Chapter 76: White Silk Spores
The fat man's stomach hurt so badly that he randomly chose a big tree far away from the team, dug a small pit with a shovel, and squatted down as soon as his trouser belt was untied.
With his stomach empty, he sighed comfortably, and then he had time to observe his surroundings, and then realized that the big tree next to him seemed to be a little wrong.
Squinted his eyes and took a closer look, and finally found out where something was wrong, hissed, and muttered in his heart: "Why does the other half of this tree seem to have been subjected to artillery battles, and it doesn't slip away, there is no shortage of water in Banai, and it is a little greasy." ”
Thinking in his heart, he wiped it clean and lifted his pants, shoveled two shovels of soil with a shovel and buried them, and then carried the shovel to the withered side of the tree, knocked on the trunk, and found that there was an echo in it, which was empty, and immediately aimed at the roots of the tree and dug it up.
After digging down less than a meter, the shovel head plunged into it and suddenly hit something, making a clanging sound of iron tools colliding.
"Hey!" The fat man was happy, "Zhente Niang is stepping on the iron hooves and nowhere to find it, sesame opening the door is really a few coincidences, lift your hijab, let the fat man and I take a look at what good things are buried underneath." ”
Huo Xiaoli heard the movement of digging here, and crawled through the bushes and touched it, "Fat man, what are you digging?" ”
When the fat man saw that someone came to help, he was happy, "Come and help, the fat man has found the baby." ”
Soon, several other people who came out together also rushed over when they heard the sound, and everyone dug the soil efficiently, digging a big pit one and a half meters deep in three or two clicks, and then they were hindered and could not dig down.
Push the thin layer of soil with your feet, revealing a large iron gate underneath, boxy, more than a meter long and wide.
What kind of patterns are carved on the iron door, the fat man carefully identifies it, and finds that it is some more complex seal carvings, and he only knows the "door" and "life" inside.
The fat man smiled, "Fat man, my koi physique, can really come in handy anywhere, who is that, if you don't hurry up to inform Muyu of them, just say that we have made a major discovery." ”
Huo Xiaoli immediately rushed over and brought Zhang Qixun and them here.
Zhang Qixun jumped into the pit and looked at the inscription on the iron door under his feet, and patted the fat man's shoulder comfortingly, "Mourn, this door is fake." ”
The fat man was a little puzzled, "Why is it fake?" If you look at the words on it, I can still recognize the door and the fat man. ”
The others were also very puzzled, after a hard night's work, they saw that they had found a clue, but Zhang Qixun picked up the bucket and poured a bucket of cold water on their heads, and he was naturally very angry.
Zhang Qixun explained lightly: "Don't you think this iron gate is too new and too cheap? ”
"If it is really the entrance that the Zhang family left here, how can it not be so simple as to make a piece of pig iron door casually, and the two words will be used to fool people, and these carvings are suspected of deliberate imitation, the brushstrokes are very rusty, and the meaning of fluency can not be seen between the lines at all, and what we see outside the third sealing stone is completely different."
"So it's very likely that someone deliberately made this door out to fool us, and it's hard to say what danger there is inside."
Although this iron gate reads, "Those who enter this gate are either dead or vain, and only take this as a warning, not the brother of the Zhang clan, leave quickly", and also mentioned the name of the Zhang family.
But if Wu Xiaoxie is here, with his experience in making rubbings of ancient books for so many years, he can know at a glance that this thing is a fake and shoddy product.
The Huo family was a little frustrated when they heard this, and finally found a little clue, but the result was useless.
"Otherwise, let's go in and have a look." Huo Xiaoli proposed, "In case you can find something inside." ”
Someone chimed in: "Yes, this iron gate has a little role to play here." ”
Zhang Qixun didn't mean to object, maybe he could find a clue to the collapsed shoulder.
He looked at the little brother, who squatted down directly and groped around the edge of the iron gate a few times, and then motioned for everyone who went down to the bottom of the pit to go up, and then stood up and stepped down with one leg.
There was a boom, the sound was very loud, and the iron door collapsed downward, and the little brother grabbed Zhang Qixun's outstretched arm at the last moment and turned it over.
It took more than two seconds for them to hear the echo of the impact from below, and the iron door fell as if it had fallen directly on the surface of some very flat object, and the sound was very similar to the sound of the bottom of the iron bucket hitting the surface of the water when water was drawn from the well.
It seems that the pit is even deeper than they thought, at least more than thirty meters.
The fat man said that this would not be a cellar well that used to store rainwater, but as soon as he said it, he immediately denied it.
First, there is a lot of rainfall in Banai throughout the year, and it rains every three or five days, and secondly, the water here is very rich, and there are small rivers and streams everywhere, and there are no less than twenty small puddles that they encounter all the way at the bottom of this valley, so digging wells to store water, and it is such a deep well, it is purely to take off your pants and fart, and this is a lot of work.
When the dust in the pit cleared, a bottomless dark cavern was revealed.
The fat man lit a match and threw it down, but as soon as the flame touched the air below, it flickered and immediately extinguished, that is, the place was completely sealed off until they arrived, and there was no oxygen at all.
The group waited outside for about ten minutes, and the fat man threw another match to try it, this time the flame burned a little longer, but it was no longer visible when it fell deeper.
Since Zhang Qixun revealed his hand in the passage, these people in the Huo family still have a lot of respect for the three of them on the surface, and they are very self-aware to choose three of them with better skills.
Tying ropes around their waists, the three of them lowered one by one, and the miner's lamp hanging on their chests illuminated the earthen walls of the cave, and it could be clearly seen that there were many white hairy whiskers like underground roots of turnips, which seemed to be the roots of some kind of plant, spreading from the soil to this place.
After the pathfinder descended more than 20 meters, the shaking of the rope suddenly stopped, and then a light shadow swayed towards the top a few times, signaling to the people above that there was no danger below, and they also found a new hole below.
Seeing this, the people above also descended into the deep cave under the leadership of Zhang Qixun, and at close range, the white hairy roots on the cave wall were also seen more clearly, and then Zhang Qixun found that these things did not seem to be the plant roots he thought before, and the curled place at the front end looked more like a spore plant.
As they slid down, these white hairs were driven by the air current, as if they were alive, fluttering around their bodies.
Zhang Qixun subconsciously looked up at the fat man on top of his head, but found that the fat man's whole body was shrouded in the spider web-like white whiskers, and even some of the white whiskers were on the fat man's face, vaguely drilling into his nostrils, but the fat man didn't seem to notice the abnormality on his body.
Immediately, he was shocked, and shouted at the top, "Fatty! ”
His voice was echoed, as if they were enclosed in a bell, but after this sound, the fat man did not respond, and even the three Huo family members who went down before below were silent.
Zhang Qixun grabbed the rope and began to climb up, and soon crawled to the fat man's side, tearing off the cotton-like white beard on his face, only to find that the fat man's eyes were closed, as if he was asleep, but he still held the rope in his hand and descended the same action as when he was awake.
A black shadow suddenly fell in front of him, Zhang Qixun saw that it was the little brother, he didn't speak, just fixed himself on the rope with his legs, and then made a series of gestures to Zhang Qixun.
The little brother meant to let them continue to go down and enter the passage below, and then there was something above to guard the entrance of the cave.
This was what Zhang Qixun heard, and there were heavy roars above the hole above their heads, accompanied by a few screams, and blood droplets fell from above like rain.
Obviously, something happened above, and the two Huo family members who didn't have time to come down suffered yet.
With a single strand of hair, he could know that it must be the damn slumped shoulder, Zhang Qixun cursed in his heart, checked the fat man, and found that his breathing had become a little weak, and immediately took him to hold the rope with one hand and quickly landed down.
The little brother also carried someone in his hand and followed closely behind him.
It has fallen more than 20 meters, and the bottom of the place has obvious reflection when the light flickers, and it seems that there is indeed a lot of water accumulated underneath, but I don't know how deep it is underwater.
After another two or three meters of dropping, a hole the size of a manhole cover was broken in the middle of the white spores on the wall of the earth, and a human leg wearing military boots stretched out from the hole.
Zhang Qixun stepped on the edge of the hole, the rope swung, his waist forced himself to drill in, his head hooked forward, and he saw three Huo family members lying in the body.
He couldn't hear the breathing of the three people, and when he reached out to touch it, he found that the hands of the Huo family on the outermost part were cold, and the pulse was no longer beating.
Zhang Qixun twisted his bones to make his upper and lower body switch positions in the narrow cave, and then leaned out to unbuckle the safety buckle and dragged the fat man in from the hole.
The space inside was too small, so I had no choice but to drag the fat man from the three lying Huo family members to the inside, and then carry the corpses at the entrance of the cave into it to make room for the little brother who came down behind.
When the little brother descended to the entrance of the cave, he did not come in, but first stuffed the person he was carrying in his hand, and then climbed up along the rope.
The space here is so small that people can't lift their necks when they sit, Zhang Qixun had to kneel beside the fat man, break his mouth, and shine it in with a lamp, only to find that his throat was blocked with a large ball of cotton-like spores, and some directly from the nasal cavity got into the saliva and stuck to the roof of the mouth, and hurriedly used tweezers to carefully poke in and clip out, but there are still some white wires at the border between the trachea and the esophagus, and the tweezers are not long enough.
The fat man's breathing was heavier, and the rise and fall of his chest was still not obvious.
Zhang Qixun stretched out his hand and pressed it down his throat along the trachea to the sternum, and pressed it a few times on his stomach, and found that the stomach was blocked with stones, so he immediately took out a box of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water from the space, took out a small bottle and cut the open end, lifted the fat man's head, poured it into his throat, and then slowly pressed the bottom of his stomach.
After rubbing it a few times, the fat man suddenly convulsed, his whole body shrunk into a ball, his expression was very painful, he rolled his eyes and tilted his neck, making a move to vomit.
Zhang Qixun hurriedly moved out of the way, let the fat man turn sideways, his right hand was in the shape of a spoon, and he used his hollow palm to exert some force to pat him on the back.
The fat man vomited wildly, and a large ball of white cotton wool-like spores spit out of his mouth, which was also mixed with yellow, yellow, green and green undigested food, plus the smell of Chinese medicine from Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, the air was instantly filled with an indescribable sour smell.
It continued to induce vomiting for two or three minutes, until the thing spit out of the fat man's mouth turned into grass-green water, Zhang Qixun turned him over and fed him some water, the fat man retched a few times, and his eyes were already wide open in confusion.
The little brother brought down two people from above, and after seeing Zhang Qixun's handling method, he reached out and asked him for a few bottles of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, and then hung the two people directly with their heads down diagonally on the rope, and poured them in very simply and rudely.
In contrast, Zhang Qixun's handling method is much gentler.
In order to avoid making the passage smelly even more, Zhang Qixun dragged the remaining two Huo family members who were still breathing to the entrance of the cave and made them spit into the water below.
The lynx found the place before the shoulders were slumped, and after the sneak attack and the two people were killed, they waited on the side for the master to come.
The beast didn't know how to bite off the rope hanging on it, which also indirectly bought Zhang Qixun and the little brother some time, so that they could hurry up and get the person down.
Dragged his aching right leg with his shoulders and limped to the edge of the deep hole, his right ankle under the trouser tube looked visibly misaligned, and his skin was chapped and purple.
When the two lynx saw that it was him, they immediately stood up and shook their heads to rub their legs, and snoring sounded in their throats.
Collapsed shoulders casually whistled two handfuls on the heads of the two lynxes, and when he saw a few ropes hanging from the entrance of the cave, he immediately took out the Yao knife pinned behind his back and cut the ropes one by one.
A rope suddenly fell from front of his eyes, and the little brother immediately raised his index finger and made a shushing gesture, and pressed his feet against the wall, his back against the wall.
The spores crawling on the wall seemed to be suddenly burned by the firelight, and immediately curled up and retreated to the side.
The slumped shoulders with the lynx guarding the door had no intention of chasing them down, but after cutting the rope, he dragged a bucket-thick rotten log out of nowhere, and laid it directly above the hole, and broke many branches on it, and then began to fill in the earth.
Because of the old injuries on his body, he didn't plan to have a head-on conflict with Zhang Qixun below, and he didn't beat any of those two guys, so he just wanted to trap them here to death.
Good night maca baka