Chapter 13 Chapter 10 Dead End

"Then what can we do? We are guests, but it is the owner. Since the owner has invited us, we can only do as we please!" Bu Xiaoxin sneered. The so-called flame, correctly speaking, is a state or phenomenon, which is a phenomenon in which light and heat are released when combustibles and combustion-supporting substances undergo oxidation reactions. The flame is divided into inner flame, middle flame and outer flame, and the flame temperature increases sequentially from the inside to the outside. Not all flames are in high temperature and other particle states, and flames can also be produced at low temperatures.

From the center of the flame or the starting plane, to the range of the outer flame boundary of the flame, there are gaseous combustibles or vaporized combustibles, which are undergoing violent or relatively violent oxidation reactions with the combustibles.During the combination of gaseous molecules, energy waves of different frequencies are released, thus emitting light of different colors in the medium. For example, when a match has just been lit in the air, the inside of the flame is the potassium chlorate on the match head, and the sulfur released by the decomposition dissociates into gaseous sulfur molecules at high temperature, which reacts violently with oxygen molecules in the air and emits light.The outer flame reacts violently, so the temperature is high.

To sum up, the inside of the flame is actually the gaseous molecules that are constantly being excited and swimming.They are looking for "partners" to react and emit light and energy, and so emit light, let us drive to the flame. As far as I know, the flame will show different colors depending on the burning object, and this is about the flame reaction of the elements! When some metals or their compounds are burning, they can make the flame take on a special color.This is because when the atoms of these metal elements receive the energy provided by the flame, their outer electrons will be excited to an excited state with higher energy, and the outer electrons in the excited state are unstable and will transition to a lower energy state. ground state.

The outer shell electrons of different element atoms have different energies and excited states, and electromagnetic waves of different wavelengths will be generated in this process.If the wavelength of this electromagnetic wave is in the wavelength range of visible light, the characteristic color of this element will be observed in the flame. Using this property of elements, the existence of some metal compounds can be tested.This is the flame reaction in substance testing. However, I have never seen a black flame. Although the burning of astatine may produce black light, it is not obvious; To cause light, not to mention the way the flame burns is too weird.

"Xiao Qiqi, what do you think that flame is?" Everyone was speechless along the way, immersed in the shadow of Qin Han's death.Only Bu Xiaoxin recovered first.asked in a low voice. I shook my head, "I don't know." "Do you think it is possible that it is the legendary black lightning?" She said mysteriously. Black lightning, this is because in the atmosphere due to the action of sunlight, cosmic rays, electric field of clouds, linear lightning and some physical and chemical factors, a kind of chemically active particles will be produced in the sky. Under the action of electromagnetic field, this The particles gather together.

And it can roll bigger and bigger like a snowball, forming balls or flames of different sizes.This spherical object does not emit energy, but it can exist for a long time. It has no light and is opaque, so it can only be observed when there is light. I shook my head again, "Black Lightning is just something that humans imagined, and no one has ever proved its existence!" "But no one has mentioned the existence of the flame just now!" She curled her lips, "Look, the black lightning will appear in the form of flames, make no sound, let alone emit energy, and can stay in the air for a long time Existence. All the features are consistent with the characteristics of the flame just now, a silent, heatless flame."

"But black lightning will become very dangerous when it encounters matter. Once matter invades, the active particles inside will be messy and cause an explosion. But the black flame just burned up the organic matter." I retorted. "Have you ever seen lightning burn metal?" she retorted.I snorted, "Metals don't burn, they melt!" Bu Xiaoxin was dumb, and it took a long time before he said awkwardly: "Who knows, anyway, the characteristics of black lightning are only guesses by human beings, and there is no evidence to prove it. Maybe it doesn't react to metals, but only burns organic matter!"

"It's useless to argue now. Let's use an instrument to detect it another day. I can't escape the sinking pool anyway." I shrugged my shoulders, and my original suspicion of her became stronger. This woman is definitely not an adventurer, she is not simple. However, why do you always ask me for friendship, it seems that you are very familiar with me.Moreover, she seems to know my details a little bit.Could it be that this woman knew me before I lost my memory? Thinking about it, time passed quickly, and soon we followed the plastic rope and returned to the entrance of the cave.But when they walked to the end, everyone was stunned again.

The front is actually a dead end, the real end!There is only a stone wall not far away, and there is no hole to go out.Ying Shan pulled the rope tied to it, and the other part that was originally nailed outside the hole was pulled over. He stared blankly at the end of the rope in his hand, and his head couldn't react for a while. "What's going on?" Yi Jiang's voice trembled. "The rope is broken." Ying Shan said dryly. "No reason. Didn't you say that the rope is very strong and will never break?" She became hysterical. It seemed that Qin Han's death had hit her hard.

"Let me see!" I snatched the end of the rope and looked it over carefully under the light.The rope was indeed broken, cut abruptly.I don't know if it's the surrounding rock walls or something, but the tool used to cut the rope is obviously not too sharp. To put it more intuitively, it looks like some kind of animal's teeth. Bu Xiaoxin seemed to have noticed this too, exchanged glances with me, and whispered: "There are other creatures in the cave!" "Very likely!" I nodded, "Have you brought a weapon?" "Just kidding, how could I not bring it to this kind of place." Bu Xiaoxin smiled cunningly, "The Czech CZ83 9mm double pistol in the 1970s; it uses 7.65mm Browning bullets and can also use 9mm Bo Ronning short bullets can also be used with former Soviet Makarov bullets. The total length is 172mm, the barrel length is 97mm; when firing 7.65mm bullets, the empty gun weighs 0.75kg ; When firing a 9mm bullet, the empty gun weighs 0.8 kilograms. It adopts a ten-row magazine feeding mechanism and has an effective range of 50 meters."

"Excellent, although I didn't understand it, but I also brought a gun, which I bought on the black market." I patted the inner bag.At this time, Yueying pulled me hard, her tone was a bit unfriendly, "What are you talking about? It seems that you can talk well?" "Talk about how to get out." I pointed to the cave wall ahead, "What do you think?" "We can't get out!" She sat down on the ground with a frustrated expression.I'm afraid everyone is as frustrated as she is.Although Yijiang and He Xue are capable and adventurous, they are both girls, and they look like they will cry at any time. At the end, I tapped the wall of the cave hard with the pickaxe, and there was a very solid sound. It seemed that it was impossible to make a hole with the current manpower.So I also sat down and thought for a long time, suddenly my brain froze, I jumped up and said loudly: "No, there must be something wrong!" "What did you think of?" Shi Yueying raised her head, and everyone also looked at me. "Yingshan, the rope did bring us here, right?" I asked urgently. "That's right, we're totally following the rope." He nodded. "But according to my observations along the way, from the moment we entered the cave, there was a line of sky terrain, and there were not too many bends along the way, and the forks that could allow people to enter were basically negligible, and then we saw black flames. Even if the rope is broken on our way back, we should still be in that passage. Even if there is no guiding rope, we can easily get out of that passage, but now we have walked into a dead end!" I murmured : "There are only two possibilities for this situation. One is that the cave has moved. The other is that something bit the rope for a certain purpose and brought us here!" Bu Xiaoxin's eyes lit up immediately, "Yes! Very well, of course the cave won't move, there must be something in the cave that lured us here. As long as we return to the location of the black fire, we should be able to find it easily Entrance, escape smoothly!" These words immediately made the remaining people see the dawn of hope. Yingshan's mental state couldn't help but improved a lot. Instead of his lifeless look just now, he waved his big hand and said, "Everyone eat and rest on the spot for ten minutes, and we will go back in ten minutes!" I don't know what hope tastes like, but I know disappointment is bitter. I remember reading a story once, but I completely forgot the name and author of the story.This story mainly tells about a blind man who plays the sanxian, longing to see the world in his lifetime, but he has visited famous doctors, but they all say there is no way; a Taoist gave him a prescription, saying that he must break a thousand strings before he plays can only be viewed. So, the blind man wandered around with his blind apprentice, and finally broke a thousand strings, but he showed people that it was an empty square. The meaning behind the "root string". It is these "thousand strings" that support the blind man to play as much as he wants, and he has survived for fifty-three years in a hurry.A thousand strings contain all kinds of setbacks and trials in life. When you look back and think about what life is, you will understand that life is full of ups and downs, full of flavors.On the road of a person's life, there are inevitably some bumps and bumps. No one is always lucky, and no one is always unlucky. The luthier gave this wordless "prescription" to his disciples who also longed for the light, because he hoped that his disciples would also walk in hope like himself.Yes, everyone has dreams, and dreams are the motivation to support people to face life bravely. If we don't even have dreams, then what's the point of living?This is a white lie. The Taoist gave the luthier a dream, and the luthier gave the apprentice another dream.That is, no matter what difficulties you encounter, don't lose confidence and hope, and go on strong!When it comes to dreams, I am also very confused. After all, I am a person who has lost even my memory. What dreams do I have?The only thing that can support me is probably a kind of hope.I hope that I can get out alive, successfully retrieve the lost memory, and clearly understand what kind of person I am.After all, my former self, the lost self, has given me too many surprises.He makes me curious! The way back was not smooth, let alone smooth, everyone was panting, as if the dry air in the cave made their throats very uncomfortable.By the way, the air here is indeed very dry, but it's not fresh. I'm afraid we really entered a huge artificial building.Looking at the watch, the fluorescence faintly points to six ten, and we have been at the bottom of this damn sinking pool for three and a half hours.From the original flourishing of interest to the current extinction, these three and a half hours can really be said to have tasted the ups and downs, joys and sorrows of life. But after finding the location of the black fire, I believe that I will be able to find the cave when I came back. After all, the cave is really eye-catching.Ying Shan was leading the way, and after an unknown amount of time, he suddenly stopped again.Immediately, I had a very bad premonition. I walked forward and looked, and my scalp was numb immediately! Not far away, there was a crack standing horizontally on the ground, with a width of five meters. The bottom of the crack was extremely dark, and there was a cold air rising continuously. I don't know how deep it was. I picked up a stone at random and threw it down. After a long time, I didn't hear the sound of the stone falling, as if it had penetrated the mantle and core and directly reached the other side of the earth. "This gap doesn't lead all the way to hell, does it?" Shi Yueying, who was beside her, swallowed her saliva forcefully and said tremblingly. "I don't know, but we must not be able to climb over. We can only go back!" I said slowly.The team became lifeless again.Yingshan still led the way, but this time he did not walk for long, and unexpectedly returned to the rock wall where the rope broke.He knocked on the stone wall angrily, and shouted hysterically: "What's the matter with this ghost cave? I have crawled through many acupuncture points in the west, and I have explored more than a hundred caves, and none of them is so evil! "Going back again, there is still a big crack ahead. I also felt powerless, "I saw clearly this time, and there is no fork in the road. The passage we are in has a dead end at one end and a cliff at the other end. Do you want to walk again?" "No need." He Xue, who seldom spoke all this time, walked to the crack and looked at it, and then touched the top of the cave, "There is a road on the other side of the cliff. The rock at the top is very hard. Go in, big enough for two people to get through. I can climb over the top!" "No, it's too dangerous. Even if I stand on the edge of the crack, my feet will tremble!" Yi Jiang stopped immediately: "Besides, you are the only one left in your family. If you are also in an accident, your sister will definitely I will die with peace!" He Xue smiled, and looked across the crack in a daze, "It's okay, I have been trained professionally, and I have climbed through more dangerous places than this. If I don't go through, I'm afraid everyone will starve to death in this ghost place. My sister also hopes that I will do the same." do it!" After speaking, the strong girl nodded to everyone, took out the climbing equipment, and began to drive climbing nails into the top of the cave.She skillfully tied the main rope firmly to her body, and then drove a steel cone into each step of climbing.This is a special kind of cone. In the mountaineering operations of overcoming difficult rocks and ice and snow terrain, steel cones of different lengths and types are driven into rock crevices and ice layers, which can be used as a fulcrum for travel and protection. Her foundation is very solid. After all, the slope of the plane was only ninety degrees when climbing the mountain, but now she has to hang her whole body on the cliff.He Xue was sweating profusely, and drove a steel cone at a distance of 50 centimeters, and then threaded the main rope and auxiliary rope. Five minutes later, he finally reached the center of the cliff. The five people who stayed behind tightly held the other end of the main rope to prevent her from falling and to prevent her from falling.I could feel the sweat in my palms, and the tension and uneasiness in my heart grew with the distance from her.A little further away, she has already passed a little over three meters, and she will reach the opposite side in a little over one meter.Everyone's hearts were lifted. "Hush, little Qiqi, do you feel that the atmosphere around you is a bit strange?" Bu Xiaoxin whispered in my ear. My heart trembled, and I slowly looked around.Indeed, something is wrong all around!Although the environment has not changed in the slightest, I always feel that something has changed.It seems that it is temperature! The temperature keeps dropping!I even saw traces of white gas coming up from the bottomless black cracks illuminated by the miners' lights. There was a sense of danger that kept pounding my nerves, and I couldn't help but blurt out: "He Xue, come back quickly, right away!" It was too late to say it, and the small amount of white air that had leaked from the gap suddenly evaporated, Like boiling water, it whizzed and let out mournful screams, and rushed towards He Xue who was struggling to climb. Where the white gas touched, the rope began to break and the metal began to rot. He Xue covered her face with her hands in pain.As soon as the hands that were hanging on her body were released, her body began to fall straight down. Fortunately, the auxiliary rope was not completely disconnected. "Pull!" I yelled, signaling to everyone to pull her back. But it's too late.The special climbing clothes on He Xue's body rotted in the white air, revealing her corroded body full of pus and pits. Her flesh was rapidly decomposing, and an astonishing stench spread throughout the cavern.The snow-white flesh and bright blood were eroded away in a short time, leaving only a white bone.Finally, all the ropes trapped on her body were broken, and her last remaining bone quickly fell into the crack.That abyss is like the big mouth of a ferocious monster. It bared its sharp teeth and ate up He Xue's bones! "What the hell is going on here!?" Another tragedy happened, and Yi Jiang curled up on the ground with cold hands and feet. "He Xue is dead." I smiled wryly, feeling weak all over.What is the composition of this white mist-like gas, and it is so corrosive? "Look!" Shi Yueying at the side suddenly exclaimed.Everyone looked up, and saw that not far away, the abyss that was within reach had disappeared without a trace before our eyes.Opposite me is a straight cave, which is exactly the same as the cave I am in. You only need to look at it to know that they are the same whole.And on the ground about four meters away from us, piles of bones were scattered impressively.The bones are very old, some are yellow, and some have even begun to petrify, all of which are human remains. I swallowed hard my saliva, summoned up the courage to walk over, looked around and said: "These human remains have blunt force wounds on their heads, and their skulls have been cracked. This is very likely the cause of death." "This is a burial pit? Then what happened to the abyss just now?" Bu Xiaoxin also came over and said in surprise. "Maybe there is a substance here that can play a hypnotic effect, making our senses all over the body have illusions." I judged. "But He Xue's death is so real, and there are no remains of her in these bones." I glanced around, "Who knows, maybe the problem lies in the fog we saw. Those gases are highly corrosive, and they were all neutralized after contact with He Xue's body. Matter is also depleted, so we can see and hear normally again." "If your judgment is correct, then you should be able to reach the location of Black Fire if you go back." Bu Xiaoxin said sadly.Everyone started to walk back in silence, but to their surprise, they still couldn't go out this time.Ahead, there was still that solid stone wall. I slammed my hands on the stone wall and said angrily, "Damn it! It seems that the drowning pool only allows us to walk through the passage it left for us. It wants to lead us to the place it wants us to go! Kill us all!" "Then what can we do? We are guests, but it is the owner. Since the owner has invited us, we can only do as we please!" Bu Xiaoxin sneered. "You're really humorous!" I took a deep breath, "But, that's right. Let's go, I want to see, where does this bloody drowning pool want us to go!" At 8:53 in the evening, we set foot on the hole that was originally a cliff.The hole was very straight, with a slight downward slope of fifteen degrees, and it was difficult to judge whether it was made naturally or artificially. But walking like this will create an illusion, as if you will go straight into the depths of hell. The cave starts to get colder, and as the altitude drops, the temperature becomes lower, and the cave also follows this law.After walking for about two hours, at 10:50, we finally walked out of the same cave and came to a pool. The water in this pool is not deep, but quite clear. Scattered faint fluorescence.Even after turning off the miner's lamp above his head, he could vaguely see some unknown little creatures swimming at the bottom of the water, leisurely eating the floating algae on the water surface from time to time. "It's so beautiful." Shi Yueying exclaimed, her face finally regained some color.Everyone was hungry, we discussed it and planned to camp on the spot, eat something and have a good sleep, and then set off early tomorrow morning.Bu Xiaoxin took a bottle of water from the pool with a mineral water bottle, and found a piece of pH test paper from somewhere to test the acidity and alkalinity of the water. "How, can I drink?" I asked.This time, since I didn't plan to stay at the bottom of the sinking pool for a long time, let alone spend the night, I didn't bring much equipment, only some simple and portable detection equipment, and a small amount of food and fresh water. Since both Qin Han and He Xue died, their belongings were also lost.I just counted it casually. If we save a little, the food and water can only support the five of us to live for three days. But it is different if there is enough water. With water, everyone can live five to seven days longer, which greatly increases the chance of survival!Moreover, there seems to be fish in the pool, although the species is unknown, if this thing can be eaten, it will make money.You can no longer worry about food and water issues, and slowly find a way out. Bu Xiaoxin glanced at the test paper, looked up and said, "The pH is seven, which is a typical characteristic of neither acid nor alkali, but it is too standard. A certain mineral water advertisement that claims to be filtered through ninety-nine layers is not as exaggerated!" "Don't worry about it, since it doesn't have acidity or alkalinity, you should be able to drink it." I touched my nose. "Then you drink it for me first. Although the acid test index is fine, the water in this pool looks weird." Bu Xiaoxin poured the water in the bottle back into the pool. "You see, plants can't survive on water alone, and must need other ingredients. Since there are plants on the water surface to survive, there must be some pH test paper in the water, something that cannot be tested." "Yes," I nodded, asking me to drink anything in this weird cave, of course I dare not, "If a plant is to glow, most of it contains some kind of radioactive element in its body. It is estimated that the rocks below the pool contain radioactive elements. Mineral components are absorbed by plants and processed in the body to become visible light." Shi Yueying who was on the side suddenly ran over and shouted: "Xiao Qiqi, look, the fish in the pool are so strange, There are no bones!" I took a closer look, and sure enough, the fish swimming not far from me was basically transparent, and through its body, I could clearly see the bottom of the pool. "Strange, where are the bones of these transparent fish?" She tilted her head and wondered. I smiled, "Its bones are also transparent. This type of fish also exists in the sea. In order to resist natural enemies, they can only hide themselves." At this point, my words stopped suddenly.Yes, algae survive by absorbing the radioactive elements in water and pools, and fish survive by eating algae. This has formed a biological chain, so why do these fish need to camouflage themselves?Is there an upper food chain? But this water pool is clear at a glance, except for this transparent fish, there is nothing else, so what are they guarding against?At this moment, there was a sound in the distance, from far to far, galloping towards us at an extremely fast speed...