"Liu Zhigang, are you crazy!?" The torturer couldn't help but say angrily, "You want to drown the people in the tunzi!" ”

Liu Zhigang laughed: "Boss Xing, you are really smart, you only need a small hint, and you will know what's going on." ”

As he spoke, he lifted his clothes and pointed to the three small walkie-talkies on his chest and said: "Remote control, not too advanced, but enough, as long as I press the corresponding frequency number, it will detonate, from left to right, the three walkie-talkies control three different places, the one on the left is the explosive behind you, the middle is the top of the big cave before, and the one on the far right is the side of the main cave outside." ”

Speaking, Liu Zhigang pressed the leftmost one, it can be seen from his skillful technique, he has practiced countless times, at the same time as he pressed, Bai Zhongzheng pounced on the torture technique and He Chenxue from behind, and at the same time that the three of them fell to the ground, the explosive on the door exploded, although the stone door was safe and sound, but all the stones above collapsed, and the power of the explosion was much smaller than they imagined.

Liu Zhigang stood there laughing, pointed at them and said, "Look at your appearance, it's ridiculous, really, it's ridiculous, do you think it's going to blow up to the earth?" Don't forget, I'm here, and I'm not trying to kill myself, I'm just trying to blow up the rocks at the top of the exit. ”

The three of them got up, shaking off the dust on their bodies, and Xingshu hugged He Chenxue and said, "You don't even let go of your daughter?" ”

"Daughter?" The corners of Liu Zhigang's mouth rose, "I don't know what's going on, I don't know why you think Miss He is my daughter, do you think people like me will get married?" She's not my daughter at all! ”

He Chenxue was stunned, and slowly raised her eyes to look at Liu Zhigang: "What did you say?" ”

"I said-" Liu Zhigang said loudly, "You have nothing to do with me at all, I have never been married, I have not even touched a woman for so many years, how can I have a daughter!" ”

"That-" As soon as He Chenxue said a word, Liu Zhigang immediately aimed the crossbow at her, and she didn't say any more.

Liu Zhigang said coldly: "I said, you have nothing to do with me, I don't have to lie, if you are my daughter, I will definitely treat you well, just like my mother would sacrifice everything to save me back then!" Don't ask again, I don't know about you, I don't know how you think you're my daughter, and I don't want to discuss this matter with you, come, follow me on, help me witness this moment of history, my moment of revenge! ”

Liu Zhigang retreated step by step with a crossbow in hand, and the three criminals slowly walked towards him, until they walked out of the mine and came to the position of the staircase entrance of the main cave outside, and then Liu Zhigang dodged to the side and motioned for them to go down the stairs.

When the torture technique walked up to Liu Zhigang and pondered whether to do it, Liu Zhigang took several steps back in a row, shook his head and said: "I'm not stupid, I know what you will do when you approach, don't forget, I hired three experts, they are all retired soldiers, although they don't have guns, but they also have crossbows, at this time there are three crossbows facing the three of you, what do you dare to do to me, you can only die, if you are safe, maybe there is a way to live." ”

The torture technique walked slowly, and at the same time said: "Liu Zhigang, you don't need to be like this, many people in the tunzi are innocent, and once you blow up here, the terrain of Jingpo Lake is higher, and the water gushes down, and it is not only the tunzi that will be submerged, but the surrounding areas will suffer, you are not a criminal until now, it is still too late to stop, really, it is still too late." ”

"I thought of many plans, but none of them were as perfect as they are now, I spent many years surveying the terrain, calculating the currents and strata, etc., just to wait for this moment, I will not give up, they deserve the punishment they deserve." Liu Zhigang said indifferently, "Everything originates from this heaven and earth, so, I want to blow up here, after the water of the underground river is cut off, the stratum is broken, and the water of Jingpo Lake will also be introduced, and at the same time as flooding here, it will also drown those people, but I am not a cold-blooded guy, just water, not bullets, not sticks, they still have a glimmer of life, if they can survive the flood, I will not pursue it anymore, that is the will of God, God wants them to survive, I have to comply with the will of God, right?" ”

Torture said: "Liu Zhigang, even if you want revenge, you have to take revenge with dignity, what you are doing now is a coward!" Cowards don't dare to face their enemies, no, you choose this way of revenge because you can't take revenge in a direct way, because those people raised you and raised you as an adult, especially your adoptive parents, you can't directly poison them, so you deceive yourself and choose this way of letting the flood and let God decide. Yes, you are a coward, but there is salvation, I will persuade you one last time, you put down the walkie-talkie and don't do stupid things, because you will not succeed. ”

Liu Zhigang squatted on it, looked at the three torturers who stopped, and asked, "I won't succeed?" Why? I'm suddenly a little curious! ”

Xingshu turned to look at him: "You are just a pawn of others, you think you hired that killer, but in fact the killer took advantage of you, you don't use your brain to think about it, why did she find you, and why did you let you involve us?" It's all just her game, and in this game, she makes you think you're the arranger and confuses you. I also have a speculation, that is, the three foreign Chinese treasure hunting experts were also found by her, maybe the explosives were planted by them, but do you really think that the explosives in the other two places can be detonated? ”

When the torture technique was said to be here, He Chenxue and Bai Zhongzheng both looked at him and sweated, which was simply instigating Liu Zhigang to press the switch.

The torture technique was indeed a big gamble, and he made a big bet, because he knew that the fake branch and the three treasure hunting experts were hiding around, and the passage they left had collapsed, and they must have a way back. It's a pity that he doesn't know much about geology, he only knows some fur, and he doesn't know much about this cave, the underground river above it, and Jingpo Lake, so he can only boldly guess that there must be something wrong with those explosives, and it won't be as Liu Zhigang expected, because once both places are blown up, all the water will pour in, and everyone will die!

Liu Zhigang took a deep breath, got up and said, "The matter has come to this point, I will reveal the mystery." First, your assumptions are wrong, one of the three treasure hunters was a classmate of mine when I was a university student in St. Petersburg, and it wasn't the woman who helped me find it. Second, the explosives are indeed loaded by them, because I don't know much about this, but the walkie-talkie on my body, only two are remotely controlled, that is, only two places of explosives can be remotely controlled, and the remaining one is timed, I want to know why I did it? ”

Xingshu frowned and squeezed He Chenxue's hand.

Liu Zhigang pointed to the inside of the mine: "I blew up there in order to seal this cave, that is the first remote control explosive, the second remote control explosive is in the gold mine, the above is the underground river, after I press it, the top explodes, the water gushing in will fill the entire cave below, but rest assured, the cave is very strong, I calculated, because if the main vein of the support is not destroyed, the water poured in will only fill the cave, not let the cave collapse completely, you don't understand geology, don't know the topography of this place, In short, the terrain of Jingpo Lake is the highest, and the topography of this cave is between that tunzi and Jingpo lake, just like a jar, as long as the jar does not break, the water cannot flood the tunzi below, but if the final time bomb blows up the traverse veins and collapses, the cave will all collapse, and the water will burst out after the collapse, and the hourly flow is enough to quickly flood the tunzi below. ”

Bai Zhongzheng exhaled: "You mean, after you press the second remote-controlled bomb, you will wait here for the water to fill, after filling the cave, the water will be stable, and then you can dive upstream, enter Jingpo Lake from the underground river, and then leave, and after you leave, the timed explosive will detonate, and at that time, even if someone wants to defuse the bomb, there is no way, as long as you press the switch of the second remote-controlled explosive, everything is a foregone conclusion!" ”

Liu Zhigang nodded vigorously: "That's right, so the explosives explosion time I set is eight hours, eight hours, even if the explosives and the detonator are soaked in water, they can't be damaged, because that kind of material is made by my classmates, at least it must be soaked in water for about a week before it loses its effect, and the battery in it can last up to a month, so it doesn't matter how long I set it, anyway, after the water is poured in, the bomb can't be dismantled, so let's stop talking nonsense, let's start!" ”

As he spoke, Liu Zhigang directly pressed the second walkie-talkie, and he was still laughing when he pressed it.

Seeing this, Bai Zhongzheng immediately turned around and threw himself at the place where he threw down his backpack before: "Hurry up, we have to tie ourselves ...... ropes"

Before Bai Zhongzheng finished speaking, there was a continuous explosion in the cave, followed by the roar of the underground river, Liu Zhigang turned around and walked towards a rock, put on a breathing apparatus, fixed himself on the rope that had been tied before, hid on the back of the stone, turned his back to the location of the mine above, and then waved his hand at the torture and others, showing a smug smile.

The position of the explosion in the mine is constantly expanding because of the relationship between the water flow, and the water is also increasing, and soon gushing out of the mine and rushing out of the mine gate, just like a silver-white water dragon, and at the same time, the turbulent water flow also carries out a lot of gold sand, and the gold sand rushes along the water in the air of the cave, which no longer looks beautiful and tempting, but like a bullet shot by death.

Xingshu and Bai Zhongzheng tied themselves and He Chenxue together with a rope, and then found a protruding and relatively strong rock to tie the rope to death, and then leaned against the rock, so as to avoid the direct impact of the water flow and the impact damage caused by the stones brought by the water flow.

"Don't use a respirator now, save some!" The torture technique was next to He Chenxue and said, "Wait for the water to flood the cave and submerge it above our heads, and then we will use it." ”

Bai Zhongzheng added next to him: "Under the premise that the water potential is not stable, never cut the rope, once separated, it will be washed out by the current and rushed into the cave outside, then it will be dead!" ”

Xingshu looked sideways at the water gushing out of the gold mine and rolling down the stairs, then looked down at the bottom of the cave, and then raised his eyes to see the location of the Taoist temple, and then said: "Bai Zhongzheng, don't forget, there are still many medicinal fish in the waterhole where we came before, once the water here is filled, after that kind of fish swims out, if there are a lot of them, we can only turn into white bones!" ”

He Chenxue closed her eyes, listened to the rumbling sound, and clutched the rope and torture techniques, and her mind was now blank.

Bai Zhongzheng glanced at Liu Zhigang, who was waiting on the rope tied to the rope in the distance, and then said: "That old miscellaneous man surnamed Liu must also know this, he is not afraid, what are we afraid of!" Don't forget, that fake branch and the three treasure hunt experts are here too! ”

"Damn it!" Xingshu scolded, "Now I can understand why Liu Zhigang brought so much diving equipment in, not to cross those pools, but for the final escape plan!" ”

The gushing water kept lapping against the rock behind them, like the palm of the god of death trying to push the rock down with them, and the three of them watched as the water in the cave grew higher and higher, and with each meter of water rising, they felt one step closer to death.

Finally, the water submerged to the position of their calves, and He Chenxue was already pale and about to collapse.

Xingshu hugged He Chenxue and said in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, the danger now is much smaller than when we were there at the earliest, we could all survive then, and now we can, and it's easier, you listen to my orders, wait and watch my gestures in the water, our ropes are tied together, Bai Zhongzheng and I are with you!" ”

He Chenxue nodded, but she didn't know if she was trembling or really understood, because her eyes were full of fear and uncertainty about the current situation.

When the water was about to flood his face, the torturer struggled to raise his head and shouted: "Wait, after the top of the head, wait until we can't hold it back and bite the respirator, we don't know how long it will take to dive in!" ”

By the time the torturer said this, the water had completely submerged the top of their heads, and at this time, there was still a third of the way before the entire cave was completely submerged, in other words, they had to wait at least ten minutes.

Ten minutes, as the branch said, their compressed breathing apparatus can be used at a normal frequency for almost an hour, but it also depends on how to use it, although there is a spare one, but whether it can be supported on the ground is another matter.

The three of them waited there quietly, Bai Zhongzheng had been struggling to observe Liu Zhigang in the distance underwater, after seeing Liu Zhigang cut the rope and go upstream, he knew that the time had come, and immediately pulled out a dagger to cut the rope that tied the rock, and then widened the distance between the two of them, and gestured to the three of them not to pull the rope too close, which would hinder each other's swimming, and then they swam towards the mine, and only through the hole in the underground river in the mine could they finally swim out.

The three of them struggled to swim to the mouth of the cave, and found that the water flow had stabilized as Liu Zhigang had judged before, in other words, the water had completely filled the entire cave here.

Bai Zhongzheng pointed to the top and motioned for them to swim upward, and then swam up first.

Swimming into the cave above, they found themselves in a natural karst cave, and then they remembered that the original formation of Jingpo Lake was a dammed lake formed by volcanic eruptions blocking the Mudanjiang River thousands of years ago, and lava tunnels have long been found in the underground forests around Jingpo Lake, maybe these tunnels are connected.

Swimming out of one part of the tunnel, the exhausted trio finally surfaced after half an hour.

The torture technique climbed up with difficulty, and then worked together with Bai Zhongzheng to drag He Chenxue up, the three of them lay in the cave and gasped for breath, and after breathing, the torture technique stood up, turned on the headlamp and looked around, and then put the headlamp flat on the ground, found some sand in the drier place around, and then raised it towards the position of the pillar of light, squatting there and observing carefully.

The pillar of light in the darkness clearly showed the dust in the air, and the torture technique raised his hand to signal Bai Zhongzheng and He Chenxue not to pant so much, and not to make a move, and then carefully stared at the direction of the dust, and after looking at it for a while, he pointed to his right side and said: "The dust is fluttering to the left, the breeze is coming from the right, and the exit is here." ”

Bai Zhongzheng got up, but He Chenxue shook his head: "I can't walk, I really can't move." ”

Torture Shu got up and helped her up: "We have to go, even if we wear dry wetsuits, we can't maintain a constant temperature for a long time in this kind of cave, and the air quality here is not good, don't forget, there is a gold mine below, and sulfur dioxide will be produced in the gold mine, which will permeate this cave, and we will die if we stay for a long time." ”

He Chenxue shook his head: "Just rest for five minutes." ”

"No! We can go a long way in five minutes. "Torture squatted down, "Bai Zhongzheng, get her on my back, I'll carry her on my back!" ”

He Chenxue immediately stopped Bai Zhongzheng: "No, you're already very tired, you can't walk far with me on your back." ”

"It's okay, don't worry, I'm better than you imagined." "Once I was trapped alone in the mountains of Shandong, I was lost, in order to find a way out, I walked alone for six hours in a row, and I also carried an incense burner of more than 20 catties. ”

He Chenxue smiled: "I'm at least heavier than the incense burner." ”

Bai Zhongzheng followed, ready to support at any time.

Torture also smiled: "For the chaser, precious things are more important than lives. ”

He Chenxue was stunned when she heard this, and then she listened to the torture technique and said: "Your life is now more precious than anything else, so even if you are heavier than a pig, I have to carry you out." ”

He Chenxue, who was still wondering if that "precious thing" was specifically referring to himself, laughed when he heard this.

"You have a good laugh, and your laughter is better than your voice." Torture said as he walked, in fact, his legs were already weak, "Smile more in the future, don't keep a straight face, you won't be worried that you will get wrinkles if you laugh too much, how ......old are you?"

The torture technique was chattering like this, forcing himself to speak, not to let his consciousness collapse, because he had not really rested well since entering the Heaven and Earth Mansion, and coupled with the long half an hour in the water and the thin air in the cave, his consciousness had been blurred. And He Chenxue, who was on the back of the torture technique, was originally relatively weak, and slowly closed his eyes at this time.

Bai Zhongzheng on one side was already dizzy, because the torture technique and He Chenxue didn't know that when the water in the cave hit down, Bai Zhongzheng's right ankle was hit by a stone, although the wound was no longer bleeding, but after soaking in the water for so long, plus the wound was inflamed, he already had a fever.

Finally, the torture technique fell, He Chenxue also slipped from his body, and when Bai Zhongzheng stepped forward to shake the torture technique, he finally couldn't support it and fainted.

A few minutes after the three of them fell, a figure slowly appeared from behind, then squatted in front of the torture technique, probed his snort, turned his head to the three people on the other side: "All alive, carry them out, it's not far from the exit." ”