Archaeological Notes

Chapter 21 Landmines (2)
The soil on the ground is relatively soft, so it's okay to fall down. When I got up, I saw that except for the light shining from the top of my head, the front and back were pitch black with no end in sight.I inspected it and found that it seemed to be a deliberately dug tunnel. The hole was square and built with cypress wood on both sides, allowing three people to walk side by side.The tunnel is also very warm, not as cold as the ground, where some hibernating snakes, insects, rats and ants can be seen everywhere.

According to my observation, the tunnel seems to lead directly to the mountain of Fotouling.He walked forward a few steps quickly, but he couldn't see his fingers when he stretched out his hands. It was so dark that he could only move forward by groping.I don't know if it was because of panic in my heart, or because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to catch up with the group of big backs. At first, I walked slowly, and then it became faster and faster, almost trotting all the way with my eyes closed.

This tunnel, stumbling along the way, walked for half an hour and hadn't seen the end. When I stopped and opened my eyes, I found myself in the boundless darkness. I couldn't see anything with my eyes wide open. Wearing something that seems to be a person's clothes.

I knelt down to touch it, relying on the sense of touch in my hand, I found that it was a travel bag, which was full of daily necessities such as clothes.I felt so strange in my heart at the moment, I wondered if these people had a conscience, knew that I would follow them, and deliberately stayed in the middle of the road?
With doubts, I picked up my bag and continued to walk forward, but I didn’t expect that the items dropped by the team that would be picked up on the ground every ten steps, at first they were just insignificant clothes, but in the end they turned out to be buckets Tools, such as Luoyang shovel, scoop bucket and the like.These people's awareness is so low, it is definitely not reserved for me. In this way, maybe this group of people encountered a change in the situation that made them have to give up these equipment, otherwise they would never have done so.

Along the way, I kept picking and discarding, but fortunately, I finally found a small bright flashlight in a pile of clothes. I accelerated my pace and went all out, and finally reached the end of the tunnel, and a stone door in the shape of "Hui" appeared .

Although the outer ring of the stone gate is engraved with complicated patterns, it is a pity that it is already mottled, making it difficult to see the original appearance. It can be seen that people often enter through this stone gate and rub light.At this time, I was so focused on catching up with Dabeitou and the others that I couldn't care less about studying the stone slab, so I lowered my head and climbed in.

This time almost the whole person turned in, got up and turned on the flashlight to take a picture, and saw that it was a round stone room.

Because the upper body fell into the stone room first, the head was bumped with a "buzz". After rubbing the big bag on his head, he got up and saw that it was an oval stone room, which seemed to be formed from a whole mountain. Hollowed out of the rock.Although it is a stone room, the space is very spacious, enough to fit about ten large round tables.I turned around with a flashlight and found three arched stone doors on the north stone wall.

The arched stone gate is not high, and it feels a bit like a bridge hole. I was hesitating at the moment and couldn’t make up my mind which one to enter. If I made a mistake, what was waiting for me might be fatal, so I had to think twice And doing is the wise thing to do.After thinking about it, I still had to catch up with the big troops. Even though they might ignore my existence, it was still better than running around alone.

I ran into a problem all at once. I was really not sure which side to enter from the three stone gates on the left, middle and right.I had no choice but to squat down and check one by one, thinking that if there might be footprints, I can't go wrong if I follow them in.

As soon as the flashlight shone in, it was engulfed in heavy darkness, and the cave seemed bottomless.But after looking at the three arched holes together, I couldn't help being dumbfounded. The openings of the three stone gates were all scattered with messy footprints.

In this way, when encountering such a muddy situation, the only option is to take a risky move.I wiped the sweat from my brow and entered through the hole on the far left. My plan was to walk a distance of ten or so steps first.

The flashlight formed a radiating circular light area on the ground, and the surrounding area was so quiet that I couldn’t hear anything except my heavy footsteps and heavy breathing. As I continued to go deeper, my footsteps became slower and slower. I felt cold air whizzing from the cracks in the walls on both sides, and when I reached one place, I stopped abruptly.

A few rows of messy footprints came to an abrupt end here, and there was nothing to look forward. The whole hole seemed to extend upwards.I stayed where I was, but suddenly heard a shrill voice, Yiyi Yaya, like a woman crying.

I immediately realized that I couldn't go any further, and I almost ran back to the stone room. I didn't even dare to turn my head all the way. When I got back to the stone room, I was already out of breath.

I followed the arched stone door on the right and entered, never thinking that it was exactly the same as before. After walking about ten steps, the cave began to extend downwards, accompanied by the rumbling sound like thunder, like a beast roaring , the footprints on the ground also disappeared in this lot.

When I returned to the stone room again, there was only one way to go in front of me. I tightened my bag and stabilized my tense nerves. When I was about to step into the arched door in the middle, I inadvertently raised my head , On the side of the door, I saw someone engraving words on it.

There are all new marks on it, engraved: "Follow me!"

I took a closer look at the electric light, and found that the handwriting was surprisingly familiar, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and written crookedly.In a blink of an eye, I recalled that when I was eating in the valley, Liu Maodi gave me the lunch box with writing on it. Looking at the two together, it should be made by the same person.

The hidden doorway is self-evident, it may be left behind by Liu Maodi secretly, but they may think that I have let the mine collapse a long time ago, so it is unlikely that they left it for me to see.From what I think, either he guessed that I was not dead, or he didn't guide me with good intentions at all.

It doesn't matter if you think about it, whoever he leaves it for, I will go in first and then make a plan, I bowed my head, and walked in.

After entering, I found that the length of this cave was beyond my imagination. I walked for a long time and could not reach the end. Fortunately, the footprints on the ground have never been broken. The cave extends horizontally and has never come from the depths. The strange sound made me feel a little more at ease.

I don't know how long I walked with my head buried like this, my feet felt a little weak, so I leaned against the stone wall to rest my feet.I opened the travel bag I picked up, and there was nothing in it except some clothes and a few pornographic magazines for entertainment, not even half a biscuit.Frustrated, he put the pad under his buttocks and sat against the wall, but his heartbeat couldn't calm down, and he didn't bother to turn off the flashlight. He just stared blankly at the footprints on the ground, but he didn't expect to see a strange shape.

When the Dabeitou group walked this section of the cave earlier, judging from the distance between the footprints, each step was more than half a meter, which shows that they stepped on it quickly.I noticed that although there are many footprints on the ground, the shoe sizes are quite satisfactory, similar to leather shoes, hiking shoes, cotton shoes, and yellow rubber shoes.But surprisingly, I saw an oversized footprint!Superimposed on it, the footprints are definitely not human.

Judging from the footprints, the big foot was definitely more than fifty yards, and it seemed that it was stepped on barefoot, showing a strange "V" shape, and there were traces of mucus where it walked.

In my mind, I suddenly saw the scene of Dabeitou's group of people passing through this cave, and a monster that appeared out of thin air walked behind them and didn't know?Thinking of this, my whole body trembled, wondering if it was a ghost following them?
The more I thought about it, the more panicked I became, and I couldn't sit still any longer. I put the flashlight in my mouth, threw off my arms and ran towards the depths of the cave.There was a whirring sound in the ears, and I couldn't run fast with a heavy coat on my body, but thankfully, within 10 minutes of running, the suffocating cave finally came to an end.

The first thing that came out of the pavement was a musty smell of earth. After I ran out of the cave, I realized that I was in a square cellar.The surrounding walls are full of soil, only a few stones are exposed outside, and some strange hyphae are attached to it, and a few shriveled and shriveled mushrooms grow in twos and threes. I don’t know how it is in the dark environment. How did it grow.

And in the middle of the cellar, there is a circular stone platform, and a radial unknown object is placed on it, looming like a giant bronze tree, with some things like earthen pots hanging on it, left and right shake.

When I saw the good things in ancient times, I couldn’t help but feel a little itchy. In ancient times, this thing was regarded as a sacred tree. , it is through this kind of sacred tree to understand the will of the gods.

Thinking of this, before I had time to turn on the flashlight, I looked up the canopy of the tree, but I was immediately frightened out of my wits and froze.

Because at the same time, dozens of blood-red eyes suddenly lit up in the darkness above the treetops.

(End of this chapter)