Chapter 24: The Bronze Mirror of the Cliff
"Perhaps, there is a bigger waterhole that can hold a lot of water." Liang Ruoyi grinned at me: "Let's go, there's no time!" ”
I nodded, and followed Liang Ruoyi into the downhill road. By five minutes, I was covered in sweat, and it was a strange feeling: not long ago, I was shivering from the cold, but now I was drenched in sweat.
The temperature was gradually rising, and after ten minutes, I felt that the temperature around me was almost thirty-three or four degrees, and I was wearing winter clothing in addition to a life jacket.
Finally, when the sweat irritated our eyes, we stepped out of the path and saw the expected waterhole.
Hot.
The whole waterhole is filled with hot steam, like a steam room in a bathhouse, and there is a white expanse everywhere.
"Hey, it's okay to steam buns here!" I can't help but crave buns.
Liang Ruoyi gave me a blank look, walked to the edge of the pool, and cautiously reached into his hand and touched it: "Hot hands!" ”
"Hot hands?" I wiped the sweat on my face and walked over, but I heard a "whooshing" sound of running water coming from a distance, hurriedly patted Liang Ruoyi, and walked towards the place where the sound came from.
I don't want to stay here for a second longer, as the temperature continues to rise, this place will soon become a real steamer, and Liang Ruoyi and I are just two human buns.
Bypassing one side of the pool, I quickly found the source of the sound of running water.
In front of us, a huge sink appeared! It is a water tank carved out of the mountain wall, about two zhang wide and of unknown depth, and in the dark cave, the rainwater and pool water above are flowing down the trough.
"The water is cold." I said and reached out and touched the water.
Liang Ruoyi ignored me, took the flashlight and looked around as quickly as possible, and frowned slightly: "There is no other way to go." ”
"None? Could it be that we still have to go back? It's estimated that it's flooded now! I immediately became anxious: "Wouldn't it be ...... to go up?"
Before I finished speaking, I suddenly understood, and turned my head to stare at the huge sink in front of me: "Beauty, don't you want to tell me, let's go down the sink?!" ”
"And do you have any other choice?!" Liang Ruoyi said as she took out the rope from her bag and wrapped the two of us together again: "You'd better hurry, otherwise we'll be turned into soup dumplings here." If you really don't want to go down, I don't care if you knock you out and drag you in! ”
"Forget it!" I spread my hands: "I've never been able to make my own decisions since I joined this team!" ”
Liang Ruoyi took out another rope from his bag and threw it into the sink to probe the depth of the water: "Almost three meters...... You're okay with water, right? ”
"Hey! Three meters deep! My face changed: "Such a rapid current, we don't know how long it is, even if I am good at water, isn't it looking for death if I go on like this?!" ”
"Then do you wait for death, or do you want to die?" Liang Ruoyi didn't take my words to heart at all.
"Alright! Look for death! I took a deep breath and jumped into the sink with Liang Ruoyi......
Covered in sweat and with a high body temperature, as soon as I entered this cold and biting water, I suddenly hit a spirit, and the breath I held was instantly dispersed, I hurriedly wanted to hold my breath again, but I didn't expect that the turbulent water would not give me a chance at all, and I was instantly swept into the water by the current and rushed downward!
The flashlight was available underwater, and with the help of Liang Ruoyi, it took me a lot of effort to stabilize my body, and I took out the oxygen cylinder that Liang Ruoyi had prepared for us and put it over my mouth.
Just kept going down the river, it is estimated that after about ten minutes, Liang Ruoyi patted me, I looked overhead, and saw a faint light, it should be on the water!
The speed of the water also dropped rapidly, and I hurried upstream, rushing out of the water, gasping for air.
"Whew...... Damn, it's finally up! Where is this?! "I looked around with my flashlight and saw that we were now in a quiet lake, surrounded by high cliffs, and I could see the sky that was still gloomy and rainy, but because it was so high, the visible area was only the size of a washbasin.
The raindrops flew on my face, giving me a thrill of rebirth. The lake filled the entire canyon, and Liang Ruoyi and I had no choice but to choose a large rock that was exposed to the surface of the lake and sit on it, untie the rope, and rest panting.
"Heh, we seem to be looking for death!" Liang Ruoyi suddenly sneered.
"Why?" I was stunned and turned to ask her.
"If you look at these mountain walls, we can't go up at all."
I looked along the mountain wall, in the darkness, the mountain wall flickered with white light, I originally thought it was the reflection of rain, but now I looked, but now I found that the mountain wall itself is extremely smooth, like four huge bronze mirrors, enclosing a lake in it. From a rough point of view, these four cliffs are hundreds of meters high, and if you want to go up, it is simply a fool's dream.
In other words, we ourselves have come to a dead end. But now, because of the current, it's almost impossible for us to swim up against the current back into the scorching cave.
"Hey, wait, look at this cliff, is there anything on the cliff?" Liang Ruoyi suddenly pointed to the mountainside of a mountain wall and said, "How do I feel that some places are dark, as if there is a hole in it." ”
I was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked along the place pointed by Liang Ruoyi, and sure enough, in some places on the mountain wall, when I looked at it from a specific angle, I could find a black cave everywhere.
"Hanging coffin?! This is the hanging coffin of Chengling?! I exclaimed excitedly, "That's it!" ”
Liang Ruoyi was not so excited, pulled me and said, "Do you need to be so excited?" You don't want to think about it, we are in a dilemma now, even if there is a meal of gold hanging on it, can you get it?! I don't want to starve here! ”
"Seventh Master them?" What I miss most at this time is the Seventh Master. In the cave, we once saw the cloth bag of the cloth bag monk, which can show that the seventh master should still be alive, and it is possible that they have also walked the same path as us. But why haven't any other clues been found?
There are also Chai Lao Wu and them, I never thought that they would enter Jinsu Mountain like us this time, and one person has already died, I don't know what they encountered, and whether they have already fought with the Seventh Master and the Budai Monk.
"That's not right!" I suddenly remembered the most crucial question: "I remembered!" We're not dead end here! If you think about it, the rain outside and the pool of water are still entering the lake through the dark channel under the lake, that is to say, the water level of this lake is constantly rising, and we can reach the hanging coffin with the rise of the water surface! ”
Liang Ruoyi looked at the calm water and nodded: "That's right, it's just, do we have enough time?" Your guess is that it will take some time to accumulate a lot of rain to complete! ”
"Tomorrow morning!" I looked at the time, and it was already ten o'clock in the evening: "It's like this morning, a lot of rain will rush into the cave in the shortest possible time after the boulders at the entrance of the cave have completely floated, and will pour in with the undercurrent. This guess shouldn't be too outrageous, but like you said, how long will it take to reach a height of a few hundred meters......"
"Forget it, let's rest." Liang Ruoyi untied the rope around his waist: "Give me something to eat, and also, use that torch too, otherwise it will be difficult to carry it through tonight." ”
Listening to her say this, I felt that my body was cold and biting, and the whole person had been soaked in water for so long, and the clothes on my body were all soaked.
I hurriedly took out the torch and kept thanking this sealed waterproof backpack that I had spent thousands of dollars on, and the torch didn't get any moisture. After lighting the torches, Liang Ruoyi and I took off our clothes and propped them aside to dry.
Both of them took off only their underwear, I naturally wore shirts and pants, and Liang Ruoyi was a corseted white vest, and I could clearly see the close-fitting corset inside!
Seeing such a bloody figure and the treacherous atmosphere around me, my head twitched, and I opened my mouth to ask: "Beauty, you always wear this kind of tight-fitting corset, will it be deformed?" ”