Chapter Eight, Sea Eyes
I had two backpacks, Daya and I each carried one. Although I looked very big, I had to admit that I got what I paid for. I had been crawling for several hours, and I didn’t feel stuffy on my back and didn’t feel any discomfort on my shoulders. It seemed that the money was not spent in vain.
For outdoor sports, the three of us are all laymen. According to the boss who sold us things, these things are all professional enthusiast-level equipment. This style is also the latest on the market. It has a brand new structure of waterproof and wear-resistant fabric and aluminum alloy support strips. It is said to be imported from Canada. I don’t know whether it is true or false.
I was about to reach the top, and my mood was getting better and my hands and feet seemed much more flexible. I was sagging my butt, and I was raising my waist and crawling hard, and I heard the big teeth on the back calling me. I grabbed a piece of tree root with my hand, stopped, turned my head and looked down.
I saw Daya pointing down with his fingers, and his voice changed: "Come on... Come on, it's not good, the insects have become sperm, a large area, climbing up, but it's not far from us!"
When Liu Ye and I heard this, we quickly flashed a few steps to the side and looked down. Sure enough, the place where we were sitting and resting just now had dense red insects gathered at some point, bustling with people, making people's scalp numb at a glance, and rolling up like waves. Judging from the posture, it seemed like we were going to eat alive.
After seeing the tide-like insects below, Liuye's face changed suddenly, her face pale, and her body trembled slightly. I quickly grabbed her, for fear that she would fall down accidentally, so she quickly shouted to the big teeth below: "Let's find something to set fire, if you can block it for a while, you can."
As I said, I also started to churn in my backpack, but I had nothing to do with except for the medicine in my backpack.
After hearing my shout, Daya woke up and opened her backpack. Finally, she turned out a gasoline can. She stretched out a canvas from her backpack, twisted the canvas a few times, blocked it horizontally under her feet, and carefully poured the gasoline on it. Then she waved at us and signaled us to climb up quickly.
I pulled Liuye, who was already scared and lost, and started to climb up with my hands and feet. Big teeth also carried my backpack, lit the canvas with my hands, and quickly chased me from behind. We had just climbed less than ten meters, and the insects almost reached less than three meters of the canvas.
The canvas poured with gasoline caught an instantly, and the flames surging. The fire was really not small, mixed with thick black smoke, which finally blocked the worms' progress. But we all knew in our hearts that this could only be blocked for a while, and the prospects were still not optimistic. When the fire was extinguished, we would probably have to leave our bones as soon as the insects passed by. When we thought of this, we felt that the teeth were bitter, the hairs stood up, and we had goose bumps on our bodies.
I originally thought that the fire should be able to withstand it for a while, but we still underestimated the number of these insects. These insects were not afraid of the firelight at all, and rushed up directly. The shells were burned by the fire, and their internal organs collapsed far away. A "crackling" sound could be clearly heard, just like a small whip set during the New Year, which made us all tremble.
The canvas is only more than two meters long, but there are indeed too many bugs. This fire is a drop in the bucket for the worms that keep rushing up. As soon as the large army behind us came up, the fire wall was no longer useful. More bugs surged up from both sides of the canvas like a tide. I don’t know how many bugs were behind us.
I was also anxious, but I couldn't think of any good idea for a moment. I wouldn't die so cowardly and be bitten to death by insects, right? When I thought of the scene of the insects crawling on my body, my scalp tightened and I was sweating coldly.
Big Ya looked behind and said nervously at me: "Let's go, why don't we jump down? At worst, we can fall to death, which is better than being gnawed to death by insects. These insects are obviously bad at the time. They probably have avenged their brothers. Mom, when will the bug be so loyal?"
Liu Ye didn't dare to look back at me, and looked at me nervously without saying a word.
I looked down and found that I had climbed more than fifty meters. If I jumped down, it would definitely be a life-threatening death. However, in this place, it is obvious that our speed is not as fast as the bugs. Once we are caught up by these bugs, the consequences will be even more unimaginable.
Looking at the bugs getting closer and closer, I gritted my teeth and decided to be a hero again. Just as I was about to take the lead in jumping down, Liu Ye suddenly grabbed my arm and pointed at a distance from the right and said, "Brother Hu, look, there seems to be a hole over there?"
I looked in the direction of the willow leaves's fingers. Sure enough, there seemed to be a hole in the six or seven meters on the right, hidden behind a shrub. It was just overgrown with weeds, and one person was tall, almost completely covering the hole. I don't know if people could enter inside.
However, at this critical moment of life and death, the appearance of this cave entrance was like a dying person catching a life-saving straw. We rolled and crawled and ran over.
When I ran to the front, I found that there was indeed a hole, about two meters high and less than one meter wide, and it was pitch black inside and I didn't know how deep it was. Looking back at the bugs getting closer and closer, I didn't care about anything else at this time, I quickly waved my hand and let everyone go in first before talking.
Then he pulled out the dagger, cut some shrub branches at the entrance, piled them in front of the entrance, letting the big teeth pour the remaining gasoline on it, took out the lighter and lit the fire. The flames suddenly burst out, completely sealing the hole.
As soon as the fire started, the insects had already chased after them. They were still not afraid of the fire and rushed in batches, with the sound of creepy people in the ears.
I glanced at the fire and probably could last for a few minutes. I quickly turned on the flashlight and slapped it into the hole. The hole was not very deep, but it was very spacious inside, just like a hall. It felt like the air raid shelter dug out of that era was empty. It seemed that no one had been here.
I was looking around when I suddenly heard Liuye calling us over inside. Daya and I glanced at the hole and ran over quickly.
There was a pool of water in the innermost part of the cave. It was better to say it was a well, which was only about three meters in diameter. The water quality was clear and deep. Liu Ye was staring at the water with confusion.
Big teeth grinned: "This seems to be a spring, right? It seems that the meaning is quite deep."
I am not sure if it is a spring, but a pool of deep water appeared on such a high mountain, and it is probably a spring. The water in the pond is clear and scattered, and it is not bottom-out. I carefully observe the neatly laid stones on the shore of the pond. It is obviously man-made, and someone has deliberately repaired it.
Just as we were looking around the pool, the fire at the entrance of the cave was almost burning, and we could clearly hear the "rustling" sound of insects pouring in. When we heard this movement, our faces turned pale and we couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning. It was estimated that in less than a few seconds, the insects would rush in.
I looked at the pool of water, gritted my teeth, and shouted at Liu Ye and Da Shang: "Don't be stupid, hurry up and get into the water!"
As we were talking, we saw insects rushing in like a tide. We didn’t have time to think about it. We jumped into the pool water with a few "bang" sounds. As soon as we entered the water, we didn’t feel anything, but in a blink of an eye, the exposed skin could feel that the pool water was so cold that it was surprisingly cold. It could be said that it was cold and the frozen bone marrow was painful.
In fact, even if it is the groundwater, the cave is dark, it should not be so cold. In less than a few seconds, the coldness penetrates the clothes on your body and can't help but tremble.
In the blink of an eye, the shore was surrounded by tightly. The densely packed insects were even more terrifying than evil spirits. In the cave where everything was quiet, there was a constant sound of crawling sound, and our spirits were almost broken. The fear at this time really penetrated into our bones.
Fortunately, these insects seemed to be afraid of water and were all around the shore. Seeing that the insects could not get into the water, Big Tee was happy: "It's a fucking slap. I thought Ying'er was not afraid of playing this game, and she was also afraid of Qing'er, as if she couldn't get into the water."
Liuye gritted his teeth, looked around, and said to us worriedly: "We can't soak in this water either. The water is cold and harsh. We won't be able to use it for a long time and we will have to cramp the water. Even if we are not bitten to death by insects, we will have to be choked to death by the water."
After hearing Liu Ye say that, Daya realized that he was blindly optimistic just now. He stepped on the water with his feet alternately, and looked back at me: "Let's Liang, this water seems to have no bottom, it's not a sea eye, right?"
The sea eye refers to a deep hole on the land. It is said that it can lead to the sea all the way. It is said that there is a sea eye in the South my country Sea, which is bottomless and the water that swells around the world is difficult to fill it. There are similar records in "Shan Hai Jing. The East Classic of the Great Wilderness".
I looked at Daya and said, "You are so far, the nearest sea is thousands of miles away. I've heard too many stories!"
Daya looked at me and curled her lips, obviously feeling a little dissatisfied.
Liu Ye next to him looked at Daya, then looked at me, and said carefully: "Actually, when I was a child, my neighbor's grandmother also talked about Haiyan. The old lady's hometown is from Jin County, Liaoning, and now it should be called Linghai, right in the southwest of Liaoning, on the banks of Liaodong Bay, Bohai."
Willow leaves stared at the bugs on the shore, and then whispered to us the story told by her grandmother. There was a sea eye near her grandmother's house, which directly leads to the Bohai Sea. At that time, through that sea eye, you could clearly see various fish and aquariums that were only found in the sea. It was very magical.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, some Japanese people arrived there and thought there was a treasure hidden inside, so they sent a few Japanese devils in, but they never came up after the people went down. After a while, suddenly, the water suddenly bubbling and a few bloody heads floated up, as if they had been gnawed by something, which scared the Japanese and never dared to send people down again.
Local villagers all said that there was a ferocious sea-staining beast in this sea eye, which had been guarding the sea eye, and they didn't know whether it was true or not. Later, the nearby villagers specially built a "Wanghai Pavilion" on this sea eye. There was no one inside the pavilion. It was like a large copper-cast incense burner, completely closed, and the sea eye was directly covered.
Seeing that Daya and I were very impressed, Liu Ye smiled bitterly: "My grandma is very serious every time she talks about this. I also think that the old lady would not make up a lie to fool me. If Daya hadn't mentioned Haiyan just now, I would have forgotten about this."
After listening to Liu Ye's speech, Daya snarled and glanced at me. The expression made me really want to press him directly into the water.
Chapter completed!