Archaeological Notes

Chapter 41 SOS!

That shadow used to be in the shape of an "S", crooked and extremely irregular, but I could barely recognize it, so I stood a little further away and found that there was another "S"-shaped snake-shaped shadow beside the two shadows. The blank space gradually converges into an "O" shape.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed across my mind: SOS!

I came up with a bold guess all at once. Could it be that the three of them, Dao Scar and Monk Tian Rui, were trapped?I suspect that they are under the ice dome, and they may have run out of water. Seeing the lights above, they can only call for help in this way.Thinking of this, I hurriedly took out the parchment map from my pocket, compared it with it, and wanted to know what kind of place this was.

This cave is roughly located in the center of this golden underground palace. The coordinates on the map are very easy to find, and it is clear at a glance, just the blank space in the middle.Because the map was carried in my pocket, the water bubbles along the way were worn, and the top was wrinkled. I wiped off the water stains on it with my fingers, but I never thought that because of this, I brought a piece of something.

That is to say, where this cave is indicated, there seems to be a thin piece of paper pasted in the center of the map, but I wiped it off, exposing the inner layer, and another pattern appeared.I didn't expect this picture to be so cryptic, with so many mysteries hidden in it, just waiting for a closer look.Suddenly there was a deafening explosion behind me. I turned my head to look, and a powerful wave of air swept over me, knocking me to the ground in an instant.

I lay on the ground and couldn't figure out what was going on. When I looked up, I found that the plane about ten meters away from me was actually on fire. Raging flames spewed out from the cabin, and it seemed that the whole plane was going to be set ablaze.The smoke that rose into the sky curled up, poured continuously to the ceiling of the cave, and drifted out from the small opening.The outer shell of the fuselage was burned and deformed, and it tilted upwards, gradually revealing the skeleton inside.Several people covered in fire rushed out of the cabin, jumped to the ground, rolled and extinguished the flames on their bodies, got up and ran towards me desperately.

I was still dazed on the spot, and before I could recover, I saw the hairy hairstyle of the big back was burned into an afro, the yellow hair was almost burnt into a bald man, and Niu Er almost looked like a roast pig , was limping towards the drive with his fat buttocks twisting, and seemed to want to stay away from the plane as much as possible.The skinny guy was the most handsome, the last one jumped out of the plane, his body was half ablaze, and he ran close to me and saw that I still couldn't figure out the situation, and he couldn't help but tore me off the ground and started running wildly .

The thin man grabbed my hand, and before he could take two steps, a louder explosion sounded, shaking the entire cave.From the reflection on the wall of the cave, one can even see the flames of the plane bursting into flames and gradually disintegrating.The ice dome under his feet began to shatter and shatter, and the area gradually expanded from the area where the plane exploded, and the crackling sound of the ice layer could be heard endlessly.I looked at my feet in a panic, and the thin lines broke apart, faster than we could run, and they were in front of us all at once.There was even a loud bang from behind. I turned around and saw a huge gap in the center of the ice dome at the bottom of the cave. An unimaginable space.

I grabbed the skinny man's hand, feeling sweaty in the palm of my hand, and I was out of breath from running. The big backs ran ahead of us, but they hadn't reached the edge. It seemed that I only hated my parents for missing a leg. .At this time, the ice dome had completely shattered. When I couldn't run anymore, I suddenly lost my foot, and suddenly I fell into the huge space below. The thin man loosened his hands in panic. opened.

In the process of falling down, I was terrified, knowing that if I went down, my body would be smashed to pieces, and my heart suddenly went cold.Anyway, I'm a lucky person, the ice dome shattered, and when I fell, I felt something supported my back, and it hit my body hard, and my waist almost didn't break.Flipping in the air, I hugged an iron chain as thick as a bucket with both hands.

The plane burned into a huge fireball, smashed down heavily, and fell to the bottom after a while.With the help of the light, I finally saw clearly that there is actually a tiankeng under the ice dome!This pit is like a huge bowl, surrounded by rock walls, dozens of thick iron chains are intertwined and tightly connected in the air, like a large net.The bottom of the tiankeng is covered in black mist, and it is impossible to see any buildings. It only gives people a very terrifying feeling, as if it is a hell on earth.

It may be that this chain net is too dense. The three big backs, Huang Mao, and Niu Er are also good fortune tellers. When the ice dome broke and fell, they all grabbed hold of it and hung on it, hugging the chains and began to climb towards the rock wall .I looked up, down, left, and right, but I couldn't see the thin man. Just as I was wondering if he had fallen, a man crawled over from the other end of the iron chain, with a burning torch stuck in his back. , clumsy but agile, his figure is extremely familiar.I recognized it right away, and I was so excited that I almost cried, so I yelled loudly over there: "Monk—shang!"

When the fat man over there heard my shout, he stopped and raised his head to look in my direction. Isn't it the monk?At this time, he had a big face, his clothes were tattered, and he was extremely embarrassed. When he saw me, he was full of energy, grinned, and smiled at me from a long distance: "Xiaoxuanxuan? I have insight into you. Sister! Why did you come down?"

The monk's optimistic attitude has not changed, and I will tell you this immediately. I saw a sense of intimacy in his heart, and I started to crawl towards him.The iron chain was as thick as a person's waist, and it hung down as soon as I turned my body carelessly. I couldn't stabilize my figure several times, so I simply moved inch by inch while holding the iron chain. It took me a long time to climb to the monk's door. Stepping up to him, he patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Where are Dao Scar and Tian Rui?"

The monk pointed at the tiankeng, "They are down there. This tiankeng is easy to get in and difficult to get out of. I have become a monk who grows coptis -- a bitter master. Climbing so high, the queen mother of the ice layer burned for a long time. You can’t even bake a hole. You little comrade still has a bit of conscience, and you know how to come down to save us, don’t forget the Buddha, I’m always good to you.”

Hanging around like this is not an option, so I asked the monk what to do next. He thought about it and said that we still have to go down to the bottom of the tiankeng, after all, Scar and Tianrui are at the bottom of the pit.I thought it was right, so I climbed the iron chain to the cliff with him. After reaching the rock, taking advantage of the unique advantages, I walked down the vines. It took more than half an hour to get down to the Tiankeng bottom of.

The bottom of the pit is very different from what you see from above. When you get down, you can’t see anything clearly because of the mist around you. The ground is full of sandy soil, which is extremely soft and comfortable to step on.At the bottom of the pit, there are some small soil bumps everywhere, raised high, like some small mounds, which were once distributed in a regular dot matrix.The wreckage of the plane in the distance was burning vigorously, illuminating the area on the other side. The monk asked me what was burning, and I said it was an airplane. go and see.

Before I got close, I saw a few figures from a distance. It was obvious that the three people with big backs had also descended to the bottom of the pit. They were standing beside the pile of plane wreckage, walking back and forth, as if they were discussing something. .I asked the monk if he had seen this group of people, but he shook his head, saying that he didn't know their details, and he didn't know where this group of people came from.With my own camp, I didn't have to work for Dabeitou anymore, so I asked Scar where they were, and the monk looked around for a while, his brows furrowed, and he said sorry, Brother Scar and the others seemed to have disappeared.

I wondered how the two people who were fine would disappear if they said they couldn't see them, so I asked him to look for them again.The monk took me around almost the entire bottom of the pit, and the two of them suddenly felt that something was wrong. The scar and Tian Rui had indeed disappeared, not even a shadow.This is not a good thing. I still understand the reason why the two of them are missing.

The monk is rough and fine, he said, don't be in a hurry, the matter is not a foregone conclusion, don't make wild guesses.While they were discussing, on the other side of the wreckage of the plane, those with big backs suddenly became confused and exclaimed, as if something extremely strange had happened.

The monk and I didn't even think about it, so we rushed over there, and after a while, we saw a person running towards him, Niu Er, who looked panic-stricken, obviously frightened, and hit me almost to the ground. .The monk stopped him sideways and asked him what happened to the plane. Niu Er talked incoherently for a long time, his face was blushing, and he pointedly said: "The thief is scary, then... a few ghosts came out of the plane." !"

I wondered if Niu Er was always startled and confused, and a question suddenly came to his mind, so I asked him: "Don't worry, just speak slowly. When you were on the top just now, After you got into the plane, how did you set the plane on fire?"

Niu Er's facial expression was very exaggerated, he tried his best to calm down, and then said: "At that time, Boss Hu didn't know which string was wrong, so he insisted on going inside the plane to have a look; when he went in, he found several coffins inside. , all wrapped in cowhide, he pried one open, and black bugs crawled out of it, we couldn’t get rid of it, the skinny man had to use fire, and if he didn’t want to, he set the plane on fire.”

"Hurry up and go!" Niu Er seemed terrified, "You guys can't deal with that thing that escaped from the plane." After speaking, he ran to the side of the big back, and immediately fell into the darkness.

The monk was very nervous and put on a face of fearlessness, but he didn't believe that there could be any ghosts coming out of the plane, so he took me to the wreckage of the plane.After bypassing a few small soil bags, the open area in front of me was illuminated by flames. When I was about to step into that area from the darkness, suddenly the monk gave me a palm and knocked me to the ground. On a mound.I was hit by him, and my mouth was full of mud, and I spit it out, and when I was about to get angry, I saw the monk's face turned pale, and his tone was quite formal: "Wait, what the hell is this?" Litigation in the underworld—it’s all ghosts, things are not right!"

The way the monk suppressed his smile makes people laugh, but through my observations in the village these days, as long as he shows seriousness, he must not be sloppy at the moment.I lowered my head as much as I could, lying on the mound, looking at the pile of burning wreckage of the plane. Unexpectedly, the next scene made me feel like my heart stopped beating.

I swear I saw something enough to make my head explode. I saw four skeletons appearing in the wreckage of the plane not far away, slowly walking out with a huge coffin.

(End of this chapter)