I heard the sound very close, but after walking for more than ten minutes, a river more than two meters wide passed in front of me, and the road was gone.

Zhong Zhicheng took a hand lamp and shone it, the river water is not very fast, a wide river beach is almost the size of a basketball court, covered with gravel and some rotten wood washed up by the river, the top of the head is more than ten meters high, there are some stalactites hanging upside down, the sharp stone tips are pointing down, giving people a sense of danger.

And there is a heat here, and when the hot wind blows, it is indescribably comfortable.

This is supposed to be an environment that has been formed naturally by the soft soil washed away by the underground river beach that has been eroded by the river for countless years. Many residents live on the water that flows out of the snow-capped mountains, and the stagnant water in many places will penetrate into the ground, forming rich groundwater resources for countless years.

A few people frantically threw themselves into the river and drizzled into it.

At this time, I didn't care if the water was dry or not, especially a few boys, who were so thirsty that their throats were about to smoke.

The water was a little lukewarm and smelled of sulfur, but they couldn't take care of it anymore.

Wu Tian, who drank a few sips, took some water with his hands and fed it to the fat man, and after moistening his throat, he didn't let him drink it anymore, after all, it was raw water, and he couldn't drink more now.

"Just now I saw a lot of branches on the riverbank, and everyone picked up a bunch of fires and lit them. Gao Jian said loudly: "Fat Wang, where is your lighter?"

Wang Fatzi, who drank some water, was also a lot more energetic, stretched out his hand and touched his body for a while, handed it to Gao Jian, lay down with his head held high, and sighed: "This time the fat man won't hang up, just now I was really worried that a few of you would throw the fat man away, or the fat man, my discerning eyes, I met you bunnies who are so righteous." ”

"If you lose your mouth again, you'll really be thrown here. Li Mu scolded with a smile: "You really should lose weight, damn, I'm tired to death!"

Someone has begun to collect rotten wood from the riverbank, which is so rotten that many of it will break at the touch of it, and it should be easy to set it on fire.

Mu Qing and a few girls looked at Wu Tian and them from time to time, muttering something quietly, with longing and a little shy in their eyes, a few single dogs didn't know why.

Li Mu was the first to react and said: "It's too hard and tiring to walk this way, you go find a place to wash, don't go too far." ”

Mu Qing and the others took a closer look at the darkness below, it was pitch black, and along the way, although these boys were poorer, they were all decent people and gentlemen.

Originally, it was a few days without a bath on this road, it was warm here, and the cold drove away the itchy feeling on the body was very uncomfortable, and the average girl was born to love clean, and the water here was like a hot spring, so I naturally had the idea of taking a good bath.

"Will it be dangerous?" Zhou Yuanyuan said a little scared.

"There shouldn't be any danger, don't worry!" Li Mu analyzed: "The water here smells of sulfur, there should be a volcano nearby, but the surface temperature of the perennial snow on the mountain is lower, so it is difficult to erupt, and sulfur is the nemesis of many snakes and insects, so don't worry too much." ”

"Wait. Wu Tian opened his mouth to stop him, and said to a few girls who looked at them with puzzled faces: "Bear with me, don't take risks." ”

"Why? We've all drunk this water just now, and there have been no adverse reactions for so long, so there shouldn't be any problem, right?" Mu Qing asked suspiciously.

The temptation to take a bath is too great for girls, and the temperature here is so good that it can make you feel comfortable and would rather go hungry.

"Teacher Mu, you better bear with it, even something like a snow loach has come out, and the ghost knows what will be under the water. Gao Jian also persuaded.

Speaking of snow loaches, thinking of He Chengang's death, several girls couldn't help but feel excited, but the temptation to clean their bodies was too great, and they were still a little hesitant.

Several boys looked at each other, and finally Li Mu said helplessly: "I'll go and inspect it first, and then make a decision." ”

Turning on the flashlight, Li Mu picked up a sturdy rotten wood, stood by the river and illuminated it with a lamp first.

It was found that the water was not deep, it was estimated that it was not even knee-deep, and the shore had been washed away by the groundwater for countless years, and the soft ones had been washed away early, leaving a solid black stone.

The water is very clear, but there is no light here, and the flashlight will reflect the light, and the bottom of the river cannot be seen clearly.

Li Mu used rotten wood to insert it into the river, and felt that the bottom of the river was full of sand and stones, and it was hard to knock on it, and he was trying to check it around, when he suddenly felt that the rotten wood in his hand touched a soft, slippery thing, and he felt a thrill in his heart, and quickly retracted his hand.

Gao Jian told him to move abnormally, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know, I can't see clearly, it feels like there's something real. Li Mu wasn't so sure.

Gao Jian walked over, took Li Mu's flashlight, and took a light to see the bottom of the river clearly, so he simply gently put the flashlight into the water.

Wu Tiangang wanted to walk over to see what was going on, but he saw Gao Jian's body trembling, the light in his hand dimmed, and he and Li Mu gently retreated.

His two performances made the other people's hearts tighten, and they didn't even dare to come out, and they were more nervous than they understood the situation.

Gao Jian made a silent gesture to signal them to stay away from the riverbank.

Several people stared at Gao Jian nervously, and Li Mu lowered his voice and said, "The bottom of the river is full of snow loaches. ”

"Huh!?" Several people's faces turned pale with fright, and they covered their mouths with their hands, fearing that they would make a noise to attract snow loaches.

Wu Tian thought for a moment and said in a low voice: "Don't worry too much, the noise we made when we drank water just now didn't wake them up, I guess the snow loach probably likes warm places, the river water temperature is higher than the normal temperature of the water, usually it should be hiding in the river and not coming out, maybe it is because my fire attracted the snow loach, so don't make a fire first." ”

Everyone thinks about it and thinks it makes sense, if it will easily alarm the snow loach, it was already alarmed just now.

The underground riverbank was so dark that he didn't even dare to turn on his flashlight.

"What now, shall we go back?" someone asked.

"We've gone so far, and even if we can keep up with our strength when we go upstream, how far can we go without food? ”

Everyone expressed their opinions, and they couldn't agree on their opinions for a long time.

Mu Qing is a teacher after all, and stood up and said: "Students, calm down, in fact, now we don't care whether we go up or down, the problems we face are the same, anyway, we have been going downstream for so long, it is better to keep going, if the road ahead is really a desperate situation, then everyone will accept their fate." ”

In the end, they all chose to listen to Mu Qing.

The river bank is very long, ten people walked in the dark, it is estimated that there are five or six hundred meters, the river bank is slowly narrowing, and the strange rocks are craggy, I don't know how many people's feet, if it goes on like this, if someone stumbles and falls into the river, it will be troublesome to wake up the snow loach.

They had no choice but to cut off a few pieces of cloth from their clothes and wrap them in flashlights and walk forward, trying not to interfere with the walking situation and dim the light.

After stumbling and walking for another three or five miles, the banks on both sides of the river can no longer stand, and the more and more steep they go, let alone find the exit like this, it is estimated that it is getting higher and higher from the ground.

Several people had to stop, and they had to go further down the river.

Wu Tian tore off the cover of the flashlight and suddenly lit up.

When Gao Jian was about to ask Wu Tianqi what he was doing, he was stopped by Wu Tian with his hand.

Wu Tian shone the flashlight into the river, although he couldn't see clearly, he could still vaguely see the bottom of the river. After looking carefully for a while, I found that there are still many shadows of snow loaches at the bottom of the river, and the snow loaches themselves are translucent, which is even more difficult to find in the water, but some of the bodies are red and more eye-catching, and some are only a little red.

Wu Tian raised the flashlight and looked around again, the river was not wide, more than ten meters, but he didn't know the depth of the river.

I saw that the opposite side of the river was much more spacious, and it vaguely seemed to have a hole, but the flashlight had been used for a long time and the power was insufficient, so I couldn't see it clearly.