Endless route

Chapter 9 9. Two gunshots

"So what kind of mine is this?"

"Cooling tubes to freeze rock formations? How many are needed for such a large mining area? What kind of mine is so valuable?"

"This mine has been abandoned for at least several decades. Can this cooling pipe cool it down to this day in one go?"

Everyone else turned to look at Liu Ming, asking questions at once. The flashlight hit Liu Ming's face, shaking him so hard that he couldn't open his eyes. He quickly shook his head to protect his eyes:

"How the hell did I know? There is everything in the sandstone layer. Who knows what's in it? I'm not a geological expert. Stop shaking it. If you shake it any more, you'll go blind."

"If it is determined to be a cooling pipe, then the pipe cannot be cut, and we can only take a detour from other places." Hu Ruihua looked at Zheng Yun with a serious expression.

There must be coolant in the cooling pipe. No matter what type it is, as long as it leaks below, the person below will definitely not be able to hold on for them to go to the rescue.

"Without a map, this road is not easy to navigate." Zheng Yun recalled what he had seen along the way. From beginning to end, he did not see any safety signs and there was no map of the mining area.

It’s also very problematic if you think about it carefully.

The engineering of this mine is extremely delicate. In the last century, if you wanted to do this kind of work, only the national team would end up. The cement road you came from also had English warning signs. It was probably done by the United Kingdom and the United States.

But for a mine of this level, there are no safety signs left, and there are so many corpses in the mine. This is too weird.

"There are too many side roads here. How about we split up?" Hu Ruihua and Zheng Yun discussed.

Zheng Yun felt a lot of pressure. Hu Ruihua asked him about everything, but how could he dare to make decisions easily when he was just starting out?

at this time.

There was an unusual sound behind him.

Everyone looked back, only to find a figure flashing past three hundred meters behind them in the first four-way cave they passed when they came down.

"Who is it?" Huzi reacted the fastest, pulled out his weapon and chased after him with a flashlight.

Zheng Yun and others hurriedly followed. That cave was the first cave. Going up was the abandoned mine building. They couldn't get around Sister Wang, Song Wan, and the others.

That figure runs away when seeing someone, so it must be an outsider. In other words, Song Wan and the others are in danger!

"Damn it."

Liu Ming ran faster than anyone else at this time, took out the thing on his back, and followed Hu Zi closely.

The three hundred meters were reached in an instant, but Huzi and Liu Ming parted ways. Huzi ran into the left mine tunnel to chase people, while Liu Ming climbed the steps and ran up.

The people behind also arrived immediately.

At the fork in the road, Hu Ruihua nodded to Zheng Yun. He and the thin young man followed Hu Zi to the left, letting Zheng Yun go up and see what was going on.

Zheng Yun was physically stronger than Liu Ming and could climb stairs faster. He arrived late but ran back to the abandoned building one step ahead of him and looked around with his flashlight.

"What's wrong?"

Sister Wang was startled.

She and Song Wan were guarding the lobby on the first floor. Xiao Li from the search and rescue team was squatting in the weeds at the door, holding a night vision binoculars to monitor the surroundings and the way in.

"Are you okay?" Zheng Yun asked with a frown.

"It's okay, something happened down there?" Sister Wang covered her chest, frightened by this.

Zheng Yun didn't answer. There were batteries on the floor of the hall and two lamps in the corner. They were even using a water heater to boil water, as if they were camping in the wild.

"Song Wan, are you okay? Huh?"

Liu Ming ran up panting and was stunned when he saw this scene. Then he immediately looked at Zheng Yun: "Oh no, that person didn't enter from here!"

"What do you mean, there are other people down there? We have been here and haven't seen anyone."

Sister Wang's eyes changed, she picked up the walkie-talkie, pressed the button and asked a few questions, but no one responded.

Bang bang!

Two muffled sounds came from the mine tunnel.

Liu Ming's face instantly turned pale. He raised his hand and pointed at the deep mine tunnel. His arms were shaking a little. He lowered his voice and said to Zheng Yun, "This is a gunshot!"

"It's broken, Xiao Li!" Sister Wang panicked and shouted out the door, putting on her cotton clothes and going into the mine.

Search and rescue teams rarely encounter this kind of situation. Xiao Li, who had never seen the world not long after he joined the industry, ran in from the door in a hurry and even fell down.

"It's useless for you to go down. There are all side roads in the mine. It's impossible to catch up without markings. There's a camera on Hu Zi's head. Can you call it out?"

Zheng Yun immediately stopped Sister Wang and Xiao Li. He could understand their emotions, but these words were also true. The more critical the moment, the more calm they must be.

"Yes, let me try." Xiao Li immediately took out a tablet and fiddled with it for a minute, revealing a face that was about to cry: "It's too deep, the signal can't be transmitted."

"I'll go down. You guys should still stay here, but be careful. Don't go down if nothing happens." Zheng Yun patted Liu Ming on the shoulder.

"I'll go with you, don't let me embarrass myself in front of my schoolmates." Liu Ming forced out a half smile, shook the thing in his hand and said, "I can use this."

Zheng Yun glanced at him, Liu Ming was not a face-conscious person, and whether he was embarrassed or not was just an excuse. He had been embarrassed a lot before, and he had never cared about it.

"That's why you have to stay, we need you here too." Zheng Yun still refused Liu Ming. He was a second-generation rich man with no shortage of money, so why would he be wading into such muddy waters.

"Brother Zheng, I'll go down with you." Sister Wang took out two handfuls of weapons from the black backpack on the ground and threw them to Zheng Yun. Judging from her expression, she must have made up her mind.

Zheng Yun didn't say anything more, asked Liu Ming to be careful, and then immediately took Sister Wang into the mine.

The two of them ran into the first four-way cave in one breath, looked around carefully, and walked in the direction of Hu Ruihua and Hu Zi, that is, directly ahead.

This mine tunnel is different from the one directly behind. Just over a hundred meters away, there is a set of steps going down. After that, there are steps every hundred meters.

Five or six floors later, they entered a three-way cave, but this cave was as deep and endless as a subway tunnel. The width and height in three directions were more than ten meters, and the flashlight could not illuminate the end at all.

Water was still dripping from the roof of the cave.

The sound of dripping water sounded from all directions, echoing ethereally throughout the cave. If there was any slight movement, they could not hear it clearly.

This should be the main mine road, with an aging ropeway overhead and abandoned railroad tracks on the ground, probably several kilometers deep to the left and right, otherwise there would be no need to lay railroad tracks.

Zheng Yun could not see any figures or light sources. He and Sister Wang stood in the corner of the deep and dark mine tunnel, and their two flashlights could not cover all three directions.

This environment gave people a strong sense of uneasiness. No one knew what was in the darkness. Zheng Yun's heartbeat accelerated, and Sister Wang beside him also breathed rapidly and turned pale.

"Brother Zheng, it's on the left." Sister Wang said in a low voice and pointed at the wall beside her. There was a very hidden mark, which was a half-hand print.

Zheng Yun nodded and kept vigilant, walking to the left, his brain working at full speed, writing down the route.

If the abandoned mine building is on the first floor, then this should be on the third floor. The cave where the ventilation hole was discovered just now is on the second floor, to their left.

Not sure how far he had walked, Zheng Yun vaguely heard some sounds, and then made a gesture to ask Sister Wang to slow down, and then ran forward more than ten meters.

There is another branch on the left.

Zheng Yun subconsciously raised his flashlight and shined it. He saw a white figure hanging in the air, right in front of his face. He was so frightened that he almost threw the flashlight away.

This man hangs from the top of the mine tunnel.

The head is tilted ninety degrees.

A rotten hand hung in front of Zheng Yun's eyes, almost touching his head. The sudden darkness and coldness around him almost scared people crazy.

"this……"

Zheng Yun took a breath and realized that it was a corpse. He was dressed like an explorer. He had been dead for who knows how many years. There were still two bullet holes in his body.

"Ah." Sister Wang exclaimed in a low voice.

The two gunshot holes were obviously freshly shot. It is estimated that the two gunshots heard just now were shot by Huzi on the corpse, hitting the dead man.

"What's going on here? This person was fine, so why did he hang himself?" Sister Wang's hands were shaking a little, and she walked to Zheng Yun and trembled slightly.

"..."

Zheng Yun said nothing because he could see that deep in the mine behind the corpses, there were seven or eight corpses piled next to a deep cave with a gentle slope.