Chapter 277: The Year of Renyin
The tunnel went straight down, and this time there was no turn, and I climbed deeper into the ground.
At the end is a natural cave with many chests inside, as well as hangers and chains.
The presence of these tools in the cave indicates that this natural cave has been discovered, and they want to transport something out of it, and I think the most likely is the source stone.
In the southeast corner of the cave there was a hand-hewn iron door, the door panel was tightly closed, it was the main gate for transportation, I jumped from the hole, and after checking it found that all the boxes were empty, and there was a thick layer of dust on them, and the time of abandonment should be about the same as that of the prison on the upper level.
The cave walls are full of holes, I found some fragments of source stones in one of the holes, it seems that this is where the island people mined the source stones, but unfortunately the source stones have been emptied.
I walked up to the iron door, which was thankfully open inside, and I held the small wheel on the door and turned it to one side, the metal lock, which had not been touched for decades, rusted into the door panel.
It took me some effort to open the door, which was a hundred-meter-long passageway, and at the other end was a storeroom-like room, with dozens of decaying wooden coffins lined up on either side of the wall.
Apparently someone once used the cave as a burial chamber, and the islanders removed the coffins before mining.
I walked to the wooden coffin while thinking, and after checking it, I found that it was empty, presumably the body was transferred by the islanders.
Sometimes meteorites fall into the atmosphere and break up into fragments of different sizes that fall in different areas, so each source stone mine has a different amount of storage.
If there is only a small piece of the source stone that falls here, then the islanders may have already taken out of it, and I will not find it if I continue to search.
However, after I entered the transportation passage, the more places I walked, the more familiar I felt, and the structure of this place seemed to be exactly the same as the one marked on Xun Bishan's map.
However, there was no one in the danger zone marked on the map, and I checked several places in succession, and finally came to the conclusion that all obstacles and dangers were removed when the islanders were stationed.
Some places were sealed by eternal infusion, and some places were emptied, and there is no doubt that the islanders found this place decades before us, emptied the source stone, and then established a base to cultivate monsters.
The passage to the upper floor was cut off by a heavy gate, and Gu Yu and the others didn't seem to have reached it yet, because there were no footprints of anyone else on the ground except me.
It seems that the two-headed girl is telling the truth, the people of the New Human Alliance have not checked this, and if they did, they would definitely go down the hole.
I just don't know if Xun Bishan said that the 'disappearing' island people have solved it, and there is another gate at the end of the passage, I found the gate switch and opened the gate, and there is still a passage behind the door, but there are many white bones inside.
The fact that the bodies of the dead were not taken away means that there was an accident when this place was closed, and it is very likely that the situation is similar to that of the prison on the upper floor, and I checked the gun next to the corpse, and the bullets in it were all gone.
Something that can make people shoot is definitely not 'disappearing', perhaps the phenomenon of disappearance is related to the source stone, and once the source stone is mined, this phenomenon will disappear with it.
Xun Bishan may not have expected that someone could enter the desperate situation in the eyes of her family, this trip we are destined to run in vain, Qin Dong is scheming, and he will not get any benefits.
But when I crossed an incomparably heavy gate, what appeared in front of me was not the exit I thought, but another artificial passage, but the style of this passage is very different from the architectural style of the islanders, the walls are solid metal pouring, and there are protruding three-dimensional images on it, the shapes are very peculiar, animals are not like animals, people are not like people.
I have been able to determine that the islanders set up the prison for research, and they will certainly not spend energy and resources to make this kind of art-style passage, and I have found that the degree of corrosion of metal here is far less serious than that of the island's research base, and the two sides of the gate seem to be in different times and time and space, separated by a thick space-time gate.
The passage is about four meters wide and two meters high, and the strange shapes protruding from it give people the feeling that they will pounce at any time, oppressive and grotesque, as if I have stepped into a different dimension.
Then I remembered Nini's warning, so I walked a few steps before retreating back to the gate, and although the dangers marked on the map were gone, the passage was not recorded on the map, indicating that there might be a deadly threat that Nini had predicted.
I was thinking about whether to retreat to the mine first and wait for Gu Yu, when suddenly, I heard footsteps diagonally from the side.
I unleashed my psychic tentacles, and the results of my exploration revealed that nine people were approaching in this direction, and they were no more than twenty meters away from me.
There are only my own footprints on the ground, and there are traces of my grip on the switch of the gate, no matter what, I can't hide, people who come know that someone has just come, and now hiding is useless, I simply stood outside the gate, ready to meet people in front, maybe it was Gu Yu and them.
As a result, the first thing I saw was my own face, and the other party was stunned when he saw me, but I immediately reacted and shouted at her: "Qin Dong! ”
"Who are you?"
"Funny, who are you COS, you don't know?"
"I'm Sang Rou, who are you?" The liar who was too deep in the play asked again.
"Okay, I don't have the time to argue with you, you-" I just wanted him to stop pretending, but the few people who came out of the darkness behind him were all fresh faces, neither Gu Yu nor Qin Dong's subordinates.
Of course, I can't know all of Qin Dong's subordinates, but the dress of these people makes me suddenly feel like I have gone to the wrong crew.
The eight men wore old-fashioned shirts and cloth shoes, their hair was only half shaved, a long braid hung from the back of their heads, coiled around their necks a few times, torches in one hand and steel knives in the other.
Sang Rou in front of me was wearing a khaki shirt, breeches and boots, and her outfit was completely different from what Qin Dong wore when she left.
However, it can't be ruled out that he changed his costume halfway, but the few people behind her are too weird.
"Miss Sang, this ......" The middle-aged man with a two-handful mustache came to 'Sang Rou', looked at me with surprise on his face, and then looked at Sang Rou beside him.
The other seven people were also suspicious, and the steel knives in their hands were raised, all as if they had seen a ghost.
"Who the hell are you?" Sang Rou across from me asked.
I suddenly felt that I couldn't tell them the truth, so I replied, "My name is Lei Feng." ”
"Who is Qin Dong?" She still asked.
"My opponent."
"You think he's pretending to be you?"
"Uh-huh."
"Why are you here?"
"Shouldn't I report myself before asking someone a question? It's fair that I've been answering your questions all the time. ”
"My name is Sanglu, my father is a geologist, he came here to look for gold, and then he disappeared, I brought people to look for my father, and I followed his route to find this."
"Geologist, looking for gold?" It's not surprising that there are surviving geologists in the last days, and it's not surprising that there are gold mines to look for, and what I care about is their attire, wondering which force they belong to, and being in the mood to role-play at this time.
The person on the other side nodded: "Yes, he has a government authorization, it is a legitimate exploration activity, and you are also here to find gold?" ”
"No, I came looking for a blue stone, a stone that can deal with zombies, but my teammates and I got separated."
"Zombies are superstitions, we should believe in science, do you know radio? Hey, the Italians say they invented it, but the Russians say they invented it, and if you have it, you'll be able to find your friends, it's the power of science, you know?"
"Radio... Just invented? ”
"Yes, last year, I read in the newspaper that you can go with us first, and maybe we'll meet your friends."
"Thanks, can I ask what year it is?"
"Of course it's 1902, sorry, I won't use your method to calculate the year, I was adopted by my father at a very young age and have been living abroad, so ......"
"Miss Sang, it's the year of Renyin." The figure of eight nonsense beside her said.
"My Mom!" I exclaimed in surprise, in 1902, the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army had just finished fighting the capital!
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell? ”
"I'm fine, but I'm not feeling well."
"Don't worry, we'll find your friends, there's only one way here, if they're not behind, they'll be in front, and we'll meet them as long as we keep moving forward."
I grasped a certain point in her words and asked, "What?" Only one way? ”
She nodded, "That's right, didn't you come from this road?" There is no other fork in the road. ”
She said as she pointed to the darkness behind her, which was obviously in the other direction, a completely different route from the island passage I had walked through.
My heart was pounding, and I stretched out my hand to the passage where I had come and said, "Look at that, is there any difference?" ”
'Sang Rou' and the pigtailed men behind her looked in the direction I was pointing, and then looked at me with strange eyes, as if they were looking at a madman.
"It's just a wall, you must be too nervous, too scared, don't worry, it's safe with us."
Her words did not comfort me in the slightest, and they turned a blind eye to a bright passageway, which made me suddenly think, if I walked back into the passage, would it disappear from their eyes?
Disappear!
Could it be that Xun Bishan's ancestors meant that they disappeared?
I couldn't see the entrance where they came in, and they couldn't see the passage where I came from, but the two sides met at the door of the metal corridor, and whether they were really Qing Dynasty people or not, even if they were modern people, it was very bizarre.
In the base of the island people, only the passage I came from leads to this, and no matter which way Gu Yu and the others go, they will eventually lead to this metal passage.
'Sang Rou''s proposal is actually very reasonable, in case Gu Yu and they enter here before me, people will definitely be in front.
"Okay, thank you for taking me, let's go inside."