Chapter 70: Flooding
A sound similar to a deflation came from the keyhole.
I hurriedly covered Wu Jiaxin first, she was a ten-year-old child, and she couldn't deal with any danger.
Wu Jiaxin thought I was playing with her, with breath in her mouth, her cheeks bulging, squeezing her eyebrows at me, and reaching out to cover my mouth.
I shook my head to break free, but Wu Jiaxin's playful thoughts were aroused, and I stretched out two hands to cover my mouth.
I wanted to say that this was not a game, but before she could say anything, she reached out and covered her mouth.
"Okay, it's not poisonous!" said the old Taoist priest angrily.
Only then did I let go of Wu Jiaxin's mouth.
"It's fun! Giggle!" Wu Jiaxin clapped her hands and laughed.
I ignored her and looked up at the top.
At this point, the top has slowly disappeared, which is similar to the sound of deflating.
Tick tock!
Drops of water drip down the lock.
Not only is it dripping faster and faster, but more and more water is flowing out.
As if sensing the arrival of water, the scorpions in the surrounding caves piled up at the entrance of the cave, as if they wanted to protect the cave from flooding with their own strength.
At this time, the tail pin has been pushed out by the water inside, and the water flow of the entire lock mouth turns into a huge water column falling from the sky, and after a while, the ground begins to accumulate water.
The small transparent scorpions also began to flee and burrowed into the burrows, as if they wanted to use them to help resist the water.
But what I'm more worried about at this time is that the water is starting to flow, but why the door doesn't open.
Then, with all my anticipation, the door finally opened.
But it wasn't the door that opened, but the lock on the top of the head.
The lock mouth seemed to be unable to withstand the pressure of the water, and it fell with the gravel.
There were even a few particularly large pieces of rubble that directly blocked the holes.
The current suddenly became stronger. And I saw that the water seemed to be swirling. Many scorpions couldn't stand the power of the vortex and were swept over.
At this time, the water had reached my knees, and although I stood motionless on the ground, the force of the water under my feet was not small to be guided by the whirlpool.
Don't look at this time, it can't shake us, it is estimated that the water will rise again, and once our feet are off the ground, such a force will simply bury us at the bottom of the water.
There isn't a lot of strength we can use in the water, so we're going to lean against the cave wall next to it and go up with the current, so that we can also conserve some stamina and not get caught up in the whirlpool.
Wu Jiaxin was very happy at this time, I didn't know that this girl was still a dragon in the water, after the water reached her waist, she secretly dived into the water and swam happily, and I scolded her for a few words and came back in a gray way, now the water has reached her neck, I can't see how she swims, but I know that she likes water when I see her excited look.
"Come back!" I cried, the girl was like a child at this point, and she didn't take your word for it.
"Hmph!" Wu Jiaxin pouted and swam back.
The water level kept rising, almost trying to overflow the place.
During this period, the old Taoist priest constantly wanted to go to the central location to see what place to go out.
But the current is so strong that it is almost impossible.
I looked at the water and suddenly I had a sense of understanding.
The place we are at this point is most likely below a waterhole, so if we want to wait for the water to slow down, we have to wait for the water here to finish irrigating, and we have to form a balance with the place where the scorpions are desperately piling up.
And it takes time for this balance to form.
At this point, we have to wait underwater, from underwater, for this equilibrium, and then go out through the lock.
But once you get out, you don't know how deep the pool is.
Wouldn't it be a long way to get to the top?
"Can you hold your breath?" I asked, turning my face to Wu Jiaxin.
Wu Jiaxin immediately shut up, her swollen face like a red apple.
I quickly patted her on the face and said, "Not now, hold your breath when I say hold your breath later, and then follow me upstream, understand?" I explained.
"Well, good brother!" Wu Jiaxin nodded vigorously to me.
Before we knew it, we were already approaching the top with the current.
I took Wu Jiaxin's hand and slowly approached the lock.
I swam a few times closer to get there, and when I touched it, the lock opened a big opening, and it seemed to be expanding.
I told Zhao Qian what I thought of, and they nodded in approval.
Wait until the water is almost close to the top.
"Hold your breath, follow me!" I said.
Wu Jiaxin immediately closed her mouth obediently and grabbed my hand tightly.
I feel that the water is actually a lot slower than before.
When it was a little slower, I slowly picked at the lock, swam to the bottom of the lock, and I got into it first against the current.
It was a bit difficult, but it was relatively smooth.
Then I pulled Wu Jiaxin again.
Zhao Qian, they don't have to worry about me, so I pulled Wu Jiaxin to swim up.
I didn't know where I was in the water, and I didn't even know if I was swimming.
But now there is no turning back.
I swam as hard as I could where I thought it was above.
Wu Jiaxin's hand holding me at this time became tighter and tighter, as if she couldn't hold on anymore.
I can only cheer her on in my heart, hoping that she can hold on a little longer.
The cold water gradually became warmer.
I felt as if I was approaching the surface.
So he swam even harder.
The breath in my mouth is long gone, and now it's holding on.
Until I jerked out of the water and took a big breath and put my hands on it.
Wu Jiaxin was dragged up by me.
Wu Jiaxin's hair was messy at this time, and she opened her big mouth to breathe hard.
After a while, all the people showed their heads.
I saw that I hadn't lost any manpower in the water, so I looked around.
The water is warm and there is a white mist floating on the water.
The surrounding weather also feels like it's outside, and it's very refreshing.
"Oops! I can't swim!" Wu Jiaxin's coquettish voice came, and before I could say anything, the whole person entangled me like an octopus.
Although she is a child, she is an adult, which makes me a little embarrassed, but at this time, I can't think much about it, so I can only hurry to find land.
Swimming around for a while, it felt as if there was land not far away, as I smelled a burst of flowers.
We swam along the place where the scent of flowers wafted from.
Wu Jiaxin urged me to hurry up, and I still wanted us to compete like a child.
But no one paid attention to her, and she felt tasteless, just pouting as if she was going to be angry.
After about ten minutes, we were on land.
At this time, the land was made of white pebbles.
I finally climbed ashore with this oil bottle, she was unwilling to let go, she had to let me continue to carry her, I didn't have much physical strength, she was energetic just now should be fine, under my reprimand, finally let her down.
She said coldly, and she had to hug me before she left.
The old Taoist priest looked like I had finally opened his mind, and he raised his eyebrows at me and surpassed me.
There was a lot of wood around here, but the wood here was soaked with moisture from the water, and it was impossible to light a fire.
I felt very cold at this point.
Seeing that Wu Jiaxin was not lying, now her lips began to turn purple from the cold.
No way!
We had to find a place where we could make a fire, we froze a little bit, and it was probably more difficult to get out, and the place didn't look safe at all.
Fortunately, I finally found some dry and usable wood far away from the water source.
The old Taoist priest still took on the responsibility of igniting the fire.
When the fire started, I quickly took off my wet clothes and baked it.
Wu Jiaxin also followed suit when she saw me.
Under the appearance of the old Taoist priest's eyes straightened, I quickly stopped her, there is a difference between men and women, her intelligence is now ten years old, but her body is not so she still has to pay attention.
I asked her to wring her clothes and put them on for a fire.
She didn't agree at all, she had to take it off, and said that she didn't have the strength to twist her clothes, so I asked me to screw her clothes.
I looked at the old priest's expectant eyes, and had to click a few times on the corners of her clothes and trouser legs, and then I put on my clothes and told her that I was just like her, and then I gave up.
After baking for a while, although the clothes are still a little damp, they will not continue to get cold.
Wu Jiaxin had to get into my arms, and my desperate resistance provoked her to kick the fire unwillingly, almost kicking the fire out.
"Don't you like me!" Wu Jiaxin's complaining eyes made my heart furious.
I know that this sentence doesn't mean much when it comes out of the mouth of a ten-year-old child, but if this child has a hot body and looks very beautiful. That's a different state.
"No! you're obedient!" I had to talk to her like a child without looking at her.
As a result, she took the opportunity to get into my arms, and she didn't want to move.
I looked at her and kept telling myself that now she was a ten-year-old, not an adult, just a child!
The child is so pestering, and she is not honest in my arms, so that I have to recite the mantra of purity.
Suddenly, I remembered something.
Grandpa came back from the Yunhai Painting Building and slowly began to lose his memory.
If it was like Wu Jiaxin who was injured under the scorpion, it should be even worse, how could he forget some very important things, but he didn't forget other things.
I feel that this matter definitely has something to do with scorpions, but I haven't figured out exactly what it has to do with it yet.
Suddenly, grandpa's skills are extremely powerful, it is said that he was even more powerful before, so it can't be him who was pierced by a scorpion, a scorpion that I can avoid, but he didn't avoid it.
Or that he was deliberately stabbed by someone, and he was able to control the toxicity and get close to his grandfather, I have no way of knowing.
But there will definitely be traces in it, as long as I keep an eye on it.
At this point, the fog slowly lifted, and I could see where I was.