"Judging by the time of descent and the weight of the fish, the abyss is 5,000 meters deeper, which is much deeper than the depth source of our estimate of the origin of the earthquake."

"No, what do I care about is the one who eats the fish? Shu Chaojie: Do you know? ”

"I don't know." The video doesn't make it clear at all, "Anyway, can you figure out how big that creature is based on the area of that shadow?" ”

While they were having a heated discussion, Xie Chenhui pulled me out and asked me if I wanted to go out for a walk. I said go there? He said he went to the village of Dajiuhu to buy something. I nodded and followed, anyway, the fat man and the old man were not on the other side, and I didn't have the slightest room to interject with these technical men.

Xie Chenhui drove me outside in a Land Rover, he lit a cigarette and asked me if I wanted it, I waved my hand, and he said, "The water supply is in short supply, and with the massive infiltration of groundwater, I can't drink the water here now." ”

"Something went wrong on the Hanjiangyuan side?" I asked.

"That's right, one of our first team members to go there for a field trip is missing."

"In that little puddle?"

"That's right, it's said that he was dragged into the water by something." Xie Chenhui spat out a smoke ring: "It's ridiculous that we haven't found that reason so far." ”

"Could it be some kind of novelty?"

"No, most of the new species in Shennongjia are found in the forest, and Dajiuhu belongs to a swamp, that is, a mountain stream basin, and you can't actually find anything very precious."

"But there are a lot of mountains around him, aren't they? Jiuhuping is surrounded by high mountains, and the highest peak is 2,800 meters. "I also inquired about Dajiuhu when I came. It is a rare wetland in the subalpine mountains. At an altitude of 1,700 meters, surrounded by high mountains, among the Shennongjia mountains of "looking up to see the high mountains, the land is not three feet flat", it is extremely rare to hide such ** flat land, so it also enjoys the reputation of "alpine plain", and be

It is called "Hulunbuir" and "Shennong Jiangnan" in Hubei.

"But it's a creature in the water! According to the description of the person we came back from, it was a water ghost. ”

"Water ghosts? So it's very likely that it came from the underground? ”

"That's right." Xie Chenhui said, "The underground water has formed a kind of sucking posture through the cracks, and a lot of water is sucked up from the ground, not sprayed up by the water, so the possibility of those creatures surviving is very large." ”

"Did you catch it?"

"How is that possible?" Xie Chenhui said with a smile: "There are a total of nine lakes in Dajiu Lake. The area of the small nine lakes separated by a mountain is 5,000 acres, and a small stream connects nine small lakes. If the unknown creatures were really washed up, would we be able to catch them? If you want to catch it, it is also the responsibility of the manager. ”

Xie Chenhui's car drove very fast, and we returned to Jiuhu Village in half an hour.

It's already 2 o'clock in the morning, the square of Jiuhu Village is still lit up, and the streets and alleys are full of all kinds of cars, these people have heard about the flood in Shennongjia that has not been encountered for 10,000 years, and the number of tourists has been refreshed again in this off-season of tourism. In an hour, Xie Chenhui and I swept through all the small shops here, buying all kinds of drinks here at twice the usual price.

It was almost 3 o'clock when we found a hostel to take a break, as most of the rooms were booked.

I didn't sleep much all night, my biological clock was almost reversed in order after a long hibernation, I walked out of the hotel at 6 o'clock, watching the morning rise from the mountains behind me, the grass and trees in the mountains dancing in the wind, bringing bursts of flowers, and in front of me was the smoky No. 1 Lake, like tulle wings attached to it. In the past few days, there have been more tourists, fishing by the lake, morning exercises in the mountains, couples whispering at the Geopark, old people waving their swords at the door of the farmhouse, children happy, without the slightest of the death caused by the previous disaster.

At noon, Xie Chenhui and I returned to the camp, and Shu Chaojie, who got out of the car to greet us, said that the fat man and the old man had not come back yet, and I heard that the water ghost was found over there, so I hurriedly ran over as soon as I heard it.

At this time, there is no water in the Dajiu Lake Scenic Area, but the scenery is still very beautiful, fortunately, because of the receding water, I can go to a lot of places where there is usually water, where the water and grass are overgrown, some people say that it is a place where snakes gather, I broke a section of wooden branches and walked carefully, every step is frightened. I avoided the road and walked along the interfering river, the breeze blowing in the shadows of the trees, with the cold air of the mountains, I tightened my clothes, and suddenly noticed that something in the bushes in front of me moved, and gradually the movement became louder and louder, and I took a few steps back, but unfortunately I saw nothing, only the sound of my own heavy breathing.

Feeling that I hadn't recovered from the urgency of the underground forest, I was still suspicious, so I complained and walked towards where the fat man was. After walking for a while, I saw the watershed between the Yangtze River and the Han River, the water on the right is poured into the underground river through the sinkhole, which is the source of the Daning River, and the water on the left is poured into the underground river through the sinkhole and flows into the Han River. And the strange thing is that the water here is still black, Shu Chaojie, who caught up with me, told me that it is said that it is because of a pool of black water caused by the silt formed over tens of thousands of years and more than 3 meters thick under the 7** lake. There are also many small sinkholes, and if it weren't for the water that poured into the underground river, the basin of the mountains around Dajiu Lake would not be a wetland but a lake.

"Isn't the sinkhole ahead?" I asked, puzzled.

"There are only a few of them here, and the one in front is the biggest!"

"But in that case, why don't you drain the water out there?"

"It's been smoked!" "I can't drain it at all, and I don't know why the water in the ground doesn't drain after it recedes." ”

As I was talking, I suddenly saw a large black markings slipping from behind me in the mottled shadows of the trees, "What is it?" "I immediately looked up when I felt something fly over my head, but at this time I saw something I had never thought of. The giant bird with a dustpan is about two meters long, including its wings, and its plumage is black-gray; What struck me even more was that the bird had a cluster of heads, about nine heads, and a red beak; Its tail is also very peculiar, in the shape of a round fan, which is both like a peacock opening the screen and like a wheel, spinning and flying.

The huge bird flew and made a strange birdsong, which I had never heard in all my travels into the forest, and it was a bit like a woman's laughter, and it was a hairy sound that made everyone's hearts flutter.

"What's that?" I asked Shu Chaojie next to me.

"Ninety-nine-headed birds." He panicked, a little overwhelmed.

"What's wrong?"

"This is the legendary mourning bird of Shennongjia. It's over, something must have happened. Shu Chaojie was very superstitious and rushed to the place where the fat man was.

"Mourning birds?" As soon as Shu Chaojie said this, I immediately remembered that the nine-headed bird is actually a fierce bird among the people, but why does such a bird appear here? I caught up with him, and in a blink of an eye, I saw the fat man and the old man standing there by the wooden bridge of the big waterhole at the source of the Han River, and the wooden bridge was full of water stains, as if someone had just climbed out of the water.

"What's wrong with the fat man and the old man?" I scrambled through the crowd and crawled through. When he arrived, he saw a corpse lying on the wooden bridge, and the corpse's eyes were so big that they were about to burst out, as if they were dead.

"Another one went, and it seemed that he was dragged into the water to die, although someone grabbed him, but he still died." Shu Chaojie whispered beside me.

"What kind of thing it is."

"The whole body is green, and the ears are large and pointed. The mouth is a bit long and there are gills on both sides of the face. The old man came over and pulled me by the hand, "Why are you here?" Don't you take a break? ”

"It's no problem, I'm worried about you! How's the progress going here? ”

"This sinkhole has been shaken by an earthquake underground, and if we were to go down it was the only known passage."

"But a lot of people have died." I lowered my head, "I feel like the fat man hasn't been in a good mood lately, is it because of this?" ”

"Do you want to, then?" I was halfway through my sentence when I heard a gust of wind, and I looked up and saw a huge bird swooping down from the sky.

Nine-headed bird? Nine heads? Looking at it up close, I immediately noticed that one of its heads was a little longer, the lower joints were a little longer, and the neck in front of it did have nine skulls. The front one has a longer braincase, and the middle neck seems to have a lot of braincases on all sides.

After a brief period of silence, the crowd erupted in earth-shattering shouts, maybe for some of the people on the team, this creature was their milestone, but I didn't think so, I picked up a stick on the ground and rushed over immediately, because I knew that this thing was very good for eating meat.

Sure enough, before I could rush up, the nine-headed bird picked up the corpse on the ground and flew away again.

People are still talking about it now, but I can see the fat man's face flushed. Sure enough, he immediately shouted at the conversation of these people: "Go back, in four days I will see that there is no water here, and in five days I will deliver all the equipment, I will go down." ”

The four days passed quickly, and I was given plenty of time to rest, and I saw that the water in the source of the Han River was drained little by little, and the dark sinkhole was revealed, and on the fifth day all the equipment we wanted was brought up one by one, and I saw that most of them were diving suits and oxygen tanks, and I asked Alexander how we would enter that abyss later. He smiled, pointed to something that resembled a capsule that the Super Saiyan was riding in, and said to me, "It's up to me." ”

I was a little embarrassed, but I still felt that the progress of the sinkhole was too slow, on the one hand, the fat man had to communicate with the local political axe management department, and on the other hand, he had to measure the bottom after the water receded to explore the direction of the cracks in the sinkhole and whether there was any danger inside.

10 days have passed, one after another we have gathered more than 30 people here, the fat man selected half of the number of people, began to prepare to enter the cave, I watched this scene on the side, I still feel a little bold, because we were all 4 or 5 people before, this time there are so many people, but there are 3 times as much.

But the old man said that the more people there were, the greater the danger index, and the fat man refused to say what was down there, and the only thing I could know was where the fat man must have gotten some clues.

I guess it's the tomb. (To be continued.) )