Chapter 9: The Underground River
After confirming that this was another fork in the road, we decided to rest in place. After all, judging from the time, it is already night, and the sense of time in the dark underground is very unclear, and if you don't allocate your sleep time well, something will definitely happen.
We gathered some scraps of wood from the power distribution and made a bonfire. The tired body suddenly eased, and the firelight reflected the blood-red walls. Look, there are those damn bugs here, too, but they seem to be asleep as long as they don't turn on the power. This couldn't be better for us, and Chen Zaihai vowed never to touch the switch again.
"By the way, how did Talia know you couldn't pull the switch?" As I warmed up, I suddenly remembered Taria's reaction to Chan's pull in the sea. "It's like you knew those lice were going to come out."
Already a little dazed, Talia told us what she had found before she fell asleep. Just as Chen Zaihai and I were ecstatic about what we had discovered, she had already spotted a mark left by the task force in the corner of the room.
The number indicates that it is extremely dangerous, and it is written in Russian that the power system must not be activated. As soon as she saw this, Talia felt that something was wrong, and for a moment she thought of taking down the cable that had been inserted into the wall and the tragic death of the engineer. As clever as she suddenly realized, those cables might not be safeguards at all, but the key to the activation of some kind of mechanism.
"I don't think we thought much about it at the beginning, if those cables were really some kind of insurance, they were always in a state of failure when there was no power before. But almost nothing happened to us, it was all wishful thinking on our part. Chen Zaihai sighed.
"Don't talk about these useless things, the top priority now is to rest and get a good night's sleep." The order of the vigil was also almost arranged, and I was the first shift. After watching everyone get into their sleeping bags, I was at ease.
Talia was completely asleep, and she was breathing evenly. It's been really hard for you lately, because Talia is usually too strong, and she is very reliable in everything. Before I knew it, I would forget that she was a weak woman, and that she was just being strong.
Nie Chuanhui's affair was still making my chest ache faintly, and I patted my cheek to sober myself up. When something has already happened, you can only accept it, want to change, or regret your original behavior, which is just an escape.
Having added a little firewood to the campfire, I started my first vigil. Never fall asleep! I said this to myself
After that, I made it to the next shift of the changing of the guard relatively smoothly, and the change of guard with me was an engineer about the same age as Nie Chuanhui, and I patted him on the shoulder with Hatche. Then he went back into his sleeping bag and said nothing all night.
The next day, I woke up with a chill from my cheeks. The feeling made me uncomfortable while I was still asleep, and I began to wonder what the last vigil was doing.
I wiped my face with my hands, and the cold feeling did not disappear, but spread to my hands. Wait, how does this feel so familiar? It's very fluid and not sticky at all.
Fuck me! Isn't this water! Realizing that I was a little sleepy, I jumped up from my sleeping bag. The bonfire had been completely extinguished, so I had no choice but to turn on the miner's lamp, and the situation in front of me really scared me.
It's water, and there is water flowing down the railroad tracks. Since I was resting close to the railroad tracks, I was woken up by the water that was left behind. What's going on? How can there be water left?
I immediately went back to find the others, and Talia was still asleep (we didn't assign her a vigil last night for her sake.) You can also see the figure of the engineer resting all around, so the person who is now keeping vigil should be
I immediately looked down at my watch, and at 6 o'clock in the morning, it was Chen Zaihai! But there was no sign of him around! Where did this kid go at this time? Suddenly, I thought of the engineer who had disappeared in the first place, and I thought to myself, I said no, right? He is Chen Zaihai, he will never provoke those walls knowing the danger!
Even though I think about it, I still unconsciously worry about it, you don't want to have any more accidents! I'm not going to say it myself, so how do you make Talia accept it, bastard!
I have no choice but to call Talia and them all together to find it.
"Yo! Lao Su, why do you get up so early? You'll be fine with a little rest on the night of your first shift. "Just when I was in a hurry and the ants on the hot pot in Yiyang City, Chen Zaihai's voice suddenly came from behind me.
Yes! I was like an idiot who was worried about him just now! I forgot that this guy's vitality is definitely stronger than that of cockroaches! How can a guy who doesn't even have a concussion die so easily when a grenade explodes at zero distance?
"What did you just do? Don't keep a good watch for your night, run away and desert! "I whispered to him so as not to wake Talia.
It turned out that Chen Zaihai, who had been keeping vigil before, also found that there was water flowing down from it, so he went to the back to get water. It was only then that I saw that he was carrying two large buckets of water in his hands.
"There's a place in the back that keeps seeping water, so I'll pick it up, and it took me two hours." Chen Zaihai immediately put on a proud expression.
I immediately asked Chen Zaihai to take me to see his water point, and he led me over without saying a word. It was not far from where we had spent the night, and I had only walked a few steps before I heard a distinct sound of dripping water.
"Well, this is formation water seeping straight down from the ground! Directly help us filter, don't even burn it. He explained.
I looked at the water dripping from above, and this place was no different from the rest of the place, so how could there be water seeping down? It's weird.
"Why are you here?" There was a sound of footsteps behind her, and it turned out that Talia had been woken up by us.
Seeing that she was no longer sleepy, I told all the findings I had just made, and after listening to this, Talia instructed the engineers to go back and pack up their equipment.
Immediately after that, he crouched down, searching along the wall for something. This makes our second monk puzzled, what is she doing? Aren't you afraid to wake up those ancestors on the wall?
After looking at it for a while, Talia seemed to confirm something, got up and said to us, "Pack up your things and leave immediately, it'll be troublesome if it's late." I said Chen Zaihai, you also got a certificate in geology, can't you notice this little problem? ”
"What the hell is going on?" Chen Zaihai and I asked in unison.
"As we walk, if I'm not mistaken, we're running out of time." Talia wouldn't run to where we were sleeping.
Chen Zaihai and I glanced at each other, and no one could figure out the situation, so we had to hurry to chase Talia.
When we rushed back, the engineers had already packed everything, and they were really efficient as professional soldiers. At the urging of Talia, we hurried on the journey, feeling that this fork was not much different from the previous one, only a little steeper, but it itself was spiraling, and this feeling was also unfortunate to be obvious. I really don't know what Talia is anxious about.
Later on the way, Talia explained to us the seriousness of the situation, first of all, there was water flowing down from it. Who can't have conjured this out of thin air, it probably means that there is a strange thunderstorm on the ground now. This area is originally a depression, and we don't know how deep it is underground. The underground cave system is often accompanied by various dark rivers, and now we can't say when we will be flooded.
She was looking for the water level of a tunnel on the wall, which was originally used for trains to pass through, and there should be a drainage system, but after all these years, no one dared to guarantee that they were still functioning.
However, she found it, and the water level here in the rainy season is still very high, although it is not topless, but if it really comes to this point, we will have no kayaks, so we can only swim away. And the most important thing is that I have been here for a few months, and thunder and rain are commonplace.
"Look at the railroad tracks under your feet, I don't know if you've noticed. The rails on the ground are all very damaged. But since we've been here. The rails have almost no signs of corrosion. But here it is different again, and the rails are getting a little rusty again. Although it is not known what anti-embalming measures are being used by the Japanese, it seems that such measures have also been somewhat ineffective here. Talia added.
"You mean, the reason why this place is different from other places, there is corrosion, is because this is a hidden underground river?" I asked.
"It probably wasn't, after all, it's a train. But now that the drainage system seems to be out of order, let's hurry up. She said hurriedly.
The situation suddenly became urgent, and now it was as if we were in a race against time, but fortunately there was no rumbling water behind us.
Along the way, we tried to avoid alarming the bugs on the wall and picked up speed. The sound of running water under your feet is getting more and more urgent, which is not a good sign. Be sure to find an open place where you can share the amount of water that slips down.
We ran out of the tunnel all morning, and the camera of the tunnel seemed to be a large space. This should have a professional name in geology, but unfortunately it is Chen Zaihai, who is half a bucket of water, and Talia and I don't know anything at all, can't name it at all.
We turned on the miner's lamp and shone it upward, and the lamppost of the miner's lamp disappeared into the darkness as if it had been sucked in, and we were equipped with gun-piercing miner's lamps, and it seemed that this place was really big.
Just when we were amazed at the vastness of the place, there was a real rumbling sound of water coming from the tunnel behind us, and a large amount of water poured out of the tunnel like a freshly turned on faucet. Gradually, it merges into a small river in front of us, flowing forward.
Looking at the groundwater rolling out in front of us, all of us have palpitations, if it is a little later we will be washed out with this water, just like cockroaches in the sewer, but am I dazzled? For a moment I seemed to see something rushing out of the water.
"Talia really has you, we almost became like this," Chen Zaihai said, pointing to a dark figure not far away.
I looked at it, ah, it turned out to be a ground lice woman, maybe the water was too strong, and this thing was washed down from the wall before it could grasp it steadily. It was unlucky, it was still dormant and didn't know what was going on, so it washed down, and finally hit a rock not far from us, and the momentum of the impact was too great, and it directly hit this thing in pieces
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