"Where are the people?"
"Were you still here just now?"
We shouted several times in succession, but no one responded. Li Dabao was about to go down first to investigate, but I grabbed his arm.
"Well, Dabao, something seems to be wrong. It only lasted a few minutes. How could it be possible that it just disappeared?"
Li Dabao glanced at me and said, "If something is wrong, go down and see if it's okay."
"Don't be so nervous, okay? Even if there are some monsters or beasts inside, isn't there still someone on our hands?"
Li Dabao patted his waist. It was the pistol that the driver surnamed Zhu had prepared for us.
Originally I wanted to go down, but Li Dabao said: "Brother Jiuri, you should stay up there. If we all go down, what will happen to the equipment in the car?"
"What if I don't come up in a short time, and I get the strips straightened out, and I see the equipment inside the car, wouldn't it mean that the day lilies are completely cold?"
Just when I wanted to tell Li Dabao that I was going down, Li Dabao had already tied the climbing rope and put pitons on the cliff below.
I watched helplessly as Li Dabao held the miner's lamp on his head, holding on to the safety rope and moving down little by little.
The total height was only seven or eight meters, and soon Li Dabao landed at the place where Brother Zhao was just now.
He waved to us with his hand and said: "It's okay, this is not considered a virgin forest. I will bring my little brother out in less than half an hour."
After saying that, he dove into the narrow hole.
Leng Yue and I were waiting above.
But after waiting for half an hour, there was still no movement below.
I shouted several times downwards, but no one responded, so I wanted to talk to Leng Yue and have a look.
Who knew that when I turned to look at Leng Yue, the other person said directly: "Stay up there!"
Then he jumped right in!
He really jumped straight down. He didn't react immediately to me for a while, and he didn't even have time to hand over the climbing rope in his hand.
The moment Lengyue jumped down, she grabbed the bush growing on the rock wall with her left hand and used her toes to gain strength on the rock wall.
Then he flipped over in mid-air, and when he fell again, he was firmly on the protruding platform at the entrance of the cave.
"Miss Leng, be careful. If you don't hear back in ten minutes, I will go down immediately!"
I was a little worried that she wouldn't be able to come out again, so I reminded her.
Liang Liang raised his head and glanced at me, without saying a word. Instead, he ducked into the dark hole with his head down.
Watching Leng Yue go in with a flashlight, I stood on the edge of the cliff waiting anxiously.
It can be said that every minute and every second of this kind of waiting is a kind of special suffering.
The dark hole looked like it could eat people. Leng Yue didn't appear for a long time after entering.
In the end, I really couldn't wait any longer, so I put on the climbing rope and mountaineering helmet. At the same time, I inserted a Russian paratrooper dagger, engineer shovel and a 64 pistol into my waist and rappelled down.
Because it was my first time to land like this, I missed the landing several times and my body hit the rock wall.
Fortunately, he had a safety rope on him and he still landed on the raised platform.
The first time I untied the rope, I looked towards the hole.
It was very quiet and dark inside, and the searchlight overhead could not completely illuminate the situation inside the cave very clearly.
When you are at the entrance of the cave, you can smell some blood, but it is not very strong.
I waited cautiously for dozens of seconds and called Li Dabao's name continuously, but no one responded.
He held the 64 pistol in hand, took out a flashlight from the portable bag, and then slowly walked towards the cave.
The space inside the entire cave is not as big as it looks from the outside, but it is enough for an adult to barely walk upright.
The width of the cave was about as wide as two people shoulder to shoulder. In front of one of the rock walls, there was a dead man whose head had been smashed by a stone.
This corpse was wearing a liberation uniform, and there were maggots crawling in and out of the smashed head from time to time, not to mention how disgusting it was.
But although the surface of the body was rotten, it had not dried up, so the time of death was not said to be particularly long.
The air in the cave didn't smell good, and the stench from the corpses made me want to vomit several times.
The entire cave goes straight forward, at least two hundred meters away.
There were a lot of gravels scattered on the ground, as well as some pieces of clothing.
I didn't check the location of the cave entrance in detail, so I continued to move forward quickly when I saw that there was no danger!
The entire cave was not formed naturally, but was dug manually. Judging from the unevenness on the rock wall, it should have been opened with some medium-sized equipment.
After walking forward for a few minutes, a fork appeared in front of us.
One is horizontally connected, and the other two are diagonally forward from left to right.
I stood there and began to look around to identify the direction. On a rock wall to the right, I saw a symbol.
It was a triangular mark, which should have been left by Leng Yue.
Because I saw him carving this mark with my own eyes when I was at the Shuyi underground ruins.
On the ground below this mark, there were some traces of being dragged, and there was even some dried blood on one of the stones.
Seeing this, I was almost certain that they entered the cave entrance from this direction.
But before going in, I still paid attention to the conditions of the other two cave entrances.
At the same time, an arrow was left under the Leng Yue mark to tell people who might have gone the wrong way that I had walked into this place.
After all, Li Dabao was the first one to come in. If he couldn't keep it together, he would enter another entrance.
The cave that Leng Yue entered seemed a bit small, and the body needed to bend down slightly to walk, but the width was much wider, and there were more gravels on both sides, so the entire cave seemed a bit depressing.
Perhaps because it was far away from the rotting corpse, although the air in this cave didn't smell very good, the rotten smell was almost gone.
I looked at the watch on my wrist. More than ten minutes had passed, but the road in front of me still had no end in sight.
At this time, I couldn't help but wonder, had I misunderstood Leng Yue's meaning, was it not this passage?
Just when I was thinking about whether to go back and try another passage, I saw a broken wooden stick.
And this wooden stick should be the one that Brother Zhao took initially.
The reason why it can be recognized is that there are some blood stains on the handle of the wooden stick. At the same time, although there are many dead branches throughout the cave, there are basically no such long ones.
Because I was walking alone in such a deep cave, I couldn't talk about fear, but nervousness and the feeling of worrying about gains and losses were quite obvious.
It is also because of this that my traveling speed is very slow.
Because once I walk fast, I always have an inexplicable feeling, as if something is following me behind me all the time.
The faster I go, the more obvious this feeling becomes, but every time I look behind me, there is no one there.
Sometimes people are like this, especially when you are alone in such an environment, this situation will become more obvious.
With such complex, tense and exciting thoughts, I drove forward again for about ten minutes.
It seems like the end lies ahead.
To be precise, it wasn't the end, but the way was blocked by two people.
The distance was relatively far at first, and the flashlight beam also diverged due to the distance.
One could only see the two people in front of him, where one was standing and the other was kneeling, wearing very gray clothes.
The man kneeling there had his head lowered, and he was wearing a hat from the 1980s on top of his head.
Seeing this, I felt very nervous, and the palms of my hands holding the flashlight began to sweat.
"who?"
"who are you?"
I focused the beam of my flashlight on the standing man and asked loudly.
The sound echoed in the empty cave for a long time. Unless you were deaf, it would be impossible to hear it.
But the two people in front seemed to be dead, still staying there motionless.
The atmosphere of this confrontation is the most uncomfortable. As long as the other party rushes towards me or makes a little noise, I won't be so nervous.
The stalemate lasted for about a minute, and I couldn't stand the tense and oppressive feeling anymore.
He cursed angrily at the other party: "Are you humans or ghosts? Talk..."
