Chapter 193: A life-saving waterwheel
Hu Bo's C4 explosives have become a sharp weapon against the piranha school, but there are two sides to everything, and there are good and bad things.
Although Hu Bo's explosives can blow up the fish, in order to maximize the effect of the explosives, Hu Bo always throws the explosives backwards vigorously when throwing them, so that the explosives explode in the middle of the fish, so that some fish at the front of the fish will be blasted forward by the impact of the explosion.
Although the fish that are blown up in this way only account for a small part of the fish in the fish, because the number of fish in the fish school is very large, the number of these fried fish is not a small number of them alone. A large number of these detached fish were blown into the ranks, and almost everyone had a few fish bites on them.
Chen Ziyang, who ran at the front of the team, was not affected because he was far away from the fish, but the others were not as lucky as him. Yang Lei and Umbrella Shi Shuai grabbed the sapper shovel in their hands, and from time to time slapped a few times behind the people around them, slashing a few times to help them remove these piranhas hanging on their bodies.
The members of Xiao Na's team also took out the daggers or machetes they carried with them, and helped each other to reduce the number of piranhas on the others. Everyone has a few or a dozen of these piranhas behind them, and each piranha is more than two catties heavy, that is to say, everyone has increased the weight of more than a dozen catties almost for no reason, which is not a good thing for everyone who is fleeing.
Moreover, the sharp teeth in the mouth of this piranha are very long, and the bite force is also very large, even if the fish is stunned or slapped to death, it will still rely on the sharp teeth in the mouth to hang firmly on the body of the players. Now that everyone is running away desperately, they don't have time to deal with the piranhas on their bodies, and they can only let them slow down the team. But fortunately, with the help of Hu Bo's explosives, the piranha fish school has not been able to catch up with the team for the time being.
However, the good times did not last long, and after a while, the C4 explosives in Hu Bo's backpack bottomed out, when Hu Bo threw the last C4 explosives out. He shouted to the team members to ask for more blessings, so he quickly took off the empty backpack on his back and threw it behind him, and the dozen or so fish biting on the backpack sank into the water with the backpack.
After all, throw away the backpack on their backs, everyone can reduce the weight of dozens of catties, although the bag contains the necessary food and weapons, but carrying this heavy backpack, there may be no life to eat the biscuits inside, not to mention that there are more than a dozen fish hanging behind the backpack, and the swing of these live fish will also affect the center of gravity of the team members, making them run more hard.
When the interruption continued, everyone made up their minds, the big deal was to really follow Wang Dawei to eat bat meat, but they didn't know if they could encounter bats again when they ran to this place.
Without Hubo's explosives, the fish soon regrouped, and the fish got closer and closer to the group. But at this critical juncture, Chen Ziyang seemed to hear the sound of water in the distance.
"Xiao Na, let your men shoot a flare forward!" Chen Ziyang hurriedly turned his head sideways and shouted at Xiao Na. Although he wasn't sure what he was hearing, it was clearly different from the sounds around him.
It sounds like the sound of the water is very loud, and it may have been heard before, but because the sound of Hu Bo's explosives explosion has been masking this sound, everyone has not heard it. At this time, Hu Bo's explosives were exhausted, and this sound of water was noticed by Chen Ziyang.
didn't ask Chen Ziyang the reason, Xiao Na knew that now was not the time to get to the bottom of it, since he had this kind of thought, he must have found something strange, and what he could say at this time must have something to do with the team's escape from danger, so Xiao Na hurriedly signaled to a team member next to him and gave him a look, and after the team member understood, he took out the flare launcher he was carrying, and a flare had been pressed in it early.
As the flares lifted into the air, the sudden appearance of white light made everyone's eyes, which had been accustomed to the darkness, squint. Under the intense bright light, everyone had to get used to it for a while before they could see what was in front of them, although Chen Ziyang also narrowed his eyes, but he saw that the purple Wang Lian leaves on the water in front of him that seemed to never see the end appeared, and a boundary appeared in unison, as if someone had cut it with a knife, the Wang Lian leaves grew there, and they would not continue to extend forward, but the front of the Wang Lian leaves was dark.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Chen Ziyang realized why there was such a loud sound of water here. In front of this is actually a waterfall, and the edge part of the royal lotus leaf group is where the waterfall is located. At this moment, everyone was confused, not knowing whether to continue running forward or flee in another direction.
If you keep running, even if you jump under the waterfall, you may not be able to avoid the attack of these piranhas, maybe these piranhas will jump under the waterfall with them, in that case, it is tantamount to killing yourself.
What's more, no one knows how high this waterfall is, judging by the rumbling sound of the water, the height of this waterfall is definitely not too low, maybe a person jumps down and is not eaten by piranhas, and it is possible to fall to his death in the water below. You must know that when the height is high enough, even if a person falls from a high altitude and falls into the water, the hardness of the water surface is the same as that of a concrete floor, and it is very likely to fall to death.
Even if the height of the waterfall is impossible to kill a person, there will be many protruding rocks under the waterfall, and if you don't fall into the water, but fall on these rocks, then the person who falls on it will not survive.
But then there was a turning point, and Umbrella Shishuai pointed to a direction in front of the team and shouted to everyone: "Look, what is there?" ”
Everyone looked in the direction pointed by the umbrella stone handsome, and saw that at the edge of this waterfall, there was something like a huge gear slowly spinning. The highest point of this gear is basically at the same level as the water surface, so what exactly this thing is, everyone can't see clearly.
However, the appearance of this thing made everyone see hope, and jumping on top of this thing is better than jumping to the bottom of the waterfall to fight to the death, so everyone naturally changed the direction of running there.
The fish were behind him, only a few meters away from the people in the group, and the umbrella stone handsome who ran to the edge of the waterfall didn't have time to think about it, and he didn't see what was in front of him, he took advantage of the light of the flare to disappear, and jumped forward vigorously, flying onto this round gear-like thing.
After everyone saw that the umbrella stone shuai jumped there, there was no accident, it seemed that it was safe for the time being, so the people in the team all jumped forward one after another, jumping towards this round thing, and the umbrella stone shuai stood on it, one by one to help the people who jumped over to fix their figures.
Chen Ziyang, who had jumped on it, looked down carefully, and by the afterglow of the incendiary bomb that was about to disappear, he found that what the team jumped on turned out to be a huge wooden waterwheel, and the place where they jumped was in a wooden trough used to hold water on this waterwheel.
This waterwheel is very huge, the overall height may be fifty or sixty meters, which is exactly the height of the waterfall, standing on top of the waterwheel, with the help of the light of the flare, you can see that there is a dark waterhole below the waterwheel. The width of the waterwheel is seven or eight meters, and there are many such tanks for water, each of which is more than half a meter deep, so that people don't feel crowded at all when they stand in it.
And this huge waterwheel spins very slowly, I don't know if it's because it's too heavy, or because the impact of the waterfall is not enough to fully move the waterwheel, but this is just what makes everyone stand firm.
The whole huge waterwheel is made of wood, but where all the wooden structures meet, there are iron sheets and rivets to fasten, and it is obvious that this waterwheel is very strong. Just as the last person also jumped on the waterwheel, everyone subconsciously bent down and turned their backs to the outside of the waterwheel, ready to meet the overwhelming piranhas.
It stands to reason that at such a close distance, those piranhas can jump onto the waterwheel and attack the people standing on the waterwheel with a slight jump. But after everyone waited for more than ten seconds, nothing else happened except for the slightly swaying waterwheel.
All the people were very strange, and slowly raised their heads and looked up, and the fish that everyone imagined had not come, not even a piranha that jumped on the water wheel, as if the piranha had never appeared.
Then another flare was lifted into the air, and everyone stood on the waterwheel, looking at the water surface that had run before, it had already calmed down, except for a lot of fireflies flying on the water, all that was left was some slightly swaying Wang Lian leaves. All of them looked at each other a few times, and they all saw a trace of puzzlement in each other's eyes, and no one knew the reason for the disappearance of the piranha school.
Maybe it was because the sound of the huge waterfall made the piranhas lose their target, or maybe it was the sudden bright light of the flashbang that frightened the piranhas, but anyway, everyone was rescued in a daze.
Although the waterwheel rotated slowly, the sink where everyone was standing was about to come into contact with the water in the waterfall, and they didn't want to be washed away by the waterfall and fall into the dark pool below, after all, even if they were standing on top of this waterwheel, the distance from the waterhole below was not very close. It's also dangerous to fall like this. So Shawna ordered a flare to be fired again, and everyone was lying on the edge of the trough and looking out, hoping to find a way to go on.
Then Yang Lei, who was standing on the edge of the wooden trough, found the way down. The edges of all the wooden troughs that make up the waterwheel are connected by iron sheets, making the whole waterwheel look like a giant wooden wheel. These sheets not only connect the sinks together, but also make them impossible to rotate, and there is a raised or recessed place on these sheets that can be used for climbing.
On the bearings in the center of the whole waterwheel, there is a row of iron ladders stretched out into the air, this ladder is fixed to the bearings that do not rotate, so this row of ladders does not rotate with the rotation of the waterwheel, it seems that it should be the place to go down. So one by one, the people in the group climbed down the edge of the trough to the top of the waterwheel, and at the same time turned over and stepped on the ladders of this row, and climbed down one by one.
Chen Ziyang climbed down while carefully observing the huge waterwheel. He felt that the reason why this waterwheel stood here must have its purpose of existence. Generally speaking, in addition to transporting water to high places, waterwheels can also be used as a source of power.
According to Chen Ziyang's estimate, the rotation channels they had passed through before would definitely require a lot of force to rotate. And this huge waterwheel, most likely, there are some bearings or something attached there to power the rotation of these passages.
But after the flare was extinguished, he had no way to judge his thoughts, because the waterwheel was so huge that all they could see was a part of it, and there was no way to know if the waterwheel was connected to something else.
On the bearing in the middle of the waterwheel, there is a platform that is not too big, and the upper and lower ladders are fixed on this platform. Everyone climbed up the rusty iron ladder to the platform to trim it, except for the piranha biting on their bodies, all that was left was to take stock of their equipment. In order to avoid the piranha's attack, several members of the team threw away their backpacks.
At present, there are only three people with backpacks, except for Chen Ziyang and Umbrella Shishuai, it is Wang Dawei, and fortunately, because of the previous captive status, Chen Ziyang and Umbrella Shishuai's backpacks are almost all dry food. So the people in the team don't have to worry about food for the time being, but this time the team has suffered heavy losses.
Because this place is very safe for the time being, Xiao Na decided to let the team rest here, after all, they had been running wild for a long time before, in addition to being frightened, it was more of a physical exertion, and everyone was out of breath at this time. Although the place is relatively humid and there is mist drifting from time to time, after all, this is a rare place to rest, so I have to take a break.
Xiao Na was counting the rest of the things with Wang Dawei, making arrangements and plans for future actions, Yang Lei had already fallen to the side, and the snoring sound was earth-shattering, even through the rumbling water nearby, he could still hear his snoring.
Chen Ziyang only felt that the calves of his two legs were sore and painful, as if these two legs were not his own. Suddenly relaxed from the tense state, coupled with the intense consumption of physical strength, soon, Chen Ziyang entered the dream.
I don't know how long I slept, Chen Ziyang heard some people's conversations in a daze, among which Yang Lei's voice was the most obvious, and what Yang Lei said made him feel very surprised.
"Comrades, didn't you say that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, animals are not allowed to become sperm, why is this guy so big!"
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