Chapter 16: Exploration
Inside the mine
There is no greeting when you meet! Several people entered the cave, and the faint light from outside the cave shone in, and after a few minutes, they slowly adapted to the environment. The mine is a little wider than previously expected, after all, the government has been mining for so many years, and although the vehicles in and out are rail vehicles, this is after all a resource gathering concentration that the government relies on very much. The inside is spacious and sturdy, the rocks on both sides are polished smooth and neat, and the rows of cables are neatly embedded in the rocks, extending inward with no end in sight. At the top, there is a light source with steel cages hanging at intervals of more than ten meters, and now there is no electricity, just hanging on it in black. A gust of wind blew from inside, damp with a fishy smell, Qiu Long and the others were a little used to it, and they didn't care. However, Ah Chen and the others frowned unconsciously.
Seeing this, Julia smiled and said, "Brother Ah Chen, don't be afraid, there is no poison in the air!" ”
Ah Chen smiled, waved his hand to let a man with a military bag come over, bowed his head and said a few words to him, and the man went out. Two others followed suit. The third child stood beside Ah Chen, constantly looking at the hole.
Qiu Long only saw Lao Yu and Yazi, so he asked where the glasses were?
Yang Yao said: "He's inside, he said to identify the internal tunnel!" ”
Scar said: "How can he identify it, and there is no time to discuss it again!" Let's take a little rest, and we're about to head inside! ”
Yang Yao smiled: "This time, the glasses did a good thing unintentionally!" After that, he squinted at Qiu Long, wanting Qiu Long to ask, but Qiu Long stretched his neck to look inside, not caring about her appearance at all.
Scar said hurriedly: "What are you looking at the boss?" He didn't know the answer! Hurry up, let's die! ”
Yang Yao came back to his senses and continued: "When we first arrived here, we had the opportunity to come to this cave to fight in the jungle, although we didn't hit anything, but we also saw the complexity of this, and every time we returned in vain. So, he thought a little about it, and when he purchased it this time, he took the computer to rub the net, thinking that he was looking for the blueprint of this mine and preparing to fight the jungle again. He browsed the website for a long time, and finally found a rendering from many years ago, which was somewhat helpful. When he came in just now, in order to find a way back, he ran inside in a hurry! He said he'd come in half an hour at most! ”
Julia said, "It's been almost an hour!" Haven't come back yet! "I was a little anxious in my voice!
While talking, a few people who had gone out had already returned, and they made an "OK" gesture towards Ah Chen!
Ah Chen only spoke at this moment: "The development of events is earlier than expected, and it is even more unexpected!" We're going to have to go this way in! Don't have the idea that everyone is ready to fight to the end of the net! Our mission, Mr. Qiulong, is to bring you safely to the General, no matter what means! ”
"Therefore, at present, it is relatively reliable to try to find a way out! I don't agree with stumbling to the end here, but if we need to, we'll do it! ”
"We've set up three interception devices outside, and they're not very powerful, but they're enough to delay them for a while!"
"I suggest, let's go in now, we can't delay any longer!"
Seeing this, Qiu Long really can't stay here anymore. The opponent's combat execution is currently overwhelming. As for the glasses, as long as you go inside, you should find him quickly.
Qiu Long is in front of a few people, and Ah Chen is behind the palace.
Several people traveled about 200 meters with flashlights, and when they looked back, it was already pitch black outside, and the light could no longer shine in. Several people fumbled and cautiously walked forward, and no one spoke. Sometimes someone slips on broken stones, or is dripping on the face by the water on the top of the cave, still maintains a silent tacit understanding, never speaks, bored his head forward, and slowly measures this dark unknown world with his feet!
Qiu Long said suddenly: "I remember that not far in front of me is a downward fork in the road, divided into two directions, there is a computer room near the left, although we have not been in, I have a little impression!" The sound collided in the mine and spread far away, and everyone was worried about it!
At this time, he suddenly worried about his glasses again, what the hell is this thing for? Did you run into a monster and be dragged away? This kind of thinking is more addictive, and the more afraid you are of what you think, the more you can't resist thinking about it. The thought had only been on the horizon for a minute when Julia whispered "hey" startled.
Julia took a flashlight and shone it on the side of the rock wall, and everyone stopped to look around, and saw a gradually blurred arrow, with light white handwriting, pointing to the left. Due to the dampness of the rock wall, it didn't take long for the arrow to leach out of the water, and the erosion was unrecognizable.
Qiu Long said happily: "This is the mark left by the glasses!" Let's keep up! Eighty percent of him wants to guide us to the computer room! ”
When you reach a fork in the road, the tracks turn left and right. There was an abrupt and tattered sign on the rock wall, some of the text on which was indecipherable, and two arrows could be vaguely seen indicating the direction.
Everyone raised their flashlights to shine respectively, to the left is a narrow sidewalk dug according to the rock wall, adjacent to more than ten meters is the overhead freight rails, the flashlight shines, and the rails are bottomless! Ah Chen kicked a stone down, and after a long time, a muffled voice came up from the ground!
Following the arrows of the glasses, the group walked up the stone steps one by one. This time, Ah Chen opened the way, and several other soldiers were still behind.
The stone steps spiraled down, and the darkness was like a viscous fog, getting thicker and thicker, staining the face, drilling into the eyes, and the pillars of light emitted by the strong flashlight seemed to be sticky, and everyone could only see a few meters away. A group of people put on their backs and walked forward, a kind of "empty" sound, which came and went around them, like the sound of each person's heart beating.
When everyone went down to the flat place to catch their breath, they found that the stone steps were only a few tens of meters, and several people were soaking through their clothes! Luckily, the air is humid!
In front of it is the machine room, which is said to be the machine room, but it is actually used by using a concave space after excavating ore. The door had opened outward, and the dragon rushed inside, only to find that it was empty, and the glasses were not there.
At this moment, everyone felt a shaking overhead, and then a muffled sound came from the fork above, and several people outside the house felt a small amount of rubble falling from it and hitting their bodies.
In a hurry, everyone hurriedly entered the house and hurriedly took flashlights to shine around.
The third child was shocked, he had never been afraid to face bloody scenes, but this journey had never been seen in his life, and for him it was inevitable to be nervous, and everyone else should be nervous anyway. He took the flashlight and turned it to the door, and everyone was silent for a few seconds before turning off the flashlight. The third child turned off like this, and he suddenly felt a trace of air flow behind his neck, with a little bit of cold air, like an invisible ice pick, slowly burrowing into his clothes. His body suddenly stiffened, he couldn't see anything in the dark, but subconsciously reacted, making his hand shake again, he shuddered and slowly turned around, and pressed the flashlight with his fast stiff fingers, a beard under the pillar of light swam back and forth behind his head, and two shiny things fluttered above the beard.
He subconsciously opened his mouth wide and prepared the word "ah" that spewed out of his throat! Suddenly, his mouth was covered by a hand! When I look at it again, it's the bearded man! The goods were behind him, looking left and right, as if looking for something!
In the dark, I only heard Ah Chen say: "Don't be nervous, everyone! I guess the interceptor we set up outside the cave worked! We've got some time to spare. With that, he turned on the flashlight. Everyone looked at it indiscriminately, and it turned out that this room was a power generation room. The inside is more spacious and a little drier than the outside, but the musty smell is heavier.
Ah Chen came to the console, looked at the system, and said happily: "Maybe this power generation device can still be started!" When the people heard what he said, they immediately rejoiced: with electricity, it will be easier to find a way to live! In such a dark environment, I can't help but suddenly go crazy!
Ah Chen followed the line and came to a group of gate knives, which was a temporary manual start gate knife. Ah Chen stood firm and held the knife with both hands, and pulled it up vigorously. I saw that the gate knife was closed, but there was no electricity. Ah Chen checked it carefully and understood the reason for the lack of electricity. He pulled down the switch, found some discarded wires nearby, peeled off the skin, made a temporary fuse out of copper wire, and carefully connected them.
When he came to the switch, he took a deep breath and slowly pushed the switch up. The roar of the machine gradually sounded, and the lights flashed a few times under the operation of the machine, and then gradually lit up, and several light bulbs were broken by the instantaneous current!
Standing in the bright room, everyone looked at each other, and suddenly felt much safer! Qiu Long searched around the house, but did not find any clues left by the glasses, thought about it, and laughed at himself secretly, thinking: In this dark house, ghosts will leave marks! Even if the glasses are marked, they will be left on the outside, the obvious kind! After all, at this time, no one is in the mood to play a guessing game.
Ah Chen arranged for two team members to go back and go to the fork in the road above to guard.
When they came to the house, they looked up, and saw rows of lights embedded in the stone wall, hovering up or down, extending deep into the earth, but suddenly reaching out again somewhere below, and continuing to extend forward. The overhead rails were empty, and individual pillars had decayed and broken, and if you looked closely, the rails had not broken, but under the action of gravity, they had clearly deformed.
The rails are inlaid with lights on both sides, and the brackets built from the ground layer by layer seem to firmly hold the two-way track. However, due to more than ten years of neglect in maintenance and management, when I listened carefully, I occasionally made a rotten sound of "squeak and rattle".
After a moment's attention, the dragon noticed a stubby white line in the doorway, and the arrow continued to point forward. He looked at Ah Chen, as if asking for advice!
However, Ah Chen shook his head and said, "In my opinion, your friend is the same here or not!" Anyway, there's no turning back now, there's only one way ahead! "Stretch out your foot and erase it!
One of the people on guard duty above suddenly gestured to everyone, and Ah Chen said, "Damn! These guys are coming fast! “
Then he turned to Qiu Long and said, "You go first!" Let's delay them first, and if there are many forks in the road, you can stack three stones on top of each other to make a signal! There's no signal on the intercom! “
He shouted upwards again: "Fight and retreat, alternate cover!" Slowly retreat to the vicinity of the motor room, don't fall in love! “
As he spoke, gunshots rang out from above, and everyone still didn't know how strong the mine was. In case the mine collapses, everyone has to finish the game. Therefore, they were cautious and did not dare to use grenades and other weapons, but used small arms to hit them.
The dragon led the crowd and ran as far forward as he could. He and his companions are not greedy for life and afraid of death, but the enemy is currently the main task, not to resist. Therefore, he did not argue, and acted according to Ah Chen's deployment.
Behind the gunshots, it was very lively, mixed with the sound of shouting and screaming. It seems that this side is deploying and transferring personnel, and the fight is very happy.
Everyone walked forward for about 200 meters, and Ah Chen and the others were no longer visible at all on the downward sidewalk, but the dense gunshots reverberated in the huge underground pit, which was extremely clear!
At this time, everyone only listened to the sound of "boom"! Someone shouted: "The entrance to the cave has been blocked, everyone be careful of falling rocks!" “
Then I heard a rush of footsteps from far and near, running over!
Some gravel fell from the top of their heads, and everyone quickly quickened their pace! There's a spacious underground platform in front of you!
The platform is about thousands of square meters, which was a place for material storage and exchange, of course, in addition to some large piles of stones, a few scrapped power locomotives are lying quietly on the track above the platform, as if dead! The platform is connected to the sidewalk, which seems to have an emergency escape function.
On one side of the platform is several railroad tracks that connect the high and low in the distance, and on the other side is a mine hole carved out of the mountain, large and small, more than a dozen. Some of the holes have obvious traces of artificial excavation, and some are naturally formed deep holes. The platform is connected to the rock of the mountain and is part of the protruding mountain. A few hundred meters above is the top of the rock, and below is unfathomable.
The lights around the platform have been damaged a lot, but the current light is enough for everyone to act quickly!
Qiu Long said, "Further inside, this is where we have been before!" ”
When they came to the entrance of a cave, they found another white sign. Qiu Long said happily: "The glasses really went into this hole." Thinking about people's hearts, he put up his hands, rolled up a horn and shouted: "Glasses!" Spectacles! Are you there? ”
The darkness in the cave is like a sponge, and the sound is like a drop of water, and when you shout in, there is no sound. The sound travels fast outside, but it's useless!
Seeing that no one answered, Qiu Long stacked three stones at the entrance of the cave as a sign according to Ah Chen's request, and then led everyone into the cave.
The slippery tide in the cave was abnormal, and gusts of cold wind blew out from the inside, and some subtle "squeak" sounds were faintly heard, and Julia couldn't help but shiver.
Scar suddenly said, "We have been to this cave, and there is a cliff not far in front of us, and there is a dark river below. He took the wrong medicine for glasses, and he came out alone to explore the way, and he didn't know where he was now, he was really anxious! “
The cave is about a few hundred meters long, and the lights inside are flickering on and off, and the walls on both sides are littered with shiny brown ores. Several people slowly walked through the cave and came to a cliff. Here's what Scar said about the dark river!
Standing on the edge of the cliff, you will be greeted by the damp and smelly airflow! The cliff is next to the rock face, and a winding road about several meters wide has been artificially excavated, which leads to the top and extends to the bottom of the cliff. The opposite cliff wall is full of black holes, and as the light of the lighting swayes, the holes slowly disappear into the darkness.
Although it is a cliff, there are also overhead wire cables, fixed on the cliff walls on both sides, and the light bulbs are shiningly fixed to the cables, and when the wind blows, they shake with the wires.
Julia's eyes were sharp, and she exclaimed downward, "Look, everyone! “
The dragon looked to the bottom of the cliff, and saw a white pillar of light slowly moving, approaching the opposite cliff. Scar pulls out a flare, aims it at the top of the white pillar of light, and fires a flare. The flares were as bright as day and slowly rose, and everyone saw a man running desperately forward in the river that was not up to his calf, and there were waves like waves in the water behind him, following this person all the way.
In the bright light, Qiu Long could already see through the telescope that this person was glasses! In the bright light, the glasses opened their mouths while running fast, as if they were saying something!
The flares fell slowly, and the glasses were about to run to the opposite shore. Scar replaced a flare bullet, and when he hit the glasses again, the glasses were gone! I saw that the bottom of the cliff on the opposite bank was craggy and chaotic, and I guessed that I had run into a certain place.