Chapter 43: Darkness and Fog

I don't know how long it took, Gu Yisheng slowly groped in this dark environment, as if he had touched something like a ring.

It was very damp, and I don't know if it was fog or water droplets, or if sweat was wetting her clothes.

She needs to see her surroundings!

She's got to get the evidence!

Gu Yisheng racked his brains, but he couldn't find any way for a while.

There seemed to be a slope under him, and there were some stones, which made Gu Yisheng's body feel sleepy and unbearable.

However, the space above her head for her movement was extremely limited—cramped, narrow, tunnel-like places, as if she would hurt her own posture if she looked up.

She tried to move, and probably judged that she could only crawl forward.

She cautiously groped her surroundings, moving little by little, sometimes crawling on the ground and stumbling into something sharp that cut her calf.

"Hiss~"

She endured a little, but still mustered up the strength to crawl forward and forward, exploring whether there would be anything usable around her.

The sharp rocks sometimes pierced her fingers, and she didn't care, longing to find something useful or an outlet from her surroundings to restrain the fear of not being able to see anything.

But alas, so far, there is nothing.

The ring that had just been collected on his body suddenly moved for some reason, and it flew forward uncontrollably, staying a few steps in front of Gu Yisheng.

Gu Yisheng crawled forward and was about to pick it up, but unexpectedly touched a cylindrical thing.

"It's ...... Fire excerpts? ”

She suddenly felt a warm breath rise in her body, as if a fire of hope had suddenly appeared.

Groping around to remove the lid of the fire fold, how do you light it......?

Gu Yisheng suddenly remembered what Fu Zhiyan had taught in the past - the trick of "taking it by surprise, taking advantage of its unpreparedness, being short and powerful, and exhaling as much as possible", so he did it.

Xu was because the surrounding environment was too humid, and the fire did not light up as Gu Yisheng expected.

"Dry wood is sprinkled with quicklime, and this thing can be removed from its water......"

She silently thought.

But where is the quicklime......?

"That's right! According to ancient texts, lime was widely used during the spread of the plague, one to avoid the spread of disasters, and the other to ward off evil spirits. Since the existence of the plague was discovered in this place early on, and since this village trustee can die to protect the whole village, it seems that it is very conscientious, so there is a high probability that such a thing will be discovered. ”

Whether you have it or not, you can only continue to climb forward and try your luck.

Damp surroundings, sharp rocks, bleeding legs.

To make matters worse, she felt a tingling pain in her legs, a swelling that made her feel like she was having a fever all over her body and was losing her strength more and more.

Her hand slipped, but it seemed to be stained with something powdery.

It smells like a preserved egg peeling its shell......

That's right, lime!

Ignoring the pain, Gu Yisheng grabbed a handful and groped and stuffed it into the gap around the fire fold.

It's so wet in here, everything is damp, I don't know if it's useful......

She blew hard......

Fortunately...... This firelight appeared faintly, and when it was blown again, the firelight was a little bigger, enough to illuminate Gu Yisheng's surroundings.

"It's dangerous."

She was still lying on her stomach on the ground, and through the light of the fire, the first thing she saw was a skeleton.

"It's scary!"

Gu Yisheng was really taken aback.

The man also seemed to be lying on his stomach, holding a hammer in one hand, and the bones of the other hand were in a state of holding something, and it seemed that this fire fold had been accidentally taken from the good man's hand.

Gu Yisheng bowed to him reverently three times in his heart, ignoring the body of this good man for the time being, and observing the surroundings.

In front of it is the ring that she just picked up and flew out, and now it seems to be a key-like thing, and what attracts it should be something similar to Sinan's structure, listening to Fu Zhiyan, it should be a magnet.

It's a vein!

If you continue to explore, you may be able to find out whose general's battalion or something.

Gu Yisheng was about to pull out his hairpin and knock down some ore magnets as evidence, but he seemed to remember that Fu Zhiyan had told him before that his gold and silver hairpins didn't seem to be hard enough, so he aimed his eyes at the hand of that good man.

"Thank you, don't come to me when you dream at night, I'm also for all of us, and when I find out the truth, I will definitely wash away your grievances...... Please, please, please. ”

Gu Yisheng read silently in his mouth, not knowing whether he was excited or feverish, and he was a little confused.

Dangling from the good man's hand, she quickly knocked off a magnet, put it in her pocket with the ring, and continued to crawl forward.

There were daggers and other weapons scattered on the ground in front of them, and there were a few skeletons scattered on the ground, which seemed to be the result of several people walking together here, and there was a clash and cannibalism in the middle.

What caused their strife?

Gu Yisheng had no time to think.

After trembling and crawling for a long time, she saw that the cave in front of her seemed to have two forks, one left and one right.

Which one is better?

She observed.

Iron and black human blood and bones are evenly distributed in front of the caves on the left and right sides.

The hole on the left side is slightly narrower than the right one, but it is enough to get into it with Gu Yisheng's figure, and the hole on the right side is brighter, but this light seems to be different from what she usually sees, it has a ...... Indescribable differences.

Thinking about it, Gu Yisheng seemed to smell a foul smell, and the right side of his face seemed to be warmer, as if there was hot air passing by.

"It seems...... You can only go to the left. Right...... Wrong. ”

Right......

Gu Yisheng slowly crawled along the hole on the left, and finally saw a bright spot.

It is indeed the light of the sun, and if you drill through this hole, you can come to the wide normal world.

The long crawling and leg injuries made Gu Yisheng almost jump out of the hole.

However, there was a different and unfamiliar scene in front of me.

She hid behind a low wall at the entrance of the cave and stole a glance at the scene.

Busy.

Most of these people carried bamboo baskets with minerals on their backs, and walked towards a large pit with a raging fire.

Gu Yisheng looked at it, the pit ...... It's about where you will reach the road on the right side of the cave just now......

Thankfully, I didn't go this way......

Gu Yisheng looked to the left and saw several workers carrying a freshly poured sword, walking towards the cooling pool not far to the right.

Sure enough, it's the general's battalion!

Looking at the costumes of these people, they are all Han Chinese, is this the camp of generals in the suburbs of Beijing?

Gu Yisheng poked his head out slightly, wanting to look more closely, but heard the voice of a young man who spoke nonsense: "Che stai facendo?" (European Daqin: What are you doing?) )”

Gu Yisheng didn't understand at all, and the young man seemed to realize that the other party couldn't understand his words, so he turned to jerky Chinese: "What are you doing?" Was he also captured by the Xiliang people to work as a coolie? How did you get out of this place? ”

This is said to be "subdued and frustrated", which sounds unique.

Gu Yisheng carefully "recalled" for a long time before reading what he meant.

"You say, Xiliang people? Did the people of Xiliang arrest you here? ”