Chapter 38: The Black Hole Beneath the Desert
Zhang Siyuan burst out with a crazy laugh, pulled his legs and ran, judging him from the one who was about to take a break after two steps. He got carried away with his excitement and performed a scud stunt that I could barely catch up with with the speed, only to see a hazy black shadow speeding in front of me.
When I managed to catch up with him out of breath, I found that he was already digging with a shovel, and the sand even swung in my face. I watched him squatting in the sand dunes and sweating, and quickly squatted down over the dunes to help him. Lao Wang's words were indeed right, after fighting for more than 20 minutes, the sand had become wet, wet to the touch, and a little bit of a seaside feeling. Zhang Siyuan's eyes lit up, and he couldn't stop praising Wang Linshuo, completely forgetting that he shouldn't talk much because his throat was inflamed.
Ten minutes later, a slightly cloudy and yellowish stream of water gushed out of the sand. Zhang Siyuan and I looked at each other ecstatically, and we both saw the hope of survival in each other's eyes. I stopped the filter straw he took out, skimmed off the yellow water, and continued to dig deeper.
The water in the bunker gradually became more and more clear, and finally it became a small puddle. This time, I couldn't resist the crazy Zhang Siyuan, he randomly inserted the straw into the puddle, held his breath and sucked it up desperately, and in a blink of an eye, the pit dried up to the extreme, and there was no drop of water.
I watched as he drank bitterly and greedily, grabbed the shovel and dug up at great speed, and in just a few minutes, the puddle had expanded to fit a human head, and the water in the pit was at least six or seven hundred milliliters.
The two of us were head to head, and our faces had the expression of extreme madness that only drug addicts can have, desperately, frantically sucking the unsweet water. I felt every dry cell in my mouth come to life, the taste buds on the tip of my tongue that were about to die were soaked in water and began to dance happily, the cold water flowed through my throat, all the way into my stomach, I don't know if it was frozen or what's going on, I couldn't help but shiver hard.
After drinking it all, dig it up and dig it out and drink it again...... I don't know how many times these two steps were repeated, until my shovel could no longer dig out the clear spring I wanted, we stopped, gasped and stared at each other with reddened eyes, and burst into laughter when we touched our swollen stomachs.
Zhang Siyuan smacked his lips and said unsatisfactorily: "I think we just hollowed out this piece, maybe there are still a lot of resources on that side." ”
I listened to his voice less hoarse, nodded and smiled: "You can't be a fish, are you, it's completely two people when you are full of water and when you are short of water." ”
He laughed, pointing to the large string of kettles hanging around his neck, and Nunu said, "Go on, I'd rather not sleep this night I'll fill all the jugs." ”
I smiled and said, "You have a military coat and I have a robe, so it's better to lie down on the spot when you're tired, wake up and continue digging." ”
We walked a few hundred meters and crouched down to repeat what we had just done. There's a lot more groundwater here than we did in the place we tested, and it's very clear, not like the yellowish ones over there. We drank to our heart's content again, filling two more jugs, and now sucking up all the water we had accumulated over the years.
Zhang Siyuan was too greedy, and although his arms trembled a little, he still didn't want to go home. My legs were numb and my hands were sore, and I persuaded him to go back to sleep several times, but his eyes were shining and he said, "Dig a few more shovels, the last one." ”
I couldn't resist him, so I had to yawn and follow him to the corner, sat down with my back against the sand dune, touched my sweat-soaked hair, and said, "I'm not going to do it, I'm looking forward to your performance." ”
He glared at me, grabbed the shovel and began to dig again, I was reluctant to get up and work hard, but I could see that his breathing gradually became heavier, and his movements slowed down, and I couldn't help but take the shovel and start to help again. But this time the situation was not optimistic, and we dug for more than 20 minutes without seeing any water coming out, not even catching a glimpse of the wet sand.
Zhang Siyuan sighed, looked at the sand pit without giving up, and said helplessly: "I'll put down the last shovel, if there is no water, let's go back to sleep." ”
He gritted his teeth with his hands on the shovel, his eyes widened, and he plunged into the sand and dug up a large shovel with all his might. However, the truth is disappointing, that large shovel of yellow sand is dry like the weather in the north. I sighed, and was about to pull Zhang Siyuan back, but I saw his eyes staring straight at the bottom of the pit, and his expression was very surprised.
I thought that what deserved him to show such an expression was only the bottom of the pit turning into a vast ocean. I poked my head out, but the spectacle in front of me squeezed the ridiculous words back into my stomach.
The endless yellow sand, which covered the dry, blue-black ground, was shoveled aside, revealing the cracked earth and the black hole in the center, which was about the size of two palms. The cold continued to peek out from within, and tiny stones and grains of sand rolled down the cracks sporadically, swallowed up by the endless darkness.
Zhang Siyuan was dumbfounded, grabbed the shovel and tentatively patted the cracked ground. The stones jumped up in shock, and the cracks turned into cracks in an instant, and a large piece of ground did not even groan, but fell straight into the abyss, and I listened carefully, but I could not hear the sound of the landing. He gasped, looked at the black hole that had expanded several times in the blink of an eye, and muttered, "I thought this was just an animal's nest, but I didn't expect it to be such a big hole......"
I glared at him and rebuked, "You are so bold that you dare to disturb the nest of animals?" ”
He ignored me, took a few steps back, and took out his flashlight to shine inside. I leaned over vigilantly, and before I could see anything, I was startled by Zhang Siyuan's exclamation. I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead, stroked my chest, and said angrily, "What are you doing in a daze? Isn't there a monster inside? ”
He shook his head in alarm, his face looking a little strange under the light of the flashlight. "There are countless skeletons in the cave, and I clearly see a fat maggot crawling out of someone's eye socket!" ”
My heart sank suddenly, and I pretended to be calm and took the flashlight and looked in nervously. An unbearable stench came to my face, and countless skulls and bones hung on the walls of the cave came into view. I resisted the urge to vomit and forced myself to remove the flashlight to find out how deep the hole was.
But the truth was beyond my expectations, no matter how much I stretched out my arm and shoved the flashlight into it, I couldn't see the bottom of the hole, but there were many shiny things flashing a few times at the end of my vision. I pinched my nose and straightened up, Zhang Siyuan looked frightened, and said in a trembling voice: "I'm right, how can there be so many skeletons hanging on the cave wall?" ”
I suddenly thought of a creepy thing, I ignored his question, and asked in a deep voice: "I remember Hu San said that the wolf-eye boxer 24W-168R he bought is of excellent quality, and it is generally used by special forces and police officers. Do you remember how many meters the irradiation distance of this model was? ”
He frowned and recalled: "I remember that Hu San seemed to say that the farthest can reach a thousand meters ......."
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly stopped, his face turned white, and he glanced at me in horror. My legs began to tremble uncontrollably, I couldn't utter a full syllable, and my teeth were chattering for a long time before I could hold back a sentence: "This...... It's not going to be a bottomless pit, is it? ”
Zhang Siyuan took the flashlight and shone it into the distance, and the miserable white pillar of light hit out powerfully, not the problem of the flashlight. He glanced at me in a sweat, gritted his teeth and looked into the cave, but he still couldn't see the bottom of the hole.
He said in a trembling voice, "Could it be a problem with our eyes?" It can reach the bottom of the cave, but it is beyond our field of vision, so we can't see it. ”
I forced myself to believe his words, but a voice inside me shouted: no matter how far away, I would not be invisible, at most I could only see a vague shadow...... I thought of the bones on the walls of the cave and the disgusting stench of corpses, and the chill ran down my spine. I looked into the cave again, trembling, and a pair of huge yellow eyes were staring at us silently from the depths of the cave.
At that moment, all my goosebumps revolted, all the cold hairs rose up, and there was only one thought left in my blank mind, run! I couldn't care about anything, so I grabbed Zhang Siyuan, who was still looking, and dragged him to run at a speed of 100 meters. It wasn't until the dunes were far behind us, and there were no monsters catching up, that I took a breath and sat on the ground with my heart still beating wildly.
Zhang Siyuan's face turned pale, and he touched the kettle with palpitations and said, "Fortunately, this thing was not lost, otherwise I would have to go back and make another pot if I died." What did you see, so alarmed? ”
I clenched the flashlight in my hand and said breathlessly, "There are huge yellow eyes in the depths of the cave, and I can't tell what kind of creature they belong to. ”