On the way, I was always worried that this man would not survive, that he would not be able to get fluids or blood transfusions, and that he could only rely on his own repair power and will to survive against death.

Gu Yu only brought a small amount of food and water with him when he went out, and he fed the rest to the old man, but fortunately the old man could still eat, which showed that he still had hope.

However, in the middle of the night, the old man had a high fever, and he himself lost too much blood, and the high fever would consume his physical strength, so Gu Yu and I decided that Gu Yu would use teleportation to take the old man back to the small city first.

I drove the car with the supplies and continued as planned, my driving skills were free-spirited, as long as I didn't run into other vehicles, I could drive the car home.

Before Gu Yu left, I was not allowed to drive at night, so I parked the car on the side of the road and fiddled with the things I found from the farm, among which was a hand-cranked electric radio, which integrated a radio, a flashlight and a charger, and I pulled out the antenna and pointed it at the air conditioner.

In fact, there is a car radio on the off-road vehicle, I am just idle and bored, holding the radio around around, originally I didn't have any hope, just to pass the time, the sound of electricity from the radio horn, listening to it for a long time will make people irritable.

I was going to switch the radio into a flashlight and go around the barren fields by the roadside, hoping to find wild vegetables and fruits, but as soon as I put my finger on the switch, a human voice came from the loudspeaker.

The voice sounded very weak, repeating the phrase: we are alive, we are ......

The second half of the sentence was faint, and I put my ear to the radio speaker, listened carefully for a while, and then ran back to the car and took out the map.

We collected maps of all the nearby areas to make sure we didn't get lost on this trip, and the radio showed that the location was not far from the road under my feet.

Yuanbao Mountain, the north slope, and the mountainside, although the other party gave three keys, the actual area to be searched may be dozens or hundreds of miles.

The voice is so weak, the people who call for help may not be able to support me to go back to the town and bring people over, I looked at my watch, the night is still long, if I use teleportation, I should be able to find them faster.

Thinking of this, I drove the off-road vehicle off the road, hid it in the barren field, and then picked up the map with the radio and walked in the direction of Yuanbao Mountain.

The mountains on the map are just a few lines, but fortunately there is a teleportation device, otherwise by the time I get to the place, the survivors inside will probably be hopeless.

Yuanbao Mountain is the same as its name, under the reflection of the bright moonlight, I can see its shadow like a 'golden ingot' on the mountain peak in the distance.

Teleporting to the northern slope, perhaps because the lives of people seeking help should not be lost, the mountain is not large, at least much smaller than I thought.

It is like a gold ingots that fall in the mountains, it is particularly easy to recognize, the mountains on the east and west sides are narrow, the north and south are long, I moved to the north slope, the height of the mountainside is only more than 100 meters.

I searched along the 'waistline' of Yuanbao Mountain, and after walking for about ten minutes, I found a hole in the ground under a boulder.

I crouched down to the edge of the hole, and the radio turned into a flashlight, and the cries for help stopped on my way here.

Unfortunately, there is not a straight hole below, and the light column of the flashlight encounters obstacles, and can only shine five or six meters deep.

I kept an eye on it, unfolded the rebound cover, and then shouted into the hole to ask if anyone had anybody.

I stopped and listened, but no one answered me, because I didn't know how deep the hole was, so I shouted a few times and stopped.

I hung the radio around my neck, turned it into radio mode again, and climbed down the hole, which had many pits in the wall that were just enough for people to step on.

From the edge of the hole, it can be seen that it was dug by hand, so the pit on the wall of the cave must have been deliberately made by people to facilitate entry and exit.

Presumably, the person who asked for help was really very weak, otherwise he could have crawled out and found a way to survive, and my movements were very fast, and it only took me two minutes to go down to the bottom of the cave.

The bottom of the cave is about 20 meters from the ground, and the second half is a natural stone cave, with no traces of manual excavation, and it is difficult for this person to find such a hidden place to hide.

The space of the natural cave is similar to the corridor of the school building, and it is not as narrow as the artificially dug burrow, and it is difficult to even turn around.

"Hey, anyone?" I shouted as I walked inside.

The echo was like a wave pushing deeper, I looked at the ground and found a set of shoe prints, but only in and out, and I was suspicious.

Although the hole was dug by people, it was not dug recently, Gu Yu taught me some ways to identify human traces, judging from the new and old degree of soil, the hole that came down has been dug for at least several months.

This shows that the person who asked for help came down a few months ago, and then he was trapped, and he went in and did not come out again, looking at the depth of the footprints, the person who went in was not carrying too much heavy things.

In other words, if they have lived down there for a few months, or even longer, they should have carried a lot of food, water, and necessities.

There are five pairs of footprints, and even if five people eat two meals a day and drink half a bottle of water, the weight of food and water they consume will definitely not be light in a few months.

Is there something to eat underneath?

I was looking for something to eat underground, when I looked up and found that the cave was at the end, and the end of the cave was not a mountain wall, but a round stone plate.

The stone plate is embedded in the mountain wall, at a glance you know that it is artificially made, there are carved patterns and patterns of birds and beasts on it, the combination of the two, in addition to the beauty, also gives people a kind of visual misleading, as if the pattern is rotating, the birds and beasts are chasing each other, head and tail are connected, and the cycle is eternal.

I blinked, fixed my gaze on the protruding trough next to the plate, walked over to it, and struck it with my dagger.

"Is there anyone in there?" I had a hunch that the people trapped inside were tomb robbers, if not the archaeological team.

As soon as the knocking stopped, there was a 'bang' sound from inside the stone plate, but there was only one sound, no follow-up, but it was enough for me, I knew that there were still living people and space inside.

So when I teleported in, I was confronted with a pair of eyes full of astonishment, and the owner of the eyes was sitting under the wall of the mountain facing the stone plate, his arms hanging limply at his sides, and it seemed that he had nowhere to move except his eyes.

There is a military kettle under the stone plate, and it is estimated that the knock just now was sent by this thing smashed on the stone plate.

"Hello, I received your distress message, how are you doing now, what about the others?" I walked up to this guy and suddenly felt strange, he didn't have any electronic devices around him, not even a flashlight, his clothes pockets were deflated, I looked around, and there was no backpack or anything like that.

He didn't seem to have the strength to speak, he moved his eyes, pointed me in the direction, I didn't smell blood, he shouldn't have any external injuries, probably hungry, unfortunately I didn't have anything to eat on me.

I walked in the direction he pointed, and the stone wall he was sitting on couldn't see his head up, but there was a passage-like entrance to the left and right, and the direction in which his eyes tilted was the entrance to my right.

The scene in front of me made me feel like I had stepped into an adventure novel, with dark underground caves, trapped mysterious teams, and stone plates that seemed to be the gates of the dungeon.

What exactly is this place? I don't think it's the underground shelter I thought it was at first, it's obviously much older.

Inside the entrance, there is another cave, which is also a natural stone cave, and the miraculous work of nature has created a natural underground palace.

After only five minutes of walking, I saw something hanging from the ceiling of the cave, it was entangled in a cloud of vines, and I fixed my eyes on it, it was a person!

The top of the cave is undulating, and the low places have to be slightly bent to pass, but the high places are seven or eight meters, and the man hangs from the high ceiling.

But he was already a dead man, and I walked under his feet, and went on, and found two other bodies in the backwater pool and the pit, and one of the corpses that died the most unbelievable to me, he was half in the mountain wall, half outside the wall, I don't know how he got in, anyway, he died here in such a bizarre way.

The cave was naturally formed, yes, but the boxy backwater pools and pitfalls were undoubtedly man-made, and I went all the way to the deepest part of the cave to look for a fifth, possibly fourth, body.

On the surface, the mechanism here is very simple, but I always feel that these people are not so easy to hit, they die too easily, and even a little inexplicable.

The backwater pool was full of black stagnant water, and I couldn't drink it or wash my face, so why did the corpse die in it?

There is no camouflage on the pit, such a big pit, there are sharp stones at the bottom, and the corpse is obviously holding a flashlight in his hand, how did he fall down and die?

The death of the third corpse can be called a supernatural event, because the half of his body that sank into the stone wall was the upper body, as if he was going to use a spell that had pierced through the wall, and it failed halfway through.

It's really strange every year, and there are so many of them this year, that I was stunned as I looked at the end of the cave.

The fifth man sat cross-legged under the stone plate at the end of the cave, and yes, there was another stone plate embedded in the mountain wall, exactly like the one I had seen before.

The fifth person I'm looking for is holding a single radio station in his arms, and when I see this backpack-sized radio, I finally breathe a sigh of relief, and I said that the original thing that sent the signal was here, but after thinking about it, I wondered again, can the signal of this kind of radio be received by ordinary civilian radios?

"Hello, I received your distress message, how are you doing now, can you go?" I repeat what I have just said.

The man nodded at me, very weakly, and I stepped forward and pressed his shoulder, "Don't be nervous, I have a special ability." ”

After explaining, I took him back to the cave where he came in, picked up the one who threw the kettle, and rescued the two of them from this strange underground cavern.

When I got back to the buggy, I folded some large leaves, with dew on them, and it was impossible to drink enough, but at least it moistened my throat.

There are black star fruits in the barren field, I picked a few handfuls, although they are not ripe, but they can be eaten, and I also found some lantern fruits, this kind of fruit is small and sour, and eating it is guaranteed to quench my thirst.

Seeing that the two of them had some strength, I asked, "Who are you and why are you trapped in the cave?" ”

The man who sent the distress message looked a little older, he stuffed a few more black stars into his mouth, and said as he chewed: "Sorry, we have discipline and can't reveal our identity." ”

Military kettles, individual radios, and combat uniforms without epaulettes......

Since it is said that there is discipline, the subtext is that they are people from the military, and they are on a confidential mission, I nodded, oh, and asked:

"Are you from Xindu, or from the safe zone?"

The two glanced at each other with puzzled expressions: "Xindu? Safe Zone? ”

Then the older man looked at me and asked, "You said that you have special abilities, but this is not a trivial matter, and if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes, I'm afraid no one would believe it." ”

I was stunned when I heard this, and combined with their reactions, I suddenly asked urgently, "How long have you been trapped in the cave?" ”

The young man thought for a moment and said, "Seven days." ”

I asked, "What is the day of the month and what day are you going down?" ”

Both of them were stunned by my question, and I quickly said, "Trust me, this is very important." ”

The young man looked at the older man, who hesitated for a moment before replying, "July 5th, July 5th, 2022." ”

Hearing this answer, I let out a long breath, organized my language, and said, "Today is July 5, 2023." ”