"Brother Ma, you are thinking too much. This kind of place was not built by humans. It will be whatever God wants it to be."
"I'll trust you for now. I'll make a promise first. If there's any further uncertainty, I won't leave."
Zhang Houhou was really out of temper. He laughed dryly and asked the guy in front to walk as fast as possible. Although this road has a slope, it is much easier to walk than those along the river bank. In addition, our time is limited, so we can only walk one step at a time.
We kept rushing forward. About an hour and a half after setting off from the ruins, what Ma Dad had just said was unexpectedly true. We were blocked by a deep ditch across the road.
This is a trapezoidal ditch that runs east-west and is very long. When I shine it with a flashlight, I can only see a big corner about 100 meters to the west, but I can’t see clearly to the east. It is estimated to be nearly ten meters wide and seven meters wide.
It's eight meters deep, and what's even more mind-numbing is that water is slowly flowing at the bottom of the ditch.
Ma Dad and I are both allergic to water now. We stood on the edge of the deep ditch and looked at it for a while. Zhang Houhou easily pointed to the bottom of the ditch and said to me: "Boss Wei, look, such slow water is not needed at all."
It will pass without any effort..."
"Stop doing this!" Ma Dad waved his iron arm and interrupted Zhang Houhou: "As long as I see a bowl of water, my eyes will turn black."
Zhang Houhou ate another nail and asked the man to see how deep the water was at the bottom of the ditch. The two men were busy working for a long time, and we could see clearly from the side. Although the ditch in front of us was seven or eight meters deep, it was still very deep.
The water at the bottom of the ditch barely reached my knees.
"Look, Brother Ma, I told you that there is absolutely no problem with this small ditch. You guys, go over first and wait to pick us up on the other side."
Several of Zhang Houhou's men jumped down as soon as they rolled up their trousers and climbed up the trapezoidal ditch wall with difficulty. The stone wall was very steep, and from time to time someone would fall halfway up the climb. Finally, an agile man climbed to the other side first and climbed to the other side.
All the people at the bottom of the ditch were pulled up one by one.
Everything went well, but Ma Dad insisted on leaving last, so Xiaozi, Monk and the others went down in the second group, and with the help of the guys in front, climbed up to the other side. After everyone had passed, only the three of us were left, Ma
Dad and Zhang Hou held hands and flew down as if they were in love.
The water at the bottom of the ditch was cold to the bone. I lifted my pants while wading in the water. When I was at the bottom of the ditch, I suddenly felt that this was not like a ditch. It would be more appropriate to call it a river. The three of us still
Before reaching the center of the bottom of the ditch, Zhang Hou stopped and pricked up his ears, as if he was carefully trying to distinguish some sound. For at least two seconds, Ma Dad and I also vaguely heard a very vague and strange sound.
Soon, the sound gradually became clearer from blurry. Zhang Houhou's face changed, and he ran towards the other side with his teeth and claws bared: "The water is coming!"
There is a corner where the river ditch extends more than a hundred meters to the west. I didn't pay much attention when I came down, but as soon as Zhang Houhou moved, the sound came very clearly from the corner, and there were swarms of people who came together.
water flow.
"Why does this water always follow me!" Ma Daddy threw Zhang Houhou away, pulled me and ran towards the rope hanging from the other side.
The rushing water flows along this deep ditch from far to near. It is no exaggeration to say that the momentum is more frightening than facing a roaring train. The three of us were rolling and crawling in knee-deep water.
, just as he reached out to grab the rope, the raging waves were almost within reach.
"Pull!" The people on the shore were all in a hurry, trying to pull us up. The distance of seven or eight meters is not long, but if I hadn't witnessed the speed of the water in the ditch, I wouldn't have believed that the water could still flow.
I pulled it so fast that I only pulled it halfway, and the overwhelming water was devouring everything in the deep ditch crazily. The power of the water flow was too great. Even though I pulled the rope with all my strength, my body was still trapped.
Swallowed by the water, the whole person was shot out instantly like a bullet.
I only used my peripheral vision to catch the messy flashlights in the hands of a few people on the shore at the same time I was washed away, and then my eyes fell into absolute darkness. Although I had just been washed away by the water more than thirty hours ago, this time
The feeling one time was completely different from the last time. What filled my mind was a feeling of complete despair. I simply did not believe that a person would be so lucky that he could escape death twice in a row. The last time I was rescued,
Because the copper dragon accidentally collapsed on the shore, and this time, I could no longer comfort myself.
I don’t know how far I was rushed out, and I don’t know how long it took. My whole brain was like a whirlpool, and everything was in chaos. Only when I felt my head touch the air, I took a greedy breath of air. If
If I had been in this situation all the time, although it would be uncomfortable, I could still hold on for a long time. However, just as I took a deep breath of the last breath, the sharp current swept me under the water, until the blood in my lungs
When the air is used up, there is no chance for ventilation.
The feeling of suffocation makes me crazy, but I know that as long as I open my mouth now, the entire lung cavity will be filled with water. Strangely, at this moment, what is thinking in my mind is not the fear of death.
, but a bit of inexplicable sadness. I wonder if anyone in this world would really feel sorry for me if I died here.
Just when my patience reached its limit and I couldn't hold on for almost a second, my head suddenly felt a ball of warmth, which was obviously coming out of the water. I don't know if it was caused by the lack of oxygen in the brain due to being stuffy underwater for a long time.
As a result, I lost consciousness before I could even take a breath.
When I regained consciousness, the first thing I saw was a small group of flickering firelight. Ma Dad was supervising Zhang Houhou to bake clothes on the fire.
"Boss Wei is awake!" Zhang Houhou accidentally noticed me sitting up dizzy, immediately dropped the clothes in my hands and reported to Ma Dad happily.
"Bake your clothes! I'm not blind. How can you see such a big man?" Ma Dad scolded Zhang Hou angrily, and then came over with a little steaming hot water. I heated it up in a few gulps.
I drank all the water and felt warm and comfortable in my stomach.
After a brief chat with Ma Dad, he told me that after we were washed away, we had been drifting along the river, but gradually, the water level and flow rate dropped, until finally, it became shallower and shallower, and Ma Dad and Zhang
The monkey was stranded and found me not far away, so he carried me ashore.
As for why the water flow slowed down, Ma Dad couldn't explain clearly. Zhang Houhou interjected from the side. It might be that the river branched in the middle, and other tributaries diverted part of the water. Otherwise, with the initial rapid momentum of the river, it could have flowed from here to
Go to Tanggula Pass.
As soon as Zhang Houhou spoke, Ma Dad glared at him. It seemed that Zhang Houhou had suffered a lot just now. Only then did I realize that the clothes on Ma Dad and I had been dried, and only Zhang Houhou was still dry.
I took my wet clothes and roasted them on the fire. Fortunately, our backpacks all had buckles, so they were not lost when we got here, and we dug out some usable supplies.
"This time, I will never forgive Lao Zhang no matter what. He is the one who keeps urging us to move forward. Now we are thousands of miles away."
Zhang Houhou felt guilty and did not dare to talk back. He dried his clothes and was busy getting food, very diligently. Taking this opportunity, I took a quick look at the surrounding environment. Ma Dad said that we were rushed out for 100,000 yuan.
Eight thousand miles is definitely an exaggeration, but there is no doubt that in the dark, along the river, we turned so many turns that we could no longer tell the difference between east, west, and west.
"Do we have a compass?" I became nervous. In this environment, there is no reference to identify the direction. If we don't even bring a compass, our situation will be very miserable.
"Yes." Zhang Houhou squatted beside the fire and took out a compass from his pocket: "Fortunately, I have one in my backpack."
I breathed a sigh of relief and discussed with them while eating. Ma Dad's eyebrows twitched and he said angrily: "What are you still discussing! Don't discuss anything. Just go back after eating. Lao Zhang
, even if you say "big girl" this time, don't try to fool me again."
"Okay, okay, that's what I mean, I'll leave after eating." Zhang Houhou didn't dare to make any suggestions anymore and just kept eating his own food.
The fuel used to light the fire was quickly exhausted. Ma Dad opened a flashlight, and Zhang Houhou also opened one. Ma Dad scolded him, saying that he was a prodigal and didn't know how to save energy. As he said this, Ma Dad took out a handful
The sprayer raised his hand and fired a gun forward. The sound of the gun floated far away. If the group of people heard the gunshot, they would move closer here immediately.
We walked not far and saw a river with a very shallow and slow flow. I didn’t know if it was the one that brought us here. Because Zhang Houhou guessed that the river probably branched into at least one or two branches in the middle.
But we have a compass, so we don’t have to worry about getting lost.
Zhang Houhou was leading the way with a compass, and Ma Dad quietly said to me: "Old Zhang can't tell the truth. Now that we are two and he is alone, we are sure of him. Do you want to take this opportunity to extract some confessions?"
"Not good." I rejected Ma Dad's suggestion immediately. Being washed away by the river this time was an accident that no one could have expected. Zhang Houhou was also one of the victims. We cannot put all the blame on him.
.Besides, Zhang Houhou is at least very polite to us on the surface. If we take the lead in attacking, it will be like openly breaking our skin.
"What's not so good about a woman's kindness?" Ma Dad lifted the corner of his clothes: "I have a gun, put it to his head, and I will make sure that everything you want to know and everything you don't want to know will come out."
"Forget it." I firmly disagreed with this. There were some things I still couldn't express to Ma Dad. For him, the mustache was already a potential threat. If Zhang Hou was offended again, Ma Dad and I would go it alone.