Endless route

Chapter 268 38. Rescue everyone and set off again

After Zheng Yun made the decision to put it aside for the time being, Jidao immediately pulled out a slender iron chain from the mud behind him, fumbled and handed it to the ghost general next to Zheng Yun.

It is the chain that holds the ghost figurines.

It took Jidao so long to come out because after he went up, he opened a fairy gate where there was water, and returned to the heavenly palace all the way to bring out a ghost figurine.

Moreover, he also wrapped the ghost figurines in plastic to prevent the poison from leaking out and killing people in the Heavenly Palace and the Secret Realm.

Use with caution.

Zheng Yun sighed softly and told Jidao and the ghost general that he didn't want to invite the ghost figurines. They were really dangerous.

Old Sun's team is trapped deep in the mud, but there is no chance that they will be killed in an accident. However, if they accidentally touch the ghost figurines, they will be killed or injured, or even have their necks broken at the worst.

I'm sealing it. Just give it some oxygen every once in a while. If you can't hold it back to death, you only need to unseal it at the critical moment to kill the evil creatures here. Ji Dao immediately promised.

Take care of this place, let's go.

Zheng Yun immediately led the team towards Sun Lao's team, leaving most of the Yin soldiers and ghost generals on duty at the entrance of the Yin well. He only took Ji Dao, two ghost generals and Li Wu, and the five of them went into battle lightly.

A group of people walked forward along the bottom wall of the ancient city.

There are gaps of varying heights between the bottom of the ancient city and the underground mud. Sometimes they can reach twenty centimeters, giving people a little breathing space, and sometimes there are no gaps at all.

This phenomenon is incredible.

The silt during the window period will shrink in volume, which will indeed cause the height of the swamp to drop, even by tens of meters.

But as long as the ancient city rests firmly on the silt, and billions of tons of gravity roll over the silt, any gaps will be filled.

Therefore, as long as there are gaps in the silt, it means that there is support underneath the ancient city to prevent the ancient city from sinking with the silt.

The ancient city of Nanze has not sunk at all in the past two or three years, which also proves that the ancient city does have a structure that can ensure that the ancient city will not slowly sink into this swamp.

This structure is a representative unsolved mystery of the ancient city of Nanze, and many speculations have been put forward by both the East and the West.

But it was not drawn on the city construction drawings.

There wasn't even a chain bridge on the drawing. Before they came, they had no idea there was a chain bridge deep underground.

While thinking, everyone slowly moved forward along the gap. At this moment, they had no ropes or iron cables to assist them, so every step was extremely difficult. They had to hammer climbing nails into the wall for assistance.

Five people took turns to lead the team. While struggling for twenty meters in the mud, their bodies would sink ten meters. They then used floating equipment to reach the bottom of the wall, drove nails and tied ropes.

The other person climbs forward along the rope, and after reaching the rock climbing nails, the second person starts again and repeats the process.

Only then did they realize the difficulty of walking in the mire. If it weren't for the iron cables and cable bridges left by the ancients, no one would have been able to get to such a deep place.

At a distance of one hundred meters, everyone took turns and had to expose their heads in the mud gaps to recover their strength.

Searchlight illuminates the gap.

The vast silt is endless, like a dark sea, sticky and greasy, with an oily sheen. The black brick wall above is rough, suppressing the top of this sea of ​​silt for eternity.

Work harder and save people while the bell rings.

Zheng Yun cheered everyone up, and the ringing of underground bells woke them up from time to time, reminding them that this place was weird when they were exhausted, but the ringing did help drive away the evil things.

It's my turn.

Li Wu was sweating profusely, gritting his teeth, holding the rope and drilling forward, struggling to move forward in the mud.

Boom.

Suddenly there was a slight muffled sound.

Boom!

Then there was a slightly louder sound.

Zheng Yun couldn't see the specific scene, but he knew that the source of the sound was the ghost warriors. After Li Wu got into the mud, the ghost general squeezed the iron plate to stimulate the stress response of the ghost warriors.

歘.

The ghostly figurines sprang out straight away.

Zheng Yun didn't know how the ghost general controlled the movement direction of the Yin ghost figurines, but the Yin ghost figurines did run straight forward, not only pulling the ghost general, but also a rope.

Bang.

The rope straightened instantly.

A large amount of mud was lifted up by the force of the rope and splashed everywhere. Even the bottom wall of the ancient city was covered with mud.

It was so fast. It went by in a blink of an eye. It probably traveled thirty or forty meters. It was so fierce.

Nobuyoshi turned off the headset and sighed.

...

Zheng Yun was silent for a moment. Leaving aside the other abilities of the Yin Ghost Warriors, he was definitely a good player as a propeller in the deep sea and mud world, and his short-distance sprint was considered a fairy.

The Yin Ghost Terracotta Warriors can survive in the high pressure of three thousand meters deep sea, and are completely accustomed to the pressure brought by this place. It is even easy to drill hundreds of meters deep into the mud.

If the friction and resistance of the silt were not greater than that of sea water, the ghost figurines would have been able to travel at least one to two hundred meters.

Leaves people speechless.

Sure enough, we still have to rely on nature. Only creatures bred by nature can fully adapt to nature, and creatures bred in extremely outrageous natural ecology are also extremely outrageous.

The deep sea world gives birth to ghostly figurines.

What has been born in this mud world?

Li Wu, come up. Zheng Yun dismissed his thoughts and waited for the ghost to fix the rope and crawl forward.

Thanks to the rapidity of the Yin Ghost Warriors, everyone saved a lot of time, and they reached the vicinity of the air bag in just ten minutes.

Li Wu didn't say a word or ask a question.

Although the contemporary archaeological team is no longer the profession it once was, many of the old rules in the profession are still passed down.

Don't ask questions that shouldn't be asked.

Don't do things like spying on others.

They didn't ask at the beginning why Zheng Yun knew the route of the ancient city's sewers. At this time, they could still hold Zheng Yun and ask them what methods they used to save people?

They are all from the Cultural Relics Bureau. Zheng Yun has Fuen City in front of his name. It is Fuen City's responsibility to investigate and inquire carefully.

Zheng Yun communicated with Mr. Sun for a few words. After confirming the location, Zheng Yun and others took the rope through the last piece of mud. Some light faintly shined through the gaps in the mud.

Push back the mud and look.

A huge airbag is placed at the bottom of the ancient city. Through the transparent bubbles, you can vaguely see the diving suits of Mr. Sun and others.

Pull the rope close to the air bag.

Li Wu said a few words to the young people in Lao Sun's team. After a brief communication, they first took the injured team members out of the air bags and took them back to the Yinjing first.

Where's Zheng Yun?

Mr. Sun looked at the outside world and asked.

They could only see a few inches of his head and a pair of diving goggles protruding from the mud, and they couldn't identify who he was.

However, Mr. Sun and others were also covered in mud, and their entire bodies were completely black. Only the diving goggles were clean.

here.

Zheng Yun spoke politely.

Thank you for your hard work. The appearance of iron cables and iron cable bridges in the mud beneath the ancient city is a major discovery, but we rushed in. We really shouldn't have drilled here in one go.

Mr. Sun sighed a few words.

It can be heard that he is still full of doubts about the existence of the chain bridge. If he doesn't understand this matter, he will have trouble sleeping at night.

The two parties chatted for a few words and then immediately turned back to the Yinjing. A dozen people in Sun's team all returned along the rope.

No time to say more.

Because there are also Xiao Wu and others.

Zheng Yun and others must return along the original route of the rope, go down to the iron rope bridge, and bring Xiao Wu and others up to the Yinjing.

Boom, boom, boom.

The underground ringing is getting louder and louder.

Zheng Yun and others had an ominous premonition in their hearts, so they rushed towards the cable bridge and took the people away before the accident happened.

Fortunately, it has been a smooth journey.

The ringing sound was always lingering deep underground, seemingly motionless beneath their feet, and did not float up to the vicinity of the chain bridge.

Ji Dao was not familiar with the silt environment and could not tell the distance of the bell, but the bell had indeed moved, so it must be floating up.

When they returned to the chain bridge again, Xiao Wu and others were so frightened that they were covered in cold sweat. It was a huge psychological torture to wait in such a place without being able to do anything.

Mainly because there is no backbone.

They are all young people, let alone a group that can lead a team, there is not even a second group. They stare at each other with a flashlight in the airbag. If they wait any longer, they may not be able to withstand it.

Go quickly.

Li Wu opened the air bag and brought out several people.

Xiao Wu and others quickly grabbed the rope and climbed out. They walked along the chain bridge and climbed up directly below the shade well.

Don't be weak in your legs. You will get familiar with it after more experience. This time, you have seniors to guide you. From now on, you will be the ones to guide the juniors.

Li Wu informed Xiao Wu and others to let them go first, and patted their shoulders to encourage them psychologically.

Seeing this scene, Zheng Yun suddenly felt a little envious. The archaeological team will never lack successors. There are always old people to lead new people, and these new people will become the mainstay in the future.

Compared with others, there seems to be a missing link in my own growth. I got it right in one step without even being afraid. Not only was there no one to guide me, but I was forced to fight for the bounty.

Boom boom.

The bell rang again.

Zheng Yun thought about it and grabbed the rope to climb up. Just after climbing more than halfway, he heard a voice from Mr. Sun:

Zheng Yun and Li Wu, you should be more careful. We only discovered the problem after we returned to the water to clean the mud. There were a lot of small black bugs adsorbed on our diving suits.

insect?

As soon as Ji Dao heard this, he touched his belly, and it seemed that there were indeed some small 'knots'.

We'll talk about it when we get up.

Zheng Yun immediately concluded that it was impossible for them to completely clean their bodies in a muddy environment. Even in an air bag, there was no cleaning conditions.

Work harder.

Li Wu immediately urged in a low voice.

Everyone climbed up the rope into the dark shaft in one go, then followed the rope left by Ji Dao before, followed the iron cable from the third underground floor, and climbed to the first floor of the underground waterway in one go.

By the time they had completely dug out of the mud and returned to the water, the entrance to the secret tunnel was already full of people, all members of the archaeological team. The flashlights illuminated the tunnel as if it were daytime.

There are at least forty or fifty people here.

Even if the intercom channel is different, you can hear them busy treating the wounded and asking for details of the operation.

Mr. Sun is not exempt from vulgarity.

Report and record the entire task process.

Zheng Yun listened to Mr. Sun's voice for a while. They would not go underground again in the short term because the chain bridge was very dangerous and was not the current main task.

The archaeological team still has to go to the Dusi Mansion first to prevent Westerners from getting there first, and other things have to be put aside for the time being.

Clean it up.

The middle-aged woman I had seen before came over and personally took the relevant equipment to clean the mud for Zheng Yun, Li Wu and others.

Put a plastic cover on.

The water pump started immediately.

Within half a minute, all the mud was washed away, revealing a large number of bugs, not only small bugs the size of lumps, but also palm-long suckers near their thighs.

The quantity is extremely large.

It is estimated to be seven or eight pounds.

There are at least four or five types.

They are all unique products of swamp ecology. Only the people in the research team present can roughly describe their characteristics and habits.

All these bugs were carefully picked off by the old professors and students of the research group, and put into biological bags one by one, to be taken back for careful study.

Young man Zheng, you have achieved first-class merit. I didn't expect Old Man Sun to be so courageous that he almost killed himself. If I had known, I would have gone down in person. This matter would not be your turn.

Zhao Qiufu came over to talk to Zheng Yun.

really.

There were two or three graduate students around Zheng Yun who were collecting bugs. There was a girl among them, which made Zheng Yun a little embarrassed. Zhao Qiufu came over and chatted for a while, which was able to relieve some of the problem.

As for what he said.

This senior's behavior is different from ordinary people. In Ji Dao's words, he is a weird old man, and everything he says is reasonable.

Have a rest and go do what you should do. Zhao Qiufu glanced at Zheng Yun, then turned around and waved to the archaeological team members holding pens around him and said:

There is no need to ask for their records. They are from the Fuen Archaeological Team. We have nothing to do with Xu Yu's people. Xu Yu's people got a share of the credit without even coming. It's really an advantage for him.

Um.

The others left immediately.

After Zhao Qiufu spoke, naturally no one would ask Zheng Yun about the details of the rescue, and there was no need to go through all the procedures.

By the way, you said you knew the route and promised to take us to the backyard of Dusi Mansion. You can't forget this. You have to fulfill your promise later.

Zhao Qiufu added another sentence.

Can.

Zheng Yun looked deeply at Zhao Qiufu.

Just now, he had some doubts about whether this senior knew him, or whether he knew Jianghe Pawn Shop.

Although he spoke strangely, he had been taking care of himself from the beginning and used various reasonable and compliant reasons to help him avoid all regulatory issues.

These issues are very critical. If I really dig into them, I'm afraid I can only call Xu Yu to solve them.

It shouldn't be accidental.

Of course there are other reasons.

For example, Zhao Qiufu probably saw from some details that the people around him had wrong origins. They were all living dead or Taoist priests brought from dangerous places.

The Yin soldiers and ghost generals have dead faces. It shouldn't be difficult for Zhao Qiufu, a veteran in the industry, to figure out the problem.

Even though the environment in this underground sewer was harsh, he could still see clues from his eyes by glancing through his diving goggles.

And Ji Dao.

Zhao Qiufu came up and glanced at Ji Dao, then pointed at Ji Dao's face and said there was a Buddha statue. It felt strange at the time, but in retrospect, he seemed to be testing Ji Dao's reaction.

The people who reacted the most were the Taoists.

And Ji Dao almost fell out with him. This reaction was already extreme. If he said a few more words, he would have to take action...

This can completely explain the problem. Ji Daocheng Mansion is still a little shallow. He has made it clear that he is a Taoist and has a very deep background. The Taoist sect behind him must be a Taoist sect with a long history. Zhao Qiufu cannot tolerate even a single nonsense.

In addition, Ji Dao was familiar with sewer lines, which almost made it clear that they had an extraordinary background. There were very few city construction blueprints in the world, or even the only one of them.

I have also seen too little.

Therefore, it is strange that there are no experts in the Ph.D.

Zhao Qiufu, an old man in this profession, was respectfully called Mr. Zhao by the archaeological team. He might not have the right skills, but he might have seen through it a long time ago, so he helped them solve problems again and again.

Even the line was not in a hurry, as if it was intended to give him time to do other things first...

This is a personal relationship.

You have to bear it yourself.

I have to go back and ask Mr. Xu about the origin of this Mr. Zhao, Zhao Qiufu... This word Fu won't be the same as the word Fu in Fu'en City. Is it using Fu instead of immortal?

Then maybe his real name is Zhao Qiuxian?

There must be some origin for this name.

Master Yun, let's run away, the ghost figurines are still hiding in the mud. Jidao came to Zheng Yun and spoke.

Let's go.

Zheng Yun nodded and set off. It was time for them to get down to business, and first find the Immortal Gate under Nanze Dusi Mansion.

This secret passage does not lead to the Immortal Gate. We have to go back to the secret passage we came in from just now, or we can go underground in the ancient city and return from the iron cable bridge. Ji Dao whispered.

It's okay, you can go wherever you want.

Zheng Yun withdrew his gaze and looked at Jidao.