Poker Face was just about to say something, but suddenly thought of something, unloaded his backpack, and took out the oil lamp and fire fold from it.
"What is this going to do?" Zhuo Fan asked puzzledly, "Don't we have a flashlight?" ”
"You told me before that you saw murals in the labyrinth, you mean there are murals here too?" Old Jiang was suspicious, but he still raised his flashlight and looked at the rock wall carefully, but he didn't see anything.
"This passage is very clean, not even ordinary snakes, insects, rats and ants have been encountered, it must have been dug by the Moonlight Clan, but why did it dig so far and so deep, I don't know the reason yet. But at least, you can try it, maybe there are murals here, maybe there are frescoes. Poker Face lit the oil lamp.
Lao Jiang nodded understandingly, and took out the mountaineering rope and mountaineering pickaxe from his backpack. Armed himself, he took the oil lamp from Poker Face's hand and climbed up the cave wall. Lao Jiang quickly disappeared in the darkness, and could only see the halo from the oil lamp, and an orange-white circle of light appeared around Lao Jiang.
"Wait." Poker Face's voice was short but powerful, "Old Jiang, on your left." Poker Face took a step back, and finally saw that on the left and right of Lao Jiang, under the tiny circle of light, a corner of the mural faintly appeared.
"Yes, but the light of the oil lamp is too small to see it all."
The poker face was facing Lao Jiang to the left, "Look around again, there should be a place where there should be a light." ”
Lao Jiang felt very excited, "Good boy, you have hidden the lamps and murals so well, I have to find you out today." Lao Jiang groped left and right carefully, and after a while, he shouted, "Found it, here." Soon, the light came down in a triangle from top to bottom and shone on the wall. At that moment, Zhuo Fan was stunned. "It's ......"
Old Jiang climbed on the rock, panting, "Fortunately, I'm used to climbing the wall, otherwise, I would really be tired to death." Lao Jiang slowly slid down, and who knows, the poker face looked at the opposite wall again.
"What are you talking about, and over here?"
"I'm speculating, too." Poker Face stared at the opposite wall of the cave and remained motionless.
Lao Jiang propped up his waist and took a heavy breath, "Okay, I'll go!" ”
Soon, the light on the other side of the cave wall also turned on, and Zhuo Fan's eyes immediately widened, "What is this?" ”
"What kind of mural is it, I'll see." Lao Jiang stood in the position of the poker face, and the sudden startle made him cry out, "Mom, what is this." ”
The newly lit mural has black and gray as the background color, and the mural pattern gradually appears under the light, only to see that this is a bloody pattern, a demon stands by the wooden stake, holding a huge iron hammer, and smashes it on the wooden stake, and the blood on the wooden stake is splashed everywhere, and the blood is splashed on the evil ghost, and the little ghost next to the evil ghost is splashed on the face, and a large area of blood is splashed on the mural. With a smug and ghostly smile, the demon took one of the man's hands and threw it into the iron plate held up by the imp's hands.
"Lao Jiang, a few meters ahead, there should be a wall lamp, please go and light it up."
Lao Jiang really didn't want to look at this mural anymore, so he raised the fire fold in his hand, and hurriedly urged Zhuo Fan to light the lamp, leaving only a poker face to look at this mural quietly.