Twenty-four hours a day, the demon hunter team walked and stopped on this winding stone staircase, took turns sleeping and resting, and then moved forward, slowly approaching the ground position on the 5,000-meter mark.
There are still a lot of military compressed biscuits, but the clean water was exhausted 11 hours ago, and everyone began to drink the water that the medical staff washed their hands before the operation. If there were any irresistible germs in these waters, I'm afraid they would have already been infected.
Lin Mo has been carried by the team members on a stretcher in turn; Lou Xiaoning walked by himself, but still cannot hold guns or other weapons.
The more they climbed, the narrower the surrounding space became, and at the end there was less than one meter between the stairs and the circular stone wall. They seemed to be caught in the belly of an animal.
And there is a feeling that the entire staircase is crumbling, and everyone can even hear the creaking sound similar to the vibration of wooden stairs.
This is not like their hallucinations, because the dark red fine lines on the stone ladder and stone wall are less and less, but there are more cracks like spider silk. Obviously, the vitality on it is getting more and more withered, and it seems that it will collapse at any time .
In the strange eternity, even death will be annihilated, Gu Jun remembered the words of the Arabian madman, these stones are dying, fading, annihilating.
When it was hundreds of meters above the ground, the atmosphere of the team was already very low, because everyone’s physical strength and spirit were exhausted to a certain extent, the scalp was tense, the bones of the whole body were numb and sore, and the mouth and tongue were dry due to lack of water. Irritated, a layer of chapped skin flakes formed on the lips.
And the damn spiral staircase under his feet has not come to an end yet.
This physiological state breeds a turmoil, and even the strongest will is constantly eroded by it.
It is true that the Demon Hunter Squad is a mobile task force of the Eastern State Branch, but this is the first time they have experienced such an abnormal space and such a heart-piercing difficulty.
The higher you go, the slimmer you get.
At this time, there was another chilling situation. Xue Ba saw it with the night vision binoculars. There was a roof above, blocking the way, but...
"Ah Jun, take a look." Xue Ba looked at it for a while, and then gave the telescope to Gu Jun next to him.
Gu Jun took the binoculars and looked at it. The spiral stone ladder led to a stone platform, and there was no way to go up, but the platform was less than one meter above the top, and it was also a stone connected with the surroundings. , but there's a distinctly different thing that looks like a slab of stone or a top door just above the platform.
The bottom of that stone slab is full of strange lines, it looks like it was carved by hand, it is in the shape of various flowers...
Gu Jun suddenly remembered Peyani's hometown, "the land of flowers" Shar City, the stone slab should have the scenery of Shar City.
It's just that the more he looked, the more his mind became agitated, and a sense of hallucinations emerged in his tired head... Is there an illusion that can be triggered here
But after a while, that feeling didn't take shape, it just aggravated the confusion in his mind.
There are no different texts, no locks, or other devices on the stone slab, but there are extremely small stone cracks on the edges of its four sides, which seem to be pushable.
"Captain Xue, I didn't find anything special." Gu Jun returned the telescope to Xue Ba, "But I feel that there is an exit."
Xue Ba nodded, and asked the other team members to take a look as well.
Soon, everyone understood what was going on. To get out, the barrier had to be broken. Could it be blown up with C-4 or micro-missiles
"Can't explode." Lin Mo objected as soon as he heard it. He is much more energetic now and has no symptoms of residual parasites. "The stone slab is too close to the stairs! Even if the control is accurate, the shock wave will affect the stairs. The gravel will also be pressed down, if this stone ladder collapses like that, we will fall several thousand meters."
"I also don't think it can be blown up." Gu Jun shook his head this time, because he could feel the fragility of the stones around him, which was worse than the barren dead wood.
"Go up and have a look first." Xue Ba led the assault team to the bottom of the platform at the end, only half a hand away from the stone slab.
Sure enough, the shaking feeling became stronger, and the cracks in the stone were more and bigger, but it still interrupted the light outside...
They first pushed the stone slab hard with their guns, but there was no movement, and then tried pushing it to the left and right, and it seemed that the movement to the left was particularly strong.
"Let's try pushing it with our hands." Xue Ba said, pushing it with our hands would be more satisfying in this situation.
Now the team has almost nothing but guns and ammunition, water and food, medical tools, etc. Pushing by hand is the most primitive and practical.
Except for the two guards left by the assault team, Xue Ba and other five people strode forward, raised their hands and pressed the bottom of the stone slab, "Three, two, one, push!"
They pushed hard together to the left, and the faces of the five big men were flushed and veins burst out, "Ah..."
However, the stone slab was only pushed up a little, and the light from outside poured down immediately, but they had to loosen it weakly after holding on for more than 20 seconds, and the slate fell back to its original position heavily, and made a terrible sound "" Boom", the cracks in the surrounding stones are even bigger...
"There is light on the top! This is the exit!" Xue Ba encouraged the team members in an uplifting tone, but he didn't mention a word that he couldn't push even when he was physically strong, let alone now when he was tired.
After only pushing this time, Xue Ba understood that it was purely a waste of energy for the few of them to push, but now every bit of their physical strength is very precious, the water is gone, and their physical strength will only continue to decline with the passage of time.
Xue Ba asked everyone to stop first, and asked Gu Jun to come up and take a closer look.
But Gu Jun couldn't do anything except for a vague uneasiness surging in his heart.
Xue Ba had no choice but to ask everyone to come up, and said solemnly with a square face: "Just now we have pushed away a little bit, Youguang! As long as we have enough strength, we can push down this slab! Strength, this time it will work."
At that moment, they all bent over and sat on the platform, Xue Ba's head was almost on the stone slab.
In order to gather the greatest strength, even Lin Mo, who was missing a leg, sat in.
Because maybe it was because of his little strength that they failed, and they might not have the strength for the second time.
After everyone squeezed into their positions, they raised their hands and pressed them on the bottom of the stone slab, and they were ready to push together to the left...
But suddenly, Gu Jun had a thought, the sixteen different handprints on the big banyan tree, sixteen people.
Those handprints are weird in shape and seem to be struggling... According to the uneven pattern of this slate, isn't it just that their handprints have weird changes...
It seemed that no matter what happened from the beginning, he would come here, either alone or in a team, but they would all come here.
This thought not only appeared in Gu Jun's mind, but also in Uncle Dan, Lin Mo, Yang Henan and others, all of whom frowned.
"Don't worry so much!" Xue Ba had been paying attention to it a long time ago, because he had had this terrifying thought before, and shouted: "Whether you think about it or not, it's just a trick of the enemy. Once we don't die below, When we came here, the enemy used this to confuse us. Don't think too much, prepare to push!"
Don't leave time for everyone to think wildly, because panic will cause the body to weaken, and they will not be able to use their strength.
"Three, two, one!" Xue Ba yelled, his muscles exploded, "Push!"
Suddenly, the sixteen members of the team burst out with the greatest strength they could, either gritting their teeth, or roaring, pushing the stone slab with both hands!
This made their faces distorted, their eyes widened, and the gauze on Lou Xiaoning's unhealed right eye socket was soaked with blood, and the gray light outside was cast again. Arms are already shaking...
Of course Gu Jun was also pushing with all his strength, but the sense of illusion that had been vaguely emerging before suddenly became stronger.
Some blurred lights and shadows were no longer dead silent, and rushed madly in front of his eyes.