The steel gate that stood in front of everyone was rusty and closed very tightly, and under Liu Cong's instructions, two team members stepped forward to test it.

No matter how hard the two team members tried to push the two gates, or pulled them outward with the help of some tools, they didn't move, and it seemed that they needed special methods to open them, or they needed to use some mechanisms.

Just as the people in the group were carefully examining the two steel gates, suddenly a discordant sound came from the rear of the group, breaking the current silence.

An "ahhhh

One of Liu Cong's team members was facing away from everyone, one of his hands was shining a flashlight into the distance, and the other hand was tightly covering his mouth, obviously embarrassed by the scream he had just lost.

"Nonsense, what's the fuss, what is worth your surprise so much, it's really useless." Seeing that the person who made the voice was his subordinate, a nameless fire erupted in Liu Cong's heart.

The number of players who came out this time was very small, and this time the matter was very important, and Chen Benzhong personally went out again, so Liu Cong was very cautious when choosing the team members, and he thought that the team members who could be selected to participate in this operation were all good hands who could take charge of themselves, and they were all people with strong abilities in all aspects.

But the team members who were selected by himself screamed silently, making him lose face as the captain.

Chen Benzhong has not managed the internal affairs of the organization for a long time, and the matter of leading the team members has always been handled by Liu Cong, but at such a critical time, his team members made such a humiliating move.

After reprimanding the team member, Liu Cong secretly glanced at Chen Benzhong out of the corner of his eye, and sure enough, a trace of displeasure flashed on the face of the hundred-year-old man.

But Chen Benzhong was a very deep person, he didn't open his mouth to reprimand this team member, but forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Chen Benzhong's experience is very rich, he knows that the people who can be selected by Liu Cong are definitely good players, and they are very experienced, if there is no very special situation, these team members will not scream, this team member must have seen something strange, or saw something surprising.

"Yes, I'm sorry...... Just now I was looking around and I saw what seemed to be a skeleton in the distance. You see, there it is. As I looked closer, I saw what appeared to be a series of footprints in front of the bones, as if they were exactly the same as the ones we had seen before.

But when I shone the flashlight through it and tried to look closely, the footprints on the ground miraculously disappeared as if they had never existed, so I was shocked. ”

"Oh? Footprints? Disappeared inexplicably? Chen Benzhong frowned and asked thoughtfully.

After listening to the team member's answer, everyone moved the flashlight over and carefully looked into the distance.

Since coming to the small square in front of this steel gate, everyone has been attracted by the gate in front of them. They all knew that this gate was the entrance to the Dragon Vein Dungeon, so everyone was thinking about how this gate should be opened, and no one was checking the situation in this small square at all.

When everyone looked at this small square carefully, they found that the area of this small square was larger than they had imagined.

The square is long and narrow, wide in front of the steel gate, and in the direction of the gate, the square gradually narrows, and roughly takes on the shape of a half-jujube pit.

From the steel gate to the end of the square opposite the gate, there is a distance of about seventy or eighty meters. The rock roof above the far side of the square is getting lower and lower, and at the end of the square it is tightly integrated with the ground, which is why the distance of the square is exceptionally dark.

At the end of the flashlight beam, at the farthest point of this small square, there seemed to be a corpse covered with thick dust, but because it was far away and there was more dust, it was not so clear.

Because the team member who screamed earlier mentioned the footprints, the people in the team slowly pulled the flashlight back, looking for traces of footprints on the dust around the bones.

The dust scattered in the small square is very strangely distributed. On the ground dozens of meters in front of the steel gate, there was not even a trace of dust, and as the rock walls on both sides of the small square converged, some dust began to appear in the narrowing of the square.

The farther away, the thicker the dust seemed to become, even as thick as two inches in the vicinity of the bone-like object.

Although the bones in the distance were not very real, everyone could see clearly, and there were no traces of footprints on the dust in the distance of the square, and there was not even a trace of these dust being disturbed.

"Where did the footprints come from?" Liu Cong asked with some displeasure.

"This ...... There was indeed a long series of footprints, about a dozen, that stretched all the way to the skeleton, but as I looked at it, it suddenly disappeared. The player who had screamed before said with some grievances.

Just when Liu Cong wanted to reprimand the team member, another team member also spoke: "Captain Liu, he didn't lie, just now the two of us checked this small square together, and the two of us found the skeleton almost at the same time."

I also seemed to see the existence of the footprints, but my attention was mainly on the bones, and then when I wanted to check the footprints, I didn't see any of the footprints, I thought I was dazzled by the mistake, now I think that the footprints should have existed, but they disappeared. ”

"Oh?" One person's words may be dazzled, the probability of two people at the same time is very small, and now both team members have mentioned the footprints that disappeared inexplicably, it seems that those footprints just now should be indeed there, but why did those footprints disappear on their own inexplicably?

Chen Benzhong slowly walked towards the corpse, and Liu Cong and Chen Sanjin hurriedly followed, for fear that he would encounter any danger. Chen Ziyang also leaned forward, but he was not interested in the disappearing footprints, but in the bones.

Now Chen Ziyang wants to confirm his guess, if this person is the person who left the footprints before, this person is very likely to know the way to open the Dragon Vein Underground Palace, maybe he can find some clues on the bones, and he can open this tightly closed steel gate.

After a while, Chen Benzhong walked to the place where the small square began to narrow, that is, where dust began to appear on the ground. Standing still, he looked around carefully, and at the same time he lifted his nose and sniffed lightly for a moment.

"Huh?" As if he had discovered something unusual, Chen Benzhong's face showed a trace of doubt, and after thinking for a while, he showed an expression of sudden realization.

Then the hundred-year-old man closed his eyes and stood there quietly, as if he was feeling something with his heart. When Chen Benzhong opened his eyes, he put his finger in his mouth, dipped it in some saliva, and stretched out his hand again, holding it flat in the air, as if he was testing something with the saliva on his hand.

"I see! These two juniors are not wrong, it is very likely that there were footprints here before, and the reason why those footprints will disappear inexplicably should be related to our coming here. After studying for a while, Chen Benzhong said with certainty.

"The square here suddenly narrowed, in addition to the area becoming more narrow, the height gradually became lower, and in addition to the fact that it was far from the outside passage, so that this part of the square in the distance became independent, forming a very special open and confined environment.

The so-called airtight does not mean that the space is closed, but that the air here is airtight, and does not circulate with the outside air at all, and the air flow in the passage cannot be blown here at all.

That's why there's dust on the ground from here, because the dust outside the square is carried away by the air currents circulating in the passages. But these air currents can't interfere with the area, so over time, the dust in it gets thicker and thicker.

Especially at the end of the square, where the dust is very thick, it should be the best relationship that is the least affected by other factors, and the seal.

In some confined environments, many things will be stored for a long time, which is not to say that these things are not easy to damage, but in the absence of external interference, the items stored inside are in a delicate state of balance. Once this balance is upset, the items stored in it can be easily damaged or even turned into fly ashes.

The footprints left on the dust were in this delicate state of balance, and when the flashlights of the two juniors reached there, this balance was suddenly broken by the strong light, so the dust around the footprints suddenly scattered, and the footprints disappeared. ”

"Does light also upset that balance?" Chen Benzhong understood the truth Liu Cong said before, and even in some tombs, he had seen with his own eyes that when the robbery hole was dug through, the air outside rushed into the tomb that had been sealed for many years, and many things in the tomb would turn to ashes in that instant. But he had never encountered or heard of such an equilibrium being upset by light.

"Although this is very unlikely, it is also real, which is why some museums are not allowed to take pictures, because they are afraid that the flash will harm the artifacts that have been preserved for an unknown number of years."

After listening to Chen Benzhong's analysis, the faces of the two team members softened a little. The footprints that mysteriously disappeared just now really frightened these two people, thinking that some ghosts and gods were doing something, and now they heard that the reason why the footprints disappeared was because of the flashlight beam, and the two team members were a little crying and laughing.

Now that things have been figured out, there's nothing to worry about. Everyone in the group shifted their attention from the tightly closed door to the skeleton in front of them.

Probably to make up for his previous mistakes, the team member who made the screaming sound walked over first, and after checking that there was no danger around the bones, he waved his hand to the others.

The people who came closer examined the skeleton. After removing some of the dust that covered the bones, the bones were revealed.

This is a human skeleton, although scattered, but very intact, even some of the smallest bones have been preserved, which should be related to the confined environment that Chen Benzhong said.

Chen Ziyang looked at it carefully, judging from the form of these scattered bones stacked, before this person died, he should have knelt on the ground.

The skeleton's clothes have also been preserved, a dark robe, and a black silk horse coat is also worn over the robe, and some blessing patterns are embroidered on this horse coat.

After kicking the bones with his toes a few times, Chen Benzhong picked out the skull, and as the skull rolled, a metal object fell out.

This turned out to be a deformed bullet warhead. Stylistically, it looks like a pistol bullet, but the size of the bullet seems to be slightly smaller, and it should have been fired from a small caliber pistol.

On one side of the skull, there is a small piece missing, it seems that the skull was pierced by this bullet, but the small-caliber bullet has limited power, this bullet only passed through one side of the skull, and did not penetrate the other side, so it remained in the skull.

"This man is supposed to be suicidal." Liu Cong said as he picked up a pistol from the dust under the bones in his right hand.

Exquisite, this is the idea that came to Chen Ziyang's mind after seeing this pistol, this pistol is very small, only about 15 cm long, and there should be some very exquisite patterns on the body of the gun, and the most conspicuous thing is the grip of this pistol.

A piece of ivory is fixed on both sides of the pistol grip, and some patterns are carved on the ivory grip, which is very harmonious with the pattern on the gun body.

"The Browning pistol, so beautifully made, this is really a high-end product, and the people who can use this kind of gun are definitely not ordinary people. It is inferred from various indications that this person should have died here during the period from the Republic of China to the War of Resistance Against Japan.

It's really strange, why would someone who can use such a pistol choose to commit suicide here? Liu Cheng said with some incomprehension.

(End of chapter)