Chapter 22: The Mudflow
Walking in this kind of place, speed is the most difficult to master: walking fast, exerting too much force, and not having time to explore the road ahead; Walking slowly, falling quickly, once you get in, it's hard to get out.
The seventh master looked cautious, but he still didn't know the essentials, and after walking a few steps, Liang Ruoyi sped up a little and caught up, and walked in front with a branch: "Follow my cadence!" ā
The seventh master smiled bitterly and obediently ranked second.
Under the leadership of Liang Ruoyi, we quickly found a comfortable cadence, but we also quickly found the problem, and the seventh master muttered: "Everyone be careful, there is a problem here!" If the pig's head walks here, with his weight, it is estimated that he will not be able to go far, and he is already timid, so it is impossible to go far. This means that he has come a long way to meet something......"
Everyone was shocked, but they also felt that it made sense, and they couldn't help but look around.
After walking for about five or six minutes, Liang Ruoyi stopped: "You can't go ahead!" Now the branch in my hand is almost stuck in my fingertips, and it is dangerous to go any further! Hold on to the branches and trunks next to you, and don't let yourself get bogged down. ā
The seventh master frowned: "With the weight of a pig's head, you will never be able to come here!" Something must have happened to him......"
The sky was already dark, and we were in the deep mountains, and the visibility was already very low at this time, so I grabbed a poplar tree next to me with one hand, took out a flashlight with the other, and then shone it on both sides, and was suddenly startled: "Seven, seven!" Look! ā
Everyone looked over with my flashlight, and they saw a white skeleton in the mud under a tree four or five meters away!
"It's a wolf." The cloth bag monk said softly.
"There are still wild wolves in Jinsu Mountain?" The seventh master nodded slightly: "It's a bit of a surprise, but it seems that there are other creatures, at least they feed on wild wolves." ā
I shuddered: Oh my God, I get fury when I think of the wolf, and now there is something that can eat the wolf so cleanly!
"What is it......" I asked tremblingly, "I grew up watching "Animal World", and in my impression, the ones who can eat wild wolves are probably tigers and lions, right?" Or a bear blind?! ā
Liang Ruoyi turned his head and glanced at me: "I can eat it too!" ā
"Oh." I smiled and stopped talking.
The seventh master has been looking for something with a pig's head, and that one person is carrying two huge backpacks, if something happens, he should also leave something around here!
"It's broken!" The cloth bag monk who was walking at the back suddenly screamed coldly.
Everyone turned their heads to look at the old monk, and before they could speak, they felt that something seemed to be swimming in their legs stuck in the mud!
"Piranha?!" I screamed in fright!
"Shut up!" Liang Ruoyi scolded: "What a piranha! It's a mudflow! Turn around and grab the trunk and get out, or we'll all die here!" ā
At this time, where did I still think about the bastard with the pig's head, they all turned around and grabbed the branches and trunks and walked back, but after walking a few steps, the cloth bag monk in front was already difficult to move forward, and I also felt that under the calm mud surface, the power of the mud flow was getting bigger and bigger, and the flow speed was getting faster and faster!
"It must be the underground river rushing over!" While pulling out the rope and tying it to a big tree beside him, the seventh master shouted loudly: "Hold on to your ropes, you may be rushed in later, hold your breath!" ā
Liang Ruoyi directly reached out and took out a pack of tissues from his backpack and threw it to us: "Stuff it into your nostrils, and if you take a mask, put it on quickly, if you can't get it out of the mud, it will be ruined!" ā
Everyone hurriedly did what Liang Ruoyi said, and after more than ten seconds, the mud around them had begun to flow with the mudflow below!
At this time, I realized that I had underestimated the ability of nature before, and when I was a child, I played with my friends in the mud, which was more terrifying than the sea! I think that when I was in the Cliff Beach of Forgetfulness, I was trapped on the beach with Mazi, at least I had the strength to control my body at that time, but now this mud flow moves, let alone control my body, and I feel like I am stuck in it in an instant, and those mud are like boulders pressing on my body, and even breathing is about to become a luxury.
I only had time to scream before I felt that my eyes were dark, and my whole body had been submerged in the mud, and at this moment, the scene of a soymilk machine appeared in my mind......
After a whirlwind in the darkness, the rope that was pulling us around the waist shook violently, and then the pulling force disappeared!
I was in despair for a moment: now it's okay, either the rope is broken, or the big poplar tree that is tied to the rope has just been washed down! We're going to be buried alive here!
At this time, I couldn't move at all, I could only walk with the mudflow, and now the breath I was holding was about to disperse, but I knew that if this breath was dispersed, it would really die!
In a trance, I seemed to be mixed up with someone else, and the speed of the mudflow began to rise rapidly, and soon I felt like I was on a roller coaster!
Just as I was about to let go of that breath, I suddenly felt the rope around my waist stagnate again, as if it was being pulled by something, and after a few seconds of stalemate, a strong pull-down force pulled me straight down from the mudflow!
This tugging made me suddenly unable to control my body, opened my mouth, and let out that breath!
But before that breath could be completely out, a large chunk of mud poured into my mouth like a river, filling my small mouth in an instant!
As a result, I couldn't breathe in an instant, and my brain was already in a state of lack of oxygen, so I stalked my neck and pumped it......
In the midst of all this, I suddenly felt that my body was much more relaxed, and then I fell to the ground hard, with a "pop", like a big piece of mud being smashed on the ground......
"Ahh I woke up from the fall, and the stuffiness in my chest rushed out like crazy, and I turned my head, opened my mouth and spat out the mud in a big gulp, and gasped for air.
"Smack!" There was a sound, I looked while spitting mud, and saw the cloth bag monk falling, and on the other side, it seemed that Liang Ruoyi and the seventh master were also there, reaching out to pick the mud in their mouths......
"IāI'm damn it!" I finally took a breath and scolded: "What the hell is this place, the top ten secret realms, what kind of secret realm is this!" ā
Liang Ruoyi hadn't spit it out yet, so he turned on the flashlight and shone it diagonally upward.
When I looked around, I saw that we were now in a hollow cave at the foot of the mountain, and above our heads, more than a foot high, there was a hole more than six feet in diameter, from which we fell.
At the entrance of the cave, there are countless weeds growing, almost blocking the entire entrance of the cave, it seems that it should be the seventh master or Liang Ruoyi, who inadvertently grabbed the weeds when they were stirred by the mudflow, and then dragged us out.
Through the light of the flashlight, I could see the mud flow that was still flowing outside the weeds, and from time to time there were some mud spots running down the weeds......
"Oh my God......" I took a deep breath, looked at the mud all over my body, and spat on the ground twice: "Bah! Ate a mouthful of mud! But where the hell is the pig's head?! ā
The Seventh Master also relieved themselves, stood up, and shook off the mud on their bodies, fortunately, everyone's backpacks were still on their bodies, and it was precisely because of these weights that the speed of our flow was slowed down, otherwise, it would be difficult to be pulled down.
"The pig's head is either fine, or it's just ......" The seventh master smiled bitterly: "We haven't found anything about him either, so let's take a look around first." ā
The crowd took out their flashlights and shone them around, and found that this place was not so much a cave as a hollow at the foot of the mountain. In the distance, you can see a huge exit, and there is a faint light outside, reflecting the trees.
"Look over here." Liang Ruoyi stood in the depths of the mountain to the south and said: "There is a downhill slope, and the bottom of this mountain seems to have been hollowed out by the underground river or those mudflows. ā