Endless route

Chapter 291 61. Midnight weirdness and underground Taoist temple

A complete swamp rain forest collapsed at the bottom of the lake, and the turbid lake water entangled it, like wisps of black yarn slowly disturbing, staining the green trees and vines with mud.

Vision cannot penetrate the rainforest.

Zheng Yun was suspended ten meters above the rainforest at the bottom of the lake. Even with a strong flashlight, he could not reach the bottom. There were blind spots everywhere.

The area of ​​the collapse lake is not small.

The area of ​​​​the entire rain forest at the bottom of the lake is also huge. It is spread in a collapse pit that is like a triangular funnel, and it is crawling towards the narrow crack at the bottom of the lake at a very slow speed.

This image is very magical.

The creatures in the rainforest were also in bad luck. They were living a good life, but suddenly the world collapsed and the whole rainforest collapsed without even a moment to react.

After observing for a period of time.

Zheng Yun chose to float up, led Li Wu and other team members back up, and swam back to the kayak on the lake in one breath.

"80% of that group of Western explorers were killed. In fact, there is a detail. They spent last night in the camp, and during this time, the nights in the swamp area were very dangerous."

Li Wu lay on the edge of the kayak and said.

"Do you think it has something to do with the night?" Zheng Yun recalled, and there were more than one clues pointing to this conclusion.

Last year's explorer was killed overnight. During this period, strange things also happened at night in Ancient City No. 3, and someone from the archaeological team was involved.

"I'm just guessing that you must have heard about the strange situation encountered by Senior Zhou Yuangang and the Third Archaeological Team, but that incident occurred at a very precise time."

"Two to four midnight."

"The archaeological team members used their mobile phones to send garbled codes."

"And this is not an isolated case. Not only our team was tricked, but many Western expedition teams also experienced some very strange things in the middle of the night during this period."

"But this Western expedition used explosives at around eight o'clock this morning, and it was already dawn."

Li Wu climbed onto the kayak and pulled Zheng Yun on board. While letting the team members sail the boat, he discussed with Zheng Yun in a low voice.

"The suspicion cannot be ruled out. Something probably happened at midnight, which caused them to use explosives in the early morning."

Zheng Yun shook the mud off his body and nodded.

This information is so crucial that it even vaguely connects everything together to form a guess.

"Explosives? Do you think they used explosives not to blow up the passage, but to guard against something? Or even to blow up some kind of creature?"

Li Wu understood immediately.

This guess was a bit counter-intuitive. He really hadn't thought about it in this direction, but it made some sense if he thought about it carefully. An overdose of explosives might not be that simple. There must be a reason for it.

"This Western expedition team set up camp to explore in the No. 2 Ancient City. It happened that strange things happened frequently in the Nanze ruins during this period. They also encountered something in the middle of the night."

"Afterwards, for various reasons, they entered the underground ancient buildings and were forced to use explosives when they encountered threats."

Zheng Yun roughly stated his guess.

There is a key issue here.

All the Western expedition team are missing and are suspected to have been killed in the cave-in, but the explosives exploded at eight o'clock this morning.

This team of explorers probably all entered the ancient building before eight o'clock in the morning, and there was no one guarding the camp, because the team members guarding the camp could not die.

There are no trees in the rainforest at the bottom of the lake. How can an experienced explorer die? At least one or two can survive.

But none of them survived.

So the question lies here, why were all this group of explorers inside the ancient building before eight o'clock in the morning? Did they spend the night in the ancient building or were they forced into it?

It was just dawn at eight o'clock. Even if they were anxious to explore, they shouldn't be in such a hurry.

And that row of weird dark rooms.

At what time were they opened? Has it been opened long ago, or was it just opened by the expedition team last night?

"Go back and have a meal. Senior Xu Yu from Fuen will be here soon. He will come to our place to take a look."

Li Wu looked at his phone and nodded.

"OK."

Zheng Yun also felt a little hungry.

Everyone took the kayak and sailed towards the other side of the lake, heading to the temporary camp led by Li Wu. They saw that there were many simple tents in the camp, which could accommodate at least 200 rescue team members.

I only found out after asking Li Wu.

Throughout the morning, several helicopters made at least 40 round-trip flights, bringing in a large amount of relief supplies. However, the rescue was fake after all, and only a few dozen rescuers came.

This is for Westerners.

In the large camp in Gold Rush Town, the Eastern Camp and the Western Camp are neighbors. There are a large number of helicopters dispatched on the Eastern side, and even a blind person can hear them on the Western side.

It seems that Zhao Qiufu and Xu Yu are determined to make a fuss out of this incident and must take good care of the West.

There is no problem. The East and the West are inherently competitive, and there are many overt and covert fights. However, Western explorers are loose and independent. If they don't warn them, something will happen sooner or later.

Get off the kayak with your stuff.

Zheng Yun saw Hu Ruihua, Hu Zi and others at the lakeside, hurriedly putting on their diving suits.

"Team Li, Team Zheng, and a Western expedition team will arrive soon. They also came overland by kayak."

A young man came over immediately to report.

"Should I handle it or should you handle it?" Li Wu looked at Zheng Yun.

"You handle it while I eat." Zheng Yun shook his head. It was troublesome to deal with Westerners.

"Okay, take Captain Zheng to their tent and prepare a pot of hot water and a lunch box. I'll go meet the Westerners."

Li Wu quickly made arrangements, then named a dozen rescue team members and walked toward the kayak aggressively.

Do what you need to do.

Although the current investigation results show that this group of Western explorers used explosives for self-defense, it is logically difficult to blame them for "using explosives without notifying the East."

It's really hard to inform.

Who cares if they are almost dead?

But this incident did result in the Dongfang archaeological team being buried underground. There were no casualties this time, but that may not happen next time.

Let's see Mr. Xu and the others operate.

If he goes back to tell Mr. Xu and informs them of the situation, they probably won't do anything about it.

"Captain Zheng, these tents are all yours. There are only a few people in our tents, so you can stay in whichever one you want."

The young team member led Zheng Yun forward.

"You don't need to change. I'll eat before I take action." Zheng Yun greeted Hu Ruihua by the lake.

"It's okay, put it on right away, put it on first, the diving suit is also convenient." Hu Ruihua nodded.

"Captain Zheng, I'll get you some food."

The young team members ran to the other side of the camp.

Zheng Yun nodded and saw several high-pressure water guns and special disinfection equipment at the camp. He asked the ghost general to pick up the faucet and clean it up and down first.

Then he walked toward the tent.

Two ghosts will be left to spray water on each other to disinfect.

As the old saying goes, diseases enter from the mouth, so they went to the bottom of the lake and walked around the ancient buildings. It was best to take off their diving suits before eating.

Walk up to the first tent.

As soon as he pushed the ajar door open, Zheng Yun's peripheral vision caught sight of a person sitting on a simple folding bed. His lower body had just been put on a diving suit and he was raising his arms to put it on.

It was Song Wan.

She was also anxious to put on her diving suit. Like Hu Ruihua and the others, she wanted to dive into the lake as soon as possible to find Zheng Yun.

Only underwear can be worn under the wetsuit, so she only has a sports bra on her upper body, exposing her abdomen and waistline.

"..."

Zheng Yun could have exited the tent.

No big deal actually.

It's not much different from a swimsuit.

And he had never seen this scene before. Back when he and Licia and others were in the Deep Sea Floating City, Zheng Yun didn't even try to hide when Licia and Olphia changed clothes in front of him.

But Zheng Yun hid this time.

Subconsciously exited the tent.

But hiding is in vain. After experiencing so many ghosts and dangerous places, Zheng Yun has also developed his instant vision. Song Wan has a very clear vest line. No wonder she has excellent physical strength.

She must be exercising all year round.

I probably run every morning.

If she practices well, she looks extremely healthy. She is much stronger than explorers like Licia and Jiasi Irene. With her background, she will probably be able to practice Tiangong swordsmanship very quickly.

"Brother Zheng, I'll be fine soon." Song Wan blushed slightly, but the more anxious she was, the harder it became to put on the diving suit.

"Didn't you hear anyone coming?"

Zheng Yun looked around the tent.

The two ghost generals who were spraying each other with water guns suddenly turned their heads to the lake, as if they had been tricked by ghosts and were forced to turn their heads without even knowing what was happening.

But Song Wan is indeed big-hearted.

While he was talking, he walked to the door, but she actually remained silent. He thought there was no one in the tent at all.

"I heard it, I know it's you..." Song Wan quickly explained, but in the middle of speaking, she suddenly lost her words.

"..."

Zheng Yun was silent at the same time.

After a while, the young team members ran to deliver the lunch box. Zheng Yun stepped forward to take the lunch box, took off his upper body diving suit at the tent door, exposed his clean arms and started eating.

"Brother Zheng, what did you find?"

Song Wan changed into her diving suit and walked out of the tent. She saw Zheng Yun squatting at the door, so she squatted next to him and asked.

Her cheeks were slightly red, which was even more obvious after tying her hair into a ponytail. She wore a 170-size one-size-fits-all diving suit that fit her body perfectly, but looked a little stuffy in some places.

"This place may be a dangerous place with ghosts and ghosts. There are many dark rooms similar to prisons down there, which may be dangerous."

Zheng Yun raised his head and stared into the lake.

The group of Western explorers had already walked out of the rainforest and put the kayak into the lake. Li Wu and others greeted them. The two sides were communicating, and the atmosphere seemed okay.

Li Wu also knew that the explosives were suspected of forcing the explorers to save themselves, so he would not embarrass these Western explorers too much if they wanted to come here to save people.

"Then how are we going to save people?"

Song Wan still doesn’t know that the rescue mission is fake.

Zheng Yun smiled and roughly explained the matter to Song Wan until Li Wu returned to the camp by boat not long after.

"Zheng Yun, they claim to be here to rescue people. The expedition team in distress are their teammates. Last night, they received some information from the expedition team in distress."

Li Wu briefly explained the situation.

Zheng Yun made a rough calculation and concluded that this group of people might have arrived here directly from the big camp, some time later than he had set out halfway, but the speed was already quite fast.

There are also helicopters in the West.

But that belongs to several royal museum expedition teams that Kedster joined, and ordinary teams are not eligible to enjoy it.

"What information?"

Zheng Yun looked at Li Wu and asked.

"It hasn't been sent yet, but they have made an exchange. They want to camp next to our camp, and their information will only be shared after reaching cooperation in rescuing people." Li Wu smiled.

The role of the old fox in making the game is reflected.

These Western expedition teams all thought that the accident involved the Eastern archaeological team, so their attitude was very kind from the beginning, and they were able to get the information very easily.

"Can."

Zheng Yun nodded.

Of course, cooperation in rescuing people must be achieved. Even without them, I still have to go out and explore again when I find out what happened to this group of explorers in distress.

This is basically free information.

It has no impact on their side at all.

"Okay, let me talk to them. By the way, Senior Xu Yu is coming soon. Zheng Yun, please don't go into the lake yet. When Senior Xu Yu comes, we will go find him and ask him about the situation."

Li Wu told him to communicate again.

"Is it appropriate for us to lie to them like this?" Song Wan asked quietly with a sly smile on her face, looking sideways at Zheng Yun.

"It's okay. We will help them with dispatching and rescuing people. They only have a dozen people here, so they won't suffer."

Zheng Yun shook his head and continued eating.

After finishing the meal, they waited for Xu Yu for a while. It was already close to four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was gradually setting, and the fog on the lake was thick and blocked the view.

Xu Yu's motorcade finally arrived.

The convoy stopped one kilometer away from the collapse lake. Xu Yu took twenty or thirty team members and walked to the lake.

The two parties met and communicated.

Xu Yu provided key clues. Gu Bo's archaeological team opened a direct road to the underground ancient building two kilometers north of the collapsed lake and discovered that there was actually a Taoist temple there.

The archaeological team went down and took a look.

The Taoist temple is very large and has the same depth as the ancient city of Nanze. It can be determined that the Taoist temple was also located on the surface hundreds of years ago. Due to risk control, it was not explored on a large scale.

"Taoist temple?"

Zheng Yun frowned deeply.

Generally speaking, it is indeed impossible to build a pure place like a Taoist temple inside the ancient city, as it would be far away from the ancient city.

As soon as the word Taoist came out.

This place must be a dangerous place for gods and ghosts.

Because it was impossible for the Taoist temples in the Ming Dynasty not to be in contact with gods and ghosts. Even if you didn't master the methods of gods and ghosts, you could make a large number of messy elixirs through the Taoist art of alchemy alone.

The ancient building underground in No. 2 Ancient City is an entire Taoist temple? The area of ​​​​this Taoist temple is really not small.

This is Ji Do's specialty.

I have to call Ji Dao and ask, and at the same time ask the little Taoist priest to go back to Tiangong to investigate and find out the origin of this Taoist temple.

"Will you come with us and take a look? That Taoist temple is basically empty. It should be different from the one at the Collapse Lake. However, ancient buildings like the Taoist temple are too dangerous."

Xu Yu looked at Zheng Yun and said.

"Okay." Zheng Yun nodded.

"We are going to spend the night in the No. 2 Ancient City District. Li Wu, you must be extremely careful here and arrange for a few people to be on duty overnight. It is best for everyone to wear gas masks and sleep."

"That team of Westerners should also be wary."

"If anything happens, report it immediately. The two places are not far apart. We can come over to support you at any time."

Xu Yu gave Li Wu some advice.

"Senior, don't worry, our senior Zhao Qiufu has already told me that I will keep in video contact with you all night long, and the cameras in the camp have also been set up." Li Wu nodded.

Communicate for some time.

Zheng Yun took Hu Ruihua, Song Wan and others, followed Xu Yu to the motorcade, and rode towards the Taoist temple.

No one has ever walked this stretch of road.

The convoy needs to pave the way in one go.

So by the time they paved the way, it was already past five o'clock, and there were only two hours left before dark...