"Zheng Shuang, which direction are you going?" After I returned to the city wall for the second time and brought Liu Changjiao and Lin Xian'er to the bank of the river in the well, Lu Dachuan asked me,

"You say." I've been down a few times before, and I know that the river in the well looks at both ends, and there is no end in sight.

Lu Dachuan held a high-power lamp and shone it back and forth: "Then let's go downstream, this river is also quite big, maybe it can go directly to the sea." ”

"Huh." Lu Dachuan's words made my eyes light up, "I'll go up and cut down a tree, how about we build a boat." ”

"Of course, it's good to have a boat, and it's easy to take the waterway, and the speed is fast, but we have to see it, we don't have an axe, and we can build a boat without an ax." Lu Dachuan turned off the high-power lights, and the light in the river immediately dimmed.

"If you don't have tools, you can build a raft."

"There are only trees in the city, and there are no vines, and our ropes are not enough to tie rafts."

"There are so many trees on it, it shouldn't be a big problem to get more bark to make a rope......"

“……”

Seeing everyone discussing enthusiastically, I had a good way in my mind that was effortless and feasible: "Give me the rope, I have a way." ”

Lu Dachuan took the mountaineering rope from his waist,

"The one that is too long and the one that is short, give me the one that is truncated." The rope I want is used to tie the branches, and the main rope that Lu Dachuan prepared for me, I don't need it that long.

"Here I am." Lin Xian'er opened her backpack and took out a ball of rope from it if we needed it, so I cut off the remaining section of the mountaineering rope and gave it to me.

"You guys put down your bags and rest in place, I might need a little longer." I hung the rope on my waist,

"I'll go with you." Lu Dachuan put his backpack and gun on the riverbank,

"No, if you don't get tired, see if there are any fish in the river, catch a few and bring them up, and I'll get more branches and we'll bake more dry food and bring them." I volleyed into the air and shouted at them, "Pay attention to your surroundings and shoot if you find something wrong." ”

"Got it."

When they were discussing, I thought of building a canoe, there are many tall trees in the city, cut down a tree with two ends and remove it, leaving a trunk of about the same thickness in the middle and cutting it into a boat shape, and then hollowing out and drying it, the diameter of the wellhead is a little more than one meter, I came up and found a big tree of about the same thickness, and cut it down from the root with a knife, cut off a main trunk more than four meters long, and it took about an hour to dig and make a simple canoe with a cabin width of 80 centimeters and a length of about 3.5 meters.

I was always unsteady when I was separated from them, and I raised my head after I made the canoe in one breath, and was surprised to see that the green leaves on the canopy that had fallen to the side had dried up in this time, and I raised my hand to wipe off the sweat from the work on my face, knowing that I could not feel the high temperature that could make the leaves dehydrate in a very short time, I still calmed down and felt the temperature around me, and after finding that it was not abnormal, I walked to the canopy full of suspicion, picked a leaf and gently rubbed it in my hand and turned into powderSeeing that the leaves were so thoroughly dried, I went to break a branch the thickness of a child's arm, and broke it effortlessly, without looking, from the crisp sound when the branch broke, I could tell that the branch was also completely drained of water and turned into dry branches,

Seeing that such a thick branch was also dry, although I was even more puzzled in my heart, but knowing that this situation was beneficial to us, I no longer wasted my brain cells, and broke off a bunch of branches with three times and five by two, and trapped my back with a rope, and carried the canoe that I had not noticed before, in fact, it had dried a lot, and returned to the well I came out from at the corner of the city wall.

Since I didn't know if the trees would continue to dehydrate quickly after entering the well, I put my canoe on the well platform, jumped into the well with only a bundle of firewood on my back, and swept over the water to the bank of the river where Lu Dachuan and them were.

"Why did you get such a little twig for so long?" Lu Dachuan, who was standing by the river and holding a rope to fish, looked at me with my back on the branch and said,

"The boat is ready, put it on it to dry, I'll go up and get the ...... later," I said, unloading the branches and putting them on the shore, and walked to Liu Chang's legs, his hands were full of blood and slaughtered a strange fish more than a meter long and black, strange in appearance a bit like a baby fish, but without limbs, "What kind of fish are you fishing?" ”

"I don't know." Liu Changjiao glanced up at me, then took out a bunch of internal organs from the fish's stomach and threw it on the side, and asked Lu Keqin and Lin Xian'er, who were watching from the side, to pour water and wash it.

"What kind of boat did you make, don't take it down and bake it over the fire, and put it in a short time to dry." Lu Dachuan turned his head and said to me,

"The canoe is placed on the well platform outside." I untied the rope, took out a branch and handed it to Lu Dachuan, telling him about the rapid dehydration of the tree after it was cut down.

"Hah, that's a big hassle." Lu Dachuan threw down the branch, guided the rope with both hands, and caught a strange fish of the same variety as the one slaughtered by Liu Changjiao.

Seeing that this one was bigger than the other, I said, "Two are enough, you roast quickly, I'll go up and get some firewood, and when the boat is dry, take it down and we can set off." ”

After more than two hours, we prepared everything and moved everything onto the boat, Lu Dachuan and Liu Changjiao sat at both ends of the rowing boat one after the other, and we left three people to sit in the middle, and the canoe went down the river.

After rowing out more than 1,000 meters, I saw that the river was still not in a hurry, and there were no fierce beasts in the water attacking us, so I came up sleepy, and I changed positions with Lu Keqin, leaned into her arms and fell asleep for a while.

"Zheng Shuang, Zheng Shuang, wake up...... I don't know how long it took, I heard Lu Keqin's eager cry and felt that she was shaking my body, I suddenly opened my eyes and sat up to look left and right, and saw the boat leaning on the shore and stopped, Lu Dachuan stood on the shore, and the rest of the people were still sitting on the boat. ”

Lu Dachuan pointed to a pile of ashes on the shore and two fish bone spurs to show me: "We're back again." ”

"Ah, how long have you been walking?" I suddenly fell asleep, got up and jumped onto the shore, judging from Lu Keqin's eagerly wake-up me and everyone's expression, I knew that the boat was definitely not rowed back by them.

"For at least four or five hours, the river was straight and we always paddled along the shore......"

After listening to Lu Dachuan, I thought of the monster souls in circles in the city, and realized that this river might not be able to go out at all, but I didn't see it with my own eyes and was a little unwilling: "Let's go, get on the boat, let's try again." ”

Lu Dachuan and I got on the boat, the three men all rowed violently, the canoe was like an arrow from the shore and sailed forward, along the way I always paid attention to the scenery on the shore, more than two hours later, a pile of ashes on the shore, two fish bones appeared in our sight again,

After another trip, Lu Dachuan and Liu Changjiao had been exercising non-stop for six or seven hours, and they all looked tired, and my two arms were also a little sore, so we had to take people ashore to rest.

In the next two or three days, we changed a few wells, and went back and forth many times upstream and downstream, on both sides of the river, and no matter how we walked, we would eventually return to the bottom of the well in the city.

"Fuck your uncle." After tossing for a few days and not leaving, and everyone was tired half to death, we couldn't find what the problem was, and the more I sat by the river, the more I thought about it, the more angry my heart became, and I couldn't control myself and got up and kicked the canoe that dragged us up to the river bank and kicked into the river.

"Well, how did you kick the ship away." Seeing the canoe turn and fall into the river, Lu Dachuan hurriedly stood up and ran towards the river.

"I can't get out anyway, and it's useless to ask for a boat."

"The river will definitely be able to get outside, we can't row out because of the big heads, what they did in the river, find out where the problem is, still use it, and quickly recover it." I used a lot of strength, the canoe flew to the middle of the river and had already gone downstream, Lu Dachuan looked anxious and had no choice but to urge me,

I have a fire in my heart and stand still,

"No matter how far he kicks, he will eventually float back, what are you anxious about." Lin Xian'er saw that Lu Dachuan was so anxious that she jumped to her feet, I just stood still, walked over and said,

"Oh...... I'm by this kid. ”

"Pull it down, if you are confused, just say that you are confused, don't rely on me."

Looking at the road, but couldn't get out, we were in a bad mood, I quarreled with Lu Dachuan three times, just when the two of us were arguing, Liu Changleg shouted: "Don't quarrel, come over and see, what is the fish offal eaten." ”

Liu Long legs and Lu Dachuan both closed their mouths and ran over to look,

The internal organs of the two big fish were taken out of a big pile, and the last trip back to the same place, I also saw the big flat stone that was piled up next to the fish that Liu Changleg killed, and now it is not gone at all, according to the drag traces left on the stone, it should be an amphibian in the river, climbed ashore and ate the fish entrails,

"This guy is not small, look at those stones, it should be its footprints." Lu Dachuan and I quarreled, but I didn't hold grudges against each other, he pointed to a few stones that were separated by more than two meters from the left and right, and five or six meters from the front and back were almost disappearing water marks to show me,

"It's quite big, whether this section of the river can't go out is that it's doing tricks." If someone had told me that an animal had such great ability, I would definitely not believe it, but after seeing the spells of the black jade and the white clothes, the human-faced beasts in the city above, and the roar of the sky, the first reaction in my mind was that the one who ate the guts of the fish was most likely also a monster with cultivation.

"Very likely." Lu Dachuan nodded, and the light shone on the river, "Zheng Shuang, look at the boat......"

I hurriedly looked over to the place where Lu Dachuan's lights were shining, and saw that the canoe I kicked into the river did not float away with the current, but kept spinning on the river more than ten meters downstream......