The writing on this simple stone tablet reads: Trespassers will be punished.
This must be a stone tablet left by the Qin people who excavated this place. The writing on the stone tablet is definitely not a joke, every stroke is filled with murderous intent. Qin's laws are quite strict, especially in this kind of interaction between soldiers and laborers.
The mixed teams are all governed by military law. If a mistake is made, it may result in lifelong disability. The stone tablet is erected here, which means that this is an iron law.
"What's in this cave?"
In my panic, I wondered again. Since the Qin people had erected this monument to prevent people from entering without permission, they must have known that there was something in the cave, and that it was something that could not be touched easily. But there are still more doubts left for us.
There was really not much time to think about it. The two guys who had the accident had already walked far away.
"You stay here first." Chen Yu turned to me and ordered: "When Ouyang and Li Zhi arrive, bring them in."
I was a hundred reluctant. If I hadn't been so scared at the time, I wouldn't have followed all the way here. But Chen Yu's arrangement was the most appropriate. The only people we could fill in at once and act separately, even if the previous ones were
If someone has an accident, the people behind can still take care of it. I just hummed and held my knife that had never been put to use tightly.
Chen Yu and two other people walked around from the right side of the river ditch to the entrance of the big cave. They climbed up on the rough stone tablet and entered the big cave. The entrance of the big cave was facing the sky at a forty-five degree angle. As long as people walked in and walked for a while, they could see the outside.
Not there. Once they left, I was the only one left here, so forget about the panic. Having said that, Chen Yu's behavior was not bad. At least he was concerned about my safety, and he also took the lead.
I waited here for a while. I didn't know what was going on inside the big cave. In short, there was no special sound. After a while, Ouyang and Li Zhi hurried over. I briefly talked to them, and the two of them were in a hurry.
They were about to go in. I advised them to be careful. Now is not the time to be anxious. They have to stay calm.
"Special correspondent." Ouyang is a young man in his twenties with a square face and short hair. He is full of blood at first glance. He rolled up his sleeves, took out his gun, and said to me: "The two of us go in first, and you stay behind to see the situation.
, Sister Yu has told me, if something happens, you should withdraw first."
"Stop blaming me. Have you ever seen such a miserable special agent?"
"It's just a joke, that's it."
Time was tight. Ouyang and Li Zhi followed the direction I told them and climbed into the big cave along the stone tablet. I was about four or five meters away from them. After stepping on the stone tablet and leaning my upper body into the big hole, I
Immediately I smelled a rather suffocating odor. When I smelled this smell, my heart tightened. I heard people say that if there are beasts living in the caves in the mountains, the smell will be very bad. The underground here is not good.
It is suitable for large creatures to survive, but the smell is really intolerable to people.
This big hole looks like a ventilation shaft in a mine, but it is purely natural. There is only one entrance to the hole. There are many forked roads after entering. After walking less than ten meters, water starts dripping from the top of the head. We don’t know that Chen Yu and the others walked to
We went somewhere. The signal of the walkie-talkie was interfered by the terrain. Ouyang called softly several times but received no response. We looked at the fork one by one. Ouyang looked at the largest fork and quickly turned around and waved to us. Inside the fork
The road was not straight, but he saw the halo reflected by the flashlight.
When we got here, the smell was extremely unpleasant. Normally, I would have been so smoked that I would have vomited, but the emotional tension distracted my sensitive sense of smell. As we walked all the way, when we turned a corner, we immediately saw the following people.
A guy who came in from Chen Yu was standing there.
We ran over to inquire about the situation, and as we got closer, we stepped on something under our feet. When I lowered my head and looked down, I fainted. The ground was covered with bones of hands and feet, scattered on a layer.
I looked up and saw that the guy was standing beside a pit about five or six meters in diameter, shining his flashlight downward.
After meeting, he quickly told the story. They followed two guys who had an accident. They couldn't see the little shadow along the way. After following them here, the two guys crawled towards the pit.
There was a confused mess below, and it was hard to see what it was, but the situation was so urgent that Chen Yu could only take the risk and take a boy down to rescue people.
"This is too arbitrary." I looked at the limbs and bones of countless people around the pit and complained again and again. But the people had already gone down, so it was useless to complain. The few of us just lay here and looked down.
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I felt very uneasy, because I felt that the suffocating stench was emanating from the pit. The moist cold air was mixed with the stench, which made me feel as uncomfortable as possible. Moreover, the skeletons beside the pit were very abnormal.
A complete body, even the scattered torso is missing.
Looking at this, I don't know why my mind flashed, and I suddenly recalled a novel I had read, a Western fantasy novel. I couldn't remember the title or the specific plot clearly, but there was a plot in it that stuck with me.
It left a deep impression. Thinking back on this, I felt like I had fallen into an ice cellar.
"Look!" I quickly grabbed Ouyang and asked him to look at the bones at his feet: "What are these bones?"
The bones must be many years old. Some of them were broken when touched. Moreover, the air was too humid. The gaps between the finger bones and the bone cavities were filled with very thin black unknown bacteria. Ouyang didn't know what I was going to do, but he still picked two opposite ones.
Speaking of the complete bone fragment, he looked at it and said, "It should have been cut directly from the human body, but I can't be 100% sure. After all, it took too long."
"Since it is possible that it was seen from the human body, this matter is probably very bad."
I was covered in cold sweat as I connected all the details. Then I looked at the big crater in front of me, and there were many broken bones of hands and feet. A very scary and cruel picture appeared in my mind:
When the Qin people were digging here, many injured or sick laborers were secretly escorted here. In order to prevent them from struggling and resisting, their hands and feet were cut off, and then they were all pushed into this big pit.
"Special correspondent?" Ouyang saw me shaking and asked me what was going on.
"It's very bad." I touched the sweat on my head and said, "I doubt there is anything alive in this pit."
This guess was completely inspired by that fantasy novel. In the novel, there is a contract between a witch and the devil. She is responsible for abducting some people who have lost their way in the mountains, and then binding them and throwing them into the devil's cave.
Sacrifice to the devil, and the devil will reward her with super powerful magic power.
The guess seems a bit nonsensical and lacks basis, but I feel so strongly that this is exactly what I think. I really suspect that there is something alive under this pit, and it is extremely threatening and destructive. The Qin people at that time wanted to search here
In order to exchange for some peaceful time, throw away those sick and injured people. Once the things in the pit are full, they may not come out to cause trouble.
No wonder there is a stone tablet erected at the entrance of the cave. If someone who did not know the situation came here and lured the things under the pit out, it might have been a disaster.
The two guys who had the accident were brought here by Little Shadow. Maybe this is also a kind of sacrifice.
I was so frightened by my own speculation that I broke into a sweat. No matter how far apart I was from Chen Yu, I couldn't bear to watch her die in the pit. I simply explained my speculation, and the three guys who stayed above were satisfied.
His head was sweating profusely, and the veins on Ouyang's neck were popping up. Without saying a word, he rolled up his sleeves and crawled down. As soon as he moved, the other two people couldn't sit still anymore, so they also climbed down.
"Holy shit!" I stood on the edge of the pit, the soles of my feet were rising up in the cold air, leaving me alone again. When they all went down, I smelled the stench, and felt more and more about my judgment.
That's right, even if there was a mass grave here, it would have turned into ashes after so many years. Only living things can continue to emit this disgusting smell.
Less than three minutes after Ouyang and the others went down, a burst of messy and dull gunshots came from under the pit, interrupting my thoughts. I quickly took a flashlight and looked down, but there was a passage under the pit, so I could shine straight down.
Going down, all you can see is a blurry mess.
There were loud gunshots and people screaming. I felt that each of them had used up all the bullets in their guns in an instant. This would not have been possible if they had not encountered a particularly critical situation. But I couldn't do anything to help.
I can stand on it and shake hands. I feel more nervous at this moment than I have every day. I can’t imagine what I would do if something happens to them down there, even though the way back to the ground from here is not complicated, nor is it particularly far.
, but I couldn't bear that kind of loneliness. Especially when the fresh faces of Chen Yu and several other guys appeared in my mind, I almost wanted to rush down desperately.
The gunshots below started to sound intermittently. It must be that someone was looking for an opportunity to exchange magazines. Although I couldn't see anything, I could feel something surging under the pit, and a fishy smell swept up.
Ouyang's voice was the loudest. He might have been completely irritated, and his roar overwhelmed the others. I kept staring at the bottom of the pit, and suddenly, a shadow was thrown straight from the bottom of the pit by something.
It was thrown up, and I quickly shrank my head to hide. In the blink of an eye, the thing had fallen heavily to the edge of the pit, rolled twice, and twitched on the spot. I saw clearly that it seemed to be Ouyang,
The fall was very hard. He rolled over and started foaming at the mouth.
I immediately ran over to pick him up and patted his face: "Ouyang! Ouyang! What's down there!"