Chapter 8: The Deep Pool in the Cave

With a splash of water, under the cliff turned out to be a bottomless deep pool, luckily picked up a small life I was embarrassed to grope in the dark, most of the day I finally touched the stone wall, I laboriously opened the backpack, found another flashlight, fortunately the carry-on bag is waterproof, the objects in the inner layer were not soaked, I turned out the flashlight, turned on the flashlight, only to find that Tuesday Mao was still swimming in the distance, I felt shouting Tuesday Mao, Tuesday Mao was quiet, a little light in the dark, so that everyone's nervous heart was a little calmer.

We swam forward with all our might, and finally found a place to settle on the edge of the deep pool, and the two of them helped them to the shore, the water in the pool was bitterly cold, and we hadn't eaten for a long time. ”

I squeezed the water out of my clothes and said, "Alas, I knew how good it would be to stay at home and watch the World Cup, but I came here to find guilt." ”

On Tuesday, Mao used a flashlight to shine around, this is a deep underground pool in the mountain, the top of the cave is as high as a 7.8-story building, covered with all kinds of stone stalactites, without any traces of artificial trimming.

I picked up my backpack and said, "If you have water, you can find your way, so let's go." ”

The two jumped into the water again and again, swimming in the narrow deep pool. Unexpectedly, at this time, a large number of sparkling waves suddenly appeared in the distance under the light of the flashlight. And quickly moved towards our side.

I remembered the piranhas in my grandfather's logbook, and I was frightened and hurriedly shouted for Tuesday Mao to climb up the stone wall.

At this time, it was too late, suddenly I had a sharp pain in my feet, I grabbed it with my hand, a few fish had bitten my trouser tube, I gritted my teeth, my heart "dongdong" jumped wildly, and I tried my best to find a place to climb on the stone wall, and finally at a critical moment, I found a stone crack, I held a flashlight in my mouth, and struggled to grasp the stone crack, and then vacated the water, and the hair on Tuesday had also jumped out of the water, and found a stone wall that could temporarily settle down, so that I could free up a hand, Rip off the little fish that was biting into my pants.

But this is only an expedient measure, and soon the physical strength will be exhausted, and I don't know how many fish have gathered under the water, and if I fall again, it is estimated that it will be more than lucky. On Tuesday, Mao leaned over there with the same effort, still carrying a backpack and a long sword, which was even worse than me.

Suddenly, there was a sound of rushing water in the distance, and I suddenly heard the fish under my feet swimming in panic, and some of them jumped out of the water from time to time, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

At a strange moment, I shone the flashlight into the distance, and I saw a dark shadow swimming towards the water in the distance, and I couldn't see what kind of fish it was.

We stuck to the stone wall and didn't dare to come out, and after a while, a large fish about 5 meters long passed in front of us and swam farther into the darkness.

Tuesday Mao cried and said, "It's over, we don't have enough to stuff the teeth between the big and small fish below." ”

I was also too busy to take care of myself now, and my hands became extremely sore, so I said ruthlessly: "Instead of sitting here and waiting for death, it is better to take a gamble and swim out quickly." ”

Tuesday Mao said: "What about the equipment?" ”

I said, "Throw it away, just put that sword on your back." ”

On Tuesday, Mao didn't have any good way, so he had to untie his backpack and throw it into the water, we observed the surface of the water, there was no movement, he suddenly plunged into the water, and then began to swim forward desperately, maybe the sound of the water just now had attracted the attention of the big fish, and the sound of the water began to appear behind us again, and we couldn't care about it, so we could only rush forward desperately.

The sound of the water was getting closer and closer to us, and it was about 10 meters away from us in a flash, I hurriedly pulled out my pistol and shot indiscriminately into the water, and I didn't know if I hit the big fish, and the water suddenly fell silent.

I was rejoicing when suddenly my clothes tightened, and a strong force pulled me into the water, and I was struggling weakly, when suddenly a hand was grabbed and pulled hard to the surface of the water, and I looked up to find that I had swam to a small stone platform above my head when I shot at the fish.

I kicked in the water for a while, but the strength of the fish was too great, and when I saw that I was powerless to struggle, suddenly Tuesday Mao grabbed the bronze sword and projected it vigorously into the water, the fish should be very close to the water, I felt that suddenly my clothes were loosened, and the person was lifted out of the water by Tuesday Mao.

I trembled on the stone that was about to emerge for a long time before I recovered. Tuesday Mao pointed to the front and said, "There should be a road over there." ”

I raised the flashlight to see, sure enough, there was a river beach between the two stone walls, Tuesday Mao helped me up, I said with palpitations: "It's so dangerous, I was almost eaten." It's a pity that the sword you brought out with great difficulty was lost. ”

On Tuesday, Mao comforted me and said: "Human life is at stake, and a sword counts." Next time I will do a better one. ”

While talking, we also walked across the river beach, and the sound of rushing water was already heard in the distance, and almost all of our equipment had been lost, except for the cylinder, a flashlight, a gun, and even a replacement battery was gone, for fear of crossing the accident again. I pressed the last seven or eight bullets in my pants into the chamber of the gun, and now I don't know where to go, but I can definitely find a way out along the groundwater, we support each other, and walk to the place in front of us with a rumbling sound of water, I shine a flashlight, the water actually disappears from here, and disappears into the darkness, I am surprised, and when I get closer, it turns out that there is a waterfall below, and a turbulent underground river appears in front of us.

We're exhausted now, we've lost all our equipment, and it's really hard to go down this ten-meter waterfall. And now when I see the water, my feet are weak, and I don't dare to touch the water anymore.

On Tuesday, Mao was slightly better than me, walked by the waterfall for a long time and checked, and said in surprise: "This way, this way, see it, there is a path down." ”

I am happy, look at the past, it is really a stone ladder that has been artificially chiseled, but the rope has been broken, one side of the stone ladder is completely suspended, it looks terrifying, but it is better than nothing, we grasp the stone wall, and slowly go down to the waterfall, I don't know if it is the place where grandpa last recorded the log, this should be the place where the groundwater of the entire mountain system converges, and the whole space is the sound of rumbling water impact, I shine a flashlight on the waterfall, and I feel that there is something under the waterfall, If you look closely, you will find that there are some stone people scattered under the waterfall, which may have been washed down from above, or it may have been built here for good luck, and then the river was diverted and sealed under the waterfall.

On Tuesday, Mao said: "Now that Lao Tzu wants to have a little extra strength, Lao Tzu will swim over and walk with a stone head, maybe he can earn a few." This thing is estimated to be worth more than terracotta. ”

At this time, suddenly there were many skeletons in a river bay in front of them, which was terrifying to see, and judging from some fragments of clothes, they were not modern people. This was originally a backwater, and everything that washed down from it washed down here, and it is estimated that after the black bugs or piranhas on it were eaten, the flash flood hit and converged here, which is extremely scary to see. This is probably the villager who has disappeared for so many years.

I don't know how long I walked along the underground river, the flashlight began to dim slowly, the two of them estimated that they had not eaten for two days, and then the flashlight finally had the last bit of light gone, fortunately, the road was on this one, listening to the sound of water all the way, touching the stone wall, and stumbling away for a long time, I don't know how many bags I touched on my head, and suddenly a little light appeared in front of me, I grabbed Tuesday Mao and asked in disbelief: "Is that light?" ”

On Tuesday, Mao also said in disbelief: "It should be, right?" ”

Continue walking, the light is becoming more and more obvious, sure enough, it is the exit, we cheered, stayed in the cave for several days in a row, our eyesight has adapted to the darkness, and the light we suddenly saw felt obvious, in fact, it was already night outside, we jumped into the water, and rushed out with the current, when we used up the last bit of strength to rush out of the hole and go ashore, two people lay on the river beach for half a night before getting up, fortunately the money was in the clothes, we wanted to quickly find a place to eat something, Tuesday Mao touched his body and suddenly laughed, I asked: "Are you irritated and crazy or what's wrong, why are you so happy?"

On Tuesday, Mao smiled and slowly took out a belt from his waist, and when I saw it, it was the skeleton in the hole with a jade belt.

It was three days after we returned to our hometown, and the place where we rushed out of the cave was a small fishing village, where we bandaged our wounds in the health center, got tetanus shots, rabies vaccines or something, found a small hotel and slept beautifully for two days, and then went back slowly.