Chapter 62: A Strange Mechanism
Ah Fang's words are right, judging from the battle with them just now, the fox squirrels should be a very cunning species, plus their almost the same coat color as the stone wall can camouflage themselves well.
Although the explorers said that they were not aggressive, we still have to do at least to prevent it, otherwise we don't know how we will die next.
I looked at my watch and saw that it was less than three hours before dark, and I couldn't do so much at the moment, so I had to rush forward.
We walked vigilantly through the cave, and we encountered nothing but the dark stone walls on both sides.
After walking for about fifteen minutes, we should have reached the location of the scientists' corpses, but there was nothing in the cavern in front of us.
Quanzi said at the end, "It's not right, it's not right, you should have seen those corpses after walking for so long, what's going on?" ”
"I'm afraid they've suddenly disappeared again, and if they're still there, I'll find it weird!" Ah Fang answered.
Although we thought it was strange, we didn't slow down our pace and continued to walk towards the cave exit, but the more we walked, the more we felt that it was not right, and when we slowed down slowly, we found that the stone walls on both sides suddenly moved on their own.
When we were fully grounded, a huge force under our feet began to move quickly towards the rear with our bodies.
That's when we realized that we were standing on a giant conveyor belt, something like a giant treadmill that kept us in place, no matter how fast we walked.
No matter how strange we were to the monster in the cave before, we couldn't find a better word to describe how we felt at the moment, what the hell is going on? Obviously, we were fine when we went in, but why did we encounter this kind of mechanism when we came out?
Quanzi couldn't help but scold, "Why is this land moving by itself, hell, this is, have we been blinded by those stinky foxes again." ”
Ah Fang said, "If it was a blinding method, our consciousness would not be so clear. ”
I looked down at the whole stone slab moving under my feet, and thought to myself, the weight of the four of us is not something that ordinary power can drive, what is it that makes such a huge stone slab move so fast, and why did we go in so well, why did the stone suddenly start moving when we came out?
I asked, "Did you just touch the surrounding rock walls or rocks or something?" ”
After hearing this, Quanzi quickly understood what I meant, and he couldn't help but smile and said, "Dezi, have you read too many novels, you won't think that we have encountered some mechanism!" ”
Ai Qin suddenly realized when she heard this, and said, "Did we accidentally touch it when we were shooting on the stone wall just now?" ”
Quanzi sighed, "Hey, I don't understand, who is so boring and spends so much effort to build a transmission belt here, don't you think it's incredible?" ”
I replied, "There are so many strange things in this cave, not to mention setting up a conveyor belt here, even if there is a super big computer here, I don't think there is anything wrong with it now!" ”
Ah Fang interrupted, "Now is not the time to study these questions, at this rate, it won't be long before we are back in that cave just now!" ”
I said, "It's okay to go back, with the speed of this thing under our feet, we can't run out even if we're tired!" ”
So the four of us sat obediently on the conveyor belt, waiting for it to take us back to the cave we had just escaped.
It didn't take long for the stone slab under our feet to stop moving, and we used our wolf's eyes to look around, it was the hole we had just entered, and we took a closer look at the stone wall that was still moving violently, but we couldn't see any clues, everything was the same as when we just went out, there was no trace of movement at all.
"You smell it, what it smells so good!" Jeonko suddenly sniffed her nose!
"It's the smell of honey!" Ai Qin replied.
Quanzi was lying on his stomach at the moment, smelling at the stone wall in front of him like a military dog, he shone somewhere with a wolf's eye, and then took out his saber and dug it at a position.
"It's the honey from before!" Jeonko turned back to us and said, "Found the problem!" ”
We approached and saw that Quanzi had dug a hole where we had come out, and sweet honey was flowing from it.
"Honey has become the lubricant for these mechanisms!" Ah Fang couldn't help but sigh, "What an unpredictable design!" ”
"I'm afraid this mechanism has been thousands of years old, and it can still be maintained normally, relying on these honey to protect their core mechanism!" Jeonko said.
"Isn't this scientific, shouldn't honey have been eaten up by some insects and other things in a cave like this?" Aichen said.
"I'm afraid this is another mystery!" I couldn't help but sigh.
We had to go back to the cave and plan our next escape. But as soon as we entered the cave, the scene in front of us once again proved the infinite magic of this sinkhole.
For now what appeared before us was no longer the slope and stone wall that we had seen before, but a huge pit appeared in the middle of the cavern, and there was a paved stone staircase on the wall of the pit, which circulated down the cylindrical stone wall to the bottom of the bottomless dark pit.
"It seems that the position of this moving stone wall is different every time!" Ah Fang said speechlessly.
Well, I'm a little stunned by the scene in front of me, which the four of us may have only seen in science fiction and movies before, but this is the first time in real life.
The four of us glanced at each other, said nothing to each other, and very tacitly picked up our guns and began to walk down the stone steps to the bottom of the pit, we didn't know what we were going to face next, but we didn't go down, there was really no better way to stay on it.
The stone steps are hand-hewn out, and the width of the single stone steps is a foot, and the height of each step is about five to eight inches, and the width is enough for two people to walk side by side, although there is a bottomless cave next to it, and people leaning against the stone wall do not worry about falling.
"This stone step is built like this, it should be something they have transported through this stone step, if it is just a simple walk, it is impossible to build it so wide, and the slope cannot be so gentle." Ah Fang said.
"So there should be something we want at the end of this stone staircase?" Jeonko said.
"What kind of things do you want?" I asked.
"Wansheng Stone?" Jeonko quipped.
"You think it's beautiful!" Fong replied.
This stone pit cave is naturally generated, from the graffiti chiseled with iron chisel around the stone steps, you can vaguely see the traces left by the construction workers hundreds of years ago when they were idle and bored, from the surrounding carving traces can be inferred, this stone staircase at the bottom of the pit should not be forced to recruit people, and the construction workers are not forced to live.
Because these graffiti are some vivid reflections of life, it can be seen that the workers have sufficient time and absolute freedom when building.
But who led the project, was it built spontaneously by the surrounding people, or was it organized by someone else? Why build this bottomless stone staircase deep in the depths of this sinkhole? …… Many of the questions are completely clueless, and we can only hope to get some answers to the bottom of the pit.
At this time, Quanzi, who was walking in the front, suddenly said, "There is something I wanted to say a long time ago, and it is very uncomfortable to hold it in my heart at the moment." I want to ask you, do you think that our mission, including this one, is a little strange, I always feel that something is wrong! ”
I asked, "What do you think is wrong?" ”
Quanzi replied blankly, "I can't tell for a while, I always feel that there are a lot of things that are unreasonable, and the fifth child seems to have a lot of things to hide from us?" ”
Ai Qin also said at this time, "I think so too, from the previous Fan Qunping's words, I feel that we have been kept in the dark!" ”
I said, "Fan Qunping said that we are from the Chen family before, is it because my surname is Chen?" ”
Quanzi said, "Bah, your face is really big!" He's talking about Commander Chen. I'm ashamed to say that I've only met him twice after I've been in the organization for so long, he, what's his name? ”
Ah Fang glanced at me and Quanzi and said, "Chen Xiangrong! ”
I answered, "That's what you say, so you can understand why we are called the Chen family by them." But what do you think Old Commander Chen Xiangrong is hiding from us? ”
Ah Fang was the first to reply, "I think he must have known that this sinkhole could be accessed from the underground river at the bottom of the pit, why didn't he give us any explanation when he gave us the task?" ”
Quan Zi said, "He didn't personally give us the task, wasn't it Instructor Lu Qitian who gave the task?" ”
I answered, "Doesn't Instructor Lu represent Commander Chen, isn't he Commander Chen's assistant and secretary?" ”
Ai Qin also said, "I think Instructor Lu didn't feel surprised or strange at all after knowing about the fifth child, and he didn't have the slightest worry. The last time I reported this matter to him, he calmly said that he knew, you think about it, in the past, our team members didn't say that they were injured, but they were touched and his skin was known, and he would scold us for being bloody, saying that we don't know how to take care of our bodies, and how much effort we have spent on tissue culture. But after knowing what happened to Lao Wu, his performance made me feel as if he had experienced these things before!"
As soon as Ai Qin said this, I also suddenly thought that after each of our missions, Chen Xiangrong would not pay attention to the results of our rescue, but paid special attention to the details of our actions, which was reflected in each of our mission briefings, and each of our briefings, he would personally look at them, and the questions were also very detailed. Why does he always care so much about the process?
In terms of the successive events that we are currently experiencing, if we still use coincidences to deceive ourselves, then we can only say that we are deceiving ourselves. When you say this, it seems that I am not the only one who feels that I have doubts in my heart, and everyone seems to be in the same mood as me.
I gathered my thoughts and slowly said to the other three, "Maybe from the beginning, what we experienced was a conspiracy!" ”
Jeonko stopped and looked at me in surprise, not understanding what I was saying for a moment. I continued, "You listen to my thoughts first, and then you can give your opinion. ”