Chapter 147: Quicksand and Dark River
"Shhh...... Damn, you're holding back. Manan also hurriedly took a few steps back.
"Shut up, you captive don't have that power." The fat man turned his head and replied.
Manan gasped, I wanted to scold back, but the fat man couldn't take it anymore, and we gradually retreated five or six meters, but when we stopped, we found that there was a breeze in the passage in our direction, so the fat man's fart was unavoidable.
"Did you eat?" Manan scolded, after he shouted, we all found that this was not working, and then changed direction, and crawled forward, and in the dozens of minutes of crawling out, the fat man kept putting a few, and the lethality was comparable to a poison gas bomb.
In a state of almost suffocation, I finally clearly felt the wind blowing on my face, and the smell of the fat man's fart had dissipated a lot, and immediately my palm was cold, and I had already poked out of the narrow passage.
We came out one by one, it was dark outside, there was a slight cold wind, there was a huge sound of water not far in front of me, and I felt the rock under me, and I found that the material of the rock was different from the passage, and this stone was cooler.
Several of us couldn't stand up, crawling on our knees for too long, our knees were worn out, and several of us were lying on this cold rock on all fours, the flashlight light shining on the passage we came out of, and only the sound of huge running water sounded in this extremely empty space.
After a while, I saw the flashlight move, and it was the fat man who picked it up, and this time I was much more comfortable, and I turned around and sat up. The fat man swept the top of the cave a few times with a flashlight, and slowly the light spot fell below.
But what we saw was an extremely strange scene, there was indeed a river below, but the color of the river was a little weird, and there were a lot of underground rivers on the Gobi Stall, but the depth must not be our layer.
A few of us were lying on a semi-circular stone platform near the bank, which was hand-polished, and there were steps down one side to walk along the riverbank.
"Where are you going, how are you going to get to that 006 area?" The fat man glanced at it a few times, and then called out to Manan who was rubbing his knees next to him.
Manan looked at it: "I didn't expect that there is still a river here, could it be that the map and information are mistaken?" Manan did not answer the fat man's question, he was a little puzzled, ignored us, and got up and walked down the stone steps.
At this time, the old generation had already stood up, he followed, and we followed, the steps were only seven or eight floors, the stride was not big, the polishing was very rough, and it was almost just a temporary function.
We walked to the next round platform, and even I noticed that there was something wrong with the river. When the light shines through, it is completely silvery white, and even the backlight is gray and gray.
As soon as they realized that something was wrong, several people had already walked to the river, the depth of which was not clear, but the water had reached the edge. As soon as I took the last step, I retracted my thoughts, because it wasn't water at all.
Several other people also noticed it, and each crouched down and put his hand into the river, and the impact was very strong, and when we withdrew our hand, we were surprised by what was in our hand.
Four people, each with a handful of sand in their hands, the kind of white-gray sand, here turned out to be a river of quicksand.
The fat man on the side had already exclaimed: "Damn, is it true that what is written in Journey to the West, and there is really a quicksand river?" ”
We stood one by one next to the flowing sand river, no one spoke anymore, the fat man's flashlight swept in the space, the sand river is about seven or eight meters wide, and the sand in this sand river is also as turbulent as the river in the torrent of the river.
I turned my eyes to look at a few people, and found that Manan was not very surprised, he also saw my puzzled face, and immediately replied: "Actually, it's all sand, it's not strange, I thought it would be a sand dune, but I didn't expect it to be a river, it seems that the place I'm going to is at the end of the sand river." ”
"Where's Area 006?" After he finished speaking, the old man and the fat man immediately asked.
Manan didn't answer, but pointed directly in the direction where the sand flowed, and then said: "I think that because it should be not far upstream, Area 006 will collapse inexplicably, maybe because of this river." ”
The fat man didn't reply, and with a twist of his head, the two of them walked along the rocks on the edge of the sand river. About half an hour later, we came to an area where the signs of the collapse were clearly visible, where the stone wall on one side had collapsed, and a huge rock mass had fallen into the sand river, and the edge was ground into a mirror by the flowing sand.
We looked around, and there was no trace of Area 006, but a stone wall caught our attention, supported by a sloping cliff and littered with broken stones.
We had to use our hands and feet to climb to a very close distance, and standing on a boulder like a liberation truck, we saw that the stone wall was indeed excavated by hand.
There was nothing to say about what happened next, we got closer and found that it was the warehouse in Area 006 after the collapse, but this was not a place to store items, several people got into the crevices of the rocks, and came to a very small space, the entire top wall of the place fell down, everything went very smoothly here, not only did we find four dark wooden boxes as black as iron, but we also saw a large number of gold bricks, but the quality of the gold bricks was not very good, rough guess, these were gold, or the rough bricks of silver, probably the product of the black lama melting up all the treasures he had intercepted.
Old Man Shen said that there should have been ten, but we only found four, and when we saw the huge pile of stones behind us, we knew that those were hopeless to find, and this gloomy wooden box the size of a whole cigarette box was not light, so it was good to be able to bring these back.
The fat man looked at the gold bricks and regretted it again and again, he couldn't take these away, he couldn't take away even a piece, although the level of melting and casting was uneven, but these gold bricks still had some weight, each piece may have hundreds of catties.
"I said what are you doing badly, for the sake of money, let's get this gold out, and you are almost developed for a cent, so why keep going?" The fat man looked at the lower reaches of the Sand River, and Manan was ready to move on.
Manan frowned: "If it's for money...... Never mind...... You won't understand. ”
The old man took off his coat and wrapped all the four gloomy wooden boxes, and carried them behind his back, and when he was done, he stood aside, waiting for how the fat man would react.
"You're not going to go back, are you?" Manan sneered.
The fat man glanced at the things on the old generation's back, waved his hand and said, "Do what you say, otherwise what will others think of you and me in the future." Are we just going to swim in the sand? ”
A meaningful smile appeared on the corner of Manan's mouth, and he turned his head back in the direction we had just come. He walked in front, and I asked in a low voice, "Where is this downstream, we won't follow to die, right?" ”
The fat man turned his head and glanced at me: "It's not a big problem, go downstream, maybe you can still find an exit, we just promised to help him walk through the road that he can't get through by himself, and he didn't say that he will always go with him, when the time comes, I don't have the obligation to care about him anymore." ”
We walked through the passage and walked down less than a kilometer, along the way, the banks of the Sand River are like terraces, but the difference here is not large, each step is less than a palm's width.
"Where does this river go, and where does all this sand come from?" I really couldn't find the words to express the sand river for a while, so I thought it was a river.
"The land of Muxi Ridge, gravel thousands of miles, there is a wall, high to the dome, the sun is not seen on the top, the yellow spring is not seen below, there is no head and no tail, people say to climb it, no longer see its shape, also support the boat and enter, deep said six hundred miles, smell the earth and the sun through the sky, the shape is like a bucket, there are Yu people in it......"
"This dude is crazy, isn't he?" The three of us who were walking behind suddenly heard Manan talking in front of him, and the three of us made eye contact with each other, and the fat man was already laughing.
Manan didn't say any more, so he explained: "At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was an Italian in Hebei Sanmenxia generation inadvertently received a clay pot, the inner wall of the clay pot was engraved with a lot of words, the family was originally used to pickle radish, the Italian rubbed out the text inside, he didn't know the text, but in that era, there were still a lot of masters, and it happened that someone helped him translate it, and later learned that the text was the text of a vassal state in the Yellow River Basin around the Shang and Zhou dynasties. There are more than 500 words in the jar, and I just read some of them. Do you know what this article is about? ”
The three of us behind Manan all shook their heads, and Manan continued to explain: "Let's not talk about what is written for the time being, let's just say that this jar, after the master saw it, he found that there should be more than one jar, and its purpose may only be to record something, similar to later history books, the jar will be buried under the sacrificial platform in large quantities, and then the Yellow River's multiple diversions will involve the jar into the river, which was picked up and used by the common people." ”
"I beg you to get straight to the point." The fat man was a little impatient.
Ma Nan glanced at the fat man, and continued to say to himself: "These articles did not originally belong to this vassal country, and they don't know where they came from, but they finally found that the content of these articles is similar to Liaozhai, and they may all be anecdotes. Later, the Italians also found several jars one after another, but the rest has nothing to do with the current situation, and the place where the first jar is written is probably here. ”
I showed a blank face, and began to recall the sentences dictated by Manan just now, in fact, it is not difficult to understand, what he said about the master has simplified the whole when translating, I just went through it in my head, and its content made me creepy.