Gu Yuliang followed Zhang Qishan all the way up the mine road. Zhang Laoguan climbed very fast. The mine road was about 70 degrees, and it became steeper as it went up. Every step was a small foothold that could be stepped on by one foot. ,
So it's not dangerous. You can see that there were iron drills hammered into the stone in the early years, and there should be ropes all the way down for people to climb.

Now the ropes are rotten, and the iron rods are all rotten into lumps.

In short, the mine is very simple.

After a while, a light appeared above, and a dozen or so steps further up, Zhang Qishan came to the entrance of the mine,

Gu Yuliang followed up, and the space here suddenly became larger, turning into a gap in the mountain, with a whole log stuck on the rocks on both sides, for people to use as stairs.

"It's been a long time, don't step on it." Gu Yuliang reminded.

Zhang Qishan nodded, but didn't step on it. He stuck one hand on the bulge of the rock, and climbed to the ground in the way of rock climbing.

Zhang Laoguan pushed away the weeds and shrubs at the opening of the gap, Zhang Qishan and Gu Yuliang climbed out, and found that the gap opened on a small cliff,
Gu Yuliang took a closer look. The cliff was about four stories high. Below the cliff was a dry riverbed. You could see countless shacks built in the riverbed, stretching along the direction of the river.

"This is the mouth of an ancient mine, and the shacks are full of miners," Zhang Qishan said to Gu Yuliang.

Here, Gu Yuliang could vaguely hear the faintly visible cooking smoke and the crowing of mules in the distance, as well as the sporadic chiseling sound of decomposing ore.

It's probably a few kilometers away, but here is overgrown with weeds, and there seems to be no one there.

Looking to the side, the gap in the mountain where the few people came out is one of the countless mines on the cliff here. These old mines have obviously been abandoned, and the outside is also covered with weeds.If you don't remember carefully, you can't tell which is which.

"Go down and have a look." After Zhang Qishan finished speaking, he jumped down with Zhang Laoguan and landed on the river bed.
Gu Yuliang followed, and found that there was obviously no one in the shack on the river bed here

Zhang Qishan sneaked forward and asked Zhang Laoguan: "What did you find?"

Zhang Laoguan said: "You come with me."

Gu Yuliang followed the two into the abandoned shack, and immediately saw a thick layer of worm silk,

This thing has almost covered all the shacks in the riverbed.

There is a layer of silk screen on the bed, on the roof, on the utensils, and on the stove.
Gu Yuliang walked into the shack, took out a dagger, and brushed away some worm threads, and he could see corpses one after another, all lying face down on the bed or the ground of the shack, completely decomposed and shriveled.

"I said, where did the people go? It turned out that they all died here." Zhang Laoguan said.

"How many people do you think there are?" Zhang Qishan looked at the riverbed from a distance, this is not an ordinary way of death, the worm silk almost covered all the areas within sight.

"Based on my experience, there are at least 200 people in the mine here. There are our miners, and there must be island supervisors mixed in. They have been mixed in the crowd for decades, and they can't be distinguished at all. They all died here."

Zhang Qishan silently scanned around the corpses. On the train, he found it strange, but he could explain it by coincidence, or an expert's feng shui setting. However, there are so many corpses here, and he found that none of them was facing upwards. .

This makes things a little weird.

"Why did they look like this when they died?" Zhang Laoguan muttered to himself, "It seems that something is pressing them on their backs."

Gu Yuliang looked down at the side of the corpse, peeled off the worm threads, and carefully looked at the face of the corpse.

He squinted his eyes, and almost had an intuition that these corpses seemed to be lying on their stomachs like this when they were alive, that is to say, their current appearance had happened before they were alive.

"Zhang Qishan, I think there is a problem here. These people died strangely. They may have been lying on their stomachs when they were alive—this is very strange."

Zhang Qishan also nodded, and said softly: "You're right, I also have the same feeling, ask Ba Ye and Guan Gen to come up." The soldiers immediately went down, and began to climb up the nearby cliff by themselves, and quickly climbed to the cliff on top of.

I walked underground for a few miles, but I didn't actually go out much. On the cliff, I could see the end of the river bed, which was a piece of mountain, wrapped in the primeval jungle.

Scattered black smoke rose from the forest, all in the direction of the riverbed, indicating that on both banks of the riverbed deep into the mountains, there were old mines still being mined.

There is a primitive jungle between the mines, and they can only be connected by horse teams and mule teams.

Within 10 minutes, the younger brother and Fatty Wu Xie came up first, followed by Qi Tiezui.

"Huh, all the people under the co-author have come here to commit suicide collectively." The fat man looked around the shack area, saw the dead body in a strange shape, and complained to Wu Xie.

"It's not bad if they're all dead, Qishan. In this way, if we blow up the mine, this matter may be resolved." Zhang Laoguan said to Zhang Qishan.

Zhang Qishan shook his head, walked out of the hut, looked at the ground, and said, "Didn't you find it? What's missing in this camp?"

"What?" Zhang Laoguan asked.

Gu Yuliang frowned, and said suddenly, "There don't seem to be any mining tools in these shacks."

"Liang Zi is right, and there are no daily necessities and dry food. I think this place is like a yizhuang, which is simply used to release the dead." Throw it all here, right?"

"No, you have overlooked one point. There are stoves, clotheslines and other daily necessities here. But there is no money bag or smoke cake on the corpse." Zhang Qishan added.

"What do you mean?" The fat man took a piece of wood and poked a few corpses, but found no property.

"Someone took away all the valuables here. Some people must have survived. We have to find these people. Let them lead us into the mine." Zhang Qishan said firmly.

Gu Yuliang sighed, Zhang Qishan is worthy of being the boss of the old nine sects, he can think of so much in just a few minutes.

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