Chapter 21: The Waterhole at the Bottom of the Cave

Hanging coffin?! I looked up and looked around, there were potholed mountain walls, where was the clue to the hanging coffin?!

Just when I hesitated, I suddenly noticed that the boulder at the entrance of the cave moved slightly, and I frowned and looked, it turned out that as the water level rose, the huge buoyancy began to lift the boulder upward, and the river began to pour down the exposed gap towards the cave entrance.

At this time, Liang Ruoyi also hesitated. In this way, the entrance to the cave is very dangerous, or rather, it is very likely that the river that disappeared in the morning has all poured into such a hole. Although the river will hold up the boulders, they are too big for them to float for a long time, and the river will disappear quickly as the rain weakens and other openings are added.

So, what's inside this hole?

Liang Ruoyi looked at me, and then at the river that began to rise wildly: "Go, go down!" ”

I smiled bitterly, and said in my heart Now that I'm locked with you again, and I can't beat you, what else can I do? Following Liang Ruoyi with some difficulty, he walked to the boulder, and saw that the slightly swaying boulder was also a foot high, and his body was full of potholes, but it was easy to climb up.

Liang Ruoyi waved his hand at me and began to climb upwards, and I tightened my raincoat and followed.

After climbing a foot high, I felt the whole boulder start to shake violently, and the river below was almost two meters deep. The entrance of the cave was dark, I stood firm, pressed the flashlight to shine through, and followed the flowing water, almost I could see that it had been going downhill, until more than ten meters later, and rushed down, there should be a downward hole.

"Let's go down while the water in the cave doesn't rise!" Liang Ruoyi said that he stopped his feet a little, jumped off the boulder lightly, and landed firmly on the ground: "The water has just reached the ankle, come down!" ”

I was stunned: "Go down?" Three meters high! Eldest sister, you have kung fu, I can't break my bones if I go on like this?! ”

Liang Ruoyi took a bite of me: "I'll pick you up!" ”

And then me? Alas! It's a shame, a big man, now he has to live on a woman, it's really drunk......

Even if there is Liang Ruoyi to follow, I don't dare to jump down directly, she is not my second uncle! I turned around and lay on the boulder, leaning against the surface of the boulder and sliding down a little, almost a meter above the ground, before I gritted my teeth and jumped.

"If it weren't for the fact that you were still useful, I would really like to feed you to the snake!" Liang Ruoyi sneered at me, turned and walked towards the cave.

I pursed my lips, glanced at her with disdain, patted the dirt on my hands, and followed.

There was no rainstorm in the cave, so I took off my raincoat and hung it on my backpack, and the life jacket was still there.

The whole cave is almost two zhang high, and the area inside the dark cave is very large, and there are strange rocks everywhere, which makes me feel like a movie. The two of them stepped on the rain under their feet and walked to the entrance of the cave, and took the flashlight in their hands to shine downward.

It's too deep, it's bottomless! I turned the flashlight to the bright high beam, and the visibility was about 20 meters, but I still couldn't see the bottom.

"Damn, so deep?" I frowned: "Will we find something like the ghost of Jinsu Mountain?" ”

At least so far, I haven't seen any clues about the hanging coffin of Chengling. I even felt like I was in the wrong place!

"You're a mountain ghost!" Liang Ruoyi glared at me, looking closely below. At this time, because of the rise of the water level outside, the boulder blocking the entrance of the cave slowly floated, and the water under his feet became more and more turbulent.

"Hey, you don't want to go down, do you?" I looked at Liang Ruoyi and asked, "It's so deep, I don't know what it is after going down, we can only hear the sound of 'banging' water now, in case there is really something down there, it will be much more difficult for us to think about it again!" ”

"And where else are you going?" Liang Ruoyi pointed to the pouring rain outside the cave: "If you have, I'll go with you!" ”

Yes, he was taken into the army. I shook my head: "Forget it, we're both locked together anyway, and the woman sings with the husband!" ”

"Ouch!"

As soon as I finished my joke, I was trampled on the surface of my feet by Liang Ruoyi: "Prepare to go down!" ”

I jumped a few times holding my right foot before I felt better: "Well, how do you go down?" ”

"Judging from the sound of flowing water falling on the bottom of the cave, the bottom of the cave should be a pool, but there seems to be an exposed ground around it, and the depth is about 30 meters, which is not too deep." Liang Ruoyi frowned slightly and analyzed: "How to go down is a problem, except for the old clam, no one carries such a long rope...... That's right, get your rope out! ”

With that, Liang Ruoyi reached out to untie the ropes from the two of us' waists, and then took out two other spare ropes in his bag.

Is it to thread several ropes together? I was stunned, reached out and took out the only five-meter-long rope from my bag and handed it over.

The weight of the rope itself is not light, and the volume of the roll up is not small, so in addition to the old clam, the length of the rope we carry is about five meters, the old clam carries two huge backpacks alone, it seems that the longest rope is about twenty meters, and what is the fiber, very thin but very strong, it does not take up much space.

Liang Ruoyi tied the four ropes together, because two of them were slightly longer, almost thirty meters long.

"And then?" I smiled bitterly and said, "If we really go down, won't this rope be able to be removed?" ”

Liang Ruoyi glanced at me: "You'd better not use your ignorance to define what others do. When I'm in Southeast Asia, I do this kind of thing no less than you wet the bed! ”

Damn, what a metaphor this is!

I closed my mouth and stopped talking, and saw that Liang Ruoyi chose a strong stone, tied one end of the rope in a strange knot on the stone, and pulled it gently, instantly locking it on the stone.

"I'm down there, you're up there." Liang Ruoyi patted me: "Pay attention to safety, don't worry!" ”

Now, I don't have a chance to refute it. It was a huge challenge for me to go down to a depth of about 30 meters without any safety facilities.

Liang Ruoyi had already grabbed the rope and slowly climbed down, I took a deep breath, anyway, it was dark below and I couldn't see anything, and the fear in my heart was much less. Wrapping the backpack around his back, he reached out and grabbed the rope, trembling and following Liang Ruoyi to crawl down.

The water flowed down the mountain wall an inch in front of me, splashing me in the face from time to time.

Smoothly, I was able to stand peacefully on a rock at the bottom of the cave in less than ten minutes, and I breathed a sigh of relief as I watched my hands tremble with nervousness.

The light of two flashlights shone around, and as Liang Ruoyi said, we are now in a waterhole, about the size of a basketball court, and the depth is unknown.

"What will be in this place?" I took a flashlight and looked around, but there was nothing left but the dark and wet walls of the cave and the rubble.

"Ashore!" Liang Ruoyi said to me.

I answered, and saw Liang Ruoyi reach out and grab the rope, circle it clockwise three times, and then slam it, and with a "snap", the knot locked on it was untied, and the four rope locks returned to our hands.

"God!" I gave Liang Ruoyi a thumbs up and followed her to the shore against a few gravels above the waterhole.

"Go inside!" Liang Ruoyi said as he walked along the shore and continued to walk towards the depths of the cave.

I kept simulating in my mind where I was now, and after entering the cave in the middle of the mountain, we soon came to the edge of the pool thirty meters down, and now we should be walking in the direction of the south. If memory serves, the road we took to enter Jinsu Mountain was the North Road to Jinsu Mountain, which means that we are now walking towards the center of Jinsu Mountain.

We quickly rounded the side of the waterhole in the darkness, and in front of us was a path only half a foot wide, with quiet pools on either side of the road. At the entrance of the cave behind him, the rainwater flowing down from above became more and more powerful, and the water in the pool here was also stirred up one after another.

"Let's go." Now that there is a road in front of me, I also have a bottom in my heart.

Liang Ruoyi stretched out his hand to stop me, pointed to a black mass on the ground not far in front of him and said, "Wait, look what that is!" ”