Chapter 45: Unexplained Phenomena
Zhong Xiu's words are a bit suspicious of damaging morale. Although Yang Muyun whispered softly, he also had a scolding tone: "Xiao Zhong, don't say much about unfounded things." ”
Everyone remained silent, and the atmosphere was somewhat oppressive. Yang Muyun asked Yao Bing, if you want to go to the core area below, is there any other way besides walking from here? Yao Bing said: "There are also two large elevators, but they have not been in operation for decades, and even if they are connected to electricity, they can't sit on them, which is too dangerous." ”
Yang Muyun coughed: "Then there is no way, you can only go down from here." ”
Yao Bing took out a cold flame rod from his waist and threw it from the iron gate, and suddenly the bright green light flashed and lit up. The cold flame rod kept colliding with the vertical passage, and the black iron ladder could be seen extending downward, and I don't know how many meters. The stick keeps falling, but it just doesn't go to the end.
It took a long time for the rod to fall into the depths of the passage and finally stop, becoming a small light source that illuminated a small area. You can see that there seems to be a wall at the bottom, which is poured with white ash, and it looks very solid. The walls were covered with black cables of varying thicknesses, twisted together like spiders spinning silk, extending horizontally along the walls into the darkness, where they were no longer visible.
The light of the stick flashed and flickered, and gradually extinguished.
Yao Bing stuck the flashlight on the special buckle on his shoulder, turned around and held the iron ladder to climb down. The crowd was silent, one by one. When it came to me, I felt the knife in my waist, took a deep breath, carefully shrunk up, and slowly burrowed into the vertical passage.
The passage is cramped, barely enough for one person to pass through. There was no sound in the four corners, and the silence was eeri, except for the sound of hiking shoes stepping on the ladder.
My heart was beating so hard that I was really nervous, and cold sweat was already oozing from my body. I barely managed to composure, but the indescribable feeling was about to overwhelm me.
I don't know how long it took, but I finally came to the bottom. As soon as I stepped on the ground, my legs went limp, so I quickly held on to the wall, or I could sit on the ground with my ass.
The crowd did not stay where they were and continued to move on. In front of you is a cable passage flanked by white-plaster walls. It's so dark here that even a flashlight can't shine far, and the darkness wraps around us tightly. There is always an illusion that something terrible is hidden in a place where the light does not shine.
We walked along the passageway, and after walking a short distance, two iron doors appeared. The two doors were half-concealed and half-empty, and the gap between the doors was as black as ink stained inside.
"The door is unlocked?" Monkey question.
Yao Bing waved his hand to signal us not to approach, and he squatted down, his flashlight shining on the ground. There were two distinct drag marks on the ground, which were left by the iron gate. Anyone who can tell that these two doors are not closed normally, and that something must have happened at that time.
Yao Bing gently pushed the iron door, and the iron door's shaft looked rusty, crunching and making a series of strange teething sounds. The nerves were already tense in the dark, and suddenly such a harsh sound appeared, and the hairs stood on end.
He looked closely at the marks on the ground and said, "The drag marks are on the inside of the edge of the door." ”
"What does it mean?" The monkey asked.
"It means that the door was originally closed, but a force came out of it and smashed the door open." Yao Bing said coldly.
Yang Muyun's breathing was a little short: "What kind of place is this?" ”
"The experimental ground that opens the gates of hell." Yao Bing said word by word.
Seeing that we didn't speak, he hurriedly said, "Help, open the door." ”
We all stepped forward and pulled the door together. There was a "crunch" screak in my ears, and for a long time, the gap between the two doors slowly widened, large enough for one person to pass through.
The others, though a little frightened, were not excessive. The most exaggerated is Liu Xiaojun. He took a deep breath, his chest heaving heavily. He was wearing a jacket and buttoned the hat on his head, and at this time his head was deeply bowed, and his facial expression could not be seen clearly.
I saw that he was very uncomfortable, so I went over and helped him. He suddenly grabbed my hand and said in a low voice, "Inside." Something that makes me very uncomfortable, it's inside. ”
I'm a little hairy when he says it. His pale hand gripped my wrist tightly, cold and cold, like a dead man. I was tired and scared, so I quickly broke free, and I wanted to comfort me a few words, but my mouth trembled so much that I couldn't say anything.
One by one, we walked sideways into the room inside. This room is huge, and although the flashlight can't be found, it can be about the size of a basketball court. In the light of the flashlight, you can see rows of electronic instruments placed against the root of the wall, very old, dusty, with red, green, and green indicators and some switches.
Yao Bing motioned for us not to move and follow in his footsteps.
The space in the room is not so large, but it is blocked by many inexplicable things, and the place for walking is very narrow. We walked here, with ancient instruments on the left and huge protective nets on the right, woven into thick layers of wire. The flashlight shone through the protective net, and there were many iron boxes inside, on which were several thick military canvases, and I don't know what was hidden in the boxes.
The most uncomfortable thing is that the walls here are painted with the Japanese military flag and the mark of the big red lotus, both of which are red circular patterns, one with teeth and claws and one ghostly and demonic aura, which together form an extremely strange and indescribable image. In this terrifying atmosphere, it looks like a totem of some kind of cult, as if it was written in blood.
Yao Bing stood in front of a large machine, with his back to us, unsure of what he was thinking. In the past, this machine looked similar to other instruments, the biggest difference was that it had a very thick fluorescent screen on it. We asked him what was wrong, and Yao Bing looked vicissitudes of life and told us that this was the place where the high-level officials of the base observed the gate of the underworld, and this screen could directly reflect the process of the experiment inside.
"This isn't a lab yet?" Yang Muyun asked.
Yao Bing said: "You have to go inside." ”
This place is not only terrifying, but also indescribably depressing. The thick instruments, the decades-old stuff, the dust, the huge blood-red logo on the wall, all of this makes people breathless and their hearts are clogged.
Yang Muyun was very calm: "Then let's go in and have a look." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, suddenly there was a "knock" on the wall, as if someone was smashing the wall. The nerves were already highly tense, and the sudden sound made us panic. We huddled together and shone around with flashlights. The sound has disappeared and the direction of the sound source cannot be determined.
"What's going on?" Someone said in a trembling voice.
The room was lifeless, and beyond the light was a stagnant darkness, no one spoke, and there was a dead silence.
"Everybody be careful." Yang Muyun said.
I only heard a screeching sound of "squeak", and when I heard this inexplicable sound, I was turning on my flashlight and going backwards, accidentally touching the person behind me. When I turned around, it was Liu Xiaojun's pale face. I don't know which nerve was wrong, so I screamed and fell to the ground. The horror has reached the extreme, and at that moment, I was not afraid, but felt a sober numbness, and there seemed to be another self in my body flying out.
Zhong Xiu ran over and pulled me up, looked at my almost scattered eyes, and hurriedly asked, Are you okay?
I was covered in cold sweat, and then I was relieved. At that moment just now, was the legendary soul scattered? It's terrifying.
The monkey came up and said, I didn't scare the Japanese, I scared you half to death. Liu Yang, your voice is quite high, have you ever practiced tenor?
My heart is still pounding, and cold sweat is on my forehead. I didn't have the energy to pay attention to his cynicism.
"Did you hear the door knock just now?" Zhong Xiu asked.
Everyone followed the sound together, and behind the large instrument, many black cables stretched out. The cables were twisted together, and they were also regular, stretching along the base of the wall into the darkness. We followed the cable, and after a short time, we saw a door that was gently shaking.
This door is somewhat similar to a hospital room door, with a small frosted window on the door, so you can't see what's inside. What's weird is that this is dozens of meters underground, and there is no wind at all, why did this door suddenly move?
Yang Muyun frowned, looked at Yao Bing, and seemed to be talking to himself: "What's going on?" ”
Yao Bing walked to the door, gently grabbed the doorknob, and with a little force, the door stopped and no longer swayed.
I stumbled and said, "Isn't it...... Is there something coming out? ”
When everyone heard the words, they used flashlights to shine around, and there were only a few of us as far as the eye could see. The atmosphere was very oppressive, and no one spoke.
Yao Bing gently pushed open the door and walked in in a flash. He left the door open inside, and it didn't matter, and everyone present was stupid.
Inside the door is a long corridor, under the light of the flashlight, you can see that the corridor is covered with bright red bloody footprints, stepping on it in a mess, looking closely, those footprints should not be wearing shoes, they are stepping barefoot.
Someone used a flashlight to shine on the wall, and blood-colored handprints suddenly appeared one after another in the light spots. Densely packed and pressed together, it was impossible to see how many there were, and the entire wall was almost red.
The visual impact is too strong, and most of the people in the team are old explorers who have experienced a lot of battles, but they still can't bear the scene in front of them. Everyone flashed the flashlight and stopped shining on it.
Yao Bing pointed to the corridor and said, "Go through, and the door inside is the laboratory of the Gate of the Underworld." ”
Yang Muyun's face was ugly: "Yao Bing, what's going on in the corridor?" ”
"I don't know." Yao Bing shook his head.
The monkey's voice trembled: "Could it be, there really are ghosts?" ”
The situation in this corridor is no longer possible to think about with normal thinking. Yao Bing said: "I just took a brief look at those handprints and footprints, the color has turned yellow, it should be many years. Whatever it is, they may be long gone. ”