Chapter 264: "It" (34)
"What are we going to do next?" Yan asked introspectively.
The extinguished flames still had residual warmth, and those crisp flowers and plants had withered in pitch black, a scene of desolation and ruin.
Xu Wei suddenly turned his head, he saw a chrysalis under the fire did not burn, but tenaciously began to crack, a pair of colorful wings in the cocoon struggled to open, it succeeded, all four wings stretched, revealing their body and head, it was a beautiful butterfly, it gently flapped its beautiful wings, from the dilapidated and barren land to the vast sky.
Xu Wei looked up at the butterfly's flight trajectory was elegant and beautiful, and the sunlight shining through the butterfly's wings shone with more beautiful colors.
Xu Wei said: "We should go to the drain, the pumping station is where we are going, and it is time to end this." ”
Everyone walked along the river bank and stopped, Xu Wei found that the pumping station was twenty meters away, and the others followed, they saw that there were also culverts on the opposite bank, one was very close, the other was about twice the distance, both of them gushed out a large amount of muddy water into the canal, but the culvert in front of them was only a trickle, maybe the pumping equipment was malfunctioning.
The lid was lifted, and the huge round lid fell to the ground, making a mud mark on the wet earth, and the back of the lid was crawling with beetles, but the moment they saw the light of day, they scattered and crawled into the tangled grass.
Xu Wei peeked into the pipe, and the iron hooves between them went all the way down, reaching a circle of black edges, the water surface was spotted by the rain, and the pump stood quietly in the center, half-submerged in the water.
Everyone grabbed the rough cement edge of the culvert pipe, carefully touched it step by step, and climbed down, the iron ladder was very slippery, and they stepped into the icy water, the water was up to everyone's knees, and the pumping machine was nearby.
Wan Qian Tianxia had been observing the sewers since she had just left, and the light in it soon darkened, and she could not see anything, but she only saw a concrete passage, the water was turbulent, and they walked in a row like a group of blind people, and finally walked into the darkness into which the paper boat drifted at the beginning.
Xingyue spread its light wings to illuminate the way forward for everyone, but was quickly stopped by Xu Wei, because the light wings can be said to be two-thirds of Xingyue's combat power, and it is too wasteful to use them for lighting.
Liang Tianqi suddenly remembered something, he took out his Nether Flashlight, pushed the switch and said, "This one of mine has no effect here, it's good to use it for lighting." ”
The water was getting deeper and deeper, and three animal carcasses floated by, a mouse, a dead cat, and an animal that could have been a marmot, the carcasses were swollen and shiny, and everyone frowned and pinched their noses as the carcasses drifted past.
From just now to now, the water is quite calm, but it will soon be over, because the sound of turbulent water waves continued to be heard in the distance, and the volume became louder and louder, and finally it turned into a monotonous roar, the sewer turned to the right, they turned and saw three drains filled with water into the sewer where they were, the three drains were arranged vertically like traffic lights from top to bottom, the end of the sewer was here, the light was slightly brighter than just now, Xu Wei looked up and found that the shaft on the stone wall was four or five meters high, and there was a gutter grate above, Rainwater pours down through the grille holes, like a pristine shower.
Xu Wei looked at the three culverts, the water flowing out of the top culvert pipe was very clean, only leaves and branches and a little garbage, the water discharged from the middle culvert pipe was gray, and the lower culvert pipe discharged a large amount of gray-brown turbid sewage.
"Which one shall we go?" Everyone looked at Xu Wei, this point has long been undisputed, he is now the boss, that's all.
"The last one, it will be waiting for us there." Xu Wei's eyes were firm, and his will was as hard to destroy as a rock.
"Really, isn't there a lot of traffic here? We can try to look around the other two, which are manure pipes. Yan Zizi said reluctantly.
Liang Tianqi glanced at Yan Zizi and said, "Let's go, anyway, the stool will be washed away." Xu Wei led them to Hanguan Qian, and they frowned at the stench.
"We can really ...... it the other way"
Xu Wei took the lead and walked in without saying a word, the smell of sewage and feces wafting in the pipe, but there was another smell, but it was not so strong, more like body odor.
If the clown has bad breath, it should be the smell, we're on the right track, it's been here...... And often!
"Oh my God, if there is such a task next time, you must notify me in advance, I choose to quit." Yan Zizhi shook his head and walked in slowly with a slow pace.
They had only advanced five or six meters, and the air was already smelly to the point of poison, Xu Wei slowly moved forward, stepping on something that was not mud, as for what it was, you know.
At this time, Liang Tianqi's Nether Flashlight actually flashed twice and went out, completely dark, they walked in the stench, feeling like a wall, they had to crash through it.
"Oh no! Xingyue, don't even think about it, I'd rather go in the dark like this than have you expend your strength in such a place. The light dissipated as soon as it lit up, and Xu Wei once again dispelled Xingyue's thoughts.
The darkness was full of sounds, all amplified and echoing in the culverts, the sound of rustling and moving, panting, gurgling and strange clanging sounds.
Xu Wei heard sewage rustling in the criss-crossing school pipes, which must have been above their heads.
In the dark, Xu Wei didn't even know that he had reached the end of the culvert, and when he stepped on the air, he found that he threw himself forward, waving his arms wildly to restore his balance, but the whole person fell out of the pipe.
"Be careful!" Xu Wei heard himself yelling, and a monotonous echo sounded from the culvert: "The front will fall." He reminded the crowd.
Suddenly there was a loud plopping sound in the culvert, and everyone was rushed out of the mouth of the pipe by the sudden flow of water.
Wan Qi Tianxia lightly lit the water and did not fall into the water, Lan Yanbing also did it, but the others were washed clean by the fecal water.
"Oh my God, we took a shower, I knew it was going to be bad, but I didn't think it would be this bad." Yan Zizi shook his soaked sleeves, nauseous and wanted to vomit.
Wan Qi seemed to remember something, she took out a match from her pocket, and with a snort, the match lit up the place.
The faint glow of the match quickly extinguished.
"There seems to be a corpse on my right, about three meters away from us." I'm not sure.
Wan Qi Tianxia lit the match again, and they saw the swollen and blue corpse of the executor, and the corpse grinned at them in the dark, and the intimate expression looked terrifying, but only half of the face remained, and the rest was probably gnawed by the rats.
"Keep going." Xu Wei only said these four short words.
They groped their way forward, carefully walking, and continued to crawl against the raging sewage.