Chapter 10 The Underground Lake

This wooden-handled grenade of ours was the standard equipment of the infantry and consisted of three parts, the upper part was wrapped in iron in the form of a cylinder, and the lower part was a wooden grip. When triggered, it kills and injures the enemy by exciting fragments of tin through the zha drug inside, which is not very powerful.

Big man left a grenade, I took the other, see a lot of fireballs have been from rushing over, pull down the fuse, the wooden handle giggling white smoke grenade thrown out.

The grenade exploded into a cloud of white smoke, and the dozen or so blue fireballs that flew in front of it were struck by the exploding shrapnel and crashed to the ground and extinguished, but more fireballs continued to swarm in from behind.

Luo Ning was at the front, the remaining three padded behind, using the semi-automatic rifles in their hands to fight as they retreated, each with more than two dozen rounds of bullets, and not more than two minutes later, they were all shot up.

If you want to deal with the blue fireballs formed by those weird ladybugs, you can only use your rifle to shoot them, and if you have the slightest contact with them, you’ll be set on fire. A rifle without bullets is not as good as a burning stick.

The big man threw away his rifle, pulled out the last grenade, and shouted to me, “Old Hu, it’s time, whole or not?”

Luo Ning frame and I supported Ga Wa, the four of us formed a circle, wrapping the grenade held in the big man’s hand in the center, I stared at the grenade in front of me, as long as the big man pulls the string, in a few seconds it will be a jade, the final moment has finally arrived.

At this kind of time I am not ready to think too much about other things, one is that those fireballs have been getting closer and closer, there is no time to think more, and secondly, because I worry that thinking too much about life and death will make myself weak, I have always wanted to do Yang Genshi like the special hero in combat, but did not die in the battlefield, but instead of unexplained at the bottom of the Kunlun Mountains to the end of his life, is really not too willing to do so, I put my heart across the heart, I’m going to let the The big man detonated the grenade.

Luo Ning had already closed her eyes tightly and waited for death, she suddenly thought of something, all of a sudden she stood up and pulled us: “You guys listen to the sound of this water flowing so loudly, this place is very close to the underground river, let’s quickly jump into the river.”

Just now only focus on shooting, and then prepared to use grenades to commit suicide, long ago threw the matter of the underground river to the back of the mind, busy and did not hear the sound of the rumbling water, listening to Luo Ning so said, only to think that there is still a way to live, if we can jump into the river in advance, those fireballs, although powerful, but also can’t do anything to help us.

When it’s too late, then fast, thousands of blue fireballs have been close at hand, the four survivors eager to survive, desperately running to the water roar.

Listen to the sound of the water, only a dozen meters away, we ran not a few steps, after the end of the underground hollow turn place, in front of the eyes appeared a large waterfall, waterfalls below a sizeable natural underground lake.

I have not had time to look carefully, the back of the heart is hot, scratching like pain, must be the fireball has hit my back, as long as the dip a small spark, the flames will immediately engulf the whole body, this life and death, where there is still time to think about it, jumped in a leap down into the lake.

In the confusion, only to see the big man and other three people were also burned, screaming wildly and successively jumped into the lake. I jumped into the water, and the blue flame on my body was extinguished by the lake water.

Water and fire don’t melt, the rest of the flying insects seemed to know the power of the lake water, only hovering two or three meters away from the surface of the lake, not daring to rush down to attack.

I exposed my head from the water for air, and found that the big man also came out, only missing Luo Ning and Ga Wa two people, I worry that they do not know water, drowning in the lake, take a deep breath and ready to dive into the water again to save them, this time Luo Ning has been holding Ga Wa floated up from the lake.

It turns out that Ga Wa has never swum in his life, jumped into the lake after the water choked and fainted, Luo Ning just saw, dive into the lake to save him up, in the drowning time is not long, Ga Wa coughed up a few mouths of water, and awake.

Tibetan custom is not allowed to go down to the lake to bathe and swim, Ga Wa mouth nagging chanting, asking Buddha to forgive.

The lake was lit up by numerous fireballs of fire as bright as day, four people gathered together, although it was early spring, but felt that the groundwater is not cold, but feel slightly warm, is a place formed by the geothermal effect of warm water lake.

Big man cursed: “mom pull a son of a bitch, the gun is gone, sunk to the bottom of the lake.”

I reminded him, “We are out of bullets, the gun is useless, now let’s hurry to find a way out of the way, you put your head down, be careful of those bugs rushing down.”

The big man did not believe that those bugs covered with fire can rush into the lake, grinning big mouth, soon his smile froze, thousands of fireballs flashing blue light is gradually gathered, forming a huge and incomparable flames, hooting down, he hurriedly drilled back into the lake.

I inhaled a breath is trying to go down, see next to the Ga Wa stunned, he was born afraid of the lake, do not dare to dive into the lake to avoid, I had to force his head into the water, dragged his arm backwards to the depths of the swim.

The diameter of the fireball reached dozens of meters, a touch of the lake surface, it inspired the water vapor. Although the fireball is big, the lake is wider, those ladybugs daredevil suicide attack means can not work, have drowned in the water.

The bottom of the lake was originally a dim, but by the light of the fire from above, barely able to see the environment of more than ten meters underwater, the depths of the water there are countless large fish swimming slowly, these fish and I have seen before is completely different, the large fish whiskers are extremely long, cool salmon, due to living in a dark environment, the eyes have degenerated, only two white spots.

I was shocked by the strange appearance of these big fish, ate a few mouthfuls of water, and then look at Ga Wa also stomping hands and feet, can not close the breath, want to struggle to swim up to change the air, just when the bottom of the lake suddenly darkened, I estimate that those bugs have been almost dead, pulling the Ga Wa swam up to the surface of the lake.

There was a layer of dead ladybugs floating on the surface of the lake, and without the light of the fire, everywhere was dark and gloomy, I shouted to Big Guy, “Big Guy, do you still have a flashlight there?”

Big man replied: “All lost, nothing left, this time we will go in the dark.”

Suddenly, Luo Ning emerged from the lake, wiping the water on her face with her hand, and in her other hand she was holding a military abduction-type flashlight: “The last two I brought with me, fortunately, they have been in my pocket, and didn’t fall into the bottom of the lake.”

The people pulled each other and climbed to the shore, they all felt tired and hungry, no longer have the energy to act, more than ten hours without food, not to mention flesh and blood, even if it is really iron, I’m afraid it will not last.

Big man and jumped into the lake with a bayonet inserted a fish back, scraping the fish scales, cut into several slices, I first tasted a bite, the flavor of raw fish meat is not bad, not too fishy, just slightly bitter, chewing a few mouths will feel very fragrant.

Only Gawa said big day to refuse to eat, the troops also have national discipline, not allowed to eat fish in Tibet, but I think the Kunlun Mountains are in Qinghai and Tibet, the junction of the two provinces, according to the location that we are still considered in the side of Qinghai, and Qinghai * than the Tibetans are more, so eat fish in this is not considered to be a violation of discipline. In fact, even if this time really criminal discipline can not care, has been hungry eyes blue, special circumstances can only special treatment.

Three people devoured a big fish raw, feel still a little bit not enough, so the big man swam into the lake to touch the fish, Luo Ning to check the Ga Wa foot wounds, I turned around in the lake, to see if there is any place to go out. The waterfall’s current was so strong that this lake should have a place to divert it.

The drop of the big waterfall is tens of meters, according to Luo Ning’s estimation, this water system in front of us should be an underground tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo River, and there may be a volcano deep underground, that’s why the lake is warm.

I took Luo Ning’s inflection flashlight, found a gap in the underground lake, the lake water flowed out along this gap, this waterway is a seven or eight meters high cave, the bottom is completely flooded, there is no road to go, want to go forward, if you can only swim out of the water.

I returned to the side of Luo Ning, to see the situation to her, Luo Ning’s map and compass are lost, can only rely on intuition speculation, she engaged in surveying and mapping work for many years, experienced, she estimated that our position from the Frozen Springs is not far away, the Frozen Springs even in the severe winter does not freeze, indicating that there is lava underneath the ground, the problem is from where you can go back to the ground, has been walking around underground is not a solution, now feasible! The only feasible option is to walk along the river, because only in the place where there is a river will not be a dead end.

The big man came back with his head hanging down, he didn’t catch any fish this time. We didn’t want to make any more stops, and the three people with good water skills put Ga Wa in the center and swam towards the far side of this hole in the ground, following the direction of the current.

This underground river is not wide, but the submerged current underneath is very powerful, borrowing the impact of the current, half floating and half swimming is not laborious, only this tunnel is too long, the water temperature is also much higher than just now, the nose smells, all the smell of sulfur, being in the water, still feel the mouth is dry.

Big man is a little anxious, while swimming and complaining: “We may have made the mistake of left-leaning blind activism this time, how to swim for so long is not the head? This place has such a strong current, there is not even a place to stand and rest. Why don’t we turn back and swim back?”

I criticized the big man, “What did you do earlier? You’ve swum out so far before asking how long the Red Flag can be fought. Do you have doubts about whether our revolution can achieve final victory? You’ve just taken the first step in the Long March and you’re already wavering? Bite the bullet and hold on.”

The big man sophistically said, “How can you say that? I’m not trying to preserve some strength for the revolution, but if you do this, who’s to blame for the losses caused to the revolution?”

Our words were just half said, Luo Ning exclaimed, “You guys see if there is some kind of animal in the back? It seems like a …… water monster.”

I also heard an abnormal ringing in the water at the back, turned back and used the flashlight to shine, the water at the back rolled over, and a huge black shadow rapidly approached from the water, the illumination range of the flashlight was not enough to see exactly what it was, but the one who comes is not good, the one who is good does not come, we all drew our military spikes out, and gazed in preparation for the battle.