Chapter 15: The Underground River
I glared at Cui Hao and threw the thing at him with my backhand.
"Send you, it's useless for me to keep it."
Through the bones, the road ahead began to become smooth and smooth.
The stone walls on both sides are craggy and prominent, and the road is wide and accessible.
Above the walls are several permanent lamps, emitting a faint burst of warm yellow candlelight.
Walking further, I followed the passage and broke out of the door.
I looked back and saw a white mist spreading behind me.
I grasped the entrance of the stone wall with half a hand, so that I was not confused by the fog.
If you walk into the white fog ahead, you will not be able to return.
"It's an interesting place."
The winding tunnel leads to the bottom of the mountain, and we are not far ahead of the intersection of the mountain.
Cui Hao curiously leaned over to my side and glanced out.
I reached out and clicked on the aisle.
"If you regret it, you can go out now, and I won't stop you. But if you continue to follow me, you may encounter other dangers. ”
Cui Hao took the bottle back into his arms, grabbed my arm and took a half step back.
"Don't go, don't go, I've taken your things, why am I embarrassed to leave now? Don't worry, I'll go back with you. ”
Cui Hao probed his brain and glanced out.
"But this road is much safer than the previous one, and I don't have to face the anymore."
I nodded and turned around, walking back quickly.
Cui Hao hurriedly followed.
I came to the Jozan Stone Monument again.
I turned my compass, and as the pointer pointed, my gaze fell back on the eastern earthquake.
"Fatty, I'm going to get in the door! The more eerie the place, the more likely it is that the corpse clothes will appear. ”
I looked back at him.
"If you don't want to wait for me here, you can do that."
Cui Hao took my shoulder and walked to the side of the injured door, stretched out his hand and knocked on the inscription.
Two clicks.
A tunnel is revealed at the inscription, and the entrance to the passage opens again.
Cui Hao took out the thick hemp rope and tied the rope to the stele next to him.
He waved at me and climbed down first.
"Regret it, are you the kind of person who doesn't pay attention to righteousness and throws his brother in danger?"
Cui Hao grabbed the hemp rope and slid down, quickly disappearing into the hole.
I followed to the pit and shone a flashlight downward.
A cool breeze carrying water vapor blew faintly from under the hollow.
I was confused.
"Is there water down there?"
Cui Hao's shout was faintly heard below.
"Little Manye, come down quickly."
I hesitated for only a moment, then slid down on the rope.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I landed, I was grabbed by Cui Hao's arm.
"Little Manye, look ahead."
In front of us is a huge underground space.
The space is hundreds of square meters, and a rushing and wide river rushes in front of us.
The river lapped on both banks, gradually shooting out patches of scattered water.
"Little Manye, how can there be such a big dark river underground?"
The dark river meandered by, and the sound of the splash was almost deafening.
The river flows east-west like a giant dragon across the base of the tomb.
Except for a wide and vast dark river in front of it, there are no burial chambers or structures around.
"This place has dug such a large underground space, just to take a dark passage?"
Cui Hao started to the dark river, staring at the rushing dark river, his face full of puzzlement.
"Grass, these people don't work at night, the shop is closed during the day, so let's panic!"
I stared at the river that passed by, and suddenly my mind moved.
I dragged Cui Hao over.
"Don't you say, will things be under this river?"
The mighty river crashes on both banks.
Cui Hao's eyes changed accordingly.
"That's right, I've heard people say that this underground water tomb is so weird here, it's not impossible."
As he spoke, Cui Hao rolled up his sleeves hesitantly.
"I just don't know what's down there, if you just dive like this, will it be dangerous."
I reached out in front of him and blocked Cui Hao behind me.
"I'll tie a rope around my waist, and I'll jump down first, and you will drag me with the rope."
I pointed to the bottom of the river and pulled out the rope and tied it around my waist.
"When the time comes, you can hold on to my rope as long as you want, and if you find that I haven't come out after three minutes of diving, then drag me up."
The river flows endlessly, and I don't know what lies underneath it.
In addition, the ground is pitch black, and the flashlight shines on the river, only to feel that the river water is turbid, and even dark.
Visibility was so poor that it was impossible to see what was under the river.
Cui Hao listened to my request, and a look of surprise crossed his eyes.
"You're going to go on like this, what if something happens?"
I shook my head and insisted on jumping.
Cui Hao could only compromise in the end, pulled the other end of the rope tightly, and wrapped it around his waist.
"Go ahead! I'm here waiting for you, and I'll come back alive. ”
I took a deep breath and plunged headlong into the river.
Open your eyes.
The bottom of the river was so muddy that it was impossible to see the bottom of the river.
But after I dived about three or four meters.
Suddenly, I saw that the visibility around me had become higher.
I glanced up.
Underneath the water, the river above the head is extremely turbid, and there seems to be countless sediments and sediments floating in it.
But in the water at the bottom, it was so clear that there was nothing.
"What's going on?"
Even if the river was a mixture of two types of water with different densities, it would never be possible.
I wondered in my heart, but the circumstances didn't allow me to think about it.
I continued to swim down to see what was going on.
As the visibility improved, I raised my flashlight and looked around, and I was able to see my surroundings clearly.
I saw that on the embankments on both sides in front of me, there were many strange rocks above, but there were several underground stone caves.
The deep, dark caverns are large and small, and they don't know where they lead.
I was lurking and swimming underground, and for a moment I wasn't sure which hole to go in and check the situation.
Besides.
I also swam to the bottom.
Although the water here looks very wide, the depth of the water is not high.
It is only about 20 meters deep and touches the bottom of the river.
There was a layer of blood-red sediment underneath, and I don't know what it was.
I didn't dare to touch it easily, and I had reached the limit of holding my breath.
I could only swim upwards with my probe and quickly dived out from below.
See me show up.
Cui Hao hurriedly tightened the rope and quickly dragged me to the shore.
"What's going on down there?"
He patted me on the back and asked about the situation down there.
I briefly recounted to him what I had just seen.
"It's strange down there, the river is about 20 meters deep, the sides are wide, and the stone wall on the other bank has holes under the water."
"I roughly counted it, there are at least twenty or thirty holes, and people of different sizes can pass through people, and I wasn't sure if I should go in to check the situation, so I came up."
Listening to my words, Cui Hao couldn't help but be shocked.
"Do you look like the holes in the ground are naturally formed, or are they artificially carved?"
I thought for a moment, remembering what I had seen.
"There are artificially carved and naturally occurred. There are a few caves with sharp edges and special shapes that look like they were formed by nature. The edges of several other caves are unusually smooth and appear to have been polished. ”
I looked back at Cui Hao, and I had already made a decision in my heart.
"It seems that this tomb is not empty, and it is likely that something is inside this hole."
I'm going to go down and see how it goes.
Cui Hao grabbed my arm and shook his head at me.
"Don't go, Master Xiaoman, can we change to a different tombstone?"
Seeing that I was confused, he sighed and explained.
"The two of us are not professional divers, so we don't have a lot of work underground. If you accidentally come across something, you might just bury yourself here. ”
Cui Hao nodded where we came.
"And even if the cave was carved by hand, it wouldn't necessarily contain corpse clothes. In addition, there must be water in the cave, and if the cave is too long, it is impossible for us to swim to the end. ”
Cui Hao analyzed the pros and cons with me little by little.
"So as I suggested, it's better not to go down yet. Let's keep this place, and when we get out of the raw gate, I'll go and prepare diving equipment for you. If I haven't found the corpse clothes by then, then I will give up my life to accompany the gentleman, and then accompany Xiao Manye to you, and let's go down to search the ghost cave together. ”
I think that's the same thing.
At this time, you have to force yourself to enter the hole, and if something really happens, it is really not easy to deal with.
I nodded in agreement with Cui Hao's idea.
"No problem, but before I go out, I still want to dive in and see how things go. At the very least, make sure that this place is still worth coming back. ”
Cui Hao no longer refutes, obviously acquiescing!
I continued to tighten the rope, inhaled hard, and then jumped back underwater.
The water was bitterly cold, and my hands and feet were numb from the cold.
I swam as fast as I could, straight in the direction of the hole.
Finally, this time, it only took me more than half a minute to swim straight to the front of the holes.
I looked at the edge of the cave wall, chose a polished, smooth underground cavity, and drilled straight into it.
The cave was filled with river water, and it was extremely cold.
For some reason, the water here is a little colder than outside.
I walked through it, and my hands and feet were so stiff that I could barely paddle in the water.
I held my breath and continued to swim forward.
When I finally swam into the depths of the cavern, I shone my flashlight around, and I was surprised to find that a large gate had appeared.
The gate is made of bluestone, and several patterns are carved on it.
Apparently someone deliberately carved it and placed it here.
"There's something in there, you can go in."
I immediately felt for the door and reached out and groped for it on top of the stone door.
It's a pity that the stone door is closed, there should be another mechanism, and it can't be opened directly.
Although I was unwilling, I had been in the water for about three minutes, and I could only try my best to remember the appearance of this bluestone gate, and quickly swam back when it was nearly three and a half minutes.