Endless route

Chapter 13 13.Rescue the target

Everyone pointed their flashlights at the depths of the ice lake and used beams of light to guide the direction. Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua carried ropes and first aid equipment on their backs and walked forward on the ice lake.

The glacial lake reflects light.

The entire ice layer is transparent and shiny, and the dim lake water reflects the light, making the deep mine pit appear dark yellow.

As others watched, the two of them walked further and further away, getting smaller and smaller in their sight, and gradually reached the center of the ice lake, with their shadows covering most of the lake.

Hu Ruihua held a cigarette in his mouth, took a deep puff and looked at his feet: I have never seen such a scene in my life. The living room in Prince Yama's house is probably just like this.

Zheng Yun looked down and saw that the water deep in the ice was living water. The strange corpses were slowly floating with the current, swimming slowly under the lake like a school of fish.

The corpses were frozen at the bottom of the lake, floating clockwise all the time, like a terrifying whirlpool that seemed to swallow up the people above.

The number is more than a thousand.

This deep pit might be a pond used to store water in the mine. It is extremely large, but wherever you scan with your flashlight, the density of corpses is the same...

An underground corpse lake deep in an abandoned mine.

Walking in this place, Zheng Yun felt like he was walking into the underworld, and the coolness never stopped on his back.

really.

Zheng Yun replied softly.

He guessed that his adoptive father had never heard of such a place.

This scene is not only terrifying and weird, but also spectacular and shocking. Although it is not a good thing, there are really not many opportunities to witness such a scene with your own eyes.

I don't know what happened to cause such a tragedy. The decomposition of these corpses is almost the same. They should have died on the same day or even at the same time.

Hu Ruihua's words became more dense, and the red dot at the end of the cigarette kept flashing. He took a puff and lit it up. After walking a short distance, the cigarette was almost gone.

Can't tell.

Zheng Yun shook his head.

If they died on the same day, it was most likely a mining accident and they drowned.

There was living water under the ice, which meant that there must be a passage deep down. The fact that the bodies were so densely packed and did not float away with the water also meant that the passage was not used by humans.

The dead cannot get out.

It's choking enough for a living person to get out.

There is no way to go down to the bottom of the pit. The only way out is the iron corridor halfway up and the mine entrance. However, the pit is thirty or forty meters deep, and it is impossible to get up without a rope.

But why no rope?

So many people don’t even have a rope? What were they doing gathering at the bottom of the pit without a rope?

Even if there is no rope, when the water floods in, they can float upward with the water, and then find the exit and swim out. So many people should not drown.

Unless the passages are blocked.

Thinking of this, Zheng Yun scanned down the ice lake. There were many mine crossings on the iron corridor, but they were not impossible to seal.

As expected, it's really a pile of corpses. Hu Ruihua spoke again, pointing the flashlight forward.

They were already halfway there, and the flashlight was enough to illuminate Demona's side. It was indeed a pile of corpses three meters high, with a red light shining from the top.

The two of them were on alert.

Those corpses were all people of this era, and their clothes and equipment were similar to Zheng Yun, Hu Ruihua and others, but at this time they were piled up in the corner of the ice lake.

Hu Ruihua raised his gun and pointed it behind the pile of corpses. The entire ice surface was unobstructed. Only the blind spot behind the pile of corpses was unknown. He didn't know what might be there.

The two of them did not approach the pile of corpses immediately, but walked around half a circle along the pile of corpses. Hu Ruihua was responsible for staying vigilant, while Zheng Yun looked around for clues.

There are some marks on the ice.

These traces are messy and mixed, some are old and new, but all the footprints are towards the pile of corpses, and only a few of them are heading outward, three or four at most.

These corpses seemed to have walked over on their own, or were dragged here, and then the traces on the surface of the ice were erased during the dragging process.

Hu Ruihua walked around the pile of corpses and took a look. After confirming that no one was there, he returned to Zheng Yun with a gun.

anyone there?

Can you move?

Zheng Yun shouted upwards. The three-meter height prevented him from seeing the top and he didn't know what was on it, but he had some intuition that it was dangerous up there.

There was silence.

No response.

What should we do? Hu Ruihua shined a flashlight on the pile of corpses and asked with a serious expression.

Let me go.

Zheng Yun took off his equipment, covered his mouth and nose with clothes, put on gloves and prepared to climb up.

Both of them had constricted pupils and cyanotic lips, but Zheng Yun was not very good at using a gun, so he asked Hu Ruihua to guard him below, in case anything happened.

Be careful.

Hu Ruihua nodded, took two steps back, and used a flashlight to light the way for Zheng Yun.

Zheng Yun closed his eyes hard and took a deep breath. He waited for a few seconds before opening them and looked at the pile of corpses in front of him.

Think of it like climbing an iceberg.

These things are covered in frost and white. As long as you don't look carefully and don't think about what you are stepping on and holding on to, there will be no psychological danger.

After being mentally prepared, Zheng Yun secretly said he was offended, then walked to the iceberg and started climbing. He didn't care about anything and stepped on whatever he could.

He was extremely fast and climbed more than half way up in just a few moments. He stretched out his head and looked towards the center of the top.

But what I didn't expect was.

The red light actually shone directly on his face. As soon as he climbed up, his eyes were red.

Zheng Yun's scalp went numb, his body swayed slightly, and the things under his feet came loose. He almost missed the step and fell down, so he could only bravely rush up.

At this time, he had already leaned out half of his body.

Looking forward again, this time he avoided the red light, but the scene in front of him was strange and unspeakable.

A blond woman wearing a pink ski suit was lying on her back on the top of the pile of corpses, her eyes wide open, and a pair of light blue eyes staring straight at herself.

She is laughing.

The smile was extremely weird.

The muscles at the corners of the mouth pulled the entire cheek into a ball, as if the plastic surgery had failed and lost elasticity. Most of the face was distorted, which looked very scary.

...

Zheng Yun looked at the woman and stared at her for a few seconds, confirming that she was Demona. She must have been frozen, her expression and mind were slow and stiff.

She was happy to be rescued.

But his face was frozen, so he smiled like this.

There are other possibilities, but Zheng Yun doesn't want to think about it, and it's useless to think about it. He must earn this money. No matter who she is, even if she is not a human, she must come down.

So Zheng Yun said nothing, climbed up with all his strength, walked up to her face, leaned over and pulled off the hood of her clothes, covering her face.

Then Zheng Yun took action without hesitation, picked her up by the waist, put her on her back, tied a rope around her, and slid down backwards.

A chill ran down his back.

Demona on her back was as cold as a corpse, her whole body was exuding cold air, and her body was almost stiff. If it had been a few days later, she probably wouldn't have survived.

The way down was relatively easy. Hu Ruihua was extremely nervous. Seeing Zheng Yun carrying someone down so quickly, he quickly reached down to help.

Go quickly.

Zheng Yun went down to the ice, said something to Hu Ruihua, and immediately walked towards other teammates.

What's wrong?

Hu Ruihua noticed that Zheng Yun's tone was wrong, his face changed and he asked quickly, observing his surroundings vigilantly.

There might be someone else up there.

Zheng Yun lowered his voice and said.

After he went up just now, apart from Demona, he also glanced deeper and found that there was basically no hoarfrost on one or two of the corpses.

Most likely a living person.

Moreover, he is a living person who has just arrived.

Zheng Yun didn't use his flashlight to look over there, pretending not to see them, picked up Demona and left.

The target has been found and the mission is about to end. One more thing is worse than one less thing. Since they chose to pretend to be dead, Zheng Yun has no reason to expose it.

Neither party is easy to mess with.

The other party is extremely familiar with the mine tunnels, can run around without turning on the light, and behaves mysteriously and strangely. Most of the time, these explorer corpses were piled up by them.

But Zheng Yun and the others were not good at fighting each other. Everyone was armed with a gun. When Huzi saw a figure, he fired two shots hard and fast. He was waiting at the entrance of the mine.

It's hard for anyone to get shot.

Zheng Yun was wary of them, and they didn't want to be shot. The two sides maintained a tacit understanding and let this matter go. If there was a real conflict, nothing could be said.