The old sheepskin said, "I'm a lot old, I'm afraid of balls, I'm worried about this girl, alas...... I've been a vegetarian in my life, although I haven't shaved my head all my life, and I'm just a hairy monk, how can I catch up ......with him," he couldn't go on halfway through his words, I knew that he probably thought that even if he returned to the pastoral area, he couldn't explain the heavy losses of cattle, sheep and horses, and the old sheepskin, this old man's stomach was full of bitter water, how could I think of a way to help him and Ding Sitian shirk their responsibilities?

As we spoke, the fat man had completely dismantled the brick wall, and the rest of the wall was made of bricks and cement, and I asked the fat man, "Can this iron lid be opened?" The fat man stretched out his hand and touched it: "Eighty percent can be pulled apart, but there is an iron bolt but it is not locked, and it is not welded." ”

I pulled the knife out, so that Ding Sitian was ready to use a match to illuminate, so as to see clearly what is behind the iron lid, seeing that it was ready, I reached out and patted the fat man's shoulder, the fat man got the signal, so he raised his foot and kicked the brick wall to borrow strength, and used two hands to pull the handle on the edge of the heavy iron door, and then there was a heavy sound of "click" in the dark, only to smell a choking breath coming out from behind the iron lid, this smell is disgusting, how bad it is, how bad it is, It was like a disgusting pungent mixture of soot and grease, and we quickly plugged our noses.

I listened to the movement and whispered to Ding Sitian, "Shangliangzi." Ding Sitian immediately struck a match, the fire lit up, behind the open iron cover, is a layer of more than one meter thick black stone bricks, and then inside is a cylindrical upward shaft, up to the sky, down to the ground, the inside of the well wall is thick black carbide, as if formed by perennial smoke and fire. I wrapped my nose in Ding Sitian's scarf and went in to explore, the bottom was dark and I couldn't see the bottom, and there was a small piece of hazy starlight above, as if there was a round skylight on the top of the building, the shaft was narrow, if you supported the wall with your hands and feet, you might be able to climb to the position of the skylight little by little.

I turned around and came out, and the fat man also went in to take a look, and the old sheepskin and Ding Sitian asked me what was behind the iron cover, and I was not sure what it was...... It's a flue with a big chimney. "Old Sheepskin had never seen such a large chimney. A little unconvinced, I explained to him: "When I was connected with the fat man Sitian, I once visited the old revolutionary area to experience the revolutionary spirit. I didn't eat for a day, and when I went back in the evening, it was too late, but we still had to do the revolution the next day, and we couldn't be hungry at night, so the fat man went to steal a little pig in the pigsty of the villager, and I was responsible for holding the piglet, putting it into the burning brick kiln, and wanted to roast and eat the roast suckling pig, but I didn't master the heat, and the temperature inside was too high, and I was stunned to roast a very fat piglet. Later, the villagers came to arrest us, and we retreated into the chimneys of the abandoned brick kilns in the brick kiln factory, and hid until dawn, so that we could escape the charge of stealing socialist pigs by the revolutionary masses. ”

It was that experience that gave us a very profound and intuitive experience of the chimney, and I will never forget it, I just wiped it with my hand in the flue behind the iron lid. It's all soot, and then twisted, the sticky and greasy seems to be oil smoke, and it must be a furnace or furnace under this flue, it hasn't been used for so long, why is it so greasy? And then there's that disgusting smell......

An ominous thought crossed my mind, this was the crematorium for cremation. Even if it's not a burner. At the very least, a large number of animals have been burned, and the grease carried into the flue by the heat and smoke has been carried to the flue. The iron lid behind the brick wall on the second floor does not look like a hearth, but is used to clean the flue to prevent blockage and dredge the operation channel, only the old-fashioned incinerator in the crematorium needs this kind of facility, because the ointment in the flue must be removed manually, I heard that the German Nazis used a gas chamber to massacre the Youtai people, they will use the crematorium to dispose of the corpses, did the Japanese also introduce this kind of German equipment to destroy the corpses? The main thing is that we don't invite Chu, if this is really a big chimney, why is it necessary to be so tightly camouflaged and closed? I'm afraid it's not just about covering people's eyes.

Thinking that it might be a crematorium that burned countless corpses, I almost vomited all the roasted big-eyed thieves I ate in the middle of the night, and quickly wiped off the black greasy on my clothes, but if I want to get out of trouble and escape, someone must climb up from the flue of the crematorium, but in this process, I can't use matches to illuminate, so as not to ignite the remaining combustibles in the tunnel and burn myself, and there is also a way to go to the basement in the dark, but there should be a big iron stove there, there may not be an exit, and it is not realistic to go to the basement with only a few remaining matches.

I told my companions about this plan, and the fat man immediately objected: "No, this is definitely blind activism, I said Lao Hu, you have to be very difficult, although we have to go out of this chimney one day sooner or later, but the feeling of burning into smoke is too different from climbing up alive, this is not for living people at all, and there is such a thick layer of ointment on the flue, and you must slip when you get up, you may think it doesn't matter, it's a big deal to fall into the furnace, and you won't feel embarrassed if you fall to death and be disabled, But if the size of the top is narrow and I get stuck in it, wouldn't it be uncomfortable if I can't go up and down, and I can't suffocate to death? I can't accept this kind of whimsical death, I'm afraid there is no precedent for this kind of death in the world from ancient times to the present, and I don't want to break this kind of world record. ”

I said, "We have to solve the current problem one by one, and now there is no other way to withdraw, it is not my personal heroism, I think this matter can only be tried at risk, you are waiting for me here, I will climb out single-handedly, and then try to open the iron gate from the outside and let you out, if you fall...... Then even if I go first, let's see you in the next life.

Ding Sitian grabbed my arm and persuaded me: "Don't go, is the chimney of the cremation furnace crawling to play?" Even if you don't fall to death, choking on the soot and oil smoke inside can choke people to death, so let's find another way. ”

I also relied on the ruthlessness of the blood for a while, afraid that I would not dare to venture to climb the flue after a little hesitation, people need to add nine points of ruthlessness, Ma Zhuang has to add eighteen whips, and I can't drop the chain at a critical moment, so I ignored Ding Sitian's dissuasion, and once again got into the flue behind the iron cover, covered my mouth and nose with a scarf, and looked up at the chimney mouth, from me to the exit, only a floor and a half of the distance, not far, plus I am still more confident in my means of climbing the ladder, He gritted his teeth and leaned into the flue.