Chapter 20 The Building Without Rooms (Part 1)
Ding Sitian carried the gas lamp that was about to run out of fuel, and with the dim light like beans, she tried hard to identify the remaining handwriting on the cement board: "Water Supply Force? 3916? What does this mean? Is it a military facility?"
When the fat man heard her, he squatted down and looked at the cement. This flat cement brick seemed to be deliberately made to seal the shaft, but the wellhead was not built. If the pry hook was used to open it from above, it could be opened easily. Both the cement bricks were coded, which was a certain standard building material.
Since the Qin Dynasty, in order to facilitate supervision and management, there has been a regulation that the names of craftsmen must be carved on bricks and tiles have been formed. However, no matter how you look at this cement brick, it is not like an antique. What is the "water supply force? Is it military? 3916 is the number of troops?" I guessed that some army had excavated the cave in the middle of the tunnel full of ghost-squeezing stones? I looked at Fatty and Ding Sitian, and they were also confused and could not guess what this was for.
I said to them, "Don't worry about the number on the cement for now. There are too many secrets hidden in the Hundred Eye Cave. Even if each of the three of us grows an extra head, the six heads will not understand these things if we think about it. Since we can't figure it out, don't bother to think about it. I see that the forest is full of dangers. If we encounter poisonous insects such as snails again, it will be troublesome. However, the terrain in the forest is complex and difficult to distinguish. We have to lose our mounts and carry the old sheepskin. It is impossible to touch the dark overnight. We can only find a relatively safe place to go until dawn before making a decision."
Ding Sitian looked at the dim sky with stars and said to me worriedly: "I think this night is really slow and long. We don't even have a watch. I don't know what time it is at night and how long it will take for the genius to light up." As she said that, she turned off the gas lights. There was a little faint starlight in the forest. She planned to save the last bit of lamp oil as much as possible for emergency response.
I also looked up at the starry sky. Although the light of the stars and moons was bleak, fortunately the most important stars could still be vaguely recognized. First, find the handle of the Big Dipper to confirm the direction, and then find the three stars. I saw the three stars siding horizontally, shining light and hanging in the east. At night, the Northeast region calculates the time by the position of the three stars in the sky. Judging from this, I guess it is only around 10 o'clock in the night. The wilderness is dark early. It has been six or seven hours since it got dark, but it is still not midnight.
The fat man could also observe the method of identifying the time of the three stars. He calculated with his fingers that it would take at least seven hours to dawn. How could it be safe if he had such a long time? He suggested that it would be better to go back to the cave just now and find a way to leave at dawn.
But when the three of them thought of the large number of wild rats in the cave, the dirty and humid environment, the danger of landslides and collapse at any time, and the evil mural of "Huang Xian Gu", they immediately gave up this idea. Seeing that there was an old tree beside me, they decided to climb up the tree to see the nearby terrain, and then make a decision.
When I came to the tree, I used my hands and feet, climbed up the tree trunk. At this time, the fog in the forest had dissipated. I stepped on the branch and hugged the tree twig with my hands, looked down, and couldn't see the faces of Ding Sitian and the fat man. I waved to them, ignored whether they saw them or not, so I looked up to observe the surrounding terrain.
But at this time, dark clouds covered the moon, and there were only a few cold stars in the sky. After watching for a long time, I only saw the shadows of trees nearby, and I couldn't see clearly where I could accommodate them. In the dark and hazy environment, people always subconsciously tried to open their eyes wide and wanted to see more clearly, but their eyes were sore and they didn't see anything.
I held the tree trunk, rubbed my eyes with one hand, twisted my neck to look at the other side. At this moment, the sky was floating, and the cold moonlight shone out from the thin dark clouds. With the hazy moment of the moonlight, I found that behind me, at most a distance between a few trees, there was a blurry shadow standing, as if it was a large building. Since all the houses were dead without lights, they only looked dark and similar to the outline of the building facilities.
When I looked closely, the clouds had once again covered the moonlight. A little further away was pitch black, and even the outline was shadowless. Since I had discovered the cement board with the army number before, I was not too surprised to find some houses nearby, but I did not expect that they would be so close to us.
I wanted to wait a little longer and see clearly when the moonlight leaked again, but Fatty and Ding Sitian were worried that I would fall and urge me to go down quickly. So I hurriedly slipped down from the tree and explained to Fatty and others what I saw on the tree that there seemed to be a house-like facility there, but it was dark and lit inside without any movement. If it was a house-like building, even if it was uninhabited, it would at least have four walls and one roof. Maybe some food could be found inside, which was better than being cold and dark in the forest, so the three of them agreed to wait there for dawn.
I pointed out the direction, and the three of them walked slowly over together in old sheepskin. As I walked, I noticed that someone was following us, but when I looked back, there was no movement. I thought I had heard it wrong, and I didn't take this matter to heart. I led everyone through the knee-deep weeds in the woods, and facing a three-story building.
The building looks ordinary, but it has a foreign flavor, both in the form and is neither medium nor western. There is glass on the windows and is well preserved. It is definitely a modern building. The fat man looked in the window for a long time. There was no light inside and nothing could be seen. However, all the windows were sealed with seals, with some strange Japanese and symbols on it.
Ding Sitian said to me: "This building is neither like a foreign building nor a modern Chinese building. In my impression, only Japanese people would build such a strange style of buildings. Soviet revisionists would never be able to build a building here. This is probably the military house of the water supply force, right?" During the War of Resistance Against Japan, this area was once a Japanese-controlled area, and it was very likely to be a building like a military house. At that time, the Japanese imitated Europe and admired foreign countries very much, and thought that everything in Europe was good. Even ordinary buildings would absorb the characteristics of Western buildings to a greater or lesser extent. If that were the case, it had been abandoned for at least twenty years now.
I nodded without saying anything, thinking to myself, it turned out that this place was occupied by the Japanese devils. Are the bandits from the "Nier Club" traitors? All the things dug out were used to honor the devils? I don't know what unknown secrets are hidden in this building, but these things are completely unreliable based on speculation. Let's talk about something until dawn. I asked the fat man to carry the old sheepskin and walk along the wall to find the door of the building.
Chapter completed!