Volume 1 Earth Chapter 9 Danchi
Ning Ke reluctantly put down his backpack, took out a night pearl, a few jade slips, a few crystals and two jade pendants, as well as a black and white chess piece, and put them in the two pockets of his jacket, "It's really not good, give up the rest, I'll take these things with me." ”
But looking at the cliff outside the cave, it was too steep for him to try......
The cliff in front of you is extremely dangerous to climb up and down. Ning Ke turned back to the cave, wanting to see where the cave leads, maybe there is a way down the cliff.
He took down the jade sword hanging on the door of the stone room, and only then did he see that this sword was unusual!
The entire body of this sword is made of a whole piece of black and white jade, and it is rare that the black and white parts of the sword body are half of each other, and there is almost no color transition at the junction. Half of it looks like snow white, half like carbon black, it is not glued together with adhesives or the like, but is made from a naturally formed piece of black and white jade.
He tethered his sword to one of the clasps of his backpack.
This black and white sword could give him some comfort, and he believed that this sword hanging on the door had the divine power to drive away evil spirits and evil spirits.
The caves are complex and diverse, with puddles of water gathered by springs, stalagmites and stalactites formed by trickling streams...... The road, if it is called a road, is a gradual downward circuit.
The road surface is slippery and bumpy, and sometimes there is flowing water, which is very laborious to walk, and the path of the cave is sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, and occasionally there are small holes in the branches.
Ning Ke turned on the flashlight, chose the most spacious cave to go into, and made a mark on the wall of the cave at intervals. There was a stubborn and willful thought in his heart that supported him, that is, his disabled mother was still counting on him.
I felt that I had walked a long way, and the sound of rushing and deep flowing water gradually became louder, and when I turned a corner, my eyes suddenly opened up.
This is a confluence of a dark river, a huge waterfall rushes down from the side of the cave roof, impacting the dark river and splashing like a snowy wave, and the roaring sound of the water is deafening under the resonance of the cave.
There are countless trickles around the cliff wall, some of which flow down the rock wall in strands, and some of which fall like beads of broken threads hanging on the pointed stalactites like drops......
On the other side of the river, there is a square pond made of stone blocks of three or four square meters. On the side of the cliff wall, there is a stone carved dragon head, which spews out a stream of water with its mouth open and throws it into the pool in an arc. On the outer wall of the square pond are engraved two strong and powerful Lishu characters - "Danchi".
This caught Ning Ke's attention.
Ning Ke put down his backpack and climbed from the side of the cliff to climb around the dark river and climb onto the square pool.
He used a flashlight to shine at the bottom of the pool, and was pleasantly surprised!
Although the water in the pond is deep, it is crystal clear. He saw a small pile of crystals at the bottom of the pool like the one he had seen in the stone chamber. If this crystal is really a spirit crystal that can be cultivated, one can make him a rich man.
Ning Ke smiled bitterly, the crystal must be a good thing, and this time he had to give up. One is that the pool is too deep to go down to the bottom, and the other is that there are enough treasures in the backpack to grab them.
He groped around at the confluence of this huge dark river, but found no hole leading to the other place.
The dark river is so turbulent that it is so deep that it is impossible to tell where it is going. I just happened to see a few one-foot-long, white, and somewhat transparent salamanders swimming in the water by the river.
He looked closely for a while, but found no other fish. He concluded that it was impossible to get out of here, and that only salamanders were seen in the river, indicating that it was still far from the river outside.
Ning Ke finished eating the last bag of snacks, took a few sips of the flowing water on the cliff wall with a plastic bottle, and returned the same way with a pair of backpacks on his back.
Although the way back was uphill, it took some effort and did not delay long for him to return to the entrance of the cave. At this time, the sun had already set in the west, and he did not dare to delay, and after a little contemplation, he decided to use the rope to climb to the top of the cliff that he had come down yesterday.
The rope he bought was 300 meters long for professional climbing. It is about 50 meters from the top of the cliff to the entrance of the cave, and the remaining rope is close to 250 meters. He tied his backpack to the lower end of the rope and placed it on the rock platform at the entrance of the cave, ready to climb to the top of the cliff with the help of the rope with his bare hands.
This is the least burdensome to do, and then pull the rope to pull the backpack up.
He looked at the top of the cliff and meditated for a while, devouting a route to climb, and anticipating how to deal with danger......
The sixteen-year-old boy looked resolute and made a desperate determination. If I can go up, I won't be trapped by money in the future, my mother will be able to have good conditions for recovery, and I will be able to successfully complete high school and go to college......
He tied the rope, jumped out of the hole, and climbed up to the top of the cliff little by little.
Within a few meters, he was soaked with sweat, and his clothes were very uncomfortable clinging to his body. ——Because of the fear of mosquito bites, he deliberately wore long-sleeved clothes and pants when he came to Tianmu Mountain this time, but at this time it became a burden.
He took a break, took a few deep breaths, and climbed up.
With great effort, he climbed only a quarter of the way to the top of the cliff.
Suddenly, as soon as his foot slipped, he was suspended in the air. After a period of panic, I only felt the pain in my arms and legs, and my whole body was trembling.
He looked up at the top of the cliff, gritted his teeth, and climbed a few more meters with all his might. He spent a lot of effort, but the effect was not good. He really couldn't climb anymore, and just wanted to take a breath, his hand relaxed slightly, but he fell down a few meters.
Rock climbing requires skill, and where he usually trains to climb, his arm is sore and unbearable. He was so tired that he almost wanted to give up, and immediately a voice warned him, "If you can't go up, you can only die......."
He gasped for a moment and thought about a lot of things.
Just after the summer vacation, Shan Aiai and Li Yadi came to his house respectively, and the two girls cared about him a little too much.
One is too beautiful, like a fairy who does not eat the fireworks of the world, and the beauty makes people dare not look directly, and the other looks very comfortable, like a village girl, down-to-earth, which makes people stare at it and are reluctant to take their eyes off.
Shan Aiai always gave him a sense of familiarity, as if he had an agreement in his previous life, and Li Yadi is the sister next door, who has been playing together since childhood, and she can be said to be childhood sweethearts......
Since his mother's illness, his heart seems to have softened and his emotions have become delicate.
Truth be told, he liked both of them. He couldn't tell which one he preferred...... If they can't go back and have an accident, will they be sad?
And the beautiful teacher Lin Lan, will she be sad?......
Perhaps because he didn't master the climbing skills of using ropes, he climbed up a few more meters, and then slid down a few meters with a slight negligence.
It is impossible to expect to climb to the top of the cliff like this. His heart is like an ant on a hot pot...... Suddenly, he had an idea.
He simply slid down, and soon returned to the entrance of the cave.
He took a large rock from the mouth of the cave and threw it off the cliff, counting the seconds in his mind: one, two, three...... When he counted to 10, he heard an echo.
The acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s, and the speed at which sound travels in the air is about 340m/s, according to the law of acceleration, he roughly calculated that the entrance of the hole is about 90~100 meters from the ground, and his rope is still 250 meters left!
He untied the backpack from the rope and carried it to his back.
Then, sliding down the rope, he came across a tree with a crooked neck on the cliff, and he stood firm and looked down, the fog below the cliff was still bottomless.
After a pause, he continued to slide slowly, and as he continued to slide, the vertical cliff slowly began to slope, and later became a 45° slope. It was overgrown with weeds and shrubs, and after descending for a few dozen meters, he finally descended to the bottom of the cliff.
At this time, he was reborn like a catastrophe, and his sense of luck was beyond words!
A small stream turns from the western foot of the mountain, where it forms a large bottomless pool, which converges several times and then flows northeast down the bottom of the cliff.
There were more than a dozen cedars growing by the stream, which were not too thick, which caught his attention.
In a gap in the cedar forest, a small cedar with a bowl mouth grows in a circle surrounded by the stumps of decayed trees several meters in diameter.
This is supposed to be the big cedar marked on Daddy's map, but it died at some point, and now only the stump root remains, and a small cedar grows in it.
Looking at the width of the tree's stump roots, this cedar may have been nearly 100 meters tall when it was alive, and it should be visible from afar.
Daddy's map may have been decades ago, when the big cedar was probably still alive.
There was another thing marked on the map, and he wanted to confirm it, so he looked up at the cliff, although the clouds and mist covered the top of the cliff, but halfway up the mountain, a three-fold waterfall fell down like a horse......
This all confirms that Dad's map is no problem.
The treasure in the backpack is too valuable, how dare he stay?!
Walk straight along the shore of the Big Stone Valley.
When he had crossed the valley of the great rocks and came to a familiar place, it was already completely dark, and he ran along the path of the mountain stream. By the time he arrived at the tourist distribution center, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening, and there was no one there?
Return to the heart like an arrow.
He walked three or four kilometers south along a branch road in the scenic area and came to Menxi Road. This road is still a special road for scenic spots, connected to various scenic spots, and there are still seven or eight kilometers away from the provincial highway.
At this time, he was so hungry that he had a terrible headache, he was trembling, and he no longer had the strength to walk. He sat down on the big rock beside the road, and looked at the infinite extension of the road into the darkness at both ends, and couldn't help but hope that if only a car had passed.
From childhood to adulthood, he suffered a lot more than his peers.
Both parents are old, disabled, and have difficulty moving, so they can only make ends meet by repairing locks and mending shoes. As the only child in the family, he took on many household chores at an early age.
Last year, my father died in his sleep, and when my mother found out that my father was not doing well in the morning, my father had no breathing and no heartbeat, and he didn't even have a chance to be rescued. The previous night, my father had drunk a glass of self-brewing medicinal wine, without any signs of discomfort......
My father is usually silent and unsmiling. Ning Ke thinks that this may be caused by the hardships of life, but he knows that his father always pins his hopes on him.
Although his father was disabled and unable to walk without a wheelchair, he orally passed on to him a complete set of fierce and fierce Bajiquan.
It has been ten years since he started practicing at the age of six, not only to strengthen his body, but also to benefit his brain and intelligence, and no one dares to bully him outside.
From the age of 13, he had a reputation for good fights in the vicinity of his home......
Ning Ke sat on the boulder and thought wildly, and he didn't know how long he waited, when a car came from the north.
In this dark night, the car lights were like torches, piercing his eyes and making it difficult to break away. He staggered to the side of the road, waving his hands desperately at the car......