Chapter 40: Revisiting the Camp
Under Kong Xue's guidance, Yuanxiao and I began to look for a way to the camp. Kong Xue could still remember some of the road ahead, but the more we walked, especially when we encountered some forks, Kong Xue couldn't hold on to the route. In fact, it was no wonder that Kong Xue was still very panicked when he just got into the tomb passage. Apart from running away, he had no time to care about anything else. It was not until He let Doji go away that Kong Xue paid attention to the route of his journey.
So we carefully tested every possible route while letting Kong Xue remember as much as possible. Once Kong Xue felt something was wrong, we immediately changed one. Fortunately, Kong Xue's memory was indeed good, and we finally found the stairs leading upwards.
This staircase was temporarily built with steel pipes and iron plates, and many places were a little rusted. Moreover, I found that the entire staircase was still built outside the curtain wall. It was obvious that the project here was not like we just made a hole, but used large machinery, which made the opening on the tomb wall very large. In addition, the space of the staircase part would be like a stairwell and a tomb chamber connected if we didn't look closely.
We walked into the stairwell and listened carefully. Yuanxiao even put his ears on the handrail of the stairs. We were sure there was no movement here. So we walked up the stairs quietly, but due to years of disrepair, the stairs made squeaking sounds from time to time. At first, this sound made us very nervous, afraid of disturbing something on it. Gradually, we found that the sound made did not bring any danger, so we became bolder and no longer tiptoed like that, but let go of our steps and speeded up our pace.
Yuanxiao snorted and said, "There are three of us now, no matter what the hell they are coming, give it a few bullets first."
"I'm afraid of the things coming, but I'm not afraid of bullets at all!" I lost my gun, so I had to pull out the short knife on my waist.
Yuanxiao pretended to glar at me, "Comrade Zhuoran, how can you gain the ambition of others to destroy your own might?"
"Okay, if you encounter a situation later, just don't run away!"
"Shh!" The more we walked up, the more nervous Kong Xue seemed, "Can you two be quiet?" It seems that the previous experience had a great impact on Kong Xue. We had to shut up and continue moving forward.
After walking for a long time, I reached the top of the stairs. The top of the stairs is located in a small room, with an iron door facing the outside, and a set of tables and chairs are placed next to the door, with some moldy and yellowed documents. It is obviously much more tiring to go up the stairs than to go down the stairs. At this time, we were all out of breath.
Yuanxiao was already breathless and couldn't speak. She waved her hands repeatedly, walked to the chair and sat down, "No, you have to wait, otherwise I will be exhausted first if no one else needs to do it!"
I walked gently to the door and listened. There was a loud wind outside, and there was no other sound. I signaled them to be safe for the time being and take a break.
About five minutes later, we exchanged glances and everyone felt that we could act.
I used my eyes to signal Yuanxiao to open the door. Yuanxiao widened her eyes and said to me, "Why is it my expression?"
I pointed to Lanxiao, then gave me a thumbs up, meaning "You are the strongest!"
He looked at Kong Xue again, and Kong Xue nodded repeatedly and gave a thumbs up.
Seeing this scene, the corner of Yuanxiao's mouth raised slightly. I could see that he forced himself to hold back his smile and pretended to be cool. Yuanxiao followed the actions of American blockbusters and hammered his chest. So Yuanxiao was "praised" by Kong Xue and me!
Yuanxiao gently held the door handle and pulled it hard, but the iron door did not move at all. Yuanxiao was a little embarrassed, and held the handle with both hands again, and pulled it hard again, but it still didn't pull it open. Yuanxiao looked at Kong Xue with surprise, and Kong Xue was even more surprised.
"Is it locked?" I walked up to look at the door lock, which was already seriously rusted. I turned to ask Kong Xue: "Are you and Cai Rang Doji passing through this door?"
"That's right!" Kong Xue replied, "I'm sure we went from here. The door was not locked at that time."
Yuanxiao looked at the door lock and asked, "Can it be that Kong Xue and the others escaped from here, whether it was a person or something above, locked the door?"
"No, no!" I pointed to the keyhole, "This lock has been completely corroded by rust, and it is impossible to turn the lock core. Moreover, this rust has been caused by years and will never become like this in a short period of time."
"What do you mean?" Kong Xue asked me.
Although I felt conflicted myself, I still spoke: "From the current situation, this door should have not been moved for many years."
"How is that possible!" Kong Xue could not accept my statement at all, "I just passed through this iron door not long ago."
"Unless," Yuanxiao pondered for a moment, "unless you are not passing by this door, but another exactly the same iron door."
"Ah, by the way," Kong Xue suddenly remembered something, "I remember when I was passing through this door, I saw a bright red five-pointed star on the outside door. It looked very irregular, and I didn't know who was bored and drew it casually."
"In other words, just open this door and you can know, see if there is any five-pointed heart, and you can know if you went down from here at that time." I said, "But according to your words, there may be something strange outside!"
Before I finished speaking, Yuanxiao had already shot the door lock with a "bang" and suddenly scared me to shrink my neck. Yuanxiao said indifferently: "It's all here, are you still afraid of something weird? Do we still have fewer such things? I must figure out what's going on now! Otherwise I'll be crazy! And," Yuanxiao reached out and grabbed the door handle, "And my intuition told me that there was actually nothing here!" After that, he suddenly opened the iron door, and a gust of cold wind blew in. I hurriedly picked up the gun and was on guard.
We waited quietly for a while, and there was indeed nothing abnormal outside. So I squatted down and carefully observed the outside of the door. I vaguely recognized that there was indeed a five-pointed star, but it was already mottled. I don’t know whether this situation was lucky or unfortunate. Fortunately, we are not in danger for the time being. Unfortunately, everything in front of us has become abnormal!
The door in front of me is the door where Kong Xue and the others passed. Why did it only take a few hours to pass? This door seems to have been going through decades?
Kong Xue had already begun to wonder if she was crazy and had hallucinations. Yuanxiao and I were also stuck in thinking.
Chapter completed!