Chapter 14: The Basement
As a result, the two parties disagreed, the bald man in the hat stopped doing it, and the Liu team was angry, and they also collected the equipment, and they said that they would divide it, and if you don't believe it, you won't be able to do it without it. The bald hat didn't tear his face, and said: "The business is not benevolent, it seems that I can't persuade you, a few of you should be careful next, we will help you collect this equipment first, and then liquidate it when you come back." ”
They looked at the sky, it was getting dark, and they wanted to get out of this place while it was night, and in any case, the farther away from this place the safer it was. Team Liu asked them to dispose of the corpse, burn the corpse, and bring back the ashes according to the address in the notebook.
It took half an hour to burn the corpse, and the gang didn't agree at all, so they left very unjustly.
The photographer hesitated for a moment, as if he was a little confused, and when the one-eyed dragon asked him why he didn't go, he said, "If there really is such a monster, I'd like to see it." As he spoke, he looked at the camera in his hand, and his expression was eager to try.
The one-eyed dragon monster shouted: "No wonder others say that people who engage in art have problems, and you don't want to die because you want to take pictures?" Have you thought about it? To go or not to go? The photographer hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, saying that he would not leave, and if something really happened, he should dedicate himself.
I couldn't help but look at him twice.
After the One-Eyed Dragons and the others left, we set up camp as usual, and in order to prevent accidents, this time the group did not raise a bonfire, and the two tents were very close to each other. We put the body back in the car, and if nothing else, we will collect it for him on the way back.
Although everyone did not dare to make a fire, they still had to keep vigil, mainly to listen to the movement, at this time, there was only the sound of the wind whirring, and they were vigilant all night, but there was no other change. The next day, everyone got up early and spent the night peacefully, and the female doctor said happily: "There is nothing, it seems that 01 should have left this place, we don't have to worry so much." ”
After all, this was more than 30 years ago, and everyone slept peacefully all night, and when they saw that there was no danger, they couldn't help but feel refreshed, packed up their things and continued to walk. Along the way, the photographer would stop every now and then to take a photo, so he stayed at the end. The one-eyed dragon has a good relationship with him, and the two of them are talking nonsense, and the road is not lonely.
At about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the photographer who was following the team suddenly sighed, then gasped sharply, hissed, and said in a panic: "Don't go yet, come and see!" He stopped, his eyes fixed on his camera screen, his face pale and bloodstained in the winter sun.
I chuckled in my heart, knowing that something had happened, so I hurriedly walked over to him, and without asking too much, I followed him to look at his camera.
The time on the camera shows a photo taken a few tens of seconds ago, framed at the left front, and the sun is tilting at the moment. The sunlight with a layer of dark gold sprinkled on the golden straw mats is beautiful.
He captured the scene, but at the same time, there was a strange black dot in the photo that caught my attention.
This black dot is located in the middle of a golden meadow, and since it is framed at a wide angle, it is very far away. Anyone who knows photography knows that the black dots that can be seen in this state indicate that the body should actually be very large, and according to this ratio, it should be at least the size of a person.
I immediately looked away from the camera and instead at the photographer's position, but there was nothing but the golden grass line.
What are the black dots on the photo?
At this time, the photographer nervously said: "My shutter speed is very fast, but the moment I take this picture, it disappears." He looked at the grassy shoreline, that is, there was something as tall as his body, which appeared in his lens for a split second, and then disappeared again.
I immediately thought, could that thing be hiding in the meadow?
What would that be? Beast...... Or is it something more terrifying? We had read the notebook before, and there was a pimple in our hearts, and immediately, I asked the photographer to enlarge the black dot. He probably was frightened just now, and he didn't react for a while, but when I said this, he slapped his forehead and hurriedly manipulated the camera to enlarge the black spot on it.
The black dots are getting bigger and clearer, but due to the limited resolution of the camera screen, it is not possible to see completely clearly at such a long distance. At this moment, what occupies the entire screen is a humanoid black shadow!
I'm sure it's not a beast, it's a real figure!
Is it a human or a ...... 01?
No, the notebook says that 01 is very large, and there are many 'hands', and the figure on the camera is no different from a normal person, it shouldn't be 01, but in this place, how can there be other people?
At this time, the photographer swallowed his saliva, the whole person trembled, and said, "You see, this person is facing us, he, he just peeped at us in that place." ”
As soon as he reminded us, we suddenly realized that the area was not as safe as we thought, and we didn't even know that we were being spied on.
Team Liu was very cautious and said to me: "It's time for you to get on, see who is following us, don't spoil our business, go, go over and have a look." "I looked at the cyclops and pulled out our weapons, and the group immediately headed for the spot in the camera.
There was no trace of the dense meadow, and there were no people anywhere, and a few of us listened to the movement around us with our ears open, and suddenly, we heard a thud. The female doctor paused, her delicate eyebrows furrowed, and said, "There's something in front of you." So saying, she tossed with the meadow with her hand, and then, suddenly, with a loud cry, said, "It's the wall." ”
Wall?
The one-eyed dragon said: "Could it be the previous base?" As we spoke, we gathered around and looked at the meadow, and sure enough, it was a brick wall, but it was crooked, as if it would fall at any moment. The top of the wall is bare red brick, and it is covered with withered yellow moss. If you look along the stone wall, you can see something like Mizuzawa, which is a water depression with a thin layer of ice on the surface.
Team Liu was surprised: "Could it be that this is the site of the base?" No, in thirty years, it is impossible for a base to have only a few rotten walls left, could it be that the entire base has been destroyed by 01? ”
I ignored the others, crouched down and took a closer look, and found that there were some scattered pieces of iron in the surrounding dirt, some only the size of a fingernail, and some of them were granular, but no matter how you looked at it, it didn't look like it was naturally formed, it should be something man-made.
I immediately realized that these were most likely shrapnel.
How can there be so much shrapnel in this place? Looking at the wall that was about to disappear, a thought came to my mind: Could it be that after that incident, the bombs dropped on it destroyed the base?
So, was that 01 blown up together? Does it still exist on this land? The black shadow that appeared in the camera just now should have been standing in this abandoned base at that time. What does he have to do with this base?
With this in mind, the crowd scattered, while the photographer filmed the crumbling wall. The cyclops and I searched around for traces of the mysterious man. After about ten minutes, I suddenly heard a loud bang.
This time it's gunshots.
The only people in the team with guns were me, the one-eyed dragon, and Wen Min.
I was startled and hurriedly looked in the direction where the gunfire came, only to see the one-eyed dragon suddenly dwarf and disappear into the meadow.
In an instant, I remembered the contents of the notebook, remembered the man named Ah Biao, and only felt that my scalp was numb, and I couldn't care about anything, shouting the name of the one-eyed dragon, and ran towards the location where he was missing. I thought it would be 01 waiting for me, but I didn't expect that when I ran to that place, there was a hole in the ground.
The hole was not very large, and the surrounding meadows almost covered most of it, and the one-eyed dragon should have fallen into this hole just now, so the weeds at the entrance of the cave were a little sunken. Looking down the hole, it was pitch black below, and I didn't know where it led. It suddenly occurred to me that this base originally had a basement, and this hole could lead to the basement?
"Zhang Sheng!" I yelled at the hole, but no one answered me.
Wen Min and others also gathered around me, and the photographer looked very worried and said, "What's wrong with Lao Zhang?" ”
I shook my head and said, "I fell into this hole, and I don't know what's down there." You wait up there, and I'll go down and see. Wen Min took out his pistol and frowned, "I'll go too." As he spoke, he pulled out the rope to himself.
I knew that Wen Min was good, the situation below was unknown, and she would have an extra insurance with her help, so I didn't refuse, the two took the rope and asked Team Liu, the photographer and the female doctor to wait outside, and we went down the rope to the hole.
When I entered the cave, I immediately knew that I had guessed correctly, this was not a natural cave, but a stone chamber, surrounded by mud and sand, and there were a lot of weeds growing near the entrance of the cave, but the place inside was very clean. Probably because the sunlight doesn't shine through, so there are no plants.
Looks like this is the basement of the original.
By the light of the flashlight, I immediately noticed a series of footprints on the ground, which were clearly more than one person, and they were very clearly left on the damp earth, along the passage of the basement, all the way forward, into the darkness that we could not see.
According to the series of imprints, it was obvious that one of the people had been abducted, so the footprints were very draggy, long, and very messy.
I immediately realized that the figure I had seen before should be hiding in this basement, and just now the one-eyed dragon discovered his whereabouts and fired a warning shot, but I don't know what means that the man used to pull the one-eyed dragon into this hole.
Wen Min and I glanced at each other, randomly holding our guns, and headed towards the location of the footprints.