Now we are in a cave with an underground river outside the cave.

A few of us tread the water, wondering if we could slowly climb out along the river.

Along the way, Wu Ming told me that these weird dragon transformation secret methods, as well as the disappeared corpses, would never be so simple.

In the area near the sea, according to my uncle's investigation, many empty coffins of dragons have been found, and until now, no one has ever found those dragons, except for those who failed to turn into dragons.

"My family, I first followed the dragon to find it? Are they looking for dragons? ”

Wu Ming's words finally solved a doubt in my heart.

At first, Wu Ming told me that he and my dad were cured by taking medicine, so I kept wondering why they would go to the ancient tomb of the Marquis of Haidu.

"But in the video you left me, my father's voice ......" At this time, I couldn't help but hear the voice of the snake hyacinth in my mind, and I couldn't help but feel a tingling scalp.

"That's not a snake symptom, and I don't know, so I've been looking for your dad, he must have encountered something in Lop Nur."

"Damn, what the hell are you investigating in Lop Nur?"

Wu Ming was silent for a moment, probably thinking a little chaotic in his head, "Let's go out first, and after we go out, exchange information on both sides, and go through the whole thing from beginning to end." ”

I didn't answer, and crawled forward with my head down.

There's a lot of information right now, and the reason it's so messy is because there's one less thread that can pass them through, and only by grasping this thread can we figure out all the ins and outs, including my father's whereabouts, grandpa's disappearance, and the secrets of the Hu family, as well as Wu Ming's own past.

In this way, I pondered as I walked all the way up the cave.

Although the road is a little uneven during this period, it is generally a straight road, after all, walking in this kind of labyrinthine cave, you are really thankful that you don't encounter forks.

Then an underground river appeared on the left side of the cave, and Adu reached out and made us pause and look at the river in a daze.

The current of this underground river is not very fast, and the left and right sides are five or six meters wide, but the confluence of the two underground rivers can be clearly seen with a flashlight in the downstream place, where the water is sizzling.

"You want to go with the water?" Hu Yinman shook his head, "It's too dangerous for you to take the waterway in this situation." ”

Adu only has one hand, and the wound has collapsed several times along the way, of course, this is still walking, if you take the river, plus the river water is cold, the depth is different, and the finger wound may explode, and it is easy to get infected again.

Adu squatted down at this time, took a handful of water with his hand, took a sip and said, "Waterway...... The waterway is the only and fastest way out, and all this water seeps down from the ground. We don't need to think about it, we just swim against the current. As for me, you don't need to care. ”

I was stunned for a moment, I didn't expect Adu to be so rigid, so I dispelled the idea of persuading him, after all, looking at the underground tunnels and caves that extend in all directions, I thought that if I got lost here, God can't help you.

"Let's go!" Under the stalemate, Wu Ming expressed his opinion, then pulled up his trouser leg and went into the water to explore the depth.

I tilted my head and tilted my body to look out of the river, the current was only the depth of my calf, and I could try it while walking.

The four of them didn't say anything, and after tying their backpacks, they went into the water one after another.

But as good as the idea was, as soon as I entered the underground river, I realized that I was wrong, very wrong.

Because the water temperature here is so cold, that feeling is ...... It's like a lake in winter, piercing the heart.

Adu looked at my reaction, and did not laugh at my weak body and poor kidney and spleen, but warned me in a positive way that if I felt cold in my body, I must tell us in advance, and I can't hold it hard, because the water here is buried deep in the ground all year round, and its temperature is no less than that of the ice river that blooms in early spring.

I nodded, thanked gratefully, gritted my teeth, and began to swim upstream.

In the middle of the river, there are smooth and recessed rock walls on both sides, and there are cracks in the middle of the rock walls that resemble windows, and there is the inner center of the mountain, and I look down with a flashlight, and I feel as if I am standing at the edge of the universe in the darkness.

Hu Yinman patted me and said don't look at it, I'll fall down later, but no one will save you.

I smiled awkwardly, gave up the idea of resting here, and hurried on.

After a period of unseen travel, my physical strength was finally a little overwhelmed.

There is also the sound of running water in the hollow in the distance, which should be a waterfall. Our hearts sank for a moment, thinking what if we fell into the bottomless abyss on the road we are walking now!

Adu said that there is too much space in the mountains, so we may have a long journey, so let's not be in a hurry.

In front of the river, the current started to rapid, but we were swimming upstream, so the waterfall was just a branch of the river.

At the point where the waterfall falls, the perennial water rushes through the cracks in the rock wall of the mountain, and I see the water flowing like the Milky Way falling into the bottom of the pitch-black black hole along the light of the flashlight.

Adu said that this is the wonder of nature, and that human beings are only a small grain in nature.

I gave him a thumbs up, and my image of this guy began to slowly warm up, and I didn't stop at the older otaku who would watch the blue fat man fight the dungeon.

Soon we came to a wide channel, which was a depression, an underground lake formed by the convergence of many underground channels.

Adu said we needed to rest, and this was a good place to go, so I turned on all the lights and looked around.

Probably due to the dry period, there is a sandy beach at the edge of the underground lake, and this platform is a huge stone block that has been shaved by the current, with a stalactite connecting the top to the ground in the middle.

"Rest where you are!" Hu Yinman was a little overwhelmed.

We sat on the ground, gasping for air, but after a short rest, we quickly realized the danger in the dark cave system.

That's what Adu said, if you stay here for a second longer, the risk of death is greater, and this risk does not come from those strange traps and strange creatures, but from ourselves......

Cold, hunger, an unprecedented sense of powerlessness enveloped us.

The four of them quickly turned all their backpacks upside down, finding everything they could eat and anything to start a fire.

I remember that the Germans only had one survival box in their backpack, which was one of the necessary tools for survival in the wild, and it also contained all the work needed to survive.

When I opened the box, I saw a medium-sized aluminum or stainless steel lunch box, a thin but strong piece of plastic, a box of waterproof matches, a flint or a waterproof lighter, a large candle, a multi-purpose knife, a compass, a small whistle, adhesive tape, a sewing kit, a small bag of salt, some candy, and a bottle of multivitamin. Some basic medicines for hemostasis, cough, cold and fever. A water purification tablet or a water purification straw.

After eating some sweets and multivitamins, we began to wonder how to make a fire in such a place.

This is a dark underground cave, there is nothing in it except water or water, there is nothing to make a fire, and a few of us are cold to the bones along the way, and we feel that the whole person is going to freeze.

"Burn the backpack!" Adu was the first to break the silence.

"No, it's useless." I retorted: "These German backpacks are mostly made of man-made fibers and high-density Oxford nylon cloth, which are waterproof, wear-resistant, and flame-proof, and cannot be lit. ”

"Then burn me and Wu Ming." Adu didn't talk nonsense, and immediately sorted out his backpack, cut the outer fabric with a knife, and pulled out the plastic foam inside.

Then he poured the oil from the lighter, broke a few candles, and smeared them vigorously on the perimeter of the backpack.

"This thing won't burn for long, we have to hurry up and get out there to find wood."

In this way, a backpack was burned, and in the tiny firelight, we set up a tent, and let Hu Yinman go to the tent to change clothes first, and then we took the clothes and put them on the fire to bake.

I'm starting to get used to this kind of life, but Hu Yinman...... I don't know that she is a girl's home......

Turning his head, looking at the pitch-black tent, I guess it was probably full of spring at this time!

But I didn't bother to care so much, I squatted beside the pool, watched the water gather here, a quiet and peaceful scene, and before I knew it, I fell asleep.

I don't know how long I slept this night, but a tingling sensation came from my fingertips that woke me up.

I opened my eyes and saw a small pink snake lying on my hand.

"Snakes? Wrong! Rubbing his eyes, he found that the snake actually had four legs and a pair of small dark red horns on its head.

"Dragons?" I was startled and sleepy.

The little thing saw me move and looked up at me warily.

It was less than 40 centimeters long, pink in color, with small limbs, 3 pairs of well-developed outer gills and 2 pairs of gill holes, red pinnate gills, and most strangely of all, no eyelids, not even a nose to breathe.

"It's a newt!" Hu Yinman walked over, she put down her hand, and let the little thing crawl onto her hand: "Wow, so cute!" ”

"Cave newts?" I looked at the thing that was no longer than chopsticks, and thought of the newt that almost didn't bite me to death in the hole in the black bamboo ditch, and I shuddered in my heart, wondering if there was that kind of ghost here, right?

It was lying on Yuyi's hand at this time, and it was very curious to swing its head from side to side.

"By the way, how long have I been asleep?" I pressed my head and felt a little dizzy.

"It didn't take long, that is, more than an hour, but I didn't sleep properly." Hu Yinman glanced at me: "By the way, let's eat!" ”

"Anything else to eat?" I stood up and moved my muscles.

"There are fish!" Hu Yinman put the pink newt in his hand into the water, turned around and pointed not far away.

Our meal this time is eyeless fish, this kind of fish is usually placed outside and no one has ever seen it, it was caught by Wu Ming who dived into the deep pool.

This fish grows in a place where there is no light all year round, and its visual function has long been degraded, although it lives by perceptual hunting like the cave newt, but in the face of human approach, it is said that it has no resistance, and it soon becomes our meal.

Adu said that in the Guizhou area, the eyefish are mostly seen in the deep mountain caves, when the river rises, the underground river in the cave is connected with the outside river, at this time, the eyefish can swim to the outside river through the underground river, and the local people call it the divine fish.

I asked him what he would do if he ate the Divine Fish.

He joked with me and said, "Silly, what to eat to make up for something, eat to make up for the form, of course it's an aphrodisiac!" ”

Me: "........ ”

But don't say it, although this fish is not large, it has a delicate taste, and it is very silky when eaten in one bite, and with the edible salt in the survival kit, it is very cute.

After eating, the two backpacks were almost burned by the fire.

Soon we packed our bags and chose one of the holes in the waterhole to continue climbing.

I know that the reason why all the rivers deep underground are so big is because there are thousands of underground rivers flowing and converging in the karst landscape, and finally merging the water sources into one and rushing into the ground.

And now with less current, we are very close to the ground.

In this way, we walked for about 3 hours, stopping and stopping along the way, chatting in the southeast and northwest, and everyone did not feel tired.

Fortunately, the rhythm of the wind from outside soon became stronger and stronger, and the underground river channel slowly turned into a cave, and we knew that it was not far from the ground, and it was even possible that we were on the ground now.