Chapter 10 Tiankeng

The strong man finally pulled down Xu Han's trousers and suddenly heard Zhou Shizhu's order. He couldn't help but stiffen, and then immediately untie Xu Han.

After loosening the binding, Xu Han couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and a feeling of the rest of his life after the disaster rose to his heart. He put on his trousers randomly, walked to Zhou Qi, bowed to him respectfully, and said sincerely, "Thank you, Mr. Seven!"

Zhou Qi waved his hand and said impatiently, "Don't... Don't be busy thanking me. I still have something for you to do. Come with me!"

Xu Han followed Zhou Qi blankly, and Zhou Qi's two close guards followed closely and walked an inch. The five people walked out of the prison hall. After getting outside, they walked along the low wall of the prison hall, circled to the back, and then passed through the heavy houses and walked towards the back mountain.

At this time, Xu Han suddenly felt inexplicably uneasy. He wanted to ask, but he saw that the seventh son and the two close guards were only worried about their heads and shook their heads, so they had to give up.

However, the more Xu Han walked, the more he felt something was wrong. There was a feeling in his heart that he had just come out of the wolf's nest and entered the mouth of the tiger. The joy of the rest of his life after the disaster was fading little by little, and a terrible guess gradually came to his mind.

When passing a remote alley, Xu Han finally couldn't help it. He looked at no one around and asked carefully, "Seven, where do you want to take the villain?"

Zhou Qi stopped, turned around, stared into Xu Han's eyes, and said unhappily, "Xu Han, don't you know Uncle Jiu's means? If I hadn't come forward, you would have been tortured to death by him, and you would definitely die ugly!"

Xu Han was deeply convinced, so he quickly bowed and said, "Thank you for saving my life. Xu Han will never forget it!"

Zhou Qi raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't be so disgusting. You are not a peerless beauty. I don't need you to worry about it. It's just that what I want you to do is not easy. You have to be mentally prepared.

Xu Han nodded and said solemnly, "The villain's kindness and resentment are clear. This rotten life was saved by the seven princes, and it is natural to repay death."

Zhou Qi laughed, came over and patted Xu Han's arm and said in a low voice, "Many people say that there is treasure emanating from the sinkhole at night, and I just want you to go down to the sinkhole to explore. If there is really a treasure below, hey..."

Zhou Qi's eyes were bright, and his hands rubbed excitedly, completely ignoring Xu Han's face had become bloodless.

He said it lightly, as if it was as easy as letting Xu Han go to the cellar to help him get the wine jar he had treasured for many years, but as soon as the word Tiankeng came out of his mouth, Xu Han felt a whirlwind, and his eyes were dark, and he almost fainted. Unexpectedly, the terrible guess in his heart turned into a living reality.

The sinkhole is located in a vegetable garden at the foot of the mountain.

Just last month, due to several rare downpour in a row, the ground of the vegetable garden at the foot of the mountain suddenly sank, forming a bottomless sinkhole with a radius of four or five feet.

The appearance of the sinkhole immediately caused a sensation in Zhoujiazhuang. Almost all the thousands of people in the village went to see it, and Xu Han was no exception.

In the next few days, more than a dozen servants who cared for the vegetable garden suddenly broke out amazing news. They vowed that on a star-stubbly night, they saw with their own eyes pearls emanating from the sinkhole. There must be heavy treasures in the sinkhole, which may be an amazing Treasure!

As soon as the news came out, Zhou Zhengtang, the current owner of Zhoujiazhuang, immediately asked someone to bring a rope more than ten feet long, tied it to a thousand-year-old tree next to the sinkhole, and then ordered people to climb down along the rope to explore. However, half a day later, the people who went down did not react at all. The person at the pit called his name desperately in the pit without any response. It seemed that something had happened. The person above shook the rope and found that the rope was not strong at all. So when I sent someone down again, I still went into the sea like a mud cow. There was no news at all, and my life and death were uncertain!

Within a few days, Zhou Jiazhuang sent more than a dozen families down one after another, and disappeared into the sinkhole without accident. There was no more news. It seemed that there were many bad luck and less luck. As a result, no one dared to go down.

Although Zhou Zhengtang is the owner of Zhoujiazhuang, this kind of forced death is very unpopular. Among the Zhou family, many people accused him face to face, and his own brothers even threatened that if he dared to mess up again, they would unite to abolish him as the position of owner. Zhou Zhengtang had no choice but to give up.

What happened later finally kept people away from this terrible sinkhole.

That day, when many people gathered around the mouth of Tiankeng to watch the bustle, the area around the pit suddenly collapsed again, and the area of the pit expanded from the original four or five feet to more than ten feet! At that time, more than a dozen people standing near the mouth of the pit fell into the bottomless sinkhole and disappeared forever.

This sinkhole became a frightening pit of death for a while.

Now, I suddenly heard Zhou Qi say that he wanted him to go down to the sinkhole to explore. Xu Han didn't faint on the spot.

How's it going? Want to go back on your word? You just said that the saliva spewing out by the words 'retribution to death' has not fallen to the ground, and you have repented so quickly? Seeing Xu Han standing in a daze, pale and speechless for a long time, Zhou Qi said coldly, "However, I have always been generous and never difficult. A Biao Aqiang, since Xu Han doesn't want to, then send him back to the execution hall and let Uncle Jiu play slowly.

Zhou Qi's two close guards didn't say a word, one left and one right, and set up Xu Han and walked back.

Xu Han's mind flashed, remembered Zhou Shizhu's words, remembered the scene just now, remembered the thing, remembered his poor ten fingers and ten toes, remembered Zhou Ziyu's words this morning, and couldn't help fighting a cold war all over his body.

So, Xu Han gritted his teeth and shouted, "Seven, slow down. The villain did not say anything to regret. The villain was just shocked for a moment. Tiankeng? What's the big deal? It's just a death. It's much cleaner than suffering alive. The villain will explore this sinkhole with the seventh son!"

A group of four quickly came to the back mountain and outside the wall around the sinkhole.

In order to avoid another accident, Zhou Zhuang ordered people to build a wall more than one person high outside the Tiankeng on Thursday to encircle this terrible sinkhole and set it as a forbidden place to prevent idle people and livestock from approaching. Of course, this wall is not surrounded, but a small door with a dilapidated door panel

I don't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, there is a huge ancient tree outside the gate of Tiankeng. It is a locust tree, which is like an umbrella, with luxuriant branches and leaves, covering one-third of the area of the wall.

The personal guard named A Biao tied the rope firmly to the trunk of the locust tree. He tied it very carefully, not careless at all, and made several knots one after another. They don't want Xu Han to fall to death. They hope that Xu Han can come up alive to know if there is any treasure below, otherwise all this will be busy.

Another guard named Aqiang carried a large bundle of ropes, pushed open the broken wooden door, entered the wall, and threw the large bundle of ropes into the sinkhole more than ten steps away. A few days ago, the mouth of the pit collapsed, and more than a dozen people fell down and died. The bones were gone. He didn't want to get too close to this deadly pit.

Soon, everything is ready.

Zhou Qi looked at Xu Han and said, "A few days ago, when those people climbed down, the ropes used were only more than 300 to 500 feet long at most. This time, I deliberately connected several ropes that were two or three hundred feet long, absolutely no less than 1,000 feet long. Such a long rope must have reached the bottom of the pit. I hope you won't let me down.

Xu Han nodded solemnly, silently picked up the prepared things one by one, put them on his belt, and then walked to the sinkhole without hesitation.

The bottom is black, and the torch will naturally not be missing. In addition to the torch, Zhou Qi actually prepared a machete for him as a self-defense. It seems that this seventh son is really thoughtful.

Xu Han is a kitchen man. He usually goes to the back mountain to cut firewood, but he is very familiar with climbing and other work. In addition, he was thin and light, and it was not difficult to slip down slowly by grasping the rope, but the yin from the bottom of the pit made his scalp numb. Moreover, the darker the light, the greater the psychological pressure.

The humidity is getting bigger in the air, and there is a faint smell of carrion in the strong earthy smell. This smell smells very uncomfortable. At the same time, Xu Han can't help thinking of those people who disappeared here a few days ago. He couldn't help but feel a burst of hair and his whole heart hung up.

It was quiet around and there was no sound at all.

After slipping down the rope for a while, about 50 feet from the ground, Xu Han's feet actually landed. However, then he found that it was not to the bottom of the pit, but to step on the slope of the other side of the pit wall. Because the sinkhole caused by this subsidence is not straight down and the shape is irregular, his foot is only a slope of the pit wall at this time.

At the foot, the soft mud and sand fell down, and a pumice the size of a fist was also shaken and fell down. Xu Han quickly listened, and it took a long time to faintly hear the slight sound of the stone falling into the water!

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It turns out that there is water at the bottom of the pit! It's just that the distance is too terrible.

Xu Han was surprised, and then laughed dumbly. It rained for so long and fell into such a deep pit. There was no water. But since this pit is caused by the subsidence, what about the original sandstones? Where have they all gone? Is it possible that there is an underground river below? Due to the heavy rainfall, the river flooded and washed away the sunken sand?

"Well, nine times out of ten," Xu Hanxin said.