Chapter 107 – Across the Mountain and the River

A large group of “saber-toothed viper fish”, came very quickly, the sound of iron leaves rubbing like a wave after wave of the tide, constantly from the distance, the first few tails have already arrived at our feet by the bamboo raft, the raft, although tied up firmly, but can not hold this group of hungry ghosts off the “saber-toothed viper fish” to gnaw. “to gnaw.

We are in a hurry, had to swing up the sapper shovel to chop swim close to the fish, I swung a shovel into the water, the sapper shovel was as crazy as the dog “knife tooth viper fish” bites, I hurriedly raised his hand to bite the sapper shovel of the two “knife tooth viper fish” to shake off, and looked down and could not help but Cold sweat, mountaineering helmet under the spotlight, engineering shovel steel shovel blade, but was bitten out of several rows of staggered teeth marks.

However, this is only the first few tails of “knife tooth viper fish”, more fish are surging behind, if we do not take effective measures, our raft in a few dozen seconds, will be a large number of “knife tooth viper fish” bite into pieces.

But the location of the raft from the mushroom rock cave exit, there are still more than ten meters away, now has been “knife tooth viper fish” completely surrounded, can not use the equipment paddling, this last ten meters, really like hell as long as the distance, I’m afraid we can never arrive.

Fatty anxiously shouted: “this time we really want to play finished, I fucking do not want to be fish food, old Hu you pistol still have bullets, fast to my heart to a shot, I would rather be killed by the gun, or better than by the piranha gnawed to death.”

I was also a bit numb claws, gritted his teeth and said to the fat man: “good, so do it, I first shot you, and then I shot myself, we must not live in the hands of the enemy.”

In this life and death in a line at the juncture, Shirley Yang suddenly calm and composed to us said: “Look at you two guys have no interest in the appearance of the usual mouth, a thousand vicious, 10,000 kinds of strong, the whole world can not be placed in the eyes of the things you, and now has not been over the Chalong Mountain, encountered so much trouble on the want to commit suicide, to see you go back to see the face with the world after the people say that, but also After you go back, let’s see what kind of face you have to talk to the people of the world, now all of you listen to my command.”

Said Shirley Yang raised her pistol, aimed at the water “saber-toothed viper fish” dense place, fired several shots, the river was instantly fish blood stained red, around the “saber-toothed viper fish” see blood, do not care whether it is the same kind of or what, wildly swooped over to tear the injured! “The raft was about to be crushed, and the crisis was slightly alleviated.

Shirley Yang do not care to put the pistol back, directly let go, let the six-four fall into the water, this time early that “flying tiger claw” far away from the exit of the cave aimed at the white cloud mushroom rock thrown out, “flying tiger claw” steel cable, in the mushroom rock rock columns The steel cable of the “flying tiger claw” was wrapped three times around the rock pillar of the mushroom rock, and the claw head was tightly clasped to the rock.

Shirley Yang let me and the fat man tugged the “flying tiger claw” steel cable, the raft quickly pulled to the shore at the mouth of the cave, in the three pulling, the speed of the raft is faster than just a few times faster than just with the sapper shovel chaotic paddling, and then from the place where there are still five or six meters, the fat man began to put full of equipment geological hiking bag, even the two handles of the insect net a one after another, the first throw to the shore, each bag of the first time. The first thrown to the shore, each package has forty or fifty pounds of weight, reduce a raft on a light block, the speed is also faster and faster.

At this time, the iron leaves rubbing sound, a large group of “knife tooth viper fish” has been like a maggot like swarming to come, we no longer dare to continue to stay on the raft, and immediately leaped onto the bank of Swire dolomite piles, just landed on the feet, behind the rope that binds the raft is broken, the entire raft fell apart, one by one, floating in the water, the damage to the strong light of the The damaged searchlight also sank.

“Knife-toothed viperfish” fish, nibbled net attached to the bamboo “water swine bee”, still wandering in the vicinity of the wandering and refused to leave, I looked at the fish in the water rolled over and rolled, can not help but let out a breath of air, finally did not turn into fish food, or not yet seen the “King Xian’s Tomb”. “King Xian’s tomb” will first die in this cave full of water.

Fatty beside me suddenly shouted: “Aigoo, not good, the backpack fell into the river.”

I followed the trend to see, also was shocked, just threw the three big backpacks on the bank, have not had time to take up, the first thrown over the backpack, due to the distance, fell in the water’s edge, the backpack is heavy, the shore of the gravel can not support, fell into the river, there is nowhere to stand, want to retrieve the backpack, you must go into the water, looking at the big backpack is going to be washed away by the water current, and the river of the large group of The big backpack was about to be washed away by the current, and a large school of “saber-toothed viperfish” was waiting on the left side of the river.

When we set out to have all the equipment and equipment categorized, this backpack is loaded with “Bingane jet bottle”, can be used with a lighter, launch three to two times the flame, due to the not too easy to buy, so only to get this bottle, was ready to fight back when equipped with, just in case of accidents, and there are also six bottles of water bottles the size of the fillable type of bag Oxygen cylinders, as well as scale diving goggles and respirators, these are the theft of that built in the lake “dedicate the tomb of the king”, the indispensable underwater equipment, in addition, there are a lot of other important items, that is, due to the backpack has a lot of full of a variety of gases in the equipment, so for a moment has not yet sunk to the bottom of the water.

If this backpack is lost, we can take advantage of the early pinch the tail to sound the retreat, return home, Shirley Yang see this scene, is also anxious, want to use the “tiger claw” to hook back to the backpack, and that “tiger claw” is still dead entangled in the mushroom rock! I couldn’t free myself from it in a hurry.

I know that if there is a delay, these equipment will be washed away by the water to nowhere, only the hand of the sapper shovel, see the bank of the rock on the reverse slope, there is a crack, do not think too much on the sapper shovel as a rock wedge, the entire shovel blade vertical inserted into the cracks in the rock, and then horizontal force, the sapper shovel stuck in the cracks in the rock, reach out and try to find very solid, then hang the entire body on the surface of the river, one hand grasps the triangular shovel handle, and the other hand into the water! The other hand went into the water to grab the backpack that was just floating over from below.

The backpack was caught in the hands of the real, this heart only put down, I did not expect to suddenly leap out of the water a “knife teeth viper fish”, open its jagged knife-like mouth, in mid-air to the back of my hand hard to a bite.

The meat on the back of my hand was immediately torn off a piece of pain, my whole body shivered, almost fell into the river, I ate a pain, did not put that backpack hands, and several tails of “saber-toothed viper fish” to make their carp leap Dragon Gate tactics, have jumped out of the water want to bite me, my body suspended in the air, but also because of the backpack is too heavy, can not dodge.

Thanks to the fat man and Shirley Yang from the back to pull me back, only lucky not to be a group of fish teeth split body, I wiped the cold sweat on the forehead, look at the left hand injury, fortunately not serious, only been bitten off a piece of flesh, although the blood flow is not stopping, after all, it is not hurt the tendons and bones.

Shirley Yang hurriedly took out the medicine to me to bandage: “You are also too adventurous, human life is important or equipment is important, equipment is gone, the big deal is to let the dust beads in the dedication of the King’s tomb for a few more days, the loss of life is not a child’s play.”

I said to Shirley Yang and Fatty: “This little injury is nothing, if I don’t show the means of Hu today, then the American advisory group can say we are incompetent again, right Fatty?”

The fat man laughed: “Old Hu you this two count what ability, steal chicken not to lose the rice, their own let the fish to gnaw a big mouth, we will press the rear position, later to the dedication of the King’s tomb, you will all see the fat master’s skills, so that you open your eyes, know what is outside the mountains have mountains.”

Shirley Yang first used Yunnan Baiyao to stop the blood to the back of my hand, and then used hemostatic gel to paste a layer on the outside, and then used waterproof tape to wrap the wound, so as not to get into the water infection and inflammation, and finally had to give me a shot of cyanidin.

I quickly waved my hand: “No, no, I’m not in the line of fire for minor injuries, and also a little dizzy needle, this antibiotic we originally did not bring much, or first keep it.”

Shirley Yang could not help but let the fat man press me to the ground, forcing a shot before giving up, due to the complex environment in this cave, I do not know what other dangers, it did not rest, measured the orientation, see the river edge is barely passable, then back on the equipment, ready to open the 11th, along this underground canal, from the river out.

We walk along the edge of the river, see this for the construction of the King’s Tomb cut the scale of the waterway is not extraordinary, originally thought that King Xian is separated from the “ancient Yunnan” in a generation of grass-roots sons of God, his mausoleum scale will not be too big, but only from the canal through the mountains, that specializes in voodoo “痋术 “The King of Xian, really is the power of the sky, the power is absolutely not small, that repair in the” water dragon halo “in the scale of the King’s Tomb, should also be far beyond our imagination.

In the darkness of the cave deeper and deeper, and walked nearly an hour’s journey, the river suddenly appeared a section of the collapse, rubble once stepped on have slipped into the water, can not be based on, it seems that this road can not continue to move forward.

Only to find another natural cave, from which to pass, not long to go, will hear the opposite side of the wall of water rumbling, but clearly hear the sound of water, but no way around, we raised the “wolf eyes”, looking around, this place is a natural melting rock group in the mountain landscape, a large piece of rock, there are a lot of large and small holes.

It is difficult to find a stone hole that can allow one person to drill through, then use the mountaineering rope to drag the backpack behind, the order of drilling through, and finally saw a huge waterfall in the mountains, we drilled out of the grotto position, just below the waterfall, there is another stream of water from the opposite side of the river into the waterfall under the waterfall, follow the direction of the water flow to see far away from the light, it seems that the exit is over there.

Shirley Yang said to me, “This water system that converges into the waterfall is probably the only waterway found during the quarrying process by the locals, looking at the riverbed geomorphology near here, it won’t be more than a couple of decades, looking at this it should have been formed in the recent past, otherwise there is this waterway, and there is no need to process the canals in the Chalong Mountain when repairing the Tomb of King Xian.”

I said to Shirley Yang: “This kind of accumulated ash melting rock group landform, is formed by water washing all year round, I used to be an engineer, more or less understand some, like this kind of place, the whole bottom of the mountain has been washed into a sieve by the countless tributaries of the Lancang River long ago, the depth of the water accumulated in some places is even more than a few hundred meters, the river water in the caves rerouted is a common thing, anyway The more it flows, the lower it gets, and when it washes down a piece of rock, one more tributary comes out, and if it goes on like this, this Chalong Mountain will have to be spoiled sooner or later.”

The three of them talked and walked, seeking the place with light to walk over, halfway to see the high mountain wall some rock caves, arranged quite orderly, very much like artificially excavated, below the mountain wall there are obvious stone steps, on the ground from time to time you can see a set of rotting human withered bones, and also some weapons kaijia, all have been rotted to the point of no return.

The scene here is very consistent with the previous description of the boss’s wife in the colorful clouds inn, it should be some of the chaotic people of that year, as a stronghold against the official army, Yunnan Dali and even the Lancang River generation, this kind of thing has often happened since the Yuan Dynasty, due to the items are difficult to be preserved in the humid environment, almost all of them have been rotted and decayed, and it is not too easy to identify which dynasty or generation, look at the degree of decomposition of the bones, and weapons Armor shape, can only judge may be the early Qing Dynasty.

We into the mountain bucket, always on foot, do not mind trekking, moreover, can walk freely, although in the “Chalong Mountain” under the abandon ship walking, each carrying a lot of heavy equipment, but did not feel hard, but this way more experience dangerous and evil, want to drill out of this cave earlier, so they no longer pay attention to those remains, hurriedly rush.

Follow the water to the end of the river, the river is still flowing forward, but it is into the ground, the cave than the ground level outside the low-lying piece, so in the outside can not see the big river in the mountains, we climbed up a section of the mountain rocky slopes, where there are traces of water soaked, it seems that a period of time before the country-wide large-scale precipitation, “Chalong Mountain” in the size of the cave “In the middle of the rocky slope, there was a hole that had been washed away by water, and now the water had receded. In the daytime, with the sunlight outside, it was easy to find the exit, and the rocks were obviously blocked by human beings, and it would be hard for human beings to open it if not for the flooding in the mountain.

We put on sunglasses, drilled out of the cave, finally considered successful through the “Dragon Shading Mountain”, to the outside, looking back, is in the “Dragon Shading Mountain” under the precipitous wall of the peak, the highest place, the clouds are heavy, the “Dragon Shading Mountain”, the highest place, the clouds are heavy, the clouds are heavy, the clouds are heavy, the clouds are heavy, the clouds are heavy, the clouds are heavy, the clouds are heavy. The shell of “Chalong Mountain” is full of dark green granite with green stains, and countless broad-leafed plants like tengzhi grow on the cliffs, which are all green as far as the eye can see, and if you look for this small gap from the outside, it is not easy to find.

Look ahead, surrounded by mountains, the middle of the terrain is getting lower and lower, all the large tracts of primitive forests, forests are reckless, all kinds of plants are dense and unusual, the canopy of the old trees cover the sky and avoid the sun, there are a lot of strange flowers and exotic trees that can not be named, which is scattered with countless gullies and valleys, streams and dangerous pools, some of these valleys in the sunshine can be clearly seen inside the grass and flowers, but the more we look the more we feel that the deeper it is unpredictable, the deeper the deeper it is. The more you look at it, the more you feel unfathomable, deep and mysterious, while some places are cloud-sealed and fog-locked, a hazy and mysterious scenery.

This is a piece of the “Nu River” and “Lancang River” between the snowy mountains and rivers, completely isolated from the world of the primitive land, I took out the map of human skin, to confirm the path into the “Valley of the Worms”. I took out the human skin map and confirmed the path into the “Bug Valley”.

Fatty raised his binoculars to watch the jungle below, and suddenly pulled my arm and shoved the binoculars into my hand: “No need to turn over the map, look at that side there are many big golden butterflies, the valley must be there.”