XXXV. The burial ground
"What's wrong?" I think something must have happened to the fat man avoiding the others and looking for me alone.
"You'll find out if you come along." The fat man said, this is the first time that the fat man took the initiative to talk to me after coming down, and put the time so secretly, the fat man asked me to take two sets of diving suits, and I followed him to tread the water, and walked to the bottom of the current.
The area of the caves on both sides is getting smaller and smaller, and the difference is basically several times compared to before, of course, this also makes the small stream-like water converge into the momentum of the river, and the water has spread to my thighs after walking less than 100 meters.
"Put on your wetsuit and swim ahead!" The fat man stopped and said to me.
"Is the water up ahead?"
"Yes! And the current was getting stronger, and I was still wondering how I would be able to get the cabin over a while. ”
"Delivered?"
"Yes! The real bottomless pit is underneath, Alexander's probe has already transmitted the data to my computer, and the sea is below, but according to the sonar response, there is still land in this place. ”
"Can we land on land?" I asked.
"That's not a problem anymore." The fat man got dressed and walked on the water.
After swimming for 5 minutes in the water, it was clear that the speed of the water was getting stronger and stronger, and I saw a person under the water stuck between two stalactites, floating with the ripples of the water. "Who is it?" I thought, "Old man or **?" How is this possible, how can there be a dead man here? "I felt a huge wave in my heart.
When the fat man saw me stop, he gestured to me and asked me to continue, and just when I was entangled in my heart, the face of the person in my sight became clearer and clearer: "It's Wang Bojun!" Although his face was already white, I could still see it at a glance. ”
"How did he end up floating here? Could it be that it was washed down by the current? "I stared at the fat man curiously, because I was in a hurry when I came, I didn't bring a communication system, who knew that the stream would form a river here, and Wang Bojun's corpse and so on, something was wrong! I know the trend of this river very well all the way over, and its source is the water on the cave wall, so how did Wang Bojun's body come down? Or are two places still figured out?
The current here is a bit big, the fat man and I leaned on the side of the stalactite, looking at the corpse, his wetsuit was still on his body, but there was no oxygen mask, but his legs and lower body Oh my God! He fell to his death, he didn't drown, how could it be, I saw him dragged into the water with my own eyes, and I was right! I didn't see him die.
I fell into deep thought at once, and the fat man saw my doubts, and he pushed Wang Bojun from the stalactite into the current, and swam back with me. Swimming to the shallow water, I ripped off my oxygen mask and asked, "What's going on?" ”
"That's why I'm going to open up this river quickly." The fat man said, "This place leads to the bottom of the sea, but during this period of time the water has flooded this place, so that our road is not smooth." ”
"But."
"Don't interrupt me." The fat man said as he walked, "I think there are some inner demons among us, these people follow us in, and are ordered to escape with fake death and move freely to give us unexpected ambushes. Apparently Wang Bojun was one of them, and you can see that he did not drown, but fell to his death, falling from the top of the cave. So I'm going to speed up the process and catch them off guard. ”
"Are you saying that Wang Bojun's existence is likely to have the effect of delaying time? That's why in that kind of place, you choose to be thrown into the water. ”
"That's right, in fact, I don't know if he can break free from that kind of water monster, and I didn't think about whether he was an inner ghost, I was just thinking that if our progress was delayed here, then it was very likely that we would have to give up. There aren't a lot of water ghosts sneaking into that place, but they will be a huge overdraft of our guns and ammunition, do you think I'll feel better off this kind of abandonment? ”
"I guess it's much better now." I laughed.
"Yes! But in this way, the problem is exposed, so every action is basically me and the master and ** go first. ”
"How many people did you invite this time? How many cronies did you have? ”
After that, the fat man listed all these people, and it was not surprising that Dawn was also among them, this person was only exposed to the fat man 2 years ago, so the time was not too long.
Then we each went back to the camp where we were sleeping, slept for a while, and the next day we got up and gave the fat man an order to clear all the obstacles in the river within two days, and on the third day we dived on time. He had already discovered with the old man's probing that the water was finally flowing to the abyss at the bottom, and that place had always been the place I thought I was going to, at least when I was in Pushan, and now I was standing in front of him.
2 days is not a long time, not short, we 2 groups of people take turns to clean up the river, when bored to play a game of cards, the most awesome thing is that the guy named Yang Yang also brought a deck of cards to kill the Three Kingdoms in, through half a day I found that I have been fascinated. Of course, this is the effect achieved through countless ridicule, such as Zhong Nan when I killed me, I didn't flash in my hand and actually played flawlessly, but I was scolded by Hu Yong fiercely, and then for example, my lord elected Huang Gai, and swept the second position Hu Yong without saying a word with AK, and found out that he was loyal, I not only lost my hand but also successfully beat up madly by that group of loyal ministers, and the most fucking hateful thing is that the son of a bitch was also involved.
Time passed quickly and slowly, and I had the good fortune to see the entrance to the great abyss, with no walls underneath, as if it were hollow, and during this time Dawn had been hoisted down by a rope once, and when I came back I shook my head and said that it was dark, there was nothing.
On the third day, after we successfully cleaned up, we all took the cabin to the depth of the river, and at the end the fat man said that the three people were in a group, and the last two people, so that I was assigned to Liming and a man named Zhang Pei. As we closed the door and let go of the ropes that held the cabin to me, I began to feel the thrill of being hit by the water, and after a few minutes suddenly the downward trend began to change.
The 90-degree angle fell vertically, but soon the air sprayed from the cabin dragged us down, and we began to move towards the unknown, because the cabin was fully enclosed and there was no transparent glass, which also made us completely have no chance to see the outside world, in fact, even if we did, it was dark.
For a long time, when I almost thought we were going to die, this cabin finally found a piece of land to land.
I couldn't wait to open the cabin and walked out, fortunately the other people also flew over one after another, the fat man helped the old man, it seemed that he was still a little airsick, we let him rest for a while and gave him some pills to turn on all the light sources and found that we are now on an uphill ground, this place does not know where it is, completely lost contact with the outside world, a large number of machines and equipment we can not bring down, can not detect, can not contact. All that's left is weapons and food.
The uphill road behind is not very difficult to walk, but it is a little tiring after a long time, I admit that my otaku's physique has been revealed, I waved my hand and sat on a stone pier, but found that they were all not moving, I turned my head and found that the gathering point of the light was like a forest of stalagmites towering there, straight into the clouds above, those clouds showed different colors under the light of the flashlight, the fat man said that it was just a rhyme, and the wonderful thing was that those stalagmites each had the thickness of a person's ring hand.
I swear I never knew about the existence of this stalagmite in my impression, I remember someone said that the stalagmite could be used to calculate the climate of ancient times, that stalagmite was the size of a palm, and my knowledge was fixed there, but at the moment in front of me I was turned upside down, and when I looked up, it was a stalactite hanging downwards as a whole, this stalactite was very large in size, giving people a feeling of oppression, they grew down from the top of this cave through the clouds, and I could even see the small hole where the water droplets leaked down. Next to these small holes are stalagmites that "grow" from the ground, they are like a tree dressed in petrified clothing, and the wheel tracks of each layer are obvious, and I know that this is left after every chemical reaction, and such a time will take thousands of years.
I looked up and looked at the stalactites passing by, perhaps for tens of thousands of years looking at each other, and they all hated each other for not having a chance to intersect to form stone pillars. Stalactites grow from top to bottom, while stalagmites grow from bottom to top, and if they meet halfway, they form stone pillars that connect the entire cave.
The stone wheels of these stalagmites climb up one after another, but they are not standardized, some may be the same size as thousands of years ago, and some may be much larger, so it is difficult to calculate. But I could still roughly see that I was counting round and round, like counting the years of the earth, and I didn't give up my boring actions until I was above my head.
"I've been wondering how that cloud of smoke was formed?" Dawn sat on a rock, washing her shoes with the clean water that flowed down the slope while looking up at the "sky" where smoke curled like clouds. "It seems that he settled in very quickly.
"It's just a kind of cavern climate." One person said, "There are indeed caves that generate a complete climate system. But this is a miracle that does exist theoretically. If only you had a camera. ”
"The SLR lost me, and I still have Samsung, do you want it?" Another quipped.
They were still talking, but the fat man and the old man had already walked to the top, I didn't think about it so much, after all, those water sources were not far from us, I saw the old man waving to us at a high place, his eyes slowly moved down, watching the trickle of streams converge down the concave point of this highland, and it should be the sea water above, and it is in this way that there will be a steady stream of water flowing out of here, and the flashlight shines in the trickle, and I see that there will be countless small creatures floating inside, Some were squeezed out of the water and attached directly to the stalagmite, which was something smaller than a tadpole, and its whole body was transparent, and if you had a better eye, you could see its main bone.
I gasped, slowly distracting myself, in such a dark place if you look at a strong light for a long time, your eyesight will slowly decrease, far above is a diagonal cave, the top of the cave is blocked by an unconventional rock, and we can only get through somewhere, fortunately the stalactites there are not very hard, Xu Yang, who climbed in front, simply smashed them.
Then a tall man patted me on the shoulder and said, "You see, these tiny creatures did not swim up to this stalagmite by themselves, but were squeezed up by the current. ”
"Huh?" I removed the flashlight and let its light reflect from the water to the root of the stalagmites, and I found that there were countless such small creatures crawling there, some of them even squirming from the water below, and after a long time, I realized that these enclosed stalagmites were all stone pillars that had been connected with stalactites, so the only reason was that there was a substance in the "kingdom" of the clouds in the sky that they lived, and this substance flowed down from above the "clouds".
I carefully twisted it with my fingers, a little like snot, sticky, silky, and smelled a fishy smell coming to my face. "Is it animal secretions? Or saliva? "I looked up and remembered the scene I had seen before, and my heart began to become restless, what was there in the clouds?
I shook my head, thinking that I should change my unfounded surname, knowing that we would still follow their path, so why bother to be boring.
The legs that began to be numb after hammering still staggered to keep up with the footsteps of the dawn, and the front ** slowly walked down with the terrain, and soon disappeared. The place below is an open place, the area is not big, but I can faintly hear the sound of water, I walked down and stood here suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing, subconsciously hugged my arms, at this time my toes touched a piece of something, I squatted down curiously, looking at this arched lot I kicked with my foot for a while the wind blew up a layer of ash above, rolled up and flew in the air, I covered my mouth and nose, desperately trying to disperse the dust, but inadvertently saw a piece of wood exposed.
There were many dragon patterns on it, and although most of it was covered by the gray layer, I could still see the splendor of the time, and I grabbed the wood chip with my hand and slowly pulled it out, but suddenly the ground began to shake as if it was driven by this wood chip. (To be continued.) )