Where do tomb robbers meet in their lives?

The hot fountain in the underground river still erupted one after another, and the force was quite amazing. We carefully avoided the eruption place and groped along the shallow water.

I went upstream with a flashlight and scanned all the way. I saw that the cave may be often impacted by hot springs. There are many holes on the wall of the cave, all the way to the top of the cave. Some of them are very deep. It looks very deep. Like a tunnel that can accommodate people.Just as I was staring at a cave obliquely above, my brother suddenly yelled "Ah" not far away.I was taken aback, turned around and ran towards the place where the cry came from, and when I saw him still standing still, I breathed a sigh of relief: "What happened!"

"Dead, dead man!"

We followed the light of my brother's flashlight and saw a person lying on the river beach with his back to the sky in the shallow water. His skin was strangely red, and his whole body was emitting a faint heat.

The fat man touched it with his toes: "This brother is good enough to memorize, and he is familiar with it."

Xie Xiaojiu turned the man over, and an extremely distorted and terrifying face appeared in our field of vision, which made my brother jump back in a panic and almost fell to the ground.

I looked away a little and asked, "Who is this person? He also came with you?"

The fat man said, "I don't know." After speaking, he squatted down without any psychological barriers, and began to rummage through the corpses.The person was carrying very little, and he didn't see a backpack or other equipment on his back. There was only a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, and not even a wallet in his pocket.A few minutes later, Xie Xiaojiu said: "It looks like this person is not dressed like a local, nor does he look like a tourist. It is impossible for him to bring so few things to such a deep mountain cave, which means that he is not alone."

I asked, "Do you think it could be the same guys who attacked you that night."

The fat man said: "Who can see clearly if there are people in the dark? Even if someone sees it, it will only be my little brother. He will be on guard in the second half of the night."

Xie Xiaojiu ignored our questions and answers. He squatted beside the corpse, moved his eyes from near to the water, and raised his flashlight to shine on the swirling water not far away.

"There's something in the water." After saying that, he began to undress.

"What are you going to do!" I opened my eyes wide and looked at the stream of water constantly emitting white smoke, and grabbed him, "Little, Xiaojiu, don't you want to swim there, aren't you looking for death!"

He looked at me with a faint smile: "Don't worry, I still have a lot of nostalgia for this world, and I don't want to die that much. I just observed it. There is a cold current under the water here, and the hot spring is intermittent. I just need to seize the right time. , just take advantage of the interval to swim to the cold water."

Seeing his calm appearance, I also calmed down, and asked, "How do you know there is something in that water?"

He pointed to the corpse and said: "There are strangle marks on his neck, which are in the shape of regular depressions. Those who can leave such marks are not like natural rocks. In addition, the current is so fast, he was not washed away by the current, but It’s strange that he landed in the shoal here. I guess there was something long and thin under the water that stopped him and made him change direction and drift to this side. Besides…” He pointed his flashlight at a stream of water Go, "Look at the water over there, is there a slight bulge on the side? There is a black thing over there, do you see it? I think if there is something under the water, it should be in the It's there, and it's near the water, so it's not hard to find."

The fat man said from the side: "Master Hua, your analysis is very reasonable. However, the underwater hot nozzle is so intermittent, even if you touch something underwater, you will still have to wait for the heat to come. It's not cooked like this guy."

"I don't think so."

We were stunned for a moment, and our eyes shifted to my younger brother. I said to him impatiently: "Go, let the adults discuss the problem while the children go."

My younger brother turned a deaf ear to me as usual, instead he pointed to the hot water column not far away: "Sister, look, the water column in this area is not so frequent compared to other places. And the place Brother Xiaohua mentioned is located in the Upstream of the fountain, if the hot current is coming, he only needs to swim against the current for a while, and there is a big rock on the wall of the cave, he can climb to it to rest for a while, and swim back after the danger is over. dangerous."

After he said this, Fatty and I noticed that there was really a raised stone wall in the chaotic darkness upstream. This stone was only about ten meters away from the place Xiaojiu said. There is no other place to rush, I reckon it should not be difficult to climb up.

The fat man also thought of this, and he patted my younger brother on the shoulder approvingly and said, "That's fine, boy! It's a bit like the fat man when he was young, and he can be regarded as a rising star in the fighting world."

The corner of my mouth twitched, and I said to the fat man, "Can you stop encouraging my younger brother? I still count on him to study hard and improve every day."

"What is this saying? Can't you study hard if you follow us? Every day you go up is learning, and every day you go down is learning. Most of the essence of our 5000-year culture is buried underground. Your brother learned everything first-hand. It's not fucking good to study, how can it be counted."

Listen, listen to this tone, it's enough to speak righteously, it made my younger brother nod his head like a chicken pecking rice, and I swallowed until I couldn't say a word.That's all, even if you talk back, you won't win, alas...

While talking, Xie Xiaojiu had already taken off his coat neatly, and asked me to stuff it into his backpack and carry it on my back.He was only wearing a thin shirt with a dagger pinned to his waist, and I tied a light to his wrist for him.After briefly observing the hot fountain for a moment, he nodded at us and jumped into the water.

This section of the water flow was a bit slow, and Xie Xiaojiu was much faster than I expected. After a few minutes, he was close to the target.We held flashlights for him in the shallow water, and everyone stared tens of meters away intently.I saw him paddling in the water for a while, fishing forward with one hand, and suddenly stopped in the middle of the river.I was a little short-sighted at first, not to mention that the light from the flashlight still had a little reflection on the water surface. No matter how I squinted my eyes, the figure in the water would flicker, but I guess he might have touched something, otherwise he would not It will be fixed in the river in this strange posture.

"Fatty, you can see clearly..." Before I finished half a sentence, a series of huge blisters suddenly surged up near Xie Xiaojiu, each of which was the size of a washbasin, and the speed of formation was very fast. Kung Fu gathered towards him in a siege!

My grandma, what the hell is that!

I stared blankly at the bulging bubbles rolling and bubbling beside Xie Yuchen, seeing that the momentum would soon cover him up, but why did this guy still float there, not at all? No sign of leaving.Immediately, I thought fearfully...could there be some monster in the water that held him back!But how could such intermittently high-temperature river water be...

I was thinking a lot, when I heard Fatty make a decisive decision at the side: "Liang girl, you step back, I will go to meet you!"

"What..." Before I recovered, the fat man threw his coat and plunged into the water. I was poured cold water on my head, and the cold went straight into my heart.

Regardless of the fact that this fat man is relatively big, and he swims not slow at all, he jumped a few meters away in just one jump. The rapid current should not cause him any major trouble.What really makes my heart hang in the air is the hot fountain that does not know when it will blow. In case of bad luck, this thing suddenly erupts, and the fat man and Xie Xiaojiu must explain it here!

Little Jiuye, what kind of plane are you doing?

I have a deep understanding of what it means to be anxious. I drifted from time to time with the flashlight, watching Xie Xiaojiu looming in the water for a while, and seeing how far the fat man had swam.What's worse is that the blisters surrounding Jie Yuchen are getting more and more intense, and the person who could still be vaguely distinguished soon becomes a blurred shadow covered by water.I began to worry that even fat people would be tricked.

At this moment—bang, a hot spring rose into the sky near the water!

I'm X, I'm really afraid of something!

I was stunned for a few seconds before I realized it, and hurriedly backed away in a panic.I just noticed that I had walked into the shallow water without knowing it, and now the cold water was just over my knees and gushing around my thighs.And this erupting hot spring was very close to me, and the scalding hot water fell on my shoulders and arms like rain, and it was terribly hot.

I turned around and ran a few steps in the water, and there was another "bang"!This time, the gushing hot air rushed towards me, the force was very strong, and it shot me completely into the river at once. I still wanted to struggle to run to the shore, but how could I resist the rushing water , pushed me completely into the river with little effort.

Why the hell is this kind of plot again!

I am really convinced by this law of physics, why the more I thump in the water, the faster I sink?Why have I fallen into the water so many times without making any progress!To make matters worse, the white smoke not far away had already evaporated in front of my eyes, and I could feel a gust of hot wind rushing towards my back.Panicked and confused, I asked myself a question: would I drown first or burn first?

Just when I was on the brink of collapse, a black shadow rushed towards me, I instinctively reached out to catch it, it turned out to be a whip!And it's Xiaoyu's whip!

I looked along the black whip, and saw that my younger brother had also fallen into the water. He was paddling the water with one hand, and with the other hand, he took the whip and wrapped it around his arm several times firmly. I pull towards him.

Xiaoyu...

I suddenly woke up from despair, and my beating heart miraculously calmed down a lot.In an instant, a thought was deeply engraved in my mind: I am indeed a fucking half-tone, but my brother must not be dragged down by me here!

Only at this moment did I know what happened to the so-called bursting out of human potential in a desperate situation.I tried to stabilize my figure in the water. When my fear was suppressed by my calmness, I found that I was not sinking so fast. I relaxed my muscles. I stopped my dazed thumping in the water, and started pulling the long whip. I paddled toward my brother without a hitch. Although I drank a lot of cold river water during the process, I got used to it after drinking it. I actually leaned against my brother with difficulty with a whip.

The icy river water behind was heating up, and soon turned from cold water to steaming hot bath water. If I hadn't gone upstream, it might have become a "washing of human flesh" by this time.But because of this, we also moved forward very slowly. It was beyond my imagination that Xiaoyu could hold me in the current with his arm strength, and it was absolutely impossible to lead me forward quickly.I was sadly considering whether to sacrifice my life for righteousness again, so that my younger brother would not become a "human flesh". Suddenly, I felt a strong force grabbing the whip and pulling me forward for many meters. I looked up, and my heart sank. Immediately relieved - damn it, it's a fat man!He didn't know when he swam to my brother's side, and he was pulling me towards them with a brute force.

This fat man's body is really not for bragging. He grabbed the whip and paddled the water. I felt that the forward speed was several times faster, so I got up and continued to imitate their appearance and paddle in the water. Kicking, but also found some doorways.Soon the water temperature around my body dropped significantly again, which gave me a glimmer of hope.Xiaoyu is right, the waters here are indeed much safer than other places: firstly, the underground springs are located downstream, and secondly, the frequency of eruptions is relatively low, not as aggressive as other places.

After walking forward for more than ten meters, my paddling hand suddenly caught something hard, and I was surprised what it could be, when Fatty and Xiaoyu pulled me forward a lot, and my waist completely fell. I bumped into something in the water, and I was so scared that I hurriedly touched my waist, only to find that there was actually a wrist-thick iron chain lying horizontally under the water.

It turned out that Fatty and Xiaoyu took me to swim to the place that Xiaojiu pointed out, and there was really something underwater here, but I didn't expect it to be an iron chain.

I wiped my face, climbed the iron chain and leaned closer to Fatty and Xiaoyu, panting and asked, "Where's Xie Yuchen? Did you see him?"

The fat man opened his mouth to answer, when he heard my younger brother shout: "No, I have to swim, the heat is coming!"

The breath I just breathed out was sucked back by myself.Oh my God!No matter how short-sighted I am, the white expanse invading in the distance is not a thermal current, but they are outflanking us against the current. I dare not turn around to see such a fortified scene in front of me!