Chapter 107 Crossing the mountains and crossing the river
The large group of saber-toothed viperfish came very quickly, and the sound of the scraping of iron leaves was like wave after wave of tide, constantly coming from a distance. The first few fish had already reached the bamboo raft at our feet. Although the bamboo raft was tied firmly,
, but they couldn’t resist the saber-toothed viper fish that these hungry ghosts had given birth to.
In desperation, we had no choice but to pick up the engineering shovel and chop up the approaching fish. As soon as I swung the shovel into the water, the engineering shovel was bitten by the saber-toothed viperfish like a mad dog. I hurriedly raised my hand to shake off the two fish.
Looking down, I could not help but sweat. Under the spotlight of my mountaineering helmet, I saw that there were several rows of staggered teeth marks on the stainless steel blade of the engineer shovel.
However, these were only a few saber-toothed viperfish that swam over first. More fish were surging from behind. If we did not take effective measures, our bamboo rafts would be overrun by a large number of saber-toothed viperfish within a few dozen seconds.
Bite into pieces. However, the bamboo raft is still more than ten meters away from the exit of the Mushroom Rock Cave. It is now completely surrounded by saber-toothed viperfish, and it is impossible to paddle with equipment. The last ten meters are really like hell.
It’s so long and far away that I’m afraid we’ll never reach it.
The fat man shouted anxiously: This time we really want to finish playing and don’t want to be fish food. Old Hu, do you still have bullets in your pistol? Give me a shot in the heart. I would rather be shot to death than to be eaten by this person.
The mermaid was eaten alive.
I was a little numb at this time, so I gritted my teeth and said to the fat man: Let's do it. I will shoot you to death first, and then I will shoot myself. We must not fall into the hands of the enemy alive.
At this moment when life and death depended on a thread, he suddenly said to us calmly: Look at the two of you guys, you two guys are so useless. You are so eloquent on weekdays, so ferocious and tyrannical in every possible way. There is no one in the world who can be put aside by you.
Things in my eyes. I have not yet passed Zhelong Mountain, and I want to commit suicide when I encounter such a dilemma. Let's see how you can talk to the world after you go back. Now you all listen to my command.
After saying that, she raised her pistol and pointed it at the densely populated area of the saber-toothed viper fish in the water and fired several shots. The river water was instantly dyed red with fish blood. When the surrounding saber-toothed viper fish saw the blood, they didn't care if it was the same kind or something else, they rushed over and tore it apart.
The danger of the bamboo raft being about to be bitten into pieces has been somewhat alleviated by the bite of an injured sabertooth viperfish.
Not caring to put the pistol back, he let go and let the Type 64 fall into the water. At this time, he had already thrown the flying tiger claw at the white cloud mushroom rock at the entrance of the cave.
The rope was wrapped around the mushroom rock pillar three times, and the claws were tightly clasped on the rock.
She asked Fatty and I to pull the rope of the Flying Tiger Claw to quickly pull the bamboo raft towards the shore at the entrance of the cave. Under the pull of the three people, the speed of the bamboo raft was several times faster than that of the engineer shovel. In the distance
There were still five or six meters away, and the fat man began to throw the geological hiking bags filled with equipment, including the two insect catching nets, one by one to the shore. Each bag weighed forty or fifty kilograms, one less.
The bamboo raft is a lot lighter and the speed is getting faster and faster.
At this time, there was a loud grinding sound of iron leaves, and a large group of saber-toothed vipers were already swarming in like maggots attached to bones. We no longer dared to stay on the bamboo raft and immediately jumped onto the shore made of ancient dolomites.
As soon as they landed, the ropes binding the bamboo raft behind them broke. The entire bamboo raft fell apart and floated in the water one by one. The damaged bright searchlight also sank.
The school of saber-toothed viper fish gnawed away the water wasps attached to the bamboo, but they still lingered nearby and refused to leave. Looking at the school of fish rolling in the water, I couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and finally it didn't change.
Become fish food, otherwise you will die in this cave full of water before you even see the tomb of King Xian.
The fat man next to me suddenly shouted: Oops, no, my backpack fell into the river.
I took a look and was surprised. I just threw all three big backpacks on the shore. Before I could pick them up, the first backpack I threw fell on the water's edge because of the distance. The contents in the backpack were heavy.
The gravel on the shore could not hold up and fell into the river. There was nowhere to stand, and if you wanted to retrieve the backpack, you had to go into the water. Seeing that the big backpack was about to be washed away by the current, a large group of saber-toothed viperfish in the river were about to
Waiting nearby.
When we went out, we classified all the equipment and equipment. This backpack contains a propane spray bottle, which can be used with a lighter to shoot three or two flames. Since it is not easy to buy, we only got this bottle. It was originally
The equipment was only put on when preparing to dump, just in case something unexpected happened. In addition, there were six bottles of refillable oxygen bottles the size of water bottles, as well as a ruler diving goggles and a respirator, all of which were donated by the pirates who built the lake.
In addition to the underwater equipment that is indispensable for the King's Tomb, there are many other important items. Because there are many equipment filled with various gases in the backpack, they have not sunk to the bottom of the water for a while.
If this backpack is lost, we can put our tail between our legs and withdraw our troops as soon as possible and return home. Seeing this scene, we were very anxious and wanted to use the flying tiger claw to hook the backpack back, but the flying tiger claw was still tightly wrapped around the mushroom rock.
Unable to escape.
I knew that if there was any further delay, the equipment would be washed away by the water. I only had the engineer shovel in my hand, and when I saw a crack on the back slope of the rock on the shore, I thought of the engineer shovel as a rock and wood seal and cut the entire shovel blade.
He put it upright and inserted it into the rock crevice, and then applied force laterally, and the engineer shovel got stuck in the crack of the rock. When he stretched out his hand to try, it felt that it was very solid, so he hung his whole body on the river surface and grabbed the triangular handle of the engineer shovel with one hand.
The other hand reached into the water to grab the backpack that happened to float from below.
The backpack was actually caught in my hand, and I was relieved. Unexpectedly, a saber-toothed viperfish suddenly jumped out of the water, opened its large mouth like a jagged knife, and gave the back of my hand a hard bite in mid-air.
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A piece of flesh on the back of my hand was immediately torn off, and the pain made me tremble all over, and I almost fell into the river. I tried my best not to let go of the backpack even though it hurt. Several more saber-toothed viperfish used their carp
They all jumped out of the water and wanted to bite me. My body was suspended in the air, and because the backpack was too heavy, I couldn't dodge at all.
Thanks to the fat man and pulling me back from behind, I was lucky enough not to be torn apart by the teeth of the fish. I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead and looked at the injury on my left hand. Fortunately, it was not serious. Only a piece of flesh was bitten off. Although
The bleeding didn't stop, but no muscles or bones were injured after all.
He hurriedly took out the medicine and bandaged me: You are too reckless. Life is more important than equipment. If the equipment is gone, the worst case scenario is to let Muchen Beads stay in the tomb of King Xian for a few more days. Losing one's life is not a child's play.
I said to Fatty He: This little injury is nothing. If I don’t show Hu’s skills today, then the American advisory group will say that we are incompetent again. Isn’t that right, Fatty?
The fat man smiled and said: "Old Hu, what are you doing these days? If you fail to steal the chicken, you will lose a handful of rice and let the fish take a bite. Our generals are in the rear. When we get to the tomb of King Xian later, you will all look at Fatty."
My skill is to open your eyes and let you know what it means that there are mountains beyond the mountains.
First, I used Yunnan Baiyao to stop the bleeding on the back of my hand, and then applied a layer of hemostatic glue on the outside. Then I wrapped the wound with waterproof tape to prevent water from getting infected. Finally, I was given an injection of penicillin.
I waved my hands quickly: No, no, I am slightly injured and cannot get out of the line of fire, and I am also a little dizzy from the injection. We didn’t bring much of this antibiotic, so we might as well keep it for now.
I couldn't help but let the fat man push me to the ground and give me a forcible injection. Because the environment in the cave was complicated and I didn't know what dangers there were, I didn't rest. After measuring the direction, I saw that the edge of the river was barely passable.
, he put his equipment on his back and prepared to drive this underground canal out of the river.
We walked along the edge of the river and saw that the scale of the waterway dug for the construction of the king's tomb was extraordinary. We originally thought that King Xian was a grass-head emperor who separated from the ancient Dian Kingdom, and his tomb would not be too large. However,
Judging from the canal passing through the mountain, King Xian, who is good at voodoo and evil arts, is really powerful, and his power is definitely not small; the scale of the king's tomb built in the water dragon halo should also be far beyond our imagination
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As we walked deeper and deeper into the dark cave, we walked for nearly an hour. Suddenly, a section of the river collapsed. The gravel slid into the water when stepped on, making it impossible to stand. It seemed that this road could no longer continue.
As we moved forward, we had to find another natural cave to pass through. Not long after we walked, we heard the rumbling of water on the other side of the mountain wall, but we clearly heard the sound of water flowing, but there was no way around it. We raised our wolf eyes and looked around for the path.
This place is a natural dissolving rock formation in the mountains. There are many large and small holes in the large rocks.
After finally finding a stone hole that could allow one person to crawl through, we dragged our backpack behind us with a climbing rope and drilled through in sequence. We finally saw a huge waterfall in the mountain, and the position we emerged from the cave was right under the waterfall.
There is another stream of water flowing into the river under the waterfall from the opposite side. Looking along the direction of the water flow, there is some light in the distance, as if the exit is over there.
He told me: This water system that flows into the waterfall is probably the waterway discovered by the locals during the quarrying process. The riverbed landforms around here are not more than a few decades old. It seems that they were formed recently, otherwise there would be such
With this waterway, there is no need to build a canal in Zhelong Mountain when building the tomb of King Xian.
I said to her: This type of ash-dissolved rock group landform is formed by water erosion over many years. I knew something about it when I was an engineering soldier. In a place like this, the entire bottom of the mountain has long been washed away by countless tributaries of the Lancang River.
The water has been sifted. In some places, the depth of the water is even hundreds of meters. It is common for the river to change its course in the cave. Anyway, the flow is getting lower and lower, and a piece of rock has been washed down and an extra tributary has emerged. If this continues, this place
Zhelong Mountain will collapse sooner or later.
The three of them walked while talking, looking for the bright place. Halfway through, they saw some caves on the mountain wall high up in an orderly arrangement, which looked like they were dug manually. There were obvious stone steps at the bottom of the mountain wall.
From time to time, you can see rotten human bones on the ground, as well as some weapons and armor, all of which are in a state of decay.
The scene here is very consistent with the previous description of the proprietress in Caiyun Inn. It should be that some rebels used this as a stronghold to fight against the government troops. This kind of thing has often happened in Dali, Yunnan and even the Lancang River area since the Yuan Dynasty. Because items are stored in a humid environment
It is difficult to preserve them, almost all of them are in a state of decay, and it is not easy to identify which dynasty or generation they are from. Looking at the degree of decay of the bones and the shape of the weapons and armor, we can only judge that they may be from the early Qing Dynasty.
We have always walked into the mountains, and it is not too much of a trek, and we can walk freely. Although we abandoned the boat at the foot of Zhelong Mountain and walked, each of us was carrying a lot of heavy equipment, but we did not feel that it was difficult. However, the journey was full of dangers.
They all wanted to get out of the cave as soon as possible, so they ignored the ruins and hurried on.
Following the water flow to the end, the river still flows forward, but it flows into the ground. The cave is lower than the ground level outside the mountain, so the big river in the mountain cannot be seen from the outside. We go further
Climbing up a rocky slope, there are traces of water soaking here. It seems that the large-scale rainfall across the country some time ago has a great impact on the large and small caves in Zhelong Mountain. In the middle of the gravel slope,
As soon as my eyes lit up, there was a cave entrance that was obviously washed away by water. Now the water has receded. In the daytime, it is easy to find this exit with the sunlight outside. The stones here were obviously sealed artificially.
It is so blocked that it would be difficult to open it manually unless there was a flood in the mountains.
We put on our sunglasses, got out of the cave, and finally successfully passed through Zhelong Mountain. When we came outside and looked back, we were under the steep walls and dangerous peaks of Zhelong Mountain; at the highest point above our heads, there were thick clouds, and Zhelong Mountain
The outer shell is made of dark green granite with green spots, and there are countless vine-like broad-leaved plants growing on the cliff. It is green everywhere. If you look for this small gap from the outside, it is very difficult to find it.
Looking ahead, there are mountains all around, and the terrain in the middle is getting lower and lower. They are all large tracts of virgin forest. The trees are vast and green, and all kinds of plants are extremely dense. The canopies of old trees cover the sky and avoid the sun. Many of them cannot be called mountains at all.
Famous for its exotic flowers and trees, there are also numerous ravines, deep valleys, streams and dangerous shoals scattered among them. In some deep valleys, you can clearly see the grass and flowers inside them under the sunlight. However, the more you look at them, the more unfathomable they become. They are so deep that they are dizzying.
; And in some places, it is covered in clouds and fog, creating a hazy and mysterious scenery.
This is a primitive land between the Nujiang River and the Lancang River that is blocked by snow-capped mountains and rivers and is completely isolated from the world. I took out the human skin map to confirm the path into the Worm Valley.
The fat man raised his telescope to look at the jungle below. As he looked at it, he suddenly grabbed my arm and put the telescope into my hand: "Don't look at the map. Look at the many big golden butterflies over there. That valley must be there."
There. Book Alliance
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