Chapter 22 21. The real rescue object

The flames of the bonfire flickered in front of me, and when the slightly circulated air made the flames burn, they made a piercing sound from time to time.The faces of several people were a little distorted under the firelight, especially the old cat. I could only see the outline of his face, but not his expression. We are not the ones to be saved? I felt like I couldn't understand Wang Sichuan's words, but when I thought about Yuan Xile's matter, I felt like I understood it again.But again not sure. "Then who are you trying to save?" I looked at the old cat, hoping he would make a clear explanation.

The two prospectors who were not sitting with us heard my question, stopped talking, and turned their heads to look at me, while Wang Sichuan and the others all looked at the flames in front of them and kept silent. No one supported me. Obviously, they This question has been asked before. The old cat behind the fire looked at me, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and said quietly: "I have no right to tell you. You will know when you find it." There was another silence, and no one spoke.Finally, Wang Sichuan murmured, "This time, I have a problem with the organization's approach."

The old cat let out a sigh of relief: "The bounden duty of a soldier is to obey orders. If you have an opinion, go out and ask Rong Aiguo to raise it." We all sighed, knowing that it wasn't that the old cat didn't want to say it, it was because he couldn't treat the secrecy as a joke in front of so many people. It is special, but as long as you are a soldier, you must obey orders. This is a sacred principle. Everything in the army depends on this basic principle. When we enlisted, we were already mentally prepared. So Wang Sichuan scolded, and didn't continue talking, and those few looked at our exploration technicians, turned their heads back, and continued talking.

In order to ease the atmosphere, I asked them: Forget it, what did you discuss?I also come to listen? Pei Qing handed me the picture drawn by the old cat, also to ease my atmosphere, and then I said: "We are telling him that the iron gate at that time was at this position. We are discussing, since the passage is in the cave Here at the top, what's inside the iron gate?" I remembered that strange iron gate, which should be underwater by now.On the picture of the old cat, a long passage is sketchily drawn, and I can easily recognize the places we walked through.At the iron gate, the old cat put a question mark for some reason.

I asked them what the results of the discussion were, and Pei Qing said that they had asked the engineers for their opinions, and they said there were two possibilities. First, this is not a door at all, but a cement pile of a temporary crane, and the rock structure here is not stable. , Walking is okay, if you hoist relatively large aircraft components, such as engines, you may need a lifting frame, then you need to pour a lot of cement and steel bars under the stones, the iron gate may just be the remnants of the cement pile . I recalled it for a while, and thought bullshit, it must be the second possibility when I arrived at the door.

Pei Qing said: That's interesting. They said that if it wasn't for the cement piles, according to their experience in building underground bunkers, the iron gate placed in this kind of place must be a slight blasting point, and the bottom is full of explosives. A deep hole was drilled all the way to the load-bearing layer, which was covered with a large amount of moisture-proof and shock-proof explosives at key positions, used to detonate in an emergency, and can instantly seal the cave and buy time. Many underground fortresses in Japan have such devices placed on key passages, and this device requires a small number of people who have obtained the detonation code to operate. There are special people in the Japanese army to perform this "sacred" detonation task.

However, for some unknown reason, the Japanese army closed the iron gate when they withdrew, obviously not wanting to completely close it, or at that time, the person who knew the detonation code was already dead. I broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this, and said, "You mean, we were standing on a pile of explosives just now?" An engineer behind us interjected, "No, it's a lot." The one who spoke was an older engineering soldier with a strange face, and even looked a little older than our deputy squad leader. He also squeezed into our midst. The old cat introduced us, saying that he was the company commander of the engineering company, and he was a veteran. , just came back from the Sino-Indian border, named Tang Zeding, the two of them obviously know each other, that old Tang and our deputy squad leader have completely different personalities, maybe because of their higher rank, they are not taboo towards us at all, just sit down Then I said that what the Japanese used at that time was generally Type 97 explosives. This explosive was a mixture of yellow explosives and some kind of bullshit six what kind of benzene (can’t remember clearly). It was used in an environment with water. The power is huge, but he said that there is no need to worry. Japan's detonating devices are very mature, and there will be no accidents in general.

Then he said, but the location of this explosion point is very particular. I believe that place should belong to a strategic point. If judged in this way, the dark river section behind us may be relatively safe. Wang Sichuan obviously didn't believe it, so he patted him and said he accepted your words. I think what he said makes sense, but whatever the facts are, I can only go down and see. Pei Qing continued: "This is a problem we were discussing just now. Now there is another problem that is more difficult. We also mentioned it just now. It is the problem of Yuan Xile and Chen Luohu."

I thought what's the matter, and asked them what's the problem?I haven't seen them here, shouldn't I wait upstream? Pei Qing shook his head and said, "The old cat said that when they came, they only saw the equipment and the corpses of the sacrificed soldiers, but they didn't see the three of them." I froze for a moment again, thinking how could it be possible?Pei Qing said, now we also assume that either they did not find Yuan Xile and the others when they came, or they found that the water was rising and there was an accident when they came to rescue us. In short, we can't go back and search now, we can only pray for them never mind.

I thought of Chen Luohu and Yuan Xile's appearance, and I was really worried. These two people couldn't take care of themselves. Will the little soldier we left behind be able to take care of him? With worries, we discussed other things. The trend of the underground river cannot be predicted. In fact, there was a charging method at that time that could predict the trend and scale of the underground river, but the data are all approximate numbers, and now we need extreme details.Now we can only rely on our previous experience of walking underground rivers to guess what we will encounter when we solve it.

While we were discussing, suddenly there was a loud voice from one side. We turned our heads to look, and saw two engineering soldiers had gone a long way along the terraced fields. We could only see two lights from the flashlight here. The length of the stone terraces is often astonishing, and sometimes they can stretch for several kilometers. It may be that they are curious about this strange geological scene, and they walk along the wall of the cave.At this time, the deputy squad leader found them and ordered them to come back. Who knew they were waving there, pointing at the top of the cave, as if they had discovered something. Wang Sichuan was interested, and I got up with him and ran over with a few other people. When we walked to them, we looked up at the top of the cave, and saw a U-shaped arm-thin cable hanging from the top of the underground river full of stalactites. , extending from the river ahead.Here it hangs into the water and disappears. And here, I heard from the cable again, the sound of nails scratching that I heard just now under the iron door. At this time, it sounded like the rising water level and the friction of stones, but the static electricity in the cable. that kind of noise. Although the cable is not a particularly shocking thing, the few engineers involved are very excited, because seeing the cable means that there is something with electricity nearby. I don’t know what kind of generator the Japanese use, but the power is sure. It won't be big, there are cables, indicating that we are not far from our destination. I just don't know, why does it seem that there is still electricity in the cables that have been abandoned for decades?Is the engine at the end of the cable still running? Old Tang asked a few engineers to support him, and built a personal ladder to get there. Due to decades of water erosion, the cables had aged and were thinly wrapped in limestone in the stalactite, which could not be pulled off. They looked at the cables. It has been hanging down from here, into the water, and let a few soldiers go down to see what the cable is connected to at the end. The deputy squad leader took off his clothes, walked down the stone terrace layer by layer, and then dived down by touching the cable. We watched him dive for a while, then rose up for a while, and soon reached the place where the flashlight could not see clearly. place. I was afraid that he would be in danger, so I asked others to push the kayak into the water, and we went there to meet him. Several people were very interested. The kayak quickly rowed to the center of the dark river. The squad leader’s flashlight could even shine through the water. We watched the light spot move and move, and finally stopped moving. Floating upwards, followed by a splash, the deputy monitor jumped onto the boat panting heavily. We hurriedly pulled him up and wiped his hair with a towel. Wang Sichuan couldn't help it, and asked what was connected below? The deputy squad leader took a minute to recover, and stammered: "Airplane! There is a wreckage of an airplane underwater!"