The fat man had a severe stomachache, so he randomly chose a big tree far away from the team, dug a small hole with a shovel, and squatted down as soon as his belt was untied.
After his stomach was emptied, he sighed comfortably. Only then did he have time to observe his surroundings, and then he realized that there seemed to be something wrong with the big tree next to him.
He squinted his eyes and took a closer look, and finally found something wrong. He hissed and muttered in his heart: "Why does the other half of this tree look like it has been through a firecracker? It's not like this place in Banai."
You’re not short of water, there’s something fishy about it.”
I thought about it in my mind, wiped it clean, lifted up my pants, shoveled two shovels of soil and buried them. Then I took the shovel to the withered side of the tree, knocked on the trunk, and found that there was an echo inside, and it was empty. I immediately pointed it at the tree.
Dig up the roots.
After digging less than one meter, the shovel head plunged in and suddenly hit something, making a clang of iron.
"Hey!" The fat man suddenly became happy, "You're so special that you can't find anything even after you've trampled on iron hooves. It's so clever to open sesame. Lift up your hijab and let me, Fatty, take a look at what good stuff is buried underneath."<
/p>
Huo Xiaoli heard the sound of digging here, crawled through the bushes and came over, "Fat Master, what are you digging?"
When the fat man saw someone coming to help, he was happy and said, "Come and help, the fat man has found the treasure."
Soon, several other people who came out together heard the sound and rushed over. They dug the soil very efficiently. They dug a large hole one and a half meters deep in a few clicks, but then they were hindered and could not dig deeper.
Use your feet to push aside the thin layer of soil, revealing a large iron door underneath, which is square and more than one meter long and wide.
There were some patterns carved on the iron door. The fat man looked at it carefully and found that they were some relatively complicated seal carvings. He only recognized the words "men" and "生" inside.
The fat man chuckled, "Fat Master, my koi physique can really be used wherever I go. Why don't you hurry up and inform Muyu and the others that we have made a major discovery?"
Huo Xiaoli immediately rushed over and brought Zhang Zhu and the others here.
Zhang Zhuxun jumped into the pit and looked at the inscriptions on the iron door under his feet. He patted the fat man on the shoulder comfortingly and said, "Sorry, this door is fake."
The fat man was a little puzzled, "How come it's fake? Look at the words on it, I can still recognize Men and Sheng Fatty."
The others were also puzzled. After working hard all night, they finally found the clue. However, Zhang Zhuxun picked up the bucket and poured a bucket of cold water on their heads. Naturally, he felt very unhappy.
Zhang Zhuoxun explained calmly: "Don't you think this iron gate is too new and too cheap?"
"If it were really the entrance where the Zhang family stayed here, it wouldn't be so crude as to just make a cast iron door and carve two characters on it to fool people. Moreover, these carvings are suspected of being deliberately imitated. The brushwork is very unfamiliar and there is no way to read between the lines.
The meaning of "exuding smoothness" is completely different from what we saw outside the third sealing stone."
"So it's very possible that this door was deliberately created to fool us. It's hard to say what dangers there are inside."
Although it is written on this iron gate, "Those who enter this gate may be dead or alive, but this is just a warning. If you are not a member of the Zhang family, please leave quickly." The name of the Zhang family is also mentioned.
No.
But if Wu Xiaoxie were here, with his many years of experience in making rubbings of ancient books, he would know that this thing is a fake product just by looking at it.
The Huo family members were all a little frustrated after hearing this. They finally found some clues, but in the end they were useless.
"How about we go in and take a look." Huo Xiaoli suggested, "What if we find something inside."
Someone echoed: "Yes, this iron gate standing here has some effect."
Zhang Zhuxun didn't mean to object, maybe there might be clues to the slumped shoulders.
He looked at the little brother, who squatted down and groped around the edge of the iron gate for a few times, then motioned for everyone who had gone down to the bottom of the pit to get up, then stood up and stepped down hard with one leg.
There was a loud boom, and the entire iron door collapsed downwards. At the last moment, the little brother grabbed Zhang Zhuxun's outstretched arm and turned it up.
After more than two seconds, they heard the echo of the impact from below. After the iron door fell, it seemed to have directly hit the surface of some very flat object. The sound was very similar to the iron bucket when fetching water from the well.
The sound of the bottom hitting the water.
It seems that the pit is deeper than they thought, at least more than thirty meters.
The fat man asked whether this was a cellar that used to store rainwater. As soon as he said it, he immediately denied it.
Firstly, Banai has a lot of rainfall all year round, and it rains every now and then. Secondly, the water source here is very rich. There are rivers and streams everywhere. At the bottom of the valley alone, they encountered no less than 20 small puddles along the way.
So I dug a well to store water, and it was such a deep well. It was just a waste of taking off my pants and farting.
When the dust in the pit dispersed, a bottomless dark cave was revealed.
The fat man lit a match and threw it down, only to see that as soon as the flame came into contact with the air below, it flickered and went out immediately. In other words, this place was completely sealed before they arrived, without any oxygen. p>
The group of people waited outside for about ten minutes. The fat man threw another match down to test it. This time the flame burned for a little longer, but it became invisible when it fell deeper.
Ever since Zhang Zhuxun showed his hand in the passage, the Huo family had a lot of respect for the three of them. For things like this, they were very self-aware and chose the three of them.
The skill is relatively good.
They tied ropes around their waists, and the three people descended one by one. The miner's lamp hanging on their chests illuminated the earthen wall of the cave. You can clearly see that there are many radish-like underground roots growing on them, which are white in color.
The hairs seemed to be the roots of some plant, spreading here from the soil.
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After the explorers descended more than twenty meters, the shaking of the rope suddenly stopped, and then a lamp swayed upward several times, signaling to the people above that there was no danger below, and they also discovered a new cave entrance below. Seeing this, the people above also led Zhang Shuxun down to the deep cave. At close range, the white hairy roots on the cave wall could be seen more clearly. Then Zhang Shuxun discovered that these things did not seem to be the same.
It's not the plant roots he thought before. The curled front end looks more like a spore plant.
With the sliding movement, these white hairs are carried by the airflow, as if they are alive, floating around the body.
Zhang Zhuoxun subconsciously raised his head and glanced at the fat man above him, only to find that the fat man's whole body was covered in spider web-like white beards. Some of the white beards even covered the fat man's face, faintly visible.
Drilling into his nostrils, but the fat man didn't seem to notice anything strange about himself.
Immediately I was shocked and shouted at the top, "Fat man!"
His voice was echoed, as if they were enclosed in a bell jar, but after this sound, the fat man did not respond, and even the three Huo family members who had gone down below made no sound.
Zhang Zhuxun grabbed the rope and started to climb up. He quickly climbed to the fat man's side and tore off the cotton-like white beard on his face. Only then did he realize that the fat man's eyes were closed, as if he was asleep, but on his hands
The action of grabbing the rope to descend is still the same as when you are awake.
Suddenly a dark shadow fell in front of his eyes. Zhang Zhuxun took a look and found that it was his younger brother. He didn't speak, but fixed himself on the rope with his legs, and then made a series of gestures to Zhang Zhuxun.
What I want is for them to continue going down and enter the passage below. There is something above guarding the entrance of the cave.
At this moment, Zhang Shuxun heard a series of thick roars coming from the hole above their heads, followed by several screams, and blood drops fell from above like rain.
Obviously, something happened up there, and the two Huo family members who had not had time to come down suffered a disaster.
With a hair's breadth, he could tell that it must be the fault of those damn slumped shoulders. Zhang Zhuxun cursed in his heart. He checked the fat man and found that his breathing had become a little weak. He immediately took him to hold the rope with one hand.
Fall down quickly.
The younger brother was also carrying someone in his hand and followed closely behind him.
After descending for more than 20 meters, the bottom part has obvious reflections when the light passes by. It seems that there is indeed a lot of water below, but I don’t know how deep it is.
After descending another two or three meters, a hole as big as a manhole cover suddenly opened in the white spores on the wall of the well. A human leg wearing military boots emerged from the hole. It looked like he was wearing one of the three people who went down before.
, obviously these people have also been tricked.
Zhang Zhuxun stepped on the edge of the cave entrance, swung the rope, used his waist to force himself to get in flat, and turned his head forward, and he saw three Huo family members lying dead inside.
He couldn't hear the breathing of the three people. When he reached out and touched it, he found that the hands of the Huo family member on the outside were cold and his pulse had stopped beating.
Zhang Zhuxun twisted his bones to change the positions of his upper and lower bodies in the narrow cave, then reached out and unbuckled the safety buckle, dragging the fat man in through the entrance of the cave.
The space inside was too small, so I had no choice but to drag the fat man from the three Huo family members who were lying with corpses further inside, and then carry the corpses at the entrance of the cave inside to make room for the younger brother who came down from behind. p>
When the little brother descended to the entrance of the cave, he did not come in. Instead, he stuffed the person he was carrying in first, and then climbed up along the rope.
The space here was so small that people couldn't even lift their necks while sitting, so Zhang Zhuxun had no choice but to kneel down next to the fat man, open his mouth, and shine a light inside, only to find that his throat was blocked by a large ball of cotton.
Some of the same spores came directly from the nasal cavity, were stained with saliva, and stuck to the roof of the mouth. I quickly used tweezers to carefully insert them and pinch them out. However, there were still some white threads at the junction of the trachea and esophagus, and the tweezers were not long enough. The fat man's breathing became heavier, but the rise and fall of his chest was still not obvious.
Zhang Zhuxun stretched out his hand and pressed down his throat along the trachea to his sternum, and then pressed his stomach a few more times. He found that there was a stone blockage in his stomach, and immediately took out a box of Huoxiang Zhengqi from the space.
water, took out a small bottle and cut the end, lifted the fat man's head, poured it into his throat, and then slowly pressed the bottom of his stomach.
After rubbing it for a few times, the fat man suddenly twitched, his whole body curled up into a ball, his expression was very painful, he rolled his eyes and raised his neck, as if he was about to vomit.
Zhang Zhuxun quickly moved out of the way and asked the fat man to turn sideways. With his right hand in the shape of a spoon, he used his hollow palm to pat his back with a little force.
The fat man kept vomiting wildly, and large balls of white cotton-like spores were spit out from his mouth. They were also mixed with yellow and green undigested food, plus the traditional Chinese medicine smell of Huoxiang Zhengqi water.
The air was instantly filled with an indescribable sour smell.
He continued to induce vomiting for two or three minutes, until the things spit out of the fat man's mouth turned into grass-green water. Zhang Zhuxun turned him over and fed him some more water. The fat man retched several times and his eyes were already wide open.
opened.
The little brother brought two more people down from above. After seeing Zhang Zhuxun's handling method, he reached out and asked him for a few bottles of Huoxiang Zhengqi water, and then hung the two people directly with their heads down on the rope.
I poured it in simply and roughly.
In contrast, Zhang Zhuxun's handling methods are much gentler.
In order to avoid making the passage stink even more, Zhang Zhuxun dragged the remaining two Huo family members who were still breathing to the entrance of the cave and made them spit into the water below.
The lynx found someone in this place first, and then bitten two people to death in a sneak attack, then waited for the master to come.
The beast didn't know how to bite off the rope hanging on it, which indirectly bought Zhang Zhuxun and his brother some time, allowing them to seize the time to get the man down.
With his slumped shoulders and his aching right leg, he limped to the edge of the deep hole. The ankle exposed under his right trouser leg looked obviously misaligned, and the skin was chapped and purple.
When the two big lynx saw that it was him, they immediately stood up, shook their heads and rubbed against his legs, making a snoring sound in their throats.
With his shoulders bent, he casually stroked the heads of the two lynxes twice. When he saw several ropes hanging at the entrance of the cave, he immediately took out the Yao knife attached to his back and cut the ropes one by one.
A rope suddenly fell from in front of my eyes. The boy immediately raised his index finger to make a shushing gesture, put his feet on the wall, and pressed his back against the wall.
The spores covering the wall immediately curled up and receded to the side, as if they were suddenly burned by firelight.
The slumped-shouldered man with the lynx guarding the door had no intention of chasing him down. Instead, after cutting the rope, he dragged a piece of rotten wood as thick as a bucket from somewhere, placed it directly above the entrance of the cave, and broke many branches to build it.
On top, and then start filling the soil.
Because he had old injuries on his body, he did not intend to have a head-on conflict with Zhang Zhuxun and the others below. He could not beat either of those two guys, so he just wanted to trap them here.
