Chapter 31: The Ten Thousand Life Stone Appears Again
Lao Wu then said, "Let's take a break for the time being, and wait for us to go in again!" ”
Looking at the mysterious appearance of Lao Wu and Quan Zishen, I didn't bother to ask any more, because from their tones, I could already judge that what they encountered was definitely not a good thing. We hurriedly replenished some dry food and water at the entrance of this cave, and then began to follow Lao Wu and Quanzi to the cave they had just entered.
Walking more than half a mile inside, a huge stone cave appeared in front of us, and the one in Mao'er Mountain is different, the ground of the cave is no longer sludge, but this whole large stone slab, the top of the cave is also a concave stone slab, in this cave, the feeling is like being in an upside-down huge stone pan, surrounded by black stone walls, under the light of the flashlight, emitting a terrible reflection.
In this vast space, there are still no traces of animals or human beings, we walked around here after Lao Wu and Quanzi took us directly to the corner of the cave, only to see a small passage in the corner of the cave, after turning the passage, a more huge stone cave appeared in front of us, only to see a huge stalactites intertwined with each other, under the illumination of our flashlight, reflecting the colorful light.
Soon after entering the hole, a huge bluestone appeared, only to see that the bluestone was also engraved with relief, originally this relief had been covered with moss, but for some reason this moss was artificially cleaned up.
Ah Fang glanced at it and whispered, "Strange, these are all traces from not long ago!" ”
Ai Qin and I subconsciously glanced at Wang Haiyan, only to see that she was stunned and looked at the deeper part of the cave.
I said secretly, "This woman really has another purpose, and she is still hiding it!" "Her companion was either dead or missing, but she was unharmed, and the fact that she was safely united with us shows that she is absolutely hiding her strength from us.
But at the moment, we have no way to check her identity, so we won't torture her to extract a confession.
Ai Qin shone a flashlight on the huge stone wall, and the picture suddenly came to life. I saw many people dancing around the bonfire, and on the front of the mural was a giant snake, a wild boar and a vivid dragon head.
"It's strange that there are no ugly monkeys on this!" Ah Fang said.
"Focus on this campfire!" Ai Qin looked at it carefully and said, "You see that there is another thing hidden in the middle of the campfire! ”
I took a closer look, and suddenly a cold sweat hit me, and it turned out to be the stone box on the mural in the snake cave cave before.
"It's this thing again!" Ah Fang also said in disbelief, "It seems that the contents of the stone box should also contain the same meteorite." ”
Wang Haiyan leaned over at this time and asked a little strangely, "Have you seen this thing before?" ”
Ah Fang hadn't been in contact with her for a long time, and she didn't think much of it at the moment and replied casually, "Well, in another cave." ”
I hurriedly digressed the subject, "Maybe it's just a coincidence, let's move on!" ”
At this time, Ai Qin found the same small seal inscription on the side, "Ten thousand life stones, give birth to all things, outsiders, for God!" He silently recited, "This stone is unpredictable, respected as a god, bless all things, and be born a hundred years old!" ”
"This sentence is similar to the words of the previous tunnel!" Ah Fang leaned up and looked at it and said, "In this way, these two caves must be inextricably linked!" ”
"Well, there's another sentence here, hey, it's actually simplified!" Ai Qin touched it with his hand, "This was written with a marker not long ago. ”
We went up to take a look, and it read: "The Chen family wants to eat alone again, this time let you eat shit!" - Zhao family! ”
There was a small arrow next to it, and we looked down at the arrow, and sure enough, there was an open stone box, and in the stone box was a lump of animal droppings.
Seeing a few of us stunned, Lao Wu said to us, "That's not the point, the focus is on the back of the stalactites!" ”
We followed him in the direction he said, and after going around the stalactites, we saw a huge stone platform behind us, and five corpses lying on the stone platform in one piece.
I didn't have time to be shocked, I hurriedly ran forward to take a look, and saw two girls lying on the far left, judging from the clothes on their bodies, two of them were Yu Xiaoxiao and Pan Xia who we were still looking for. But what I can't believe is that there are three corpses lying next to them wearing exactly the same clothes as the workers at the Maoershan tunnel construction site, which means that in addition to the two girls we are looking for this time, there are three more workers who disappeared in the cave before.
Strange, really weird! When I saw the five corpses in front of me, my heart was suddenly full of doubts, could it be that there were other people besides these two girls who had been here? I looked at the corpses that had been neatly placed there, and asked puzzledly, "Is this what you put here?" ”
Lao Wu shook his head and said, "No, it was like this when we came in, we didn't touch the scene." ”
Haven't moved? That's not right! Since Lao Wu and Quanzi have not moved, how can these corpses be placed here in such a whole, and their heads are still facing one direction, this is not the most critical, the most critical thing is what is the identity of these three workers, whether they are part of the workers who disappeared in the tunnel before or the missing people who are working on a nearby project.
The next big question is how they came to be here, if it is the workers who disappeared in the snake cave, is this cave and that cave connected; If it is connected, then the workers have come here on their own; How did these two girls die in the end, and how did they die with these workers?
"Could it be that there are other people in this hole besides the five of us?" I thought nonsense as I cut it out of order.
"Impossible, if there are other people, how can we not find any clues?" Afon said.
"Did you say the person who wrote that line did it?" Aichen said.
We had no clue, so we all shook our heads.
And at this moment, when Wang Haiyan saw these two corpses, she couldn't hold back her sadness anymore, and threw herself on the corpses of the two girls and cried.
Just as we were examining the bodies of the three relatively well-preserved workers, we were shocked by the badges on their overalls. Damn, this is really one of the three workers who disappeared from the snake cave before! Because on a person's work card, the words "Maoershan Tunnel Project, Driller, Li Xuecai, and Z14 Bureau Construction" are clearly written. Seeing this, we couldn't help but be afraid for a while, this Mao'er Mountain is thousands of miles away from the Grand Canyon, how did these corpses come here for no reason. We decided to examine their bodies carefully to see if we could find any valuable information from them.
Ah Fang is a master in this area, and she said to the five of us while examining, "There are no obvious external injuries on the three people, and judging from the surface of the skin, they are not poisoned!" It is roughly judged that he should die of physical exhaustion, and to put it bluntly, he was starved to death. ”
After listening to Ah Fang's words, I wondered, "They couldn't have come from the Maoershan tunnel and starved to death here, right?" ”
Quanzi couldn't understand what was in front of him, and scolded, "What fucking bullshit." ”
Ai Qin, who was examining the two girls on the side, found something new on their corpses, and Ai Qin pointed to Pan Xia's corpse and said to us: "You see, there is a black paw print on her wrist, judging from this scratch, it is not the ugly monkeys outside, I think this palm print is very large, it should be an animal similar to a gorilla, it seems that there should be a huge ape species hidden in this hole." ”
She continued: "Judging from the current information, these two girls should have been injured to death by external forces. She pointed to the corpse on the far left and said, "Yu Xiaoxiao's chest was hit violently, her ribs were broken, and her heart was cracked, so she should have died of internal bleeding; Pan Xia's cause of death is even more obvious, her cervical vertebrae have been completely broken, judging from the location and direction of the break, it should have been torsioned by external force! ”
"What! Twisted? Quanzi asked incredulously.
"Yes!" Ai Qin replied affirmatively, "There are no other injuries on her body, and she is not poisoned, her physical strength has been good for some time before her death, it must be some kind of animal that suddenly attacked her from behind, instantly twisting her neck, causing her to die in an instant!" ”
Originally, after finding the remaining two people, whether we were dead or alive, our mission was over. But now we are discovering that the problem is not as simple as finding people.
First of all, how did the fifth child get from one side of the mountain to the other; How could the missing people in the Mao'er Mountain Cave run into the cave of the Grand Canyon in Midtown; What or what kind of person did the bodies of these five men pose? whether Yu Xiaoxiao was killed or accidentally killed by herself; What did Pan Xia kill her, what was the cause of her death, a series of questions came to us, and more importantly, none of the questions had clues, we suddenly felt that one head and two big heads, and five heads were not enough.
Looking at Wang Haiyan, who was still screaming on the ground, Ah Fang said in a low voice, "This is what you said about strong tolerance?" ”
I was noncommittal, "If you have suppressed it for so long, maybe it will be worse than her crying!" ”
Ai Qin and Ah Fang finally couldn't stand it, and went up to comfort them for a while, Wang Haiyan was also very sensible and held back her sadness, but seeing her two swollen eyes like light bulbs, the three of us were not happy in our hearts, although we had faced too many life and death partings, but this time we were very uncomfortable in our hearts.
After settling Wang Haiyan, we have to face the most difficult problem at present, how to safely transport these five corpses! We don't worry about anything else, the only thing we're worried about at the moment is that in the process of transportation, what if there is really an unknown monster in this cave that Ai Qin speculated?