Water! ?
Cao Yuan said this, and all of us were shocked!
If we were to say what we lack the most now, it must be water. Although we drank slightly filtered dirty water before, it was a small amount after all. The water was too dirty and we couldn't stand drinking too much. If we got acute gastroenteritis in this place where no one lives, we could only wait to die. So we all have some symptoms of dehydration now!
As long as we can find water, throw the only salt in Cao Yuan's backpack into it, and everyone will use a little cold salt water, and it will definitely take a while to be full of energy!
Therefore, when Cao Yuan opened his mouth, I immediately rushed to the entrance of the black hole and lay down at the entrance. There was a cool breeze blowing on my face. I listened carefully with my ears tilted. There was a sound of water rushing under the black hole. At this moment, I was ecstatic.
Zhou Jing was a man who knew how to deal with things. He immediately turned on a strong flashlight and shone it downwards. He saw that there was indeed a pool of water about ten meters below. When the strong light of the flashlight shone on it, it was sparkling. I was afraid that the area of this pool of water was not small!
I quickly picked up a large coffin-padding boulder from the high platform and threw it fiercely into the pool. After a moment, a muffled "plop" sound came from below. The sound was dull, and it was obvious that the pool of water was quite deep.
This method of surveying the depth of water can only measure the lake and river water. It depends entirely on one's own experience. I am afraid that Archimedes could not tell what the principle is. This method was also taught to me by Rosa when we were in the Qinling Mountains. She said that if the water is deep, the sound of a big stone thrown into it will be dull. If the sound is crisp, it means that the water is shallow.
At this time, Fatty and the others all came up, and there was surprise in their eyes.
Needless to say, we have to go down to this black hole no matter what.
The fat man walked through the front room of this ancient tomb. After going out of the front room, there is a desert. In our current state, we can't go far. We will all become a dried corpse in the desert. It is better to jump from this black hole. At least there is water below, although we don't know what is waiting for us below the black hole.
Finally, after a brief discussion, I jumped down from the mouth of the black hole first, because Lin Qinglin and I are the best at water in the group, and Qinglin was seriously injured just now, so the task of exploring the way down naturally fell on me.
I have to say that diving from a height of more than ten meters is really a test of one's psychological quality, especially when jumping without knowing the specific situation below, it really requires courage. I almost jumped down with my teeth and eyes closed. In an instant, a strong sense of weightlessness completely surrounded me. It was pitch black below the black hole. I could only hear the cold wind whistling in my ears. I couldn't see the specific situation clearly. I could only try my best to straighten my body with my feet facing down. There was no other way. Falling into the water from such a high distance, the impact force generated at the moment of contact with the water surface was also amazing. If my body was horizontal or my head was the first to contact the water surface, that kind of impact force would be enough to beat me to death.
After a while, I fell into the water with a bang, accompanied by a muffled sound of "plop". The whole person plunged directly into the water due to inertia. At this time, I could only pray that my prediction of the depth of the pool was accurate. If the water was shallow, I would hit the bottom of the pool due to inertia, and then my life would be over.
Cold!
The water in this pool was surprisingly cold, which was in line with the characteristics of groundwater.
After sinking more than ten meters in one breath, I was lucky not to have a close contact with the bottom of the pool. The whole person began to float due to the buoyancy in the water, and soon rushed out of the water. I gasped and breathed in the damp and moldy air at the bottom of the pool. While paddling in the water with my hands and feet, I took out a waterproof flashlight from my trouser pocket, held it in my mouth, opened it and shone it around. I found that the place where I was now should be an underground cave, which was a narrow and long shape with a width of about ten meters. There were stone walls on both sides of the cave, and there was no shallow beach to land.
Less than twenty meters behind me was the source of this underground river - a sand fault with a steep 90-degree angle, and water was constantly seeping out of the sand fault!
I knew that this should be the so-called ancient river channel of the Peacock River.
The Peacock River flowed through the 36 states of the Western Regions and never dried up for a thousand years. A large amount of groundwater was accumulated in the places where the ancient river flowed. This groundwater was always stored underground, forming rich underground water veins. These groundwaters finally flowed from the deep crustal fault behind me into the underground cave where I am now, and finally formed a huge underground river! !
However, the water vein was found, but there was no place to stay in the underground cave, which means that we must swim out along the underground river. People who can swim know that swimming is very physically demanding. We don't know how long this underground river is. Can we swim out with our current situation?
However, this is at least a way to survive, which is better than dying of thirst or starvation in the desert!
Fortunately, as far as I know, there is no landlubber among our group!
I sighed, swam to the left side of the underground river, reached out and grabbed the protruding stone on the slippery wall of the cave, and shouted to the Qingyi above: "It's safe, you can jump!"
As soon as I said this, the Qingyi above jumped down like dumplings. Some people gradually gathered around me. I counted the number of people and found that there was not a single one missing!
When we grabbed the protrusion on the left side of the cave, we drank a few mouthfuls of river water very happily. The taste was just one word - cool!
I'm not making this up. This underground water is much cleaner than the tap water we drink at home. At least there is nothing harmful to people in it. It has been flowing back and forth in the sand layer underground for many years. It is very well filtered and tastes cool and sweet. It can be said that we have finally found a good rain after a long drought. It is so comfortable and refreshing to drink!
Who knew that just when I was enjoying myself, I suddenly heard Zhang Jinya scream without any warning: "Hey, my god, what is biting my balls!"
As he said that, he reached his hand into the water and fiddled with it for a while. Soon, he seemed to have caught something, and then Zhang Jinya laughed wildly: "It's a fish! It's a fish!! Hahaha, I'm hungry, and you came to my door..."
Fish?
Will fish bite people?
I was a little confused in my heart, because the light in the underground cave was dim, and it was a little difficult to see the situation on Zhang Jinya's side, so I shone the flashlight towards him. It didn't matter that I was stunned - what Zhang Jinya was holding in his hand was a fish!
But the fish looked a little strange, only a dozen centimeters long, with a slender body, just like a hairtail, and the scales were glowing with a green light.
I kept staring at the fish, and I always felt that it looked vaguely familiar. After staring at it for a long time, I suddenly remembered that I seemed to have seen this kind of fish on a TV program before. It seemed to be a carnivorous salmon living in freshwater rivers, but it was very aggressive and cruel and bloodthirsty. It always appeared in groups and sometimes dared to attack people. Therefore, people abroad called this thing - piranha!
I figured out the name all of a sudden, and I was also shocked. I hurriedly said: "Old Zhang, throw that thing away quickly, it's dangerous!!"
"Huh?"
Zhang Jinya was stunned, turned his head and looked at me in confusion. When he was distracted, the piranha in his hand broke free at that time. It was very fierce. It jumped into the air and bit Zhang Jinya's nose. The fish's mouth was full of dense fangs. It was a bit painful to see it, not to mention Zhang Jinya who was bitten on the nose. He screamed at that time: "Fuck your ancestors!!!"
But I couldn't care about him at this time. When the TV program introduced piranhas, it said that these things are in groups. Thinking of this, I quickly took a flashlight and dived into the water. I almost cried when I took the flashlight. There was a large group of piranhas swimming towards us underwater. I was so scared that I quickly jumped out of the water and shouted: "Run!!!"