Chapter 16 Fifteen, water prison

This kind of iron cage is called a water prison. It is often seen in some Japanese buildings in the three northeastern provinces. The upper part of the water prison is close to the water surface. Lean out to breathe.In the cold underground river, they can only maintain this posture for several days and nights, otherwise they will suffocate. This section of the dark river is full of such iron cages, which are so dark that you can’t find them unless you look carefully. Use a flashlight to gather them together to take pictures. There seem to be a few vague shadows floating in some cages. I don’t know what they are. Sends chills down the spine.

Wang Sichuan said that he had heard from old people in the past that the general Japanese soldiers would sink people into prisons. It would not be so cheap to just let you soak in water. There must be leeches and the like in the water. We must be careful not to jump into it . As soon as we heard it, we were in awe. The deputy squad leader said, "It's so cold here, so there won't be any leeches. Wang Sichuan said that it has nothing to do with the cold. There are mountain leeches on the grasslands. They are usually on the back of the grass leaves, and they come out when it rains."

We have been walking outside all year round, and we all know the dangers of this thing. Leeches are not fatal, but they are disgusting. If you get bitten, you can sometimes be infected with cold and fever. It is one of the main precautions for field geological exploration. . When Wang Sichuan said this, we all felt that we had to take it seriously, so we tightened our trousers and shoe straps, because the leeches are very small when they are not sucking blood, and the small gaps cannot block them, so we also put gauze in the gaps of the trousers . Everything was ready and we checked each other before we went into the water one after another.The deputy squad leader opened the way ahead, holding things above his head, and we, like the surrendered national army, walked to the depths of the water.

The rocks under my feet were rough, and when I walked to the deepest point, the water overflowed my chest, and the extreme cold penetrated into my clothes, taking away all my body heat, and our teeth chattered involuntarily, and Wang Sichuan was frozen in the back. Jin urged to hurry up. But this way of moving forward is really not fast enough. The cold and the resistance of the water make it difficult for us to move forward. We only have to try our best to make each step as big as possible. A few engineering soldiers were more resistant to cold than us, so they irradiated the water around us with flashlights as they walked, and soon we walked into the middle of those iron cages.The distance here is short, and it is much clearer to see it from the water than on the shore. Those rusty fences make people feel more creepy.The most frightening thing is that in many iron cages, clumps of hair and shadows can be seen floating, which can be determined to be human corpses.

The more we watched, the more disappointed we became. Wang Sichuan clenched his teeth and said, "It's too miserable. I just die here like this. I won't be happy if I die." Pei Qing said: "There is actually a water prison here, which is usually used by the Japanese to intimidate the Chinese laborers. The corpses of the laborers and the water prison indicate that the Japanese have spent a lot of time here. It is likely that there is a permanent base." We didn't talk, Wang Sichuan murmured: "Anyway, what little Japan likes is definitely not a good thing."

We continued to walk forward, all the way in silence, only the sound of water and the panting of people in front and behind could be heard around us. This section of the dark river is not long, and we soon reached the middle section. At that time, I was so cold that I could no longer feel my feet, and my mind was a little confused.Simply relying on conditioned reflex to continue forward, regardless of whether there are leeches or not. At this time, I heard a few special sounds of water, as if someone had stopped. I squinted my eyes and looked ahead, only to find that the deputy squad leader who was walking in the front had stopped. He was using a flashlight to shine on his feet, looking for something with his head down.

We asked him what's the matter, he looked up, his face was pale, and said to us: "Something seems to have scratched my foot just now." "Don't talk nonsense!" Wang Sichuan's complexion also changed, saying such things in this kind of place is really terrible. The few people were all frozen in the cold, but after hearing this, they became refreshed, and the deputy squad leader hurriedly said: "Really, there is really something under the water." Looking at his expression, we felt that it was impossible for him to lie to us. The deputy squad leader seemed to be a serious person, and he couldn't even make a joke. How could he make a joke? All of a sudden, everyone shone their flashlights into the water.

"Could it be a blind fish?" Pei Qing asked, "The underground river here has actually been flowing under those rocky beaches. There are gaps between the stones. There must be fish swimming around in such a large underground river." "I'll believe you if you find out." Wang Sichuan said, and before the words finished, we all saw a long underwater shadow flashing past like lightning under our dense flashlight spots. Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then Wang Sichuan panicked, turned around and climbed up the iron cage on one side. When everyone saw it, they immediately followed suit, and they all climbed onto the iron cage in a hurry.The deputy squad leader took the lead in raising the guns, and there was a sound of bullets being loaded.

Several people were all soaked, and after getting out of the water, their bodies couldn't adapt to the weight. Pei Qing was the smallest, and couldn't stand firmly. He sat on the cage, his face became paler, and he stared at the water. A few people wanted to shine their flashlights into the water again, but they couldn't see anything. The water surface was full of ripples caused by us, and suddenly they didn't know whether the shadow just now was our own illusion or what.But no one dared to go into the water. After a stalemate for a while, Wang Sichuan said, don't take pictures, and run ashore first, and ran away while stepping on those iron cages. When we saw him running away, there was an inexplicable panic, and several people couldn't care less After thinking too much, he hurriedly chased after Wang Sichuan and ran over.

The iron cages are very dense, and only one finger away from the water surface. Running on them is like flat ground. Just now I was thinking about how Japan put people in water prisons. When I saw that there was such a way of walking, I thought I really didn't expect it.But if we knew this earlier, why should we wade into the water? It’s really useless to use our brains until a critical moment. Several people ran fast, afraid of being the last one, and soon saw the opposite bank. The section closest to the bank had no iron cages. Wang Sichuan jumped into the water with a bear, struggled to get up, and landed on the bank in a few steps. .

The people behind hurriedly followed, among them Pei Qing, who was running second, was about to reach it, when suddenly his whole body sank, he shrank into the water and disappeared. I just followed behind him, and when I saw it, I screamed in my heart. I took a few steps and rushed over to take a look. I saw the place where Pei Qing was dragged into the water, the water was churning, and I didn't know what was going on. I was anxious, jumped into the water without thinking, dived into the water and touched the churning place. The water was full of blisters, and my vision was very blurred. It seemed that two huge objects were fighting. My nerves were suddenly tense. I took out my dagger and moved my flashlight to see what was going on. However, to my surprise, after I got used to the underwater light, I found that there were no monsters in front of me, but a ridiculous scene. I saw that Pei Qing was locked in an iron cage for some reason, he was not good at water, he couldn't open his eyes underwater, he was struggling desperately in the cage, because he was too nervous, it was useless at all, it was just aroused in vain. Numerous blisters. I understood it at a glance. It turned out that there was an iron cage here that was very rusted. After being stepped on by Wang Sichuan, and then kicked by Pei Qing, the fence broke.He was thin, so he fell into the iron cage, panicked after getting down, and it was difficult to get out of the hole, and his vision was not good, so he could only slam into it. This matter can be big or small. Anyone who understands water knows that people who are afraid of water can drown in the bathhouse. I quickly swam over and put my hand into the cage, trying to calm him down. Unexpectedly, as soon as my hand caught his hand, his whole body would explode, and he was even more frightened. With a kick of his feet, he hit the fence on one side all at once. Seeing that it was not going to work, I quickly floated up, climbed to the top of the iron cage, and stretched out my hand from the hole to pull him.At this time, the deputy squad leader and Wang Sichuan, who had landed on the shore, both arrived. We hurriedly opened the iron cage, trying to pull out the half-dead Pei Qing inside. This guy is really rough, he started to vomit when he came up, he kept coughing, his whole body was dead, his body was as soft as mud, we tried our best to pull his upper body out of the water, but we couldn’t pull it out. out of his feet. Wang Sichuan said a few times that he might be caught by something, and someone needs to go down to untie it.Everyone looked at me at once, because I was the only one who was completely soaked, I cursed secretly, and had no choice but to jump into the water again to look. Without Pei Qing tossing and tossing, the water became much clearer. I looked closer to the cage and found that there was barbed wire between the cage and the cage, probably because I was afraid that the strong coolies would carry the iron cage and escape.And Pei Qing's trousers got hooked on the barbed wire. This is really terrible. I held my breath, dived into the cage and pulled it hard. It took a lot of effort to tear his trousers. . I took a deep breath, pulled my hand out of the cage, and was just about to kick my feet to float up, when suddenly the light of the flashlight flashed, and I suddenly saw a hideous face poking out of the water on my left.