Chapter 2: The Meeting of Fate
With Lao Jiang as an accompaniment, they haven't set off yet, and all the trips have been arranged. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Lao Jiang patted his chest on the poker face, "The Fulong Gang is not only on the coast, even in the mainland, there are also my people. ā
So soon, the two had arrived in Turpan. After a night's rest, there was already an off-road vehicle with a cart of equipment, and it was parked peacefully outside the hotel. Waiting for Lao Jiang and Poker Face to set off.
"Ah Shen." Lao Jiang blurted out.
Poker Face looked at Lao Jiang, Lao Jiang understood the reluctance of Poker Face, so he changed his words, "Poker Face, you said that Moonlight Village is located underground, how can we go to the ground?" Is it possible, do you have to make a thief hole? Lao Jiang looked at the loess with a sad face, "Don't say it, the soil here is uneven, with more sand and less rock formations, if you want to talk about robbery holes, I'm afraid it will be very easy to collapse." ā
"There." Poker Face was proofreading the compass while pointing in the southeast direction, indicating where the car was going.
The driver kicked the accelerator and flew there.
"What's there?" Lao Jiang was still confused. As the car bumped on the yellow sand, he suddenly saw a black line appear on the yellow earth not far away, which became clearer and clearer. "Could it be that that's where Moonlight Village is located?"
Poker Face looked at it from afar and nodded, "That's the pothole." ā
Lao Jiang raised his eyes and looked over, and the yellow sand rolled up by the off-road vehicle was all over the sky, blocking their vision in a sprinkled manner. Drive closer, even through the sand and dust, Lao Jiang can see clearly, it is a circular pit with a diameter of more than 100 meters, Lao Jiang got up from the off-road station, took the telescope, this time he looked carefully clearly, the pit was like a huge black hole, hollow, just looking at it, as if it was about to swallow him. Lao Jiang put down the telescope in fright, "Is this hole really caused by the ethylene explosion?" ā
Pokerface took the binoculars and looked over the pothole. The wind blew his clothes against his body, revealing his emaciated figure.
Because of the impact of the explosion, the edges of the crater were smoothed. Poker Face stands on the edge and looks down. There is darkness below that you can't see the bottom, and the darkness is quietly entrenched in the pit, and even the strong sunlight of Turpan can't shine into the pit.
"You want to go down?" Poker Face has already started to prepare climbing equipment for mountaineering. Gently replied, "Hmm." ā
He drove the nail deep into the rock formation, slowly loosening the rope that hung from his body. Oxygen tank on your back.
"What do you want an oxygen tank for?" Lao Jiang was confused by the mixed and matched equipment of the poker face.
"I think there's water down there." After the poker face finished speaking, he shook the rope on his waist and was about to go down the hole.
"The sun in Turpan is so poisonous, and the evaporation is so large, it may have dried up there a long time ago, right?" Lao Jiang looked down again, but he couldn't see anything but darkness.
Poker Face said as he put on his mask, "The qanats and underground rivers below probably won't evaporate so quickly. ā
Lao Jiang had already prepared the utensils for imitating the poker face at this moment, nodded at the poker face, and took the lead in slowly going down the pit.
There is a great deal of evaporation here, and the surface of the rocks that have been soaked in water for a long time does not grow moss, but is very dry. The rough touch can still be felt while wearing protective gloves. Lao Jiang panted as he climbed down, "I thought it would be difficult to climb down here, but I didn't expect it to be easier than climbing all the way down." ā
The poker face is lighter than Lao Jiang's, if it weren't for waiting for Lao Jiang, I'm afraid he would have disappeared a long time ago. Lao Jiang waved his hand proudly at the poker face, revealing a slightly tired smile. Lao Jiang was stationed in his gold shop all the year round, and he didn't have time to exercise at all, and after a while, he couldn't climb anymore panting. He looked down, and there was bottomless darkness under his feet, as if he was going to pull him down in the next second. His legs went limp, and as a result, the force on his arms increased violently, catching him off guard. One of his hands on the rock suddenly let go, and the whole person fell down in an instant. The poker face was two meters away from Lao Jiang, and he couldn't pull Lao Jiang at all. After hearing Lao Jiang's brief "ouch" cry, his voice stopped abruptly.
Poker Face held the flashlight and shone it at the place where Lao Jiang fell, only to see Lao Jiang fall straight and straight on a platform not far from his feet, and on the rock wall of the platform, there was an unexpected passage.
Old Jiang woke up in a daze and found that he couldn't move. The poker face flashlight shone on his face, stabbing him and couldn't open his eyes, he dusted off the flashlight, "Don't make trouble, I'm tired." ā
Poker landed on the platform with his face steadily, untied his rope, and wrapped himself around the rocks jutting out to the side. "Are you alright?"
Old Jiang Le closed his eyes and hehe, "It's okay, it's just that my whole body is like carrying goods, and I can't move." ā
Poker frowned, took off his gloves, and touched Lao Jiang up and down.
"What are you doing? We're not close to this yet, are we? Lao Jiang struggled to resist, but he couldn't move.
"Don't move." After speaking, he began to pick up Lao Jiang's clothes.
"Hey, don't bully me that I can't move, pick up such a place to be hard?" Lao Jiang lowered his head to bite the hand of the poker face.
"Sure enough." Poker Face mutters to himself. Lao Jiang glanced down, his clothes had been ripped off to his chest, and under the light of the poker face flashlight, his chest was exposed.
He suddenly became shy, "You can see it now, but you have to be responsible for me." ā
Poker Face didn't seem to care about Lao Jiang's joke with him at all, and hurriedly circled around the platform, groping carefully, as if looking for something.
Lao Jiang couldn't move, and when he saw that the poker face suddenly snubbed him, he said poorly, "Why didn't you continue so soon?" ā
Before he finished speaking, he had already covered his mouth by Pokerface, and something in the palm of Pokerface's hand passed to his mouth.
"Chew it and swallow it." Poker Face said calmly.
"What is this...... Lao Jiang said vaguely, just moved his mouth, only to feel a foul smell gushing up from the contents of his mouth, and he retched in disgust. Helplessly, Poker Face's hand covered his mouth tightly, and he couldn't spit out the contents of his mouth at all.
Lao Jiang shrunk his neck, holding that piece of stuff in his mouth, he couldn't swallow it or spit it out, and the stench filled his mouth, making him nauseous and vomiting.
"Swallow it." Poker Face said again.
Lao Jiang thought to himself, let's die, although this thing is big and smelly, and it is impossible for the poker face to kill him, he gritted his teeth and swallowed that thing directly.
Only then did Poker Face let go, took the kettle from behind him and handed it to Lao Jiang. Old Jiang bared his teeth in disgust, and the stench kept coming from between his esophagus teeth. He took the kettle and drank it with great pleasure.
"What the hell did you give me?" Lao Jiang was angry, almost rudely straightened his clothes, and asked.
"You were bitten by something just now, and your whole body was paralyzed, and now it's all right."
Lao Jiang sighed, looked down at his body, and was really flexible again.
"What the hell are you giving me food?" Lao Jiang's anger dissipated a little, and he asked curiously.
As if he didn't intend to answer Lao Jiang, Poker Face said, "Let's go"
Lao Jiang grabbed the poker face, "If you don't tell me, I won't let you go." ā
Poker looked at Lao Jiang, but still shook his head, "You won't want to know." With an understatement, Pokerface held a flashlight and headed for the passage.
Lao Jiang seemed to have eaten the scales and had an iron heart, because of the limitation of his size, he couldn't catch up with the poker face at all, so he could only shout behind the poker face, "Poker face, you tell me." ā
"Poker Face, you stop!"
However, Pokerface was also determined not to tell him.
Lao Jiang suddenly stood still and shouted, "Wu Shen, are you giving me ****?!" ā
The poker face turned his head slightly, and let out a faint "um", short but powerful. Lao Jiang's whole person couldn't move again.
"You actually gave me ****?!" Lao Jiang's whole person couldn't move again. "I knew you were giving me, I'd rather be paralyzed and still."
Poker Face said lightly, "You were bitten by the worm in this hole just now, so you were paralyzed, I searched around the platform, and I didn't find anything, so I only found that." ā
That is to say...... You're not sure about that at all...... Can really relieve my paralysis, and you just give it to me? Saying that, Lao Jiang retched twice, "I am the leader of the Fulong Gang, and only you dare to give me ****." ā
"If I'm guessing correctly, it's the kind of bug excrement that keeps the toxins in their bodies and excretes the detoxifying substances out of the body, so their excrement can detoxify." What Poker Face said was reasonable, but it still made Lao Jiang unacceptable. He grimaced, "Give me your water, and I'll rinse my mouth again." ā
Poker Face shook his head helplessly and handed the water to Lao Jiang again.
After Lao Jiang drank the water, he took two breaths to prove that he couldn't ask about the strange smell, and then began to pay attention to the scenery around him, "Where are we?" ā
Poker Face slammed the flashlight on the cave wall, scanned back and forth, and looked around with a frown, "We should be in the maze." After speaking, he added, "It should be the outermost part of the labyrinth." ā
"What do you see is that?" Lao Jiang suddenly shrank to the side of the poker face, "It seems that something is coming towards us." ā
Poker Face turned his head, only to see that everywhere he looked, the darkness seemed to have changed light and dark, and after a careful look, Poker Face said calmly, "It's a person." His gaze hadn't taken his eyes off the shadow, and his body had become visibly alert.
"Are you sure it's human? People are much more terrifying than ghosts in this place. Lao Jiang grabbed the shoulders of the poker face tightly, and almost hung the whole person on the poker face.
Poker face shook a flashlight, only to see that the shadow also stopped, and soon, the sound of rubbing footsteps came from the other side of the passage. The man was moving at a breakneck speed in the direction of Poker Face and Lao Jiang.
"It's coming, it's coming......" Lao Jiang was already overly frightened, and his whole face was buried in the shoulder of the poker face. Wait until you hear a clear voice say, "What's wrong with him?" ā
Hey? How do you understand? Is it Chinese? Lao Jiang muttered a few words in his heart before he mustered up the courage to look up. The light of the poker face flashlight hit half of the man's face, and his face was particularly abrupt in the light and dark.
Lao Jiang was bluffed, stroked his heart and shouted Amitabha.
"Who do you see he is?" Poker Face's voice was low and calm, not at all as calm as Lao Jiang.
Lao Jiang was originally the leader of a gang, so he had naturally seen many big battles, and he had also seen bloodshed and desperately, but in the face of such an unknown, the fear in Lao Jiang's heart was still pressed layer upon layer. Lao Jiang still didn't dare to raise his head, "What is who, can there be people who know each other in this place." ā
The poker face had no choice but to pinch Lao Jiang's face and lift it up, "Look at it." ā
The poker face held a flashlight with one hand and pinched Lao Jiang's face with the other, and the position of the two hands was not coordinated at all. After Lao Jiang's head was raised, Poker Face let go of his hand and asked the visitor, "Why are you here?" ā
The visitor replied softly, "Just curious." ā
At this time, Lao Jiang followed the light of the flashlight on his poker face, and finally saw clearly who was coming. It turned out that he was Zhuo Fan, who had just lost his father not long ago.
Lao Jiang was not afraid to see it clearly this time, "Why are you here?" ā
Zhuo Fan shrugged, knowing that he couldn't fool the two people in front of him, so he said, "Before my father died, he mentioned that our surname Duanmu was originally a branch of Xinjiang surnames. So I came to Xinjiang to see if I could find anything. After coming to Xinjiang, I heard that a big crater appeared here not long ago. I remembered that time I came here on a business trip with Yu Yue. After going through the affairs in the United States, I felt that Yu Yue's disappearance was not so simple, so I took a look. ā
Poker Face and Lao Jiang looked at each other, and Lao Jiang spoke, "Then did you see anything?" ā
"I was walking down that pit and I accidentally fell into it. It didn't take long for me to wake up, and I met you. Zhuo Fan smiled apologetically, "I didn't see anything either." ā
"Since you met here, you might as well come with us." Poker Face launched an unprecedented invitation to Zhuo Fan.