Endless route

Chapter 11 11. White mist in cave

Hearing this question, Zheng Yun suddenly recalled a story his adoptive father told him before.

It is said that about a hundred years ago, a Jiang family member broke into an ancient ruins alone. The ruins were built like a maze, and there were corpses at every fork in the road.

The situation is similar to this. The ruins are located underground. In the deepest part, there are pavilions, waterside pavilions, arch bridges and underground rivers. You can even go boating, which is amazing.

The Jiang family boasted that they knew a lot about ancient and modern times, and had some knowledge of the Feng Shui secrets of various sects in the past dynasties, so they studied the ruins for half a month, trying to decipher the meaning of the maze and the corpses.

But he just couldn't crack it, he was driven crazy by it, and he still kept talking about it after he was found.

The adoptive father did not say what the secrets of the ruins were, but he said meaningfully that Feng Shui was never meant for the dead. It was all used to trick the living. The more you believed in it, the more miserable you would be.

That's indeed what happened.

This is obviously a Western mine, and most of the people who died were Westerners. However, Hu Ruihua and the others thought of Eastern Feng Shui, and the authorities were really confused.

In fact, it is understandable

I am standing here on behalf of Jianghe Pawn Shop. My ancestors were all engaged in business. When encountering incomprehensible things, they tend to think this way.

On the contrary, Zheng Yun himself was very sober, because he didn't think about it, he knew his own level.

What did Brother Zheng say? You seemed to have discovered something just now? Sister Wang asked.

The rest of the people also looked at Zheng Yun.

Zheng Yun sighed in his heart. He didn't know what Feng Shui said about this. He racked his brains to think of a story, but the result was that Feng Shui was useless.

As a college student and a materialist warrior, he didn't really believe in these things from the bottom of his heart. When he was working at a pawn shop earlier, he just did his homework and didn't study these things in depth. He couldn't even compile them. Say two sentences.

Now I can only show my timidity.

After clearing his throat, Zheng Yun spoke softly and expressed his thoughts: This person has been soaked in water.

Who? Huzi was stunned.

Zheng Yun raised his flashlight. The five of them were startled and anxious. After they were reunited, they breathed a sigh of relief and rested on the spot at the fork in the road.

But in fact.

There was a body above his head.

Zheng Yun used a flashlight to hit the corpse's hand. There were obvious signs of blisters on the fingers, and most of them were rotten and almost boneless. The scene was too horrific to look at.

There is a layer of white frost on the surface of the corpse. If you don't look carefully, it is easy to overlook this.

He almost had his head touched by this rotten hand just now, but after taking a closer look, he discovered the problem.

Ah? Sister Wang whispered.

It's true. Huzi nodded.

I suspect that the mine was flooded. This man did not hang himself, but floated to the top of the ropeway with the current, and his head was stuck in the rope.

Zheng Yun moved the flashlight up again. The corpse's neck was tilted and its chin was pinned above the ropeway. It looked like it was hanged, but normal people couldn't hang like this.

So the piles of corpses we saw along the way were all washed together by the water? It has nothing to do with Yin and Yang Feng Shui, and is purely a natural formation? Huzi asked.

He couldn't accept this statement. He was scared to death, but it turned out that the water rushed out?

I think so. Zheng Yun nodded. As a member of the Lao Jiang family, he was actually talking about scientific principles. This inference was somewhat disrespectful to his ancestors.

It makes sense. There are corpses in the ventilation holes. They should have fallen into the holes with the water when the water receded, and were blocked by the barbed wire. The emaciated young man nodded in approval.

Zheng Yun's statement can explain the reason for the gathering of corpses, and the possibility is extremely high.

The difficulty in thinking about this is that most people are so frightened in this situation and environment that it is difficult to stay rational and look for clues to reason.

But where does so much water come from here? If you want to flood such a large mine, the amount of water is quite large. Hu Ruihua frowned and looked at the water drops falling from the top of the rock wall.

It's the rainy season now. It will rain heavily at any time. We may also be flooded? Huzi's face changed.

Not in a short time. What's strange now is how these people died. Zheng Yun looked at the corpse again, but he couldn't see the real cause of death at all.

Maybe he drowned because he couldn't get out?

It's also possible that locals are responsible. There was something wrong with that figure just now. Let's find the target and leave here as soon as possible. Hu Ruihua stood up.

After a brief discussion, a few people decided to take the cave iron stairs. This mine is winding and it is easy to get lost. The stairs are more intuitive and easy to go up and down.

Although the iron staircase has faults.

But with climbing ropes and climbing spikes, they could slide down to the level where the target was.

Everyone agreed.

The iron gate leading to the rift valley cave was at the end of this fork. Zheng Yun and the other two remained vigilant and continued to move deeper. When passing by the seven or eight corpses, Huzi murmured:

These corpses were really washed together by the water. I should have thought of that too.

You can't think of anything. You're so frightened that your face turns pale and your brain turns into mush. Looking at Brother Zheng is like visiting your own home. The thin young man curled his lips.

Brother Zheng has been talking very little this whole trip. He should have noticed it a long time ago? Sister Wang also added.

Study hard, you still have a long way to go. Hu Ruihua smiled and patted Hu Zi on the shoulder.

After confirming that the bodies were washed together by the water, everyone was no longer afraid and still had the time to chat.

...

Zheng Yun didn't answer. He really didn't know what his image was in their eyes.

I don't talk much because I don't want to show my cowardice and I can't lose the face of the pawn shop and the Jiang family. It's really not the same as visiting my own house, it's not that exaggerated.

Not long after leaving, several people walked to the square iron door again. Hu Ruihua walked around, but still didn't know how the door closed by itself.

But that's not important.

Times have changed. As long as it's not about gods, ghosts, ghosts and the like, it's just a matter of two or three shots.

Lifting the iron door together, everyone hung the locks on the same climbing rope, connected each other with the climbing rope, and then went down one by one, stepping on the iron stairs.

Zheng Yun took a flashlight and scanned around.

The cave is generally long and narrow like a rift valley, with no ends visible from left to right, and a width of more than fifty meters from front to back. There is a layer of white mist at the bottom of the cave, making it impossible to tell the true depth.

The iron stairs looked insignificant on the cliff, and a few people were like ants standing on the edge of the cliff. If you were afraid of heights, you would probably be scared to death on the spot.

Zheng Yun looked down.

There are six or seven floors of stairs, each with a span of about ten meters, and the deepest part is submerged in white mist.

This view is truly rare.

The clouds and mountains are shrouded in mist like a fairyland.

Zheng Yun would not be surprised if there were an immortal standing in a small boat at this time, coming from the deep clouds and mist, or if there was an immortal pavilion deep in the white mist.

Probably going to the sixth floor. Hu Ruihua took the lead to go down. The iron stairs were very strong. They had already walked through them once, so this time the speed was faster.

Zheng Yun took a flashlight and shined it into the white mist. Whether it was influenced by the stories told by his adoptive father or a premonition, he always felt that there was something in the mist.

Think carefully.

In the town of La Maine at the foot of the mountain, there seemed to be a layer of white mist, but it was thinner.

Not long after walking, the five people descended to the fourth floor of stairs one after another, which reached the break. Further down to the sixth floor, several stairs in the middle were demolished.

Tie several climbing ropes to the stairs.

Huzi was the first to slide down. After landing on the sixth floor and confirming that the iron staircase was strong, the rest of the people descended in turn. All five people descended to this floor.

They didn't leave anyone behind because it was too dangerous to stay here alone. In addition, they had complete rock climbing equipment, and the thin young man was already a rock climbing expert.

Not to mention that the rope was cut, even if all the stairs above were demolished, as long as there was an iron rod left, he could throw the rope up and climb up to fix it.

After Zheng Yun came down, he still used a flashlight to observe as usual. This level was already close to the white mist. If he went down one more level, the white mist would cover his calves.

What's also strange is that they seemed to be the first to take this road, and there are no traces around.

It should be the aerosol produced by mining and water vapor, and the low temperature condensed into this white mist? Huzi said to Zheng Yun, and also talked about scientific principles.

Zheng Yun nodded and stopped looking. Seeing this, the others gathered around an iron door. The thin young man took out a crowbar and worked together to pry open the door.

Click.

The door opened.

This kind of door does not have a lock, but it is too thick and old, so it takes a lot of effort to pry it open.

It was dark inside the door.

Huzi was the first one to go in and use his flashlight to look around. There was a mine tunnel in front of him, but the excavation traces became a little rough and pitted.

It's the coldest here.

Zheng Yun shivered as soon as he entered. The temperature was estimated to be about ten degrees below zero. The further inside, the colder it became, but they were dressed thickly, so it wasn't a big problem.

The group of people walked quietly and moved forward very cautiously. After about two hundred meters, a cave and a huge ice pit appeared at the end of their sight.

Ice from the pit spilled into the surrounding area.

Everyone could directly see that there were a large number of things of different colors frozen in the ice. When they looked closely with flashlights, they all turned out to be the corpses of explorers or gold diggers.

There must be dozens of them, right?

Huzi looked back at Zheng Yun. He knew it was water, but his scalp was still numb.

Not only him, Zheng Yun was also numb.

Everyone present should be numb.

Let's go ahead and take a look.

Hu Ruihua took the lead to move forward.

The ice under their feet grew thicker and thicker from shallow to deep. When they stepped into the ice pit, it was already more than one meter.

I'm so stupid!

Huzi exclaimed.

He shined his flashlight downwards and discovered that this was not a pit at all, but a one-meter-deep well. The entire well was filled with corpses, all completely frozen by ice.

Following his exclamation, several flashlights illuminated the entire ice layer. The ice layer was as clear as crystal, embedded in the deepest part of this abandoned mine.

But the corpses inside were densely packed, some were badly soaked in water, but some had clear faces, with their faces facing upwards and their eyes wide open!

Shake roughly in a circle.

There are hundreds of them!

Damn it, Brother Hu, why don't we withdraw? This place is really not for people. I don't want the money. The thin young man's lips trembled and he didn't dare to look carefully.

This scene is too weird.

The corpse seemed to have poured out of the ground and was frozen in the bottom of the abandoned mine, never to leave.