The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 351 The Underworld
I quickly let go of his neck and re-clasped the edge of the basket.Sure enough, this natural guy wasn't bragging, there was a big old man squatting in the basket, hanging from the rope, he was able to walk slowly towards the bottom of the ice crevasse with ease.

Due to the slanted structure, sunlight cannot penetrate directly into the ice crevasse. Except for the light visible in the front section, the latter section is gradually plunged into darkness.We gradually entered the darkness along the rope. When we looked up, we could see some twilight, but when we lowered our heads, there was endless darkness.

We were still descending, and there was a dead silence around us.I was holding on to the edge of the basket, and I could only hear Tianrandai and my own breathing. I couldn't help but said, "Didn't you say you were going to find the forest? How did you get down into this crevasse? How deep is the crevice?" ?”

The natural stay is not made of iron, and I am a little panting at the moment: "The forest is just below. This place is about 500 meters away."

Four 500 meters?That is equivalent to below the level of the holy lake.

This area is originally a polar glacier zone, and the terrain drop is so large that it is acceptable, but what I can't understand is his first sentence: the forest is below.

Is there a forest under this crevasse?

I know that there are many tiankengs in Sichuan, that is, huge natural caves with large terrain drops. Among them, there is a straight tiankeng with a depth of several hundred meters, which is a world of its own, with various trees growing Vegetation, living a variety of small animals.

But the reason why plants can grow in that tiankeng is related to the opening and vertical angle of the tiankeng, because in that way, rainwater can be irrigated in and sunlight can shine down, so an underground biological world can be formed.

But here...there may be water here, but there is no sunlight down here. How can there be a forest in such an environment?
Just when I was puzzled, the natural daze stopped suddenly?In the middle of the air, he said that there were lamps and torches in the basket, and asked me to light the lamps.To be honest, I didn't pay attention when I came in before, and I really didn't notice this.As soon as he said that, I reached out and groped in the basket, and I found it quickly.

The torch was rolled at my feet, and the oil lamp was pinned to the inner corner of the basket.This is the first time I have seen such a primitive thing as Huozhezi. When I peeled off the wooden cover in front of it, there were red sparks inside. After a few puffs, it burst into flames.

The production principle of the fire zhezi is actually very simple. The interior is filled with slow-burning combustibles, and the front cover has small holes for ventilation. A fire zhezi can keep burning for more than ten days if you don’t touch it. In today’s words, That said, it's almost like a mobile phone on standby.

After the torch was lit, I used it to light the oil lamp.

The oil lamp is simply filled with solid fuel, so after all the previous tossing, it didn't spill out.After the oil lamp was lit, the surroundings lit up, but except for what we thought we could see, the surroundings were still dark, front and back, left and right, up and down, everything was dark.

We should be hanging in mid-air now, which reminds me of those hanging corpses.

I wanted to ask him about those corpses, but I suddenly felt that I didn’t know how to call him. It seemed that he was always saying hello, so I said, "You really don’t have a name? How should I call you?"

"No." He only answered me with two words.

"Really not?"

"Ah."

I said, "Brother, it's wrong to lie to others."

He paused, and said, "Names are not very important to us." He was talking about us, not me, which made me suddenly interested: "Who are we referring to? The partner you mentioned last time ?”

He hummed again.

I asked him when that partner left, he was silent for a moment, and said: "120 days ago." This answer made me stunned. Is the time calculated by this kid in days?After thinking about it, I was also relieved. He was probably alone, and there are no seasons in this place, so he is not very sensitive to the year.Four thousand 120 five days ago?How could he remember it so clearly?

Calculated in this way, it was already 12 years ago that his partner left. For a while, I felt an indescribable feeling in my heart.This guy looks much younger than me. I am 25 this year, and he should be in his early twenties. If he is 22 now, then 12 years ago, he was only ten years old.

Could it be that he has lived in this place alone since he was ten years old, or even earlier?

Just imagining this scene, I find it unbelievable, ancient buildings full of dead bodies, dead snowy land, alone, no one talking, no superfluous things, at this time, perhaps the name really means nothing, because there is no No one will call your name.

After a pause, I casually said, "Why don't I give you a name, so it's convenient to call you that way." He continued on without agreeing or refuting, so I thought about it, and called, "Xiaodai?"

He ignored me at first, so I yelled again, this time he glanced sideways at me and said, "Huh?"

I immediately breathed a sigh of relief and felt a sense of accomplishment: "Xiao Dai, how old are you this year? You look very young, can't you be only eighteen or nineteen years old?"

He said, "I don't know."

While talking, it seemed that the rope swayed more violently. I had to grab the basket with all my strength and use it. The injured hand was holding the oil lamp.Because the speed of the natural stay is relatively fast, the flame of the oil lamp keeps beating and flickering, as if it will be extinguished at any time, and everything around it is flickering.

Just this time, I vaguely saw that it seemed to be almost to the bottom, and the ground below was vaguely exposed.Sure enough, after going down for about 20 minutes, we finally got our feet on the ground.

With the weak and dim light of the oil lamp, all I could see was a layer of hard black ice. If there was anything unusual, it would probably be the ground beneath our feet.

There is still a solid layer of black ice at the foothold, but the black ice is not thick, and through the ice layer, but under the light of the oil lamp, you can see that there is a layer of permafrost under the ice layer.You know, since I entered the depths of this glacier, I have never seen mud again, so I am surprised to see it here now.

Tianrandai seems to be very familiar with this place, he snatched the oil lamp from my hand and raised it up, saying: "Follow me."

He walked in front to lead the way. I didn't have any equipment on me, and the light from the oil lamp was very dim. In the dark, this kind of feeling of not being able to see clearly was very bad. I only regret that our equipment had sunk into the water, otherwise we would have to Turn on a powerful searchlight and get a good look at this place.

I asked him: "Dumb, did you take the lighter I gave you? Give it to me, you can also use that for lighting."

He paused, took out something from his pocket and threw it to me. In fact, when I saw that he was carrying a lighter, I thought he didn't bring a lighter. Who knew that he actually took it out from his pocket, which was really surprising.

I immediately flicked off the lid of the lighter, rubbed the ignition wheel, and the straight flame lit up immediately.I found that when I was lighting the lighter, this kid's eyes were sneaking at my movements.Suddenly, I had a thought: Is it possible that this kid can't use a lighter at all?

With the lighting of the windproof lighter, the light suddenly increased a lot, and the starting range was also larger.

I saw that the bottom of the ice crevasse is actually very large, and we are on the right side at this moment. As for the left side, we can't see the side at all.Naturally, he didn't stop at all, and walked straight forward, looking familiar.I followed behind him and kept looking around, wondering in my heart: Where is this forest?
However, before walking more than ten meters away, I discovered something worth exploring.

I saw a straight groove on the ice layer on our right, extending all the way along the ice layer.In that groove, there are lamp holders inlaid with materials similar to those of the natural oil lamps in the hand, except that the lamp holders are much larger.

Naturally, as he walked forward, he lit the lamps one by one, extending all the way, there were so many lamps that he couldn't even count them. In the end, I didn't need to hold the windproof lighter. In order to save fuel, I put the lighter It's gone.

At this time, when I looked back, I saw that the oil lamps formed a dancing line of fire at the place where I came from. Under the dark glacier, the orange-red dancing light looked extraordinarily magnificent.Tianrandai still didn't stop, and didn't even look back. He lit the lamp and walked forward. When he finished lighting the last lamp, the underground world in front of him suddenly lit up.It's like fireworks that light up step by step.

At first, a glimmer of light came out of nowhere, and then the light became brighter and wider, and when the light finally stabilized, I was shocked to find that the top and bottom of the glacier had been manually polished. A prismatic mirror surface is formed.

After the oil lamps here are lit, they pass through the prismatic mirrors on the top and sides of the glacier, and after layers of reflection, they become the world I see in front of my eyes.

For a moment, I was so shocked that I couldn't even utter a word. The entire dark underground world became radiant under layers of reflections, just like the legendary Crystal Dragon Palace. The flowing light and shadow made people feel like they were walking in a In a world made of colored glaze.

"This, this... my God." After a long while, I found my voice, and finally only said this sentence.

Tianran looked at me sideways and said, "Do you like it?"

I nodded immediately, and said to myself... This place can be used as a 5A-level scenic spot. If it is turned into a tourist development, the tickets will be charged directly, and one ticket will be sold for at least 1000 yuan. TOLL!

(End of this chapter)