Chapter 103 The Two Who Have Missing Contact
For Luo Yin, her first thought was naturally that there might also be a forest of Phoebe zhennan trees here.
But considering the previous growing area and the undulating terrain of this canyon, it is clearly unlikely.
If we rule that out, there's only one reason left!
After a long silence, Old Meng finally spoke up, "The location should be southeast, about thirty steps away."
"Old Meng, what are you looking at?"
When Old Du saw him stop what he was doing, he and everyone else rushed over to him.
“Look here, there’s something wrong with these stones. They weren’t just placed randomly. These are all Bagua Kan trigrams, and none of them were placed randomly.”
Old Meng slapped his forehead excitedly as he spoke, "That's right, how could I not have thought of that? When I entered earlier, I felt that the location here was excellent but the feng shui was bad. It must have been targeted by the stone formation. I misjudged it!"
"Look, look at this, and this, and this too. They seem to be randomly placed and disorganized."
"See it clearly? It's right here. Doesn't it look like a Bagua diagram as it extends outwards from the middle?"
Those around him followed his description and, surprisingly, actually figured some things out.
They actually saw a deformed Bagua formation on the ground.
"Hey, something's not right, Lao Du, you and Lao Chen come and take a look here. Am I seeing things wrong?"
Old Meng was shocked and quickly called his old friends over.
However, after they finished reading it and did the math, they found that it was indeed wrong.
“The Kan trigram represents water, which signifies danger. Everyone should leave this place first.”
No sooner had Old Man Chen finished speaking than someone nearby noticed something amiss.
"Don't come any closer, back off!"
Mu Chen shouted at Luo Yin to leave, but he himself became more and more entangled in the situation.
Luo Yin was startled and, seeing that she was in danger, quickly looked around for something to help.
"Wait, don't move!" She wanted to say that the more she struggled, the deeper she might sink, but it was as if Mu had stepped into a trap, and with a feint, he fell down.
"Don't move!"
Luo Yin shouted and rushed to grab her, but her hands missed her, and she fell down with her.
People running alongside them couldn't catch them in time and watched helplessly as they fell.
"Oh no! We need to save them!"
Someone shouted, "Xiao Luo, Mu Chen, can you hear me?"
I waited quietly, but no one responded!
Old Du, Chen Dong, and the other two stood in front of a mud pit, just wide enough for one person to pass through, staring at the dark entrance. Huo Sen and Qin Chuan had already started examining it, but even with their flashlights, they couldn't penetrate the hole.
They realized the seriousness of the matter, and several senior members of the community analyzed that it was not just a matter of falling into a trap set by the locals.
"All of you who are good at helping, go down there and quickly pull the person up."
Team Leader Feng led the way, splitting the group into two parts. He stayed behind to protect Old Du and the others, while Qin Chuan and Liu Cheng descended into the mud cave.
They slowly sank down into the wet mud, and once their eyes, noses, mouths, and ears were buried in the soil, the putrid smell suddenly surged into their cerebral cortex like a tidal wave.
Qin Chuan reacted instantly, shining his flashlight in mid-air and searching for the two of them.
The scene below, with its bright lighting, left the two of them silent for over a minute.
Qin Chuan and Liu Cheng never imagined that when they came down, they would see a row of dark coffins that glowed, neatly and orderly arranged together.
The gold, bearing the marks of history, shone brightly and dazzlingly under the beam of a flashlight!
"Wow, what kind of family is this?"
"Captain, am I seeing things? These dark wooden coffins are all made of Phoebe zhennan wood?"
Qin Chuan was clearly also shocked by the scene, recalling the tree stumps along the way.
Thirteen pieces of timber, top-grade small-leaf Phoebe zhennan wood worth over a thousand years, were quietly buried in the soil.
Isn't this a complete waste of resources?
"No, we need to find them first. Where are the two of them?"
Reminded by him, Liu Cheng also turned on his flashlight. Before the two landed firmly on solid ground, they pulled the loosened rope three times. This was their way of giving a signal to their superiors!
"The response has been given; it's safe for now."
"Okay, let's wait a bit."
After Old Du finished speaking, he saw Blind Chen start working on his divination again, secretly calculating something on the side.
It felt like an eternity had passed, but there was no further response from underground.
At this moment, Chen Dong nudged Huo Sen.
"You come down with me!"
"Ah, me?"
Team Leader Feng glanced at the others, then looked at his only comrade-in-arms, and remained silent.
"Go and bring Xiao Liu on; they can't find anyone."
Then they heard voices coming from the mud pit below.
"Captain Feng, pull us up, we can't find anyone."
Almost one after the other, they echoed Old Chen's words.
Those who initially harbored other emotions suppressed all their doubts and focused their attention on Hosen.
Could this kid really be something special?
"The area below isn't large; it's just blocked by a dozen or so coffins. We checked it several times but didn't find a single person."
Liu Cheng's eyes showed incomprehension as he spoke, "There aren't even any footprints, how strange!"
"Not a single footprint was left?"
The five people above looked puzzled and frowned.
"How could that be? We saw it with our own eyes. It fell from here."
"Yes, I saw it too. Could there be other mud caves here?"
When Qin Chuan saw their questions, he told them the whole story.
Upon hearing that there was a coffin made of Phoebe zhennan wood, the eyes of Elder Du and Elder Meng lit up dramatically, and both of them showed great excitement.
"Quickly, take us to see this!"
Old Du realized he had gotten a little carried away and quickly gave a wink to the person next to him.
Seeing this, Old Meng added, "This is definitely worth studying. Let's go down and take a look; perhaps we can find clues and traces of their disappearance."
Seeing their attitudes, the others remained silent and looked at Old Chen.
Chen Dong paused for a moment, then said, "I'll say it again, he has to come with you, otherwise you won't be able to find him."
The two excited old men at the scene seemed to remember his skills, and then nodded in agreement.
"Yes, yes, Xiao Huo, you should go too."
"That way, one person can stay upstairs and watch over the rest of the people going down."
The two elderly people, who were eager to see the spectacle, saw Chen Dong wave his hand and say, "No, I'll wait for you up there."
Chen Dong, Liu Cheng, and Captain Feng stayed behind, while Huo Sen and Qin Chuan took the two of them down.
Fortunately, there were two strong people on top who pulled them down little by little and they landed successfully.
Once they reached the underground, the flashlight beam shone on them, and the four men displayed different expressions!
The atmosphere froze for a few seconds.
Then, even greater doubts and confusion arose. This is golden nanmu wood, but this is just an ordinary mud pit. And what about the guy who said he had no clues about them? There's a bag not far away on the ground that even his old eyes could see. What's going on with those two young men?
Du Lao and Meng Lao looked at Qin Chuan with suspicion and doubt.
Hosen also subconsciously looked at him with a probing gaze.
Qin Chuan was dumbfounded after he turned on the flashlight!
This is completely different from where he came down before. And what's with that backpack? Where did it come from?
And what about those two rows of footprints?
Qin Chuan blinked hard a few times, deeply doubting that his vision was deceiving him, but the reality was true.
"Xiao Qin, after this mission is over, you and Xiao Liu should go and see the big cities."
"Yes, don't go to small places. The capital and Shanghai have very good equipment. We can check them out when we get there."
His initial excitement and enthusiasm dissipated, and the two elders began to tease him.
Hosen patted him on the shoulder and then followed the footprints.
"Let's go, let's go find someone."
As soon as the three left, Qin Chuan, who was left behind, scratched his head, unable to understand. But then he thought, "This isn't the time for this." He put aside his emotions and rushed towards the crowd.
Covered in mud, Luo Yin led the wooden team in all directions, constantly looking back as she ran, afraid that something might escape.
"We need to get out of here quickly. This road is getting more and more remote, and we don't even know where the exit is."
"Let's walk this way first, we just fell down from this direction."
"Really? But I just looked, there should have been a hole up there, but it's gone." Luo Yin complained softly, then carefully supported her arm.
They were worried that the strenuous running would cause further injury to her arm.
"It's nothing, just a minor injury. Let's find a way out first."
Mu Chen didn't pay much attention, but her eyes remained vigilant.
Ever since they came down, strange insects have been inexplicably appearing around them.
The insect consisted of only a head and wings, and was about the size of a thumb.
However, its power is inversely proportional to its size, because the two watched as a group of insects collided and instantly made a "plop" sound, like juice being squeezed.
Loin and she witnessed the insects exploding in mid-air!
Then, only a few drops of water dripped down with the air.
Even the corpse is gone, like natural corpse-dissolving liquid.
"Cover your entire body, making sure there's not a single gap."
Mu Chen instructed her to do it and checked it with a flashlight from time to time. Luo Yin also checked it for her and found that there was no problem.
His rapid breathing gradually subsided, and he then inquired about its origin.
"Team Leader Mu, have you seen that thing before? What was it? And why was it so...juicy?"
In the end, Luo Yin clearly didn't know what she was saying.
"I don't know, but there's all sorts of strange things in these mountains, so you should be prepared." Mu Chen's tone was firm, then he changed the subject, "But I think they've probably found out by now, and the people outside will definitely come back looking for us."
Luo Yin nodded, and the two continued to support each other as they rubbed against each other.
As they walked and dodged, the tracks left by their feet gradually disappeared without them noticing!
The two of them didn't notice that their main field of vision was affected by the pitch-black environment, so they overlooked the most important point.
The two explored along the way, thinking it would be at most a small hole, but they never expected that they would encounter a huge hole that was beyond their original imagination.
An hour passed, and Loin had drunk a third of the water.
The mud on their faces dried and fell off, and the two women realized clearly that they were trapped underneath.
There is no way out, no direction, no guidance!
"Team Leader Mu, it seems we can't get out."
Luo Yin sounded dejected, but she was only holding the flashlight at her waist.
She felt she needed to ask for professional advice, lest she scare herself to death.
The wooden team looked around, recalling the directions they had taken, and finally had to admit one thing: she couldn't find the exit either.
"I'm sorry, I gave you directions but didn't lead you out. But don't worry, we have enough food to last at least a week. We'll be traveling a long way in the next week, and we'll definitely find a way."
Luo Yin poked her little finger and said in a weak voice.
"Team Leader Mu, I dropped that backpack earlier, so now we only have one meal left."
Mu Chen's composed expression paused for a moment, then returned to normal.
Fortunately, she couldn't see any change in her expression in the darkness, so Luo Yin could hear her unchanging tone: "It's okay, we'll definitely get out of here."
"Yes, that's possible."
Luo Yin received the energy she transmitted and became more positive herself. She then excitedly began to analyze again.
After walking for several hours while searching for a direction, the two suddenly realized that something was wrong with the ground.
"Wait, how come there isn't a single mark on the ground? Isn't this just ordinary ground?"
Luo Yin rubbed her shoe sole hard a few times, only barely touching the ground. Mu Dui squatted down and scraped off a layer with his dagger, only to find that it wasn't soil at all.
"This is not soil!"
"What?"
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