Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Tunnel
It's just that after thinking about it so much, before you really see the results, you can only think about it, and at most make some preparations.
Fortunately, the bus was running very smoothly, the old driver drove very steadily and well, many passengers fell into a dream silently, Lu Li had a little sleepiness, and he was also woken up by his terrible guess just now, he was such a timid person, where did he dare to sleep.
"Hey, this tunnel seems to be very long, huh?"
After thinking and guessing for a long time, Lu Li made a number of escape strategies, and at this time, he slowly slowed down his emotions, only to find that the tunnel he had entered before had not yet escaped.
The tunnel dug in the mountains was only for two cars to drive in opposite directions, and there was no separation in between, and there was no light in the tunnel, only the light emitted by the far lights of the big cars illuminated the road ahead.
Driving in this kind of tunnel, for the sake of safety, the speed of the driver is not too fast, but even if it is not fast, the length of this tunnel is a bit too long, right?
It looks like it's been on for 10 minutes, right?
Lu Li thought about some of the tunnels he had been to before, one of which passed through two mountain ranges, more than ten kilometers long, and drove for about twenty minutes, that kind of length was really breathtaking, deeply shocked by the industrial strength of human beings, and it was actually able to dig such a long tunnel in the mountains, in ancient times, even if millions of people went into battle together, it was impossible to dig such a long and large tunnel from exhaustion.
Lu Li took out his mobile phone and lit up the screen, 18:15.
"It's time for dinner, right?"
Touching the empty belly, Lu Li took out a piece of chocolate, tore open the package and chewed it.
In order to cope with unexpected situations that can occur at any time, it is necessary to maintain sufficient physical strength.
After slowly chewing the chocolate, Lu Li closed his eyes and silently continued his rhythm.
“597、598、599、600。 ”
After reciting the number 600 silently, he lit up the screen of his phone, and the time changed to 18:25.
"It's been another ten minutes. ”
Although Lu Li didn't deliberately calculate the time before, he could roughly estimate that it would take about ten minutes for the car to enter the tunnel, and now another ten minutes have passed, which means that after the bus entered the tunnel, it has been driving for at least twenty minutes!
The tunnel outside is pitch black, there is no reference as a comparison, it is difficult to calculate the speed of the bus now, if you calculate the speed of forty yards when you just enter the tunnel, this tunnel is close to thirteen kilometers long.
This kind of length is quite long when you look at the whole country!
Lu Li still remembers some well-known common sense, the Zhongnanshan extra-long highway tunnel in Qinling is 18.004 kilometers, the Xishan extra-long tunnel of the Taiyuan-Gujiao Expressway is 13.65 kilometers, and the Baojiashan extra-long tunnel of the Erxiaohe-Ankang Expressway is only 11.2 kilometers.
These three tunnels are the top three highway tunnels in the country, although there are still 27.839 kilometers long Taihang Mountain Railway Tunnel, but as far as road tunnels are concerned, now this tunnel may surpass the Xishan extra-long tunnel!
Is this possible?
When Lu Li felt that something was not quite right, the speed of the bus suddenly slowed down, and then pulled over.
Something wrong with the car again?
Lu Li didn't think much about it, grabbed his backpack for the first time, walked past the passengers who were sleeping soundly on both sides, and came to the driver's side.
"Master, is there a problem with the car again?"
"No, no, the car is fine. ”
With the help of the head-up light in the car, Lu Li found that the driver's mouth was slightly horizontally grinning, his eyebrows were raised, his forehead wrinkles were tightly closed, and his eyelids were tightened...... Expressionally, the driver was clearly in the mood of surprise and fear brewing right now.
"That's ...... Problems with tunnels?"
Lu Li didn't continue to ask, "Why do you park?"
Because in this case, the driver's emotions are full of surprise and doubt, and it is unlikely that he will directly admit the confusion in his heart, but will comfort the passenger and say that there is no problem.
He opened his mouth directly with "the problem of the tunnel", that is, to give the driver a psychological hint that I already knew what was wrong, and asked him to quickly treat Lu Li as a person who knew the inside story, so as to speak frankly. These are very common questioning techniques, everyone will, nothing worth noting, the point is that when Lu Li asked in this way, the driver looked up at Lu Li in surprise, then nodded hesitantly, and said in a low voice: "Something is not quite right." ”
Lu Li glanced back at the car, all the passengers slept soundly, even the tour guide who was sitting on the side fell asleep very recklessly, except for him and the driver, no one knew that the car had stopped, it can be seen that the car should have been driving for more than seven or eight hours before it would bring such a heavy sense of fatigue to the passengers.
Retracting his gaze, Lu Li did not raise his voice, and also learned to lower the voice of the driver: "This tunnel should not be so long." ”
"Yes, yes......"
The driver nodded emphatically, as if he felt that he had found a "bosom friend", not his hallucination, "You've been here before?"
Without waiting for Lu Li to answer, he muttered to himself: "I've run this road dozens of times, this tunnel will go out in a few minutes at most, and the longest is only two kilometers, it's really evil today, it's been open for almost half an hour, right?"
"It's about twenty minutes. ”
Lu Li reminded him.
"Twenty minutes?"
The driver shook his head: "No matter how slow you drive, you will go out in four or five minutes at most." ”
Lu Li was thoughtful, but he didn't pick up the driver's doubts, and asked instead: "Usually, there are so few vehicles here?
"Uh? You say that, it seems to be the same! Strange, strange, no matter how few cars there are, there will not be a single car that you haven't encountered. ”
The driver's face gradually turned from doubt to fear.
"Damn, you're not going to meet a ghost hitting the wall, are you?"
Ghost hitting the wall?
I really can't rule out this possibility.
But the ghost here is definitely the Matrix.
Lu Li's eyes were like torches, looking at the dark depths of the tunnel through the far lights of the car, this tunnel that should have been only two kilometers long, at this moment, seemed to have become a bottomless hell passage of unknown length.
How to break the game?
Maybe this is the first test of this game given by the matrix, right?
But still no hints?
It is said that the old drivers who drive in the barren mountains and mountains all the year round are more superstitious, and at this time, the old driver who was superstitious that he encountered a ghost hitting the wall, obviously a little panicked, Lu Li quickly retracted his thoughts, and quickly comforted him, otherwise the passengers of the whole car would be panicked, which would be bad.
"Don't panic, calm down, you open the car door, I'll go down and have a look." ”
"You're getting out of the car?"
The old driver looked at the dark tunnel outside the car window, felt the cold brought by the mountains, and shivered.