Chapter 14 Groundwater Ponds
At the bottom of the bronze staircase there was another stone room, this stone room was empty, there was nothing, but there were many secret doors on the walls around the stone room, each of which was less than half a meter wide, and they were all close together, and almost every door could only allow one person to enter at one time.
I counted carefully, and there were twenty-one secret doors in this small stone room. At this time, Kuroko said: "When I came here three days ago, I saw that there were many doors here, so I found a random door to enter. So saying, he walked to one of the doors and stopped, and pointed to the door in front of him, and said, "This is the door through which I entered." ”
After hearing this, the monkey said: "Brother Kuroko, I heard you say that the secret passage behind this fan leads to a natural cave, and it is full of human heads, so we don't have to go into this fan, there is no treasure we are looking for in it anyway." Kuroko said: "There are indeed a lot of heads inside, but the space inside is amazingly large, and there are deeper places after passing through the head area, I haven't been to it, and I don't know what is in the depths of the cave." ”
Lao Zhao turned around and said: "Although there are so many secret doors here, there must be only one secret door behind the secret passage that leads to the center of the entire underground building, and the other doors are likely to be just a cover-up, and there is a high probability that there will be an ambush inside, which is specially set up to prevent someone from coming in and stealing things." ”
Lao Zhao's words were not unreasonable, so I asked Lao Zhao: "According to what you say, if we enter the wrong door, it is very likely that we will be ambushed and killed by the organs inside, so how do we know which door is real and which door is fake?" Lao Zhao just kept shaking his head, and then said: "I don't know about this, we can only take one step at a time and adapt to the situation!" ”
I saw that Lao Zhao couldn't pay attention to it, so I asked Heizi, and said that although we used to belong to the gang head fishing faction, and the tomb robber faction can be said to be half a peer, but we generally act on the ground, and the underground kung fu is still not as proficient as the tomb robber faction, and Heizi is a professional tomb robber, maybe he will have some unique opinions. I only heard Kuroko say: "I'm fucking based on feeling and luck, and I don't have any opinions." "After listening to Kuroko's words, I only felt more unreliable, so we could only take one step at a time.
Then we randomly found a door and entered, Kuroko was the most courageous, walking in front, a few of us followed, the secret passage behind the door was very narrow, just enough for one person to pass guò. We walked forward for about ten minutes, the dark passage became shorter and shorter, and then we could only crawl to continue to walk forward, we climbed forward for a while, the stone wall of the entire dark passage was so short that it was almost attached to us, I said in my heart that this dark passage is getting narrower and narrower, it must be false, and there will be no way to climb down, while it is not deep now, it is better to exit as soon as possible, I was about to tell a few of them my thoughts, only to hear the front of the black suddenly shouted: "Hurry back, there is a black thing crawling towards us in front!" ”
As soon as we heard that something was crawling, we were so frightened that we immediately retreated, and if we wanted to go back, we had to crawl backwards backwards, and it was impossible to turn around. In such a small space, several of us scrambled backwards, and my arms and head hit the stone wall of the dark passage I don't know how many times, only to hear the sunspot still shouting: "Hurry! Hurry back, that's coming! ”
As soon as we heard this, we had to speed up again, and as I was trying to climb backwards, suddenly, my head seemed to touch a protruding stone from the stone wall above my head, and then I felt empty under me, and I fell.
Suddenly my mind went blank, and my heart said that this was going to be the end, and I was terrified to the extreme, and in the process of my fall, I saw that the hole in the top of my head that had made me fall was gone, and just as my thoughts were confused, I plunged headlong into the water.
There was water down there, and I sank in the water for two or three meters, and I quickly slid my arm and just two times before I came to the surface, and I poked my head out of the water and looked around, and it was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything. My backpack was still on my body, and I quickly took out the flashlight from the pocket of my waist clothes, and the flashlight was already blistered with water. I don't know if this waterproof flashlight is really waterproof, I pressed the button, the flashlight turned on, and then I felt a little glad that if I were alone in this dark environment without light, what a terrible thing it would be.
I used a flashlight to shine around, and found that this seems to be a pond, above the head is an arched stone wall, the highest place is more than ten meters high from the water surface, I looked at the place above the head where I fell, and found that there is no hole, it should be that I encountered some mechanism before, and a hole was produced, and after a few seconds the hole disappeared out of thin air, and now it looks really a little afraid, the place where I fell is ** meters high from the water surface, if it wasn't for a pond below, I would have fallen even if I couldn't die!
I took a flashlight into the distance, and found that about 20 meters in front of me seemed to be the embankment of the pond, so I bit the flashlight with my mouth and paddled vigorously with both hands, and after swimming for less than five minutes I reached the shore of the pond, and I immediately climbed up the embankment.
When I got to the shore, I found that there were small pebbles under my feet, and the whole embankment was like a ring more than three meters wide, enclosing the whole pond in the middle, and the shore was connected to the arched stone wall overhead. I threw my backpack on the ground and took off all my clothes, and now there was no firewood to dry, so I had to wring it out and lay it on the small pebbles on the ground.
At this time, I sat down, only feeling that my mind was in shock, thinking back to what happened just now, it was like a dream, and I didn't know what happened to Lao Zhao and them now, let alone what the black thing that Kuroko saw in the dark passage was.
I opened my backpack and found that there was no water inside, and it seems that the quality of the waterproofing is not bad! I took dry clothes out of my backpack and put them on, took out dry food and water, and ate some of them, intending to wait for the wet clothes to dry before making plans. So I rested on my backpack for a while, and suddenly fatigue hit me like a tidal wave, and I fell asleep in a daze.
When I woke up, the clothes on the floor were dry, and when I looked at my watch, I had slept for eleven hours. I put my clothes away in my backpack, ate a few more things, and started looking for a way out. I walked along the stone wall on the shore, but when I turned around and came back to the same place, I didn't find anything, there was no exit here, it was like an enclosed space, but if there was no exit, then where did the water in this pond come from?
So I went to the shore of the pond and shone my flashlight into the pond, and I was dumbfounded, the water in the pond was gone, not a drop was gone! The water must have flowed out of somewhere while I was sleeping. So I used a flashlight to shine a flashlight at the bottom of the pond, and found that the whole pond was distributed in a conical shape from the shore, and the center of the pond was exactly the tip of the cone. However, the water in this pond must have flowed away just as soon as I came, so I speculated that the water here must have a periodic high and low tide, and maybe when the water will flow back into the pond.
At that moment, it occurred to me that the exit could be in the hole in the middle of the pond. I thought about it for a while, and then I decided to go to the hole in the middle of the pond, and maybe I would find an exit, and even if the water rose again, I would go back to the pond with the current.
After making up my mind, I picked up my backpack and walked along the bottom of the pond to the edge of the hole, which was about one meter deep, and when I reached one meter, I went horizontally, which was indeed a drainage channel. I carefully descended into the cave, which was very damp, and there was something black slippery on the walls of the cave, like moss. The road was just over a meter high, and I had to bend over to walk. I walked along the gushing road to the inside, and when I had been walking for almost half an hour, I faintly heard the sound of "coo-dong-dong" coming from the depths of the gushing channel.
Could it be that I am really going to be washed back into the pond by the current? You have to wait for the water in the pond to recede before you can go back to the gushing channel! At this moment, I found that there seemed to be a hole in the upper wall of the Yongdao not far in front of me, I immediately walked over to take a look, and sure enough, there was a hole above my head at an angle of 60 degrees to the Yongdao, this hole obviously had traces of chiseling, I was immediately shocked, this hole was actually dug by hand, could it be that someone had been here before?
I measured the size of the hole, just enough for a man to climb into, and I speculated that the man who dug the hole must have been trapped in this enclosed underground pond, and that he had discovered the tunnel after the water had receded, and when he got there, he found that there was no way out of it, so he dug a hole here. I took a flashlight into the cave and found that the hole was stretching diagonally upwards with no end in sight. At this time, the sound of "cuckoo knock" in the gut became louder and louder, and it seemed that the water was about to come, so I picked up my backpack and climbed into the hole. I had just climbed a few steps before I saw the water rushing from under me, and the current was very fast, but fortunately I climbed into the hole, and if I had been swept by such a rapid current, I was afraid that my head would have hit the stone wall.
I continued to climb up along the road, and after climbing about 20 meters away, I found that there was no way, and it seemed to be covered by a stone slab, I knocked on the stone slab with my hand, and I felt that the stone slab was not very thick, so I used both hands to support the stone slab and tried to push it up, and I pushed out a gap out, and then I tried my best to push it up, only to see that the gap was getting bigger and bigger, and then the whole stone slab was stacked open by me, I climbed out of the hole, and shone around with a flashlight, This is another stone chamber, and if you look closely, you can see that this is the same stone chamber we have been in since we came down from the sarcophagus.
We entered through a secret door in this stone room before, I walked to the secret door, only to see that the secret passage behind the secret door was dark, I put my head in and listened carefully, there was no sound inside, and my heart said Could it be that Lao Zhao and they came out? I shouted a few more words into the tunnel, but nothing happened.
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