C42

From start to finish, I was still willing to believe that Ji Xiang had already died. If I hadn't met the crazy Ji Xiang, I might not have felt this way, but when someone said that she had died a long time ago and was still with us, the result was too surprising and unbelievable.

Afterwards, we asked Duan Hui a lot of questions, but his answers were more or less the same. The British team was led by the old man to the underground Sakyamuni Army's treasury, and found the gold bars that the Emperor Jianwen left behind back then.

The old man's whereabouts were unknown, whether he lived or died was unknown. Hu Guangzu had revealed his true nature, and took advantage of the fight between the British people to snatch the spear for himself, causing Ji Xiang's miserable death. Only Duan Hui was able to escape.

Duan Hui was sure that he had concealed the part where he stole the gold, otherwise how did he get the big box of gold in his tent?

It's just that there's a question that puzzles me, since Hu Guangzu killed so many people at Wild Mountain that was rarely seen, and obtained the gold bar, how did he leave the Wild Mountain?

Since he left, why did he sneak onto Old Man Chuan's boat and then return?

What was his goal this time?

Was it him, or was it the Japanese man with the gas mask who framed us?

At that time, Hu Guangzu had already acted very unnaturally, but when I thought back to it now, it seems that Hu Guangzu was indeed doing this because Ji Xiang did not die. That was why he took the opportunity to kill Ji Xiang when I was leaving with Hai Shui.

Duan Hui carried the large wooden chest and explained everything to them. "Now that I have said everything, your rescue team should have sent me back to the ship, right?"

He took out a few gold bars from the chest and said, "How about this, as long as you promise to take me back to the ship and let me leave this damned place, I will give you guys a compensation of my own. This is the deposit, when I return to Rui Li, I will give you another gold, and I will not let you down!"

Zhu Yingqiong slapped his hand away and asked anxiously: "According to what you have said, do you know the entrance to the underground passage?"

Duan Hui immediately waved his hand: "You still want to go down? It's not a place to go, it's full of furry savages, and don't I tell you? Everyone below is dead, there's no need to go back. "

I walked to Duan Hui's side and said with a smile, "Gold, I won't snatch yours, and I'm not interested in this thing either. But if you want to live, you must bring us to the underground entrance."

Duan Hui anxiously said: "The underground entrance is right below this Walled City, you all should have seen the poison mist earlier, there is a fixed time limit every day that covers the entire Walled City, so we can only hide here for our safety, wait until tomorrow morning, we still have to go out immediately."

I frowned. "What do you mean?"

Duan Hui said: "To wait for your rescue team, I have stayed here for more than 10 days, and have long figured out the surrounding situation, during the daytime, when there is no poison mist, many barbarians will live underground, and at night, they will crawl out, so we have to be the opposite of them, only then can we prevent them from bumping into us!"

When said this, I finally understood. When the ancient Walled City was in the daytime, the Beastmen would always live underground, and only at night would they crawl out from underground. The strange footsteps that Zhu Yingqiong and I heard previously must have been caused by the Beastmen underground.

Looking at the situation, it should have been purposely built by the People of White Kingdom back then. It can be used to avoid chaos, in order to prevent the Nanzhao of the ancient nation or nation from entering our Wild Mountain, they can hide in the ground.

However, Duan Hui said that the White Kingdom's entrance was inside the ancient Walled City's underground passage. Could it be that People of White Kingdom accidentally discovered it when he was building the underground passage?

Because of the war in the Ming Dynasty, the people of White Kingdom had been annihilated, and the entire Ancient Walled City had become a paradise for the Beastmen. They stayed in the underground tunnels during the day, and when night came, they would come out from the underground tunnels.

"..." "So!"

Duan Hui leisurely said, "Right now, your first mission is to bring me back to the boat once the mist has dispersed, and then leave this damned place. As for the others, there's no need to look for them."

Zhu Yingqiong and I ignored him, and instead discussed in a low voice: "The food we have left can only support the two of us for three days, adding Duan Hui, there will be less time. Since the underground entrance is nearby, why don't we wait for Fourth Uncle and the rest to come!"

However, Zhu Yingqiong said: "Time waits for no one, we can travel a long distance in three days, and if we wait here, with Beastmen eyeing us everywhere, I am afraid we will attract unnecessary trouble, furthermore I do not know if Xing Sihai and the rest are behind us or have already entered the underground."

I felt that it was a bit difficult and Zhu Yingqiong couldn't wait to get down, but I was worried about the safety of Fourth Uncle and the rest. After pondering for a while, I suddenly asked Duan Hui: "Have you seen any of our people come here before?"

Duan Hui was startled: "Your people?"

He thought for a moment, then said while shaking his head: "The ancient Walled City was spread in all directions, and I was basically hiding below it at night, so I didn't see it."

My heart thinks that it's true. The ancient city is so big, if Fourth Uncle and the others had entered from another direction, it would be impossible for them to see it. Could it be that it's really as Zhu Yingqiong said, that Fourth Uncle and the others might have already surpassed us and reached the underground?

Duan Hui shouted anxiously, "Hey, what are you doing? "Hurry up and pack up what you should. When the first light of the morning arrives, we must leave this place."

What Duan Hui said was also a problem. It was now the middle of the night, so the beastmen in the Ancient Walled City were making all sorts of ruckus. When the sun rose and the miasma dispersed, the beastmen would return to the underground.

Doing this is a waste of time. It's unknown whether the old gramps is still alive or not, but I'm more anxious than anyone else.

Gritting my teeth, I made up my mind and said to Zhu Yingqiong: "You're right, Fourth Uncle and the rest might already be ahead of us, we can't stay here and waste time. How about this, we'll look at each other's equipment, have a count in our hearts, and then we'll go down together."

Zhu Yingqiong silently took off the backpack, but discovered that it was even worse than what we had expected. There was very little food, at most, enough for the two of us to hold on for more than two days.

This is also a problem that we neglected before, after all, no one would have thought that Wild Mountain would be delayed for so many days. Although Fourth Uncle predicted that it would take a lot of food, we are already separated, and if we cannot find Fourth Uncle, then our survival will be extremely difficult.

There's still a lot of mineral water, and there's no shortage of water in the mountains. If it's just water, we can hold on for a few more days.

The only weapon I had was a shotgun that I had taken from the monks before the miasma began to disperse, but there were only eight rounds of ammunition left.

As for the other ropes, daggers, lighters, and lamps, there were actually a lot of necessary survival supplies. This made me very worried, so I could only say to Zhu Yingqiong: "Within two days, no matter where we go, we won't be able to continue forward, unless we can replenish our food."

Zhu Yingqiong never thought that the situation would become so bad, she could only sigh: "I hope I can meet Xing Sihai as soon as possible!"

After she finished speaking, she turned around and stared at Duan Hui: "You, lead the way immediately. We must rush to the underground entrance before dawn!"

Duan Hui crumbled: "You're crazy, don't tell me you really want to go underground, can I not go? You guys leave something for me to eat, can I wait here for you guys?"

I reloaded the shotgun and said, "Let's go together, we'll have something to eat. If you want to stay here, you should continue to gnaw on those weeds to quell your hunger!"

"What about my gold bars?"

"If there's nothing to eat in this mountain, you won't be able to survive even if I give you a gold mountain. There's no one here, so who's going to take it?"

Right now, I am already extremely patient with Duan Hui, I could only angrily berate him. He looked at the hunting rifle in my hands, and said with a bitter face: "Alright, since you guys are going down, you won't be able to find anyone else."

After saying that, he asked for a pair of electrodes from me and reluctantly went into another passage.

Some of them were very narrow, but some were very wide. Back then, other than being able to avoid the chaos of war, it was also very likely that the People of White Kingdom would use this place as a cellar. I carved a mark on a conspicuous rock at the place and followed behind Duan Hui.

The mark is used to remind the people behind us, if Fourth Uncle and the rest are behind us, they will quickly catch up after seeing the mark.

After walking around the tunnel for a long time, Duan Hui brought us out of a flowing cave entrance. A tree figure appeared in front of us, and looking around, we realised that the roots of two ancient trees had grown to the bottom of the earth.

And around me I could see traces of human life, such as collapsed tents, discarded toilet paper and mineral water bottles, cigarette butts, food wrappers, and so on.

Duan Hui said: "The entrance is right here, at the time we took an entire day of rest to get down, but the engine must have run out of gas, how to get down is still a problem."

No fuel for the engine?

I was a little confused, before I could even think of this question, Duan Hui had already ripped open the vines on the ancient tree, and immediately saw a crack in the mountain, inserted horizontally into the mountain wall, as though it was the bottom of a mountain that was split open.

The mountain Crack Mouth was only about two meters tall, but it was very narrow with a dark interior. I asked suspiciously: "This is the underground entrance?"

Duan Hui said: "Anyway, this is where we came down from."

Zhu Yingqiong shone her light on the Crack Mouth and discovered that there were still many vines inside, which were blurry to the point that it could not be seen clearly. It was very similar to the cave of a demon in Journey to the West, giving off a gloomy and terrifying feeling.

"How deep is it down here?" I asked Duan Hui.

"Not too deep. This is just the way in. We still need to use ropes!"

As he said that, he cut open the vines and walked into the mountain Crack Mouth. Zhu Yingqiong and I looked at each other for a moment before we filed in.

Upon entering the Crack Mouth, suddenly a wave of cold Qi rushed towards them, as though they had stepped into a morgue, causing people to uncontrollably wrap their clothes tightly around themselves. Their feet were all wet yellow soil, and right in front of them was a gigantic mountain, it was as if a mountain had been hollowed out at the very bottom.

"Be careful, this road is slippery!"

Duan Hui was walking in front with a flashlight. Zhu Yingqiong and I observed our surroundings as we entered from the mountain Crack Mouth s, which were very narrow, I wonder where did the Kobemaru I saw on the Fourth Uncle's computer come from?

It was impossible to enter from the Crack Mouth s, could it be that the Kobemaru really transmigrated from Poyang Lake in Jiangxi?

"Look, Chen San!"

Zhu Yingqiong messed up my train of thoughts and pointed at a shadow in front of me with a flashlight. I squinted my eyes, and realised that it seemed to be a lifting device, but it was too blurry, and I could not see it clearly, so I quickly took two steps forward, and shockingly discovered that the end of the path was right in front of me. The location where the Crack Mouth had come in, had only extended to this place, and in front of me was actually a bottomless pit!

The light from the flashlight illuminated the area, showing signs of reflection. There must be water underneath the pit, and at the edge of the pit, there was a lifting appliance, with a towing rope hanging from it all the way down to the bottom of the pit.

No one would have thought that there was actually such a huge pit inside the Wild Mountain. Furthermore, what's different about it is that this Sky Cavern is actually hidden inside the mountain, if we don't find the Crack Mouth, then it would be impossible to enter.

"How deep down?" Zhu Yingqiong asked Duan Hui.

Duan Hui replied: "About thirty to forty meters. There is a hidden river down there that has always been flowing in."

I asked in surprise, "That shouldn't be the case. Could it be that People of White Kingdom came from this place back then?"

Duan Hui pointed to the sky and said, "There is still a hole down there, it should be an official exit, very smooth, and can only be seen after going down. However, the exit was blown up, and all the rocks sealed the exit, I heard those foreigners say that the Japanese people used explosives to bomb the exit."

I thought to myself, it doesn't make sense, what if the Sakyamuni Army explodes out of my mouth, then what will they do?

Could it be that they had to stay underground forever and never come out, which was why they chose to blow up the exit to prevent outsiders from entering?