There was no light in the secret passage, and every once in a while there would be a puddle of water stains, and the muddy water splashed from time to time would wet the two trouser tubes, which was cold and biting, but I knew that I couldn't stop, and I imagined the route when I came in, and ran with my thighs open, not to be precise, but to walk quickly, because my eyes could not see the direction clearly, and from time to time the corners of my forehead would hit the protruding mud, or the cheekbones would rub against the sand and gravel embedded in the mud wall, and the fire would be painful. When I got out of the cave with the old doctor, because I listened to the old doctor's nagging, and thought about how he had taken out the thing behind my head, I didn't pay attention to the fact that there were many bends in this secret passage, and sometimes I even made a 180-degree turn, and walked back more than ten meters before turning back to the exit of the river beach, sometimes I had to walk up a muddy step, and sometimes I had to walk down for a distance, and I had to pass through a round hole like a shaft in the middle. The distance from the bottom of the cave to the top of the cave is three stories high, the middle is hollow, there are no columns and no beams, the black hole is holed, there are artificial spiral steps on the wall, but because the time is too long, and no one repairs, it has been infiltrated by the groundwater for a long time, there are some slippery and greasy lichen moss, slippery, and scattered some pebbles the size of the head, rotten and moldy firewood, go to the middle of the waist, a little careless, there will be a dog to eat, the mouth and face to the ground, snort down to the ground, fall half to death. When I came here, I didn't have anything to light in my hand, so I felt the steps, climbed up with my hands and feet, and my heart was in my throat, just like walking a rope in the air, and I didn't dare to be careless, but there were a few times when I slipped under my feet, and I almost lost my center of gravity. fell to the bottom of the well, but fortunately, the pair of shoes that had been rollerblading on Fan Xiaoxiao's feet and playing cool and handsome were a pair of high-quality hiking shoes, and the soles were full of strong and sharp plastic nails. The key to my body's decline helped me a lot, and I was nailed into the mud tire steps in time, otherwise, I would have to say goodbye to you, and the following story would no longer be possible. But, anyway, I climbed to the top of the shaft until I reached the top step. After climbing more than ten meters, I was sure that I had successfully crossed this dangerous hurdle. I stood up and continued to walk forward. The heart said that this road is so dangerous, but it is a good thing for me. If it is straight. It's even worse, in that case, Guo Zhenchao and his gang of black and white guys just need to stand at the entrance and shoot a gun into the secret passage, and I will be shot into a meat sieve.

I heard a dozen of them running down the shaft, a dozen white rays of light swaying on the stone wall at the top of the shaft, one said. "Damn, what is this place? Spin around. So high. ”

Another said: "This used to be an urban underground water channel, but then the subway was built and the water could no longer go here, so it was rerouted. ”

Another person said: "Damn, the underground passage is built like this, it's really a fucking talent." ”

One person explained: "This place is densely built, full of house foundation pits, underground garages, laid electricity and water networks, and that's the only way to do it. ”

One person scolded: "Are you a policeman or an engineer?" What the are you talking nonsense, hurry up and climb up, don't let Zuo Yan run away. But it was Guo Zhenchao's voice, "Damn, when I went out just now, there were no such complicated road conditions." Zuo Yan, that kid took us through the maze here. ”

Another said thoughtfully: "There are obviously a lot of forks in the road, but those two lines of footprints did come here." ”

The voice of the strange policeman came, and I suddenly realized in my heart that when I came out of the hall with the old doctor, I did not take this secret passage, but obviously another fork in the road, and those policemen followed my footprints here. However, there were also my footprints on the road they took, so why didn't they follow the easy path? After thinking about it for a while, I guessed that they saw a lot of footprints on the original road, and there was only one person when I ran in from that hall just now, and of course there should be only one footprint, so I chased after this new road.

I thought to myself that it would not be easy for so many of them to climb up this slippery step, but thinking that all of them were highly trained people and should not be slower than me, I turned back and shouted to the well, "Watch out for the stones!" "By the light reflected off the stone wall at the top of the shaft, I saw seven or eight fist-sized pebbles under my feet, and pushed them down the shaft one by one with my feet. The pebbles, soaked by the groundwater for a long time, washed away by the water, rolled on the steps at a rapid pace, and I was in front of the line of police officers who were slowly moving forward. At this time, the first person in front has reached the middle of the shaft, but the one behind him has been dragged to the bottom of the shaft, and suddenly heard the words "be careful of the stone" suddenly echoed in the quiet round well, and heard the stone gurgling, bang jumping down and rolling, can't help screaming, when the first person slipped under his feet, snapped and fell on the mud tire steps, slid down like a surf, and brought the stone down the steps, hit the second person, the second person then hit the third person, the third person jumped to the side, but stepped on the air, fell directly to the bottom of the well, There was a scream, and the second man did not hit the third man, but the fourth man knocked the fourth man down, and the fourth man tripped the fifth man, one after another, like dominoes falling to the bottom, all of them slid into a ball and slid to the bottom of the well, like a roller coaster ride of human flesh.

Guo Zhenchao stood on the bottom step, took more than a dozen steps back in a panic, slipped on the soles of his feet, and sat on the ground with his buttocks, and the words that he was used to scolding rushed out: "Ah, damn it, I almost broke Lao Tzu's waist!" This tone turned out to be a Henan accent. It turned out that this bandit policeman was from Henan, and he jumped out of his hometown in a hurry.

Bang –

A gunshot rang out from the bottom of the shaft, and the bullet hit the stone wall on the top of the shaft, and a cluster of sparks appeared, and with a pop, the gravel splashed everywhere, flying to my face, and it hurt so badly that I scraped the stones under my feet a few more times, so that the group of policemen did not dare to climb up, and then turned around and walked in the direction of the exit. After walking about one or two hundred steps, I saw a bright light in the distance, and I thought that it was the exit of this secret passage, and I paid attention to my back, but there was no footstep to follow, and I guess the dozen or so policemen were afraid that I would throw stones down again, and they hid under the shaft and could not get up. However, the point of light in front of me showed that the tunnel I was in was now straight, and if I were caught up by the policemen and swept away with a gun, I would have no way to live, and I would have to pass this last distance quickly. I hurried forward, for there was some light, and the sight before me that came out of the dark earth seemed so clear and shining that it was sharper under my feet, without hesitation. Two or three minutes later, I had already come to the exit, holding on to the stone wall at the end of the secret passage, and found that there was still a starlight outside, and the lights were dim, but under my feet was a pool tens of meters square, and I could still see some white plastic bags, plastic bottles, and the smelly corpses of two animals floating on the surface of the pool. Next to the pool is an unfinished construction site, piled high with high piles of mud and layers of cement, with a head-down excavator, a directional goredrill with a long arm outstretched, and several large and small potholes. To the east of the construction site is a birch forest, under which there is a shack with several rooms, in which people are faintly lying, and two dogs, one large and one small, are asleep at the foot of the shed. Behind the forest is a sparkling, winding river, apparently still on the edge of the Yangtze River.

Behind me, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps in the dark cave, and more than a dozen policemen ran towards me like ghosts, bright pillars of light like icicles poking at my back. I stood on tiptoe, grasping the protruding rock in the cave wall with both hands, bent my arms and belly, and climbed to the top of the cave, where there was a small grassy slope. I ran up the embankment along the grassy slope, ran upstream, and after a hundred meters, I went down the embankment again, and walked five or six hundred meters through the grass among the reeds, and came across a boat moored at the side of a long trestle bridge, and the top of the boat was lit up with a few red luminous words: Dajiang - Chongqing. Obviously, this is a river boat going west, tracing the water, passing through Yichang, sister's return, and entering the Three Gorges, I can go ashore in Badong, and then take a taxi into the Wuling Mountains, and go back to Jinjin Town to find Shen's mother, and ask her what happened three years ago? Who is my real identity? Am I an orphan? If I'm not an orphan, who are my parents and where are they? (To be continued......)