Chapter 62: The Scheme
So far, I can only follow the path pointed out by Jie'an. We were lucky, and although there were many landslides and dead ends in the underground ruins, the good thing was that the top of the road we were going to was sealed, so there was no obstruction to the road. Most of the surrounding buildings were distorted under the pressure of a long time, some doors were crooked, some brick walls were collapsed, and the air was intertwined with the smell of mold and earth, and we walked in it for a total of more than 500 meters, turning two corners, and another stone wall appeared in front of us.
I knocked on the stone wall, and there was a hollow sound behind it, it seems that the road to Jie'an is not wrong, and the eight achievements behind this are the places where Grandpa and others walked back then, so they do not belong to the landslide zone. The crowd cut a hole in the stone wall by dividing it by two, and everywhere they went, it was like destroying the gods. Drilling out of this stone wall, behind it is a manually cleared earth hole.
"This is it." Jie'an showed joy on his face and said: "There are many places below the landslide zone, so those people spent a long time cleaning up the underground and opening up the road between the landslide zone. I've been here, come, follow me along this journey. He looked at both sides of the passage, and soon took the right-hand side, turned around, and walked on.
I observed this soil cave, it is not big, people need to keep their heads down in it, judging from the shovel marks around the soil cave, this soil cave structure is very rigorous, it seems that it is to be in and out often, or to carry something big, so it is built relatively solid and wide.
This earth cave is about a landslide zone, so it has been artificially opened, and I don't know where it leads ahead.
The crowd marched forward in a column, and in a short time they got out of the earth hole and entered a vast black space. When I looked at it with my headlamp, I found that most of the space had been buried by the collapsed earth, and the remaining half was struggling to be supported by sturdy beams, and I didn't know when it would fall.
As the headlamp flickered, I suddenly saw a dark figure flash in the darkness ahead. This shocked me a lot, and I quickly turned my head back, and the light went straight to the place where the figure appeared, and I found that there was this strange stone statue standing in that place.
Jie'an saw my gaze, smiled, and said, "I'm startled, I didn't expect it to be more than ten years, it hasn't fallen yet, don't worry, follow me." "Under the leadership of Jie'an, we passed through this unknown hall, and when we passed by the stone man, I couldn't help but look twice.
This stone man has no ears, and his eyes are very small, and what is peculiar is a pair of hands, the hands are longer than the knees, and the palms are very large, and they seem to be very good at climbing.
At this moment, I suddenly saw a black blood stain behind the stone man near the stone wall, as if it had been splashed up. Jie'an led the way in front, didn't notice my movements, Gu Wenmin was next to me, followed my gaze and saw bloodstains, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes, and just about to speak, I shook my head at her and made a silent gesture.
The blood stains were blackened, apparently left many years ago, and if nothing else, it should have been left by the same group of people fourteen years ago, and when those people came here, something must have happened. Since Jie'an has been following behind, he should know, and now he doesn't say a word at all, does he think it's not worth mentioning, or doesn't he want us to know?
I couldn't help but feel that this old man didn't seem so credible.
At this moment, we had left the main hall behind us and entered another enclosed passage, at the end of which was a cavity of earth that had been dug out by the previous group as well, enough to imagine the enormity of the project at that time.
We walked all the way along the soil cave, Jie'an led the way in front, and the deeper we went, the more traces they left behind, some food packaging bags, some small objects accidentally left behind, all of them told us truthfully, and we were closer to that group of legendary teams.
After about an hour, Jie'an stopped, his expression no longer as confident as before, but nervous and solemn. At this moment, in front of us is a collapsed and incomplete hall, which is divided by mounds of earth into many irregular roads of different widths and narrows.
Jie'an pointed ahead and said, "It's here, the environment inside is a little complicated because of the landslide, and after they entered, I lost the people." ”
He stared at the vast space in front of him, separated by mounds of earth, and then looked at the broken and crooked beams and pillars at the top, and asked, "Have you gone in and looked for it?" ”
Jie'an said: "Of course I looked for it, but I didn't find it, the collapse behind this hall is very strict, there is no way forward, I have never been able to figure out how they disappeared." ”
Tofu said: "A large group of people, will it really disappear like this?" Could it be that there is a secret passage in this hall? Lao Chen, where are we now? "I figured out the floor plan that I restored, estimated the location, and we should be at the end of the second house now, which means that we passed through the open space in the middle of the second house and reached the end directly." Previously, there was an S-shaped mark in the center of the second house on the map, and at first I thought that my grandfather and others arrived in the second house to find the remaining part of the man's body, and then died in that place. Now it seems that not only did Grandpa's gang not die, but they also made it through that area to get here.
In this way, they must have discovered something, so they suddenly gave up on cracking the Twin Corpses Ground Evil and entered the place in front of them.
What secrets are buried in this?
This time, without Jie'an taking the lead, everyone tacitly entered the cobweb-like area divided by the collapsed earth, and in order to ensure that every path was searched, we made a mark on the surrounding clods: a simple oracle bone marker representing the sun.
The search process was relatively long, and everyone wandered around searching, and everywhere they looked, except for the mounds of earth, there were winding paths separating them. Not long after leaving, Tofu suddenly sighed and said, "Someone has fallen behind." ”
Our attention was observed in front of us and around, no one looked back, Tofu said, everyone turned around in unison, and this look found that the old man was gone.
I thought of the stone man before, and I was shocked, and said, "What about people? ”
Tofu spread his hands, shook his head and said, "This old man followed slowly, eighty percent of us were too fast, and we lost him." ”
Everyone searched carefully, the foot was not fast, unless Jie'an was a turtle, no matter how much he could lose. I can't say it in my heart, does this old man have some tricks? Zhen Rui immediately gestured and said, "Go, go back to the entrance." But it was too late, and I heard a whizzing whistle all around, and something black came out of the surrounding mound.
I couldn't help but be shocked when I saw it, wasn't this what I used to hold Xiao Jing in that 'Ghost Treasure Palace'?
How many are there here?
It was no more than half a man tall, covered in black hair, and very easy to hide in the dark, and suddenly burst out of the mound of dirt around it, and at once it seemed overwhelming, and in an instant it swooped down on us. Because the distance was so close, we barely had time to react, and we were instantly pushed to the ground, and countless things stepped on us, and our fingers and claws were so sharp that we didn't even dare to open our eyes, for fear that we would be poked blind when we opened them.
In a hurry, I only heard Tofu shouting: "**, shoot, shoot quickly." ”
Zhen Ji said: "Open a fart gun, it's too close, you can't open it, knife, take a knife!" "The machete I used to stick in my waist all the time, and I said that the experience of my ancestors was really right, and it was still a cold weapon when I got off the ground, and I didn't dare to open my eyes at the moment, and endured the injuries between the trampling of those things, and violently pulled out the machete and slashed indiscriminately.
A few screams were heard at this slash, and the sound was different from that of a human, but more like some kind of scream. With this scream, there was also a smell of bloody blood spurting on my face, and it was even more difficult to open my eyes for a while, only to feel that the surroundings were chaotic, and in my wild slashing, there were fewer things scurrying around. When I finally opened my eyes, I couldn't help but be shocked, because Tofu and the others were gone, and I was the only one standing on the whole trail with a machete covered in blood.
The battle came and went so fast that if it weren't for the pain of the wound on my body that reminded me, I almost wondered if I had another dream.
My heart sank, wiped the blood on my face, and the headlamp fell to the ground in the confusion, and I don't know which part was broken, flashing and flashing, and the surrounding qiē also flickered and dimmed. There was also a severed limb on the ground, a severed hairy hand, and almost nothing left except blood on the ground and holes in the surrounding mounds.
Obviously, Tofu didn't have cold weapons at hand at the time, so they didn't know where they got it.
It stands to reason that in such a short period of time, they should not be moved too far, but why is there no sound at all? My eyes couldn't help but look at the holes in the mounds around me. The entrance of the cave is about the thickness of a man, could it be that he was dragged into the hole? Could it be that Grandpa was also ambushed like this at the beginning, so they suddenly disappeared?
The cunning man who brought us here, but he suddenly disappeared, and he ran away, maybe he already knew the situation here, and deliberately set up a situation to harm us...... Any cooperation, maybe it's all his strategy.
The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and secretly regretted that I shouldn't have believed him so lightly, and if I knew that this was the case, I should have tied up this old man in front of me and led the way. But it was too late to regret it, so I picked up the headlamp on the ground, slapped it on my hand a few times, and it was back again, and the straight light radiated into the darkness.
I put the lamp back on my head, and with a machete in my hand, I cautiously poked into the hole in the mound.