"What do you see? I almost scared you to death! ”

I couldn't help but complain first, if it weren't for my excellent psychological quality, I would have been scared of my liver a long time ago. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yang Xue didn't pay attention to it, and said to herself:

"I saw that the fish were a little strange, how could they swim deep into the cave, there was so little food in it, it didn't look like they were hunting, it was like ...... Driven away by something......"

I hurriedly asked, "What's it, osprey?" ”

Yang Xue gave me a blank look and continued:

"Later, I kept an eye on it, and then looked closely, it turned out that among the fish, there were two giant salamanders, these two were not too big, only five or six meters, I saw them mixed in the fish, at first I thought they were driving away the fish, and then later, I found that the situation was wrong, they also swam desperately with the fish, and did not attack, as if ...... It seems to be running for his life! ”

I was amazed when I heard this, and said, "This giant salamander is very ferocious by nature, I was swallowed by it when I was in the underground lake, and if you want to say that in this cave system, what creatures are at the top of the food chain, I think they have to be, but they still have to ...... It doesn't make sense to run for your life? ”

Yang Xue said, I felt that the atmosphere was abnormal, and I don't know what the reason was, I always felt that in this cave, there were more terrible creatures than the fierce giant salamander, and I panicked for a while, there was no other way, but like an ostrich buried its head in the sand, and extinguished the light.

I really can't think of any other creatures, more terrifying and bigger than the mutated giant salamander, I don't have a clue when I think about it, so I asked Yang Xue:

"If so, are we going to keep swimming? I think that since there are schools of fish outside, then this underground river must be connected to some lake outside, and it seems that the exit is not too small, but I don't know how far away it is, and I don't know if there is enough oxygen. ”

Yang Xue sighed, it seemed that she had not completely recovered from the fright just now, her face was slightly pale, and she only listened to her:

"That's what I'm guessing, but in terms of distance, we can't make a correct judgment, and the only way is to continue to move forward from this underground river, which seems to me to be too complex and probably has a completely different food chain from the outside world."

She added: "We are afraid that we will go to the bad luck, but there is no escape, this is our only hope to get out alive, even if we encounter some accident and die suddenly, it is a hundred times better than starving to death in the cave." I think we'll rest in this chamber for a while, and then we'll set off in ten minutes. ”

Yang Xue is right, the situation we are facing now, for us, this is already the best choice, no matter what, we have to move on.

At this time, it suddenly occurred to me that before entering the water, Yang Xue secretly put her lips on my ear, and was about to tell me something very important, but unfortunately it was interrupted by Captain Li.

She thought about it for a moment, and then said to me:

"That's the case, when we drew lots in the maze before, I felt that the atmosphere was very weird, and I thought, Captain Li, although he is a relatively good person without touching the core interests or life and death, but the lottery is a matter of life and death, looking at his appearance, but he is full of certainty, as if he will not draw the 'death lot', I suspect that he must have done something, in the chaos, I kept an eye on it and picked up the scattered sticks...... Later, when I walked out of the labyrinth cave, I took advantage of everyone's inattention and secretly looked at the content of the sticks, and found that all the sticks were 'dead signs'! ”

As soon as I heard it, I couldn't help but scold:

"This bastard! So insidious and cunning! ”

Yang Xue said: "Not really, looking at him, it seems that he has been plotting with that Mr. Mao for a long time before, and he has already selected that team member." I thought it was strange at the time, but when I thought about it later, I thought that the team member was indeed different from us. ”

I asked her what was different, and Yang Xue said that along the way, the team member complained the most, and she was homesick, so she always unconsciously took out a photo of a family photo and watched it repeatedly. I think it should not be Captain Li who chose him to draw the "dead lot", but Mr. Mao.

I said that this Mr. Mao is not a good thing, he likes to pretend to be a ghost, and he really regards himself as the successor of Mao Xiaofang, and he is engaged in some intrigues there.

Yang Xue interrupted me, saying that we are all beneficiaries, and we were able to escape by sacrificing that player, so don't complain anymore, in the bottomless cave, there are some things that can no longer be judged by the experience on the ground.

I'll just say how you have changed, where is the courage to stand up against them in the first place, and how can you still think about problems from their point of view now, this is not right.

Yang Xue shook her head helplessly, and said that you don't have to make moral judgments anymore, let's take a good rest, and discuss other things when we get out alive.

Although I still have some indignation in my heart, I forcibly suppressed it, and if I think about it carefully, what Yang Xue said is not reasonable. In such a complex environment of isolation, as a person's will and morality, as well as all kinds of values that are infinitely applicable to the surface world, now it seems that they have been subverted, only to live, is the only thing we can do, and the most want to do, about the moral debate, I think it is better to end here, I myself am not a saint and gentleman, and I will have very despicable and obscene bad thoughts in my heart, human nature, is not something I can see through.

After a short break in the chamber, we checked the oxygen cylinders and equipment to make sure there were no gaps, so we put on our fins and prepared to continue diving, but at this time, we found a blue backpack behind a stalactite in the corner of the chamber.

The backpack was discovered by Yang Xue, and when we first entered the air chamber, due to excessive fatigue, we spread it on the ground as soon as we came up, and the angle was too low, so we didn't find the backpack. Later, we were about to continue diving into the water hole, and when we stood up, Yang Xue glanced at the air chamber and saw something behind the stalactites.

This is a waterproof backpack, which is a special cave exploration backpack, made in Germany, which is very rare in China. We can't help but be a little surprised, who left the backpack in this gas chamber, but the person is gone? If you are trapped here, why can't you even see the body?

In a hurry, I asked Yang Xue to open the backpack to see what was inside, maybe there would be some clues.

The backpack was filled with caving gear, a one-piece tracksuit, spare headlamps and batteries, markers, descent and ropes, locks, harnesses, pedal straps and quick hits, as well as a life-blanket to keep warm, and in the compartment of the backpack, we found a copy of caving notes.

I asked Yang Xue to open the notes to see what was written in them, and Yang Xue didn't hesitate, so she quickly skimmed through the notes and said to me: "I drew a sketch, probably the route map of the backpack owner's travel, and the title of the note is 'The Nth Sino-British Joint Expedition to the Cave', and further down, I can't understand it......"

I'll just say that you also went to college, why can't you even read English, are you just concerned about falling in love? Yang Xue didn't pay attention to it, so she gave me a blank look, and her face was embarrassed:

"No, I can read English, at least most of the words, but the handwriting of this note is very sloppy, like ...... It's like the signature of some doctors in our country, it belongs to the book of heaven, and to translate it, I need a Chinese-English dictionary, and it will take a few days. ”

When I heard this, I felt very aggrieved, saying that this foreigner is really, the English alphabet is not easy to write, and I have to write something heavenly.

Yang Xue said that this is a shorthand penmanship, probably to save time, so I asked her Can't you even understand a word?

Yang Xue flipped through a few more pages and said that this notebook is not very long, but there are two words that appear very frequently, namely the words dreadful and strange.

I was very bad at English, so I asked her what she meant, and Yang Xue told me that these two words mean: strange and terrible.