Chapter 56: The Hourglass Cave

The three of them had agreed earlier that they would stay in the camp to find out the secrets of the mines, and they all agreed that the secret was very important, perhaps related to the disaster itself, and I thought it was a bit of a fuss, but it was worth it.

Putting down the food, we used the code to determine the next move, Li Duo and Yang Shoucheng stayed in the shack to rest, I will go to the mine to see first, if the secret of the camp master is irrelevant, we will act according to the original plan.

Teleporting into the inside of the mine, I saw a row of carts parked near the wall, either one- or two-wheeled, which are now common on construction sites, some with shovels or rubber hammers in them.

The walls of the first half of the tunnel are soaked with cement, and there are corrupted wires and lamp holders on the roof of the cave, which is obviously a very formal project at that time.

After about 200 meters of walking, the cement structure became a civil structure, and the backwardness of the tools can be seen from the chisel marks, and the construction personnel were not professional.

When I walked about two hundred and fifty meters, I noticed that there was something slightly brighter in the darkness overhead, sandwiched between the soil layer and the supporting wooden stake, I walked over and took out this thing, and the result was a lump of chocolate paper, which was stuffed with a very poor quality calendar paper, and there was a line of words in the blank space of the calendar paper, I guess it was written by something like a burnt thin stick or a faded stone, because the font was thick and light, and I looked at it for a long time before I dared to determine its contents.

- H, bring it to my brother, don't come to me.

There was also something the size of a thumb cap in the paper bag, and I rubbed the mud off the thing, wiping it all off, revealing the stone with a blue sheen inside.

However, what shocked me was not only the blue stone I had seen, but also the date of the calendar paper, on the day of the beginning of summer this year, who would take the old desk calendar from half a year ago to the mountains to mine?

The answer can only be that the calendar was torn off by its owner on the same day, because when the disaster struck, many survivors fled the city before they even had time to take their passbooks and jewelry, let alone a desk calendar from half a year ago.

This unexpected discovery made me reopen the camp and its owners, who were not survivors, who had been mining in the mountains for more than half a year, and even the disaster could not stop them from digging through the mountain.

After walking about 100 meters, the mine reached the end, as Pang Xiaofei described, a hole was carved out of the mountain wall at the end, and because the hole was surrounded by large and small rocks, it was very difficult to clean up, so the project had to wait until tomorrow to continue.

I used a flashlight to shine into the hole, and there was enough space for me to move, so I teleported in, I didn't understand the topography, I only knew that the space I was in was naturally formed, and there was no trace of artificial construction.

It's a long cave, rugged and rocky, but it's high enough overhead, and if I use some metaphors, I think it's like an abstract natural corridor.

A foul smell wafted from the other end of the corridor, as Pang Xiaofei said, this place is not suitable for solo exploration, but I am not a 'person', I am a zombie, so there is no need to worry about ghosts, of course, it is best not to meet creatures that are not picky eaters.

No matter who left the note, the H he mentioned must be more auspicious, and he himself may have suffered an accident, and the person who came in to work did not pay attention to the top of his head in the dim environment, so I accidentally found the note, but unfortunately, the note is of no use to me, and the brother he wants to remind may have died as early as the outbreak of the disaster.

The blue stone melted the moment it touched my skin, and I absorbed it, this absorption was unconscious, out of my control, I was a little worried, if this mine was a blue stone mine, would I absorb it all to death?

As I walked, I found that the natural corridor was inclined downward, and the slope became steeper and steeper, and there was a hole in front of my head, which was funnel-shaped, and I looked closely, I didn't feel that my scalp was numb, and there were countless dead people under the hole.

The dead were not lying at the bottom of the cave, they all kept climbing upwards, and then suddenly froze somewhere, each corpse with its head held high, its eyes staring upward, its face full of horror and despair.

None of these corpses, or dried corpses, approached the entrance of the cave, and the nearest distance was ten meters away, as if they were evil spirits crawling out of hell, but they were separated from people by an abyss, and no matter how hard they tried, they could not touch the edge of the earthly world.

The clothes of the dried corpses were rotten, and it must have been quite old, so I went down the slope a few meters closer, and saw that the dried corpses were originally climbing up something, but their hands and feet had merged with those scaffolding-like things, and it was difficult to tell what was originally for climbing, but I guessed it was probably a wooden stake.

The mine is only half dug and the last wall of the cave has not been dug through, how can there be so many people here?

With this question in mind, I roughly counted the hundreds of dried corpses that could be counted by multiplication in rows and rows, and the number of corpses that could not be grabbed from the scaffolding and climbed on the slope was even more.

There was no exit from the top of the hole, and the little hole I had entered didn't look like someone had cut it open, so could it be that these people had climbed up from the bottom of the hole?

The owner of the camp and these people, are they looking for blue stones?

With these questions, I turned my heart sideways and decided to go to the bottom of the cave to see, the blue stone has a hundred benefits to me, I haven't seen any harm yet, if there is really a large number of blue stones below, I should have earned it, but the dry corpses full of holes made me feel bottomless, there were no obvious wounds on their bodies, and the movement of keeping climbing up showed that they died very suddenly.

There was still a hole at the bottom of the hole, and I immediately corrected the three-dimensional topographic map in my head, which was not a funnel-shaped hole, but an hourglass-shaped, with a thin position between the two sand bottles, and two symmetrical triangular spaces above and below.

The hole below is a pyramid type, there must have been a rope ladder for going up and down, but unfortunately now there is nothing, if it weren't for the hole not more than a thousand meters deep, and I have the ability to teleport, this trip must have been in vain.

As soon as my vision stabilized, I looked around, but the walls of the cave around me were bare, not as blue stone as I had imagined, but in the middle of the ground, there was something that surprised me extraordinarily.

In the center of this pyramid-shaped cave, there is actually a coffin, although the coffin is carved in stone, and the pattern on the surface is not exquisite and detailed, but its rough lines give people a sense of solemn atmosphere, and it seems that the burial is not an ordinary person.

Perhaps the dried corpse above was the worker who brought in the coffin, placed the sarcophagus, and had an accident when they returned to the outside, but what kind of accident can kill thousands of people at the same time without obvious injuries?

I thought as I walked to the sarcophagus, the coffin lid was intact, judging from the dust falling on it, it should have not been opened for a long time, maybe the camp master was looking for not a blue stone, but a secondary coffin?

After making sure that there were no blue stone mines around, I turned my attention back to the sarcophagus, and the owner of the note may have gotten the blue stone from this coffin.

No matter how I guess, in the end the spearhead is pointed at the sarcophagus, and it seems that the truth can only be known by opening it and looking at it.

I pushed open the heavy lid and shone a flashlight into the coffin, only to find that it was empty, and the thick dust on the lid and the connected parts did not show any signs of recent opening, which means that if there was a body or something in the coffin, it must have been moved a long time ago.

I'm a little disappointed that I didn't find the blue stone, and I don't think the camp owner would rather give up the opportunity to expand his territory in the last days and dig up this empty coffin.

They don't know that strange things have happened here, and they don't know that the coffin is empty, maybe I can use this to ask the camp owner to release the captured survivors!

I know how risky it is, and I don't want to save the world, but if I do, it's always right to save as many people as I can.

Our original plan was to save some people, and now I can imagine saving everyone, and I'm still lucky in that regard.

When I got out of the cave, I first asked Li Duo and Yang Shoucheng to breathe through the qi, and asked them to temporarily blend into the survivor team, I don't want to dry all the hole cards at once.

I shouted twice in the open part of the camp and told the person in charge of the camp to come out to meet me, and it was not long before a dozen men with guns surrounded me, and I knocked down two of them with lightning and the others were about to shoot when they saw this, when an old voice suddenly came in from outside the encirclement, and he told them all to stop.

A gap opened in the encirclement, and an old man, protected by six burly men, walked slowly towards us, this old man was not tall, half a head shorter than me, and thin, with all his hair gone, and a white beard that almost hung down to his chest.

The old man came over and smiled at me: "Girl, there is something to discuss, why bother to do it." ”

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that Li Duo was already mixed in with the onlookers, and the position was just behind the old man, and because of my two voices, all the survivors in the camp shack came out and watched the excitement around us.

Many strong men with guns held torches, and the originally dark and dead camp was brightly lit at this time, and I seemed to have become the protagonist in a martial arts novel, with a sense of immediacy in the cottage alone.

It doesn't take too long to talk to someone older than me, otherwise he will find out that I am a little girl who is not deeply involved in the world in a word, so I have to solve it quickly.

"I know what's underneath the mine, if you want it, let them go immediately, or I'll destroy what you want, don't talk about the conditions, don't delay the time, I do what I say."

The old man's face changed, his eyes narrowed and he sneered: "Empty mouth and white teeth, why should I believe you?" ”

I took something out of my backpack and threw it at the strong man next to the old man, who reflexively caught it, and when he saw what it was, he flicked his wrist and almost threw it out.

That thing was the half arm I had broken off from the corpse, and the old man's eyes instantly became fierce when he saw it, and I smiled at him, and the more I laughed, the more he felt bottomless.

At the same time, it also proved that he knew about the dried corpse, and maybe also knew how those people died, so after he saw the arm clearly, he hurriedly knocked it down and prevented the strong man next to him from continuing to hold it.