The length of the rope made me as frightened as the depth of the pit, but Brother Wen remained calm. I couldn’t imagine how such a small body could contain so much courage. We started to put on our mountain climbing gear and brought a few safety equipment with us.
Then he changed the crampon. Brother Wen smoked a cigarette for the last time, stretched out his hand to check whether the rope was securely tied, and then turned back to me and said, "Let's go."
He said it so simply, as if he was taking me for a walk in the park. Before I could say anything else, he grabbed the rope and disappeared to the edge of the pit. At that moment, I was a little shocked. Although Brother Wen was very dirty,
But judging from his posture when he got down from the pit, he was undoubtedly an expert. His movements were not only light and agile, but also quite elegant. I understood at this moment that this man was not just a think tank. He had fallen out with Tongbai at that time. If he had
If you don't want to, I won't even say punch him, it's hard to even touch him.
As soon as I thought about it, Brother Wen called me from below. I also grabbed the rope and slowly slid down. The height of the pit was terrifying. Although we were sliding down, we had to use crampons and ice axes to control it.
The speed is not effortless at all. I kept a distance of four or five meters from Brother Wen. When I lowered my head and looked down, except for Brother Wen's head that was missing most of his hair, I could only see the darkness in the abyss.
At such a height, no matter how mentally prepared I am, I still can't help but feel nervous, my hands and feet are a little flustered, and I can't control the distribution of my physical strength. After a while, my wrists feel sore, and I have to stop for a while. Brother Wen is very patient.
, and don’t rush me, this guy is indeed outstanding. In this place, he is not panic at all, calm and calm. The signal of the walkie-talkie is just okay, and we will contact the above every once in a while.
We slid down about two lengths of rope, which is about a hundred meters, and I already felt exhausted. Brother Wen didn't notice that I stopped where I was, and kept sliding. The distance between us widened to about ten meters.
At this time, Brother Wen suddenly stopped below, as if he had discovered something, and took pictures back and forth with his flashlight.
"Come down and take a look." Brother Wen greeted me, hung the ice ax on the crack in the stone wall, and leaned against it.
I slid down quickly, failed to control my strength, and almost stepped on Brother Wen's forehead. When I got here, I saw that what caught Brother Wen's attention was a hole in the stone wall.
It was said to be a hole, but in fact it was not. It was just a relatively large gap that naturally opened in the stone wall. The entrance was only one meter wide. Brother Wen looked outside and saw a broken item hanging in the undulating crack.
Dirty old clothes. Although the clothes are in such a state of tatters, you can tell at a glance that they are not from long ago.
Surprisingly, I always thought that this abyss-like place was a restricted area for life. Not only were there no living things, there were no traces of any living things. But I didn’t expect that more than a hundred meters deep underground, there were actually hanging
Such a piece of clothing.
"Is it left behind by the people who surveyed this place before?" I asked Brother Wen. Maybe the origin of this dress can only be speculated this way.
"I don't know yet, but it looks like it. Let's go in and take a look."
Brother Wen got his upper body into it and then unhooked the safety buckle. I did the same, but it was not as easy and free as he did. After all, we were at such a high place. The crevice in the rock was not too deep, about four or five meters at most.
As soon as he climbed in, Brother Wen's flashlight illuminated a rotten corpse with only a skeleton left in front of him.
Although Brother Wen was right in front of me, this skeletal corpse still made me panic. He was not frightened at all, and crawled forward. This rock crevice was too narrow, and Brother Wen could not stand even with his height.
straight.
"Who is this?" I really didn't want to get too close to the skeleton, so I stopped halfway.
"I don't know." Brother Wen shook his head: "Since he died here, he must not be an ordinary person. You also know that such people will not bring any documents when they go out to do things. If it is so bad, there is no way to investigate."
"How do people die?" I suddenly became nervous and looked around. Since people died in this cave, the cave itself carries great dangers.
Brother Wen looked at it carefully, then sat up cross-legged and lit a cigarette out of habit. He analyzed with me that due to her petite stature, if someone else sat like this, her cervical vertebra would be broken.
"This person will most likely starve to death." Brother Wen pointed and said: "Besides clothes and weapons, he has nothing else. He has eaten everything he can eat, and he has no other tools. I think he
He was trapped here and starved to death after running out of supplies."
"How did he get here without tools? You were told that he flew down."
"Let me tell you, if you encounter trouble, use this appropriately." Brother Wen pointed to his forehead: "He must have been tricked. He climbed all the way here along the rope. When he found a hole, he came in to take a look.
, but the rope was pulled away by the people above. This trick is often used by tomb robbers. In the jargon, it is called a boring pit, or it is also called a bottom fire."
"Is that what happened?" I thought about it and felt that Brother Wen's guess was reasonable.
The corpse cannot be looked at closely because the air is damp and the bones are covered with mold-like hyphae. Indeed, as Brother Wen said, there is nothing extra in the hole until you see the head.
Brother Wen crawled forward again, climbed directly to the body, and looked at it again. I still stopped in place and watched him busy. This time, Brother Wen seemed to have seen something again, but he did not say it directly, calling me
Go and have a look.
"Just tell me what it is."
"Well, you'd better come and take a look for yourself." Brother Wen suddenly climbed to the end of the rock crevice and made room for me.
I muttered and went over to see if a person brought appropriate supplies, even if he was trapped here, he could survive for ten days and a half. In fact, the people who were trapped and died here had a very contradictory mentality.
At a height of more than 100 meters, the hope of climbing up with bare hands was slim, but staying here would mean death. He could obviously consider this. He wanted to fight, but lacked the courage. He only thought about whether he could find a more reliable way.
He kept dragging it like this until all the food was eaten and his energy was completely exhausted, and he finally died in the cave.
As I climbed forward, I felt something change in Brother Wen's eyes, which I couldn't explain clearly. When I climbed to the side of the skeleton, Brother Wen took a photo of the stone wall with his flashlight. Suddenly, I saw some inscriptions carved on the stone wall.
There are many handwritings, covering the stone walls on both sides. Maybe this person spent all his time carving words before he died.
When I saw the handwriting clearly, I shuddered in my heart and couldn't help but look at the skeleton again.
There are so many handwritings, but they all repeat one sentence: Zheng Lifu, your whole family will not die well.
Each handwriting is deeply engraved, which shows how resentful the person who carved these words is towards my father. Looking at it this way, no matter how stupid I am, I can figure out that the person who trapped this person here is my father?
I was immediately confused about this matter. Who is here? Red Shadow’s memory is definitely not false. I always thought it was Master Kuang who came here. But looking at the curse-like writings on the stone wall, I
I also thought that my dad might have been here too.
Or was it my dad who came here with Master Kuang? For some reason, he was trapped here to death?
I stared at these handwritings and became silent. Brother Wen did not disturb me and just let me think slowly. After a long time, he slowly said: "You see, the person who commented on Zheng Lifu was not
Myself."
"I don't want to know this question." I looked up at Brother Wen and said slowly: "I just want to know, have you been here before?"
If I hadn't seen those writings, maybe I wouldn't have thought so much. Brother Wen might have thought that my mind went crazy after seeing the writings, but I was very clear-headed and I only thought about one thing. Is this hole discovered too much?
What a coincidence? The diameter of the pit is 20 meters, so its side length is more than 60 meters. On the edge of the pit, which is more than 60 meters long, Brother Wen just chose a direction that happened to pass through the rock crevice?
A person like Brother Wen, as long as he sees my expression and the words I ask, he will immediately guess what I want to say. His expression did not change, and he patiently pointed at the skeletal corpse and said: "This question, in fact,
I don’t want to explain more. It will take at least a few years for the corpse to turn into bones to this extent. Do you think I am cheating? Where did I dig up such a corpse to fake it? "
"I'm not saying you're cheating, I just think you're deliberately leading me here." I looked at the writing on the stone wall: "Intentionally letting me see the evidence against my father?"
"Teachable kid, you have really started to use your brain, but not in the right place. I want you to see the negative side of Zheng Lifu. I don't have to do this. If I were outside, I would have a hundred ways to let you see those things, even
You can make some perjury that is so seamless that you can’t detect it at all.”
"I won't talk nonsense to you anymore." I didn't want to waste my words. I knew that if we argued for an hour, Brother Wen would still not admit what he didn't admit. I just wanted to know his intentions.
"Didn't you always want to know that secret and that's why you came here with me?" Brother Wen stopped dwelling on the issue and changed the subject.
"To be honest, this secret is not as tempting to me as before, because I am suspicious of every word you say."
"People are doing it, God is watching, this secret is true." Brother Wen said: "Let's go, I will talk to you carefully when we get to the bottom of the pit."
Although I was reluctant, I was still tempted by Brother Wen's promise. No matter what I said, I wanted to hear what the secret that Brother Wen said was like. So I turned around without saying a word.
Climb out of the cave and fasten the safety buckle again.