Chapter 290 60 Strange Dark Room and Rainforest Under the Lake

Chapter 290 60. Strange dark room and lake bottom rain forest

After changing the diving equipment on the raft, Zheng Yun took two ghost generals and jumped into the lake first, observing the situation in the shallow layer of the swamp lake to see if they could find any clues.

The members of the rescue team brought by Li Wu are all good players. They will also go to the camp to change into diving suits and catch up with them in a while.

Wow.

With a slight sound of water.

The things in front of them are covered with a layer of black and green filter, and the whole body is soaked in turbid lake water, and the sunlight is blocked by the swirling mud and sand.

Zheng Yun looked around.

Several wooden coffins floated out from the dark green lake water deep under their feet, sweeping up wisps of silt like black gauze, carrying a string of bubbles, and floating towards them silently.

They did not float up at the same time.

But they were a few meters apart as if in a queue.

Looking along the direction where the wooden coffins floated out, looking at the deepest part of the lake bottom, the mud and sand surrounded the debris, like a dead pool, dark and bottomless, and it was difficult to penetrate with a strong flashlight.

"One, two... four."

Zheng Yun counted and found that there were four wooden coffins under their feet, but there should be two exits for the coffins to float out.

The specific situation could not be seen clearly.

But the shallow water layer was basically safe.

There were several fish that were swept into the lake around, as well as rotten branches and vines hanging near the water surface, mixed with many man-made objects, which might contain swamp creatures.

After the collapse of this place, a lot of messy debris was poured into the surrounding area, including the camp of the Western expedition team. Several bright tents could be seen hanging on the treetops deep in the depths with the naked eye.

Continue to swim down.

The sunlight was blocked by layers.

Zheng Yun took out the searchlight and swam a distance to the shore. When he arrived at the edge of the collapsed area, he could see with his naked eyes that streams of dark silt were rolling up a lot of debris and flowing into the depths.

This place will be filled up sooner or later. No matter how big the cracks the Western explorers blew, they could not withstand the silt pouring in like this.

"Zheng Yun, where are you?"

Li Wu's voice sounded from the intercom.

Zheng Yun subconsciously looked up, and several rafts sailed overhead, blocking the sun and creating narrow shadows.

"Here." Zheng Yun floated to the surface of the lake.

"Okay, lead the team down." Li Wu immediately took action.

The rescue team members wearing professional diving suits fell into the water from the edge of the raft, pulling several orange ropes in their hands, carrying underwater boosters and professional detection equipment.

Plop, plop.

More than a dozen people entered the water one after another.

"You didn't even eat. I'll let your team members eat first and then take turns." Li Wu swam to Zheng Yun and hung a safety rope around his waist.

Looking behind him.

There was indeed no sign of Hu Zi, Song Wan and others, but they did consume a lot of physical strength to travel through the swamp to here in one breath, so it would be a good thing to take a break.

"Go deeper and take a look."

Zheng Yun did not refuse Li Wu's kindness.

This lake is at most 34 meters deep, and even if something happens, it can quickly float up. The degree of danger is controllable. If you want to go down and take a look, just go down. There are also advantages to having more people.

In addition, all exploration activities are credited, and Zheng Yun cannot stop them from participating, including Hu Ruihua and others.

"Our people have come down to explore and marked the locations of several cracks. This underground ancient building has at least three layers. The collapse has exposed the entire cross-section of the ancient building."

Li Wu took out an infrared pen, shot out a red light, and drew circles at several places at the deepest part of the lake bottom.

Zheng Yun nodded and led the team to swim over.

Near the first red circle, there happened to be a tent of the expedition camp, hanging upside down on the treetop of a tree.

This kind of tent is a waterproof tent specially made for swamp areas, but it has been pierced by the treetops, causing a large amount of lake water to pour into it, and everything inside has fallen to the bottom of the lake.

"There are no valuable clues in the surface area. Everything in the camp has been pushed into the underground space by the silt."

Li Wu shook his head and explained to Zheng Yun.

Looking sideways at the crack next to the tent, it is a square stone brick corridor. It may have been some kind of secret passage. It broke when the ground sank, and the brick fracture was filled with silt.

The silt has not yet flooded here.

Like a waterfall, streams of mud flowed slowly from the upper edge of the tunnel to the bottom of the lake, blocking most of the tunnel entrance.

"Have you been in there before?"

Zheng Yun looked around and asked. This place is probably more than 20 meters below the lake. It is the first layer of the ancient building at the bottom of the lake, or it is just an entrance. It has not yet entered the interior of the ancient city.

"No, I am not qualified to lead the team. It's not that you are finally here. My brothers have been waiting for a long time."

Li Wu spread his hands. They have long wanted to come down and take a look, but there is really no captain in each group.

"You all dare to go in?"

Zheng Yun looked at the others. Judging from their body shape and eyes under the diving goggles, these people should be young people.

"Captain Zheng, I can't wait any longer."

"Captain Zheng, we do this."

"Captain Zheng is much younger than other captains."

"Captain Zheng doesn't know. Captain Li has been watching at the entrance for a long time. We thought Captain Li was asleep."

Everyone around him spoke up.

"The archaeological team has enough fresh blood." Zheng Yun sighed and reached out to lift the mud to take a look.

The tunnel is very clean.

Only some silt has settled at the entrance, and there is only turbid lake water in the depths. The flashlight can illuminate 20 to 30 meters in one breath. The four brick walls are like ancient tomb passages.

The picture is a bit weird.

No one knows where this leads to.

"Do you want to go in? These cracks should be connected, but the conditions of the cracks below are worse."

Li Wu turned on the special searchlight and shone it downward.

The second and third cracks were five and ten meters deep, respectively. The second crack was huge, while the third crack was vertical and narrow at the bottom of the lake.

The wooden coffin emerged from the third crack.

They could now see that in the thick mud, a wooden coffin slowly emerged at a slow speed.

"Let's do it here."

Zheng Yun agreed with Li Wu's statement. The other two cracks were deeper and had more mud, so it was impossible to ensure safety.

Everyone swam to the tunnel.

The tunnel was two meters high and wide, and could accommodate two or three people. Li Wu led the team to stop at the entrance of the tunnel, nailed a safety iron nail on the stone brick wall, and put the safety rope in.

If they had any accidents, the people above could pull the rope directly without worrying about the rope being torn off.

After making all preparations.

Everyone went deep into the tunnel one by one, with Zheng Yun and the ghost general in front, and Li Wu and others followed, exploring all the way, and constantly laying down various rescue equipment according to the rules and regulations.

"The depth is 70 meters."

"The pressure has not changed."

"There are no toxins or heat sources in the water."

The young team members continued to report through the intercom. They had just entered the tunnel and could not see the end at all, but they measured the entire length of the tunnel.

"Then speed up to avoid sudden collapse." Zheng Yun nodded and accelerated, leading everyone into the tunnel.

After 70 meters.

There was a fork in the tunnel. On the left was a downhill stone staircase, and on the right was a vertical square well.

"Detect separately."

Li Wu sent a few people.

After a while, the detection results showed that the downhill stone staircase led to another tunnel, and the vertical well was very strange. It was only two meters deep and led to an empty space.

Zheng Yun observed at the side of the well, shining the flashlight into it. The space below seemed to be closed, because the water in the space was very clean, without any silt at all.

Click.

Suddenly there was a muffled sound.

Everyone immediately became alert and looked at the stone steps on the other side of the corridor. They seemed to hear something swimming quickly and crushing a thin branch while moving.

"What sound?"

Li Wu asked in a low voice.

"It's far away, it seems to come from under our feet." Zheng Yun glanced at the ghost general beside him. They had excellent hearing and must have heard the source clearly, but couldn't tell.

"Are you still going down?" Li Wu looked at the corridor.

"I'll go down and take a look first." Zheng Yun nodded.

He didn't think that the team of Western explorers had all died. Since they could find the ancient building deep in the mud and accurately find the blasting point, it means that they are quite strong.

If they didn't have enough exploration experience, let alone using explosives to blow up the road, they couldn't even find this place.

Although the explosives were excessive.

But in fact, this is doubtful.

Even if the excessive explosives caused the camp to collapse and the explorers guarding the camp fell into the ground, the ground subsidence in the swamp area would not cause death, at least one or two people could escape.

But now there is no one.

Where did these Western explorers go? Did they make the sound? What did they find? Was this sinkhole a mistake or was it intentional?

Zheng Yun chose to continue going down.

He asked Li Wu and others to meet him nearby, and then swam along the steps of the corridor with the ghost general, holding the brick wall to the second floor of the underground ancient books, and checked the surrounding scene.

This floor is very strange.

There are a large number of dark rooms on the left and right of the corridor, each of which is blocked by iron doors and iron chains, like an ancient underground prison.

There are dozens of them.

The iron door and iron chain of the first dark room directly in front of the stone steps were neatly cut off by modern equipment, half-covered and half-hidden, revealing half of the dark room, which has been completely submerged by water.

Someone has been here.

And opened the iron door to see.

If nothing unexpected happens, this should be done by the Western expedition team, and the time should be before the use of explosives.

Zheng Yun used a flashlight to shine inside, and there was nothing inside. I don’t know if there was nothing in it or it was taken away by the Western explorers.

Walked a few steps forward.

Six or seven secret rooms were opened in succession.

From the traces of the iron chain, it must be the hand of the cutting machine. The cutting machine is naturally stronger than the iron chain that Daming is proud of.

All the secret rooms are empty.

Zheng Yun walked to the unopened secret rooms. These secret rooms are almost completely sealed. You can't see what's inside without opening the door, but the consequences of opening the door cannot be estimated for the time being.

Carefully walking to the end of the corridor, Zheng Yun did not find any clues. He put his ear to the iron door and couldn't hear any sound. There should be no living things in these secret rooms.

This is strange.

What are the uses of these secret rooms? Is it a cage? If so, what is the relationship with the wooden coffin?

After the exploration was fruitless, Zheng Yun returned to the place where Li Wu and others were. Li Wu asked softly when he met: "Have you found the source of the sound?"

"It should be on the lower level. Use your equipment to look for rescue signals. I found signs of activity of the team of explorers. They must have problems."

Zheng Yun made arrangements.

Li Wu waved his hand to let his subordinates check, but there was indeed no radio signal in the entire sinkhole area. The detection had no results, and even the call did not get any response.

The team of explorers disappeared without a trace.

It was as if they had never been here.

But the tent hanging at the entrance of the tunnel reminded them all the time that the team of explorers must be down there.

"We actually made some discoveries. This well is a dead end, and there are some skeletons of unknown creatures in it."

Li Wu took out a plastic bag.

Zheng Yun took the plastic bag and looked at it. The bones inside should be of a mammal. Judging from the size of the skull, the body shape should be similar to that of a sheep. No other information could be seen.

"Check the other entrances."

Zheng Yun returned along the corridor.

He did not intend to delve into the situation in the darkroom. The place looked like a dangerous place. No one knew what was in the darkroom and did not dare to open it rashly.

There is a possibility.

It was because the Western expedition team opened the darkroom that all of them were killed. At the same time, the so-called "fixed-point blasting" was actually due to the helplessness of the explosives.

They unleashed some kind of danger.

After being cornered, he could only blow himself up.

If this is the reason, then they must not open these dark rooms. They may contain ghost methods similar to those of the Yin Gui Hanxian, which can track and kill people.

"Why don't you go take a look at the wooden coffin? This underground ancient building looks a bit like a tomb." Li Wu led people to follow Zheng Yun.

"Incredible."

Zheng Yun took a deep breath.

The skeletons in the wooden coffins all wear silver masks. What does this mean, and what is contained in these dark rooms.

One thing is certain now.

This is a dangerous place.

Any ancient relic that cannot be understood or understood, whether it is an ancient building or an object, as long as there is no reference in history, it is 80% likely to be a special edition for gods and ghosts.

Everyone came out of the corridor.

Zheng Yun asked Li Wu and others to wait where they were, and he continued to dive down to check the crack drilled in the wooden coffin.

The situation at the bottom of the lake is very complex.

The entire ground collapsed completely, and all the plants that were originally exposed to the water sank to the bottom of the lake. It was equivalent to moving the entire swamp rain forest to the bottom of the lake, with trees intertwined with vines.

The sediment is extremely turbid.

It makes the ‘Rain Forest at the Bottom of the Lake’ even more bizarre.

The crack that emerged from the wooden coffin was a long and narrow rift. Silt was slowly poured in, and the wooden coffins were squeezed out one after another.

Not easy to get in.

If you want to enter this crack, you need to first enter the rainforest at the bottom of the lake, crawl to the bottom of the rainforest and search slowly. After finding the general range, clean up the silt or follow the silt flow to the depths.

Wow.

There was a slight movement in the rainforest.

Zheng Yun was startled and quickly backed away. He immediately shone his flashlight to the right and stared at the depths of the rainforest at the bottom of the lake. He saw with his own eyes a black figure swimming quickly between the branches and vines.

Following this movement.

There was sudden chaos in the rainforest, with a large number of fish and special swamp creatures fleeing and swimming rapidly in the rainforest.

"..."

Zheng Yun was slightly silent.

The swamp rain forest is at least ten meters high, and individual trees can grow up to twenty meters high. They usually walk on the ground and shuttle through the rain forest without feeling its height.

At this moment, the rainforest was spread flat on the bottom of the lake. Looking down from above, they realized that there were too many places to hide things in the rainforest.

Maybe that team of Western explorers is somewhere in the rainforest, or maybe what they released from the darkroom is hidden in a corner, waiting for them to break into the rainforest rashly.

The level of danger is too high.

There is no need to force the exploration.

Find an opportunity to invite the ghost figurines.