156. Shadow in the water
The madman seemed to be the last to get down, because he heard Brother Liang explaining: "Madman, remember to close the stone gate when you came down." Then came the madman's reply, the sound of stones rubbing against each other, and then silence returned.
I was not reckless, and waited another ten minutes to make sure that it was not playing on me, and then began to figure out how to push the rock on top of my head. It took a lot of trouble, and by the time I climbed into the passage, I was out of breath and my fingernails ached, all of which were caused by the desperate digging in the cracks in the stones. I didn't bother with that, and climbed towards the direction where I heard the sound source just now, and the passage itself was a steep slope upward, about ten meters up, and I reached the exit. The opening was not small enough for a person to drill through, and I leaned out to realize that the opening was born on a wall.
There was no lighting tool, so I had to use my body to measure it, but fortunately, my feet fell down and soon reached the ground. The question is, there is a lot of space here, where is the location of the "down"? If there is light that can be illuminated and can be seen, and you can also use eye vision to distinguish and observe, now you can't see the five fingers, and you can't distinguish at all.
It's useless to be anxious, and if I follow closely, it will be easy to be discovered, and there are so many of them that it is impossible for me to rescue them one after another. This state of affairs has been analyzed and measured all the way out just now.
At least judging from the current situation, Brother Liang didn't do anything about succession, he just tied people up and restricted their freedom. And the reason he said to deceive the madman, not to mention one after another, I'm afraid he doesn't even believe in ghosts. Ghosts? I don't think I'm going to sneer, and I guess I'll only be fooling the madman.
While thinking in my heart, I crouched down and groped on the ground, and when I touched something that did not belong to the rolling stone on the ground, I paused. First of all, I judged that it was metal, and secondly, I felt that it was a small cylinder, and my intuition was whether it could be illuminated, and when the light appeared at the bottom of the real rotation, the mood was described as excited.
It's really a flashlight, and although it's not too bright, it's definitely a relief for me. Because it was found in a corner of the wall, it is likely that he secretly hid it for me one after another, but he is in a restricted situation, and I don't know how he did it.
In the dim light, I searched around for a short time when I found a suspicious place. Obviously, the stones on the ground were more protruding than the side, and I broke them with my hands, but I didn't move, and I searched left and right, but I couldn't find any tools. I had no choice but to use my nails to embed them in those small gaps and rely on the power of my fingertips to push them. When the sound of the stone layer rubbing came, the nail cover was almost opened, and the ten fingers and hearts were really so painful, and they didn't need to look closely, and they knew that several fingers were already bloodstained at present.
After pushing it away, I shone it inward with the light, and found that there was a man-made rope ladder hanging there, about three or four meters down from here. Follow the rope ladder to the lower level, first use the light to look around, it seems that this is a long passage, two or three meters apart on both sides, and there is no end in front. It's always up and down, and I have to figure out which layer it is.
After thinking about it for a while, I came to the conclusion that it should still belong to the second-floor location. Combined with Professor He's words before, it seems that their exploration team had also been to the second basement floor back then, so the maps drawn by the metal pieces on their bodies were basically in this range.
After walking about fifty meters through the long passage, the space suddenly opened up, and the sound of gurgling water was heard. My heart moved, we had a hot spring on the second floor before, could it be that the spring water leads to this place? Soon found the source of the sound of running water, and a slightly wide ditch appeared not far away, and the water in it was a little deep.
Moving forward along the riverbank, the slightest cold breath seeped under the skin, and I shivered. Apparently this is an ice spring, and where there is water, there may be living things, so I am more vigilant. In contrast, I can not be afraid of any living thing, but human beings are more insidious and more difficult to deal with than animals.
Things went more smoothly than expected, and there were no obstacles along the way, and when the voice penetrated into my eardrums, I reflexively turned off the light in my hand. Squinting his eyes, there was a ray of light less than fifty meters ahead, and judging by the brightness and angle, there was a turning point there.
I walked about twenty meters against the wall and heard what seemed to be an argument. Among them, there is a voice that can best capture the sense of hearing, because the audio is high, it belongs to a female voice, and it is undoubtedly Han Dongling. After listening carefully to the content, she couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth slightly, and she was really dissatisfied because of the successive events: "Why do you want to tie up Ah Xu? Even if that woman is a lonely ghost, it has nothing to do with Ah Xu. ”
Brother Liang responded: "Loyal to his ears, he refused to listen, he had to go back to find her, so he could only tie it up." ”
laughed loudly one after another, and then scolded: "his lonely ghost!" It's the first time I've seen someone like you who opens his eyes and talks nonsense, reversing black and white! Do you dare to swear by God? ”
"Ah Xu, do you really like her so much?" Han Dongling asked in a ghostly voice.
"Alright, shouting here for a female ghost! If that kid dares to be arrogant again, he will directly throw it to my subordinates to govern, and promise that he will not speak out for the rest of his life. Yan Lao Yin spoke compassionately, and Han Dongling was the first to jump out and object: "No, you don't want to come nonsense." ”
Brother Liang also opened his mouth: "Elder Yan, don't worry about you." Madman, you take Ah Xu outside. ”
My heart was shocked, this place is more than 30 meters away from that opening, and the light has already penetrated here, as long as I stand there and look this way, I have nothing to hide. Without hesitation, I ran to the ice fountain in three steps and two steps, took a deep breath and dived lightly, and just when my feet were at the end, I saw a figure walking out, and I did not hesitate to suffocate my head into the water.
The cold is then transmitted to the cranial nerves, not from the feet, but from the head. Because he was wearing moisture-proof clothes and pants, the water did not penetrate into the ice fountain for a few seconds, but when the head and face were submerged, the coolness pierced into the cortex like a needle prick.
I had to move, or I would freeze under the ice fountain, and I wouldn't be able to hear it from thirty meters away. When the breath is urgent, reach into the arms and touch a bamboo tube to bite it in the mouth, flip and lie on your back, so that the bamboo tube slightly emerges from the water and can breathe.
When I was about to swim, I kept my body from coming to the surface and opened my eyes to try to look up through the water. If you don't have diving goggles, it is very painful to open your eyes in the water, and it starts to hurt after just opening them for a while. But I didn't close my eyes, because I saw one after another, he ...... It was more embarrassing than I expected.
The rope tied his upper body extremely tightly, and there were several blood marks on his face, apparently because he had struggled after being caught. Next to him stood Han Dongling, a little farther away was the madman with his head buried there, and the three of them didn't speak.
There may be voices floating in there, but I can't hear it clearly, and all my attention is on one after another. At this time, it is a perfect opportunity, taking advantage of the fact that the body is not completely numb, just put down Han Dongling and the madman, or have the opportunity to escape one after another.
I quietly let my body surface a little, and when I was only half a foot above the water, I found that my listless eyes were fixed on me one after another. He tried his best to control his facial expression without being surprised, but the fire in his eyes seemed to erupt, and I wanted to pull the corners of his mouth at him, but it was too cold, and his face was numb from the cold.
Just as I raised my hand slightly, about to pounce on Han Dongling, he suddenly fell forward one after another, and he shook his head imperceptibly at me as he leaned forward. With a bang, seeing him fall straight on the shore one meter away from me, Han Dongling must have exclaimed, not only attracting the madman, but also attracting the attention of the inside. The opportunity was lost, and the moment I saw Brother Liang's figure appear, I sank to the bottom again.
I was very puzzled, I had already seen me just now, why did he deliberately fall down to attract the attention of others? Don't you want me to come forward?
Because I was stuck to the bottom of the water, I couldn't hear the speech above the water layer very vaguely, and I had been holding my breath for a long time, almost to my limit. But now, if I float to the shallow water to inhale, I am afraid that it will attract Brother Liang's attention, and I will feel unwilling to leave here. After a turn of thought, I reached into my arms again and touched the bamboo pipe, these audio bamboo pipes of mine are of different lengths and thicknesses, and after a few seconds, they were connected together and became a slender bamboo.
The airflow came in a little slowly, and I already felt a suffocating pain in my chest, and before I could breathe in a breath, an emergency happened. I felt something on my side, and the next moment the water suddenly surged, rushing me away some distance, followed by the sound of something dehydrating, Han Dongling's scream came, and before I could react, an extremely heavy force smashed above me.
Not to mention the splashing of water, it was a heavy pressure rushing towards me, and I only had time to quickly put away the bamboo pipe, this is my only weapon, it can save my life at a critical moment, so I must not lose it. When the body is weight-bearing, I know who it is, and the bones of a woman are always softer than those of a man. Out of morality, I helped her underwater, but immediately realized that something was wrong, and she was in a state of uncontrollability, shaking violently in the water, and even throwing me away, hitting my head on a sharp rock on one side.
When the pain spread, I smelled the smell of blood and couldn't help but smile bitterly. I was about to dodge a little, so as not to be affected again, but another person came down from the water, and the madman's sharp voice shouted: "Little Liu, you haven't untied the rope yet, you will be drowned." ”
My heart was shocked, did I jump down one after another? I can't control a thought that comes to my mind: is he saving Han Dongling or me?
I tried to see clearly with my eyes wide open, but the water was chaotic, and I could only see a vague figure. Gritting my teeth, no matter who he jumped into the water for, there was no way I would just turn around and run. He swam forward as soon as he kicked his feet, but when he swam closer, he found that something was wrong, the figure near Han Dongling didn't seem to be one after another, he suddenly felt a tightness in his hand, and instinctively shook his hand to break free, but when his waist was grabbed, he realized something, relaxed his body and let the other party lead him to dive.
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