Chapter 20: The Devil's Cave
This Captain Li has a resolute face, and he should be a strong man in normal times, it is impossible for him to be so flustered by ordinary dangers, I really can't imagine that there is any danger more terrifying than the water monster we encountered in this underground lake. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
When I saw that he looked depressed, probably because of the grief of the deceased player, I comforted him and said:
"This cave is not like the general water cave, usually we encounter the problem of harsh environment and complex terrain when we explore the cave, these problems can be solved by manpower, and the situation in this cave is far beyond our imagination, and it is inevitable that ......accidents will occur without defense."
Captain Li sighed again and said:
"Alas, I know the situation has gotten out of my control, it's just ...... It's just that my three brothers who died are the pillars of the family, the old and the young, and I don't know how to explain to their families when I go back. ”
I comforted him and said that since everything has happened and has become an established fact, we have no choice, and I have also been a team leader, I can understand the self-blame and pressure you are under.
Captain Li realized that he was too sentimental, and understood that the most dangerous thing in this harsh environment was to be emotional, so he hurriedly restrained his mind and said to me:
"The dangerous mark is indeed left by us, we entered the passage on the right, came to the underground lake, unexpectedly this lake actually hidden killing machine, in the blink of an eye we lost a team member, I think this lake seems to be calm, in fact, the internal waves are surging, so let everyone turn back, find another way out, I didn't expect that the danger over there is even more incredible than this underground lake!"
I think of that danger signal again, danger multiplied by two? On the surface, this means that the danger on the left is twice as great as that on the right, but it can be understood that this danger is exponentially superimposed, and anyone who has studied mathematics should be able to understand the horror of exponential growth.
Just listen to Captain Li continue:
"When we entered the cave on the left, everything looked normal, even the sunken water caves were very few, and the entrance was straight, like a passage. We walked along the passage for more than an hour without an end in sight, and then that happened...... The player who was at the front suddenly disappeared! ”
I wondered, "Gone?" You can't accidentally fall into a hollow hole, right? ”
Captain Li waved his hand, frowned, and said, "No, there is no leaking water hole in that section of the passage, and there are no branches on both sides of the cave wall, just extending straight ahead, and that team member suddenly disappeared like air in front of our eyes." At that time, none of us reacted to what was going on, and the player who was walking second was very surprised to see the person in front of him suddenly disappear, so he took a few steps forward, and at that moment, the team member also ......"
Everyone was surprised when they heard this, and Boss Chen said on the side: "Could it be a hallucination?" ”
Captain Li shook his head: "It can't be an illusion!" We saw that the two teammates disappeared out of thin air for no reason, they were stunned in place, and then they didn't dare to take a step forward, and they took the flashlight to shine repeatedly, and we saw that the passage stretched straight forward for dozens of meters, and there was no place to turn around, it didn't look abnormal, things were far beyond our expectations, I decided to wait in place immediately, to see the situation, we waited for a day and a night, and no one came back! ”
When I heard him talk about this, I was also blinded, how can a person disappear into thin air like air? This is a fantasy, and if it weren't for Captain Li's serious expression, I would have thought he was joking with me.
At this time, one thing suddenly came to my mind, it was a very famous event, which also caused a sensation in the international community at that time, saying that on September 9, 1990, on the control tower of the Venezuelan airport in South America, people suddenly found that a long-established "Douglas" passenger plane landed at the airport without any radar signal, and more than 50 passengers came out of the plane, and the airport personnel were very shocked, and said that we are Venezuela, and asked these people where you came from. The pilot was also very surprised when he heard this, so he told him that we were Pan Am Flight 914, flying from New York to Florida, how could we fly to you, with an error of more than 2,000 kilometers!
Immediately afterwards, the pilot showed them the flight diary, and it was even more incredible that the plane actually took off from New York on July 2, 1955, and after 35 years, it appeared thousands of miles away in Venezuela!
Later, the Venezuelan side checked with the United States and confirmed that the plane had indeed taken off from New York in 1955, but it suddenly lost contact during the flight and could not find any trace, and all the more than 50 passengers on board were compensated for the death insurance.
When the passengers returned home, they found that their children and loved ones were old, but they were still as young as they had been then. The US police and people in the scientific community also investigated the matter, specifically checked the physical condition of these people, as well as the identity information of the passengers, and believed that this was not a farce, but a fact!
However, the veracity of this event is still in doubt, and conspiracy theorists believe that it is a story made up by scientists that the plane and its passengers did not exist at all, and that such a story was made up purely for the sake of attracting attention.
I told this story and speculation to everyone, and everyone was inevitably amazed, then Captain Li said:
"I've also heard a story about this, in the playground of a middle school in New Orleans, USA, the physical education teacher was teaching several students to play soccer shooting, and a middle school student shot the ball into the goal, and just as he jumped up to celebrate, in front of everyone, he disappeared in the blink of an eye! But when I first saw this story, I didn't believe it at all, thinking that these students and teachers were working together to make a prank, but when I experienced something like this myself, I don't know how to describe it, and I believe that if I go out and tell this story, others will definitely guess that I killed these people and made up such a story......"
The fat man snorted coldly and said on the side: "Don't believe those Yankees, they like to engage in this kind of conspiracy the most!" Maybe they made up the moon landing to deceive people! ”
I told them that there was a lot to say about such a disappearance, but it was unlikely that it would be false every time, and that it was probably such a strange event that happened first, and then people followed suit and made up stories to get attention.
We discussed this matter for a long time, but we couldn't figure it out, so Boss Chen was not very interested in this matter, so he said to Captain Li:
"After you get out, you say that these people fell off a cliff and died, so that their family can accept it a little!"
Captain Li nodded yes, and told us not to make a noise about this matter after we went out, saying that this is not something that our ability can understand and solve, and no matter what, this expedition must continue.
Everyone regained their minds and prepared to climb along the cliff on the left side of the underground lake, climb to the gap on the opposite side, and return to Captain Li's camp to rest again.
I rested on the stalactites for a while, and gradually felt that my strength had recovered, so I stood up, but as soon as I stood up, my brain suddenly felt a violent dizziness, and I lost my balance all of a sudden, and the whole person fell down.
Fortunately, the fat yellow man standing next to me was quick-eyed, dragged me from behind, and asked me what was the situation, and I said that it was probably caused by sitting on the ground for too long and suddenly standing up. The fat yellow man looked at me for a while, and said, "Pretty boy, why are you so pale?"
Captain Li came over to observe and said, "It seems that it is caused by excessive blood loss, but the wound on your body is not deep, and there is not much blood left, it is really strange, it doesn't matter, I will ask our team doctor to check you after you pass." ”
I nodded, took the kettle handed to me by the fat man, drank some water, and drenched my head and face with water, so that I felt a little comfortable, so the fat man dragged my arm and followed the team towards the cliff.
Once again, we walked to the edge of the cliff and climbed sideways like crabs with the help of the safety rope. I was dragged by the fat yellow man, walking cautiously, the dizziness in my mind had dissipated at this time, and my hands and feet became flexible.
When I was about to finish walking, there was a sound of falling water from behind, and I looked back, Boss Chen didn't know when he fell into the water, and we were all scared, for fear that there would be some monster at the bottom of the lake. The heart said that this Boss Chen has always acted steadily, why did he carelessly lose Jingzhou at this juncture?
I saw him fluttering in the water, as if he was struggling, Captain Li asked the team members to cover with guns, and also jumped down, dragging Boss Chen by the waist and swimming all the way back to the shore.
When Boss Chen saw that we all stopped, he beckoned to us and said, "I accidentally stepped on the air just now!" You go over first, you don't have to wait for me, Captain Li and I are behind! ”
It was really uncomfortable for us to stop on the cliff, so according to Boss Chen's intentions, we climbed to the end and entered the crack in the rock.
This crack is probably formed by the tearing of the mountain structure, and the width is only a little more than a meter, and it can be passed by leaning against the stone wall, but between the cracks, there are many fallen stones, stuck in the middle, which can be used to settle down, so we save a lot of effort.
I told them to go through the crack as fast as they could, and it looked like the structure was still changing, and there might be rubble falling from the top.
When everyone heard this, they all raised their courage and quickened their pace into the crack. The longitudinal depth of this crack is about 100 meters away, after we came to the end, a large circular cave suddenly appeared in front of us, this cave is like two pots covered in pairs, the area is about 500 square meters, at the bottom of the pot, there is a relatively flat stone frame, where a strong light is lit, a lot of backpacks and equipment are placed, and a tent is also set up, a few people are sitting there, at this moment seeing that there is light on our side, they all stand up and look at us, there is a small sound of talking, echoing in the cave, It's too far away to hear what they're saying.
At the end of this crack, a rope facing down was fixed, and after a height of more than ten meters, it hung straight down to the "bottom of the pot", and we quickly took out the lifting tools and lowered them one by one.
We walked along the gentle slope, through the craggy stalactites, to Captain Lee's camp, and when we looked, we found that there were seven or eight of them in total, and there was only one woman in the team, all wearing reflective special caving suits, and at this time, I suddenly saw a very familiar face in the crowd.
At first, I didn't pay much attention, I looked at it twice, but I felt that this person was familiar, so I couldn't help but stop my eyes on his face, and suddenly, I don't know why, the man looked at us, and his expression began to become distorted, only to see him suddenly stretch out a hand, his mouth was shocked into an "O" shape, pointing at our team, and screaming:
"Ghost ...... Hell! ”