Abyss Express

[帰る·Kaeru]

This word is a bit special, and it is generally used in two scenarios.

"Go home, or go back to the place we should go." Meteor pushed his glasses, and wrote the Japanese interpretation in the diary, "Shinto City is the territory of the Japanese, it seems that the host does not welcome us, Brother Ping An ,What should we do now?"

The rockburst phenomenon is a natural disaster, and the psionic tides that accompany this natural disaster are the highlight. Before the journey started, it seemed that there was an invisible mountain god who had stopped early in the underground world of the Ryukyu Islands and this road, warning strangers.

"Little brother, let me think about it." Daoist Ping'an is a real person, and he doesn't intend to draw cakes for Ah Xing, so he explained the actual situation clearly: "The road ahead is dangerous, why don't we just turn around and go back home first as others say?" .”

Meteor asked: "Why?"

Luo Pingan asked Hei Ge, who was at the back of the team, to turn around on the spot and go to the exit of the tunnel, explaining carefully.

"You said that this Japanese word is very meaningful. They just want us to go home, and they don't mean to embarrass us-it's polite, they don't tell us to go away, they don't insult us, and they don't want us to go in again. .”

"Furthermore, natural disasters such as rock bursts are very powerful. You can also hear the huge sonic boom when the earth shakes and the mountains shake—flying stones and gold sand spew out together. The power is more terrifying than bullets. According to the standard nine millimeters fired by the North American Iaijutsu Calculating the ammunition, the kinetic energy of the weighted warhead is at most four hundred joules."

Meteor is still wondering, this priest seems to like firearms a lot, keeping pace with the times.

Brother Ping'an didn't look back, and pointed his thumbs up at the mine behind him.

"You regard this rockburst mine as the muzzle of a cannon, and the fine sand and iron that are produced are not the shells that ordinary armor can defend against."

"This warhead is a high-density hematite that has been squeezed for hundreds of years and thousands of years in the basalt layer. It is ejected through tens of millions of tons of mountain compression. Our physical body will definitely not be able to withstand this kind of attack."

Meteor looked back at the wall opposite the mine pit, and the small round hole riddled with holes was the answer - to cause such a powerful destructive force, it is estimated that dozens of shrapnel shells should be shot with a cannon.

The new injuries caused by the flying sand and rocks just now, as well as the huge mechanical force stranded in the pothole, these energy turned into pure heat, and the broken steel bars in it glowed bright red. Brother Pingan was right—they might be able to cross This is a big pit, but what you will encounter later may not be known.

"Okay, then listen to you, Brother Pingan." Bu Liuxing immediately followed Mr. Pingan's steps, walking back and forth, "It takes courage to explore unknown areas, but it is also a kind of bravery to retreat in spite of difficulties. Are you right? wrong?"

Luo Ping'an has seen through Ah Xing's little thoughts - this young man of twenty-five or six-year-old blood is definitely not convinced, but his mouth must have some prestige.

"Ah yes yes yes! You are right!"

Immediately afterwards, the two brothers, who had been separated for an unknown number of years, walked towards the exit along the way they came. It took only ten minutes to walk to the rock platform at the entrance and exit of the tunnel.

All the way without words, when Meteor walked out of this tunnel, he inexplicably felt that the pressure in his heart disappeared, and the strong spiritual pressure also dissipated, and he felt lucky to have escaped from the tiger's mouth.

He began to examine his body and heart. This was not the first time that heaven and man had fought. In the previous battle to wipe out the Mad Butterfly Sacred Sect, there were many rounds of suffering in this high-pressure environment, wandering on the line of life and death.

It's just that today, when encountering natural disasters in the tunnels of Howling Ridge, this fear of the unknown is much stronger.

It was just a tunnel that would produce rockbursts, and an invisible and intangible mountain god blocked the way, but this sense of oppression made Meteor's physical body take the initiative to admit defeat, just like seeing a huge wave rushing towards the face, and the pressure under his feet The ground began to tremble, and this series of near-death experiences that were difficult to describe in words created a crack in his heart.

You know, Ah Xing has loved extreme sports since he was a child, conquering mountains and huge waves, free-falling skydiving from a height of several thousand meters, and the adventure of surviving is his favorite thing.

But when he came out of this tunnel and was about to walk back to the civilized world, he was also surprised, and also surprised, for a moment—he wanted to admit defeat.

At this time, cold sweat broke out on Ah Xing's forehead. He recalled the first time Brother Ming faced the golden eggs gathered in the sea by Fangfeng, the majestic spiritual pressure almost crushed the meteor, but the elder brother remained motionless. ——That is the superpower Meteor has always envied and admired.

Luo Pingan reminded: "Let's go? Little brother?"

Meteor remained silent, holding his breath in his heart, and silently climbed onto Brother Hei's saddle, wanting to escape from this place quickly.

Daoist Ping'an didn't say anything, and he followed A Xing onto the back of the wolf. When he returned from the original road, he could ride the big wolf with confidence and boldly, and quickly returned to the frontline stronghold to report the situation.

Following the traces of the stone ballast on the road, Brother Hei only took an hour to run the 60 kilometers.

But things are getting worse--

——According to the geological topographic map, this winding mountain road has become an endless maze.

"No, little brother, no." Luo Pingan pointed to the Yingshi on the road, "We have been here more than once."

According to the iron rules of the material world, according to the law of pathfinding, if you walk along the psionic markers, you will definitely be able to walk back to the stronghold.

But at this moment, Meteor still can't see any traffic signal base stations, mobile phones and FOB multi-function terminals have no signal, but they have the most basic compass function, remember a certain direction before the network is disconnected, and they must be able to point out the correct direction.

Luo Pingan handed the diary to Meteor——

——He followed the big wolf's steps to calculate, and roughly drew a topographical map.

They made a big circle and returned to somewhere on the map.

Looking around, Luo Ping'an saw that apart from the railway infrastructure, only the lighting equipment left by the exploration team could be called traces of civilization, and the other was the steep mountain.

"We're taking a detour, little brother."

Mr. Ping'an pointed to the circuit diagram on the diary, and followed the clues with his fingers.

"First turn right and go forward for 14 kilometers. It seems to be a straight road. Then there is a culvert to go around. After exiting the culvert, it is an uphill road. The terrain next to it begins to become steeper, and then continue to the 21-kilometer mountain road. , there is a cliff on the left, and a field on the right, more than 600 meters away from the field is the end of the cavity, and there is no road."

"In this way, you can see a base station when you walk 1,800 meters to the northeast, but you go around the bridge and enter the cave, and you come back here."

Meteor asked nervously, "Could it be a ghost hitting the wall?"

"Where is there any ghost in the world." Luo Pingan said disdainfully: "Even if there is, it's worth the occasion. You, a lonely ghost, want to harm psykers? How bold are you?"

Meteor: "Brother Ping An? What does that mean?"

Luo Pingan frowned, and pointed behind him: "I'm afraid this [going back] does not mean that we should go back to the stronghold."

Meteor: "Is it because we are afraid that we will be frightened by the rockburst? Want us to go back to Shinto City?!"

"That's right, this mountain and this land are all threatening us." Luo Ping'an's eyes showed worry: "Little brother, we are going around in circles here, it must not be some magical maze, because there is no spiritual labyrinth." Can respond——my spiritual sense. Bah, Reiatsu, I can’t feel any changes.”

Meteor: "That is to say."

Luo Pingan got off the wolf and squatted beside the stone ballast of the road foundation.

"What kind of tricks, blindfolds, are not as real as moving mountains and filling the sea. I think there should be a mountain god under our feet. It changes the road and moves the iron and stone mountains. The road of more than 60 kilometers is too long for us. Chang——walking halfway, we couldn't feel any movement ten thousand meters away, maybe it was the rockburst that trapped us here."

Meteor became nervous and excited.

"Then we're going back?"

Luo Ping'an: "Let's go around again. Walk around again——I want to try."

Meteor grabbed Brother Ping'an's wrist and pulled him onto Ah Hei's back. When Ah Xing grasped the right arm of the seeker and touched the other's five fingers, he found that the long right hand was very white and tender. A man's hand—very weird.

The main thing is that hand, which is too different from Brother Ping'an's left palm.

As Brother Pingan said, he was really a farmer a hundred years ago, and his left hand was also used to handle agricultural tools. Years of hard work left countless calluses, which are fierce palm lines that can kill people.

The right hand is rosy, with slender and slender fingers. There are white half-moon lines on the nails. The fingertips are regular and there are no traces of labor. The complexion is also much whiter.

Seeing Meteor's sudden gaze, Luo Pingan didn't explain anything, and patted Ah Hei's belly lightly.

"Brother Hei, please run around again. Just run along this road, don't look back yet."

Continuing forward along the geological topographic map, another hour of journey passed.

Meteor asked curiously on the road——

"Brother Ping An, why do we continue to run forward?"

"Assuming there is such a God of Mount Raoshizi, I wonder if it can hear us."

"How do you know if it can hear you?"

"Didn't we say just now that we stopped thinking about going back to the front line? If it can hear it, it must put all the mountains back in order to lead us back to the tunnel."

"Oh! What if it can't hear?"

"If you can't hear me, I'm going to start spraying."

Meteor looked at Big Brother Pingan in surprise, it seemed that the VIP was indeed full of anger.

Brother Hei was so tired that he was out of breath and ran around again.

Luo Pingan was holding a fluorite in his hand, and it happened to fill in the vacant space. Finally, he realized that the mountain god could never hear the conversation between the two, and could only judge their positions by the weak spiritual pressure.

Brother Pingan got off Ah Hei's back, cleared his throat, was very formal and polite, and then sprayed.

"Fuck you fucking idiot!"

"The local gods are really rude!"

"I haven't reached your territory yet! Is it because you don't want to give me any face?"

"Do you know how many supplies we brought? That's why I'm stuck here?!"

Meteor was ashamed, looking at the swearing Immortal—he was a little dazed, but he could somewhat understand this feeling.

It's as if we are forced to come to a strange place, and then there is an unstoppable force that requires us to participate in a completely strange game.

Pingan suddenly asked: "Little brother! How much food do we have left?"

"Oh! There should be four days' worth of food in Ah Hei's package. If you count the canned food, you can eat it for eight days if you save it."

"Did you hear that?!" Ping An continued to yell: "Eight days! I still have to eat canned food! The shit I pull out is fucking stinky! I'm looking for a toilet in that dark tunnel! day?"

"Listen up, you little Japanese land god! You want me to go to the countryside to experience the people's sentiments in a ghostly place like yours, to build your deserted town, and to re-explore your land that doesn't shit or lay eggs. ruins!"

"You're going to mess with my mentality without saying a word! Do you think I can't cure you!?"

Meteor's eyes lit up all of a sudden: "Brother Ping An, do you have a way to deal with it?"

"No." Luo Ping'an's mood returned to calm, and the speed of change was quite fast: "Otherwise, why can I only scold it? And I dare not let it hear it."

Meteor: "Huh?"

Brother Pingan said: "Before you leave, you must tell all your bad moods. I'll go with you—if I have demons and evil spirits, I'm afraid I'll lose my temper with you. That's not good, so I want to Scold it, it can't hear it anyway, if we really meet, then we can greet you kindly."

Meteor didn't know what to say, thinking in his heart, what this real person said was quite reasonable, and he didn't tell any lies.

The two brothers, one big and one small, finally resigned to their fate——

——They turned their heads and continued on their way.

This time, it was only ten kilometers away, and they came to the entrance of the tunnel again.

Luo Pingan explained to Meteor.

"I think this mountain god should rely on psionic fluctuations to judge our position. For example, if we just want to walk counterclockwise on the map, it will start to make trouble—and we three little ants have changed their minds and want to Back to Shinto City, change to a clockwise route, and it will immediately lead us to the tunnel."

"Why doesn't it just add blocks to both ends of this maze?" Meteor muttered, "It would be nice if there was a tunnel in front and a tunnel in the back!"

Luo Pingan shook his head and explained.

"I'm afraid it won't work. If we do this, it needs to constantly activate the power to move mountains. Its psychic efficiency must be so powerful and its precision so high. Why bother us to go through the maze? Just shrink the ground to an inch and create a teleportation Belt, why don’t you build a super elevator and send us to Shinto City?”

Meteor nodded half understanding.

Luo Ping'an: "It's not as strong as you think. It's like a conscious, huge creature in the mine. It can't hear us, but it can sense our position."

Meteor was surprised and speechless: "Could it be Mother Earth?!"

In the Niflheim Trench, the tentacles of Mother Earth are rolling iron cores, and the part exposed to the surface is tens of thousands of square kilometers of cilia shaped like neurons, and the golden thunder is its active bioelectricity.

The mountain god who played tricks in Howling Ridge can now move a distance of 60 kilometers, changing terrain silently, more like Mother Earth is at work.

Luo Ping'an did not directly deny: "The original seed should have no self-awareness. This possibility cannot be ruled out. Their power forms are very similar, but those spiritual energy fluctuations that urge us to go home-should not be what the earth mother meant."

Walking into this tunnel again, the strange pressure of inspiration came again.

Ah Xing followed behind Brother Pingan, step by step carefully, and returned to the hematite mine pit again.

Luo Pingan said: "Open your mouth."

Meteor immediately followed suit. The Survival publication of the Secret Library has talked about this technique——

——When human beings are faced with huge wind pressure and sonic boom, they can open their mouths, relieve the pressure on the nasopharyngeal tubes and five sense organs, and protect ears and eyes.

As long as you open your mouth, your ears will probably not be pierced by strong sounds.

It is said that the end point of the strength number is intelligence, Ah Xing's book is not in vain, he is already a reckless man with intelligence.

The rockburst is happening again, like the slow, heavy heartbeat of the mountain.

After the loud noise, Ping An pulled A Xing over the pit and continued on. Ah Hei just jumped over the five or six meter big pit with a single leap.

The two of them heard the psychic fluctuations that accompanied the eruption of the rock, as if countless wandering souls were yearning sadly, speaking the Japanese of "go back".

Going forward, the dark tunnel is illuminated by a strong flashlight, and there are more graffiti portraits on both sides of the tunnel, like the cultural labels left by people from the previous era.

Various commodity symbols from the mundane world, such as Disney comic heroes, or labels such as Mickey Mouse, the Prajna grimace left here by the locomotive gangsters, or various idioms with unclear meanings, such as [The sky is dead , Huang Tiandangli] The next sentence became [Yelang died nine], probably because Chinese characters are very cool, and young people can do it casually.

The cracks on the walls are very deep, and the graffiti landscape has also been severely damaged after the geological environment has changed. Those hiragana and katakana Japanese were split, and Meteor couldn't find any useful information from them.

The moment he walked out of the tunnel, his eyes suddenly opened up.

They have officially come to the underground world of the Ryukyu Islands and the territory of Shinto City.

It was an indescribably open land, hundreds of meters ahead was a deep and dark area, but a few kilometers ahead, along the winding mountain walkway to a distance of more than ten kilometers, there seemed to be some light sources.

Meteor: "Is there anyone else living here?!"

"I don't know, but based on my experience. I'm afraid it's not the lights. It's too far away from the Shinto City." Luo Pingan analyzed with reason: "In 1984, if someone lived around Howling Ridge , and encountered a geological disaster, I am afraid that I will move back to the jurisdiction of the Nine Realms Station immediately——no one will continue to live here.”

The light in the distance ahead of the meteor seems to have a target.

The two walked no more than ten steps forward, and immediately discovered a new clue.

Like the entrance and exit of the tunnel, there is a section of rock platform and stone foundation as an auxiliary road for maintenance personnel to pass, and to guide the accumulated water in the tunnel to the ditch for discharge down the mountain. There are iron nets on both sides to isolate wild animals and lost pedestrians.

On the left front side of the exit, near the cliff, there is a dead body lying on the rock platform——

——When Mr. Ping'an found the body, the veteran Daoist who had gone through vicissitudes of life was also frightened and scolded a straight mother.

Meteor was also curious about what could make the VIP scold—after all, neither the life-killing rock burst nor the strange mountain god allowed the Taoist leader to break through.

When he saw clearly what the flashlight illuminated, he was too shocked to speak, as if he had been poured from head to toe by a bucket of cold water.

It was the corpse of a grown male who appeared to be in his mid-twenties, with a mohawk.

Let's call him Moxigan.

This Mohawk was wearing a leather jacket, and the cause of death was unknown. Judging from the appearance of the corpse, it seemed that he had been hit by a rock in the sternum, and died of internal bleeding from the collapse of the chest cavity—this is not a rare thing at all.

The strange thing is that this body is from 1984.

Luo Ping'an was convinced of this when he saw the driver's license of this Mohican from the scattered debris on the ground, and made this fresh corpse frightened and cursed.

After a long time, the two passengers did not dare to touch the strange corpse. Mohawk looked hard, with hair or beard, exposed body hair and clothing, as if frozen, fixed on the rock platform road. up.

And there are a few more suspicious things——

——The neck and body of this Mohawk brother are not of the same skin color, and there are obvious stitches, as if he had undergone head transplant surgery.

These strange phenomena that cannot be explained by common sense make Meteor think carefully about these things.

He couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it.

"Brother Ping An, if we don't intend to touch this brother's body, let's move on."

Standing up safely, and shining the flashlight on the side of the mountain, he saw a piece of gray-red wreckage embedded in the mountain. It seemed to be the car of this gangster, as if it was a second before the disaster happened——This gangster I was running on a mountain road, and finally crossed a tunnel and climbed up the rocky road. One accidentally fell and fell on the road and was killed by flying stones. However, this motorcycle was not so lucky, and no body was left behind.

Unlike its owner, the motorcycle has no secret method to resist time. It has long been corroded and changed by the violent mountain wind, and has become a mass of wreckage.

But this fresh corpse smelled nothing.

Feeling uneasy, Pingan went to observe again, and there were no other useful clues except that the clothes on the corpse were slightly scratched and firmly fixed on the ground like a sculpture.

"Walk!"

Meteor asked: "Where are you going?"

Luo Pingan: "It seems that these cities have a lot of evil spirits, so we have to meet the evil spirits for a while."

Meteor: "Huh?"

"It is said that when a person dies, the lights go out, and it is safe to go to the ground."

Luo Ping'an muttered something.

"Whether it's psionics or something weird, technology or hard work—"

"—Fifty years have passed, this person still can't rest in peace, what is it if it's not evil spirit?"