Endless route

Chapter 290 60. Weird Dark Room and Lake Rainforest

After changing the diving equipment on the kayak, Zheng Yun took the two ghost generals and jumped into the lake first. He first observed the situation in the shallow layer of the swamp lake to see if he could find any clues.

The members of the rescue team brought by Li Wu are all good players. They will also go to the camp to change into diving suits and follow them soon.

Wow.

With a slight sound of water.

The things in front of me are covered with a black and green filter, my whole body is soaked by the turbid lake water, and the sunlight is blocked by the swirling sand.

Zheng Yun glanced around.

Several wooden coffins floated out from the dim green lake water deep under their feet, sweeping up wisps of mud like black gauze, carrying strings of bubbles, and quietly floated toward them.

They don't rise at the same time.

Instead, they were separated by a few meters like a queue.

Following the direction in which the wooden coffin floated out, looking towards the deepest part of the lake bottom, the mud and sand were surrounded by debris, like a dead pool that was so dark and bottomless that it was difficult to penetrate even with a strong flashlight.

"One, two...four."

Zheng Yun counted and found that there were four wooden coffins under their feet, but there should be two exits from the wooden coffins.

Can't see the specific situation clearly.

But there is basically no danger in shallow water.

There were several fish that had been swept into the lake, as well as rotten branches and vines hanging near the water, mixed with many man-made artifacts that might contain swamp creatures.

After this place collapsed, a large amount of messy debris was poured into the surrounding area, including the campsite of the Western Expedition. You can see with the naked eye several brightly colored tents hanging on the treetops in the depths.

Continue swimming downstream.

Sunlight is blocked by layers.

Zheng Yun took out a searchlight and swam some distance toward the shore. When he reached the edge of the collapse area, he saw with the naked eye strands of dark mud flowing deep into the sea, carrying a large amount of debris.

Sooner or later, this place will be filled up. No matter how big the cracks opened by Western explorers are, they will not be able to withstand the flow of silt.

"Zheng Yun, where are you?"

Li Wu's voice sounded from the intercom.

Zheng Yun subconsciously looked up and saw several kayaks sailing overhead, blocking the sun and creating long and narrow shadows.

"Here." Zheng Yun floated up to the lake.

"Okay, lead the team." Li Wu took action immediately.

The rescue team members wearing professional diving suits fell into the water from the edge of the kayak, holding several orange ropes in their hands, carrying underwater boosters and professional detection equipment.

Thump thump thump.

More than a dozen people entered the water.

"You haven't even eaten. I'll let your team members eat first and then take shifts." Li Wu swam to Zheng Yun and hung a safety rope around his waist.

Look behind him.

It is true that there is no sign of Huzi Song Wan and others, but they did spend a lot of energy traveling through the swamp to get here in one breath, so it is a good thing to take a little rest.

"Look deeper."

Zheng Yun did not reject Li Wu's kindness.

This lake is at most 34 meters deep. Even if something happens, it can quickly rise to the surface. The degree of danger is controllable. You can go down if you want to take a look. There are advantages to having more people.

In addition, all exploration activities are creditable, and Zheng Yun cannot prevent them from participating, including Hu Ruihua and others.

"Our people came down to detect it and marked the locations of several cracks. This underground ancient building has at least three floors. The collapse caused the entire cross section of the ancient building to be exposed."

Li Wu took out an infrared pen, shot out a line of red light, and drew circles at the deepest places at the bottom of the lake.

Zheng Yun nodded and led the team to swim over.

Near the first red circle, there happens to be a tent from the expedition camp, hanging upside down from the top of a tree.

This kind of tent is a specially made waterproof tent in the swamp area, but it has been punctured by the treetops, causing a large amount of lake water to pour into it, and everything inside fell to the bottom of the lake.

"There are no valuable clues in the surface area, and everything in the camp has been pushed into the underground space by the silt."

Li Wu shook his head and explained to Zheng Yun.

Looking sideways at the crack next to the tent, it was a square stone brick tunnel. It might have been some kind of secret passage, but it broke when the ground subsided. The broken bricks were filled with mud.

The silt hasn't reached here yet.

Streams of silt flow slowly from the upper part of the corridor to the bottom of the lake like a waterfall, blocking most of the entrance to the corridor.

"Have you guys been in there?"

Zheng Yun looked around and asked. This place was probably more than 20 meters below the lake. It was the first floor of the ancient building at the bottom of the lake. Or was it just an entrance, not yet inside the ancient city.

"No, I am not qualified to lead the team. This is not because you are finally here. My brothers have been waiting for a long time."

Li Wu spread his hands. They had long wanted to come down and take a look, but there really wasn't a team leader.

"You all dare to enter?"

Zheng Yun looked at the others. Judging from their posture and eyes under the diving goggles, these people should all be young people.

"I can't wait for Captain Zheng."

"Captain Zheng, this is what we do."

"Captain Zheng is much younger than other captains."

"Captain Zheng didn't know. Captain Li watched at the entrance for a long time. We thought Captain Li was asleep."

Everyone around him spoke.

"The archaeological team has plenty of fresh blood." Zheng Yun sighed, stretched out his hand to lift up the mud and took a look.

The interior of the corridor is very clean.

Only some silt has settled at the entrance, and there is only turbid lake water in the depths. The flashlight penetrates deep into it and can shine for twenty or thirty meters at a time. The square brick walls are like ancient tomb passages.

The picture is a little weird.

No one knows where this leads.

"Can we get in? These cracks should be connected, but the conditions in the following cracks are even worse."

Li Wu turned on the special searchlight and shined it down.

The second and third cracks were at a depth of five meters and ten meters respectively. The second crack was huge in area, and the third crack was vertical and narrowly distributed at the bottom of the lake.

The wooden coffin emerged from the third crack.

They could now see a wooden coffin slowly emerging from the thick mud.

"This is it."

Zheng Yun agreed with Li Wu's statement that the other two cracks were deeper and contained more silt, making it impossible to ensure safety.

Everyone swam towards the corridor.

The corridor was two meters high and wide, and could accommodate two or three people walking together. Li Wu led the team to stop at the entrance of the corridor, hammered a safety iron nail into the stone brick wall, and inserted the safety rope.

If something happens to them, the person above can pull the rope directly without worrying about the rope being broken.

After being fully prepared.

Everyone went deep into the tunnel one by one, with Zheng Yun and Gui Jiang in front, followed by Li Wu and others, conducting detection along the way, and at the same time, they continued to lay down various rescue equipment in accordance with the rules and regulations.

"Seventy meters deep."

"The pressure hasn't changed."

"There are no toxins or heat sources in the water."

The young team members continued to report through the intercom. They had just entered the corridor and could not see the end at all, so they measured the entire length of the corridor.

"Then speed up to avoid sudden collapse." Zheng Yun nodded and accelerated, leading everyone deep into the corridor.

Seventy meters later.

There is a fork in the corridor. On the left is a downhill stone step, and on the right is a vertical square well.

"Detect separately."

Li Wu sent several people.

After a while, the detection results showed that the downhill stone steps led to another corridor, and the vertical shaft was very strange. It was only two meters deep and led to an open space.

Zheng Yun observed at the edge of the well, shining a flashlight into it. The space below seemed to be closed, because the water in the space was very clean, without even a trace of silt.

Click.

Suddenly there was a muffled sound.

Everyone immediately became alert and looked at the stone steps on the other side of the corridor. They seemed to hear something swimming quickly, crushing a thin branch in the process.

"what sound?"

Li Wu asked in a low voice.

"It's very far away. It seems to be coming from under our feet." Zheng Yun glanced at the ghost generals beside him. Their hearing was extraordinary, so they must have heard the source clearly, but they couldn't tell.

"Do you want to continue?" Li Wu looked towards the corridor.

"I'll go down and take a look first." Zheng Yun nodded.

He did not think that all the Western explorers were killed. Since they were able to find ancient buildings deep in the mud and accurately find the blasting point, it meant that they were quite capable.

If they didn't have enough adventure experience, let alone using explosives to blow up the road, they wouldn't even be able to find this place.

Although there was an overdose of explosives.

But in fact this is doubtful.

Even if an overdose of explosives causes the camp to collapse and the expedition team members guarding the camp to fall underground, the subsidence in the swamp area will not cause death. At least one or two people can escape.

But now there is none.

Where did these Western explorers go? Did they make the sound? What did they find? Is this subsidence a mistake, or did they do it deliberately?

Zheng Yun chose to continue.

He asked Li Wu and others to meet him nearby, and then swam along the steps of the corridor with the ghost general, holding on to the brick wall, and swam to the second floor of the underground ancient books to check the surrounding scene.

This level is very weird.

There are a large number of dark rooms on the left and right sides of the corridor, each of which is blocked by iron doors and iron cables, like an ancient underground prison.

There are dozens in number.

In the first dark room directly in front of the stone steps, the iron door and iron ropes were neatly cut off by modern equipment, half-hidden and half-hidden, revealing half of the dark room, which had been completely submerged in water.

Someone has been here.

And I opened the iron door and looked at it.

If nothing else, this should have been done by the Western expedition team, and the time should have been before the use of explosives.

Zheng Yun shined a flashlight around inside, and found that it was empty without any items. He didn't know whether it was because there was nothing in it, or it was taken away by the group of Western explorers.

Take a few steps forward.

Six or seven darkrooms were opened in succession.

Observing from the traces of the iron rope, it must be a cutting machine. The cutting machine Tianke was the iron rope that Ming Dynasty was proud of.

All secret rooms are empty.

Zheng Yun walked towards the unopened darkrooms. These darkrooms were almost completely sealed. You couldn't see what was inside without opening the door. However, the consequences of opening the door could not be estimated for the time being.

Walking cautiously to the end of the corridor, Zheng Yun found no clues. He put his ear against the iron door and could not hear any sound. There should be no living things in these dark rooms.

This is strange.

What is the purpose of these dark rooms, is it a prison, and if so, what is its relationship to the wooden coffin?

After the exploration was fruitless, Zheng Yun returned to where Li Wu and others were. When Li Wu met, he asked softly: "Have you found the source of the sound?"

"It should be on the lower level. Use your equipment to search for any rescue signals. I found signs of activity from that team of explorers. There must be something wrong with them."

Zheng Yun made arrangements.

Li Wu waved his hand for his subordinates to check, but there was indeed no radio signal in the entire subsidence area, and the detection yielded no results. Even if he called, he would not receive any response.

The group of explorers disappeared without a trace.

It's like they've never been here.

But the tent hanging at the entrance of the corridor always reminded them that the group of explorers must be below.

"We actually made some discoveries. This well is a dead end, and there are some skeletons of unknown creatures in it."

Li Wu took out a plastic bag.

Zheng Yun took the plastic bag and looked at it. The bones inside should be of a mammal. Judging from the size of the skull, the body shape should be similar to that of a sheep. No other information could be seen.

"Check the other entrances."

Zheng Yun returned along the corridor.

He did not intend to delve into the situation in the darkroom. The place looked like a dangerous place. No one knew what was in the darkroom and did not dare to open it rashly.

There is a possibility.

It was because the Western expedition team opened the darkroom that all of them were killed. At the same time, the so-called "fixed-point blasting" was actually forced to cut off the explosives.

They unleashed some kind of danger.

After being cornered, he could only blow himself up.

If this is the reason, then they must not open these dark rooms. They may contain ghost methods similar to those of the Yin Ghost Terracotta Hanxian, which can track murders.

"Why don't you go take a look at the wooden coffin? This underground ancient building looks a bit like a tomb." Li Wu led people to follow Zheng Yun.

"Incredible."

Zheng Yun took a deep breath.

The skeletons in the wooden coffins all wear silver masks. What does this mean, and what is locked in these dark rooms.

One thing is certain now.

This is a dangerous place.

Any ancient relic that cannot be understood or understood, whether it is an ancient building or an object, as long as there is no reference in history, it is 80% likely to be a special edition for gods and ghosts.

Everyone came out of the corridor.

Zheng Yun asked Li Wu and others to wait where they were, and he continued to dive down to check the crack drilled in the wooden coffin.

The situation at the bottom of the lake is very complex.

The entire ground collapsed completely, and all the plants that were originally exposed to the water sank to the bottom of the lake. It was equivalent to moving the entire swamp rain forest to the bottom of the lake, with trees intertwined with vines.

The sediment is extremely turbid.

It makes the ‘rainforest at the bottom of the lake’ even more bizarre.

The crack that emerged from the wooden coffin was a long and narrow rift. Silt was slowly poured in, and the wooden coffins were squeezed out one after another.

Not easy to get in.

If you want to enter this crack, you need to first enter the rainforest at the bottom of the lake, crawl to the bottom of the rainforest and search slowly. After finding the general range, clean up the silt or follow the silt flow to the depths.

Wow.

There was a slight movement in the rainforest.

Zheng Yun was startled and quickly backed away. He immediately shone his flashlight to the right and stared at the depths of the rainforest at the bottom of the lake. He saw with his own eyes a black figure swimming quickly between the branches and vines.

Following this movement.

There was sudden chaos in the rainforest, with a large number of fish and special swamp creatures fleeing and swimming rapidly in the rainforest.

"..."

Zheng Yun was slightly silent.

The swamp rain forest is at least ten meters high, and individual trees can grow up to twenty meters high. They usually walk on the ground and shuttle through the rain forest without feeling its height.

At this moment, the rainforest was spread flat on the bottom of the lake. When they looked down from above, they realized that there were too many places to hide things in the rainforest.

Maybe that team of Western explorers is somewhere in the rainforest, or maybe what they released from the darkroom is hidden in a corner, waiting for them to break into the rainforest rashly.

The level of danger is too high.

There is no need to force the exploration.

Find an opportunity to invite the ghost figurines.