Chapter 235 Qingxi Air Raid Shelter

I was startled as soon as I entered. Under the swaying beam of the flashlight, I saw many unexpected things placed in the hall. I wondered why there were so many "weird-shaped" stone lions in front of and behind the house. Suddenly, a long bolt of lightning shot through the sky like a dragon, instantly illuminating the inside and outside of the hall as bright as snow. From the windows and the back door, one could see that the backyard was filled with strange stone beasts.

We took advantage of the lightning and thunder and saw that the lonely building of the Feng Family Residence was full of strange stone beasts. We were filled with doubts. I walked closer and shined the flashlight again and again, and saw that the stone beasts looked ferocious and ferocious. The body is round and somewhat similar to the stone lion in front of the door, but it has no majestic temperament and can only make people feel evil and hateful. I have never seen such a stone lion. Why is it so ugly and ferocious?

Shirley Yang said: "These stone beasts do not look like lions that guard the house, but they look like stone sculptures guarding the tombs in the mausoleum area."

Sun Jiuye also put on his spectacles and looked at it for a long time: "It's definitely not a stone lion. The mane is like a sword, the ears are surprisingly big, and the nostrils are pointing up to the sky. Let me see... It's a black sheep. If you want to visit the earthly immortal, you should first look for the black sheep. The black sheep Sheep and black ghosts are pigs. I just couldn’t figure out what the relationship between the ancient tomb of the Earthly Immortal and the black sheep was. I originally thought of asking the meat factory to find out, and it turned out that there is such a stone carved black sheep in the world."

Yao Meier is a local, but she has never seen these things, so I had to ask Mr. Sun Jiu: "Is the Wuyang stone beast an ancient totem or a stone statue of Zhenling?" Professor Sun said: "It's hard to judge, Wuyang stone beast." The shapes have been transformed into ghosts, and the style is very weird. I have never seen any mausoleums with such objects as tombs, and they don’t look like Shinto totems.” After saying that, he took out his notebook and started writing and drawing, adding the stone beast’s Every detail is described to serve as an important reference for finding the "Tomb of Earth Immortals".

I can't imagine how the Black Sheep Stone Beast could be placed in the Feng family's house. Things have changed so much in "Qingxi Town" that it's impossible to guess. Since I don't have a clue, I have no choice but to make random guesses. In order to save battery, I went with Fatty Light a few candles to light up, find a dry place in the building to set up a stove, and boil some hot water first so that everyone can eat and rest. Seeing that the terrain of this ancient town is complex, there will be a lot of work tomorrow.

I walked up and down the building again and looked at every room. I saw a wooden table and chairs in a room on the second floor. They were all simple modern furniture. There were many drawings hanging on the table and wall. I looked carefully. Look, the drawings are all about the structure of the tunnel mine, and they standardize the progress of the project in detail. I used to be an engineer and know how to read drawings. When I looked at these drawings, I suddenly realized that when the "air raid shelter" was being built in the Qingxi area, Fengjiazhai was the Construction Headquarters. Later, the international situation changed, and the project was immediately abandoned and ineffective. Even these drawings were not taken away during the evacuation.

In addition to a layer of dust, those "Wuyang Stone Beasts" also had traces of underground soil. They had obviously never been cleaned up. They should have been excavated from the ground by the construction team. Before they could be processed, they were thrown away because of the interruption of the project. At the command post.

Maybe the area where the "Wuyang Stone Beast" was unearthed is not far from the "Dixian Village Ancient Tomb". I quickly rolled up all the drawings and took them downstairs to tell everyone about this discovery. At this time, the fat man was cooked. Everyone had been hungry for the vacuum macaroni we had brought with us, so we ate it while studying the map of the air raid shelter.

Yaomeier asked Fatty what kind of food this was? It was so moist and simply unpalatable. The fat man said: "This is an American product, girl, but the taste... is really bad. It's definitely not the fat man's craftsmanship. The main thing is that American macaroni is this kind of thing. It is said that if an American wants to commit suicide slowly, he will Eat this every day.”

I didn't care what the taste was like, as long as it filled my stomach, I quickly solved the battle in three or two mouthfuls. I looked at the time and it was only nine o'clock in the evening. I felt a little tired, but I still managed to gather my energy and look through the maps carefully. I took out a few that I might need separately and decided to explore the underground air-raid shelter first tomorrow.

Shirley Yang asked me what my plan was? I unfolded the map, pointed to the icons on it, and told her my idea: "The Qingxi Air Raid Shelter is a historical product of the period when holes were dug deeply to accumulate grain. I estimate that the large-scale air raid shelters built there should be related to this place. There are many underground mines, and this is also true from the drawings. The construction team transformed the semi-natural and semi-artificial caves and turned them into vertically and horizontally connected combat readiness facilities. However, the drawings also indicate that there have been many landslides and flooding. Water, the project is not going well.”

I used the elimination method to circle several areas where it was impossible to dig out historical sites. All the mountains near Qingxi were hollowed out, including salt well mine tunnels and places converted into air raid shelters, including the underground of this ancient town. It is also empty. There can be no "Dixian Village Ancient Tomb". We should focus on the "vacuum area".

Shirley Yang was the one who nodded in understanding, and immediately understood what I meant, and said: "It makes sense. Is the vacuum area the so-called blind spot of the mine? The last unearthed location of the Wuyang Stone Beast must be that the engineering tunnel does not coincide with the mine tunnel. area."

I said that's right. Before the construction of the combat air-raid shelter, the nearby mountains and rivers were thoroughly surveyed, which saved us a lot of trouble. Now that we know the important hint of "if you want to visit the immortals, look for Wuyang first", the preferred destination is , is naturally the most likely place to excavate the "Wuyang Stone Beast". All the mine tunnels are excavated according to the trend of the Wu Salt veins, so they are extremely irregular.

From the analysis of the drawings, only the westernmost section of the Qingxi combat readiness shelter was newly opened as needed, without using the original mine tunnel at all. Moreover, according to the standards on the drawings, the underground tunnel at the west end has not yet been completed, which shows that this section The construction work in the area has been carried out to the end. As for the actual situation and next steps, we have to see it on the spot before we can grasp it.

Shirley Yang gained a little more confidence: "I'm not afraid of a mess of clues, but I'm afraid there won't be a single clue at all. Now that we've found some clues, we can peel off the cocoons and eventually find the Dixian Village ancient tomb."

Professor Sun listened for a long time and said in agreement: "Hu Bayi, a veteran, has experience and grasped the key points of the work as soon as he arrived in Qingxi. Captain Feng, who was detained in the labor camp with me, was also a A man who has been fighting for many years, probably because he is so good at fighting, he has been impressed by the leaders of the army. He is not a submissive character at all. That man is very arrogant and impressive. He said that he used to fight in Korea. At that time, he rode in a captured American jeep and ate American cans every day. Once, a US military plane flew through the eaves of a house to check household registration, and bombs were thrown in front of his eyes without hurting a hair on his face. How could such a person be honest in the quarry? Eating Wotou? That’s why I was determined to escape back to my hometown. I always thought it was impossible for him to reach here alive. Now think about it, you people who have truly been tested by war are indeed outstanding, and you don’t know how to seal a group. Let him grow up..." At the end of the sentence, he fell into deep thought full of worry.

I advise Sun Jiuye not to think too much. Some people suspect that you murdered Captain Feng, who has been missing for many years after absconding, but there is no proof. In fact, only villains who want to harm you can judge like this. They don’t think about it. With your actions With Master Jiu's ability, even if he attacks secretly, he might not be able to withstand that of Captain Feng? That man is a volunteer corps-level commander who has fought with the US military, so it makes sense for the organization not to convict you. Anyone with some brains can figure this out, but they have not given you a formal clarification.

I think that as long as Captain Feng could really escape here, he would have probably hid in the "Dixian Village Ancient Tomb". No matter whether he is dead or alive now, we will find him, and your unjust case will be settled by then.

Now that they had a preliminary action plan and no longer had any worries, everyone assigned the order of the vigil, and fell asleep one after another listening to the rustling rain outside. They were silent all night. It was still raining the next morning, and Qingxi Town was covered with rain. There were pits and mud ditches, and the mountain road was too muddy to walk after the rain. We had no choice but to go down through the tunnel in the backyard and head to the combat readiness shelter on the west side.

It is said that this tunnel was originally a secret passage, because before the liberation, the Feng family residences were mostly the residences of landlords and mine owners. Because of the unstable social situation, warlords and bandits were rampant, and the mine owners who mined witch salt were mostly rich in gold, and they were all His hands were stained with the blood of the mining slaves. In order to prepare for unexpected events, he not only kept a group of "dead soldiers" in the house, but also deliberately hid secret passages as servants to look after the house so that he could escape quickly in the event of an accident.

However, almost all of the secret passages left behind were destroyed during the construction of civil air defense facilities. The hidden entrances were exposed, and the interior became part of a large air raid shelter. The so-called "air raid shelters" are not just for ordinary people to avoid air raids and bombings, at least It also plays the role of "three defenses". At that time, the imperialists were obsessed with destroying themselves and always clamored for "surgical strategic bombing" against China. In order to actively prepare for war and defense, the whole country carried out large-scale "deep digging, wide-ranging bombing". "Grain storage", a big role of this kind of underground facility is to conceal and store a large number of war preparation materials, ranging from missiles and aircraft to food and clothing. They are designed and built completely in accordance with wartime requirements. The scale is very large. Not small.

This area underground in Qingxi Ancient Town is full of connected arched warehouses, all built in former mines. The light gray cement walls give people a very solemn and cold look. The places where the cement has fallen off , you can also see that the rock formations of the original mine tunnel have serious water seepage in local areas.

Although there is a lighting lamp every ten meters in the air-raid shelter, the lines are all affected by moisture, and the simple power generation equipment has long been damaged and can no longer be used. The only way to illuminate it is with the "Wolf Eye Flashlight", relying on the reference provided by the map and compass. Moving forward, this underground passage is not difficult to walk, and there are obvious signs at the intersection.

All the way west in the underground passage, the damp smell inside the air-raid shelter became stronger and stronger. Halfway through, I encountered a cave that collapsed. I could no longer follow the original route. I took out the map and looked at it. I could only see it from the side. Go around the fork in the road and return to the cross passage. Look at the standard on the map. If you go down the passage on the left, you will find an original mine tunnel that has left the scope of the air raid shelter. There is a fence at the entrance and a wooden sign hanging on it.

I raised the flashlight and looked at it. There seemed to be writing on the wooden sign, but it was covered by mud. The fat man stepped forward and wiped it with his hand. The red writing was immediately revealed. The fat man read word by word: "Land-in ahead - —Danger, Lao Hu, it seems that this is a mine shaft, there may be a danger of landslides, it is definitely not easy to walk, it is better for us to go to the right and go around."

Shirley Yang held up a flashlight and illuminated the passage on the right: "There are also words on the wall on the right, Dare to fight, Dare to win... What does that mean?"

I looked up at the slogan on the cement wall on the right. It was very familiar. I smiled and said, "You must not understand. This is called the highest directive. The map indicates that the right side is a backup channel. It is relatively narrow and crude, but it is already completed. , Comrades, I think we have no choice when we reach this point, so we have to go in from the side with the slogan."

The fat man said: "Dele, you must have listened to Commander Hu's highest order. Let's go..." After that, he swaggered in and walked in first. I was worried that the fat man would leave the line too quickly, so I quickly called to the other three and followed. He walked forward quickly. The water seepage in the west passage was more serious, which may be related to the heavy rain all night. Although there were drainage pipes on both sides, the water on the ground was still as deep as the feet, and there was water under the cement wall. Full of green moss.

The base of the black and green wall is covered with a layer of snails, and the white ones are very conspicuous. There are more snails as you go in, some are alive and some are empty shells left after death. When you step on it, you will hear the sound of "Crack!" "Crack" sound of the shell breaking.

Although Yao Mei'er is brave, she can't help but feel a little disgusted when she is stepping on a mass of dead snails under her feet: "How could there be so many snails in the past? Where did they all come from?"

I turned to her and said: "There is too much water seeping here, and the thick moss attracts snails. As long as you don't think about it, you won't feel sick. Follow me closely, and don't fall behind..." I haven't told you yet. As she finished, she heard someone in front of her fall to the ground with an "ouch" sound. Sun Jiuye was knocked upside down by the snails everywhere, and his hands were pricked by broken shells.

I quickly stretched out my hand to help him up. I was relieved to see that he had not broken his bones. He could not rest in this narrow and damp passage, so I asked him to grit his teeth and persist. Fortunately, Mr. Sun Jiu has suffered a lot and suffered a lot. People, even if they fall and get bruises on their bodies, they don’t care, they just grit their teeth and keep moving forward.

I saw that there were old and young people in the team, and it would not be a joke if they really broke their arms and legs, so I asked Yao Meier and Shirley Yang to support the limping Professor Sun, while the fat man and I walked in front. Use the "engineer shovel" to shovel away the large snails on the ground in front of you and clear the way for them.

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