Chen Ran's heart skipped a beat. Just now, he had been disappointed with this trip. Unexpectedly, he turned a corner and a surprise was right in front of him. Under Yang Shijie's guidance, he arrived at the place Yang Shijie had mentioned.
After some observation, he was able to confirm that this place was the place he was looking for.
Although there were only two bamboo shoots in this place, one of which was dug out by Yang Shijie and made into soup, he did some research and even used an energy aperture to explore and found out that there was definitely a bamboo forest in this place before.
Because when he investigated, he found that there were actually more than just these two bamboo shoots growing out. There were also some scattered in other places in this area, but most of them had just sprouted. If you didn't search carefully, you wouldn't have discovered it at all.
No, with this, we can undoubtedly confirm that there is indeed a bamboo forest here.
After confirming that there used to be a bamboo forest in this place, the next step would be easier. Chen Ran only needed to compare the records on the treasure map with the environment in front of him. In fact, if he compared the two, there would be no problem at all.
It's incomparable, because except for the discovery of a bamboo forest before this place, there is no other place that matches the terrain drawn on the treasure map at all.
According to the records on the treasure map, if there is a bamboo forest in front of the stone wall in this direction, then there should be the Bamboo Forest Lake next to the bamboo forest, and opposite the Bamboo Forest Lake is a hillside that is neither high nor low, but in fact
The situation is that next to this bamboo forest is a medium-high mountain covered with weeds and an unknown type of trees. There is also a huge boulder standing upright on the mountain, while on the other side of the mountain there is
It is a stone slab covered with wild vines.
This is also the reason why Chen Ran passed by here just now but did not notice this place. The situation in front of him is not similar to what is recorded on the treasure map. After all, even if the lake dries up, it should be a hole, even if it is not a pit.
, it should have been a smaller valley, but now it is a mountain.
However, Chen Ran's geographical knowledge during this period was not in vain. Although he mainly learned knowledge about jade from the old man, jade involves too much, such as ancient characters and so on.
After all, the status of jade in ancient times is so high. If you don't know how to deal with ancient writing, this knowledge is undoubtedly the old man's old profession. In addition to the old man's old profession of ancient writing, the old man also has another old profession, and that is geology.
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Regarding geology, Chen Ran didn't learn much from the old man, but he still knew a little about simple soil identification. However, Yang Shijie was obviously much more proficient in this aspect than him. The two of them took engineering shovels and circled the mountain ridge and the opposite side of the stone slab.
After digging a few shovels, I was pleasantly surprised to find that this mountain ridge was formed not long ago. Especially when Chen Ran released an energy aperture to explore the inside of the mountain ridge, he found that the soil structure inside the mountain ridge was very chaotic, and there were all kinds of messy piles inside.
of gravel and boulders.
After checking the big stone slab on the opposite side, Yang Shijie said that there were traces of being hit by a huge force.
With these clues, the answer will undoubtedly come out immediately. The most likely possibility is that a flash flood occurred decades ago and the hillside painted on the treasure map collapsed, and the so-called Zhulin Lake also followed.
Then it disappeared, and then new mountains were formed, and the mountains were covered with weeds and trees.
I have to say that fifty or sixty years can really change a lot of things, especially in the past era. Let’s not talk about the past. I will just talk about Chen Ran’s impression when he was a child. At that time, there were flash floods or mudslides on the mountains.
Nothing more than a normal thing.
After confirming that this place is the mysterious place recorded on the map, the next step is to find the entrance. The treasure map does not record where the entrance is, but based on the situation at the time, we can roughly guess where the entrance is.
Approximate range.
The scene at that time was that the people in the black room were lying on the opposite hillside looking across. In front of the hillside was Zhulin Lake. Naturally, the Japanese army could not be stationed on Zhulin Lake, so they could only be on this side of Zhulin Lake.
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On this side are bamboo forests, and then there are cliffs.
Chen Ran estimated the size of Zhulin Lake and found out that the shore here was not very large. He started from the other end of the stone wall and released an energy aperture along the shore of Zhulin Lake. His energy
If the aperture is used to detect underground, the depth it can detect can already reach about seven or eight meters.
When Chen Ran was detecting, Yang Shijie was not idle. At this time, although he didn't know what was going on, he guessed that Chen Ran's purpose was most likely to find treasures, so when Chen Ran was detecting
, he also dug with a shovel, but after digging two shovels, he gave up, because since there had been flash floods in this place, the geological soil layer must have changed, and there is no point in using this method to dig for treasures, unless
It was dug very deep.
Chen Ran obviously noticed this when he was detecting. Due to the flash floods and the shore leaning against the stone wall, the terrain of this place should be much higher now than it was a few decades ago.
So when he was probing, he had to go deeper.
Along the way, the bottom was filled with rocks. Even if there were occasional gaps, they were just holes in the rocks. He had searched more than half of the estimated range and still found nothing. However, not long after, Chen Ran discovered a
Strange place.
This place is close to the stone wall. The lower part is also filled with rocks. It is strange because when Chen Ran was detecting it, he discovered that the cracks in the rocks below were filled with wisps of thin mist, and the mist was
The colors are still colorful.
When it was detected, Chen Ran was startled, and then he quickly controlled the energy aperture to go deeper. As the energy aperture deepened, the colorful mist filling the rock cracks became a little thicker. Of course, it was only relatively speaking.
That being said, it is actually still very thin.
Colorful mist?
What kind of fog is this? Miasma?
Chen Ran was a little surprised, but then he thought of the sentence recorded in the letter left by the man in the black room.
God, hell, no more, they disappeared, the entire army disappeared, mysteriously disappeared under our eyes, thousands of people suddenly disappeared, not even a single person was left in the camp...
The general meaning of this sentence is that a thick fog suddenly filled the place where the Japanese army was stationed, shrouding the army in fog. After a while, after the fog on the top of the mountain disappeared,
An astonishing miracle happened. The place where the Japanese troops were stationed was deserted except for the cannons. Thousands of people disappeared mysteriously and mysteriously.
When Chen Ran saw this description, he still wondered whether there really were monsters? Of course, it was a guess, but in fact, he didn't take the fog seriously at that time, he just thought that it might have happened at that time.
The other scenes were so mysterious that the people in the black room didn't notice, but he didn't expect that he would actually encounter the fog, and it was a colorful fog. The fog described by the person in the black room was a rich gray fog.
I don’t know if it’s the colorful mist I’m talking about.
The colorful mist? It doesn’t seem to be miasma. Are there really monsters that can’t cultivate here?
Shaking his head and throwing this thought out of his mind, Chen Ran pondered for a moment, then controlled the energy aperture to go deeper, but then he discovered that the colorful mist was diffused from the stone wall.
"Stone cave?"
When the energy aperture was detected, it was obvious that the stone wall filled with colorful mist was a bit asymmetrical to the surrounding stone walls, as if the entrance of the cave was blocked by stones, sand or the like. This should have been washed away by a flash flood.
Well, Chen Ran controlled the energy aperture to detect the entrance of the cave, but it was still blocked after detecting three or four meters. This distance was already the limit of the energy aperture detection.
The situation is obvious now. The entrance should be this blocked cave. But what is going on with this colorful mist?
If it were gray mist, Chen Ran wouldn't feel anything, but it was a colorful mist, which would inevitably make people feel uncomfortable.
"Brother Chen, let's eat first and then look for him."
After Yang Shijie dug several shovels there and gave up, he turned over on the base of the stone wall. After digging for a long time, he saw Chen Ran standing there with a frown on his face, so he came over to say hello to Chen Ran.
"good……"
No matter what, this mysterious place hiding a shocking secret was finally found. After hearing Yang Shijie's greeting, Chen Ran, who came back to his senses, simply decided to eat first. Not only did he not have any answers after just two bites of rice,
Hungry made me even hungrier.
After deciding, the two of them returned to the place where they had just eaten and filled their stomachs. After filling their bellies, they returned to this place.
When eating just now, Chen Ran decided that since he had found it, he would go in and explore it anyway. Therefore, after coming here this time, he confessed to Yang Shijie, and the two of them started digging in this place.
stand up.
Yang Shijie didn't know much about this treasure hunt, so he didn't think much about why Chen Ran chose this place to dig. Anyway, he could just do whatever Chen Ran asked him to do, which saved Chen Ran a lot.
Explain with your tongue.
When Chen Ran's energy aperture probed the lower part, he could detect the wisps of colorful mist, but when he really dug it out, he couldn't see it at all. It dissipated in the air as soon as he dug it up. When he inhaled it through his nose, he could only feel a little refreshing.
feeling.
Yang Shijie didn't notice the colorful mist, but he noticed the wisps of cool air when he breathed. This reminded Chen Ran that both of them put on gas masks.
"There's a hole here."
At the beginning, the two of them dug together. Later, it was inconvenient for the two of them to stand in the hole and dig. Therefore, Yang Shijie stood in the hole to dig, and Chen Ran stood on top to say hello. After digging more than two meters,
The hole was revealed.
"Come up."
Chen Ran lowered his head and saw that the blocked hole was indeed exposed a little, which made him feel refreshed. He quickly stretched out his hand and pulled Yang Shijie out first.
After pulling Yang Shijie up, Chen Ran jumped onto the excavated hillside and propped his legs up there. Then he took an engineering shovel and went into the cave entrance to clear away the sand and gravel blocking the entrance.
This process was obviously much more troublesome than digging the hole just now. Chen Ran and Yang Shijie worked alternately for two hours.
As the obstacles blocking the cave entrance were taken out bit by bit, a semicircular cave gradually appeared in front of the eyes. The gaps in the cave became wider and wider, and a stream of stale and dirty air rushed out.
, Chen Ran and Yang Shijie both retreated far away. Although they were anxious, they did not dare to go in easily. They waited for more than 20 minutes until the exhausted air cleared before continuing to dig.
When the passage was about to be opened, instead of cleaning the outside, the two of them got into the narrow entrance and pushed the shovel in directly with the engineering shovel. This saves trouble. Along with a rumbling sound, the passage of the cave opened.
