Chapter 9 8. A dead man

The deputy squad leader also took off his clothes and jumped into the water. The three of them dived again, and the water surface stirred up.Three people are enough, and a big guy going down will definitely be a disservice. There was a lot of movement underwater, and the pulled barbed wire made our boat shake unceasingly. I lay on it and tried to keep the boat balanced.Soon the deputy squad leader floated up, dragging a blue thing in his hand, and then the other two soldiers also floated up, the three of them shook the water vigorously, and a sack-like thing was lifted out of the water at once.Because they were close to where our boat was, the thing just flipped over onto our raft and splashed us in the face.

We were taken aback. At first we thought it was really a dead person, but after a closer look, we found out that it was not at all.It was a rotten blue-black sack, with several openings cut by barbed wire, and the inside was full of rusted wires. When the sack was propped up, it looked like a stiff person, probably because it was like this, so I misread it.The sack is very disgusting. When you touch the rusty water, you can tell that it has been soaked in the water for many years.Moreover, the weight is extremely heavy, and the stern of the boat will tilt up once it is put on the boat. Chen Luohu was timid, and immediately shrank back in fright, and almost shrank out of the boat, but Wang Sichuan rushed to hold him back.The three men climbed back onto the boat panting. The deputy squad leader frowned and looked at the sack, then gave each of his two soldiers a shudder, and cursed, "What look? Dead man, your dead man looks like this?"

The two soldiers were also embarrassed and scratched their heads.Then he was driven down to cut barbed wire.The deputy squad leader obviously felt a little shameless, and explained to us: "The two recruits are timid." In fact, we were also quite frightened. The thing was thrown into our boat with a "boom" just now. us. Wang Sichuan took a photo of the sack with a flashlight and asked me, "Is this something left by the Japanese?" I said obviously, I also recognize this kind of sack, called a buffer bag, which is used as a temporary cover during blasting.There must have been yellow sand in the sack before, but now there is nothing left after being washed by the water. This bag may have accidentally fallen into the water when it was transported.It seems that Little Japan had a relatively large explosion in it.

Everyone thought it made sense, and I was about to continue explaining, but suddenly Wang Sichuan interrupted me, he didn't know what he saw, he pulled up the rotten sack, and said to me: "No, Lao Wu, this is really a dead." As he spoke, he tore open the sack that was as soft as rotten cotton wool, and we saw that a skeleton was bound between the wires wrapped inside, and the wire was tightly wound around the skeleton, rolling his body into a cocoon .The skeleton obviously experienced a violent struggle before death, so the whole sack took on that strange appearance. The body was half boned, and this person was so thin that there was not much to rot, so even now, the wire was still very tightly wound.And we all felt a shudder at the sight of the agonized, twisted face of the corpse.

After nearly forty years, I can still vividly remember the situation at that time, this is a real thing, I am not exaggerating at all, I was indeed in that cave, seeing such a corpse, the kind of scalp chills I still can't forget the feeling.And people who haven't seen it with their own eyes can't understand that kind of scene at all. The Japanese can think of such crazy things as treating the Chinese alive as buffer bags for blasting. We were silent for a long time, Wang Sichuan was the most temperamental among us, his complexion was darker than Bao Gong. The atmosphere at that time was suddenly made very serious by the corpse. The two soldiers climbed up after cutting the barbed wire. Looking at our expressions, they didn't know what medicine we had taken wrongly. They were inexplicable.We then pushed the body back into the water before continuing on.

The waterway behind was silent all the way, and it was not appropriate to joke around. In order to divert our attention, we all turned our eyes to the rock wall on one side. As the terrain got lower and lower, the geological structure in the cave also began to change, showing more and more bizarre scenes.The characteristics of limestone water caves began to replace the characteristics of structural caves. Stone waterfalls and water seepage appeared, and we all put on awning hats. However, judging from the superficial evidence, it is difficult to say that the karst cave system here is earlier than the generation of geological structural caves, or the opposite is the case. The age of geological structural caves is generally more than 100 million years old, while the age of karst cave systems is between 100,000 and 200 million years. Years vary, the flexibility is too great, there is no comparison.

However, generally speaking, the system of large underground river caves in ordinary karst landforms is like a net bag, with layers extending in all directions and no rules to follow. There is absolutely no reason for any river to go down like sightseeing.There is reason to believe that this geological structural cave system should have been formed during the orogeny of the rising of the ocean and high mountains hundreds of millions of years ago, and then the underground river was formed, and then the limestone here was washed away by the underground river, and the characteristics of the cave began to appear.

And the further you go down, because of water seepage, the limestone on the surface is brought to the depths of the cave system, and the corrosion below will be more severe.But at a certain depth, the cave will return to the original geological structure cave form, because the pressure on the ground is too high, and the karst cave formed by the karst landform cannot bear such a huge pressure at all. These are the results of our discussion at that time, and what we are all interested in is, where will the end of this dark river be?With such a large amount of water, if there is no underground lake at the end, it is hard to imagine that all the water will seep into the cracks in the rocks and become groundwater.

We also calculated the approximate time required. According to the current gentle slope, the detour is not counted. If we calculate the absolute time, we should be 16 kilometers away from the vertical depth of 1,200 meters. If there is no accident, we will rest on time at night. , we will arrive at ten o'clock tomorrow morning.Of course, the premise is that the fork hole we walked is correct, and the river has no twists and turns, otherwise it will be an X, and the ghost knows where we will arrive. Our prediction was perfectly proved at the beginning. When the barometer traveled to a depth of about 320 meters above the ground, a large number of cave features appeared like an explosion, making the rock walls on both sides of the underground river a stunning scene. It is a complex picture scroll of human fear, with bone-like stone waterfalls and canine-toothed stone threads everywhere.Overhead stone bridges appeared on the top of the dark river, and in some places stone waterfalls hung down, pressing down on our heads, and we had to lower our bodies to pass.The scenery that no one has seen for millions of years is exposed in front of us bit by bit. There is a feeling of driving among the bones of giant beasts, and we don't know whether it is fear or excitement.

In 1962, there was a novel published in China, called, which also depicted a similar scene. However, our theoretical derivation soon encountered a huge challenge. After we drove past a huge stone waterfall, huge rocks emerged from the water in the river ahead, and the entire river became difficult to pass because of these stones. The way to go, the rapids bypass the rocks here, and our kayak gets stuck in the crevices of the rocks. "Geological collapse." Pei Qing shined a flashlight, "These rocks were cracked and smashed from the roof of the cave when the cave collapsed."

"Who doesn't know." Wang Sichuan said, "Grandma, someone help me go up and have a look." When we climbed up a rock to check, we saw an unexpected scene. A rocky beach appeared in front of us, blocking the river, and the water flowed under the rocky beach instead. The rocky beach is full of irregular stones, the big ones are like the head of a truck, and the small ones are only as big as a fist, which is extremely uneven.And the gaps between these chaotic rocks are actually filled with the black sacks we picked up from the underwater barbed wire just now, everywhere.Many sacks have rotted away, and the wreckage inside showed various strange postures, entangled in the wire. The scene was like hell.