For twenty-four hours a day, the team of demon hunters walked up and down this spiral stone staircase, taking turns sleeping and resting, and then moved forward, slowly approaching the ground five thousand meters up.
There are still a lot of military compressed biscuits, but the clean water was used up 11 hours ago, and everyone began to drink the water that the medical staff washed their hands before the operation. If this water contains any irresistible germs, I am afraid they have already been infected.
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Lin Mo had been carried away on a stretcher by the team members in turns; Lou Xiaoning walked by himself, but still could not hold a gun or other weapons.
The higher they climbed, the narrower the surrounding space became. At the end, there was less than one meter left between the stairs and the circular stone wall. They seemed to be trapped in the belly of an animal.
And there is an increasing feeling that the entire staircase is crumbling, and everyone can even hear a creaking sound similar to the vibration of the wooden stairs.
This is not like their hallucination, because the dark red fine lines on the stone stairs and stone walls have become less and less, but there are more spider silk-like cracks. It is obvious that the vitality on it is getting more and more withered, and it seems that it will collapse at any time.
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In the strange eternity, even death will be annihilated. Gu Jun remembered the words of the mad Arab, these stones are dying, disappearing, and annihilating.
When we were still hundreds of meters above the ground, the atmosphere in the team was already very low, because everyone's physical strength and spirit were exhausted to a certain extent. The scalp was tight, the bones all over the body were numb and sore, and the mouth was dry due to lack of water.
I'm so restless that my lips have a layer of dry, cracked dandruff.
And this damn spiral staircase under my feet has not come to an end yet.
This physiological state breeds a restlessness, and even the strongest will is constantly being eroded by it.
It is true that the Demon Hunter Team is the Mobile Task Force of the Dongzhou Branch, but this is the first time they have experienced such an abnormal space and such a heart-breaking difficulty.
The higher you go, the dimmer it becomes.
At this time, there was another chilling situation. Xue Ba saw it with a night vision telescope. There was a roof above, blocking the way, but...
"Ajun, take a look." Xue Ba looked at it for a while and then handed the binoculars to Gu Jun next to him.
Gu Jun took the telescope and started looking at it. The spiral stone staircase led to a stone platform. There was no way to go up. But the top of the platform was less than one meter above the ground. It was also a stone that was integrated with the surroundings.
, but there is an obviously different thing that looks like a thick stone slab or a top door directly above the platform.
The bottom of that stone slab is full of strange lines, which look to be artificially carved, in the shape of various flowers...
Gu Jun suddenly remembered Payani's hometown, the "hometown of flowers", Sal City. The stone slab should have the scenery of Sal City on it.
But the more he looked, the more his mind began to wander, and a sense of illusion emerged in his tired head... Is there an illusion here that can be triggered?
But after a while, that feeling didn't take shape, it just made my mind more confused.
There are no inscriptions on the stone slab, no locks, or other devices, but there are extremely tiny stone cracks on the edges on all four sides, which seem to be pushable.
"Captain Xue, I didn't find anything special." Gu Jun returned the telescope to Xue Ba, "But I feel that there is the exit."
Xue Ba nodded and asked other team members to take a look.
Soon, everyone understood what was going on. If they wanted to get out, they had to break the barrier. Can they blow it up with C-4 or micro missiles?
"It can't be blown up." Lin Mo objected as soon as he heard it. He was in much better spirits now and showed no symptoms of residual parasites. "The stone slab is too close to the stairs! No matter how accurate the control is, the shock wave will affect the stairs.
The gravel will also be pressed down. If this stone staircase collapses like that, we will fall thousands of meters."
"I don't think it can be exploded either." Gu Jun also shook his head this time, because he could feel the fragility of the surrounding stones, which were worse than the dead wood in the wasteland.
"Let's go up and have a look first." Xue Ba led the assault team to a few steps below the platform at the end, only half a hand away from the stone slab.
Sure enough, the shaking feeling became stronger, and the cracks in the stone became more and larger, but the light outside was still interrupted...
They first pushed the stone slab hard with their guns, but there was no movement. Then they tried pushing it to the left and right, and it seemed that the movement was particularly strong when pushing to the left.
"Let's try pushing it with our hands." Xue Ba said. In this case, pushing it with your hands will make it more comfortable.
Now the team has almost nothing except guns and ammunition, water and food, medical tools, etc. Pushing by hand is the most primitive and most practical.
The assault team left two people on guard, while Xue Ba and the other five stood on horseback, raised their hands and pressed on the bottom of the stone slab, "Three, two, one, push!"
They pushed hard to the left, and the faces of the five big men turned red and veins popped out, "Ah..."
However, the stone slab was only lifted up a little, and the light from outside came down immediately. However, they had to let go feebly after holding on for more than twenty seconds. The stone slab suddenly fell back to its original position heavily, and made a terrible sound.
"Bang", the cracks in the surrounding stones are even bigger...
"There is light above! This is the exit!" Xue Ba encouraged the team members in an exciting tone, but did not mention that even when he was full of energy, he could not push it, let alone now when he was tired.
After only pushing this time, Xue Ba realized that it was a waste of effort for them to push, but now every bit of their physical strength was very precious. The water was gone, and their physical strength would only continue to decline as time went by.
Xue Ba asked everyone to stop first and asked Gu Jun to come up and take a closer look.
But Gu Jun couldn't do anything except for the vague uneasiness surging in his heart.
Xue Ba had no choice but to ask everyone to come up, and said with a solemn face: "We have already pushed it away a little bit, there is light! As long as we have enough strength, we can push down this stone slab! Let's all try it together and make it full.
With strength, I will succeed this time."
At that moment, they all bent over and sat on the platform, Xue Ba's head almost hit the stone slab.
In order to gather maximum strength, even Lin Mo, who was missing a leg, sat in.
Because it might fail just because of his little strength, and they might not have the strength to do it a second time.
Everyone squeezed into position, raised their hands and pressed them on the bottom of the stone slab, ready to push to the left together...
But suddenly, a thought occurred to Gu Jun. Those sixteen different handprints on the big banyan tree represented sixteen people.
Those handprints have weird shapes, as if they are struggling... Pressing the uneven pattern on this stone slab, doesn't it make their handprints undergo strange changes...
It seems that no matter what happens from the beginning, he will get here, whether he is alone or in a team, he will get here.
This idea not only appeared in Gu Jun's mind, but also in Uncle Dan, Lin Mo, Yang Henan and others, their brows furrowed.
"Don't worry about so much!" Xue Ba had already been paying attention, because he had already had this horrifying idea, and shouted: "Whether you are thinking about it or not, it is just a trick of the enemy. Once we don't die down there,
When we get here, the enemy will use this to confuse us. Don't think too much and prepare to push!"
Don't leave time for everyone to think wildly, because the emotion of panic will make the body weak and unable to use any strength.
"Three, two, one!" Xue Ba shouted, his muscles exploding, "Push!"
With a sudden movement, the sixteen members of the team burst out with the greatest strength they could, either gritting their teeth or roaring, pushing the stone slab with both hands!
This made their faces become a little distorted, and their eyes widened. The gauze on Lou Xiaoning's unhealed right eye socket was red with blood, and the gray light outside shone again, and those who pushed up the stone slab
My arms are already shaking...
Of course, Gu Jun was pushing with all his strength, but the sense of illusion that had been vague before suddenly became stronger.
Some blurry lights and shadows were no longer dead, but rushed in front of his eyes crazily.