Chapter 38 Thirty-seven, another

I also squatted down. At this time, I could feel a weak wind blowing out of the ventilation duct. The flashlight shone down, and it was dark, and I didn’t see what I imagined. There was a strange chaos at the end of the deep duct. Breath, don't know where to lead. What impressed me most was that in the breeze, I smelled the familiar chemical smell, although it was much weaker than that at the sinkhole electrical station, but I could still tell that it was the same smell.I don't know what it smells like, but it always makes me feel that something is wrong when it appears at this time.

Could it be that someone used this piece of clothing to block the opening? Could it be that there was a leak in the ventilation system, and now that we remove it, the poisonous gas outside is leaking in little by little? I felt uncomfortable just thinking about it. Ma Zaihai and I packed up a pile of sundries and blocked the opening of the ventilation duct symbolically, so as to give us a little sense of security. When several people sat down, they were all seriously exhausted. The series of shocks really drained people's willpower. Ma Zaihai asked softly: "If he didn't go out from here, where did Yuan Gong go?"

I looked at the opening and shook my head subconsciously. In fact, we are all deceiving ourselves. Even if Yuan Xile can climb into a passage of that size, it is impossible to move forward. The premise is that it is impossible.But if not here, then where?This is a closed space.Except for this opening, I am afraid that even cockroaches cannot crawl into any other holes. Thinking about these things, I subconsciously looked around with my flashlight again. The chaos just now made the whole room messy and messy. It can be seen that we panicked just now. Yuan Xile was still absent, and there were only four of us left here.

Just when I thought of the four people, my brain suddenly jumped again, and I found something strange again, and this inexplicable strangeness was very familiar, as if it had happened just now. I irradiated the room again, and after wondering for a long time, I suddenly realized what was strange. I thought there were four people left here. Besides the three of us, the fourth person was Chen Luohu who had been huddled in the corner. Been to him. I stood up, my depressed mood became tense again, and the flashlight was irradiated again and again, the strange feeling became more and more obvious, and finally I realized almost collapsed: Chen Luohu was gone too!!

At that moment, I really collapsed, my blood was surging, I couldn't hold it anymore, and I felt dizzy for a while.The person was on the verge of falling, and wanted to sit down on the ground.Fortunately, Ma Zaihai supported me, and they asked me what happened.I stammered and called out, several people changed their colors again, the light of the flashlight swept across the iron cabin immediately, and Ma Zaihai yelled "Chen Gong". This accumulative stimulation is like a chess game set up by a black hand behind the scenes, which induces our emotions to collapse bit by bit, and every step is just right. In the flashing flashlight, everyone soon fell into a state of hysteria.

I can't remember what we were thinking at the time, but fear is inevitable. Thinking about it now, what we encountered was a phenomenon that cannot be explained by human beings. I don't even know what I was afraid of?Is it the fear of disappearing or the fear of being abandoned here by someone?It all fell into a chaotic mood. We knocked on the walls of the iron cabin, made harsh sounds, shouted loudly, and bent down to check the floor. The messy iron cabin became even more chaotic. However, these are all in vain. The solid and flawless walls make our hearts even more panic. We tossed and tossed until we were exhausted, the deputy squad leader was the first to calm down, and we gradually calmed down. Ma Zaihai sat down on the chair slumped, holding on to the flat.And I put my head against the wall and slammed it hard.

All of this is out of order, my God, is there a ghost here? The three of them didn't speak any more, and stayed quietly in their positions. We could hear each other's heavy breathing.The atmosphere, it can be said that our minds were blank at that time, there was no atmosphere at all. Time passed bit by bit, maybe two hours, maybe four hours, no one said a word, after the excitement, the tidal wave of exhaustion came to us. It was a long period of blank mind, I did not fall asleep, but the kind of tiredness I have never experienced, in my geological exploration career, I have experienced many days and nights without sleep, but the body We are all born shortly after the start of the Anti-Japanese War. We have experienced a lot of unimaginable hard work in our childhood, so we don’t care about physical fatigue, but this kind of mental fatigue is the most difficult. endured.

However, such a long period of calmness and rest did make our state of mind slowly calm down. I don't know exactly how long it took, but I think it was probably the cold brought by the contraction of cold sweat that woke me up, or maybe it was hunger. I took a deep breath, turned off the flashlight in my hand, found a place to sit down, and began to think about how long I hadn't eaten, and how much time had I been in this quasi-closed iron cabin? There is no darkness, everything here is chaotic, and I don’t have a watch. At that time, watches belonged to household appliances, and even lighters were in limited supply, let alone watches.

As the sensations returned, I started to think, almost compulsively, and the whole thing started replaying in my head, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. Later, I told Lao Mao that in this whole matter, the consideration at that time, I think, is the real consideration. It can be said that the way I considered the problem at that time was really enlightened at the beginning. I always thought that I would be able to There are now such small successes in the industry, and this experience has played a catalytic role. Here is an explanation. In our era, many people may not be able to understand. In fact, many people like us are very simple, and the way of thinking about problems is very direct. information about.You can ask your parents to recall the movies and model plays at that time, all of which were very simple plots, and the good guys and the bad guys could be distinguished by their appearance.So, at that time, we almost never considered too complicated problems.This is why the ten-year catastrophe is so destructive.

At the beginning, my brain was full of the scene when those two people disappeared, full of shaking flashlights, and I was dizzy and forced myself not to think about it, but turned to thinking about the whole thing. This must be an unusual air-tight chamber, or in other words, there must be something weird that we don’t know. In this deep underground depth of 1,200 meters, the weird atmosphere in the Japanese residual facility that was abandoned decades ago In the closed cabin, there are two big living people who suddenly disappeared under the circumstances that it is absolutely impossible to disappear. I assume this proposition exists, then in the few minutes when we were distracted, behind us, we did not watch In the case of them, something must have happened in this air-tight chamber, which we don't know.

So what is it? I have a hard time remembering that even a little bit made me feel wrong. The first time Yuan Xile disappeared was in the darkness. We were all focused on looking for the flashlight and didn't listen to any sounds around us. It can be said that Yuan Xile could use that time to do anything. The second time Chen Luohu disappeared was in semi-darkness, our attention was all on the ventilation duct, and behind us there was also a complete visual blind spot. The timing of their disappearance, so to speak, is so perfect, it all happens after we've focused our attention in one place. I sighed, and a naturally absurd idea came to my mind. Could it be that in this iron cabin, as long as you lose your mind, people around you will disappear? This is really ridiculous. However, thinking of this, I suddenly felt a chill all over, and suddenly realized that my current state is also a distraction?I woke up suddenly, and quickly looked up to look around, looking for the deputy squad leader and Ma Zaihai. What caught my eyes was darkness, and I don’t know when, the lights of their two flashlights have gone out, and I didn’t realize when it happened when I was in a daze An inexplicable fear suddenly surged up again, and a groan came out of my throat involuntarily. Thinking of this, for no reason, I suddenly fell into extreme fear at that moment, and my whole body shrank in fear, and the breath came out of my chest, and I couldn't get it out.Immediately I forced a cry, which I could barely make out what I was saying, and which I could barely call a sound. There was no response, and in the pitch-black space, it seemed that I was really the only one left. My brain suddenly started to explode again, and the moment of composure I gained from the hysteria just now disappeared. I tried to shout again, and at the same time turned on the flashlight at once. For a moment, I really thought that I would see an empty iron cabin. In this hellish ruin, I was left here alone, trapped in a dark chamber with poisonous fog outside. , and the person who came with me disappeared strangely like a ghost.This is such a horrible situation that I'm afraid I'll go mad in no time. The so-called difference between reality and fiction is often in this place. Fiction tends to be in an extreme environment, but reality often does not push people to that point. As soon as I turned on the flashlight, I saw Ma Zaihai was almost in the same place. In front of me, there was a face as pale as a dead person, as if he was groping for something, which made me scream in fright, and at the same time he shrank back several meters in fright. The other flashlight lit up and shone toward me, and I saw the deputy squad leader on the other side of the iron cabin looking at us suspiciously. After I breathed a sigh of relief, I was furious and asked: What the hell are you doing? Why are you so silent after turning off the flashlight? Ma Zaihai frightened me so much that he was speechless. The deputy squad leader explained that he thought that when the two people disappeared, the entire iron cabin was basically in a state of darkness. He was thinking, is it here? There is some mechanism that will open when it is dark, so I turned off the flashlight to look for it. When he said that, I also turned off the flashlight. He thought I was looking for it too. I must have been distracted at the time, and I had no impression of what he said. At this moment, seeing the two of them still in the iron cabin, I was relieved again, and told them that I thought they had disappeared just now. Both of them turned pale, and they could understand my feelings. Obviously, they also had such concerns, but regular soldiers are different from me, and they just kept this kind of thing in their hearts. So I asked them, did they touch anything in the dark?Ma Zaihai shook his head. This is actually a way of deceiving oneself and others. Generally speaking, how can a flaw that cannot be found in the light be found in the dark?But it should be pretty good for a deputy squad leader to be able to think of these things. The engineering soldiers of that era did not have a very high level of education. , are the three treasures of the railway soldiers: shovels, foreign picks, and ragged padded jackets.It can reflect the situation of the special engineering forces at that time. We sat down and got together, all with serious faces, I told them don't panic, don't panic, from now on the three of us will wrap up in a ball, and if anyone disappears, we will know what's going on! A few people nodded, and I am relieved that our emotions have stabilized, and the situation has not changed at all. The strong hunger in my stomach also tells me that we still have many problems, but we cannot go now. Think about those.And the two fighters in front of me made me feel at ease. Under the guidance of materialism, many strange things we have encountered in the mountains can be explained with very far-fetched reasons afterwards. However, in many cases, we finally found that these far-fetched understandings are Correct, no one can tell how much of this is false and how much is correct.But in the current situation, I am afraid that it is impossible to explain it purely with materialism. I began to think, if Yuan Xile and Chen Luohu never appeared again, and I went back alive, how would I tell this story to others in the future? And where are the two people who disappeared like ghosts now?Did it disappear completely, or did it go somewhere else? I looked up and looked around. When I first came in, I never considered the meaning of this iron cabin here. Everything is so strange in this Japanese military base decades ago. I feel that the iron cabin is just the same strange here. That's all, I never thought about whether this iron cabin is also a very special place in this base. What is this iron cabin used for?I suddenly thought. Looking at the furnishings here, it seems to be a temporary command room or refuge room. This iron cabin is located in a corner of the middle engine room of the dam. It is a cabin completely made of iron sheets, and the outside is a transitional preparation room. On the surface, it looks like This is the iron cabin used for temporary refuge when the poisonous fog rises. But is that really the case? The Japanese managed an unbelievable situation here, huge dams and fighter jets, these almost unexplainable things appeared at the end of this giant natural cave, their purpose we can't spy at all now, will it be This iron cabin is also part of their plan? I stood up, looked at the iron walls all around, and suddenly had a question, what is behind the iron walls of the iron cabin?Concrete, or something I don't know? I stood up, and for the first time, I didn’t knock on the iron wall, but touched the iron wall with my hands. The rust here was pitted, as if it had been dissolved by strong acid. You could see the traces of a layer of white paint on the outside of the iron wall. It can only be said to be traces, because even the paint surface the size of a fingernail is gone, and the iron wall is icy cold. As soon as I touched it, all the warmth was instantly sucked away. wrong!I suddenly realized that it was too cold!This temperature, like the temperature of icy underground river water, is unbearably cold. I put my ear up again to listen to the voice behind the iron wall. At this time, the deputy squad leader and Ma Zaihai were very surprised by my actions. Among them, Ma Zaihai asked me what was wrong? I raised my hand to tell him to keep quiet, because I had already heard a puzzling sound after posting it. I couldn't make out what it was at first, but then I knew it, and a huge question mark appeared in my brain. What I heard was the sound of water.It's not the roar of the water hitting the rocks. I'm familiar with this sound because my family is a fisherman. This discovery was unexpected to me. I was very surprised and listened to it for a while, and it was indeed that kind of sound.However, I know this is impossible. The iron cabin is above the engine room. I clearly remember that the water surface is several floors below our feet. There can be no water around the iron cabin. This is the "back surface" of the dam , Even if during this process, the sluice gates are closed to store water, and the water level of the underground river rises, the water level cannot be filled to such a high level. I shared my findings with Vice Squad Leader Ma and the others, and they were also very surprised. They all got down on the ground to listen, and they all heard it. Ma Zaihai smiled wryly and said: Are we underwater now? I picked up the iron rod he used to hook clothes just now, and hit the iron wall with all my strength, and sparks came out of me when I hit it, but the sound was very dull.No metallic chirping at all. It seems that there is really water all around. I was stunned. At this moment, I thought of something. I suddenly remembered that there was a huge iron wall outside the iron cabin. That is to say, obviously the installation of this iron cabin is independent of the concrete structure of the entire dam, and this iron cabin is enclosed by a huge square iron box.My God, I slapped myself and said to myself why I hadn't thought of this long ago.What device in the dam needs such a thing?That's too simple, in my impression, there is only one kind of equipment that needs such a metal case!