In a cluster of crystal stones, in a huge space somewhere underground...
The old Taoist priest Xuanjue sat cross-legged in the corner. His face was a little pale and his hair and beard were a little messy, but he was in good spirits.
Not far from him, there were five other people lying or sitting scattered around. They were his colleagues from Bureau 749 who had come to Lange Village with him to carry out the mission.
Among the five people, there were investigators wearing Zhongshan suits and soldiers wearing military uniforms. They all looked very weak.
In addition to the six of them, there were more than 30 people trapped in several other spaces under the crystal cluster. They were all members of the two investigation teams.
Back to a month ago, the first investigation team arrived in Lange Village and immediately launched an investigation.
Among them, the chief investigator of Bureau 749 quickly discovered something unusual in the ancient well in the village, so he led other investigators and soldiers into the well and found the stone door.
And when they were going down the well, they left two soldiers above the well to provide support.
After the group entered the corridor, one of the investigators immediately discovered the mechanisms hidden under their feet. He successfully led everyone to avoid them and entered the second stone door, which was the space filled with crystals.
Then, just as they set foot on the path among the crystal stones, strange things happened one after another.
First, people in the team began to disappear inexplicably, and then the leading investigator discovered that they seemed to be lost in this cluster of crystals.
Since they did not carry many batteries, the first team was soon plunged into complete darkness.
Seeing his comrades disappear one by one, the last remaining investigator almost broke down.
Just as he was wandering around like a headless fly, his feet suddenly felt empty and he disappeared into the space.
He only remembered that he seemed to have entered an extremely smooth passage and slid all the way down. Finally, accompanied by a feeling of weightlessness, he completely lost consciousness.
The situation of the second team, where the old Taoist Xuanjue was located, was not much different from that of the first team.
The leading investigator also used the same method as Fu Bo, which was to set up a guide rope in the crystal cluster.
But strangely, when they discovered the problem and wanted to return to the second stone gate, they found that the other end of the guide rope in their hand had broken at some point.
The smooth cross-section at the broken end of the rope confirmed that it was cut by a sharp weapon, which means that there are other people in this dark and unknown space.
Despite this, the members of the second team did not show any panic. Several investigators and soldiers from Bureau 749 began to use their own skills to try to find a way out of this crystal cluster.
Some people took out a compass, trying to determine a direction and keep walking in that direction, but the constantly rotating needle indicated that there were a large number of magnetic fields in this space.
The old Taoist priest Xuanjue naturally would not be idle either. The compass in his arms was no longer of any use at this time, so he planned to use divination to find a way out for the team.
But dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel. The old Taoist priest made three divinations in succession, and the results were different each time, which made him unable to make up his mind for a while.
The same thing happened to several other investigators, who failed to find a solution to the current dilemma.
In this way, all the members of the second team were completely trapped in the crystal space behind the second stone door.
Originally, the first team was not too worried because they had left two soldiers on the well to pick them up, and they thought someone would come to pick them up soon.
But what they didn't know was that not long after the group entered the first stone gate, two soldiers guarding the wellhead were knocked to the ground by poison needles that came from nowhere, and they stopped breathing in a short while.
This technique was also used on the support soldiers left behind by the second team.
Moreover, all traces of the two teams after entering the village were quietly erased, leaving no clues for those who came to rescue them.
In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed since the first team lost contact.
The supplies brought by the two teams had long been used up, but this was not the worst, because there was no water source in the space they were trapped in, and neither sound waves nor light could leave this space.
To put it simply, there is no way to go up to heaven and no door to enter the earth, and it is impossible to ask for help.
The ground was about four meters high from the sloping and smooth hole where they fell.
At the beginning, the soldiers thought of building a human ladder by wrapping ropes around their palms and soles of their shoes to increase friction and climb out of the cave.
But after several attempts, they all ended in failure, and some soldiers even broke bones.
The old Taoist Xuanjue also tried several times. Because he had practiced the Taiqing Jue, his physical fitness was more than one or two levels stronger than these warriors, but even so, he still failed.
During this period, someone also suggested that since the surrounding walls and the ground were made of crystal, which was hard but very brittle, could they find a way to carve a way out to escape?
But after several attempts, nothing was left except a few broken engineer shovels.
Due to the long-term lack of water, the people in several spaces under the crystal cluster were suffering from severe dehydration. Some people with weak constitutions even had hallucinations.
The old Taoist Xuanjue had a bad feeling since he fell into this space. After several failed attempts to escape, he found a corner and started to sit cross-legged in meditation.
He believed the divination he had made before leaving, and believed that Yuye would definitely go find Xu Jianguo. He also believed that Xu Jianguo would come to save him after knowing that he was in trouble.
In this way, time passed slowly in the darkness, and the people from the two investigation teams, who had been struggling to escape at the beginning, became less and less talkative.
In the last few days, no one spoke at all.
The old Taoist Xuanjue has practiced the Taiqing Jue, so although he has not yet reached the level of fasting, his physical consumption is the least among everyone. This is why he is in the best mental state among the people in the same room.
Until this day, everyone who had already been in despair suddenly discovered several rays of light coming from above their heads.
Originally they thought it was an illusion that they were dying, but when they saw a figure appear on the crystal stone above their heads, they realized that someone must be looking for them, and they suddenly became excited.
However, despite being excited, due to the long period of dehydration, when everyone opened their mouths to call for help, they found that they could not make any sound from their throats.
The flashlights they brought with them had already run out of battery.
The feeling of despair of seeing hope after a collapse, but being unable to do anything about it and watching that hope slip away, is beyond words.
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