Matsuko stood behind me and said, do you see, what's going on down here. I told him that I found Qin Bukong, it seems that he was injured and fainted, and he is probably still angry, so we have to go down immediately to save him.

Actually, I didn't think about it at the time, even if I calculated that I would jump into the water and jump straight into the water, I wouldn't be hurt. But how do I get up, that's a huge problem. Songzi seems to have thought of this a long time ago, and knew that we would definitely go down, so when I went in to check it just now, he made a very long rope out of the sheet, and it looked like that, it was seven or eight meters, and if you went down the sheet, this length would reach the bottom of the underground cave, which would be more than enough.

So I told Matsuko what I saw, and Matsuko said, you grab the rope first and let me go! I admit that I hesitated a moment, because although the pine nut is thin, it is indeed relatively easy to get into the hole, and it is relatively easy for me to put him down, but after all, his skills are limited, and in case of danger, then I will not save two people? But Matsuko was urging anxiously, and I couldn't think of a better way for a moment, so I took the rope from his hand, wrapped it around my waist, and tied it in a knot.

At the other end of the rope, Matsuko was tied around his waist like I did, and then when we were all ready and tested the strength of the rope, he slipped headlong into the side hole. With our slogan one, two, three, I pulled the rope hard until the whole person of Songzi hung down from the hole, and he shouted at me to put it, and I put it about half a meter at a time. The pine nuts were not heavy, the process was actually relatively easy, and he kept shouting for me to keep releasing them, which means that he was not in any danger, otherwise I would have been able to hear his shrill cry from the mouth of the cave.

Soon, he reached the ground of the cave, and then pulled the rope and told me that the ground below was stone, and there was no danger, so I told him to stay and not move, and not to go to the middle of the waterhole to save Qin Bukong, and wait for me to come down. So I untied the rope from my body, and then pulled out the shovel beside me, and the two ropes were tied to the center of the shovel.

I have to say that in our time, although people's living standards are not high, the quality of various tools is really not enough. The length of the shovel itself is actually wider than the hole, so I stuck the shovel in the hole, and slowly climbed into the hole in the opposite direction, and after making sure that I didn't fall all at once, I used the shovel to get stuck in the resistance of the hole, and slowly slid myself down in a similar way to rappelling, during which the pine nuts kept shining a flashlight in my direction so that I knew when it would land.

When I stood still, I noticed that the air around me was very humid and a little stuffy, just like in a boiler room, and the water vapor did not smell of rotten eggs, but the smell of spring water. Although there were stones under my feet, and they were all moisture, they were not slippery, and when I looked at them, I saw that there was nothing but water on them, and not even a trace of moss.

Matsuko tried to light a candle on a higher ground in the cave to light it, but found that the humidity in the air was too high, and as soon as he touched the match, it was instantly wet. So we can only rely on the light of the flashlight, and secretly hope that the battery of the flashlight will not be short-circuited due to the heavy moisture.

The surface of the water looked like a bowl, and Qin Bukong was in the center of the bowl, the raised black stone looked very much like a rock that had been exposed to the water due to squeezing, Qin Bukong leaned on it, and his lower body was probably waist-high and submerged into the water. Considering that whether he fainted or died, his posture at the moment should be sitting, so judging by this, the water surface should not be deep. As I was about to walk through the water, there was a rumbling sound, followed by the "hiccup" sound I had heard earlier, but I was at the bottom of the cave, and I saw that when this sound sounded, the surface of the water seemed to be boiling, and some splashes appeared, and these splashes formed waves and washed onto the shore. This indicates that there is an air outlet underwater. If the underground water cave is really directly connected to the Yangtze River, as the people say, then with the water pressure in the river, tides and other factors, it is indeed possible to cause the scene in front of you like a paroxysmal fountain, and the strange "hiccup" sound is the same reason.

When I think of this, I can't help but feel a little relieved, because the surrounding emptiness, the ancient legends of the Taoist temple and the folk experience are mixed, giving the mysterious color of the sighing dragon well on the ground, in fact, there is a water hole underneath, a water hole that will make a similar sigh and wave sound because of the relationship between the tide and the water pressure. And at the same time, it also makes me feel that although Qin Bukong was injured, it is estimated that it was really just a fall, not caused by other reasons, if this is the case, he can only blame himself for being old and confused, and he was careless when digging a hole.

I calculated the frequency of the strange sound for a moment, and planned to take advantage of the gap between them. So when the next sound came, the splash on the water surface had just risen, and I walked towards the center of the pool, the part that touched the water was a gentle slope, and there were no sharp stones under the water surface, about halfway through, I shone the flashlight on Qin Bukong's body, and found that although his forehead was bleeding, his eyes were closed, his hands were softly placed on his abdomen, and his body was full of water, but I clearly saw that his stomach was still lying together, which showed that he was still breathing, and the person was still alive. I was happy in my heart, thinking that it would be fine as long as the person was okay, and I was continuing to walk towards him, but at this moment, I stepped on the air, and my body fell rapidly, and the whole person was drowned vertically into the water.

This is a situation that I did not expect at all, because before I took this step, the depth of the water surface was only less than half of my calf, and at such a depth I could expose my nose, eyes and mouth to the surface of the water even if I was lying flat on the water.

But out of human instinct, I began to push my legs desperately to float up, because this time I just fell so suddenly, I didn't even hold my breath and fell down, and now my nose, mouth and eyes are all filled with water, not to mention how uncomfortable it feels. But in the process, I found that I was stepping on the water, and it was so deep that it was more than enough to drown me. My flashlight fell out of my hand the moment it entered the water, and I dimly saw that the light from the flashlight was falling deeper as my eyes entered the water.

Between the small life and the flashlight, I did not hesitate to choose my small life, fortunately I still have a little water, quickly swim up, and at this time, the whole body in the water I suddenly felt that the water wrapped around my whole body actually had a little bit of a slightly numb vibration similar to the charge, but it was not electricity, but something shook the water. At the same time, even though his ears were filled with water, he could clearly hear the muffled sound of "boom" before.

I secretly called something wrong, because if I remember correctly, the place where I was sinking at the moment was the place where the water was rippling, and this sound meant that the next "hiccups" were about to come, which meant that in an instant, there would be a force in the water below my body due to pressure or tides. I was not afraid of this force, for from the magnitude of the waves I had observed at first was almost no threat, but I was afraid that the sudden agitation would lead to a whirlpool in the water that could not be seen on the surface, and in this way it might drag me to the deepest part of the pool, and might even suck me straight in the direction of the outlet, and turn me into a human plug stuck in the outlet.

I was desperate to swim upstream, but human power is always limited, and my worst fears finally happened in this moment, and when the hiccups sounded, I felt a huge suction force, tugging at my feet and pulling me into the deepest part of the pool. I thought to myself that this was the end of the day, and I guess I was going to turn into a kimchi in this pool. At this time, there seemed to be something like aquatic plants in front of me, as if these aquatic weed-like things were also being pulled downward because of this huge suction.

So I desperately reached out and grabbed these "aquatic plants", and held them in my hands to death, because I knew that since these aquatic plants have not been sucked by this suction for so many years, it means that their rhizomes are growing very firmly. And when I was sucked down, I vaguely saw that the flashlight that originally fell at the bottom of Tan was going away at a fast speed into the distance, and then disappeared, and I don't know whether it was inhaled into the air port, or because of the water and short circuit, suddenly the only little light in front of me disappeared, the power of grasping the aquatic plants in my hand and the power that sucked my feet against each other, I was already holding my breath, at this time the sound of snoring water in my ears continued to sound, because the water was turbulent, and a lot of water was forcibly poured into the ears and nostrils. It was a feeling worse than death.

When I expected that my energy would be exhausted in about ten seconds at most, and I was about to start drowning from that time, a wave of despair welled up in my heart, but at this time, the suction suddenly seemed to disappear, and my body began to float up slowly, I didn't want to admit that it was because of my excess oil, and the aquatic plants I was holding in my hands became the only point of strength for me to escape from the bottom of the water.

In the midst of the embarrassment, I coughed and choked on the water, and at that moment I just wanted to leave it all and leave it all alone, and find a quiet country to spend the rest of my life. But at this time, I heard an exclamation from the pine nuts in the distance through my watered ears.

The cry quickly pulled me back to reality, and it looked like I was going to have to wait a little longer. I looked in the direction of the pine nut, but the pine nut shouted at me, let go, what are you holding in your hand!

Then I realized that the hand that grabbed the aquatic weeds just now is still holding the aquatic weeds. But most of my body has crawled to the shore, where did this aquatic weed come from? So I picked up the aquatic plant in my hand and brought it to my eyes, which had just been a little blurred by the water, and examined them carefully in the already faint light of the flashlight coming from the pine nuts in the distance.

What I was holding in my hand turned out to be a human head, and the "water grass" I was holding was actually the hair of this human head.

The most terrifying thing is that this head is actually open, full of dark eyes, and on the pale face, there is a big mouth that is grinning strangely.