Chapter 74 Underground Water Bodies
So it all came back to that canyon, and I still don't know if I can call that place a canyon. Maybe it's not suitable, we never dreamed that there was such a large underground water system underneath that place, and the average karst cave would never have such a large scale.
How this thing came to be, I can't imagine it. Volcanic activity, erosion, crustal movement, this place really integrates too many geological things, whether we can understand it with two knives.
Anyway, at that time, I fell directly into a large body of water without warning. The water was cold and bitter, and it was very deep. The water short-circuited my thinking for a moment, and in such a few seconds, I didn't want to take the rapidly sinking train down. The whole person was completely submerged in an instant, and a large amount of water poured into my lungs, and I arched up uncomfortably, instinctively held my breath, and began to dig my hands and feet.
Probably because I was so flustered that I didn't even notice my direction, I was taken headfirst by the sinking train, and the sinking current was so violent that it canceled out the buoyancy, and I couldn't tell where it was up and where it was down.
The miner's lamp on my head went out just as I fell into the water, so I'm in the dark now. I just swam blindly in the water, ran through it for a long time, and finally didn't surface. I felt like I was about to reach the limit of my breath holding, the pressure of the water around me was constantly pressing against my chest, my whole body was in dire need of oxygen, and every inch of my airway was thirsty for breath.
Under normal circumstances, holding one's breath for three minutes is not a problem at all. But that was on the ground, in a very normal state of mind. Anyone who has ever dived knows that underwater and surface are completely different. Ordinary people will unconsciously get nervous when they go to a place where they can't breathe normally and the pressure is much greater than that on the ground. This is a problem that all new divers will face, you will be uncontrollable as soon as you get out of the water, your heart will beat faster, you will inhale unconsciously, and even have the problem of psychological suffocation.
Therefore, an experienced diver with the same capacity can use twice as long as a novice who has never dived before. The same principle can be applied to breath-holding, don't look at those world records, what people can dive hundreds of meters. That kind of person is professionally trained, especially psychologically. No matter what the depth is, no matter how much water pressure they feel, they can stay calm under the water, control their heartbeat, and will not have the inexplicable urge to breathe.
I was so nervous because I didn't even know what was going on, I didn't even know why I had fallen into the water. Almost everything is acting on instinct, and the whole brain is still wooden, and it can't react to anything. After about a minute, I felt like I was going to run out. The desire to breathe has never been so strong. I struggled in the water, but I couldn't find the surface of the water that I didn't know where, and I even began to wonder if it was full, there was no water at all.
In the end, I still didn't hold my breath, blushing and opening my mouth thickly, subconsciously wanting to breathe. As you can imagine, it is absolutely impossible for air to come in. All of a sudden, I don't know how much saliva I choked, and then, my throat, trachea, and lungs felt a sharp soreness, and I struggled even more, and countless blisters appeared all around. The pain was indescribable. I felt that my body was suddenly filled with water, and I began to sink continuously.
I kind of know why the drowning ghost is so hard to deal with, and the feeling of being choked to death is really unbearable and cruel. My whole face must be green now, and my mouth is crooked. The last eight achievements will be slowly soaked and floated to the surface, waiting for others to collect the corpse. Anyway, there will be no one else in this place, and I will have to rot here forever
Eventually, my consciousness faded away, and I wondered if I still had my eyes, but it was pitch black. The strength of my whole body was as if I had been drained of something, and my whole mind was completely blank, and I couldn't even struggle. Generally speaking, before death, there will be a kind of marquee-like life memories, and all kinds of experiences from childhood to adulthood will appear. I can now say that this is nonsense! Before death, there is pain except pain! You simply don't have the extra energy to make any memories of life! By the time you don't feel the pain, you're already dead.
Near-death experiences are something that not everyone can experience at all, especially for those who die very hard, and there is only endless pain before they die.
Of course, I will sit on that train and "chat" with Ah Hui and the Lin sisters, and I will live a healthy life for decades after the whole story, and I am still writing this novel. So I didn't die in the cold water, but when my consciousness was in a haze, my eyes suddenly appeared a bright light, and the light was very dim and looked very white. Gradually, it approached me, and then my tent felt as if it was being pulled by something.
Unable to resist, I was dragged in the direction of the light, and after a while I felt a lightness on the top of my head, and the water pressure disappeared all at once. When I knew that my mouth and nose began to gasp for air subconsciously, I realized that I had been pulled over the water!
The lungs that had regained air greedily sucked up all the gases that could be inhaled around them, and a new feeling of pleasure spread throughout my body, but I didn't expect to be able to survive like this. With the replenishment of air, my ability to think gradually recovered. In order not to sink in, I started paddling constantly. Although my limbs were still a little stiff, there were no more accidents, and I was able to float on the surface of the water smoothly.
That's when I remembered the dim white light, and I should have been taken by that thing. I immediately looked left and right at the surface of the water, and soon found the thing. It turned out to be the miner's lamp in the hands of Chen Zaihai and the engineer, and in the dark space, that thing was as conspicuous as a lighthouse guiding the way. They seemed to be some distance away from me, and the two of them were struggling to float on the water.
They must have been the ones who pulled me up just now. I slid my limbs and swam towards the white light. I thought it would take a while, but I didn't expect to swim to their side in a few moments, and the two of them were also confused, not knowing what was going on.
I'd really like to ask them what the hell is going on, but it's not a conversation at all. We have already exhausted our efforts just not to let ourselves sink, especially the two of them, who have consumed a lot of physical strength to pull me up just now, and their faces are so bad that they are a little purple.
All around was the sound of rushing water, the dim lamps could not shine at all, there was no roof, no rock wall, and all the water was black as far as the eye could see. That's when I realized that the water was so fluid that we seemed to be rushing in one direction!
So this turned out to be a huge underground river! That's too much water, isn't it? Could it be that all the nearby groundwater eventually converged into the river? I immediately realized that we were in a very dangerous situation, and the roots of the turbulent water did not know where it was going. Our vision is also very poor, and even if there is an accident in front of us, it will be too late for us to see it.
The two of them seemed to be aware of their situation for a long time, and it turned out that their pale faces were not just frozen by the cold river water. What should I do? Just out of the wolf's den, into the tiger's mouth. As for the groundwater system, the most basic thing is that we still know about the popularization, and its only characteristic is that the trend is difficult to predict.
This unpredictability is not just a matter of direction, it is true that there is a sudden sharp turn of more than 90 degrees ahead. But this is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that the gap between the top and bottom of the underground water system is also unreasonable. To put it simply, the existence of underground waterfalls is very common, and it is the same as playing to keep it and suddenly give you a drop of tens of meters.
If we really encounter this kind of waterfall, we will only have to wait for death, since just now Chen Zaihai has been trying to see if he can go upstream, but unfortunately the current is too fast, we are like a small fishing boat in the huge waves, which can be at the mercy of popularity. After trying many times, Chen Zaihai had no choice but to give up, it was useless. All at once, the faces of the three of us turned even paler.
And this flow rate made me confirm my previous thoughts, there must be a deadly rocky beach waterfall in front of us, and we will definitely be crushed if we fall down. If I knew that this would happen, it would be better to drown directly just now, which is equivalent to knowing that I am going to die soon, and I can't do anything.
I fell into a deep despair, and my paddling slowed down. People also began to sink but, after sinking for a while, I was taken off by someone, it turned out to be Chen Zaihai and the engineer. They were dragging me and shouting something. Unfortunately, the sound of the water around me was so loud that I couldn't hear it clearly.
Intermittently, there is only one thing to hold onto, not to sink, to work harder or something. They thought I was running out of stamina before I sank. These two people are really optimistic, in this case, it is better to drown directly, but Chen Zaihai himself does not seem to give up at all, he directly slapped me twice, wanting me to sober up.
My two ears were buzzing, and the anger in my heart also came up, and my heart said that this turtle grandson was still beating Lao Tzu at this time! The warrior saw that this was not going well and immediately pulled us away.
In the end, I didn't really fight with Chen Zaihai, after all, I was still in the river, and the physical exertion was still very large. However, after such a fuss just now, the sense of despair in my heart has faded a lot. Chen Zaihai may just want to tell me not to give up until the last minute