Chapter 295 65 Wooden Coffins Form a Forest

Chapter 295 65. Coffins in a Forest

Zheng Yun and others stood by the lake, using flashlights to scan the dark green water deep in the lake, especially the edge of the lakeshore where the kayaks were, trying to find the whereabouts of the team of explorers.

But there was no trace of human beings.

There was no human figure near the shallow water layer, and the flashlight could not penetrate the turbid lake water, so they could not see the situation of the rainforest at the bottom of the lake. Even if someone was hiding, they could not see it.

"We investigated the surroundings, and there were no traces of entry and exit in other places. This team of Western explorers must have sneaked out of the camp and paddled out along the shadow of the rainforest."

"There must be something wrong with them."

Li Wu pointed at the lake with a serious expression.

This team of Western explorers entered the collapsed lake at night, and did not even turn on the lights from beginning to end. They also avoided the moonlight and walked forward in the dark in the shadow of the rainforest. It was obvious that they had other purposes.

It was like a thief.

Who would believe that they were fine?

"I really regret it. I should have kept a closer eye on them just now. The main reason is that I really didn't expect that they would actually slip away in the middle of the night, and that something happened to both of our camps."

Li Wu's teammates spoke with regret.

"Turn off the flashlights and see, Li Wu, they didn't even make any sound?" Zheng Yun asked with a frown.

"No, they went out by boat. There was always some wind by the lake in the middle of the night, which could cover the sound of boating. Judging from their various behaviors, they must have planned it for a long time."

Li Wu waved his hand to let everyone put away their flashlights.

As all the flashlights were turned off, the entire lake was shrouded in darkness again. Zheng Yun and others stared at the bottom of the lake and kept observing, but there was no artificial light source at the bottom of the lake.

It is very likely that they have entered the ruins.

Or they are in the rainforest at the bottom of the lake.

How could thirty or forty living people disappear out of thin air? The only possibility is that they have dived into the lake.

"The situation is very strange. They didn't even leave a person to guard the camp." Zheng Yun looked back at the western camp. The lights of several tents were still on, but there was no one.

This situation again.

The expedition team that was killed did not leave anyone behind.

Thinking of this, Zheng Yun looked at Li Wu again and asked: "When do you think this team of explorers slipped away?"

"The exact time is not clear, but it should be a while, before two o'clock." Li Wu shook his head.

"Captain Zheng, shall we go down and take a look?"

Li Wu's young teammate asked.

Zheng Yun briefly asked about the situation in the camp. There are still more than 20 people awake in the camp. All kinds of equipment are fine, and the camp cameras have been connected to the signal.

It is equivalent to live broadcast all day.

The collapsed lake camp and the Taoist ruins camp are the same. The surveillance images are transmitted back to the big camp. Zhao Qiufu can see the situation in the camp, but they did not see the expedition team slip away.

"Take the equipment and go down."

Zheng Yun made a decisive decision. No matter what, he had to find the team of Western explorers and see what they were doing.

"I'll report."

Li Wu immediately picked up the walkie-talkie.

Zheng Yun also contacted Hu Ruihua through the mobile phone. Song Wan and the others were still in the same situation. They would be quickly reminded if something happened.

The journey took less than ten minutes.

Even if something happened, they could go back quickly.

But once I get into the lake, the situation will change a little, and it will always take more trouble to get out.

After a while.

Everyone is ready.

Zhao Qiufu attaches great importance to the situation on their side. He believes that there must be something wrong with the team of explorers and will provide all kinds of help, including sending armed personnel to assist by helicopter.

But it is not necessary for the time being.

The dangerous places of gods and ghosts cannot be cracked by a large number of people, and exploring dangerous places cannot rely entirely on guns. Let's see the situation first.

Li Wu picked out six members in good condition, and together with Zheng Yunguijiang, he formed a team of ten people, and the others guarded the camp.

Get on the raft and set off quickly.

All ten people wore closed diving suits and carried oxygen tank backpacks. When the raft entered the center of the moonlit lake, they jumped into the lake one by one and dived into the rain forest at the bottom of the lake in the turbid water.

The flashlight swept left and right.

The deep water of the lake was dark green.

The ten of them jumped into the lake, just like ten ants falling into a dirty puddle, swimming in the water without support, and danger could come from anywhere.

Carefully observe the surrounding environment.

After an afternoon of silt settling, the situation of the collapsed lake was completely different from that during the day. Most of the rainforest at the bottom of the lake was submerged in silt, and the strange wooden coffin no longer floated up from the crack.

Li Wu introduced the situation through the headset.

Since about ten o'clock in the evening, no wooden coffins have appeared on the lake surface. The broken end may be completely filled with silt.

"That's a good thing. If the entrances are buried, people will leave traces in the silt when they go in and out."

Zheng Yun nodded and went deeper.

The group dived deep into the ground and arrived near the entrance of the first layer that they explored last time, and then hovered in the water.

The young team members were on guard with guns.

Zheng Yun and Li Wu observed carefully.

Standing in this position, they can see all three entrances, and the rainforest at the bottom of the lake is also in sight.

After losing the sunlight during the day, the entire rainforest at the bottom of the lake looks even more gloomy. The silt slowly crawls in the rainforest like a living thing, and all kinds of swamp creatures move among the vines and branches.

The rainforest at the bottom of the lake is very dangerous.

The underground ancient building site collapsed, and the core area was actually right below the rainforest at the bottom of the lake. The entire underground space collapsed dozens of meters, right under their feet.

And everything was submerged by the rainforest. They didn't even know the purpose of this place, nor did they know whether it was connected to the Taoist temple site two kilometers away, and what the connection was.

"There are indeed traces."

"They came in from here."

Li Wu was the first to make a discovery. He shone the flashlight at the fracture of the second floor. He could clearly see the traces of the mud being cleaned up. There were mud palm prints on the wall inside the fracture.

"Be careful."

Zheng Yun waved his hand to let the ghost general go in first. He and Li Wu followed closely behind, and the other young team members followed at the end.

They had not entered this entrance last time, but the area was much larger than the entrance of the first floor. The entire wall was broken, and the entrance was piled with broken walls.

The group went to the depths cautiously, following the mud palm prints and footprints around, and soon arrived at the fork.

There was not much mud underfoot, and all the footprints were seen heading to the left. This team of explorers must have come prepared. Their goal was very clear, which was the left hand direction.

The flashlight shone to the left hand.

A narrow corridor appeared in front of them.

This corridor is estimated to be 30 meters long, and at the end is a downward staircase leading to the deeper part of the ruins.

Zheng Yun asked everyone to keep quiet and listened carefully. He could hear some movement coming from the depths, but it was too far away to hear clearly.

No hesitation.

The group moved forward again.

Li Wu kept adjusting the radio on the road, trying to find the channel where the Western explorers communicated, perhaps he could directly hear what they were saying and know their purpose.

But he searched for a long time but found nothing.

This team seemed to have encrypted the communication.

It was even more incredible. It seemed that the deceased expedition team must have passed on their findings before they died, and they must have found something extraordinary.

Think about the behavior of the two expedition teams.

They all went to the depths of the ruins at midnight, and no one was left on duty. The later expedition team even waited from the afternoon until late at night before quietly entering the ruins.

What are they waiting for?

Is this ruins only accessible at night?

While thinking, they had reached the end of the corridor, and a downward staircase appeared in front of them, but the brick and stone walls on the left and right were full of cracks, with traces of being affected by explosives.

Zheng Yun and Li Wu looked at each other.

These signs meant that they were getting closer and closer to the center of the explosion. Yesterday's explosion was not far ahead.

The two were more careful.

No one knew why the expedition team used explosives. Sleepwalking was just one of the guesses. It could also be that they were bombing the enemy, the enemy from the first cage of the ruins.

Just then.

Hu Ruihua's voice suddenly rang in Zheng Yun's headset. He reported an unoptimistic situation to Zheng Yun.

Song Wan and others' symptoms had changed.

Hu Zi still closed his eyes, but he suddenly said, "Brother Hu, Brother Zheng, wake up!"

This sentence was very problematic.

In Hu Zi's dream, he and Hu Ruihua seemed to be the ones who couldn't wake up. I don't know if it was a coincidence, or if Hu Zi's dream was completely opposite to reality.

"Speed ​​up."

Zheng Yun led Li Wu and others forward quickly.

The situation of Song Wan and others had changed. They had no time to be cautious. No matter what was ahead, they had to improve efficiency.

Everyone immediately walked down the stairs.

The height of the stairs was only about five meters, and it took only a few steps to reach the end. At this depth, you have entered the rain forest at the bottom of the lake. The corridor was full of silt and plants, making it difficult to move forward.

Fortunately, the predecessors left a way.

The team of Western explorers used professional equipment to clean up the silt and dug a corridor leading to a deeper depth, and surrounded the entrance with a tarpaulin.

The ghost general was still leading.

One by one, everyone jumped into the corridor, and the flashlight was always shining at the end, fearing that there would be danger ahead.

But this road was walked by people after all, and the danger was also handled by the predecessors. They arrived at the end smoothly and entered the deepest part of the collapsed lake site.

A wide space appeared.

Zheng Yun looked around with a flashlight, and suddenly a chill ran down his back, because not far in front of them, there was a body of an explorer who was killed by explosives.

This body was only half.

The upper body was full of explosive wounds.

Looking around, you can see many brightly colored man-made objects, scattered everywhere.

"Zheng Yun, what's going on?" Li Wu suddenly said, shining his flashlight deep into his right hand. The usually calm Beijing dialect seemed a little panicked at this moment.

He turned his head to look at his right hand.

On the right was a wide corridor.

This corridor was very exquisite, with the floor paved with regular stone bricks. On the left and right corners of the wall, there were black lampstands that seemed to be made of iron, with kneeling maids carved on them.

Those maids knelt on the ground, holding the lamps in their hands above their heads. Their faces were damaged and decayed in the erosion of many years, as if they were disfigured, and each of them had a hideous face.

But Li Wu was not talking about the lampstands.

What made him panic was the wooden coffins that were everywhere in this corridor. Those wooden coffins were black and rotten, floating densely in every corner of the corridor.

There were at least hundreds of them.

The coffins with holes sank into the mud, while the sealed coffins floated to the top, like balloon toys in the hands of children, filling their entire field of vision.

Shine the flashlight over.

These coffins were piled up one above the other, with several thick layers on the top of the corridor, and the floor of the corridor was also piled with coffins.

They were all pitch-black coffins.

The entire corridor seemed to be padded with coffins.

There are still many wooden coffins that have long been broken. The skeletons with silver masks leaked out and floated in the water. They were slightly disturbed by the water flow, like living things.

There were wooden coffins like a forest.

Skeletons were everywhere.

Even the flashlight couldn't shine through.

"The wooden coffins floated out from here. Before the silt was filled up, they floated to the lake surface along the broken edge."

Zheng Yun took a deep breath and spoke.

Although this scene was weird and terrifying, it was still understandable. The end of this corridor might be a cemetery. Once the lake water poured in, the wooden coffins would naturally float out.

"Did that team of explorers enter from this coffin forest?" The young team member next to Li Wu asked in surprise.

"There is only this one way."

Zheng Yun nodded gently around.

They could imagine now that the team of explorers pushed away all the wooden coffins suspended in the water like opening a door curtain, and then entered the depths between the gaps of a large number of wooden coffins.

And they had to take this road.

If they didn't go through here, they couldn't find each other.

"Choose voluntarily. We will leave a few people behind. If you want to move forward, raise your hand."

Li Wu looked at the other team members.

Unexpectedly, everyone chose to raise their hands.

Zheng Yun looked back at them, and was silent for a moment, because he found an abnormal situation.

The number of skeletons leaking out of the coffins seemed to be more than the number of broken coffins. Combined with what he had seen in the Hades Pavilion before, he was a little worried whether there was something wrong with these corpses.

The Hades Pavilion has this ability.

And Ji Dao had said before that in this endless world, there is far more than one place called Hades Pavilion.

But Zheng Yun soon gave up the idea. The team of explorers had already entered from here, which at least proved that these coffins were not too dangerous at this moment.

"Then let's go in and take a look."

Zheng Yun led the team into the swimming corridor.

Everyone floated in the water, shuttled among the coffins, tried to control their body posture, and did not touch any of the coffins. Every movement was extremely cautious.

There was a road in the coffins.

Someone did push the coffins aside and passed by.

"Zheng Yun, the layout of this place has a very obvious ancient tomb color. The lampstands around are also commonly seen in the tombs of kings, princes, generals and ministers. This place may be a tomb."

"And if this place is a tomb, then these wooden coffins and the people inside are likely to be buried with the tomb owner..."

Li Wu made a guess in a low voice.

"Not necessarily. The custom of burial with the generals was rare in the Ming Dynasty, but the possibility of a tomb cannot be ruled out. These wooden coffins may be soldiers who died in battle and buried with the generals."

Zheng Yun shook his head.

The only thing that can be related to this place is the spirit tower inside the ancient city of Nanze. This is the only guess.

While talking.

They have already gone deep into the corridor.

And at this moment, the flashlight passed through the heavy wooden coffins and illuminated a huge hole in the ground with a diameter of more than 30 meters. The broken end was hideous and full of debris.

That was the explosion point.

The deceased expedition team didn't know how much explosives they used to blow such a big hole in the hard brick road and completely blew up this section of the corridor.

"Someone is talking."

Li Wu spoke at the same time.

Zheng Yun also heard the voice of a person, which came from deep in the cave, and seemed to be screaming...