Chapter 62: The Water Floods the Golden Mountain
Just follow her behind for about ten minutes or so, the scene of the cave can't remember whether it is the same or different, because this kind of underground cave is similar in appearance, and there are no special objects that can be distinguished, I want to make a mark to mark it, but after all, this is in other people's territory, it is best not to shake that little ghost.
And listening to the old lady's words just now, she couldn't tell that she was going to take me somewhere, and I thought that if you talked about it, you might not have to make a fish die.
Of course, I'm just a little loach, but it's Skynet, not on a level line.
When I was thinking wildly, a faint light suddenly appeared in front of me, Ye Xiaolu and I looked at each other, and we were overjoyed, it seems that my beautiful man's plan has worked, this old lady really didn't intend to harm us, and her feelings were to take us out.
Because I haven't seen the sun for a long time, this scene suddenly appears, and it is inevitable to take advantage of this excitement to speed up and run out to absorb the fresh air.
Ye Xiaolu was obviously depressed in this cave, and ran out with me with a pretty smile, but when I was in the sunshine, the scene in front of me was not only a big disappointment for the two of us, it was simply a disappointment:
At this time, we seem to be in a huge empty cave, this cave is no less than a few thousand cubic meters in terms of volume, surrounded by rocks, and there is a hole on the left side of the top of the mountain that is almost as big as two people hugging each other, and the sunlight should be shining from this opening, and from our point of view, we are like standing in a closed skyscraper with no floors, and the hole above our heads is a vent that is not completely sealed.
What does this mean, Ye Xiaolu and I looked at each other, and we were at a loss for a while, it was the old lady who brought us over, she was still behind us, and we had to ask her.
But when we turned our heads, there was still an old lady somewhere, and even the road we had entered the cave had been blocked, as if it had never been there, and the rock wall seemed to be one with the rock wall that had been around it, and there was no trace of it being excavated at all.
The only thing that can prove that we did not fall from the cave at the top of the mountain is that the underground river that has been following us is in, the water is still so turbulent, touch it with your hands, it is cold and biting, you can judge it with a little feeling, if you want to fall, not to mention that the hundred pounds on your body will be washed away without a trace, in terms of the extremely low temperature, it is no less than winter swimming.
Of course, if I really fall from the cave at the top of the mountain, at this height, it is estimated that within a few months, the grass at the head of my grave will be a few meters high, provided that someone can set up a grave for me.
I admire myself a little now, now in such a dangerous environment, I can still have the leisure to think about something else, looking at Ye Xiaolu is different, although there is a glimmer of light in the cave, she still turns on the flashlight, carefully searching every place we can see and touch, trying to find any entry point in the middle, this girl is careful, let her pay attention to those small details, it must be more than what I gained.
I was not idle, carefully surveying everything around, the width of the underground river must be about ten meters, the other side of the river, and our side, it is only a bank that follows the river, looking at the rock walls around it, as we saw before at the foot of the camel peak outside, it seems that they have been cut straight by someone, except for the handful of weeds in the cliffs, there is nothing special.
When I saw this, I heard Ye Xiaolu's voice walking towards me, looking at her face full of disappointment and doubt, it seemed that the harvest was not very big, seeing that she kept looking at the other bank, and understood that she wanted to go to the other bank to check it well, so I said to her: "This river is so urgent, we can't get along with it, and even if it passes, we can't get anything from it." ”
Ye Xiaolu looked up at the beam of sunlight and thought about it seriously, and said to me after a while: "We don't even know what that old lady wants to do now, what does she mean by trapping us here?" ”
I shrugged my shoulders and said, "I think the old lady might be the one who led the way, and the one who really wanted to trap us should be the man who spoke to us in the cave when we came." ”
Ye Xiaolu also nodded: "I guess he should treat us as tomb robbers, if Bai Jiabei is right, then this camel hump is what kind of prime minister's tomb, that person may be the tomb keeper here, such a tomb is terrifying, the control of the living is often more dangerous than the mechanism in the tomb, but we don't even have a chance to explain, and we have to let people play tricks like this for no reason." ”
I said: "How do you know this, isn't your family and Xiaoyu and their family taking the same style, looking at the head of your analysis is the way, I feel very experienced, which makes me a little confused." ”
Ye Xiaolu grinned and said, "The world only knows that the third son of his Murong family is erudite, but the heirs of my Ye family may not all be rice buckets. ”
I quipped, "You're not a rice bucket, you're a KFC family bucket." ”
Ye Xiaolu snorted and continued: "If we guessed correctly, we should be in one of the humps of this camel peak, but we obviously walked in, why was the road behind being inexplicably blocked?" ”
I said, "It's definitely in the hump, it's just that my strange point is who can hollow out such a big mountain bag, this is not a raw egg, poke the contents of the egg shell can flow out, this is a boiled egg, in fact, it is not impossible to rely on the mouth of the hole alone, but it takes a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources." ”
Ye Xiaolu said: "Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, just like the pyramid, there are too many phenomena that we can't decipher, especially for the rulers of the ancient feudal society, you just said that a few concerns do not exist, if you use 100,000 people to dig this mountain, it will not work in a year, ten years, and one day it will be possible." ”
I nodded again and again, and replied, "Don't say it, looking at the hump from the outside, one big and one small, although it is not very obvious, but maybe it really is, hollowing out this place, and piling up another mountain next to it." ”
After saying this, I saw Ye Xiaoxiao's eyes change suddenly, and he strode to the underground river, and then looked at me with a frightened face and said, "The river is rising." ”
I ran over to take a look, and sure enough, the river that was still turbulent in the riverbed had now risen to the shore, and when I looked at the exit on the lower side of the wall, I don't know when it had begun to close gradually, and it seemed that it would not be long before a closed space would be formed here, and as soon as the water level was high, we would suffocate inside.
Damn, that person actually hit this idea, no wonder the old lady said that whether we can go out or not depends on our ability, it turns out that she is playing a trick on us.
Without further ado, I opened my backpack and rummaged in it, our equipment was very sufficient, although there were no lethal weapons, but it was considered comprehensively, there were two diving breathing apparatus in it, of course, it was also a very simple diving mask with a water exchange valve and a snorkel.
After turning it out, I threw one to Ye Xiaolu at the moment, and told her that she must do a good job of sealing the backpack, soaking in the water is not as good as rain, we have just walked such a little way, and now the equipment and supplies are soaked and wasted, then it is really difficult to move an inch in the back.
Fortunately, our high-end backpacks are sealed, so don't worry, after adjusting the size of the diving mask on the face, I put it on the top of my head, and I thought about taking advantage of this to take a few more breaths of fresh air, or after the water level came up after a while, we may not be able to keep pace with the water line with such heavy equipment on our backs, and we will not be able to sink for a while.
The two of them were ready to wait for the water level to rise, and of course my only goal was to use the buoyancy of the water level to bring us to the cave at the top of the mountain, so that we could escape.
When the water outlet has been completely closed, the water level then rises very quickly, in the blink of an eye, it has reached the knee, the cold feeling instantly stings the whole body, I obviously feel that Ye Xiaolu's lips have frozen white, but I may not be able to get better, but in order to relieve the current pressure, I still said to her: "Let's go to the rock wall, when we will float up, we don't separate, stuck on the water level and slowly float up by buoyancy in a crawling way, try not to lower the water line, Sink into the water. ”
Ye Xiaolu nodded, and I took her hand directly, waded through the water, and stepped forward with difficulty, because the water flow rose very quickly, and it took a few words to reach the crotch, and when we reached the rock wall, the water line was already above our heads.
I thought that according to our expectations, slowly climb up with buoyancy to support the wall, and don't press my head in the water, but the speed of the underwater current is several times faster than what I saw above, and we know that we must find a way to quickly expose the water, otherwise the role of this diving mask is to have a little effect at a depth of a few meters, once it sinks deep enough, then the underwater pressure is large, and it is very easy to have problems.
But how can things be so simple, the flow speed of the underground river is too large, constantly rushing in, and the water outlet that was originally buffering the speed has been closed, which leads to the effect of a huge wave hitting the rocks on the seashore and being bounced back, and the cycle repeats.
The sealing of this diving mask is very good, although the water pressure is very high, but my vision is still there, I am afraid that the two of us will be swept into it by this powerful current, as if falling in a whirlpool, and will be bumped back and forth by the speed of the current, so that if you bump into the wall, let alone be killed directly, or be knocked unconscious or break the diving mask on your face, it will not be long before you drown.
But Ye Xiaolu didn't lose it, it was still in front of her, but her face was obviously squeezed and deformed like a piece of paper blown by the wind, I knew that I was no better, but now the situation is really a little bit out of her mind, and the two of them didn't dare to move in order not to be swept away by the current.
We now grasp a handful of grass on the wall, intending to avoid this ferocious period of rising water first, and then set off when the speed drops a little, or when the water rises to the mouth of the cave at the top of the mountain.
I was looking at where the water level was, and I was also looking forward to the grass in my hand not to break, but I also admired it, and the plants that could survive in the cracks of the rocks were generally not much tougher.
I waited until the seals of the diving mask started to seep in, and I realized that the pressure could squeeze the mask open at any moment, and we had to swim up.