Chapter 51: The Waterway "Roller Coaster"
At this time, the sky was already dark, and the moonlight shone on the sea, shining with silver-white waves. I walked on the edge of the sea, squatted down, and put my hand on the junction of the water and the sand, the ripples in the sea just touched my hand, and gradually the rippling waves became farther and farther away from my hand. The water level in the sea is really dropping.
Based on this, I have an idea of the change in the water level of Haizi, which usually starts to drop after nightfall, and before dawn, the water runs all dry. After the sun comes out, the water level starts to rise, reaching its deepest around the afternoon. This continues until late and the next cycle begins again.
I suddenly felt very lucky, but when we jumped off the dunes yesterday, it was probably in the afternoon, so the water level was deep enough, and if it was in the morning or earlier, a few of us would have jumped down, I am afraid we would have been planted directly in the sand.
I'm also very curious about how Wenmo entered the ancient well at that water level? Could it be that this guy has dolphin-like swimming skills in addition to his extraordinary skills?
I've seen that ancient well, the situation inside is unknown, I don't dare to enter rashly, Wenmo can pass smoothly at any time doesn't mean that I can, his kind of person can't be judged according to common sense!
So I had to use the same way as Kong Xue and them to enter, and I speculated that it might be safer this way. But if my speculation is wrong, I can only blame myself for bad luck!
But my speculation is also plausible, because I don't know how long the waterway below the ancient well is, after all, I can hold my breath for a limited time, and if I can't breathe for too long, then I will definitely drown in it.
Therefore, if you want to reduce the time you hold your breath, you must speed up the passage through the waterway, and through the drop of the water level in Haizi, a large amount of water pours into the ancient well, and with the help of the power of this current, it should be able to take me through the waterway quickly. I speculate that Kong Xue and the others also used this method by mistake.
The water level of Haizi was still dropping, and I thought it should be about the same, so I picked up my equipment, took out a waterproof flashlight, took a deep breath, and dived into the water.
As soon as you enter the water, you can immediately feel the undercurrent around you, and the sea is cloudy inside, and you can't see anything clearly. I could only rely on my sense of orientation and memory to swim towards the location of the ancient well.
As I got closer and closer to the wellhead, I also clearly felt that the water around me was intensifying, and now I don't need to paddle hard, my body will automatically float in the direction of the ancient well.
Gradually, the ancient well appeared in my field of vision, and a small whirlpool had formed at the mouth of the well. I slowly approached the wellhead, and wanted to raise the flashlight to look down, but I really didn't expect the force of the water at the wellhead to be so strong, and before I could react, my body was pulled into the well by a huge pull.
The flashlight hit the wall of the well, and I didn't know where it flew in an instant, and it was pitch black all around, I couldn't see anything clearly, and my body was carried around by the current.
I was dizzy from the hits, and several times I hit hard places, and the pain made me choke on several mouthfuls of water. I couldn't help but wonder, is it the same when others come down? Wen Mo won't talk about it, Kong Xue and they were also washed down in such an embarrassment? Or am I really misjudged? That's it, I don't know where I'm washed up right now!
I stumbled in the waterway of the well, and the pain was so great that I endured it, but the worst thing was that there was a huge pressure on my chest at this time, and I was about to lose my breath.
I felt my face go from red to white and then from white to purple. Just when I was about to lose my hold, all of a sudden I felt like my body was empty, and then the water around me instantly slowed down, and even the water temperature dropped a lot.
I immediately realized that I must have left the waterway of the ancient well and entered the underground river. At this time, I had reached the limit of my breath-holding, and I was desperate to swim to the surface. The moment I burst out of the water, I took a long breath of air that I felt most comfortable in my life.
I floated on the water, not caring if there was a problem with the air quality, and I was gulping greedily. It was pitch black and I couldn't see anything but a damp smell. I knew that I was floating in the underground channel of the dark river now, although I was much calmer than in the waterway of the ancient well just now, but the current of the river was still very fast, and I couldn't help but be driven by the current and move forward quickly.
I couldn't help but think of the experience my grandfather told me about him, and remembered the human-faced strange fish he met in the underground dark river, and I also encountered similar monsters in the dark river of Qilian Mountain......
Thinking of this, my body tightened, and I even began to feel as if there was something behind my back! I immediately swam in the direction of the current, hoping to get out of here quickly!
I knew it might be my own crankiness, but I just couldn't control my brain. It's really scary and scared to death, and people are scared to death by their subconscious many times. I remember watching it during World War II, there was an experiment abroad in which soldiers took two prisoners of war and locked them in the same room, tied to two chairs. The soldier blindfolded one of the prisoners of war and then slit open his carpal artery, allowing blood to flow into an iron stick on the ground. After a while, the prisoner of war died of blood loss. The soldier then blindfolded another prisoner of war, then made a symbolic slash on his wrist with the back of his knife, and then dripped water into the bucket. After a while, this prisoner of war also died.
Because this prisoner of war had witnessed the death of the previous one, he thought he was repeating the same process. So sometimes, the wrong guidance of the brain can really kill us.
At this time, I was panicked because my brain had sketched a terrifying scene for me based on my memory, but at this time, I couldn't extricate myself from knowing the reason.
I swam as hard as I could with the current, and I found that the river was getting smaller, until it was so small that it was completely filled with water. As a last resort, I took another deep breath and sank into the water.
As the river became narrower, the speed of the water became faster again, so I got back on the "roller coaster" of the river, and after another stumbling and dizzy journey, I was thrown out of the river at once.
I felt like I was in a much faster and wider body of water, so I was in a position where I couldn't even feel the current. I swung and swam upstream, and the moment I burst out of the water, I was stunned by what I saw!
At this time, the sky was already bright, and I was in a huge sea, which was very large, and the whole sea was like a huge jewel set in the desert.
Of course, it was not only the beauty of the sea that shocked me, but all the sand around the sea was all blood red.
Blood Sand! Endless blood sand! Even Haizi was dyed blood red! And I'm like I'm in a huge pool of blood! It makes me shudder! So I hurriedly swam to the shore of Haizi.
The moment I climbed ashore, I collapsed to the ground, my whole body seemed to fall apart, and I couldn't tell what it felt, whether it was numbness, soreness, pain, or a combination of these senses.
I lay groggily on this blood-red sand, grabbed a handful of blood sand and looked at it, could it be that the blood sand I once encountered came from here? I tried to think about it, but I didn't have any clue, just now under the water my physical strength was seriously overdrawn, I felt that my brain was already wooden, and my eyes were a little unable to open, I suddenly couldn't help but want to sleep, although I knew that I was soaking wet, lying here to sleep, it was like looking for death. But it was completely out of my control, and soon I lost consciousness.
I don't know how long it took, but I suddenly shivered, and at the same time woke me up, I touched my body to find that my original clothes were gone, and I was naked at this time, covered with a thick blanket. I looked around, but found myself lying in a tent, it seems that I was rescued, could it be Kong Xue and them.
I reached out and pulled the tent door, intending to ask if there was anyone outside, but my throat tightened, and I coughed violently.
Soon, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and several people walked into the tent, and when I looked, it was indeed those familiar faces, Kong Xue, Shi Tao and Dawut. It's just that there is still no ink.
Shi Tao squatted down and touched my forehead, "It's okay, no fever." Then he looked at me, "Are you awake?" How does it feel? ”
I shook my head, "I'm fine. ”
Kong Xue handed me a glass of water, I took it and drank it all, wiped my mouth and looked at the three of them, and said with some complaints: "I said that you guys are too uninteresting!" Leave without saying a word! Leave me alone there! ”
The faces of several people also became a little embarrassed, and Shi Tao smiled awkwardly, "Brother Zhuo Ran, this incident is purely an accident, we didn't expect to come here!" ”
I believe Shi Tao's statement, and I guess that except for Wenmo, no one else knows that the ancient well can be connected here. I just said the same thing, just to complain about the unprovoked shock I received yesterday.
Kong Xue said: "Actually, we are sure that you will definitely find here, so we have been waiting for you here, but fortunately, you reacted quickly and didn't make us wait too long!" ”