I had no choice but to take Uncle Ming and Ah Xiang and continue to move downstream along the river full of crystal veins, and after walking for three days in a row, the glowing freshwater jellyfish gradually became scarce. Finally, this narrow abyss finally has an end, and the huge mountain gap is blocked by a crystal wall hundreds of meters high, and the wall is full of mysterious symbols and imprints, just like the iceberg crystal stone seen before, but the wall is too big and too high, and people feel as small as ants when they stand under this magnificent wall. The sky is faintly dazzling above the huge wall, which must be the legendary "Gate of Disaster".

The base of the crystal wall is not in the river, and the river water passes through the wall. Now is the most abundant time of the year in the Kunlun mountain system, and it seems that the tunnel that has been dug is underwater, and if it is in normal times, the passage on the gate of disaster may be exposed to the water. Since I didn't know the length of the passage and there were only three sets of diving equipment, I didn't dare to rush the whole team down, so I decided to let everyone rest here first, and let me go into the water alone to find out the way, and then decide how to get to Guò.

But the fat man stopped me and volunteered to reconnoiter the length and width of the passage, and I knew that the fat man had excellent water properties, so I agreed to let him go underwater to explore the way. The fat man relied on himself to swim back and forth in a river dozens of meters long, and he could go down into the water without an oxygen cylinder and only wearing diving goggles.

I waited on the shore with my watch pinched, and the time passed by second, and the surface of the water was silent and silent, and Shirley Yang and I began to lose our breath, and we didn't come back for a minute, and the fish bit our butts. I was about to go into the water to look for him, but when I saw a splash, the fat man's head wearing a mountaineering helmet popped out, and he wiped the river water on his face: "The passage of this crystal wall is very wide and not long, but the opposite side of the fuck can't get through, and the big fish under the water form a fish formation, and the number is too many to count, and it is tightly blocked." ”

Fish formations can be found in inland lakes, but there are no human beings here, and there is no need for schools of fish to form fish formations to prevent people from catching them, unless there is something unknown under the water that threatens their survival.

Except for me and the fat man, the rest of us had never heard of the fish formation. There are many such legends along the coast of Fujian, and there are also in the freshwater lakes in the interior, but for some reason, it has been very rare in the last 20 years. The fish formation, also known as the "fish wall", is a supernatural fish behavior that biologists have not yet been able to explain, in which a large number of fish of the same species in the water gather together, bite each other's tails, and connect their heads and tails, forming a circle of territory, no matter how big or small, all the fish are tightly enclosed in layers, and their size can sometimes reach the range of several miles.

The fish in the freshwater lake form a fish formation, one is to prevent the "black ghost" from catching; The second is to defend against the attacks of large underwater predators, because from a distance under the water, the fish formation looks like a huge black monster swimming slowly, which is enough to scare off any natural predators; It is also possible that due to sudden changes in climate or environment, the fish are frightened and form a group to protect themselves.

Everyone eats something by the river so that they can swim in the water, and by the way, they plan how to get through the fish formation behind the crystal wall, which is very nerve-wracking.

Shirley Young found a piece of paper and drew on it what the fat man said about the underwater situation. The "Gate of Disaster" has a passage seven or eight meters wide underwater, about 20 meters long, and the terrain after going out is trumpet-shaped, narrow in front and wide in the back, and tens of thousands of "white-bearded scaleless fish" form a barrel-shaped fish formation at the mouth of the trumpet, blocking the underwater way to the outside lake. The whitebeard fish is a special fish that only exists in the water of the Karamir Mountains, and its characteristics are large and scaleless, and the whole body is green, only the beard and mouth are snow-white, so it got such a name. The fat man said that the white-bearded fish behind the "Gate of Calamity" were large and small, on average, more than half a meter long, and the huge fish array was tumbling and rolling, and it was impossible to pass through it.

"Whitebeard fish are not harmful, but they are a potential threat because of their large populations," Shirley said. When we pass underwater, if we fall alone, we may be surrounded by fish and lose contact with other team members, we should try to break up the fish formation in advance before we can get through. ”

I said to everyone: "Since ancient times, fishermen want to break the fish formation, and they need to have a ghost handsome, but we are in the depths of the Kunlun Mountain, where can we find the ghost handsome?" And even if there is really a ghost handsome who can be driven, I'm afraid it won't be able to deal with tens of thousands of whitebeard fish more than half a meter long. ”

Uncle Ming and the others didn't know what a "ghost handsome" was, so they were busy asking for details. I asked the fat man to tell them, and the fat man said do you know what a "black ghost" is? It's not the kind of Sichuan people call black pigs. In some fishing villages, fishermen raise a kind of large-billed waterfowl called cormorant, which can help fishermen go into the water to catch fish, but they have to tie their necks with ropes in advance, otherwise they will catch fish by themselves, and the common name of this waterfowl is "black ghost".

Wherever there is a place where black ghosts are raised, in the waters of a lake or a river, no matter how many cormorants there are, there must be a "ghost handsome" with a head. The ghost is two or three times larger than the average cormorant, the big mouth is more powerful than a steel hook, and the two eyes are shining, looking like an eagle. Sometimes fishermen take boats to the lake to catch fish, but they can't catch even a single scale for several days, which means that the fish under the water have formed a fish formation. At this time, all the fishermen had to pool their money and efforts, burn incense and sacrifice to the river god, and then put the ghost into the water.

But the whitebeard fish here are so large that they are not comparable to the usual schools of fish in inland lakes. This kind of fish swims in the water, and the strength can knock people on their heads, and I'm afraid that even if there are ghosts, they can't break up the fish formation here.

With the help of the fat man to give everyone the vernacular, I have made up my mind, since I have arrived at the gate of the demon kingdom, there is no reason not to advance and retreat, there is no ghost handsome, but we have explosives, enough to blow up the fish. But diving through the underwater passage, you have to go through five people at a time, because I see this huge "disaster gate", not a single piece, but with a piece of iceberg crystal stone several meters square artificially built, not only carved with a large number of graphic symbols, but also between the stones There are many gaps, which may be washed out when the water flow is large, or it may be deliberately made when the construction is made, in order to reduce the impact of the water flow on the wall. The explosives used in the blasting fish array cannot be too little, too few to surprise so many whitebearded fish, but too much explosives will destroy part of the crystal wall. This giant wall is a relic of antiquity, and if you pull it all in, the "Gate of Calamity" will collapse, and there will be a chain reaction, and within two minutes, the stones falling from the main wall will completely block the passage. There was about a minute and a half before that, which should be relatively safe, except to seize the moment before the chain reaction, pass through the door, and once that had passed, don't think about going back the way you came.

I told everyone about the dangers I might face, especially to let Uncle Ming be mentally prepared in advance, and now I regret that it's too late to go back, once I enter the door of disaster, there is no turning back.

Uncle Ming hesitated for a long time, gritted his teeth and expressed his willingness to go with us, so we were neatly equipped and went down to the water. Three oxygen cylinders, the fat man uses one by himself, he will blast the fish formation, Shirley Yang and Ah Xiang use one, and Uncle Ming and I use one. Uncle Ming has been sailing on the sea for most of his life, he is proficient in water, and he is like an old fish underwater, although Ah Xiang is mediocre in water, but with Shirley Yang taking care of her, it is definitely reassuring.

The river at the bottom of the Karamir Mountains is very unique, clear and white, and there are few algae plants under the water, and the most common is a small transparent shrimp that eats silicon, constituting a unique underwater ecosystem. When I went to the bottom of the water and turned on the searchlight, I saw white light floating in all directions, and the stones under the water were all white.

There is a passage nearly ten meters wide on a turquoise crystal wall, which shines in front of the passage with an underwater searchlight, and the water on the opposite side is very turbid, and countless white-bearded fish are holding on to their tails, forming a fish wall that is boundless and magnificent, blocking the river connecting the outside. The speed of the water does not seem to slow down as a result, and there may be other branch water systems hidden deeper underground.

Uncle Ming, Shirley Yang, and Ah Xiang and I stopped at the entrance of the cave and waited for the opportunity, and the fat man swam through the passage with explosives, and his figure quickly disappeared into the muddy water in front of the fish formation, and he did not come back after a long time. Perhaps it is easy to have an illusion of time underwater, and every second seems to be a long time. I raised my searchlight and kept shining it that way, and I was anxious when I saw the lights in the water flickering on the other side, and the fat man swam back in a hurry.

The fat man gestured as he swam this way, seeing that he meant that the explosives were not easy to put away, so he delayed the time and was about to explode. At this time, Uncle Ming was also looking over there at the entrance of the passage, and I quickly pressed his head down, stretched out my arm, and dragged the fat man who was desperately swimming this way.

Almost at the same time, there was a shaking under the water, and the crystal wall seemed to shake three times, and a strong blast wave of explosion, carrying the broken fish corpses and scattering in all directions. We crouched at the bottom of the wall, and through the diving goggles, we could see a thick red mist rushing out of the disaster gate, and no one expected the explosion to be so powerful. The fat man's fingers spread and swung horizontally: "The explosives are probably a little too much......"

Due to the urgency of time, as soon as the shock wave passed, we floated our bodies to the surface and rushed through the passage as much as we could. As soon as I lifted my head, before I could see the situation in the passage, the diving goggles were hit, and the bridge of my nose was almost broken, so I quickly hid my body behind the wall. Countless frightened white-bearded fish rushed from the passage, these big fish formed a fish formation, the mental state of the explosion was very excited, in the words of biologists, they were in a state of "selflessness", at this time to kill it, it did not know the pain, so it was difficult to be disturbed by external forces and dispersed. But the strong impact of the explosion caused them to suddenly wake up from their sleepwalking state, and they suddenly collapsed, staring at the dull fish's eyes, desperately scurrying.

The tide of fish seems to have no end, and it seems that it will never end like a flood from the channel. I thought that the fish would retreat in the other direction, but I didn't expect that these fish had no sense of direction at all, and still had a large number of people entering the passage of the gate of disaster. Now that a minute and a half has passed, and the school of fish is no longer over, we have lost this only chance to enter the city of Evil Luohai.

At this moment, the white-bearded fish gushing out of the passage were exhausted, and we swam into the passage in a race against time, where the water was muddy with fish scales and flesh, and we were in the water, and we wanted to vomit, and the visibility was almost zero, but the passage was straight and the length was limited, so we took a breath and struggled forward.

The body is hit from time to time, and there are many white-bearded fish that have fallen behind like headless flies. These big fish have great strength under the water, and the inflatable rucksack that Uncle Ming was carrying in the chaos was knocked off by a big herring more than half a meter long, Uncle Ming wanted to swim back and grab the rucksack, and the fat man and I dragged his legs under the water and dragged him back.

Less than twenty meters long, I finally made it to my head, and I was the last to get out of the passage, the lake here is very deep, the current is also very large, although there are still countless big fish wrapped in the innermost part of the fish formation have not had time to escape, but the underwater visibility is much better, at this time, the glacial crystal on the "Gate of Disaster" began to gradually collapse, and several huge pieces of rubble have covered the way.

I made a gesture for everyone to take turns using the oxygen cylinders to ventilate, and then swam diagonally upwards at full speed. However, as soon as everyone was about to act, they were all stunned, only to see that the last layer of fish formation had dispersed, and a giant white-bearded fish with a body length of more than ten meters was exposed from it. It didn't seem to be frightened by the explosion, it floated in the water, the top of its head was red, its gills were snow-white, the length of its whiskers was even more amazing, and its tendrils were several meters long and full of small fish, the age of this old fish was already incalculable, and it was probably the king of fish in this lake.

Although we all know that these white-bearded fish do not attack people, the toad jumps on the surface of its feet and is startled without biting. This big fish is so big, they all look stupid, is this a fish or a dragon? There is no dragon gate here, if there is a dragon gate, this old fish is afraid that it can really become a dragon. While we were stunned, the white-bearded fish swam to the depths of the lake with its head and tail and disappeared. The crowd was swept away from the shock by the water stirred up by its swimming, and they lifted each other to the surface.

As soon as we came out of the water, we saw that the environment outside was completely different from the previous snowy underground, the door of disaster behind us was embedded in the cliffs, the sky above was blocked by a large thick cloud mist, thousands of meters of snow-capped mountains loomed in the clouds, surrounded by mountains and water, dense forests, lush and green, if there was a good atmosphere. Closest to us, there was a hillside, and in the woods above, there was a wide, winding road that stretched out from the forest, the road was as smooth as a mirror, and it was connected to the lake.

When Uncle Ming saw that there was a road, he was overjoyed and said to me, "Let's swim nearby, that road may be able to lead to the ...... outside the mountain."

I was just about to say yes, when I heard Shirley Yang say eagerly: "No, the pavement of that road is too smooth, and it is not an artificially built road, but has been trodden by some kind of beast for many years." Let's swim to the greenstone in the distance, and get over now, quickly...... Don't stop. ”