Chapter 506: Underground Waterways

Lao Lu's people pushed the trolley and dragged the boxes full of tobacco away from the platform, and Qi Lin noticed that not far behind the platform, there was a large hole in the tunnel wall on one side, which was obviously dug by hand, and this was the road to the "port".

Qi Lin followed behind Lao Lu's people and walked in, and as soon as he entered the cave, he felt that the humidity in the air suddenly rose a lot.

Dark rivers, also known as "underground flows" and "underground rivers", mostly appear in karst landforms.

The scale of the dark river is large and small, the large scale of the dark river can form a complete underground water system, the basin area can reach thousands of square kilometers, the longest dark river in the world has been proved is the "Longqiao Dark River" in China, located between Enshi, Hubei and Fengjie, Chongqing, with a total length of 50 kilometers.

Although the dark river leading to Vault 906 is not comparable to the Longqiao dark river, it is also a small dark river.

Lao Lu and the others led Qi Lin along this passage until they reached an underground cave, which had obviously been remodeled as well, and was located for the convenience of wheelbarrows, with many wooden planks on the ground and a smooth ramp to the edge of the water.

A cargo ship was moored on the shore, a common sand carrier in the canals of the old era, and the old Lu people put a few wooden planks on the side of the boat, and the trolley boarded the deck of the sand carrier.

Lao Lu and Qi Lin also boarded the boat together, and after the last box was sent to the sand carrier, Lao Lu had the engine turned on, and in a loud noise, the sand carrier began to sail towards the depths of the dark underground river.

"Boy, don't look at this dark river as calm, in fact, under this water, there are monsters that are far more terrifying than the things you encountered." Lao Lu grabbed the rudder with one hand, took out a cigarette with the other and lit it, and took a deep puff.

"What's in this water? Mutated fish? Qi Lin didn't doubt Lao Lu's words, but was just a little curious.

"More than that. To be honest, I don't know exactly what's in the water, but it's better to stay away from the side of the boat," said Lu.

"There's radiation in this water?" The concentrating vortex in Qi Lin's body suddenly moved, which made Qi Lin realize that the entire dark river had actually been polluted, but the radiation was diluted by water, so it was not very obvious.

"Of course, the river is more than just groundwater, and if my guess is correct, the source of this river is probably on the surface, but we can't get out."

The sand carriers moved slowly in the middle of the river, and Lao Lu's men were guarding the boxes with harpoons, shotguns and other weapons, and above their heads, stalactites hung upside down, and from time to time water droplets dripped from them.

Qi Lin noticed that in some narrow sections, all the stalactites on the top of his head were broken, and judging from the traces on the fractures, they should have been blown up by explosives.

"I'm not alone in this waterway, and it took a lot of effort to open up this waterway." Lao Lu said with a cigarette in his mouth.

"How was this underground waterway discovered?"

"At the beginning, Vault 906 was going to expand, and I planned to continue digging in this direction, but it happened to dig into the dark river, and the river water was directly poured into the construction site, and a large number of people died, and the consortium alliance was quite happy, after all, water resources are so scarce, but later it was found that the river water has been polluted, and the cost of purification is too high, so the construction site that has become a lake has been sealed."

"Later, some forces set their sights on this dark river, spent money to buy it here, re-excavated and explored, and finally found several waterways in the dark river, and we, the delivery people, if we want to take these waterways, we must pay a 'toll' every month, but compared to the official taxes and fees, the toll is already very cheap." Old Lu talked eloquently, and it can be seen that he is actually a very talkative person.

"What are you going to do with that monster's corpse?" Compared to the underground water channel, Qi Lin was more curious about what kind of use Lao Lu used to buy the monster's corpse.

"Dissecting, studying, and then disposing of the corpses and selling them to the rich, like this kind of collection." Old Lu replied nonchalantly.

Qi Lin suddenly realized, this is the real world, there is no serum on the monster corpse, for people like them who can only fight and kill, the monster corpse is just a pile of rotten meat except for those materials that can be used to process equipment, but in the hands of an expert like Lao Lu, it can be processed into hideous monster specimens.

This kind of mutant biological specimen is very marketable in the upper class, and the stronger the strength, the more ferocious the appearance, and the higher the rarity, the more expensive the mutant biological specimen, like this monster If it is made into a specimen, I am afraid it can be sold for more than 10,000 resource points.

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"There are dangerous waters ahead, everyone should be vigilant, I repeat, no one is allowed to approach the side of the boat, otherwise something will drag you into the water, we will not save you!"

After the sand carrier traveled for more than half an hour, Lao Lu suddenly stood up and said loudly.

Hearing this, the guys guarding next to the cargo couldn't help but show a trace of nervousness, and held the weapons in their hands tighter.

"Dangerous waters?" Qi Lin looked at Lao Lu.

"It's the water where mutated creatures are more active." Lao Lu replied.

Qi Lin didn't have any weapons on his body, Chen He originally wanted to give him the Type 56 Triangular Army Thorn, but Qi Lin felt that Chen He needed weapons more than himself, after all, Chen He had to return the same way from that tunnel.

"Take it, when the time comes, you suddenly see something jumping out of the water, your first reaction is to dodge, you can't dodge and stab again, don't wrestle with them, those things are stronger than a bull." Lao Lu took out a rusty harpoon from the cabin and threw it to Qi Lin.

"Bigger than a bull? Will the boat be capsized? Qi Lin took the harpoon and asked casually.

"I haven't come across anything that can overturn a ship yet, but maybe, depending on luck." Lao Lu returned to the rudder, and the entire sand carrier began to slowly accelerate.

Through the dim light of the boat, Qi Lin could see some black shadows flashing under the water from time to time, and the largest one was more than two meters long.

In the game of the wasteland survival rules, Qi Lin once fought with a mutant fathead fish more than four meters long underwater, and now his strength in the real world is far stronger than then, if he faces the fathead fish again, Qi Lin is confident that he can solve the battle in ten seconds. 2k reading web