Celestial Masters Alliance

I returned to the stairs, walked up three steps, gritted my teeth and dug open the cracked wound caused by the ring with my nails, and sprinkled a few drops of blood on the stairs. When I came down, I felt that the blood was too abrupt, so I sprinkled a few drops in the passage. At this time, there was a slight movement in the passage. The sound was very soft, just like the soft sound of leaves falling on the ground in autumn. Here they come!

I quickly ran into the doorway, and the wood stood on one side of the doorway. I pointed my toes and stretched my hands above my head. When I came in, I pressed down hard, and the stone wall fell again with a "bang" and dust.

"They are coming!" I whispered to the wood.

Mu Mu pulled my arm and said as he walked: "They have a lot of people. Even if you lead some of them to the stairs, it won't last long. They have heat detectors and they will find this door soon. Let's go!"

Before Mu Mu finished speaking, a line of fire burned along the wall. We were startled and immediately hid towards the door. As the fire line burned, a strange fishy smell drifted away. "Wow! It turns out to be a lighting facility!" The sound of a trumpet sounded not far away, and Mu Mu and I relaxed.

There is a groove on the wall one meter above the ground. The groove is inlaid with rough semi-cylindrical tiles. The tiles contain strange black semi-solid fuel. The groove starts from the stone door and goes all the way forward. The end.

The situation in Shimen is much better than expected. There are no snakes, rats, or swarms of bed bugs. Because of the cold weather, the uneven earthy ground had dots of crystals shining brightly under the firelight. The entire tunnel is as wide as my arms. Shan Yu doesn't need to lower his head when standing in front, but the three of us have to bend down to pass.

There are many earthen jars smaller than pickle jars on both sides of the tunnel. The bottoms of the earthen jars are pressed against the grooves dug in the ground. The grooves are also filled with gray-black oil, exuding a fishy stench.

"What are these jars used for?" Xiaoba said, reaching out to open the jar.

"Don't move!" I screamed. Some horrific images flashed through my mind.

But Xiaoba had already opened the lid of the earthen jar, and I quickly pulled out the shovel to prepare for war, but nothing happened. Mu Mu also walked over, turned on the flashlight and shined a light into the jar, took out his shovel, extended the handle of the shovel and stirred it for a while, then said in a very positive tone: "It's gunpowder, the yellow stuff on it should be used to isolate moisture. "Yes." He closed the lid in a panic.

I couldn't help shivering and glanced at the fire lines on the wall. When I opened the lid just now, if a small spark fell from the wall, we would have been shattered to pieces! Are there so many earthen jars filled with gunpowder? Who piled gunpowder here? This tunnel looks more like a giant explosive device, designed to blow up the entire mine?

"We seem to be in a place we shouldn't be." Xiaobao trembled.

"Where should we come? Maybe we have fallen into other people's plans since the first time we descended into the tree hole!" I said angrily, crossing them and walking forward. Anyway, now we have no way out. It was precisely because my heart was filled with hatred that the pain was drowned out by this force.

Xiaoba and Mu Mu winked at each other. Xiaoba supported Shan Yu and followed me, with Mu Mu taking the rear this time.

The tunnel goes up at an extremely gentle slope, twisting and turning in the middle, as if to avoid something. I think it must be tree roots or something, because whether it is the tunnel or the strange tower, not to mention the surrounding adobe walls. The roots of the trees were gone, and there was not even a blade of grass.

I stopped and touched the wall curiously. I noticed the wood and whispered from behind: "Special substances are added to the soil."

"Lime? The only thing that can both prevent corrosion and be used as a desiccant on a large area is lime." I said this because I couldn't be sure, because judging from the color, it definitely didn't look like lime was added to the soil. Mu Mu didn't answer. He probably didn't know anything like me.

"I feel a little strange! There is so much gunpowder here, why not detonate it when the Japanese come?" Xiaoba's brain circuit is indeed different from ours, and he raised questions that none of us have thought about.

"How are you sure these things were discharged before the Japanese arrived? Also, how are you sure these things were not made by the Japanese?" My words barely passed through my brain before I spit them out.

"They want the ore, so they can't blow up this place. Moreover, how can they let them build a large-scale construction here with the hatred of the people towards the Japanese." The wood seemed to fall some distance away from us, and the voice floated from behind with an echo.

"Most likely it was done by the people guarding this place." I glanced back. Shan Yu bit his lip, bloodshot eyes oozing from the corners of his mouth. Xiaoda just bent down and gently pulled Shan Yu's arm over his shoulder. I don’t know if he has a problem with Shan Yu, or he is also seriously injured.

I was about to ask when there was a rumble of explosions from behind. We were shaken and fell to the ground. The adobe above our heads cracked and fell downwards in chunks.

"Don't stop! Run!" Mu Mu shouted and rushed over.

I crawled towards Shan Yu, put her arm on my shoulder, so that she was almost hanging on me, and grabbed her clothes with the other hand and dragged her forward. That group of people was smarter than I thought, and they arrived faster than I expected. They didn’t know that the tunnel was full of kerosene, and they didn’t know that this place was full of gunpowder. Once the Shimen couldn’t stand it and was blasted by them, then there would be a disaster here. A huge explosion.

The vibration caused by the blasting has stopped. It seems that the blasting direction is incorrect. Before they find the correct location, we must find the exit. But I looked hopelessly at the still endless extension of the tunnel and the endless lines of fire, and the nerves in my brain hurt as if they were being torn apart.

I took out a palm and slapped my forehead hard. Shan Yu quickly grabbed it with his cold hands and asked, "What's wrong?"

Before I had time to answer, Mu Mu rushed over, grabbed the clothes on my back, and pulled me back hard. I fell to the ground with Shan Yu on my back. When I got up and was about to curse Mu Mu, I saw that he had no expression on his face. Pointing to one side of the wall expressively, I followed his finger and saw a spiral-shaped object blocking the way next to the pots piled on the wall. It was due to my random thoughts and the color that it almost blended into the ground. , I almost stepped on it.

"Snake?" Xiaoba poked his head out from above my shoulder and exclaimed in a low voice.

I subconsciously pulled them back. This snake was as thick as a barrel, and its head was coiled in the middle. I couldn't tell if it was the one that let me go under the tree hole.

"Is it hibernating?" Shan Yu whispered to me, and I could clearly feel her body temperature being hotter than normal.

A hissing sound came from the turning tunnel ahead. It was it, the one that looked at me under the tree hole. There was a short scar above its golden eyes. I recognized it.

The snake was slowly approaching us. I pulled Shan Yu behind me, pulled out the shovel and placed it in front of me. The wood was already at war with me. I held the shovel in one hand and handed over the pepper spray I prepared with the other hand, and stood side by side with me. While standing, I smiled, would such a big snake be afraid of our little trick?

Xiaoba also rushed up from behind and asked me to block it back. Now there are pursuers behind us and irresistible beasts in front of us. In the narrow tunnel, we can't escape. All those idiots need to do is blast again. , we will have to die in the fire together.

The snake coiled on the ground raised its head as if it had accepted the order. It turned out that it was not one snake, but two snakes coiled together. Looking at the three snakes, I couldn't help but tremble all over, but my mind did not stop because of fear. Operation, I thought about the ring, yes! I still have the ring on my hand and I can try it out again.