Chapter 55: The Underground River
The corpses were glued together on top of each other, already half-white and ossified, flesh and blood turned into a solidified object like mud, half-buried in the earth, limbs twisted, and merged with the surrounding rocks and the earth.
I don't know how many years it will take, or how long it will take for this scene to take shape, and I can't imagine it unless I saw it with my own eyes.
It's just that who will these people who died tragically at the entrance of the cave?
Although the postures of these corpses are different, from the direction, they all seem to run out of it, trying to escape from here, but just run to the position of the cave entrance, they can't hold on. Their clothes were completely rotten, and some of the faintly visible old guns were scattered on the ground and half-buried, and that seemed to be the only thing that could prove their identity.
Zhang Ye grabbed a rusty spear on the ground and pulled the bolt, but it was already rusted to death, Da Kui glanced at it and said: "This seems to be an old-fashioned water bead rifle, judging from the length, it should be Lao Maozi's cavalry special gun, these people, are they the Cossack cavalry of the Tsarist era?" ”
Unexpectedly, he had some research on firearms, and Ansari also took the spear, but shook his head and said: "No, this should be a Japanese Type 30 carbine, which is slightly shorter than a rifle and is convenient for fighting in a narrow area." And judging from the skeletal size, these people should all be short, the typical characteristics of the Asian race in the past, how could they be fierce and warlike Cossack cavalry? ”
"Japan? Do you mean, could these people be Japanese? But in this Sino-Russian border area, which is occupied by Tsarist Russia, how could the Japanese come here? I asked, confused.
Lao Pan also checked on the ground and said to me: "Brother An is right, these people will not be Cossack cavalry, otherwise they will definitely carry Cossack scimitars that never leave their bodies." As for why the Japanese are here, Brother Yuan, don't forget the Russo-Japanese War back then, but they fought on the border of Northeast China for several years. Leave them alone, we're busy with ours. ”
He changed the subject and asked Da Kui, "Did you collect the rope that came down just now?" ”
Da Kui shook his head, and Lao Pan said: "Go and collect it, I suspect that someone is following us now, have you noticed that there are no traces of anyone along the way?" This shows that those people now have two possibilities, one is to walk behind us, waiting to fish in troubled waters. The second is that they have already encountered danger and the whole army has been annihilated. But I'd rather believe that the first one, collecting the rope, is to avoid exposing our whereabouts, and to save them from picking up cheap. ”
Da Kui agreed, and ran over to collect the rope, his method of collecting the rope is very special, just now he was the last to come down, the rope was re-knotted by him, and it was two ropes together, I thought he was afraid that a single rope was not enough to bear his weight, now I looked, I saw him pull one of the rope heads and shake it, so easily pulled the whole rope off, and put it back in the backpack.
However, I asked a little worriedly, "But if we take the rope, how can we go back and go up?" ”
Lao Pan patted me on the shoulder and said, "Don't think about this, since we can come down, we naturally have a way to go up." ”
We began to walk towards the cave, in fact, strictly speaking, the entrance of this black water demon cave is a huge crack in the cliff, the widest part should be more than thirty meters, looking down, it is pitch black inside, the terrain is steep, the wind is blowing upwards, and I don't know how deep it is.
It was a trumpet-shaped cave, and the space below was wider than the entrance, and Ansari walked in front, signaling us to follow closely behind us and not to be left behind.
A few strong flashlights lit up, I found that the cave was very yin, the cave walls were full of moss, surrounded by an open field, a few flashlights were constantly shining around, the cool wind blew out from inside, there was a ticking sound of water in the distance, I accidentally coughed, and immediately there was an echo.
But we didn't find anything abnormal, we kept walking far away, the terrain in front of us suddenly turned low, and a vertical downward cliff appeared, and the distance was measured, but it was not very high, about only a dozen meters.
There was the sound of water flowing at the bottom of the cave, and we climbed down with a rope on the cliff as usual, but this time Zhang Ye did not use a rope, but directly used his hands and feet to go down, and my eyes were straight when I saw it, no wonder they were not afraid that they could not go up after receiving the rope, it turned out that they were all rock climbing masters.
Da Kui said to me that it was nothing at all, and I remember that once they came out of a large tomb and climbed a cliff of nearly 200 meters, which was much more arduous than here.
I listened to it with my tongue out secretly, and my brain was sweating, it seems that this tomb robbery is really a high-tech job.
I don't know what kind of place we're here this time.
Descending to the bottom, it is about the size of a playground, covered with stones, and a short walk ahead is an underground river, about ten meters wide.
The river stretched across here, blocking the way forward, and we stopped in front of the dark river.
In fact, this underground river is not too wide, but no one knows how deep it is, Da Kui jumped down, carefully waded the water forward, but after walking for a while, he came back, shook his head and said, "It's too deep inside, I can't flow through." The water was cold, not sure if there was anything weird in it. ”
Unexpectedly, we encountered a problem just after coming down, but it was solved immediately, Ah Sheng took out an inflatable boat from his backpack, took out a pedal air pump, and in the blink of an eye, a simple inflatable raft appeared in front of us.
I was pleasantly surprised that these people were so well prepared, even the boat was ready.
This is an inflatable raft that can accommodate 2-3 people, Da Kui tied a rope to it, and Ah Sheng and Ansari got on the boat first, took off the aluminum alloy oars on it, and carefully began to row, the sound of the water was soft, the inflatable raft slowly went away, and in a moment, the three of them arrived at the opposite bank.
It seems that this dark river should be safe, followed by me and Lao Pan, and Zhang Ye, we first dragged the inflatable raft back with a rope, and then got on the boat, Lao Pan and Zhang Ye paddled quickly, and I watched the movement in the boat.
The river here is dark black and does not flow fast, the river meanders underground, and because of the dim light, you can't see anything on either side, you don't know how long it is, and you don't know where it leads.
Our boat soon reached the middle of the river, the sound of the water and the sound of oars sounded in my ears, I took a flashlight and shone around in the river, the dark water shone with a special shine under the flashlight, and I suddenly felt that the river seemed to be very clear.
Da Kui and others on the river bank also used flashlights to open the way for us, illuminating the river in front of me, I subconsciously raised my head, looking at the darkness in the cave behind Da Kui and them, I was a little nervous, and then looked back, the light outside was almost completely invisible.
At this moment, Zhang Ye's oars suddenly seemed to touch something, making a sound, and at the same time, our boat also slowed down, Zhang Ye said in a deep voice: "We seem to have touched something." ”
I hurriedly used a flashlight to shine into the river, but around the side of our boat, there was nothing, Zhang Ye began to stir in the river with his oars, trying to find out the reason, Lao Pan paddled the side, as if he wanted to get out of here quickly.
However, Zhang Ye stirred a few times, and it seemed that there was nothing left, he frowned strangely, and paddled again, but at this moment, Da Kui on the shore suddenly shouted.
He pointed to the water on my side with a panicked expression, I subconsciously looked down, the flashlight flickered, and I suddenly noticed that something seemed to float in the water.
The thing was black and quickly disappeared from my face, or rather floated under the boat.
Lao Pan and Zhang Ye also realized that something was wrong and began to speed up rowing, but at this time, a force suddenly came from under the water, as if something was hanging on the bottom of the boat, and our boat kept shaking and could not move forward.
Zhang Ye was in a hurry, and smashed it a few times with the oars, and actually made a few muffled sounds, and with his last force, the force that pulled the boat suddenly disappeared, but at the same time, there was a noise next to him, and a black thing suddenly came out of the water, and the water splashed on our faces.
I was startled, and before I could see what it was, this thing immediately fell down again, and I understood that it was made by Zhang Ye with a boat.
But just as the thing fell back into the water, and the splash splashed again, a flashlight had already shone on the thing, and I could see clearly that it was a blue and black face.