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Chapter 56 Hourglass Hole

The three of them had discussed earlier that they would stay in the camp to find out the secret in the mine. They all thought that the secret was very important, perhaps related to the disaster itself. I think it was a bit of a big deal, but it was worth my investigation.&t;p>

Putting down the food, we used a secret code to determine the next move. Li Duo and Yang Shoucheng stayed in the shack to rest. I went to the mine to see first. If the secret of the camp owner is irrelevant, we will act as planned.&t;p>

Teleporting to the inside of the mine, I saw a row of carts parked by the wall. These carts, either single-wheel or two-wheel, are now common on construction sites, and some cars also have shovels or rubber hammers in them.&t;p>

The walls of the tunnel in the first half were covered with cement, and corroded wires and lamp holders were also present at the top of the tunnel. It was obviously a very formal project at that time.&t;p>

After walking about two hundred meters in, the cement structure became a civil structure. The tools were lagging behind by the chiseling marks, and the construction workers were not professional.&t;p>

When I walked about 250 meters, there was something slightly brighter in the dark above my head, sandwiched between the soil layer and the wooden stakes for support. I walked over and took out the thing. It turned out to be a ball of chocolate paper, with a very poor quality calendar paper stuffed inside. There was a line of words in the blank space of the calendar paper. I guess it was written by something like burnt wooden sticks or faded stones. Because the font was both thick and light, I read it for a long time before I could confirm its content.&t;p>

——h, bring it to my brother, don’t come to me.&t;p>

There was also something the size of a thumb cover in the paper bag. I rubbed the mud on the thing and wiped off all the mud, revealing the stone with a blue luster inside.&t;p>

However, what shocked me was not only the blue stone I had seen, but also the dates of calendar paper. On the day of the beginning of summer this year, who would take the old calendar from half a year ago to the deep mountains to mine?&t;p>

The answer can only be that this calendar was torn off by its owner on the same day. When the disaster arose, many survivors escaped from the city without even having time to take their passbooks and accessories, and it is even more impossible to bring a half-year-old directorial calendar to escape.&t;p>

This unexpected appearance made me reconcile the camp and its owner. They are not survivors and have been in the mountains for more than half a year to mine. Even the disaster could not stop them from digging through the mountain.&t;p>

After walking forward about a hundred meters, the mine reached the end. As Pang Xiaofei described, a hole was dug out of the mountain wall at the end. Since the hole was surrounded by rocks of all sizes, it was very difficult to clean it up, so the project could only wait for tomorrow to continue.&t;p>

I used flashlight to illuminate the hole, and there was enough space inside for me to move, so I teleported in. I didn't understand the terrain and landform, but only knew that the space I was in was formed naturally and there were no traces of artificial construction.&t;p>

This is a long cave, rugged and rugged, and the height above the head is enough. If it is a metaphor, I think it is like an abstract natural corridor.&t;p>

Fallen stench floated over from the other end of the corridor. As Pang Xiaofei said, it is not suitable for adventure alone, but I am not a ‘person’, I am a zombie, so there is no need to worry about ghosts. Of course, it is best not to encounter creatures that are not picky about food.&t;p>

No matter who the person who left the note was, the h he mentioned must be in danger. He himself probably encountered an unexpected accident. The person who came in to work did not pay attention to the top of his head in the dark environment, which made me accidentally find the note. It’s a pity that the note is useless to me. The brother he wanted to remind him that he might have died as early as the disaster broke out.&t;p>

The blue stone melted the moment it touched my skin and was absorbed by me. This absorption was unconscious and was not under my control. I was a little worried. If this mine was a blue stone mine, would my absorption be killed?&t;p>

As I walked, I realized that the natural corridor was tilted downward, and the slope became steeper as I walked. When I walked to my head, there appeared a hole in front of me. The hole was in the shape of a funnel. After careful look, I didn’t feel my scalp numb, and there were countless dead people under the hole.&t;p>

The dead were not lying at the bottom of the cave. They all kept climbing upwards, and then suddenly frozen somewhere. The heads of each corpse were raised high, their eyes were staring above, and their faces were full of fear and despair.&t;p>

None of these corpses, or mummies, are closest to the entrance of the cave, and the closest distance is ten meters away. It seems that they are evil ghosts crawling out of hell, but they are separated from the human world by a long abyss. No matter how hard they fight, they cannot touch the edge of the world.&t;p>

The clothes of the mummies are rotten. Look at the age of a long time, I moved down a few meters along the slope. I saw these mummies climbing upwards, but their hands and feet have been integrated with those things like scaffolding. It is difficult to tell what the thing for climbing is, but I guess it may be wooden stakes.&t;p>

The mine was only half dug, and the last hole wall was not dug through. How could there be so many people here?&t;p>

With this question in mind, I roughly counted. Just in rows and rows of vertical lines, hundreds of mummies could be counted by multiplication. The corpses that could not be grabbed and climbed on the slopes were more numerous.&t;p>

There is no exit above the cave, and the small hole I came in didn't look like someone had chiseled it. Could it be that these people climbed up from the bottom of the cave?&t;p>

The camp owners and these people are also looking for blue stones?&t;p>

With these questions, I made up my mind and decided to go to the bottom of the cave to see that the blue stones are beneficial to me and I have not seen any harm yet. If there were really a lot of blue stones below, I would have made a profit, but the mummies in the cave made me feel unsure. There were no obvious wounds on them. Keeping upward movements mean that they died very suddenly at that time.&t;p>

There is still a hole at the bottom of the hole. I immediately corrected the three-dimensional topographic map in my mind. This is not a funnel-shaped ground hole, but an hourglass-shaped. The position between the two sand bottles is thinner, and there are two symmetrical triangular spaces up and down.&t;p>

The cave below is a pyramid-shaped one. There must have been a rope ladder for up and down, but unfortunately there is nothing now. If it weren't for the cave depth of less than a thousand meters and I had the ability to teleport, this trip would have been in vain.&t;p>

After my vision stabilized, I immediately looked around, but the walls around me were bare and not like I imagined that it was covered with blue stones. On the contrary, there was something in the center of the ground that surprised me.&t;p>

In the middle of this pyramid-shaped cave, there is a coffin. Although the coffin is carved in stone and the surface patterns are not exquisite and detailed, its rough lines give people a sense of solemnity and grandness, and it looks like the one who is buried is not an ordinary person.&t;p>

Perhaps the mummies above were workers who brought the coffin in. They placed the sarcophagus and had an accident when they returned, but what kind of accident could cause thousands of people to die at the same time without obvious scars?&t;p>

As I thought about it, I walked to the sarcophagus. The cover was intact. Judging from the dust falling on it, it should have not been opened for a long time. Maybe what the camp owner was looking for was not blue stone, but a sub-coffin?&t;p>

Several speculations turned to my mind. After confirming that there was no blue stone mine around, I turned my attention to the sarcophagus again. The owner of the note might have obtained the blue stone from this coffin.&t;p>

No matter how I guessed, the spearhead was pointed at the sarcophagus in the end. It seemed that only by opening it and looking at it can you know the truth.&t;p>

I pushed open the thick coffin lid and shone it into the coffin with a flashlight. It turned out that it was empty. The thick dust on the coffin lid and the connected parts did not have any traces of opening recently. This means that if there were corpses or something in the coffin, it must have been transferred a long time ago.&t;p>

I was a little disappointed that the blue stone was not found, and I didn't think the camp owner would rather give up the opportunity to expand his territory in the end of the world than dig out this empty coffin.&t;p>

They didn't know that something strange happened here, and they didn't know that the coffin was empty. Maybe I could use this to ask the camp owner to release the arrested survivors!&t;p>

I know very well how risky it is to do this. My ideal is not to save the world, but since I have encountered it, it is always right to save more people within my ability.&t;p>

Our original plan was to rescue some people, and now I can imagine saving everyone. From this perspective, I am still lucky.&t;p>

I first went out of the cave to find Li Duo and Yang Shoucheng to breathe and ask them to temporarily intervene in the survivors team. I don't want to let all the trump cards go out at once.&t;p>

I shouted twice in the relatively empty place in the camp and asked the camp leader to come out to see me. Not long after, more than a dozen big men with guns surrounded me. I used lightning to knock down two of them. Seeing this, the others were about to shoot, but an old voice suddenly came in from outside the encirclement, and he told them to stop.&t;p>

A gap spread out in the encirclement. An old man was protected by six burly men and walked slowly towards us. The old man was not tall, half shorter than me, and was thin and shorter. His head fell out, with a white beard that was about to hang to his chest.&t;p>

The old man came over and smiled at me: "Girl, if you have something to discuss, why bother to do it?"&t;p>

I saw that Li Duo was already mixed in the team of onlookers, and the position was just behind the old man. Because of my two throats, all the survivors in the camp shack came out and surrounded us to watch the fun.&t;p>

Many strong men with guns held torches. The originally dark and dead camp was brightly lit at this time. I seemed to have become the protagonist in a martial arts novel, and I felt like I was just going to break into a copycat alone.&t;p>

Chatting with someone older than me cannot take too long, otherwise he can find out that I am a young girl who is not well-versed in the world, so I have to fight.&t;p>

"I know what is under the mine. If you want, let them go immediately, otherwise I will ruin what you want. Don't make any arrangements or delay time. I will do what I say."&t;p>

The old man changed his face, narrowed his eyes and sneered: "Why should I believe you if I speak empty-mouthed, why should I believe you?"&t;p>

I took something out of my backpack and threw it at the strong man beside the old man. The strong man caught it reflexively. When I saw what it was, my wrist shook and almost threw it out.&t;p>

That thing was half of my arm that I had broken off from the mummy body. The old man's eyes became sharp when he saw it. I smiled at him. The more relaxed he smiled, the more he felt unsure.&t;p>

It also proves that he knows about the mummy, and perhaps how those people died, so after seeing the arm, he quickly knocked it down so that the strong man around him would continue to hold it.&t;p>

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