Mantra

Chapter 266 Behind the Water Curtain Cave
The relationship with Xian Hongye may be the most harmonious relationship I have had since I retired.

I can talk to her about anything, and I don't have to worry that she will count me or take advantage of me.

It can be said that apart from my comrades in arms, I can only trust her, and apart from my mother, I can only trust such a woman.

After all, they were born and died together. Best friends?

Seeing that I didn't open my mouth, and Xian Hongye didn't force me to ask anything, she smiled slightly and happily recalled: "Actually, I know that Brother Hou is good to me, but you are the one who really saved my life in Yindian. If you are sick, you give me the antidote."

I didn't answer anything, didn't know how to answer, and I didn't even know why she was asking me that.

At this time, Xian Hongye asked me an even more embarrassing question.

She actually said: "Old Tian, ​​do you have a crush on me? Do you think I'm a particularly capable woman? Or do you think I always look at men with eyes that smell like money?"

After "this" I hesitated for a long time, I really didn't know how to answer.

To be honest, Xian Hongye is the most perfect girl I have ever seen, she is born with intelligence, but also because of this intelligence and observation, she is not an approachable person, and because of the family business, Xian Hongye is instinctively wary of everything and people.

To put it bluntly, when I had dinner with her and her father, I already discovered that Xian Hongye was planning to guard against everyone related to her interests, including her father.

Perhaps in her eyes, the reason why she can trust me unconditionally is purely because I am an outsider who has nothing to do with her interests.

When I thought of this, I suddenly found that I was also contaminated by social habits, and I began to speculate about my friends around me, and I began to think about the darkness of a person's heart.

As soon as I had those miscellaneous thoughts in my heart, I didn't think about it in an instant, and I couldn't say anything. After a stiff smile, I had no choice but to respond: "I trust you."

After saying this, the two fell into an awkward silence.

In the silence, I suddenly realized that time and society really can change a person's character.

Just when Xianhong and I could barely communicate, Wang Hou suddenly heard a loud call from the walkie-talkie.

"The rope is down...you come up. There is something." The communication signal of Wang Hou's walkie-talkie underground is very bad. Every time I make a call, I can hear very noisy interference.The sound didn't seem to be caused by the water flow, but what it was.I can't tell.

However, I still remembered in good time. When the Golden Fleece was alive, I said that there was a ferromagnetic "interference source" of unknown composition.Perhaps this abnormal signal was caused by that source of interference.

Of course, this does not prevent Xian Hongye and I from doing what we will do next.

After receiving the notification from Wang Hou, Xian Hongye and I immediately turned on the flashlights, looked in the direction of the small waterfall, and finally found the section of red and white intersecting climbing rope floating in the pool.

I hurriedly picked up the rope, and after tugging, it was confirmed that it was very strong. It seems that Wang Hou has locked the button on it and found the next passage, so everyone can rest assured.

So, Xian Hongye and I climbed behind the "Shuilian Cave" one after the other. As for the semi-conscious Agou, we chose to put it aside in desperation, and first wrapped him tightly with all the insulation blankets. Then he tied it tightly with a rope and threw it between the water and the shore. With insulation measures, it should allow him to live safely for the time being.

On the side of the Water Curtain Cave, after I passed through the water curtain, I immediately saw a sloping step built with blue bricks and reinforced with bluestone.

The steps were small at the beginning, but within a dozen or so steps, they began to widen sharply. At the widest point, three or four people could walk side by side.

I can see that the caves here are man-made, the project is not small, and most importantly, the traces of rust caused by the iron chains have increased since then.

Unlike the one I saw before, this time there were as many as five or six traces of iron chains. They were mixed between bricks, moss and other unknown slimes, which seemed to imply that there was a lot of traffic here.

I looked at the traces left by these old iron locks, and I seemed to see the Helambers holding these iron locks, carrying tools for digging mountains, and groping forward a little bit, and then for some reason, their whole life Generations of people excavated this huge karst cave system until the whole family perished.

How should I put it... Suddenly I feel a little bleak.

With this desolation, I walked forward along the rope of Wang Hou, and quickly left the sound of the waterfall roaring behind me.

After Xian Hongye and I walked about 50 meters along this slippery passage, we suddenly came to a small platform.

At this time, Wang Hou has been waiting for us for a long time, holding the rope tied to the stalactite.

The first time Wang Hou saw me, he pointed to a passage behind him, and said first, "Old Tian, ​​everything here will depend on you to have eyes."

I looked at Wang Hou's unusual expression, then at the dark cave behind him, and asked nervously, "What's inside?"

Wang Hou stood up, shook his head and said, "Go and have a look, if I know what it is, I don't need your eyes, but..."

After Wang Hou paused for a while, he turned around and said to me: "Just to remind you, there are dead people inside, a lot of dead people."

Wang Hou's words were not beyond our expectations, and we saw quite a few dead people along the way in such a ghostly place.

So, after I nodded, Wang Hou and I sandwiched Xian Hongye between the two of us, and walked to the higher level of the cave.

Shuttle in the cave, except that it is very slippery, is not as weird as I imagined, and there is no mechanism.The only thing that puzzles me is that the cave is always winding forward with the red rust traces of the iron chains.

After the three of us walked more than a hundred meters, we suddenly entered a spacious hall.

The hall was as huge as the previous cave. Judging from the echo of our footsteps, the place was spacious and tight. At this time, the air became dry again, and the dry and cold wind was blowing on my wet body, which was very unpleasant.

After shivering a few times, I asked Wang Hou, "It's pitch black, what are you asking me to see?"

Wang Hou put down his means of illuminating the ground, and at the same time took out a fluorescent stick from his backpack. After he knocked on the ground a few times, the fluorescent stick quickly lit up with an orange-red light.

Wang Hou raised his hand and threw the fluorescent stick far away. The stick flew four to fifty meters in the air before landing on a table in the cave.

For an instant, the table was illuminated.

I looked at the table and my eyes widened for a moment.

At this time, there are many people, eating around that table!

(End of this chapter)