Darkness is the end of all things, and everyone has a natural fear of darkness.

Feng Zhiping has lost count of how many times he has been lost in the dark, such as falling asleep, such as fainting.

He can break free every time, sometimes on his own, sometimes by external forces, in different ways, the same is that every time he gets out of the darkness, the sense of loss will fade away, and he will find himself again.

But this time, he seemed to be awake, and he didn't seem to be awake.

The vision was pitch black, and the sense of loss not only did not disappear, but became thicker and thicker, and the darkness silently ate away at the mind, making the chaotic mind fall into a deeper level of confusion again and again.

Where is this?

Hell?

Am I dead?

Why does it still hurt when you die?

The stiff brain struggled to figure out the answer.

I can think, I can feel pain, I should be alive, right?

But he was obviously trapped in the passage, he should have drowned, why would he still be alive?

Who saved me?

One question after another was noisy in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more his head hurt, and he had to empty his mind for a while, and only after calming down did he realize that there was the sound of water in his ears, and the waves crashing on his body.

It turned out that he was woken up by the waves.

It seems that he really didn't die, and the legendary Lechuan River would definitely not be so gentle.

The sluggish brain gradually woke up, he felt that the air was very humid, with a strong musty smell, the sense of smell that had just awakened was so tormented that he couldn't help but vomit, because he couldn't move, the vomit all fell on his face, and the viscous and disgusting taste made him vomit even more fiercely.

In any case, the air is breathable, and that's enough.

With the experience of wiping tiger dung, Feng Zhiping quickly adapted to it, and barely stopped before choking to death with his own vomit. After a moment of calm, the musty smell became no longer as pungent as before, and he even smelled a hint of sweetness in it, and he didn't know if his nose was burned.

After a long breath, his body gradually regained consciousness, and the pain that he had forgotten for a while hit again, he gritted his teeth and hummed and turned over, and his face was plunged into the water.

Even if you die here, you can't be too sloppy, and your face must be clean, so as not to be too cold when you are found in the future.

Thinking like this, Feng Zhiping was suddenly amused by himself, he was about to die, and he still cared about his appearance.

It's really dead here, and when someone finds it, he has become a skeleton, how can he still see that his face is not clean!

But let's wash it, the young master is a person who loves cleanliness, not to mention that the smell is really bad.

The water is very cold, and when you taste it, your mouth is filled with a faint smell of rust.

Feng Zhiping almost vomited again, rinsed his mouth with nausea, turned over and lay down, feeling much more energetic.

It seems that he really survived.

There is no one else here but himself, and I think it is not that someone rescued him, but for another reason.

Trying to recall the bits and pieces before fainting, Feng Zhiping vaguely organized a possibility.

At that time, it should not be a person who dragged him, but the current, and it was probably the earthquake that affected the dark river and caused a backgasp, sucking himself out along with the stones blocking the passage, and then drifting with the dark river, until he floated here.

Feng Zhiping became happy, and only then did he have the happiness of the rest of his life.

After grinning for a long time, he suddenly remembered something and quickly touched his chest.

Very good, the jade bead is still there, the rope given by the immortal is really reliable, and it is not broken after such a toss, he is greatly relieved.

The tense spirit relaxed, the person involuntarily became sleepy, he fell asleep unconsciously, I don't know how long it took, when he woke up again, it was still dark in front of him, but his spirit was much better, and the injuries on his body were not very painful.

Try to sit up, first touched the left shoulder with his right hand, the bandage has long been washed away, and the clothes on the body are only left with strands of miserable hanging on the body, and the miraculous thing is that the wound is gone, and the touch is soft, very much like the new flesh that has just healed.

I raised my left arm and tried it, and my muscles and bones were sore, especially in my joints, but it didn't affect my movements.

He touched his right arm with his left hand, and thought that the burnt skin with abrasions and burns was extremely smooth, and it felt like the best jade, and it was not real without light, but he had a feeling that his right arm was so smooth that it seemed that there was no hair left.

I guess it was burned at that time.

Thinking back to his crazy move, Feng Zhiping smiled and shook his head.

In a desperate situation, he really did it, but if he did it again, he wasn't sure if he would still have that courage.

Intellectually, there should be none.

There are some things that can never be done without being pushed to the part.

When his strength had recovered a little, he stood up and began to grope around, and by touch he sketched a rough picture of the situation in his mind, facing water on one side, walls on three sides, and a hole more than a man high on the stone wall facing the dark river.

It seems that there are traces of artificial excavation?

Feng Zhiping squatted down and touched it carefully, it was really.

The passage should be natural, but there are steps where the drop is large, which is obviously artificial.

People are good, people can go up this road, and they are very likely to get out alive!

Feng Zhiping became excited, and after thinking about it, he couldn't help but secretly scold himself for being stupid.

If it is really a natural cavity somewhere in the underground dark river, it should be airtight, and he should have suffocated to death.

Continuing along the base of the wall, he found a few bones in the mud in the corner, with depressions on what appeared to be tooth marks.

It is inferred that this is probably the source of water under the mine, and that the river water is living water but the smell of rust is too strong to drink, and it should be used for washing or bathing, as well as as as emergency drinking water as a last resort.

In this case, there should be torches or pyroxene here, but it is dark here, and pyroxene definitely does not have one, so we can only hope for torches.

Groping carefully along the wall, he found the groove where the torch was inserted, but unfortunately there was no torch, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed. Hundred Flowers Literature

Forget it, I didn't have a fire, and I couldn't find a torch at all.

Touching back to the entrance of the cave, Feng Zhiping lay on the ground and slowly climbed up, the passage was steep and long, estimated by his own length, it took about ten zhang to reach the end, and the end was not a door, but a whole fallen stone.

"Damn it!"

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Feng Zhiping wanted to beat someone.

Standing up and touching up, he breathed a sigh of relief again.

Luckily, the stone wasn't as immoral as the one blocking the vault, it wasn't completely sealed, and there was a gap in the upper part for people to pass through.

Climbing through the stone block, the surroundings were still dark, and after groping left and right, Feng Zhiping determined that this should be a mine road, because there were traces of excavation on the walls, as well as load-bearing rough wood.

The question arises, left or right?

Choosing the wrong one can be a point of no return.

Feng Zhiping hesitated for a long time, stood in the middle of the road and began to circle around.

This section of the road is flat, it is the same for him left and right, since he can't choose, then it depends on his fate, stop in which direction to go.

When he turned around and was about to vomit, he stopped, staggered forward, and banged his forehead against the wall.

"Grass!"

fell to the ground with a gold star in his eyes, and it took a long time to recover his strength, Feng Zhiping scolded and got up, and didn't want to think about it, and walked directly to the left.

Men on the left and women on the right, what the ancestors said, it shouldn't be wrong!

Walking slowly along the mine, a light suddenly appeared in front of me.

Feng Zhiping was overjoyed in his heart, hurriedly quickened his pace, found the light source and found that the torch was half-buried in the pile of stones, and when he saw that it was about to be extinguished, he quickly dug it out and carefully protected it, and found a relatively new root from another pile of stones not far away, and finally ushered in the long-lost light.

With the light, his heart also brightened, and he rummaged left and right, and found a torch and a mine hoe with a half-cut handle, clamped it under his armpit, and continued with the torch.

The road behind rises and falls, and you can see forks in the road from time to time.

Make a mark, continue to walk, until you can't get through, then turn back to change lanes, around several circles in between, relying on the marks to grope a little bit, he keeps hoping that the next mine road can see the two parallel tracks.

Lao Mo said that the mechanism minecart is usually only available in the main mine, and finding the main minecar is equivalent to finding the way out.

But God seemed to be playing with him, and his mouth was dry and his feet were almost worn out, and the damn track didn't appear, but he went around and around and went back to the hole that led to the underground river.

"What the hell, it's a circle!"

Throw the torch to the ground and hurriedly pick it up, the precious light source can't be lost.

Sitting down against the pile of stones blocking the road, listening to the louder and louder cooing sound in his stomach, Feng Zhiping frowned, thinking carefully about the road he had walked.

According to the markings, he could be sure that all the roads he could take were gone, and that he had not found the main mine, which only meant that the correct way was in the few blocked forks.

There are more than a dozen of those forks, and it is impossible for him to dig them all by himself, and his current physical strength can only choose two of them that are easier to dig at most, so that there are seven choices.

Which two should you choose?

Thinking back to the road he had walked, he simulated a map in his mind, and after some screening, there were three roads that were more likely, all of which extended outside the circle, Feng Zhiping thought about it for a long time, stood up and walked to the nearest one.

The familiar car came to the foot of the ground, and after inserting the torch, he spat in the palm of his hand, silently used the yuan force, and waved the hoe to dig.

The jingle sounded for about half an hour, and the road blockage was cleared out of a passage that allowed people to pass through, and he took a torch and carried a hoe through it, and walked forward about thirty zhang, and a large number of landslides appeared in front of him.

"Hey, God finally opened his eyes once!"

Looking at the gap in the upper part of the collapse, Feng Zhiping was happy, crawled over with both hands and feet, and when the torch shone through, he vaguely saw a half-collapsed brick wall outside three zhang away.

"A wall?"

Feng Zhiping frowned, vaguely remembering that Gou Si said that there are only three places under the mine that will build walls, one is the old mining area that has been exhausted, the second is the abandoned mining area where the rock formation has been loosened and has had major landslides or is prone to landslides, and the third is the high-risk mining area where major accidents such as insect plagues, rat plagues, and permeable fires have occurred.

Either way, the danger behind the wall is nothing now, what danger could be worse than an earthquake, worse than being trapped here?

Listening for a while, there was no abnormal sound, there should be no living creatures such as insects and rats inside, Feng Zhiping plucked up his courage and walked forward with a torch.

Of the three types of plugged mining areas, the last two are better not to appear, and he is looking forward to the first type behind the wall.

The old mine is only cleaned up, the mine tunnels are still there, and the emergency shelter inside may be able to find the missing tools, water and food, and if you are lucky, you may even find a rammer road to the main mine, which can save you a lot of trouble.

Stepping over the brick wall, it was dark and swarthy in front of me, and the light of the torches was empty.

Feng Zhiping was not in a hurry, his pace was very slow, and while listening with his ears pricked up, he held a torch high to observe the surrounding stone walls.

The stone walls on both sides are uneven, and cracks can be seen from time to time, which should have been shaken by earthquakes.

The top is reinforced with wooden beams, and a lot of anti-falling stone screens are pulled, but many of them are broken and drooped down in disrepair, and the dust flutters gently under the light of the torches, which is very ghostly and terrifying.

Feng Zhiping nodded secretly, it seems that this should be an old mining area, and it should have been very large back then, otherwise it would not have been so well arranged.

The earthquake collapsed, the thick brick wall was collapsed, the roof beam here is basically intact, only to see the cracks rarely broken and falling off, all kinds of signs show how much the mine owner valued it was at the beginning, it must be a big mining area, and it is very possible to find the way to the main mine!

Turning two corners, he encountered three forks in the road, Feng Zhiping didn't even look at it, and walked along the main road.

Turning another corner, a mark appeared on the wall, Feng Zhiping clearly remembered that there was a similar mark near the cave where Lao Mo took them to take refuge, and he was overjoyed and walked along the arrow.

Not far away, a hole appeared in front of him, he stood in front of the hole and wanted to scold his mother angrily, a good shelter, which king and eight lambs took a brick to plug it!

Thinking about it, it's not right, the mine road needs to be kept unblocked, and there must be a reason for the active blocking, could it be that there has been a pest disaster in it?

Feng Zhiping hesitated, but after only a moment, he lifted the mine hoe with a resolute face.

Dig!

Whatever it has, dig!

Even if there has been a plague of insects and rats, after so many years, any living creatures should have died a long time ago, I hope that the stored tools can be preserved, and it is best to have something to eat, I am really starving to death.