Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Just half an hour ago, three men who were resting on the first floor were chatting while looking at the raging snowstorm outside. These three people were from the same unit and had a good relationship. They were all night owls and were used to going to bed late and getting up late. Moreover, they felt cold after sitting all the time. They tried to fall asleep but were still woken up by the cold. In the end, they just got up to smoke.

"It's snowing heavily outside, how long do we have to stay before we can leave? We can't just stay here forever, and we don't have much dry food left. Staying here any longer is not a solution. I should have not listened to Fan Yong and got involved in this mess. At least we have a heater at home, but here we have nothing and the door is leaking. Damn it, the more I think about it, the angrier I get." Man A couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

"Okay, did anyone force you to come? We agreed to sign up in the group. Didn't you say you came here because you wanted to see the black hole? Besides, this was an accident. Let's just take it one step at a time. Maybe the snowstorm will stop tomorrow." Man C patted Man A on the shoulder, but he was actually quite unsure himself. It was just that there were many people around him, so he felt that he was not fighting alone, so he didn't feel a sense of urgency.

The two chatted, but saw that Man B was leaning against the wall smoking, but his body was leaning towards the door, so he asked curiously: "Why are you looking outside without saying anything? What can you see in the pitch black?"

"I guess he misses his wife. It seems like they just got married not long ago? Half a year or a year." A joked with a smile.

Man B next to him blew out a smoke ring, which was immediately blown away by the cold wind blowing in from outside. The man's sight fell on a faint white light in front of him. It was the only street lamp nearby that was not damaged by the snowstorm. It was only because the lampshade was covered by the falling snow that the light was not very obvious. However, that location was near the strange black hole, less than a hundred meters away from the unfinished building.

After slightly retracting his gaze, he pointed the finger holding the cigarette in the direction of the street light and said, "Aren't you curious about what's in that hole?"

After hearing this, C just smiled and said, "What's the point of being curious? We can't get down here. Fan Yong and the people who have been to the cave said it's at least dozens of meters deep. If this person falls in, he'll be dead."

B shook his head, and suddenly a strange smile appeared on his face: "That may not be the case. If there is a rope, we can go down."

A suddenly thought of something, his expression suddenly changed, and his tone became cautious: "You are not going to think about it, are you?"

A and B have known each other for two years and were colleagues before they moved into the civil servants' residential area. A has a general idea of ​​C's past. This guy was a rock climbing coach at an outdoor fitness club before the end of the world. His favorite thing to do is to challenge his limits. It is said that he has climbed several mountains in China and even went abroad to climb the snow that ordinary people cannot climb. He is an avid fan of outdoor extreme sports. This time he took the initiative to sign up for the team organized by Fan Yong, and I'm afraid he came for this purpose from the beginning.

"Aren't you curious about what's inside?" Man B asked with a mysterious smile.

Man C half-crouched down, looking somewhat depressed, nodding and shaking his head from time to time: "There's no point in being curious. We can't go in without knowing anything. We don't even know where this cave leads to."

Man B put the cigarette holder to his lips again and took a quick puff. "I overheard it today. This hole might lead to the underground city. And it's very close to the entrance of the underground city. Maybe the area below our feet has been dug a long time ago."

"Is this news reliable?" A seemed a little unconvinced.

C slapped his thigh and suddenly lowered his voice: "Now that I think of it, my cousin just came out of the underground city last month. He was originally in charge of a construction team in the underground city. He was notified to leave the underground city at the last minute when the project was about to be completed, and there was no detailed explanation or statement. But on the day the construction team left, the guards took over their original construction location, and even the research institute's car drove underground. There is definitely something fishy going on."

B looked as if he had suddenly realized something. "No wonder Fan Yong insisted on coming to this place. Perhaps he had already noticed the unusualness of this black hole, so he organized this operation. On the surface, he was exploring the black hole to find the mastermind behind the murder of the Wild Wolf Mercenaries, but in fact, everything was a cover-up. His main purpose was to go to the black hole. There must be some treasure in this black hole. Do you remember the most popular post on the forum a few months ago?"

"The post that directly targets the excavation of the dungeon. There are many unknown energy stones waiting to be excavated in the dungeon. The top management of the base has delayed opening the dungeon to the public in order to monopolize these energy stones? I remember that the post was pushed to the top of the hot posts and then deleted. It seems that the people above are deliberately hiding something." C became more and more excited as he spoke, and even stood up and paced back and forth. "Fuck, this Fan Yong must know something. I'll go find him and ask him clearly."

C was pulled back by A and B before he could get far. "Are you crazy? Now is not the time to fall out with Fan Yong. Besides, all this is just our speculation. Do you have any evidence? If a fight breaks out, Fan Yong will bite you back."

"Then tell me how we should solve this problem. We can't just sit there and wait to die. Fan Yong must have a backup plan." C clenched his fists and then opened them angrily. It was obvious that he couldn't swallow this.

B, who had been relatively calm, suggested, "We can't go find Fan Yong, but we can't let Fan Yong act before us either. How about... we go out and take a look first?"

"Go out? It's snowing so heavily..." C was obviously hesitant, especially with the biting cold wind. It was hard to tell how far one could go.

A's eyes fell outside, he shrank his neck, and the struggle that had just subsided appeared on his face. "Although the wind is a bit strong, it seems to be better than in the afternoon. Besides, the black hole is not far from us. We can get there in a few minutes if we grit our teeth. If we go out now, no one will find us. Maybe it's a good opportunity."

Seeing that A and B seemed to have made up their minds, C gradually calmed down. Thinking of the large amount of energy stones and the unknown appearance of the dungeon, it was obvious that excitement and curiosity were greater than fear at this moment, so he gritted his teeth and nodded: "That's right, if we don't risk it, we will get nothing. Let's go and take a look first."

So in the middle of the night, no one noticed that three people were quietly missing from the team.

All that was left of the three men were fleeting footprints on the snow, but they were soon covered up by the blizzard.

The three of them braved the wind and snow and walked with difficulty. It took them nearly twelve or thirteen minutes to move to the vicinity of the black hole. They breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the dark hole was still there. C was so tired that he collapsed and sat on the ground.

A was holding an engineering pestle in his hand and was also out of breath. Only the coach, whose physical strength was better than that of ordinary people, stretched his head to look into the cave entrance, and then threw a fist-sized stone prepared in his pocket into the cave, silently calculating in his mind and listening to the sound of the stone falling to the ground.

Nine seconds, it took a full nine seconds to hear the sound of the stone falling completely to the ground, and during this time a "dong dong" sound was also heard, but this was probably because the cave was not a straight line but a winding and twisted shape, so the stone collided with the protruding parts many times.

"It took nine seconds, and many parts of it extended downward in a winding manner. The length is about thirty meters, which is the height of a six-story building." B began to calculate the entire length of the cave entrance downwards in his mind, and then he showed a "three" to the others with his fingers, and saw A start to put down his backpack and take out a bundle of prepared hemp rope from it.

The rope was prepared by B. It was nearly seventy or eighty meters long and was a professional climbing rope. He also brought some climbing equipment before the end of the world into the base. Because there was no suitable climbing area in the base, B could only occasionally run to some undeveloped areas in the outer circle to find places that could barely be called "hillsides" for rock climbing.

C, who was standing next to him, was startled when he saw B's gesture. He opened his mouth and asked something, but because the blizzard was so severe, the sound of the wind and snow completely drowned out the human voice. In the end, he could only anxiously point inside the cave and then at them.

A understood what B wanted to express. He simply felt that thirty meters was too deep. He was not sure whether he could get down there with just a rope. Although he had participated in several outdoor training camps before the end of the world, he was just doing it for fun, which was very different from a professional like B. So he didn't know whether to hand over the rope or not with a while.

B seemed very anxious. He grabbed the rope from A's hand and fastened the buckle on himself very skillfully. Then he glanced at the street lamp only seven or eight meters away from the cave, wrapped the other side of the rope around the lamp pole, and then returned to the edge of the cave.

After doing all this, B took out a professional head-mounted flashlight from his backpack and put it on his head. Then, after making a little preparation, he searched the soil at the entrance of the cave, guessing where to start.

In fact, going down a cave is different from general rock climbing. After all, the soil on both sides of the cave is relatively slippery, and there are not many places to step on. What is more important is to rely on the force of sliding down. And the person at the cave entrance has to let go of the rope little by little. If it is released too quickly at once, it may easily cause the person who tied the rope to fall and cause casualties.

Fortunately, the three of them had discussed the specific operations before coming. Naturally, B took the lead, followed by A who had rock climbing experience. C went down last, and the last person could let out the rope little by little, while A and B below would support him in the cave.

Originally, the three people wanted to use the mobile phone call mode to contact each other, but since they came here, they don’t know whether it is affected by the weather or because of the inexplicable magnetic field interference, the mobile phone signal here is always only one bar, and many calls showed that they could not be connected, so the few people had to temporarily give up contact.

After all, B had many experiences in rock climbing, plus he had accumulated experience and abilities from his seven or eight years of coaching career, so the process of going down the cave was smooth and fast, and the depth of the cave was basically consistent with his prediction.

When it was A's turn to go down, it was obviously becoming much more difficult. Firstly, it was because of his lack of experience, so he didn't control the strength correctly at the beginning, resulting in not releasing the rope on his body little by little. Secondly, he was afraid. Once he got nervous, his limbs were out of control and his toes couldn't step on the rock wall, so he went down seven or eight meters in one go. A was so scared that he screamed inside, and C, who was at the edge of the cave, was so scared that he didn't dare to let go of the rope.

Fortunately, when the last section of rope was about ten meters away, it was finally released. A's body spun half a circle in the air. He quickly leaned against the rock wall in front of him with shaking feet, and then he stabilized his body slightly. At this time, he found that a layer of cold sweat had already appeared on his forehead.

"Hey, are you okay?" C at the top shouted quickly.

A took a few deep breaths and then replied to C with some lingering fear: "No, it's okay."

B, who had already entered the bottom, found that the cave entrance was much more spacious than he had imagined. There was a large open space extending backwards from the place where he had come down. Judging from the wetness of the surrounding soil layers and the strong smell of mud in the cave, this place should have been excavated not long ago. But it was hard to say what had dug it, because the excavation marks around the cave entrance had been wetted by the melted ice and frost, and the earlier marks had been covered again. If you are not a professional, it would be difficult to determine whether it was excavated by a machine or a mutant animal.

But no matter which possibility it was, B was already overwhelmed by excitement. Although the dark cave gave him a creepy feeling, he still wanted to continue exploring this unknown cave in depth.

B adjusted the flashlight to the brightest setting, raised his head and carefully checked A's descent. Currently, A had entered more than half of the cave, with only a dozen meters left. He only needed to follow the actions he had said before to reach the underground safely.

When A had only three or four meters left, he thought everything would go smoothly this time. However, he relaxed and let go of the rope too quickly. He immediately slid down vertically without any intention of stopping.

Fortunately, he kicked hard with his legs in the end, so he did not fall heavily when he landed on the ground. Instead, he landed on his butt and was unable to recover for a long time.

B immediately stepped forward and pulled him up, "Are you okay?"

The flashlight on B's head illuminated A's face, which was completely bloodless. A came to his senses from the shock, and the first thing he said was "Fuck, I was so scared, I thought I was going to die from the fall."

"Okay, you won't die. It's only three or four meters. At most, your femur will be fractured." B joked as he untied the ropes on A.

The two who finally got underground walked down along the cave entrance. A was still a little scared. After all, it was dark ahead and he didn't know what was there. If he ran into a mutant beast, wouldn't he die in vain? So he hesitated and said, "Do we really want to go in?"

B was actually quite unsure in his heart, but the arrow was already on the string and had to be shot. Besides, fortune and wealth are sought in danger, so he couldn't be cowardly on this trip!