Chapter Seventy-Six: Rocky Beach
Because I was constantly immersed in the cold water, I had a poor reaction in every aspect, especially my brain. Looking at the rusty water on my hands, I didn't even realize that it was artificially set here.
At first, I thought it was something that had been washed down from somewhere upstream. But after a while, I was shivering and I finally grasped what was going on. This thing is obviously artificially erected here, and its function should be similar to that of an interceptor net, which is to prevent something from falling upstream.
And under the surface of the water, I can still see many black shadows of various sizes hanging on this huge interception net. As for what they were, I don't have the power to find out. Like everything we see left over from the Japanese, this era is decades old. Many places were in tatters, and I found several gaps in the illumination of the miner's lamp alone.
We were lucky to be hanging here, and the closer the net got to the middle of the river, the more badly it broke. After all, the central flow of the river is relatively large, which is also a matter of course. At this time, the significance of Chen Zaihai's previous actions is revealed, if we are so driven by the current and do nothing, there is a great possibility that it will leak directly from the gaps. What you just did is not completely meaningless.
Lying back and glancing behind him, the black hole was like an abyss, and such a large amount of water was pouring down so silently. It may be that it has been washed by the current for a long time, but this interception net is not at an angle of 90 degrees to the surface of the water, in fact, this angle is much larger than 90 degrees. We were almost hanging in the air above nothingness. If Chen Zaihai and I hadn't instinctively hooked the mesh of the interception net, we would still have been swept away from the jurisdiction.
I felt a chill in my heart, I really didn't know how deep it was underneath, how it didn't win at all. I don't know what I'd think if I did
"Old Su! It's not a problem to spend it here anymore! Let's run away. "It's been washed by the current. Chen Zaihai's voice was a little out of tune, sounding with a hint of trill.
As soon as I thought about it, he was right, it happened so suddenly, and the rapid unfolding of the heavens and the earth made me forget even the most important thing of saving my life for a moment. I was just a fool at what was happening around me, after all, from a physical point of view, it hadn't been long since I entered the cab and now hung on this interception net. Definitely not even an hour and a half.
After seeing that I also nodded in agreement, he didn't say anything more and immediately started to act. To be honest, I can't say that I have been hanging here, and I have been hit by the cold river water, which is not comfortable. I was so cold that I almost lost consciousness, and it took a lot of effort to move the first step.
Since the two of us were with our backs to the interceptor net, this position was very inconvenient to move. We flipped in place against the current, and the whole process caused the interception net to shake, which shocked me into a cold sweat. And the flow of water further consumed what little energy we had left.
But from now on, we are going to have a race against time, and the cold water will continue to reduce our physical strength and spirit, and it will make every step of my life more and more difficult. The farther away from the center, the smaller the speed of the water will be. When I still feel that it is difficult to walk, it is like I have to give my whole body strength if I don't take a step. However, this game is absolutely not allowed to abstain, and once you give up, there is only a dead end.
We kept our heads out of the water as much as possible, and our hands and feet hooked the gaps in the net, moving little by little. Of course, this speed is not as fast as swimming in the water before. The only good thing is that we can be clear about our direction, and as long as we follow this interception net, we will definitely reach the edge. When we were in the water before, we didn't know that we had been spared a few turns, and we had to waste a lot of time choosing the direction every time, which was very anxious.
We struggled in the water for a long time, and we didn't move forward much. Worse still, I began to feel that my consciousness was about to fly away again, the miner's lamp in Chen Zaihai's hand flickered and dimmed, and my eyelids became surprisingly heavy. I know this is a sign of hypothermia, and among all the people involved in this mission, although I am not as good as Wang Weiguo's guy in terms of physical strength, I am not very outstanding. At this time, it is inevitable that I will show fatigue, since I got on the train of the forest, I have hardly had a good rest, always sleep and wake up, and my physical strength and energy have never fully recovered.
I always thought, let's get through this time, I'll be sorry for everyone else if I just sleep and die. Now that this hidden danger has finally completely evolved into a huge problem, I know very well that I have to keep up with Chen Zaihai and move myself. But my whole body felt like it was filled with lead, and I can't say it was too much to say that it was like a thousand pounds.
Chen Zaihai in front didn't seem to notice my state at all, he just gritted his teeth and kept crawling along the interception net, crawling and crawling. I didn't even know that this was the first time I was desperate today, and I wanted to stop him loudly, but the voice that came out of my throat was a very smile, and the sound of mosquitoes at this level was completely drowned out by the sound of running water. And I could only watch as the light representing Chen Zaihai became farther and farther away from me.
My feet were shaking, and I was almost losing the strength to hold on to the net. There were only two results that awaited me, losing my strength and sinking to the bottom and finally drowning, or being washed down the interceptor net and falling to my death. I didn't give up on holding on to the spot for less than a minute, and my consciousness was completely plunged into darkness
I think a lot of people will wonder why I vomited on a rocky beach earlier, and I think I've explained that very clearly by now. I don't know why we fell into a huge underground river, and the three of us were washed around like rats in the sewers, and finally photographed on top of a huge interception net.
And after I lost consciousness, I did what I described earlier
I kept vomiting the fluid in my stomach, and my lungs gradually filled with air around me, and my breathing became much easier. A violent cough ensued, and I almost arched myself into a shrimp, and the recovery of my breathing made me realize that I had choked on a lot of water. I coughed for a long time before my throat felt a little more comfortable, and I looked around with all my strength, and it seemed like it would take a lifetime to even lift my head.
That's right, that's it, and in the end, I still didn't really give it that way. It's unbelievable that I was finally rescued by the engineer whose whereabouts had been unknown. Counting the last time I was on the outer wall of the train, this warrior had already saved me twice. If I'm lucky enough to be alive and complete this mission together, shouldn't I pay homage to him?
I woke up with a violent cough, and as soon as I opened my eyes, I felt an unbearable cold, and my whole body began to shiver uncontrollably. Wait a minute? Am I on the ground now? And what about the interceptor net? What about the turbulent water? I think I was on top of the interception net, and I passed out due to hypothermia.
There was a sudden loud wheezing sound from the side, and I immediately turned my head to look in the direction of the sound. I saw the engineer and Chen Zaihai who had disappeared before lying next to me. I knew right away what was going on, eighty percent after I passed out, this warrior who had been without a trace rescued me, and finally Chen Zaihai and the two of them rescued me together.
The back is very hard to the touch and a little cold. Chen Zaihai's miner's lamp is still stubbornly lit, to be honest, this thing has not broken so far, it is really extraordinary. I looked around with difficulty, and found that it was full of large and small rubble, and it turned out to be a rocky beach.
At my feet was the river that kept coming up, and it seemed that they had just pulled me up and had lost their strength and were lying right here. Faintly, I also saw the interception net, it was really a Japanese thing, the kind of cement pile used as a fixation, I don't know how many times I saw it along the way, it was definitely a Japanese style. Eighty percent of this thing is used to reinforce this interception net.
I wanted to get up and take a closer look around me, but the strong cold made it impossible for me to complete the simple action of getting up. Even so, I knew that I couldn't just lie down and wait until my strength recovered, and I would definitely not be able to wake up until then because of the temperature.
I sat up very, very hard, and all the wet clothes on my body were taken off, and it was better not to have them stick to my body than to take away my body temperature, because they didn't work at all now. As soon as I took off my clothes, I started to rub my body, it was impossible to start a fire, and this was the only way I could think of to restore my body temperature.
"You two are still alive, aren't you?" I said tremblingly to Chen Zaihai and the engineer who were lying down as I exercised. "If you are alive, you should find a way to warm yourself, and if you continue like this, you will freeze to death sooner or later."
The two of them were also choked by the cold, but their physical strength was much better than mine. The speed at which I got up and the movement of taking off my wet clothes were much faster and smoother than mine. Then they followed my example and started rubbing their bodies constantly. The engineer was even more energetic, and I saw him stand up and start raising his legs.
As soon as we had regained our basic mobility, we moved away from the underground river, which was very cold.
And whenever I think back to that experience, I always unconsciously think of three almost naked men on the rocky beach in the dark, constantly rubbing their bodies, coupled with the continuous gasping sounds, and constantly shaking limbs, I always feel that the picture is too weird