"Report to the platoon leader that this may be a hiding place for soldiers." Wang Mingsheng didn't seem to want to come out at this time. He just leaned out and told Wang Ke what he had discovered.
"Nonsense, what kind of soldiers are hiding near this cemetery? Come out, I'll go down and take a look." Wang Ke immediately became interested after hearing this, and his legs no longer hurt.
"Platoon leader, it's too dark inside. I'll go out and find a box of matches."
"What are matches used for? Who has a flashlight?" Wang Ke became even more interested after hearing this.
"There was an oil lamp inside, but Gu Maolin didn't expect it and used up the box of matches."
There are oil lamps inside, which means that people did live in this cave, and they were modern people, not ancient people. "Come out, don't block the entrance, let me go down."
As Wang Ke said this, he motioned for Wang Mingsheng to come out, then turned around and asked, "Which of you still has matches on you?"
Seeing everyone shaking their heads, he immediately said: "Zhao Mingming, you have long legs. Go back to the station quickly and get my three flashlights. Also... ask the hygienist to bring me some gauze and tape."
"Yes!" Ma Zhuo Zhao Mingming turned around and ran away.
Wang Ke then turned around and asked Wang Mingsheng: "What did you find down there?"
"It's just a room with a bed, a stone table, a stove for cooking, and a pile of junk. But there is a hole underneath, which is quite deep, at least dozens of meters..."
"Wait, you said there is another hole in the cave?"
"Um."
This is quite interesting. There is a hole in the hole, and maybe there is material in that hole. Wang Ke has always been comfortable with watching the excitement, but now that Wang Mingsheng said this, he immediately felt that there was a story in this cave.
"Where is Gu Maolin?" Wang Ke asked.
"Still inside? He said he wanted to take a look inside." Wang Mingsheng was still lying at the entrance of the cave and said to Wang Ke.
"There's no light inside, why is he wandering around?" said Song Ruimin, the reconnaissance squad leader.
"Yes! Don't touch it." Xiao Gao, the telephone monitor, also agreed.
Wang Ke turned to look at them, with an imperceptible smile on his lips, and thought to himself, what do you know? Gu Maolin didn't need any light at all. His clairvoyant eyes were more effective than a hundred-watt light bulb.
Now it is time to see things through without telling them, so he followed suit and said, "Wang Mingsheng, come up first, and I'll go down and take a look."
This is the third time Wang Ke has said that it would really be unjustifiable for Wang Mingsheng to block the entrance of the cave again. So he climbed out.
Wang Ke stood up and prepared to go down the hole. At this stop, I couldn't help but gasp, and the rotten spot on my knee hurt terribly.
"Platoon leader, please wait for a while, wait for Zhao Mingming to come back, bandage it before going down." Reconnaissance squad leader Song Ruimin stepped forward and supported Wang Ke.
well! Life is painful because you care. Because of doubt, there is harm.
In fact, we are all passers-by. Although we cannot be the masters of many people and things, we have the same concern.
"Okay, let's wait a little longer. Gu Maolin, did you find anything down there?" Wang Ke said, and couldn't help shouting into the cave.
The cave was very quiet, no sound at all.
Huh? Wang Ke thought to himself, Gu Maolin wouldn't be cowardly and run to the hole below, right?
"Gu Maolin, answer." Wang Ke called again.
The soldiers in both squads were listening, but there was still no sound in the cave.
"Platoon leader, isn't there a lack of oxygen inside?" Xiao Gao, the telephone monitor, asked worriedly. There is a hole in this cave. It's pitch black. Who can tell what's going on inside?
"There is no lack of oxygen, there is plenty of oxygen inside." Wang Mingsheng continued.
"I think it's okay. Gu Maolin's skin is strong." Song Ruimin, the reconnaissance squad leader, didn't care at all. Last time in Chongling, Gu Maolin refused to listen to dissuasion and jumped into the robbery hole.
But Wang Ke doesn't think so. Gu Maolin is good at everything, but sometimes he is a little stunned and in a daze. Even if you can see it with your eyes, you shouldn't be in the limelight like this.
"Okay, stop talking, I'll go down and take a look first." Wang Ke said, sliding into the hole like a cat.
The entrance of the hole sloped downwards, and within a few steps, my feet were touching the ground. By the light from the entrance of the cave, Wang Ke saw that this stone house-like cave should be about two meters underground, about one foot square and as tall as one person. Half is rock, half is soil.
The design is good, even if it rains heavily outside, it will not pour in. Near the rocks, a stone bed can be vaguely seen. Because the light was too dark, basically nothing else inside could be seen clearly.
Walking further inside, the light is gone. Wang Ke fumbled and took two steps inside, shouting as he walked: "Gu Maolin!"
It was so quiet inside the cave that you could hear a pin drop. There was no sound from Gu Maolin. Wang Ke immediately felt trembling. Gu Maolin couldn't really get into that hole, right?
And if the cave in the cave is really tens of meters deep as Wang Mingsheng said, then Gu Maolin must be in that cave now. It would be reasonable if he couldn't hear his call, but there wouldn't be even a little echo, would it? Is this kid really "lying" inside due to lack of oxygen?
Thinking of this, Wang Ke felt a little flustered. He really should have brought Wang Mingsheng in. At least he would know where the hole in the cave was? Wang Ke reached out and touched forward again, and couldn't help but turned around and shouted: "Reconnaissance squad leader, has Zhao Mingming's flashlight come back?"
There was a "buzzing" echo in the cave. Song Ruimin didn't reply. Suddenly a hand stretched out from his feet and tugged on Wang Ke's trousers.
"Who?!" Wang Ke shivered in fright and almost kicked out his right leg.
"Platoon leader, do we two still need flashlights?" Hearing the voice under his feet, it was the damn Gu Maolin.
"Where are you?"
"Platoon leader, give way and I'll come up." Wang Ke squatted down and touched Gu Maolin's head with his hand. He was emerging from a hole beneath his feet. If Gu Maolin hadn't blocked it with his hand just now, Wang Ke would have fallen into the downward hole.
Gu Maolin climbed up from the cave. What he said was correct. Only then did Wang Ke realize that he had just been in this dark hole. Although he was touching, he still sensed his position, which was not the same as the "blind man".
Wang Ke struggled to open his eyes wide. Indeed, judging from the bright light alone, he could barely see his fingers. No wonder Wang Mingsheng climbed out, but when he looked into the hole, it was not all light, but the navigation system was activated. He lowered his head and looked down, and at this moment, he could clearly see the hole under his feet.
The hole in the ground was smaller, and it was covered with a stone slab.
"Gu Maolin, what's inside?"
"Platoon leader, there's nothing inside? But there seems to be a secret in the hole above."
"Really?" When Wang Ke said this, he was already carefully searching everything in the cave in his mind. Now I do it intentionally, and vaguely, I seem to see it more clearly. In addition to the stone bed, there are stone tables, stone benches, and a bunch of drill tools.
It turns out that people really lived here. Strictly speaking, the people who dug the caves below lived here.
After going through many things, you will find that there are turning points everywhere along the way in life. But what does this man who lives in a cave dig this hole for? Do you want to hide the "treasure"?
But you don’t need to dig too deep to hide something. Just as Wang Ke was about to ask, there was a commotion outside the cave entrance, and Zhao Mingming came back.
"Platoon leader, wait a minute, we're coming down." Reconnaissance squad leader Song Ruimin called. Ma Zhuo Zhao Mingming brought several flashlights, and at this time Song Ruiming and Wang Mingsheng came down.
Light is a person's courage. Wang Ke took over three flashlights from the reconnaissance squad leader Song Ruiming, and several flashlights were shining randomly into the cave. Wang Ke saw clearly now and confirmed his judgment just now.
The difference from what I saw just now is that in the corner of the cave, there are roots of a big tree growing in. There is not only a stove in the corner, but also a broken vat. It seems that people have really lived here.
Wang Ke walked over and looked up with a flashlight, only to find that along the cracks in the stone, he could see a trace of light. It turned out that this was where the ventilation in the cave was.
Looking back now, we can see that this place was originally a cave, but later people enlarged the cave and turned it into a very comfortable underground stone house where you can live and cook.
But who exactly lived here?
Since we live there, why do we have those tools? Could it be that he hid here specifically to dig this hole?
Wang Ke walked to the cave in the cave and shined a flashlight down. The hole below was not big. A person could not even straighten his waist when standing in it. It did not look like a hiding place at all, but more like an aisle.
Wang Ke suddenly remembered the U-shaped hole in Chongling.
"Gu Maolin, how deep is this hole? In which direction was it dug?" Wang Ke turned to ask Gu Maolin, but Gu Maolin was not around. He, Song Ruimin, and Wang Mingsheng had already gone into the hole with a flashlight.
It's so small down there, there's no point in getting in there.
Wang Ke took his own three-section flashlight and began to carefully look at the stone house, which was more than ten feet in size.
The pile of tools had long since rotted, and next to it was a broken basket. A lamp holder caught Wang Ke's attention. He walked over and picked up the lamp. It was a fired porcelain lamp. He touched it with his hand and found it was smooth. Nowadays, many villagers can still find this kind of lamp holder in their homes, which can be used to light oil. But there are clay ones, porcelain ones, and copper ones.
Wang Ke thought that no one had lived in this cave for a long, long time. From the style of the tools in the cave, it was likely that they existed before the Anti-Japanese War or during the Republic of China. In other words, this hole has existed for at least sixty or seventy years. Then the owner of this cave, if alive, should be at least a hundred years old.
Wang Ke turned around and found nothing of value. It's just a hole.
At this time, several more people "thump, thump" jumped out of the cave. The reconnaissance squad Niu Suozhu and the telephone squad leader Xiao Gao all jumped down, and the stone house suddenly became smaller. But the soldiers who came down were more concerned about the hole within the hole. Several people gathered around the hole in the corner of the room. Inside, Gu Maolin, Wang Mingsheng and Song Ruimin have obviously completed their "exploration" and are crawling out from the inside.
Wang Ke, as for Wang Ke, still looked around with his flashlight, but found nothing more.
Suddenly, Wang Ke's flashlight accidentally shined above his head. He stopped. He seemed to see something on the ceiling above the stone bed. He walked over and raised his head to identify it carefully.
Now I can see clearly that they are some carved lines, although they are half the size of a Kang mat above the head.
Due to the age, the stone wall on the top was originally uneven, and these directionless lines looked very difficult.
Wang Ke was fascinated by what he saw. At some point, all the soldiers from the reconnaissance squad stood up behind him. Everyone gathered around, raising their heads and looking left and right.
"Platoon leader, could this be a treasure map?" Digua Liang Xiaolong asked. As he spoke, he raised his head and turned around underneath.
Wang Mingsheng's flashlight also joined in, and everyone was identifying the things carved on the stone wall.
"Platoon leader, it doesn't look like it to me, it looks like a painting." Wang Mingsheng tilted his head. Suddenly he lay down on the stone bed and screamed in surprise. "Platoon leader, lie down and take a look."
Wang Mingsheng jumped off the stone bed, and Wang Ke lay down on it to take a look. This time he could see clearly, because he had the direction, and it was indeed a picture. It turns out that only by lying on the bed can one recognize that this is a picture.
What picture? Ma Zhu Zhao Mingming also lay down, lying under the stone bed, looking up with bright eyes.
This is the biggest discovery today.
