Chapter 43: Winter Swimming
The water and fire are merciless, and the turbid river water in the metasequoia island forest is still rising sharply, and it seems that it is almost past the top of the tall tree, as if the crust in the metasequoia island forest has leaked a big hole, and the sea water is pouring here from the other side of the earth. The endless river, I don't know how long it will rise?
However, it soon became clear that the river, which was about to pass through the treetops, had stopped and was no longer rising.
The sudden rise of the water flooded the island forest with tall metasequoia trees.
In order to avoid the turbid water of the rapidly surging river, everyone had to swim desperately towards the periphery of the island forest.
But the unexpected river stopped before it overflowed the treetops. We immediately swam up to a tall tree and rested on a half-man-tall trunk that was half a man high above the water.
The fat man used a branch to pluck away the black plant sea urchin that floated in front of everyone, and asked me, "Lao Zheng, why is there a flood here, and when will this water reced?" ”
Faced with these questions, of course, I don't know the answers. When I first stood outside the metasequoia island, I thought that this island forest was too strange, and I was reluctant to step here, but in the end I failed to win the public opinion. Now it's completely hard for me to answer these strange things.
So I said to the fat man angrily: "You ask the well-informed Seventh Master Cha, it was he who insisted on stepping into this island-like forest at the beginning. ”
Seventh Master didn't seem to hear what I said, tilted his head, leaned on the branch, and didn't disturb my sleep.
Damn, when is it? He can still maintain this leisurely appearance, should I praise him for his fearless spirit without remembering the villain.
It's dawn. But the river became unusually cold, and it was no longer as warm as it had been. Icy chilling. It was as if the river was about to freeze. As soon as this terrible thought came to mind, I was immediately scared into a cold sweat, if the river began to freeze, then we would be frozen to death on the ice.
This terrifying thought of the sky became more and more impossible, and since the idea of horror came out, it has spread like an abominable virus to all parts of my body, and my heart seems to be about to rot. It's very uncomfortable. The uneasiness in my heart exploded, so I told you about it.
At first, after listening to this, everyone showed an attitude of disbelief, but seeing that my face had not improved, they began to feel that it was not good.
My sixth sense became very strong, and whenever I had a certain idea in my mind, it would happen very well afterwards, as if I had become a prophet.
You can't keep soaking in colder and colder water anyway. It was necessary to reach the clean ground as soon as possible, and everyone immediately began to swim towards the distance with all their might.
The unusually cold water of the river seemed to suddenly reach the North Pole, becoming colder and colder, immersed in water. The people who were soaked all over their bodies had gradually developed hypothermia. Originally, when we were heading south. I used to soak in the icy water for several days, but the water was cold at night. But it's definitely not a thousandth of what is here. The river flooded in the metasequoia island forest really looked like it was about to freeze. It became cold and bitter, and I felt like the bones around me were being pricked by needles.
Glancing at the teammates around her, Zha Ling'er's face turned pale, as if she was seriously ill, and the condition of the others was not much better, but they all gritted their teeth and continued to wave their arms in the cold water.
When the bright sunlight shone on the turbid river, everyone was shocked to find that the river surface reflected a crystal light. The surface of the river began to frost.
I exclaimed, "Oh my God", my damn sixth sense was fulfilled so quickly, and if we continued to cool down at this rate, we would soon freeze to death on the frozen river. Gritting his teeth, he beckoned his teammates to swim quickly, hoping to get out of the flooded island forest as soon as possible before the river froze.
Now I am really grateful that I loved swimming when I was a child, and even did "winter swimming" in the winter, and my body still remembers the results of my training, and I don't feel particularly uncomfortable after the temperature of the river drops suddenly. It's just that my teammates have suffered from it, where have they undergone this cold test, and one by one they are not far from freezing into ice.
Just when everyone was desperately resisting the icy river, the river surface that had a clear line of sight suddenly became blurred, and then everyone realized that there was fog above the river. The fog is not heavy, but it also seriously affects the visual recognition, especially on the river surface where the dangerous plant sea urchin floats, and it is easy to get injured if you don't get it right.
Everyone stopped in the middle of the river, I asked the fat man to swim with me in the front row, responsible for cleaning up the floating plants and sea urchins on the river, the smoke man and Zha Qiye were responsible for the left and right sides, and Zha Linger and the monkey were in the middle of the circle, and everyone tried to narrow down the range of swimming and gathered all together.
The thin and smoke-like mist drifted across the river, and we had to slow down our swimming, nervously guarding the surroundings. As a result, after a while, the mist on the surface of the river quietly dissipated, as if it had come quietly. The nervous crowd breathed a sigh of relief, and I beckoned everyone to continue swimming at full speed, leaving time for rest until they stepped on the ground.
After swimming for a long time, I noticed that the sea urchins, which were plants that appeared suddenly from time to time, were no longer there, which made us swim a lot faster. It's just that, in my heart, I don't think it's a good sign.
The fat man, who was swimming side by side with me, suddenly slapped the river with his right hand and motioned for me to look towards his left-hand side.
I hurriedly looked sideways at the river on the left, and saw that the surface of the river, which had been muddy and rolling with yellow mud, suddenly appeared a layer of white floating debris, which looked like plastic foam and other garbage, fluttering towards us with the fluctuating water.
There are absolutely no pollution sources such as chemical plants, and there should be no floating debris such as chemical waste on the river surface. With deep doubts in his heart, he walked around the fat man and swam towards the white floating object.
When I swam to the white floating debris as far as the eye could see, I was shocked to find that the white floating debris floating on the surface of the river was not garbage such as plastic foam at all, but "insect cocoons". (To be continued......)