Chapter 279: Into the Ground
"There are some things that can't be said in words." Zuo Dengfeng pondered for a moment and shook his head and said.
"Zuo Zhenren, I didn't make up or exaggerate this matter, you take care, I'll leave first." Jia Zhengchun hugged his fists and said goodbye.
"Ji Sha may be from Yantai." Zuo Dengfeng remembered that Ji Sha had spoken a few words in local dialects, so he kindly reminded Jia Zhengchun.
"Thank you, Zuo Zhenren." Jia Zhengchun thanked him again and turned to leave.
Zuo Dengfeng sent Jia Zhengchun out of the door and closed the door and returned.
"This is not a place to stay for a long time, let's go." Iron shoes carried the boss out of the bathroom, and he heard Zuo Dengfeng's previous conversation with Jia Zhengchun.
"If we find that Yin Earth Ox, let's go." Zuo Dengfeng sat back on the sofa and picked up his wine glass.
"When are you going?" Iron Shoes put the boss on his own bed.
"Pack up and go." Zuo Dengfeng said casually.
Hearing this, Iron Shoes nodded, and instead sat cross-legged on the ground and took out the posture of chanting the scriptures.
"Master, the Yin Earth Ox is below the President's Residence, at present, we have two choices, one is to drive the President away and find someone to dig down, and the other is to go around from the underground cave, which method do you think is feasible." Zuo Dengfeng asked, a person with a strict mind often thinks about the problem and is often disturbed by many side matters and ignores the main line, so Zuo Dengfeng wants to hear the views of the iron shoes.
"Don't get into trouble, let's go from below." Iron Shoes reached out and pointed down.
"Underground can be dangerous." Zuo Dengfeng frowned and spoke.
"What's dangerous." Iron Shoes asked blankly.
"I don't know." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said, he couldn't deduce what kind of monsters would appear in the underground cave, and he couldn't even determine if there were monsters in the underground cave.
"No matter how dangerous it is, it's safer than you to provoke the Linfan Spirit Tortoise." Iron Shoes shook his head and said.
"Listen to you, I'll go out." Zuo Dengfeng nodded and stood up, and Thirteen jumped off the bed when he saw this.
Iron Shoes didn't ask Zuo Dengfeng what he was doing, and began to sit cross-legged and chant the scriptures, and Zuo Dengfeng jumped down from the window with Thirteen.
Before this, Zuo Dengfeng had been to the library in Yucheng, this time he was familiar with the road, and there was no one in the middle of the night, Zuo Dengfeng quickly found the local county history of Yucheng and the map of Yucheng, and he wanted to be familiar with the terrain around Huangshan where the president's official residence was located.
After consulting the map, Zuo Dengfeng came to the Yellow Mountain again, and the map compared with the choice of road, there are many karst caves near the Yellow Mountain, but there are three places that are bottomless, there is one due north, there are more than ten miles away from the presidential residence, this one is the closest, but according to the direction of the mountain, this karst cave does not lead to the area where the presidential palace is located.
There is also a cave in the northeast of the presidential palace, this cave is more than 20 miles away from the presidential palace, but this cave is vertically downward rather than diagonally, and this road is also impassable.
The last cave is located in the west of Huangshan Mountain, where the presidential palace is located, nearly 50 miles away from the presidential palace.
The reason why Zuo Dengfeng made such a judgment is because the president must have looked for Mr. Feng Shui to see Feng Shui before the construction, since the bald head is a spirit turtle Linfan, the place where he lives is indispensable underground water veins, from the perspective of feng shui, the underground river flowing from west to east is a good homestead, the water veins usually follow the mountains, the old saying "how high the mountain is and how high the water is" refers to this situation.
Because he was not worried about the iron shoes left alone in the hotel, Zuo Dengfeng simply observed the terrain and landforms and turned back, when he returned to the hotel, the iron shoes had already begun to nap, Zuo Dengfeng leaned on the head of the bed and looked at the books on geography brought out from the library.
In the following days, Zuo Dengfeng has been making preparations, first of all, supplies, if fifty miles on the ground is nothing, but it is very difficult to go fifty miles in the cave, Zuo Dengfeng prepared half a month's food and drinking water, and he carried half of the iron shoes on his back, in addition to this, he also took out two first-aid kits and dozens of injections for analgesia and refreshment from the military hospital, and on the evening of the day of departure, Zuo Dengfeng attacked a Kuomintang military camp, bringing out twenty grenades, a pistol and a number of bullets, He didn't hide his figure when he did these things, he wanted to tell the Director Gao that he didn't accept his affection, and as for why he didn't appreciate it, Director Gao would understand.
Late at night on the fourth day, the two came to the cave located in the west of Huangshan, this cave is on the north side of the mountainside, surrounded by weeds, the entrance is relatively low, the thirteen and the boss open the road in front, Zuo Dengfeng and iron shoes follow behind.
The cave is extremely humid, the roof of the cave is dripping with water, and animals that like moisture such as toads, worms, and tide insects can be seen everywhere.
Zuo Dengfeng had only observed this cave from the outside, and had never entered, and after entering the cave, he found that this cave was leading to the west side.
"What are you laughing at?" Iron Shoes saw Zuo Dengfeng smiling, and asked suspiciously.
"There are two forks in the tunnel, one to the east and one to the west." Zuo Dengfeng said with a smile.
"Isn't there only one?" Iron Shoes pointed to the passage leading to the west.
"The fork in the road to the east was hidden by a formation." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said, as soon as he entered this cave, he found that the passage of the cave was wrong, there was a small amount of leaves blown in by the wind in this cave, and the leaves had a small amount of accumulation under the stone wall on the south side of the cave, which was not right, because if there was only one road, the north wind in winter would blow the leaves to the right stone wall to shelter from the wind, and there would be no accumulation on the south side of the cave at all.
"We've found the right place, right?" Iron Shoes asked.
"Yes." Zuo Dengfeng nodded with a smile, the fork in the east of this cave was artificially arranged in a formation, indicating that some people did not want outsiders to go to the fork in the east.
Zuo Dengfeng looked around the cave to look for suspicious signs, and at the same time thought in his mind about what kind of arrangement requirements the formation that could hide a passage, and after a while, he found a clue, there was a dagger on the stone wall of the northwest of the cave top facing the invisible cave entrance, the dagger was inserted into the cave roof in its entirety, leaving only the handle outside, the light in the cave was unknown, and the location of the dagger was high, if it was not deliberately searched, it was difficult to find this dagger.
Zuo Dengfeng raised his hand and stretched out the aura and pulled out the dagger on the top of the cave, and the moment the dagger left the stone wall, the hidden hole on the left side of the cave appeared.
"." Zuo Dengfeng glanced at the dagger and threw it aside.
"What's wrong?" Iron Shoes ran over and picked up the dagger, looking it up and down.
"This dagger has only been inserted in recent years, and the person who uses the dagger to set up the formation should be the person who chose the site for the presidential palace, in his opinion, this cave may lead to the presidential palace, and for the president's safety, he arranged this simple formation to prevent outsiders from entering." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said, this dagger is made of steel, and the rust is not serious, which shows that it has not been inserted on the top of the cave for a long time, it is only a part of the formation, and there should be several other elements of the formation, but the formation has been broken, and Zuo Dengfeng is too lazy to look for it.
"This shows that we have found the right place, why are you worried." Iron Shoes threw away the dagger, and the Buddhist monks did not like such small sharp objects.
"This can only show that Mr. Feng Shui's opinion is consistent with my opinion, and it does not mean that he has ever entered the cave, what I want to see most is the formation left over from three thousand years, if it is a formation left three thousand years ago, it means that Bawang Ji Hao is buried in it, if Ji Wei is buried in it, it means that the road is smooth, and it also shows that we will never run in vain this trip, but now everything is still unknown." Zuo Dengfeng explained.
"Amitabha." Iron shoes and singing Buddha.
Zuo Dengfeng was puzzled when he saw the iron shoes, knowing that he didn't understand, so he patiently explained, "This cave may lead to the bottom of the presidential palace, but whether it leads to Ji Chen's mausoleum is still unknown, what I am most worried about now is that he dug a cave on the ground and buried it, if that is really the case, even if we go to the bottom of the presidential palace, we may not be able to find Ji Chen's mausoleum, if there is a natural stone wall, we will have to run in vain." ”
"Oh." The Iron Shoes finally came to their senses.
"Let's go." Zuo Dengfeng sighed and turned into the fork in the east side, and at this time Thirteen and the boss had already taken the lead in running in.
After not far away, the two found traces of human life in the cave, and scattered some broken porcelain tiles and tiles in a wide area, as well as some branches and crop stalks, the porcelain tiles were modern, indicating that the people lived here several years ago.
"Master, you can't swim at all." Zuo Dengfeng asked while walking, looking for the three parallel rivers where the water belongs to the Yin Pig, and the iron shoes once said that he couldn't swim.
"The water is not deep." Iron Shoes shook his head and said.
Zuo Dengfeng pouted and smiled when he heard this, and didn't say anything more, the reason why he had to stay outside for three or four days was to wait for the wound on his left chest to heal completely, so that he could sneak into the water.
After a while, the traces of human activity gradually disappeared, and there were many gray-white animals in the cave, spiders, lizards, salamanders, snakes, these animals gradually changed their body color to the same color as the stalagmites in the cave due to the perennial living in the dull environment, and it is difficult to see that there are all kinds of animals hidden in the gray-white rock corners without careful observation.
Running in front of the thirteen and the boss all the way to open the way for the two, almost no one left alive everywhere they went, with their help the two of them advanced very quickly, but Zuo Dengfeng was not idle along the way, but whenever he encountered stalagmites and stalactites hanging upside down on the road, he would shoot to destroy them, this is to clear the way out, because after the thing is done, they still need to return the same way.
His previous estimate was correct, the cave did extend eastward along the course of the mountain range, and the two were currently located below the peak, with mountains above and to the left and right, and it was all the more important to keep the retreat open in this environment.
The cave is not all damp areas, and there are dry areas in the higher places, but these dry areas are often crawling with poisonous insects, and the number is too large, and the thirteen and the boss can't kill them, and those poisonous frogs and poisonous snakes and some hairless white rats also feel the dangerous breath sent by the thirteen and the boss, and quickly flee to the depths of the cave, and the thirteen and the boss chase and kill all the way, like a tiger chasing a wolf.
Ten miles forward, the situation appeared, those animals that had fled in panic before began to fight back, Zuo Dengfeng frowned and looked forward, and found that there was no way ahead.
"It's over." Iron Shoes spoke in amazement.
"It's not the end, it's just that the passage is blocked......"