Endless route

Chapter 261 31. Strange mud and the accident expedition team

The underground waterway is dark and deep, and the mottled light and shadow of the flashlight is looming from the left hand, casting on the stone brick wall in front of Zheng Yun and others, as if they are looking here.

"Master Immortal, what do you say?"

Jidao looked back at Zheng Yun.

When they swim in the underground waterway, they inevitably bring up the silt underneath them, causing the water at the fork to become turbid. Moreover, they always hold flashlights in their hands.

When Ji Dao saw the light of the other party's flashlight, the other party should have also seen them, or even seen the light long ago.

"Go on as usual."

Zheng Yun patted Ji Dao on the shoulder.

It was impossible for them to turn off the flashlight and move forward in such an environment. Their position would be exposed and others would see them.

Ji Dao nodded and swam forward. To be precise, the ghost pulled him forward, and his random plowing in the water did not provide any motivation.

Everyone passed through the fork in turn.

Zheng Yun glanced to the left as he passed by. The other party was at the next two forks. Two flashlights shined through the turbid water. The light was so dazzling that he could not see how many of them there were.

I can't tell whether it is east or west.

"Master Immortal, they are wandering around here, they must have no clue. What if they follow us?"

Ji Dao was a little more wary. They had the drawings in their hands, so they always suspected that others would be thinking about them.

"We'll follow you later." Zheng Yun shook his head. There should be a lot of teams down here. Who would be free to follow them?

Ji Dao said this as if they were children strutting through the city holding gold ingots, but the real situation is that there are few teams in the underground waterway that are 'stronger' than them.

The Yin soldiers carried steel spikes captured from the deep sea.

You can also open the fairy gate at any time and invite the ghost figurines to come out.

There are seven or eight evil ghost figurines running around here. Most people really can't stand it. Not to mention neurotoxins, even if they are hit, they can't stand it. The ghost generals vomited some blood last time.

A team of nine people swam across the fork one after another, passing through the opponent's flashlight light. Regardless of whether the opponent was an eastern or western team, Zheng Yun had no intention of communicating with the opponent.

"It should be about two kilometers away."

Ji Dao continued to lead the way, speeding up, and forks appeared every certain distance.

The underground waterway is deathly silent, and the landscape along the way is almost unchanged, except for the occasional moss and green algae on the brick walls beside you, and the occasional well exit above your head.

Each exit is connected to a certain place in the ancient city, or it may be the backyard of ordinary people, the bottom of the river in the city, or it may be the side yard of the mansion of a powerful person or the dark place of the street.

For the archaeological team, every place in the ancient city has research value, but not all places can be accessed.

Zheng Yun went up and took a look. Each well was tightly sealed by a special stone cover, and no swamps flooded in.

Something feels wrong.

It's still hard to tell what was wrong, but Zheng Yun was filled with doubts and a subtle sense of danger.

Walking straight along this route, about halfway through, the situation ahead suddenly changed. The mud rose from one meter to two meters, until the underground waterway was completely filled with mud.

The entire passage is full of silt, and the darkness lies in front of the field of vision. The slippery and sticky texture is gently disturbed and disintegrated by the water flow, as if there is something in the silt. It is hidden at the edge of the silt and will appear once the silt falls off. .

There is a sense of danger in this scene.

Looking at it for a long time makes my back feel cold.

This black mud looks so weird.

After everyone stopped and observed carefully, Zheng Yun concluded that the road was blocked and the only way to get over was to drill into the mud, but they didn't know how long the mud was blocked.

It's best to take a detour.

Their destination was the south. They could just find a fork to go around and change to an underground waterway to continue walking.

So everyone exited the dead end and swam to the left at the nearest fork until they found the north-south underground waterway again, and used flashlights to observe the situation in the depths from a distance.

Also blocked.

This passage is also full of mud.

"There may be a leak, and a swamp came in, blocking the entire area nearby." Ji Dao speculated.

Zheng Yun looked up at the top of the mud and was silent for a moment. Without saying anything, he turned to his left hand and continued to move forward. He swam to the next fork in one breath, only to see that the end was also full of mud.

The total distance between the three forks is 300 meters, and this piece of mud actually covers such a large area.

"Go around a few more and have a look."

Zheng Yun led the people to move forward.

After that, they looked at several forks, but the situation did not improve at all. They were all blocked by black silt. The silt in several passages even flooded the forks.

The road to the south was blocked.

If this silt is swamp mud that has settled for hundreds of years, then there must be a leakage point in the south. As long as a well is not covered properly, so much silt can be squeezed in.

"There's flashlight again."

Ji Dao pointed to the distance on his left hand.

About three or four hundred meters away, a weak flashlight light came from the front, shining through the muddy water toward them.

This team is not the same team just now. The other party is swimming from the front, which means that there may not be a road ahead.

You may have to drill through the mud.

They had made psychological preparations in advance. They would definitely have to drill through the mud when entering the swamp, and they also brought relevant equipment to drill.

"Wait until they come over and take a look."

Zheng Yun looked at the other party and did not act hastily.

The goal of that team of explorers was here, probably to return to the east city wall to replenish supplies. The distance between the flashlight lights was getting closer and closer. When the two sides were less than 200 meters away, the other party had the ability to lower the flashlight to prevent the flashlight light from shining on them. .

Zheng Yun saw the other person clearly at this time. He was wearing a uniform diving suit, carrying a box in his hand, and a backpack on his back. There were more than twenty people in total, and he could not tell what race they were.

The distance between each other is getting closer and closer. This team of explorers are covered in mud. Only the diving goggles are clean. They should have drilled through the mud but failed in the end. They did not get through in one breath.

A group of Western explorers.

Zheng Yun saw that the first member of the other party had a Western appearance in his diving goggles. The other party also saw their Eastern faces at the same time, so he did not stop.

The two sides passed each other.

There was no verbal exchange.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Master Xian, it seems that the competition between the East and the West is really fierce. These people don't know who to show their bad faces to, and those who don't know think something happened to them."

Ji Dao floated in the air with his arms folded. When he saw the cold eyes of this group of people, he immediately sneered in a strange way.

No matter if they understand it or not.

Anyway, I couldn’t understand what they were saying.

But the other party did not stop, and probably did not hear these words. They formed a line and passed the fork, and quickly headed east.

Zheng Yun looked carefully and saw that each of them had ropes tied around their waists. There were twenty-three of them in total, but only the last five were clean, and four members were being carried at the same time.

Something happened to them.

Maybe Nodomi was right. This team of explorers lost a lot of people, maybe because of an accident in the mud.

It can be roughly seen that they are connected to each other with ropes, and they line up one by one to drill into the mud to explore the path. If each rope section is five meters long, they have drilled about a hundred meters in total.

It didn't even reach the end of a hundred meters.

It's actually not surprising.

The silt can spread for thousands of meters in the east-west direction, and the range in the north-south direction is also inevitable, and it may be thousands of meters.

But I don’t know whether the four explorers are dead or alive, and I don’t know what they encountered in the mud.

Watching the team leave, Zheng Yun took out several mobile phones from his backpack. His own mobile phone had no signal at all, but the special operations mobile phone issued by the archaeological team was different. The signal was actually full, so he called Kedester. A phone call.

at the same time.

on the ground.

In the communication base of Gubo camp.

An emergency communication request popped up on the screen. It came from Zheng Yun, Group A of the Fuen Archaeological Team, dialing an unknown number.

The mobile phones of the archaeological team are all connected to the exclusive network of the communication base. In order to achieve the goal of zero casualties, there are people dedicated to handling emergency communications, and a rescue team is on standby around the clock.

Zheng Yun didn't know this.

He never held a single meeting.

So when the signal was connected and the communication signal was transmitted to Cadest, and after answering the call, Zheng Yun's voice rang in the ears of Cadest and the emergency personnel at the same time:

"A group of explorers from the Royal Museum just left the underground waterway of the ancient city. There are twenty-three people in total. Four of them are dead or alive. They should return to the western camp soon to find out what they did."

"Okay chief, we have entered the Western Camp to apply for documents. Everything is going well. We have gained the trust of the Royal Museum and obtained some key information."

"There are currently sixteen expedition teams coming to the Royal Museum, distributed in many places throughout the ruins. There are five teams in Ancient City No. 1, three of which are inside the ruins."

"They are independent of each other and have not disclosed or shared much information. However, the No. 1 team brought in a large number of steel plates and fixings from the outside world for unknown purposes."

"Team No. 2 did not enter the underground waterway from the ancient city wall. They took a kayak through the swamp and entered the center of Nanze Ancient City. They are still in the early research stage of exploration."

"Another team entered the ruins seven days ago and entered the underground waterway from the east city wall. They have not returned yet, but the number is forty, not twenty-three."

"In addition, as soon as we entered the camp, my ex-wife received an invitation to join the team. It was from the main expedition team of the Lyle Foundation. My ex-wife and Nia are both members of this secret organization. This time the foundation sent three teams .”

"I briefly took a look at the member lists of these three teams. They are all famous Western explorers who hold titles in the Royal Museum Explorers Association and receive huge stipends."

"If nothing else happens, we will enter one of the teams, and I will join as my original identity, and then I can continue to obtain their intelligence."

Kedester replied immediately.

His mobile phone is also an Oriental mobile phone, and the signal card is issued in Fuen City, so he can receive this call, but there is no dialing information displayed, not even the dialed number.

A little strange.

But not worth mentioning.

"Okay, if you have any new news, send a text message to this phone number." Zheng Yun nodded thoughtfully.

"But chief, you don't have a mobile phone number."

Kedester quickly reported the situation.

"Don't have a mobile phone number?"

Zheng Yun picked up the phone and took a look. After seeing the emergency communication sign on the screen, he immediately realized what had happened. His expression changed slightly and he said, "We'll talk about it later."

After saying that, Zheng Yun immediately hung up the phone.

"What's wrong, Master Xian?" Jidao asked curiously.

"It shouldn't matter." Zheng Yun shook his head. This may have leaked some information, but with Xu Yu supporting him, he should be able to handle it even if problems arise.

Just turn big things into small things.

As for what Xu Yu would think after learning about it.

He is the successor of Jianghe Pawnbroker, and he only has a few undercover agents in the West. Although it may violate the ancestral precepts, it should be very reasonable and not too outrageous.

Each generation has its own approach.

From the moment Zheng Yun obtained the Ghost Seal, the path taken by the contemporary Jianxiansi was destined to be different.

In addition, don't worry about whether you have connections with the West or whether you have caused any troubles. As long as you contribute to the archaeological mission, once you hand in the drawings of the ancient city except Dusi Mansion, no matter how big the problem is, it will no longer be a problem.

"This team probably didn't bring steel plates just now." Zheng Yun continued to ask, they still had to speed up the progress.

"I can't tell." Ji Dao shook his head.

Zheng Yun thought about it for a moment, and found out that Kedester's words were actually very clear. He thought that team No. 3 was the team he had just met, but they were missing seventeen members.

However, steel plates and fixings are also useful. When silt is encountered, steel plates can be used to splice steel pipes into the areas blocked by the silt, and the silt can be extracted and used as channels.

Maybe the twenty-three people just now were making steel plates. After the steel plates were used up, they went back to the East Wall Camp to get them.

It’s hard to say.

You can go and have a look.

"Let's go back." Zheng Yun walked towards the west. Where explorers passed, they would leave traces in the mud.

Everyone took action immediately, following the path of the expedition team just now, and swam quickly toward the west of the underground waterway.

They watched every fork in the road.

It was not until after the seven forks that everyone discovered some traces, but the situation was not optimistic, because the water in front of them turned faintly red, as if it was dyed with blood.

In addition, the mud on the ground shows traces of transportation. Someone dug the mud here and piled it to the north.

Turn your head and look south.

There is no one in this sewer, but there is very little mud, and there is a line of strange numbers carved on the wall.

"614?"

Ji Dao read out the number and wondered to Zheng Yun: "Is this the depth of silt in this sewer?"

Zheng Yun walked into this passage without saying a word and walked towards the mud at the southern end. He kept observing the environment and confirmed that the red water flowed out from here. It was thin but conspicuous.

Zheng Yun stopped a hundred meters away from the blockage. The water in front of him was extremely turbid. A large amount of silt slowly settled in the water body, and everything in front of him turned completely black.

can not see clearly.

But the fact that it is so turbid must prove that the expedition team just drilled into the mud here.

There is no steel plate.

So that team of explorers was probably a team of forty people, and they lost seventeen people in this place?

If this is the case.

Zheng Yun couldn't tell at this moment whether the other party had failed to get through the mud, or whether he had come out of the mud.

This team of explorers may have passed through this section of silt and entered the other side of the silt. After experiencing an accident there, they hurriedly came back out of the silt.

Five members are clean.

But they were probably on duty outside the silt, responsible for backing up and providing first aid to members who entered the silt.

What's behind the silt?

If there is a break in the underground waterway and a swamp pours in, will there be swamp creatures entering here as well?

The water here is stained with blood. There is a high probability that someone was injured and bleeding profusely. What could cause someone to bleed so much?

There is one major problem.

All the wells have been closed along the way. Why did the ancient city of Nanze do this? Did ancient people take refuge in underground sewers back then, or was it to block something?

If there really is something.

Why should it be sealed in the main city?

"Master Immortal, let's go in. There is an underground darkroom a thousand meters away. We can continue down from the darkroom and go around to the second floor of the underground waterway to reach the Dusi Mansion."

"Not all of the explorers in the team died just now, which means that the danger ahead is not high, and we don't need to worry at all."

"If that doesn't work, just invite the Yin Ghost Warriors. As long as the Yin Ghost Warriors are born, no matter what living creatures there are, they will be poisoned, unless the danger on the other side of the mud is not caused by living creatures."

Ji Dao offered words of persuasion.

The Yin Ghost Terracotta Warriors should be pretty good at drilling through mud. They may be born with the ability to drill through mud. Let the Yin Ghost Warriors lead them forward, and they can use rapid speed in two or three times to pass through hundreds of meters of mud in an instant.

The ghostly figurines scurry around very quickly.

It’s just that ordinary people may not be able to bear it.

"Not appropriate."

Zheng Yun shook his head slightly.

The Yin Gui Terracotta Warriors are originally a means of underwater ghosts, and they must have many wonderful uses here. However, there are too many explorers around, and if the Yin Ghost Warriors are invited out, the consequences will be disastrous.

It's better to explore the way with Yin soldiers.

They have an underwater camera on hand that can be controlled by wire or wirelessly transmit images. If the Yin soldiers take a look at the camera, they can know the situation on the other side without any harm.

This method is the best.