one person's life

Chapter 80
"Let's not talk about this for now. The soldiers worked hard to get these corpses... They need to be preserved. The problem now is how to find them. I think we can start with this backpack. How did it get here? This lake What is the mystery behind it, is it moving or not? If we find its source, we may be able to find the missing comrades." Zheng Lide ordered He Jingye to take the bones in.

"It's so cold!" He Jingye shivered from the cold when he grabbed the bones.

"I'll come." Tang Muzhi knelt down and put the bones into his backpack.

Everyone in the team searched carefully around the lake again, afraid of missing any details.

Soldiers also checked here the day before yesterday, and found nothing, but at the moment, a group of more than 20 people are searching, and the efficiency is not the same.

"What is that?" Black Guan'er looked up and patted Tang Muzhi on the shoulder, "You should also take a look."

Tang Muzhi followed his eyes and saw that the foot of the mountain opposite the lake was covered with green vines, and there was a place with dense ripples, which seemed abnormal.

Tang Mu's naked eyes opened, and there was actually an extremely hidden cave behind the dense ripples, covered by green plants. If the lake near the cave was not slightly different from other places, it would be difficult to tell.

"That's a cave, level with the lake." Tang Muzhi turned around and looked at Zheng Lide, with an inquiring look in his eyes.

Zheng Lide picked up the telescope and looked at it for a while, "...there is indeed a problem over there, but it's a pity that I can't see clearly."

"I have seen that there are no other abnormalities in the surrounding lake. There is only such a cave, and our raft should be able to pass through it." Tang Mu said.

"go!"

The raft could not accommodate a few people. Zheng Lide, Tang Muzhi, Hei Guaner, and He Jingye boarded the raft one after another, and the remaining soldiers were always ready to respond.

Black Guan'er and He Jingye held the engineering shovel and paddled the water, while Zheng Lide was preparing the tools, "Don't paddle directly in for a while. After putting on the gas mask, I will use a fire mask to measure the oxygen concentration. If there is any problem, retreat immediately!"

"understand!"

The raft swam to the entrance of the cave. Tang Muzhi reached out and split the vines, revealing the entire cave. This was actually a tunnel, and people had to climb on the raft to enter.I'm afraid the backpack can only barely make it through.There was a suction force at the entrance of the cave. Hei Guan'er and He Jingye held their shovels against the rocks beside the cave to prevent them from swinging in directly.

Zheng Lide took out the gas masks and asked them to put them on. He hooked one end of the gas mask to the rock next to the cave and tied the other end to the raft.

"Logically, it should be connected here, but just in case, if there is no place to stay after the distance of the hook lock, we will discuss it then."

The hook lock is lengthened with a nylon climbing rope. If the four people encounter an accident in the cave, they can climb out along the climbing rope.

Zheng Lide blew the fire seal, and everything was ready. The four of them lay down on the raft, but the area on the raft was limited. He Jingye and the black supervisor He Jingye almost leaned half of their bodies out of the raft, relying solely on the strength of their waists. Hold on tight to prevent yourself from falling.

The raft swung into the cave. It was pitch dark when they entered. Only the flames of the fire could be seen, and the surrounding area became narrower. Just when everyone thought they were about to return in vain, the tunnel suddenly became wider, and the space above it became larger. Tang Muzhi first half-crouched on the raft and turned on the flashlight to look around.

This place is really unique. After passing through the tunnel, the entire cave became wide open. The surrounding rock walls were very wet and cold. When the flashlight was shining directly in front, I found two more backpacks.

"Look!" Tang Muzhi pointed the flashlight at the backpack, "You can go up there!"

The three of them looked over and saw the camouflage rucksack.

Black Guan'er and He Jingye used the engineering shovels in their hands and the raft successfully rowed ashore.

Tang Mu stepped on the bank inside the cave. It was not completely dark, but there was light behind it.

"Why is this land tilted?" Zheng Lide felt something strange as soon as he landed on the beach. Looking from here to the bright place in the distance, it was like looking down.

He Jingye parked the raft, and Black Guan'er rushed up to look at the rucksack - this time there were no corpses in it, they were all normal supplies.It's just that the backpack is spread out, as if it was still here after someone opened it.

"This is..." Tang Muzhi picked up a bamboo tube from the shore. This thing actually emitted Qi!
"Could it be a magic weapon?" Tang Muzhi exerted a little force on his wrist, and the bamboo tube emitted a burst of qi light, trying to seal off his meridians!

"Hmph!" Tang Muzhi's Yang Qi moved, and he quickly restrained the magic weapon. It seemed that it had not been left here for a long time, and it was unknown who dropped it.

"Be more vigilant..." As soon as Zheng Lide spoke, Hei Guan'er and He Jingye raised their guns.

"Guan'er... Do you think those comrades in front fell into the water?" He Jingye asked.

"That's nonsense. I don't believe that the buoyancy in the lake is so strong that even a backpack with bones cannot sink. Then the body is nowhere to be seen?"

The four of them walked towards the bright place, and the surroundings were silent. Occasionally, something like stalactites dropped into the lake water, splashing cold water. The sound frightened the four of them.About half an hour later, when Tang Muzhi shone his flashlight on the ground, he suddenly discovered that the frozen ground was actually red!
"Could it be blood?" Tang Muzhi didn't reach out to touch it.

"It should be just ordinary red soil." Zheng Lide was panting a little, "Don't worry about this, let's move forward first."

woohoo-

A shrill cry suddenly sounded in the air. The sound sounded like a human being, or like the howling of the wind blowing through the canyon.

"What's going on?" He Jingye felt that the hairs on his body were standing on end. He felt what it meant to cry and complain. The sound was terrifying.

Although Tang Muzhi had the ability of night vision, he could not see clearly when there was sufficient light. He shined a flashlight in the distance directly in front of him, but could not see anything. He thought to himself: "It should be the sound made by people... No way. Is it a savage?"

"Keep going forward." Zheng Lide's palms were a little sweaty and he licked his lips.

The road was almost downhill all the way, and then it became steeper and steeper, and the lake became turbulent.Tang Muzhi couldn't estimate how much the altitude had dropped, but it was lower than the original position where the large troops were stationed.

Tang Muzhi drew a map in his mind and walked northwest from where the army was originally stationed, winding around to the frozen lake. Now the direction of the cave seemed to be heading south again.

I wonder what happened to Deputy Commander Feng's actions. Those gangsters should have been wiped out, right?

Just as I was thinking about it, there was a long object floating next to the lake on the edge of the cliff, standing in the water.Tang Muzhi noticed it first and shined his flashlight over it.

He glanced at the wooden stick, and then realized that it was a simple spear, with a sharp stone tied at the bottom inserted into a head, and it floated upright.

The man's head had been frozen, and his upper and lower eyelids turned red and white, which was very scary.

The other three didn't see the head under the spear clearly, Zheng Lide called He Jingye to pick up the "wooden stick".

Black Guan'er grabbed He Jingye's right arm with one hand and clasped the rock wall with the other.

After He Jingye took the spear away, the three of them saw the bloody human head stuck underneath!
"Oh my god!" He Jingye screamed, "Batalion Commander, take a look..."

Zheng Lide's face turned pale after seeing it. Although he didn't know what those lost soldiers looked like, seeing the neat short hair on this man's head, he couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.

(End of this chapter)