Chapter 66: Escape
Although I saw a glimmer of light in front of me, at this time, my physical strength was exhausted, and for some reason, the water level that had been falling suddenly rose again. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
I was very surprised, I don't know what happened, the water level of this underground dark river has not changed for hundreds of years, why does it rise and fall like a tide in one day?
The water level is rising very fast, and if I don't swim out of this cave before it gets flooded, then I'll die here. By now, of course, I have looked down on life and death, but seeing that the light is close at hand, it is really not worth it for me to die like this.
I used my last bit of strength, in a backstroke position, slid forward, by the last few meters from the exit, the river had completely submerged the cave, I held my last breath, dived into the water, a second before I suffocated, I gasped, felt the light of the outside world, dizzy for a while, excited and wept bitterly.
So far, I have been trapped in this cave for half a month, and now I have finally escaped and ascended to heaven, this feeling is very strange, after saying goodbye to the oppressive darkness, back to the light, there is not a single frame in front of me that is not beautiful.
I was immersed in the ecstasy of escaping the darkness, but I was pulled back to reality by a very miserable cry. I came to my senses, and for the first time I looked around me with my brain, and found that when I came out of the cave, it was a medium-sized reservoir, the water was calm and unwavering, and at the end was a man-made barrage, but it seemed to be very old, surrounded by mountains, and it seemed to be a relatively remote mountainous area.
I was floating in the center of the reservoir at the moment, and the crying came from the shore, and I fixed my eyes and saw that the shore was surrounded by many people for some reason, and there were a series of heart-rending cries, and I had never heard anyone cry so sadly in my life.
By this time, someone had already noticed the movement on my side, I moistened my throat, shouted for help, and soon, someone came over with a black truck liner and dragged me to the shore.
I was very surprised to see that there were two white cloths on the ground, and I was very surprised and asked the man who rescued me what had happened.
The man sighed and said to me in the local dialect:
"What else can I do, the baby is drowning......"
The man sighed and told me what happened, it turned out that they were all villagers named Lijia Village nearby, this reservoir is in the south of the village, at the end of the stream, some distance from the village, the summer is hot, there are two disobedient babies in the village carrying adults on their backs, secretly running to the reservoir to swim, that expected both to drown in this reservoir. The drowned child was twelve years old and the youngest was ten years old, two brothers, and if they hadn't been seen running towards the reservoir, the parents would have thought the child was missing.
The child's parents are doing business in the county, leaving the child at home and entrusting it to the elderly grandmother to take care of. Later, the people in the village spontaneously organized themselves, rowed the inner tubes of the wheels of the car, and took bamboo poles to fish for the corpses, but the water in the reservoir was too deep for the bamboo poles to be long enough to reach even the bottom. The child's parents have invested heavily in renting more than 20 diesel pumping machines from the county, and they are working at the same time, but they will not be able to drain the water of the entire reservoir in ten days and half a month. But in a few days, the child's body will probably be eaten by the fish. The child's parents were so anxious that they wanted to go to a nearby mine to buy some explosives and blow up the dam of the reservoir.
When the villagers heard this, this is worth it, the reservoir is located at a higher location, and if the embankment is blown up, the whole village is afraid that it will be flooded, so they hurriedly persuaded it. But just when the villagers were anxious and had no good solution, two women suddenly appeared from the bottom of the water, and the villagers were startled and gathered around to ask the reason. It turned out that the two women were from the national expedition team, and they said that they had dived out of a cave under the water, and when the villagers heard that it was okay, they asked the two women to help them dive to the bottom of the water and salvage the child's body.
Among them, the woman in black nodded her head in agreement, and in less than a stick of incense, she scooped up the two drowned babies. Later, for some reason, another very strange-looking tall girl suddenly fainted, and the woman in black said that she was drunk and asked if we had a car and could take them to the hospital in the town. Coincidentally, Lao Zhang in the village had a broken loaf of bread, so he sent the two to the hospital for rescue.
After listening to the narration of the villagers, I said in my heart, you Yang Xue, you are so kind to help others salvage the corpse, but you left me alone in the gas chamber, wanting to kill me.
Thinking of this section, I can't help but grit my teeth with hatred, although I was lucky to escape alive, but I will never give up on this matter, I hurriedly changed my face, pretended to be very anxious, and said to the man:
"This big brother, I am with those two women, but I delayed for something, a little late, I heard you say that my companion was sent to the hospital, I am very anxious, do you still have a car in the village, can you send me over?"
When the man heard me say that he was with Yang Xue and the others, he immediately became enthusiastic:
"In the village, only Lao Zhang has a broken bread, why are there any cars, but there are a few motorcycles!"
As he spoke, he was in the crowd, pointing to a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy and drinking: "Gua Wazi, hurry up and ride your motorcycle over and send this young man to the hospital in the town, he is with the two sisters just now." ”
The man was probably the elder of the young man, and when the boy heard him, he beckoned me and told me to walk with him back to the village, and then ride his motorcycle to the town.
On the way, I asked the boy to see how old the dam was, it seemed to be some years old, and I didn't know if it was built at that time. The boy scratched the back of his head and told me that according to the old man in the village, this reservoir has a history of several hundred years, about the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the reason why this reservoir was built at the beginning, said that it was to flood a cave under the water, the old man said that the cave is inhabited by monsters, often attacking people and animals in the village, so the reservoir was built, and the mouth of the cave was flooded. After the reservoir was repaired, the water never dried up, and it was reinforced once in the early days of liberation.
The boy lowered his voice and said to me, "This reservoir is very evil, and there are man-eating monsters living in the water, and the people who bathe in the reservoir and the buffalo are often dragged into the water by the black monsters, and they can't even find their bones." Later, the reservoir became a forbidden place, and people in the nearby villages did not dare to approach it, because they had heard that the monsters could still come ashore. It's not two children, who don't know what's in the water, so they came to bathe and drowned, but the adults said that they were dragged down by the water ghost who was looking for a substitute.
The boy told me about the legend of the water ghost again, but by this time, I couldn't listen to it, and I thought, isn't the legendary monster in the village the mutated giant salamander I encountered in the cave? Lao Tzu was swallowed by it, but he didn't die.
The boy rode very fast, and in less than half an hour, he sent me to the gate of the hospital, and when I left, I asked the boy to borrow a mobile phone, called Liu Chang, told him the address, and asked him to drive over to pick me up immediately.
Then, I hesitated and called the police.