Volume 1 The Land of Yama Chapter 60 The Underground River
We put our gear on our backs, picked up Kong Xue, turned on our flashlights and began to continue our march towards the depths of the ancient tomb, which was a large open space with no shelter and no place to resist attacks, so we had to leave as soon as possible.
We had just taken a few steps forward when I heard the sound of a breaking wind, from far and near, and in an instant it was in front of me, and before I could react, I saw an arrow pierce the ground on our right, and at the same time a strange smell spread!
"Oops!" I know very well what it smells like, it's the smell of the liquid that attracts the black snakes, and someone is trying to lure the snakes towards us, and it's going to kill us!
I couldn't help but shout, "TMD, someone is trying to kill us!" ”
"I'm your uncle!" Lantern Xiao looked at which arrow, and then scolded, picked up the gun and swept it in the direction where the arrow was flying, but it was useless, because before Lantern Xiao could cease fire, another arrow shot over and stuck on the ground next to it, and the smell spread again, "Damn!" Another one! ”
Lantern Xiao jumped to his feet angrily and scolded, "Damn! What kind of ability is it to hurt people with hidden arrows, you have the ability to stand up, Lao Tzu has picked your skin! Before Lantern Xiao's words fell, the third arrow was nailed to the ground against Lantern Xiao's head, and Lantern Xiao was so frightened that I was staggering, and I was also scared into a cold sweat!
Lantern Xiaoqi's teeth were crushed, but there was nothing to be done!
At this time, Wenmo shouted loudly, "Extinguish all the light!" ”
Suddenly, we quickly extinguished the flashlight in our hands, and all of a sudden we were all hidden in the darkness, and at the same time quickly moved to the side.
It worked, and the other side lost his target, and although he fired a few more arrows in our direction, he was far away from us.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, is this person really just Rang Dorjee, why did he want to kill us three times and twice! What the hell is his purpose!
Just when I was puzzled in my heart, a dense and subtle voice, thinking of it around us, was those black snakes! They're moving very fast, and I can tell that there are a lot of them. I can even imagine myself crawling with black snakes, which makes me shudder!
I was so anxious that I couldn't think of a countermeasure for a while, and Wen Mo next to me suddenly whispered, "Lantern Festival follows me!" You take Kong Xue, follow my footsteps! Don't be left behind! ”
I immediately understood what Wenmo meant, and nodded firmly, "Okay!" ”
Immediately afterwards, Wen Mo grabbed Lantern Xiao's arm, grabbed him and ran, I also picked up Kong Xue, and ran wildly with Wen Mo's footsteps!
It was dark in front of my eyes, I couldn't see anything clearly, I couldn't even sense the direction, I couldn't figure out how Wenmo was using to identify the route, and all I could do now was to completely trust Wenmo and treat him as my own eyes.
Running in the dark is easy to make people lose their bearing, not only the identification of the four directions, but also the identification of the upper and lower spaces, due to the uneven potholes on the ground, I even began to be unsure of the height I should jump when I ran each step, in order not to lose my center of gravity and fall, I had to lift each step very high, but this is really tiring.
But soon, I stepped on some soft things under my feet from time to time, and some strip-like objects bent and hooked at my ankles from time to time, so that I was still throwing my legs while running, for fear that something would climb up from my legs! I felt all the hairs on my body explode, I bit my lip so that I wouldn't scream, and I almost cried out with extreme fear! I felt like I was going crazy, I was on the verge of a breakdown, I felt my lips being bitten out of my own blood, and it was this pain that kept me trying to keep my sanity.
The Lantern Festival, which was pulled by Wen Mo, had already let out a howl like killing a pig! I understood his feelings, and although I knew that it might be dangerous to expose my position, I felt that I didn't have the strength or spirit to speak. I could hear the snow on my back shaking, and my shoulders were wet with tears.
Gradually, I felt numb, and my legs were getting weaker and weaker, but I was still mechanically maintaining a movement.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of water, the sound of running water, where did the sound of water come from? Shouldn't it be stopped? I squeezed out two words with all my might, "Wenmo...", before I finished speaking, I heard Wenmo shouting: "Jump!" ”
What the! Jump! I was stunned when I heard this, but I didn't come to my senses yet, my feet were empty, and my body began to fall freely, damn it! It's not going to be cliff jumping! As soon as I thought of this, I plopped, and in an instant the cold and biting water of the river submerged us, and the water surface was very different from the ground just now. Stimulated by the river, I also came to my senses, reflexively grabbed Kong Xue behind me, grabbed her hard, and dragged her to the surface. Soon I felt empty above my head and came out of the water, and Kong Xue next to me coughed violently.
Immediately afterwards, there was a splash of water next to me, and I knew that it should be Wenmo and they floated up, because I heard that Lantern Xiao was still nervous, and kept saying: "Help!" Help me! Help me! ”
"Wenmo? Lantern Festival? Are you all right? I leaned over and asked.
"It's us!" This is Wenmo's voice. Lantern Xiao next to him also coughed, and it seemed that he had choked on a few mouthfuls of water.
A white light lit up, it was Wenmo who turned on the waterproof flashlight, through the light, I looked around, we should have jumped into an underground dark river, there is a reef beach by the river, the top of the top is almost ten meters high from us, we can see the head at a glance, there is no ambush here, we should have left the archer's attack range, so we swam towards that section of the river beach.
Due to the huge physical exertion of running for too long with Kong Xue on my back just now, I felt my legs stiffen when I was about to reach the river beach. This was followed by a sharp pain, no, my leg cramped!
I gritted my teeth and pushed Kong Xue towards the river beach, and at the same time, the reaction force also pushed me farther away from the river beach, I desperately wanted to struggle forward, but the spasms of my legs, coupled with the exhaustion of my strength, I only felt that the river beach was so far away from me, I didn't even have time to call for help, and the river in front of me suddenly disappeared over my head.
I subconsciously held my breath, but I knew in my heart that holding my breath was just a process of suspending death, was it really going to die? I wish this dark river led out of the mountains, so that people might find my body. I only felt like I was slowly sinking in the dark water, I looked up, and suddenly I saw a light shaking on the water, and I knew that it should be Lantern Festival They were searching for me.
The instinct to survive made me slide my arms hard, hoping to surface, but it didn't work. I knew I couldn't give up, I hinted to myself, as long as I held on a little longer, they would find me, I looked around, trying to see how far away I was from the river beach and the bottom of the water, and suddenly I saw that in the deep water in the distance, there seemed to be a big thing, although it was dark and I couldn't see clearly, but I could realize that something was there.
I rubbed my eyes, looked closely, and slowly opened a pair of red eyes. I was so shocked that I wanted to scream, but as soon as I opened my mouth, the cold water rushed in.
Why is it a pair of red eyes again, from the first email, to the fog of the canyon, and then here, what the hell is that!
I wanted to see it again, but I couldn't move anymore, and soon my consciousness was a little blurred, and the last thing I saw was Lantern Xiao's huge body jumping into the water......
Vaguely, I felt a twitch in my lungs, and then I coughed violently, I gradually woke up, and when I opened my eyes, I was lying on a rock, and the Lantern Festival was patting me on the back, and some river water was spurting out of my mouth and nose.
I waved my hand, slowly rolled over, leaned against the rock, and gasped for air.
Fortunately, there were many branches of trees on this beach, which must have been washed down from upstream, so we lit two fires, and put the wet coat in the middle to cut it off. The three of us and Kong Xue were on either side, and we got into our sleeping bags and put our clothes on the fire to bake, and soon a cloud of moisture rose from our soaked clothes.
Lantern Festival used a filter kettle to draw some water, put disinfectant tablets, and boiled on the fire. Lantern Xiao poured half a cup for me and Wenmo, and beckoned Kong Xue again, and soon a snow-white arm stretched out, holding a water cup in his hand. A few of us big men can probably imagine what a fragrant scene is on the other side of the partition at this time, and they are all a little embarrassed, and the Lantern Festival quickly retreated after pouring water for Kong Xue.
A few sips of hot water in my stomach warmed my body a little, and my mental state was much better, and I began to be in the mood to observe the situation around me, and the place we are now in is the interior of an underground river, like a huge cave, judging from the erosion marks of the rock walls on both sides, the original water level of the river should be much higher than now. For some reason, the water level has dropped a lot, and it is precisely because of this that a beach of gravel appeared on the side of the dark river.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but secretly rejoice, if the water level had not been lowered, we would have been left with no place to stay in the icy water. We don't know where the river ends, and at such low temperatures, we'll soon go into shock due to hypothermia, and we're really dead!
Above the river were a lot of upside-down stalagmites, many of them so huge that I was so scared that they would suddenly fall down and shatter our bones.
As the flashlight turned, I suddenly noticed something behind a pile of rocks on the riverbank. I hurriedly got up, ignoring that my clothes were still a little damp, put on my pants and coat, and walked in that direction with a flashlight.