As soon as my feet touched the ground, they felt extremely smooth under my feet, and the soles of my feet were barely supported by a few irregular stones.
The area directly below the stone steps was not visible from the top. It turned out that the area where we landed had a dense layer of cobblestones. Although it was still some distance from the river, these cobblestones were extremely moist and smooth, as if they were covered with moss.
I quickly grabbed the fat man and held on to the stone steps behind me with one hand, while Long Wu swayed a few times and managed to maintain his balance with his own physical fitness.
Although the underground river looks flat, there are not many easy roads to walk on. I walked a few steps to one side and got close to a few "coconut trees", but these "coconut trees" were several meters high, and the surface of the bark was Covered in sharp protrusions, climbing up was not a wise choice.
Several people raised their flashlights to shine on the fruit, and I could clearly hear the sound of swallowing, including mine.
I found that this fruit is very similar to the sea breeze fruit, which is actually a kind of coconut. The sea breeze fruit is like a coconut with the outer skin removed, and the inner liner grows directly on the outside. However, this plant has long been extinct. I didn’t expect it to be found in the world. Their presence is found on the banks of fast-flowing underground rivers in the underworld.
The sea breeze fruit is full of sweet juice. Long Wu used a flying knife to accurately cut off several large fruits. The skin of the large fruit was soft and thick. I pierced the skin with a dagger and drank the juice in big gulps. I felt all over my body. The power of each grid is filling up.
Several people drank several fruits in a row, feeling that this was the most delicious nectar in the world, and they could never get enough.
The fat man was still not satisfied, so he borrowed Long Wu's black gold mountain blade and ran to the tall tree next to him to get a few more sea breeze fruits.
I knew he wanted to get a few fruits for emergency use. From his previous behavior of hiding pears, I could see that this kid always likes to hide something.
People in the world are in a panic just to get a few taels of silver into pieces, but these few taels of silver can solve the world's melancholy.
I think the characteristics of fat people can be summed up by the above sentence.
As myself, I seem to have forgotten my own characteristics. I grew up eating food from hundreds of families. I had no relatives and no friends. I came out to work in my teenage years. I started as an apprentice with a nobleman. Later, I practiced stalls and squatted on my own. Panjiayuan stepped through Colorful City, and then gradually established a foothold. Finally, he established a facade and opened a shop, which is Jingxinzhai.
The fat man chuckled: "Look at me, it's not that I'm thirsty and scared. I only think about getting ready. I really took the rice bag into the granary and forgot where I was."
The surrounding sea breeze fruits are quite dense, and there is only this kind of plant around this wide underground river. In my memory, these plants grow in coastal areas.
We wanted to explore the underground river to see if the river water was brackish water containing salt. The fat man's body was trapped by the safety rope. After taking a few steps, the rope behind him was already stretched straight. If he took another step forward, it would become tight. Creaking.
A few people had no choice but to untie the rope tied around their waists. Long Wu knew the special method I used to tie it, so he passed the rope around several people and used skill to pull the rope back.
When we were collecting the rope, the fat man and I held our breaths and stared at the starting point of the folding stone steps, for fear that two human skins would be caught on the rope.
Long Wu's skills were excellent, and he was able to pull the rope back with ease, just like a person crossing his arms.
The fat man felt much relieved when he saw that no human skin had been taken off. He was also an old sailor, and he felt friendly when he saw the water. Now he was full of confidence again.
The fat man neatly rolled up the rope along one end and stuffed it into his backpack. Since he had put in a few sea breeze fruits earlier, he gritted his teeth before zipping up the backpack.
Long Wu and I walked to the river with the fat man. The fat man said to us: "In those years when I was running a boat, I saw all kinds of weird things. I remember one time we were stranded on a desert island, and there were so many bare things on the island. None, and everyone on the boat fell into despair, because dozens of calls for help had been sent out at that time. It happened to be a fishing ban period, and everyone thought they were going to chew their belts and eat their pants. But they didn’t expect that within a few days, Before the high tide, the water around the desert island suddenly rose. Countless big fish emerged from the bottom of the island. Not all of them were sea fish. There were several common freshwater fish that were so big that I thought I was dazzled at first. But the fish didn't last for half an hour before they all floated up. At the same time, our stranded boat also took the opportunity to finally escape. We caught dozens of freshwater fish, the small ones were more than one meter, and the big ones must have been three. Four meters, but although it is big, the quality of the meat is very bad, as if it has been soaked in old vinegar for decades, and the meat will fall apart when pinched. Fortunately, we were not trapped for too long, and there were still some substances that could hold on. . Otherwise, the fish meat is really hard to swallow, it’s sour and smelly.”
I think what the fat man said is a bit evil. They are running an ocean route. The area where they could be stranded has entered the deep sea, so how could freshwater fish appear? Even if people all over the world stuff fish into toilets, they won't get there.
The fat man licked his lips. He was too thirsty to smoke before. Now he took out a cigarette from somewhere. The cigarette had been squeezed out of shape. He lit the wrinkled cigarette and took a deep puff, then he retched and frowned, his facial features squeezed together. He stretched his neck and cursed: "I can't smoke this fucking cigarette, it's all that weird smell of blue stone, it makes me sick!"
Long Wu, Fatty, and I used each other's strength to walk to the shore. I could smell the strange smell that Fatty mentioned when I calmed down. The stones under the chessboard just now were like Smurfs soaked in the toilet. It is difficult to disperse.
As long as I smell it close to my cuffs and collar, there is that strange smell. Fatty's smell is the strongest, followed by Long Wu's.
This strange fragrance is enough to kill dragon-horned red-tailed moths in large pieces, thinking that there was a difficult man's fairy stone to restrain the black poison before. I can’t help but wonder if the Outer Jin and Inner Han tombs below were inspired by this. But I don’t know whether it was Cao Cao or Sima Yi who arranged the Nanweng Immortal Stone.
But no matter which one of them it was, the organizer must have obtained the core secrets in King Jing’s tomb.
With all kinds of conjectures. When we came to the shore, the crooked sea breeze tree had been completely swept into the rushing river. The fat man asked Long Wu and I to hold him while he lay down and fished it out in the river with his hands.
The fat man spit out a handful of river water, but without raising his body, he first sniffed hard in front of his nose. Then I just heard a sound: Huh? Then there was the sound of the fat man licking the water with his tongue.
I don’t know how much river water the fat man rolled in with his tongue, but the strange tasting sounds coming out of his mouth told me that he was pondering the periodic table of elements in the river water with his tongue!
It stands to reason that this kind of living water will not carry deadly poisonous bacteria like a pool of stagnant water, but after all, tens of thousands of dragon-horned red-tailed moths live on the river, so it is difficult to say whether there is anything weird in this water.
But at this time, it was too late to stop him, so he had to ask the fat man quickly: "What happened if you didn't drink enough sea breeze fruit? Why did you start drinking wild water? Aren't you afraid of rotting your tongue?"
After hearing what I said, the fat man, instead of being anxious, showed a confused expression.
He first turned his head and thought about where to look for a while, then licked his upper lip with his tongue, as if he was afraid that a drop of the river water would leak out.
The fat man greeted us and asked us to pull him up, and then stretched out the remaining river water in his palm towards Long Wu. The river water continued to drain from the gaps between his fingers, and when he stretched it out in front of Long Wu, there was not much left.
Long Wu subconsciously frowned and avoided, not wanting to imitate the fat man's behavior just now.
I took the initiative to go over and smell it, but I didn't find anything particularly obvious. I couldn't help but ask the fat man immediately: "No, just tell me what you know. What the hell is this? What do you want to express?"
The fat man said with a serious expression: "What surprises me most is that there is no smell of the sea in this water, but the taste and texture are almost the same as sea water, as if it has been specially prepared!"
I subconsciously said it was impossible. Everyone has heard of underground rivers, and there are also inland seas, but underground seas are a bit nonsense.
The fat man immediately said: "Oh, I have been running a boat for so many years and I can still make mistakes? You can't imitate the bitter and salty feeling of sea water! Have you never boiled sea water? I dealt with this stuff every day at that time, and I could never make a mistake! "
The fat man's determined look forced me to re-examine what he just said. What he may mean is that the rapid rivers here are almost the same as sea water except that they don't smell like sea, so sea creatures can survive here. Several saltwater organisms we discovered earlier have been explained.
But the seawater does not have to be the real sea. It can be artificial seawater. Special materials are placed along the only path of the living water basin. But what materials can still maintain their effectiveness under the erosion of thousands of years of water flow?
Fatty did not let Long Wu go. He told another thing, that is, when he met Long Wu at Dalian Port, he smelled a strange smell on him, and later sent Long Wu to the hotel to find out the strange smell. Just disappeared. But when Fatty smelled the river water just now, his past memories were instantly activated, but that feeling was fleeting.
In Fatty's words, in an instant his advanced consciousness suddenly activated, and in that second or two he felt as if he was destined to experience this episode. Dalian Port rescued Long Wu and then came to the bank of the underground river. These events seemed to have been experienced before and were destined to happen.
That's why he wanted Long Wu to take a whiff to see if he could match up.
The fat man insisted on letting Long Wu smell the river water carefully, but just when Long Wu frowned and was about to try, I heard a sudden "thumping" sound about ten meters to the left. Something jumped out of the water, and then came out again. Enter the river.
We were disturbed by this sudden movement, and the nerves of several people suddenly tensed into a tight straight line.
Three strong lights shined together on the river area with abnormal water ripples, but the dark river surface immediately returned to the disorderly and chaotic water ripples. Although the oval ripples that spread outward just now were only fleeting, they were caught by the three people at the same time. Seeing this, the fat man immediately picked up the Colt and took aim.
Long Wu held the knife, I held the pistol, and the three of them immediately entered a fighting state.
The fat man whispered: "Let me tell you guys, I have heard too many noises like this in the sea. The noise just now, that thing is definitely not that small!"
That thing has sunk into the river. The three of them adjusted their status again. Fatty, Long Wu and I were back to back, completing the triangle defense zone. Left side in the river. Directly in front and on the right side is the surveillance area without any blind spots.
I'm in charge of the right side. That is the forward direction of the river, the river flows from right to left. I saw no more abnormalities, but suddenly a familiar gunshot rang in my ears. Then there was another sound of something heavy falling into the water.
But this time it was different from before. The flapping sound just now was obviously something jumping up and getting back into the water easily, but this time it was shot into the water!
The fat man shouted excitedly: "Fat Master, when I shot flying fish in the Aegean Sea, it was much more enjoyable than this!"
I didn't see clearly what the fat man hit, so I hurriedly asked him: "Is it a fish?"
The fat man chuckled: "Actually, I didn't see it clearly, but half of my body is covered in scales, so I can't run away."
The fat man just saw the monster in the river, but he didn't see it clearly. He just said that half of his body was made of scales. This made me very uneasy because I thought of the stone statue I saw before entering the underground palace, a stone statue with fish scales and a human body!
