"Save them, there are others inside, hurry!"
Bai Haba finally cried and said more urgent things with tears in his eyes.
"How to save them? They are all here, what about those who have already gone up?"
Huodun shook his shoulders and asked anxiously.
"It will go down again. It's very cold at the top and will fall. It's hot below and cold at the top. It keeps rolling up and down and I can't get out!" Bai Haba's eyes were full of fear. It seemed that this kind of up and down coldness The endless cycle of alternating heat has tortured his mind to the point of insanity.
"Then everyone is alive, right? Are you alive? Are you sure we can save them here?"
Huodun asked next.
"Stay alive! Sometimes we can bump into each other, but it won't be long before we are separated again. Hurry! I don't know how many people are left, and I don't know if the others can hold on!"
Bai Haba was not funny at all. He stressed very seriously. He pulled Huo Dun's arm and stood up desperately, wanting to get involved in rescuing people again.
"Okay, I got it! You rest aside, and a few of us will come!"
Huodun wanted to push Bai Haba to the back to rest, but he refused, so all five friends devoted themselves to "intercepting the flow" to save people.
The faster the bubbles rise, it is easier said than done to capture more "manned bubbles" just by fishing side by side!
"Let's roll that big cover over! If you put that inside this one, it might just block most of the updrafts and get closer to them!" Xinwu estimated the approximate size, and at least one more platform can come out.
The lid is very heavy, but fortunately, the liquid poured out of the bottle is flowing all over the floor, wine—wine! Fortunately, the wine evaporated before it could reach the air outlet at the end of the aisle!
Close to the bottle body, there is a certain slippery area under the lid, which can be used for lubrication. The five friends formed a circle and worked together to roll the huge lid to the air well and push it hard.
Although the cover was very heavy, it was quickly blown aside in front of this powerful updraft, floating in the middle of the airflow like an unstable top, and rose to a height very close to the top of the aisle. If the stone is stuck and cannot continue to rise, it will form an incline that cannot fly.
The hot air that supports it is a steady stream, causing the underside of the iron cover to be filled with water droplets that condense when exposed to cold, and also blocks the ascending path of some "manned bubbles" below. The burst bubbles burst. In an instant, the little man inside was quickly pulled back to the aisle platform from the bottom of the pot lid by Xin Wu and his small human chain rescue team:
"Pei Wenjian, He Min, Liu Ming, He Yixi, plus Bai Haba, great, we found five more!"
Through everyone's unremitting efforts, all the friends in the "manned bubble" were successfully "fished" back from the ascending bubble chamber of the hot bubble well!
Xin Wu counted the number of people and said, "Where are the four other people, Kang Luoshan, He Ling, Gao Chedang, and Yao Danggui? Haven't you seen them?"
Everyone was standing or sitting, tired as a group, looking at each other to make sure that the four people mentioned above were not whereabouts.
"Don't be discouraged. At least, we have gathered five more people. If we look again, we will definitely find it!" Shi Baoshan, as the main force of the action group, is still full of fighting spirit. "It's not that there is still a hole at the bottom of the bottle. I haven't gone there yet." Have you looked for it?"
The nine people reunited were not in the mood to talk to each other about their respective experiences. They were all worried about the whereabouts of the other four friends who were temporarily missing, so they all agreed to follow Shi Baoshan's suggestion and plan to go to the bottom of the bottle to explore the cave first.
The rising bubble well here also continuously delivers heat and flickering white light, entering along the corridor, gradually making all the stone walls inside become warmer. The friends began to feel that it was unprecedented. It was comfortable, and the wine was fumigated by the hot air. Everyone felt a little too comfortable, and some even felt light on their feet.
"Everyone, follow closely, don't fall down! Huodun, give everyone some gems for lighting!"
While Xin Wu was arranging the cold light lighting, Shi Baoshan proudly took out the oil lamp candlestick, and it turned out to be lit! It turns out that he had already lit the oil lamp by using a gemstone under high temperature as a lens at the bubble well!
"Brighter with this!"
Seeing that the oil lamps in Baoshan were more efficient, Xinwu pointed to the other lampstands on both sides of the wall and said to his friends: "There are more oil lamps there, let's take them all down too! Let's light two lamps at the beginning and the end. Don’t light the others first, just in case you run out of oil, you can continue to burn them.”
Everyone has no idea how long the unknown journey will last, but with the supplies in hand, they can always feel more at ease.
There is strength in numbers, and soon, several sets of ladders set up by the big guys successfully took down all the lamps. One for each person, and some extra, they were all packed up by He Yixi, who took care of them the most carefully.
"Well, did you see a group of people? Just now."
When Shi Baoshan held a lit candlestick and lit another one with Xin Wu, he didn't forget to ask He Yixi if they saw the mysterious army that suddenly passed by and disappeared through the wall in the air well.
"Army? Didn't you see that? We are all in our own bubble, from bottom to top, the bottom is hot, the top is cold, and there are many sword-like lights at the top, constantly shooting from all directions. It's like a sharp arrow, but it doesn't really penetrate the body, and it doesn't feel any pain at all. There are lights and shadows of swords, but there is no army, no people, horses, chariots, etc. There is only light like a sword. "
He Yixi carefully packed the lamps neatly while recalling what they saw and heard.
"That's strange. Apparently, an army rushed out from the hole at the bottom of the bottle: a general on horseback, with more than a hundred soldiers behind him. We all saw it, but when we ran to the wall, It’s gone!”
Huodun also confirmed the same doubt.
"Could it be your hallucination? Or there is no army or horses at all." He Yixi shook his head in disbelief.
"Look at these dirty footprints on the ground, they were all left by them. How could this be an illusion?" Diaer squatted down on the ground, picked up a handful of fine dirt on the ground and gave it to He Looking west.
"Then I don't know, or the answer is also in the cave?"
He Yixi was quite interested in entering the cave.
"Yes, there is nothing better than going and seeing for yourself. When we find Kang Luoshan and the others, maybe we can figure it out!" Huo Dun also supported and took action immediately.
"Well, there are more people now. It's risky to go in. I don't know if the bubble well has been opened and this passage will be heated until the wall collapses, and the oxygen inside will become less and less. . Let’s divide our forces into two groups: one half will go back to the ground first, and the other half will go into the cave. Bai Haba, you guys just came out of the bubble, and your bodies are too weak. He Yixi and Pei Wenjian are left behind. The three of you are with us. Let's go up the original road with Dial, meet up with Ma Shenshen and others, and wait for us to come back from exploring the cave."
Xin Wu saw that half of his friends were seriously "substandard" in health and unfit to continue taking risks, so he quickly rearranged the arrangement.
"But I'm still very useful! Keep me!" Bai Haba was still a little unconvinced and wanted to participate.
"Okay, okay, you will be more useful up there! Be good and be obedient!"
Huodun patted little Bai Haba and pushed him back into Diyal's arms.
