Xiao Zhen! You take out that map, I'll take a look at it! ”

Maybe Chen Laosan wanted to hide his panic, so he diverted the topic and asked me.

"Good! If only the third brother could understand this picture, it would be easy to do! ”

When it comes to the map, I am in a good mood, as if the black-faced Chen Laosan next to me will definitely be able to look at the map and find the hidden ancient village.

Chen Laosan held the rudder in one hand and the notebook given to me by antique Li in the other.

Chen Laosan looked at the map and only sighed:

"I've been running the river all year round, and I've seen a lot of maps - there's something wrong with your map!"

Li Xiaobai and I leaned our faces together. I asked, "Third brother, we can't understand this picture, so you can say it bluntly, where is the problem!" ”

Chen Laosan pointed to a dotted line on the picture and said, "Have you two seen this dotted line?" It should be the cliff by the river that I told you before, it is located in the ninth of the eighteen turns of the Yellow River, which happens to be in the middle of this section of the river. ”

I pondered for a while, but I still didn't understand, so I asked, "Even if you draw a cliff, it's not strange!" ”

Chen Laosan smiled at me, and replied in a cold voice: "Since I saw this map for the first time in the hotel, I have been pondering, but I still can't figure it out - this map should lead to a certain place, but this road is three-quarters of the way and is intercepted by this cliff, and the remaining quarter starts behind the cliff......"

Li Xiaobai replied casually: "This is not strange! Then continue walking from behind the cliff! ”

Chen Laosan's face changed, and he said sharply: "Why don't you understand!" This cliff is the southernmost side of Helan Mountain, and behind the cliff is the vast group of peaks, and there is no road! ”

When I heard this, I was stunned, and I immediately thought of what the friend of Antique Lee had said, and that the location marked on the map might not actually exist because it was inside many of the peaks.

In this way, our previous speculation is likely to be correct, that is, there is a canyon in the middle of this Helan Mountain, and the ancient village I call the "Maiden Tribe" is in this canyon.

While a few people were talking, a fork appeared on the front side of the boat, the straight forward wider, and the narrow one in the right front.

Chen Laosan quickly turned the rudder twice, and the bow of the boat immediately headed towards the narrow river.

At first glance, this is the fork of the main stream of the Yellow River, about four or five meters wide, and the rocks on both sides are four or five meters higher than the water surface, which makes people feel thrilling to look at.

As soon as the whole boat entered this river, I clearly felt that the hull of the boat was swaying from side to side, and at the same time, I heard Chen Laosan shouting: "Sit down, the eighteen turns of the Yellow River are about to arrive!" ”

The eighteen rotations of the Yellow River are really not covered, Chen Laosan held the rudder tightly, but the boat still shook more and more.

"This is the nineteenth spin!"

Chen Laosan pointed to a small bend in front of him and said.

Seventeenth, eighteenth ......

Because we are swimming upstream, the nineteen rotations of the Yellow River are counted backwards.

As soon as I rounded the tenth turn, I saw a high cliff in front of me, and the river hit the foot of the cliff, and the splash scattered in all directions.

By this time, the roar of the boat had become very low, and it seemed that there was a possibility of a break at any time.

Chen Laosan seemed to be very confident in his boat, smiled hehehe, and asked us if it was very exciting.

I didn't say anything, but I cursed secretly in my heart: No wonder I still beat a bachelor at the age of forty or fifty, it seems that I am a little perverted in my heart!

Chen Laosan pointed to the cliff by the river and said, "This is the cliff marked on the map, how about it!" It's a real rock! ”

I haven't taken my eyes off this rock wall since I saw it, and I believe that with my eyesight, if there was a hole in the rock wall that could only allow one person to enter or exit, I could see it.

It's a pity that there isn't!

Seeing that the most amazing tenth spin was about to pass, I didn't seem to see anything unusual.

Just as I was scratching my ears and cheeks in a hurry, the boat turned a corner, and a wave splashed a layer of water and sprayed all of us.

Just as I was reaching out to wipe the water from my face, I suddenly heard a few women's silver bell-like laughter from the rock wall.

Suddenly my scalp tingled, and I looked over to the place where the sound had come from, but there was nothing but a large blue-gray stone.

I wondered, so I asked Chen Laosan and Li Xiaobai if they heard anything.

Li Xiaobai scolded me back: "Apart from the sound of his mother's water, what other sound can there be?" Oh - and my voice scolding my mother! I rub! What the hell is this place, and it's not in the sea, why are there such big waves! ”

Chen Laosan also shook his head and said that he didn't hear anything.

As we spoke, we had passed the tenth turn.

What Li Xiaobai just said reminded me. That's right! It stands to reason that there shouldn't be such a big splash in the river, and the current flow of water is not too large.

I immediately remembered that the map annotation translated by antique Li "Walking along the river, bending in the waves, under the boulders, there is no cave", and when Chen Laosan talked about his experience back then, he also mentioned that he was splashed by a huge splash......

Once is a coincidence, twice is a coincidence, and there is more than a third time, does that mean that when you pass here, there will be waves!

"Three, can you turn the boat around? I want to go through that ninth spin again. ”

I said to Chen Laosan.

"Okay! You pay for me to do things, it's easy to make a U-turn. ”

So saying, he first leaned the boat to the side of the river, and then struck the rudder, and the whole hull slowly turned around.

I asked, "Can you make the boat go as slow as possible?" ”

Chen Laosan glared for a moment, with a look of incomprehension, but he still said painfully, "Yes!" ”

He turned the motor to the minimum and kept the boat diagonally down the river, so that the boat was much slower.

I secretly ran the heat from my chest into my eyes, staring at the rock wall, not daring to blink my eyes, for fear of missing a moment.

I always thought that there should be a passage in the rock face, but it was only because of the angle or the special environment at the time that blinded our eyes.

The boat slowly passed through the ninth rotation, and Chen Laosan and Li Xiaobai also watched breathlessly.

Halfway through, I still haven't found anything. Just as the huge splash was splashing again, I was amazed to see a man lying at the foot of the rock, because the man's clothes were similar to the color of the nearby rocks, and I couldn't see them at all without looking closely.

The rock under this man is also strange, and the whole thing is covered in water, so at first glance, this person looks like a raised stone at the water's edge.

The point is, no one would have thought that there would be a person lying on their stomachs in this place!

"Third brother, little bad, it's a person there!"

I pointed to where the man was and showed them it.

All our attention was on the rock wall, and when we looked over the water, there were at least five or six skeletons, whirling around our ship. If I hadn't heard Chen Laosan say it a long time ago, there were several whirlpools on the surface of this section of the river, and the floating corpses that had accumulated for decades stopped here, rotating around day and night.

I pointed a few times, but they still didn't see it.

That's it! It's just a dead body, and more is better than less......

As the ship passed, I glanced at the dead body.

This look at the scalp "brushed", and the dead body actually raised its head and was looking at us!

It immediately dawned on me that it wasn't a dead body, it was a living person!

I was even more shocked when I saw this man's face. No way! I actually know this person, it's an antique Li! How did he end up here?

"Third brother! Third brother! Turn around, turn the boat around! ”

I pointed at the man and shouted.

Chen Laosan really wasn't bragging, he didn't understand why I asked him to turn around, but when he heard me shout, he still hit the rudder at the first time and let the boat be transferred.

Because this section of the river is turbulent, it cannot be delayed for a second.

After dropping the bow of the boat and adjusting the motor to the maximum, Chen Laosan asked me what was going on.

I pointed at the antique Li and shouted, "That's a living man, it's a friend of mine!" The third brother hurry up and save people! ”

In this kind of river, letting the boat close to the cliff is purely looking for death, Chen Laosan hesitated, did not lean over, but parked the boat at the upper bay forty or fifty meters according to this.

After the boat slowly pulled over, he threw the anchor behind the boulder on the water.

Only then did I realize that this place was a corner, and the current was relatively slow, and with the help of the anchor, the hull of the ship could be fixed for the time being.

But what I don't understand is that he fixed the boat here for eggs? At least forty meters away from the antique plum, it can't be picked up with a bamboo pole, right?

Before I could ask, Chen Laosan quickly took off his clothes, smiled at the two of us, and jumped into the river.

Li Xiaobai and I have grown up by the river since we were children and can swim, but after seeing Chen Laosan's movements in the water, I sighed: This is serious swimming, flexible like a fish.

In two minutes, Chen Laosan had already swam to the side of the antique Li, but he did not immediately hold the antique Li back, but stared at the rock wall beside him.

After watching it for more than a minute, Fang turned his head and slowly swam back with the antique Li.

"Chen Laosan, what are you looking at!"

Li Xiaobai asked me suspiciously. I was also muttering in my heart, it was just an ordinary rock wall, why did Chen Laosan look at it for so long and still be so fascinated? There must be something greasy!

After thinking about it, Chen Laosan had already swam back. We reached out and pulled Chen Laosan and Antique Li up, and Antique Li fainted again, probably because he heard movement just now, and his survival instinct kept him awake for a few seconds.

While helping Chen Laosan wipe the water on his body, I asked him, "Third brother, what did you just see?" So fascinated. ”

Chen Laosan shook the water on his head, took a deep breath, and then replied: "I have been in this river for half my life, and it is the first time I have seen such an evil thing......

Li Xiaobai asked anxiously: "What's the matter?" Hurry up!! ”

Chen Laosan touched the back of his head and replied, "When I swam to the edge of the cliff just now, I saw that the rock face under the cliff was actually flowing outward. ”

"What's so strange about running water! Maybe there's a hole in the rock! I said.

"That's not right! Wrong! It's not what you think, but the whole rock face is flowing water, and the amount of water is still very large, like a small river! ”