Chapter 31 The Legend of the Dead Mine
I stayed in that tomb enough, and I could dream of it being split by lightning and I turned into a butterfly and flew out.
The arrival of Chen Qinghan and the others has solved the thousand-year dilemma. I thank them for not having enough time, how could they be angry?
"You... that, don't be too sad. Maybe some creatures are destined to be shameless. They will encounter various dangers when they come out. It may be a good thing to sleep here forever." I have no experience in comforting people, and it is already the limit to put these few words together.
Chen Qinghan looked at me with complicated eyes when he heard this. I blinked and something flashed in my heart. I felt as if I had captured the information in his eyes, but unfortunately I didn't catch it.
"Is that so? You shouldn't bring it out..." he murmured to himself, as if he was struggling with something.
"Then I'll use the tools to try it out. Maybe there may be living things inside." I didn't intend to affect Chen Qinghan's thinking, so I took the crowbar back to the landslide.
Boss Lu knew about this place but did not regard it as the best safe haven. It is probably because she knew that there had been landslides in this place.
Abandoned mine caves that have collapsed landslides may collapse again at any time, so it is equally dangerous to hide in this.
I was careful when I was digging, and it took a long time to pull out a small hole. Because the soil and stones were frozen together, the hole of this size could not destroy the load-bearing structure. I pinned the crowbar to the back and crawled into the hole with a short body.
As soon as he stretched out his head, he met a shriveled face. The mummy expression was ferocious, but he was not killed by a landslide.
I looked at the corpses like I looked at mutants. They were just dead bodies in human form, nothing scary.
I pushed the corpse that was "blocking the road" away, drilled out of the hole and saw that there were still many corpses in the mine.
The bodies fell everywhere near the mound of landslides. They seemed to want to go out, but suddenly died when they were approaching the landslide.
If they were still alive at the time, the mound would leave traces of excavation. Since they wanted to go out, they would definitely dig the soil.
But they had never dug the soil, and there was no soil in their nails. They should have fallen to the ground as soon as they ran here and died on the spot.
I heard that toxic gases are prone to be dug underground when mining. This mine is old and there may not be good responses at that time, so miners died collectively.
The mine has been abandoned for so many years, and the toxic gas should have evaporated almost. I walked over the corpse and continued to walk inside.
There are no scars or bite marks on these corpses, and it is estimated that the toxic corpses and mice dare not eat them.
Keep moving forward and I found that the entire mine road had only one landslide point, and the other parts were all fine.
The mine tunnel was tilted downward and winding, and I saw some mummies one after another, all facing the exit.
The emergency evacuation time may be short, and the workers below did not have time to escape.
The corpses here are all air-dried without exception, like zombie meat that has been kept in the refrigerator for decades.
The mine path extending downward is about a few thousand meters deep. When I reached one third of it, I felt it was time to return, but it was like playing a game and I felt uncomfortable if I didn’t see anything at the bottom.
Halfway through, I caught a few fat mice, beat them to death and tied them together, hung them around my waist and waited back before cleaning them up.
There is a door at the bottom of the mineway, and behind it is another mineway. This mineway is straight, but it can't be seen at first sight and I don't know where it leads.
Chen Qinghan might be worried if he didn't go back, so I stood at the door and looked at the deep mineway and quickly turned back.
Back at the entrance of the mine, I used a knife and the snow at the door to clean the mice, and Chen Qinghan put them on the fire to roast them.
After I processed the mouse, I grabbed the soil and rubbed the blood on my hands. Wen Jing woke up, took the barbecue handed to him by Chen Qinghan and ate it voraciously.
The remaining three people had a slightly weak physical strength. They woke up after a while and ate roasted rat meat when they woke up.
I was worried that the screaming lady would dislike mice and make a big fuss, but I thought too much. She thought we could hunt ‘normal’ animals, so she ate it with peace of mind and didn’t ask what meat it was.
Boss Lu had the strength to finish his meal, stared at the depths of the mine, and asked, "Do you know, why would I rather go back to the ancient tomb than come here to take shelter from the snow?"
"Because this has happened, you are afraid of landslides again." I continued.
"Landem collapse?" Boss Lu smiled sarcastically, "That was the explosives collapse. Do you know why the mine owner wanted to explode the mine?"
"There is a toxic gas leak?" I said my previous guess.
"No, it's because they dug something amazing. The mine owner was afraid, so he blew up the mine cave and all the miners inside were silenced."
"What scared the mine owner so much that he killed people?" I asked curiously.
"No one knows that the mine owner went down the mountain alone. Afterwards, no matter who asked about the mine, he was silent."
"Then how did you know this?" I asked.
"I have visited his great-grandson. The descendants of their family are very obsessed with this mine. After the mine owner passed away, his son, daughter, grandson, and granddaughter have all come here one after another."
"What did they find?"
"I don't know, they disappeared and never went back. Since then, descendants of their family have completely abandoned this and believed that this is the place of death."
"Oh? But I just went in and saw that no one cleared the landslide, and it still maintained the day of the explosion."
"Maybe there is more than one entrance, or those unlucky guys encountered a storm on the snowy mountain."
"Are you afraid there is something terrible here?"
"Yes, and there is also the reason you mentioned. This place has been too old and may collapse completely at any time. I don't want to die here."
"The mine in front extends downward and should be able to go down the mountain. I don't know how many days the blizzard will take. We don't have water or food, so walking the mine may be a shortcut." I estimated that the straight line distance of the mine was about ten meters below the ground.
If we can go down and hit a ten-meter hole upward, it will be better than walking for a day in the wind and snow.
Wen Jing and his friends were no longer physically strong enough to support them in completing the regular route.
Only Chen Qinghan and I were not in a weak state. Then we took turns digging, and it would not take long.
"Is the structure of the mine channel inside stable?" Chen Qinghan asked.
"Stable, we just walked over gently, there must be no problem."
"Then take a break and everyone will set out."
No one raised objections this time, and they recovered from their frozen state, feeling disgusted and lacked energy.
I contributed the war-era helmets and cooked them some snow. They needed food, water, and warm air. Living people were so fragile that they could die or get sick if they were not careful.
"Yeah, did you pick this thing up in the bucket?" Boss Lu asked when he saw me boiling snow water with a steel helmet.
Chapter completed!