Chapter 30: Echoes
I was furious, and secretly greeted his ancestors for the eighteenth generation, and Hari Chagai was right, although he was asked for help by Zhuanrui, but if it was really a critical moment, I would not necessarily save him. It's okay to save people, but that's under your own safe conditions.
I did say something against my heart just now, but this feeling of being directly debunked by someone is really uncomfortable.
So I asked, "What hands and feet?" ”
The red hair shrugged his shoulders very poorly, and said, "I'll tell you when I get out alive." If it weren't for that damn 01, which made me a burden now, I wouldn't have made this a point. Chen Hang, the surname Dou treats you well, you don't want him to die too ugly, right? Chen Hang, my safety will be handed over to you. With that, he laughed twice, then looked at the passage in front of us.
The lazy guy and the others had already walked to the front, and at this moment I could only vaguely see the halo of the flashlight, and at the same time, the one-eyed dragon shouted: "Boss, you two hurry up, grinding, I don't know that I think you two are in love." "This person used to be quite serious, but he has been with tofu for a long time, and he has practiced a stinky mouth. I shook my head and followed with Hari Chagai.
There are many cracks around the tunnel, as if they can no longer withstand the pressure of the earth, as if they will collapse at any time, from the cracks, you can see the brown soil layer inside, as we move, from time to time some slag will fall on the body.
I'm a little curious about what the lazy guy said about the moaning of the ancient city. I've been in contact with him a few times, and I don't think this person is the kind of person who talks nonsense, and since he just said that, there must be some reason.
The lazy couple seemed to stop where they were, waiting for us, and after a while, the red-haired man and I rushed forward, and all of a sudden, we heard a strange sound in our ears. The sound was faint and inaudible in the passage, but it could be heard clearly from where it was.
The passage was supposed to be flat, but probably due to the collapse of the underground structure, the second half, the section in front of us, was fractured, the terrain was suddenly lowered, and a lot of groundwater seeped in. If we want to keep going, we have to wade through the water and bend forward, and we can't see clearly what lies ahead.
It was a very sound, like the sound of the wind and like the sound of water, sometimes dull, sometimes depressing, and I listened to it for a long time before I realized that it was the sound of water, or rather, the echo of the surging of living water. It is about the influx of groundwater, in which the water potential swirls, but because of the sealed underground structure, this sound is formed.
It is conceivable that the time for this groundwater to seep in should not be long, otherwise, this entire underground building would have collapsed long ago.
Suddenly, I understood the so-called moaning of the lazy man from the ancient city, and this sound meant that it would not be long before this underground building would be gone.
Although Hari Chagai is not good at this time, his mind is still very bright, and he immediately showed a sudden realization, and his mouth hissed, saying: "I understand, this place is a cage, and it is estimated that it is used to imprison those people's cocoons, and this groundwater is connected, and those people's cocoons may come out of here." ”
The one-eyed dragon touched his head and said, "What are you doing to build such a place and hold these people cocooned?" The main thing is, how did these people come to be cocooned? ”
Redfur shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't know. The lazy man yawned long and shook his head fiercely, as if he wanted to sober himself up, and then said lightly: "Let's go." He was ahead of the curve. The water was not deep, so we took off our shoes, pulled our trousers up to our thighs and began to wade in, and the further we went, the louder the echo became, and after a few moments the passage came to an end, at the end of which a strange stone chamber appeared.
To be exact, it should not be a stone chamber, because its surface is black, as black as rotten iron, we touched it with our tentacles, and sure enough, it was iron, but it was almost rusted, revealing the stone slab behind it.
I couldn't help but be surprised, this is like a reinforced secret room, the outer layer is inlaid with stone slabs, and the inside is also sealed with iron, which in ancient times, it can be said that it is an iron wall. The passage came to an end here, and no other entrances or exits were revealed.
Is this a dead end?
Everyone waded in the water, moving the flashlight to observe the surrounding environment, and then, on the side of the stone wall, we saw a large hole, the hole seemed to be broken by some huge force, the groundwater should have gushed in from this position, at the entrance of the hole, a small whirlpool was formed, the suction force was not large, but if the secret room was originally placed in those people cocoons, then it was enough to suck them out.
It seems that the red-haired guess is correct.
After a round of inquiry, we finally determined that this place was completely sealed, and there was no entrance or exit at all, so we couldn't help but look at each other and feel a sense of bad luck.
The one-eyed dragon muttered: "Let's go out and forget to burn incense for the ancestral master, and we haven't met a good one." As soon as he finished speaking, the lazy man suddenly raised his head and stared directly at the top of our heads, as if he had found something.
I subconsciously followed and looked up, only to see that there was no iron seal above our heads, but it was also sealed with green bricks. When I thought about it, I thought to myself, could it be that he thought there was some mechanism on it?
Thinking so, I took out the probe shovel and lengthened it to about five meters, and then went to poke the zenith, and poked it a few times, but I felt that it was very strong, and there was no sign of the mechanism activating. At this moment, the lazy man pressed my hand, looked at me expressionlessly, and said, "Don't move." Immediately afterward, he continued to look up and continue to stare upward.
I almost thought the kid was nervous, but I soon noticed that his ears were moving.
It was a tiny tic.
I immediately realized that he was not seeing with his eyes, but listening with his ears.
Could it be that he was listening to something?
I, the red-haired and the one-eyed dragon, all stopped moving, and for a while, only the sound of water rushing back was left in the secret room, and the lazy man slowly closed his eyes, and pressed the knife on his waist with both hands, motionless, like an old monk in a trance. I didn't bother him, and my eyes were locked on it.
It seems that the sound is coming from above.
Could it be that there is a hole in the sky?
Time became extremely slow at this moment, and I had a feeling that every second was like a year, and I don't know how long, the lazy man suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Smash, smash anywhere." As he spoke, he took out his own probe shovel and began to smash the rotten iron walls around him with the shovel. The sound was very loud, and although the three of us didn't know what his intentions were, we didn't delay. Experience has taught us that in a dangerous environment, sometimes you have to trust your teammates.
The whole process lasted for a minute, then the lazy man motioned for us to stop, and then began to listen again as before.
The one-eyed dragon opened its mouth to ask something, but held back. Seeing his movements, the lazy man rarely took the initiative to explain: "There are people up there, we have to get their attention." ”
Someone?
I said, "Are you sure it's a human and not a ghost this time?" ”
The lazy didn't answer my words and continued to listen.
The one-eyed dragon asked, "Has the man noticed now?" ”
The lazy guy snorted.
If this place is a person, not a ghost, then the identity of the people above is easy to guess, it should be Wen Min and them. I was a little excited, but at this time, the lazy man said: "Listening to the footsteps, it should be a woman, but there is only one person." If it was the policewoman, she might be able to find an agency to save us, but if it was the female doctor or team leader, it wouldn't be necessarily. ”
This kid is really awesome, these ears are almost the same as the ears of the wind, and he can even judge the identity of the other party by the sound of footsteps.
I didn't secretly think that they had entered the ancient city together, and now there was only one person left, could it be that something happened so they dispersed?
After a while, the one-eyed dragon couldn't help but ask about the situation on the lazy thing, and the lazy thing half-closed his eyes and said, "She's still on it, looking for a mechanism...... Well, there's movement. When he said this, his ears quickly moved twice, and then, about ten seconds or so, a small sound was heard in everyone's ears.
"Click...... Click, click, click, click......" The sound is very subtle, if we don't all keep our ears up, I'm afraid it's easy to ignore the past, this sound is not unfamiliar to me, it is the sound of the machine running. With this sound, countless dust suddenly fell from the top of our heads, and everyone was caught off guard, and they were blinded for a moment, their eyes were hot, and they all retreated and lowered their heads, kept spitting, and couldn't see anything clearly for a while.
When I was able to open my eyes, I found that a square hole had appeared above my head, and at the edge of the hole, there was a person lying on his stomach, staring at us with wide eyes.
I was a little disappointed by the identity of that person, she was not Wen Min, but Team Liu.
Her eyes were about to pop out in surprise, and she said, "You—Why are you down there?" ”
The one-eyed dragon breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately said, "Liu Beauty, this is called a meeting that has been destined for thousands of miles." "This old man never forgets to tease the girl. After the initial shock, Team Liu reacted quickly, and then threw down a rope, and everyone stepped on the water with their feet in the water, and they were almost freezing.
Everyone didn't care to observe the surrounding environment, so they quickly wiped the water off their feet, put down their trousers, and put on boots and socks to keep warm. After doing this, the lazy man didn't care about anything, and fell directly to the ground, saying, "Rest for two hours, I can't walk." ”
Can't walk? Will he not be able to walk? I was about to speak when I noticed that he was already asleep.
For the first time, I've seen someone who can literally fall asleep in a second.