I don't know how long it took, but Gu Yisheng slowly groped around in the dark environment, and seemed to have touched something like a ring.

The surroundings were very humid, and she didn't know whether it was mist, water droplets, or sweat that wet her clothes.

She needs to see her surroundings clearly!

She needs to get the evidence!

Gu Yisheng racked her brains and couldn't find any solution for the moment.

There seemed to be a slope beneath her body, and there were some rocks, which made Gu Yisheng feel sleepy and unbearable pain.

However, the space above her head for her to move was extremely limited - it was a cramped tunnel-like place where she would hurt herself if she raised her head.

She tried to move, and roughly judged that she could only crawl forward.

She groped around carefully, moving bit by bit, and sometimes while crawling on the ground she encountered something sharp and cut her calf.

"Hiss~"

She endured a little, but still mustered up the energy to crawl forward, exploring the surroundings to see if there was anything useful.

Sharp rocks sometimes pricked her fingers, but she didn't care. She was eager to find something useful or an exit from the surroundings, so as to suppress the fear of not being able to see anything.

But unfortunately, so far, there is nothing.

The ring that had just been collected on the body suddenly moved for some reason, and flew forward uncontrollably, stopping a few steps in front of Gu Yisheng.

Gu Yisheng crept forward to pick it up, but unexpectedly touched a cylindrical object.

"This is... Huozhezi?"

She suddenly felt a warm breath rising in her body, as if a fire of hope suddenly appeared.

I fumbled to take off the lid of the fire box, how to light it...?

Gu Yisheng suddenly remembered the trick that Fu Zhiyan taught her in the past - "surprise them, take advantage of them, be short and powerful, and exhale as hard as you can", so she followed it.

Perhaps because the surrounding environment was too humid, the fire did not light up as Gu Yisheng expected.

"Apply quicklime to dry wood, which can remove the water..."

She meditated silently.

But where is the quicklime...?

"That's right! According to ancient books, lime was widely used during the spread of the plague. Firstly, it was used to avoid the spread of disasters, and secondly, it was used to eliminate disasters and ward off evil spirits. Since the existence of the plague was discovered early in this place, and since the village trusteeship can be

He seems to be very dedicated to protecting the whole village, so there is a high probability that he will find something like this."

Regardless of whether there is or not, we can only continue to crawl forward and try our luck.

The wet surroundings, sharp rocks, and bleeding legs.

To make matters worse, she felt bursts of pain and swelling in her legs. She felt like she was running a fever all over and she was losing more and more strength.

Her hand slipped, but it seemed to be stained with something powdery.

The stench is like peeling off the shell of a preserved egg...

By the way, it’s lime!

Ignoring the pain, Gu Yisheng grabbed a handful and stuffed them tentatively into the gap around the fire fold.

It's so humid in here, everything is damp, I don't know if it's any use...

She blew hard...

Fortunately... the fire appeared faintly, and when it was blown again, the fire became bigger, enough to illuminate Gu Yisheng's surroundings.

"so close."

She was still lying on the ground, and through the firelight, the first thing she saw was a skeleton.

"very scary!"

Gu Yisheng was really shocked.

The man seemed to be lying on the ground, holding a hammer in one hand, and the bones of the other hand appeared to be holding something. It seemed that the fire was accidentally taken from this good man's hand.

Brought.

Gu Yisheng bowed to him devoutly three times in her heart, ignored the good man's body for the time being, and observed her surroundings.

In front of her is the ring she just picked up and flew out. Now it seems to be something like a key. What attracts it should be something similar to Simon's structure. According to Fu Zhiyan, it should be a magnet.

This is a mine!

If you continue to explore further, you might be able to find someone's general camp or something like that.

Gu Yisheng was about to take out her hairpin and knock out some ore magnets as evidence, but she seemed to remember that Fu Zhiyan had told her before that her gold and silver hairpin didn't seem to be strong enough, so she glanced at the good man.

hand.

"Thank you. Don't come to me when you are dreaming at night. I am here for all of us. When I find out the truth, I will clear your grievances... Please, please, please."

Gu Yisheng muttered silently, not sure whether she was excited or a little confused because of the fever.

Taking the hammer dangling from the good man's hand, she quickly knocked off a magnet, put it into her pocket along with the ring, and continued to crawl forward.

There were some daggers and other weapons scattered on the ground in front of them, and there were a few skeletons here and there. It looked like a few people were walking together here, and they clashed and killed each other.

What caused their dispute?

Gu Yisheng had no time to think.

After crawling tremblingly for a long time, she saw that the cave in front seemed to have two branches, one on the left and one on the right.

Which one is better?

She observed carefully.

Iron-black human blood and bones were evenly distributed in front of the caves on the left and right sides.

The hole on the left side is slightly narrower than the right side, but visually it is enough for Gu Yisheng's figure to get in. The hole on the right side is brighter, but the light seems different from what she usually sees. It has... something indescribable.

s difference.

While thinking about it, Gu Yisheng seemed to smell a foul smell, and the right side of her face seemed to be warmer, as if there was heat passing by.

"It seems... we can only go to the left. There's something wrong with the right."

right……

Gu Yisheng climbed slowly along the tunnel on the left, and finally saw a bright spot.

That is indeed the light of the sun. Once you get out of this hole, you can enter the spacious normal human world.

Gu Yisheng almost jumped out of the cave after crawling for too long and with injuries on her legs.

However, what was in front of me was another unfamiliar scene.

She hid behind the low wall at the entrance of the cave and secretly looked at the scene behind the wall.

People come and go.

Most of these people were carrying bamboo baskets, which seemed to contain minerals, and walked toward a large pit burning with blazing fire.

Gu Yisheng took a closer look and saw that the tunnel... was roughly where the road on the right side of the tunnel would have been...

Fortunately I didn't go this route...

Gu Yisheng looked to the left and saw several workers carrying a freshly poured sword towards the cooling pool not far away on the right.

It is indeed the general camp!

Looking at the costumes of the people coming and going, they are all Han Chinese. Could it be that this is the general camp on the outskirts of Beijing?

Gu Yisheng poked her head out again, wanting to take a closer look, but she heard the voice of a young man speaking nonsense: "che stai facendo? (European Daqin dialect: What are you doing?)"

Gu Yisheng couldn't understand it at all. The young man seemed to realize that the other party couldn't understand what he said, so he turned to speak in jerky Chinese: "What are you doing? Were you also captured by the Xiliang people to work as coolies? How did you come from

Get out of this place?"

This was said in a "cadence" and it sounded very special.

Gu Yisheng carefully "reflected" for a long time before reading his meaning.
Chapter completed!