Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 58 The Holy Well (1)
Inside the dark castle, a group of us ran wildly like bereaved dogs in panic.

After running not far, Wang Dongyu in front suddenly stopped.

Li Yingxin didn't stop, bumped his head against Wang Dongyu, covered his head and shouted, "Why don't you run away, you bastard? Stop and wait for death!"

Wang Dongyu took a deep breath, turned around and said with an ugly expression: "There is no way ahead!"

what? !

No way? !

We widened our eyes in horror. Less than ten meters away in front of us was a cliff, and the cold wind was blowing up from below, making a ghostly howling sound.

Why is there a cliff in the middle of the castle?
What is below the cliff?
When we got closer, we discovered that the cliff was actually a barrel-shaped pit, like a huge well, with a diameter of at least 50 meters.Black mist billowed in the well, and the mouth of the well was like the mouth of a monster, as if it wanted to swallow everything.

We raised the wolf-eye flashlight and shone down the well, and the light from the wolf-eye flashlight pierced the darkness like a knife.This shaft is at least tens of hundreds of meters deep, and the wolf-eyed flashlight can't penetrate to the bottom of the well, it can only illuminate the rock wall cut by knives and axes, like countless ferocious monsters.

Looking at this empty and boundless underground well, I couldn't help but secretly squeezed a cold sweat: "Have we come to the entrance of hell?"

The expressions on everyone's faces were uncertain, and Gu Meidi suddenly said: "Professor Ye, Tuoba Gu, do you still remember what that old bastard Wan Juncheng told us? He said that there is a mouthful in the Desert Devil City The holy well! If I guessed correctly, this should be the holy well! In other words, we have reached our destination!"

My heart beat wildly, yes, so we have reached our destination.As long as we go down to the bottom of the well and drink a few sips of holy water, the poison of the dark flower on our body will be relieved!

Thinking of this, my heart suddenly surged with blood. After all the hardships, we finally found the holy well.

As soon as Gu Meidi finished speaking, the weird roar sounded again: "Hiss... roar..."

This time we heard very clearly that the strange roar came from under the holy well.We glanced at each other, and we couldn't help showing a trace of worry in our eyes. What kind of weirdness is hidden under the holy well?What the hell is going on with this strange growling sound?Is it the devil in hell screaming?

It is strange to say that upon hearing this roaring sound, all the witches and ghosts who were chasing us stopped and surrounded the mouth of the well densely, but they did not dare to approach the mouth of the well, as if they did not dare to step into the holy well. entry into the restricted area.

Hundreds of witch ghosts are confronting us, at most ten meters away from us, as long as they launch a strong attack, we will definitely die without a place to die.I have already made up my mind to fight these witches and ghosts to the death. If I can't, I will jump from the mouth of the well. I would rather fall to my death than be eaten by these disgusting witches and ghosts.

The surroundings suddenly became very quiet, the air was so frozen that water seemed to be wrung out, we held the weapons in our hands tightly, and could clearly hear each other's heartbeat and panting.

The two sides stalemate for a while, seeing that those witch ghosts did not intend to attack us, Professor Ye waved at Lao Luo and me: "Fix the rope and get ready to go down!"

Lao Luo and I came to the edge of the holy well, and the cold wind made my hair fly, and I couldn't keep my eyes open.

I tapped the rock wall with my hand and found that the rock formations around the holy well are very hard, which should be thousands of years of sedimentary rock formations, which are very suitable for climbing.So I found a place, quickly laid down the rivets, and hung up the climbing rope.

In just a quarter of an hour, Lao Luo and I drove a total of ten rivets and prepared ten climbing ropes, allowing everyone to hang down at the same time.Our team originally consisted of eleven people, but Song Mingqiu had already died in the pagoda in the ancient city of Loulan, so now there are only ten people left.

"Professor Ye, you're ready!" I gestured OK to Professor Ye.

"Let's go!" Professor Ye put away his pistol, turned around and came to the edge of the holy well, fastened the safety buckle on his waist, and hung the safety buckle on the climbing rope.

Everyone quickly retreated to the edge of the holy well, tied the safety buckle around their waists in the same way, and then hung the safety buckle on the climbing rope.

Those witch ghosts still didn't have any intention of attacking. It seemed that this holy well was indeed a restricted area that they dared not step into.I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, this time it was entirely our luck that we ran to the edge of the holy well by mistake.If he had gone to other places, he would have been caught up by the witch and ghost long ago, and he didn't know if he was dead or alive.

"Hiss... roar..."

The devil's roar came from the bottom of the well again, and this deep shaft became a huge loudspeaker, playing the roar at a volume that was multiplied several times, making our ears buzzing, in this dark underground The depths sound particularly frightening.

At this moment, a strange scene happened.Those witches and ghosts gathered around the mouth of the well actually knelt down, yes, knelt down!Their kneeling posture is very strange, with their hind legs bent and squatting, and their front legs kneeling on the ground.Then almost at the same moment, the heads of all the witch ghosts split into four pieces, and their long scarlet tongues shot out, dancing wildly in the air. The scene was quite spectacular.Those dense fangs shone with a cold light, and thousands of witch ghosts let out a creepy and shrill roar at the same time, the sound was like the shouting of countless hell ghosts.

The picture was so weird that we didn't dare to look at it anymore, but someone shouted: "Get down!"

A group of ten of us grabbed the climbing rope and began to rappel rapidly.Downhill is a basic skill that climbers need to master. If you have watched TV, those special forces and firefighters on TV used this method when they landed from the roof or obstacles.Lightly tap the rock wall with both feet, and quickly descend six or seven meters along the climbing rope, then stretch your feet again and tap the rock wall, and then continue to descend. This way of rappelling is very fast and not It is easy to be cut by the rock wall cut by a knife and an axe.

The ten of us quickly turned into ten blurred black shadows, and the black shadows turned into ten black dots, continuously falling down the holy well.We are equipped with top-notch expedition equipment. The length of this climbing rope can reach more than [-] meters. It should not be a big problem to go down to the bottom of the well.

Looking up at the mouth of the well, I saw that the huge mouth of the well has become only as big as a mouth.After descending to a certain depth, the top of the head was full of floating black mist, and the wellhead could not be seen.Everywhere I looked, there was darkness, and I had to turn on the wolf-eye flashlight.The ten white light beams dangled in the darkness, giving each other a sense of security, and no longer felt the suffocating loneliness.

It seems that since ancient times, this place has been such a deep black.Gently flicking it in the air with your hand, you can even see the darkness swaying like a tide, making circles and ripples.

When it reaches about 50 meters, it is the most difficult and dangerous distance.The air formed a turbulent flow here, and the cold wind roared and raged, rolling up one cyclone after another.We felt as if we had fallen into the bottom of a river full of undercurrents, eddies that pulled back and forth and made it impossible for us to move forward.

I stretched out my feet and tapped lightly on the rock wall, just as I jumped into the air, a cyclone flowed over, and I directly felt a strong suction force, and then my whole body was out of control, and I spun four or five times in the air , as if the internal organs have been misplaced.When I came back to my senses, I found that I had slammed into the hard rock wall.

"Not good!" I was still quick to react, and the moment I was about to hit the rock wall, I raised my hands to protect my head.There was a muffled bang, and I felt as if my arms had been crippled, and it hurt so badly. I couldn't hold on to the climbing rope for a while, and fell more than ten meters down, hanging in the air.

I screamed in my heart that I was lucky. If I hadn't reacted quickly just now, I would have hit my head directly on the rock wall. At least, my head was bleeding, and at worst, my skull burst and my brains flew all over the place.

Through the turbulence zone, the dark space below is much calmer.

When I descended to 80 meters, I felt wet water vapor. My mouth was dry and my throat seemed to be smoking. I suddenly breathed moist air, and suddenly felt that the airway from my throat to my lungs was unblocked. A lot, and my head has become a lot clearer.

I was overjoyed, it seems that there is indeed water under the holy well, and the poison of the dark flower can be saved!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help speeding up the landing.A few seconds later, I was suspended in the air and could not continue to land because the length of the climbing rope had come to an end.I was like a big spider hanging upside down on the rock wall, raising the wolf-eyed flashlight to shine down.

Below the holy well is a lake, and the clear water must be the holy water that can cure the poison of the underworld flower.The strange thing is that the entire underground lake is like a huge eyeball. The lake water is slowly rotating at a uniform speed. Looking down from above, it is like a strange eyeball slowly rotating deep underground.This feeling is a bit like looking at a three-dimensional pattern. After watching it for a long time, it seems to be sucked in by that eyeball.

I rubbed my eyes, looked up and down, and estimated the height.Fortunately, although the climbing rope has been pulled to the end, our position is no more than ten meters away from the lake, and we can jump down as long as we untie the safety buckle on our waist.Given the depth of this underground lake, it should be very safe to jump from a height of ten meters.

"Hey, Tuoba Gu, your speed is quite fast!" Wang Dongyu's figure slowly appeared in the darkness eight or nine meters away from me.

I looked back and found that my teammates were only descending one by one at this time. Unexpectedly, I was more than a minute faster than the others.I can't say that I was actually pulled by the cyclone in the middle of the journey, which is why I fell so fast, but my head almost exploded, and I was a little scared after thinking about it.

"Professor Ye, I'm going down to fetch water!"

I volunteered to take out the kettle, because only me, Professor Ye and Gu Meidi were poisoned in it. One was my mentor and the other was my future girlfriend. I couldn't let them risk their lives, so this danger It's up to me to take care of things.

"Wait!" Gu Meidi stopped me, then pointed to the lake below, "Have you forgotten that weird roar? We clearly heard that roar coming from the bottom of the well. That is to say, the constant The roaring monster is most likely at the bottom of this lake, and you will definitely be in danger if you continue like this!"

Gu Meidi's analysis is naturally clear in my heart, but now that the matter has come to this point, we must not retreat.In a few days, the poison of the underworld flower on our body will fully attack, and the god Da Luo will not be able to save us.The holy water below is our only hope of survival. Even if there are any water monsters at the bottom of the lake, I will go and try it out.

Thinking of this, without saying a word, I gritted my teeth suddenly, unfastened the safety buckle, and fell into the lake with a bang.

The water in the lake was cold and bitter. As soon as I entered the water, all the pores on my body tightened, and my whole body shivered violently, and then my scalp became numb, as if thousands of needles were pricking it. such a physiological response.There is no sunshine here all year round, so the temperature is naturally extremely low. I estimate that the water temperature is close to zero degrees Celsius, and it will freeze if it is colder.

I was about to surface, when I heard the sound of falling into the water, which was obviously the sound of heavy objects entering the water. I was startled, someone came down again?

My limbs exerted strength suddenly, and I jumped out of the water in an instant.I am a Hefuzi who grew up on the banks of the Yellow River, so the water quality is naturally very good.I poked my head out of the water, stepped on the water with my feet in the void, and floated easily on the water.I wiped the water on my face, and opened my eyes to see that Gu Meidi's head floated out of the water. She flicked her long hair lightly, and the water droplets splashed in all directions. The gesture of shaking her head and hair was very sexy. The people above couldn't help but let out a sound of envy.

"Why did you come down?" I frowned, blaming Gu Meidi for not risking my life.

Gu Meidi chuckled: "Come down and protect you, if something dangerous happens, I can help you out!"

"Crow's Mouth!" I spat and said, "The water is very quiet, and the water quality is good, even purer than Nongfu Spring, which has been filtered through [-] layers. Where is the danger coming from!"

"Then how do you explain the weird roar?" Gu Meidi asked.

I thought for a while: "Maybe it's some kind of crustal movement. This place is nearly [-] meters deep underground, and the crustal movement must be more frequent than the ground!"

Gu Meidi shook his head, and didn't agree with my far-fetched explanation: "My intuition tells me that it's definitely not that simple! Well, stop talking nonsense, have you drank the holy water? If you drink it, get rid of it!"

"Have you had a drink?" I asked.

"Of course! I took a big sip when I entered the water! The water quality is really good, very sweet!" Gu Meidi said with a smile.

I quickly buried my face in the water, Gulu Gulu took a big gulp, afraid that if I drank too little, I wouldn't be able to get rid of the poison of the ghost flower, so I kept drinking until my belly was rounded, and kept belching.

call!call!call!
A few more water jugs fell on his head, and Wang Dongyu said in a low voice, "Tuoba Gu, help me to bring more water up, I'm really thirsty!"

"Okay!" I replied, grabbed the water bottle and filled them with water.

"Tuobagu!" Wang Dongyu suddenly called out, which startled me: "What are you doing?"

"I saw you spit into the water just now, don't pour it into my pot, or I will kill you!" Wang Dongyu said.

I laughed: "So it's because of this! You will become as handsome as me after drinking my saliva!"

"Fuck you! Why don't you give Gan Hongxin a drink, I'm already handsome enough!" Wang Dongyu is really hurting others.

Gan Hongxin rolled his eyes for a while: "How ugly am I? You Northeastern steamed bun!"

The atmosphere at this moment is very pleasant, with constant laughter, completely forgetting the danger just now.

When the kettle was filled, Gu Meidi and I were ready to go ashore.I have observed before that there is no slippery moss growing on the stone wall on the shore, and there are several abrupt rock walls that are easy to climb. It should not be too difficult to climb to the position where the climbing rope is suspended.

Just when Gu Meidi and I were chatting and laughing and getting closer to the shore, Gan Hongxin suddenly stopped making jokes with Wang Dongyu, and shouted at us: "Tuobagu, hurry up! Come ashore!"

I heard Gan Hongxin's tone was different. When I looked up at him, I found that he was gesticulating with his hands constantly. From his body movements, I realized an important problem: danger is approaching us!

A chill ran up my spine, did the monster lurking at the bottom of the lake show up?

"Gu Mei Di, let's go!" I pulled Gu Mei Di.

At this time, Hao Mengkang had already raised his assault rifle and fired at the water behind me.

clatter!clatter!clatter!
One after another, the shining bullets flew from above our heads into the water. I didn't dare to look back. With all my strength, I stepped on my feet like hot wheels and swam to the shore quickly.

"You go first!" I pushed Gu Meidi up the rock wall.

"What do you do?" Gu Meidi looked at me with concern.

"I'm good at water, you go first!" I couldn't help saying, holding Gu Mei Di's buttocks up, Gu Mei Di jumped out of the water at once with the help of the protruding rock, and climbed up four times against the rock wall Five meters, temporarily out of the danger zone.

I looked back, and a chill hit my whole body like an electric current.

(End of this chapter)