Chapter 10 Chapter 9 Deep Underground Cave

When I said this, Ruan Yao couldn't help laughing bitterly again. Dr. Le Sheng's funeral was the third after Luo Luo. On the day of his burial, quite a lot of people came, because Dr. Le Sheng was a person with a very high status in the academic world after all, but his true bosom friend , but only me and Ruan Yao. Dr. Le Sheng's funeral was presided over by Ruan Yao and I. Our hearts were filled with indescribable heaviness. The flowers were arranged neatly, and then, I didn't know what to say. What I want to add is that there was a gap of one day between the death of Dr. Le Sheng and his burial.During this day, the fire department and the police conducted excavation work at the disaster site.

Indeed, as Ruan Yao expected, there was nothing left of that building, and it was impossible to find a piece of paper left.Experts from the fire department could not find the cause of the fire. They only said that the fire may have been caused by some chemical, and the temperature was extremely high, and it would be out of control once it broke out. Ruan Yao naturally knew that it was impossible to store any chemicals in this building, and Dr. Le Sheng naturally would not bring chemicals into it and set fire to it. On the afternoon of Dr. Lesheng's funeral, it was very hot. When we were alone, I saw a police vehicle approaching and stopped.After the car stopped, a tall and straight man got out of the car: Colonel Jack.

Colonel Jack walked towards me all the way, came in front of me, stayed for a moment, turned around to Dr. Lesheng's grave, bowed, and then said: "According to the report of my subordinates, there seems to be a part of Dr. Lesheng's death. There are many twists and turns, and you refuse to tell them!" Ruan Yao turned around, and I introduced Ruan Yao and Colonel Jack first, and then said: "You can say this, but these things have nothing to do with Dr. Le Sheng's death." Jack frowned: "Even if there is only an indirect relationship, I want to know a thing or two."

I said: "You are too polite, I am going to tell you everything." Ruan Yao was in a very bad mood, he heard me say this, and said a little unhappy: "Why did you tell him?" I said tactfully: "First, he is a police officer. Second, the colonel and I have cooperated many times. We have solved many incredible problems together. If he comes to participate in our affairs, I believe he will be able to Make things move faster!" Ruan Yao sighed and spread his hands: "You can do whatever you want!" Colonel Jack and I walked a few steps together and sat down on a stone bench.I was ready to tell Jack the whole story, but my mind was very confused and I didn't know where to start.I am not in the least worried that Colonel Jack will not accept my account, I can rest assured that Colonel Jack has many faults, but he also has a high imagination, and he can accept any absurd story.I paused for a moment, thinking, let's start with Rollo's funeral!So, I started with Rollo's funeral.Of course, I don't have to repeat it all here, I just keep saying it.

Colonel Jack listened attentively, and when I was halfway through speaking, Ruan Yao also came over, and he interjected a sentence or two from time to time, but it did not hinder my narration of Colonel Jack. By the time I finished telling the whole story—or rather, by the time I got to the funeral of Dr. Lesheng, it was already dark, and the twilight covered the entire cemetery, looking very hazy. After I shut up, I looked at Colonel Jack, wanting to hear his opinion, but Colonel Jack seemed to be possessed, and just muttered: "A big pond disappeared overnight, what is it?" mean?"

He was talking to himself and repeated this sentence several times, and I asked, "What do you think it means?" Colonel Jack said: "I think it's just a big pond that suddenly disappeared!" I widened my eyes and said, "Isn't this nonsense?" The colonel shook his head: "It's not nonsense at all, what I mean is that on that night, suddenly a lot of soil and stones filled this big pond and turned it into a flat land!" I was stunned for a moment, and immediately exchanged glances with Ruan Yao. Ruan Yao nodded: "I think so, the big pond disappeared and turned into a piece of flat land!"

I said: "I also agree with your opinion. However, that is impossible. From the records, the Great Pond of the Wu family is very large. Even if we use the current engineering technology, it is absolutely impossible to fill it up. I I once thought that due to the earthquake, the land arched upwards, making the big pond disappear!" Colonel Jack said: "It must be an extremely violent earthquake, there should be records to track it down." I shook my head: "I would rather believe that the earthquake was not recorded at that time, and I don't want to believe that a large amount of soil and stones suddenly came from another place and filled the big pond."

Colonel Jack frowned: "No matter what the situation is, in short, the Wu family's big pond became flat overnight." Ruan Yao and I said in unison: "This is for sure." Colonel Jack said again: "Then, Mr. Ruan Yao's great-grandfather occupied this land!" Ruan Yao's tone was a bit unnatural: "I object to your use of the word 'occupation'." Colonel Jack said: "Okay, I'll use 'own' instead, you won't object!" Ruan Yao didn't say anything more, and Colonel Jack continued: "Then, this Mr. Ruan will build a house on this land and live there."

I nodded and said: "Yes, here, I can add one more thing, that is, when he got this land, he also got a huge wealth. He became very rich suddenly!" On this point, Ruan Yao and Colonel Jack also agreed. Colonel Jack continued to express his opinion: "He built a pavilion in the garden, that is, on the land turned into the Wu family's big pond, and under the cornerstone of this pavilion, several layers of granite were laid." I nodded: "Ruan Yao is digging." Colonel Jack said again: "And around this pavilion, there are many places where there may be a mysterious power that can change people's emotions and even cause death!"

Regarding this point, there is still room for further discussion, but for the time being, it can also be said, so Ruan Yao and I nodded. We nodded, ready to listen to Colonel Jack's further comments. That's not to say Colonel Jack's brains are better than ours.It's that we have been troubled by this matter for too long, maybe thinking about the direction, we have already entered the corner, and it is not easy to turn.But Colonel Jack just knew about it, so he may have some new and unexpected opinions. The colonel frowned, thinking, at that time, it was getting darker, he suddenly asked: "Have you ever played army chess?"

Ruan Yao and I couldn't help being stunned for a while, because for a while, we really couldn't figure out what he meant by asking us like that.And Jack didn't wait for us to answer at all, he said: "In Army Chess, there are three 'landmines' and one 'military flag'. A 'landmine', planted on the periphery of the 'military flag', as a protection!" It was getting darker, but in the darkness, Colonel Jack's face was flushed, probably because he was excited because of something he thought of. Sure enough, he immediately said: "The danger marks on the map are 'landmines', and their purpose is to protect the piece of gold on the map. I think all the secrets can be answered after excavating the pavilion foundation. !" Ruan Yao immediately said: "I have already thought of this!" Colonel Jack stood up abruptly: "Then what are we waiting for here, hurry up and gather the workers, and start working overnight!" Colonel Jack's words suited Ruan Yao's appetite, so Ruan Yao also jumped up like a spring. The three of us drove to Ruan Yao's home together. Ruan Yao immediately ordered the servants to find a foreman and start working overnight. Anyway, Ruan Yao has plenty of money, and it is always easy for rich people to do things.Half an hour later, the strong light had already illuminated the garden like daytime, and an hour later, the workers had already arrived. Dr. Le Sheng was missing, and Colonel Jack was added.Ruan Yao's temper is very impatient. In order to find out how many layers of granite there are, he digs down as far as possible first, instead of digging out all the flowers, trees and stones in each layer, and then digs the next layer. second floor. Although this method is more difficult, it is natural to know how many layers there are. However, the so-called "know sooner" is not a matter of time, and it is not until the afternoon of the third day that we can figure it out. There are as many as twenty layers of granite! Each piece of granite excavated was about two feet square and one foot thick. That is to say, by the afternoon of the third day, a corner of the garden had been dug into a hole twenty feet deep under the pavilion foundation. Hole. I, Ruan Yao and Colonel Jack took turns to rest. Colonel Jack obviously had the same temper as me. He couldn’t sleep without getting to the bottom of all weird things. He put aside all his official duties and stayed in Ruan Yao home. When they reached the last layer of granite, after being hoisted four pieces in a row, two workers shouted under the deep hole: "The granite has been dug!" At that time, the three of us were all there and asked together: "What's down there?" The two workers did not answer us immediately, we just heard a sound of "Peng Peng" first, as if the two workers were beating something, from that sound, obviously, under the granite, Not dirt, but something else. Then, the two workers shouted: "There is a layer of metal plates underneath!" I, Colonel Jack and Ruan Yao looked at each other. Under the twenty layers of granite, there is a metal plate, which is really unbelievable, Ruan Yao shouted: "Come up quickly, let me go down and see what kind of plate it is!" The two workers climbed up along the rope, the strong light shone into the deep hole, and we looked down together. Here, I might first introduce the situation of the deep hole. The first four layers of granite were excavated with more stones. Below, each layer, only four blocks were excavated. It is square, with an area of ​​ten feet square and a depth of twenty feet. When we went down together, we saw a black layer at the bottom, which looked like an iron plate. Ruan Yao and I scrambled to go down with the rope until we got to the bottom. I stamped my feet twice and made a "Peng Peng" sound. It can be seen that the bottom is empty, and the metal plate , and not too thick. Ruan Yao said: "The bottom is empty, take a drilling machine, drill a hole, and use a powerful chainsaw to saw it open!" I said: "Of course, I don't know how big this metal plate is. It's impossible to lift it all up." Ruan Yao and I climbed up together again, and Ruan Yao ordered people to prepare tools.At this time, Ruan Yao and I felt inexplicably excited.Colonel Jack also went down the cave and came up after watching for a while.An hour later, the drill had drilled a quarter-inch circular hole in the metal plate, which was about an inch thick. Two workers used a powerful chainsaw to work under the hole. The sound from the chainsaw was deafening.We were all up there, anxiously waiting.The answer to the mystery is about to be revealed. At such a moment, I am naturally extremely impatient.After another hour or so, only the two workers below exclaimed together. We kept looking down and saw that the two workers had sawed a four-foot-square hole, and we knew the reason for the exclamation of the two workers. The metal plate that was sawed off fell downwards. When such a large metal plate fell downwards, when it landed, there should have been a loud sound. However, there was no sound at all! Naturally, that metal plate would not float in mid-air and not fall downwards, but no sound could be heard, which proved that there was a bottomless hole of unknown depth under the metal plate! After I heard the two workers exclaim in surprise, I immediately jumped down. When I landed beside the sawn square hole, I only saw the expressions of the two workers, extremely Pale, clinging to the granite, not daring to move. I waited, trying to hear the metal plate hit the ground, but another two minutes passed and still nothing. My palms couldn't help sweating, and Ruan Yao couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?" I raised my head: "Hang a powerful lamp down, Ruan Yao, come down and have a look." The two workers had already climbed up along the rope, and Ruan Yao also came to my side. After a while, a powerful lamp hung down, and I moved the pole of the lamp to shine down. In the sawn hole between the metal plates, the light shone down, and there was nothing to see but darkness. I reckon the strong light from the spot-glass device could have shot out at least two hundred yards. However, the light shot downwards, but the bottom could not be seen at all. Below was a big dark hole, I don't know how deep it was! Ruan Yao looked at me and said in amazement: "Why is there such a deep hole below? I want to go down and have a look!" When Ruan Yao said that, I was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Don't mess around, let's go up first, and try this hole, how deep is it!" Ruan Yao has been staring at this deep hole.There was an indescribable look on his face, judging from his look, he seemed to really want to go down into that deep hole and take a look. I naturally wanted to go into this deep hole to take a look. Under such circumstances, there is such a deep hole in the ground. However, when I looked into that deep hole, I had a feeling in my heart. I felt that even if there were no nine-headed fire-breathing dragons in this deep hole, there must be an incomparable crisis lurking! So, I said again: "It is very easy to test how deep this deep hole is, let's go up first and then talk about it!" Ruan Yao nodded, and he and I climbed up to the top. As soon as we reached the top, more than a dozen workers walked over together. One of the workers' foreman was a little embarrassed and said: "Mr. Ruan, although you pay us such a high salary, but we...we..." Ruan Yao was a little angry: "Why, you don't want to do it anymore?" The worker foreman scratched his head: "Mr. Ruan, things here are too strange, to be honest, we are all a little scared." Ruan Yao wanted to say something else, but I reached out and gave him a slight push: "Anyway, the result has already been reached, let them go back!" Ruan Yao waved his hands and said in a loud voice, "Go! Go! Go!" All the workers felt relieved and walked away together. Ruan Yao hummed: "A deep hole has been dug under the ground. What's so scary, it's really useless!" As he spoke, he called the servants by their names and told them to buy rope and lead weights immediately. After that, Ruan Yao and I entered the house together.When Colonel Jack heard that there was a metal plate under the granite layer, and that there was an unfathomably deep hole under the metal plate, he was also dumbfounded, not knowing what the phenomenon was. An hour later, all the tools for measuring the depth were bought. Ruan Yao hooked the lead weight to one end of the rope and lowered it down into the deep hole. go down. There is a mark on the rope, and in the blink of an eye, two hundred yards have been released, but the reel is turning faster and faster. I just felt my palms sweating, looking at the reels turning, four hundred yards, five hundred yards, six hundred yards, it was simply impossible, how could there be such a deep hole in terms of the terrain here?But the reel went on, seven hundred yards, eight hundred yards. Colonel Jack was sweating, too, and he was even panting as he wiped the sweat. Ruan Yao stood on the granite, looking down without blinking, the rope was still sinking down, nine hundred yards, one thousand yards. When the rope had reached a thousand yards, the reel stopped turning. This does not mean, however, that we have measured the hole a thousand yards deep; certainly not, that the reel stopped turning because the rope had been exhausted. As soon as Ruan Yao saw this situation, he became angry, and yelled at the servant who was going to buy measuring tools: "Idiot, why is the rope so short when I asked you to go shopping?" The servant repeatedly said yes, and then argued: "The person who sold the measuring tool said that 1,000 yards is the most, and there is no chance of using 1,000 yards. I...I will buy it again immediately!" Seeing Ruan Yao's flushed face and bruised veins, he seemed to want to continue cursing, but Colonel Jack said: "You don't need to buy it!" Ruan Yao said loudly, "Why?" Colonel Jack pointed down: "This is a dangerous area, I will seal this place, no one is allowed to approach!" Although Colonel Jack said that, although I was a little surprised, I also agreed with his method, because a deep hole that has been lowered by a thousand yards of rope and has not yet bottomed out is, in any case, a terrible thing. I was about to speak, but Ruan Yao already hummed: "Colonel, you made a mistake. This is not a public place, but my private property. What right do you have to close it?" Colonel Jack said: "Of course I will complete the formalities, and I will apply to the court for a special closure order." Ruan Yao still sternly said: "No!" Colonel Jack said coldly: "The closure order is here, if you can't do it, you have to do it. Goodbye, Mr. Ruan!" Colonel Jack's face was very pale. As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately turned around and strode out. Ruan Yao's face was also extremely ugly, he said sharply: "I don't want to see you again, Colonel!" Colonel Jack only took five strides away. He naturally heard Ruan Yao's words, but he just stopped for a while without turning around, and then walked away. Ruan Yao paused: "It's unreasonable!" He glared at the servant again: "Hurry up and buy rope!" The servant promised repeatedly, and ran away, I took a breath: "Ruan Yao, I have something to say!" Ruan Yao turned his head, looked at me, and I said, "I agree with Colonel Jack's approach!" Ruan Yao said loudly: "He has no right to seal off my place, don't be afraid of him!" I said: "What I mean is not for him to close it, but for us to put back the dug out granite, and let this deep hole stay underground forever!" After hearing what I said, Ruan Yao was stunned for a while, and then, in his nose and eyes, let out a "chi" sound: "Wesley, you still said that you insist on finding out the truth about any mysterious things. Ken stop, now, this matter has no result, are you going to give up?" I ignored his contemptuous tone, and just said: "Yes, you must know that there are many things in the world that will not have results!" Ruan Yao waved his hands: "Then you can go too, wherever it's cool, you can stay there, don't join in the fun with me." I was naturally very angry with his attitude, and I said loudly, "So, what are you going to do?" Ruan Yao said: "Don't bother your Excellency to ask, without you, many people in the world are living very well." I couldn't help being very angry, and said sharply: "Okay, then goodbye!" Ruan Yao said coldly: "Goodbye!" I hummed, turned around and left.At that time, Ruan Yao treated me with such an attitude in front of his servant, and I am not a well-mannered person, so I would naturally feel embarrassed, swear at each other, and walk away, which is also very natural.What's more, at that time, I never thought that Ruan Yao's driving me away might be intentional. He had already made up his mind about what he wanted to do, but he thought I would stop him if I was on the sidelines, so he sent me away. chased away. If I had thought of this at the time, I would never have gone, I would have stayed with him! At that time, I left angrily and returned home, still very angry, I made up my mind, let this matter go like this, I will never ask about it again, and I will never think about it again. However, it is easy for me not to worry about it, but it is not easy for me not to think about it. After I took a short break, I talked on the phone with several well-known geologists. One of them can represent the opinions of many people who have studied local geology. When he heard me say on the phone that there was an unfathomable cave at least over a thousand yards in Wujiatang, his first sentence was: "This is impossible." I said: "I'm not asking you if it's possible, but this deep hole actually exists. I'm asking you, how is this deep hole formed, and what might exist under this deep hole?" The geologist let out a few wry laughs: "You seem to have a lot of weird questions like this. To be honest, I can't answer you unless I have visited that burrow." I sighed: "No one can probe this burrow, it's too deep!" The geologist said: "Actually, considering the current science, it is still very easy. There is no need for people to go down in person. As long as a TV camera is sent down, everyone can watch on the TV screen. It's the situation at the bottom of the deep cave!" I originally wanted to ask whether there is a geological basis for the formation of this deep cave. But at this time, the geologist offered this method! I was stunned for a while, and immediately thought that this method is naturally more difficult for ordinary people, but in terms of Ruan Yao's financial resources, it can be said that there is nothing difficult in the world! If I had thought of this before breaking up with Ruan Yao, we wouldn't have quarreled! I thought about it for a while, and thought that it was not the first time that Ruan Yao and I had quarreled. If I make a phone call with him tomorrow, I can also provide him with this method to implement. I asked again on the phone: "So, if you make an estimate, what will be under this deep hole?" The geologist laughed and said: "I am a geologist, not a science fiction novelist. In my opinion, the geological composition of this area is sedimentary rock. If there is a deep hole, then the only Possibly, it was formed by a geological hollow phenomenon, but──” He hesitated for a while when he talked about it, and then said: "But according to the situation, the groundwater will come up. The deep hole, in fact, should be a very deep well." I smiled bitterly, and said, "I didn't find any water, at least, we couldn't see any water." Seeing that I couldn't find anything to ask, I had no choice but to give up and lie on the bed, trying to forget this matter, but it was really very difficult, so I didn't feel a little sleepy until it was almost dawn. While I was half asleep, the phone rang suddenly. Under such circumstances, the ringing of the phone was particularly harsh. I turned over and grabbed the phone receiver. What I heard was not voices, but a burst of shortness of breath. As soon as I heard the panting sound, I was taken aback for a moment, my sleepiness disappeared, and I quickly asked, "Who is it? What's the matter?" The voice on the phone was very urgent: "Mr. Wei? I am Mr. Ruan's servant!" I recognized the voice on the phone, it was the one Ruan Yao asked him to buy rope. And at this time, as soon as I heard him reveal his identity, I immediately expected that something might have happened to Ruan Yao, because if it hadn't been for Ruan Yao's accident, his servant would never have called me in the early morning of! I quickly asked, "How is it, what happened to Mr. Ruan?" The servant didn't answer me right away, but just gasped for breath. I asked twice, and the servant spoke with a crying voice: "Mr. Ruan...he...he's gone!" I was stunned for a moment: "It's gone, what do you mean it's gone?" The servant said: "He went into that hole and never came up." I was startled by the boss, the whole person was on the bed, shocked, I had already expected that Ruan Yao might do some weird things, but I never imagined that he would be so reckless that I Go down that deep hole!This is really unexpected! In an instant, I was so confused that I didn't know what to say. The servant said again on the phone: "Mr. Wei, please come immediately, we really don't know what to do!" Perhaps it was because this incident was so shocking, so I lost my temper for no reason. I yelled into the phone: "What's the use of calling me now?" The servant hurriedly said: "Mr. Ruan Yao once said when he went down, if he doesn't come up, we must call you!" I took a breath: "When did he go down?" The servant said: "It's not long since you left, it's been four or five hours!" I snapped, "Why didn't you call me earlier?" The servant hesitated, and I sighed: "Okay, I'll come right away, you stay at the entrance of the cave and don't leave!" The servant agreed repeatedly, and I put down the phone, only to feel a stiff feeling all over my body. This incident, as I said at the beginning, has happened many times by sheer chance, and had it not been for those few accidents, nothing at all would have happened. The first coincidence, of course, was that Rollo's bookcase was facing up when it fell down, and the second coincidence was that among the scattered documents, that document fell into the Ruan Yao's hand, and Ruan Yao asked such a question again. If at that time, no one paid attention to Ruan Yao, nothing would happen. If at that time, I did not keep this map, but threw it into the fire, nothing would happen. But now, Professor Tang died of a "heart attack", Dr. Le Sheng died of an "accidental fire", and Ruan Yao entered that deep hole again. It was originally an insignificant thing, but when it expanded layer by layer, it became bigger and bigger and out of control! I thought quickly, while I dressed, and as I rushed out the door, it occurred to me that this fellow Rollo, before he died, made such a strange last word, maybe he already knew that in his Among the relics, there are some very strange things. I also think of the cause of Rollo's death. Is it also because of this map? When I was driving towards Ruan Yao's house, my heart was in a state of turmoil. The rising sun reflected flowers in front of my eyes. Several times, I almost got into an accident because I was driving too fast. I finally arrived at the scene in the shortest possible time. The first thing I saw was that there was a big reel by the hole, and the rope that was going down was marked 3,000 yards. There was a servant next to the hole with a walkie-talkie in his hand, sweating profusely, and kept screaming. : "Mr. Ruan! Mr. Ruan!" He yelled a few times, then pulled the switch, wanting to hear if there was an answer, but there was no sound at all. There are many servants beside the cave, but everyone is in a mess like a fly with its head removed. I said loudly, "As long as one person tells me, how did things start?" The servant who bought the rope said: "I went to buy another rope and came back. Mr. Ruan asked us to tie a chair to the rope. He brought a powerful flashlight and a radio and let him go down." I took a breath and looked at the dark hole, the servant said again: "At the beginning, we could all see the lights shining below, and we could talk to Mr. Ruan, but gradually, the lights disappeared, But we can still talk, after the rope was exhausted, Mr. Ruan still talked to us, but the voice was very vague, no one could hear what he said, and then, there was no sound at all!" I said angrily, "Then why don't you drag him up?" The servant said: "We pulled up the rope immediately, but there is only a chair at the end of the rope. Mr. Ruan is no longer there. I called him on the intercom, but I was afraid that he could not find the chair, so I let the chair go again." It went on, but so far, there is no result at all.” I stomped my feet: "You guys are too confused, since something like this happened, someone should go down and take a look!"