human ice maker

Chapter 70 The city buried under the desert
The darkness spreads endlessly.

The world, where you can't see your fingers, seems to be opening its mouth, waiting for the life that devours everything.

Ouyang Yue'er has never felt such fear before. In such a dark world, the cold wind blows, as if someone is standing beside her, blowing air towards her neck, but she can't see it any figure.Ouyang Yue'er believes that if 11 is not by her side, if she is alone in this kind of place, she will definitely go crazy from fright.Fortunately, all of this is just if, 11 did not leave her, and hugged her from beginning to end.Feeling the warmth of 11's embrace and listening to the sound of breathing from 11's nostrils, she was inexplicably moved.

11 Holding Ouyang Yue'er in his arms, he slowly groped forward in the dark underground world.The deeper you go, the less water there is, and the more sand there is. When you go to the back, there is already sand under 11 feet.The bucket was still hooked by 11's fingers, and it was filled with a bucket of fresh water from the underground river. 11 knew that even if he found a way out, he still had to walk a lot in the desert, so he didn't throw away the bucket, but took a whole bucket of fresh water with him for emergencies.

As he was moving forward, he seemed to trip over something under his feet, and 11 staggered and quickly stood firm.But the water in the bucket was shaken out a lot.

"11, what's the matter?" In the darkness, Ouyang Yue'er couldn't see anything, so she could only ask.

11 put Ouyang Yueer on the ground, but Ouyang Yueer dared not let go of 11 no matter what.Helpless, 11 had to squat down and let her hold it with one hand, and after groping the ground with the other hand for a long time, he stood up and said, "It's a skeleton."

"What?" Ouyang Yue'er was startled, and subconsciously hid in 11's arms.In the past two days, she has gotten used to 11's embrace, and 11 feels safer and warmer to her than Ouyang Lin.

11 pondered: "How did this person get in?"

Ouyang Yue'er urged: "Don't worry about it, let's go quickly."

11 shook his head and said, "The fact that this person is here means there must be a way out."

Ouyang Yue'er tugged at 11's hand and said, "Then let's find a way out and leave it alone."

"Wait a minute." Regardless of Ouyang Yue'er's objection, Eleven squatted down and groped on the corpse again.Although Ouyang Yue'er was afraid, she didn't dare to say anything.She is very aware of 11's temper, and if she angers him, she can do anything.What Ouyang Yue'er is most afraid of now is that when 11 gets angry, she will leave her alone, and if that happens, she will definitely go crazy.

Ouyang Yue'er didn't dare to urge her anymore, and she couldn't see what 11 was doing, so she could only hold 11's hand and feel that he should be touching something.If she could see it at this moment, she would definitely be shocked. 11 was groping around on the skeleton that hadn't completely rotted and cleaned.

After a while, 11 stood up again. He found a dagger, an earthen pistol, a flashlight, and a bundle of rope on the body.The flashlight and rope were rotten and could no longer be used at all, and the earthen pistol was completely rusted, so 11 threw it away.Fortunately, there is still that dagger that can be used.In the dark, I couldn't see what the dagger looked like. I only felt that it should be very sharp, and the steel quality was very good. It hadn't rusted for so long, and it was still as smooth as a mirror.

Apart from these things, there is nothing to guess the identity of this corpse, but judging from the structure of the earthen pistol, 11 guesses that this person should be from World War II.Because this gun is a shell pistol from World War II, and it is the earliest shell pistol.

Why did this person die here? 11 Can't guess, maybe he was trapped in quicksand, washed into this underground world, and then starved to death, right?

Eleven failed to find any valuable clues, so they had to take Ouyang Yueer to continue looking for a way out.He believes that there should be a desert above his head at this moment, but he doesn't know how high the top is and how thick the sand layer is.

The further you go, the thicker the sand under your feet.

Suddenly, 11 bumped into a hard object, and the dull collision sound was very clear in this claustrophobic space.

Ouyang Yueer heard a muffled sound of "Bang!", then 11 staggered back a few steps, and hurriedly asked, "11, what's the matter?"

11 rubbed the bumped forehead and said, "It's okay." He reached out and groped for something in front of him, and said, "It seems to be a wall."

"wall?"

"Well, it's made of stone."

"How can there be a wall here?"

"It's normal." 11 said while groping the wall and walking forward: "There is quicksand, which means that the place below is empty. Generally, there are cities under the quicksand."

Ouyang Yue'er lost her voice: "You mean, we found the ruins?" Ouyang Yue'er was a little excited, and almost forgot that she was afraid before and went straight into 11's arms.Relics, those are the relics of ancient civilizations that are only found in legends.Ouyang Yue'er is not short of money, and she never thought about digging up a ruin to make some money.It's just that suddenly knowing that you are standing on the ruins of an ancient civilization, anyone will be very excited.

11 is not as excited as Ouyang Yueer, he is not interested in the ruins, the only thing he is anxious about is to find the exit quickly.Life is the most important thing, what's the use of finding a ruin but not saving your life.

Neither of them could see anything, so they could only move forward by groping.In the darkness, Ouyang Yue'er held 11's hand tightly, her palms were sweating slightly, she didn't know whether it was because she was excited because she found the ruins, or because she was afraid because it was too dark here.

I don't know how big this city buried in the desert is, and I don't know what kind of structure the houses here are. 11 only knew that many houses had collapsed along the way, and there were sand and gravel everywhere.

11 led the way with intuition, but Ouyang Yueer became afraid again after losing the excitement at the beginning, and got into 11's arms again, letting him protect herself tightly with his arms.

Suddenly, 11 suddenly stopped.

In the dark, Ouyang Yue'er couldn't see 11's expression, so she asked aloud, "11, what's wrong?"

"It seems... there is a sound."

"What?" Ouyang Yueer looked around vigilantly, but couldn't see anything, so she could only hug 11 as much as she could, and whispered, "Don't scare me."

11 listened for a while, and said, "It's the sound of sand flowing."

Only then did Ouyang Yue'er let out a long breath and said, "I'm scared to death by you."

11 stopped for a while, then took Ouyang Yue'er around a corner and groped in another direction.

They didn't know what kind of building it was before, they only knew that there were stone steps here, and they were very high.The two held hands and walked up the stone steps carefully step by step.

The stone steps gradually turned into sand, and the sand became thicker and thicker, as if protruding upwards in a cone shape.Finally, the road ahead was completely blocked by sand, without any access.

"11, what should I do?" Ouyang Yueer asked in a low voice, touching the sand in front of her.

11 thought for a while and said, "Dig."

"dig?"

"Yes. Have you noticed that the sand is very high?"

Ouyang Yueer shook her head, then thought that 11 couldn't see, and said, "I don't know."

11 grabbed a handful of sand, and the sand slid out from between his fingers. 11 said: "The sand is still warm, it seems that this place should be very close to the desert floor."

Ouyang Yueer's eyes lit up and she hurriedly asked, "You mean, we can go out?"

"Not necessarily, it depends on the thickness of the sand layer." After a pause, he continued: "Try it, the top floor of a building buried in the underground city will not be too far from the ground, I hope the thickness here will not be too thick " Then he let go of Ouyang Yue'er's hand, and dug towards the sand layer above the slope.

(End of this chapter)