Wen Qingshan waved his hand and said: "After he entered the room, he should have seen the briefcase I put on the bedside at first glance, and he must have opened the bag first and saw so much money in it, he
Why are you still going through the box where I put my clothes when you haven't taken any of it?"
When Wen Qingshan said this, everyone was speechless for a moment. Thinking about it carefully, it is indeed a bit unreasonable.
Wen Qingshan added: "This shows that he is looking for something that he thinks is more important, or more valuable, than money."
"Did he fall in love with my precious compass? What a risk! Fortunately, I didn't put the compass in the room." Huang Yixian said happily.
Wen Qingshan smiled: "Haha, Master Huang is joking. Although your compass is considered a treasure, this guy doesn't look like someone who is interested in Feng Shui Yin and Yang. I'm afraid he may not be interested in it."
"Then what is he looking for?" Huang Yixian was puzzled.
Wen Qingshan glanced at everyone and said: "If I didn't guess, he should be checking our details!"
"To find out our details? What's there to find out? If he just goes to Mr. Qi and asks, he will know everything!"
"Master Huang, have you forgotten the real purpose of our coming here?"
When Huang Yixian heard this, he immediately understood what Wen Qingshan meant. He jumped up from his chair and exclaimed in surprise: "You mean, that guy is also after the Dashun treasure!?"
Wen Qingshan nodded: "It's not impossible! I don't know if you noticed the tattoo on his arm yesterday. It seems to be a rune mark. It looks familiar to me. I'm afraid it's someone with bad intentions. Maybe, besides us,
Besides, there is another group of people who are also eyeing the Dashun treasure."
After listening to Wen Qingshan's analysis, I immediately thought of Bai Xiaowu and quickly asked: "Then do you think Bai Xiaowu is with them?"
Wen Qingshan glanced at me and said: "This is exactly what I am worried about. In short, everyone should be more careful in the future and do not fully believe Bai Xiaowu's words."
Everyone nodded.
The next morning, we waited for a long time at the village committee, but Bai Xiaowu did not come at the agreed time, and we waited until more than ten o'clock, but there was no trace of this guy. Wen Qingshan said: "Since he didn't come,
Then we won’t wait for him, we will go on our own.”
I asked with some worry: "But if Bai Xiaowu didn't lead the way, would we still be able to find the inclined cave?" In fact, what I was more worried about was whether we would get lost in the cave.
Wen Qingshan smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, I marked the route yesterday and used GPS to locate the coordinates. I believe it won't be difficult to find that place."
Hearing what he said, I felt a little relieved, so we put on the oxygen bottle masks that we had prepared, and each of us carried a bag of caustic soda that Wen Qingshan bought from Sanyuan Township yesterday, and rushed to Hukou Rock.
After entering Hukou Rock, Wen Qingshan led the way and we followed. After walking for more than half an hour, it seemed that we were not far from our destination. However, Fatty Niu was already very tired. Even I felt a little tired.
, after all, with an oxygen bottle weighing more than ten kilograms on my back and a bag of caustic soda weighing nearly twenty kilograms on my shoulders, it is indeed not an easy job to walk in this rugged cave for such a long time. More
What's more, Fatty Niu's physical strength has never been very good.
There were a few relatively flat rocks in front of him. Fatty Niu couldn't walk anymore. He put the caustic soda on his shoulder on one of the rocks and lay down on it. Seeing this, Huang Yixian said:
"We might as well rest here for a while before leaving." Wen Qingshan nodded in agreement, so everyone found a stone to rest on and sat down.
Not long after I sat down, I suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a white footprint on the ground not far ahead.
I couldn't help being slightly startled, and immediately stood up and walked over. When I saw it, it was actually a footprint! It seemed that someone's sole had gotten some milky white paste, leaving such a footprint.
Just when I was wondering, Wen Qingshan came over. He followed my gaze and noticed the footprints on the ground. He immediately knelt down and looked at it. He picked up some white paste with his hand, put it in front of his nose and smelled it.
His expression suddenly changed.
I quickly asked: "Boss Wen, what is it?"
Wen Qingshan slowly raised his head and said, "It's caustic soda!"
"What! Caustic soda? This... what is going on? We haven't been here before! How could..." Just after saying this, I suddenly thought of something: "Wait! Could it be that we are lost? In fact,
We have passed here once just now?"
Wen Qingshan waved his hand, frowned and said, "No! This footprint should have been left by someone else!"
"What does it mean that other people left footprints?" I couldn't figure it out for a moment. How could other people leave footprints with caustic soda?
Huang Yixian and Jianjian also came over and asked, "What's wrong?"
Wen Qingshan stood up and said solemnly: "I'm afraid someone has already beaten us to the inclined cave!"
"What!?" Huang Yixian was shocked.
"Let's not talk too much now. Let's go to the inclined cave and take a look!" After Wen Qingshan finished speaking, he walked forward quickly, and the three of us quickly followed him.
But Fatty Niu didn't know what happened. He was still lying on his back on the big rock and breathing heavily. After I walked a few steps, I thought of him, turned around and shouted at him: "Fat Niu, you are here.
Wait, don't wander around!" After saying that, not caring whether he heard or not, he quickly followed.
The further we walked, there were more and more white footprints on the ground. It seemed that someone had indeed been here last night, and they had brought caustic soda, which meant that they might have entered.
That slanted hole!
Finally, when we arrived at the inclined hole, sure enough, we could no longer smell the smell of hydrogen sulfide that reeked of rotten eggs, replaced by the pungent smell of caustic soda.
Huang Yixian said to himself: "Who is he? Why did he think of using this method to remove the poisonous gas in the cave!"
Wen Qingshan frowned and said: "It must be Bai Xiaowu! It seems that our guess is correct. There is indeed another group of people who are also looking for the treasure, and Bai Xiaowu is also one of them! Yesterday, he deliberately said that he would take us to find the treasure. In fact,
In order to take advantage of us, after learning how to enter this inclined cave, he took a step ahead of us and came with his accomplices at night."
"This guy didn't come today. Could it be that they found the treasure last night?" I couldn't help but feel a little bit in my heart.
Wen Qingshan pondered for a while, raised his head and said, "I'll go down and take a look, you guys help me pull the rope!" After saying that, he put on the oxygen mask on his face.
Just in case, he sprinkled another bag of caustic soda into the cave, then took out a bundle of ropes from the bag, tied one end to a big rock, and the other end to his own waist, and asked the three of us to grab the rope.
He got into the inclined hole and slowly slid down.
After about a minute, the rope was completely straightened and could not be lowered any further. Wen Qingshan shouted from below: "Is the rope not long enough? I will untie the rope and go in to take a look. You guys wait outside."
"
After he finished speaking, the rope that had been stretched suddenly loosened, and it seemed that he had untied the rope.
Jianjian asked me in a low voice: "Brother, will something happen to Boss Wen?"
"Definitely not. He is so experienced, how could anything happen?"
"What if those guys are still down there?"
"Don't worry, ordinary people are no match for Boss Wen!" I have no worries about this.
However, after waiting for a long time, Wen Qingshan had not returned yet, so I shouted into the inclined cave: "Boss Wen!"
But there was no response.
"Could something really happen to Boss Wen?" I couldn't help but feel a little worried.
Huang Yixian looked at the two of us and said, "I'll go down and take a look. You two are waiting above."
As soon as I heard this, I quickly stepped forward and stopped him and said, "Uncle, I'll go down! You are not in good health, and there is hydrogen sulfide gas down there, which is very harmful to the elderly! And if something happens, you
I don’t know how to deal with it.”
Huang Yixian was stunned by what I said. I took the opportunity to put the oxygen mask on my face, quickly got into the inclined hole, and slid down the rope.
After a few seconds, Huang Yixian came to his senses and cursed loudly: "You bastard! You are talking about me being old, weak, sick and disabled!" But he then said: "Be careful, if anything happens, hurry up
return!"
"I know, uncle!"
The inside of the inclined hole was very smooth, as if someone had deliberately polished it. If there was no rope, I would probably have slipped down directly. I slid down slowly along the rope, and after a while, I reached the bottom of the inclined hole. I looked up.
Look, I couldn't help but be startled. There turned out to be an artificial stone cave below. Not only was the cave wall very smooth, but there was also an artificial stone step extending upward just a few meters in front. But from where I stood,
From my position, I couldn't see the situation above the stone steps. I immediately understood. No wonder he didn't respond when I called Wen Qingshan. It was probably because he didn't hear me at all.
I raised my legs and was about to walk forward when suddenly I felt something was not right. I looked down and broke out in a cold sweat. I saw that right in front of my feet was a square pool about two meters wide.
, I was just looking forward and didn't realize that as long as I took another step forward, I would fall into the pool. I quickly retracted my legs.
The pool is filled with yellow slurry liquid, and a thick layer of soda lime powder has been sprinkled on the surface. The soda lime powder has been penetrated by the liquid in the pool and has turned orange.
After being stunned for a moment, I realized that the yellow slurry liquid was probably emitting hydrogen sulfide gas, and if I hadn't guessed, it was most likely liquid sulfur. In other words, this was a sulfur pool.