Chapter 445: The Mystery of the Cliff Nail Falling Out
Madman Six was unusually calm at this time, and he crouched at the edge of the cave entrance, carefully observing below. I suddenly realized that this kind of panic and yelling is useless, and the more times like this, the more calm I have to be. So, I also quietly crouched next to Crazy Six and looked down with him.
Crazy Six pondered for a while, suddenly grabbed the rope and tried to pull it up, after he pulled it like this, I realized that there seemed to be something wrong - the rope became loose, could it be that Xiao Lei had untied the rope? Madman Six pulled the rope quickly at this time, and after a while, he pulled all the ropes up.
This was so surprising to us, because even if Xiao Lei untied the rope at that end, it was said that the rope would not loosen - after all, there were so many "cliff climbing nails" to fix the rope to the cliff wall. What's even more bizarre is that those "climbing pitons" are still tied to the rope, but one by one they become bent and soft, and Crazy Six reached out and tentatively touched the "climbing pitons", but as soon as he touched it, it was like being burned, and he suddenly retracted his hand.
Do pitons get hot? I learned from Crazy Six, tentatively touched it, Crazy Six hurriedly said: "Be careful of burning", he didn't finish speaking, I had already touched the "Cliff Climbing Nail", I only felt a tingling pain in my fingers, and quickly retracted my hand, it was so hot!
At this time, everyone gathered around.
"Could it be that this 'climbing spike' is a counterfeit product? How else could this be? Hongmei asked in surprise.
The madman shook his head, but didn't explain much, just said lightly: "Not necessarily, maybe there is another reason." Then he took a closer look at the end of the rope.
To our shock, at the end of the rope, there were obvious traces of blood, and the end of the rope was clearly cut and not untied. A sense of foreboding immediately pops into the minds of all of us. Seeing this, Hongmei's tears flowed down like beads with broken threads.
What now?
If Xiao Lei goes down and has an accident, then if we go down, not only will it be useless, but we will also die in vain, not to mention that the current situation is still unclear.
At this moment, the walkie-talkie suddenly sounded, and Xiao Lei's voice came from inside - the voice was accompanied by a rapid wheezing: "I'm fine...... I just had an accident...... Incredible and unexpected ......".
Next, there was no sound again, but in our hearts, we immediately felt a lot more at ease, although we had a thousand words to ask him, but after all, it was not the time.
Now, the walkie-talkie has become the Dingxi we are most concerned about - everyone is gathered around, pricking up their ears, and listening carefully to the movements in the walkie-talkie, which is the only way for us to understand Xiaolei's situation.
But the walkie-talkie began to fall silent again!
This time, we didn't talk to Xiao Lei again, because we gradually realized that the situation Xiao Lei was facing could be very dangerous, and if we dared to use the walkie-talkie to shout, not only could we not help him, but it was also very likely to distract him and cause him to be discovered by the enemy. For example, he is hiding somewhere, and if the walkie-talkie on his body suddenly sounds, it will be exposed immediately, so we can only wait.
As the minutes passed, we became more and more anxious in our hearts, Hongmei took the walkie-talkie several times and wanted to speak, but she only opened her mouth a few times, and she still couldn't help but say nothing.
Waiting is an ordeal, especially for us now, but we are in a hurry and can't help at all, so we can only wait.
In this way, about half an hour or so passed, and suddenly, we heard a knocking sound, and everyone immediately became vigilant, and everyone entered the combat state, and carefully discerned where the knock sound came from.
Madman Six suddenly pointed to his feet—we all heard it, and the sound came from under his feet, could it be that there is a hole under the ground of this hole? So who's down there? Why so blatantly knocking? Do you know that we are on top?
Listen, listen, and the percussion suddenly becomes regular. After hearing it a few times, Madman Liu's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help shouting excitedly: "It's Xiao Lei below, he is asking us to quickly open the lid, and he will come out." ”
Hearing Crazy Six say this, we are all excited, but after thinking about it carefully, it's a little strange - how can Crazy Six judge that it is Xiao Lei just based on the sound of percussion? And can you judge Xiao Lei's intentions? It's so weird! Although he can see the meridians of the human body, he can't see through the stone after all, so how does he know the way?
However, at this time, I don't care about asking these questions, since the crazy six said yes, then we will act immediately and find a way to let Xiao Lei come out of it.
At this time, Xiao Lei was still knocking, and the force was very strong, under his violent impact, a square crack appeared on the stone ground under his feet, needless to say, this should be the shape of the hole cover, the madman six also picked up a small stone, and knocked there a few times frequently, Xiao Lei inside seemed to understand the meaning of the madman six, and stopped knocking.
How do you open this hole? The madman knelt on the ground, observing little by little, and suddenly, he noticed that there was a groove, and it had been plugged in the dirt, so he quickly took out a knife and began to clean it.
After such a cleanup, everyone found out that this was actually a hollow handle in the middle, I hurriedly put my hand in, and then pulled it up violently, but I couldn't pull it at all, at this time, Old Man Ouyang and Crazy Man Six also put their hands in and pulled with me, but they still didn't move. At this time, Hongmei said "wait", and then on the other side of the cover, she stepped a bulge with her foot. Then, with all the three of us, we lifted the lid of the stone. Only then did we realize that the stone cover was more than ten centimeters thick, and with such a thickness, it was absolutely inaudible to speak inside, and it could only rely on the sound of tapping to transmit information.
It was really Xiao Lei inside, he poked his head out first, then supported the edge of the hole with both hands, and came up from the inside.
We found out that Xiao Lei had a lot of blood on his body, Hongmei immediately nervously went over to help Xiao Lei check, and Xiao Lei smiled tiredly and said, "Don't worry, this blood is not mine, I am not injured." ”
Everyone was really relieved to see Xiao Lei come back safe and sound, and also found a hole leading to the bottom of the cave, which is definitely good news for us, the tense and anxious atmosphere in the cave has been diluted a lot.
"I'm glad I'm here, otherwise it's useless for you to hit the Morse code, because no one can understand it," said Maniac Six with a smile.
"Ha, it's because you know that you may know Morse code, so I thought of this method, I didn't expect you to understand it immediately, it seems that your basic skills back then were still very solid", Xiao Lei said with heartfelt admiration.
It turned out that they were just tapping the Morse code, which should be a compulsory course for spies, no wonder the two of them could convey information to each other just by tapping sounds.
Xiao Lei walked into the cave first, changed the bloody clothes on his body, and then came to the entrance of the cave again, telling us about the wonderful experience just now.
It turned out that when Xiao Lei entered the cave, he had already found that those 'cliff climbing nails' did not work at all and fell off, but fortunately, no other accidents occurred to let him enter the cave safely.
Somehow, the wind at the entrance of the cave was so strong that he could barely open his eyes, and he struggled to hold on to a stone at the entrance of the cave, and only then did he barely get in, but just as he was telling us on the walkie-talkie that he had entered the cave, suddenly, out of the darkness, something swooped down on him. The thing moved very fast, but Xiao Lei's reaction speed was faster, and he easily dodged it, and at the same time, he also waved the dagger in his hand and slashed at the thing, and the thing let out a scream, and a stream of blood spurted out.
The dagger in Xiao Lei's hand did not stop, but cut the rope around his waist at once, and he hurriedly took a few steps into the cave against the wind, and when Xiao Lei saw that thing clearly, he couldn't help but be surprised - although we have seen a lot of all kinds of monsters, but this thing in front of him is too terrible and incredible.
In fact, it is said that the shape of that thing is very much like a fox, and it is still a red fox, but it is very big, almost like a sheep, such a big fox, it should be very scary to look at, but what is even more terrifying is that half of the skull of that thing is exposed, that is, half of the head of that thing is actually white bones!
It's amazing how alive an animal can survive with half of its skull exposed! Half of its face is fleshy and skinny, while the other half is white bones, which makes its expression even more hideous and scary, and it makes people shudder to look at, even Xiao Lei, who has always been calm and bold, can't help but be a little flustered.
When the thing was slashed by Xiao Lei, he was stunned for a moment, and then pounced. Xiao Lei dodged left and right again, stabbed it several times in a row, and even stabbed it in the heart of that thing, but the strange thing was that the thing seemed to be unkillable, and it was not affected at all, and the attack became more ferocious.
Xiao Lei immediately realized that this was too terrifying, a monster that seemed impossible to kill. He knew that his only choice was to escape as soon as possible.
So, Xiao Lei immediately ran into the cave, dodging the bite of the thing while running, and, the more he ran inside, the darker the light, and the stronger the wind, he had to turn on the flashlight'After running in for more than ten meters, under the light of the flashlight, he found that the cave suddenly forked - one was going down, and the other was going up, and the huge wind was blowing from the cave below.
Xiao Lei didn't think much about it, and quickly chose the cave on Xiang Lu, and the strange thing was that the monster behind him didn't continue to chase, but escaped along the cave under Xiang Lu.
Xiao Lei secretly glad to sit at the fork in the road, panting heavily, because we kept shouting on the walkie-talkie, so he quickly responded that everything was fine.
Originally, he was going to climb up quickly along the rope, but suddenly he thought of the mysterious fall off of those "cliff climbing nails", which made him feel uneasy, the cliff wall seemed to be very unsafe, and when he descended, it took a short time, and he might have reached the entrance of the cave before the danger had time to happen; But when you climb up the rope, it's different, it takes several times as long, so the chance of danger is many times greater.
Looking at this cave to the top, Xiao Lei decided to try to go up, so he held a flashlight in one hand and a dagger in the other, and slowly came up along the spiral tunnel, and after reaching the top of this cave, he took out the altimeter from his waist and looked at it, and suddenly found that the height of this top was exactly the same as the height of the cave where we were! And at the top, he saw a lid that could be opened and closed, but the lid was too heavy, and he couldn't open it after several attempts.
But Xiao Lei relied on a strange intuition, feeling that the top of the lid should be the ground of the cave where we were, so he took out the sapper shovel, pointed at the stone cover, and knocked it with Morse code, fortunately, we not only heard, but Crazy Six also understood the message he was trying to express.