Chapter 35: Beneath the Abyss
The monkey and I fell in free fall, I don't know how deep it was underneath, I just prayed, or let me fall to my death, don't give me back a breath, let me survive and not die; Or let us fall into the water and save our lives.
When I got into something soft from my feet and even my whole body, I was glad God gave us a second option, and we really fell into the water. I plunged directly into the water more than ten meters deep, but I didn't see the bottom yet.
The temperature of the water was extremely low, and all of a sudden the water poured through the cracks of my clothes, and I felt cold and bitter, and my whole body was as uncomfortable as pins and needles.
I quickly struggled to swim upstream, and after just a few strokes, the flashlight I tied to my head was gone, and it should have been washed away by the impact when I fell into the water, and it was pitch black on the water, and I only saw a spot of light moving underwater, and it was a monkey.
After a while, the monkey also came out of the water, and I saw that he had two flashlights lit in his hands, one of which was mine, and he was panting for breath as he looked around.
When he saw that I was also there, he immediately scolded: "Damn, it turns out that you have already floated up, I saw that your flashlight was still sinking, I thought you were choking, so I went to fish for you, but I only saw the flashlight, not you!" ”
The monkey took a breath and continued, "I went to look for you again, but I took a long breath and almost... I almost lost my breath! ”
I swam to the monkey, took my flashlight back and said, "My water is very good, I don't need you to fish, but the water is too cold, and I am so cold!" As I spoke, I saw that the monkey's head was already starting to glow.
I strapped my flashlight to my head again and looked around, and there was water on all sides, and there was no place for us to stand.
Our whole body had been soaked in water for most of the day, and we were shivering from the cold, and we couldn't even speak. I knew we had to find a way to get out of the water, or we'd all freeze to death sooner or later.
As I was looking around, suddenly, the monkey tapped me on the shoulder and pointed to the water not far away and whispered, "Hurry up...... Look, there's ...... in the water There's something! The monkey's voice trembled again, I don't know if it was frozen or frightened!
I looked in the direction the monkey was pointing, there was nothing on the water, and I was wondering, when suddenly, several fist-sized bubbles came out of the water, and then several in a row, could there be any living creatures in the water? The bubbles spit out are so big, if they do, they shouldn't be small!
At this time, the monkey took a sharp breath and sank his head directly into the water, and the flashlight on his head shone in the direction of the bubble from the water, and I vaguely saw a huge black shadow under the water, which seemed to be moving towards the water.
Then the monkey poked his head out of the water, touched the water on his face, shook his body very much, and said, "Snake...... Boa...... What a big python...... Snake! ”
"Snakes? No way! How could there be snakes in such cold water! I didn't believe it, so I also sank my head into the water, and suddenly, I saw a thick and long thing coiled in the water slowly rising, like a giant python! But I'm sure it's definitely not a snake, it's a hibernating animal, so it can't be here, and I guess it's probably an ancient withered vine that fell into the abyss with us.
I poked out of the water, and it didn't take long for the black shadow that looked like a giant python to finally surface, and I guessed correctly, it was indeed an ancient withered vine.
The ancient withered vines that fell into the water were hundreds of meters long, and now they all floated up in one go, and the ones that floated up before were directly pushed up, rising out of the water more than ten meters high, and there was a large mass under the water.
The monkey and I immediately climbed up the ancient vine, which was hollow inside and had a lot of buoyancy enough to bear the weight of me and the monkey, and we finally didn't have to soak in the water.
Then we took out the dry clothes from the waterproof backpack and changed them, put the wet clothes on the old withered vines to dry, and took out the dry food to eat, and suddenly felt that our bodies began to warm up.
At this time, the monkey said: "This ancient withered vine is really our savior, if it weren't for it, the two of us would have become the Shredded Meat and Jack in the Titanic!" ”
I just smiled, I wasn't as casual as a monkey to think about this, and it always made me feel unsteady when we sat on the old withered vines and shook them.
At this point, I can take a closer look at my surroundings. I found that we seemed to be in an underground river channel 20 meters wide, on one side of the river was the cliff when we fell, and on the other side was a stone wall, which was more than 20 meters high from the water surface alone, and the river looked deep and long between the two stone walls, and the flashlight could not shine at the end of the river.
I wondered what could be on the other side of the rocky wall that was only about 20 meters high on one side of the river. The Dading we saw before was about a kilometer or two directly opposite the cliff, but this stone wall was in front of our eyes, and it was impossible to climb over it, because I found that the stone wall was extremely smooth, it was artificially polished, and our climbing rope was useless, and there was no force point to borrow. There is only one way to go, and that is to follow the river.
Then the monkey said, "We don't have to worry about anything, just sit on the old withered vines, and we will naturally drift downstream." ”
"Downstream? How do I feel like it's a stagnant pool, and we haven't moved at all! "I'm a little confused.
When the monkey saw that I didn't believe me, he turned the flashlight to the minimum, and then shone it on the cliff wall, only to see that the spot was slowly moving forward, and the water here was indeed flowing.
The monkey continued, "Believe it this time, we just need to rest in peace, and when we reach the end of the downstream, we can follow the flow of water." ”
Having said that, I think it's very unreliable, the water is so slow, when do we have to drift there, even if we reach the end of the current, it is not so simple to get out. But that's all it can be now.
In this way, the monkey and I stayed on this makeshift "boat", slowly drifting downstream with the gentle current.
I found a dense, flat spot on the vines, and lay down on it, swaying with the waves, feeling very comfortable.
The monkey began to write his diary again, and for a moment there was no word, and it seemed strangely quiet. It didn't take long for me to feel a little heavy and weak in my eyelids, and I was sleepy, so I tightened my coat and fell asleep.
I slept surprisingly soundly this night, and when I woke up, I only felt my stomach rumbling and I was panicking with hunger, and I was actually woken up by hunger.
I glanced at the date and time on my watch, and I was dumbfounded, I had slept for almost two days and two nights, and I had never slept for such a long time at one time, could it be due to overwork in the past few days?
Then I noticed that the monkey was sleeping soundly beside me, and I don't know when he came to me. When I saw that the monkey was still asleep, I did not wake him up, but took out the dry food and ate it.
I was so hungry that I chewed the shriveled and tasteless dry food. After chewing on the dry food for a while, he felt thirsty, so he went back to get the kettle.
I gasped this time, I don't know when, the monkey has sat up, I didn't notice it at all, I saw the monkey's pale face, staring at me with his bloodshot eyes, above his pale face, I vaguely saw a shallow smile, this smile gave me a sense of familiarity, all similar to the expression of Lao Zhao in my dream, but the monkey's smile was not as obvious as Lao Zhao's, just a slight smile.
I was looked at by the monkey with such an expression, and I was a little overwhelmed, so I kept the same posture and did not dare to move, and I didn't even dare to come out, and I was in a stalemate for more than a minute, and my body was a little stiff.
Suddenly, I saw the monkey close its eyes, open its mouth wide, and take a deep breath, I was startled, I didn't know what the monkey was going to do, so I consciously leaned back, and the monkey then exhaled all the breath at a very fast speed, accompanied by a slight moan.
I was a little surprised after watching this series of actions, this is obviously yawning, is the monkey still sleeping, not waking up? Just as I was wondering, the monkey suddenly opened his eyes again, only to see that his eyes were confused, and he had no master, and he looked like he hadn't woken up.
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