Chapter 34: The Blue Mouse
Liu Gen woke up in a burst of pain, it was dark all around, he tried to stand up, moved his legs and feet, his muscles and bones were not seriously injured, but his skin and flesh were injured a lot, and the pain was so hot that he must have made a lot of cuts. I looked up and didn't see any light, where did the stars in the sky go? Liu Gen was a little surprised. Fortunately, the toolkit on his body was not lost, he took out the flashlight from it and turned it on, looked around, and found that he was in a cave, and there was a slope on one side of the cave.
Liu Gen was about to climb up from the same path, but as soon as he turned around, he inadvertently found a little blue light flashing in the hole from the corner of his eye. After the trap of the "Spirit Array", Liu Gen's vigilance became even stronger, and he immediately turned around but did not immediately chase after him. The flashlight flickered towards the blue light, and a mouse with a faint blue light stared at the two round eyes and pointed at the flashlight.
Liu Gen immediately remembered the underground light insect plot of the Jingdong Grand Canyon that Xiao Jiu had talked about, in fact, he planned to go to Beijing with Xiao Jiu once, because the light insect in Xiao Jiu's mouth should be called "ice worm" to be exact, and this ice worm involves Liu Gen's "great cause".
I didn't expect there to be a "blue mouse" here, and if there is a blue mouse, there will be an "ice bug". According to the feng shui book handed down by the ancestors, the ice worm and the blue rat belong to the creatures before the ancient eons, living thousands of meters underground, and the blue rat must use the ice stone in the ice worm's body to maintain the temperature of the nest from being too high, because the ice stone is not a stone, but the unique cell body of the ice worm, which cannot be maintained for a few days after leaving the ice worm body, so an important job in the survival of the blue rat is to constantly catch the ice worm.
These are all recorded in the book, because they are related to the secret of the family, so Liu Gen has pondered it, but because it is too bizarre, he doesn't believe it. It wasn't until Xiao Jiu described the encounter with Jingdong Grand Canyon to himself that Liu Gen was surprised to realize that these were all true. Since this is true, it is also possible that the more "legendary" things in the book are true; Then the "secret" of the family is not "ridiculous". Liu Gen is more confident in his ongoing "career".
Just as Liu Gen was thinking about it, the blue rat jumped over and ran towards the depths of the cave, leaving the light range of the flashlight in the blink of an eye.
Liu Gen reacted quite quickly, rushed over with an arrow step, didn't run dozens of meters, and there was a "snapping" sound under his feet, and under the flashlight, a little water droplets splashed. The water under your feet is not deep, just below the upper of your shoes, but it is very cold.
The flashlight was reflected on the cave wall more than 20 meters away, and there were crystal bright spots on it, Liu Gen walked over and found that the cave wall was seeping water outward, and the water on the top of the cave was falling down like raindrops, and the water under his feet was already knee-high, so it was obvious that this was a downhill slope.
Looking further ahead, Liu Gen noticed that the water was flowing forward, and the sound of rushing water came from the depths of the cave, and the sound of water was extremely strong.
To go, or not to go, Liu Gen was a little hesitant.
Psychologically, there is a general fear of unfamiliar environments, not to mention that this environment is a dark underground cave.
The appearance of the blue rat sprinkled some oil on the already burning flame in Liu Gen's heart, making him let go of chasing the whereabouts of the blue rat, and he was really a little reluctant, because the place where the ice worm infested was also the beginning of the truth.
Liu Gen's heart was ruthless, and he walked forward through the water, but he didn't go far, the water had reached his chest, and the person began to float upwards a little, and his feet were no longer stable.
There was a loud roar of flowing water ahead, and the speed of the water increased. Liu Gen swam forward with the current, in fact, this flow speed does not require force at all, as long as the body is kept floating. Liu Gen kept his body balanced, and looked at both sides with the help of a flashlight, the cave was more than 10 meters wide, and the walls of the cave were some blackened stones, and many tree roots drilled out of the cracks of the stones, some of which hung into the water.
The sound of running water in his ears gradually increased, when Liu Gen came back to his senses and looked forward, he couldn't help but be stunned, a mist rose in front of him, the mist blocked the view, Liu Gen wanted to stop and observe It was too late, with the rapid flow of water plunged into the mist, and then the body sank rapidly, Liu Gen's first reaction was to shut up and hold his breath, but he was still poured a mouthful, this mouthful of water Liu Gen swallowed hard, and couldn't help but be surprised, this water is very sweet!
When Liu Gen came back to his senses, he found that he was no longer falling down, but was held up by a huge amount of water, which was striking from below, and it was very painful. The body rises and falls, as if in a trampoline.
Enduring the pain, Liu Gen looked down when he was thrown to a high place, and only then did he realize that he was supported by a column of water with a diameter of more than 10 meters, and the water sprayed strongly from the bottom up, and the falling water formed a river to flow forward.
Hey, no, I was caught off guard just now, and I don't know where the flashlight fell, but the hole should be dark, why can I see it so clearly? In a hurry, Liu Gen didn't have time to think about it, the most important thing now was how to get down from this big water column, otherwise after a long time, he would not be tossed to death by this water column. The height of this water column is 15 or 6 meters, and the diameter is more than 10 meters.
Fortunately, the tool kit was still on his body, and Liu Gen struggled to pull out the rope in the churn, which was a multi-functional device designed by Liu Jiazu, with a three-finger fine iron hook at the front end, and a spherical shaft that can rotate 360 degrees at the junction of the hook and the rope, as long as it hits the target, it can be grasped. The most unique thing is the rope itself, which is different from the semi-static rope, power rope, single rope, double rope, and twin rope used by explorers today. Father told Liu Gen that the processing method of this rope belongs to the top secret of the Liu family, what cowhide and silk are used, and after several dips, several times drying, etc., as for what liquid it is immersed in, it is unknown, and the method has not been passed down from the grandfather, only this rope. Anyway, my father said that this rope was superb, what knife cut constantly, the fire could not burn, but it could fall thousands of catties, and the elasticity was not reduced. Liu Gen tried the tensile coefficient of this rope, and it was no problem to pull more than 10 people on an ox cart, but it was a car with a wheel! As for the knife and fire, Liu Gen didn't try it, for fear that a good ancestral treasure would ruin him. Is there a soft rope in this world that is not afraid of slashing fire? Iron wire can be cut, not to mention cowhide, can you not be afraid of cutting?
There is a raised rock on the wall of the cave more than 20 meters in front of you, and if you can use the weight inertia of the iron hook to wrap it around the stone a few times, and then hook it, you should be able to pull yourself out.
When the water column rose to the highest point, Liu Gen quickly threw out the iron hook, and the iron hook smoothly wrapped around the stone and hooked the rope back. Seeing that he is about to fall to the ground, the ground is full of stones, and if he falls, he will be crippled if he does not die! Liu Gen's usual kung fu has a place to use at this time, quickly doing a few somersaults in the air, quickly wrapping the rope around his waist like an inverted mallet, although the body did not land, but more seriously, the inertia of flying out was not reduced because of Liu Gen's entanglement, and the inertia took Liu Gen's sword to crash into the hole wall of the rope.
This strength is enough to kill, and because of the dozens of loops of rope wrapped around his body, it is too late for Liu Gen to continue to show his skills.
Liu Gen was unwilling to die in an isolated cave like this, he died, and his family would not even find the corpse. And the secret passed down by the ancestors will be buried in the ground......
"Bang", with this sound, Liu Gen's thoughts also stopped, his mind was blank, and a spiral-like hole appeared in the blank, and he quickly flew forward in it, and a dazzling light came to his face, incomparably peaceful, incomparably relaxed, and all the things and thoughts that were pressed in his heart melted...... It was the first time for Liu Gen to be so comfortable, and compared to the feeling at this time, his great career was no longer worth mentioning......
Life is impermanent, life is sometimes very comic, Liu Gen felt a trace of pain from the light, as the pain increased, the light gradually receded, the moment he opened his eyes, Liu Gen saw a monkey face, with two pinches of white hair on his face.
Liu Gen noticed that the monkey was tying his hands with his own rope. After years of vigilance, Liu Gen reacted quickly, lifted his lower abdomen, and used a Tai Chi push hand, which was placed on the monkey's chest, and the monkey was pushed out with a "squeak".
When the monkey was pushed out, Liu Gen looked around him and made sure that it was still in the hole just now, the big water column was still roaring, and the river formed by the water was flowing forward at a rapid speed, and there were pine needles scattered around him. What's the situation? How can there be pine needles in a cave? When he looked up, Liu Gen found that there was a rattan bag hanging on the wall of the cave where he had just hung the rope, and there were scattered pine needles still floating downward. Then he turned his head to look at the monkey, who was squatting far away, grinning at himself, and gesturing to the cave wall from time to time.
Liu Gen suddenly understood that it was the monkey who used a bag with pine needles to help him block it and reduce the force of the impact.
Liu Gen looked above the water column, and there was no waterfall on the top of the cave where he fell, only a small stream of water was still flowing downward. Is there an intermittent flow of water above?
Looking around, Liu Gen was surprised to find that there were several lamps on the roof of the cave—the kind of incandescent lamps. If there is electricity in this cave, there should be people.
Liu Gen was just about to get up and look around, when he suddenly realized that the "boom" in his ears had stopped, and then he saw that the column of water gushing upwards had disappeared without a trace, as if it had not existed in the first place. The water above had also been cut off, and only intermittent droplets of water were dripping down sparsely, and there was no sound when they fell below.
Liu Gen cautiously walked to the water column just now, and what appeared in front of him was a large hole more than ten meters in diameter, and the black rumbling was bottomless. The light from the top of the cave could only see a few meters deep into the walls of the cave, and nothing could be seen further down. The stone on the walls of the cave is particularly smooth, presumably the result of a long period of erosion by flowing water.
Suddenly, Liu Gen's eyes were attracted by some small broken stones under his feet, as they faintly glowed with stars in the light. Liu Gen squatted down, picked up a thumb-sized stone, wiped it with his sleeve, his eyes lit up, Liu Gen raised his head and turned a few times to the light, yes, this is a high-quality diamond!
Liu Gen hurriedly leaned down to look at the other stones on the ground, and the circular area around the entrance of the cave was more than 2 meters full of this kind of diamond! I was both happy and surprised and scared, happy that I could climb to the sky in one step and easily become the richest man in the world; What is surprising is that this diamond is obviously brought up by the water column in the cave, so how many treasures will there be below, the key is that this is a natural diamond without human intervention, so this mineral can be imagined; I am afraid that I may be buried in the ground, because there must be people in it, and there are people who do not take these treasures, and this kind of person should be the most terrible.
Just when Liu Gen was stunned, his back was suddenly smashed hard, and his body was caught off guard and plunged into a deep hole. The moment it fell, Liu Gen heard the "squeak" and "whirring" monkey cries. The monkey saved himself, but he hurt himself, is it to take revenge on his own palm, it seems that the "face-turning monkey" is indeed true. The speed of the fall was accelerating, and Liu Gen closed his eyes in despair......