Exploration

Author: Bei Wei

Exploration

Just when Dr. You finished speaking, Ji Yunyan rushed to the exit steps, and Mei Dai followed behind her.

Shen Yuexi was not as anxious as they were, but stood there and recalled what Doctor You said.

Could it be that the poor scholar whom Doctor You mentioned just now is Mrs. Lin's husband Mu Zhongren? Where is he?

She left the stone door full of skeletons and came to the intersection of the corridor. She went to the east side first, opening the doors of the rooms one by one and looking inside. Each room was filled with thick dust and spider webs, and exuded the smell of rotten wood. , apparently uninhabited for many years.

Judging from the information obtained, these women were imprisoned in that stone house after Wen Yi was selected. No one should have lived in these rooms for twenty years. But if Mrs. Lin’s husband Mu Zhongren was also imprisoned by Doctor You It was only a few years ago that he entered here, so it was impossible for him not to leave traces here.

Thinking of this, she followed Qiang Lin's example and leaned down on the ground to observe.

Through the light of the burning torches on the wall, she could clearly see a line of footprints. She stopped in front of each torch, which belonged to Dr. You just now. There was also a line of female footprints, which should be Ji Yunyan's.

While he was observing carefully, Mei Dai's voice came from behind, "Sister, what are you doing lying on the ground?"

"I'm looking for Mu Zhongren," Shen Yuexi replied without looking back, "He is also being held here."

Ji Yunyan came to her and squatted down: "You are so leisurely. The entrance has been sealed and we can't get out. You still have the heart to find someone."

Shen Yuexi couldn't tell her that she had a Big Bear tunnel excavator, so she could only hum and said, "Then I'll help the two sisters find the exit."

Mei Dai said: "Yunyan, let's check other places. Maybe there is more than one exit here."

Seeing that Shen Yuexi was concentrating on the search, Ji Yunyan stood up helplessly and said, "I'll go search in the room over there. Maybe I can find a spade and a pickaxe to see if I can dig out the exit."

The three of them split up. Shen Yuexi couldn't find it on the east side of the intersection, so he went back to the west and opened the doors of the rooms one by one to check. Mei Dai went to the north, and Ji Yunyan went to the south to check the stone door full of skeletons.

After looking at a few rooms, Mei Dai shouted from a distance: "Come and see, there is wind blowing in through the gaps in the stone wall here." Shen Yuexi and Ji Yunyan hurried over.

Mei Dai was at the end of the corridor, holding a torch in one hand, standing on tiptoes and groping the stone wall. When she turned around and saw two people running towards her, she turned around and said, "There is wind here, it must lead to the outside."

Shen Yuexi clapped her hands and said, "Sister Mei is right. This place is deep underground. If there was no connection with the outside at all, the people here would have suffocated to death."

Ji Yunyan raised her long sword and knocked on the stone wall, saying: "This should be a mechanism door, just like the room where those women were detained in the south. There must be a mechanism that can open this stone door."

It's just that no one saw how Doctor You opened the mechanism just now.

Shen Yuexi didn't panic. At worst, she would let the Universal Maker destroy the stone wall. But she would only do this when she had to. If she could proactively find the way out, she wouldn't have to use her trump card.

Mei Dai said: "Yunyan, come with me. Let's go to the south and see if we can find out how to use the mechanism."

Shen Yuexi also wanted to follow, but Mei Dai stopped her and said, "Sister, don't follow. There are too many corpses there and they are full of filth. Yun Yan and I will just go."

Seeing the two people leaving, she held the torch and walked to a room again and opened the door.

To her surprise, this room was different from other rooms. The other rooms were all dusty, but this room only had a thin layer of dust. The quilt on the bed was also unfolded, and there were messy footprints on the ground.

That's right, this must be the room where Mu Zhongren is.

She entered the room holding a torch, and immediately noticed the letter pressed down by an inkstone on the desk. Although it was covered with dust, it was obviously not something that was very old.

Putting the torch on the lampstand, she pulled out the letter, knocked off the ashes, and unfolded the paper.

The words on it were so dense that she still couldn't understand them... But one thing that was certain was that Mu Zhongren had found a way out and had left here.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand, there are people who understand.

She excitedly left the room with the letter, ran all the way to the intersection, and shouted to Mei Dai and Ji Yunyan in the distance: "I found Mu Zhongren's letter."

After Mei Dai finished reading the letter, she raised her head with a smile and said to Shen Yuexi: "Great, we can go out." With that, she walked towards the stone wall where the wind blew in.

"Sister Mei, what's in the letter?" Shen Yuexi caught up and asked.

"The way to leave here," Mei Dai put the letter away, "and the reason why he is here."

Arriving at the stone wall, Mei Dai groped for a few times on the stone wall, then pressed hard, and a palm-sized stone dented. Then there was a rumbling sound from behind the stone wall, and the entire stone wall rose upwards, and the dust shook off. .

There was a precedent of being frightened just now. This time the three of them took a step back almost at the same time, fearing that something terrible would appear again.

The stone wall only rose more than a foot high and then stopped, as if it was stuck, and there was a clicking sound in the wall. Ji Yunyan lay on the ground, threw a few burning torches in, and looked inside: "Queen, There is a passage inside."

"Since the wind is blowing, it must lead to the outside. Let's go there quickly. If it falls again, we will be in trouble."

After Mei Dai finished speaking, she took the lead in lowering her body and entering under the stone wall. Shen Yuexi followed suit, but she didn't want to press the child in her belly, so she lay on her back and nuzzled over.

The three of them crossed the stone wall, stood up, packed their clothes, picked up torches, and walked forward along the passage.

On the way, Mei Dai talked about the contents of the letter.

"Mu Zhongren originally took the money and was going to do business. After saying goodbye to Mrs. Lin, he encountered Doctor You and his gang who were sneaking around. He followed out of curiosity and discovered the secret here, and Doctor You tricked him into the crypt. "

"So that's it. We all wronged him. It was Doctor You who deceived Mrs. Lin," Shen Yuexi said. "I remember Mrs. Lin said that he had already left home when the child was born. It turns out that he has been imprisoned here for almost six years. Then What did he eat to survive?”

There was no food in the entire cave. She was curious about how so many people ate. She couldn't go to the tiger's cave every day. Tigers were not humans, so they would not negotiate with people about the time to deliver food.

Mei Dai smiled and said: "Isn't there a passage here? In my opinion, this is where food and other things go."

Shen Yuexi still didn't quite understand: "After Wen Yi left the crypt, everyone was locked up, and there was no need to send food. Could it be that he had left here long ago?"

Ji Yunyan's surprised voice sounded in front: "Queen, sister. There is light ahead."

Shen Yuexi became excited.

After staying in the crypt for so long, it felt so good to see the sun again. She took Mei Dai's hand and said, "Sister Mei, let's run."

The three of them happily rushed out of the cave in the light and came to a circular platform, about the size of an ordinary house, with a crooked-neck tree planted on the edge.

Shen Yuexi threw away the torch, raised her hands high, stretched greatly, and cheered: "Finally, I'm out."

It was afternoon when they and Doctor You came to this crypt, and now it was almost dusk, and the sunset shone on her body like fire, making her feel particularly comfortable.

Before she put her hand down, Mei Dai interrupted her and said, "Sister, it's too early to be happy. Look above your head, then look at your feet."

When Shen Yuexi heard this, she quickly looked up and saw a vertical cliff that seemed to pierce the sky. Then she lowered her head and looked at her feet. There was a deep valley below the platform. The sunlight could not penetrate, and it was as dark as an abyss.

It turns out that this platform is actually embedded in an upright cliff.

I was so happy that I thought I was out of trouble. I just came to a platform for letting out wind. I couldn't reach the sky or the ground.

She put her hands on her waist and said angrily to Mei Dai: "Who designed this?"

"This is the entrance for transporting food and water," Mei Dai pointed to several stacks of baskets stacked in the corner of the platform, "No one can escape here, water and food are hung from above."

"Where is Mu Zhongren?" Ji Yunyan looked around blankly, "Didn't he also escape here? Why didn't you see him?"

Shen Yuexi was also a little confused. Even if he died, he should at least see the body. Could it be that he jumped off the cliff out of despair?

She carefully approached the platform and looked down.

A long hemp rope was tied to a tree trunk protruding from the edge of the platform. The lower end was submerged in the darkness and was constantly swinging back and forth in the wind.

"It turns out that Mu Zhongren climbed down on this rope." Shen Yuexi suddenly realized, "Isn't he dead?"

Ji Yunyan said: "What are you waiting for? Let's just slide down the rope."

She lay down on the edge of the platform, stretched out her hand to grab the rope and pulled it upwards. After a tug, the rope broke and the lower half fell into the deep valley like a long snake.

Ji Yunyan sat up holding the broken rope and showed the broken part to the two of them: "It has been exposed to wind and rain, and it has already rotted."

The three of them looked at me and I looked at you, speechless.
Chapter completed!