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Chapter 11 11. Cave White Mist
Hearing this question, Zheng Yun suddenly recalled a story his adoptive father told him before.

It is said that about a hundred years ago, a Jiang family broke into an ancient ruins alone. The ruins were repaired like a maze, and there were corpses everywhere.

The situation is similar to this. The ruins are located underground, and there are pavilions, water pavilions, arch bridges and underground rivers in the deepest part. You can even take a boat, which is amazing.

The Jiang family boasted that they had learned a lot about ancient and modern times, and they knew a little bit about the mysteries of Feng Shui from all schools and sects in the past dynasties, so they studied in the ruins for half a month, trying to figure out what is so important about deciphering the maze and the corpses.

But he just couldn't solve it, and he was driven crazy, and he was still mumbling after being found.

The adoptive father didn't say what secrets there were in the ruins, but he said meaningfully that Feng Shui was never reserved for the dead, it was all used to coax the living, and the deeper the belief, the worse it was played.

That's exactly what happened.

This is obviously a western mine, and most of the people who died were Westerners, but Hu Ruihua and the others thought of oriental Fengshui, and the authorities were really confused.

In fact, it is also understandable

I stand here on behalf of Jianghe Pawnshop. My ancestors were all in those businesses. When encountering incomprehensible things, they tend to think this way.

On the contrary, Zheng Yun himself was very sober, because he didn't think about it, he knew his own level.

"What did Brother Zheng say? You seem to have discovered something just now?" Sister Wang asked.

The rest of the people also looked at Zheng Yun.

Zheng Yun sighed softly in his heart, he didn't know what Feng Shui said, racked his brains to think of a story, but it turned out that Feng Shui was useless.

As a college student and a materialist fighter, he doesn't really believe in these things from the bottom of his heart. When he was looking at the pawn shop earlier, he was "ignorant" and just wrote homework. Say a few words.

Now I can only be timid.

Clearing his throat, Zheng Yun spoke softly, expressing his thoughts: "This person has been soaked in water."

"Who?" Hu Zi was taken aback.

Zheng Yun lifted the flashlight up, and the five of them were all startled and panicked. After the reunion, they breathed a sigh of relief and went to rest at the fork.

But in fact.

There was also a dead body overhead.

Zheng Yun hit the corpse's hand with a flashlight. There were obvious marks of blisters on the fingers, and most of them had rotted away and almost lost their bones. The picture was horrible.

There was a layer of hoarfrost on the surface of the corpse, which could easily be overlooked if one didn't look carefully.

He was almost touched by this rotten hand just now, and he took a closer look before he found the problem.

"Ah?" Sister Wang whispered.

"Really." Hu Zi nodded.

"I suspect that this mine was flooded. This person did not hang himself, but floated to the top of the cableway with the current, and his head was stuck in the cable belt."

Zheng Yun moved the flashlight up again. The neck of the corpse was tilted, and the chin was pinned to the top of the cableway. It looked like he had been hanged, but normal people couldn't hang himself like this.

"So the piles of corpses we saw along the way were all washed together by water? It has nothing to do with yin and yang Fengshui, and is purely formed naturally?" Huzi asked.

It was hard for him to accept this statement. He was scared to death, but the water rushed out?

"I think so." Zheng Yun nodded. As a member of Lao Jiang's family, he was actually talking about scientific principles. This inference is somewhat disrespectful to the ancestors.

"It makes sense. There are corpses in the ventilation hole. It should have fallen into the hole with the water flow when the water receded, and was stopped by the barbed wire again." The thin young man nodded in approval.

Zheng Yun's statement can explain the reason for the gathering of corpses, and the possibility is extremely high.

The difficulty of thinking about this is that most people are so scared in such a situation and environment that it is difficult for them to stay rational and find clues to reason.

"But where does so much water come from here? To flood such a large mine, the amount of water is quite large." Hu Ruihua frowned, looking at the water droplets falling from the top of the rock wall.

"It's the rainy season now, it will rain heavily at any time, and we may be flooded?" Huzi's face changed.

"Not in a short time. What's strange now is how these people died." Zheng Yun looked at the corpse again, but couldn't see the real cause of death at all.

"Maybe he couldn't get out and was drowned?"

"It's also possible that the locals did it. The figure just now was very strange. Let's find the target and get out of here as soon as possible." Hu Ruihua stood up.

After a brief discussion, they decided to take the iron stairs in the karst cave. It is easy to get lost in the twists and turns of the mine. The stairs are more intuitive and easy to go up and down.

Although the iron stairs have faults.

But with climbing ropes and climbing pins, they can slide down to the level where the goal is.

Everyone agreed.

The iron gate leading to the Rift Valley Karst Cave is at the end of this fork. Zheng Yun and the other five kept vigilant and continued to move forward. When they passed the seven or eight corpses, Huzi muttered:
"These corpses were really washed together by the water, I should have thought of it."

"You can think of a fart. You are so scared that your face turns pale and your mind is muddled. Looking at Brother Zheng is like visiting your own house." The thin young man curled his lips.

"Brother Zheng hasn't talked much all this way, he should have noticed it long ago?" Sister Wang also added.

"Study hard, you still have a long way to go." Hu Ruihua smiled and patted Huzi on the shoulder.

After confirming that the corpses were washed together by the water, everyone was no longer afraid, and still wanted to chat for a while.

"..."

Zheng Yun didn't answer, he really didn't know what kind of image he was in their eyes.

I don't talk much because I don't want to show my timidity, and I can't embarrass the pawn shop and Jiang's family. It's really not the same as visiting my own house, how can it be so exaggerated.

After walking for a while, several people came to the square iron gate again. Hu Ruihua walked around, but still didn't know how the gate closed by himself.

But this is not important.

The times have changed, as long as it is not something like gods, gods and ghosts, it is a matter of two or three shots.

Lift the iron gate together, and everyone hangs their locks on the same climbing rope, connects them with each other with the climbing rope, and then goes down one by one, stepping on the iron stairs.

Zheng Yun took a flashlight and scanned around.

Karst caves and rifts are generally narrow and long, with no end in sight from left to right, and a width of more than 50 meters from front to back. There is a layer of white mist at the bottom of the cave, and the true depth cannot be seen.

The iron stairs looked small on the cliff, and a few people stood on the edge of the cliff like ants. If they had symptoms of fear of heights, they would probably have to be scared out of illness on the spot.

Zheng Yun looked down.

There are six or seven floors of stairs, and each floor has a span of about ten meters, and the deepest part is submerged in white mist.

This view is indeed rare.

The clouds and mountains are like a fairyland.

Zheng Yun would not be surprised if there was a fairy standing in a small boat at this time and came from the depths of the clouds and the fog, or if there were fairy pavilions in the depths of the white mist.

"Probably going to the sixth floor." Hu Ruihua went down first. The iron stairs were very strong. They had already passed it once, so this time the speed was faster.

Zheng Yun took a flashlight and shone into the white mist. He didn't know whether it was influenced by the stories his adoptive father told, or he had a premonition. He always felt that there was something in the mist.

Think carefully.

The town of La Maine at the bottom of the mountain seemed to be covered with a layer of white mist, but it was thinner.

After walking for a short time, the five of them descended to the fourth floor one after another. This is the break, and then down to the sixth floor. Several sections of stairs in the middle have been demolished.

Tie several climbing ropes to the stairs.

Huzi was the first to slide down, and after reaching the sixth floor to confirm that the iron stairs were strong, the rest descended one by one, and all five of them went down to this floor.

They didn't keep anyone, because it's too dangerous to stay here alone, and they have complete rock climbing equipment, and they are born to be rock climbing masters after being thin.

Not to mention the rope was cut off, even if all the stairs above were demolished, as long as there was an iron rod left, he could throw the rope up and then climb up to fix it.

After Zheng Yun came down, he continued to observe with a flashlight as usual. This floor was already close to the white mist. If he went down one more floor, the white mist would cover his calf.

Another strange thing is that they seem to be the first to go this way, and there are no traces around.

"Should it be the aerosol produced by mining plus water vapor, and the low temperature condensed this white mist?" Huzi said to Zheng Yun, and also explained the scientific truth.

Zheng Yun nodded and didn't look any further. Seeing this, the others gathered around an iron door. The thin young man took out a crowbar, and several of them pried the door together.

Click.

The door opened.

This kind of door didn't have a lock in the first place, but it was too heavy and old, so it took a lot of effort to pry it open.

It was dark inside the door.

Huzi was the first one. He went in and swung his flashlight around. There was a mine road in front of him, but the excavation marks became a little rough and full of potholes.

It's the coldest here.

Zheng Yun shuddered as soon as he entered. The temperature was estimated to be about ten degrees below zero, and it became colder and colder as he walked in, but they were dressed thickly, so the problem wasn't too big.

A group of people walked quietly and moved forward very cautiously. After about 200 meters, a cave and a huge ice pit appeared at the end of their sight.

Ice from the ice pit overflows to the surroundings.

Everyone can directly see that there are a lot of things of different colors frozen in the ice. If you look closely with a flashlight, they are all the corpses of explorers or gold diggers without exception.

"There must be dozens of them, right?"

Hu Zi looked back at Zheng Yun, he knew it was the water, but his scalp was still numb.

Not only him, but also Zheng Yun.

The few people present should be fine.

"Let's go ahead and see."

Hu Ruihua walked forward first.

The ice under their feet became thicker and thicker from shallow to deep, and it was already more than one meter when they stepped into the ice pit.

"I'm so stupid!"

Tiger exclaimed.

He looked down with a flashlight and found that it was not a pit at all, but a well hole one meter deep. The whole hole was full of dead bodies, completely frozen by ice.

Following his exclamation, several flashlights illuminated the entire ice layer, and the ice layer was as clear as crystal, embedded in the deepest part of this abandoned mine.

But the corpses inside were densely packed, some of them were horribly soaked in water, but some of them had clear faces, their faces were facing upwards, and their eyes were wide open!

Shake around roughly.

There are hundreds of them!
"Damn it, Brother Hu, why don't we move out, this place is really not for people, I don't want the money anymore." The emaciated young man's lips trembled, he didn't dare to look carefully.

This scene is too weird.

The corpse seemed to emerge from the ground, frozen in the bottom of the waste mine, and could not leave forever.

(End of this chapter)