Chapter 57: The Climb
I felt the familiar silence, like I was next to the pit at the beginning of this scene, or like I was being swept up by the water and thrown into the entrance of the sinkhole. I saw that Liu Dongxi and Wang Dake were both talking to me in horror, and they connected us with a fast-hanging climbing rope.
It was as if a substantial column of air had come in from our path, and the turbine whirled and whirled, and the wind was so strong that it was almost impossible to stand. I barely stood there, unfiguring out what was going on.
At that moment, a jet of water erupted from the entrance, crashing into the rock wall with a thud, scattering and crashing into a rain of spray. The flow of water was so great that it instantly filled the ground, and another part was swept into the sky by the turbine. I screamed in my heart, it must have been the monster that had finally crushed the roof of the cave, and under the high pressure of such a deep lake, this flow of water had become the most terrible thing, plus that turbine. Liu Dongxi pulled us to the side, apparently trying to climb up through the rock wall.
When the wind blew just now, it was already amazing, and when the water rose, we were either drowned or hanged under the agitation of this turbine, and there was really no room for survival, but climbing up was only to prolong this escape a little.
But it's better to live a little longer than to die right away, and it's much warmer to experience the feeling of the body in this kind of escape.
The walls of this shaft were slippery to death, but fortunately, Liu Dongxi's sharp eyes found a crack that penetrated from above, more than one person wide, and among them, the canine teeth were staggered, which was quite suitable for climbing. In this way, the four of us crawled up with our hands and feet at a rapid pace, and from time to time strong winds hit below, and the water stirred up by the turbines also whipped from time to time. In the middle of the shaft, a column of water jumped high, and I don't know how high it sprayed. We didn't dare to look down more, so we could only crawl upwards desperately.
By the time we had climbed more than ten meters, the water had already reached the surface of our feet, and the water was stirred by the huge turbine, like a mass of wriggling thorny messes, pulling and cutting back and forth.
Perhaps it was the successful escapes that made my self-confidence high, and in the face of this mortal situation, I didn't think about the slightest thing about death, but desperately thought about how to live. This is completely a trait that only Liu has in things, and I have gradually learned it.
Liu Dongxi pressed his body against the crack, pulled out the extravagant corpse skin from his backpack, quickly cut it into several pieces with a knife, tied it to our shoulders, and shouted something. But the water in the shaft was so loud that it was impossible to hear what he was saying. I saw him gesturing anxiously, and vaguely understood that he seemed to want us to jump onto the water column.
By this time, the water had reached our waists, constantly tearing our legs and clothes. How can it be possible to jump up in this situation, not to mention that even if the water column jumps on people, it is impossible to be topped, and even if it is topped, where will it push people?
At this time, the water rose more rapidly, and the middle column of water kept thickening. I felt the force of the water growing, and I was afraid that if I let go, I would be sucked into the weird turbine. Liu Dongxi was quickly tying up the remaining fur with a rope, not knowing what to do.
I shouted as I gestured, and I had to climb up, and sooner or later I would be sucked in, and only by climbing the speed of the water could I escape to that column.
Everyone understood what I was thinking and began to crawl desperately. But the water is rising so fast that there is no way to escape the attraction of the water. Seeing that he couldn't grasp the rock in his hand, he didn't dare to move it at all, and could only watch as the surface was turbulent, but in fact, the more irritable and dangerous water inside slowly climbed up to his chest.
This might be the end of the story......
At this moment, I suddenly felt a completely irresistible huge force coming from the hook on my chest, I subconsciously grabbed the rope on my chest, the rope immediately cut my hand, and lifted me out of the water at once, and it was Wang Dake who was lifted out of me.
What was going on, the four of us were suspended in the air by a rope like special forces hanging under a helicopter, and I looked at the water below and wondered.
It looked like we were saved, and the rock wall was rapidly falling back beside us, and I looked up to see our rope digging deep into the thickening column of water, and rapidly eating into it. What's going on, can this column of water be so dense that it can be like substance?
I don't believe it, is there ice or not, how can it be so dense, this must be Liu Shi's tricks, this time if you don't die, you must ask what's going on.
But it won't seem so easy to survive. The rope was quickly eaten to the end. Liu Dongxi let out a loud shout and quickly cut the rope.
So the four of us fell from the clouds of life like those dreams that had been blown out. I fell backwards, relaxed, and just pulled my backpack to the front. In the midst of this noise, I suddenly heard Liu Dongxi's shout, "Go back!" ”
Where to go? When I opened my eyes, I saw that Liu Shiwu at the top stretched out his hand and climbed the thickening water column!
I'll go! This is not scientific! Do you think you're climbing the pole?
But the survival didn't end because of my complaint, and then, Lu Yan also climbed the water column, and before he went up, he also waved his hand at me like Liu Shi. I don't know why my brain was so fast at that time, and I suddenly saw the black fur wrapped around his hands, and my heart suddenly realized, and I quickly pulled off the fur on my shoulders, shook it for Wang Dake, and wrapped it around my hands. By this time, the water column had grown to my side, and I tensed all the muscles from my shoulders to my fingertips, and clasped them in the water column.
I felt not caught in the water, but as if I had inserted a piece of extremely elastic rubber, and I pushed my hand upwards with all my might, and my body was stopped from falling, and my arm was almost torn in two. The hand in the water column was pushed outward a little bit, and I couldn't stop this trend at all, but the tendency of the water column to thicken was very comforting, and I maintained my tendency to move slowly with the water column.
I put my other hand on that hand and looked down, Wang Dake was also hanging, the water under the ground was still rising, and the surrounding rock walls were constantly changing, not knowing where this water column could lead.
At this time, it was slow, in fact, in the blink of an eye, I heard a whistling sound overhead, and hurriedly looked up, but there was a line of sky above my head!
But the water column is getting thicker, and I'm afraid we'll be pushed onto the rock wall in a few seconds. I tried to squeeze into the water column, but I almost fell, and as I saw the exit getting nearer and closer, I begged in my heart to be faster, so that I wouldn't be squeezed to death here when I guessed hope.
In the midst of this begging, I offered not even the slightest decentness to let me die, and the moment my back felt the hardness of the rock, we finally rushed out of that exit.
I felt that my clothes were being dragged by someone, and I suddenly fell down, rolling with Liu Shi, and Wang Dake was also lifted in Lu Yan's hand.
All around us were rocks, and a deep crack stretched out beside us, and the column of water that carried us erupted from it, like a dragon ascending to the sky, and the air around us was agitated.