Chapter 6 5. Caves

The following time was spent in anxiety and anticipation. All the engineers were mobilized to carry out a blanket search. We proposed to help with the search, but the colonel firmly rejected it, and did not give us any reason.At that time, we didn't think deeply about the meaning behind the refusal, but naively thought that it was a protective measure. Grassroots experts like us were indeed spoiled locally, so we had no choice but to discuss and wait for the jungle. news from here. The victory of materialism occurred twelve days later. It is said that an engineering team found a long-abandoned road on a mountain five kilometers away, followed the road for another three kilometers, and found another large one in a mountain depression. The structural hole in it is crack-shaped and has a width of thirty meters.There is a concealed canvas at the entrance of the cave, and it is covered with fallen leaves. It was impossible to find it at first, until someone accidentally stepped on it.

The entrance of the cave is quite large. From the perspective of 20 to 30 meters into the cave, the beginning section is a vertical cave, because the engineers did not go deep because they did not bring enough equipment.But it is very likely to be the entrance. At noon, the big colonel issued a notice, saying that it was almost close to ten, and that we would go there the day after tomorrow, so we should be prepared. Most people were excited to the extreme, and some people became nervous. The cave is the fifth pole in the world. Geological exploration often needs to enter the cave. We know the danger.Everyone immediately entered the working state, doing their own things, there was no nonsense, and the whole camp was in an orderly atmosphere.

Looking at the old cat, I feel resentful. I admire the old cat more and more these days. There is no change on his face after such an exciting thing. don't care about anything.Others were preparing enthusiastically, but he didn't move at all, just stood on the steps and looked at us. I looked at him like that, and I was a little curious. I always felt that this person seemed to know something that I didn't know. The way he looked at us was really not a good look. In fact, every era has a typical type of people in that era, and Lao Mao is a unique type of people in that era.They are very smart. During the struggle in the early days of liberation, they have seen many things that they should not know, so they know a lot of truths under the surface, and they also know that they are powerless to change these things.This kind of person is sensitive and cunning, and enjoys the sense of superiority that everyone is drunk and I am alone, but I don't wake you up.

This is of course what I concluded when I looked back over the past few years. At that time, I was curious about people like him, just like how children nowadays feel when they see those maverick youth idols and always want to get close to them. The man, then becomes his kind. So at dinner that day, I took a few chances and approached him to ask him if he had any ideas. At first he just smiled at me and didn't say anything. After I handed him a few cigarettes, he let go, took a few puffs and told me that he felt that this was wrong. First of all, the hole must have been found before we came, otherwise it would be impossible to find so many people with such a drastic order, with a search range of five kilometers, they have been here for such a long time, and they will not find it until now?

Secondly, there must be a fork hole under that hole, otherwise, there would be no need for so many people. He didn't know what kind of flower guns those people in Qi Er San were playing. If they didn't tell us directly, it was obvious that there was a lot of content in it.In short, many places are very strange, especially the matter of the plane, which is too ridiculous.He's not feeling well. After he finished speaking, he patted me and said to me, next, be very careful. I was noncommittal to Lao Mao's words, and my impression of him was a little bit down, feeling that he was thinking too much.This matter is indeed not simple, otherwise there would not be such a big battle, and even if there is a problem, I think others must have a reason to hide it.

At that time, I didn’t have the heart to think so much, and I didn’t take his last words to heart. We prepared the equipment that day, took a rest the next day, and fired the guns. On the third day, we set off for the col with a platoon of engineers. up. Because there are no animals, we are all on foot. A group of people carry a lot of things and dogs, and it is estimated that it will take a day to walk. However, I was a little surprised that I really didn't see the old cat during the itinerary that day. I only found out after asking that the old thief said in the morning that he had a high fever and could not go.

I knew in my heart that what the old cat said to me was not a joke, he really avoided it on purpose. Thinking of this, I also felt very uncomfortable. Marching all the way, the feeling of the environment is more direct than that in the car.Everyone here is carrying a gun. Wang Sichuan told me that it should be on the Sino-Mongolian border, because if it is on the Sino-Soviet border, carrying a gun is very dangerous. Armed, and many Mongolian bandits need firepower to defend themselves. But because they are all walking in the depressions, and the overall geological and landforms cannot be seen, it is very difficult to further infer where it is.And walking consumes all the energy, and there is no way to talk at all.In the end, all I could see was the back of the person in front of me, and I didn't even have the strength to look up at other places.

In this way, we walked dully. In fact, we trekked in the jungle for a day and a half. We arrived at the col where the cave was discovered at noon the next day, which was half a day later than planned. It’s not that our footsteps are too slow, it’s just that the road is too difficult. We’ve walked mountain roads before, and we’ve never entered such a deep mountain. , feels like walking in a swamp.When there are too many people, someone will always be left behind, so it is slow. When I arrived at that place, I immediately felt that the old cat was right. This cave must not have been found just the day before yesterday, because there were already several tents set up on the side, and bundles of ropes were piled up everywhere. Things will definitely not be delivered within ten days.

But most people didn't find the problem. Those of us who are used to dealing with mountains, basically can't turn around in this kind of thing.If I hadn't heard the old cat talk about it, I certainly wouldn't have paid attention to it. The trees here grow very thick, with canopies covering the sky and the sun, and there are shrubs in the ground. The opening of the cave is open to the sky behind a huge fallen dead tree, and many roots have grown out from nowhere, including Live on one side of the vertical cave wall. This is a typical tectonic cave (a cave formed by tectonic movements such as earthquakes). It is not a cave in the general sense, but a huge crack in the rock crust of the mountain. The widest part should be more than 30 meters. Looking down from the edge, there are cliffs below, it is pitch black, and the wind blowing upwards does not know how deep it is.

There are many ferns and moss on the cave wall where the sun can shine. It can be seen that this should be a trumpet cave, and the space below is larger than the cave entrance.At the entrance of the cave, the engineering soldiers had already set up a net, and while pulling the tractor and diesel motor, they hung it down basket by basket wrapped in army green canvas. Obviously, there were already people under the cave. The colonel told us that the engineers had already completed the initial exploration. The vertical section of the cave was 214 meters deep. There was running water at the bottom of the cave. It was an underground river. We had to take a leather raft.Moreover, at the bottom of the cave about 60 meters horizontally along the water, four fork holes were found, and our group had to be divided into groups.

My forehead started to sweat when I heard this, and what the old cat said caught my heart. This old guy is too accurate.