It took less than ten minutes to open a passable hole, and destruction was always more efficient than never building.
Zhang Haike and the others filed in and set off torches. After entering the brick wall, they found that the situation here was completely different from what they thought.
The first is mud, and behind the brick wall is a huge stone hall. Except for the bricks on their side, all other parts are large strips of stone, but I can't tell what kind of stone it is. The whole hall is filled with Mud, there is a very sloping stone edge around it, you can walk, and the body is sitting on the stone edge.
When they went in, they pushed the corpse, and the corpse was poured into the mud. Zhang Haike helped him up, and found that the joints of the corpse could still move, and he was wearing clothes from the early Republic of China and leggings. He originally wanted to take a good look at the situation of the corpse, but he quickly gave up the idea, because he found that this huge mud pool was full of such corpses.
From the condition of the corpses, it is impossible to tell how deep the mud is. Some corpses were not covered, and some corpses were muddy to the waist. The mud was green and very viscous and disgusting.
They walked on the edge of the stone, walked around, and found that there was no passage to any other place in this stone hall.
"Just this place?" One person said to himself.
Zhang Haike said: "The people on the side are submerged high, and the people in the middle are low. This mud pool is a bucket, and there should be openings to other places under the mud
."
Wearing things with eye protection and mouth and nose protection, even if there are no holes, they are still fishing inside. But I tend to have a passage." Zhang Haike said, "Because everyone is connected by ropes, and our judgment just now was wrong. Now, this opening was not sealed by the people outside, but by the people inside. You see, the traces of the seal are all inside. These people have sealed themselves inside."
"You mean, there may be something in this mud. What's wrong, they don't want it to harm others, so they sacrifice themselves?"
"I've never thought so noble of someone in our business. There are bricks on the ground outside, which means that people inside are constantly blocking, and people outside are constantly trying to dig in. I don't know the specifics, but we have to Send someone to watch over the opening, it should be safe inside."
"No one is like the Zhang family. When digging a brick wall, they are digging. Everyone knocks bricks into the wall, but we are the only ones who dig out. Don't talk nonsense. Now ."
"I'm not talking nonsense." Zhang Haike suddenly took a breath, took out the pocket watch again, and opened it to show them the photo, "Do you know who this person is?"
Several people shook their heads after looking at it. Zhang Haike looked at the hole they came in, and said, "This man is the kid's father. I saw it when I was a child."
Holding up a corpse, Zhang Haike used a torch to put a torch close to the corpse's hideous face and said, "Look carefully at these corpses. The face and hands, all of them belong to the Zhang family, and all have the characteristics of the Zhang family."
"Ah?" Others looked at them one after another, and when they saw the fingers of the corpse, they were extremely long, and all of them suddenly turned pale.
"What's going on here?"
"I know that the kid's father died, but the family is very secretive about these deaths. We may have been deceived this time. Someone arranged for us to come to this place."
"Who ?"
Zhang Haike turned his head and said, "It's that kid. We were led all the way here. If you recall, it was almost all the information he provided." He paused and continued, "This kid, put us all here , is it for his father's body?"
"Fuck, I'll go up and break his neck." One of them was furious. Zhang Haike immediately waved his hand: "Wait first, these Zhang family members are too suspicious, that kid should not want to harm us, but wants us to see the death of these people. He may just want to find out what happened to his father. Dead?"
"No." Another said, "Come and see here."
Several people turned their heads and saw that the man had jumped into the mud and carried another corpse, he twisted the corpse's head hard Ministry, and instantly twisted off the corpse's head, very easy.
"The neck is broken, and these corpses have many wounds," he said. "There have been fights here, and the way the Zhang family killed them. Some of these people were murdered, and it was the same who killed them. The Zhang family. This is a scene of infighting in our family."
Several people looked at each other. In fact, everyone knew a little about infighting in the family, but seeing such a scene, these children still couldn't digest it.
"The kid's father was murdered by our own family?" One of them became frightened, "Damn, his father is dead, our father is still alive, is our father the murderer, this stinky boy Are you trying to trick us to come here to take revenge?"
Several people looked at each other, paused, and immediately rushed to the exit, only to rush to the place of the population, and immediately saw the stuffy oil bottle squatting behind the brick wall of the population, watching silently. follow them.
Several people braked suddenly, and the last one rolled directly into the mud. Several people stopped and started to tremble. One of them said, "Little devil, why did you come down?" The
stuffy oil bottle looked left and right, then looked at them again. Zhang Haike was still relatively calm. After a few minutes of stalemate, he reacted and asked, "You heard our discussion just now."
Munk Oil Bottle nodded.
"Is it like what we speculated?" The
stuffy oil bottle looked at him and said, "It's not speculation, I was there when all this happened."
Several people looked at each other again: "It was really our father who killed him . your father?"
"I don't even know who your father is." The oil bottle said, "The father you think is actually not my father."
"Then you deceived us here, yes For what?" The
stuffy oil bottle looked at Zhang Haike and said, "I need to come down to this place, I'm too young, I can't do many things."
"What are you doing here?"
"It has nothing to do with you." The stuffy oil bottle said, "Under this quagmire, there are cobweb-like corridors, all filled with silt, but each section of corridors is connected to various rooms, where you can rest and breathe air. There are a few rooms with a lot of things you need. You can use these dead people's equipment, go four or five rooms, and you can complete the test."
"What about you?"
"I have to go very deep." bottle.
"What the hell is this place?"
"It's a long story. This is the ruins of the ancient city of Sizhou. There are at least four layers of rocks buried under our feet, and we are only on the first floor. This ancient city, the Zhang family has always In business, because of a flood, the ancient city disappeared and was buried in the mud, so there are too many good things in it." The stuffy oil bottle said, "The things I want are in the deepest place."
"You don't need help . ?" After the stuffy oil bottle finished speaking, Zhang Haike asked.
"You can't help me." The stuffy oil bottle said, "You don't understand everything here, you take the things and go back quickly, otherwise, the danger will not only come from here, let the Zhang family know that you are here, and you will not It's a good ending."
Zhang Haike looked at each other in dismay, and said in a sullen voice: "I didn't want to say these words, I wanted to wait for your own setbacks, but you were too persistent and shrewd, and you really succeeded in coming down. Now, it's time to say It's up to you to believe it or not." After speaking, the stuffy oil bottle jumped into the mud in a few steps and turned it over.
Several people watched a few bubbles come out of the mud, fluttered a few times, the stuffy oil bottle disappeared, and looked at each other again.
"How to fix it?" One of them said, "Is what this kid is telling the truth?"
"It really doesn't matter, but if we listen to him, even if we lose to this little bastard. We've already lost face. Now, I can't swallow this breath, why should I listen to him?" said another.
After being silent again, I saw one of them scolded, packed up the equipment, and jumped down abruptly.
Zhang Haike watched them go down one by one, and sighed in his heart, a particularly bad feeling came up, but he still followed them into the mud and dived down.
The feeling of diving in the mud is very strange. Zhang Haike didn't describe it much. He only said that he held his breath for three minutes, then he felt the rope and led him to the edge of the tunnel. He held the rope with one hand and touched the side of the tunnel with the other. All the way forward, until I found a wellhead, the well is full of silt, outside is the ground paved with cobblestones, and several mud monkeys are all lying on the ground panting.
It looks like a family's yard, apparently sunk into the ground into a cave, but the bonsai, rockery, and cobblestone floors still exist.
The torches have been lit, and without judgment, one would think that it was a very small stone hall. The flood washed down two houses, and the outer wall collapsed and covered the courtyard. Now the outer wall that became the ceiling has tilted. Zhang Haike wiped off the black mud on his face, except for a few of them, he didn't see the stuffy oil bottle.
"What about the kid?"
One of them pointed to one side, and saw a muddy footprint on the ground, leading into the darkness that couldn't be illuminated by the torches. Zhang Haike wanted to follow him immediately, but was pulled: "That boy, let us not follow him, otherwise it will be very dangerous. He said that the road, only he can walk."
Zhang Haike was impatient, and said that this boy is really not going to die . Now, he doesn't even want to help. This is how a child behaves. He said: "After all, he is a brother of the same family. No matter what his purpose is, we cannot let him die."
Zhang Haike followed the mud footprints, and a few people Going all the way, I found that there was a hole in the corner of the wall over there, leading to another gap.
Zhang Haike said that the ancient city was completely buried by silt. The silt in some places has completely turned into mud after such a long time, and some still maintain a sticky state. There is only air in many relatively large and closed ancient building relics. In the early exploration of the Zhang family, a passage has been established between the routes that can be traveled, and ropes are hidden in the mud. As long as you enter the mud, you can touch it, so that you can reach another room before suffocation. Some rooms are too far apart, and the predecessors used the method of digging robbery holes. In short, because of the complicated geological conditions in the ancient city, it became a system composed of robbery holes, ropes under the silt and various passages.
The predecessors of the Zhang family used mesh exploration at the beginning, but in the later stage, all the routes were grouped into one, obviously the purpose was very clear. This is because in the beginning, the purpose of this group of people was just to collect property, but later they discovered a secret in the collected property, so they turned their attention to exploring this secret.
In the corner of the room, there was a passage of people. After they entered, they entered a dry ancient ruin. Half of it had collapsed. They could see the ceiling cut by a knife, and half of it was buried in the soil. sloping.
This is a wing room with a garden on the edge. It seems to be a large family with a wealthy family, so the house is very strong. Although it collapsed in the flood, many shapes have been preserved.
They saw two forks there, and the tomb road that continued to extend forward became two. From the traces of the mud, it was easy to tell which one of the stuffy oil bottles went, but Zhang Haike found that they couldn't follow.
Because of these two robbery holes, one is big and the other is small, the big one is normal size, and the small one can only accommodate a stature like a stuffy oil bottle. Although they looked like they were not much bigger than a stuffy oil bottle, they definitely couldn't squeeze in.
Zhang Haike was puzzled, and after he carefully inspected the little thief hole, he found that it was a last resort, because there were four bluestone slabs in the soil around the thief hole, which was a sewer channel with a diameter of It has been fixed and cannot be expanded.
No wonder the stuffy oil bottle said that only he could pass.