endless route.

Chapter 9 9. Two Gunshots
"So what kind of mine is this?"

"Cooling pipe frozen rock layer? How many pipes are needed for such a large mining area? What mine is so valuable?"

"This mine has been abandoned for at least decades, can this cooling pipe cool down to today?"

The others all looked back at Liu Ming and asked questions in a hurry. The flashlight hit Liu Ming's face, shaking him so hard that he couldn't open his eyes. He quickly covered his eyes and shook his head:
"How the hell do I know, there is everything in the sandstone layer, who knows what's in it, and I'm not a geologist, don't shake it, if you shake your eyes again, you will go blind."

"If it is determined to be a cooling pipe, then this pipe cannot be cut, and we can only detour from other places." Hu Ruihua looked at Zheng Yun with a serious expression.

There must be coolant in the cooling pipe, no matter what type, as long as it leaks below, the person below will definitely not be able to persist in them to rescue.

"Without a map, this road is not easy to get around." Zheng Yun recalled what he had seen and heard along the way. He did not see any safety signs from the beginning to the end, and there was no map of the mining area.

Thinking about it is also very problematic.

The engineering of this mine is extremely fine. In the last century, if you wanted to do this kind of work, only the national team was off the field. There were also English warning signs on the concrete road where you came, and it was probably done by Britain and the United States.

But it's too weird that a mine of this level didn't leave any safety marks, and there are so many corpses in the mine.

"There are too many forks in this place, why don't we split up?" Hu Ruihua discussed with Zheng Yun.

Zheng Yun felt a lot of pressure, Hu Ruihua would ask him about everything, but how could he dare to make a decision lightly as a fledgling.

at this time.

There was a noise behind him.

Everyone looked back, but found that 300 meters behind, in the first four-way cave they passed when they came down, there was a figure flashing past.

"Who?" Hu Zi reacted the fastest, directly pulled out his weapon, and chased after him with a flashlight.

Zheng Yun and the others quickly followed, that cavern was the first cavern, and going up was the abandoned mine building, and they couldn't get around Sister Wang, Song Wan and the others.

That figure ran away when it saw anyone, it must be an outsider, that is to say, Song Wan and the others are in danger!
"Damn it."

Liu Ming was running faster than anyone else at this time, took out the guy pinned to his waist, and followed Huzi closely.

The 300 meters were reached in no time, but Huzi and Liu Ming parted ways. Huzi ran into the mine on the left to chase people, while Liu Ming climbed the steps and ran up.

The people behind also arrived immediately.

At the fork in the road, Hu Ruihua nodded to Zheng Yun, and he and the thin young man followed Huzi to the left, asking Zheng Yun to go up and see what was going on.

Zheng Yun was stronger than Liu Ming in terms of physical fitness, and he climbed the stairs faster, so he ran back to the abandoned building one step ahead of him, and took a look around with a flashlight.

"what happened?"

Sister Wang was taken aback.

She and Song Wan were guarding in the lobby on the first floor, and the search and rescue team Xiao Li was squatting in the weeds at the door, holding a night vision binoculars to monitor the surroundings and the way they came.

"Are you alright?" Zheng Yun asked with a frown.

"It's all right, something happened down here?" Sister Wang clutched her chest, terrified by this blow.

Zheng Yun didn't answer the question, batteries were placed on the floor of the hall, two lights were lit in the corner, and they were even using water heaters to boil water, as if they were camping in the wild.

"Song Wan, are you okay? Huh?"

Liu Ming ran up out of breath, and was taken aback when he saw this scene, and then immediately looked at Zheng Yun: "It's broken, that person didn't enter from here!"

"What do you mean, there are other people down there? We've been here all this time, but we haven't seen anyone."

Sister Wang's eyes changed, she picked up the walkie-talkie, pressed the button and asked a few words, but no one responded.

Boom!

There were two muffled sounds from the mine tunnel.

Liu Ming's face turned pale in an instant, and he raised his finger to point at the deep mine tunnel. His arms trembled a little, and he said to Zheng Yun with a suppressed voice, "This is the sound of a gunshot!"

"It's broken, Xiao Li!" Sister Wang panicked and yelled out the door, putting on her cotton clothes and going into the mine.

The search and rescue team rarely encountered such a situation, and Xiao Li had not seen the world for a long time, so he ran in from the door in a hurry and fell down.

"It's useless for you to go down. The mine is full of forks. It's impossible to catch up without marks. Huzi has a camera on his head. Can you call it out?"

Zheng Yun immediately stopped Sister Wang and Xiao Li. He could understand their emotions, but what he said was true. The more critical the moment, the more calm you should be.

"Yes, I'll try." Xiao Li immediately took out a tablet and fiddled with it for a minute, showing a face that was about to cry: "It's too deep, the signal can't be transmitted."

"I'll go down, you guys still stay here, but be careful, don't go down if you have nothing to do." Zheng Yun patted Liu Ming on the shoulder.

"I'll go with you, don't let me embarrass me in front of my junior." Liu Ming forced a half smile, shook the thing in his hand and said, "I will use this."

Zheng Yun glanced at him. Liu Ming is not a person who cares about face. Whether he is ashamed is just an excuse. He has been ashamed before, and he has never cared about it.

"That's why you have to stay. You are also needed here." Zheng Yun still rejected Liu Ming. He is a rich second generation and has no shortage of money. What are you doing in this muddy water?

"Brother Zheng, I'll go down with you." Sister Wang took out two sticks from the black backpack on the ground, and threw them to Zheng Yun. It seemed that she had made up her mind.

Zheng Yun didn't say any more, told Liu Ming to be careful, and then immediately took Sister Wang into the mine.

The two ran into the first four-way cave in one breath, looked around carefully, and walked in the direction of Hu Ruihua and Huzi, that is, directly ahead.

This mine road is different from the one directly behind. Just after walking for more than 100 meters, there is a downward step, and there is a step every [-] meters after that.

After the fifth or sixth floor, they entered a three-way cave, but this cave was as deep and endless as a subway tunnel, with a width and height of more than ten meters in three directions, and the flashlight could not reach the end at all.

The roof of the cave was still dripping.

The sound of dripping water resounded from all directions, echoing ethereally throughout the cave, and if there was any slight movement, they couldn't hear it at all.

This should be the main road of the mine. There is an aging cableway overhead and abandoned railroad tracks on the ground. It may be several kilometers deep on the left and right, otherwise there is no need to lay railroad tracks.

Zheng Yun couldn't see any figures or light sources. He and Sister Wang stood at the corner of the deep and dark mine tunnel, and the two flashlights couldn't see three directions.

This kind of environment gave people a strong sense of uneasiness, no one knew what was in the darkness, Zheng Yun's heartbeat accelerated, and Sister Wang beside her was also short of breath and her face turned pale.

"Brother Zheng, it's on the left." Sister Wang said in a low voice, and pointed to the wall beside her. There was a very hidden mark, which was a half-palm print.

Zheng Yun nodded, kept vigilant and walked to the left, with his brain running at full capacity, and wrote down the route.

If the abandoned mine building is the first floor, then this should be the third floor. The cavern where the ventilation hole was discovered just now is the second floor, on their left.

He didn't know how far he had gone, but Zheng Yun vaguely heard some voices, and then made a gesture to ask Sister Wang to slow down, and he jumped forward more than ten meters.

Another fork appeared on the left.

Zheng Yun subconsciously raised the flashlight to shine it, and a white figure hung in the air, right in front of his face, so frightened that he almost threw the flashlight away.

This man is hanging on the roof of the mine tunnel.

Head tilted ninety degrees.

A rotten hand hangs down in front of Zheng Yun's eyes, almost touching his head, the sudden darkness around him almost drives people crazy.

"This……"

Zheng Yun took a breath, and found that it was a dead body, dressed like an explorer, who had been dead for an unknown number of years, and had two bullet holes on his body.

"Ah." Sister Wang exclaimed in a low voice.

The two gun holes were obviously shot just now. It is estimated that the two gunshots heard just now were shot by Hu Zi at the corpse, hitting the dead man.

"What's the matter with this place? This man is fine, why did he hang himself?" Sister Wang trembled a little as she walked to Zheng Yun's side and trembled.

"..."

Zheng Yun didn't speak, because he could see that in the depths of the mine behind the corpses, there were seven or eight corpses piled up next to a deep cave on a gentle slope.

(End of this chapter)