Chapter 18: The Great Water
Climbing up about a meter, the green tendons on the poker face arm suddenly appeared, "The roots of the tree are too slippery, it takes strong arm strength" He gasped slightly, and his eyes always stayed on Yu Yue's face. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Yu Yue tilted her head, trembling all over her body because she had been soaked in water for a long time.
"After Ah Shen and I go up, I'll pull you up."
After speaking, he looked at Ah Shen. Ah Shen understood and began to climb up with the poker face.
The stone wall is already full of poplar roots, and it is not very difficult to climb by stepping, but because the roots of the trees in this area are affected by the water vapor poured from the qanats, they are moist all year round, the roots are moist and lubricated, and some even grow moss, and the hands and feet are easy to slip off the roots, which greatly increases the difficulty of climbing. Fortunately, Ah Shen and Poker Face both had some kung fu foundations, and there were no major accidents until they climbed up the qanats.
"How do we pull Yu Yue up?" Ah Shen asked, seeing that Poker Face first took off his coat and understood, "Fortunately, I changed into a Uyghur robe, and the length of this dress is almost 2 meters." ”
Yu Yue grabbed the clothes they had put down, circled his hands twice, and his body was slowly pulled out of the water......
Ah Shen was standing on the fence by the qanats, his poker face behind him. The two of them pulled Yu Yue out of the water with all their might. When it was about to get out of the water, the resistance of the water was too great, and the two clothes tied together slowly loosened. She didn't care much, and continued to let the two of them pull her up.
Suddenly, the clothes were loosened, Ah Shen secretly screamed that it was not good, Yu Yue exclaimed, and was about to fall into the water.
A gust of wind passed by Ah Shen's ears, and half of his poker face threw himself out of the fence, barely holding Yu Yue. Ah Shen instinctively hugged the body of the poker face. "Ouch, my mother! You two are so heavy. ”
Ah Shen held the poker face, and noticed that the thinness was unusual, and under the shirt, the skin under the clothes could be touched. The skin on the skinny body is also very soft, and it can almost be described as withered. However, the poker face is still so young.
Ah Shen looked at the side of the poker face, and the strength in his hand was a little relaxed. It wasn't until the poker face yelled that Ah Shen worked hard with him to pull Yu Yue up.
Yu Yue sat on the platform gasping for breath, and next to him was Ah Shen, who was also paralyzed. The poker face has been wrung out and put on. His emaciated figure was obscured by a large camouflage uniform, and he looked around the lake below and sat down slowly.
After resting for a while, Ah Shen got up first, "Let's go." ”
Perhaps overexerting himself too much, Pokerface had no strength left, and he struggled to stand up. "We've been in the well for a long time, and in a few hours it's a full moon. We must find the exit before the full moon. ”
"Are you alright?" Ah Shen looked at Poker Face worriedly.
"I'm fine." Yu Yue and Poker Face replied almost at the same time. After the poker face finished speaking, he slowly walked forward by holding on to the wall. Yu Yue asked Ah Shen gently, "What's the matter with the poker face?" Hurt? ”
Ah Shen didn't say anything, just shook his head and let Yu Yue go in the middle.
The water in the qanats has overflowed the walkways on both sides, and the further you go, the faster the water flows. Ah Shen knew in his heart that according to this trend, the water level would rise rapidly within an hour. Coupled with the gradual turbulence of the water, they are likely to be washed down.
"We're going to pick things up."
"The water is too urgent, I think, we haven't moved in place since just now?"
In the dark, the three of them didn't have time to think at all, Yu Yue took a step hard and approached the poker face, "At this speed, we won't have time to go out at all." ”
Poker Face didn't say anything, and suddenly his feet were empty, and he fell into the water.
"Poker face?" Yu Yue's hair was stuck to her face, and she only saw a black shadow planted in the water. Groping forward in the dark, all her fingers touched were cold and hard stone walls, and she never touched the poker face, nor did she hear the poker face.
"Shen, poker face ......"
Ah Shen had already seen this scene, and kept paying attention to the movement in the water, until he saw a black shadow floating in the water, and hurriedly jumped down the sink and helped him up. barely supported it so that it was not swept away by the current. "Yu Yue, take a hand."
Yu Yue held on to the stone wall with one hand, and pulled Ah Shen up with the other. Worried, he asked, "What's wrong with him?" ”
Shen reluctantly put his poker face on his shoulder, "I don't know." ”
Yu Yue listened worriedly to the sound of the rushing water, "Are we going to die here?" ”
Ah Shen has no bottom in his heart, everyone knows the current situation, they have no way out. Further on, there was an endless stream of qanats, not knowing where they would lead, or how long they would drown in the rising waters. Falling back, there is a natural lake that is gradually submerged. At present, the poker face is unconscious for unknown reasons, Ah Shen can't swim, if the water level is really high, only Yu Yue can survive when he goes to the underground lake.
"Have you noticed that the water level is getting higher faster?" The water was already pouring up their jaws. Ah Shen cupped his chin and said to Yu Yue, "Yu Yue, you can swim, you leave us alone and go to the lake downstream, there is a lot of space, maybe you can still survive." Me and Poker Face are going to die here.
Where is Yu Yue willing to leave, "No, I won't go." There must be a way. At this time, the water had already overflowed Yu Yue's forehead. Poker Face's body pressed against Ah Shen, and Ah Shen couldn't stand on his tiptoes. The water had gone through Shen's nose. Yu Yue swam to Ah Shen's side, propped up his poker-faced body, and stretched out his other hand to pull Ah Shen.
Shen lost weight on his body, and he stood on tiptoe, barely holding his nose out of the water to breathe. Yu Yue didn't care about speaking, and watched Ah Shen being submerged in water little by little in the dark, and her heart was desperate.
She kept trying to hold up Ah Shen and Poker's face, but the water flooded up at a very fast speed. Soon, the water had completely submerged Ah Shen. Yu Yue grabbed Poker Face and Ah Shen with her hands, for fear that they would be washed away by the water. With his other hand free, he paddled almost desperately. I don't know if it's water or tears in my eyes, "Poker face, wake up!" Wake up...... "At the moment when life disappeared bit by bit on Ah Shen and Poker's faces, she suddenly noticed that someone behind her was shaking her hand, and such a warm power came from her palm in the cold water.
"Don't be afraid." Yu Yue couldn't tell whether it was Poker Face or Ah Shen's voice, and almost the next second, Ah Shen and Poker Face surfaced at the same time.
"Poker face?"
Ah Shen gasped for air, he was so exhausted that he didn't have the strength to speak. But it seemed to stimulate the instinct of survival, and he began to desperately kick his legs and paddle. He was so strong that he raised his hand and slapped his poker face against the stone wall.
"Ah Shen." Yu Yueyou went over to stop him. Turn your head to search for the figure of Poker Face.
She felt the rushing water rushing past her, and suddenly she was grabbed by a hand, and she was pulled to the edge of the stone wall along with Ah Shen beside her, and her hand was actually dragged to hold a steel pipe.
"Climb up."
Only then did Yu Yue realize that this was a staircase, and when she looked up, there was a dark passage above her head......
The three of them lay down in the passage and rested for a long time before regaining a little strength.
Ah Shen said indignantly, "Lao Tzu almost died here." If I see Batur again, it will definitely make that guy look good. ”
After speaking, he looked at Yu Yue and Poker Face who were silent, and Poker Face closed his eyes and ignored it. Yu Yue smiled bitterly, "With such a big water, Batur must have been drowned in that culvert." ”
"It's good to be dead. People who want to block good living people underground must not be good people, and they are to blame. ”
Yu Yue smiled bitterly, "Ah Shen ......" She had been immersed in the reunion with Ah Shen before, and at this time she calmed down, listening to the sound of water rushing underground, and inexplicably felt that Ah Shen in front of her was very unfamiliar.
"Let's sum it up. Now we definitely can't go down, and we don't know how long the water will flow. We don't seem to have a choice but to move forward, right? ”
Yu Yue hummed in agreement, but her eyes fell on the poker face.
Poker Face didn't react at all, he still sat against the stone wall, motionless. Yu Yue glanced at the tunnel ahead, "This is still a qanat, right?" Why wasn't it flooded? ”
"Probably because this place wasn't used to carry water in the first place, right?" Ah Shen continued, "Here, not only on the well where the water is delivered, but from our point of view, there is no water at all. ”
Yu Yue also noticed that despite the rushing water below, the place where they were was was unusually dry, like the surface.
While chatting, Yu Yue and Ah Shen gradually became sleepy, and fell asleep.
I don't know how long I slept, Yu Yue was awakened by the sound of water, she didn't know where she was for a moment, she woke up in a daze, in the dark, she saw Ah Shen lying crookedly on the ground, and the poker face that was originally sitting next to him was nowhere to be found.
"Ah Shen, Ah Shen, wake up."
Ah Shen barely woke up, opened his eyes and tried his best to identify it, before he got used to the darkness, "I said, let me sleep for a while." ”
Yu Yue was stunned for a moment, and then said, "The poker face is gone again." ”
"Oh, if you don't see him, you won't see him, he has his own feet, and I can't tie him." After saying that, he had to lie down again.
"Ah Shen." Yu Yue grabbed Ah Shen again, "Don't sleep anymore, isn't Poker Face your friend?" ”
Ah Shen waved his hand in a daze, "He's not my friend......"