Chapter 39: The Strange Cave
I will never forget those next few minutes.
In a dark waterway, there are no monsters, nothing terrifying. Although my main consciousness does not want to admit it, my subconscious mind has clearly known that I will die after a short period of time, a real death, and this time I can't escape it.
The feeling is horrible, words simply cannot describe it.
I suddenly regretted all the decisions I had made, and on the one hand, I wanted to tell myself that I couldn't give up and that I wanted to fight until the last minute, but I was completely desperate and all kinds of thoughts appeared uncontrollably in my head. Then I began to wander my mind, thinking about what would it be like if I had surfaced at that time? Thinking about how my family would react if I died? Regret and fear make the mind a mess.
The oxygen meter has long been out of value, and it is impossible to determine when it will suffocate, so I can only make my last efforts while waiting for that moment to come.
At the last minute, I was almost expecting the suffocating feeling to come over little by little. As less and less oxygen can be inhaled, everything is stretched. Fear made me cry bitterly, unable to calm down, and the only thought in my head: I was going to die.
Soon, the oxygen was completely depleted, and I kept inhaling the breathing tube, but there was nothing. Holding the last breath until the limit, under the intense pain, I subconsciously breathed through my mouth, and a sour choking rushed into my lungs, and the whole person suddenly convulsed.
It was underwater, and I didn't have a second breath to choke the water out of my lungs, and after a few chokings, the sour stool spread to my lungs, and my chest felt like it was going to explode.
I can't describe how I felt afterwards, and I don't know how long I struggled. Slowly, these feelings were gone, the surroundings were quiet, the light in front of me slowly shrank, and some strange sounds were heard in my ears, as if someone was talking, and it seemed to be the sound of water.
In the next moment, everything went dark.
At that moment, I thought I was dead, and there was no turning point. It was not in the hands of Zongzi, but drowned. Grandpa is really right, since dying in the hands of zongzi is also death, drowning is also death, why should you be afraid of zongzi and not afraid of water? Man is really an ironic animal.
Fortunately, the final sense of calm is not bad, if everyone can die so peacefully, then, there is no need to be afraid of death itself, but the time before death is more difficult.
When I woke up again, I was surprised at first, but for a long time, my ability to think was not working, so I couldn't understand the surprise, I didn't understand what it meant.
Gradually, gradually, consciousness returned.
The first thing that came to me was pain, a sharp pain that first appeared in the hand, then slowly expanded, and finally poured into the lungs. It's as if there is a barbed wire fence in the lungs, and when you breathe, you feel like you're going to die again.
I put all my jΔ«ng strength into fighting the pain, and I don't know how long it took before I found myself adapting. Then, the other senses gradually returned.
Everything I had experienced before only began to appear in my mind at this time, returning from Fangchenggang, going into the water, the strange blue light in the ancient village at the bottom of the lake, the strange Han-style ancient buildings, the iron figurines, the underground, and the final suffocation...... And so on and so forth, little by little, I thought about it. Then I wondered in my heart, I was going to die at that time, how did I wake up again?
For a moment, it felt like a dream, I might have been sleeping here all along, and drowning was just a nightmare, but the pain in my body made me know that it was impossible, and that I should have been rescued for some reason.
I tried to move my hands, and found it very difficult, but I could feel the chΓ‘o wetness all around, like on a wet rock, my ears and eyes began to react, I heard a voice in my ears and gradually became clear, someone was humming, and ......
It's the voice of a fat man!
The singing was extremely unpleasant, but I was immediately excited, and immediately tried to turn my head with all my strength, but I cried out in pain.
The singing stopped instantly, and the fat man shouted, "Wake up, wake up!" Then his eyes lit up, and a fat face covered with stubble appeared in front of him. At the same time, I also saw the stuffy oil bottle, standing behind the fat man, holding a torch.
I looked at the two pigs' heads and couldn't believe them at first. The fat man began to speak, and my mind still couldn't understand what he was saying very well, but I could clearly realize that it was not an illusion, and I really saw them! All of a sudden, I had mixed feelings, and the intense fears, hopes, worries and other emotions I had held before finally let go, and I didn't know how to express them, and I wanted to shed tears, but I couldn't help laughing.
The ecstasy of a person who has experienced so many things, the intense panic in the midst of great loneliness, the despair that passes by the edge of death, and then finds himself safe and sound, can make people crazy. But the reason why I have mixed feelings, but not for this, what I think in my heart is: no matter what the situation is now, I am finally with them again, and finally I am not alone! It's a great feeling!
It must have been very strange to laugh while convulsing, and the fat man, apparently thinking that I was going crazy, immediately helped me up, slapped me twice without saying a word, and a pair of big hands followed hard to knock me on the back, saying, "Gasp!" Pant! Breathe deeply! β
He hit it very hard, my farce buzzed, and my uncontrollable emotions were knocked out at once, and when I was knocked by him again, I suddenly felt a sharp nausea, and began to vomit and cough, and I didn't know what to vomit.
After I finished spitting, I turned my head to look at them with difficulty, my vision getting clearer and the various sounds becoming more layered.
"How? Still uncomfortable? I heard the fat man ask.
I was afraid that he would knock me again, and the horse waved his hand, but he couldn't speak.
He was visibly relieved and said, "Thank goodness you woke up. Fuck it! Lao Tzu thinks that you must become a vegetative person this time, then Lao Tzu is too guilty. β
"What the hell is going on? How come I didn't die? I asked subconsciously.
"You have to ask Lord Yama about this." The fat man said, helping me up against the stone wall and letting me relax.
I was already very conscious, and I looked at them again, and I hadn't seen them for two weeks, and both of them seemed to be working as black workers in a small coal kiln, wearing only underwear, very embarrassed, with a beard, and a lot of weight loss. To my relief, although they looked embarrassed, they were good and apparently not injured.
Turning his head to look left and right, there was a small bonfire lit in the distance, and I don't know what it was built with, illuminating the environment. This is a flat cave that has been dug out, about 30 square meters, and when you stand up, your head can press against the roof of the cave, and water is seeping everywhere, like rain, and the ground is wet. The rocks take on a dark green hue and are beautiful in the light of searchlights. On the other side, there was a half-man-tall but very narrow hole, as if it had been stabbed by a knife, and it was not known where it led.
"I'm cΔo! Where is this? What's wrong with you? Worried me to death, and thought you were hanging. I scolded.
The fat man grinned, "This is a long story, and I was worried that you wouldn't find us." How? Did you see my correspondent to find this place? β
Speaking of the "correspondent", I was angry, and I wanted to strangle the fat man at once, but I had more than enough strength to do so, so I had to give up and scolded: "Your correspondent is so disrespectful, he almost killed me!" β
"Damn! It's good that I can find it. The fat man asked, "Tell me how you got here?" β
I couldn't get angry when I heard it, and my heart said you ask me, how do I know? "I don't know, didn't you save me?"
The fat man was originally very excited, but as soon as he heard me, his face suddenly froze, "We saved you?" β
"yes!" So I told all about how I found the baby fish and went down into the well.
After hearing this, the fat man showed a very strange expression, and looked back at the stuffy oil bottle, which was sitting on the stone behind him, and his face was unknown.
I wondered, "What? What's the problem? Didn't you save me? β
The fat man shook his head slowly and said, "How did you get here, you don't know at all?" β
I was confused: "What do you know?" Looking at their expressions again, I suddenly felt bad and immediately asked, "What the hell is wrong?" What happened to me? β
The fat man sat down on the ground in a daze, scolded his mother, seemed to be knocked down at once, and sighed: "If you don't know, we don't know." β
I couldn't help but get annoyed and scolded, "What the hell is going on? What the fuck are you playing? Tell me quickly. β
The fat man gestured and asked me to ask the stuffy oil bottle. I looked at him and listened to him, "About five hours ago, you showed up where you were lying now, in a deep coma, barely conscious. We did a simple resuscitation of you, and then, five hours later, you woke up. β
I waited for the stuffy bottle to continue, but he shut up.
"Gone?" I asked, surprised.
"It's gone." He muffled.
"You didn't say how you managed to save me." I said.
The fat man looked at me, "You didn't hear the point clearly, we didn't save you at all." Five hours ago, you showed up where you were lying now. He paused, "Appear, that is, there was nothing in that place, and suddenly you were lying there." β
I frowned, and it took me a moment to understand what he meant, and asked, "You mean, I was here on my own?" β
The fat man nodded, "My brother and I have been in another hole, which is drier, but I will come here every once in a while to get water." When I found that there was suddenly one more person in this hole, I was scared half to death, but I immediately recognized you as a fat man, called the little brother, and rescued you together. You had already swallowed your breath at the time, so if you really want to find a life-saving villain, you fat man and I are still qualified to make a cameo. Later, we were afraid that you would have some fractures, so we didn't dare to move, and we waited here for you to wake up. β
I looked at the fat man's eyes and knew that he was not, and I immediately fell into deep thought.
I really didn't expect the development, I thought there was some adventure after the coma, I was found in time by the fat man and the stuffy oil bottle, and then rescued, but now it looks like this. However, I couldn't have gotten here on my own while I'm unconscious, and I couldn't have teleported here. What's going on?
Could it be that someone else saved me? Someone else rescued me and sent me here?
It was an abandoned shaft at the bottom of the lake, and it was impossible for someone to pass by with soy sauce, that is, someone was following me.
I told the fat man what I thought and asked him if he had any traces of this, but he didn't react with the stuffy oil bottle and didn't seem to agree.
The fat man smiled bitterly, patted me, and vented loudly: "Dog's! It's impossible, if somebody can bring you here, then damn it, it can't be 'people' in the first place. β
"Why?" I asked.
He smiled bitterly again, "Can you stand up?" I'll show you around this hole, and you'll see for yourself what the problem is. β