Chapter 56: The Arsenal

I asked Miss Bai to follow me closely, and looked around with an oil lamp, only to see that it was indeed a stone room, with a large space, and there were traces of excavation on all four walls. And there are several wall urns, which should have been used to place lamps. But only the urn I touched earlier had an oil lamp and flint in it, and the rest was empty.

"If this stone chamber was dug by the Eighth Route Army, I think it should be to store something extremely important..."

I pointed to the stone wall and said, "Look, there are iron walls here, as long as there is one person guarding the entrance, no one will want to come in, huh?" …”

Suddenly, I saw that there was a hole in the corner of this stone room. When I walked over, the entrance to the cave was very small, and it was dark inside, and the flame of the oil lamp trembled slightly, indicating that there was air flowing through the hole.

"The hole is supposed to be natural." I said, "This stone chamber was dug here, and with the help of this natural opening, I thought, this hole should lead to the outside." However, this hole is too small for anyone to penetrate..."

We searched the nooks and crannies of the stone chamber, but we didn't find anything out of the ordinary, and we really couldn't understand why this man lived here and why he died.

"Leave him alone." I let out a sigh of relief and said, "I didn't eat the food this guy had prepared, but left it for us, and my intestines were almost hungry..."

After speaking, I tore open a plastic bag with all my might, and a smell of meat came out, and I almost fainted from my hunger. I grabbed a piece of cured meat, sniffed it and stuffed it into my mouth, gobbling it up.

"A guy who has no conscience only cares about eating for himself." Miss Bai said.

"Wait a minute."

I closed my eyes, sensed it for a moment, opened my eyes and smiled slightly, "There is no problem with the meat, let's eat it." ”

Only then did Miss Bai understand the reason why I rushed to eat first.

Both of them were hungry, and Miss Bai said that there was no need to pretend to be a lady in front of me, and that the nose was full of meat scraps, and I was dumbfounded. Gobbling up their stomachs, the two looked at each other, and they couldn't help but laugh at each other's 'messy' faces.

I wanted to make a joke, but suddenly I thought that there was a dead man here, and he was disrespectful to the dead with unbridled jokes, so I stopped. We found two bottles of mineral water in this man's travel bag, one filled with one bottle, which is the real meaning of eating and drinking. Tiredness began to kick in. We decided to take a break and go looking for the exit.

Far away from the dead man, we sat back to back, because we were so tired that we were not in the mood to speak. Listening to the faint sound of ticking water, my consciousness became more and more hazy...

Suddenly, I heard a 'whoosh' sound, and I woke up and accidentally turned off the oil lamp.

"What's wrong?" Miss Bai also woke up.

"Shhhh Don't make a sound..."

I pricked up my ears to listen closely, and it felt as if the sound was coming from the direction of the vent, as if something was about to come in.

My head was buzzing and I said urgently, "Something is coming!" ”

As soon as I finished speaking, I heard the 'whew', and there was something more in the stone room.

I reacted very quickly and pulled Miss Bai behind me, and was about to attack the thing when Miss Bai grabbed me.

"Blackie." Miss Bai screamed.

In the darkness, the thing snorted a few times and rushed over, but it was a dog. I lit the oil lamp and saw that it was Xiao Hei.

"It's... How is it? I was amazed.

Xiao Hei surrounded Miss Bai and screamed for joy, and Miss Bai wiped her tears while taking a piece of meat and feeding it to her.

Xiao Hei seemed to be injured and limped. It's a pity that it can't speak, and it can't tell us what happened.

I was in a state of confusion, I wasn't in a hurry to go out, thinking that there was food and drink here, and it didn't matter if I lived with Miss Bai for ten days and half a month, and I even had some thoughts about it. At this moment, looking at this black dog that suddenly appeared and was injured, thinking of Xiang Feng Yang Shujun and them, he immediately became anxious.

"Let's go, let's hurry out and look for it, and see if there is an exit."

Outside, under the light of the oil lamp, we finally saw the whole picture of the cave, only to see that the cave wall was full of slogans, and there were many traces of smoke and fire, and it looked like it was indeed an arsenal.

After walking around, I saw that the place that was supposed to be the exit had been blown up. We tried to remove the two stones, and suddenly a yellow notebook appeared. The cover of that book seems to be made of leather such as cowhide, and it is very intact.

When I opened it, I saw that the paper inside was moldy, vaguely recognizable, and the first few pictures were some scribbled gun patterns, and there were also marks on what place and how big the size, and so on. It seems that this book should be left over from the Eighth Route Army.

Flipping to the back, the pattern suddenly changed, turning into a gossip, I couldn't help but be stunned, and thought I was wrong.

"Yuxin, get closer to the oil lamp and turn it on a little brighter."

After seeing the whole picture of this gossip, I was shocked, and the gossip drawn on the paper was exactly the same as the one dug up in the ancestral grave of Xiaoqing's family.

Miss Bai was also stunned, "Look back." ”

There is no pattern in the back, it seems to be a work diary, and it is all scribbled traditional characters. Blurred identification. The previous records are all miscellaneous numbers, such as grenade handles, how many are produced per day, and how many bullet shells are produced per day. It seems that this is not an arsenal, but a 'small workshop' for processing weapons parts.

Sure enough, the next page records that after receiving an order from the superiors, the original Eighth Route Army XX Department military industrial spare parts manufacturing point was cancelled and the Eighth Military Industrial Manufacturing Base of the Eighth Route Army was established...

Further down is the engineering record:

'On April 16, the excavation work of the engineering company progressed smoothly...'

'On the night of April 19th, Xu Shi probed, and there was a hidden stone room in the belly of the mountain...'

Seeing this, I said in my heart that Master Xu here is definitely not Master Xu, but the abbreviation of engineer, the engineer who commands the mountain and digs a cave. I just don't know what kind of detection equipment the engineers use under such rudimentary conditions as the Eighth Route Army. As for the stone chamber mentioned here, I don't know if it is the one we appeared in before, could it be that it was not dug by the Eighth Route Army, but originally existed in this mountain?

This page of the record is gone here, and the next page is a detailed record of the stone chamber:

'Master Xu used the Yin and Yang Five Elements Technique to determine the direction, excavated all the way, and saw a room..."

Seeing this, I finally realized that I couldn't cry or laugh, it turned out that this engineer Xu was not digging a hole in the mountains by relying on high-end equipment, but the technique of yin and yang five elements!

‘… The interior is dry, there is a wind tunnel, a secret door... A yin and yang gossip plate, the plate is attached to the picture in front...'

My heart lit up, could it be that the wooden gossip was originally from that stone room? …

Further back:

'On the morning of April 20, an urgent notice was received from the higher authorities ordering the fire to stop the progress of the project, and the troops to move immediately...'

It's gone here, judging from the last record, there must have been some kind of emergency at that time, and the arsenal was supposed to be expanded here, but the project was forced to stop, and even the troops were transferred, what happened at that time? …

Miss Bai and I looked at each other, both of our faces were a little pale, as if there was a strange air current circling around us. That little black is extremely human, and he feels the change of our feelings, and he lies there without making a sound.

"Something extraordinary must have happened." I whispered.

"Hmm." Miss Bai nodded.

"Look at the record on this..."

I flipped to the previous page, "On the evening of April 19, the stone room appeared, and on April 20, an urgent notice was received from the higher authorities early in the morning, and then the work was stopped and the troops were transferred..."

"And blew up the entrance and exit of the arsenal as well." Miss Bai said.

"But why didn't the 'sewer' we came in blow up?" I wondered, "Also, how did the man in the stone chamber know that there was a passage under the stone village?" What was the purpose of his move-in? ”

Miss Bai frowned, "I think... He had prepared so much food to stay here for a long time, probably in search of something. ”

"Looking for something?"

I was stunned, is it to find this book? But it occurred to me that it was impossible, that this book had no practical value at all... Wrong! I quickly flipped forward, turned to the page with the gossip drawing, and my heart sank. This gossip is very delicately drawn, and the symbol on it, which Master described as a mantra, seems to have been copied on it as it is...

I thought to myself, this person may really be looking for this book, or rather, to find the gossip drawn on this book. Who the hell is he? Will it have anything to do with the people of Xiaoqing's family? …

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