Chapter 38: The Bridge
The stone pillar was only a few meters away from the entrance of the cave, and the bats pounced on us, and we had retreated into the cave. However, they do not seem to give up, and hover outside the cave and refuse to leave.
"It's a good thing this hole is dug low and narrow, otherwise we would all have ended up here today." Liu Fashan, who came in at the end, shone a flashlight on the outside of the cave and said with palpitations.
Cai Zhengdong said: "The earthquake is so strong, will this hole collapse?" ”
"It's better to collapse than to be eaten by those monsters!" Ma Qiang spat out.
"Liu Peng-Liu Peng-" Zhang Xiaohu put Liu Chang's legs on the ground vertically, patted him on the cheek and called him over and over again.
The hole was so narrow that we had to turn our heads and look at it, and we couldn't go over to help.
Daddy Boba saw us coming in in a panic because Dorjee had just not gone outside the cave, Lu Dachuan was gone, Lu Keqin cried into tears, Liu Changleg was injured, and hurriedly asked, "What's out there?" What about Okawa? How did Liu Peng get hurt? ”
"A lot of big-faced bats," I looked up at him, "and the long legs are scratched." ”
"What about Okawa? Why don't you see Okawa? Daddy Boba was so anxious that he stood up, and his head almost touched the roof of the cave.
We all bowed our heads and didn't speak.
Seeing that we didn't react right, Daddy Boba squeezed to my side and grabbed my arm hard: "Where's Okawa? Speak! ”
I looked up at Daddy Boba's eager eyes, and my heart became even more uncomfortable: "Outside the cave is a deep valley, Dachuan he...... He fell. ”
Daddy Boba let out an "ah" and sat down on the ground. Even Dorjee seemed to know what was going on, and "Wang" shouted twice. Came all the way and this was the first time it called.
After being stunned for a moment, Daddy Boba stood up and ran out of the cave. I quickly grabbed him.
"Don't pull me, let me go out and see." Daddy Boba was so strong that I managed to pull him to sit down.
"Alas......" Daddy Boba sighed hard with red circles in his eyes and slammed his fist on the ground.
We ran into Liu's long leg wound while pulling, and he woke up with a snort. Zhang Xiaohu wanted to help him sit up, but he took out the walkie-talkie with his uninjured arm and handed it to Zhang Xiaohu.
Because we were too flustered, we forgot about this stubble, and when we saw the walkie-talkie, we had hope in our hearts, as if we could hear Lu Dachuan speak when we turned on the walkie-talkie. However, the reality is cruel, Zhang Xiaohu turned on the walkie-talkie, how to adjust it, and only made a squeaky current sound, and he couldn't talk at all.
The hope that had just ignited in my heart was extinguished in an instant. There was a dead silence in the cave for a moment. I didn't know how to comfort Lu Keqin in grief, Mu Ran looked at the cave wall, and asked myself for the first time in my heart, if I was wrong, I shouldn't have held on to this matter from the beginning. Looking at Daddy Boba again, his eyes were a little glazed, and it seemed that he was also regretting that he shouldn't have taken us into this place where the sun was willing to go.
Compared with us, Zhang Xiaohu, Liu Fashan and others are much more practical. They are discussing what to do next. I was depressed and didn't have the heart to listen. But the situation is already clear, the way to continue is broken, we stay still, waiting for the gang behind to catch up with the only dead end, and there is some hope of retreating into the hole on the other side.
So they quickly decided: instead of sitting and waiting to die, they would quit and fight.
Seeing that they said to leave, I was indignant in my heart, stood up and said, "Regardless of Brother Dachuan, just leave like this?" ”
Liu Fashan said: "Dachuan is just missing now, we can only save our lives first, and then we can find a way to go down there to see what the situation is, if we can't even save our own lives, what's the use of not leaving!?" ”
Although I am still haunted in my heart, I have to admit that Liu Fashan has a point.
Seeing that I didn't speak, Liu Fashan said to everyone: "Time is precious, we must rush in front of them to have a glimmer of hope......
Chen San, Ma Qiang, and others stood up and walked out of the cave. Zhang Xiaohu helped Liu Changleg up, and Liu Fashan pulled Boba's father to get up and walk out of the cave. I had no choice but to pick up Lu Keqin and follow them out.
The situation inside was unknown when we came in, and we walked very slowly, but we walked out very quickly. After a few minutes we arrived at the entrance of the cave, turned off the flashlight, and it was dark on the stone platform outside, except for the faint light in the canyon in front of the stone platform.
Looking at the glasses, they seemed to be still on the stone wheel below, and we got out of the cave and hurried to the other side of the stone platform. Seeing that I was at the entrance of the big cave, I didn't know which nerve was wrong, so I suddenly had the idea of going to the front of the stone platform to take a look, and I couldn't control it at once.
"You go first, I'll go ahead and have a look." I don't care what their reaction is, let Lin Xian'er help Lu Keqin up, leave a sentence and run in front of the stone platform.
By the time they react, they're going to stop me.
When I was almost at the edge of the stone platform, I did not dare to rush forward again, but bent down and crawled on the ground for the last time, poking out half of my head to look down the mountain.
On the small platform below, the boss of the glasses was yelling "Wow Wow", and next to him lay two fleshy and mutilated corpses. Next to him, King Kong was fiddling with a small black box half a foot square, with a small red dot on it that kept flashing. Matthew and the others stood silently on the other side of the two corpses.
The Eye Boss spoke in a loud voice, and although it was quite far away, I could hear it fairly clearly from above. From his words and guesses, I can roughly understand what happened:
About a few minutes ago, the stone wheel turned to the top of the stone wall, and King Kong climbed up the upper steps first, and pulled his boss and Matthew together. Waiting for the second stone trough to turn up, the three inside climbed up safely, the back three were about to go up, suddenly from the stone wall came out of a small stone wheel with a diameter of about two meters, the groove on the top "clicked" into the groove of the big stone wheel, with the rotation, the three people who climbed up were not prepared at all, one was squeezed in the middle by the two rotating stone wheels and became meat sauce; The other two reacted quickly and jumped out of the groove of the big stone wheel in time to climb onto the small stone wheel, but they still did not survive.
The shadow of the Duliba stone disc didn't flicker, the alien's human hair didn't see a single one, and his subordinates had already broken in half, how could the glasses boss not be angry.
So he whined and vowed to kill us, shouting that King Kong had blown up the broken wheels on the cliff.
Looking at the two mutilated corpses again, I was scared and couldn't help but feel glad at the same time: fortunately, as I thought, the sub-gear came out to bite the mother gear after triggering the mechanism in the cave, otherwise it would have been us who turned into meat sauce first.
As soon as I was distracted, King Kong had already dropped the black box in his hand in the groove of the big stone wheel on the right side of the small stone wheel. Then they quickly ran to the center of the small stone platform and crawled on the ground.
"It's really fried on a dog day!" I clasped my hands tightly over my ears, but I heard a loud noise, and the ground beneath me shook violently, as if the cave was about to collapse.
I let go of my hands, and the "buzzing" sound continued in my ears for more than half a minute before calming down, and when I looked up and looked down, King Kong had already run to check the effect of the blast.
He flashed his flashlight and looked down, then turned his head and shouted at his boss, "It's not blown up, I'll do it again." He went to get the bomb again.
Seeing that they looked unwilling not to blow up the stone wheel, I couldn't help it in a hurry. Fortunately, when King Kong was about to drop the second bomb, the glasses stopped him in time.
"Come back. I was angry just now. Let's catch up with them. The glasses boss said and glanced up.
I retracted my head, rolled over and got up, and ran towards the larger hole on the other side of the stone platform.
The big hole looks straight outside, in fact, the inside seems to be oblique to the left, and all the way down slowly, I went in and ran for about 20 meters to hear the sound of "whooshing" water, and faintly guessed what was going on with the stone wheel constantly turning.
walked forward for a while, and met Liu Fashan and them head-on.
"What's the situation?"
"Same as over there, the road is broken, and there's an underground river below."
"Huh?"
I hurried around behind them, and within a few steps of the cave wall I was at the end of the cave, but there was only a stretch of ground hanging in the air like a huge tongue sticking out of its mouth. I looked around with a flashlight and saw a stone-like waterwheel-like device larger than a stone wheel slowly rotating not far to the right of the "tongue".
Although I have guessed that the hole in the stone wheel comes from this side of the river when I heard the sound of water, I am still surprised to see that it is really like this, you must know that there is a stone wall more than 20 meters thick between the waterwheel and the mother stone wheel, and it may not be difficult to chisel through the stone wall of more than 20 meters, but it is definitely not a simple matter to build a large shaft connecting the two wheels, and I really can't imagine how the ancestors of the big-headed villain did it.
"Don't look at it." Liu Fashan said to me, "Where have they been?" ”
"I was already climbing the stone steps when I came to chase you......"
For a moment they stopped talking.
I thought for a while and said: "I think it's better to retreat to the small hole over there, first, the foreigner is big, and he will definitely choose to enter this big hole first, so we can have more time to think of a way; The second is that they are so big that they can't be used in a small hole, and if they have Chen Sange's submachine gun in a fight, they may not be able to bargain. ”
They all agreed. We hurried back to the little cave.
After tossing back and forth, everyone was out of breath, and before they could breathe even after sitting down, the shaking of the mountain disappeared, and the sound stopped. We looked at each other, not knowing what was going to happen next. Suddenly, a light flashed outside the cave, and it was as bright as day.
Liu Fashan, who was sitting at the front of the cave, looked out and shouted excitedly: "Look, Da Chuan, it's Da Chuan, he ...... it."
Liu Fashan climbed out of the cave with a rolling belt. We also followed out like a tide, and the stone platform was as lively as the New Year. And the scene unfolding in front of us is even more spectacular than anyone imagined.
The whole outside of the cave looks like a large canyon covered by strips, and there is no edge on the left and right; The opposite mountain is thirty meters away; Overhead, there are swarthy stones of different sizes and shapes, like a craggy mountain with strange rocks hanging upside down.
The canyon is connected on both sides by a flat, wide stone bridge. And all of this is reflected in the air above the stone bridge, with two rainbow-like bow flames burning on the left and right.
"Everyone's okay!" Lu Dachuan walked in front of us from the bridge. Although his clothes were torn and his backpack was hung with a big hole, he looked in good spirits.
Liu Fashan said: "You...... Liu Peng......"
Lu Keqin rushed out beside me, threw herself into Lu Dachuan's arms, and cried "wow". Lu Dachuan's nose was sour from crying, and he almost never saw his relatives again!
After comforting his sister, Lu Dachuan saw Liu Chang's shoulders wrapped in thick gauze, and asked with concern, "Is it serious?" ”
Liu Changleg stretched out his tongue and licked his lips: "Let the bat scratch it, it's fine." ”
"What about the others?"
"It's all right."
"Then let's hurry across the bridge, I don't know how long this flame will last, if it goes out, I guess those damn bats will come out again." Lu Dachuan said and looked at Daddy Boba who was standing behind, "Daddy, is there a problem with Dorjee?" ”
Daddy Boba looked at Dorjee: "It's okay, let's go!" ”
Only then did I see that there was a serpentine stone pillar on the other side of the stone platform, and the flames erupted from the snake's mouths on both sides.
A few minutes later, we crossed the stone bridge safely and came to the opposite side.
I looked at this side and that side, there is a protruding stone platform on the mountain wall, there is a hole in the stone platform, there is a serpentine stone pillar on the left and right, and the mouth is spewing fire, so I followed Liu Fashan's example and walked to the left stone pillar and pulled the horn on the snake's head, wrenched twice without moving, and then went to pull the left one, the right one was really active, I pushed forward, and the whole valley shook as before, the sound of "Zaza" was endless, the stone bridge sank smoothly, and the flame was extinguished.
"What a wonderful mechanism!" Lu Dachuan looked amazed and slapped me on the shoulder: "How did you kid find out?" If it hadn't been for it, I'd have really fallen to the bottom. ”
Everyone's eyes were on me, and I said embarrassedly: "It was Brother Liu Fashan who discovered it first, and I just drew a scoop from a gourd." ”
Everyone's eyes turned to Liu Fashan again.
Liu Fashan shook Liu Changleg with a flashlight: "This is thanks to Liu Peng, I only found out when he touched the horn on the snake's head at that end." ”
"I touched the ......" Liu Changleg was stunned for a moment, then understood, and laughed at himself, "So we should thank that bat brother." ”
At this time, Dorjee, who was squatting next to him, stood up "whew" and rushed his head to the opposite mountain wall.
Father Boba looked alarmingly at the other side of the mountain wall and said, "They have reached the entrance of the cave." ”
Lu Dachuan hurriedly greeted everyone: "Hurry! Go into the cave and don't let them find out we're coming. ”
This side of the cave is not wider than that side, we bent down to get into it and walked a little, Zhang Xiaohu at the bottom did not leave, looked back and forth and said, "Why is Chen San gone?" ”
Everyone stood still, turned their heads to look at their front and back, but they didn't see any trace of Chen San.