Chapter 21: The Underground River
I rushed forward like this, never stopping even if something bit my back from behind, and suddenly, a muffled sound rang in my ears.
Thump!
It's the sound of water! It seems that something has fallen into the water.
Before I could recover my senses, my feet were empty, and the whole person fell down rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, they smashed into the cold water, and the things that bit my back were frightened and retreated, they seemed to be afraid of water, and disappeared in an instant.
The anomaly of this water coldness is different from the cold of the groundwater, it is a kind of cold that freezes into the bone marrow, and it is obvious that the underground river I fell into must be connected to the snow field outside.
I was bleeding all over my body at this time, but a ruthless force came up, so I didn't care about anything, and immediately went downstream in the direction of the current, and I didn't swim for long, and the whole person went weak, this night's tossing, bleeding too much, my body had reached the limit, and I couldn't swim anymore, just when I thought I was going to be finished, there was a little glimmer of light in the dark.
Is it an export?
As soon as I saw that little light, my sluggish body suddenly seemed to be a stimulant, as if I was returning to the light, I gave birth to a force out of thin air, and I went downstream, and finally arrived at the light mouth, I suddenly even had the heart to die, only to see that the exit was actually open overhead, and the middle of the water flow, it turned out to be an underwater waterfall, if it fell, it is estimated that it would be a long-term stay in hell.
I hurriedly swam back, but near the mouth of the waterfall, the water flow was extremely fast, and it was easy to swim down, and now I swam back, but it was three steps forward, two steps back, and I was getting closer and closer to the underground waterfall, I felt that my heart was cold, once I was planted, I was alone in the cold groundwater, and there was absolutely no possibility of survival.
At this moment, there was a sudden 'follow'.
I looked in the direction of the sound, and in the dim light, I saw passer-by A climbing the cave wall with one hand, his feet soaked in the water, there seemed to be a place to stay, and his clothes and trousers were all gone, but torn into strips of cloth to make a rope.
The rope was thrown over, and in an instant it was crooked by the current, and I didn't catch it.
I only listened to passer-by A didn't know what to scold, after retracting the rope, I danced a few laps and threw it over, this time I saw it, and immediately grabbed it, passerby A exerted his strength over there, I went crazy and swam there, so I went ashore.
This shore is a small rock protruding from the side of the cave wall, only enough for one person to settle down, as soon as I went up, I stepped directly on the instep of the passer-by's A, he hissed in his mouth, and scolded: "I think I am a girl, I am as heavy as a pig, roll down." ”
At this time, I just walked around from the ghost gate, panting like a cow, unable to say anything, until I finally relieved my breath, I also felt embarrassed, such a cold place, if it weren't for me, this brother would not only wear underwear, just wanted to thank a few words, passerby A suddenly said: "Change a foot." I didn't react, I subconsciously looked down, and saw that the passer-by was blue, obviously the blood of the person I stepped on was not clear.
I laughed awkwardly, and the two of them cautiously switched feet, then looked at the hole above my head.
The hole was about four meters away from us, and at least five meters away from the stone platform where we were staying, so there was no way to get through. I looked at it for a while, then I turned my head to look at the stone wall where I lived, and I wanted to see if I could climb up the stone wall, but I found that the stone wall had the characteristics of a cave, and it was very smooth, and I couldn't get my hands on it at all.
I said, "What now?" ”
Passerby A said, "Do you have any other lighting tools on you?" ”
I smiled bitterly and said, "If there is, I have already taken it out, what are you going to do?" "The top of the cave is full of light, but it's so big that everything is in a haze and you can't really see it.
Passerby A sighed, raised his right hand, and pressed it a few times in his ear, only then did I realize that there were several miniature buttons next to his sunglasses. When he pressed it, I immediately remembered that when I read the magazine introduction, this mirror seemed to have many special functions, including infrared night vision or something.
Sure enough, after he pressed the button, the whole mirror began to turn red, although there was no obvious change, but I knew that he must have seen it very clearly now, and immediately asked, "How is it?" ”
Passerby A's head slowly turned, looking at his surroundings, and after a moment, he shook his head and said, "There is no road." ”
I suddenly despaired, looking at the hole above my head, I only felt that hope was close at hand, but I couldn't get close, that feeling, like cutting my neck with a knife, slowly rubbing, but not happy.
After a while, I felt that my legs were sore and swollen, and passer-by A stepped on the instep of my foot, and after a while, my blood was blocked, so I said, "Change your feet." ”
Passerby A remained motionless, and spit out two words for a while: "Don't change." ”
I suddenly felt blood rushing into my head, and I wanted to kick him down, but when I thought about his performance of sacrificing his life and wearing underwear, I endured, I am not ungrateful, I endure.
After standing for a while, when my legs were already frozen and unconscious, passer-by A suddenly put the rope into my hand and said, "Swim back." ”
"What?" I held the rope in a daze, not reacting.
Passerby A explained: "It's useless to stay, swim back and see if there is an exit upstream." In the dim light, I saw that he was covered with scars, and then I thought that I was now covered in wounds, and if I soaked in the water, I would die sooner or later, so I nodded and said, "Okay, let's swim instead." ”
Passerby A nodded, took the rope into the water, held the cave wall with one hand, and struggled upstream against the stone wall, and when the rope was straightened, it had swam four meters away. Immediately after, he grabbed a bulge of a stone wall and said, "You come." I swam in front of him, and when the rope was straightened again, Passerby A came up again.
In this way, we alternately swam on the rope made of this shirt and trousers, and one person dragged one end of the rope to prevent it from being swept away by the current.
The water melted into the snow in the mountains, the cold bones were hurting, the muscles of the whole body were twitching for a while, the wounds were numb from the cold, and after gradually moving away from the hole above the head, the surroundings fell into darkness again, and only the sound of water could be heard.
I don't know how long I swam like this, I felt that my physical strength had reached the limit, gradually, I could no longer wave my hands and feet, and the whole person also fell, and the water immediately poured in all directions, at this moment I was unconscious, only holding the rope in my hand and unwilling to let go.
This is my only hope, I don't want to die.
In a trance, I seemed to be back in the submarine tomb, surrounded by seawater, the same suffocation, the same coma, but in the end two hands pulled me out, one was a stuffy oil bottle, and the other was fat.
"Slow Turtle...... You're dead without ......"
"Really dead? Okay, then you go and stay in the water, bye-bye. ”
I opened my eyes, stared at the people in the dark, and as soon as I spoke, my voice was hoarse and terrible: "Shut up, my master can't die." ”
Passerby A smiled and said, "Still alive...... The life of the turtle is indeed tenacious, and the scourge will be left for thousands of years. "It's still dark in front of my eyes, the cold water is already soaking my body, but the upper half of my body is out of the water, and at this moment, passerby A has found another place to stay, a little bigger than the place just now, at least we don't have to step on each other's insteps.
It was still dark around, and after a long time, passer-by A said, "Do you want to continue swimming?" "I stared at the darkness, a dark and dreary place, as if there was no end to it, and the physical strength of the two of us was almost exhausted.
I said, "Swim! "The voice is categorical, as long as you haven't died, you can't give up, this is the experience I have summed up in countless life and death moments, if I really can't escape this time, then, I'd rather die on the road to hope than wait for death here.
Passerby A didn't speak for a long time, and when he needed it, he hummed and said, "Okay." Then the two of us continued to drag one end of the rope by ourselves, swimming forward alternately, saving our strength to the greatest extent, and so on in the cold water, until the originally tight rope suddenly loosened.
I looked back sharply, it was still dark, and I quickly shouted: "Hey......" I found that I didn't know the name of passerby A, and I said: "Hey, what's wrong with you?" "In the darkness, there was a gurgling bubble, and I was shocked, damn, that kid was drowning too.
I didn't dare to think about it, I immediately went into the water to touch, fortunately I reacted fast enough, the kid was not deep yet, and I was twisted out of the water at once, I dragged his armpit with one hand, and groped the cave wall with the other hand to swim forward, the rope bit in my mouth, I don't know how long I can last, I can only swim forward mechanically, at this moment, a light appeared in front of me again, and it was a large piece, instantly illuminating the whole darkness.
For a while, I thought I was dreaming, and the whole person was a little stunned, but in an instant, I swam forward like crazy, and I called while swimming: "Hey, passerby A, there is an exit, you fucking wake up." ”
"It's as heavy as a pig, and the master can't drag you anymore."
Finally, I swam out of the cave and was greeted by a patch of snow and ice.
I dragged passer-by A to the shore, ** sat in the snow, I didn't feel the cold at all, my whole body was numb from freezing. It was daylight outside, and I was in a ravine where I couldn't tell.
But no matter what, I always got out of that damn tunnel, and at this moment, I really wanted to sleep through it, but apparently I could only think about it, and now I only had a 'half-body suit' on my upper body, and my pants were soaked, and the passerby was even worse, wearing only a pair of underwear, and I thought about it, and I felt like I was going to probe his neck, and there was a slight throbbing under his neck, indicating that he was still alive.
In the current situation, it is obviously impossible to sleep, and you must first find a place to warm up. I stumbled to my feet, tied the rope to my back, and began to look for a place to warm myself in the snow.
This is a ravine, there are a lot of dead shrubs in the snow, it is not difficult to make a fire, the key is to find a shelter from the wind, fortunately, I was not bad, I walked a hundred steps with a passer-by on my back and saw a cave.
Strictly speaking, this is not a cave, just a depression in the mountain wall, but I can avoid the wind and snow, I threw the passerby into it, stumbled in the snow to collect firewood, and now I have only one thought in my mind, raise a fire, and then sleep.