Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 525 Footprints
Before going underground along the passage dug by the rolling dragon Xu Yi, Liu Cong arranged for two team members to stand outside and monitor the surrounding situation.At the same time, he took out the satellite phone and made a call with the team members who were left behind in the dragon-wound Qinglian mountain range.

People from the Dragon Digging Society were quietly monitoring Chen Benzhong's camp, and Chen Benzhong's people were not idle, they were also monitoring the every move of the more than 300 members of the Dragon Digging Society.

According to reports from the people in the camp, there is no change in the people on both sides, and the people from the Dragon Digging Society just stay there obediently.Now the people on both sides know the existence of the other side, and there is nothing to hide. The two groups of people are like camping together, cultivating themselves in that mountain range.

However, the people under Chen Benzhong did not see Xiong Xiong and Pan Huayu showing up. Even if they were monitoring each other all the time, it was impossible to cover everything. I don't know if these two people have been hiding in the tent and plotting something, or there is something wrong with them. What other machinations.

Although they did not see these two people, Chen Benzhong's subordinates did not see these two people leaving, or other members of the Dragon Digging Society leaving.

After listening to the report, Liu Cong frowned. He felt that something was wrong with this matter.

It has been nearly ten days since my team secretly left the giant dragon wrapped around the Qinglian Mountains. The people in the Dragon Digging Club are not fools. It's impossible not to think that they used a trick to transfer flowers to trees.

They haven't seen several of Chen Benzhong's generals show up for ten days in a row. Yoshioka Xiong and Pan Huayu must have realized that something is wrong, but why haven't these two people taken any action?Could it be that they also used the same method, avoided the surveillance eyes, and left the mountain range.

Thinking of this, Liu Cong shuddered. If this was the case, where did the disappearing Yoshioka Xiong and Pan Huayu go?Could it be that they already know the location of the Qing Dynasty dragon veins and are rushing here.

After shaking his head, Liu Cong felt that this idea was not valid.Even if Yoshioka Xiong and Pan Huayu realized that something was wrong, they didn't realize it until two or three days after their group left, and it was impossible for these people to know the location of the Dragon Vein of the Qing Dynasty. Even if these two people disappeared, Not necessarily coming here.

In case the worst happens, these people really know the location of the Qing Dynasty Dragon Vein and rushed here, but the more than 300 people from the Dragon Digging Society are still in the Qinglian Mountains surrounded by giant dragons. Without moving, there will not be many people brought by Yoshioka Xiong and Pan Huayu, and their own team can still handle it.

Although Liu Cong felt that the probability of the worst possibility happening was very low, he had to make adequate preparations. At this time, he must not take it lightly, otherwise it was very likely that the dragon would take advantage of it.

After entering the cracks in the ground along the dug passage, the team did not advance rashly, but stayed in place for a while, carefully observing the environment here.

This formation crack is about two meters wide and three meters high. The cross section of the crack is triangular, the top is very sharp, and the stone walls on both sides are squeezed together.This is why the soil layer above did not collapse.

I don't know if it's everyone's luck, or Chen Benzhong's positioning ability is too strong, the shaft dug by the earth-rolling dragon Xu Yi is directly connected to this crack in the ground.

The stone walls on both sides of the crack are relatively regular, and the gravel on it should have been cleaned up artificially. Although the stone walls have not been polished, they are still very smooth.

This crack in the ground was tortuous, and I don't know how long it was. After taking a photo of both ends of the crack with the beam of a flashlight, Chen Benzhong took out a compass and kept checking the direction.

The moment Chen Benzhong took out the compass, Chen Ziyang recognized it. This compass was exactly the one he saw in the three exhibition cabinets when he first came to Chen Benzhong's office.This time Chen Benzhong not only went out in person, but also brought out the compass that he had sealed for decades.

"The range of the hole in this treasure cave is very large, and this place should already be within the range of the hole. The mountain here is very strong, so I guess, if you want to build the Dragon Vessel Underground Palace, it will definitely be built in such an environment. Only such a mountain space can bear the weight of the soil above the underground palace without collapsing.

And the cracks in the mountain here have obviously been man-made, and we will not be too far away from the underground palace. As long as we walk along the cracks and find a huge underground space, there is a good chance that the Dragon Vein Underground Palace is located there. "

After saying this, Chen Benzhong put the piece of dog oil candle he lit into an open glass case, hung it on his waist, and directed the team to move forward.

After turning around and turning eight times, the team followed this crack in the ground to another wider crack. The scale of this crack was much larger than the one that everyone walked through. The crack was seven or eight meters wide. The height is almost the same.

These two cracks are distributed in a herringbone shape. Obviously, the crack that everyone walked through before is just a small fork of this big crack.

The ground of this relatively wide crack is covered with a layer of fine sand and dust, but the mountain walls on both sides are still very smooth, even smoother than the previous crack.

"Hehe, it seems that my guess is correct. There should indeed be a relatively large underground space here, otherwise this crack would not be so wide. I think this crack should be used to transport materials when building the Dragon Vein Palace." Having made such a big discovery, Chen Benzhong's face was filled with a smile.

"Godfather, why didn't the builders block this passage after the construction of the Dragon Vein Underground Palace? Isn't that very dangerous? If someone enters here by mistake, they may follow here to find the location of the Dragon Vein Underground Palace Yes." Liu Cong asked in surprise.

"Silly boy, this just proves that this passage leads to the dragon vein underground palace. It is impossible for the builders to block such a passage. Don't forget that in the underground palace, besides the dragon vein, there are hidden Lots of treasure.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the treasures plundered from inside the pass were transported outside the pass and buried in the dragon vein underground palace.Their idea is very simple. If they can't gain a foothold in the Central Plains, they can rely on these treasures to develop outside the customs. Therefore, these treasures are likely to be taken out. If they block the road to the underground palace, what do you think? It is very laborious to remove the treasure inside.

And I guess, all the defensive means should be placed in the underground palace. Even if someone enters this passage by mistake and finds the location of the underground palace, they can't easily go in. The treasure inside is still very safe, so it can't be blocked. It doesn't make any sense to block here.

We only walked this far, and found two cracks in the mountain. Maybe there are so many cracks here. They can't block every crack. In that case, it's better not to block them, and use the defense in the underground palace means to protect dragon veins and treasures. "

It may be because there is an underground water source here, the cracks are relatively humid, and a lot of sand, gravel and soil on the ground have condensed together.

The light from the dog oil candle hanging on Chen Benzhong's waist is still yellow and red. It seems that the air quality here is not a problem for the time being, and the air quality monitors in the hands of Liu Cong's team members have not issued an alarm sound. .

After checking the position again, the team continued walking along the wide crack.After a while, the team member who was walking in the front to explore the road suddenly stopped, and then he turned his head slowly, with panic in his eyes.

"What's the matter?" Liu Cong hurried forward two steps, came to the player's side, and asked anxiously.

"There seems to be footprints on the ground..." the team member said tremblingly.

"Footprints! How can there be footprints here?" Hearing what this team member said, everyone in the team was puzzled. Do not understand the reason.

The people in the team came to the place where the team member was standing, and bent down to look at the ground here.

Although the crack was very wet, the ground in front of the team member was very dry and had not been eroded by water vapor. The sand, stones and soil on the ground had not condensed together, and a few faint footprints were printed on the soil. .

These footprints are very shallow, and if you don't look carefully, you can't see them at all. Only by shining forward with a flashlight, can you vaguely see a series of traces that are incompatible with the ground here. The shape of the footprint.

"Hiss..." After seeing clearly that this was indeed a series of footprints, everyone gasped, wondering what the hell was going on.

"Could it be that someone has been here before us?" Liu Cong came up with such an idea, and said it casually.

Chen Benzhong didn't answer, but lay his whole body on the ground, staring at the footprint closest to him carefully, then he stood up again, walked a few steps beside the footprint, leaving two footprints.

Although the footprints left by Chen Benzhong are not very clear, it is obvious that his footprints are very different from the footprints on the ground. The difference is immediately revealed by comparing the two.

"Judging from the depth of the footprints, these footprints should have been here for many years, perhaps more than a few decades.

The dust in the crack had already fallen, and someone passed by here later, leaving this series of footprints.Because there is no dust to continue to fall, and the environment here is relatively closed, the footprints are not covered by the new dust, so they stay here. "

After studying for a long time, Chen Benzhong came to such a conclusion.

"Decades? If it's really decades, could it be during the Anti-Japanese War? Could it be that the Dragon Digging Society at that time had already discovered this place and sent people here?"

After saying this sentence, Liu Cong felt that he had made a mistake.It is impossible for the Dragon Digging Association to know the exact location here, otherwise they would not have spent so much effort looking for the Qing Dynasty's dragon vein treasure.

The purpose of the establishment of the Dragon Digging Association is to find the treasures of the dragon veins of the Qing Dynasty. This has been the case since the founder of the Dragon Digging Association, Yoshioka Yasunao, was in power. It has not changed over the years, and over the years, the Dragon Digging Association has also Under the leadership of the Yoshioka family, I have been working hard towards this goal.

"It can't be a member of the Dragon Digging Society, so who came here? There seems to be only one set of footprints on the ground, maybe a person entered here by mistake."

"That's right, but have you noticed that the series of footprints on the ground can only go forward and not return, that is to say, either this person died in the underground palace, or he left from another place.

Although I don't know what happened to this person, but judging from this person's stride, he walked very firmly, as if he knew where he was going, and he didn't search forward like us.

It is very likely that this person knows that there is a dragon vein underground palace ahead, and his destination is there, so he walks so firmly.Since this series of footprints leads to the Dragon Vein Underground Palace, we only need to continue walking along this series of footprints to find the location of the Dragon Vein Underground Palace. "

When other people saw this series of footprints, they were thinking about who left these footprints and why they left them here, but Chen Ziyang had a different idea. He deduced from this series of footprints that something that no one else noticed.

After Chen Ziyang's reminder, other people noticed that the steps of the people who left the footprints were very consistent, and they walked forward in large strides. Only people who were on the road would leave such footprints.

"Do you know that there is a dragon vein underground palace in front of you..." Chen Benzhong said to himself, the light in his eyes flickered, as if he had thought of many things.

"Don't worry about that much, continue walking along the direction of the footprints and see if you can find other footprints. Maybe the Dragon Vein Underground Palace is really in front."

After giving the order, Chen Benzhong led the team to continue walking forward, but after the incident of the footprints just now, everyone in the team was thinking about a lot of things in their hearts, plus they needed to be distracted to find the footprints on the ground, The speed of the team's progress has slowed down a lot.

As Chen Benzhong speculated before, there are many other cracks on both sides of this wide crack, but the width of these cracks is not worth mentioning, and some cracks are only a few fingers wide.So there is only one direction for everyone to move forward for the time being.

However, no other footprints were found along the way. The further one walked, the more humid the air in the cracks became. The ground was wet, and some water droplets were even dripping down from the top of the cracks.Vaguely, everyone heard the sound of water coming from the front.

(End of this chapter)