sbdcsierra Chapter 137 The Empty Gold Mine
Chapter 137 The Empty Gold Mine
Shen Li lit a torch and walked quickly in the cave. Soon she came to a three-way intersection. Without hesitation, she went straight to the left.
This passage is interconnected, and if Shen Li didn't have mental power, it would be easy to get lost.
As I walked, I smelled a faint stench of decay, and soon, some mummies appeared on both sides of the passage.
Some of these corpses had already decayed, while others had just turned into bones. All of them were men, and they were not very old.
Moreover, there was some black on these bones, as if they were poisoned.
Shen Li silently put another mask on her face and continued walking forward at a faster pace.
As she went deeper, she saw more and more corpses on both sides of the corridor.
Shen Li frowned. There were so many people here, it couldn't be that they were all beggars, right?
Didn’t local officials notice the sharp decline in population?
Or……
As he was walking, he suddenly noticed some movement in front of him. He used his psychic power to see that it was Pei Yu.
Pei Yu should have noticed me and came over here quickly.
After a while, the two met at a fork in the road. Pei Yu saw that Shen Li was fine, and the depression between his brows relaxed a little.
"Miss Shen, are you okay?"
"Master Wei, why are you here?"
The two people asked at the same time, which eased the atmosphere in the cave a little.
"I was waiting for you at the gate of the county government office. Seeing that you hadn't come for a long time, I guessed that you must have been delayed by something, so I went into the county government office to investigate. I found a well that was pressed by a huge rock, and I followed the path and came here."
Shen Li nodded, "I also found a well in a yard. There was a huge stone covering it. There were some runes on the stone. I walked here and found it."
Pei Yu pondered, took out a purse again, and poured out two milky white pills from it.
"This cave is not simple. Miss Shen took the detoxification pill, and I feel more at ease."
After he finished speaking, he ate one first. Seeing this, Shen Li also took it and ate it.
To be honest, those who died were most likely poisoned. You should cherish your hard-earned life!
Pei Yu saw her eat and took the lead in walking in the passage ahead. Soon, they came to an empty cave with more than a dozen passages inside.
There are bellows and an iron furnace at the bottom of the cave, and a lot of coal piled up in the corner. The most common things are bones, piled up with bones, and the clothes on their bodies are still intact, which shows that these people have not been dead for too long.
It makes people's scalp tingle. Judging from the number of bones, there must be a lot of people buried here.
Shen Li asked tentatively: "Are you smelting iron?"
"No," Pei Yu put away the fan, "They are doing alchemy here."
Shen Li was shocked to hear him say these shocking words in a calm tone.
“Alchemy…gold!”
If this happened in ancient times, it would be a capital crime and would also implicate nine generations of the family. These people are really brave.
"Yeah, and it's hidden quite deeply."
I don't know who is so bold, but I know that there must be someone behind the scenes, otherwise, an ordinary official would not dare to do such a thing even if he had ten times the courage.
"Let's go down and have a look."
"it is good."
Pei Yu took the torch from Shen Li and went down the stone steps. Soon they reached the bottom of the pit. They carefully avoided the scattered bones on the ground and came to the stove.
There are about ten furnaces here in total, and I don’t know where they found so many alchemists.
Pei Yu went forward and looked at these furnaces one by one. There were indeed traces of alchemy left on them. He pointed to one of the traces left:
"Look, there are still some residues here."
Shen Li came forward, but couldn't figure out what was going on. "Well, I don't know him."
Pei Yu retracted his finger and said, "Then let's go inside the mine and take a look?"
"There are so many mines, why don't we check them separately?"
Pei Yu shook his head. "No, this place is connected in all directions. It will be difficult to reunite if we separate. Let's go together."
Shen Li nodded and walked towards the nearest mine first. Inside the mine, there were traces of mining everywhere.
Although the two men were moving very fast, the mine was interconnected and it took them a quarter of an hour to reach the bottom of the mine, where some pickaxes and bamboo baskets were scattered.
Pei Yu picked up the torch and checked the stones on the wall at the end of the passage. Shen Li picked up a stone from the ground and felt that it was no different from ordinary stones because she knew nothing about these things.
Soon, except for the largest passage, the two of them checked all the remaining dozen or so mines. Apart from the more bones, there was nothing special.
"The gold mine may have been mined out."
"So sure, isn't there one last one?"
Standing at the last cave entrance, both of them had a very keen sense of smell, so they smelled the stench coming from inside.
Walking forward along the passage, the light of the torches that had been lit all the time began to flicker, and the air became gloomy and cold, completely eliminating the heat above.
Although it was much cooler, it gave people a creepy feeling for no reason.
The stench in the cave became stronger and stronger, and soon the passage came to an end. There was a cliff here, and the smell came from below the cliff. A faint sound of wind could be heard.
There was a cave entrance above the cliff, but it was a bit far away from them, so the entrance looked very small.
It was too dark in here, and the faint light at the entrance was not enough to illuminate the gloomy cave.
Moreover, from their position, they could vaguely see the fog above.
"Master Wei, this is where the stench comes from. Is there any way to see it clearly?"
Pei Yu nodded and said, "Wait a moment," then took out a small bamboo tube from his arms, opened it and threw it down.
Shen Li looked at him. Was he using the flare as a flare?
After the bamboo tube was thrown down, the two men stared closely at the bottom, and soon, a dull sound was heard.
Soon, the area below was also illuminated. The flare only lit up for a short moment. Now both of them were paying attention to the situation below, and neither of them missed the scene below that was enough to silence anyone.
The two remained silent for a long time until the flare went out.
Shen Li was somewhat thankful that she did not use her mental power to look further. Otherwise, thinking of this, goose bumps would appear on her arms.
There was indeed a pit below, but there were countless corpses in it.
Maybe due to the low temperature at the bottom of the pit, the corpses below are still fresh. Their eyes are wide open, and their faces and even the exposed skin are bluish purple.
The most important thing is that Shen Li saw several people bleeding from all seven orifices, which was very puzzling.
Of course, what she couldn't look at the most were the little cuties surging on the corpses. Perhaps it was because these people died of poisoning, and even the little cuties had become different.