America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 195 Cave Entrance
"Bring the rope and the torch!"

Chen Jianqiu stood on the edge of the cliff and said to the people behind him.

They have been standing on the edge of the cliff waiting.

One after another, bats flew out of the hole below, flying mightily for a while.Finally, after the sun completely set, it disappeared completely.

These cave-dwelling bats fly out in groups in the evening to look for food, and wherever they go, no mosquitoes and insects remain.

When they looked down, the sky was completely dark and they couldn't see anything.

The three Chinese boys behind him hastily untied the canvas bag and pulled out the torch from it.

Fortunately, these kerosene-soaked torches were not affected by too much lake water.

They lit torches and brought them over to provide some light.

Chen Jianqiu passed the rope under his crotch, wrapped around his legs, wrapped it around his waist, and tied a knot.

He pulled, tested the strength of the rope and the knot, and walked to the edge of the cliff.

"I'll go down first, Sifu, you, Hanif, and Johnny stay up there. The others are waiting for my news." Chen Jianqiu took the torch from Li Sifu's hand and said to them, "If anything happens, the first time Don't make a move."

He took the sticky thing out of the black man's pocket and stuffed it into Hanif's breast pocket.

Hanif patted his chest, and the smelly gland juice flowed out again.

It's hard to imagine that a few months ago, the mustache in front of him was still a senior bounty hunter who paid great attention to his image.

"Don't worry, if those Pinkerton cubs dare to come, I will not let them go."

Chen Jianqiu nodded, and said to Hanif with a smile on his face: "If the treasure is real, I will let you come down and pick it first."

"No problem, I will take whatever I see first, hehe." Hanif was very happy.

Hanif knew what Chen Jianqiu was worried about. Even though the situation in the cave below was unknown, the biggest known threat so far was the lingering Pinkerton detectives.

God knows if they will follow again.

In the West, the greatest danger always comes from people.

Although it was a pity that he couldn't witness the opening of the treasure for the first time, but the boss was able to entrust such an important matter to himself, which was enough to prove that his status in the team had improved qualitatively.

After arranging the above matters, Chen Jianqiu came to the edge of the cliff.

He held the rope in one hand, held the torch in the other, and kept a certain distance to prevent the fire from burning the rope.

Chen Jianqiu stepped back out of the cliff, and his whole body was hanging outside the cliff.

The surface of the cliff is neither smooth nor rough, barely enough for a foothold.

While signaling to put the rope on it, he stepped on the vertical cliff and swung down.

Holmes held a torch in his hand and looked down from above. From another angle, he could see many things that Chen Jianqiu couldn't see.

He had volunteered to go down first.

As a geologist, he is familiar with this kind of thing, but this proposal was rejected by Chen Jianqiu.

Holmes is now the most important member of the team, there is no need for him to be the vanguard.

There are still a lot of moths in this place.

It was hard for Chen Jianqiu to imagine how this unarmed geologist should deal with another "ghost" coming out of the hole below.

Corn also flew back, and it patrolled around Chen Jianqiu on the cliff, watching vigilantly for anything that might pose a threat to its owner.

However, the downward journey went unexpectedly smoothly, and even the night wind passing through the deep valley did not have much influence on Chen Jianqiu.

He was on the leeward side and the rope did not budge.

Chen Jianqiu even had a guess as to whether the creator of the treasure map had chosen the same path as him to enter and leave the cave and transport the treasure.

When he slid down again, his guess was confirmed.

Near the cave, some man-made traces began to appear, which can be climbed and settled by people.

With these inconspicuous potholes, Chen Jianqiu went down much faster.

The pioneers of the Nahua people have not only been here, but also left traces here.

It's hard to imagine them hanging in the air with ropes tied around their waists, while chiseling the cliff.

However, what puzzled Chen Jianqiu was why the upper part of this path did not leave any artificial marks?

But before he could think about it, the rope had already been lowered to a position parallel to the entrance of the cave.

Chen Jianqiu stepped on the depression with one foot, took a step forward, and landed on the platform at the entrance of the cave with ease.

He held a torch and approached the cave entrance.

The hole is not too big, but the inside is dark and looks very deep, and it is completely impossible to see what is going on inside from the outside.

If it weren't for the large group of bats, none of them would have thought that there was such a cave entrance right below the cliff.

He turned on the shooter.

With the light of the torch, everything in front of me became brighter.

However, when his eyes swept over the edge of the hole, the hairs on his back suddenly stood on end.

There is a "person" sitting there.

Chen Jianqiu's hand touched his waist subconsciously, and pulled out his Colt.

The "man" sat there motionless, seemingly indifferent to the behavior of the cowboy in front of him.

Chen Jianqiu narrowed his eyes, and he quickly discovered something strange.

In the shooter state, he can perceive the enemy's weakness, but there is nothing special in the outline of the "person" in front of him.

This is a dead thing.

Chen Jianqiu approached that "person", and he realized that it was a dead person, which had already been weathered into a skeleton, but there was a bunch of sticky stuff on the bones, which made it look like a fleshy living creature. people.

"Come down!" Chen Jianqiu returned to the edge of the platform, and waved the torch towards it, "There is no problem for the time being."

Except for the three people who stayed on top, everyone else climbed down the rope.

"My dear, there is really a hole here!" A Chinese boy named Liu Dabao exclaimed.

Two Chinese boys came down, the other was He Jiasheng, and they carried a few spare torches behind them.

"Hey! There's..." Chen Jianqiu was picking up the next Holmes, but when he turned around, he saw Liu Dabao poking his head into the cave with a torch.

"Ah~"

But he said it was too late, Liu Dabao had a face-to-face intimate contact with the skeleton, he took two steps back, sat down on the ground, and the torch fell on the entrance of the cave.

Chen Jianqiu shook his head, this young man was three Downeys behind Li Sifu.

Holmes also came over with a torch.

He also saw the skeleton.

But for a senior geologist and archaeologist, this thing is as unsurprising as the scarecrow in his own field.

He leaned up to observe, and after confirming that there was no danger, he glued something on the bone with his hand and put it next to his nose to smell it.

"Bat guano," Holmes said, looking around. "There may be some sad stories going on here."

He pointed to the abyss outside the platform: "His friend may be below."

Chen Jianqiu finally understood why there were only man-made chiseling marks on the lower half of the cliff outside.

"You follow me and Uncle Holmes, don't touch anything, and walk the way we walked."

Chen Jianqiu gave instructions to the people behind, then raised the torch, and together with Holmes, walked into the cave first.

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