"So, let's look for it.

I don't believe it, the boat can have better luck than we do. ”

Jiang Yingxue stood up, patted the pastry crumbs in her hand, and then began to organize all the personnel to start a comprehensive investigation around the suspicious locations pointed out by Bai Ning.

In order to prevent Captain Dong from laying some poisonous traps, everyone wore gloves and gas masks to work, and as long as they found something wrong, they put on gas masks.

In fact, just as Jiang Yingxue expected, a large number of deceitful thunder traps were placed in various hidden places, and a large amount of poisonous powder was spilled, causing everyone to deal with it in a hurry.

Fortunately, the various antidotes brought this time are very sufficient, and even if you are blinded by the poison powder, you can quickly deal with it.

Half a day's busyness was fleeting, except for two people who had inhaled too much drug powder and fell unconscious in the camp, the rest of the personnel were normal, but they would be more emotionally excited.

There is no doubt that in such a constant competition, no matter how strict their precautions are, all the bodyguards will eventually be hit.

I don't know how many of them will be standing here before they officially find the entrance.

Altitude sickness made the bodyguards' rest time have to be as long as possible, looking at the panting bodyguards, Jiang Yingxue's face never eased.

Rotation seems to be a clever way to solve the current crisis, but how to survive until the time of rotation is coming, this kind of malaise has gradually begun to be revealed.

I don't want to discuss the possibilities too much, and find a poison trap in the place where Captain Dong stayed, which in itself means that this area is special.

After the break, the whole team continued to look around, but gradually, the number of traps began to decrease, and the proportion of traps containing poison began to decrease significantly.

It seems that this also proves the decrease in the possession of poison in Captain Dong's hands from another side.

Just some ordinary traps, these experienced bodyguards handle them very neatly, and as their self-confidence increases, the progress of subsequent explorations becomes faster and faster.

In the end, when a piece of floating soil deliberately hidden by turf and stones was discovered by a group of bodyguards, Bai Ning could spit out a turbid breath.

The presence of a large amount of fresh earthwork indicates that there are caves dug down in the vicinity of this area.

What is the nature of this cave is unknown.

The entrance to what was suspected to be the original refuge of the Queen Mother of the West had finally been completely confirmed, and at this time, they might have been a huge time difference of two days and two nights before Captain Dong entered.

Gather all the bodyguards and scatter to search around, and soon find the source of fresh floating earth at the bottom of a low-lying stone pit.

I saw that this low-lying stone pit was covered with a large pile of weeds, and it looked like a fluffy weed pit.

All the weeds were transported here by roots, and there were even traces of Tibetan sheep grazing on them, which they would have ignored even if they had not deliberately searched for them with preconceived notions.

A group of bodyguards quickly cleaned up all the weeds at the bottom of the pit, and a one-person-sized thief hole appeared in front of everyone.

Judging from the excavation skills of the robbery hole, Captain Dong should still be a skilled Tufuzi.

It seems that in order to find the dragon, he must have done a lot of digging graves.

In addition to a downward robbery hole, there are also some traces of artificial excavation faintly visible at this stone pit, and some stones in the soil of the stone pit also seem to have some traces of artificial carving.

Captain Dong, who was lying here at the beginning, must have found something remarkable in the soil layer of the stone pit, so he began to gradually dig deeper into this soil layer.

"Relocation of camp."

Now that the thief cave leading to the original refuge of the Queen Mother of the West has been discovered, Jiang Yingxue waved her hand and directly ordered everyone to move the previous camp here.

Even if they leave the poison ground, it will cause the toxin level in their body to fluctuate greatly, but at this time, they can't take care of these things.

The logic of action has changed dramatically, and the previous cautious defensive strategy is no longer suitable for the current pace of exploration, even if some problems occur due to the violent fluctuations of toxins in their bodies, they have to resist hard.

In the blink of an eye, they had transformed from defenders to attackers, and to some extent had trapped Captain Dong and made him a turtle in an urn in a broad sense.

The relocation of the camp went smoothly, and by nightfall the tent at the core had been erected, and the low-lying pit was completely covered by a large tent.

The floating soil at the entrance of the cave was thoroughly cleaned, and many stone carvings with clearer lines were excavated during this period, which did not look like some kind of funerary goods with special symbolic meaning, but more like some rubble mixed in at random.

As the excavation continues, the area inside the pit takes on a trumpet-shaped flaring, and the overall appearance appears to be a collapsed perforation somewhere in the underground vault, which has eventually been converted into a secret exit.

It can be seen that the official entrance, which was very conspicuous at the beginning, has been completely buried by the sealed earth, and the outer area has either collapsed or been blocked by a large number of stones.

Continue to dig down the thief hole, the number of gravel is increasing, like an area scrawled out, and because of this, the subsequent thief hole is more and more sloppy and tortuous, and in the end, the thief hole collapsed and disappeared.

Faced with this situation, Bai Ning ordered people to put expansion bolts on the stone layer on the side, and installed a layer of insurance for all personnel and equipment.

After digging down for a meter or two, the gravel layer suddenly caved downward, and with a muffled "bang", a large layer of gravel in the central area collapsed downward, revealing a dark space below.

After all the personnel stabilized their bodies in mid-air, a large number of abrupt stone bars appeared in front of everyone, illuminated by a strong flashlight, like a man-made dome structure supporting the previous earthwork and gravel landfill.

Captain Dong was able to make a hole in such a dome structure, and also guaranteed that it would not collapse, and his skill in robbing tombs was miraculous.

Before there was time to sigh, all the personnel continued to clean up the earthwork and gravel above the dome, and finally removed all the stone strips of the dome that could pose a threat.

After all this was done, the time had come to the second half of the night, and a tunnel to the original shelter of the Queen Mother of the West was presented to everyone.

The glow sticks that had been thrown down reflected back like candles in the deep underground, and when they looked down, there was a sense of panic as if they were peering into the bottomless abyss.

Captain Dong has been exploring this underground ruin for two days and two nights, but there is still no trace of turning back, and I don't know what he is going through inside.

The night was already deep, and the personnel in charge of digging had already dispersed to rest, and Bai Ning and Jiang Yingxue, who couldn't sleep at all, led an advance team of 5 people to descend directly down the zipline.

The nights in the alpine area are already cold, let alone such a huge cavity buried in the ground for an unknown number of meters.

In the process of rappelling, I already felt the cold wind hitting the face, and as soon as I gained a foothold at the bottom of the cave, an indescribable cold sensation pierced through the warm clothes and entered the internal organs.

This feeling was very similar to the cold hallucinations that suddenly abruptly arose under the torture of the drug, but it made Jiang Yingxue wonder if there was some trap preset by Captain Dong around here.

The advance team did not blindly explore the surrounding area, but set up a large amount of lighting equipment in this dark underground.

As the high-brightness lamps light up the entire underground cavity, a large number of stale ancient relics are vividly presented in front of everyone.

The previously collapsed stone bars and earth and stone blocks crushed the roof of a dwelling, and the main structure of the ruined house was not much better, as if it would be completely reduced to a pile of ruins when a gust of wind rose.

The whole area illuminated by the lights was a small-looking living area, with all the roofs rotting and collapsing, revealing the stone frame structure inside.

The walls were devoid of any moss or other ferns, but were covered in an old layer of dirt mixed with a lot of dust.

The disintegration of the stone requires microbial corrosion or weathering by the sun and rain, and the stone building is quite well preserved in the underground, where there is no light and rain.

In addition to the ease of access to local materials, this may have been the key to the choice of stone for the construction of the infrastructure in the first place.

After a few glances around, except for a few faint footprints that appeared on the dusty ground, I didn't find too many clues left by Captain Dong on the four main roads.

Following these footprints may be able to roughly confirm the departure path of Captain Dong, but due to the long interval, I want to catch up with him completely, unless I encounter some unexpected circumstances.

After setting up the initial base here, Bai Ning led everyone to continue to go deeper along Captain Dong's footprints, and before he could go far, the moisture on the ground began to become heavier, and occasionally some stagnant water began to appear on the stony ground.

Soon, a large area of shallow water appeared in front of everyone, like a tributary of an underground river, spreading over the endless man-made large square.

It is clear that the drainage system of this shelter is damaged, so much so that the dungeon is waterlogged.

The instability of this underground shelter made Bai Ning and the others lose the possibility of continuing to track Captain Dong, which caused the morale of the team to be devastated.

Standing in this shallow water area that was just below her ankles, Jiang Yingxue didn't see Bai Ning say anything for a long time, and she also looked a little puzzled.

"Don't you move on?

Crossing this shallow water, you may be able to find fresher water-stained footprints on the other side. ”

Jiang Yingxue inspected the specific scale of the shallow water area, and casually accosted a few words, as if she wanted to relieve the fatigue that came along the way.

Although the effect of the drug on her is much smaller now, the inability to sleep illustrates the grim situation of poison residues.