From a physical point of view, it's really hard to explain. It was as if at the top of that dark cave, gravity had lost its effect, and my boots had flown into the air and hovered, because I couldn't believe that there was an infinitely deep black hole above, and my boots were flying in the passage of this black hole hole, so that they were about to fly out of the earth.

Could it really be as squad leader Liu guessed, this underground building is layered. Then my boots could have been thrown on top of it. It's an explanation that I can accept, and of course, it's a weirder ending than that damn boot appears.

"Brother Qiang, do you say there is really someone up there?" Platoon Commander Zhao was the first to break the silence.

Everyone is focused on thinking about it, and they are afraid of the next fork in the road, so naturally it will not be fast. And this matter is too weird, too unexplainable, any speculation is possible, and it is worth our vigilance, but Platoon Commander Zhao's guess is the one I am most worried about. Because whether there are people or other creatures hidden in this passage, they will definitely treat us as prey and will attack us at any time.

"It's a ghost." Team Leader Liu said in a weird way.

I'm most afraid that squad leader Liu will bring the topic in this direction, because the predicament we are facing now is the easiest to explain with ghosts and gods, and it is also the easiest to make people lose hope. For thousands of years, China has always used the theory of ghosts and gods to explain all unknowable things, which has formed a kind of inertia. It also makes people have a heavier and heavier awe of ghosts and gods, and people are more and more afraid to resist, and will only escape and accept their fate. Now if I blame the spirits for all this, I'm worried that they will soon give up their desire to survive. I was so angry that the wound in my chest ached again.

"There are no ghosts." I said solemnly, "It's like what you think of as a water ghost is just a giant brachiopod creature." Don't point to ghosts what you don't know yet, you're purely misleading and will disrupt our correct train of thought. ”

"What a ghost." Squad leader Liu said mysteriously: "There was such a ghost hole in our village, and it didn't fill up a lake of water. Later, it was better to throw down a living person. ”

"Your village is very awesome, dare to fill the pit with living people, this is murder, you know?" I was already angry, and immediately buttoned this hat to him and let him talk nonsense.

"Not now. It's early, my grandmother told me. It's just a real thing, and many old people in our village know about it. Squad leader Liu said with an oath.

Facts speak louder than words, but I don't have facts to refute him. I don't know how much this thing he said happened in ancient China, in order to sacrifice to the god of water, to sacrifice to the god of the mountain, in order to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, he threw it into the river and the lake, and it was relatively rare to throw it into the hole.

But I still had to try to convince him not to let the mood creep in. I suddenly remembered something and asked him, "Didn't you say that you let the water ghosts drag you when you were a child, but you were just afraid of the water ghosts?" ”

"I lied to you." There was not much apology in squad leader Liu's tone: "All ghosts, I'm afraid." ”

"Damn." I scolded in my heart: "I knew that I wouldn't let you come with me." ”

"I think your guess is more reliable." Scolding and scolding, you still have to convince him. Regretting it now doesn't help. "This network of underpasses is likely to be hierarchical. The most likely reason is that my boots have been thrown on top of it. It's a pity we don't have the tools to climb up, otherwise I would have been able to pick up my boots. Of course, there will be no other life in the passage, and although the temperature here is higher than outside, it is still not suitable for life. The air is dry, food is scarce, and even if there were creatures, they would have starved to death. Also, there is no animal excrement or odor. ”

My previous words are just an analysis, and the last sentence is more convincing, especially for Platoon Commander Zhao. Because he doesn't seem to agree with the idea of ghosts and gods, but is worried that there is something alive in them.

Squad Leader Liu didn't respond to my words, but I don't think it is possible for me to change his opinion in a short time, I can only pray that he won't go crazy in a short time, if he starts to go crazy, we will all be killed by him. Although our lives and deaths are still uncertain.

Although we walked slowly, we finally reached the next fork in the road, and I was extremely nervous.

I pretended to be calm and asked Platoon Commander Zhao to light the torch, made a mark at the entrance of the cave, and then circled around the three forks, and after making sure that there was no mark left by Xiao Guolin, I still decided to enter the right intersection. This is actually to verify my guess, and I think they also understand, because they are very cooperative and have no objection, and go directly into this channel.

"You two go first, I'll make a mark here." I said when they entered the passageway.

The two of them looked at each other, did not speak, and walked forward silently. I felt the darkness and carved a mark on the stone wall. By this time I was out of range of the torch.

I held on to the cave wall with one hand, tore off the only boot I had left, silently calculated the location of the center of the fork in my heart, strode over, and stood still. I was facing the direction of the torch, and yes, at this moment fear was like a devil, and it had pounced on me mercilessly. If I didn't look at that canopy of fire, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to stand here and that I would collapse.

I took a deep breath and grabbed my boots with both hands and threw them above my head. I want to make sure that the boots are straight up, so that I can prove Squad Leader Liu's layered guess, of course, provided that the boots fall this time. Because when I threw the boots at the fork in front, I didn't deliberately ensure that the boots were straight up, who would have thought that this kind of thing would happen, so if Team Leader Liu's guess was true, the boots I threw were most likely thrown on the top layer. If thrown straight up, it can only fall, and any other result is unacceptable and inexplicable.

The moment the boots were released, my heart suddenly beat violently while holding my head in both hands. I couldn't see the trajectory of the boots, so I didn't either, I kept watching the fading fire. But I could feel the boots straight up. If I don't move, the boot should fall and hit me on the head. The boots were so hard and heavy that I would have been knocked unconscious by them, but I didn't dodge, and I was more worried that nothing would fall than if I was hit by them.

As time passed by the "click" of the second hand of the watch, my heartbeat became more intense, and I could even feel that the cerebral blood vessels were bulging, as if they could burst at any time. The nervous nerves made me start to go crazy, I took away my hands holding my head, and silently shouted in my heart: Damn, fall down!

PS: I attended a buddy's wedding today, and I have to help with a lot of things, so I'll go out immediately. It should be a busy day.