Adventure Code

Chapter 654 Rescue (7)

A group of us stood on the edge of the tiankeng, staring at the white light source that was getting farther and farther below. It took about an hour before we heard the whistle of the bald head, indicating that we arrived safely.

We can't use the time spent by the bald head to infer the depth of the tiankeng, because the complex vegetation environment on the tiankeng will seriously affect the progress of the person's descent. clump.

The so-called thorn bushes are some thorny plants with thorns. This kind of plant often has a well-developed root system and is extremely easy to grow. When no one interferes, it will grow into a large area, densely packed with thorns. It can only be bypassed, otherwise it will be tied into a hornet's nest, and some thornbush plants are still poisonous.

Just now the bald head would encounter thorn bushes from time to time below, which would delay him a lot of time, so it was not surprising that it took him so long to go down to the tiankeng, and because of the depth of the pit and his previous I have been shouting to report the situation, so my voice is hoarse at the moment, and it is difficult to clearly transmit the shouting, so the signal whistle is used instead.

The sharp sound of the signal whistle, after being 'processed' by the echo zone, reveals a long meaning.

As the bald head reached the bottom, it was completely dark outside.

Listening to the sound of the whistle in the dark, we confirmed the safety of the bald head, and everyone subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.Scheming is all about scheming, but everyone's goal is still the same, so everyone hopes that everything will go well.

According to word of mouth from Chong Nu, the bottom of the tiankeng would not emit light after the living creatures entered. It seems that the rumors are wrong.

Immediately, after confirming the safety, the rest of us did not delay any longer, and started to descend along the safety line that had already been arranged.

The climbing ropes made of modern materials look very thin, but they are actually very strong due to gravity. Therefore, in order to save time, we did not lower them one by one, but lowered two ropes and divided them into two teams to lower together, number one and number four Use one, me, Nineteen, Daxun, and my dear brother use one.

The order on our side is that Brother Xingan is the first, so he is at the bottom, I am second, above Brother Xingan, Daxun is above me, and the last is Nineteen who is carrying the high priest on his back. Since it is going down the rope, so The backpack placed on the chest was moved to the rear. When everyone moved down carefully along the rope, the high priest laid down in the equipment bag leisurely and looked down.

It stands to reason that people will have a natural sense of fear when hanging in the air, and the fear brought by soft objects will be stronger than hard objects. Cement and fabrics that are also subject to gravity, even if the safety level is the same, when placed in high altitude Therefore, the high safety brought by cement board will far exceed that of high-tech materials that are soft to step on.

The high priest's heart is really big enough, is it true that after living for a long time, he is not afraid of anything?

"Tsk." At this moment, Daxun below made some noise.

Although they were on the same rope, a flexible distance of about ten meters was maintained between them for the convenience of movement.

As soon as he made a sound, I looked down, and with the help of the light, I saw a place not far from Daxun's feet, which was densely packed with very lush vegetation. From a distance, I recognized it. It is a common thorn plant in Northwest China.

The locals call this plant lantern thorn. In autumn, it will bear a kind of fruit like a lantern. When the red fruit is ripe, it will be like a ripe and burst bean. Inside the lantern shell, several Hundreds of black sesame-like seeds, when all the seeds are exploded around, will infect one by one, so this kind of lantern thorn will be very large when it appears.

Looking at the light of the flashlight, the lanterns below were piercing to the left and right, and the head was almost invisible. I finally understood why the bald head was scolding under the ground.

Fortunately, before the bald head opened the way, he had already used a machete to clear out the lantern thorns blocking the way below, which was about four or five meters long, but not very wide.

If these lantern thorns were not so tall, we only need to kick our feet on the cave wall and slide our body out to jump over. But these lantern thorns are too tall, two or three meters high, and it is estimated that Liu Xiang will come. It's okay.

There is only one path cleared by the bald head. The rope he went down before was the one used by No. [-] and others, so at this moment, we can only wait for No. [-] and his party to pass through the thorn bush first.

Soon, the figures of the four people were submerged in the thorn bushes of the lantern. When the thorns trembled, Daxun suddenly exclaimed and said, "Look, there are many holes there." Moved away from the location, and hit to the side, that place was the edge of the thorn bush, which was originally well covered, but because No. [-] and the others entered, the thorns moved, revealing some clues.

But under the light, on the rock among the thorn bushes, there are several holes that look very regular.

Daxun leaned towards that position, cut down some thorns on the edge, leaned over to look closely for a moment, and said in surprise, "It looks like a piling hole."

Piling holes?
In many places in ancient my country, the buildings built on the cliffs were built with piling frame bottom beams, such as the famous Hanging Temple, and some ancient plank roads.

First drill deep pile holes on the rock, and then insert the treated hard and anti-corrosion wood into the pile holes. The exposed piece of wood is the beam foundation. By erecting the beam foundation, houses and plank roads can be built on the cliff , and even more large buildings.

There are pile holes on the wall of this tiankeng, which means that there may have been buildings on it, maybe a house, maybe a plank road?

It seems that we are looking for the right direction. It is not impossible for living things to enter the tiankeng here. Otherwise, how did these pile holes come from?

"There are still below..." Looking along the pile holes, more and more pile holes were exposed, but due to the dense vegetation here, most of the pile holes were covered, so the bald head did not find it before.

Judging from the trend of the pile holes discovered so far, the possibility of being a building is relatively low, and the possibility of being a plank road is relatively high. It’s just that after many years, there is nothing left except the pile holes.

Daxun said: "It seems that Chong Nu used to come and go here often."

The high priest in the bag had an indescribably weird smile on his face, staring at the bottomless abyss in the darkness below, as if he could see through something.

What did Zong Nu do in this sinkhole?
Judging by the expression on the high priest's face, does it already understand it in his heart?

(End of this chapter)