In-Xanadu-did-Kubla-Khan

A-stately-pleasure-dome-decree:

here-Alph， the-sacrecl-river， ran

Through-caverns-measureless-to-man

Don-to-a-sunless-sea.

……

Su Rui lowered his head and sorted out the diving equipment, and gently recited a poem in his mouth, his voice was sweet and melodious, and Ziyang could listen to it.

When Su Rui's voice stopped, Zi Yang quietly asked, "It's so good, what do these lyrics mean?" ”

Su Rui turned his head and smiled at him and said:

"This poem is "Kublai Khan" written by the English poet Coleridge, and I just hummed the first few lines, which should be translated:

Kublai Khan came to paradise,

Ordered the construction of a majestic palace of peace,

The holy river meanders through this place,

Through the unfathomable door,

Direct into the deep sea where there is no sunlight. ”

Zi Yang was suddenly stunned when he heard Su Rui's translation, and he faintly felt a strange feeling in his heart, but he couldn't say what it was.

"Hey! Are you all ready? Jin Guoqiang walked over to greet them.

He just helped Lao Wang put on the rebreather, and carefully checked the functions of each part, and after confirming that it was normal, Lao Wang couldn't wait to walk into the water, looked back and saw that Ziyang and Su Rui were still chatting on the shore, and couldn't help shouting:

"Are you done talking? When are we leaving? Hurry up, my broadsword is already hungry and thirsty! ”

Seeing him wielding a dog-legged scimitar, Zi Yang couldn't help but scold: "Pig's head! Put the knife back in its scabbard, cut through the oxygen tube and you're done. ”

Su Rui connected the two air cylinders he had brought from the water to the outer port of the nano suit, and then helped Zi Yang hang it behind his back, carefully checking his equipment.

Although Zi Yang wore this set of nano clothes that brought together various super-era technologies before, he still felt weird when he put it on his body again.

The thought of the corpse of a Gurkha cavalryman sealed in this suit made me feel a surge of urine.

"We're all right, too!" After Su Rui checked the equipment on his body, he nodded to Jin Guoqiang, "You can go into the water." ”

"I wish you success!" Jin Guoqiang shook Ziyang's hand vigorously and shook it.

"Hehe, thank you, don't send it, let's go!" Zi Yang bared his teeth and said goodbye to everyone, barely squeezing out a smile on his lips.

Jin Guoqiang's words did not make him feel encouraged, but there was a kind of tragedy and grandeur of "the wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will never return once he is gone".

More than 2,000 years ago, by the Yishui River, when Gao gradually left to see off Jing Ke, I'm afraid his mood was so complicated, right?

I wonder if Jing Ke also had a mood of "I don't play anymore, who likes to go"?

Many people don't know that there is a next sentence in this popular poem, "Explore the tiger's den and enter the Jiao Palace, and look up to the sky and exhale into a white rainbow." This poem is quite appropriate, and their current situation is not much different from exploring the tiger's den and entering the Jiao Palace.

Su Rui and Ziyang picked up the air cylinder and walked into the deep water, looked back and looked again, Jin Guoqiang, Brother Xiaoxiao, Xiaoli, Xiaohei, Wang Juan, they all came, standing on the shore to see them off.

Zi Yang and Su Rui waved their hands, put on their masks, and slowly sank into the water.

Lao Wang shouted to Xiaoli: "Xiaoli, wait for me, I will come back to marry you after making a fortune!" ”

"Oops! You are a ......" Xiaoli's face flushed, and she stomped her feet and shouted shyly: "You, you be careful!" ”

Lao Wang put on a mask and slowly walked into the deep water until the water flooded his head, and did not forget to stretch out his hand and make a V gesture.

Su Rui took Zi Yang and Lao Wang all the way down, came to the entrance of the waterway cave that he found before, and gestured to himself to go first, Zi Yang was in the middle, and Lao Wang was last.

The three of them walked slowly along the waterway, and when they found the underwater cavities of the two Gurkha mercenaries last time, Ziyang took a closer look at the hole twice, and there were indeed traces of artificial excavation.

After traveling a few dozen meters further, they saw another underwater cavity that Su Rui had said before, which was also exactly the same hole. In order to save time, they did not go in to check it out, but chose to continue along the waterway.

Further from here, there are suddenly more forks in the road. Su Rui held an underwater sonar gun in his hand, firing pulses every time he traveled a certain distance, and there was a small screen on the back of the sonar gun, on which you could see the feedback of the waterway pattern.

Most of the waterways are narrow, but after a certain distance, a wide channel emerges that allows two people to run in parallel. Even Ziyang can see that the waterway was clearly excavated by hand.

Ziyang sighed in his heart while swimming forward, what kind of person can carry out such a large manpower project under such deep water? Even today, when the construction industry is so developed, it is a bit unthinkable to make such a project.

Looking back at Lao Wang, under the illumination of the diving lamp, Lao Wang was turning his head to look east and west, and noticed that Zi Yang was looking back at himself, Lao Wang clenched his right hand into a fist and gave a thumbs up, squeezing out a smile on his face.

"This idiot made the wrong gesture!"

Zi Yang knew that what Lao Wang wanted to express meant that everything was OK, but he compared it to an upward signal.

Although his expression was slightly nervous, Lao Wang's movements were still very coordinated, and he could be so emotionally stable in his first deep dive, Zi Yang was already very surprised by Lao Wang's performance.

He had secretly discussed with Su Rui the contingency plan if Lao Wang collapsed underwater, and it seemed that there was no need to activate Plan B.

Continuing along this "artificial waterway", it is clear that the trend is continuing to rise. Su Rui observed his diving watch from time to time, paying attention to the changes in water pressure and altitude, and after a while, Su Rui motioned for the team to stop and let Lao Wang decompress. They had already traveled some distance from the bottom of the water.

After stopping and walking like this, I don't know how long it took, Ziyang gradually felt stuffy in his chest and a little upset. Looking at the barometer index of the air cylinder is still normal, knowing that the gas is sufficient, this physiological discomfort should be a psychological abnormality caused by being in a claustrophobic environment for a long time.

At this time, Su Rui, who was traveling in front, suddenly stopped, looked back at Ziyang, and pointed ahead.

Following the direction of her finger, Ziyang saw a vertical rectangular hole, about two meters high and more than one meter wide, with a very flat section, as if someone had made a hole in a whole stone.

Su Rui, with Zi Yang and Lao Wang Tou, jumped into the cave.

Zi Yang took a deep breath and swam in with him - although he had been mentally prepared, as soon as he entered the cave, Zi Yang couldn't help but be taken aback.

This is a huge underwater cave, the bottom is dark and bottomless, next to it is a steep cave wall, looking up along the pillar of light of the diving lamp, only to see the sparkling above, it seems that dozens of meters away is a side of the water.

Compared to the narrow waterway just now, the space here was instantly hundreds of times larger, and they seemed to be in a reservoir with a diameter of tens of meters, which was already wider than the deep pool outside.

At this time, Lao Wang also drilled out of the hole, and he didn't get used to the "emptiness" here for a while, and he turned over, and Su Rui hurriedly swam a few steps over to help him stabilize himself.

Although the surface of the water seemed to be overhead, the real depth was about thirty or forty meters, and they finally surfaced after two more decompressions.

Ziyang dragged the oxygen cylinder to the shore, and as soon as he looked up, he was stunned by this magnificent scene - the ground was still dozens of meters away from the top of the cave, and the stalactites were hanging down above, and the terrain in the distance was undulating, and the cave was dark and gloomy, and the diving lamp could not shine to the end.

This is a very huge underground cave.

Lao Wang also surfaced and went ashore, took off his mask and saw the scene in front of him, and couldn't help it: "it...... Horizontal-Groove...... Lying - Groove ......"

In terms of his poor language skills, these three coherent and long "slots" have expressed the degree of shock in his heart to the greatest extent.

Su Rui put down the air bottle and said, "Don't be in a hurry to sigh, there are things in it that will shock you even more." ”

"Let's go! What are you waiting for! Dig for treasure! Lao Wang said with his hands on his hands.

"Don't worry, there is enough air in this place, let's take our time and check the outpost first." Su Rui is as steady as ever.

"Yes, that legendary outpost!"

Zi Yang took out a pistol and a magazine from the waterproof bag and handed them to Su Rui and Lao Wang respectively, and said softly:

"Everyone be vigilant, I didn't see any fish and shrimp along the way, and I didn't see the 'gray shadow' flying dragon that Sharma said, I don't know if there is anything dangerous hidden in this cave......"

Thinking of the broken steel cable in the water, Ziyang had an ominous premonition.

Ziyang, who has experienced several adventure crises, knows that the calmer the surface, the easier it is to hide the dangers.

This underwater cave is quiet and frightening.

Lao Wang held the dog-legged scimitar in his hand tightly: "No matter what kind of accident happens this time, Lao Tzu must take the baby back, and he can't go back empty-handed like last time in Tibet!" ”

Next to the surface of the water was a sand slope, and in a shallow pool around the corner, they found all kinds of equipment submerged in the water, as well as a mess of air bottles.

"The last time the expedition came, the water level should not have been so high, and it should have not been in the water before."

Su Rui fished out an electronic device from the water, rusty from the water.

Ziyang also remembers that when he came to Qinhan Village last summer, the water level in the waterhole had not risen that much.

"How much pressure is there?" Ziyang asked.

"One standard atmosphere."

"Huh? You mean that the water here is parallel to the waterhole outside? Ziyang was surprised.

Su Ruitou: "The location we are in should be in the belly of the mountain in Qinhan Village. ”

Ziyang was stunned, and then figured out that Qinhan Village is located in the midst of mountains, and the shortest peaks outside are more than one or two thousand meters high - that is, they have at least a few hundred meters of sealed soil above them, and if it is below the peak, then this sealed soil is several thousand meters.

Lao Wang turned over in the water for a long time, except for those rusty instruments, only a few air cylinders could still be used, and he couldn't help but say in frustration: "It's really unlucky, there is nothing valuable." ”

Zi Yang looked at the old king who saw the money, and said coldly, "Don't always think about making a windfall, you should be more concerned about where those people in the outpost have gone!" ”

According to Sharma's confession, in addition to a few Gurkha mercenaries, there should be seven staff members of the exploration team who went into the water, but except for a pile of rotten instruments, there are no living or dead corpses here, which makes Ziyang have to deepen his suspicions.

Lao Wang was unmoved, twisted the diving lamp on his head to the brightest, his eyes followed the light around, and muttered: "Xiao Su, where are the murals and palaces you mentioned?" ”