Mountains and seas have a home

Chapter 163

Fu Zhong turned on the headlight, and the light shone into the empty darkness, revealing the hazy mist floating up and down, like tiny luminescent dust.They were in such an environment, as if they were walking in the high-altitude clouds, there was no sound at all around them, it was as quiet as in another world, and the clear sound of running water came from a distance.

Shanhua clings to the rock beside her, and throws a fluorescent stick down from the other side. The three of them watch the fluorescent stick fall and fall, whirling in the dark, turning into a small dot, and finally completely covered by it. engulf.It didn't stop from the beginning to the end, indicating that the space below is huge, there is no shelter, and I don't know how deep it is.They couldn't imagine that there was such an abyss hidden behind a dull and dark tunnel. It was lonely and quiet here, and they could hear their own echoes in all directions when they spoke.

"The abyss." Wells muttered, as he climbed up the stairs, he stared at the place where the light stick fell with his old cat eyes, "I have been to many caves, but today this cave is bigger than what I have seen before. Everything is black and scary."

Shanhua walked behind. He removed the fog from his helmet, looked up and said, "Don't blindly hide in the darkness, the darkness reveals everything. So we don't have to be afraid of the darkness, after all, we have lived in the darkness for so long." for many years."

Fu Zhong smiled slightly, stuck the rock with a pickaxe to avoid slipping, and advanced almost close to the rock wall, with nothing on his right hand, and he would fall to see Marx if he tilted his body.He said some rambling words to relieve the excessive tension: "Darkness has come for too long, and human beings cannot live in the dark forever. The ancestors discovered fire to illuminate civilization, and civilization cannot go backwards. Wei Ernes, you said you've been on a lot of caving, what was your most memorable experience?"

"The year I just retired from the army, I went to the underground caves in the Yucatan Peninsula. I heard that there is a paradise for the brave." Wells said, he watched the surrounding environment vigilantly, "It's really scary inside. It is shocking, and I still can’t forget it. The ancient Mayan civilization is hidden in it. In Mayan mythology, the undead will follow the dog with night vision ability, through the deep and narrow cave, to the entrance of hell. The cave is full of centipedes, Leeches and bats, blood oozing from the walls."

"Then in the cave you explored, is it really as scary as in the myth?"

Wells shook his head, smiled softly, and replied: "How could it be? That's just a myth, and it's not true. But you should really go to Yucatan to see the underground caves there. A stupid mouth can't say a ten-thousandth of the shock."

"Then it seems that we really have to go there. Maybe after humans can see the sun again, we can fly there by plane, and by the way, we can see the light shining through the hole into the blue lake water, sparkling. "

Ji Yao supported his waist and raised his eyelids to look at the picture on the screen, and heard Fu Zhong talking in the earphone.Ji Yao's eyes flickered for a moment, and with a moderate smile on his lips, he said softly, "That must be beautiful."

Lin Cheng tapped the keyboard heavily, Gao Yanwen's fingers trembled because of his movement, he entered a wrong data, and all the charts were out of shape.Gao Yanwen opened his mouth to scold, when a body armor and an automatic rifle flew over his head and face, hitting him on the shoulder.

"Put on the body armor, little assistant, and hold your rifle. The bullets don't have eyes." Lin Cheng's voice drifted over, and he inserted the daggers into the straps on his thighs one by one, "Don't even think about scolding me." , I know what you are thinking right now. My ability to scold people is much better than those of you scholars, with four or six lines of parallel sentences, without repetition in three days. You have to be clear about this."

Lin Cheng spoke quickly, with a hasty tone, and said everything at once, as fast as a galloping horse.Gao Yanwen didn't even have time to listen to him, and was so dazed that he couldn't get in a word. He looked at the terrible picture in front of him, then at the rifle, turned off the computer and put it aside.

Gao Yanwen skillfully put on the bulletproof vest and carried the gun and magazines on his back. He had followed these desperadoes for a long time, so he naturally knew these things without a teacher.Lin Cheng kicked the box next to him cursingly, and took out the disc-type adsorption explosive bomb from it.

"Have you checked everything?" Seeing Lin Cheng approaching with a gun, Ji Yao asked him, "What's so angry about it? Relax, we can deal with it."

Lin Cheng brushed his hair, stretched his forehead tightly after combing it, and then put on a protective helmet for himself: "I haven't finished sorting out, there is a database that I can't get in, and I've been blocked all the time. I’ve never seen the program. It’s really hot, and I’ve been running around outside for a long time. I’ve never encountered such a Waterloo. How could this happen? I didn’t expect it to happen at all.”

Ji Yao frowned, moved his gaze from Xinghe to Lin Cheng, made a gesture, and said, "You mean you have never had that kind of protection program? You mean it is even more protective than the protection barriers of Moros or Xinghe Still stronger?"

"I think so." Lin Cheng bit his lip and squinted his eyes to look at the sunlight in the woods for a while, before nodding and answering, "At least I can hack into the surface system of Molos, such as... Kind of...but it doesn't matter, Commander, that's not the point."

"Of course, that's not the point. But when I go back, I have to check your hacking into the monitoring system of Molos. Expert profiling, you can't escape." Ji Yao said, "So what do you think is going on with that database? "

"How the hell do I know what's up with that! Probably new territory I've never explored. Oh shit, I can't go any further now, I have to do something interesting Wake up Brain. It helps my thinking."

"What's interesting?"

Lin Cheng shook the gun in his hand and said, "Of course I'm doing my job. The missiles have already been opened, so can I continue to sit there without moving? My hands are used to launch the missiles." gun."

Ji Yao turned back to stare at Lin Cheng, without saying a word, Gao Yanwen suddenly appeared next to him, and he was holding the belt of his rifle on his shoulder.A cloud in the sky just covered the sun, the sky was overcast, the wind was rustling the woods, and the roar of the tide was heard in the distance.

"Preparation state, execute immediately." Ji Yao looked at them for a while, then turned and continued to do his own thing, "Maybe you should stay away from this place, and it is best to open up an evacuation path."

Lin Cheng took Gao Yanwen away, and they walked through the bushes into the woods, shadowy, with begonias hanging flowers and branches, the dew had evaporated, and the fragrance became hot and dry.Ji Yao thought for a while, and asked Xinghe: "Is your defense barrier the strongest in the world?"

"Yes, my developer once told me that Xinghe is an impenetrable wall that even the best hackers in the world can't break through." Xinghe replied.

"Then besides you, what other databases and data repositories have a high-standard protection system? Or is the protection level comparable to yours?"

After the Xinghe host ran for a few seconds, it sent the search results to Ji Yao's tablet: "These are all the results that Xinghe can search. In addition to these, there are many databases that have been deactivated now. They have been removed from It was removed from the list and permanently discarded. Such a database cannot be opened, because the defense system it uses has been mutated and cannot be broken through."

Ji Yao touched his chin, looked at Xinghe, and said, "You think it's impossible to break through?"

"At least Xinghe won't waste his energy on breaking into an abandoned database. Doing so is like attacking a city that has long been abandoned by thousands of troops. It's meaningless."

"The analogy is very appropriate, Xinghe, you are becoming more and more lively now." Ji Yao said with a smile, "Then let me ask you again, do you still have some data in the abandoned database?"

"There may be remnants, or some data that are no longer useful. After the Galaxy was replaced, the old database was abolished, and some unimportant things were stored in it."

Ji Yao didn't answer, he tapped his fingers silently.

The wind got stronger, and the woods shook uneasily, as if some beast was running.The sky is so blue that it is dripping, the sun is always blocked, the surrounding light is bright and white, and the mountain cones in the distance are covered with ice and snow, and the huge shadow covers all the light of the snow.

It was a volcano, its shape was easy to recognize, and the ice and snow on it had been deposited for many years.Counting time here is meaningless, because time is sleeping, and the years are so long.The mountains, lakes and seas are far from the end, and the plains are also extremely vast.

There is more than one volcano, and several volcanic cones are lined up in a row. The main mountain soars into the sky, and it can be seen at a glance even in the deepest part of the virgin forest. It almost pushes into the sky.Ji Yao has seen Mount Kilimanjaro on the equator. It was when he was on an anti-terrorism mission. Kilimanjaro is very similar to the volcano in front of him.

The volcano is so desolate, the exposed mountain is dark gray and brown, and in some places, sandstone gathers and shines orange-red.There are no tall trees on the desolate mountain, except for a giant tree growing near the crater. The crown of the tree slanted across, almost covering half of the crater.Most of the plants advance to the snow line, and there are not many remaining plants, such as meadows and other cold-resistant plants. However, this giant tree with the characteristics of tropical trees grows from under the ice layer and is full of vitality.

The giant eagle lingers on the top of the volcano, sometimes lands on a giant tree, and looks at the ocean with its head raised.They have been wandering there for a long time, maybe that is another place of their residence - these giant eagles like to build their nests near the snow-capped mountains, probably it is a habit.

"What's going on down here?" Ji Yao didn't stop on the eagle and the giant tree, he had more important things to deal with, "I need your feedback, repeat, I need your feedback. "

"We have walked all the steps and came to the upper platform. It seems to be paved with granite, the ground is smooth, and there are obvious traces of machine processing." Fu Zhong squatted down and stroked the floor with his hands, and turned on the flashlight to shine on the cracks in the stone slabs.

The mountain flower increases the intensity of the ionized light above the head, and the light becomes brighter. Without the night vision goggles, you can barely see the huge rocks around you. They are surrounded by a black mass, as if they will be squeezed over in the next second. People feel chest tightness and can't breathe.Shanhua raised his hand and stroked the wet stone. When he lit his fingers with the flashlight again, he vaguely noticed that the color of the glove was not right, it was dark red, which was also the same color as the years of rust.

Fu Zhong squatted down to make a mark on the floor, then stood up and walked a few steps along an arc, found a point, and placed a fluorescent mark: "There are bricks of different colors on the floor, maybe a certain pattern, We can't look down, so I'm going to find the markers and put together a rough shape. It might take a while, but I'll try to move as fast as I can."

Wells walked along the stone wall, he adjusted the flashlight to the maximum aperture, and carefully searched up and down.But the light of his flashlight didn't startle a bat or a spider. There was nothing on the stone wall, which was beyond his imagination. The Vietnam veteran suddenly couldn't figure it out.

"So far, no creature has been found, but the biofeedback value remains high, which shows that the entire cave is filled with creatures." Ji Yao said, rubbing his eyeballs, "What the hell is going on, these creatures Where are you hiding?"

Zhu Min said: "Is there something wrong with Xinghe? I think this computer is always unreliable."

"Xinghe never makes mistakes." Ji Yao took off a glove and recalculated the feedback value, the result was the same as before.

"You seem a little overly nervous. That's not okay. Please pay attention to your emotional stability, otherwise I will have to inject you with tranquilizers. Santu, let yourself relax and stay calm."

"I'm very calm. This well always gives me a bad premonition, a kind of psychological intuition." Ji Yao knocked on the table next to the correspondent, asking him to change an indicator, "I saw some strange things in my dream. The weird thing is right next to this well."

Zhu Min fastened his camouflage uniform and tightened his belt: "It's just a dream. There are no weird things in the dream. I can't recognize it as real."

"No, that's not a dream. Dreaming doesn't give me such a deep memory, as if I really experienced it. I don't have sleepwalking, you know. I saw something that wasn't normal, something was interfering My brain, it's trying to tell me something, but I can't understand it."

"I can't understand you right now."

Ji Yao drew out his gun and pointed it at Zhu Min's chest, warning again: "Now is not the time for you to question, I'm telling the truth, this is a battlefield, I don't need to play tricks. Now please take back all your doubts and put your Put your heart in your belly."

Fu Zhong moved around the edge of the pattern to the shadow on the other side that was not illuminated by the light. He had already placed a lot of marks on the ground. He placed the torch at a very low height so that the aperture could cover a larger area. , he concentrated on identifying the changes in the pattern.

The surroundings were very quiet, Shanhua and Wells tried their best not to make any noise, the headlamps and flashlights of the three were shaking in the vast darkness, like stars in the sky.When Fu Zhong was kneeling on the ground to place the mark, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind and pressed on his shoulder.Fu Zhong moved his body, signaling not to hinder him from taking the marker out of the box: "Sir Wei, why did you come here? Wait a minute, I'll make this marker first."

"Hey, Fu Zhong, come here and see if there is something wrong here." Shanhua's voice suddenly sounded from not far in front, dissipating the lingering lingering sound, like the sound of a piano.At the same time, two beams of lights moved towards Fu Zhong, dazzling.

Fu Zhong saw Shanhua and Wells, they were all in the other direction in front of them, walking towards him at this time.But the hand that was on the shoulder just now stretched out from the darkness behind him.Just after Shanhua called out Fu Zhong's name, that hand quickly moved away.

There was a loud bang in his head, and the corners of Fu Zhong's mouth tightened suddenly, he quickly got up and pointed the gun behind him, and took a few steps back.Shanhua and Wells were startled when they saw him suddenly raise their guns, and they all pointed out the muzzles of their guns.

The light of the flashlight shone into the darkness, and the thick shadow still lingered. The thick black was like the mouth of a giant beast in space, and the light could not escape.But there was nothing there, no man, no other living thing, nothing, nothing.

"What's going on? What's that voice?" Ji Yao pressed the walkie-talkie and asked, he heard that the situation on the other side was unusual, "Why didn't you speak, please reply if you receive it, please reply if you receive it! Fu Zhong!"

The positioning of the three people on the screen shows that they are gathered together in a tactical defensive posture.At this moment, the display screen of the black bee transmitting images suddenly went black, and the correspondent urgently reported the situation.Ji Yao glanced at the fluorescent mark made by Fu Zhong on the screen, but at that glance, he felt cold all over his body, as if the long-lost devil came to him again, and pinched his throat with cold claws.

Although the mark is incomplete, Ji Yao can tell at a glance that it is half of a pair of wings.He asked Xinghe to make a rendering. On the ground is a huge black and white pair of wings.

The voice of Fu Zhong's report came from the earphone, but the signal was disturbed for some reason, and the voice was intermittent: "There are other people besides us here."

"what?"

Before Ji Yao had time to remember the news, when he sent the rendering to Fu Zhong, the No. [-] correspondent suddenly shouted: "'Black Bee' lost contact and failed to reconnect. The reason is unknown, and we cannot locate it!"

"Positioning failed, positioning failed." Xinghe issued a reminder, the coordinates of the three people flickered on the screen a few times, warning signs popped up one after another, and the data next to it jumped back and forth up and down, obviously a system crash.

"Open the anti-curve fluid cover, open the EMP externally. Xinghe, locate and restart. The scouting robot reports! Is there an electronic interference program below?" Ji Yao stretched out his hand and pulled down the hidden screen on the top, and the data on the tablet was instantly imported into the screen .

Xinghe's orbital positioning mark flickered a few times, the restart failed, and the data was no longer updated.Correspondent No. [-] sent the detection result of the reconnaissance robot: "There is no electronic interference program, the external situation is normal, and weak radio waves were detected, but there is no effect."

Underground, the three of them maintained a high level of vigilance in the extreme silence, every drop of water would make their nerve endings tremble for a while.There is no so-called human figure in the place where the light shines, only a narrow hole with stalactites hanging on the top.

"Someone put their hands on my shoulders just now. People other than you." Fu Zhong said, he pulled up the mask, revealing only his eyes, and his eyes were like a real wolf.

"Are you sure? Someone put his hand on your shoulder in this kind of place? Is that really a person?" Shanhua said, leaning against Fu Zhong, and took a step to the side, "Where did he go now? Can kung fu disappear?"

"I'm not sure if it's a human, but I think it looks like a human hand, and it's very heavy. When you called me just now, the hand was withdrawn, and then I don't know where it went. I didn't hear anyone behind me. sound."

Shanhua clenched her teeth and asked, "What is he trying to do? Who is playing tricks?"

Fu Zhong was silent for a while, he scanned the surrounding environment, and slowly moved towards the exit: "Maybe he wanted to kill me, but after hearing your voice, he changed his mind."

Sticking to the stone wall of the exit, Fu Zhong listened intently for a while and then turned around abruptly. The light illuminated the other side of the exit for an instant, and suddenly a black shadow jumped up and fled away as if frightened.It turned out to be a bat.Fu Zhong stared at the black shadow for a long time, looked at both sides, there were cliffs and cliffs, a solitary corridor stretched across the sky, extending straight forward, a bit like a viaduct.Fu Zhong couldn't see where the other end of the corridor was, and the light couldn't shine that far.

There was no danger around, Fu Zhong raised his gun and stepped back.After confirming that he was safe for the time being, he asked Shanhua what he was looking for just now, Shanhua took him to the stone wall and said, "The color of these liquids is a bit strange."

Shanhua scraped the stone wall with white cotton, and the cotton instantly absorbed the viscous dark red liquid.This color pierced Fu Zhong's eyes: "Do you remember what Wells said? In Mayan mythology, the undead would follow a dog with night vision through a deep and narrow cave to the entrance of hell. The cave was full of centipedes, leeches and bats, and the walls were seeping blood."

"Blood oozes from the wall." Shanhua repeated in a low voice. He stared at the seemingly infinitely high stone wall with his eyes wide open. The gurgling liquid flowed down from the stone wall, reflecting the dark red blood under the pale light. Light, a strong fishy smell filled the tip of the nose.

Shanhua pulled up her mask to protect her mouth and nose. The fishy smell made him want to vomit, and she quickly moved a few meters away from the stone wall.Wells suddenly called out in a hurry. He reached out and patted Fu Zhong's back, stood a little further away, and raised his flashlight to shine on the stone wall in front of him: "What are those?"

The light moved with the movement of Wells' wrist, and Fu Zhong discovered from the bottom up that there were actually two huge statues embedded on both sides of the narrow exit.The one on the left is twisted and twisted, which is a snake tail. It goes up until the light illuminates the top of the statue, and a huge skull hanging from it acts as the head of the statue.It was the skull of a snake, with its mouth slightly open, and sharp fangs protruding from it.

Everyone was in shock and fear at this moment, the dry skull was chained and suspended quietly, and the black eyes were fixed on the few people below.Wells came closer to check and said, "The snake is not scales, it is feathers."

Fu Zhong looked up at the statue, like standing under a temple looking up at ancient gods, and said, "Kukulkan, the Feathered Serpent God, is the god of life in Mayan mythology."

This statue is very strange, except for the head, it is all carved out of stone, which makes the skull stand out.Fu Zhong calculated a little bit, the size of the skull can be as large as a house, what kind of snake can grow so big?

Suddenly, some pictures flashed in his mind, and he thought of the snow mountain where the giant snake fell.He had been there, and the huge and complete skeleton of the giant snake was buried in the ruins at the foot of the mountain, except for three skulls missing.

It seems that the skull was transported here, and was chained by someone, and hung high above it as a part of Feathered Serpent.Fu Zhong reported the news to Ji Yao, but the signal was always interrupted, and he could only hear incoherent noises in the earphones.

"Why did the signal become so bad all of a sudden?" Fu Zhong complained, but he didn't think about it too much, because this kind of situation is very common, and Xinghe has the ability to automatically adjust, and it will be fine after a while.

Wells walked under another statue, this one of a strong god.Half of his body was buried in the stone wall, and half of his body stuck out, as if he was struggling to escape.He has a skull with a bell around his neck, exposed ribs, and a spiny spine.

"Apche, the god of death and the underworld, who appeared 88 times in the Mayan surviving scriptures." Wells said, looking back at Fuzhong and Shanhua, "the gods of life and death in Mayan mythology are all there. "

The three stood under the two statues, silent for a while.Shanhua asked a question in the suffocating silence: "Then what are we?"

"The undead... followed the... dog with night vision... to the entrance of hell." Fu Zhong said a certain passage in the myth, those ancient lost The secret mantra flowed from his lips like water, "We are not undead, so we are those with night vision..."

"Dog," Wells continued.