Tibetan Snow Mountains Chapter 37: The Blue World
The temperature inside the Blue Grotto was very low, and we were flanked by crystal clear blue ice. Compared to the temperature of the glacier valley floor, it is simply two worlds here, and it is precisely this temperature that prevents the ice that makes up this strange geographical phenomenon from melting!
Yiyi and I walked cautiously along the hole to the inside. The length of the rope enclosed me and Yiyi, so that we maintained a distance of about one meter, a distance that could be rescued immediately if one of us was in any emergency!
We had traveled about thirty meters when there was the narrow gap I saw at the entrance of the cave!
Yiyi's figure, through this hole, naturally there is no problem, and I, too, squeezed through without danger! This is all thanks to the wall of the Blue Cave, unlike the angle of the mountain through which we came from the mouth of the gourd, where there are uneven rock formations on both sides, here, all of them are smooth, without a single bumpy ice layer!
After we passed this obstacle, the tunnel ahead became open! As far as the eye can see, there is no such narrow slit structure as the one behind me!
As soon as I squeezed through the crack that Yiyi passed first, I heard Yiyi remind me to keep an eye on my step!
I subconsciously flashed to the side, and then looked back, only to see that at the end of the gap, it was all water!
And, it's still flowing, it's a living water! The depth of the water flow is about ten centimeters deep, and the ankles of the first one to walk out of the gap without noticing the flowing water are already wet!
From the direction of the current, we also have the same two gaps on the left and right.
Yiyi and I were standing on either side of the current, a few meters away from the ice wall behind me, and the same width behind Yiyi! The water flows in the middle of this channel, like a man-made drainage ditch!
Looking upstream of the current, the "ditch" stretched to a place I couldn't see! When we reach the crack, three streams are formed, in a Y-shape, because the height of the crack we pass through is much higher than that of the "ditch", so the water just hits the ice wall at the end of the crack, and then it forks to the cracks on both sides!
The crack behind me, and the crack behind Yiyi, was very, very narrow, so narrow that I had to struggle to pull it out when I reached in! I squinted one eye and looked through the gap, but I couldn't see what was at the end!
The fork in the water, so narrow, actually solved the problem for me and Yiyi! Otherwise, there are three forks in the road, and it is difficult for us to choose which one to take!
I grabbed the rope with one hand and reached for Yiyi with the other, pulling her from the other side of the current to my side!
The further we get away from the bottom of the glacier, the cooler the cave becomes. Yiyi's ankle quickly froze!
I crouched down to let Yiyi move, and then used the dagger in my arms to shave off the surface of Yiyi's boots, all the way up to my ankles!
After dealing with it, I looked up to her and said, "Fortunately, the water is not deep, only up to the ankles!" You move around and see if there's any water inside, if it does, it's a hassle! ”
She obediently moved both ankles, then pressed the surface of the boot and said to me, "It's okay, the water is just freezing on the surface of the boot!" ”
That's when I was relieved. The boots on our feet were very thick, and although Yiyi's ankles were completely soaked in the water, they didn't penetrate her boots!
This also shows from the side that the temperature of this blue hole we are in is extremely low! Not long after the water didn't pass Yiyi's ankle, it quickly formed an ice scab!
After I got up, I pulled Yiyi's thick gloves, still in the formation of entering the hole, I was in front, and she followed me closely. Let's get on the road!
The echo in the cave was so loud that Yiyi and I only needed to use a very small decibel sound to hear each other's voices very clearly!
The entire Blue Grotto is covered in blue ice, unlike any of the passages we've walked through before! When Yiyi entered the hole, he took out the flashlight! As in my previous experience, in the dark, light is very important, so I have three of the same flashlights in my backpack!
But at this time, I didn't take out the lighting, and Yiyi's flashlight had already illuminated the blue hole very brightly! That's why there's blue ice all around!
We walked in a blue world that was trampled out of blue ice, as if we had walked into a fairy tale world!
It reminds me of some scenes from Greek mythology in an instant!
Although the situation inside the cave gives me the feeling, whether it is the stone tunnel behind the Altay stone gate; Or in Zhao Tuo's underground palace, the mural passage of the underground palace through which the fat man and I passed can't be compared!
This psychological effect is the sense of oppression given to me by the surrounding environment! Blue ice, extremely low temperatures, echoing currents, and the fear of not knowing the way forward. All of this comes together and gives me an invisible sense of oppression!
I can feel it, and Yiyi behind me also has this feeling of oppression! Because, I hold her hand and tremble all the time, this trembling should be the effect of the low temperature around her on the one hand, and on the other hand, it shows that her heart is very nervous!
In order to ease the tension, I started chatting with Yiyi. The purpose is not only to keep her emotions calm, but also to keep her mind calm!
We talked about the fat man, about Master Liu, and about Lausanne Meiduo, who has the most contact with her these days!
Yiyi told me about Lausanne Meiduo, and her emotions immediately eased, as if that beautiful woman like an azalea could bring a sense of security!
It's true, when I think about the past few days with Meiduo, I have a lot more tranquility in my heart and a lot less noisy emotions!
In this way, we chatted and walked in the blue hole for more than two hours unconsciously! There's still no end in sight! Fortunately, the temperature in the cave did not continue to drop, but remained at a critical point of the lowest temperature we could tolerate!
I think if the temperature continues to drop by two or three degrees! Even the thick cotton clothes we wear will not help! Chances are, when the fat man comes looking for us, he'll find that Yiyi and I have become two ice lumps on a rope!
The tunnel of the Blue Hole does not extend in a straight line, and we have turned a lot of detours!
When there was another detour in front of us, I suddenly felt like the rope that was holding Yiyi and me was straightened!
I looked back and saw that Yiyi was holding the rope between us, stopping me from moving on!
I looked at her curiously and noticed that there was horror in her eyes! Two eyes straight behind me!
I immediately felt that something was wrong, and I turned around and retreated to the position where Yiyi was standing! Step back and stand side by side with her!
Then he looked at her
Look! When I saw the situation clearly, cold sweat came down my back!
In front of us, near the corner of the bend road, suddenly there were a lot more people! Some are sitting, some are standing! There are a few more people, looking at me and Yiyi! Lips move slightly!
I've been keeping an eye on the road ahead and haven't seen it there! Yiyi has a flashlight in her hand, and she has been observing her surroundings since we entered the cave!
I immediately pulled out the dagger and grabbed Yiyi. At the same time, I was thinking about how to deal with the sudden attack of these people!
"They're all dead!"
Yiyi, who was beside me, pulled me and said to me in a very low voice!
I thought Yiyi was frightened by the sudden appearance of the team! I also want to take out the courage that a man should have in the face of danger to comfort her a few words!
Then shout a few words to the people in front of us! Before I could open my mouth, I looked at the people who were in the corner, and suddenly swallowed these words back!
Because I found that those people were like they had been pointed, and they just kept the posture I saw at first, motionless! He who sits still sits, and he who stands always stands! Even the mouths of those who looked at us here didn't change at all!
They really are exactly what Yiyi said! All dead people! It's a corpse!
When I looked closer, I saw that these people were not on the crossing, but all of them were in the ice of the wall next to the corner road!
This discovery made my heart beat faster, and the tension was even stronger than I thought I had seen a living person! I had always thought that a living person was sometimes more terrifying than a dead person, but at this moment, when I saw the situation in front of me, my idea was shaken!
I don't know if it's my mental effect after seeing these corpses, or if the air around me has suddenly changed! I clearly felt that from the corner next to those corpses, a yin wind was blowing many times stronger than before!
It's as if these corpses are demonstrating against me and Yiyi! In the past few years, I have also come into contact with many different types of corpses! Yiyi has also seen a lot! Even when I was behind the Altay Stone Gate, the explorer of the "Europa" company was shriveled and paralyzed, and Yiyi and I didn't see this reaction of these corpses in front of us!
Five or six meters in front of us, there were more than a dozen corpses! What makes me gasp is the death of these corpses!
It's as if they've been embedded in the ice before they know it!
They may not even know that they are dead when they die! It's frozen in an instant!
This sudden appearance made the atmosphere around us immediately become weird!
More than a dozen corpses were sealed in the ice at a very close distance! I can easily smash the ice and pull them out of the ice if I want to!
(End of chapter)