A 12-liter compressed gas cylinder alone weighs nearly 30 kilograms, plus other diving equipment and climbing ropes and other things, and the things that each person carries weigh more than 70 kilograms. Qing Yazi and Lao Wen almost exhausted their physical strength just by climbing to the exit of the tunnel, and when I widened the entrance with a sapper shovel, the two of them were lying behind and panting wildly.

After more than half an hour, the entrance to the cave had expanded enough for three people to sit side by side, I put away the sapper shovel, turned back to them, and asked, "Have you ever dive before?" ”

Qingyazi made an "OK" gesture at me, and Lao Wen also nodded.

Then everyone began to wear equipment, the space was much larger than before, but there were too many equipment, and the three people were still a little narrow when they moved at the same time, and this toss was more than half an hour later, and the sky outside was estimated to be dark.

When the two of them had cleaned themselves up, I took out the zipline, intending to put the two of them down first, and then I would climb down on my own.

Lao Wen saw that I took out the steel cable from the waterproof bag, and immediately frowned: "So anxious, why don't you rest first?" ”

I said, "Haven't you been resting for more than an hour, still resting?" ”

Qing Yazi sighed on the side: "Wearing such a heavy thing on your body, doesn't it consume a lot of physical strength, do you think that others are like you." ”

Okay, since they want to rest, let's continue to rest, it's not safe to go into the water when they don't have enough energy.

But I think the two of them are either tired or don't want to enter the water so early.

I gave them twenty minutes to rest, and when the twenty minutes were over, they said that they could not delay any longer.

Qing Yazi and Lao Wen put the steel cable on themselves, I carried the two steel cables, slowly lowered them into the water, and then hit a mountaineering nail near the entrance of the cave, and the steel cable was set firmly, and then I wrapped the steel rope with both hands and slowly slid into the water.

The vertical distance between the water surface and the entrance of the cave is more than ten meters, and the temperature near the entrance of the cave is quite normal, but as soon as you enter the water, you can clearly feel the coolness.

Lao Wen and Qingyazi turned on the underwater searchlight early in the morning, the penetration of the thing in the water is stronger than that of a military flashlight, and the illumination range is also relatively wide, a large area of water is illuminated, I found that there are a lot of spider webs floating in the water.

Qingyazi raised his hand, grabbed a wisp of net in front of him and looked at it carefully, I didn't have underwater communication equipment, I couldn't communicate in words, after a while, Qingyazi swam towards me and handed me the net.

I also took a closer look at the things in my hand, this thing looks like a net from a distance, but up close it looks like a very transparent tulle, I tried to pull it, the toughness is quite enough, and it is not easy to tear off.

Lao Wen waved his arm in his hand, letting the beam of the searchlight wander around, and there were all such things floating nearby. I thought the well water was clear, but I didn't expect there to be so many debris, but fortunately, this thing is almost not shading.

I pointed down and motioned for everyone to continue diving.

Qingyazi is the oldest of the three of us, he has been walking in the industry for a long time, and he has enough experience, so he became the leader of the team, and I followed behind him, behind the old Wen Palace.

Because I was worried that there might be an undercurrent underwater, the distance between the three people did not dare to be too large, in case the undercurrent was very fierce and too far away to save the people in front.

As I continued to dive, the pressure on my body became stronger and stronger, and I was worried that Qing Yazi and Lao Wen would not be able to bear it, so I had to pay attention to their situation from time to time.

The water was very dark, and nothing could be seen except for the area illuminated by the light.

When I dived to more than 70 meters, the water pressure was already relatively large, I had never dived to such a deep place before, and I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, not that the body could not resist, mainly because of psychological discomfort, a large area around the body was shrouded in darkness, and my feet did not touch the ground, so that I had a feeling of continuing to fall in the abyss, and you don't know when you can fall to the end.

Qingyazi, who was in front of me, suddenly stopped, and my heart suddenly tightened, thinking that this guy couldn't be hollowed out by the sound of dogs and horses, and he couldn't bear it at this time.

I saw Qing Yazi turn sideways and wave his hand at me and Lao Wen, signaling us to stop, and then he picked up the searchlight and shone it straight ahead.

A small patch of darkness was pierced by the light, and in the place illuminated by the light, a pale human face loomed, the face had been blistered, the skin and flesh were all swollen, the tongue was squeezed out of the mouth, and a pair of eyeballs protruded outward, almost bursting out of the sockets.

Qing Yazi swung his flippers and swam towards the face, the beam of light slowly pasted on, and the face in the water became clearer and clearer, and then we saw clearly, it was a human head floating in the water, without a body.

Old Wen picked up his speed slightly, and when he reached my side, Qing Yazi stopped again, he held a searchlight in one hand, took out a harpoon gun in the other, and pressed the trigger on the head.

The fishing gun prepared by Li Huaishan is, to put it bluntly, a small crossbow less than a foot long, with a thin line on the crossbow and a crossbow body. The lethality of this thing is very limited, but fortunately, the crossbow bolt is still sharp, and it pierces the face in two on the spot.

Just now I was thinking, what does Qingyazi want to do. I saw that after the face was pierced by the crossbow, the facial features on the face were twisted into a ball, making a very painful expression.

It turned out to be alive!

Qingyazi didn't dare to take back the crossbow, so he could only abandon the crossbow.

Then he turned back again, and Lao Wen's searchlight shone through his protective goggles, and I saw him frowning, as if he had something to discuss with me.

This place can't talk, it's a fart!

I pointed underneath and told him to dive.

Qing Yazi hesitated slightly, but finally swung around and swam deeper.

In fact, now I am also a little worried, I am afraid that the water is too deep, if I dive again, Qingyazi and Lao Wen will definitely not be able to resist, before coming down, I thought that if the water depth does not exceed two hundred meters, the two of them should not be a big problem, but just now Qingyazi's eyes were obviously a little uncomfortable, I estimate that he can dive at a depth of two hundred meters.

Fortunately, when you reach a position of about 100 meters, the searchlight shines downward, and you can see a clear spot of light. It is estimated that we are now at a distance of thirty or forty meters from the bottom of the well.

Where the light could illuminate, you could see something like an iron box, which seemed to be a large box, a little far away, and I couldn't really see it.

It wasn't until we got closer to the bottom of the shaft that I could see that it was a rusty minecart that had fallen to the ground at an angle, and two straight beams beside it, like railroad tracks.

In addition to these two things, there were many floating corpses at the bottom of the well, these corpses seemed to have been torn apart by something, almost none of them were complete, either missing arms or legs, and some had no heads, leaving only half of the mutilated body.

After coming to the bottom of the well, the three of us were not in a hurry to move, and carefully swept the surrounding area to observe the situation at the bottom of the well.

There were probably more than twenty floating corpses in total, and the ground at the bottom of the shaft was made of stone slabs, with a railroad track laid on it, and two or three old mine carts that had fallen crookedly.

And in the walls of the shafts at both ends of the rails, there are arc-shaped openings in each of them, one hole has collapsed, and the other is basically intact.

I didn't feel any danger, so I pushed Qingyazi's compression bottle and motioned for him to walk towards the slightly collapsed hole.

Qing Yazi was still a little hesitant, I saw him squirming and pinching, I couldn't help but feel a little irritable, and I stopped urging him, and swam straight towards the hole in front of me.

On the way, I encountered a floating corpse blocking the way, so I reached out and pushed some, but I didn't expect to be touched by me like this, the floating corpse actually shook its arms and struggled, that look, like a living person struggling in the water.

I frowned and thrust it a little farther away.

The floating corpse slid through the water, and finally crashed into a fallen minecart with a very dull sound. After that, all the floating corpses moved, they didn't seem to be conscious, and they didn't take the initiative to attack us, but just seeing the desperate struggle made people's hearts tighten.

I turned around and beckoned to Qing Yazi and Lao Wen, motioning for them to hurry up and leave.

There was a tunnel behind the entrance, and I lit it with a searchlight, and I saw that the tunnel was sloping up with a gentle slope, and the rails were spreading along the road in front of me.

I figured there should be an exit ahead, so I loosened my heart and swam quickly along the slope of the tunnel.

I swam like this for about 40 minutes, and sure enough, I saw the sparkling light reflected from the surface of the water.

With the sound of breaking waves, the three of us got out of the water with our front and back feet, and after staying in the water for so long, everyone was very depressed, and now we can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The searchlights were still on, and we could see that the road and the rails had become horizontal, and on the periphery of the lighted area, there was a thick green, a bush blocking the exit of the tunnel, this place had not been visited for a long time, and the bush was so thick that it took a lot of effort to cut a passage through the vegetation.

Outside the tunnel was a narrow valley, which was more than I expected.

Lao Wen took off the equipment on his body and let out a long breath: "I thought there was an underground warehouse behind the rails, but I didn't expect it to run to the ground." ”

I also took off my protective goggles, and shook my searchlight, and looked around, and on both sides of the valley were overgrown with large trees with lush foliage, and the branches and leaves blocked the place so tightly that if you looked at it from other hills, you could not see that there was a valley in this place.

At this time, Qing Yazi had already unloaded his diving equipment, and he turned on the lamp to illuminate a stone tablet next to the railroad tracks, on which were engraved two very small lines of Japanese, I don't know what it meant.

Qingyazi frowned and said to me, "The Japanese once lined up a squadron of 180 people into the mountain and built a camp here. ”

I asked him, "How do you know?" ”

Qing Yazi shook the searchlight and let the beam sweep back and forth on the stele twice: "That's what is written on the stele." ”

(End of chapter)