This thing fell from the sky without any warning. When it landed, it splashed a lot of fine sand. I recognized it at a glance as the drone that Team Leader Chen had released.
I said,"I was scared to death. Didn't this thing become a deserter?" Why? Have you found your conscience again?"
Mosquito said,"It should be the same as the other aircraft."
I interrupted Mozzie." What do you mean by 'should'? It must be the same as the other aircrafts. It's caused by the special magnetic field here.”
Yang Liu said sourly,"Oh, you guessed it?"”
I raised my head and said,"Are you kidding? Who am I?" Qieke is making trouble."
"Bah, I'll cut off your head."
Team Leader Chen's lips suddenly parted slightly. It was obvious that he was amused by Yang Liu and me, but he regained his composure in an instant.
I held back my laughter and changed the topic."Team Leader Chen, let me make a suggestion. Our Chinese civilization has been around for five thousand years, and there are many hidden talents among the people. Things like these that are beyond the scope of scientific understanding should be dealt with in a way that is beyond scientific understanding. I think it is necessary to find some experts from the outside world to strengthen our three teams.”
Team Leader Chen answered my joke very seriously and said,"I've considered this, but you know some of the rules of the Investigation Bureau. After this mission is completed, I'll think of another way when I go back.”
I smiled and said,"I think Liu Banxian from our village is quite powerful. Unfortunately, he's an old antique and can't eat our rice."”
Yang Liu pouted." It's Liu Banxian again. If he's really that powerful, why doesn't he buy lottery tickets?"”
“......”
"Alright, alright. You may be lively at work, but now isn't the right time.”
Team Leader Chen has finally brought the atmosphere to a new low and told us to get ready to take action.
Standing at the entrance of the cave and looking down, a faint chill spread throughout his body. After looking at it for a long time, he felt a slight dizziness in front of his eyes. It was not because he was afraid of heights, but because of an inexplicable feeling in his brain. I shook my head, thinking that it was really strange.
I turned to look at the other three. Other than Team Leader Chen, it seemed that they all had the same feeling as me. Especially Yang Liu. There was a lot of sweat on her forehead. She kept swallowing her saliva as if she was in pain.
"How is it?"
Mosquito asked with concern. Yang Liu frowned slightly, indicating that there was nothing wrong. She just felt uncomfortable.
I said,"Why don't Yang Liu not go down?”
Team Leader Chen immediately denied it." No," he said." Everyone must stay together at all times. We must not be separated."”
I thought about it. At least we can take care of each other when we move together. Leaving her alone outside might be even more dangerous than going down.
"Mosquito and I will go down first. Haozi and Yangliu will be the rear. The two groups will maintain a distance of 20 meters and start moving.”
After giving his instructions, Team Leader Chen put on the seatbelt he had prepared and slowly slid down. Mozzie followed closely behind. When the distance between the two of them was about the same, Yang Liu and I quickly hung the cable buckle on the wire rope and went down into the hole.
The friction between the cable buckle and the steel wire made a piercing sound, which made me a little annoyed. Compared to this, I was more concerned about the movements below.
Humans had a deep-seated fear of the abyss, especially when it was accompanied by darkness. The more I slid down, the harder I grabbed the wire rope, afraid that the seatbelt would suddenly break and fall.
She looked up. The last bit of light was blocked by the willows, but she could clearly see her figure. After putting on the seatbelt, her figure was fully revealed. She looked pretty good, hehe.
"What are you looking at, you perverted peeping Tom?”
Yang Liu stretched out her foot and tapped my head, scolding me if I wanted to peek again. I said hatefully that only a ghost would look at you. What's wrong with me raising my head to look at the movement above? Who told you to be on top of my head? If you kick again, I'll pull you down.
"Pei, what movement can there be from above? Don't worry, I'm here.”
I said,"Hey, seriously, how deep do you think it is down there? How did people go down in the past? Wasn't this a lake back then?"
Yang Liu said," You'll know how deep it is later. This place has changed a lot in the past few thousand years. It might have been a different scene in the past. Even if it was the same as now, don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients.”
"That's true, but I keep feeling that it's mysterious."
"Hey, Haozi, shut up."
The sound of mosquitoes came from below. Yang Liu and I stopped talking. We knew that it was to avoid some unnecessary trouble and to avoid being discovered by the enemy.
The surroundings immediately quieted down. Other than the "sizzling" sound that couldn't be eliminated, I could vaguely hear the frequency of my heartbeat.
The deeper they went, the more obvious the darkness became. There was no light at all, but the mosquitoes below did not send any signals.
"Could this be a bottomless pit?"
The more people were in a special environment like this darkness, the more they would let their imagination run wild. Especially for people in our line of work, we know that there are many secrets in this world. Naturally, our imaginations are richer than others. However, our self-control is relatively stronger than ordinary people, so we don't make a fuss.
However, this didn't mean that my heart was calm. I would occasionally reach out to touch the cave wall and use the humidity to determine the distance I had descended. At the same time, it was also a form of self-consolation. At least I could still touch something.
"Strange?"
I seem to have discovered something strange. Touching the wall of the cave, he found that only the area less than ten meters below the cave entrance was smooth. The rest of the cave was filled with uneven stone walls.
After thinking about it carefully, I laughed at myself for being too stupid. This hole had existed from the beginning, but it was sealed later. Otherwise, how could such a small drilling equipment drill so deep?
"Eh?"
His hand suddenly touched something slippery. It was wet and looked like moss. He retracted his hand and smelled it. The smell was strange and indescribable. I think it's normal for some shade loving mollusks to appear in such a place, so I didn't pay too much attention to it.
Time passed, and I didn't even know how far I had descended. I could only feel the hole getting bigger and bigger with my hands until I could no longer touch the wall.
Rustle, rustle
I heard a strange sound. I thought it was the Taklamakan yellow beetle again, but after listening carefully, it wasn't the sound of insects crawling, but the sound of a breeze blowing the leaves.
" Strange, there's no wind?"
I muttered, wondering if I should report it to them. But on second thought, I could hear them. Team Leader Chen and the others definitely knew about it. If there was really something going on, they would have taken action long ago.
Rustle, rustle
However, a few seconds later, the voice sounded again, and it was even more obvious than before.
What the hell? Could this be the so-called groundless rumor? But there was no wind. I really couldn't think of any reason that could create such a sound in such an environment.
I couldn't stand the confusion of this voice. I patted the wire rope with my foot. The mosquitoes below immediately beat the wire rope rhythmically to send me a signal.
This is the code of our investigation bureau, similar to Morse code. Mosquitoes are really smart to think of transmitting it through the vibration of the wire rope.
However, I was a little dumbfounded. When I was learning it, I had indeed mastered it completely. However, I hadn't really used it in the past few years, so I had almost forgotten half of it.
Fortunately, Yang Liu was a good student. She quickly read the mosquito's code and whispered to me what the mosquito said.
But I really didn't hear it clearly. I asked,"Louder, I can't hear you."
"Sigh, you are really stupid."
“......”
Yang Liu's voice suddenly sounded in my ear. It was hot, making my ears itch. Of course, it was more of a shock. I almost cried out, but fortunately, she covered it with her hand.
I pried Yang Liu's hand away and asked softly,""What the hell is going on? Did you switch hands and feet?"
Yang Liu said," Pui, be serious. I don't have the time to joke with you. Can you read lips with your hands?"”
It turned out that Yang Liu knew that I couldn't hear clearly, and she was afraid that she would be scolded by Team Leader Chen if she spoke loudly, so she turned her body around. This way, she could communicate with me very well.
When she said lip-reading, she meant placing her hand on the lips and reading what others wanted to say by sensing the opening and closing of the lips. This was even more difficult than reading with her eyes.
I thought for a moment. This was the best way to communicate in the dark without making a sound. Thus, I touched her hand and pressed it on my mouth."Speak slowly. I haven't used it in a long time, so I might not be able to understand it all.”
Then, he pressed his hand on Yang Liu's mouth. She moved her lips first. I clearly understood that it was a "Pei" word. Then, he asked me if I had washed my hands.
"D * mn, we've been together all this time. Don't you know if we've washed our hands or not?”
"Forget it. I have no choice. If it's disgusting, so be it. The mosquito just said that this hole has no end.”
"No end? What do you mean?"
"Are you really stupid or are you playing dumb? There was no end.”
"Oh, you mean, Mosquito said that this, this hole, is a bottomless pit?”
I asked again and again, and Yang Liu said that Mosquito was very sure that this place was a bottomless pit.
This was going to be fun. A bottomless pit?
Generally speaking, there were two explanations for the bottomless pit: The first was literal. It meant that there was no end to a bottomless hole. Other than special celestial bodies such as black holes that could not be explained to date, it was impossible for a bottomless hole to exist on a physical substance like the Earth. After all, the diameter of the Earth could be calculated.
The second type was relatively scientific. It could be understood as a simple adjective. It referred to the abyss that could not be detected at the bottom with current technology or the caves that had some special phenomena. For example, in Shihaidong Township, Xingwen County, Sichuan Province, there was such a funnel-shaped deep hole: Although the depth of the cave had been measured to be more than 200 meters, the magical thing was that no matter how much rain it rained, the bottom of the cave would not accumulate water. It could be said that it was a bottomless pit.
But I don't think the hole we're in is the second explanation, because with Mozzie's personality, he wouldn't be so sure before he confirmed it. In other words, if there was nothing strange about this hole, he would not be sure that it was a bottomless pit.
Combined with the mysteries of Lop Nur and the strange things I had experienced before, I initially suspected that this cave might also be a " non-existent " space, and that our senses had been " deceived."
So I said,"Ask Team Leader Chen what we should do.”
Seeing that Yang Liu didn't have any reaction, I continued to open my lips."Hey, I told you to ask Team Leader Chen and Yang Liu? Don't scare me!"
Yang Liu's hand that was pressing on my mouth suddenly loosened and fell straight onto my shoulder. I quickly pulled her hand and shook it a few times, but there was no reaction.
"Yang Liu, say something."
I quickly reached out to hold her neck and tested her breathing. Everything was normal, but she had fainted.
How could such a good person faint just like that? I tried my best to recall the code words. I flicked the wire rope a few times and sent a simple signal to Team Leader Chen.
However, there was no reply. I tried a few more times and felt that something was wrong. The shaking of the wire rope was obviously much greater. In the end, I simply shouted.
"Team Leader Chen, Mosquito, say something. Yang Liu has fainted. Team Leader Chen, Mosquito, Mosquito, can you say something?”
I suddenly had a very bad feeling. I grabbed the steel rope below and shook it left and right without being sure.
Based on the feeling, I found that the wire rope was swaying in an arc. There was only one explanation for this. There was nothing below. Team Leader Chen and Mosquito were not on the wire rope.
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