Chapter 229: The Great River

The power of this thing was almost running out, I hurriedly turned off the intermittent sound, my ears suddenly quieted, and my heart that had been hanging was finally put down, but another problem was placed in front of me.

Who the hell is this grandson? I took the headlamp and shone the dead man's face for a long time, and finally found that I really didn't know him, this person was not from our side, but I was also absolutely sure that he was not from the side of the Autumn Yama King either.

According to the approximate time of death and the power of the walkie-talkie, this person has been dead for at least a week, and as for when he entered here, it may be at least half a month.

When I fumbled for the walkie-talkie in his breast pocket, I found that he still had something in his pocket, and I hurriedly turned off the walkie-talkie, and forgot about it.

As a result, the things inside made Li a little relieved, not only in his pocket, this person also had a bag on him, I dragged it out of the crack in the stone, and found that there was a lot of equipment in it, the main thing was food, most of it was energy bars, I usually don't eat this thing, sweet and greasy, but now it's different, I've been hungry for a long time, I don't care if there is an old man next to me, I just opened the package and ate two in a row.

The dizziness in my head disappeared a lot, I just went to see something else, there are more than a dozen fire folds in the bag, this thing is actually a signal stick for rescue, it can be burned for less than half a minute, and it can also be used as lighting in an emergency, the battery I carry is enough for the headlamp to illuminate continuously for more than 30 hours, so I don't use these now, other items are some bandages and painkillers, relatively few, as if some have been used.

The most important of these things is a wallet, which is in the jacket pocket of the corpse, there are some tickets in it, a lot of money, I stuffed it directly into the corpse's backpack, and the driver's license proves the identity of the corpse, this person's name is Huang Hao, it seems that I really don't know, but the things this person is carrying prove that he is also a tomb robber, I don't know when he ran here, and finally died here.

I didn't find anything from the corpse, so I put on all the equipment I had scavenged from the corpse, and climbed out of the boulder crack again, and I studied the earthen gun in my hand a few times, it was a double-barreled shotgun, and there were only two bullets in it, both of which were self-pressed iron sand bullets, I loaded it back, this thing was useful, but there was no insurance, and finally it was hung on my backpack.

All the way down, the boulder beach is a very large slope, from the place where I climbed out to the bottom of the river, there is at least a drop of more than 50 meters, along the way I paid attention to the horse boy named Liu Bao of the King of Autumn Yama, but I don't know where the madman went, after I turned off the radio function, there was no extra sound, I couldn't find it, so I had to walk to the river alone.

I have only seen this river now, it is far wider than what I have seen from above, and the current of the river is very fast, and the walls of the ancient city are on the other side of this river, and I have long observed from above, there is no place to go around, the two ends of the river run directly through the whole underground space, and if you want to go around, you may have to drill into the underground water system hidden in the rocks.

I took a step into the water, and thanks to my quick reflexes, I almost fell straight into the river where I couldn't step on it at all, there was nowhere else to go, and there was a boulder beach not far behind me. There was not even a single log that could float, so I walked a few dozen meters upstream and downstream, and the current was completely indistinguishable, and I had to swim if I wanted to get there.

I don't know why I had to go at this point, but I always felt that I would have to make dumplings for the Yama Yama gang if I stayed longer, so after being anxious for a while, I tried to wrap something that was not waterproof in my wetsuit. After getting everything done, I saw that I had made the sleeves and trouser legs of my wetsuit into waterproof bags, and I regretted that I should have pulled off the corpse's clothes, but now I asked me to go back and look for it, and I may not be able to find it.

The water was so cold that I had only stepped into half of my calf before I was quickly pumped back from the cold. Although I don't know how to swim, but I still know some common sense, this river is too wide, my physical strength can never cut straight past, I have to take the diagonal line by the current, but the distance of the diagonal line must not be too short, I estimated my ability, at least an hour up and down, such a long time, I absolutely can't maintain body temperature, when the time comes, once hypothermia, I may faint, go with the flow out, and I don't know where the downstream is, if you go directly diagonally to the next way into the underground river, Then I will have to wait for archaeologists to dig up my fossils in a few hundred years.

I pinched on what could be burned in my bag, and twisted one of the signal sticks, which made my eyes sore, but soon a small fire appeared in front of me, and I tried to get as close to the fire as I could, and roasted my limbs until it was hot, and at last there was nothing left to burn, and I was ready to go into the water again.

When I entered the water, I realized that all the preparation I had made had no effect, the burning sensation on my body disappeared immediately the moment I entered the water, and the diagonal slide I imagined in the rapids was completely broken up by the powerful rapids.

I still overestimated myself, my limbs didn't play a role in the river at all, and despite my efforts to straighten my body, the force of the current kept me spinning.

I chose the wrong place to go into the water, I was going to find a place where the river was narrower, but the narrower the river, the faster the water flowed, and in a few seconds, I was carried out by the current for more than ten meters.

But this narrow mouth is only a dozen meters away, and as soon as I get out, the water flow has eased a lot, and I can already control my body from turning.

After being slowed down by the current for a while, I tried paddling to the other side, and it did work, but it must have taken longer and longer than I expected.

Ten minutes later, I was about a tenth of the way to the river, and the ancient city was still not far in front of me, but when I swam to the other side, the ancient city would definitely leave me far behind.

I paddled as hard as I could, and I had already rested several times in less than twenty meters, but getting closer to the other side still gave me a little relief.

As I was swimming forward, I suddenly saw something shake at the bottom of the water, it was like a white light, at first I thought it was the reflection of my headlamp on the water, but after a few meters forward, I confirmed that it was indeed underwater.

Row upon row of things under the water, like metal, they reflected the light of my headlamp, I don't know what it was, but a sense of foreboding welled up in my heart.

It's still the feeling that if you don't understand it, you will be yin, this mentality prompted me to want to go underwater, but I tried several times, only to find that the flowing water is not the same as a static backwater pool, here not only to press the buoyancy upward, but also to try to resist the impact of the current, I am not a half-player, I can't make that kind of difficult action at all.

Anyway, I didn't care about what was in the water, and the last time I poked my head out of the water, I wanted to swim directly to the other shore in one breath, but the moment I looked up, what I saw really made me almost lose my strength.

My whole body was numb, as if I had been electrified, I immediately swam to the other side, I didn't see the things under the water clearly, but such a big black shadow is definitely not a good thing, subconsciously, I didn't even look at it a second time, so I got up and shook my arms to the other shore with all my strength.

Even though I almost felt like my arms were propellers, I watched as the distance in front of me didn't change, and something under the water came towards me through the reflective highlights, like a big fish.

At this time, I suddenly remembered a sentence from Master Ma, he said that there are no bigger fish in the Yellow River in Pingchuan County, and they all say that there are many water monsters in the Yellow River, and the big catfish with a height of more than one meter have also been beaten out earlier, and it is inevitable that there are still old goblins hiding in the river in the depths. The water flow here is a bit like an underground river, but it is definitely not, the water flow and the basin are so large, but the depth is so shallow, and the ground is not arid, so this river is mostly connected to the Yellow River, there is no one to disturb it here all the year round, and the food is abundant, I am a little afraid of the black shadow under my feet, it is not a giant old fish demon.

I also have some impressions of this kind of thing, I once saw a news that said that in a large reservoir, I caught a big fish, and this is only when a tourist on a pleasure boat in the reservoir disappeared, and they only noticed. They found a crane with a fibre rope at the end of which hung a freshly cut chicken from an iron hook used to hang pork in a slaughterhouse. Those people squatted by the reservoir for a few days, because several other outlets of the reservoir were blocked, so they were not worried that the things in the reservoir would run away, these people squatted for several days, and finally one night, the rope of the crane had a movement, in fact, it was only discovered the next day after the movement, those people pulled out the rope of the crane, and as a result, they found a large herring with a length of two meters, and everyone cut open the belly of the fish, Sure enough, I saw a disfigured corpse that had been digested in the stomach of the big fish.

I've seen that picture of a fish with its belly open, and that picture has caused me to shadow the fish for a long time, so that I retch when I see the float cut out of the belly.

The black shadow under his feet shook twice under the water, this guy's head is very big, at this time I also saw it clearly, that guy's mouth is as wide as his head, he is really a big catfish, the bottom of the water is very deep, but just looking at the size of the refraction under the water, I have been scared that my legs are straight and weak. I tried to swing my limbs toward the shore, but the guy was at my feet in less than half a second.