The wooden boat stopped, and not far behind us, the world of waves and wind and rain was slowly crumbling down like a huge wall. The reversal of the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info from desperate to nowhere to go so quickly that the atmosphere on the ship was instantly heavy. Lao Huang smiled at me instead, "Lao Qi, this stingy guy, there is not even a lifeboat on the boat, this time it's okay, we only have to hold the plank, and gamble on luck again." ”

Lao Qi half leaned on the wall of the cockpit, looked up at Lao Huang, and smiled: "Lao Huang, you just don't like me, I know, but if you talk about boating on the lake, you are really far worse than me, do you see, my boat has come and gone in the whirlpool, what about your iron-hulled boat? After speaking, he patted Zeng Qian's shoulder.

Zeng Qian continued to use the bandage in the first-aid kit to fix Lao Qi's arm as if she hadn't heard it, but what she said was very relaxed: "Uncle Qi, you have already saved us from the whirlpool once, and you have wrapped it up, maybe you still have a way to save us." ”

Lao Qi sighed, "I really shouldn't have brought you in, this year, the water rose early, and the warm one was early, and the geothermal river changed lanes to become powerful, I should have thought of it earlier." There are many problems in the fisherman's body, arthritis, big belly disease or something, and it is really better to die when he is old. I always want to take advantage of the fact that I can still move and earn more money for pension and medical treatment, this time it's okay, it's fate, I really can't take you out. After saying that, he closed his eyes and didn't speak again.

The dog at the stern of the boat also walked in, holding a few lifebuoys, handed them to us, and said while handing them out: "The engine is estimated to have been smashed when it fell into the water, and it will not be repaired for a while, so let's get into the water quickly, and maybe we can swim out." ”

Xiao Lei came in with a wide-mouthed glass bottle, which contained a few camera rolls carefully wrapped in plastic bags, and said to Zeng Qian: "Sister-in-law, do you want to put your water sample in, if you want to say anything to Team Cao, write a note." Team Cao, they have to find it, and they can take fewer detours. ”

Xiao Lei was talking when the satellite phone in his arms suddenly rang. The sharp sound of dripping is equivalent to the music of fairyland to us, everyone was stunned, and then they were surprised, it must be the Cao team, the road of endless people. Xiao Lei answered the phone, threw himself on the map that had been soaked with water, and said in a hoarse voice about our current danger and approximate location.

I said to Lao Huang and the dog: "Quick, remove the bed board in the cabin or something, all the wood is removed, the lifebuoy is tied outside, make a raft, the whirlpool must roll this boat first, as long as we can row a little distance, maybe we can hold on until the Cao team comes to rescue, Xiao Lei, let the Cao team drive the lifeboat in, the big boat is far away, the lifeboat is fast, and the steering is convenient." ”

Driven by the desire to survive, we had set up a simple wooden raft in a few minutes, and the remaining broken logs also came in handy, and when we moved towards the wooden raft, the whirlpool was less than fifty meters away from us, and the storm poured down again, especially the waterspout, which made a deafening whistling sound, and spun rapidly along the outer edge of the whirlpool. We can't see how high it reaches into the sky, but its majesty should easily overturn a wooden ship.

Xiao Lei put Lao Qi on the raft, and the dog used a long pole against the side of the wooden boat, and we slowly left the wooden boat, silently watching the wooden boat go lonely towards fate.

The horn sounded at the bottom of the lake again, and as before, a huge pillar of light appeared, and the luminous body slowly floated to the surface of the lake, dazzling and impossible to look at. Only this time, there was no previous process of aggregation of small lumines, and the size of the giant luminous object was also twice as large as the previous time, like an iceberg, pressing over.

Xiao Lei, Lao Huang, Gouzi, Zeng Qian's assistant, and several other boatmen who escaped, each with one oar, and even Zeng Qian took a wooden plank and rowed hard. But in front of the whirlpools that overwhelmed the mountains and seas and swallowed in all directions, and in front of the dozen pairs of whip feet the thickness of a big tree that were constantly waving from the luminous body, they looked incomparably small and helpless.

The distance between the raft and the wooden boat is widening little by little, but the distance from the whirlpool has not decreased, and wave after wave of big waves almost topple the raft several times.

Lao Qi lay on his back in the middle of us, and he was the only one who carefully studied the constantly dancing whip feet. I heard him mutter, "The lake god is here, and I don't know which ancestor has escaped, and I can see it once in my life, and it's worth it." Mr. Chang, I think this lake god is really a bit like a big turtle, this head, no wonder he has to swallow dozens or hundreds of boats a year. ”

Lao Huang snorted beside him, it seemed that he wanted to fight with Lao Qi again, but he still swallowed it back. Lao Qi glanced at Lao Huang, and said lightly: "Rower, don't you soon lose your strength when you row like this?" Listen to me, don't row when the waves rise, save some effort, swing forward by the thrust of the waves, and when the raft enters the bottom of the waves, you must work harder, but you must row it evenly." ”

Xiao Lei answered, raised his voice, and took the lead in shouting the trumpet, and when the raft reached the crest of the waves, he shouted to stop, and when he fell under the waves, he shouted and rowed. Everyone naturally followed Xiao Lei's rhythm, and sure enough, the raft traveled much faster.

When the distance between our raft and the wooden boat was fifty or sixty meters away, a deafening sound came from behind us, and the whirlpool roared and rolled the wooden boat in. I looked back and saw that the wooden boat had been erected in the whirlpool with its bow down, then torn into several pieces. And the huge luminous body covered the wreckage of the wooden ship in an instant. It wielded its serpent-like whip feet, wreeling the planks, masts, and oil drums scattered around it into the luminous body. The dull sound of the horn sounded again, and the luminous body slowly sank to the bottom of the lake.

While we were all looking at the spectacular scene of the wooden boat being swallowed, Lao Qi suddenly lay on the log, stretched out his head and tried to reach the lake, sniffed vigorously with his nose, and then shouted: "Don't you run for your life? Everyone came to their senses and hurriedly adjusted the direction of the raft.

After a few minutes, the whirlpool still had no intention of stopping, and continued to slowly rotate towards our raft, and in these few minutes, we only opened a few dozen meters away from the whirlpool, and the old Qi wooden boat won us a few minutes.

Xiao Lei's tearing voice was obviously a little more trembling, and we were exhausted and we were using our will to drive our somewhat stiff bodies. The luminous object floated from the bottom of the lake again, this time, perhaps due to the increase in size, only a part of the lake was exposed, and it was unknown how big it was underwater, but its whip feet all sank underwater.

A series of huge bubbles appeared in the whirlpool, and disappeared in an instant, except for waves a few feet high, the whirlpool disappeared in the lake, and then in mid-air, a huge curtain of water fell, stirring up a large splash, and the waterspout disappeared.

Everyone subconsciously stopped paddling and looked back in a daze. But Xiao Lei was still the one who reacted the fastest, and he shouted: "Row, that thing is still moving." "As everyone continued to paddle, I noticed that the white light under the surface of the lake was still there, and although the exposed part of the lake was not large, the white light under the water was spreading rapidly. Obviously, it's getting closer.

When the whirlpools and waterspouts disappeared, the surface of the lake calmed down significantly, and the fog began to dissipate rapidly, revealing the white light on the surface of the water, which was much more real than before.

Only then did I notice that, like the microorganisms I had seen under the microscope, the surface of this white light was uneven, and there were countless small irregular diamond-shaped grids forming the skeleton of the luminous body, but in the darkness of the swirl just now, the white light was too strong to see the details. Now it seems that the movement of the luminaries should be due to the continuous rolling forward of each small luminary, covering the front, like a snowball. Of course, the huge whip foot hidden beneath the surface of the water must also be paddling.

But the distance between the ball of light and us is still slowly shrinking. When we fell back into despair, the roar of the engine was heard in the distance, and a small black dot appeared on the water a few hundred meters away, and it was the lifeboat of the Cao team breaking through the waves. The people on the raft regained their spirits, increased their frequency, and paddled hard.

A few minutes later, within thirty meters of the ball of light, the lifeboat rushed near us. Obviously, the Cao team on the boat had analyzed the speed of the light ball, and did not rush up to save people, but tied two ropes with two lifebuoys and threw them over. The engine did not stop, and the lifeboat slowly circled in place. We vaguely heard the shouts of the Cao team: "Xiao Lei, quickly tie the rope to the raft." ”

From the raft to the lifebuoy tied with ropes, there is only a dozen meters of distance, but these ten meters may be the longest ten meters in my life. When we were all about to collapse, Xiao Lei finally tied the rope to the raft, and the whip foot of the ball of light had already stretched out from the water, and less than ten meters away from us, it stirred up a huge wave.

The lifeboat dragged us forward in a violent rocking, and the raft tossed up and down in the waves, and we could only hold on to the raft and pray in our hearts that we would not be overturned by the waves at this critical moment. Balls of light emerged almost entirely from the bottom of the lake, and huge whip feet swung in mid-air, seemingly unwillingly slapping the water. The low sound of the horn shook our eardrums.

Xiao Lei half sat up, holding the oars defiantly, shouting something at the ball of light, but more people collapsed on the raft, no longer having half the strength, looking up at the sky.

A few seconds later, the ball of light was like a switch in the body, from the outside to the inside, layer by layer, I could only see clearly, after the outer layer of light went out, the ball of light seemed to be wrapped in a thick hard shell, reflecting the metal-like texture, and sank into the lake silently.

At this moment, the fog had all dissipated, the sun cast on the sparkling lake, and the last ripples disappeared into the vast water and sky, and the surroundings were quiet as if nothing had happened.

(The sky is high, the earth is thick, the sun and the moon shine, the stars are bright, the yin and yang are harmonious, not there is anything to do, and things are natural.) Yin and yang are not all things when they are not, and when rain and dew fall, they are not raising plants and trees, and the gods are connected, yin and yang are harmonious, and all things are born. The husband and the Taoist, hiding the essence inside, dwelling in the heart, quiet and tranquil, pleasing in the chest, formless, silent. --Wenzi's "Tongxuan Zhenjing") (To be continued.) )