The old man looked at me with a hint of surprise in his eyes, and if he knew that there was something deadly in the cave, and that it had killed thousands of people in an instant, he would indeed have reason to be surprised that I was unscathed.

The old man groaned slightly, put away the smile on his face, and said solemnly: "You take us down, the others can leave on their own, and the time we are below is the time for them to escape." ”

I thought about it and felt that both parties could rest assured with this method, otherwise he was afraid that the survivor would run away, and I would not fulfill my promise, and I was afraid that I would take him down first, and when he came back, he would change his mind and refuse to let go.

Li Duo obviously did not approve of this suggestion, and kept glaring at me in the crowd, he wanted to tell me that he would carry out the decapitation operation now, but I replied to him with a code, because I wanted to know what was once in the coffin below, whether it had anything to do with the blue stone, and what the blue stone was.

I'm afraid no one can answer these questions after killing the old man, his close bodyguard should be someone he trusts very much, but the big man doesn't know how powerful the corpse is to cut off his hands, so he directly holds it with his hands, which shows that the old man didn't tell the people around him how dangerous it is below.

The two sides reached an agreement, and the surrounding survivors erupted in low shouts, and the sound of discussion rose uncontrollably, but the old man did not stop them, looking at them with a look of joy and excitement, the surprise of suddenly finding that there was still a glimmer of life when I was in despair, made me happy.

Perhaps it is not necessary to care about the object of help, but rather to the act itself, or to conscience or some kind of human nature, and it is better to do something that benefits everyone than to lead them to a dead end.

There are also many survivors who show worried looks, and this worry is for me, but no one dares to stand up and say anything, I don't think they are cowardly, but when it comes to death, the fear of human beings prevails.

If my parents were here, as a daughter, I naturally didn't want them to come out of the way, so as not to lead to murder and push themselves and others, I smiled and shook my head gently at those who threw worried eyes at me, hoping that they would understand that they didn't need to worry about me.

At this time, except for those who could not move in the camp, all the survivors gathered in one place, and I was sure that my parents were not among them, which Pang Xiaofei had investigated a long time ago, and I just confirmed it again.

There is a certain amount of disappointment, but I am glad that they did not die in the camp, they did not suffer inhuman oppression, and that no news is sometimes good news, and maybe they are living in another safe place with other survivors.

It's just that there is one thing that makes me very unhappy, there are no couples surnamed Sang in the camp at all, why did Ouyang Mengmeng tell me otherwise? Do I have a grudge against her?

Aside from the fact that I almost saved her life, there is absolutely no intersection between us, what is her motive?

Although I am willing to treat people with kindness, I also have to guard against malice from others, Ouyang Mengmeng's actions are clearly hoping that I will come to death, everyone knows that this operation is a 'death penalty' mission, once I know the truth, I must also want to escape like Li Duo and them, but if there are my parents in the camp, then I have to come.

A word can save a person's life, and a word can also harm a person's life. Ouyang Mengmeng, I secretly wrote down this name in my heart, if there is one day when we meet in the future, I have to settle accounts with her.

Yang Shoucheng roared at this time: "Everyone bring the old and weak, all ready!" ”

He stood at the back of the crowd, and when they heard only that someone was taking the lead, they immediately went back to the hut and carried out those who were seriously ill and unable to move, and I came to the old man and told him to withdraw to the two sentry posts outside the camp.

The old man sent the strong man next to him to fire a signal flare, and soon the guards outside the camp rushed back, I had silently recorded their number before, and now I counted it again, and found that there were four people missing.

I gestured with my hand 'four', the old man's pale white eyebrows twisted, and waved his hand to make the big man send another signal flare, this time the color was different from just now.

The remaining four guards appeared more quickly than the previous ones, and seemed to be highly trained, and when they were all together, I smiled at the old man and told his men to take the head, and I walked with him in the middle of the group towards the entrance of the mine.

Li Duo seemed to want to keep up, but was quickly pulled by Yang Shoucheng, Li Duo looked at the survivors around him, he should be able to think that if there is no one to guide the way, these survivors may have to spend more than twice as long to find the temporary command post, Ouyang Mengmeng's group of people are all young and middle-aged, and they will not die if they are hungry for two more days and walk for two more days, but there are many old, weak, sick and disabled people in this group of people, they can't stand the toss, and someone must lead the way.

When the collective interests were greater than the individual interests, Li Duo made a rational decision, and he and Yang Shoucheng automatically organized the survivors to line up and withdraw from the camp in an orderly manner.

Just as all the survivors were about to leave, the old man suddenly stopped, pointed to Yang Shoucheng who was in custody and said, "He has to stay, or who can guarantee that you won't leave us halfway?" ”

As soon as the old man said this, the rest of the survivors stared at Yang Shoucheng, obviously hoping that he would take the initiative to agree, but the only person who objected was Li Duo, who ran back from the front of the team, but Yang Shoucheng had already walked into the middle of our team and stood next to me.

Li Duo wanted to replace Yang Shoucheng as a hostage, but Yang Shoucheng refused, the two of them argued a few words, and finally I interrupted them loudly: "It is more appropriate for this Mr. Yang to stay, we go in to a place where we need to contribute, Mr. Li's physical strength is probably not as good as his." ”

On the surface, it sounds like my words are no problem, from the appearance, one of the two is tall and strong, the other is thin, and the survivors all know that the hole at the end of the mine road is very small and needs to be expanded, so Yang Shoucheng must be stronger than Li Duo, and the people left behind may not only be hostages, but also laborers, so Yang Shoucheng is the most suitable for comparison.

But Li Duo and the two understood what I meant, Yang Shoucheng's expression was relaxed, although Li Duo was a little unwilling, but the situation was in front of him, and he couldn't afford to waste time, he told Yang Shoucheng to be careful, and ran back to the front of the team and walked outside the camp with the survivors.

Our team entered the mine, there were four people in the front row with flashlights, they walked fast, so the people behind followed and walked very fast, I thought it was the old man who was in a hurry to approach the secret of the cave, who knew that when he walked to the end of the mine, the whole mine suddenly shook, and the slag was shaken down, and before I could figure out what was happening, I heard Yang Shoucheng scolding in a low voice, he grabbed me and shouted:

"They blew up the camp exit!"

The distance between the mine and the camp is shorter than the mountain pass from the camp to the camp, and at this time we are standing at the end of the mine tunnel, and Li Duo and the survivors should have just arrived in the middle of the second and first levels.

I turned to the old man and said angrily, "You detonated the bomb?" ”

The old man took out a small black box from his pocket and threw it on the ground, and the smile returned to his face: "The world is chaotic, you have to think carefully." ”

The strong man beside him sneered: "Now that group of waste has become waste, if you don't want to save any of them, lead the way honestly." ”

His gun was pointed at Yang Shoucheng, and Yang Shoucheng was going to rush up and fight with him, I hurriedly grabbed his arm, the anger, sadness and unwillingness that surged in my heart were instantly suppressed by reason, the old man was right, if all the people outside died, Yang Shoucheng was the only person I could rescue, so I had to protect him.

"What do you think I'm a good person? Saving those survivors is just entrusted by people, and if you can't do it, forget it, as for this person, it's really a little useful. I looked coldly at the strong man who spoke.

When the old man heard my words, his eyes moved, and he asked, "What does it have to do with human life?" ”

I thought of the dried corpses in the burrows, and nodded confidently, "That's right." ”

I don't know what the old man's mind is in my answer, he seems to trust me more, and when dealing with this kind of person, the more vague the words are, the better, so that he can't figure out my hole cards.

Yang Shoucheng saw that I was acting, he was quite cooperative, and after listening to our conversation, he scolded and was beaten twice by the strong man behind him.

The strong man handed him a pickaxe and asked him to open the hole at the end of the mine, but the old man stopped Yang Shoucheng, turned his head and smiled at me: "This girl must have a way to get in, so you don't have to waste your efforts." ”

In fact, I do know that there is a path, and it is a dead end, just enough to lead into the burrow, and in the upper part of the second pyramid-shaped cavern, near the exit of the gourd's thin waist, there is a hidden secret passage.

It's very similar to the secret passage dug by the tomb builder in the novel for escape, but unfortunately those people were unlucky, the secret passage was only one meter away from the outside, but it suddenly stopped, and it is estimated that the mutation happened at that time, and the person who dug the secret road knew that it was not needed, so he did not choose it to escape.

This also indirectly proves that the time for those dry corpses to escape is very short, and they don't even have time to dig through a meter of soil, but think about the size of the secret passage, only thin people can get into it, and I am afraid it will not work to use it to confuse the old man, the old man will definitely not go in with me alone, and the big men around him can't get into it at all.

"Yes, but I can only take one person at a time." Several options crossed my mind, and it took only two seconds.

"Boss, don't listen to her nonsense, her words can't be trusted!" The strong man beside the old man said and opened the safety of the pistol.

"She's been in." The old man said categorically, his flabby eyelids drooped, his eyes squinted as if he was thinking, and after a moment, he asked, "Girl, you can say whatever you want, and if it is right, I can convince my people to believe you." ”

"Something? Does terrain count? There are two holes in the ground below, which are hourglass type. "I speak very slowly, making sure everyone knows it clearly.

The strong man immediately said: "We haven't seen each other again, who knows what you made up casually?" ”

The old man stopped him and was polite to me: "I believe you, but I don't know the purpose of your coming, everyone is uneasy, you said that saving people is entrusted by people, it's just convenient, then may I ask, you come...... What other purpose? ”

The cow is not a kite, it is difficult to take it back after blowing into the sky, and the previous pretending to be unfathomable was to make the old man believe that I could control the overall situation, but now I was suddenly asked about the deeper purpose, and I had to use another lie to round it.

"For the bottom thing." I have always been reluctant to mention the sarcophagus, for fear that the old man will get more information from it, he must know something about the following, what I see is only dead things, he may know the allusions, so I will not easily say more until his hole cards are turned over.