Chapter 99: Cannes, the city of empty nests (1)
Suddenly, I heard a sound in the entrance of the canyon in front, like a carriage driving towards this side on the track. Nie Xiaosheng still thought it would be better to be careful. He and Chanwu hid in the corner of the abandoned station and observed here. After a while, a carriage drove towards the track. Nie Xiaosheng hid in the dark for a long time and found that there was no movement in the carriage, so he wanted to go over and see what was going on inside.
Chan Wu stopped Nie Xiaosheng and said, "Don't be reckless. There has been no one here for a long time. How could the transport vehicle be driven over for no reason?"
Nie Xiaosheng said: "It may also be the people who dug the hole. They just wanted to come in and see if there was any treasure. It was nothing serious for us. I'll go over and take a look."
Nie Xiaosheng approached the transport vehicle and climbed onto its iron carriage. There were indeed many objects in the carriage, and many corpses were buried in these objects. Nie Xiaosheng looked carefully and found that the bodies had been petrified, looking like they had been cursed.
Nie Xiaosheng was about to touch the corpses, but he was stopped by Chanwu and said, "What are you doing? Is there something inside? Don't touch them easily and cause trouble!"
Nie Xiaosheng said indifferently: "It's just some dead people. I want to get them out so that we can leave in these two trucks."
Chan Wu looked at the things in the iron carriage and said, "Are these people really here to hunt for treasures? I don't think these things are so valuable. Some of them look like fakes with gold paint, and these objects are not filled with gems, but some smooth stones."
Nie Xiaosheng said: "I think so. Maybe they came here and found that there was nothing valuable here, and they didn't want to go home empty-handed, so they came with a little bit of rags."
Chanwu said: "Do you think those treasure hunters are the bodies lying in this carriage?"
Nie Xiaosheng said: "It's hard to say, but at least we know what kind of dangers we will encounter when we walk from here."
Chan Wu analyzed: "That's right. You see, these people should have taken things that they shouldn't have taken, and we just don't touch them when we see them."
Nie Xiaosheng said: "Well, then let's go from here."
Walk along the entrance of the canyon. Both sides of the canyon are fixed with steel bars and wooden fences, and there are also forks that stagger directly to the underground, which should be transporting coal and minerals.
After walking forward for a while, there were no mechanical facilities in the canyon and became much more deserted. There were rocks and hills piled up on both sides of the canyon, and some corpses with only bones left. I don’t know what animal it belongs to.
The road was desolate and there was nothing to delay. There was only one track under your feet. Nie Xiaosheng and the others did not turn when they encountered a fork. They kept following this track until the track turned in one place and entered the ground.
Nie Xiaosheng walked out of the canyon, came to the place where the track turned, and looked around. There was flat ground on all sides, and there was a powerful eight-sided pagoda in the middle. It was not visible in the canyon just now, but it was not until he left the canyon that he could see it. The tower was tied with dozens of iron chains, and the iron chains were fixed on the top of the canyon. It should be used for checks and balances towers. This eight-sided tower is not small, standing in the center of all the canyon mouths, and the tracks coming out of the canyon entered the iron tower.
After Nie Xiaosheng and Chan Wu approached, they found that the first floor of the tower was more than ten meters high, and one door could accommodate several transport vehicles. The other doors of the tower were closed, only one was open, and the track was exactly where Nie Xiaosheng and the others came, that is, the one with the car carrying the corpse. Looking at the dark and gloomy gate, Chan Wu asked, "What is this tower for?"
Nie Xiaosheng pointed to the iron plaque on the tower and said, "Kangcheng! This is Kangcheng!"
Chan Wu said: "Kangcheng? Have you been here?"
Nie Xiaosheng waved his hand and said, "No, but I have heard of Kangcheng for a long time. I used to think Kangcheng was a city, but I didn't expect it to be an iron tower."
Chan Wu asked: "Is it the underground machinery city you mentioned before?"
Nie Xiaosheng said: "Yes, I'm talking about it. Kangcheng also has another name called Kong Cicada Ground Nest."
Chanwu said, "You know a lot."
Nie Xiaosheng said: "Of course, do you know why it is called Kangcheng?"
Chanwu pursed her lips with her index finger and said, "Kang, it means wealthy, Kangcheng should be very wealthy."
Nie Xiaosheng clapped his hands and shouted: "It's worthy of being my Nie Xiaosheng's woman. Yes, Kangcheng's underground mines are very rich. It can be said that the city of science and technology built in ancient countries floating in the air are all taken from Kangcheng. Moreover, Kangcheng uses transparent barriers like cicada feathers underground. The use of this kind of building also makes Kangcheng called the Cicada Gate."
Chan Wu said, "It sounds mysterious, but it's pitch black inside. There must be something very unknown. Let's leave here as soon as possible."
Nie Xiaosheng looked into the sky, and seemed not to hear Chan Wu talking. Something was flying low in the sky. It was dark and flew for a while and was still running in the canyon. Chan Wu turned around and looked in the direction Nie Xiaosheng looked, and said strangely: "What is that?"
Nie Xiaosheng said: "Maybe you said it is unknown, let's leave here soon!"
Chan Wu and Nie Xiaosheng ran forward a few steps, turned their heads and the flying things had already come close to each other. Chan Wu found that they were not good and said, "Those are hawks, we can't run away from them. Such a large number is not good for us!"
Nie Xiaosheng turned around and looked at the hawks and dogs rushed over like greyhounds, and a burst of smoke and dust rose from the ground. Nie Xiaosheng knew that the people behind him were catching up with him, so he pulled Chanwu and said, "Don't worry about the unknown in Kang City, it's more important to save your life first. At worst, we won't touch the things inside!"
The two of them rushed into Kang City. The windows in Kang City were closed, and it was pitch black inside. Only one side of the door was opened. Then there was a faint light. Nie Xiaosheng saw an open iron door in front of him. He just heard from Chan Wu that the thing he was chasing was a hawk, so their sense of smell must be very sensitive. Hiding is not a way to do it. He could only hide in the iron door and close the iron door to block the hawk.
Seeing the group of hawks and dogs rushing towards them with their white fangs, Nie Xiaosheng suddenly closed the door, waved his arm, and a belt in his sleeve tied the iron door tightly with the door. This was not an ordinary belt. No matter how good the teeth of the hawks were, they could not bite it.
Dozens of hawks surrounded him, knocking the iron gate and ringing, and said in a panic: "There must be someone behind him, this is not a solution!"
Nie Xiaosheng looked at the iron cage. There was a gate in the lower right corner. There was no power outage on it. It must have been caused by the dead bodies of the transport vehicles just now. They had also gone down. Nie Xiaosheng held the gate mechanism and said, "Would you like to bet with me?"
Chan Wu asked, "What are you betting on?"
Nie Xiaosheng hugged Wu tightly and said, "Just bet on this!"
Pushing the mechanism to the end, the iron cage lost weight and fell from the ground...
Chapter completed!