Chapter 106: The Pond Rises

But it's not worth rejoicing at all, I know that even if Yin Qi is not harmful to us, a long period of cold and hunger and thirst will kill us, and the most unbearable thing is actually thirst, there is a pool of water in front of us, but Liang Houzai and I both know that the water in it must not be drunk.

I choked on a lot of water when I was slapped on the shore by the big waves, and although I coughed it up immediately, the water was poisonous, and now my tongue is numb, and my throat and eyes have a slight pain like pins and needles.

At first, we could resist the temptation of the water source, but although the thirst became more and more serious, I looked at the lifeless water in front of me, and suddenly felt that the water must be very sweet and delicious, and what was even more terrifying was that my eyes could not be removed from the pool of water, let alone water, to the extent that Liang Houzai and I were thirsty, that is, to give us a bucket of gasoline, and the two of us could drink it.

Finally, Liang Houzai took a step towards the waterhole, and I tried to reach out to block him, but before I could reach out, I heard a slight "da-da-da-" sound from the tunnel behind me, followed by a splashing sound of liquid.

This is the sound made when the soles of the feet step into the puddle, and after stepping into the puddle, there is also a splashing sound.

When I heard this sound, my first reaction was excitement, and there was a water source not far behind me, even if it was a small puddle, but the water in it might be drinkable.

But when I came back to my senses, I realized that something was wrong, there was someone in the tunnel!

Liang Houzai reacted almost at the same time as me, and the two of us immediately turned around and looked over to the other side of the tunnel.

The glow in the waterhole could barely illuminate the periphery of the tunnel entrance, and to the left of the tunnel entrance, there was a two-person tall stone stalactite, and behind this stone stalactite, there was a black shadow.

From the outline, it looked like the shadow of a human or an evil corpse, but I couldn't be sure if he was a human or an evil corpse, and from him, I could feel a slight corpse breath, but this corpse breath was mixed with the life of a living person. It's like, half human, half corpse.

I admit that I am short-sighted, but I also know that a man is a man, a corpse is a corpse, and unless it is a vegetative person who is dying, there will never be anything like a half-man, half-corpse.

He's not in a vegetative state, he moves.

When Liang Houzai took out the mountain knife with a wary face, I noticed that the shadow suddenly moved, as if he was taking a step towards us, but then he hesitated for a moment and retracted his steps.

Liang Houzai and I stared at him with full vigilance, and I knew that he was also peeping at us intently at this time.

We didn't know what he was, and we didn't dare to act rashly, and I think he was probably afraid of the black water coffin on my back, and he didn't dare to pounce on it.

They confronted each other silently, and their surroundings were surprisingly quiet, but I didn't know if it was because of excessive hunger or something, and my ears were buzzing all the time.

At this moment, the black shadow suddenly left the stone stalactite, and my heart tightened instantly, but he did not pounce as I imagined, and from the form, he seemed to have straightened his torso, and I didn't know what he was doing.

After a short while, he suddenly said to us, "Ah! His voice was urgent, and I saw him raise his hand and wave it at us desperately, as if he were beckoning us both over.

But neither Liang nor I dared to move forward rashly.

He waved his hand for a moment, then turned and rushed into the tunnel.

Liang Houzai and I glanced at each other, I was very puzzled, and Liang Houzai also had a puzzled expression.

At the same time that Liang Houzai and I looked at each other, the buzzing in my ears became more intense, and I realized that this real sound was not tinnitus at all, but came from underground.

The ground was shaking, small in amplitude but unusually frequent, and there was a gurgling sound of boiling water in the middle of the pool.

I saw that the water level in the pool was rising, and the fluorescent water had passed the steel helmet over there, and after the steel helmet entered the water, there was a sudden "snort" noise, and then the shape of the steel helmet began to distort, and then the honeycomb hole was corroded on it, and in less than ten seconds, the whole steel helmet actually dissolved into the water.

The water in the pool has changed for some reason, and it has become extremely corrosive!

Liang Houzai and I dare to stay longer, hurriedly rushed towards the tunnel, the water level in the waterhole has become very fast, a few minutes of effort to overflow the entrance of the tunnel, Liang Houzai and I came to the stone stalactite forest in the middle of the tunnel at the fastest speed.

Through the gap between the stalactites, I could see that the blue light at the end of the tunnel had become much brighter than before, and I didn't have to think about it to know that the water pool on the other side of the tunnel must have also been flooded, and now both ends of the tunnel were flooded.

Now there was only one last road left in front of us, the hole in the stone wall not far away, which made strange noises.

Life and death are at stake, Liang Houzai and I couldn't think too much about it at all, and after struggling to squeeze through the gaps of a few stone stalactites, we rushed into the dark cave without hesitation.

When I first entered this cave, the water had not yet shone in, and it was pitch black all around, and I couldn't see anything, but I was running desperately with Liang Houzai, and I could feel that after entering the cave, it was a very steep uphill road, and there were a few times when I didn't lift my feet high enough, and I almost fell.

There was a noise around me, and when this sound surrounded me, it didn't go through the twisted amplification of the tunnel, but it didn't have the feeling of hand-scratching the glass, although it was just as numbing to the scalp, but I could barely get used to it.

I could feel that there were a lot of things crawling over my head and over the walls of the cave beside me, and I couldn't see what they were, except that the sound of the stinging was coming from them, and that they were probably very numerous.

After the pool flooded the tunnel, it slowly poured into the small cave that was getting narrower and narrower, and the light of the pool illuminated the place.

I realized that there were large groups of thumb-sized beetles crawling over my head, these insects had very shiny shells, and a pair of very thick, sharp palates on their heads, and when a few beetles flew past me, I saw that they had a circular pattern under their wings, one circle was white on the outside, and one circle was pure black on the inside, and there seemed to be a trace of bright red in the white place, which looked like human eyes.

I've never been afraid of bugs, especially beetles, and I remember catching dung beetles to play with when I was a child. A bug is not scary, what is scary is that in this small hole, except for a small place under the feet of Liang Houzai and me, there is a bright light on the back of the worm everywhere.

The roof of the cave, the walls of the cave, and the ground, as far as the eye can see, are all densely packed with insects. The scene in the cave was as if countless quicksand were converging into a stream towards the top of the cave.

Fortunately, these bugs don't seem to have any ill will towards me and Liang Houzai, and when we pass by them, they will spontaneously move to the side to avoid being stepped on by us.

As we went deeper and deeper, the space around us became narrower and narrower, and at first we were able to stand and walk, but slowly, my forehead had reached the top of the cave, and the two of us could only lower our heads, hunch over and continue walking uphill.

But the roof of the cave became shorter and shorter, and then we could only lie on the ground, crawling on all fours, and finally the distance between the roof and the ground was only more than two feet high, and Liang Houzai and I could only lie on the ground, squirming forward little by little.

Our speed is getting slower and slower, and the speed at which the pool water rises is also slowing down, Liang Houzai followed me, and the muddy water that had been mixed with a lot of impurities after leaving the pool was less than a meter behind him, and since the water poured into the hole, he has been keeping such a distance from Liang Houzai.

The roof of the cave was still getting shorter, and my back was almost attached to the roof of the cave as I lay on my stomach.

In such an extremely confined place, there was a very strong feeling of enclosure, and I felt like I had been trapped hand and foot and then stuffed into a narrow jar, in which my hands and feet could not move freely, only my ankles and torso could cooperate to move my body.

It was an unusually oppressive feeling, I could breathe normally, but I felt that there was always a breath in my chest, and I couldn't spit it out or swallow it, and I was uncomfortable.

The insects rushed past my ears, and I could feel the dispensable temperature of their bodies, and I couldn't help but tingle my scalp when I saw their arthropod-like feet and the tufts of bristles on their feet. I always felt like the bugs would sneak in through my ears, eyes, nose and mouth while I wasn't looking.

What was even more unbearable was the uneven ground, and there were damp and hard stones everywhere on the ground, and my chest hurt when I lay on it, and I had to endure this pain and squirm, and sometimes when I touched some very sharp stones, I could feel the tips of those stones slashing over me, and then there was a hot pain, and I knew that there must be a lot of wounds on my body.

As I struggled forward, I had to shout at Liang Houzai behind him, telling him where there were sharp stones and telling him to be careful.

Liang Houzai is smaller than me, and his body is not as thick as mine, and I used to be proud of my height and size, but it wasn't until I was in such an environment that I realized that such a body had become a huge burden to me.

We were far away from the waterhole and the stalactite-filled tunnel, but we could still feel a slight tremor through the floor of the cave, and the "humming" sound still echoed in our ears, and in this sound there was another very poignant sound.

The voice was so faint that it was hard to tell, and I just vaguely thought it sounded like the cry of a pig. It's as if an unskilled butcher is killing a pig, and if he doesn't stab him to death, the pig will let out a scream of "squeak" when he feels the severe pain. The sound in the cave seemed to be somewhat similar to such a scream, it was a long scream, indescribably heart-wrenching.