Chapter 178: An Awkward Encounter
I took a sip and lay down on the hillside to rest, while I began to wonder what to do after catching up with them, whether to show up directly or sneak after them, different choices would lead to different results, and I had to make a decision when it was still safe to do so, otherwise I would definitely be embarrassed if I suddenly encountered them somewhere.
After thinking about it and weighing it left and right for more than ten minutes, I finally decided to hold my troops first, first, I didn't know the situation on Hao Jian's side, and second, the enemy was in the open and I was in the dark, so I could better grasp the initiative.
I continued to climb up the hill after nearly an hour, and finally came to a relatively gentle place, and as soon as I straightened up and stretched my muscles, I suddenly heard the sound of rushing water in the distance.
Looking at the craggy rocks under my feet, I gradually showed a puzzled expression, this mountain is at least two hundred meters high, how can there be a river on the top of the mountain? And the stones here are full of cracks, and even if there is water, it will quietly seep in, how can it make such a loud noise?
Wondering in my heart, I subconsciously walked in the direction where the sound of the water came from, and as the height increased, the fog also became thinner, and soon I saw the thing that made the sound of water, and the whole person suddenly froze in place as if it had been immobilized by a spell, because that thing should not have appeared here at all!
It was a pool, about the size of a full-size swimming pool, with a dozen fountains scattered across the water, and the water stirred up the mud and sand to make the pool muddy and invisible, and the reason why I said it shouldn't be here was because the pool was made of concrete all around!
On the edge of the square pool, there are four concrete pouring rivers, which extend straight into the dense fog and do not know where to lead, because the years are too long, the concrete surface has become the color of black and gray, this modern building material is not unusual outside, but here is the depths of the mountains of Yuejiling, and it is not a small problem to transport raw materials into the fog village alone, not to mention that it has to be transported to the top of the mountain more than 200 meters high?
After a few steps forward, I saw that there seemed to be something on the concrete, and when I got closer, it turned out to be a camouflage scarf, the style was exactly the same as the one around my neck, this thing was only carried by three people in Wu Village, Hutu's was thrown by the river, and mine was around my neck, so this one belonged to Hao Jian.
The scarf was placed in the shape of an arrow, pointing to a concrete river to my left, I walked over and saw that someone had a handprint on the concrete, which should be Hao Jian's hand, it was foggy and there was no sunlight, so the water evaporated very slowly, but the handprint was a little blurry, and it seemed that it had been left here for a while.
"You wasted your phone, you didn't have anything to leave a message, right?" I muttered and jumped on the concrete, compared the direction of the handprint, and found that I should have stood in the water and pressed it, and walked down more than ten meters along the current, almost every two steps there will be a handprint, but after more than ten meters, the handprint is gone.
At first, I thought that Hao Jian was afraid of being discovered by He Huai, so he suspended the operation, but I walked down thirty or forty meters and still didn't see the handprint, and when I returned to the location of the last handprint, my intuition told me that there must be a problem nearby, but I haven't found out what the problem is for the time being.
After staring at the water for half a minute, I accidentally noticed that the water flow seemed to be a little strange, because the water was mixed with sediment, I could intuitively observe every flow of water, most of the water in the river was radial downstream, but near the concrete opposite me, the sediment in the water formed a vortex, and it looked like there was a leak.
I jumped into the water and came to the other side, the feeling of the water rushing on my legs was more intuitive, and there must be a secret door on this seemingly ordinary concrete wall!
Reaching out and groping under the water for a while, I found a semi-circular low doorway, the entrance of the hole was blocked by an iron door, and there were two wrist-thick iron rings on the door, I pushed it in twice without moving, and then grabbed the iron ring and pulled it out, and the surrounding water instantly poured into the hole!
There must be a huge drop behind this hole, the force of the water rushing into it is extremely fierce, I was brought in by the turbulent water before I could react, and after a few seconds of weightlessness, I fell into the pool with a "poof", and the air in my lungs also reached the limit at this time, I quickly swam out of the water with my hands and feet, and was dragged out of the water by someone carrying my clothes as soon as I took a breath!
Boom!
I was thrown on the ground with a muffled sound, my hip bone hit the stone and gasped in pain, a white light shook on my face so that I couldn't open my eyes, and then I heard He Huai say helplessly: "This is what you asked for, don't blame me." ”
As soon as the words fell, I felt a chill on my neck, and when I looked down, I saw a bright steel knife on my neck, and as soon as I raised my hand to struggle, I heard Hao Jian shouting on the side: "Hey! Don't you use buddies as air? Today, you dare to touch a hair of my brother, believe it or not, Lao Tzu let you all be buried here! ”
Hearing this, the person with the knife didn't dare to make a move, I took advantage of the moment when the other party hesitated, pushed away the blade and rolled to the side, got up and took out a flashlight with one hand and pressed it on, and the other hand took out the mountain knife pinned to the belt, but I was stunned as soon as I posed.
By the light of the flashlight, I saw that we were standing on a narrow shoal, with an area of about 30 square meters, He Huai held the flashlight to shine on my position just now, Hu Tu squatted there with a knife, it is estimated that he was the one who was going to cut my neck just now, and now I already know that he is pretending to surrender, so I am not angry that he almost cut his throat.
There is a passage five or six meters ahead, but it has been blocked by rocks at this moment, Hao Jian is holding a stone and looking at me, there are many rocks of different sizes around him, it seems that he is cleaning the passage.
I also saw Liu Yunsheng, lying more than a dozen steps away as I expected, almost covered with bandages like a mummy, Hu Tu held the knife and sighed, stood up and looked at me helplessly and said: "I finally got you out, why did you say you came back?" ”
Fortunately, I thought about the rhetoric in this situation in advance, and raised my chin at Hao Jian and replied coldly: "Because my brother is here." ”
Just as I praised my wit, He Huai turned his wrist and shone the flashlight on my face, and said lightly in a very helpless tone: "I'm very sorry, we have enough manpower, but since you are here, I can't let you leave alive, so ...... I'm sorry. ”
Hu Tu shrugged his shoulders and stepped forward with a knife, and I hurriedly raised my hand and shouted, "Don't be in a hurry!" I can help you! ”
"Oh?" He Huai raised his eyebrows as if he was very interested in my words, but I didn't know what to say next, because the reason of "help" was simply my casual nonsense!