1428 Underground River
Dr. Nguyen Le and I kept diving, the darkness and cold deepened, Dr. Nguyen Le shivered on my back, I felt her body stiffen, it was not the lack of oxygen that hurt her, but the pressure and cold underwater. I don't dive fast because I have to feel the direction of the water flow and look for possible caves on the side walls. Dr. Nguyen Le and I don't know the details of my friend "Gus" finding the entrance to the underground river, it may have been just luck for him, but for us, it was quite hard work, even if we could observe a radius of 50 meters with the chain judgment, but as the dive went deeper, the surrounding area of the waterhole also quickly increased, and at about 20 meters of dive, the chain judgment could not cover the edge at one time.
I swam in an arc with the force of the whirlpool, and Dr. Nguyen Le was also using the light of the searchlight to look for possible clues, but the light of the searchlight was no longer visible to the naked eye from five meters away. The physique of the fourth-level demon pattern envoy allows me to stay underwater for a long time, but Dr. Ruan Li is just an ordinary woman's physique, and the pressure brought by the dark underwater is not only psychological, but also physical.
When I felt that she couldn't support it, I began to float, and the force of the whirlpool dragged us, and if it was just Dr. Nguyen Li, there would be no escape from this suction at this depth. Although I also plan to rush into the bottom of the whirlpool in one go, and guess that the entrance is likely to be there, going directly into the depths of the whirlpool is only a last resort until all the possibilities are investigated. Both Dr. Nguyen Le and I can feel the power of the whirlpool, and the further down we go, the more we can't turn back.
After another minute, we finally surfaced. Dr. Nguyen Li, who was stiff, took off the respirator that supplied oxygen tremblingly, as if a traveler in the desert who was about to die of thirst finally smelled a trace of water. The sound of breathing is like draining your lungs. I took her back to the shallow water, then untied her from her back, placed her on the protrusion of the stone wall on the shore, and took a blanket from the debris that had not been brought into the water, and wrapped her tightly.
There's no fire here, and there's water under our feet. Water was also constantly splashing overhead, and the heavy rain left no real shelter from the rain. It didn't take long for the blanket that wrapped Dr. Nguyen Li's body to become heavy due to the immersion, and it no longer had its original warmth. Dr. Nguyen Le barely breathed her breath, I saw her face turned blue, and if it was really safe, I would have stopped her from going into the water, but for now, let her stay on the shore alone. On the contrary, it makes people feel that it will be dangerous.
According to the best assumptions before entering the water, we might find the entrance to the underground river immediately after entering the water, but apparently not so lucky.
I pulled out the chocolates, compressed biscuits, and water jug and shared them with Dr. Nguyen Li, and her face improved slightly. The bad situation has kept us silent, and what to do next has already been discussed. The first launch can float up, but the second launch. You have to dive all the way down into the whirlpool. It's a gamble. But it seems to me that Dr. Nguyen Lê's stay on the peninsula is also a gamble.
"Two-thirds of the oxygen is left." Although Dr. Nguyen Lê had a bad face due to the harsh environment, she did not lose confidence, she calmly checked the respirator and oxygen storage bottle, and said to me, "According to Gus. He was in a half-conscious state until he entered the underground river. At that time, he did not carry any tools or oxygen supply. So, from the depth of our dive, we didn't find the entrance before, so nine times out of ten, the entrance is not there. The deeper you go to the vortex. The faster you dive, the more likely the entrance is really at the bottom of the whirlpool. ”
I bit into the compressed biscuit and nodded, but we didn't have much of a choice. There are not many ways to leave the peninsula, and no matter which path you choose, you will inevitably take the risk of the unknown.
"I don't know what happened to Gus." Dr. Ruan Li sighed, "We originally agreed to escape together. ”
"Actually, it's our luck to be able to get here, and we haven't met anyone at the seminar yet." I said, "Gus's disappearance is weird. "I think I can be regarded as talking nonsense with my eyes open, the appearance of the woman in red means that we are in big trouble. However, Dr. Nguyen Le didn't seem to know what was happening, no, maybe for her, it was just a vision of no threat.
Dr. Nguyen Li rubbed his temples with his fingertips and looked up into the depths of the stream. Suddenly, I felt that her body tensed, as if I was startled. Before I could ask, she stared at the place and said, "Ah Chuan, is there something there?" ”
My chain decision has been unfolding, and the chain decision has not observed anything superfluous, but even then, there has always been something that can avoid the chain decision but will not be seen with the naked eye. I couldn't help but follow Dr. Ruan Li's gaze, the depths of the stream were not transparent at all, like a ball of ink that could not be dyed, and the previous darkness also made people feel hairy, making people can't help but imagine some terrifying and unknown things, but at this time, the darkness seemed to be wriggling, like water waves moving, which made people have an illusion, but it also made people vaguely feel a completely different sense of rhythm from before.
The darkness seemed to have become a living thing, stretching its body, and at first it seemed to go with the flow, but the more I stared, the more I felt that it was the living creature stirring the stream, which made the stream gradually stir. Dr. Nguyen Li and I couldn't help but stand up, only to see that the darkness seemed to be slow and fast, and in the blink of an eye, it had risen to the surface of the water, and it was spreading in all directions.
This darkness seems to be densely woven with extremely thin black silk threads, and the diffusion of darkness is that these silk threads are growing. Crossing the water, climbing the stone wall, you fight for me, and in a few breaths, we have already come to us. I hurriedly picked up Dr. Ruan Li, and then the dark silk threads spread over me, but they were around one meter away from where we landed, full of a sense of consciousness and deliberateness.
A few more breaths, and all but our own feet, as far as the eye could see, was completely covered by this qualitative darkness.
Neither Dr. Nguyen Le nor I knew what it was. Although there is a strong sense of danger, its avoidance does not make us immediately determined to attack it. No one knows if this kind of thing is stimulated, it will bring bad luck that is not there in the first place.
To me, of course, this is a mysterious phenomenon, but in the eyes of Dr. Nguyen Li. But there was a look of inquiry. If it weren't for the harsh conditions, she might have tried to collect some samples.
Although the darkness avoided both of us, I felt no kindness from this mysterious unknown at all. I touched the darkness with my hand, and as I moved, the darkness spread out as if trying to avoid it, revealing the original surface of the mountain wall.
This time. Even the two suitcases at his feet were covered in darkness.
I tried to pick up the suitcase, and the dark threads scrambled to unravel, but when I did grasp the handle, they pounced frantically and engulfed the suitcase once more. I've never seen anything like it weird, but since even the Lady in Red has appeared, it's not impossible that something of this unknown meaning will appear.
I didn't feel nervous, but Dr. Nguyen Li let out a low exclamation. Her gaze had returned to the surface of the stream. I looked over and saw the Lady in Red floating above the water, her low-hanging toes almost touching the water, and the swelling and spreading threads of darkness made people feel like they were flowing from the inside of her skirt.
After a flash of lightning and thunder, the woman in red completely disappeared from her eyes. However, in the interlocking observations, a large number of human figures appeared in the depths of the stream, as if they were suspended in the water. It was as if drowned, a static and eerie posture. As if not affected by underwater whirlpools at all.
These figures remind me of the "water ghosts" often mentioned in the occult.
After the Lady in Red disappeared, Dr. Nguyen Le broke the suffocating silence and said, "What's that? Did you see that? Achuan. ”
I nodded.
Dr. Ruan Li's face suddenly turned bad again. I think she probably felt that her erosion by white Claudia had become worse again, and that the effect she had hoped for. I didn't get to show for it at this time. At best, we shouldn't have seen these weird things.
"Let's go into the water." Dr. Nguyen Le suddenly decided.
"Immediately?" I asked
"Immediately!" Without hesitation, she broke free from my embrace and stepped back on the ground, where she was about to step into the darkness that had filled the place. But the darkness receded before she could hit the ground, leaving a ground large enough to land. The deliberate sense of dodging is even stronger. She took a few more steps forward to confirm this.
On the contrary, after Dr. Nguyen Li left, I sensed that the darkness around me was about to move, and it seemed that as long as she left a little further, the darkness would do something to me, and as you can imagine, it was definitely not a good thing.
Dr. Nguyen Le soon noticed this and returned to me.
I have long guessed that Dr. Nguyen Li's identity as a Las Vegas repeater is unusual, and the dark active avoidance seems to prove it. The reason why these darkness reacted to me before was probably simply because I was too close to Dr. Nguyen Lê.
I quickly re-equipped, re-tied Dr. Nguyen Lê, who had been back on the respirator, to my back in the same way as I had done the previous time, lifted my suitcase and headed out into the water. Everywhere we passed, the darkness of the darkness had retreated, and even then, the darkness in the water had become so thick that even a searchlight could not extend the beam five meters away, and beyond a meter away, only a hazy outline remained.
I felt like the two of me had entered the belly of a monster.
The feeling of danger grew stronger over time, and as soon as I entered the water, I gave up my resistance to the whirlpool altogether, and instead accelerated my dive to the depths with the force. I've tried using a quick sweep, but beyond the unobservable distance, the invisible high-speed channel can't be formed at all, and I can only swim for short distances. I have a slight suspicion that this is a trap set up by the Lady in Red to target me, and she is trying to weaken the threat of the Swift Sweep.
The Dark Silk cannot block the chain judgment, in which it is originally a "non-existent" thing, but compared to the Dark Thread, which is visible to the naked eye but cannot be observed by the chain judgment, there is also a human figure in this body of water that cannot be seen by the naked eye but can be observed with the chain judgment.
Like corpses floating in the water, the number of these figures gradually increased as we descended, and they surrounded me and Dr. Nguyen Li, each with their faces facing us, making me feel that they would pounce at any moment. These strange onlookers were creepy, and I sped up my dive, Dr. Nguyen Li's respirator, constantly making a dull gurgling sound in my ears, and it was also the only sound I could hear in this dark water.
The force of the whirlpool is getting bigger and bigger, the buoyancy seems to be gradually disappearing, I feel like I am falling from the sky for a moment, and at the moment of falling, where the searchlight shines, human faces facing us appear, Dr. Nguyen Li's body was already stiff, and at this time it was even more violent.
Immediately after, the air rushed into my nostrils, and I felt as if I had broken free from some kind of power.
The water disappeared from our eyes, but a loud roar echoed. We were thrown into the air and plunged into the pool below. The light of the searchlight became normal, and I could see clearly that from the place where we had fallen, the water turned into a waterfall and poured down, striking the pool and setting up a mist of water.
Dr. Nguyen Le and I fell into a hollow in the ground. Water from the ground is poured into a waterhole that is the source of a river. If it weren't for the heavy rains, the river might have dried up, but at this point, the water rushed, scouring the reef and heading out into the unclear way ahead.
If we don't do anything, we will be driven by the current and keep moving forward. However, there is a group of reefs ahead, and at the current speed, ordinary people will break several bones, and if it is a vital part, I am afraid that they will die. I swam to the shore with Dr. Nguyen Le on my back, her face was not good, but she was full of excitement.
"That's it, right here, we...... Found, found! Achuan, we found it! She shivered and muttered.
"Don't get too excited, Mom. We had to find a dry spot to make a fire. "The source of this underground river is full of mist, and it's not a good place to stay for a long time.
I was galloping with Dr. Nguyen Li on my back, and the humidity of the air was also rapidly decreasing, although where there was water, it would never dry out, but I just wanted to find a place where I could make a fire. There is still a long road ahead, but Dr. Nguyen Lê's constitution cannot hold on in the wet and cold. (To be continued......)