Steel steam and flame

They let out a soft cry, and the surrounding ground of several square meters broke apart one after another, and the waist-thick snow on top collapsed together.

The light of the flashlight swayed randomly in the dark space, and Cassia and the three of them opened their cross pupils at the same time. There are still subtle lights falling in from outside the woods, but the surroundings are not completely dark. The cross pupils can barely capture these lights.

The weight of the three of them is abnormal, and they usually feel unsteady when they step on the soft soil. At this time, the hanging feeling of the body falling rapidly downwards was very uncomfortable. And more importantly, they don't know how deep it is down there. Unknown areas are always full of danger, which is everyone's natural fear of the unknown.

Cassia twisted her body in the air, regained her body's balance in a very short time, and then stretched out her hand to grab the tree roots scattered in the air not far away. The roots are very small and can only provide a little buffering effect. Cassia grabbed a handful and held on for less than a second before all these weak tree roots were broken.

But taking advantage of this extremely short period of time, Cassia borrowed the strength to move her body closer to the cluster of tree roots that were entangled like a waterfall, and then successfully hugged a tree with his waist on the way down. The palms of my palms rubbed against the thick and thin trunks of the main tree roots for a meter or two, and then my descending body came to a steady stop. The two captains used the same method, holding the roots of the tree one after another, and stopped in mid-air in this space.

All three flashlights fell down. A few seconds later, the sound of mud and snow falling to the ground was heard below. The flashlight fell against the snow, but fortunately it was not broken. It became a tool for them to measure height.

"It's about seventy or eighty meters high." Cassia glanced at the top of her head, then looked at the bright flashlight on the ground and judged, "This seems to be a huge room."

"Could it be the original warehouse of Xuefeng Base? Just like the warehouse of Volcano Base?" Cassia climbed up the tree roots to a more stable place. The light was weak, and the faces of the two captains also became... It's blurry and can't be seen clearly.

"That may be the case." The two captains also opened their eyes wide and looked around, but they couldn't see anything clearly a few meters away, only shadows shrouded layer by layer.

"Captain, are you okay?" The veteran who was close by clearly noticed the movement here and rushed over immediately. Several bunches of flashlight lights came in and locked on the locations of Cassia and the three of them. Immediately, more than a dozen veterans gathered around, but knowing that the ground was hollow, they stood far apart, and most of them were close to the ancient trees next to them.

A soldier threw down the rope so that the three Cassias could climb up holding on to the rope and tree roots.

"It's okay for now. Let's take a look at what's inside here first. Throw three flashlights down." The captain replied that they were currently climbing on the roots of the tree, which was relatively safe.

Three bright flashlights were then thrown down, and Cassia and the others took one each. At the same time, he also took out a few spare fluorescent tubes from his backpack, twisted them and threw them around. But in this hollow space, it seemed like there was nothing else except this dense mass of tree roots. The fluorescent tubes were all the same as the previous three flashlights, all the way to the bottom.

A few seconds later, there was a crisp sound, which sounded like a collision on metal.

Cassia and the others adjusted the power of their flashlights to the maximum, and a large beam of light spurted out. Together with the flashlight lights of the veterans above their heads, it basically illuminated the hollow area.

The space volume is roughly equivalent to a 70-80-meter-tall building. The tangled tree roots are in a corner of this space, and the rest of the place is almost only dry air. The dust rising from below slowly rose, and under the light green light of the fluorescent tube, a lot of things were piled up haphazardly.

After using a strong flashlight, I could clearly see that the piled-up items were all cannonballs the size of two or three adults, with many cylindrical propellants mixed in them. There are many dents on their shells, which may be dents caused by collisions.

"It feels like an ammunition storage warehouse here. There are too many shells." A captain adjusted the light of the flashlight to spread out, and his field of vision expanded with the light. There are all these things down there, and there are also many broken steam copper pipes and metal shelves that have been deformed by the accumulated shells. Sparse and scattered gray-white broken bones belonging to humans were seen inside.

"It's an ammunition depot." Another captain said with certainty, and at the same time he motioned Cassia and the other captain to look at where his flashlight was pointing. There was something like a wall there, which looked like it was made of cast metal. Several rows of metal shelves are fixed on this wall, arranged neatly. They are all standard shelves for storing ammunition. There were still many shells stuck on the metal shelf and did not fall.

"There's more above." Cassia also reminded the two of them at this time. The ice-like ground just now shattered and fell, forming a collapsed area of ​​several square meters on the ground. The place he was pointing at now was the edge of the collapsed area. Underneath the soil, which is nearly one meter thick, there is the red color of rusted steel.

The two captains took a closer look and saw that it was clearly a steel alloy plate with a thickness of nearly one and a half meters, and it was also connected to the surrounding metal walls and formed a whole.

There are still tear-like impact marks on the edges, and even though they have rusted, they can still be clearly distinguished. The steel plate was hit by something and completely penetrated in an instant. This information can be seen through traces.

At this time, Cassia and the three of them turned their flashlight lights around the edge of the collapsed area and realized that it was a circle.

"This is a bullet hole that penetrated the armor layer!" A captain said immediately, the flashlight light shook, and in his head, he turned everything he saw ninety degrees, completely restoring the actual scene here.

Cassia and the other captain nodded, they already knew what this hollow area was. There should be an Imperial airship of unknown model buried under these ancient trees and soil. This hollow area may be the ammunition storage warehouse of this airship. This airship may have been hit by enemy airship shells during the war and crashed at the foot of the snowy peak.

Reminiscent of more than a hundred years ago, the nearby Xuefeng was bombed by the enemy and half of its mountain was destroyed. The Xuefeng base was completely reduced to ruins and was written into the annals of history. The appearance of the wreckage of a crashed airship here is not surprising or strange.