"You mean there are other people here?" Tianxin stood up vigilantly, looking at the surroundings carefully. He had clearly searched before and found no traces of living creatures. "Senior brother, are you mistaken? , there is no life at all here.”
Others were also awakened by the conversation between the two. They heard that there were others in the room, and they all formed a circle around the fire.
After Xuan Yi locked the target's position, he also stood up and walked towards the location where he noticed the abnormality just now. In the dusty corner, there was a small gap between two wooden boards. This was where the same feeling just now came from.
"I felt that there was something alive under this house. It was through this place that I found myself being peered into by a pair of eyes."
Tianxin looked at the tiny slit in the corner of the wall in disbelief. If Xuan Yi hadn't said anything, he wouldn't have noticed there was something like a cat's eye here.
"But after looking around here, there's not even anything to eat. How can people survive here?" Xiao Deng looked around the corner again and found no signs of activity, so he felt relieved.
"I heard that there are snow monsters on this snow mountain. Whenever there is a shortage of food in winter, they will come down the mountain to look for food. Do you think it could be something like this?" Tianxin thought of the old masters in the Taoist temple when he was a child. Some little stories I tell to coax myself to sleep.
"It's unlikely that there is such a thing, but having said that, for such a big house here, you should dig a cellar to store food. Maybe if we find the entrance and explore, we can find the answer." Staff Li pointed out another point to everyone. possibility, he began to search around.
"Consultant Li is right, and I feel the same way. Why don't we go down and find out." Xuan Yi looked at Wen Na and nodded to reassure her.
Wen Na is not afraid because Xuan Yi is by her side, but because her body has not yet fully awakened, the partially awakened consciousness that has recovered has occupied her brain, but she cannot control it, resulting in her often being in a state of unconsciousness. On the verge of unconsciousness. At this time, he could only grit his teeth and hold on until he stepped into the place of awakening.
Xiao Deng, Staff Officer Li and Tian Xin began to search around the entrance. Several people knocked on the kitchen floor, under the table, in the firewood house, and in the lockers, trying to find a crisp hollow sound, but all in vain.
Xuan Yi was also rummaging with the three of them at this time. His eyes scanned the places that the three of them had checked just now, and finally his eyes settled on the big pot on the kitchen stove.
"This house has been completely searched. Is it possible that it was buried outside in the snow?" Xiao Deng's hand hurt when he knocked, and he didn't find the entrance, so he simply sat down and left it open.
"No, the snow is so deep outside, it will be in trouble if the people inside want to come out, so we must stay inside and work harder." Staff Officer Li dismissed Xiao Deng's idea at a glance, and he himself had no time to do so. I even wanted to go to the attic to look for clues.
Tianxin started to feel frustrated after searching for a while, and suddenly found Xuanyi staring at the big iron pot on the stove in a daze, and he suddenly had an idea in his mind. When I was in the Taoist temple, there were often little wild cats that came to beg for food in the kitchen. In winter, their favorite hiding place was the stove. Because they were warmed by the firewood, they could not be driven away no matter how hard they came. Willing to go.
"Brother Deng, come and help me!" Tianxin also felt that the big pot was suspicious, so he called Xiao Deng to come over and move it away.
"Don't you think there is a secret passage down here? You think it's a cat and a mouse!" Xiao Deng obviously didn't believe that such a small place could be the entrance to the cellar, but he still came to help and took the iron pot all by himself. Lift it and move it away.
But what surprised Xiao Deng was that the place where the firewood should be burning ashes was actually the most spotless place in the whole house. There was a thick iron sheet underneath, as if it was used to cover something. .
Xiao Deng lifted up the iron sheet along the edge, revealing a tunnel opening just big enough for one person to pass through.
"It's really here!" Xiao Deng was slapped in the face, but he also had a bold personality and didn't take it to heart. He even wanted to go down this tunnel as a pretense.
"Brother Deng, don't worry. We don't know the situation below yet. Let's ask Senior Brother Xuan Yi what he wants to say?" Tianxin quickly grabbed the impulsive Xiao Deng and asked Xuan Yi for the next action.
"I only sense that there are people below. As for whether there are other unknown dangers, I can't tell. Let's be fully prepared before going down." Xuan Yi couldn't sense anything more at the moment, so he could only tell everyone Let's go and investigate together.
Everyone took off the heavy weight of walking on the snow, leaving only the cotton clothes on their bodies. Xiao Deng and Staff Officer Li even took out weapons from the package, including pistols and short and lightweight submachine guns.
"Just in case, let's bring some food and water down." Staff Officer Li took out some of the water and fast food in the package and packed it up, handed it to Tianxin, and then came to the entrance of the tunnel, ready to go down.
"Commander Li, let me take the lead." Xiao Deng, with a pistol on his leg and a submachine gun around his neck, was the first to get out of the cellar ahead of Staff Li.
In the small space, Xiao Deng could only put his hands against the surrounding walls and slide down a little bit. Only after his feet fell out of the hole did he release his supporting hands and fall into the cellar. As soon as he landed, Xiao Deng turned on the flashlight on his shoulder, picked up the gun on his waist and carefully inspected the surrounding area. The cellar was an irregular square shape, and there were some sprouted potatoes piled in the corners, indicating that someone was indeed living there not long ago. With.
When Xiao Deng was about to report the situation to Staff Officer Li and the others, a resentful sigh came from the dark passage deep in the cellar. This sound melodious along the passage and reached Xiao Deng's ears, and suddenly his forehead was full of tears. Dense beads of sweat oozed out.
"Who is pretending to be a ghost? If you don't come out, I will shoot!" Although Xiao Deng didn't believe in the theory of gods and ghosts before, but he has met people who really have Taoism and supernatural powers like Xuan Yi and Tian Xin in the world. There was still a hint of fear in my heart. Seeing that the sound had no intention of stopping, Xiao Deng picked up his gun and fired a "chu-chu-chu" shuttle into the passage.
Unexpectedly, this trick actually worked. After the echo of bullets hitting the wall came from the passage, the creepy sighs stopped abruptly.
Xiao Deng breathed a sigh of relief, tightened his grip on the gun in his hand, and gained some courage. Then he found a corner and fixed the flashlight on his shoulder to the wall, and then waved them down.
"I heard you shoot just now. What happened?" Staff Officer Li asked immediately after jumping down.
"It's a little weird here!" Xiao Deng then told Staff Officer Li about the sound just now.
"You must be extremely careful for a while and pay attention to whether there are any traps on the road." Then with the help of Xiao Deng, Xuan Yi and the others arrived in the cellar smoothly.
"It's much warmer down here than up there." After Tianxin came down, he immediately felt that the chill had subsided a lot, and his body gradually felt a little warmer.
"This cellar is a good place to keep warm in winter and cool in summer. Many families here use cellars to store food. But looking at the potatoes here, it seems that the owner left not long ago." Staff Li picked up the cellar in the corner. Tudou observed it carefully, and then led everyone to prepare to pass through this pitch-black passage.
Xiao Deng and Staff Officer Li were placed at the beginning and end respectively, while Wen Na was placed in the middle. The five of them began to explore deeper into the cellar. Xiao Deng took out a military fluorescent stick, bent it hard and shook it a few times, then threw it into the corridor in front of him. With the flashlight on his shoulder and the light of the fluorescent stick, the corridor suddenly became like daylight, and the traces of digging on the wall were clearly visible.
"Walk slowly and be careful where you step." Staff Officer Li also reminded in a low voice, his eyes always watching behind him vigilantly.
After Xiao Deng experienced the miserable sound before, he naturally did not dare to be careless. After all, there was indeed something weird here. He was careful with every step he took, fearing that he would miss the mark and fall into a pit. He didn't want to be dropped on the roof again.
Just as he was thinking about it, the sudden step he took made him retract alertly, and the team was forced to stop.
"What happened?" Staff Officer Li asked anxiously.
There was a shallow footprint on the ground where Xiao Deng just stepped out. However, in fact, the ground was already extremely hard due to digging. He could not leave such a footprint even if he stepped on it. Then Xiao Deng made another footprint on the wall on the side. I saw a special mark on the wall, which looked out of place on the relatively flat wall.
"There may be a trap here, marked with a special mark, which seems to be used to remind them of themselves." Xianwai turned back and said to Staff Li.
Staff Officer Li hurried forward to check, and it turned out that it was just as Xiao Deng said, "In this case, let's jump over. We don't know what is underneath yet. Just don't trigger it. Remember to pay attention when you come back."
"Let's also make a mark." Tianxin took out the flashlight he had just been given and fixed it on the wall in the same way that Xiao Deng looked before. Such a mark would be the best.
With that said, the five of them jumped to avoid the trap and continued to move forward. Finally, they reached the first fork in the road. Now they faced a dilemma, whether to act in a unified manner or to divide their forces into two groups. After all, there was only one opponent. And being familiar with the terrain, it seems that splitting up is the fastest way to find him.
Staff Officer Li slapped his thigh. Since there was only one person on the other side, we divided our troops into two groups to outflank him!
So Xiao Deng, Xuan Yi and Wen Na's team, and Tian Xin and Staff Li's team split up to search in two directions.
"Although this place looks serious, it would take a lot of manpower to dig this underground into a maze. I guess they don't have that much time. I guess we will still meet them in the front." Staff Li will Tian Xinhu Behind him, he slowly groped forward and threw out his glow stick at the right time to explore the way.
"Ah!!" There was an exclamation from behind.
"It's Wen Na!"
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