SWDnovel Chapter 258 You decide for yourself
Chapter 258 You decide for yourself
The next day, it was around five o'clock in the morning.
When Qin Yuchen and Zhang Qiling arrived at Boss Qian's residence, the group was still counting their equipment.
Boss Qian was a little surprised that the two people arrived early, and his hands moved much faster unconsciously.
Qin Yuchen glanced at them, and went to the cool-down area with Zhang Qiling to sit down.
Boss Qian threw a few batteries into his backpack and ordered, "Wang Kan, pour Mr. Qin and his wife a cup of tea."
"Okay, boss!" Wang Kan quickly zipped up his backpack and ran upstairs. In just a few minutes, he came out from the second floor with a tea tray and came in front of Qin Yuchen.
"Please." Wang Kan poured two cups of tea and handed them to Qin Yuchen and the other one respectively.
I drank half a cup of tea and it was exactly six o'clock.
Everyone set off on time.
Peng Zi led the way from the town to the cave, taking the route that locals often take into the mountains.
It took half a day to climb over the mountain, then walk down along the ridge and finally reach the valley.
Cross the river in the valley and enter the connected mountain.
Starting from this mountain, you can see obvious signs of camping from time to time on the road.
There are also subtle marks carved by people on the roots of trees.
Pengzi knew this route by heart and did not make any mistakes along the way.
So it took exactly one day to reach the destination.
A group of people set up camp and rest only ten meters away from the cave.
Qin Yuchen stood at the edge of the cave entrance, lowered his eyes to look at the place where he was standing, and then stared at the cave entrance.
It was indeed as Pengzi had said. The soil around here had never shown any signs of being renovated, and the trees were also very old.
The exposed stones are covered with moss, and some of the stones have become smooth due to the intense rain.
Qin Yuchen kicked the stone at his feet.
There were tinkling sounds as the leaves bumped into the messy branches, and finally got stuck somewhere and disappeared without a trace.
Zhang Qiling circled the cave entrance and finally squatted at a discarded rope.
This should be the rope that Chengzi pulled out from the cave. Zhang Qiling held the slightly damp rope, twisted the dried sticky mucus at the bottom of the rope with his thumb and index finger, frowned, and sniffed it with the tip of his nose.
"Master Qin, have you found anything?"
Boss Qian and Wang Kan had been watching for a long time. Seeing that one of them was staring at the cave entrance without saying a word, and the other was holding the rope without saying a word, he endured it again and again and finally asked.
"We can't go down here." Zhang Qiling threw away the rope, wiped his hands with a handful of grass, and shook his head.
"This..." Obviously, this was not the news that Boss Qian and his group of robbers wanted to hear.
"For those of us who work as tomb robbers, what tomb can't we go to?"
Xiao Zhao spoke faster than he thought, and he slapped his head in frustration as soon as he finished speaking.
"We need someone to go down and explore this section of the road from here to the end." Qin Yuchen glanced at Zhang Qiling and blinked when Zhang Qiling looked up at him.
"..." Zhang Qiling pursed his lips and found that he was subconsciously persuading others to stay alive, and couldn't help but let out a light sigh.
"Don't worry about that. Pengzi and the others are experts in exploring the path." Boss Qian immediately responded.
"Yes, we have already discussed it. Chengzi and I will go down early tomorrow morning." Pengzi put his arm around Chengzi's shoulders and gave Boss Qian a reassuring look.
"You decide." Qin Yuchen turned around and felt someone standing next to him. He held the hand at his side and squeezed it gently.
"Okay, that's decided." Boss Qian finally made the decision.
After dinner, Qin Yuchen and Zhang Qiling had no mood to chat with them, so they returned to the tent early.
The nine people outside the tent were still chatting around the campfire.
Sometimes they were chatting about everything, sometimes they were daydreaming about the catacombs, and sometimes they were reminding the two pioneers to be careful.
The camp was noisy and quieted down around ten o'clock.
A dreamless night——
"be careful!"
"Come on, I'm waiting for good news from you two."
The new day was cloudy and the forest was cool. Several people surrounded Pengzi and Chengzi, helping them fix the ropes and chattering to each other.
"Okay, brothers, don't worry."
Pengzi threw a pile of ropes into the cave, and he and Chengzi went into the cave one after another.
The blurry figure disappeared into the darkness.
The seven people headed by Boss Qian were all guarding the place where Peng Zi and the others went down.
Speechless for a moment.
Qin Yuchen sat under the big tree at the back, leaning against Zhang Qiling and closing his eyes to rest.
There are many different kinds of wind in the forest, and the jungle is rustling everywhere.
There didn't seem to be many birds in this place, with only a few sporadic bird calls hidden in the breeze.
A long time passed, so long that the people who were guarding there were tired of standing and sat down one after another, when the people below finally sent them news that everything was going well.
The radio reception was not very good, and a few words popped out intermittently, eventually turning into harsh noise.
Wang Kan put them together to form a sentence, and when he found out it was good news, he happily told everyone that they could download it.
"Mr. Qin, you can get off now." Boss Qian turned around and called out to the two people sitting under the tree.
Qin Yuchen responded.
They had already opened their eyes when Wang Kan was talking. When they heard Boss Qian's call, they got up and went to them.
Several people quickly fixed their ropes and jumped into the cave.
As they went deeper into the cave, the light coming in from the entrance was obscured by the darkness, and the searchlight above their heads was the only thing that could illuminate an area for them.
The first people to reunite with Peng Zi were Qin Yuchen and Zhang Qiling.
When they were about two or three meters away from the ground, Qin Yuchen and Zhang Qiling untied the ropes and jumped down neatly.
This place was deeper than they had imagined, and the fifteen-meter-long rope was still a little short of reaching the bottom.
Fortunately, this kind of thing is quite common and no one thinks it is a big deal.
Qin Yuchen took off the searchlight, replaced it with a flashlight, and looked around.
There are rocks all around, some of which have long white stripes on them. Even without a close look, you can tell that they were left by some kind of insect.
Qin Yuchen kicked the stone under his feet away.
There was a slope under their feet and a lot of gravel. Every time they stepped on it, a pile of gravel would roll down with a crackling sound.
He bent down to pick up a piece of bone, blew the dust off it, and turned it over to examine it.
"This should be the remains of an animal that accidentally fell from the cave, rotted, and was then washed away by water."
Chengzi saw Qin Yuchen looking at the bone and explained.
He pointed to a prominent ditch in the distance and said, "Pengzi and I found a lot of these bones over there, as well as some skulls that had been smashed by rocks."
"Yeah." After hearing Chengzi's explanation, Qin Yuchen responded, threw away the bones and asked, "How many came down?"
"Boss, I'm short of money." Wang Kan said.
Tan Yuchen nodded.
"If you come across a bug like a slug, be careful not to step on it and kill it."
At this time, Zhang Qiling, who had only spoken one sentence to them, spoke again.
He stood at the stone pillars formed by stalactites and stalagmites, looking at the white stripes winding upwards above them, and gave a reminder.