Chapter 54: The Cockscomb (2)

Since ancient times, places with good feng shui have either mountains or water, and although there is no water source on the surface here, the groundwater resources are very abundant. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere are many underground rivers and forks in the road, so if you are not careful, you may get lost.

This place is like a beehive, full of holes of all sizes, nine twists and eighteen bends, and we feel like we are in a labyrinth.

The most fearful thing is to run into a ghost hitting the wall, and we don't want to go around in circles anymore, but we don't need to remember the way we came, and if we want to go out, we won't go back the same way. There are undercurrents under the river, and no matter how many forks there are below, the water always flows from one place to another, and the lowest potential of the water may be the way out. I don't know which direction to go, so I just follow the current.

That being said, the skeleton boat also bumped along the way, and the further you went, the more turbulent the current became. The skeleton ship was so smashed that it was almost falling apart, as if it were speeding down to a place. Fortunately, we squatted down desperately, lowered our center of gravity, and protected the hull, so that it did not completely disperse. After traveling some distance, somehow, the ship did not continue to sink, I don't know if it was related to the water quality.

We often saw things with teeth and claws hanging down from above, and our clothes were punctured in several places, and after driving some distance, the water finally slowed down. We saw a bright light in front of us, and we wondered if there was only one flashlight in our place, could it be that the tall and thin man had hidden a flashlight privately?

If we look closely, the area of the light is very large, as if it is shining from above, and in this narrow fork in the road, we feel so aggrieved that we can't even take our breath. As we went downstream, the light grew brighter and brighter, and the waterway widened, but it became colder and colder.

We couldn't help but shudder. Finally, we came to that spacious place, and when we looked around, the water area where we were located was a circular water, and we were on the edge of the circular water at the moment, and this circular water area had a radius of about twenty meters.

When I looked up, there was a faint light on it, and the light was very uniform, and it felt like it was coming from outside, I don't know if it was moonlight or sunlight.

With this bright light, we can vaguely see the situation here, the river is sparkling, the second uncle pointed to the opposite side and said, "What do you see in front of you?" ”

The flashlight shone through, and there were several dark holes on the opposite side, and at intervals, there was one distributed, and I counted them carefully, plus the entrance we had just entered, there were twelve holes. The twelve openings are evenly spaced, like the twelve hand grids on a dial.

The second uncle patted his head and scolded: "What the hell is this place?" Which entrance do you enter? ”

Zhang Lao said: "Everyone don't be impatient, we just follow the direction of the waterway, which hole the water flows to, we will go to which hole, there is water flowing in, it means that there is a living road." ”

That being said, from our vantage point, it's hard to tell which hole the water is coming from. However, I had an idea, and I asked the men to row the boat right in the middle of the circular water, and stay there, and let it drift freely without oars or any external force, and we would go wherever it went.

As soon as we arrived at the center, there were waves on the water, and it was difficult to see which direction the water was flowing from with the naked eye, and after a few moments, the skeleton boat began to paddle directly in front of us.

At the entrance of the cave directly in front of us, the water was still very bright, but when we looked into the hole, we could not see it, but we could clearly feel that the water must have entered through the hole.

In less than a few moments, Skull Spring was in front of the entrance to the cave, which was our entrance at twelve o'clock if we looked at the direction. When we were still two meters away from the entrance of the cave, it suddenly stopped moving, and then slowly drove away from the hole, and we did not use any external force, but the boat just went backwards.

We were back in the center of the circle, where we had just stayed, and I wondered to myself, what was going on for a while? It's as if our ship has traveled some distance and then back. I'm a little confused right now whether the boat is moving or the water is moving.

Then, the boat went in the direction of one o'clock again, and as before, after stopping, it retreated again, and came to the direction of two o'clock, and Tong Xiangyu said: "There is no way to go on like this, or we will find a hole and go in and have a look." ”

At the entrance of the hole at two o'clock, when our boat was about to withdraw, my second uncle and I each picked up an oar and slid it inward, the current was so strong that the skeleton boat had just rowed two or three meters into it, and then it automatically retreated. I said, "I'm afraid there's something strange in the water, so I'll go down and see." ”

I plunged into the water, looking at the hole from the water, looming, I could feel a stream of water, constantly going in and out of the hole, the water was too cold, I didn't dare to stay too long, I hurried out of the water, came to the boat, and told them what I saw.

There must be something strange in this cave, we just want to find a cave to try, we are already at the entrance of the cave at two o'clock, and it is definitely not possible to use oars, so we simply pick up the bones with our hands, even if the current is strong, we can still push the skeleton boat into the hole, but it is more difficult.

Most of the smiles we saw along the way were the same, but now they have become more eerie and colorful, some even crying, and some have deep scratches on their bones.

The road inside was getting wider and wider, and we were moving faster and faster, and it was all smooth along the way, but I always had a bad feeling in my heart, and the calmer it was, the more frightening it became. There was a sudden click, as if something had hit the skeleton ship, but it quickly fell silent again. I happened to be wet, and I didn't want everyone to get wet like I did, so I said, "Stay in the boat, I'll go down and have a look." ”

The second uncle tied a rope around my waist, handed me the flashlight, and said, "This place is not small, if you encounter any danger below, pull the rope, and we can pull you up." ”

After entering the water, under the light of the flashlight, at the bottom of the skeleton boat, I saw a skeleton lying there, its posture, like a living thing, and then look closely at its face, which is not very different from the bones on the corpse mountain. It didn't have any expression on its face, its mouth was wide open, as if it was about to tear, and it usually had such an expression after extreme fright, and I preliminarily determined that this was not originally something in this corpse mountain.