Chapter 11 The Underground Lake
Our wooden grenade is a standard equipment for infantry. It consists of three parts, wrapped in iron on the top into a cylindrical shape, and a wooden grip on the bottom. After being triggered, the iron debris are stimulated to kill the enemy through the zha medicine inside, and the power is not very strong.
The big man left a grenade. I took another one and saw that many fireballs had rushed over. So I pulled out the fuse and threw the grenade with white smoke coming out of the wooden handle.
The grenade exploded with a ball of white smoke. More than a dozen blue fireballs flying in front were hit by the explosion shrapnel and fell to the ground and extinguished, but more fireballs continued to flock from behind.
Luo Ning was in front, and the other three people stepped on the pads and pulled out with the semi-automatic rifle in their hands. Each of them had more than twenty bullets, and they were exhausted within two minutes.
If you want to deal with those blue fireballs formed by strange ladybugs, you can only shoot with a gun. If you have any contact with them, you will burn your body. A rifle without bullets is better than a fire stick.
The big man threw away his rifle, took out the last grenade, and shouted to me: "Old Hu, is it time to fix it?"
Luo Ningjia and I were holding Ga Wa. The four of us formed a circle and wrapped the grenade in the middle of the big man's hand. I stared at the grenade in front of me. As long as the big man pulled the string, he would be burned in a few seconds. The last moment finally came.
At this time, I am not going to think too much about other things. First, the fireballs are getting closer and closer, and I don’t have time to think too much about it. Second, I am worried that thinking too much about separation from life and death will make me weak. I have always wanted to be a special combat hero like Yang Gensi, but I didn’t die on the battlefield. Instead, I am not very willing to go to the end of my life under the Kunlun Mountains. I am really unwilling to let the big man detonate the grenade.
Luo Ning had already closed her eyes tightly and waited for death. She suddenly thought of something and stood up and grabbed us: "You hear the sound of the water flowing so loudly. It's very close to the underground river. Let's jump into the river."
I was just busy shooting, and then I was about to commit suicide with a grenade. I had already thrown the underground river behind my head. I didn't hear the rumbling sound of the water in a hurry. After hearing what Luo Ning said, I realized that there was still a way out. If I could jump into the river in advance, even though the fireballs were powerful, they would be incredible to us.
It was a long time to say that, and thousands of blue fireballs were already close at hand. Four survivors were eager to survive and ran desperately towards the roar of the water.
When we heard the sound of water, we were only a dozen meters away. We couldn't run a few steps and turned around at the end of the hollow underground. A large waterfall appeared in front of us. There was a large natural underground lake of considerable size under the waterfall.
Before I could take a closer look, my heart felt hot and it felt like I was scratching my heart and scratching my liver. I guess the fireball had hit my back. As long as it was touched with a small spark, the flames would immediately engulf the whole body. At this critical moment of life and death, there was no time to think too much, so I jumped out of the lake.
In the chaos, I saw the big man and the three of them also burned, and they shouted and jumped into the lake one after another. I plunged into the water, and the blue flames on my body were immediately extinguished by the lake.
The water and fire did not melt, and the other flying insects seemed to know how powerful the lake water was. They only wandered two or three meters away from the lake surface and did not dare to rush down to attack.
I exposed my head to breathe from the water, and found that the big man also emerged, but there was no trace of Luo Ning and Ga Wa. I was worried that they would not know the nature of the water, so I drowned in the lake, so I took a deep breath to dive into the water to save them again. At this time, Luo Ning had already supported Ga Wa to float up from the lake.
It turned out that Gawa had never swam in his life. After jumping into the lake, he was choked by the water and fainted. Luo Ning just saw it and sneaked into the lake to rescue him. Fortunately, the drowning time was not long, Gawa coughed a few sips of water and woke up again.
Tibetan customs are not allowed to go to the lake to take a bath and swim. Gawa chants in his mouth and asks the Buddha to forgive his sins.
The sky above the lake was illuminated by the fire of countless fireballs as bright as daylight. The four people gathered together. Although it was early spring, they felt that the groundwater was not cold, but instead felt a slight warmth on its body, which was a warm lake formed by geothermal heat.
The big man cursed: "Mom, the gun is gone, and it sinks to the bottom of the lake."
I reminded him, "We have no bullets, and it's useless to ask for a gun. Now let's find a way to find a way to leave. Put your head down and be careful of the bugs rushing down."
The big man didn't believe that those fire-covered insects could rush into the lake, grinning with a big mouth, and soon his smile froze. Thousands of fireballs shining with blue light were gradually gathering, forming an extremely huge ball of flames. With a shout, he rushed down and quickly drilled back into the lake.
I took a breath and was about to go down, but I was shocked when I saw Gawa next to me. He was born to be afraid of the lake and did not dare to sneak into the lake to hide. I had to force his head into the water and drag his arms down to swim deeper.
The large fireball reached a diameter of dozens of meters. As soon as it touched the lake, it stimulated the water vapor to evaporate. Although the fireball was large, the lake water was wider. The suicide attack methods of the ladybug suicide squads could not work and they were drowned in the water.
The bottom of the lake was originally dark, but it was reflected by the firelight above, so you could barely see the environment more than ten meters under the water. There were countless big fish swimming slowly in the depths of the water. These fish were completely different from what I had seen before. The big fish had very long beards and looked like salmon. Because they lived in a dark environment, their eyes had deteriorated and only two white spots were left.
I was startled by the strange appearance of these big fish. After taking a few sips of water, Gawa was also kicking his hands and feet. I couldn't stop my breath and wanted to struggle to swim up and breathe. As soon as the bottom of the lake suddenly became dark. I guess the insects were almost dead, so I pulled Gawa to swim onto the lake.
There was a layer of ladybug corpses floating on the lake. Without the fire, there was a dark area everywhere. I shouted to the big man: "Big man, do you still have a flashlight?"
The big man replied, "I lost everything and nothing is left. Let's go in the dark this time."
Suddenly, Luo Ning also came out of the lake, wiped the water from her face with her hand, and held a military-style flashlight in her other hand: "I have the last two, but fortunately I have been in my pocket and haven't fallen into the bottom of the lake."
Everyone pulled each other and climbed up the shore, feeling tired and hungry, and no longer had the energy to move. They hadn't eaten for more than ten hours, let alone flesh and blood, even if they were really hard, they wouldn't be able to hold on.
The big man jumped into the lake and stabbed a fish with a bayonet. He shaved the scales randomly and cut them into several slices. I tasted it first. The raw fish tasted okay, not too fishy, but it was a little bitter. I felt very fragrant after chewing a few more bites.
Only Gawa said that the sky was unwilling to eat, and the army also had ethnic discipline, and fish was not allowed in Tibet. But when I thought that Kunlun Mountain was at the junction of Qinghai and Tibet provinces, we were still in Qinghai, and Qinghai was more than Tibetans, so eating fish here is not considered a discipline. In fact, even if we really violated discipline at this time, we were so hungry that our eyes were blue. We could only treat special circumstances.
The three of them ate a big fish raw, feeling that they were still a little unsatisfied, so the big man swam into the lake to catch fish again. Luo Ning checked the wound on Gawa's feet. I walked around the lake to see if there was any place to go out. The waterfall flowed so much that there should be a place to divert the lake.
The drop of the waterfall is dozens of meters. According to Luoning's estimate, the water system in front of us should be an underground tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo River, and there may be volcanoes deep underground, so the lake water will be warm.
I took Luoning's turn-shaped flashlight and found a gap in an underground lake. The lake water flowed out along the gap. The waterway was a cave seven or eight meters high. It was completely flooded by water. There was no way to go. If you wanted to move forward, you could only swim out of the water.
I returned to Luoning and told her what I saw. Luoning's map and compass were lost. I could only intuition speculation based on intuition that she has been engaged in surveying and mapping for many years and has rich experience. She estimated that our location is not far from the Cannon Frozen Spring. Even in the severe winter, it does not freeze, which means that there is lava underground. The problem is where to go back to the ground. It is not a solution to walk around the ground. Now the feasible solution is only to walk along the river, because only in places with river channels will not be a dead end.
The big man also came back dejectedly, and he didn't catch the fish this time. We didn't want to stay any longer. Three people with good water nature put Gawa in the middle and swam far into the direction of the water flow toward the distance of the cave.
Although the surface of this underground river is not wide, the undercurrent is very powerful below. With the impact of the water flow, it is not difficult to float and half-swim. However, this tunnel is too long and the water temperature is much higher than before. What you hear in your nose is full of sulfur. When you are in the water, you still feel dry mouth.
The big man was a little anxious and complained while swimming: "We may have made the mistake of **** blind activism this time. Why have we been swimming for so long and not yet finished yet? The water flows in this place so fast that we don't even have a place to rest. It's better to turn back and swim."
I criticized the big man and said, "What have you been doing long ago? I have swam so far before I asked how long the red flag can be fought. Do you have any questions about whether our revolution can achieve the final victory? You started to shake as soon as you took the first step in the Long March? Grip your teeth and hold on."
The big man quibbled: "How can I say that? Don't I want to retain some strength for the revolution? Who will calculate if you do this by mistake? Is it because of your losses caused to the revolution?"
Just as we were halfway through, Luo Ning exclaimed: "Do you see if there is any animal behind you? It seems to be... a water monster."
Chapter completed!