188. Holes in the Tunnels

The night was spent safely, and the next morning Agina stood in front of the expedition with a body of morning dew.

This means that Hao Dong and the others will be able to go to the ground without any worries, and the matter of the people here outside who will deal with the corpse of the big snake can be handed over to this young man.

Of course, even if Agina arrived, the queen would not say that she would decide not to leave a single person on the ground. Pan Xiang, an inexperienced fellow, was still left in the camp to be with Agina as a companion, taking care of the radio station by the way.

Judging from what they observed after they went down yesterday, it was a man-made building underneath, and ordinary radio signals would definitely not be able to connect.

So this time, they all switched to specially configured radios with powerful signal transmitters, which required terrestrial stations to stay on.

Although Pan Xiang wanted to continue to follow his young master, he still didn't dare to resist this unanimous resolution, so he could only squat in front of the radio station aggrievedly.

It's just that he didn't expect that Bai Xing, who seemed to have gotten along with him during this time, finally made a decision after struggling for a long time, and sat next to him instead of continuing to stick to Hao Dong.

This made Hao Dong feel a little sad, especially after Ergou said that he was "no longer attractive to Bai Xing". While he didn't feel like he needed that kind of attraction, the clear abandonment was hurtful.

Seeing Hao Dong hanging his head, Qi Jue habitually rubbed Hao Dong's head with his big hands: "I'm here." ”

So the atmosphere that was originally a bullying Hao Dong for two dogs suddenly turned into some kind of weird pink bubble scene.

Ergou felt that no matter what he thought about the relationship between these two people, the current atmosphere was very challenging to his nerves, which made him involuntarily "tsk" out loud.

As a result, before he could say the words of ridicule, his head was also pressed by a big hand, and Zhao Zheng's voice sounded quite serious: "We don't envy it." ”

So the second dog went berserk, scolding "fuck your uncle" while driving Zhao Zheng around the camp several times.

For this outing-like atmosphere, the queen has almost no other way but to hold her forehead. Fortunately, there was a lot of trouble, and everyone didn't delay what should be done.

It must be inconvenient to go down with the horses, so packing is the most basic thing. This was pretty much prepared last night, and today we just need to pack up the last bit of stuff.

At ten o'clock, Hao Dong made the last meal on the ground, everyone was full of food and drink, carried luggage, and began this journey to drill holes.

Because I had encountered that abnormal big snake before, everyone was prepared for the danger under the ground. It's just that compared to everyone's vigilant but not too tense state, Hao Dong is obviously more nervous.

He has an instinct that what he will discover in the future here will probably be closely related to what is happening to him. Although he wanted to unravel his mystery quickly, he was always a little scared.

Although this fear was not as strong as before and made him resist recalling the past, it could still have a big impact on his state of mind.

The queen took Zhao Zheng and Ergou in front, and Hao Dong was silently nervous at the end of the team alone.

Fortunately, after this period of exercise, his physical fitness has grown significantly.

When he came down, the action began, and the exercise items on his body were left on the ground, which was considered a state of dexterity at this time, although he was distracted, it was not difficult to keep up with everyone.

However, even if he felt that he had hidden it well, in Qi Jue's eyes, he could still see his absence. So he also took a few steps back and walked to Hao Dong's side: "What's wrong?" ”

Qi Jue's voice was low, as if it was like a whisper. But when he heard Hao Dong's ears, he suddenly felt inexplicably relieved, and he felt a little funny about his feelings: "It's okay, I'm just a little nervous." ”

Qi Jue was silent for a while, as if he was pondering the reason for Hao Dong's nervousness.

There is no lighting in the tunnels, and the light is all due to the miner's hat headlights on everyone's heads. They had now walked in for a while, and it was still much darker under the light.

In such a dark environment, Hao Dong felt a warm and dry hand grip on him, and it tightened, as if silently soothing his overly tense nerves.

Qi Jue's words also made him feel very relieved: "Don't worry, at least there is really nothing on the road ahead." ”

Qi Jue definitely didn't lie, he had walked in so deeply before. If the snake hadn't been alarmed, he would have gone a little deeper.

This time there were more people, and everyone was even more fearless, and the section in front of the door was indeed nothing left after the big snake was cleaned up, so it was quite fast, and it didn't take long to arrive at the place where Qi Jue had returned.

"I'll just walk here, and there's a big room in there, and it's dark. At that time, there was an accident ahead, and I had to go back and not look closely. ”

The accident must have referred to the disaster of the mad python, and Qi Jue also had to go back, but he still had some concern in his heart about this room that had not been able to be explored again.

The room was still so large that it couldn't reach the other side with the power of the miner's lamp.

Ergou took the lead in taking out a strong flashlight from his bag, brushed it, and the white beam of light shot straight out, dozens of meters, but he could still only vaguely see the reflection of the wall in the distance.

This situation made people frown a little, and Ergou couldn't help but mutter: "How can this room be as big as a playground?" ”

Such a large room must have a special purpose, but here the flashlight sweeps around, and it feels like the space is still very empty, and I can't see what the purpose is.

The strong flashlight is not only the second dog, after a while, everyone took out their own one, turned it on together, and the room immediately lit up a lot.

It's just that it's too big, and even if it's a lot brighter, it's still not very clear, and the most obvious thing is that the opposite wall is clearer.

After making sure that there was nothing in the room, the queen threw a pebble into the middle of the room. The stone staggered forward on the concrete-poured ground until it lay down in the middle of the room, and nothing happened.

"Looks like there's really nothing wrong with that."

The queen was a little puzzled, but by the standards of urban exploration, there were still relatively few things like traps to encounter, and it wasn't an anomaly at the moment, so she took the lead in taking the first step.

Hao Dong and a group of men, naturally it is impossible to let the queen and a woman open the way for them like this, Ergou immediately grabbed a few steps and blocked in front of the queen: "It's better for me to go first." ”

The queen is not a hypocritical person, and she has no objection to Ergou's initiative. But just when she was about to turn around and beckon everyone to follow, Hao Dong suddenly felt as if he had found something: "What's in the corner?" ”

This room is very large, and the length of one side may be nearly 100 meters, so it is almost impossible to see anything clearly when the flashlight shines forward.

But the door they had come in was right in the middle of a wall, that is, from their position to the left and right, the distance was only about fifty meters. This range is a little better for eyesight, and it can indeed be noticed.

Hao Dong happened to have inexplicably better eyesight now, so at the moment when the queen turned around, the flashlight that swept by, captured the details that everyone didn't notice when they first checked: "There seems to be something in the corner over there, and the shadow there doesn't move." ”

Of course, the "shadow" that Hao Dong saw would not move, because it was not a shadow at all, but a large hole.

The entrance to the cave is at the base of the wall, and it is a large square along the wall, and the length of one side must be about two meters, so it is easy to find after everyone approaches.

However, when the distance was far away, it was not easy to see clearly because it was under the root of the wall, and there was interference from the projection of the wall and the wooden pillars on the side.

The entrance of the cave is still a black one, and streams of cold air are pouring up from the bottom of the cave, with the unique smell of watery soil.

The hole looked a little unsettling, and the queen quickly decided: "Go around the house first." ”

If there are other exits, then they can explore those exits first, and this hole can be put first.

Unfortunately, they soon discovered that these holes seemed to be "other exits".

That's right, it's "these" holes, because in the other three corners they found exactly the same holes as the first one.

Ergou squatted at the entrance and boldly speculated:

"Let's say it's an entrance, and there's going to be a destination when you come in. The group that could build a building of this magnitude underground should not be bad, so is it possible that they built four entrances to the deeper underground to divert the huge number of people who came and went here in the first place? ”

It's just that no one cares about the course taught by Ergou, in fact, the queen and Hao Dong are surrounding the first hole to be discovered.

She had just dropped a fire fold down, and it had been fluttering down for two minutes before the light of the fire faded in. The burning time of the fire fold is about two minutes, and there is no way to judge how deep it is.

So the queen now threw a pebble down, but everyone had been waiting there for a long time, and still hadn't heard any noise from below.

Ergou, who was unwilling to be lonely, came over: "There are two possibilities for this." First, there is mud underneath, which is soft, and the stones can't make a sound; Second, the bottom is very deep, very deep, very deep. ”

There weren't any steps to climb or anything like that on the four walls of the hole, so they had to either go back straight now, or find a way to go down.

And going down, for now, I don't know what kind of danger I will face.

Everyone was silent for a while, a little helpless.

Going back is definitely the worst option, but how to go down is a question.

The entrance itself doesn't have any focus, which means that either this is not a serious passage, or the people who used to move through it must have other ways to get up and down, but unfortunately they don't know it now.

If they want to go down now, they can only find a place to place a temporary focus point around it, so that it is possible to put the rope down.

The surrounding walls are poured with cement like the floor, and they look hard, but the actual strength is not clear. So one of the questions now is how to determine this focus.

And this kind of point is definitely not enough, you have to find several places.

Zhao Zheng took the lead in taking out the tape measure and notebook he had been carrying, and began to measure and calculate. The queen began to collect ropes from everyone's backpacks, and asked Ergou to help string them together.

I don't know how deep it is, but I'll have to tie something to a section of the rope and put it down again.

Qi Jue stood at the entrance of the cave and looked inside in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking; Hao Dong squatted at the edge of the cave, and he felt as if something was about to come out of his mind.

It must have been his first time here, but it gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity. And that feeling became more pronounced the longer he stayed here.

Now the feeling was so strong that he thought he must know how to go down.