Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Underground River

This time, we didn't light the oil lamp in the graveyard again, and went straight to the flashlight. The tomb road winds its way forward, and from the topography, it seems to have a tendency to gradually decrease.

As I walked, I paid attention to the marks on the ground, the layer of dust that had been precipitated for decades was trampled by countless footprints, and I conservatively estimated that the footprints were at least ten pairs, so it seemed that the number of people in the front team was really quite large. I beckoned the monkey to pick him up, we had to catch up with the group as quickly as possible, at least we needed to know each other's identities.

The cemetery road is spacious and smooth, even if it is not a problem to trot, but the further I go, I feel that the soles of my feet begin to become a little slippery, and I shine a flashlight on the ground, only to see a layer of mist on the bluestone slab and brick floor, I don't feel a little wondering, where does the water come from here?

Before I could remind the monkey, I heard the monkey shout, "Damn! Then the soles of the feet slipped and fell into! I knew that the monkey had fallen hard, so I immediately went to help him: "Slow down, I was about to warn you, the ground here is all wet and slippery!" ”

The monkey lay on the ground babbling and screaming, and said vigorously that his ass had broken off, and I easily pulled him up, and before he could stand firmly, I myself followed a big heel, and the monkey wanted to pull me but I tripped again, and the two of them fell at the same time!

"Damn, Lao Tzu's ass has to be broken here today!"

"Don't shout, didn't you tell you to be careful, you fall again...... Don't bother me! ”

I immediately got up from the ground, and only dared to squat half-squat, and I didn't bother to help the monkey anymore, so I just said to him: "Squat and go forward, and if necessary, hold the ground with your hands!" ”

The monkey got up again with a curse, and he was scared after falling twice, so we had to do as I said, and we slowly moved our bodies to the edge of the tomb, and prepared to hold on to the wall. Unexpectedly, when I touched the wall, it was also wet, and I felt that there was a thin layer of mist attached to the whole wall.

The monkey soon noticed this, and then asked me, "No, Lao Yang, why did this tomb suddenly become so damp, is there still a water source under the ground?" ”

After the monkey asked, I suddenly had a little eyebrows in my mind, Inner Mongolia Yinshan area is rainy all year round, and both sides of Yinshan are grasslands, rainwater is not good to drain naturally gathered underground, so it is very likely to form an underground river, in the current form, we are likely to meet the underground river.

I immediately told the monkey my speculation, and the monkey also felt justified after hearing this, if the front of the tomb was an underground river, it would not be easy, wouldn't we want the Tang River to advance, the temperature in this tomb is low enough, let alone the water in the underground river. To confirm our suspicions, the monkey urged me to keep going.

Not long after we walked on, we could really hear the sound of "whooshing" water, which was relatively coherent, and it seemed that the water in the underground river should be relatively turbulent. The monkey was a little anxious to see the underground river when he heard the sound of the water, and he beckoned me and walked straight to the depths of the tomb.

After walking a little further, steps began to appear on the ground of the tomb, and the further we went, the heavier the mist on the ground became, and the sound of the rushing water became more and more real, and we continued to walk down the steps for about ten meters to the end of the tomb.

The stone walls on both sides of the tomb road are only here, outside the tomb road, there is really an underground river about 20 meters wide, the river water flow speed is very fast, the depth of the water can not be seen for the time being, through the flashlight, the stone wall on the other side of the underground river can be seen faintly.

The steps on the ground of the tomb continued down until they reached the river, which had already passed several steps, and it seemed that the water in the river was not so deep at the time of the construction of the tombway.

I and the monkey stepped on the steps and walked a few steps forward, our feet have been flooded by the river, only to see the whole underground river meandering downstream, the stone walls on both sides of the river meet above to form an arch, the top of the vault is of different heights, the highest is only five or six meters high, the lowest can just pass over our heads, the surrounding stone walls are uneven, it seems that this underground river should be naturally formed, not artificially built, and the tomb road is repaired into the underground river, then we can only continue to walk along the underground river.

But strange to say, the water in this underground river is not as harsh as we imagined, not only is it not cold, but it feels a little warm, and it is quite comfortable for feet to be soaked in water for half a day.

When the monkey saw everything in front of him, he began to sigh to me: "I said Lao Yang, is this situation similar to that of us in the underground river under the cliff of the Divine Tomb Wang Ding, the only difference is that the temperature of this water is much more comfortable than at that time!" At this temperature, I want to fucking strip naked and take a shower! ”

"Don't get complacent! If you feel comfortable with this water temperature, it will naturally be comfortable for other things! ”

As soon as the monkey heard what I meant, he immediately understood what I meant, and immediately became nervous: "You mean that there will be something in the water?" ”

I sighed and said, "It's hard to say yet, but we'll have to keep going down the river as soon as possible, and we'd better be careful when we're in the water." ”

The water was relatively clear, and I could see the sand and gravel at the bottom of the river through the flashlight, but due to the refraction of light, I could not accurately determine how deep the river was, so I continued to walk down the stone steps for a few steps, and at this moment the river was already below my knees, but my feet had not been able to reach the end, and I planned to continue walking into the river.

When the monkey saw this, he kept telling me to be careful, and told me to grab his hand and go on. It wasn't until I was half submerged in the river that my feet touched the ground, and I felt the speed of the river, and with the pull of the monkey's arm, I could barely keep my balance from being swept away.

I re-ashore and said to the monkey, "At this speed, it may not be so easy to move forward, we may be swept away by the river at any time, and more importantly, we don't know where the front of the river leads, if there is a drop in the river ahead, it will not be good, and then we will be crippled if we are swept down by the current!" ”

The monkey agreed with me: "What you said is also possible, but what should we do now, if we don't move forward in the water, will we still get a drifting boat?" ”

"It's impossible to drift in a rafting boat, what are you doing when we are rafting in Jiuwan Creek?" I thought for a moment and then said, "For the sake of the future, we must trap ourselves all on the same rope at the same time, so that we will not be swept away by the river, and we can take care of each other." ”

The monkey had no problem with my proposal, and could not think of a better or more direct way at the moment, so he did as I said. I took out a five-meter-long hiking rope from my bag, and we tied the ends of the rope around our waists, and each of us held a dagger in our hands, and when we went into the water, we tried to walk against the stone wall by the river, and used the dagger to stick into the gap in the stone wall to stabilize our bodies.

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