Chapter 2 Chapter Two

The Shengjinkou mentioned above is still some distance away from our current location. Now we are in Subashi Village, the source of Tuyugou in the middle of the Flaming Mountains, on the southwestern edge of Shanshan County.Subash means "source of water" in the local language. At this time, we have passed through the village and came to the foot of the Flaming Mountain. In front of us is a clear ditch, which is the well-known Tuyugou.The costumes of the villagers are all Uyghur style. They all panicked and talked into the ditch water. I guessed in my heart, could there be sharks and turtles in the water?

Company Commander Wang Shi has always been full of dirtbags. I look down on him from the bottom of my heart, but I dare not speak out when I am angry, but now he speaks a Uyghur language, which makes me extremely admired.In fact, we have been in Xinjiang for more than half a year, and we can occasionally speak a few words of local dialect, and barely understand two or three sentences.I curiously asked Company Commander Wang what he had just said to the villagers, and he told me that he was asking about the problem with the ditch water. The villagers seem to be able to speak Chinese, although they are not very fluent. When they saw us coming, they saw that we were Han Chinese, so they immediately said in non-fluent Chinese: "Our, that water, the water source, is going to be cut off!"

This small river has been flowing in the local area for thousands of years, but now, a large hole has collapsed under the water, and water is constantly pouring into the water hole.If this continues, the water source here will be cut off sooner or later.The villagers are full of sorrow. The ditch water they rely on for survival is now threatened. No wonder they gather together against the poisonous sun. When I was in college, I still took a few classes, so I barely knew anything about soil mechanics and civil engineering.A large hole appeared in the bottom of the river out of thin air, because there is space in the lower bottom layer, and the hydrodynamic corrosion can erode the shallow rock, and the pressure of the water flow is also a factor that causes the shallow rock to collapse.

I looked at the hole in the water and thought, there shouldn't be any treasure inside.However, the flow of the water made it impossible for me to see what was in the hole, only a piece of darkness.Company Commander Wang suddenly said that Xu Shaode and I were not built by the workers and the people, and let us relieve the villagers. When I heard it, I was immediately dumbfounded.Although I have studied in school for four years, I am not very serious. I am a layman. How can I help the villagers, let alone fill this big hole.However, I saw the earnest eyes of the kind and honest villagers, and I was embarrassed to speak. I didn't know that many bubbles suddenly appeared in the water at this time, making the clear water instantly chaotic.There was also a vibration around the ditch water, and our feet were a little numb.

Immediately afterwards, I smelled a breath rushing up from the water, mixed with a lot of dust, which made me stick out my tongue.Xu Shaode thought that a large-scale landslide was about to be triggered, so he ran back in a hurry, but was finally pulled back by Company Commander Wang with quick eyes and hands.After the little commotion calmed down, Company Commander Wang immediately taught a lesson: "You are damned, the villagers didn't run away, why did you run away? You are still a soldier!" "I thought I was going to..." Xu Shaode didn't continue, and immediately lowered his head, probably because he was tortured by Company Commander Wang and lost his youthful vigor.

I saw that Company Commander Wang was about to curse again, so I immediately pointed to the water and said, "Company Commander, look at the water, it seems that the entrance of the hole is blocked!" I was talking nonsense, and I just planned to make Company Commander Wang shut up immediately, because when this person scolds others, he either asks for money or kills him.Unexpectedly, this sentence actually came true. After the water flow became clear, the underwater hole was really blocked by a big rock.This puzzled me, and in the blink of an eye, I didn't know where this big rock came from.The villagers were very simple and had no extra curiosity. When they saw that the entrance of the cave was blocked, they cheered and yelled some words that I couldn't understand, probably to thank a certain god.

Company Commander Wang likes to meddle in other people's affairs, and I know his habit, so I hurriedly pushed him to continue on the road, and don't make troubles, if he wants me and Xu Shaode to solve the strange things in the water, it will be miserable.If the ditch continues to collapse, it will either kill us, or our parents will give us three heads and six arms, and there is nothing we can do about it.Xu Shaode may have been scolded a lot, and I always help him out like this, so he will cooperate with it. "Wan Zang, why are you pushing me? It's not big or small!" Company Commander Wang had a bad temper, and in addition to the hot weather, he pushed me into the river with all his strength.

After falling into the water, I almost didn't want to come up again. I still can't forget the cool feeling.I wouldn't have come up if I hadn't been nearly suffocated by the water.However, just as I came up, I glanced at the stones blocking the bottom hole.There is a lot of red soil attached to the stone, and the red soil keeps releasing blisters, which is probably caused by long-term dry cracks.There are many reliefs of reclining Buddha carved on the stone, as well as various patterns.Because my water skills are not very good, I couldn't continue watching, so I floated up immediately.

"Come up quickly, you boy! Wan Zang!" Company Commander Wang shouted from above. I thought to myself, when did this damn bastard company commander care about me so much, maybe he did something wrong and felt guilty.However, I saw that Xu Shaode was also urging, their faces were full of panic and panic, which is rarely seen on the faces of soldiers, although Xu Shaode is not very courageous.The villagers who were about to disperse suddenly surrounded me again. They all had the same expressions on their faces, which shocked me, and I knew that there might be some kind of dangerous situation in the water, otherwise they would not have such a consistent view. reaction.

Fortunately, I am very calm when encountering dangers. This is due to my father. Before my road is safe, he has already taken me into the mountains to hunt. I have encountered dangers hundreds of times at least. They are all chosen on dark and windy nights.At this time, I tried my best to swim forward, hoping to grab the wall of the ditch.God favored me, I caught it, but the soil was so brittle, indeed, it really killed me.It’s okay if I didn’t catch it, but when I caught it, a large layer of soil fell, smashing me into the water happily, and a lot of impurities ran into my eyes, so painful that I farted directly in the water.

Just when I wanted to float up again, I found that my feet were entangled in something, and I couldn't break free no matter how hard I tried.The water is extremely clear, not to mention fish and shrimp, and there are not even aquatic plants. What is it that entangles my feet?When I was young, people often drowned near my house, so I heard many stories about water ghosts.The old people said that the drowned ghost needs to find a substitute so that he can be reincarnated as a human being. At this time, as long as he urinates, the water ghost can be subdued. I thought of this, so I had an idea in my mind, but I couldn't pee no matter how hard I tried.It's all due to the damn weather, I've never been able to drink enough water, and of course I can't pee at critical moments, even though I'm in the water at the moment.I struggled in the water, complaining in my heart, why didn't the people above come down to save me, it was really impossible to save me.The villagers may regard the water source as a sacred place, so naturally they dare not go into the water, I can understand.Xu Shaode is a landlubber at all, I dare not expect him to save me, maybe I will save him in the end. At this time, Company Commander Wang pulled out the Type 54 pistol on his waist. In fact, this gun was considered an old-fashioned type at the time, and it was very inconvenient to use. Company Commander Wang did not use it often. He also hoped that the organization would send it to be developed. The Type 92 pistol.Without further ado, Company Commander Wang fired a shot at me.I knew in my heart that he wanted to hit the strange thing in the water, but because I was struggling all the time, I was afraid of being accidentally injured.At this time, in order not to die in vain, I stopped struggling, but I didn’t know that I had just let go, and a sudden force from my feet dragged me a long distance, my chin was hit, my lip was bitten, and blood flowed.Company Commander Wang missed something in the water, but the bullet grazed my shoulder. This is bad luck for eight lifetimes. I don’t know if he owed him money or robbed his wife in the previous life. The things in the water may be bloodthirsty, so when the blood bleeds, the things in the water are more powerful. I want to see the things that are wrapped around my feet, but I can't see them.Maybe knowing that there was no one to help me, I became calmer. Only then did I remember that there was a dagger in my arms.I hurriedly took it out, but the pain in my shoulder suddenly intensified, and the dagger in my hand fell out and fell to the bottom of the water.I gritted my teeth and tried to grab the dagger with all my strength, but the distance was a bit far, and I couldn't reach it no matter what.At this moment, I felt as long as hours had passed, and felt that I was about to drown.That reconciliation, really deep in my memory, what I was thinking at the time was that if I die, I must become a ghost, arrest the commander of the eighth company, and die together. After I was pulled to the stone blocking the underwater hole, I felt that the stone was very special, because when I touched it, it seemed to have a strong adsorption force, and my whole body seemed to be sucked into the stone.When I got close to the stone, the water flow suddenly became much clearer. It is estimated that the impurities in the water were sucked into the stone, and I finally saw what was entangled with me. That thing is a red and black antennae, about as thick as a thumb, but it is very tenacious, and it didn't break no matter how I tossed it just now.The scary thing is that there is more than one antennae, and I saw several more protruding from the bottom of the stone, so I really have to explain it here.Just when I was desperate, someone jumped down, and I was moved to think that it is really rare for someone to finally do something brave.Because I was in the water for too long, my eyes began to blur, and I only felt pain and itching, so I couldn't see who it was.The man came straight at me with astonishing speed, then raised a knife and swiped it at my feet two or three times.In an instant, the strength in my feet disappeared, and I immediately swam to the side of the ditch with all my strength, like a person who was about to die of thirst when he suddenly encountered nectar.This person may be worried that I will be pulled to the rock again, so he took me and swam over at a faster speed.As soon as I swam to the edge of the ditch, a rope hung down. No matter what happened, I grabbed it and climbed up. "Why do you just watch me die?" I vomited bitterly as soon as I came up. In fact, it was just venting my displeasure with Company Commander Wang. Others could understand, but he was the only one who made me feel very displeased. "I...Wan Zang...I'm sorry..." Company Commander Wang hesitated, which surprised me. In normal times, he would say that he was justified even if he didn't make any sense. I couldn't bear it, and thought that Company Commander Wang probably had some privacy, and he was also my superior, so I restrained my anger.The person who rescued me just climbed up, wondering why the hero is so good, when I turned my head, I saw a familiar face—Fan Li.