Chapter 15: The Lake of Bones
"Boom!" A flash of fire rose into the sky, blowing up the "informants" in one piece. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć I cursed as he threw the grenade, and sure enough, the shock wave knocked all of us to the ground, and I was cut in my forehead by the debris that made me gasp. This bastard foreigner, if you want to throw a grenade, you don't say a word first.
In the confusion, we didn't know who shouted "run", and we immediately reacted, got up from the ground and ran like crazy from the blown hole towards the river. As I ran, the corner of my eye swept over the glasses that had fallen to the ground, and countless red lines appeared all over his body, but I was afraid that he would have died a long time ago.
The two foreigners running beside me kept shooting at the back while running, and I didn't have to look back to know that those "informants" were constantly chasing, and I didn't dare to stop at my feet, wishing that I could give birth to two more legs to run faster. What I admire even more is that during the day, when my foot was injured and limped, I took people's escape instincts to the extreme, and I ran faster than me.
Fortunately, the coffin of Baishi Witch is not far from the underground river, and after running for a while, we heard the sound of the underground river, and we flew into one of the inflatable rafts, a foreigner with a submachine gun continued to shoot, and a foreigner quickly cut the nylon rope that tied the inflatable raft. Professor Jia and I were on the side, paddling hard with the oars.
The inflatable raft rushed out of the river in an instant, but the two foreigners behind me were still holding submachine guns and constantly firing, could it be that those "informants" could go into the water and chase after them? Anyway, I used the strength of the milk to paddle, and I didn't dare to turn my head back, but I was afraid that I would lose my strength as soon as I turned around, and I don't know how long it took, and the gunfire of the foreigner behind me finally stopped.
I turned my head and saw that the water ten meters away behind me was densely covered with the remains of the "informants" who had been smashed by the foreigner's submachine guns, and they were drifting towards us along the water, and under the Baishi Witch Coffin in the distance, the green fluorescence that was originally covered with the entire witch coffin was piled up by the river at this time, and there were constantly fluorescent fluorescences falling from the witch coffin, it seemed that those fluorescences were emitted by the "informants", fortunately they were afraid of the water and did not dare to chase them.
It was only at this time that I dared to confirm that we were safe for the time being, and suddenly the bones of my whole body seemed to fall apart, and my muscles were sore, and I lay down heavily on the inflatable raft, so tired that I didn't want to move a finger. And Mango Head was so frightened that he sat on the inflatable raft, his whole body trembled slightly, and it was even more unbearable during the day, and the whole person was like an ostrich, burying his head between his arms, and his body shrunk into a ball and trembled.
Professor Jia was also so tired that he sat on the raft panting, and only the two foreigners were still holding their guns and staring at the broken corpses of the "informant" floating on the water behind them, for fear that they would suddenly jump up.
The inflatable raft drifted slowly along the current, and I don't know how long it went, but it became faster and faster, and the water splashed in as I walked, splashing me in the face and waking me up from my drowsiness. I sat up and found that the river in front of me was getting narrower and narrower, and the water was splashing against the mountain walls on both sides, and the splashing water was painful.
The two foreigners, one on the left and one on the right, desperately kept their balance so as not to capsize, but the inflatable raft was still like a drifting leaf on the water, and it could capsize at any time. Professor Jia didn't know when he was lying on the front of the boat, and suddenly he turned his voice and shouted something to us, waving his hand constantly, but the sound of the water was so loud, how could we hear it.
In the midst of my scramble, I saw his fat body shrink, leaning down on the inflatable raft and clinging to both sides with both hands, and as soon as I screamed in my heart, my body rose into the air, and then fell heavily, and in a few seconds, I fell into the water.
I was full of water splashes in front of me, but fortunately, my head was soaked in the water but I was much more sober, and I knew that we had encountered an underground waterfall, but I was afraid that Professor Jia had just warned us, but at that time we were dizzy, even if we knew that there was a waterfall in front of us, we didn't have time to react. Fortunately, the waterfall was not deep, and I was swept away by the current, and with a hard kick of my feet, I surfaced.
I opened my mouth to shout, but the waterfall in front of me was so loud that I choked on a few mouthfuls of water, and when I learned well, I stopped talking, but swam far away until I was far away from the waterfall. It was pitch black in front of me, and I couldn't see my five fingers when I opened my eyes, in fact, I should be afraid, but the desire to survive has already exceeded the fear in my heart, or I don't have time to think about something to be afraid of, I just want to find Professor Jia and them quickly.
During the procession, suddenly my shoulder was hooked, turned my head and saw a dark head in front of me, I was shocked, I was about to scream, but the man said a word of English, I immediately recognized it was one of the foreigners, just wanted to ask him where the others went, he pointed forward, signaled me to swim with him, sure enough, we swam not far, then I saw the inflatable raft floating on the water, but unfortunately overturned.
There were two people floating next to the inflatable raft, and when they swam closer, they were Professor Jia and Mangotou. The foreigner turned on the waterproof flashlight, and I saw that Professor Jia's fat face was soaked in water, and the whites of his eyes turned out when he drank water, but fortunately, the inflatable raft was solid enough, and it was not worn out after hitting the mountain wall for a long time, otherwise a few of us would have to sink into the river to feed the fish in less than an hour, if there are fish here.
The four of them tried to turn the inflatable raft over at the same time in the water, but when the raft was upside down, there was air and it was sucked on the water, and we had nowhere to focus in the water, no matter how we turned over, we couldn't turn it over. The foreigner dived and entered the inside of the raft from the water, and I don't know what action he did, but I saw him push it inside, and we took advantage of the situation and turned the inflatable raft over.
I rolled over and collapsed in the raft, soaked in the water for so long, wet and uncomfortable, and the ground was so cold that my whole body trembled slightly, and even my teeth trembled. I knew that I would have to get sick if I continued like this, so I stood up with the pain all over my body and kept dancing my hands and feet to keep warm.
After a while, my body was much warmer, at least not shivering, and I turned my head to see that there were two people missing, and that the other blonde foreigner was missing during the day, and the lake formed by the impact of the underground waterfall was very wide, and I did not know where they had been washed by the water. When the oars fell, they were long gone, so we had to use our hands instead, choose a direction with the waterfall on our backs, and slowly paddle forward to find it.
The distance between the underground lake and the mountain wall above me is no more than five meters, but it is supported by huge rock pillars, I am not a geology student, and I can't tell what kind of rock the pillars are, but perhaps it is because of the impact of the river over the years that the rock formations under the ground have been hammered into what they are today.
Professor Jia used a flashlight in front of the raft to shine on the water, softly shouting the names of the day and the blonde foreigner, but the surroundings were terrifyingly quiet, and the powerful searchlight had disappeared as early as when he fell down the waterfall, and the light of the flashlight could not shine far, so the probability of finding a needle in a haystack was not far away.
My heart sank, could it be that the two of them sank to the bottom of this water and became the souls of this place? There is never the light of day in this underground, and I don't know how long it will take to be a water ghost before someone can replace them and attain transcendence. While I was thinking nonsense, suddenly Mango Head shouted again and again: "Professor, look over there, over there!" ā
Professor Jia shone the flashlight in the direction of Mango's head, and sure enough, on the right hand side of the raft, there was a small black dot up and down, as if a person was swimming and approaching us. We paddled lightly until we were five meters apart, and we saw that it was the blonde foreigner, who was paddling with one hand and holding his back in the water during the day with the other.
Along the way, it was inexplicably thrilling, and some people died without even a chance to breathe, and now we were happy to see that they were okay, so we quickly approached and pulled them up. It's also thanks to the strong physical strength of the blonde foreigner, who is about to collapse after swimming in the lake for so long, not to mention dragging a person to swim.
But the blonde foreigner was obviously at the limit, he was paralyzed on the inflatable raft and couldn't get up again, I thought he must have fainted during the day, but I didn't expect him to stare wide-eyed and not move, if it wasn't for panting, I thought he would have died.
I dragged him into the raft with all my might, but he didn't move, he suddenly grabbed my shoulders tightly with both hands, and said tremblingly: "I, I have something hanging on my feet......
I was stunned, I didn't understand what it meant for a while, and the mango head next to me saw that I couldn't drag him, so he came to help.
"Smack!" In the darkness, I saw that something more than half a meter long came up with the raft that was thrown at the foot of the day, and smashed it on the head of the mango, smashing him to the ground.
I turned on the flashlight hanging from my waist and shone it, and what fell on the raft was a rib with an arm attached to it, and it was the palm of the hand that hooked the leg of the trouser during the day. Under the light of the flashlight, the white flower hand bones were dripping with water, and I don't know if this person was unwilling to die here, and forced him to go to the bottom of the water during the day to replace him, I suddenly remembered the legend of the water ghost in the countryside looking for a living person to die, and suddenly cold sweat broke out from my forehead.
Professor Jia walked over from the blonde foreigner, looked at the severed bone by the light of the flashlight in my hand, and said, "This is not a recent stay, this person has been dead for I don't know how many years, even the flesh and blood are soaked in the water, only the bones are not melted." ā
At this time, the blonde foreigner who was originally lying on the raft suddenly said something in English, and I didn't hear it clearly, but I saw Professor Jia holding a flashlight and approaching the broken bone to look at it carefully for a while, and then said: "Henry said that when he fell into the water, he saw that the bottom of the water was full of such dry bones, and I saw that the traces of this broken bone were very neat, and the head must have been cut off by a metal weapon." The Baiyue people do not have such advanced iron-smelting technology, but they are afraid that the dead at the bottom of this lake are all slaves who built the tomb of the king of Nanyue. ā
My heart was cold, first the corpse oil at the bottom of the river, and now the dry bones all over the lake, and I felt more and more eerie that this underground was terrifying.
Professor Jia kicked the dry bones into the water and said, "If the advance team also escapes into this underground lake, they must be in front, and if we continue to look forward, we will definitely find them." Since this is the burial place of the tomb slaves, it is believed that the tomb of the king of Nanyue must not be far away. ā
I saw Professor Jia talking about the tomb of the king of Nanyue, his eyes showed joy, and I couldn't help but feel bored for a while, along the way, there were so many dead people, he didn't seem to be invisible, it was a living human life, to the point where now, even we don't know if we can get out alive, he still thinks about that grave.
I turned and walked away, took off the backpack that I had been carrying on my back, and examined it, and found that some of the cookies inside had been soaked in water for so long that they had already turned into a pulp. Mango's backpack was washed away by the water, the backpack during the day was still there but it was useless, but the backpack of the two foreigners was still there, they divided some of the biscuits and chocolates sealed in the waterproof bag into several portions, and everyone ate them, which made them feel more comfortable.
After replenishing the physical strength, only then can I have the energy to think about the current situation, this underground lake does not know how wide, in which direction to go, it is impossible to drift forward aimlessly, who knows what else is waiting for us in front.
I was about to discuss my thoughts with Professor Jia, but he was whispering something to the blonde foreigner, and I didn't even notice it when I moved behind them.
I coughed lightly, and they stopped, and they all turned their heads to look at me, but when Professor Jia turned his head, he quickly put a piece of white porcelain in his hand into his pocket.
He didn't say what it was, but I'd seen him look at it in his hand more than once, and if memory serves, every time it was when he was trying to find his way. Since he didn't say it, I didn't want to ask, but when they looked at me, I said to Professor Jia, "Professor, what should we do now that we are trapped in this underground lake?"
Professor Jia didn't answer, but stretched out his hand and said, "What do you think this is?"
By the faint light of the flashlight, I could see that it was an open bag of dried meat, and I wondered why he took out this bag, but I heard Professor Jia continue: "This is what Henry found under the rock pillar over there when he fell into the water, do you know what it means?"
I was stunned for a moment, but then I figured it out and said, "Could it be that this was left by the advance team, and they also fled here like us."
Professor Jia nodded and said, "That's right, we almost followed their footsteps all the way, and what we met was exactly what they met." This underground lake seems to be calm on the surface, but in fact there are many undercurrents underneath, and they must have gone with the current. This unsealed bag must have been left behind by them, and the one who believed they were alive must be in front. ā
I am happy in my heart, after all the hardships and deaths of so many people, I am finally about to find them, but in an instant my heart is empty, even if I find them, what can we do, can we still get out of here alive?
"Jia, Professor Jia, what are those monsters we met? How could anyone look like that? Could it be that those ancient Baiyue people were all monsters like that? Mango finally breathed his breath, and when he saw that we were talking, he leaned over and asked.