Chapter 21: Lost
The others also saw something on the river beach, and Cheng Jiao instructed the frogman in the rowing boat to row over the rubber boat to take a look, and go to the river to rest by the way. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
When I got ashore, I came near the thing, and found that it was charcoal left over from a fire, and there was a big stone next to the fire, and there were some things scattered behind the stones, and there were many messy footprints on the ground.
"Looks like someone has been here," Cheng Jiao said as she looked at the things.
"Could it be Chubby them?" I asked.
"It doesn't look like it" Cheng Jiao picked up a bag of instant noodles from the ground and looked at it: "This kind of 'Mei Chu' brand instant noodles were produced in the eighties and nineties of the last century, and later went bankrupt due to poor management. ”
"The '80s and '90s?" I immediately remembered the mysterious archaeological team.
You looked at the other items, there were matchboxes, some food bags, drink bottles, etc., and it did look like the brands and things that were common when I was in junior high school or high school in the 80s and 90s.
There was also a pile of cigarette butts on the left side of the large stone, and judging by the number of cigarette butts and different footprints on the ground, at least more than ten people had rested here, which confirmed my suspicion that the archaeological team had thought.
I don't know if other people know about the mysterious archaeological team more than ten years ago, but I guess Wu Lan may know some, because the first thing I heard about the archaeological team was relayed to me by 'Wu Men Tianxia Xian' Tuo Xiaopang, and 'Wu Men Tianxia Xian' is Wu Lan's cousin, maybe he learned about it from his cousin, and Cheng Jiao and Tang Ying may not know about the archaeological team.
We haven't done much research into who has rested here. Maybe it's because I know that many groups of tomb robbers have entered this place before, so I didn't mention the archaeological team.
"Let's just take a rest here, eat something, and then go on the road later," Cheng Jiao said.
I looked at the time, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, I didn't feel hungry before due to nervousness, but now I feel a little hungry when I relax.
Everyone rested on the spot, took out the food and water they were carrying from their backpacks, and talked about this visit to the Tiangang tomb while eating, and everyone was sad when they mentioned the death of the monkey and Lao Zhao before. At the same time, there is also a shadow on my heart. It seems that the rumors that people who have entered this underground cave before have never returned are indeed true, this underground cave is indeed dangerous, and I don't know what weird and dangerous things will be encountered in the future.
Everyone was eating and chatting, and Da Mao, who was sitting next to me, poked me. whispered in my ear: "That one named Chen Ah Si seems to be a little weird." I haven't been talking. The face is also ugly. ”
I peeked and saw that this was indeed the case, Chen Ah Si was sitting alone. Without saying a word, he looked at the ground, his face was a little blue, his eyes were dark, and his face was expressionless, as if he was thinking about something.
Cheng Jiao also seemed to see that something was wrong with Chen Ah Si, and went over and asked, "Ah Si, are you okay?" ”
"Well, I'm fine", Chen Asi replied with a reluctant smile, and then still sat in place and looked at the ground without saying a word.
A frogman walked over and touched Chen Asi's head and said, "It seems to have a fever." ”
"I said I'm fine!" Chen Ah Si roared, startling the frogman.
Cheng Jiao glanced at the frogman, signaled the frogman to stop provoking Chen Ah Si, and then sat back next to us and whispered: "Ah Si is a little weird, I don't know if it has something to do with that thing underwater, everyone pay attention." ”
Everyone nodded yes.
After resting for a while, I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in my stomach and just remembered that I forgot to go to the toilet when I came out in the morning. Since I was a child, I have developed a good habit of having to unload my "baggage" in the morning, otherwise I will always feel awkward. I came out early this morning, and I forgot to go to the toilet because of other things, but now I ate something and drank some cold water, and I felt that my stomach was gurgling, so I said to everyone that I would find a place to make it easier, and got up and walked to the depths of the cave.
The cave we were in was not only large, but also criss-crossed, with many rocks and huge caves, and I walked around a few rocks and some huge stalactite columns, and walked a little further, and felt that it was far away from the river beach, so I found a convenient place.
After the convenience, I feel much more relaxed, and my heart says that it is natural to use nature, which is also the best fertilizer to nourish all things, and I can't find a public toilet in this underground cave, which can't be considered uncivilized.
After tidying up my clothes, I walked back, made a few rounds, walked for about five or six minutes and didn't see the river beach, and said yes, that's how I walked when I came here just now, it shouldn't be so far, why haven't I reached it yet? I walked forward for a while, but I still didn't see the underground river.
"Damn, I won't get lost", I said in my heart, regretting that I took off my helmet when I was resting, and I couldn't use the walkie-talkie to contact Cheng Jiao and them.
At that moment, I heard a rapid burst of gunfire behind me, not very far from where I was.
"It should be Cheng Jiao, right? I don't know what happened to them. "I realized that I might be going in the wrong direction and hurriedly ran behind me following the gunshots.
After running for a while, the gunfire stopped, but I still didn't see the underground river, let alone Cheng Jiao and them, my heart was furious, thinking that this is bad, maybe I was really lost, thinking of this, I shouted: "Cheng Jiao, Tang Ying, Da Mao, where are you?"
But after shouting for a long time, no one responded, and I was sweating all over, so I walked around the cave, but I couldn't find the river beach when I came.
I was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, I took off my backpack, gun holster, helmet and everything from my body and put it on the river beach when I was resting, and when I came with only a flashlight, there was no food, no water, and no weapons, and it was equivalent to walking on a dead end in such a dangerous place.
After walking for a while, it seemed that I was getting farther and farther away from the underground river, and the nearby landscape was completely different from the area around the underground river, and before I knew it, I seemed to have walked into an underground jungle.
There are a lot of plants I can't name, most of them ferns and vines that don't need photosynthesis, and some strange flowers, and there are trees in this underground cave, these trees are very tall, some conifers and old cedars and other trees, I don't know how they grow in this underground cave where the sun does not shine all day.
But I'm not in the mood to study plants, I just want to get out of this place, but the more I want to get out of this place, the more I can't get out, except for the place where my flashlight can shine, it's pitch black all around, and from time to time there will be some "sand, sand" and something passing through the sound of disturbing animals and plants, and some strange cries that I don't know what they are, probably rodents or insects living underground.
I picked up a branch from the ground to open the way, my heart said that I don't know if there are snakes in this underground cave, and walked forward for a while, suddenly, I felt as if something was wrapped around my calf, I was frightened, my heart said that there was indeed a snake, I shook my leg hard, but it didn't shake off, the thing was very strong, wrapped around my leg and hung me in the air, I used a flashlight, it turned out to be a vine.
"Damn, how is this vine alive?" I was hanging in the air, and no matter how much I twisted my body, it didn't help.
The vine hung me in the air, slowly shrunk back, I looked, there was a huge plant next to the vine, this plant had two huge purple-red leaves, the leaves were surrounded by sharp teeth like teeth, I recognized this plant, I had seen it in the Museum of Natural History, it was called "Venus flytrap", when a mosquito fell on its leaves, it would automatically close and secrete digestive juices to digest the mosquitoes, but I never knew that there was such a large Venus flytrap.
I kicked desperately, twisted my body, and used the branch in my hand to pull the vine hard, but it didn't work, the vine rolled me closer and closer to the big mouth, I said in my heart: "Damn, my life is really bitter, how can I die badly, save the children who fell into the water, see a righteous and brave why, and still fall into a martyr, I didn't expect to be eaten by a flower, and I can't even leave a whole corpse." ”
Any struggle is useless, I have given up resistance, I can only close my eyes and wait for death. I don't want to think about it, I saw that the vines were about to send me to the flytrap, at this time, a miracle happened, I only heard a buzzing sound of flapping wings, the sound was getting closer and closer, louder and louder, I looked towards the place where the sound came from, a large black and brown "thick fog" was drifting towards this side, before I could see clearly, the "thick fog" had come closer, I only felt that the vines on my legs were loosened, I subconsciously hugged my head, and fell down all of a sudden, and fell heavily to the ground.
Fortunately, there were a lot of plants and thick pine needles on the ground, but this also made me fall very lightly, and my bones were about to fall apart, I snorted, and almost fainted, only to feel the Venus in front of me, and it took me a long time to recover.
I haven't thrown away the flashlight in my hand yet, this bright flashlight is now my only dependence for survival, if there is no flashlight anymore, I will be in the dark, then there is really no hope.
I used a flashlight to shine it, and the "black fog" had drifted past, and the flytraps and vines were bitten and crippled, leaving only some stumps and leaves, probably the "black mist" was a swarm of insects, like a swarm of locusts, gnawing on plants. Don't look at the small size of the locusts, gather to cover the sky and the sun, can gnaw a wheat field in an instant, I don't know what kind of insects are in this underground cave, for plants they are pests, but for me they can be regarded as saving my life, if not for them I would have died a long time ago.
I struggled to get up from the ground, still a little sore, and I picked up another branch and landed on the ground, and walked forward cautiously.
I don't know what happened to Cheng Jiao and them, why the gunshots rang out, it's been more than an hour since I left them, I don't know if they are looking for me.
I hope to meet Cheng Jiao and them, at least to go to the vicinity of the underground river, so that it is possible to survive, I look at the compass on the diving watch, because I didn't deliberately look at the direction when it was convenient to come out, so even if there is a compass, I can't be sure which direction is correct, so I have to go east according to my own subjective judgment, but I don't know if it's the right way to go this way or go farther and farther. (To be continued.) )