Chapter 18 Seventeen, iron gate

This is a combined iron door, which is easy to see. It is welded by iron plates of different sizes. I don't know how much cement was poured.There are four iron grooves near the door latch. The entire iron door is pressed in the iron grooves, thick and heavy, and we stepped on them without any sag or shaking. The door is double-opening, and in the middle of the door, there are three huge torque door pins, which have been welded to death now, and even the gaps of the door are welded tightly, and they will not move even if they are pulled. At this time, the deputy squad leader glanced at a soldier beside him. He didn't know what the intention was. The soldier pressed hard on it, and then said softly to him: "Explosion-proof, the iron plate has interlayers inside, with cotton wool and springs sandwiched."

"It seems that Little Japan has no plans to come back after leaving." Wang Sichuan muttered on the side. We all nodded, it was obvious. Indeed, judging from the situation here, the passage to continue down is likely to be behind this closed iron gate. With such a closed level, it is indeed determined to close this place, and there is no plan to open it again. However, if this is the case, we will have nowhere to go when we get here, so how can Yuan Xile explain it?Where were the others with her?Even if he died, there should be a corpse, at least, there should be some traces, but we didn't find anything along the way.

Did she come in alone?This is absolutely impossible. Moreover, I don’t know if I was thinking too much. At that time, I had a strange feeling: the purpose of the Japanese closing the iron gate was not to prevent us from entering, but to prevent the things inside the gate from coming out. Because generally if the Japanese want to close a place, according to our experience in exploring some Japanese underground bunkers in the Mongolian Mountains, their approach is very decisive.The Japanese would not only blow up the tunnels leading into the underground bunker, but also drill and blast holes in the dome and load-bearing walls of the underground bunker, completely destroying the entire underground structure.Only in this way can the most effective guarantee that materials and supplies will not fall into the hands of the enemy, and the bunker will be completely scrapped and cannot be used by the enemy.

But here only the iron gate is closed, and it is only covered with a shallow layer of stones, which is too unlike the Japanese way of doing things. However, under the circumstances at that time, it was useless to think so much, because with our equipment, there was nothing we could do about this iron gate.I believe that not only us, but also the mechanical repair soldiers of the geological engineering company can't do anything. To open this kind of door, a large number of gas cutting guns are needed. We weren't very frustrated at first, and we always felt that there should be a way to open this door.However, he squatted on the iron gate for a while, fumbled here and there, but made no progress.Several people looked at each other, but no one could speak.

In the end, it was Pei Qing who raised the question: What should we do about this matter?Did you really just go back like this? We all smiled wryly, so what if we don't go back?With this thing, no matter how unwilling we are, it is impossible for us to move forward. This exploration mission is indeed the end here. We collected hydrological and geological samples according to the general working procedures, and roughly described the appearance of the iron gate, so we packed our things and prepared to go back. The soldiers were obviously tired of such cave exploration, and they were more active than anyone else when they returned. They helped us carry our equipment and walked back.

However, after only a few steps, everyone suddenly felt that their feet were not right. We hadn't reacted at that time, but the deputy squad leader at the head had already woken up, and heard him yell in a low voice: "Oops!" We all looked down, and suddenly found that the dark river that originally flowed in the crevices of the stones had already overflowed to the edge of the stones, and would soon rise to the bottom of our feet. Several people looked at each other, their faces turned pale, because as prospectors and engineers, we knew too well what was going to happen—the underground river was flooded!

"Run!" I don't know who yelled, we immediately threw away all our belongings, and started running in the direction we came from.And I had a chill down my spine, already feeling something bad: our terrain is too low! Any cave exploration and exploration, as well as anything involving groundwater systems, we are warned to be aware of the problem of groundwater swell, especially in Yungui, where there is plenty of rain, and when it rains, the water flow conditions inside the caves will completely change, and the various water supply systems will backfill , It is easy to change the water level of the underground river, which is very dangerous.

It's just that here, we really didn't expect to encounter such a thing.Inner Mongolia was famous for its drought in the 1960s. On the day we entered the cave, the sky was clear, and no one expected that it would suddenly rain dozens of hours later.And probably because the water here flows under the rocky beach, the swell of this underground river is silent, which is really terrible. Thinking of this, I suddenly remembered the sound of fingernails scratching the stone I heard just now under the iron gate, and I immediately wanted to slap myself.God, that's not a strange sound at all, isn't that the sound of flooding in a dry cave!I didn't even realize it at the time.

The sudden increase of the water volume in the cave and the strengthening of the impact force will cause very small changes in the structure of the entire rocky beach, and the sound will be made when the stones rub against each other. This is all memorized in this textbook, but we have never experienced such a thing before. So I never thought of going there. At that time, we were really called running wildly. Friends who lived by the sea could know how fast the tide can rise, and the rise of the dark river is much faster than the speed of the tide!In the first dozen or so steps, we were still fleeing for our lives from the imaginary danger, and then we could see water overflowing from the cracks in the rocks with our naked eyes.

"Go to the water dungeon!" Wang Sichuan ran at the front at his usual speed and shouted at us, "The water won't overflow there!" After a little calculation in my heart, I knew it would be too late. The road here is too difficult to walk. Before we get there, our feet will definitely not be able to touch the bottom of the water. Current against. But I ran forward desperately. If I could stop and think about it at this time, the most sensible thing would be to collect some floating things. It would be more correct to prepare for drifting, but at that time I only had one word "run" in my mind.

Running wildly all the way, I don't know how many miles I ran, the water has reached my knees.This is the watershed, because Wang Sichuan could not see the rocks under the water, he was the first to fall, and he did not fall casually. When he got up, his head was covered in blood, but he still kept going.Then we fell down one by one, and then got up. Now I think back, it seems that every time I climb up, it becomes more and more difficult, my knees are cut, my palms are cut, and I don’t know it at all. But under such circumstances, our speed was almost negligible, and the momentum of the water flow began to manifest. We began to be unable to stand, and as soon as we relaxed, we would be rushed backwards by the water.Can't move forward at all. Finally, Wang Sichuan, who was at the front, gave up running and started to walk towards a huge rock on the side. We knew his plan and knew that there was no hope of saving ourselves, so we all followed him. When I got to the bottom of the rock, the water had already reached my waist, and every step I took was a desperate effort. My ears were filled with the roar of the water, which was especially deafening in the narrow space.We yelled and talked, and first lifted Wang Sichuan up, and then he pulled us up the rock one by one. In the end, the few of us all shrank to the highest point of the rock. They were completely dazzled when they saw the foot of the land just now.