Chapter 10 The Underground Lake

Our wooden-handled grenade is the standard equipment of the infantry, consisting of three parts, the upper side is wrapped in iron sheets into a cylindrical shape, and the lower part is a wooden grip. After triggering, the explosives inside are used to stimulate the iron shards to kill the enemy, and the power is not very strong.

The big man left one grenade, and I took the other, and seeing that many fireballs were already rushing towards me, I pulled out the fuse and threw the grenade with white smoke emitting from the wooden handle.

The grenade exploded into a cloud of white smoke, and a dozen blue fireballs flying in front were hit by the exploding shrapnel and fell to the ground one after another to extinguish, but more fireballs continued to swarm from behind.

Luo Ning was in front, and the other three people were behind, using the semi-automatic rifles in their hands to fight while retreating, each with more than 20 bullets, and it didn't take two minutes to shoot out.

If you want to deal with the blue fireballs formed by those strange ladybugs, you can only shoot them with guns, and the slightest contact with them will cause you to burn. A rifle without bullets is not as good as a burning stick.

The big man threw away his rifle, pulled out the last grenade, and shouted at me: "Old Hu, it's time, is it neat?" ”

Luo Ning and I supported Gawa, the four of us formed a circle, wrapped the grenade in the big man's hand in the middle, I stared at the grenade in front of me, as long as the big man pulled the string, it would be burned in a few seconds, and the last moment finally came.

At this time, I don't plan to think too much about other things, one is that those fireballs are getting closer and closer, and I don't have time to think about it, and secondly, because I'm worried that thinking too much about life and death will make me weak, I have always wanted to be a special combat hero like Yang Gensi, but I didn't die on the battlefield, but I walked to the end of my life at the bottom of Kunlun Mountain for no reason, I was really unwilling, I put my heart sideways, and I wanted the big man to detonate the grenade.

Luo Ning had already closed her eyes tightly and waited for death, but she suddenly thought of something, and suddenly stood up and grabbed us: "You hear the sound of this water flowing so loudly, this place is very close to the underground river, let's jump into the river quickly." ”

Just now, I only cared about shooting, and then I was about to commit suicide with a grenade, and I had already left the matter of the underground river behind, and I didn't hear the rumbling sound of the water in the chaos, and when I heard Luo Ning say this, I thought that there was still a way to live, if we could jump into the river in advance, although those fireballs were powerful, we couldn't help it.

It was too late, but it was too soon, thousands of blue fireballs were already close at hand, and the four survivors were desperate for survival, desperately running towards the roar of the water.

Listening to the sound of the water, it was only a dozen meters away, we couldn't run a few steps, and after passing the end of the underground cavity, a large waterfall appeared in front of us, and there was a natural underground lake of considerable scale under the waterfall.

I didn't have time to take a closer look, my heart was hot, scratching my heart and scratching my liver, presumably the fireball had hit my back, as long as it was stained with a small spark, the flames would immediately engulf the whole body, this life and death juncture, where did I have time to think more, and jumped off the lake with a jump.

In the chaos, I saw that the big man and the other three people were also burned, and they jumped into the lake one after another screaming. I plunged into the water, and the blue flames on my body were immediately extinguished by the lake.

The water and fire did not melt, and the rest of the flying insects seemed to know the power of the lake, and only lingered two or three meters from the surface of the lake, not daring to rush down and attack.

I peeked out of the water to breathe, and found that the big man also came out, but there was no trace of Luo Ning and Gava, I was worried that they didn't know the nature of the water, drowning in the lake, took a deep breath and prepared to dive into the water again to save them, at this time Luo Ning had already floated up from the lake with Gava.

It turned out that Gawa had never swam in her life, and after jumping into the lake, she was choked by the water and fainted, Luo Ning just saw it, so she dived into the lake and rescued him, but fortunately, the drowning time was not long, Gawa coughed a few mouthfuls of water, and came to her senses again.

Tibetan customs are not allowed to go down to the lake to bathe and swim, and Gava chatters in her mouth, asking the Buddha to forgive her sins.

The sky above the lake was lit up by countless fireballs as bright as day, and the four of them gathered together, although it was early spring, they felt that the groundwater was not cold, but felt a slight warmth on the body, and it was a warm lake formed by geothermal action.

The big man scolded: "Mom, the gun is gone, and it has sunk to the bottom of the lake." ”

I reminded him, "We're out of bullets, it's useless to ask for guns, now let's find a way out, you keep your head down, and be careful of the bugs rushing down." ”

The big man didn't believe that those fire-covered insects could rush into the lake, and he grinned widely, and soon his smile froze, and thousands of fireballs glowing blue were gradually gathering, forming a huge flame, and with a snort, he quickly burrowed back into the lake.

I took a breath and was about to go down, when I saw Gawa next to me and was stunned, he was naturally afraid of the lake, and he didn't dare to dive into the lake to hide, so I had to force his head into the water, and dragged his arm to swim deeper.

The large fireball has a diameter of several tens of meters, and as soon as it touches the surface of the lake, it stimulates the water vapor to steam. Although the fireball was large and the lake was wider, the suicide attacks of the ladybug death squads did not work, and they drowned in the water.

The bottom of the lake was originally dim, but it was reflected by the fire above, and it was barely able to see the environment of more than ten meters below the water, and there were countless big fish swimming slowly in the depths of the water, these fish were completely different from what I had seen before, the big fish had extremely long whiskers, similar to salmon, and because they lived in a dark environment, their eyes had deteriorated, and there were only two white spots left.

I was startled by the strange appearance of these big fish, ate a few mouthfuls of water, and then saw that Gawa was also kicking his hands and feet, and couldn't hold his breath anymore, and wanted to struggle to swim up to breathe, but the bottom of the lake suddenly darkened, and I estimated that those insects were almost dead, and I pulled Gawa to swim up to the lake.

There was a layer of ladybug corpses floating on the surface of the lake, there was no fire, there was a dark patch everywhere, and I shouted to the big man, "Big man, do you still have a flashlight?" ”

The big man replied, "It's all gone, there's nothing left, so let's go in the dark this time." ”

Suddenly, Luo Ning also came out of the lake, wiped the water on her face with her hand, and held a military crutch flashlight in her other hand: "The last two I brought with me have been in my pocket and didn't fall into the bottom of the lake." ”

Everyone dragged each other and climbed ashore, they all felt tired and hungry, and they no longer had the energy to act, and they had not eaten for more than ten hours, let alone flesh and blood, even if they were really beaten with iron, I am afraid that they would not be able to hold on.

The big man jumped into the lake again and came back with a bayonet, scraped the scales and cut them into several slices, I tasted it first, the taste of the raw fish meat was OK, not too fishy, but slightly bitter, and I felt very fragrant after chewing a few more bites.

Only Gava said that he would not eat in the sky, and the army also had ethnic discipline and was not allowed to eat fish in Tibet, but when I thought that Kunlun Mountain was at the junction of Qinghai and Tibet provinces, we were still on the Qinghai side according to the location, and there were more Hui people in Qinghai than Tibetans, so eating fish here was not considered a violation of discipline. In fact, even if the real offender is disciplined at this time, he can't take care of it, and his eyes are already blue with hunger, so special circumstances can only be treated specially.

The three of them gobbled up a big fish raw, and felt that there was still a little unfinished, so the big man swam into the lake to touch the fish, Luo Ning checked the wound on Gawa's foot, and I walked around the lake to see if there was any place to go out. The water flow of the waterfall is so large that there should be a place for this lake to diverge.

The drop of the waterfall is tens of meters, according to Luo Ning's estimate, the water system in front of us should be an underground tributary of the Brahmaputra River, and there may be volcanoes deep underground, so the lake will be warm.

I took Luo Ning's flashlight and found a gap in the underground lake, and the water flowed out of the gap, this waterway was a cave seven or eight meters high, and the bottom was completely flooded, and there was no way to go, and if you wanted to move forward, you had to swim out of the water.

I went back to Luo Ning and told her what I saw, Luo Ning's map and compass were lost, I can only speculate intuitively, she has been engaged in surveying and mapping for many years, and she has rich experience, she estimates that our location is not far from the unfrozen spring, and the unfrozen spring does not freeze even in the harsh winter, indicating that there is lava underground, the question is where to return to the surface, and it is not a way to walk around underground all the time, and now the feasible solution is only to go along the river, because only where there is a river will it not be a dead end.

The big man also came back dejected, he didn't catch a fish this time. We didn't want to stop any longer, so the three water-friendly people put Gava in the middle and swam in the direction of the water towards the far part of the cave.

Although the surface of this underground river is not wide, but the undercurrent below is very powerful, by the impact of the current, it is not effortless to half-float and half-swim, but this tunnel is too long, and the water temperature is much higher than just now, and the smell in the nose is full of sulfur, and in the water, I still feel dry mouth.

The big man was a little anxious, and complained while swimming: "We may have made the mistake of left-leaning blind activism this time, why did we swim for so long and still not get to the end?" The water in this place is so fast that there is not even a place to stand and breathe. It's better to turn back and swim back. ”

I criticized the big man and said, "What did you do earlier?" They all swam out so far before they asked how long the red flag could last. Is there any doubt that our revolution will be able to achieve a final victory? As soon as you took the first step of the Long March, you began to waver? You grit your teeth and hold on. ”

The big man quibbled, "How can you say that?" Didn't I want to reserve some strength for the revolution, and who is to blame for the losses caused to the revolution by being so blind as you are? ”

Halfway through our words, Luo Ning exclaimed, "Do you see if there are any animals behind you?" It seems to be ...... Monster. ”

I also heard an abnormal noise in the water behind me, turned around and shone with a flashlight, the water behind the water was rolling, and a huge black shadow quickly approached from the water, the lighting range of the flashlight was not enough, and I couldn't see what it was, but the one who came was not good, and the good one did not come, so we all pulled out the thorn and concentrated on preparing for war.