Volume 1 Chapter 105: Professor Chen's severed hand
Master Cao and I glanced at each other, and I didn't think about why Zhao Miao appeared here, so I immediately hid in directly.
Master Cao also followed closely behind me and came in together.
When I entered the cavern, I realized that it was not a hole or a digging pit, but a complete tunnel. The floor is paved with green bricks, and the surrounding walls are polished very smooth.
And Zhao Miao took advantage of us to come in, and also used other green bricks to block the place on the wall that took us in.
I turned on the flashlight again and found that Zhao Miao was not the only one here, there were still Professor Chen and Gao Zheng on the side of the wall, but Chang Miao was missing.
"Professor Chen, how did you get here?" I was very surprised and excitedly said to Professor Chen.
However, Professor Chan did not respond to me immediately, and it took him a long time before he raised his head, his face was not very good-looking, full of exhaustion and pain.
I was startled when I noticed that his right hand was covering his left hand, and his hand was stained with blood, and Professor Chen said in a hoarse voice: "After the avalanche, we fell into the snow pit, and then we came all the way here.....
"What's the matter with your hands?"
Professor Chen smiled bitterly and said, "Just now when I crossed those iron cables, my hand accidentally touched those dark fires, and if the fire is not extinguished with a special medicine, it will keep burning..... I had no choice but to let Xiao Gao chop off my hand with a machete, so as to avoid burning the whole person..... However, Xiao Chang was not as lucky as me, the whole person was burned, and he fell from the top of the stone platform to the bottom of the cliff. ”
I "chuckled" in my heart, but I didn't expect Chang Miao to be dead.
From Zhao Miao's mouth, I also learned what happened after we encountered an avalanche and got separated.
Several of them stepped into a snow pit as they escaped, falling into the same ice cave I had fallen into.
Thankfully, several of them fell into a place. Although he avoided the avalanche, he couldn't go up from such a high place, Chang Miao's body bones were already weak, and he fell down and broke his leg directly.
Gao Zheng carried Chang Miao on his back, and Professor Chen led them all the way to the iron cable, but Professor Chen and the place they entered was different from ours, and I won't describe what it was. Anyway, when they got to the Iron Rope, they encountered those ghost fires.
In Professor Chen's terminology, the fire mass that we call ghost fire is actually called the Hellfire. It is made of a mixture of biogas and a special gas, and it looks like a blue fire suspended in the air, but it is actually just a very light mist.
As Master Cao said, the ignition point of the Dark Fire is very low, and the person's body temperature is enough to directly ignite it.
Therefore, once the fire is touched, it will immediately burn, and it will hardly be extinguished without special potions.
Because Professor Chen did not have professional tools, it was very difficult to cross the iron rope, which took five or six hours.
During this period, because of Chang Miao's broken leg, it was even more difficult to cross the iron cable, and he accidentally touched a dark fire, which was ignited on the spot, and his feet slipped and fell into the abyss.
And Professor Chen accidentally touched the fire in the end, just like he just said, so that Gao Zheng immediately cut off his ignited hand, which saved his life.
Later, when they came to this stone figurine, they were shocked to see the stone figurines full of pits, and at first Zhao Miao and Gao Zheng felt that they had discovered the ninth wonder of the world, but Professor Chen frowned at these stone figurines.
He had seen this paragraph in the silk book, saying that there was a huge stone figurine pit of a thousand people in Kunlun Mountain, which was full of stone figurines.
But Professor Chen only felt that this was the exaggerated part of the silk book, and he didn't take it seriously at all, but he didn't expect to really see this spectacular scene in Kunlun Mountain.
As an archaeologist, in the spirit of research, he did not hesitate to take the initiative to destroy a stone figurine, wanting to see if the inside of the stone figurines was the same as the Qin Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an.
In this way, it is very likely to find out how the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses were made, which is of great significance.
However, after Professor Chen smashed the stone figurine, there was a white bone inside, the white bone part was gone, and the bones on the body were like honeycomb coal, full of pits.
There was also a purple-black bug curled up inside, which was the same man-eating insect that was still flying outside.
This insect was released, and Professor Chen and the three of them couldn't solve it, and they weren't sure if it was poisonous, so they quickly escaped in the stone pit in order to avoid it for a while.
Gao Zheng discovered that there was a very spacious tunnel in the protruding earth groove in the stone figurine pit, which was where we are now.
After a long time of running, they simply rested here now, and when they were ready to go out again, there was a commotion outside, and when Zhao Miao unloaded and turned his head, he happened to see Master Cao and me who were running frantically.
After saying this, Zhao Miao asked me and Master Cao how we walked here.
Master Cao and I exchanged a look, and then we made up lies to each other and deceived them.
"Xiaobai, where did Xiaobai go, isn't he with you?" Professor Chen said to me.
I told Professor Chen the truth about the experience with Baisha, and Professor Chen was silent for a while, and then sighed: "Xiaobai's skills are good, and his professional knowledge is also very hard, so he must be much easier than us here, but now we are still worried about ourselves." ”
I glanced at Master Cao and asked him to take out the medical equipment in his bag and bandage Professor Chen's wounds.
At the same time, I was worried about the eldest sister who was outside, and I wondered if she had escaped from this stone pit.
I looked at Professor Chen again, and he didn't ask me about anything else with Master Cao, as if he hadn't noticed the existence of the eldest sister outside besides the two of us.
At that time, if you really ask about it, it will be really difficult to explain, and once the lie is exposed, I am afraid that the identities of Master Cao and I will be exposed.
Zhao Miao's face was ugly, her eyes were swollen, and she had obviously been crying for a long time.
This is too normal, she is just an ordinary female student, and she finally came on a business trip to archaeology, but she didn't expect to encounter this stubble.
It's an avalanche and a dead classmate, and emotional breakdowns are also within the scope of common sense.
Gao Zheng said to me and Master Cao: "I have already observed this place with a flashlight before, and the reason why there is such a large space here may be that this place was originally intended to be used to refine those stone figurines, but in the end, I don't know why I abandoned this place, so it was idle..... The exit was not far ahead, but was blocked by a boulder. ”