Chapter 182: The Western Expedition (6)

After Xingling was stabilized, he would not rush into the city for the time being. Li Yuanhong picked up the documents again and looked at the introduction of Datong City carefully. That tunnel was definitely not dug privately by someone, and it would definitely be recorded in the documents, but Li Yuanhong From beginning to end, Li Yuanhong did not see a single word mentioning this tunnel.

Li Yuanhong put down the information. Maybe he had made a misunderstanding. The tunnel may not have been dug intentionally. For example, every city must have sewers, but only the urban construction department has records specifically recording sewers, but the tunnel is no lower than the ground. Fifty meters, the sewer is definitely not that deep.

"Fat man, think about it, under what circumstances would you dig a hole in the ground?" Li Yuanhong couldn't think of it for a moment, so he could only ask for help from that fat big head. Maybe he had a big head and could open up his imagination.

"Dig a hole? Do you mean to store grain widely and dig a hole deep?" said the fat man.

"No, those holes can't be that deep."

"Maybe it's someone's cellar or the basement of a certain building?" the fat man continued to guess.

"Your basement is so deep!" Li Yuanhong rolled his eyes at Fatty Lu.

"Haha, haven't I dug a basement before?" Fatty Lu said.

"Okay, can you make a more reliable guess?"

"I wonder if it was dug by the caveman? Those guys without eyes are very good at digging holes." Fatty Lu said again.

"Cave people, it's impossible..." Li Yuanhong was about to deny it, but suddenly Li Yuanhong thought of something. When he saw the introduction of cave people before, Xiao Yiling once introduced that in the human elf alliance, there is also a race that loves to dig holes, called Dwarves, this race also likes to dig holes, but these dwarves dig holes, unlike cavemen who dig holes wherever they see them.

This mine is also a cave. How could I forget that Datong City used to be a coal mining area? Could the cave under this city be a mine?

So Li Yuanhong said: "Fat man, do you have any information on the Datong Mining Area?"

"Mining area? Brother Li, you don't doubt that the caves under this city are mines, do you?"

"It's possible." Li Yuanhong said.

This time he had a target, and Li Yuanhong soon found a mine leading to the city's underground, but this mine had long been abandoned.

Li Yuanhong decided to go down the cave from here. As the saying goes, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't catch the tiger's cubs. If you want to defeat the threat underground, you must enter the cave and inside.

This time even Fatty also participated, because Fatty Lu has an earth attribute, and underground, Fatty Lu's attributes can be used more effectively, and the opponent also has an earth attribute. In this way, Li Yuanhong can be more confident in dealing with zombies.

"Take this shield." Li Yuanhong took out the giant zombie shield taken from Baoding City from the space and handed it to Fatty Lu.

Fatty Lu took the shield and held it in his hand: "Well, not bad, the portion is just right."

Even though Fatty's level is not as high as Li Yuanhong's, his strength is definitely higher than Li Yuanhong's. This is the benefit of his fat body.

Everyone packed up and prepared to go down to the cave. Xing Ling was also preparing to go down, but was organized by Li Yuanhong: "We can't all go down. If there are no problems, it's easy for you to command from above. If everyone goes, there will be no one to command. If the zombies attack, , that would be troublesome."

"How about I go over and you stay above to take command." Xing Ling argued.

"Okay, I know my abilities. I'm more suitable for escaping. It's not good for your abilities to be used for escaping. We are going to investigate the situation this time and be ready to escape at any time. You can't do it." Li Yuanhong said with a smile.

Xing Ling knew that Li Yuanhong was comforting him, so he solemnly said to Li Yuanhong: "Be careful!"

Li Yuanhong nodded and led the people down the cave. There were twenty people in this group. The cave was not very spacious. If there were more people, it would easily cause trouble.

As he walked into the cave, Li Yuanhong discovered that the cave had been sealed before, and he didn't know when it was opened. Since the mine had been empty for a long time, weeds or mushrooms had grown in some places in the cave, and some There are signs of collapse in some places, and some of the rafters supporting the mine are decaying. These rafters have been soaked in antiseptic tung oil, so they will usually be fine for a few decades, but this place has been almost empty for three decades. It's been ten years, so it's normal for some of the rafters to show signs of rot.

When Li Yuanhong saw this, he thought to himself: "This mine is very dangerous. If you don't get it right, there will be a landslide. You have to be careful."

As I entered, the environment dimmed, but I didn't encounter any zombies along the way. After walking nearly 500 meters, I found that the mine had ended, and the head of the mine was a shaft, which went deep into the depths of the mine. On the only way to go, Li Yuanhong took out twenty headlamps from his arms and distributed them to everyone: "Everyone put them on. Please pay attention later. The terrain inside is complicated. Don't get separated."

After saying that, Li Yuanhong took the lead in tying the rope from the shaft and began to climb down.

The people behind also went down. Only Fatty stood there for a long time before tying two ropes before going down. Fatty Lu also knew himself. It would be fine for others to use one rope, but he would only need one for himself. The rope had to break halfway.

Everyone went down to the bottom of the mine. It was at least a hundred meters deep from the top of the cave. There were also mines in the middle, but Li Yuanhong did not enter because the depth of other mines did not match the depth of mines in the city, so Li Yuanhong Enter the deepest mine, which may be the mine leading to the city.

At the bottom of a mine, Li Yuanhong immediately felt that the air in the mine had become turbid, and there were bursts of moisture in the mine. It stands to reason that coal mines are most afraid of two things. One is water leakage. This water leakage is not an ancient fire. , instead of digging a hole to reach the water veins, the entire mine may be flooded. The second is gas leakage. The coal seam will be mixed with gas. Once the gas accumulates to a certain extent, it will easily cause a gas explosion. The entire mine may have collapsed.

Li Yuanhong arrived at the mine at this time and saw the environment here. It was likely that the gas concentration here was very high and it had not been taken care of for a long time. Water might have begun to accumulate in some places on the road surface.

"Everyone, be careful not to open fire easily for a while to prevent the gas from exploding here!" Li Yuanhong ordered.

"Yes!" replied the soldier behind.

Everyone went inside. As they entered, there were often some side roads, but Li Yuanhong always moved in one direction without hesitation. Everyone didn't know how Li Yuanhong chose the path, but everyone followed without questioning. Li Yuanhong kept entering.

In fact, Li Yuanhong chose it because he found that in some potholes, there were footprints that were very similar to human footprints, and these footprints were very new, so Li Yuanhong walked along these footprints.

The entire mine was very quiet, with the occasional sound of dripping water. Everyone walked in the dark mine, with no concept of time or distance, and they just kept walking forward with Li Yuanhong.

While walking, Li Yuanhong suddenly waved his hand: "There is a situation ahead, prepare to fight!"

Everyone immediately drew out their swords and shields. Since the cave was narrow, Li Yuanhong ordered everyone to bring short weapons to facilitate fighting. The warrior behind took out his crossbow and pointed it forward. Just when everyone was getting ready, they heard noisy footsteps in front of them, and under the illumination of the headlights, a red light was printed, which was very scary. Li Yuanhong said: "Aim at those red dots and shoot arrows! "

Li Yuanhong gave an order, and Li Yuanhong himself took out a crossbow and fired it forward. As the bows and arrows were fired, wailing sounds were heard, and the chaotic footsteps became more urgent. As the footsteps approached, everyone could see clearly that there was no red light, but the eyes of zombies, scarlet eyes.

These zombies are all dressed in special clothes. They all wear miners' helmets, and these zombies all hold pickaxes in their hands. Many bows and arrows hit the zombies' helmets, but they did not penetrate them and were directly blocked by the helmets. What surprised Li Yuanhong even more was that the levels of these zombies were all at level 14 or 5. If they were placed on top, zombies of this level would be enough for Li Yuanhong to drink a pot.

Zombies crowded the entire mine and rushed towards Li Yuanhong. Shooting with bows and arrows could not stop the zombies' progress. Soon the zombies were less than five meters away from Li Yuanhong. Seeing this, Li Yuanhong quickly put away his crossbow and pulled out the long knife from behind. Although the knife is longer, Li Yuanhong's knife skills are at the intermediate level now and he can use it freely. When wielding the knife in the mine, he completely shrouds the zombies in front of him under the shadow of the knife.

Li Yuanhong discovered that these zombies were obviously weaker than the zombies on the ground. Not only were their defenses weak, but their movements were also much slower. Li Yuanhong didn't know why, but Li Yuanhong wanted to rush in as soon as possible to see how the soldiers inside were doing.

Li Yuanhong took the lead in charging inside, but at this moment, a soldier suddenly shouted: "Zombies! There are zombies behind!"

Li Yuanhong looked back and found that zombies appeared behind him. Li Yuanhong frowned. This shouldn't be the case. How could zombies appear behind him? When I came here, I didn’t see any traces of zombies walking around in other mines? Do zombies also know how to hide their troops?

Li Yuanhong knew that this was not the time to think too much, so Li Yuanhong shouted to the fat man: "Fat man, use your shield to hold your back. Let's rush in and rescue the soldiers of that battalion first! Everyone, please take turns to rest. There is still a long road ahead of us. long!"

"Yes!" the soldiers shouted.

"Brother Li, leave the rest to me!" Fatty also shouted loudly.

So Li Yuanhong waved his long sword, and instead of retreating, he kept charging forward. But Li Yuanhong only rushed one kilometer before he felt his arms became a little heavy. At this time, the guard came up: "Brother Li, it's time to change the shift!" After saying that, the guard began to wave his knife and rushed forward. Li Yuanhong knew , this was not the time to show off, and the fat man at the back was also replaced, so that the defensive formation formed by the team of twenty people kept rushing forward.

After walking two kilometers, Li Yuanhong saw a hole cut into the wall of the mine. This hole should lead to another mine. Li Yuanhong finally knew where the zombies behind him came from. It turned out that the zombies came from A fork in the road was dug here, and the zombies took a retreat from here. Fortunately, although these zombies were of high level, their abilities were really poor. Otherwise, if there were so many zombies in the cave, Li Yuanhong would not be able to kill them very far even if they were exhausted.

Finally, Li Yuanhong killed a place ten kilometers away, and a little sunlight came through. When Li Yuanhong came here, he found that the space here was much wider, the ceiling of the cave above was also much higher, and there were many pieces of clothes and bones scattered on the ground. , but these pieces of clothing are all old things, and there are no soldiers of his own. It seems that he has entered below the city, and he has also entered the zombie trap area. It seems that he may encounter zombies with earth-type supernatural powers at any time.

"Everyone, please be careful. There may be zombies with supernatural powers here. Please be careful about magic attacks!" Li Yuanhong reminded everyone loudly. Before Li Yuanhong's words even faded, many flying rocks were seen flying out from the mine on the opposite side.