"Back then, Sutu dogs squatted here every day to skin the dogs."
Fang Jie pointed to the entrance of the small yard and said, "Most of the dog meat eaten by Yunji's dog meat shop is hunted mountain dogs. In fact, I always thought that those things were not much different from wolves, they were slightly smaller than prairie wolves. But the character is more irritable and ruthless. However, unlike wolves, they don’t like to live in groups. The hunters in Fangu City often go into the mountains, beat these mountain dogs and sell them to the proprietress.”
Fang Jie walked into the courtyard door, the dust in the courtyard was as thick as snow.
"Who would have thought that such an ordinary couple would be masters?"
Fang Jie sighed.
Wu Yiyi took a look at the surrounding environment, then opened the curtain and walked into the room. It is cold in the northwest, so the house is very dry and there is no musty smell. The smell of dust poured into the nose, making people want to cough uncontrollably. The front hall is not very big, barely able to fit six or seven tables. As soon as you enter the door, you are facing the counter, but the shelves have collapsed.
Fang Jie and his team walked through the front hall and back kitchen to the backyard.
The well was in sight at a glance.
Xiang Qingniu went over and casually pushed away the millstone covering the edge of the well. He looked down, but it was too deep and too dark to see anything.
"Mr. Jiu from Moon Shadow Hall has gone down more than once, so there shouldn't be any danger. Our people have also gone down to get things. It seems that there should be no danger inside."
Xiang Qingniu said.
Fang Jie nodded: "I'll go down first, you guys will follow."
After speaking, Fang Xie jumped down while supporting the edge of the well. It was pitch black in front of him, Fang opened his blood eyes and could see that there were many small holes on the wall of the well, which should have been dug out by Song Zihui's people when they fetched things, and the traces were still obvious. He could hear the whistling wind, while Fang Jie silently counted the time.
The free fall falls down, and the depth of the well can be roughly inferred based on the time.
After feeling that the airflow below was a bit different, Fang Jie stretched his hands and grabbed the wall of the well. His two hands seemed to be made of steel, leaving two marks on the well wall. After landing, a puff of smoke and dust was immediately kicked up by the pressure of the soles of the feet.
Very choking nose feeling.
Fang Jie took a handkerchief from his cuff and wrapped it around his face, then took out a whistle from his pocket and flicked it up. The spoon flew straight into the sky, making a sharp sound. Wu Yidao and others on the top heard the whistle, and immediately jumped down.
Fang Jie took out the fire folder and shook it, and found something familiar to him on the wall around him. It was a wall lamp, and it looked complete, but it should have been unusable for a long time. The extinguished torch on the wall was placed by Song Zihui's people. Fang Jie went to light the torches one by one.
As the light gradually appeared here, the general outline appeared in front of Fang Jie's eyes.
With a bang, Xiang Qingniu was the first one to fall.
"Fuck...so big!"
Xiang Qingniu took a look and couldn't help but let out an exclamation.
This place is already shockingly large within the scope of the light, and obviously it will be even bigger in places where the light cannot cover. Fang Jie squatted down and knocked on the ground, only to find that it was cement, and definitely not ordinary cement. He poked it with his fingers, but it was difficult to move, so the strength of this cement may not be inferior to natural rocks, and it may be much stronger than rocks in some functions.
Everyone got busy, and first lit all the places where there were torches.
At first glance, the size of this underground palace is larger than that of Fan Gucheng above. Fan Gucheng is a small square city, with no more than three and a half miles from east to west, north to south. But for an underground palace, this scale is already astonishing enough. What's more, after walking for a while, I found that this place is bigger than Fan Gucheng!
"Did you find it?"
Wu Yiyi said in a deep voice: "Although the building materials used here are things I don't know, but after observation, it can be seen that there is almost no damage except for the place that was once exploded. After the explosion of that terrifying weapon, It's amazing that it's still intact here...and it doesn't look like there's been a lot of deaths here."
Fang Jie nodded.
An underground building of this size, and built so firmly, must be very important. There were not very few people here at the beginning, but it seems that not many people died here. Although some traces of corpses can be found in some places, compared to the scale of the underground palace, there are really too few dead people.
"That Mr. Jiu once said that the bottom is sealed."
Wu Yiyi frowned and pondered: "But the seal is not very good, obviously not to guard against that kind of terrifying weapon that can destroy the world. I suspect that most of the people here left after the war ended, leaving only a small number of people. Keep going. And these people... are dying of starvation."
Fang Jie nodded. He turned around roughly just now, but found no trace of food.
"possible… "
After thinking for a while, he said: "Maybe the people here have to wait until the end of the war and have to go out to find a place to survive and food, leaving a group of people to stick to it, and most of them go out to look for it. But for some reason, Those who went out never came back."
"Pitiful."
Shi Wan looked at a place that seemed to be a trace of a corpse and sighed: "These people may have been waiting for their companions to come back before they died, but they didn't wait for anything in the end."
"Why don't they go?"
Ye Zhuhan asked.
Wu Yiyi shook his head: "Maybe they can't go out, or maybe they... No, the places with traces of corpses here are not concentrated, but rather scattered."
He seemed to have discovered something, and after observing carefully for a while, he said: "These people may not have stayed behind, but were killed."
Xiang Qingniu said: "If they were killed, according to what Fang Xie said, the weapons they used were similar to muskets, and they should have bullets. Even after many years, the wreckage of the bullets should still be there."
"It was not killed with muskets, but with weapons like knives."
Wu Yidao continued to speculate: "If something happened, some people want to kill other people, they will not use muskets. This place is relatively closed, and the echo will be very loud. Once you shoot, it will be exposed. It may be that there is internal strife , A group of people suddenly attacked and killed these people with a knife attack."
Fang Jie nodded, basically what he thought was similar to what Wu Yiyi speculated.
The traces of corpses in this place are very scattered. If food was cut off at that time, based on human nature, most people should gather together to comfort each other. So the traces of the corpse should all be together. Such dispersion is obviously the trace left by abnormal death.
Xiang Qingniu shook his head: "I just can't figure it out. After going through all kinds of disasters and finally survived, why do you want to kill each other?"
Fang Jie sighed: "Human... is the most difficult creature to understand."
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Because Fang Jie had explained in the previous military order, Song Zihui's people did not dare to do any damage to this place. So Fang Jie and the others saw the relatively freshest corpse here... In other words, it was a corpse that was shredded all over the place. This should be the locksmith's apprentice Mr. Jiu mentioned, the boy whom Mr. Jiu placed high hopes on.
But no other bodies were found here, and apparently the locksmith and his other apprentices left later. As for whether he is alive or dead now, it is impossible to know.
Fang Xie took a look, and there was basically nothing left in the house. The explosion was powerful enough, but the traces of cement damage were very light. Many iron shelves and cabinets in the room were blown out, but the walls were almost intact, which shows that the strength of this cement is beyond imagination.
"Here we found what you told us to look for."
When Su Dingbang spoke, his voice was still a little trembling. He was jumped down by Wu Yiyi. The mouth of the well was not wide, so the excitement of two people jumping down can be imagined. The last time he came down, he had prepared for a long time, took a long rope and continued down slowly.
Su Dingbang pointed to a room with the door still open.
Fang Jie and others walked in and found that the layout of this room should be similar to the one that was bombed. There is a row of iron shelves on which there are many books and the like. But Fang Xie knew that these things would turn into powder if touched. It just occurred to him that Xiang Qingniu had already picked up a book, and when he picked it up, it turned into fine powder and slid down.
Xiang Qingniu smiled awkwardly, indicating that it was an unintentional mistake.
Fang Xie looked at the handwriting on the covers of these books, they were very obscure, and they were very professional books.
"Those things were found here."
Su Dingbang pointed to a tin cabinet: "There is a lock, and it is difficult to open it. I found all the locksmiths I could find outside, but there was nothing I could do. In the end, I used the treasured sword of a Golden Account general who captured Meng Yuan to stab this place open." , reached in and touched it out."
Fang Xie looked at the hole, it was indeed the weakest point. That should be an electronic screen, which has been damaged, and the iron sheet behind it is relatively much thinner.
Fang Jie stretched out his hand to press the cabinet door, and after a while, the golden fire burned the iron sheet into red, and a few minutes later, a hole was burned out in the thick iron door. Fang Jie didn't wait for it to cool down, he reached in and broke the lock inside. Then the cabinet door was pulled open, and the contents inside were presented to everyone.
The cabinets are divided into three rows, and because of the excellent airtightness, the contents inside look very new.
Guns, grenades.
Maybe the level of technology at that time was really strong, so that after so many years, the weapons in the sealed cabinet can still be used. In addition to these weapons, there is a case, which is wrapped in something plastic. Fang Jie took the box out, tore off the plastic, and opened it to have a look.
The contents of the box are normal.
A picture frame, the picture inside is still clear. The photo shows a family of three standing in front of a beautiful house. The man was tall and handsome. He looked about thirty years old. His wife is very beautiful, wearing a long form-fitting dress, smiling happily and contentedly. A little boy stood between the two of them, he looked about six or seven years old. They were all black-haired and yellow-skinned, they looked no different from Fang Xie and the others.
In addition to the photos, there are several pieces of clothing, which should be military uniforms. Fang Jie looked at the collar patch on his clothes, but found that it was different from the military rank mark in his memory.
There is also a pistol. Fang Xie speculates that it is not an ordinary pistol. The shape is very weird. The first reaction is something like a laser gun. There is no trigger or clip on the pistol, so not sure how to use it. Fang Xie suspected that it might be this person's special weapon, which could only be used if the fingerprints matched.
And then a book.
A notebook, to be exact.