endless route

Chapter 8 8. Going Deep into the Mine
The mine tunnel is obviously developed in the West, and has a strong atmosphere of the last century. There are iron lampshades hanging every ten meters, which can be used as a distance reference.

After walking for nearly 50 meters all the way, I have completely entered the mountain, but the mine road is still flat, or its slope is so low that people can't feel the slope.

It gets colder the deeper you go.

There was an abnormal cold air blowing out from the depths of the mine, mixed with an unpleasant stench, which seemed to be drilled into people's noses.

"It's very abnormal. We've only been walking for a long time, and it suddenly becomes so cold. It's unscientific."

Liu Ming shivered.

They can directly see that the temperature is dropping, the wet water on the surface of the rock wall is gradually condensing into frost, and hitting the wall with a flashlight will reveal a large number of fine spots.

"The smell is bad enough, a damp smell, like rotten meat." Hu Zi sniffed against the rock wall, scratching his head: "It's not a mineral smell either."

"It should be almost over." The thin young man tapped the ground with a knife, judging from the length of the echo.

Walked for another 2 minutes.

Finally, there was a downhill road ahead, with concrete steps. When the flashlight shone down, a few black birds flew over the heads of several people.

Below the steps is a wide cavern, more than ten meters high and wide enough for three or five cars to run side by side.

Slowly descend into the cavern.

This cavern is similar to a transfer station, with four forks, one for the front, one for the front, one for the left, one for the left, one for the left, and one for the cableway in the middle.

Zheng Yun looked up and found that there were dense cables above his head. Judging from the thickness, this mine should be a key project at that time.

"We have to go this way." Hu Ruihua looked at the location of the phone and pointed to the back road.

"Leave the two of you waiting here."

Zheng Yun smelled the smell, and the smell was stronger here. In case there is poisonous gas or other dangers in the depths of the mine, other people can greet them.

"Okay." Hu Ruihua nodded, letting Liu Ming and the emaciated young man stay, and the remaining three continued to move forward.

They were wearing clothes for entering the rainforest, and when they walked deeper, they obviously felt bitingly cold. It was okay to stay for a short time, but it was unbearable for a long time.

So the three of them speeded up, almost running to go deep, and they didn't care about the environment.

After walking about 300 meters, another wide cave appeared in front of him. Hu Ruihua stopped and said that the target was located in this cave.

This cavern is markedly different.

The cold wind was blowing out, and the smell was even worse. When the flashlight was turned forward, it could only illuminate a small area, and the rock wall was yellow like a piece of rag.

Walk in cautiously.

The cave was empty in all directions, but in the center of the ground there was a large hole of invisible depth, surrounded by a layer of low iron fence, all rusted.

The hole is more than three meters in diameter, like a ventilation channel, but the edge is a gentle slope, with a large circle of dark yellow ice bumps, which are slipperier than ice. If you don't walk through it, you can't see the bottom of the hole, and it's easy to fall if you walk through it.

Positioning is in the hole.

The target appears to be falling in.

"Hu Zi, go and have a look."

Hu Ruihua took out a roll of climbing rope from his backpack, put one end on Huzi's body, and held the other end by himself and Zheng Yun, wrapping it tightly around his arm.

Without the slightest hesitation, Hu Zi stuck the buckle, climbed over the iron fence and moved forward, slowly slid down the slope, and looked at the bottom of the cave with his head.

Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua struggled with their hands, and Huzi went further and further down, almost half of his body before reaching the edge of the slope, most of the weight was in their hands.

"Damn it!" Huzi screamed strangely.

"What's wrong?" Hu Ruihua asked immediately.

"There are two dead people down here, damn it, almost scared me to death." Hu Zi exaggerated, knelt on the ground, and threw the beam of the flashlight into the bottom of the cave.

"The hole should be six to seventy meters deep. There are several layers of barbed wire at the end. There are two dead men lying on the barbed wire. They are both men and they should be old."

Huzi straightened up, unhurriedly took out his phone, took two photos before crawling back.

"Wait, let's yell down to see if there is any movement." Hu Ruihua stopped Huzi.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" Hu Zi immediately followed suit, shouted, and listened carefully.

After waiting for about 2 minutes, Huzi shook his head and was about to retreat, but at this moment, he suddenly stopped and stared straight at the bottom of the cave.

"What's wrong?" Hu Ruihua asked.

Huzi didn't say a word, as if he had lost his soul, he half-kneeled at the entrance of the cave, staring with his head down, as if he was sucked by something.

Both Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua were startled. They couldn't see Hu Zi's expression, they could only see his back. Immediately afterwards, Hu Zi suddenly turned off the flashlight.

He was already kneeling deep in the slope, and when he turned off the flashlight, only the light source in the hands of Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua was left, barely illuminating half of his body.

"Tiger!" Hu Ruihua shouted.

"Brother Hu, something's wrong. There's a red spot hitting my face, but I can't see it clearly."

Huzi responded with a cry and suddenly climbed down, completely disappearing into the light, as if he had fallen into a hole upside down.

Zheng Yun's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously grasped the rope even tighter, thinking that this tiger is really a reckless man, to dare to do such a dangerous move in this environment.

"There are people! There are people!" Huzi suddenly screamed, and then continued to shout: "Youguang hits upwards!"

"Shall we turn off the lights too?" Hu Ruihua looked at Zheng Yun, who nodded and turned off the flashlight together.

The cave was completely dark in an instant.

In the deep hole in the center, a scattered red light was cast from bottom to top. The beam of light swayed slightly and hit the top of the cave, making the rock wall blood red.

This is a distress light.

There really is a living person down there.

"Damn, that's not right! There are dead people under the barbed wire, but there is one living person. Brother Hu, put the rope down. I'll go down and have a look." Hu Zi turned around and shouted.

Zheng Yun took a long breath and turned on the flashlight, and exchanged a glance with Hu Ruihua: "Slow down?"

"Call someone first."

Hu Ruihua nodded.

……

A few people returned to the first floor of the abandoned mine building, went back to the top of the mountain, drove the car to the gate of the building, called Sister Song Wanwang and others to wait on it, and the rest added clothes and brought rescue equipment to go down again.

This time, five people entered the second cave together, picked two places and laid climbing nails, and after the rope was completely fixed, Huzi went down into the deep cave again.

Huzi wore a camera, and other people could see it with a tablet. There were several layers of barbed wire at the bottom of the cave, and there were two dead people lying there, hanging from thick frost as if frozen to death.

Both of them were explorers, and they were very professionally dressed, but they didn't even have a rope on them. Logically speaking, they shouldn't make such low-level mistakes.

Go down the mine without a rope.

It's weird when you think about it.

Huzi moved very neatly, and soon fell to the bottom of the cave, moved the dead man to the side, tried the barbed wire carefully, and then stepped on it firmly.

"It's at least seven or eight degrees below zero, and the barbed wire is very hard. You should be able to cut it with pliers." Huzi squatted down and looked down as he spoke.

The camera angle follows him.

Everyone can see that there are two extremely thick steel pipes lined up under the barbed wire, like water pipes, with a diameter of nearly ten centimeters, dividing the hole into three parts.

The deeper the hole, the narrower it is. The deepest hole is less than one meter in diameter, and three spaces are not enough for people to go down, even for a very thin girl.

"Is anyone there?" Hu Zi shouted again.

There was another red light from below, which seemed to be a few meters below the barbed wire fence. The flashlight was too bright, and the target location could only be seen by turning off the flashlight.

"It is certain that someone is alive, but there are seven or eight corpses below, and I don't know what happened."

Huzi leaned over and knelt on the barbed wire, put his eyes on the hole in the barbed wire and looked down, and put the camera down to observe the details as much as possible.

That red light reflected many limbs around, seven or eight arms and legs were covered with hoarfrost, and the shaking red arm was suspected to be wearing pink cotton clothes, because it was a light source, and the tiger could not see the surrounding environment.

Several people gathered around the tablet to watch.

There is only a red light source below, and the picture captured by the camera is somewhat distorted, but it looks even more terrifying, scarier than scenes in thrillers.

"Damn it." Liu Ming exclaimed.

"Where are there so many dead people?" The emaciated young man also trembled for a while, and a chill ran down his back.

"Come up first. The target should be below. If you don't speak, you may be frozen. There is salvation, but we have to think about it." Hu Ruihua looked at everyone.

Now there are two options.

One is to cut the barbed wire and water pipes. The times have changed. In front of the portable cutting machine, this is trivial. Just connect the wires from the car.

The second is to walk down the detour. If the barbed wire is intact, then the person below is not going down through the ventilation tunnel. There must be other ways to go around.

After discussing for a while, most people think that the pipe can be cut, and only Zheng Yun thinks that a detour should be made.

If it is a water pipe, after cutting it off, the water will leak down, pouring it on the person and adding low temperature, it is easy to freeze the target to death.

"Those two pipes seem to be very cold, and the cold air comes from the pipes." Huzi climbed up from the hole, and a ring of frost had formed on his knees.

"I remembered that this is a sandstone layer, which is very permeable to water, so cooling pipes are used to freeze the surrounding area so that the ore can be further mined."

Liu Ming suddenly slapped his head, ran to the corner of the cave very excitedly, pointed to the rock wall and opened his mouth.

(End of this chapter)