Chapter 20 19. Rescued

After we were taken onto the raft one by one, Wang Sichuan bowed his head and kissed the old hull, just like his ancestors kissed the vast grassland.But I collapsed directly on the boat, with my head resting on the side of the boat, and I only felt that there was darkness in front of me.Everything just now, the hoarse voice, the rushing water, the cold, the fear, the singing, everything turned into a vortex, spinning away from me. Life and death are so close, it is really like a dream. Just when I was about to pass out, the people on one side helped me up and gave me a suit. Only then did the freezing cold start to make me feel uncomfortable.

We took off our clothes and put on blankets, and then we regained our composure and began to look at the rescuers tremblingly.Most of them are unfamiliar engineers, and there are two geological prospecting soldiers from our group, but they are not familiar with them. Only the old cat sitting on the bow is a familiar face. After Wang Sichuan dried himself off, he asked what was going on and how they got in.One of the engineers told him that this morning the general camp sent a telegram, saying that there was a heavy rain on the upper reaches of the Kachar River twenty miles away, asking them to be careful of possible tidal floods.At that time, the old cat was already on standby in the camp, and when he heard the news, his face changed, and he immediately went to the colonel, saying that there might be flooding in the dark river.At first the colonel didn't believe it, but at the insistence of Lao Mao, they organized a rescue team. Now it seems that it is really timely. If it is later, it may not be a rescue team, but a corpse-hunting team.

Wang Sichuan said thank God, Changshengtian bless you, Lao Mao, you are my dear father, let me kiss you quickly. The old cat smiled at him without saying a word, but looked at me and Pei Qing again, showing a very meaningful expression. At this time, I found a problem: after the raft picked us up, it did not go back, but continued to move forward along the rapids.I was a little scared and asked: "Old cat, where are we going now? This is a dead end." When Wang Sichuan was asked by me, he immediately realized the problem. Several people turned pale, and they all shouted: "That's right! There is no way inside." Wang Sichuan said: "The terrain here is too low, we should go up. Swim away, otherwise this place may become an underground water pocket, we will be trapped in it, and even the entire bottom of the cave will be completely filled with water."

Those engineering soldiers all looked at Lao Mao, apparently asking for his opinion, but Lao Mao ignored us, took a puff of cigarette, and said to the engineering soldiers, "Go forward." The four leather rafts rushed forward like an assault boat. We didn't know what the old cat meant, so they all got up, and Wang Sichuan was so anxious that his face turned green.We just got off the line of life and death, and we really don't want to go to that situation again. But the speed of the raft was so fast that we almost rushed to the end of the cave during our quarrel. At this time, the old cat made a gesture, pointed to a place, and made everyone quiet.

Because of the rising water level, the level we are now at is at least 30 meters higher than the place below where we found the iron gate.That is to say, at this height, when we stood at the iron gate and looked up, the flashlight could not illuminate clearly, and we never paid attention to the top of the cave, because it was always pitch black and we couldn’t see anything. And at our current height, the top of the cave can be roughly seen clearly. We can see that the cave walls form an acute angle above our heads, and the huge stalactite pillars hanging from the top are like white animal teeth, shadowy and indistinct. I don't know how many.These scenes are short-lived, and we don't have much energy to pay attention to them in the torrent, and we don't have much memory now.

And what made us quiet was that we saw that at the end of the cave, at the top where the two cave walls meet, there was a gap about ten meters wide, and now the water flowed into it like a galloping horse, splashing the sky. splash. We all understood it at a glance, that is to say, the geological tectonic movement of the year did not completely seal the cave, this is just a contraction section, and the way to continue down is actually on the top of the cave. I don’t know such a description, can you understand the structure of the cave, or it can be said that the place where we were just now, where the iron gate was found, is just a water pocket of an underground river, and its size cannot be called a dark lake. But it plays the same role as the dark lake, which is to regulate the amount of underground river water.Because of years of drought, the water level of the underground river had obviously reached a low point when we came in, so the dark lake, which had not yet matured, was exposed at the bottom of the lake.And we searched at the bottom of the lake, but naturally we couldn't find a way to continue down.

This is actually a blind spot. Under the concept of "water flows down", we always feel that the channel will be under our feet. We never thought that the top of our heads has not been searched at all. I would like to ask how the old cat knew about this, but the situation at the time did not allow it, the water flow was too fast, and when we rushed to the opening of the gap, the raft had already started to spin, and the engineers shouted to grab it and get down!As soon as the words were finished, we were already drawn into the gap and slammed into one side of the cave wall. Half of an engineer was thrown out. Fortunately, Pei Qing moved quickly and pulled him back with a snap. Then there was a round of darkness.

I don't know whether the boat was horizontal or vertical in the end. After experiencing such a fierce scene again after extreme fatigue and fear, I couldn't hold on anymore. After gritting my teeth for a few seconds, I finally fell into a coma past.