Chapter 7: The Cage of the Sinkhole
A corner of the southwest sky, riding the wind and riding the wind, also waiting for leisure. -------Surname. Jing Bo "Fixing the Storm"
The village has its own boundless beauty, Chen Long looks at the curling smoke every day, the morning and dusk are fixed, and a few days have passed in a flash. In the past few days, Zhang accompanied him to explore around, only to see the reckless mountains, only sheep intestine hunting roads, and cliffs everywhere. Since Chen Long knew that he was in the southwest and wanted to climb out of the mountains and enter the Central Plains, he had only two options, one was to the east and the other was to the north, and the Water Curtain Cave was in the northeast of the village, so it naturally became the focus of exploration.
In the early morning of this day, Zhang prepared breakfast for Chen Long, and when he saw that he finished eating sweetly, he smiled and stuffed a thing into Chen Long's arms. When Chen Long unfolded it, it was a new coarse cloth robe with a pair of cloth boots wrapped inside. It turned out that Zhang's sleepless night and specially sewed new clothes and shoes for Chen Long, Chen Longzheng was moved, and heard Zhang's words: "Brother Chen, you try it quickly, I'll change it if it's not suitable." Chen Long hurriedly put on his new clothes, only to see that the size fits, obviously tailor-made, and tried the new shoes, which also fit properly, and couldn't help but say: "Peach Blossom, how do you know my size." When Zhang heard the word size, he wanted to be a little crooked, and his face flushed and said, "Brother Chen, I measured it for you when you were asleep, just the right one." After saying that, he took the bowl and pan like a run for his life, and went to the kitchen with a cigarette.
Chen Long didn't know that Zhang's wanted to be crooked, shook his head and said This woman loves to blush, and he didn't care about it at the moment, and walked around the courtyard twice in his new robe, feeling like a shotgun. Touching the arms of the clothes, he also deliberately sewed a few small pockets, the small pockets have cloth belts, which are obviously used to put silver and other valuables, Chen Long praised the peach blossoms for thinking carefully, and easily stuffed the electric shock nails into a small pocket, tightened them with cloth tapes, and stuffed the Qinglong dagger into the boots, and tied them tightly with cloth bands. Just as he was cleaning up, he heard Liu Xian's voice outside the hospital: "Brother Chen, Brother Chen!" The raft is done! ”
Chen Long was overjoyed, and said that the magpie came in time, and when he opened the courtyard door, he saw Liu Busy, Liu Li, and Sandan were all here, Liu Li and Liu Busy were carrying a few rolls of long rope, and Sandan was carrying a big backpack, thinking that it was some equipment for mountaineering, and he unloaded it at the door in a hurry, and Zhang also walked to the courtyard when he heard the movement, and everyone looked at Chen Long, waiting for him to order.
Chen Long saw that everything was ready, and under an order, several people carried their bags with their hands and feet, each of them carried a torch, and Zhang's carried some dry food, and went out of the village neatly, and a few hairy children behind him followed Sa Huan all the way to the entrance of the village, which was like a torch relay competition for the Olympic Games. Chen Long looked forward to finding a way out as soon as possible, and did not stop for a moment, leading everyone to the small lake, only to see Erdan and a few villagers giggling and fiddling with the newly built raft in the lake.
Chen Long saw that the raft was full of oars and pennies, nodded with satisfaction, thanked the villagers who helped, got on the raft with a few people, and slowly rowed towards the waterfall. All the way only to see sparkling, the world is long, the distance is dotted with flowers, green trees, the mood is extremely good, Chen Long couldn't help but stand up, happily looking up to the sky and roaring, I only hope that God will make this trip smooth and find the exit to the outside world. Zhang saw that Chen Long was happy, and he also laughed heartily, a pretty face was bright in the sun, if it weren't for a few light bulbs next to him, Zhang had to be in Chen Long's arms, but thinking that Chen Long would leave if he found a way out, he couldn't help but feel gloomy.
Leisurely rowed to the other side of the lake, a few people carried the raft to the waterfall, only to see the big beads and small beads, all falling on the jade plate, a shallow colorful neon looming in the mist, it was really beautiful. A few people threw the raft down, down the edge of the pool to the pool, Chen Long was even more childlike, suddenly picked up Zhang's, plopped down into the pool, fortunately the edge of the pool was very shallow, Zhang's got up and shouted, the white clothes were wet, the graceful figure was revealed, a few big bulbs saw the nosebleeds, and the second egg was even more embarrassed to squat and dare not get up, for fear that everyone would see that he had set up a big tent.
Enough trouble, everyone climbed on the raft, struggled to row into the waterfall, near the waterfall under the water, the intuition of the water mist rushed to the face, suddenly heavy water pressure came, the front end of the raft suddenly sank, the raft instantly turned back and forth, Chen Long did not have time to react, was heavily beaten into the deep water, hurriedly opened his eyes and saw Zhang's white clothes, hugged Zhang's, went upstream, when the head was exposed, both of them gasped for breath, and looked back to see that they were already in the water curtain.
Just as he didn't know whether to advance or retreat, a few people came out of the water curtain, and a few people were still leading the raft. Chen Long was overjoyed, and hurriedly led the Zhang family, and everyone climbed onto the raft again, but fortunately, there were many of them. The third egg suddenly snorted, it turned out that his backpack had disappeared, and he thought that it was confiscated by the Dragon King when he sank to the end. A few rolls of long rope are gone, the raft was looted, and several wooden paddles and torches came out of the water, and after they were salvaged, they found that the torches were soaked in oil, and they should still be usable, but the things that ignited the fire were all in the three-egg backpack, and there was no thing to ignite, so what was to ignite the fire? Everyone was staring at each other, but they didn't expect the first expedition to die like this, and suddenly saw Sandan's mouth with a sound in his mouth, and took out an oily paper bag from his arms, and after opening it, it turned out to be a few fire folds, and handed them to Chen Long.
Chen Long was overjoyed to take it, stretched out his hand and rubbed the back of the head of the three eggs, everyone also praised the three eggs for being smart, the three eggs have never been so starry to hold the moon, he was flattered for a while, and the big tongue stretched out again, Chen Long was afraid that he would come up and lick it, so he quickly withdrew his hand, wrapped the fire fold in oiled paper, and put it in his arms. Everyone followed the wall of the cave, slowly paddling towards the cave, and gradually the cave was as dark as ink, fortunately, there was no fork in the road, Chen Long took out a fire fold, and lit a torch with a puff.
The torches gradually brightened, the surrounding area became clearer, and I couldn't see the roof of the cave when I looked up, and I didn't know how high it was. The surface of the water is calm and there are no waves, only the wooden paddles hit the surface of the water to form small whirlpools. After rowing for a long time, I saw a stone wall in front of me towering high, and it was already at the end.
There was nothing to gain along the way, Chen Long depressedly put his hand into the water, feeling a pool of stagnant water, the torch was shining, Chen Long suddenly saw that there seemed to be a little white mark on the stone wall at the end, and quickly took the torch to take a closer look, only to see that the white mark was actually a shallow palm print. Being able to leave palm prints on this solid rock is really powerful. Liu Li said: "I think that the senior master has also been here, and when he saw that there was no way out, he slapped Shibi in a hurry." ”
Chen Long was unwilling in his heart, jumped into the water and dived down for a while, his eyes were blind in the water, and it was really a pool of stagnant water. Chen Long was about to float, when suddenly a trace of residual leaves floated in front of him, Chen Long's heart moved, and he rushed to sneak away. Gradually, he felt that the speed of the residual leaves was gradually increasing, and suddenly he was gone, and Chen Long could already feel that the water was speeding up and flowing in one direction, and he was very happy in his heart, but there was a cave at the bottom of the water, and he didn't know where it led. With one breath exhausted, Long Chen surfaced and swam towards the torch.
Climbed on the bamboo raft and listened to Chen Long's statement, everyone looked at each other, all of them looked embarrassed, and the cave under the water didn't know how deep, where did the submarine go to explore? Chen Long resolutely said: "I can hold my breath for fifteen minutes, I will dive in to explore, and I will return in seven and a half minutes, it should be fine." Looking up at their stunned and incomprehensible idiot looks, he remembered that there was no concept of minutes at that time, and quickly changed his words: "It's just that you can hold it for half an hour, if you find it, I'll come back and take you to swim over." When everyone heard this, there was only that, and no one could hold their breath as Long Chen. Zhang was stunned for a while, took out the dry food wrapped in oil paper from his arms, and stuffed it into Chen Long's arms, his eyes were reluctant and tearful. Chen Long hurriedly comforted her and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'll be back in a while." ”
After sorting out the items and tying the dry food and fire fold tightly in his arms, Chen Long jumped into the water, quickly swam in the direction of the water just now, reached the predetermined position, took a deep breath, and plunged into the water. After sinking for about 10 meters, the water flow really appeared, and Chen Long immediately went down the water, silently counting the time in his heart.
The water flow slowly accelerated, and Chen Long suddenly hit the stone wall, knowing that the water flow had entered another cave from here, he quickly touched the wall and followed the water into another cave. Chen Long tried to float up, and sure enough, he hit the top of the cave in the water, and he couldn't stretch his head to breathe, so he quickly continued to swim along the current.
It looked like it had been six minutes, the water was speeding up again, and the top of the cave still couldn't rise, Chen Long held on to the top of the cave, hesitating whether to turn back, gritting his teeth and continuing forward, thinking that it would take another minute. The water flow suddenly accelerated rapidly, Chen Long's heart was not good, and he wanted to turn back, but suddenly the sky fell apart, his body hung in the air and fell with the water, Chen Long instinctively reached out and grabbed it in mid-air, and suddenly his left arm touched an object, which seemed to have touched something vertically inserted into the cliff, followed by a boom, and was smashed to the bottom of the water by the current.
Struggling out of the water, the black swarthy could not see anything, only heard the rumbling sound of water beside him, it turned out that he had just been swept down by an underground waterfall and fell into an underground river. Chen Long was shocked, silently calculated that he had fallen about 40 meters, and had encountered something inserted in the rock wall of the waterfall about 20 meters down, and there was no turning back. I was at a loss in my heart, so I had to drift away with the water, thinking that this was a way out.
After drifting for about two kilometers, there was a glimmer of sky light in front of him, Chen Long was overjoyed, and hurriedly took a few beautiful butterflies up and down, and sure enough, the light in front of him became brighter, and the outline of the cave entrance could already be seen. Chen Long happily swam out of the hole, looked around to find the embankment, only to see that the surrounding waves were as flat as a mirror, the water was dark green, and the four walls were towering like clouds.
, 10,000 grass and mud horses stepped in Chen Long's heart in an instant, and the word sinkhole floated out of his mind. This is actually a large sinkhole, the walls are as smooth as mirrors, wet moss, and there are no tools to climb the rock, which is simply a fool's dream. Chen Long wanted to transform into a big gecko so that he could get rid of the cage, but unexpectedly, the dragon swam to the bottom of the well and became a frog at the bottom of the well.
After even the time machine was drafted a few times, Chen Long reluctantly began to observe the surrounding environment. Now, there is no way back, there is a cage in front, Chen Long is facing a life-and-death crisis, but he calms down. Fortunately, the light was sufficient, Chen Long slowly swam along the four walls, and sure enough, he found that there was a small cave in the low place, about 10 meters from the water surface, this distance was difficult for Chen Long, took out the Qinglong dagger and began to dig a small pit under the cave, and suddenly saw that next to the place he wanted to dig, there was already a small pit, and when he washed the pit, he found that there were traces of the dagger being cut, and his heart couldn't help but move slightly, could it be that the predecessor had also been here?
Climbing up, there were indeed many small pits erected like a ladder, which saved Chen Long a lot of effort. Drilling into the cave, it was dark and dark after a few meters, and the ground was still dry, Chen Long fell to the ground, his muscles and bones ached, and he couldn't help falling into a deep sleep.
On the other side of the mountain, in the Water Curtain Cave, only a few people from the Zhang family were waiting bitterly, but they didn't know that the so-called Yi people were already on the water side and could not turn back.