Chapter 12: The Shadow of the Abyss
Dozens or even more huge chains suddenly began to sway, making a clanging sound to wake us up from the shock, Dong Bing bent down and saw a huge iron chain about ten meters below the edge of the hole we occupied, ten meters This distance is not high, but it is not low, if you don't get it, you will still fall to death.
Dabao had a bitter face, and he glanced at the iron chain below, and said with a pale face, "Are we really going down?" If you look at the abyss, you can't see it to the end, and it's hard to fall down and leave a whole corpse. ”
Let Dongbing help me up, glanced weakly at the city in the sky in the center of the spider's web, and said: "Long Wu, they must be going there, we have no way to retreat, there is no way to go back, we must also pass." Only the Long Wu gang knows how to get out, so this iron ropeway is necessary to go through. ”
Dong Bing looked at me and said, "It's enough for you to stand up now if you want to, how can you go down so high?" I'll just carry you on my back, and you just hold on. ”
I nodded and climbed on his back, as there was no rope and I had to climb with my bare hands, but fortunately the rock wall below the abyss was not flat, and there were many protruding positions for climbing. Dong Bing carried me on my back and slowly moved downward, I thought that Dabao seemed to have a fear of heights, so I looked at him with encouraging eyes: "Your body is definitely enough, don't be afraid!" I'll give you a command, where you walked on the winter ice, hold it with your hands and feet, step by step! Don't worry, there is still me and the winter ice pad underneath! Absolutely fine. ”
Dabao's face was still ugly, his hands and feet trembled and he cowered and stretched out his foot to step on the first rock, I encouraged him while commanding, like this kind of person with a fear of heights, seeing the bottomless abyss below that seems to devour people will become like this, so I also understand, try to encourage, let him be willing to keep up with the team as much as possible, and don't fall behind.
Dongbing screamed, and his shoulders shook, so scared that my hands almost slipped. He shouted angrily at Dabao: "Slow down your feet, there are still five or six meters, you can't hurry!" ”
It turned out that Dabao stepped too fast and stepped on his fingers. Dabao whispered sorry and continued to climb down. It didn't take long for Dongbing and I to come down first, to see that Dabao was still three or four meters away, and we were not in a hurry to urge him, so we just sat in place and rested.
Suddenly, Dabao exclaimed: "Something bites me!" ”
I sat on the ground and immediately aimed at the muzzle, only to see a thumb-sized gray-brown bug, with a black shiny clip on the tail, this kind of insect is very familiar, the toilet in the rural hometown or the cracks of the rice warehouse bricks can be seen everywhere, this is called a cockroach, generally called a splint worm, it is omnivorous, basically eats everything.
I saw that hundreds of them gradually began to crawl out of the cracks of these rocks, and these cockroaches seemed to pounce on Dabao's fingers like hungry and began to bite violently. I was frightened but didn't dare to shoot, I was too close to Dabao for fear of being injured by mistake.
Dong Binggan hurriedly walked a few steps on the spot, and shouted to him: "Nima, jump down directly, Lao Tzu catches you!" ”
Dabao endured the pain, turned down his hand and slapped more than a dozen dead, seeing that the distance of the chain seemed not high, his eyes closed and shouted loudly: "Catch me, Lao Tzu jumped." ”
After speaking, Dabao slammed the rock wall and fell, and Dong Bing stepped over to catch him, but the two of them fell together and rolled over, and I was crushed underneath.
I let out a bad breath, pushed them away, and said, "Damn, I was almost crushed to death by you." ”
Dong Bing got up and stepped on a few frogs that fell down, and then said with a smile: "Yard, I almost forgot about it, Dabao still has a two-hundred-pound one, and he didn't catch it when he fell down." ”
Dabao's face turned blue, and he muttered, "It's only one hundred and eighteen, not two hundred!" ”
Seeing that the flesh and blood of his hands were blurred, in fact, it was a little skin trauma, I asked Dong Bing to bandage him, and he stood up strongly, although there was still a faint pain on both sides of his ribs, but he could barely walk. Since Dabao can not be left behind, how can I coax it.
The chain under our feet is very wide, walking on it is like walking on an asphalt road, the only danger is that it will occasionally sway, but it is not violent, we are not halfway there, the 'sun' above our heads began to fall into the abyss, we can never guess what it is, and it is the principle that lifts it for a while, and lowers it for a while.
After the darkness came, the chain began to shake again, and the front fell into darkness, and now we were worried, because the only flashlight has also been honorably righteous, and there are five fingers in front of it, so it is very dangerous to go down, and you may fall into the abyss if you are not careful. Dabao took the backpack on his back, pulled out a square thing, and said, "I brought a portable charger when I came, and another function is that it can be illuminated." ”
As he spoke, he pushed the square charger, and a bright light shot out. Dong Bing pinched his face with surprise and said, "Aren't you really Tinker Bell?" ”
While they were joking, I accidentally saw a bright spot one or two hundred meters away. Questioning, I interrupted them both and said, "Look on the right, is there a light there?" ”
Dong Bing and Dabao nodded, could it be Weizi? I took the flashlight and flashed a few times at the opposite side, and Dabao said nervously: "What if the other side is not Weizi?" ”
I said it doesn't matter, if it's not Weizi, the other party will definitely turn off the flashlight, if it's Weizi, he will flash the light for us, sure enough, within a minute, the light on the opposite side flashed a few times, it seems that it is really Weizi.
Dong Bing happily snatched the flashlight and flashed it at him a few times. Suddenly, I realized that something was wrong, and the light on the opposite side kept flashing, as if I was in a hurry, and it also looked very weird. Even Dabao noticed the abnormality and quickly turned off the flashlight, and at this time, the light on the opposite side was also extinguished, and the darkness returned to dead silence.
Just at a loss, there was a violent whirring wind, a hurricane blew under the abyss, we covered our faces and squatted down, we heard a sound of wings flapping in the wind, we dared to look down through the gap in the iron chain, our heart twitched, our face turned pale, only to see a two hundred meters long like a snake-like shadow hovering in the dark, every time the wings flapped, the wind will make the chain jingle, and the shadow of the pair of wings felt like covering the sky and the sun.
We lay on the chain and did not dare to move, and even could feel a hot air swirling around, and after a long time, the movement slowly disappeared, we did not dare to be careless, and waited for more than ten minutes to make sure that there was no change before continuing on the road. This time, no one dared to shake the flashlight silently, burying his head in a muffled voice, never mentioning the terrifying thing just now.
The city in the sky is getting closer and closer, and the sight is becoming more and more majestic, as if suddenly returning to the modernity of the urban jungle, and there is also a kind of fantasy vision that seems to have traveled to another world, anyway, I can't tell if I am dreaming or hallucinating.
"Bamboo, have you felt any changes?"
Winter Ice suddenly stopped me and said, "I feel hot, there can't be a volcano under this abyss, right?" ”
As soon as he said this, there was really such a thing, if the temperature was eleven or twelve degrees before, then the current temperature was at least twenty-seven or eight, why did it suddenly heat up here, there wouldn't really be a volcano below, so aren't we in the center of the crater now? I shuddered at the thought of the lava splattering on TV.
Dabao's face was slightly better, and he said to us, "It's not a magma volcano or anything like that, there is no sulfur smell here." I suspect that it is the energy generated by the circulation of lithospheric matter that makes us feel the heat. ”
Dong Bing and I really don't understand this professional knowledge, and we hear it in a fog. Dabao explains: "There is a large-scale material cycle between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere beneath it. The energy source of the material cycle is mainly heat energy generated by the decay of radioactive materials in the Earth's interior. ”
I then asked, "You mean that the heat energy here is supplied to the material circulation?" But where does the material cycle come from? But why does this radioactive energy only feel hot, but nothing else? ”
Dabao shook his head and said that he didn't know this problem, anyway, there should be nothing wrong with the source of this heat, but it was unknown what the builders of the ruins did with this energy.
After speaking, I walked a little more and saw a circle of stone platforms under the boulder that carried the city, winding up to the surface of the city.
I looked at the stone steps that overlapped with each other, and I had the immediate feeling of watching the Saint Seiya break through the 12 palaces in my childhood