Volume 1 Seeking Immortals Chapter 48 Trapped
Did you leave the cave?
Yuan Qing, who was exuding severe pain all over his body, felt dizzy, a trace of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and the only quiet thing in his ears was the sound of water droplets dripping into the water, and he opened his eyes. There was darkness in front of me.
I can't lift my left hand, and when I touch the ground with my right hand, it's soft sand, and I can breathe normally, so I think it's on land. I felt a little relieved in my heart, but I felt that my chest was soft, and there were strands of hair with the fragrance of shampoo entering the tip of my nose when I raised my head slightly.
"Huh.."
The tongue chews the foreign object in the mouth and spits it out, which is to avoid water droplets. His right hand touched his chest, Zhao Ling was lying on top of him, his right hand pinched his fingers and immediately broke the delusion, and his eyes dispelled part of the darkness from the golden light that burst out of his eyes.
"Zhao Ling!Zhao Ling!" Yuan Qing pushed Zhao Ling, although he didn't know what was going on, he could feel Zhao Ling's heart on his chest beating slowly at the moment, and he called out knowing that she was fine.
"Uh-huh." Zhao Ling snorted lightly and got up.
This can make Yuan Qing stunned... I saw that Zhao Ling was wearing a down jacket, the down jacket Yuan Qing recognized, and before leaving, Duo Wei whimsically thought that if she found the cold in the Dragon Palace, she stuffed a down jacket into Zhao Ling's backpack. It's just that at this time, the zipper of the down jacket is open, and there is no trace of spring light inside.
Zhao Ling, who woke up leisurely, heard Yuan Qing's voice and immediately fell back on his stomach, choking up while saying that you finally woke up..
Feeling the softness of the chest without clothes, the dizziness in Yuan Qing's brain seemed to be stronger.
"Ahem, you get up first, I'm still sick! Although Yuan Qing was a little reluctant, now was not the time to think about this, and he also knew the priorities.
Zhao Ling immediately got up when he heard this, quickly wrapped his down jacket, and his face was ruddy under the golden light in Yuan Qing's eyes.
"You were unconscious in the water, I put the water-repellent bead in your mouth, and I couldn't see anything, and I swam for a while before dragging you to this beach. You breathed smoothly when you came up, but your whole body was cold, so I had to do it... I fell asleep after lying on my stomach for a while. Zhao Ling choked up and explained.
At that time, Zhao Ling's back was in sharp pain with the impact on his waist, and out of the body's self-protection mechanism, he fell into a coma on the spot. Then, after the two of them rushed out of the cave, Zhao Ling woke up. When he woke up, Zhao Ling felt Yuan Qing holding him but didn't move at all, and when he touched his face, he found that he was biting the mouth of a broken respirator, and the air bottle had long since disappeared. But he held himself with both hands and pressed his head on his chest. After spending a little effort to break free from Yuan Qing's strong embrace, he felt that there was a foreign object in his mouth and could breathe in the water, so he knew that Yuan Qing gave him the water beads.
Because he couldn't see in the water and fell into a coma, Zhao Ling immediately took off the useless breathing apparatus in Yuan Qing's mouth, stuffed the water-avoiding beads into his mouth, and felt the sound of water dripping on the water surface above, and immediately kicked the bottom of the water, pulling Yuan Qing, who was in a coma, to swim up. dragged Yuan Qing to swim aimlessly in the dark for about ten minutes, and when he was exhausted and desperate, the sky made Zhao Ling step on a sandy beach, and dragged Yuan Qing to the beach immediately.
It was extremely cold under this underwater cave, and although the unconscious Yuan Qing was breathing evenly, his limbs were extremely cold, his teeth were shivering, and his body was trembling slightly. If he can't get out of this cold environment at this time, his body will still continue to lose heat, heat dissipation will be greater than heat production, and his body temperature will passively drop. Hypothermia occurs when the body's core temperature drops by just 2 degrees Celsius and the body temperature reaches 35 degrees Celsius.
The appearance of hypothermia was accompanied by Yuan Qing's dreams, and the unconscious screams like delirium were manifested. When the body temperature drops to 30 degrees Celsius again, the heartbeat becomes very slow, the blood pressure slowly drops, and the consciousness is very hazy. His body was already out of control, and the thermoregulatory center was paralyzed, and the blood that had been mobilized back to the deep layers of his body flowed back to the ends of his limbs, which also gave him the illusion of heat, and he even took off his diving suit in a delirium. Although she knew that it was the effect of hypothermia, Zhao Ling was completely helpless, sobbing and putting on the down jacket for Yuan Qing while being unconsciously taken off by him, and helplessly she only calmed down a little after some crying.
If you waste any more time at this time to let Yuan Qing continue to lose her body temperature, the consequences are obvious, Yinya bit and decisively took off his diving suit, changed into the down jacket that could avoid the cold, pressed Yuan Qing under him, and used his body temperature to protect Yuan Qing's passing temperature. Zhao Ling, who was lying on someone else like this for the first time, was not much different, her crying eyes and her exhausted body could no longer support it, and she fell asleep in just a few blinks of an eye, until Yuan Qing woke her up this time.
"Shhhh After listening to what Zhao Ling said, Yuan Qing felt a sharp pain in his back and shoulder blades as soon as he wanted to get up. I thought that I forgot to make Jin Lingling into a small vest when I went into the water, otherwise it wouldn't be like this.
"How is it?" Zhao Ling could see his distorted face with the glimmer of light in Yuan Qing's eyes, obviously suffering a great deal of pain, and couldn't help but say anxiously.
"Wait a minute, I'll take my time. "You need to check your body, if you get up rashly at this time, it may cause bone problems.
So Yuan Qing first pinched his fingers, turned his right eye, and a portable camping lamp appeared in his hand. After putting down the camping lamp, he took out the cold-proof clothes and food, and when he brought the clothes and food to Zhao Ling, he didn't know where the pain was involved, which made the corners of Yuan Qing's mouth twitch again, how many injuries did he have on his body?
When I turned on the camping lights, I saw the surrounding environment, and the two were now in an underground stalactite cave, and the sand and gravel from the underground river had accumulated over time to form this small beach. Since the camping light is not a place where the searchlight cannot be spotted farther away, Yuan Qing did not take out the spare underwater searchlight, because the power of the underwater searchlight is limited and the battery he carries can only support the searchlight for one hour, and the next energy use must be considered.
The right hand touched the left hand slightly, and just now I wanted to control the left hand and found that I couldn't move, but now the slight numbness is slowly relieving. It is expected that the blood circulation of Zhao Ling's pressure should be a little paralyzed, except for the astringency and pain in the back of the hand, there is no bone accident, and the elbow of the right arm was red and swollen from the previous impact in the cave. In addition to these two areas, there are the shoulder blades of the back and the ankle of the right foot.
"Uh-huh."
Yuan Qing supported the beach with his right hand back, and his legs were bent over, intending to stand up, and the best way to test whether his body was in serious trouble was to see if he could stand up.
"I'll do it myself. Seeing that Zhao Ling wanted to help, Yuan Qing waved his hand.
Although it was painful, there was probably no problem with each joint, and it was generally possible to overcome it except for the severe muscle pain in the back shoulder blades.
"How are you? I remember that your back seems to be injured too, right?" Yuan Qing looked a little tired when he spoke due to the pain caused by getting up and pulling the muscles of his body, which consumed a lot of physical energy.
Hearing this, Zhao Ling turned around with his right hand and touched his waist, frowning slightly. In the cavern, the air bottle hit the wall of the cave and transmitted the force to her waist, and the sharp pain made her faint directly.
"I think it's bruised, and it hurts a little bit. Zhao Ling also felt that he didn't hurt his bones, so he pulled open his down jacket to reveal a thin waist that could be handled, and there was a bruise on his waist.
"Alas, I don't know what happened to Mu Xin. Yuan Qing was worried, and the yin and yang fish in his left eye turned, and an iron basin suddenly appeared on the beach, which contained pieces of black charcoal, and took out a bottle of Litong Baiyao and a bottle of liquid contained in mineral water.
The liquid in the mineral water bottle is poured on the black charcoal of the iron plate, and the smell of kerosene is exuded, and the water is flowing, which proves that there is air in the water. So Yuan Qing was not worried about the high carbon monoxide content, and the charcoal emitted bursts of heat as the lighter turned on.
"Come!" Although I am worried about Mu Xin, the most important thing at the moment is to take care of myself. Yuan Qing shook the Litong white medicine in his hand, this kind of magic medicine with a special effect on bruises and bruises, just came in handy.
Zhao Lingxiao's face turned red, but he didn't refuse, and pulled up his down jacket to expose the bruise on his waist. Yuan Qing shook the medicine bottle and sprayed out the cool medicinal liquid, and stretched out two fingers and gently rubbed it on the injured area to accelerate the absorption of the medicinal liquid in the affected area.
"Hmm.." I don't know if it's pain or the sensitivity of the waist, Zhao Lingjiao's body trembled, and he let out a coquettish snort...
Yuan Qing, who was already half-squatting close to the buttocks outlined by the diving suit, suddenly became a little uncalm when he heard this coquettish hum, and even the strength of his hands was a little confused, which made Zhao Ling frown deeply. Seeing this, Yuan Qing quickly collected his thoughts, and only after pressing it did he give the bottle of Litong Baiyao to Zhao Ling.
There were dripping aquatic life in the cave, the charcoal in the iron basin on the small beach had been burned red, Yuan Qing sat cross-legged with his bare upper body, and Zhao Lingzheng was kneading him seriously with medicine behind him. The redness and swelling of the shoulder blade made the already injured right hand even worse, and the subtle movements were fine, but once the power was too strong, the pain was unbearable.
"Eat something and rest first and then see what to do next, Mu Xin should be fine if he is stronger, if he is okay, he should come to us immediately." Yuan Qing grabbed the self-heating portable lunch box and took one to Zhao Ling.
"Hmm!" Zhao Ling didn't have much to do at the moment, so he had to agree.
"I still have ten compressed air bottles here, five days' worth of food for two people, a roll of sleeping bags, and nothing else to warm up except for our down jackets, but unfortunately I didn't bring the quilt down on the boat. There is only this pot of charcoal fire, there is no backup after burning, there is no shortage of water, and the water in this cave can be drunk. In this case, the water in this cave is sucked from the bottom of the lake, but we are not sure where it is sucked from, and if we want to go back to the lake, it will definitely not work. ”
Yuan Qing took stock of the remaining supplies he could use, and at the same time put a clear white medicine on his elbow.
"We have two choices now, one is to wait for Muxin to come over, Muxin is very strong, and I believe she will definitely come to us. The second is that we go directly to the cave first, and follow the water to the deepest part to see if there is a real Dragon Palace. ”
After probably finishing the inventory, he made two relatively reasonable choices, and put on the lid of Litong Baiyao and looked at Zhao Ling with some solicitation, he knew that the girl in front of him who was almost a star-gazing star might have a better opinion than him.
"No, we can only wait for Sister Muxin, if the water is still as turbulent as before, we will most likely not be able to withstand another toss, or we can wait a few days to see if the water should not always rush like this, when it is calm, we can have more choices, and your physical condition can't withstand the second drifting." Zhao Ling pondered for a moment and proposed different plans and insights.
Yuan Qing nodded after hearing this, but said a little helplessly: "Although the food can last for five days, there is only one pot of charcoal, this camping lamp can only last for four hours, and the charcoal can only last for about two hours." In other words, if we continue to use it according to the current situation, we will lose the light source within five hours, although my eyes can glow, but if it is long, it will lose essence. We will probably need to wait in the dark for Muxin's arrival. ”
"Even in the dark, we can only wait, this reef rarely crosses the beach line, and it should be able to hold us up for a few days. The key is that you have too many injuries, the pain will consume a lot of physical strength, and getting out of the water will only be more dangerous than just now, even if you can't wait for Sister Muxin's rescue, you have to take care of your injuries and then go into the water safely. Zhao Ling picked up the camping lamp and walked around the beach, measured the old marks left by the water level between the stone walls, and insisted on waiting after thinking about it.