Chapter 37 The Building of the Non-Existent Room (Up)

Carrying a vapor lamp that was about to run out of fuel, Tinsel struggled to identify the words left on the concrete slab through the light as dim as beans, “Water Supply Unit?3916?What does this mean? Is it a military facility?”

Hearing her words, Fatty and I squatted down to look at the cement as well, the braided and flat cement block, seemed to be deliberately made to seal the shaft, but did not brick up the mouth of the shaft to death, it could be easily opened if a crowbar hook was used to open it from the top, both volumes of the cement block had a code, it was some kind of standardized building material.

Since the Qin Dynasty, in order to facilitate the supervision and management of the construction, there has been a requirement to carry the name of the craftsman engraved on the brick and tile, but how to look at this piece of cement brick does not look like antiquity, what is the “water supply unit? Is it military? 3916 is a troop number?” I guess it is possible that the army has excavated the cave in the center of the tunnel which is full of ghost-suppressing stones? I looked at Fatty and Tinsel, and they were equally confused by it, both unable to guess what it was for.

I said to them: “Forget about the number on the cement, the secrets hidden in the 100-eye cave is too much, we three even if each person longer than one head, six heads plus up to think about the broken also can not understand these things, since I do not understand do not bother to think about it, I see this forest crisis, in case of centipedes and other poisonous insects can be troublesome, but the terrain in the woods But the terrain in the forest is complicated and difficult to distinguish, we lost our mounts, but also to carry the old sheepskin, want to go out in the dark all night long is simply impossible, only to first find a relatively safe place to get to dawn and then make plans.”

Ding Si sweet look at the starlight dark sky, worriedly said to me: “I think today this night really passes by slowly and long, we even have a watch are not, do not know what time of the night is now, how long it will take for the sky to brighten up.” Said the vapor lamp out, there is a little weak starlight in the forest, she intends to try to save the last bit of lamp oil used for emergency.

I also looked up at the starry sky, the light of the stars and moon, although the light is bleak, but fortunately the main stars can still be vaguely recognized, first find the Big Dipper’s handle to confirm the direction of the Big Dipper, and then find the three stars, only to see the three stars hit the horizontal, glittering with the shimmering light hangs obliquely in the east. Northeast in the night is through the position of the three stars in the sky to measure the time, so that judgment, I estimate that it is now only around ten o’clock in the night, the darkness of the mountain wilderness early, since the darkness has been six or seven hours, but still not to the night.

Fatty will also observe the three stars to identify the method of time, he counted on his fingers, at least seven hours to dawn, so long time where is considered safe? Then proposed to go back to just that cave to deal with a night, dawn and then find a way to leave.

But the three of us think of the cave in a large number of wild rats, dirty and damp environment, suppress the ghost of the boulder, may collapse at any time the danger, as well as the “yellow fairy godmother” that full of evil mural, they immediately dismissed the idea, I see that there is an old tree next to me was born strong and tall, it decided to climb to the tree to look at the nearby terrain, and then make a decision.

Came to the tree, my hands and feet, climbed the trunk climbed up the tree, when the fog in the forest has been dispersed, I stepped on the branches of the tree with both hands to hold the tree, low down to look at the face, already do not see the face of Ding Sishen and Fatty, I waved to them, also do not care about them to see or not to see, they raised their heads to observe the surrounding terrain.

But this time the clouds cover the moon, the sky is only a few cold stars, see half a day also only see the shadow of the nearby trees hazy, see not clear what can be sheltered, in the dark and hazy environment, people always subconsciously go to try to keep their eyes open, want to see more clearly, but the eyes are looking at the acid is also nothing to see.

I hugged the trunk of the tree, rubbed my eyes with one hand, and craned my neck to look at the other side, just at this time, the sky fluctuating clouds, the cold moonlight from the thinning of the clouds shone out, through this moonlight hazy moment, I found that in the back of my back, up to the distance of a few trees away, stands a piece of fuzzy shadows, as if it is a large number of buildings, due to the fact that all of the houses are all dead without lights, so it looks like only a dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark. Because all the houses were dead and unlit, there was only a black outline of the building.

And then want to stare at the time, the clouds have once again obscured the moon, a little farther away is a dark, even an outline of the shadows can not see, due to the previous discovery of the concrete slab with the troop number, so in the vicinity of the discovery of a number of houses I do not feel too surprised, but did not think that it would actually be so close to us.

I would like to wait a little longer, wait for the moonlight to leak down again when to see a clear, but the fat man and Ding Sistern under the tree worried about me losing my footing and fall, urged me to hurry down, so I hurriedly slipped down from the tree, put in the tree to the fat man and others to explain, there seems to be a house of a kind of facilities, but inside the black light without the slightest movement, if it is really a kind of building, even if uninhabited, it is at least four walls! A roof, maybe inside can find something to eat, better than in the forest and cold and dark, so the three agreed to go there to wait for dawn.

I pointed out the direction, the three together with the old sheepskin slowly walked over, walking I found someone behind us, but look back and there is no movement, I thought I misheard, but also did not take this matter to heart, and led the crowd through the woods knee-deep grass, face to face is a three-storey high building.

This building appearance ordinary, but through a foreign flavor, the form is not Chinese and not Western, the windows have glass, well-preserved, is definitely a modern building, fat man grasping the window to look inside half a day, there is no half a bit of light inside, can not see anything, just all the windows are pasted on the seam seal, some strange Japanese and symbols.

Dingsi sweet said to me: “This building is neither like a foreign building, nor like a modern Chinese building, in my impression, only the Japanese will build this kind of weird style of building, Su Xiu by no means could start a building here, this is probably that what gives water to the troop’s barracks, right?” This area in the war period, was the Japanese army control area, it is likely to be a barracks type of building, at that time the Japanese follow the example of Europe, very foreign admiration, think that Europe is good at everything, even ordinary buildings, will be more or less absorb some of the characteristics of Western architecture, if that is really the case, now at least has been deserted for more than twenty years.

I nodded and did not say anything, thinking in my heart, so this place was occupied by the Japanese devils, “mud will” of the Hu bandits are traitors? Digging out things are used to honor the brats? I do not know what kind of unknown secrets hidden in this building, but these things are completely based on speculation is unreliable, there are things to wait until dawn to say it, I greeted the fat man picked up the old sheepskin, walking along the wall to find the door of the building.