Chapter 96 Chapter Thirteen

The date of the bottle made me wonder. If the old curator Zha and his group of six brought it in more than 20 years ago and left it in the cave, then this bottle must have someone Some use, otherwise why would they bring it in.What I'm more curious about is what kind of chemical agent will the liquid in the bottle have, and what effect can it have? The most dangerous caves are water caves, which are karst caves with underground water flow in them.The worst case is that the tunnel has no roof, or an inverted siphon. When encountering these terrains, common caving methods will be useless.I have already made the worst plan in my heart, that is, with the water flow into the ground, and then become a fossil for future research.Just as we were tossing and falling in the water, it seemed that an object had fallen from above, because the current of the water was chaotic, so we couldn't see exactly what fell, but we just hoped that it didn't hurt us.This underground cave with a huge vertical drop can at least hold the water volume of a reservoir, and I have blurred symptoms when I see it. This place is as big as a universe.

You must know that cave divers in foreign countries must undergo special training and obtain a qualification certificate before they can explore water caves.If we knew in advance that this is an intermittent water hole, we would not come in, but think about it. The ancient Wuhu people might have used the intermittent water hole to go down to the bottom, otherwise they would definitely not be able to get down. Could the "Water from God" be the river below the mountain, or is there an underground lake under the mountain?After tumbling in the water for a while, the sucked water quickly slowed down. At this time, we had almost reached the bottom of the cave. With the light of the flashlight, we immediately opened our eyes wide.There are all tall stalactites here, as huge as the stalactites on the top of the cave. If we really hit it just now, we will not die or be disabled.However, the stalactites here are all incomplete, and half of them have been knocked out, so they are man-made at first glance.The reselling of stalactites is not new, but it is now banned by the state, and the cut surfaces of stalactites have been oxidized to black, so it should not be a modern practice.

I remember that there is obviously a rope on the top, isn't that a proof that someone has already descended here?But here are all large stalactites, there is no flat place, only many deep stone crevices.The cracks in the stone are so long that the light of the flashlight can't get in at all. It is estimated that the "water from the gods" is sprayed from here, and now the water is slowly flowing back to the cracks.What surprised me most was that the rope hanging from the top of the cave could not find its end underneath.I don't think there is any reason for this. Lin Yue or the old curator Cha, they both have some professional knowledge, so how could they bring in a rope that is not long enough.

Although the water flow has slowed down, it will still be sucked into these cracks after staying for a long time, so we hurried upstream.It was especially hard going upstream because the cracks were still sucking water in, and it felt like a hand was pulling at my clothes and not letting me go.I kept paying attention to the position of the end of the rope all the way up the swim, but before I saw the end of the rope, I saw a familiar face falling down.Just now I noticed something falling from the top of the cave, but I didn't expect it to be a person, and it was Sister Yu!We were extremely surprised. It turned out that she was willing to let us go to look for Xiaoyan in order to follow her secretly. She is really a stubborn woman.Since she was unable to speak in the water, when Sister Yu landed close to us, she signaled us to follow with her hands.We originally planned to float up, so we followed without thinking too much.Sister Yu, who grew up by the big river, is very good at swimming. Although the current sucks, she swims so fast that the two of us big men can hardly catch up.

Suddenly, Sister Yu stopped, she was suspended in the water, waiting for us to catch up.This is just the middle part of the cave, and I just saw the end of the rope here. It turns out that the rope is gone only here.On the rock wall where the rope is leaning against, there is another small cave branching into it. Sister Yu motioned us to swim in with her quickly.At first, I thought that Sister Yu seemed to know something, so now I don't feel surprised to see her showing us the way.I suddenly realized that the rope was not long enough, but just long enough. The owner of the rope was not going down to the bottom, but the destination was on the middle stone wall!

The water flow began to accelerate back again, and we quickly hid in one by one. After Sister Yu went in, Xinhong followed, and I finally burrowed in hard.I didn't expect that just after I got in, the water flow would suck me back violently. Fortunately, Xinhong held me vigilantly, otherwise I would have to be sucked out.Due to the large amount of water, the water flow sucked back for several minutes without ending.Sister Yu and Xinhong held me desperately, their other hands tightly grasping the protruding stone in the cave.The stones in the water cave can easily form sharp blades after dissolution, and many inexperienced people are often cut by the stone flakes.At this time, in order to hold me, they didn't have time to decide which stone to grab to stabilize the position.Unfortunately, they all caught sharp stone flakes and their hands were bleeding bright red because they weren't wearing protective gear.

The rapid sucking water sucked their blood away from my face. After all, they did this to save me, and a sour feeling immediately lingered in my heart. "Water from God" reappeared the original kamikaze, and the water immediately slid down to the bottom of the cave with a swish, so fast that I didn't even realize it.My lungs tingled as the water slid past, and I almost suffocated.There is a saying in medicine about self-drowning without water, one of which is that rapid changes in water flow and water temperature can also lead to drowning death. It took a long time for me to regain my sanity.

"How are your hands, please apply some medicine!" I said anxiously. "It's okay, besides, we don't know where our bags were washed by the current, and where did we get the medicine!" Xinhong said indifferently. "Sister Yu, are you alright, your hand..." I asked shyly. "It's okay, go find someone, the person you are looking for may also be in this place." Sister Yu replied meaningfully. "It's not good for you to come in like this. If something happens, we won't be able to handle it." I said hesitantly, although she tried her best to hold me back just now, she had to say what she wanted to say in advance.

"Don't worry, we'll be fine!" Sister Yu said confidently, and then walked along the cave. "Xinhong, look..." I asked for his opinion, because it was inconvenient to bring a woman with him. "Forget it, are you going to ask her to climb up again holding the rope? If she falls, wouldn't it be worse?" It seems that Xinhong thought more comprehensively than I did. The cave has returned to its previous form, and has become the shape of the intestinal cavity. Although three or four people can walk side by side casually, it is nothing compared to the huge vertical cave outside.The cave outside is comparable to the tiankeng in Leye County, Baise, Guangxi. I still have lingering fears when I think about it now, and it was filled with water just now. I am afraid that this is the only chance to see a tiankeng-like cave in the water.

Before coming here, we also read a lot of books about the topography of Guangxi, so we already know a little about it. "Tiankeng" is a unique geological landscape of karst terrain - karst cave, which is a rare geological wonder in the world. It was formed 65 million years ago and is shaped like a huge funnel. It has a very high value of tourism and exploration. The value of sightseeing was first discovered in Fengjie County, Chongqing in my country. The Leye Tiankeng Group was discovered by karst geology experts from the Ministry of Land and Resources and cave experts from the Geological Society of China during an investigation. It is located in Leye County, Guangxi, covering an area of ​​about 20 square kilometers.More than 20 tiankengs, including Dashiwei, Baidong, Fengyan, and Chuandong, have been discovered. The "Tiankeng" is surrounded by knife-cut cliffs on all sides, forming a huge shaft. At the bottom is a virgin forest of hundreds of thousands of square meters that humans have never set foot in, and is connected by an underground river.There are a large number of precious animal and plant species in the forest.Its underground primeval forest area ranks first in the world, its depth ranks second in the world, and its volume ranks third in the world. It has extremely high scientific research value.Dashiwei Tiankeng, the largest of the Leye Tiankeng Group, has a vertical depth of 613 meters, a width of 420 meters from north to south and a width of 600 meters from east to west.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel hairy. I have never seen the virgin forest below. If there is a virgin forest in the tiankeng, it would be a worthwhile trip.When we were about to fall to the bottom of the tiankeng just now, we didn't have a good look at the environment below, so we saw a pile of stalactites.However, the tiankeng can be filled with "divine water" in an instant, and it is estimated that it is difficult to grow trees. The only possibility is that there is a huge underground lake under the tiankeng, and the pressure changes at any time.This reminds me of a sentence from time to time, that is, the few red cliff characters I saw when I was in the South China Sea, but I may be too sensitive, so I didn't think about it. The road was twists and turns, and the water droplets kept falling. I, who has a keen hearing, couldn't adapt to these, and my ears hurt terribly.Although the space here is not as big as the Tiankeng, there are still some small stalactites.However, most of the stalactites here have also been artificially interrupted, making it look like a ruin, which is a pity for archaeologists.To form such a spectacle, it would not take hundreds of thousands or millions of years, so the whole world is protecting such caves. Now I can't help being angry when I see someone destroying them.The broken sections are very old, and I began to be confused. Could it be that these stalactites were really broken by the ancient Wuhu people?At that time, there was no trend of selling stalactites. Besides, they were all secluded and greedy for wealth, which was impossible. While thinking about these unreasonable things, Xinhong pushed me, indicating that there was a problem ahead.I listened attentively, it was the sound of breathing, and it was the sound of human breathing!