Sun Yan took the flashlight and shone it back, and saw a gray figure suddenly sway out from the edge of the flashlight, and then disappeared into the darkness.

"Who?!" Sun Yan had a cramp in his throat and shouted out of his voice. At that moment, without thinking about it, he grabbed his equipment bag and gun, and rushed towards the figure almost like an arrow off the string.

The figure ran as fast as it could, and disappeared into the round platform in a blink of an eye. Sun Yan rushed over, braked with both feet, thought that the black shadow had jumped off the round platform, but when he looked down, he found that there was a stone step here, the flashlight shook into the distance, and found that the figure had rushed down the steps and ran far away, Sun Yan looked at the figure with a sudden chest jumping, extremely nervous, but he still ran down the stone steps, but the stone steps were narrow and small, and he couldn't put down a foot length at all.

After landing, there was a sharp pain in the buttocks, as if it had been stroked by a thick hemp rope, and it was hot. After a long pause, Sun Yan grinned and picked up the flashlight and shook it forward, thinking that the figure had long disappeared, but he didn't expect the flashlight to shine, and he could still see the figure vaguely, but this time the figure was standing still, the light was dim, and the figure deliberately stood outside the light distance of the flashlight, but looking at the figure, it seemed to be a child.

Sun Yan was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that this meant that he was waiting for him on purpose? He quickly got up from the ground and approached the figure, but when he moved, the figure seemed to be extremely frightened, turned around, and ran towards the darkness again.

Damn, how is this like a mouse meeting a cat, more timid than me?! Sun Yan scolded in his heart, and immediately chased after him, shouting as he ran: "Hey, don't be afraid, I don't want to do anything to you!" ”

In fact, Sun Yan shouted this sentence completely to appease the other party, but as soon as he said this, the figure slipped away faster, ran to the end, and actually got into it through a hook under the root of the wall.

Sun Yan didn't take a good look at this underground cave at all, and now he was a little overwhelmed when he saw that the figure suddenly got into the crack. He stopped in front of the hook, squatted down and looked inside, and found that there was a deep and narrow hole in the hook, and he didn't know where it went, and his heart said strangely, could this be a trap, the other party deliberately lured himself to the bait, in case he got into it without thinking about anything, and found that it was a monster's lair?

Thinking about it, Sun Yan couldn't help but shudder, knowing that the psychological fear brought to him by this narrow space could not be eliminated in a while. After hesitating for a while, Sun Yan finally stood up and decided to give up this aimless pursuit, take a good look at this underground cave, and then find a way to get out.

But as soon as he turned to walk away, something grabbed him by the ankle. Sun Yan paused, turned his head to look, and saw a small hand sticking out of the crack, grabbing his ankle.

After being stunned for a few seconds, Sun Yan crouched down almost like lightning to grab the hand. But the other party immediately realized his action and immediately let go of his hand, although Sun Yan moved quickly, he only touched the hand and didn't catch it.

However, although it is just a touch, Sun Yan can judge from the temperature and softness of this hand, this is a person!

Sun Yan hurriedly squatted down again, turned on the flashlight and shone it into the crack, and saw a child lying in it and turning his head to look at himself, as soon as the flashlight shone in, the child crawled to the depths of the small hole like a loach.

Sun Yan can conclude now, this kid must want to let him follow him in, could it be that the other end of the cave is the exit?

Although he was a little worried about how there could be a child in such a deep underground in Lop Nur, knowing that the other party was a person, Sun Yan's heart was somewhat calmer. As soon as his heart was horizontal, he immediately hung the equipment bag and gun on his chest, bent down and got into the hook seam, the hook was really very narrow, like Sun Yan's physique, he had to bend over hard to get in, but it was a little more spacious when he entered it, and the hole wall inside was very smooth, and it seemed to be artificially chiseled out when touched by hand, and it was not so difficult to climb up.

Sun Yan bit the flashlight in his mouth, like a worm, and crawled in one by one, the light of the flashlight had long since shone on the child's figure, although at first he could barely hear the sound of the child crawling in front of him, but then he couldn't hear it at all, and it seemed that he was really crawling faster than a loach.

After climbing like this for about forty minutes, he suddenly felt the wind blowing in front of him, Sun Yan was overjoyed, quickly sped up, and climbed a short distance before finally climbing out of the hole.

As soon as he got out of the hole, Sun Yan couldn't wait to stand up, and hurriedly shook the flashlight around, only to find that outside the cave entrance was an abandoned underground tunnel, its width was at least four meters, and the height was five meters, and the two sides were deep into the darkness and could not be seen.

It is shocking that an underground tunnel was found so deep in the middle of Lop Nur Lake! It is important to know that such a large project as the underground tunnel is generally excavated from the ground to the underground deposit during the exploration of the ore deposit, and the excavation is deep underground in order to expose and delineate the geology of the ore body.

The presence of underground tunnels generally means that there are large-scale underground deposits and complete exploration systems nearby, but such deep underground mining techniques are very difficult, let alone in Lop Nur.

Sun Yan turned around the spot with a flashlight and found that the tunnel was full of traces of manual excavation, but it seemed to have been abandoned for decades.

Thinking of the problem of Hu Tengjiu's 'big ears and eyes' before, now I feel a little foolish, although he can't explain the strange phenomenon that suddenly appears at the entrance of the hole on the ground, but now it seems that this 'ears and eyes' may just be an entrance to the underground ore vein, maybe this ore vein is very valuable, so that this place is spread to the gods, in order to hide people's eyes and ears, to prevent people from approaching here, it seems to make sense.

Just as he was thinking about it, there was a sudden sound at one end of the tunnel, a very slight sound of chains colliding, although the sound was light, but in this silent and strange tunnel, it was like a bell.

Sun Yan's brain was excited, and he suddenly came back to his senses, and then he remembered the kid who brought him over just now, by the way, where did he go?

He hurriedly threw the equipment bag behind his shoulders and walked towards the sound of the tunnel, his steps were small, but fast, and he kept an eye on his feet, lest he fall into the same place as he had just done.

After walking into the tunnel for a while, the sound became closer, and it seemed to be aware of Sun Yan's approach, and the sound of the chain colliding became louder.

Sun Yan didn't dare to slack off at his feet, hurried to the sound closer, and shook the flashlight from time to time, and after a while, he vaguely saw that there seemed to be an iron door at the end of the flashlight, and when he ran closer, he found that there were two people close together, hanging on this side of the iron door with their feet off the ground, motionless, as if they were dead.

And when he looked to the side, the child just now was standing outside the iron gate, hurriedly locking the iron door with iron chains, and looked at Sun Yan in horror.

Seeing this, Sun Yan hurriedly rushed forward and shouted, "Hey, wait! Wait! He rushed to the iron gate, and the child, as if he had seen a ghost, suddenly jumped backwards a meter away, and glared at him in horror.

Sun Yan shook the iron door a few times, and found that it could not be opened, and when he looked down, he saw that a pile of rusty iron chains and a large lock had locked the iron door tightly.

"Damn!" Sun Yan was so angry that he couldn't help but scold, picked up the flashlight and shone it at the kid outside the door, wanting to see if this thing was a poet or a ghost.

The other party seemed to be very afraid of seeing the light, and the moment the light passed, he immediately raised his arm to cover his face, Sun Yan frowned, looked carefully, and found that this seemed to be a girl, because her figure was very slender, and her wrist was not half as thick as Sun Yan's.

After a minute or two, the child slowly lowered his arm, and peeked at Sun Yan a few times vigilantly, and by the light, Sun Yan clearly saw the child's face, and under the stains was a delicate girl's face, who was only twelve or thirteen years old.

Sun Yan was a little surprised, staring at her for a while, the girl seemed to be scared by Sun Yan's staring, a little overwhelmed, dodging his gaze left and right, and then retreated, as if she wanted to escape.

"Ahh I won't do anything to you" Sun Yan hurriedly spoke to reassure her, and at the same time left the iron gate, stepped back a little, and said, "Look, I've stepped back a little, and I definitely can't reach you, so don't be afraid."

As he spoke, Sun Yan took a step back slightly. Seeing this, the girl's expression seemed to slow down a little, but she still didn't relax her vigilance against Sun Yan.

Sun Yan hurriedly pretended to be calm and showed his standard beautiful manly smile, and asked: "Little girl, don't be afraid, I really won't do anything to you, you tell me what your name is, why are you in this underground tunnel?" ”

The girl didn't answer, just stared at Sun Yan vigilantly.

After waiting for a while, Sun Yan pulled the corners of his mouth helplessly, and said with a smile: "My name is Sun Yan, I am not a bad person, I am an archaeologist, you know archaeology, I am specialized in research work, helping the motherland rescue cultural relics and discovering ancient ruins." This time, I came to Lop Nur to investigate, and I accidentally fell into this hole, right, are you a resident of Lop Nur? ”

The girl still didn't react at all.

Halfway through, Sun Yan sighed and said, "Okay, I'll give up." To be honest, you are so scared, in fact, I am more scared than you, it doesn't matter if you don't want to tell me who you are, you just have to tell me why you led me into this tunnel, and locked me here, what is on the other side of the iron gate? Is it an export? ”

The girl reacted unprecedentedly this time, she shook her head, Sun Yan was overjoyed in her heart, and just wanted to ask her where there was an exit, but she didn't expect the girl to take a step ahead of her, and opened her mouth to ask, "Is the one behind you a gun?" ”