[Chapter 178: The spiritual energy fluctuations across the dark river]
There is a small dark tunnel in the earthen kang. There is no light inside. Yang Yiyu’s spiritual consciousness can only be released nine meters away. There is nothing suspicious within nine meters.
The two walked in. It was narrow and dim inside, but Yang Yiyu’s spiritual consciousness was not affected at all. The
tunnel here is different from the one found when they came in before. It seems to be an independent tunnel. There is no branch after walking for dozens of meters, and the terrain continues to extend downward at a 30-degree angle.
Yang Yiyu and Qiu Yun are in the dark tunnel. Even with the existence of spiritual consciousness, it is not affected. They just move forward directly…
After walking for about a thousand meters, Yang Yiyu’s spiritual consciousness suddenly found that the space suddenly became larger. There is no trace of artificial tunnels behind here. It has completely become a natural cave.
Thirty degrees of inclination and nearly a thousand meters down, if converted, is equivalent to about 300 meters vertically, which means that they have gone nearly 300 meters underground.
According to the geographical environment, the primary loess of the Loess Plateau is a eolian deposit under the dry and cold climate conditions of the Quaternary Ice Age. The secondary loess is the transformation of the primary loess through flood and alluvial deposition. During the Quaternary loess accumulation period, with the climate cycle of the glacial and interglacial periods, the loess layer showed the replacement of loess and paleosol.
It is also one of the areas in the world with the most serious soil erosion and the most fragile ecological environment. The terrain slopes from northwest to southeast. Except for many rocky mountains, most of it is covered with thick layers of loess. After long-term and strong erosion by running water, it gradually formed a special natural landscape with thousands of gullies and fragmented terrain. The landform
is undulating, with mountains, hills, plains and wide valleys coexisting. Surrounded by mountain systems, the Loess Plateau is rich in resources such as coal, oil, and bauxite. It is also an important energy and chemical base in Kyushu. The loess particles are fine, the soil is soft, and it contains rich mineral nutrients, which is conducive to farming. The basins and river valleys have a long history of agricultural reclamation.
Except for a few rocky mountains, the plateau is covered with a thick layer of loess, which is generally between 50 and 80 meters thick, and the thickest is 150 to 200 meters thick.
In other words, they have already left the loess layer, and the caves that appear now are all made of gray-green rocks.
Yang Yiyun casually tested the hardness of the rock on the cave and found it was very hard. It should be some kind of rare mineral. He never thought that there would be a tunnel deep underground here, directly penetrating the loess layer and reaching the underground rock cave.
Except for the narrow passage at the beginning, this is completely natural. It should be a cave formed naturally countless years ago.
I guessed that maybe the Northwest was also a big ocean in the Ice Age, but after countless years of crustal movement, the sea water dried up, and the melting of glaciers turned it into a loess plateau.
The caves here may be the real landforms of the Northwest at a certain stage in ancient times.
Yang Yiyun thought that maybe it had been here for many years. It was discovered when Qiu Yun’s ancestors were bandits. Now it was discovered by Chen Baiwan. I don’t know if it is a storage place or another escape route.
If it is an escape route, would Chen Baiwan have escaped?
The terrain here in the cave is flat, and the whole cave is a bit humid. The height and width are about four or five meters.
After walking forward for about a few minutes, Yang Yiyun suddenly heard the sound of water flowing.
The first reaction was an underground river.
Standing in place and listening, it was indeed the sound of water flowing, and it was not small. It should be a large underground river.
One of them seemed to hear footsteps and voices, dozens of meters away.
With a move in his heart, Qiu Yun and he quickened their pace and rushed over.
After walking a few steps, light appeared in the sky. It was indeed a person.
From a distance, three figures were seen, holding flashlights in their hands. Not far from the three people was an underground river about 20 meters wide. There was a modern inflatable boat on the shore, and it seemed that something was being moved onto the boat.
Yang Yiyun saw that these three people were all acquaintances.
There were one man and two women. The man was Chen Baiwan. One of the two women was the woman who had had an affair with the old blind man, and the other was the female killer Wang Yilin who had intercepted Chen Baiqian for the first time.
“Hurry up and take the gold and gems. Don’t take the others~” Chen Baiwan’s voice revealed anxiety, as if he was running away when a disaster was about to happen.
Indeed, he was frightened by Yang Yiyun today. From the moment Yang Yiyun cut off Ma Xingtian’s head with a sword, he knew that he could not defeat him. Although there was an old blind man who was an expert in poison at that time, Chen Baiwan and the old blind man were not on good terms. He did not dare to put his hope on the old blind man, so he fled from the earthen kang tunnel in the inner room.
After entering the secret passage, he hurriedly found his two women through the secret passage and prepared to take them to take away the wealth accumulated over the years and prepare to escape from the dark river.
Since he accidentally learned that there was a treasure left by bandits here decades ago, Chen Baiwan has been looking for it. Shao Qiuyun’s parents only got the news that the treasure was in the underground cave, and did not know where it was stored.
After searching for more than ten years, he almost dug the secret passage of the cave three feet deep but still couldn’t find the treasure. However, he found a road leading directly to the outside world here. Going out along the dark river, he can go directly to the vicinity of Qing City, a very hidden escape passage.
After development and construction, a small boat can be moved. Today, Yang Yiyu came to kill him and he could only escape from here, taking away the wealth stored here.
Yang Yiyu gave Chen Baiwan the feeling of being an evil star, too evil. He didn’t dare to guarantee whether the old blind man could take down Yang Yiyu, nor did he guarantee whether Yang Yiyu would escape from the old blind man and then find the secret passage to catch up, so he was very anxious. He
always felt that his mind was in a trance.
Yang Yiyu, who was far away, saw Chen Baiwan and the other two moving things to escape, sneered, and immediately jumped up and stabbed with a sword.
Just like Chen Baiwan who had luckily escaped from the claws of an eagle, he was extremely alert. When Yang Yiyu swung his sword, he felt something was wrong with the wind in the air. He turned around suddenly and saw clearly that it was Yang Yiyu who stabbed him with the sword. He was so scared that his whole body trembled.
Seeing Yang Yiyun approaching with a sword, he had no time to dodge, and he was not sure he could take Yang Yiyun’s sword. He made up his mind and slapped the woman next to him, and met Yang Yiyun’s sword. Then he jumped into the dark river without looking back.
“Puff~Ah~”
After Yang Yiyun stabbed with a sword, he didn’t expect Chen Baiwan to be so shameless and decisive. He actually slapped the woman who had an affair with the old blind man and used her as a shield. The woman was killed by his sword. The
decisive Chen Baiwan also jumped into the dark river to escape. At this time, Qiu Yun shouted: “Sir, be careful~”
Without Qiu Yun’s reminder, he felt the sneak attack from behind and slashed with a sword.
“Ding~”
“Ah~”
It was Wang Yilin who stabbed him from behind with a sword, and Yang Yiyun directly chopped off the sword in her hand with a sword, and the remaining force killed her with a sword.
So far, both of Chen Baiwan’s women died under Yang Yiyun’s sword, but Chen Baiwan jumped into the dark darkness.
Seeing the deep dark river without any ripples, Yang Yiyu did not jump into the water to look for Chen Baiwan. This was a dark river, and there might be some creatures there. It was not worth taking risks in an unknown place.
Besides, it was still unknown whether Chen Baiwan could survive after jumping into the dark river. He would wait on the shore and kill him if he came out of the water. If he did not come out, Yang Yiyu thought that the chance of him surviving in the dark river was also very small.
Looking at the two women who died under his sword, Yang Yiyu sighed and fired the True Essence Fire to burn their bodies.
In fact, he was reluctant to kill women, but the first woman was hit by Chen Baiwan and hit his sword. The second woman,
Wang Yilin, was trying to assassinate him, and he swung his sword and killed her.
Hearing the footsteps of Qiu Yun coming from a distance, Yang Yiyu waved his hand to tighten the four boxes of the inflatable boat into the Qiankun Space. He did not want Qiu Yun to see the secret of his use of the Qiankun Space.
I heard Chen Baiwan talking about gold before, and I thought that the four boxes should be Chen Baiwan’s accumulated wealth. Such a windfall should not be missed.
After Qiu Yun came over, the two picked up the flashlight on the ground to check the surface of the dark river to see if Chen Baiwan would come out!
But after waiting for more than half an hour, no water surface emerged in the dark river.
In order to find Chen Baiwan’s trace, Yang Yiyu walked along the edge of the dark river. At a certain moment, he stood in a relatively high place, and suddenly a faint spiritual fluctuation came from his spiritual consciousness.
A flashlight shone over in his mind, but he found that there was a spiritual fluctuation in the direction of a mountain wall on the opposite side of the dark river. It
seemed that there was a lot of space on the opposite side of the dark river, and the karst rocks were completely black as ink. From a distance, it looked like an endless dark space with no end.
At this time, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed through Yang Yiyu’s mind, and he remembered the two love poems that sister Qiu Yun recited before she died.
Love turns into flowing water in the underworld, and love is the flower at the end of the other shore!
Could it be related to the treasure?
(End of this chapter)
