The chambers were empty now, but we still felt a little chilly.

Quanzi pointed to the passage in front of him with a flashlight and said, "I don't know if I can get out from here, I am a little panicked to stay in such a dead end!" ”

Ah Fang answered, "There should be many exits here, and the secret door in the archives is definitely not the only escape route. ”

"But almost every door here is sealed!" Ai Qin said as she tugged hard at one of the iron doors.

I walked in the direction of the flashlight towards another passage, and found that it was covered with cobwebs, and it had been abandoned for years! Looking at the rough and uneven roads around it, I guess that this should be the most primitive mine road.

We continued to wade into danger, and after walking a short distance, there were white bones on the ground, and it was difficult to tell what kind of creatures these were due to their age and thick dust.

"I really didn't expect that there are still such things hidden under the glamorous Chenjiabao?" Quanzi said as he walked, "I think that nine times out of ten, the beast taming room is used to study those thousand-year-old beasts. ”

"It's not surprising, there's nothing wrong with using those thousand-year-old beasts to study the effects of the Ten Thousand Life Stones on their bodies!" Ah Fang said.

"But I don't think the Chen family is doing research as Ah Fang said!" I said.

"Oh, did you find anything?" Aichen asked.

"You think about the three words 'animal taming room', if you are studying ancient beasts, why do you use the word animal taming room, I don't think the Chen family has a bigger conspiracy..."

I thought it was bad, isn't there some big guy eating people in front of me? The four of us have no heavy weapons, only four pistols, and I'm afraid that we will be able to choke on self-protection!

At this time, Quanzi, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped and whispered, "Good guy, we're in trouble!" ”

I shifted my steps to look ahead, and saw a huge scaly monster standing in front of us, still burrowing into a crypt.

"How can there be lizards here?" Jeonko said.

"Don't talk nonsense, it's a pangolin!" Ah Fang corrected Jeonko's mistake. "It's been a few years, and under normal circumstances, pangolins can't grow this big!"

"Could this be raised by the Chen family?" Jeonko asked.

"Whether it's domesticated or wild, just avoid it, pangolins aren't aggressive!" Ah Fang said.

"Hiss~dumb!" A familiar roar came from the darker front, and the pangolin in front of it seemed to be so frightened by the sound that it couldn't help but speed up its burrowing.

"W-why does this sound so familiar?"

"Terror Bird!" Ah Fang blurted out.

The three of us were taken aback by Ah Fang's words, could there be such an ancient divine beast in front of us.

The three of us were forced by the sound to take no further steps, and the huge pangolin in front of us had completely burrowed into the cave, leaving a round hole to look at us.

I glanced at the cave in front of me and saw that the three of them were also looking at the cave, and the four of them laughed heartily.

The four of us followed the pangolin's whereabouts into another cave, and found that none of the mining equipment had been removed, but it was rusty, and there were two railroad tracks on the ground, and we didn't know where it went.

"Humph!" Quan Zi snorted coldly, "What's the matter, will the four of us never be able to escape the fate of drilling around underground?" ”

"Mistakes, fate!" Ah Fang comforted Quan Zidao while observing the surrounding environment.

"Brother Dezi, come and see!" Ai Qin was crouching behind a device at the moment, shining a flashlight under the device.

I walked over and followed the direction of Ai Qin's finger and saw a yellowed military crossbody bag! I found that I couldn't reach it, and at this point Aichen had found a rusty iron hook somewhere, and we managed to pull the military crossbody bag out.

I patted the dust on the bag, revealing a red five-pointed star and the head of a great man, which looked like a product of the fifties and sixties.

"At that time, the quality of the things was good, you see how these steel things have rusted, but there is nothing wrong with this school bag!" Jeonko said.

I opened my crossbody bag and pulled out a rotten fountain pen, a yellowed red notebook, an iron card, and a pair of glasses.

Ai Qin took the iron plaque from my hand, wiped the rust on it, and a few lines of words vaguely appeared, "The fifty-eighth exploration team, what is Shu... I can't read these words clearly, it should be his name. ”

I opened the yellowed notebook and found that there was not much content in it, and there were not a few words on each page.

"The first time I went down the mine, I was very excited and nervous, did this announce the official end of my student days? If my parents knew that I had started to contribute to the construction of the new government, they would be happy for me. The first page reads.

The following pages were torn out in succession, and then the back wrote, "We were so happy that we couldn't sleep for three days and three nights to be able to survey such a huge amount of aluminum ore in the underground of Beicheng, and what we didn't expect was that the karst caves under here extend in all directions." ”

"Professor Wang's disappearance has made the rest of the exploration team worried, I have always felt that Jiren has his own natural appearance, to be honest, this morning's experience is really thrilling, I just remember it, I am afraid that I will not believe it in writing."

"Ah, yes, I'm so excited, my hands are still shaking until now, what do I see? Is this true? Is that a dragon? Or is it a python? The female team members in the same group even cried in fright, why was I so excited! ”

On the back page of the paper is a drawing of a four-like species, like a dragon in a comic, but this dragon does have a terrifying face, looking at us with bright eyes, and two words written next to it: "Dragon Vulture." ”

The page turned and read: "Dragon vulture, the legendary thing of the deep sea, I saw it in the expansion when I was training, but shouldn't this monster live in the deep sea, could it be that the end of this mine road is the sea, how did this thing appear here, puzzle?" ”

On the last page is the word "escape...", after which there is no more text.

I closed my notebook and found that the words meant almost nothing, and they were not the notes of the search team, nor the omissions of the Chen family, but the notes of an old survey team.

"Does this mean that the voice we just heard is not a horror bird, but a dragon vulture from this notebook?" Ah Fang analyzed.

"Vulture!" I silently recited the horrible name, which sounded so oothy to me just the name, and I had never heard anything else about it.

"Why is this creature here, and why is it called such a strange name?" Ai Qin is also puzzled!

"Wait a minute, something is wrong, we were fooled!" Ah Fang said suddenly.

Several of us were taken aback by Fong's words. Ah Fang continued, "The Chen family is taking advantage of our curiosity and is pushing us into the fire pit step by step..."

"Sister Fang, do you want to say that this matter was a conspiracy from the beginning, didn't we analyze it in the archives just now?" Aichen said.

"I didn't think it through just now, but now when I see this notebook, my mind suddenly brightens." Ah Fang said.

"Brother Dezi said just now, let's not believe everything, I just think everything is very weird by coincidence, but I haven't figured out where the weirdness is? Now I understand, what exactly is the Chen family's plan? ”

"Oh, when is this coming, Ah Fang, you don't want to sell Guanzi!" Quanzi said a little anxiously.

"Let's analyze from the secret words of those dark whistles, 'three watches to catch ghosts, four watches to ascend to heaven' This is clearly what we hear, and the four of us are the so-called ghosts, and ascension to heaven of course means that we will take the elevator to enter Chenjiabao during the fourth watch."

"Ah Fang, isn't your analysis a little too far-fetched?" Quanzi said dissatisfiedly.

"I think what Sister A Fang said is good, the Chen family certainly knows the personalities and ways of action of the four of us, so pertinent I think it's expected, Sister Fang, you continue..."

"We entered the core position of Chenjiabao very smoothly, let's put aside the bottom layer, but we entered the second layer, and it was clearly mentioned on the radio that outsiders entered, but everyone did not react at all, what does this mean? It means that they had been notified in advance that the four of us were going to break in. Ah Fang said eloquently.

"If you think about it, the archives should be a place for people with higher privileges to enter, but why did we just come across someone with such privileges? Of course, the Chen family tricked us into the archives is the first step, and the second step is to disturb us with our life experience, but I don't think that Quanzi discovered the secret secret passage so quickly, and the secret secret passage should be the third step of the Chen family. ”

"But you haven't thought about it, what if the Chen family's Gu raising plan is true?" I interjected calmly.

"Tokuko, what do you mean?" Aichen asked.

"What if our identities are not faked, and the Chen family is all true?" I said.

"Oh, Dezi, don't interrupt, listen to me first!" Ah Fang was a little annoyed by my interjection, and she continued, "The third step is the Chen family's plan for the four of us to 'ascend to heaven', which is to break into the territory of the dragon vulture and then die!" ”

"It's not unreasonable for Ah Fang to say this!" "But no matter what the purpose of the Chen family is or what the plan is, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the situation in front of us. ”

"Sister Afang, you just said that it was always a guess before, what made you confirm your idea now?" Aichen said.

"This lost notebook!" Fong pointed to the notebook in my hand.

"What does this mean?" Aichen asked.

It shows that the Chen family already knew that there were dragon vultures below when they established Chenjiabao, so the Chen family reasonably avoided this part of the natural mineral caves and karst caves. And the so-called beast taming room we just passed by is not an ancient beast that the Chen family is domesticating, the real purpose is to tame this dragon vulture. ”

"The result is obvious, the Chen family did not succeed! And then abandoned the place, right? Jeonko answered.

"That's right!" Fong replied.

A few of us felt that wasting here was not the way to go, and we understood the impossibility of returning the way we came! I had to continue walking along these all-natural mine paths to the depths of the pit. Along the way, I thought back to Ah Fang's words all the way, her analysis is not unreasonable, but there are also flaws.

If the Chen family already knew in advance that we were going to enter Chenjiabao, then they had 10,000 ways to kill the four of us, but why did they set up a trap for us to get into the circle of the dragon vulture and let it kill us?

Life! It's definitely not a conspiracy of the Chen family! But even if we are descendants of the people in the photograph, what does it mean?

No, everything is absolutely causal, and the result should be waiting for us not far ahead.