Chapter 298: Saltwater Lake in the Mountains
Further on, the river became narrower, and a large number of stalagmites and stalactites appeared on both sides of the river, and there were stone curtains that stretched like mosquito nets on the top of the head, which formed a natural wonderland after thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years appeared in front of everyone's eyes without warning.
Large and small, some resemble rows of animal teeth, some are connected up and down to become stone pillars, and their colors are also very different, some are yellow and gray, and some are even dark red.
What amazes everyone is a poached egg-like stone, yellow inside and white outside, soaked in a bowl-shaped pit, clear water droplets fall, rippling water, the more you look at it, the more poached eggs are soaked in the clear soup.
Zhang Jianjun stretched out his hand and buckled it unsuccessfully, a little disappointed and sighed to everyone, if this thing can be taken out, it can be sold to those who play with stones, at least they can change a house in a third-tier city.
Further, they came to the end of the river, where it had become completely underground, and the rushing water poured up from the dark underground. There is a hole above the underground river that can only accommodate one person in and out, and judging from the traces of flowing water around it, this place used to be a river, but for some reason the river was diverted to an underground river.
After passing through the narrow passage, the world suddenly opened up, and a huge karst cave appeared in front of everyone.
At the bottom of the cave is a huge pool, dark and bottomless, and it is pale yellow under the light, like a pool of tea soup.
The waterhole is at least the size of a football field, and the location of the crowd is a naturally formed platform.
Kuka led his people to their knees again.
The surrounding cave walls are smooth, and the place was once soaked in water for a long time, but the water was retained in the pool after the river was diverted, forming a closed backwater lake.
The surrounding mountain walls are very steep, and there is no place to grasp them, and the road is completely interrupted here.
The only way to get out is to swim through the pool.
Chen Yaodong swept the pool with a flashlight, and a fish more than a foot long slowly swam up from the water, this fish was snow-white, shaped like an eel, it was very curious about the light, almost swam to the water, its eyes had completely degenerated, and their bodies had changed after a long period of closed life.
Zhang Jianjun stretched out his hand and dipped a little water and smelled it, an unpleasant fishy smell came to his face, and he licked it again, it was salty and bitter.
"Salty, it's a saltwater lake." Zhang Jianjun spit out several times, then picked up the kettle and poured a mouthful of water.
The cave wall is damp and dark, the groundwater seeps into the rock wall and injects into the lake, there is very little water in the pool, the flashlight does not reach the bottom, and it is very cold, giving people a very eerie feeling.
It seems that there is some kind of danger hidden beneath the calm waters.
Crocodiles, anacondas, and even some unknown creatures.
Chen Yaodong called Kuka and Qi Wei over and asked them what was going on.
Kuka said that he had never been here, but had only heard from his people that this place was called the Entrance to Death, and that as long as someone entered, they could never get out, and only those who had been forgiven by the gods could pass through it.
Chen Yaodong naturally won't believe these nonsense, but he has no bottom in his heart, this waterhole is surrounded by cliffs, where should he get out? Where is the exit?
"Can you find the exit?" Chen Yaodong asked.
Qi Wei translated, and Kuka said that the clansmen had said that the exit was in the cave, and he didn't know the specifics.
"What nonsense to talk to them, go down and find it!" Zhang Jianjun retreated a cannibal boy into the water.
The boy struggled a few times and floated up.
"Don't come back, let him swim forward." Zhang Jianjun said.
Qi Wei said a few words sharply, and the young man hesitated and turned around, swimming towards the unknown darkness.
"Whoa!"
The white pine forest suddenly grabbed the white fish and stepped on it.
As a biology student, there is more interest and enthusiasm for these strange creatures, under the illumination of the light, the white pine forest can see the true face of the white fish, it does not have a round mouth that can be expanded like ordinary fish, its mouth is like a sucker, there are several black claws in the middle, and the back of the claws is its mouth, which looks particularly infiltrating, a bit like the lamprey called the marine vampire, which should be a mutated eel.
Suddenly, he realized that the fish was a carnivorous fish that had grown up like this to be easily attached to its prey.
"Let him come up, danger." Bai Songlin said.
But everyone was unmoved, and under the illumination of the light, several white figures poured out of the water and swam quickly towards the boy.
Kuka felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly shouted loudly, the boy turned around and swam back, but it was too late, the boy suddenly screamed, and countless eels swam over under the light, opened his mouth and bit the boy, twisting and tearing the boy's body frantically, and the blood quickly stained the water red.
The boy screamed and swam back, and Kuka jumped down in a hurry.
"Quick, pull them up." Chen Yaodong is also anxious, the boy can die, and Kuka must not go wrong.
Zhang Jianjun picked up his submachine gun and swept it across the water, splashing everywhere, and many eels were hit and floated on the water.
Everyone pulled Kuka and the boy up, and several eels were still biting and being lifted up together, Kuka grabbed the eel and pulled it hard to tear off the whole piece of flesh, and the young man in pain screamed loudly.
"Don't pull it, their teeth are like hooks, and pulling will pull the muscle tissue down together and burn it with fire." Bai Songlin said.
Zhang Jianjun took the torch and threw it on the eel, and the eel was burned and let go of its mouth and fell, and then it was cut off by everyone.
In just a few minutes, the young man was bitten by the eel, his whole body was injured, bleeding everywhere, even the belly on his stomach was bitten open, and his small intestine flowed out, he held Kuka and kept repeating the same sentence, Kuka was at a loss, and could only wipe the blood on the young man's body over and over again.
The boy's screams echoed in the cave, and everyone present only felt a burst of hair in their hearts.
These eels are so terrible that going into the water is tantamount to suicide.
"Is there anything that can be done to save him?" Qi Wei asked.
"Yes."
Chen Yaodong took out a gun and shot the young man in the forehead.
"This is the way, he has too many wounds on his body, or it will not be long before he will lose too much blood and go into shock, it is better to give him a good time than to let him die in pain."
The boy's hand fell, the natives wept, and the others fell silent.
"What now? Do you want to go back and bring the boat in? Zhang Jianjun asked.
"Go back? Can you go back? ”
Chen Yaodong smiled bitterly and shook his head, the crocodile hole had been smashed, and everyone couldn't go back.
"Let's take a break." Chen Yaodong sat down.
"Click!"
Something was crushed by Chen Yaodong, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly got up, took the flashlight and looked at it and was stunned.
Crushed by him was a pile of white bones, a human skeleton to be exact, and surprisingly he was still wearing a modern man's clothes, a pair of leather boots at his feet, and behind him was a rotten canvas tent full of holes, judging from his posture, he should have slept in front of the tent, and he also had a hiking bag and a cane in his hand.
Chen Yaodong picked up the mountaineering bag with a knife and opened the zipper of the mountaineering bag.
The bag contained a lot of things, including a lunch box, a water bottle, a compass, a first aid kit, and a plastic map and a notebook.
The notebook with a black plastic cover is particularly well preserved.
Flipping open the cover, a photo appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
The photograph shows a white man with curly blond hair, with his name and address written underneath, and the time has been recorded in a diary.
George Clinton, 57 Prince Park Street, Melbourne, April 11, 1999.
Judging by this man's behavior, he should be an explorer, and the contents of the notebook confirm this.
This man named George is a professional explorer, he landed on Elysium in 99, he recorded a lot of information about Elysium in the book, and there are many cannibal tribe records, in addition to these he found a lot of gold and silver coins on the island, as well as some jewelry, and excitedly said that he found the treasure of the Pirate King, and was sure that the legend is true.
An indigenous man told him that all the treasures were hidden in a cave filled with water.
The big guys looked at each other and looked into the water with flashlights.
Could it be that the treasure of the Pirate King is in the water?
The diary was last recorded on August 9 of that year.
"This is probably the last time I write a diary, I was trapped in a cave by bats, they seem to be afraid to fly here, there is a kind of fish in the water that bites, I was injured, I bled a lot, I guess I won't live, damn it, it looks like I was abandoned by God......"
", I guess he bled too much to die, and it looks like these fish have been living here for many years." Zhang Jianjun kicked the skull into the water with a frustrated kick.
"It looks like we'll have to go back, I feel like we can climb up from the entrance of the spider cave, there are a lot of vines over there, and it's not hard to climb up." Mu Ping said.
"What are you going back for? You don't want gold in this water? Zhang Jianjun said.
"No way, Kuka said, there is still a forbidden land in the tribe, and the treasure of the Pirate King is hidden there." Qi Wei raised objections.
This place doesn't look like a place to hide treasures in any way.
"Remember the pump that Khupa brought with him? It's just to pump the water here. ”
"Not necessarily, I guess Khupa and George, they were both misled by cannibals, and these guys deliberately lied to them that the treasure was in it, and it was clear that outsiders were going to send them to death."
"Bang!"
Zhang Jianjun raised his leg and kicked Qi Wei down, and when he picked up the gun and was about to shoot, Guo Mingming took the first step to stop Zhang Jianjun.
"Don't shoot, there's something to say." After Guo Mingming finished speaking, he lowered his voice again and said, "Don't kill your own people, one less person is one less strength, don't you understand?" ”
Zhang Jianjun glanced at Chen Yaodong and put down the gun angrily, Xu Bingyang has not come back yet, and he doesn't know whether he is dead or alive, their manpower is getting smaller and smaller, and this time is indeed not suitable for infighting.
"I think what Qi Wei said also makes sense, think about it, if you were a pirate king, would you hide the treasure in this kind of place? It is impossible for him not to know that this is salty water, which is extremely corrosive, and it is not suitable for hiding things at all, Kuka also said that their things are washed out of flowing water, and they are obtained in the canyon, this should not be a place to hide treasures, legends are just legends after all, and they cannot be taken seriously, and it is imperative that we think about what to do. Guo Lighting said.
"There it is!" Chen Yaodong excitedly held up his notebook, "This person has recorded, he said that there is a road to go through on this cliff, and he can't try it because he has a broken leg." ”
"Is there a way to this? Find, find! Zhang Jianjun roared loudly.