Chapter 23: The Corridor
I heard that I was going to go down the tunnel, Wang Xiaoyu quit, and she had to follow. I finally persuaded her to dispel her idea, and when I got to the bottom, I would be enough to make a mess with a mallet, and with her, people didn't have to do anything else, just take care of us.
This is the first time that the base has been explored, and there cannot be too many people. There are Yao Bing, Zhong Xiu, Monkey, Lao Jia, Lao Zhang, and me, Yang Lin also took the initiative to ask Ying to go, but was vetoed by Yao Bing. The first exploration meant unknowable danger, and Yang Lin had something wrong with him, and he couldn't explain it to Yang Muyun.
We had a night's rest, and I was nervous and a little nervous. Lao Jia saw that I was unnatural, smiled and comforted me, and waited for him to take care of me later. Birth and death, seeing strange things, it's not the first time I've experienced it. Every time, although there is a lot of danger, I will eventually escape from life, and I hope that this time I will also have good luck with me.
The next morning, those of us who were going down came to the cave together, dressed and carrying our backpacks and gear. Under everyone's attention, they entered the cave one by one and began to go down.
I was the last one to go down the hole, made an OK gesture to Wang Xiaoyu above, took a deep breath, and climbed down.
At the entrance to the tunnel, there is a row of iron ladders clinging to the wall, leading to the bottom. The ladder was covered with rust and rust, and I carefully walked down the ladder. After crawling for a while, I looked down, and in the darkness, the headlights worn by the people in front of me were shaking. Looking up again, the entrance of the cave was already very small, and the water was dripping from nowhere, and the water droplets were ticking and falling straight down, and the sound of dripping seemed very empty in the tunnel.
The height of the five-story building is only seven or eight minutes, and I climb to the bottom. I jumped off the ladder, and a few of them were already there checking their gear. Yao Bing swept us around with a flashlight, counted the number of people, and then pointed his finger to the dark front, meaning to set off.
He and the monkey were at the front, and we followed closely, and the group did not make a sound, cautiously, and walked to the deepest part of the corridor.
Under the light spot of the flashlight, you can see that there are emergency lights and hanging pipes installed on the corridor, covered with black rubber, which has not been passive for so many years, and it still looks neat. There must be generators for such a large base, and if you can find a control center, you might be able to find a way to turn these lights on.
After walking down the corridor for a while, a huge black shadow appeared in front of me under the light of the flashlight.
I couldn't help but get nervous, the electronic car I used yesterday was driving here, and there was a signal failure. Yao Bing made a gesture to signal everyone to stop, and he walked cautiously with the monkey and slowly lit it up with a flashlight.
That's when we realized what it was.
It was a gate that fell straight down from the ceiling at the top of the hallway. The gate was so thick that it was not known for what purpose it was here, but it was suspended in mid-air, and did not fall to the bottom of the closed corridor. There is also a narrow gap between the ground and the gate.
I have the feeling that this gate was lowered, and I don't know why it didn't go to the end, and it was stuck, so it hung in the air to create such a scene.
What makes me most uncomfortable is that there is a huge pattern in the center of this gate. It is sprayed with red lacquer, irregular in shape, and there is a circle of flames burning around it, which is the mark of the great red lotus. In the glow of the flashlight, the mark looked shocking, as if it had been painted with bright red blood.
Yao Bing knelt on the ground, leaned sideways, and flashed his flashlight to shine through the gap under the gate.
A flash of light flashed and you could see what was inside, and the electric car was parked on the ground not far away. Yao Bing also wanted to take pictures of other scenes, but because of the limited angle, he couldn't see too much.
He put away his flashlight, walked to the gap under the gate, measured the height, then stood up and said to us, "Go in." ”
The crowd did not speak, not even show any special expressions.
My heart was pounding in the back, and it looked like I couldn't do without talking. I coughed, everyone looked back at me, I was a little embarrassed, and said slowly: "Boss, what if the gate suddenly falls down once we go in?" We...... Will it be trapped inside? ”
Yao Bing looked at me, and suddenly shone a flashlight, and the light pierced me so much that I couldn't open my eyes for a while. This was very rude, and I was a little annoyed. He said, "Go back." ”
The voice does not have any emotional fluctuations, and it is flat and abnormal. But it was the irony in it that made me even more unbearable.
I said, "I'm not afraid, I'm just worried......"
"Well, Zhilu Dao, you can go back." Yao Bing took the flashlight and didn't look at me.
He walked to the gate, held on to the iron gate, and leaned down to get through the gap below. Monkey, Zhong Xiu, and Lao Zhang all went in one by one. Lao Jia smiled at me and shook his head, and also got in.
I really felt insulted. Am I not right to say that? Remind everyone to be careful, is it also wrong? Malay next door, something.
I finally realized that the teammates who are now exploring together are not Li Yang, Copper Lock, or Qin Dan, but such a large group of professional players. In their world, the strong are respected, the brave are invincible, they are not friends, they are not nannies, and there is no reason to get used to me. Yao Bing's meaning is very clear, you can follow it, you can't quit as soon as possible.
I thought about it, intellectually speaking, I should quit now, but being squeezed by them to this point, I still have to fight for myself.
I walked up to the iron gate, looked at the gap below, and smiled wryly. God Almighty, you have blessed me so many times to overcome difficulties, and you must not abandon me this time. As soon as I gritted my teeth, I fell on the ground and got into it through the gap.
When I went in, I saw that they were huddling around to see something. I leaned over and didn't get their attention, no one looked at me. Yao Bing was studying the electronic car with the monkey, Zhong Xiu lit it with a flashlight, and the monkey checked the car with a screwdriver.
After checking for a while, he came to the gate of the iron gate, gently pushed the car out of the gate, and said, "There is an inexplicable interference here, blocking the wireless signal. ”
"Is there any radiation?" Yao Bing asked.
The monkey took out a red portable instrument, turned it on, slowly walked forward a few meters, and said: "The Geiger counter is not ringing, there should be no radiation here, or the radiation level is less than 0.3, and there is no harm to the human body." ”
"Keep testing." Yao Bing said, he looked at us: "Everyone be careful, there is an energy here that can affect the signal, and I don't know if there is any danger in the Dao yet." ”
Where we are now, a corridor with no end in sight. The concrete walls are bare, and occasionally a few Japanese characters can be seen. Zhong Xiu translated that these were warnings of danger.
Walking through this corridor and coming to the fork in the road, we were surprised to see several corridors in all directions. This underground base should be quite large, completely beyond my imagination.
This underground world has been sleeping for decades, silent, and the wind blowing in the corridor from nowhere, cloudy and cold, I actually have a creepy feeling.
As I continued to walk inside, I suddenly felt a sharp cold, and my teeth were fighting. Seeing that the others did not react, I gritted my teeth, pretended not to care, and continued to follow the group.
The corridor in front of me forked again, divided into one left and one right. Yao Bing used a flashlight to shine on it, and the corridors on both sides were bottomless. He said, "You go to the left, I'll go to the right, and you'll come back and assemble when you're done." ”
Zhong Xiu frowned: "Boss, you ...... yourself"
"It's fine. It's not the way to go, we have to save time now. Yao Bing said.
Lao Zhang said: "Boss, why don't I go with you, and take care of each other." ”
Yao Bing looked at him, nodded, and said calmly, "It's okay." ”
The two of them flashed their flashlights and walked down the corridor on the right. Zhong Xiu looked at us people and whispered, "Let's go." ”
We walked into the hallway on the left. As I walked, the more I looked at it, the more strange it became, this place was not like a military bunker, and it was not like an arsenal, what did the Japanese want to do by spending so much effort to build such an underground world?
As he was walking, he suddenly heard a loud muffled sound far away, and the whole corridor seemed to shake. With this muffled sound, there was a series of screeching sounds of rubbing. We looked at each other, and the monkey was the first to react: "Oh no, something happened in the corridor where the boss went." ”
A few of us turned around and ran wildly towards the place, the flashlight swaying incessantly, forming strange spots of light.
After a short time, we ran into the corridor on the right, and as we ran, two figures appeared in the corridor in the light. A figure crouched, holding another shadow lying on the ground. In the air, there was a pungent smell of blood.