Along the way, those shellless flesh sè worms were disturbed by us, and they dived to the bottom of the water, not knowing where to go.

The fat man bent down and spread out into the water, trying to catch a few, but I stopped him, the underwater situation is unknown, and we are afraid that too much disturbance will cause trouble, and if we can not toss, we will not toss. And I've never seen these bugs, they may be some special species, and they may be the only ones in the world who survive, and they are priceless, and it's a pity to kill a few of them.

The fat man scolded: "Look at these dense, I see that there are not 100,000 but 8,000 in the water here, what does it matter if you catch a few and bring them back, this trip has basically come in vain, and you don't let me get a souvenir as a thought." ”

I said, "This meat whirring thing, it's disgusting to look at, how can you do it, don't think about these sideways things, let's hurry over and it's true." ”

With so many insects here, no one wanted to rest, so we had to continue to follow the waterway to the depths to find the underground reservoir at the end, where the water flow was stable, there was no huge sound of water in front of us, obviously there were no big cliffs, and we could move forward calmly.

As we walked on, the water got cooler and cooler, and we could feel a chill spreading through the water, and we all got goosebumps on our bodies. We saw countless insects on both sides of the waterway, most of them lying on the stone walls above and below the waterline, densely packed, and I began to feel my scalp tingle when I looked at it, and there were even more in the water, and from time to time I felt something hit my feet.

The waterway was getting wider and wider, and the top of the channel was getting higher and higher, taking on a trumpet-like opening, and I knew it was almost there, and immediately quickened my pace. After walking less than a hundred meters, it was dark overhead, and we went out of the waterway, and the space around us suddenly became ethereal and echoing, and we knew by feeling that we had come to a large place, and a shallow shoal spread forward under our feet, and the light pillar of the miner's lamp crossed it, and we saw a wide and calm water.

In order to save electricity, we generally choose weak light, so that you can last for more than 80 hours, but the distance from the shè is only more than 20 meters, and now the weak light obviously cannot meet the requirements, several people have opened the barrel, using 100 meters of lighting LED bulbs, to shine on the top of the head and around. Under the strong light, the general appearance of this place was revealed, and a huge underground water cave could be seen at this time, but it was not a karst landform, but a kind of volcanic rock cave. In the depths of the cave in the distance, a large number of huge stone pillars hanging down from the top of the cave are inserted into the lake, like the huge pillars of the temple, the roof of the cave is only two or three stories high, and the whole place at first glance feels like the main hall of the Temple of Poseidon submerged in the sea, and the atmosphere is extremely vivid, and it has to be said that it is a miracle of nature.

On both sides of the outlet of the waterway are huge rock walls, showing the unique characteristics of volcanic rocks, and the appearance of rock layers indicates that we have crossed the sand layer to the underground mountains deep in the Gobi geology, and these rock walls must be the part of the Kunlun Mountains that has penetrated into the ground. Looking back, the mouth of the channel feels like it was dug out by hand. At that time, the Queen Mother of the West was able to dig such a deep place, and it must be said that their civilization had extremely developed engineering capabilities.

This should be the focus of the underground water storage system of the entire ancient city of the Queen Mother of the West, a natural small underground lake, because the distance of the mineral light line is limited, we can't know how big this water storage lake is, how deep the center is, maybe go to the center of the lake, the bottom of the lake can be so deep that we can't imagine, but it is difficult to say what is shocked when you can't see the open lake. After observing for a moment, the fat man asked what to do next. There is no new way, but I still have to look for the mark of the stuffy oil bottle, the previous mark is pointing here, and beyond that is the center of the underground lake, and the guide mark after that cannot be engraved on the bottom of the water, I feel that it should be on these stone pillars.

We went separately to look for it, and the water went deeper into the lake, shining on the stone pillars.

After walking a few steps, I found that the depth of the lake did not change much, and occasionally the depth of the water flooded to the neck, but after walking a few steps and came up again, it was obvious that the bottom of the water was pitted, but the average depth did not change much, and soon the black blind man whistled, and we walked over, and found that there was a stone pillar with a clear mark on it, and it was carved upright.

Wen Jin looked at the stuffy oil bottle and asked: "The water flow here is basically flat, there is no sign of continuing to go down, I think this is the lowest position in the entire water storage project, the place we are looking for must be ahead, to this point, can't you remember anything?" ”

The stuffy oil bottle shook his head and said nothing, just looking at the traces he carved, there was no trace of waves in his eyes, and the fat man said that the ancient city of the Queen Mother of the West can be said to be in a secret place, in the heyday of this oasis surrounded by lakes, and the outside is the protective layer formed by countless devil cities, and there is a year-round fog in the oasis, which can only be seen when it rains heavily. The inhabitants of the Western Queen Mother City believe in brutal snake worship and mysticism, making the desert government ghostly and obscure, and the labyrinth of water storage systems beneath the ancient city is extremely intricate. We've almost exhausted our energy to reach the bottom of this defense, and if there's anything the Queen Mother of the West has to hide, it's probably in this place. Don't say anything, just follow the signs and you should reach your destination.

I think it's a bit inappropriate, this way over, the last part is almost too smooth, and the statue of the human-faced monster bird seen in the waterway is too much to care about. We have come all the way, and we can already be sure that these totems of strange faces and birds should be the signs of the ancestors of the Western Queen Mother Kingdom to outsiders, and they go all the way from the periphery of Silicon Valley, and every time they see the strange things they encounter, they are sinister. This time I saw the human-faced strange bird totem, which shows that this reservoir lake will not be a peaceful place, and now we are actually so tired that we only have half a life left, once something happens, I am afraid that none of us will be able to escape this time.

I asked Wen Jin: "What strategy do we adopt next, should we take a break, or should we send someone to explore the way first?" ”

Wen Jin said: "I've arrived here, as this fat man said, I have no reason to retreat or give up, this is the road I am destined to take, but we don't need everyone to go over, I don't know what the situation is later, you rest here, I just go alone." If I don't come back in two hours, you can look for other exits along the shore of the lake, and then find a way to get out, don't come over. ”

The stuffy oil bottle said indifferently on the side: "I'll go too." "He didn't look at us at all, just at the darkness in the depths of the lake, and didn't seem to think about any danger at all.

I thought about it for a moment, I have to go over, not to mention how many opportunities I have to get out if I stay here, the way I came has been trapped to death, I have gone through a lot of hardships to get here, isn't it just for this moment? And with my physique, it can be said that there are many people who have made sacrifices for me, including Pan Zi, whose life and death are unknown, and A-Ning, who died in vain, if I had no chance to shrink back, I really shouldn't have come here in the first place, since I was coming by myself, then I should also finish.

The fat man grinned: "Damn, aren't you forcing me to go?" It's safer to be with these rookies than with you. ”

A few of the third uncle's buddies are no longer doing it, they have to go with them, they really don't have much experience, it's okay to engage in petty theft, they definitely won't do it if they leave them here, and they are also afraid that we will form a party in this way, and secretly leave them and run away, so they are determined to follow us. The one called Mop at the head said: "The beauty you think, either keep one of the fucking ones, or let's go together, don't want to get rid of us." ”

The black blind man had not spoken, and he had been smiling there by himself, and when he saw this, he came and put it on my shoulder, and I don't know what it meant, but it probably meant that he joined in, or asked me to stay.

I felt sick when I looked at those people, these people were such a burden, we didn't know what was going to happen with us, and we had to guard against them. If I stay, I won't give them toss and die.

The fat man said: "Xiao Wu, forget it, you still have a good year, follow these gentlemen, maybe there is a way to live, didn't your third uncle say, this is a road of no return, this route I will accompany the eldest sister and the little brother on a trip, and there will be one more person to give us incense in the coming year." ”

I scolded: "You don't come to this set, when you get to this one, the horizontal and vertical are almost the same, anyway, I'm going to decide." ”

I'm telling the truth, but at this point, who has the confidence to say that I will be able to get out? The only way we came was the only way to go, a completely enclosed cavern in the rocky underground mountains, and we had to be trapped here. This is not a good thing, and it brings these mysteries to an end here.

Thinking of this, I ridiculed the fat man and patted him on the shoulder: "When it comes to you, if there are three long and two short, the big nǎi two nǎi at home will definitely grab your head to grab the bright instrument at the bottom of the box, and you still have to stay." ”

The fat man said: "You fat man I am a well-known Liangma Bridge gold customer, in the thousands of flowers, do not leave a little red, the silver in the money bag does not let go of the night, countless women have slept in, the money used is enough, few people can live to the fat man I half chic, this time if I am unlucky, I am also worth it." ”

I said, "So you are the most suitable for other people's funerals, so you don't have to worry about it." ”

The fat man said: "What you said is not enough, it depends on the person who accompanies others to die, we are really called fate, you have to go, I have to protect you in front of your face." As he spoke, he pulled the gun and bolted it, and asked the guys for bullets, saying that you have a few pus, and the bullets can save his life by putting them there, otherwise it will be wasted.

I took a sip, and when I saw Wen Jin pull out the dagger, shake off his hair, and try the blade, he said to me: "Okay, don't be poor, since you have to go, then hurry up." ”

Since we had to leave, we didn't hesitate anymore, we took a few sips of soju each, pulled the team apart, and began to flow in the direction of the mark left by the stuffy oil bottle. Probably because of the large number of people, looking at the deep darkness ahead, I didn't feel particularly scared, but I felt an indescribable apprehension in my heart.

After that, there was almost no dialogue, and we were divided into several people, each of whom was looking in a direction around the procession, paying special attention to the ripples on the water, and the only sound in our ears was the sound of our water breaking, and the way was neither fast nor slow, gradually moving away from the entrance when we came.

Fortunately, the water here is ridiculously clear, with a miner's lamp facing the bottom of the water, we can clearly see that there is only uneven gravel underwater, there is nothing special, and we can roughly see the underwater situation when we sweep the water.

Thinking about the past, we don't dare to relax even a little bit of attention. However, when I looked at the water around me, I already felt something strange that made me very concerned.

After walking for a while, Wen Jin mentioned it; "There's no bug like that here."

The fat man nodded and said, "Maybe it's because of the water temperature, the water here is so fucking cold." "In other words, a large part of the water here has been hoarded here since the formation of this hole, and it has passed the shelf life for tens of thousands of years, so don't drink it, you may have diarrhea.

I said, "This kind of water is called old water, and the natural precipitation is rich in minerals, is it possible that these waters contain toxic minerals, so those insects dare not swim in?" ”

The fat man listened and sighed: "Won't it?" No wonder I feel a little itchy in my ass. Do you have any special feelings? ”

No one answered, and the stuffy oil bottle at the front looked back at us, and we had to shut up, and when it came to this, there was no point in discussing this. The black blind man behind the palace laughed, one black, one white, one cold-faced and one smirked, it was as if black and white were impermanent, making people speechless.

Continuing to walk, we went deep into the interior of the impoundment lake, all around the flashlight was full of calm water, half a basketball court size black spots, which indicated that at the bottom of the lake began to appear large undulating deep pits, each black spot was extremely deep, the miner's lamp could not shine at the bottom, it seemed that there was something connected below.

This kind of black spot, which appears every three or five times, is irregular in shape, and the bottom of the water is full of fine broken stones, and these holes seem to have been dug out by something. We began to feel a little out of place, trying to avoid the pits.

As we walked, we soon found a second stone pillar with a mark.

The group stopped to rest, someone sneezed, the water here is really cold, but I know that this is not the most uncomfortable, no matter how you say the water, it is not freezing, and it is still within the range of human tolerance, so I didn't complain much.

The mark pointed in the other direction. And the symbols are different, and they seem to have changed their meanings.

Wen Jin looked at the stuffy oil bottle, and before he could ask, the stuffy oil bottle replied: "At this time, the last one, we are about to arrive." ”

The last one -- should mean the last mark, which means that the next stop is the destination.

As soon as our hearts shook, someone subconsciously raised their guns behind us. Without saying a word, we followed the sign and set off immediately, and I didn't know what it was like in my heart, excited, scared, and ominous, and at the same time nervous about the imminent event.

But when I didn't walk two or three steps around the stone pillar, I felt a tingling pain under my feet, and I didn't know what I stepped on.

When I was a child in Changsha, I often swam in the stream with my third uncle, so with the feeling of the soles of my feet, I immediately knew that the soles of my feet must be broken, and they were more serious.

I immediately stopped, asked the fat man to take a picture for me, and said as I raised my foot to look. The fat man's lamp swept across the water and shone on my feet, and I found that my heel had been cut a lot, and it was obvious that there was something sharp underwater, and I looked down to look for it. At this look, I found that there was something unusual about the bottom of the water.