Li Zhiyuan looked at me and said, "You mean to say that the other group of people mentioned by the vanguard are the people in your gang?"
I didn't speak, I just frowned and said nothing.
Because at this moment, an extremely exaggerated year came into my mind, "The other group of people mentioned by the vanguard, will the leader be our old man?"
Because, both the time and location are consistent with the details before and after our old man disappeared.
I didn't tell anyone else about the idea, but I kept toying with the possibility in my mind.
Or, to be more precise, if the leading brother is really our old man, I am wondering what the purpose of our old man is doing this?
Seeing that I was silent, everyone stopped talking. After simply eating a few mouthfuls of tsampa, everyone returned to their tents.
After I drank up the remaining butter tea in the bowl, I stood up and was about to leave when I noticed Hua Muling beside me winking at me.
I understood, turned around and followed Hua Muling into her tent.
After entering the tent, Hua Muling looked around and confirmed that there was no one else. She quickly closed the windproof curtain of the tent and whispered to me: "Hu Tian, this place is not right."
I asked in surprise: "That's not right? What's wrong?"
Hua Muling said: "I don't know. I just think something is wrong here, but I can't tell what exactly is wrong."
I frowned and said, "Fourth girl, I heard Li Zhiyuan say that you and Xiong Ming went to the so-called excavation site before?"
Hua Muling nodded and said, "That's right! The excavation site they mentioned was just a larger robbery cave. I'm not familiar with robbery caves, but even so I can tell that this robbery cave is not It’s been played in recent years, so I guess it’s a bit old.”
I asked doubtfully: "You mean, this place has been visited by a burglar before?"
Hua Muling nodded and said, "It seems so."
I asked, "What's under the Robber's Cave? Have you gone down?"
Hua Muling said: "Xiong Ming and I went down. The robbery cave is not too deep, about ten meters, and there is a man-made corridor connected below. The corridor looks very long, and I Xiong Ming didn’t go inside, so he didn’t know where the corridor led or what the other end was…”
I frowned even more, looked at Hua Muling in confusion and asked, "According to your description, there is nothing abnormal here?"
Hua Muling looked at me and said, "Do you remember that Li Zhiyuan mentioned that their vanguard troops would camp here for three years?"
I didn't speak, just nodded.
Hua Muling continued: "If this team has lived here for three years, why is there no trace of activity at all? Unless..."
Before Hua Muling could finish her words, I continued, "Unless they have been living underground for the past three years."
Hua Muling nodded and said: "This is the only possibility. However, when introducing the whole thing, Li Zhiyuan didn't mention it at all. This is what makes me feel the strangest. So, I doubt Li Zhiyuan He’s hiding something from us.”
I thought for a while, and then said in a deep voice: "It seems that the foxes we met are more cunning than the last."
Hua Muling smiled bitterly and said, "Yes! So, should we be hunters who specialize in hunting foxes, or should we be rabbits eaten by foxes?"
I also smiled and said, "Do you still need to ask? Master, I am a hunter who specializes in hunting foxes."
"Oh, right!" At this point, Hua Muling seemed to suddenly remember something. She took out her phone from her pocket, switched the system function to photos, and handed it to me. "Xiong Ming and I found this in the corridor. We wanted to show it to you from the beginning, but we forgot about it. I just remembered..."
"What?" I asked as I took Hua Muling's cell phone.
It was a very darkly exposed photo. Even though I used a flash, it was still not very clear.
But even so, I can still tell that it is a weird symbol.
This symbol is not complicated. It looks like two trapezoids arranged in a mirror. The shortest side of the trapezoid is not straight, but has an irregular wavy shape, like water, or some kind of special Liquids, such as blood.
To be honest, I am not unfamiliar with this symbol, not to mention that our old man once pointed it to me in my dream.
Just before Shinai died, the symbol he made after giving me a strange smile was exactly the same as the one in the photo in my hand.
It took me a while to recover from my surprise. I looked at Hua Muling and asked, "Do you understand what this symbol means?"
Hua Muling shook her head and said, "I don't know! I asked many people, including Li Zhiyuan, but no one knew what he meant."
I said, "Can Li Zhiyuan's words be trusted?"
Hua Muling nodded and said, "Li Zhiyuan doesn't look like he's lying about this matter."
I nodded and said, "It seems like we have to find out what this damn symbol means on our own!"
Hua Muling nodded and was about to say something when suddenly the alarm in the camp rang.
"Buzz...buzz...buzz..."
It was a temporary alarm system set up by Li Zhiyuan and the others. It was relatively simple and mainly targeted at the burglary hole two hundred meters away, which was what Li Zhiyuan and the others called Pit No. 1.
At this time, the alarm suddenly sounded. It was obvious that someone had descended into Pit No. 1 without permission.
Hua Muling and I rushed out immediately after hearing the sound, and met Xiong Ming who was eating instant noodles.
Brothers and sisters who have been to plateau areas should know that it is impossible to fully cook things in that kind of place. Therefore, Xiong Ming saved the trouble and simply mistook Master Kong for a little raccoon and sprinkled the seasoning packets on it. Started chewing it directly.
Seeing Hua Muling and I running out of the tent, Xiong Ming said with a smirk on his face: "Ah ha, this thief really doesn't know how to choose the right time to delay our big brother from doing business!"
As he said that, Xiong Ming stretched out his hand and was about to slap me twice on the shoulder, causing me to slap his hand away.
I scolded angrily: "How the hell have you done this, and you still make such a joke."
Xiong Ming was not angry when he saw me scolding him, and said with a smile: "Look, it's just a joke, why are you scolding me?"
I ignored Xiong Ming, but grabbed a young man with a slightly obscene appearance and asked, "What's going on?"
The slightly wretched-looking young man was grabbed by me. He was stunned for a moment, and then said: "There are two brothers who don't know why they fell into the No. 1 pit. I only know this much. For the specific situation, I I think you’d better ask Captain Li.”
The Captain Li in this young man's mouth naturally refers to Li Zhiyuan.
After hearing this, Hua Muling looked at me and asked, "What should I do now? Do you want to go over and have a look?"
I nodded and said with a smile: "You bastard, you don't want to watch the excitement. How can you let go of this opportunity to watch the excitement?"
Xiong Ming smiled and said loudly behind me: "I agree!"
Having said that, Hua Muling first asked a female prospector named Yao to take care of Xiao Niya temporarily, and then a few of us ran all the way towards Pit No. 1.
I don't know where the so-called Pit No. 1 is, but Xiong Ming and Hua Muling have been there once, so they naturally know the way.
After the three of us left the camp, we ran northwest for about a hundred meters and found the so-called Pit No. 1 in a depression.
Hua Muling was right, Pit No. 1 was a slightly larger robbery hole.
A normal burglary hole can only accommodate one person at most. This burglary hole is quite level, measuring 1.45 meters square, with flat sides and excellent verticality. According to the old saying of burglary, this burglary hole has One name is "Dilong Cave".
As the saying goes, "The mouse burrowed back and forth three times, and the dragon's hole yielded countless gold and silver."
This means that most of the people who dig the "rat holes" are one or two single-handed local masters, and the ancestors stipulated that you can only come and go to a tomb three times, not once more, nor once less.
But this "Dilong Cave" is not the case. Most of the masters who can steal this kind of cave are from the line of Xiling warriors. Of course, in the late Qing Dynasty, the Xiling lineage passed on the craft of the Dilong Cave to Mojin School. Wei and Taoist Banshan wanted to open the tomb with the help of many people.
The reason why this robbery hole was made into a square of 1.45 meters was to make it easier for people to get up and down, and to make it easier to transport large treasures from the tomb.
When we arrived, Li Zhiyuan and a deputy captain named Cao Zheng were already squatting at the entrance of the cave.
Li Zhiyuan had no intention of going down. He just took a flashlight and looked into Pit No. 1 and kept shouting the names of the two people, "Li Shuai... Huo Yiming... Li Shuai... Huo Yiming" ...You two boys come up here...do you hear me?"
Li Zhiyuan shouted very hard, but there was no response at all in Pit No. 1.
Li Zhiyuan shouted for a while, then stopped. He turned around and saw the three of us walking over, and asked with a sad look on his face: "Why are you three running here?"
I smiled and said, "At any rate, you can be considered a friend of our old man. Let's come here to see what happened, and see if there is anything we can do to help."
Li Zhiyuan couldn't help but sigh when he heard what I said.
He did not speak, but took out a cigarette from his pocket, took out one and lit it. After taking a long puff, he said with a bitter and resentful expression: "It happened very suddenly. Just ten minutes ago. , there are two young people on our team, one is called Li Shuai and the other is Huo Yiming, they are responsible for geological exploration and surveying and mapping records respectively..."
After Li Zhiyuan took a long puff of cigarette, he continued: "Originally, they were resting today and should have stayed in the tent. But for some reason, these two boys actually ran into this pit by themselves!"
