After saying hello to Uncle Long, Chen Tao grabbed the rope and jumped down, while Uncle Long kept watching him from above.
In the past, Chen Tao had never done anything like this. The most he did was hang on a tree and swing with Hao Zi. Holding the rope, although Chen Tao kept cheering himself up, he was still a little nervous.
As soon as I got down, I felt my body sinking, and instantly slipped a lot. All the strength was concentrated on my hands, and I almost fell down without losing my grip.
In a hurry, Chen Tao used his hands hard and clamped the rope tightly with his legs, and then stopped falling. Feeling the numbness in his hands, Chen Tao broke into a cold sweat.
"Fortunately, I wore gloves, otherwise the skin and flesh would have fallen off my hands this time!"
After regaining his composure, Chen Tao tilted his head and looked down. It was pitch black, and someone was shining a flashlight on him. The flashlight just reflected light, so Chen Tao couldn't see who it was.
"Grasp the rope with both hands up and down, arch your body, and use the force of the wall over there to push your feet down little by little!"
Uncle Long's voice came from above. Chen Tao nodded secretly, imitating the way on TV, he raised his feet and kicked hard against the wall. He felt that his whole body was floating in the air, and then he lost control of his body. It spun around and hit the wall again with a bang.
His shoulder hit the hard concrete wall hard, and his body fell suddenly, so painful that he almost let go.
"Sure enough, everything on TV is a lie... Well... maybe I'm too good at it..." Feeling the severe pain in his shoulder, Chen Tao was thinking wildly.
"Uh... forget it, I'm wearing gloves anyway, just slide down slowly by yourself, don't step on the wall..."
Uncle Long touched his forehead, speechless for a while, and shouted down: "Shangui, follow him!"
"Okay, Mr. Long, little boss, just come down and I will follow you!"
After hearing what Uncle Long and Shangui said, Chen Tao stopped fussing, relaxed his hands and feet slightly, and began to fall straight down.
All his attention was used to control the strength of his hands and feet. Suddenly, he felt his body tightening and he was held in his arms by a pair of big hands. Chen Tao took a closer look and realized it was a mountain ghost.
In fact, the cave entrance from the top to the bottom is not very deep, and it only takes a few seconds to slide down. Uncle Long asked him to step on the wall, just to use this opportunity to teach him some skills in using ropes.
Smiling at the mountain ghost, Chen Tao was freed from his somewhat awkward posture. There was a sound of rope friction above my head. When I looked up, I saw Uncle Long grabbing the rope and pushing his feet against the wall. His body fell rapidly with a whoosh. His speed and skill reminded him of the scene where he had just hit the wall. Chen Tao couldn't help but feel a little blushing.
Uncle Long deliberately came down like this to demonstrate to Chen Tao. He threw away the rope. Uncle Long stepped forward and touched Chen Tao's shoulder and said, "Are you okay just now?"
"It's okay, I just feel a little sore." Chen Tao shook his head.
"It's okay, just learn more in the future. This time it's over, let the mountain ghost take you to practice and teach you something."
"Um!"
The three of them stopped talking and walked forward. Chen Tao looked up and saw a figure walking over.
"Taozi, you can't do this. Come and see if you're stupid?"
Haozi walked over with a flashlight in his hand and tried to touch Chen Tao's head. Chen Tao opened his hand with a slap and said:
"You're just stupid. There was a bastard who kept shining a flashlight in my eyes just now. Is it you? Ah? Tell me if it's you!"
"Hey, wasn't I caring about my 'revolutionary comrades'? Besides, if I hadn't stayed and looked back at you, how could I have had the opportunity to witness our hero Chen Tao's amazing feat of trapeze and dog-eating!" Haozi winked.
"Get out!" Chen Tao was too lazy to talk to him anymore. He also knew that he stayed here to wait for him and Uncle Long. He took out the Wolf Fang flashlight from the side of his backpack with his hands behind his back and looked around.
"Holy shit, it's such a big place!"
It doesn't feel like looking down from above. Standing here, I realized how high the surrounding stone walls are! This should be an underground passage, with cement walls several meters high on both sides as partitions, and above that are exposed black rock formations.
Chen Tao held up his flashlight and took photos back and forth. The place where they came down was almost at the end of the passage. Not far behind them was a collapsed boulder, which blocked the passage behind. The cement on the surrounding walls has been severely eroded by water seepage, and is covered with black and white spots. It seems that there are still some marks painted on the wall.
There is a long underground passage ahead. When the Langya flashlight shines through, you can see several figures swaying not far ahead. They should be Yang Lixuan, Boss Zhang and others who came down earlier.
The air in the passage is a bit humid, and there is still water on the ground in some places. The rubble from the previous explosion and collapse fell from the hole, hitting the puddle and splashing everywhere. There were a few black bugs crawling on some rocks. Chen Tao stepped forward, bent down and looked at these black insects, and said to himself:
"These bloodthirsty black insects that frightened the locals are now just like the ants on the ground, and they no longer pose any threat... Who is that Yang Lixuan? What is his strange bottle of potion?"
Chen Tao knew in his heart that the garlic and ginger alone would never have such an effect. The most important thing was what Yang Lixuan added later.
At this moment, Chen Tao couldn't help but feel a little dazed in his mind. Because he suddenly discovered that among the group of people in front of him, Uncle Long could not see through him, and Haozi had changed a lot now. Shangui has always followed Uncle Long, and now there are Uncle Wang, Yang Lixuan, and Boss Zhang's group. Chen Tao suddenly felt that everyone here had their own reasons and purposes for coming here, but he was the only one who was stupidly kept in the dark and didn't know anything.
"Oh, this feeling is really unpleasant!" Muttered in his heart, Chen Tao raised his head and glanced at the top of his head, and couldn't help but wonder:
"Huh? Why are the rock formations here getting lower and lower?"
"When it was originally built, this place might have been a huge mountain cavity. Someone discovered this place and built some kind of building here! The place where we collapsed happened to be the weakest part of the rock layer in this space... It seems that that place was originally built. The group of people must know the structural layout below, so they chose to blow up that place." Uncle Long looked around and said:
"I did some research before coming here. There are rumors that during the Anti-Japanese War, Yan Xishan and Yan Laoxi'er once built a secret underground military factory here. Could it be this?"
"Underground military factory?" Chen Tao suddenly became interested, "Let's go find them! Let's see what we find."
Several people stopped staying and stepped forward. Not long after walking, some rotten wood fragments, broken iron shelves, and some metal parts with rust began to appear in the passage. Chen Tao walked to a pile of waste and stepped lightly on something similar to a heating pipe. The pipe immediately deflated and was almost rotten into slag.
As soon as I got closer, I heard Boss Zhang’s voice like a broken gong,
"Oh, Lord Long, you are really slow. We have been waiting here for you for a long time!"
Uncle Long smiled apologetically and asked, "How are you doing? Did you find anything?"
Uncle Wang used his flashlight to shine on a spot on the cement wall and said: "There used to be a light bulb there, but it is gone now, and the wires on it are almost rotten. You see, there are such marks every few meters on the walls on both sides. , indicating that there were lights on this road in the past.”
"If there are lights, there should be electricity here!" Chen Tao said.
"Well, it's deep underground here. It can't be connected to the electricity from outside. There should be something like a generator. There are a few crappy racks over there. Let's search separately to see if there are any other things or clues. "Uncle Long raised his hand and looked around.
From the collapse of the cave roof to here, it looks like an upside-down sloping cover. Although the height of the rock formation at the top is decreasing, it is still a large space. Judging from the scrap iron racks and wooden counters scattered around, it seemed that this place used to be a large gathering place. Such a huge space is enough for hundreds of people to move around here.
"It looks a bit like a big factory!" Haozi said.
"Maybe it really is an arsenal! I wonder if there will be any good things left."
Chen Tao and Hao Zi searched in one direction. When they were approaching the corner, Chen Tao found a rotten iron bucket. Haozi stepped forward with a folding shovel and chopped it open. It was empty inside.
Chen Tao squatted down, used his flashlight to shine on the dark stuff on the bottom of the rotten barrel and said, "This is..."
He picked out a little bit with a shovel and spread it on the ground. It was thick and had a strange smell.
"Is this oil?" Haozi said.
"This should be a mixture of engine oil and some impurities and residue." Uncle Long came over at some point. "There are a lot of iron barrels like this over there. Look, the ground is black and white, and there is a thick layer of oil in many places. The shape of some places is very unique. Some machinery and equipment should have been placed on it in the past. .”
"So, is this really an arsenal?" Chen Tao asked.
"It's possible, looking at the situation around here, they were in a hurry when they retreated. Except for some important equipment, everything else was thrown here."
"Come and see, you've discovered something!" shouted the mountain ghost on the other side. Hearing the sound, everyone walked in that direction.
"Look, there are writings on the wall!" said the mountain ghost.
"What kind of number does it seem to be?" Yan narrowed his eyes and asked.
The corrosion marks on the wall were very severe, and everyone worked hard to identify the vague marks on it.
"This is a... Z... something H... 0... 5... something... 79... 6... 8?" Chen Tao read word by word. The marks on the wall were so blurry that it was almost impossible to make out what was on them.
"Maybe... it's the number of this area or the things that were placed here at that time." Uncle Wang guessed.
Everyone shook their heads, no one knew what this meant.
"Hey? What is this?" Haozi said, pointing at a crooked thing under the wall.
Everyone followed Haozi's flashlight and saw a dark, slender thing huddled in the corner of the wall.
"F*ck! It's a snake!" Someone shouted, but Chen Tao only had time to look away before quickly retreating.
Snapped……
There was a sudden gunshot in the silent and empty factory, and the harsh sound waves overlapped and spread in the dark passage, causing waves of strange echoes.
The gun was fired by the mountain ghost. He drew the gun, loaded the gun, aimed, and pulled the trigger. Almost at the moment when someone shouted that it was a snake, the mountain ghost completed this series of actions.
"What a fast gun..." This was the first time Chen Tao saw a mountain ghost shoot. He didn't expect him to be such a master.
The bullet penetrated the black shadow and directly hit the cement wall next to it. A large gap instantly appeared in the wall. As the soil splashed, the black thing seemed to be interrupted and flew out, falling to the ground with a loud sound. There was a dull crashing sound.
"Holy shit, it's so dark all around, and Haozi's flashlight just flickered briefly. How did Shangui do that?" Chen Tao was so surprised that he couldn't speak.
"When this is over, I have to learn from him!" Chen Tao made up his mind and walked towards the small black shadow that had just splashed out with his flashlight.
"This... doesn't seem to be a snake..." Chen Tao looked down at the thing, leaned over and picked it up and said, "Is this... a plant vine?"
"Vines? Why are there vines in a place like this?"
Everyone gathered around and looked at what Chen Tao was holding. In his hand was indeed a broken tree vine. The mountain ghost's shot just now broke a large section of it, and the fracture was like a jagged fang, with black liquid oozing out from it, making it sticky.
Chen Tao brought the vine to his nose and smelled it. He felt sick in his stomach, made a sound of vomiting, and almost vomited it out.
"Damn, what the hell is this? It stinks!"
Chen Tao threw the severed vine aside, holding his stomach and retching. He never dreamed that such a disgusting smell would emit from the inside. Chen Tao had only smelled this smell when he followed the professor to open a well-sealed coffin. It was the smell of rotting corpses!
When everyone saw this, they all looked at the vines for a while, and then used their flashlights to look at the original corner. When they saw it, they suddenly exclaimed.
"I'm going to punch you in the gut, this is too..."
The light of the flashlight moved in the corner of the wall, and at the break of the rattan, drops of black viscous liquid were dripping down. And behind the broken vine, there are countless crooked and thin vines of different thicknesses growing on the ground and walls.
Follow these branches and vines all the way back, and in the distance is a door-like passage. All the black vine branches stretch out from the passage opening, clinging to the surrounding walls and ground, like a dark and deep mouth opening. A black demon flower appeared. There, the entire passage is covered with this black vine. The thick ones and the thin ones are twisted and twisted, like black poisonous snakes.
Everyone was stunned by the scene before them, including Chen Tao, who was hunched over and vomiting.
"this……"
Everyone was speechless for a long time before they heard Yan's cynical voice: "How can this rotten tree become a spirit? It can actually bleed!"
"When I came here, I looked at the Feng Shui topography. I thought the wood energy was strong here. I didn't expect something like this to grow!" Uncle Long said in surprise as he looked at the tangled black vine branches in the distance.
"What kind of plant is this? How come it has such a disgusting smell!" Chen Tao finally recovered and wiped his mouth.
"I don't know either..." Uncle Long shook his head and said, "The feng shui of this place is a bit weird. I'm just afraid something will grow that shouldn't be there!" Uncle Long frowned and said with a serious face.
There was nothing else to be found around, so everyone had no choice but to step on the vine branches in that area and move deeper and deeper into the passage.
Further inside, the space is not as wide as outside, and the top of the head becomes a gray cement roof. Just when everyone had walked not far, Yang Lixuan's voice sounded from the front.
"Here, there is a door!"
