Chapter 50: The Fine Change
Drill out from the tunnel is outside the building facilities, this is really surprising, according to the escape map, this exit, there should be a large-scale botanical gardens, to go to the main research building must be bypassed here, so at first we do not want to go around the road, we decided to take a straight line through the sewer, could it be that the Russians’ intelligence is false?
At this time the day has been slightly bright, the morning mist of dawn shrouded the four fields, light smoke and mist, vaguely visible across a dense forest, opposite a short mountain, the side of the mountain opposite us, has been dug out of half of the mountain, the broken cross-section of the mountain body is full of large and small caves, like a piece of apple full of worms eyes were cut from the middle, it seems that these caves are all naturally occurring, I am less than the number of details, but the visual estimation, at least there are no fewer than I can’t count them all, but I estimate that there are at least a hundred of them.
Been dug open in the middle of the mountainside, there is a very tall giant stone beast exposed in the soil, the four of us glanced at each other, finally know why this place is called “hundred eyes cave”, originally there is a birth of hundreds of natural holes in the rocky mountain, it seems that the previous guess is not right, so I was surprised more than that, that the layout of the rocky mountain caves and the hideous Stone beasts, let me think of not long ago heard swallow said about the “ghost Yamen”, the legend of that place is the door to the underworld, the wrong person, no hope of survival, but only know the legend of the “ghost Yamen”, but also know that it is in the mountains of a certain place, but from no one can tell the details. No one has ever been able to tell the details.
The Russian’s suicide note had also mentioned that the Japs dug out the gate to hell, the facts and legends confirm that the original is landed here, this hundred-eyed cave is the gateway to the underworld, I do not believe that there are ghosts in the world, but in the secret research facilities in a series of unusual events, but also have to let people have doubts about their own worldview.
Fatty also felt that the hillside over there looked very familiar, staring at it for half a day before he remembered: “Isn’t this the big Ghost Yamen? We see in the group of mountains than this much smaller, I guess this is the real thing, you say there can really lead to the netherworld? I think this matter is quite suspenseful ……”
Ting Si-Tian was hit by the poison belongs to the neurological infection, rather than blood infection, the attack is not fast, although she has a low fever, but the spirit is still healthy, looking at the big holes and small eyes of the mountainside to me and Fatty said: “the netherworld? Those densely packed caves make people feel uncomfortable just looking at them, have you guys seen it somewhere else before? What is that place in there?”
I feel that now, there is no need to hide, let the fat man to the previous things briefly told her, Ding Sishen and the old sheepskin listen to it, face are amazed, looking at the mountain, that big Xianbei female corpse of the hiding cave, there is even the entrance to the netherworld of such a legend? The Japs must have dug out too many evil spirits from the cave, only to get that a incinerator full of incantations constantly burning.
I thought to myself that I have to find some excuses to stabilize the military, the best way is no more than “class struggle, a grasp on the spirit”, so said to the group: “We encountered some things here, really scary and horrible, difficult to common sense speculation, but I do not think there may be what the world of the netherworld, and if there is, that is also the If there is, it is also the home of the emperor and generals, and our proletariat has nothing to do with us, there is no need to worry too much about the cave, and then there is this Kangxi sword shock, thanks to those demons and monsters do not dare to make a fuss, I think this is absolutely reliable, not because of the knife is the emperor’s old man has been used, where commanded the three armies or used in the battlefield, the weapon itself with a three-pointed aura, and there is what unclean things, but also can give the blocked.”
These words are the old sheepskin said to nod repeatedly, he is very much believe in this kind of argument, but Ding Si sweet suddenly asked me, “Then we …… where will we go after we die? Heaven? Hell? Or eternal nothingness?”
I was asked open-mouthed, this thing is really never thought of, had to tell her that: “What eternal nothingness, that belongs to the typical class struggle extinction theory, we have to live well, the revolution to the end, even if it is the death can not be worthless death in this kind of ghost place.”
These words let Tinsel feel slightly at ease, after I finished, let the people in place to rest for a moment, re-check the map, found that it is not the Russians’ map there is a mistake, but the huge contrast of the environment to us caused a kind of illusion, after all, the floor plan is based on the underground waterway, the surface building is only a symbolic marking, we drilled out from the drainage facilities of this exit, is indeed once that closed plant area, but the roof has long since been Completely collapsed, around can still have some broken wall iron mesh, hidden in the dead trees, through this dead bushes, in that full of holes under the hillside, there is a piece of low greenish gray building, there should be the main research building, inside the power distribution room, infirmary, storage room, communication room and so on units, but it looks like the scale of the ground to be a lot smaller than imagined.
That building in the situation is unknown, want to look for antidote in the inside how easy it is, the closer the target, my heart of the grasp but the smaller, looking at the ding Si sweet brow between the gradual increase in the green gas, I know that now there is only a dead horse as a living horse, this time the hills between the grass and trees fog aggravation, visibility gradually low down, I look at the direction of the right, to the crowd of people hand a move, set up on the ding Si sweet, hastily drilled between the withered trees and weeds.
Dead tree leaves and weeds are very dense, by the person’s clothes a rubbing rustle, startled the birds in the forest, issued a few mournful chirping, I pulled out the long knife in front of the road, will be over with the dense chaos of grass and branches cut off, from which to open a road to the grass is getting bigger and bigger, coupled with the bushes of the grass is extraordinarily dense, when I walked into the depths of the range of visibility of only a few paces, I had to slow down, so as not to be separated from the other people in the I had to slow down to avoid getting separated from the others in the forest.
Just when I was worried because of the fog, will lose the right direction, then in front of us appeared a collapsed ancient vine, blocking the way, we had to stop, this is full of thorns and thorns of the Guanyin vine, is the mallow scale fish habitat, we left the incineration room that the mallow was shut in the incinerator, but I do not know how it is now, I only see that the Guanyin vine is very huge, thick place can be a few people hugging, the hundred eye cave of the Hundred Eyes Cave soil is rare and unusual, can nourish the corpse, otherwise the giant vine of the south can not grow here, this is probably also the Japanese army epidemic prevention water supply force set up research facilities in this one of the reasons.
The fallen Guanyin vine broken into pieces, but this vine is too big, and full of barbs, want to climb over is not easy, we looked at a few eyes, look at the vine sigh, had to be prepared to go around from both sides of the grass and trees are more dense, this time the fat man came up with a way, we shun a few pieces of Russian clothes, used to lay on the vine, covered with those hard thorns, you can climb directly over.
We would not have wanted to go around from both sides, because those areas of the ancient forest of wolves, dog-tooth criss-crossed, a few no footing, with a long knife to open the road is extremely difficult to cost a lot of effort, a listen to the fat man this idea is not bad, but also rare for him to have a not bad idea, and then immediately adopted, I do according to the law, and indeed it is very easily climbed up the horizontal fall of the rattan body, due to the limited number of clothes, the crowd must be focused on the passage of, I and the fat man climbed up first, and then the old sheep and Ding Sisiang. And then the dingshi sweet and old sheepskin also dragged up.
Is ready to from the opposite side of the next vine, the old sheepskin feet suddenly stepped on the bottom of an empty, on the spot fell a horse lying, will knee to the foot of the clothes outside, immediately by the Guanyin pain of the hard vertical thorns stabbed flesh and blood, the knee is full of bone seams, by the vine thorns to the sensation of its can be imagined, and suddenly pain he “ah ah” a sound, sucking in the cool air, just in the old sheepskin Just as the old sheepskin lost his footing and slipped, I wanted to reach out to drag him, but in that instant, I almost could not believe my own eyes.
The old sheepskin back a bundle of leather, wrapped inside some of our from the Russian researcher room out of the groceries, originally has been carried by the fat man, but due to the fat man and I first want to open the way for the crowd to climb up the body of the vine, on the back of the body temporarily, I went to drag him when he saw his back in the bundle, but also stretched out the two white furry arms, was my eyes just swept over, the arm “When I swept my eyes over, the arms shrank into the bundle with a whoosh.
At that time the fog hazy, the sky light dim, not because there is light irradiation makes my eyes see flowers, that pair of hairy white hands, with us in the incineration of the building door to see exactly the same, that time I only see the glass window on the white shadow of a shake, did not dare to look carefully, but really is to see such a pair of human hands, although under the fog, but now after all, it is in the daytime, and that a baggage only how big space, how can extend two arms, is it really a pair of arms, how can it really a pair of arms? How can stretch out two arms, is there really a ghost has been following us here?
This way in addition to many strange and inexplicable things, such as in the incinerator room was locked; incinerator door in the dark and was opened, the release of the brocade scale quail almost want to go to the people’s lives, but also led to Ding Sisian in the quail poison life hanging by a thread; walking in the drainage ditch, I clearly see the back of the back followed by a fuzzy black shadow; in the Russians living in the room, the zombie remains of the burned somehow appeared in the table. In the room where the Russians lived, the burnt remains of the zombie inexplicably appeared on the table, and the people were almost seduced in their dreams. All these things all indicated that there was an undead spirit that intended to kill us and followed us closely, but I was never able to locate it, and from the very beginning it was my bright enemy and my dark enemy who were very passive.
I never expected that the thing that wanted to kill us, not behind us, but closer, he was hidden in one of us, if not for the old sheepskin inadvertently slipped, I am afraid I can not discover this secret.
I saw the white shadow flickering in the bag carried by the old sheepskin, and immediately yanked his arm and shouted to the old sheepskin, “Quickly throw the bag away!” The old sheepskin may be the knee pain is unbearable, actually did not understand what I mean, just grimace in pain, can not even say.
I thought this sentence or two can not understand, and the old sheepskin was stabbed in the knee, I do not know how the injury, I had to drag people up and then pay attention to, but I simply can not pull the old sheepskin, stomped hard, the foot padded clothes off the buckle, coupled with the scene in my eyes just now touched me very much, to use the popular words at the time: “has touched the soul! “, unexpectedly also slipped from the vine.
At this time the fat man and Ding Sistern also reached out his hand, want to help me drag the old sheepskin back to the vine, but four people are concentrated to one side, resulting in the clothes stepped on under the feet of the center of gravity shifted, hanging off the hard thorns of the vine, four people turned over on their heels and fell from the vine, but fortunately, the horizontal collapse of the Guanyin vine is not too high, and underneath the tree branches and thick weeds then, which did not fall directly into the bubbles.
Even so also fell not light, and fell down, falling force is not small, it happens to have a fallen dead tree under the vine, the roots of the tree is very large, are withered and rotten, the roots and stems intertwined between the formation of a tree hole, which is empty, the fat man rolled down in the bushes and smashed through the tree hole on the rotten wood, our body also followed another sinking, fell heavily in the bottom of the tree hole.
Hole in the ground are rotten wood lumps, if not indirectly landing, waist may be broken, I seem to be all over the bone joints are scattered, listen to the fat man also grunted and screamed pain, I was trying to struggle to get up to see how they are, then the top of the head boom sound, dry and brittle cracked Guanyin vine was we even stomped with the step, can not withstand it, and also then cracked open to the top of the head blocked tightly, in an instant in the hole in the tree is no light! I called out to my companions in the darkness.
I called my companions’ names in the darkness, fat man and Ding Sistern responded successively, although the fall was not light, but on the strength of the young body bones, there is no big deal, that is, the pain is straight out of cold sweat.
I see these two people are fine, put down the heart a little, let them open the body of the engineer lighting tube, look at the old sheepskin is not also fell into the hole in the tree? How come we haven’t seen him move for half a day? Tree hole on the narrow bottom wide, root than the poles are thicker than a few rounds, densely as if surrounding a tree wall, without any gaps around the bottom of about seven or eight square meters in size, the area is very limited, I’m anxious to find the old sheepskin, not waiting on the bright, enduring the pain in the whole body, in the bottom of the tree grotto groping up.
Suddenly touched some sticky things, as if it is blood, my heart is more anxious, urging the fat man and Ding Sishen quickly open the illuminator, but that even the only engineer illuminator probably fell to the poor contact, how to beat also light up, the fat man touched half a candle in his pocket, had to take it out of the temporary emergency.
Fatty just scratched a match, suddenly there was a gust of wind, as if someone blew a cold air, immediately put out the matches, we have just felt out, this tree hole has been blocked tightly, the air inside does not circulate, where the wind put out the matches? Fatty scratched another match in a hurry, but before the fire lighted up, there was a gust of wind that blew it out.