Chapter 22, Zisha
I was surprised in my heart, but I heard a sound behind me, and a beam of light instantly pierced the darkness in front of me, and Ah Chuan also came down.
He pushed me hard from behind, signaling me to swim forward, Xiao Qi's flashlight was already very dim, she didn't care about the two of us at all, and just swam away by herself.
I waved my limbs desperately, but I felt that my body was too heavy, although I was swimming forward, the speed was slow, and Xiao Qi's flashlight was getting farther and farther away from me.
I suddenly realized that Xiao Qi's five minutes were different from my five minutes, and my heart suddenly panicked, this oxygen cylinder can only support five minutes at most, and if I can't get out of the water at that time, I will suffocate below.
Even if Xiao Qi and Ah Chuan have great ability, they can't help me breathe, and now it's too late to go back and get another oxygen cylinder, and I have to do my best to keep up with Xiao Qi's speed.
The fear of death hung over my head, and my speed instantly increased, but compared to Xiao Qi, it was still slow, and I suddenly felt desperate.
I could see the anxiety in his eyes as he wore that gas mask, and he came and snatched the sapper from my hand and threw him into the deep darkness.
I wanted to open my mouth but I couldn't say that he had made the right choice, and that if I had a sapper shovel, I wouldn't have been able to swim out.
Without restraints, my speed also increased, Ah Chuan followed me all the time, I could see that he didn't use all his strength at all, he didn't have an oxygen tank, and he couldn't do it at this speed.
I'm in a state of confusion, he's trying to protect me, but if I kill him because I'm too slow, then I can't accept it.
Thinking like this, my speed was a few points faster, even on par with Xiao Qi, and her flashlight was still far away, but it didn't widen the distance further.
I swam as hard as I could, using all my strength, it didn't matter if I died, but I couldn't bother anyone anyway.
Ah Chuan's speed also increased, he still looked relaxed, and I had no idea where his bottom line was.
I don't know who they are, but I'm sure they're professionally trained, and their strength, speed, and even knowledge are far superior to mine.
In the darkness, I didn't know how far I had swam, I just felt that the oxygen in the oxygen tank was getting thinner and thinner, and I had been unstable before, and I had wasted a lot of money by tossing and turning.
Xiao Qi is still far ahead, I took a deep breath and began to hold my breath, but my heart was already impatient, how far is the end.
It was really hard to hold my breath, my mind was dizzy, my limbs became less flexible, and my speed naturally slowed down.
Ah Chuan turned his head to look at me, reached out and grabbed my wrist, his strength was so strong that I could feel him pulling me forward, and the speed of the two of us was even faster than before.
How much physical strength does this guy have!
I looked at him, only to see that he actually looked at me and smiled, then opened his mouth and took a deep breath.
No wonder he had to wear this gas mask, which was so well sealed that it had only been submerged in water for a third of the time, and he could rely on a little air to ventilate it.
He took a deep breath, took his mask off with his hand, and pulled me forward quickly.
My face must have been flushed, and my eyes were already blackening, so I quickly changed my breath, but I felt that it was of little use, the dial hands of the oxygen cylinder were already close to the lowest, and there was almost no oxygen in it.
I still have one breath left, which is the most optimistic situation, and I hold my breath and wave my hands and feet desperately, the desire to survive has never been stronger.
In the distance, I saw Xiao Qi stop, her body swung up, quickly upward, and the whole person disappeared from sight, but soon she sank down again, turned around and swam towards us.
She was very fast, it only took me a dozen seconds, my vision was blurred, and I was gradually losing consciousness, and I could feel her pulling me, pulling me away from the clutches of death.
I don't know how these ten seconds passed, but I remember how happy I was when I breathed the air out of the water, my lungs ached, and the moment was so pleasant, as if I was standing on the top of a mountain in the early morning.
Ah Chuan was still by my side, but Xiao Qi had already arrived on the shore, and when I looked around, I could only see that this was a nearly circular surface of water, about ten meters long, and in a place not far from me, there were five or six corpses floating horizontally and vertically that had been completely wrapped in salt.
I almost vomited as I looked at these snow-white corpses, I don't know how long they had been soaking here, and if I couldn't still make out a little human form, I couldn't believe that these things, which were five or six times larger than normal people, were human.
I looked around and saw that the water's edge was full of thick salt, sixty or seventy centimeters above the water, and it was two or three meters thick when it sank into the water, and I turned around and saw a wall of salt behind me, which was so high.
I tried to straighten my arms to reach the top, the salt crust was very hard, no less than a stone, the soles of my hands were slippery, and the water under my feet could not bear the force, even if I pedaled the salt layer in front of me, the salt soaked in the water was so slippery that I couldn't climb up at all.
I didn't expect such a place to trap me, but all this is true, and it is impossible for me to go up on my own.
I looked up at Xiao Qi standing on the salt crust, and my eyes must have been full of shock, this woman is also bare-handed, how did she climb up in this environment.
"Hurry up, the water is rising!"
Xiao Qi's voice was stern and urgent, and I realized that my elbow had been able to touch the top of the salt crust, and in just a dozen seconds, the water level had risen by nearly thirty centimeters.
Ah Chuan threw the flashlight, and jumped on the salt shell with both hands, I only felt that my arm was weak, and I couldn't climb up at all, so he quickly stretched out his hand to me.
I looked at his face and almost didn't scream, but my face was full of dense folds, but it was not as natural as the old man's, and he looked like he was blistered.
Seeing that I was in a daze, Ah Chuan reached out and touched his face, "Oops": "The mask made in a hurry is not good, just soak in a little salt water and it will be broken, there is no way, you can't take it off now, you can only take your spicy eyes." ”
As he spoke, he rudely dragged me up, and my wrist hurt so much that I almost dislocated.
When I climbed up and looked back, I saw that the water level had risen to almost the level of the salt layer, and the rate of rise was simply astonishing.
A dull "rumbling" sound suddenly sounded, and I was startled, and I hurriedly looked around, this sound seemed to be coming from all directions, and there was no source at all.
There was a small sound of running water around me, and I suddenly realized that the sound was thunder, and it must have been raining heavily outside, no wonder the water level was rising so quickly.
Xiao Qi and Ah Chuan took a flashlight and looked around, their expressions were serious, as if there was something terrible hidden here, and I remembered that Xiao Qi should have been injured here.
I followed the light and looked up, this time, the whole person was stunned, only to see that this is a large natural cave, at least 1,000 square meters, the top of the cave is very high, dozens of meters.
Six or seven meters above our heads hung extremely thick bronze chains, and I counted seven, covered with mottled salt flowers, intertwined and converging, with a very large sarcophagus entwined around the center.
The bronze chains came out of the rock at the top of the cave, I don't know how deep they were buried, they looked thick, each one thicker than me.
I don't know what the sarcophagus is, but it has a translucent texture under the flashlight, and I can even see a humanoid shadow lying inside.
It's a lot like jade, and it's a very good texture, but I don't think it's too extravagant for people more than 2,000 years ago to have the ability to unearth such a huge piece of jade and use it to make a coffin.
The sarcophagus hung high above our heads, four or five meters from us, and directly below it was the pool of water we had just climbed out of, and it was impossible to climb up to open the coffin, unless there was a rope.
It's the rope again, I feel like I can't do without the rope, this height, no one can go up unless I can fly, not to mention that the sarcophagus is wrapped in bronze chains several times, and we can't open the coffin at all, unless these giant chains are suddenly broken.
But how is this possible, this chain that is thicker than me cannot be broken even if it is corroded by salt water for thousands of years.
I looked up at the sarcophagus, how did my ancestors stuff that piece of jade in the first place, or was it not the main coffin?
Ah Chuan and Xiao Qi were still looking around, and the water under their feet had already overflowed with salt crusts, and it was about to reach my calves.
"What the hell are you looking for?"
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw a black shadow suddenly leap down from one of the bronze chains, coming towards my door at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye!
It was so fast that I didn't even have time to scream, I couldn't even see what it looked like, only that it was a dark shadow about the size of my head.
It must have been this thing that hurt Xiao Qi!
With such a fast speed, it is impossible for humans to dodge!
Before my mouth was fully closed, the thing was close at hand, and I could faintly see its blood-red eyes, sharp fangs, finger-length, scarlet light.
It was too late, and then it was too late, and a small black shadow suddenly sprang up from me, and rushed directly towards it at a faster speed than it, and I could only feel the cool breeze brought by the thing.
I saw the little thing go straight into its mouth, and it fell out of the air and landed in the water in front of me with a "snap", less than a meter away from me.
I was dumbfounded, and subconsciously took two steps back, only to see that it was a gray-black creature, looking like a human baby, but its hands and feet were as slender and sharp as claws, and the sharpness of its teeth was even more terrifying.
Its blood-red eyes were full of resentment, and the sight of it made people tremble, as if something was biting at its own flesh and bones.