Endless route

Chapter 8 8. Going deep into the mine

The mine tunnel was obviously developed in the West and has a strong atmosphere of the last century. There are iron lampshades hanging every ten meters away, which can be used as a distance reference.

After walking for nearly fifty meters, we have completely entered the mountain, but the mine tunnel is still flat, or the slope is very low, making it impossible to feel the slope.

The deeper you go, the colder it gets.

There is an abnormal cold air blowing out from the depths of the mine, mixed with an unpleasant odor, and it seems to be invisible and penetrates into people's noses.

It's very unusual. We've only been walking for a long time and it suddenly became so cold. It's so unscientific.

Liu Ming shivered.

They could directly see that the temperature was dropping, the moist water on the surface of the rock wall gradually condensed into frost, and when they hit the wall with a flashlight, there were large bright spots.

The smell is quite unpleasant, a damp smell, like rotten meat. Huzi sniffed against the rock wall and scratched his head: This is not the smell of minerals.

It should be almost the end. The skinny young man tapped the ground with his knife and judged from the length of the echo.

Walked for another two minutes.

Finally, there was a downhill road ahead, with cement steps. When the flashlight was shined down, a few blackbirds appeared and flew over the heads of several people.

Under the steps is a wide cavern, more than ten meters high and wide enough for three or five cars to pass side by side.

Slowly go down into the cave.

This cavern is similar to a transfer station, with four branches branching out, one on the front, one on the left, one on the left, and one on the left and right. There is also a cableway branch in the middle, with a row of mining cranes hanging on it.

Zheng Yun looked up and found that there were dense cables above his head. Judging from the thickness, this mine tunnel should have been a key project at that time. The cables were embedded in the underground tunnel of the rock formation and could not be buckled out.

We have to go this way. Hu Ruihua looked at the location on his phone and pointed to the fork toward the back.

Leave two of us waiting here.

Zheng Yun smelled the smell and found that the stench was stronger here. If there were toxic gases or other dangers deep in the mine tunnel, others could call him.

Okay. Hu Ruihua nodded and asked Liu Ming and the thin young man to stay, while the remaining three continued to move forward.

They were wearing the same clothes as they were wearing when going into the rainforest. As they went deeper, it became obvious that they would feel bitingly cold. It was okay for a short time, but it would be unbearable for a long time.

So the three of them speeded up, almost running into the depths, without even bothering to take a closer look at the environment.

After walking about three hundred meters, another wide cave appeared in front of him. Hu Ruihua stopped and said that the target was located in this cave.

This cave is obviously different.

The cold wind blew out, and the smell became even more unpleasant. When the flashlight was turned forward, it could only illuminate a small area, and the rock wall was as yellow as a piece of rag.

Go in with caution.

The cave was empty in all directions, but there was a large, invisible hole in the center of the ground, surrounded by a low, rusty iron fence.

The hole was more than three meters in diameter, like a ventilation channel, but the edge was a gentle slope, with a large circle of dark yellow ice lumps, which was slipperier than ice. You couldn't see the bottom of the hole unless you walked over, and it was easy to fall if you walked over.

The positioning is in the hole.

The target seemed to fall in.

Huzi, come over and take a look.

Hu Ruihua took out a roll of climbing rope from his backpack, put one end on Huzi, and the other end was held by himself and Zheng Yun, and wrapped tightly around his arms.

Without any hesitation, Huzi locked the buckle, climbed over the iron fence and moved forward, slowly slid down the slope, and looked down at the bottom of the cave.

Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua were struggling with their hands. Hu Zi went further and further down, almost half of his body went down before reaching the edge of the slope. Most of the weight was in their hands.

Holy shit! Huzi screamed.

What's wrong? Hu Ruihua asked immediately.

There are two dead people down here, damn, they almost scared me to death. Huzi said in an exaggerated tone, kneeling on the ground and throwing the beam of the flashlight into the bottom of the cave.

The hole should be sixty or seventy meters deep, with several layers of barbed wire at the end. Lying on the barbed wire were two dead people, both men. They must be old.

Huzi straightened up, took out his cell phone unhurriedly, and took two photos before crawling back.

Wait a minute, shout down twice to see if there is any movement. Hu Ruihua called Huzi to stop.

Hello? Is there anyone there? Huzi immediately followed the instructions, shouted, and then listened carefully with his ears raised.

After waiting for about two minutes, Huzi shook his head and was about to retreat, but at this time, he suddenly stopped and stared straight at the bottom of the cave.

What's wrong? Hu Ruihua asked.

Huzi said nothing, as if he had lost his soul, half-kneeling at the entrance of the cave, staring with his head lowered, as if he was sucked by something.

Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua were both shocked. They couldn't see Huzi's expression, only his back. Then, Huzi suddenly turned off the flashlight.

He was kneeling deep in the slope, and when he turned off the flashlight, only the light source in Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua's hands was left, barely illuminating half of his body.

Huzi! Hu Ruihua shouted.

Brother Hu, something's wrong. There's a red dot down there hitting my face, but I can't see clearly.

Huzi responded and suddenly climbed down, completely disappearing into the light, as if he had fallen upside down into a hole.

Zheng Yun's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously grabbed the rope tighter. He thought to himself that this tiger was really a fool. He dared to do such a dangerous move in such an environment.

There is someone! There really is someone! Huzi suddenly screamed, and then continued to shout: If there is light, shoot up!

Shall we turn off the lights too? Hu Ruihua looked at Zheng Yun, who nodded and turned off the flashlight together.

The cave was completely dark for an instant.

In the deep cave in the center, a scattered red light was projected from bottom to top. The light beam swayed slightly and hit the top of the cave, illuminating the rock wall blood red.

This is a distress light.

There really is a living person down there.

Damn, no! There are all dead people under the barbed wire fence, but there is one living person. Brother Hu, please put down the rope and I will go down and have a look. Huzi turned around and shouted.

Zheng Yunchang took a long breath and turned on the flashlight, and looked at Hu Ruihua: Slowly?

Call someone first.

Hu Ruihua nodded.

…

Several people returned to the first floor of the abandoned mine building, returned to the top of the mountain, drove the car to the entrance of the building, and called Sister Song Wan and Wang to wait above. The remaining people put on more clothes and brought rescue equipment and went down again.

This time, five people entered the second cave together, picked two locations and set down rock climbing nails. After completely fixing the rope, Huzi descended into the deep cave again.

Huzi wore a camera, and others could see it with their tablets. There were several layers of barbed wire at the bottom of the cave, and two dead people were lying there, covered with thick frost, as if they were frozen to death.

Both of them were explorers and were dressed very professionally, but they didn’t even have any ropes on them. Logically speaking, they shouldn’t have made such a stupid mistake.

Going down the mine without a rope.

It feels weird if you think about it carefully.

Huzi's movements were very nimble, and he quickly landed at the bottom of the cave. He moved the dead man to the side, carefully tried the barbed wire fence, and then stepped on it firmly.

It's at least seven to eight degrees below zero. The barbed wire is very hard and should be able to be cut with pliers. Huzi spoke while squatting down to look down.

The camera angle follows him.

Everyone could see that two extremely thick steel pipes, like water pipes, nearly ten centimeters in diameter, were lined up under the barbed wire fence, dividing the hole into three parts.

The deeper the hole becomes, the narrower it becomes. The deepest point is less than one meter in diameter, and three spaces are not enough for anyone to get down, even a very thin girl.

Is there anyone? Huzi shouted again.

There was another red light coming from below, which seemed to be a few meters below the barbed wire fence. The flashlight was too bright, so I had to turn off the flashlight to see the target location.

I'm sure someone is alive, but there are seven or eight corpses down there. I don't know what the situation is.

Huzi leaned over and knelt on the barbed wire fence. He put his eyes close to the hole in the barbed wire fence and looked down. He also put the camera in to observe the details as much as possible.

The red light reflected many limbs around it. Seven or eight arms and legs were covered with white frost. The arm shaking the red light seemed to be wearing a pink cotton suit. Because it was the light source, Huzi could not see the surrounding environment.

Several people were watching around the tablet.

There is only a red light source below, and the picture captured by the camera is somewhat distorted, but it looks more terrifying, even scarier than scenes in thrillers.

Fuck. Liu Ming exclaimed.

Where did there come from so many dead people? The thin young man also felt frightened for a while, and a chill ran down his back.

Come up first. The target should be down there. If you don't speak, you may be frozen. People can be saved, but we have to think about it. Hu Ruihua looked at everyone.

Now there are two options.

The first is to cut off barbed wire and water pipes. Times have changed. In front of portable cutting machines, this is trivial. Just connect a wire from the car.

The second is to take a detour and go down. The barbed wire fence is intact. Then the person below did not go down through the ventilation hole. There must be other ways to go around.

After everyone discussed for a while, most people thought that the pipe could be cut, but only Zheng Yun thought that there should be a detour.

If it is a water pipe, if it is cut off and the water leaks down, then pouring it on people and adding low temperatures, it is easy to freeze the target to death.

Those two pipes seem to be very cold, and the cold air comes from the pipes. Huzi climbed up from the hole, with a circle of frost already forming on his knees.

I remembered that this is a sandstone layer that is very permeable to water, so cooling pipes were used to freeze the surrounding area so that the ore could be mined further.

Liu Ming suddenly slapped his head, ran to the corner of the cave very excitedly, pointed at the rock wall and opened his mouth.