Chapter 49: Water
However, this is also a matter for the future, people have no long-term worries, and our immediate priority is to continue to look for a way out, because our water has long been gone. People can barely last a week without eating, but without water, they can't last three days at all.
But there is also good news: since the builders have also been here and built a coffin here, it means that we are in the right direction. This aroused our fighting spirit even more, and everyone quickened their pace.
However, the truth is not as simple as we think, and the road seems endless, stretching all the way downward.
Fuel was running low, and we could only see the road ahead in the cave by relying on the faint light of the energy-saving Republic of China horse lantern found next to the corpse; The pickaxes and shovels are broken, and the only weapons left are daggers, and if any monsters emerge now, we will have to take a break.
We endured the fatigue of jealousy and the torture of lack of water, and Boss Bi could hum a few words at first, but finally became mute; Wang Ziyue has been following me all along, but now the two of us are holding each other at the back of the line; Although Liu Guang and his subordinates have been silent, I can also see that they have reached their limit.
We are like a bunch of lifeless machines, moving forward mechanically, and we are now in a state more like the living dead than those red-eyed people.
What lost civilization, what immortality, what treasures and antiques, what unknown questions, these are not what I want to consider, and I can't think about it.
Water, all I have in my head is water. This kind of pure, wonderful thing, even if it is only a bottle, a bowl, a mouthful! Liu Guang's bag also contained a drinkable liquid, which was nothing more than stinging wine, a strong liquor that burned my throat and made me feel uncomfortable even looking at it. Maybe we need to consider using a cup to catch pee and drink.
The timer showed that the time on the ground was around eight o'clock in the evening, and there was still no water. I was in terrible pain. In the dark (the light of the horse lantern of the Republic of China can not be counted among them.) The human ear is so powerful that we stretch out our ears in the hope of hearing the murmuring of the spring. But not at all.
My legs could no longer support my body, and I trembled, and I screamed with all my might, and fell headlong to the ground. Wang Ziyue, who was holding me, also fell to the ground, and most people couldn't stand it anymore when they saw this situation.
"It's over! It's all over! ”
I took one last look around me, and a great deal of despair enveloped me, and I closed my eyes.
I reopened my eyes and it felt like it had been a long time, but my eyelids still couldn't open, and I knew it was the last symptom of dehydration, which was unconscious. The last voice that I don't know who shouted just now echoed in my ears: "It's all over." "It's impossible to get back to the ground in this situation.
Hours passed, dead silence, and I heard some movement in my sleep. It was pitch black here, and I struggled to raise my head and vaguely saw Liu Guang walking away with a lantern.
Why did he go? Do you want to leave us behind? In this case he was going to abandon his companion and what he was looking for, and he did it.
"Liu Guang! You're going to leave us behind! I cried out, "I × your ancestors!" ”
Gradually, his figure faded away and disappeared into the darkness. After the initial fear passed, I began to feel a little guilty about my paranoia. Although Liu Guang is my enemy, he is still much better than I thought, and our relationship is one of partnership (although I don't know what I do to him, as if I cause him more trouble than it does). )。
Even if he wanted to go out, he couldn't go to the ground alone.,If he's not right, he should kill me.。。 (To avoid suspicion, please make up for it yourself). Something like that.
Thinking of this, I was comforted a little, and my thoughts turned to another aspect, Liu Guang was a calm person, if he hadn't found something, he wouldn't have gotten up to check it, because he couldn't have given up what he had risked his life to retrieve. It must have been that he heard something I didn't hear.
For an hour, or more, my almost confused mind was thinking about Liu Guang, and I had many ridiculous thoughts, not so much thinking as madness.
Finally, there was a sound of footsteps in the deep corridor, and Liu Guang returned. I saw the light of the flickering lantern.
He walked up to us with an irrepressible look on his face. I could think of anything that could make him, who was always so cold, so excited, and of course the people around me understood. Boss Bi sat up suddenly, Wang Ziyue and I miraculously propped up the upper half of our bodies, and his subordinates also stared at Liu Guang.
Liu Guang didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "I heard it, there was a sound of water in front." ”
"Where?" I asked.
"Ahead."
The preparations were done very quickly, and we were very quick to prepare, because we didn't have any equipment in the first place, and we were so excited.
After walking for a while, we heard a strange and cheerful voice, which was like a waterfall. We were quickened by hope, I forgot about fatigue, and the sound I could hear was not far away.
Finally, I saw it, and it was an underground waterfall! There was a cheer, and soon we had our first sip of water.
"Tsk, your brother Bi and I have finally come back to life." Boss Bi stopped pouring water frantically, wiped his mouth and said to me. Although we are hungry now, there is hope for everything with water.
I listened to Boss Bi's witty words one after another, and strangely enough, I still listened very comfortably: "It's alive and alive, but Brother Bi, your little baby is lost halfway." ”
Boss Bi waved his hand: "Can your brother Bi be so stupid?" What do you see this is? Boss Bi shook his hand magically and took out a golden goblet from his hand. I looked, gotta! Scrooge is miser, profiteers are profiteers, and I can still move these things when I am dying just now, and if I want to throw them away.
"Come on, guys." Boss Bi said that now he is full of passion, "We will eat roast pig's trotters in a while, and I can eat ten by myself now." ”
As we walked forward, we saw a huge crack, the slope was very steep, almost vertically up and down, and there was not even a place to step on it.
I turned back to the stunned Boss Bi and said, "This is caused by an earthquake caused by plate movements. I suspect that the waterfall was originally an underground river, but due to the earthquake, it cracked and became a waterfall. ”
"Brother Du, don't just show off your knowledge, you hurry up and see how we get over." Boss Bi said, "I don't have three heads and six arms, so I can't fly." ”
I thought to myself, how do I know, maybe the earthquake has destroyed the original road. This is good, the builder pointed out a clear way for our descendants to survive, and God played it for us.
"This earthquake was formed before it was built. But it wasn't formed by earthquakes. Liu Guang said lightly, "If you don't understand, don't speak, if you don't know how to pretend to understand, you will be punished." ”
It wasn't formed by an earthquake, but how was it formed? General crack formation can be classified into two ways: a. Plate movements caused by volcanic earthquakes; Two. A long time ago, even in antiquity, it was formed by the cooling and contraction of the earth's interior.
Liu Guang didn't want to explain anything at all, so he walked to the edge of the cliff and said, "Right here, the ancients built a plank road here. ”