Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Turtle in the Urn
The space behind the cave hall looks like a small hole in a big hole on the outside, but in fact it is a man-made stone room, or stone room, with an area of about 30 square meters, not only the four walls are flat and smooth, carved with decorative patterns such as landscapes, birds and beasts, and even the ground is also engraved with patterns.
In the middle of the stone chamber is a round artifact half a meter high, about the same thickness as the outer tank, and with eight legs at the bottom. The top is a flat surface, covered with a small round lid with a handle in the middle, and a spire-shaped bracket made of three sticks mounted on the perimeter. There is a rectangular stone platform behind it and thirty centimeters away on the left and right sides, the one behind it is horizontal, and the one on the left and right is vertical. It was covered with the kind of felt that the man was wearing. There were some tattered items that could barely be identified by experience, and the identity of that person was on the surface, confirming that Lu Dachuan's guess was completely correct.
At this moment, the man held his head in his hands and curled up in a posture that was difficult for ordinary people to do, in a narrow gap surrounded by a circular object and three stone platforms. Lin Xian'er's backpack was gone, and she didn't know where he got it.
We saw him as soon as we entered the room, but we didn't take any immediate action against him. One is because he stuffs himself into a thirty-centimeter gap in that posture, and there is no threat to us; and then I already know his terrifying appearance, so as not to make it out and everyone will look panicked; The most important point is that the moment we guessed his identity, we lost the hatred he brought to killing Hu Xiaoming. It's not forgiveness, but I can't hate it.
I looked at the tattered items piled up on the three stone platforms, and then at the person who had lost his normal appearance huddled in the gap of the stone platform, and felt that it did not look like my father, and my spirit relaxed, but my heart became heavier.
Lu Dachuan checked the rest of the room, saw that there were no bones of the deceased, walked back to the stone platform and said, "It seems that I have a good idea, let's find out if there are any notebooks or anything like that." ”
I asked, "What notebook are you looking for?" ”
"Notes on the work of the expedition team."
We understood what Lu Dachuan said about the great harvest, and with a burst of excitement, we picked up the rags on the three stone platforms respectively. Lu Keqin and Lin Xian'er were afraid to see that person, so they didn't dare to go up to help, and stood on the side and watched us.
The five of them quickly rummaged through the stone platform, and almost everything they expected was gone,—— the strips of rags that were supposed to be their rotten clothes, the clumps of black and hard cotton sleeves that should be coats or quilts, a few thick strips of rotten cloth that should be rotten backpacks with only shoulder straps, and some pieces of iron that were rusty and shattered into slag should be kettles, jars, and other things. - Missing what we were looking for.
"Will it be so rotten that there are no corpses?" I looked at some tiny fragments of what I couldn't identify.
"Look again, it's possible to be as rotten as these things, but it's never going to be without corpses." Lu Dachuan simply lifted the rags on the stone platform one by one and shook them off and threw them off the stone platform.
Liu Fashan walked around the stone platform to the round artifact inside, reached into the stand, and lifted the lid on it.
Lu Dachuan glanced up at him and said, "It won't be in there, it should be a stove!" ”
Liu Fashan grabbed the handle on the lid with his hand, opened the lid, and a small blue flame immediately burst out from below: "Good girl!" What kind of stove is this, it's cold on the outside and it's on fire inside. ”
Everyone looked at Liu Fashan.
"Really? I didn't expect that. I dropped what I had and ran over to take a look.
The small blue flames grew larger and larger, and in an instant they burst into red and blue flames that were more than half a foot high.
I was so surprised that my mouth didn't close yet. The man who was huddled by the stove propped up his body like a switchblade out of the sheath, grabbed the lid in Liu Fashan's hand and covered the stove mouth, and then retracted it at a very fast speed.
Although I felt that the person's inexplicable reaction was a little abnormal, I didn't think deeply about it.
Lu Dachuan also said to Liu Fashan, who didn't know where to go for a while: "He doesn't want to let the stove stop moving, come over and find something." ”
Liu Fashan glanced up at Lu Dachuan, then looked down at the man curled up with his head in his hands and said, "Do you want to get him out and ask?" ”
"I'll talk about it when I can't find it later." Lu Dachuan propped his hands on the stone platform, leaned over and looked at the man and said, "You see that he looks careless, there is no doubt that there is a problem with his nerves." ”
Liu Changleg said: "A person who has been in this ghost place for decades is completely normal and abnormal!" ”
"Alas...... It's not easy to survive. ”
Lu Dachuan threw all the things on the stone platform in front of him to the ground, and went to uncover the felt laid on the stone platform.
I walked back and picked up all the broken pieces, stood up straight and stretched, relieving the fatigue of maintaining a posture for a long time: "I remember that at the bottom of the mountain, we found that there were two guides missing, is it possible that only the two of them came up, and one of the scientific expedition team did not come?" ”
Lu Dachuan looked at the tattered things that were piled up like several garbage heaps by us and said: "Although I didn't see the bones, I can't be sure of the number of people who came up, but there are so many things, it is unlikely that only two people will come up." ”
"What if the people who come up are just ordinary staff members at the front station and don't take work notes?"
Lu Dachuan stopped, and thought about it in his heart, the guide found so many people, those who carried equipment and equipment, who were responsible for safety, and the others who worked together could not tell how many people, it was completely possible, but he said: "You also uncover the felt and look for it, I hope you don't let your kid say it!" ”
I smiled wryly and said, "I'm just analyzing what might happen, and I'm not a crow's mouth." ”
As he was talking, Liu Changleg shouted: "There is!" Pregnant! ”
We hurriedly walked up to Liu Peng and saw that there was a groove on the stone platform under the half-uncovered felt, and there was a tarpaulin bag in the groove, which should be wrapped with books and other things.
Lu Dachuan stretched out his hands, which were trembling slightly with excitement, took out the burden and put it on the felt next to him. Liu Changleg saw that there was nothing else in the groove, put it down and lifted the felt in his hand. I strode over to Lu Dachuan and watched him unpack his burden.
The furoshiki is cut from an old-fashioned raincoat and the four corners are tied extremely tightly in pairs. Lu Dachuan untied the three layers of tarpaulin, and we saw a stack of red plastic notebooks inside, which was one size larger than what we saw in the pocket of the old man's jacket at the bottom of the mountain. I counted five books.
Chasing the person who killed Hu Xiaoming to this cave, and seeing that there was food and water in those large vats, Lu Dachuan guessed that the person might be a survivor of the scientific expedition team that died mysteriously under the mountain, and remembered the red book he saw in the pocket of the old man under the mountain, and guessed that it might be something like scientific expedition notes, so he searched for these notes with a purpose. However, it was unexpected to find so many copies at once, and they were still so well preserved, and suddenly the excited eyes shone like wolf eyes.
I picked up the top book, opened it from the middle with both hands, and saw that the page I turned to was a small letter written with a fountain pen, densely occupying the entire paper, and there was no room left on the top of the world. "It's a note! It's a note! "I trembled with excitement.
Liu Changjiao, Liu Fashan, Lu Keqin, Lin Xian'er, and Ma Qiangquan reached out to take the notebook.
Lu Dachuan pressed the notebook on the stone platform, took the one I picked up and put it down, and said while rewrapping it with the untied wrapper: "Now is not the time to look at these things, this is not a place, no matter how well it is preserved, after all, after so many years, if it is rotten after turning it over, we will destroy these precious things." So I still hurried away, went out and scanned a copy out, and looked at it however I wanted. ”
"Let's go now, are there so many caves up there that you can't see?" I understand that Lu Dachuan didn't let me look through those notes now, but I felt a little abrupt to let me go immediately.
"These things should be their painstaking efforts in the past few years, or even more than ten years or decades, and it makes no sense for us to look at them again. And why don't they go out, but stay in this kind of dayless place for a long time? Is it just because there is food and drink here? ”
"You're saying they're stuck here and can't get out!"
"I can't think of any other reason than that." Lu Dachuan put the wrapped burden in the bag on Lu Keqin's back, and suddenly patted his head and said, "It's broken!" How did I forget about this stubble? ”
We didn't understand what Lu Dachuan said, so we looked at him together.
"Those two groups! There was such a big movement when we came up, they shouldn't have noticed it......"
Lu Keqin and I also knew that the situation was not good, but we had experienced very little, and we didn't realize that we were walking into a dead end. Liu Changshan, Liu Fashan, Lin Xian'er, and Ma Qiang all broke out in a cold sweat.
Liu Changleg said: "It's certain that people are blocked here, we have to go out quickly to have room for maneuver." ”
Liu Fashan pointed to the man by the stove and said, "What should he do?" ”
Lu Dachuan said: "You can't let him fend for himself here, pull him out and walk on the shelf, he really can't tie it up." ”
Liu Fashan pulled people by hand. Liu untied the rope from his waist with long legs. The man didn't cooperate at all, and while hiding deeper into the gap, he also hit and kicked Liu Fashan.
Lu Dachuan saw that Liu Fashan couldn't do it alone, so he said to us: "Carry the stove over and go up together." ”
I was scared, but I had to help.
I, Lu Dachuan, Ma Qiang, and Liu Changleg jumped on the stone platform on both sides of the stove, and before I could do anything, I heard a yin and yang strange voice say: "It's really moving!" I have become a turtle in an urn, and I still have the heart to care about others! ”
Hearing the sudden voice, I turned my head to look outside the stone room, and saw the owner of the glasses standing at the door of the stone room looking at us, and Matthew standing next to him. Both had guns in their hands.