239 Underground rivers
In the end, we went to the toilet because none of the stand-ins in the back of the car got out of the car. Do these people have four kidneys, and they have no intention of going to the toilet until now, you must know that we have been bumpy for four or five hours just now.
When I got out of the car, I saw a desolation, and there was almost only one color left between heaven and earth - yellow-brown, and the original blue asphalt road was covered with a thin layer of yellow sand. This gas station is also full of vicissitudes, not that it is in disrepair, but it is blown like this by the wind and sand here, and it is particularly dilapidated.
Even a few titanium characters on the door, only the Chinese stone dagger remained, yes, it was originally Sinopec, and now the person is gone.
After getting off the bus, I didn't see those black-clothed masked people, but there were more soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms, and it seemed that the leaders who went all the way to the west were not really stupid, knowing that black-clothed masked people were not suitable for appearing in public.
There was also an episode on the way to the toilet, there was an aunt who sold snacks at the gas station, hurriedly walked past us, accidentally hit the white dragon horse, and a bag of peanuts in the aunt's hand fell to the ground, both sides were a flute, and then almost at the same time scolded.
At first, I watched it with relish, but then I got bored, took out fifty yuan and gave it to my aunt, and dragged the white dragon horse to the toilet.
The strange thing is that although this gas station is dilapidated, this toilet is newly renovated, and it has been made into three compartments, and there are doors on the compartments.
We came in late, there were no other colleagues in the toilet, each found a cubicle, I took out the props, the mountains and rivers are so happy.
The white dragon horse next door seemed to be old, and I didn't hear his voice for a long time, so I couldn't help laughing: "Then who, do you want me to whistle twice?" ”
The white dragon horse snorted and didn't answer me.
"Don't be embarrassed, I'll bring you a song of mountains and rivers." I kept joking.
With a "bang", there seemed to be something next door hitting the wall, and I couldn't help but be surprised, and said loudly: "I said Lao Bai, did you fall off the toilet?" ”
"It's fine!" The white dragon horse muttered over there, half loud, and the sound of water flowing, huh? I didn't expect Bailongma to be so old, and the strength of the shhhh
After booing, after waiting outside for a while, Bailongma walked out, saw me waiting for him at the door, and greeted me with a smile for the first time: "Yo ho, do you want to trouble your senior brother to wait for me personally?" ”
"How can it compare to you, the third prince of the Dragon King actually went to the toilet himself! There's no one to hold that thing for you, can you pee? "Who am I afraid of when I say cool things? Which fat man Kong Xuan is not a master of saying cool words?
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got into the car, and Bailongma actually took the initiative to say hello to Hua Wuji: "Huh? You...... Don't go to the bathroom? ”
Hua Wujian pursed his lips and ignored him.
The car continued to move forward, until midnight, the car stopped, but did not turn off, Tang Sanzang coughed lightly, the five stand-ins behind the carriage suddenly got out of the car, there was a whispered conversation outside, and then there was a rustling of footsteps, it seemed that they went to the desert next to the road, and after a while, the footsteps went farther and farther, and finally it was inaudible.
After the group of people walked away, the car continued to move forward, and after about twenty minutes, the car stopped again, Tang San got up and went to the back to lift the tarpaulin and look at it for a while, and then said to us: "Go!" ”
The white dragon horse bent down and dragged out a bundle of climbing ropes from under the seat, put it on his shoulder, and was the first to jump out of the car and rush to the desert next to him, while the others also quietly got off the car and followed the white dragon horse and moved quickly.
I couldn't help but glance at the black-clad masked man. Before, because of the loose robe, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sitting in the car, but as soon as we got out of the car and walked around, we immediately saw that this black-clothed masked man was actually a woman.
Female? Could it be that the mother of the flower came to inspect the hairy foot son-in-law?
Under the hazy moonlight, the group walked for more than half an hour, and the white dragon horse took us to a small mound, groped left and right for a while, heyed and exerted force, lifted a large piece of turf, and looked at it, what kind of turf is this, it is clearly a large stone slab with some soil and grass roots.
When the slab was uncovered, a large black hole was revealed, the entrance of the hole was about a meter, and if you looked closely, it was clearly a well, but this raised small mound buried the well. The white dragon horse put down the climbing rope on his back, dug his hands at the mouth of the well for a while, revealing an iron ring, tied the rope to the iron ring, and threw the other end directly into the well.
Pulling and testing the firmness of the rope, Bailongma raised his head and said: "Slide down more than 20 meters along the rope to the bottom of the well, there is no water at the bottom of this well, there is a passage next to it, go forward ten meters along the channel, there is a small space, there is diving equipment, everyone change into diving suits and then continue to the next step." ”
No one objected, the white dragon horse grabbed the rope, turned over and slid down, then Monk Sha and Sima Sanguang, then the black-clothed masked man and Hua Wuji, and finally me and Tang Sanzang, a group of seven people slid to the bottom of the well one after another. Tang Sanzang was the last to come in, and before he came in, he remembered to cover the stone slab outside, this guy was really careful.
Without the moonlight outside, the whole bottom of the well was dark. However, this darkness did not last long, because at this time the white dragon horse had turned on the searchlight, and the bottom of the well suddenly lit up, and looked at the light, in front of which was a pit more than one person high, and the white dragon horse waved at us ten meters in front of the pit about ten meters.
The place where he was standing was supposed to be what he called the space, with a dozen sets of diving equipment neatly placed at his feet, and farther behind him, there was a swarthy hole that didn't know where it led.
After we all walked in, Bai Longma smiled: "Although the original plan was only five people, I still prepared a dozen sets of equipment just in case. ”
Everyone divided their clothes, because there were women, so they had to turn off the searchlight, and after making sure that everything was properly changed, Bai Longma turned on the searchlight and said: "Everyone has a portable diving searchlight, and the searchlight has a three-hour illumination time, so there is no need to save use, because I have opened up more than a dozen post stations along the next underground river." ”
My gaze swept over the woman in black, intentionally or unintentionally, but unfortunately, the woman not only wore a diving suit, but also a big diving goggles, and I couldn't tell what she looked like.
It shouldn't be a mother with no problems, because after this woman changed into a diving suit, her figure was delicate and graceful, not like she had given birth.
Bailongma continued to explain: "Most of the water potential of the underground rivers is not very urgent, and I have ropes in slightly urgent places, and I can dive through the ropes by pulling the ropes, I believe that this section of the journey, except for a little farther, there is no problem with safety." Alright, let's go! ”
After saying that, he put on his back the oxygen tank, picked up his flippers, and swept the searchlight towards the swarthy hole, and was the first to enter.
A group of people followed him, the terrain went down slightly, walked almost a hundred meters to the end of the tunnel, I heard the sound of water, I thought I could see a river or something, but I didn't expect that the end of the tunnel is a closed circular space, there is a pool with a diameter of about three meters in the middle, the pool is a slow flow of water, under the light, the water is deep blue-black.
"This pond is connected to the underground river, and it is located at the edge of the river, about three or four meters deep, and the middle of the river is five or six meters deep. Don't be afraid, the water on this road is not fast, you just follow me! The white dragon horse put on his flippers, adjusted his oxygen meter and respirator, sat on the edge of the pool, and an upside-down onion rolled into the water, and a series of bubbles appeared on the surface of the water, and after a while, he saw the searchlight shaking under the water, and motioned for us to go down.
Everyone looked at each other, they all had the oxygen tube in their mouths, changed their flippers and fell into the water one after another, but we didn't pay so much attention to entering the water, we all jumped directly into it.
I soon fell to the bottom of the water, which was illuminated by a searchlight, and I could faintly see the stone wall on the opposite side of the water, and it was estimated that the river was about 30 meters wide. Entering the water, Hua Wujian grabbed my hand, waved at me with a searchlight, bubbles bubbling in her mouth, presumably trying to say something to me, I squeezed her hand, raised her chin in the direction of the white dragon horse, signaling that we are not the time to chat.
All the way forward, from time to time through some karst caves, karst caves are large and small, large karst caves are almost dozens of meters high, small karst caves poke their heads out to hit the top of the cave, Bailongma does a good job in terms of safety, there is a post station every other distance, we can go ashore to rest, change an oxygen cylinder, searchlight battery or something, in his words, we are not bad for that thing.
Indeed, at each station, he kept dozens of cans of oxygen cylinders, a large number of batteries in plastic bags, and chocolate and mineral water......
Stop and walk all the way, to the tenth rest point, due to the last section of the road water flow is more rapid, the white dragon horse set up a rope here, he let us rest on it, he first went down to check the rope, I didn't expect that he just went into the water and pulled the rope, his face changed, his hands were closed, and he actually withdrew a broken rope, the break was uneven, as if it was worn by a stone, and it seemed to be bitten off by some kind of fish.
Anyway, the rope broke.
Seeing this, Tang Sanzang's face suddenly turned over, and he said sharply: "This is what you said to ensure safety all the way?" ”
The white dragon horse hurriedly spit out the respirator and distinguished: "I use the most powerful nylon rope, which can lift thousands of catties of things, how do I know that it is so casual!" ”
"You should have used chains in the first place!" Tang Sanzang said angrily, and then felt that it was useless to get angry at this time, so he had to change his mouth and say, "Then what can be done now?" ”
"Actually, although the current in this section is a bit fast, it won't wash people away, otherwise, how could I have set up a rope in the first place?" The white dragon horse said: "As long as you follow me hand in hand and walk slowly, there is no danger." ”
Now, there is no other way, everyone dives into the water in turn, hand in hand behind the white dragon horse, slowly moving along the edge of the river bottom, just like the previous order, I am in front of Hua Wuji, and behind is Tang Sanzang.