Chapter 59: The Mysterious Underground Tunnel
Not far ahead, a group of twenty mighty soldiers in silver armor and armed with steel swords were trotting down the street towards him.
Fan Xiaoqi hurriedly leaned down again, lay down in the big pit he had just dug out in the garbage heap, and buried himself with the garbage next to him.
The footsteps came quickly, and when he was about to reach him, Fan Xiaoqi heard a rush of talking.
"Hurry up, Lord Yan Bing is coming to our patrol soon. We have to go ahead and greet us. A man who wanted to be an officer anxiously urged out.
Yan Bing: Is that the 'Flying Dog' here? How does he know I'm here?...... Anyway, when I dig out this cellar, even if he knows I'm hiding in this city, he won't be able to guess where I'm hiding.
Footsteps come and go fast. In less than a minute, the soldiers had disappeared into the streets that Fan Xiaoqi could see. Fan Xiaoqi quickly stood up and began to exert enough strength to move this stone slab, which was estimated to weigh one or two hundred catties.
It's heavy, it's really grandma's heavy......
Although this large stone slab is unusually heavy, Fan Xiaoqi is now exerting all his strength to survive. After three minutes of grinding, pushing, pulling, and pulling, he finally moved the big stone slab with difficulty. The bottom is as Fan Xiaoqi expected, hollow.
Well, it's a cellar!
Fan Xiaoqi was ecstatic, took out his mobile phone and clicked on the screen, using the bright fluorescence of the screen to search the dark patch under the slate. A pitted, broken, moss-covered, dusty, and downward-extending stone staircase appeared in front of Fan Xiaoqi.
Hehe, it's a step. This cellar is kind of classy......
Fan Xiaoqi didn't think much about it, and hurriedly entered the stone slab hole, stood on the steps below, exposed half of his body, and re-piled up the garbage around him, filling in the big hole he had just dug. After perfectly concealing the stone slabs and the opening, he walked down the steps carefully.
Immediately, Fan Xiaoqi felt a strong cold and damp aura. He quickly rolled up and rubbed his hands against various parts of his body so that his body could warm up for a while.
Forthwith. Fan Xiaoqi used the fluorescent flashlight on the mobile phone screen to illuminate the road under his feet, and carefully descended more than a dozen steps. However, the scene below was very different from what Fan Xiaoqi had in mind.
Before him was a small hall made of stones, rough and unadorned, about twenty square meters in size. In one of the walls of the small hall, a deep tunnel was carved into the front. The tunnel is about two meters high and one and a half meters wide, and there is no end in sight.
It was clearly not a cellar, which did not need to be dug in such a long and deep tunnel, nor should it be some abandoned old sewer, which was definitely not so wide. So, is it ...... The legendary tomb that hides countless treasures and cheats?......
Thinking of this, Fan Xiaoqi couldn't help but be a little ecstatic and passionate, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated a lot. However, the enthusiasm did not last long. Because, he quickly figured out a simple truth, the tomb gate that hides treasures and cheats will never be so simple to design, so easy to dig up. Besides, the truly magnificent ancient tomb must be full of mechanisms, but here there is a tunnel directly and unobstructed. So...... This is not a tomb at all.
But what kind of place could this be? a ...... A long, narrow underground granary? Or is it......
Fan Xiaoqi thought about it for a while, but in the end he still didn't come up with a reasonable explanation. So he decided to continue to explore and talk.
However, when Fan Xiaoqi walked to the door of the tunnel, a cold and strange wind suddenly blew towards him from the depths of the tunnel. He was so frightened that he hurriedly took two or three steps back.
It's weird, it's a deep tunnel......! Was it blown in from an exit in the tunnel? or from ......?
Thinking of this, he shuddered slightly, and didn't dare to think about it anymore.
Well, no matter what kind of tunnel this is, I'm going to break through it today!
So, Fan Xiaoqi once again showed his courage, and with cautious and resolute steps, he explored the way from the mouth of the tunnel to the depths of the tunnel step by step.
In the process of walking, Fan Xiaoqi has been using the fluorescence of the mobile phone screen to constantly search the four walls of the tunnel. It was also a badly worn-out, unadorned tunnel made of rough stones. The upper end of the tunnel is a curved vault of stone bricks. On the pavement of the tunnel, not even stones are paved, and it is a bare dirt road. And now it's overgrown with weeds. It may be that there is no light under the ground, and these weeds do not grow very luxuriantly, which does not cause much inconvenience to Fan Xiaoqi's walking. On the walls on both sides of the tunnel, every 30 meters or so, about 1 meter above the ground, there is a small Cao, which is 20 centimeters long and wide, and 15 centimeters deep. Inside, there were one or two worn-out dishes and the remains of candles that were almost unrecognizable.
Fan Xiaoqi looked at these little Caos who didn't know their intentions. As he continued to grope his way forward, he thought about it in his head again.
It's a bit simple, but it's a pretty thoughtful design. There are no traps, no traps and no labyrinths. Don't...... This is an ancient secret passage used to ambush the army?...... It's possible, it's entirely possible.
If this tunnel was long enough, it would be possible for me to walk straight out of the city through this underground tunnel!
Thinking of this, the gloomy aura on Fan Xiaoqi's face suddenly eased a lot, and at the same time, a sunny smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. It's like being a death row prisoner who has been sentenced by a judge to 'not guilty, released in court!'.
With this joyful mood, his steps also changed from cautious to vigorous. Soon, he had already followed the tunnel, seven turns and eight turns, and advanced three or four miles.
In the course of this walk, he also found a number of small halls of about twenty or thirty square meters, which were the same as those he had seen when he first went down the tunnel. The small hall was littered with the remains of wood and pots and pans. He guessed that these small halls were used by the soldiers to rest and eat for a while.
As a result, he was more sure of his guesses and strengthened his confidence that he would be able to escape. At the same time, his mood is more cheerful, and his pace has become faster.