What we are most worried about is that if we continue to move forward, the road under our feet will disappear completely. In such an environment, going into the water is definitely a dead end.
Not to mention that we don’t have a full set of diving equipment. Even if we do, we can’t resist the rapid flow of the river. At this speed, if a person falls in, he will be swept away instantly, just like dozens of people pulling you backwards at the same time. There wasn't even a chance to resist.
After walking for about half an hour, the road under our feet has become extremely narrow, and we are almost one step away from the rapid river. Everyone walks a little tremblingly, for fear that the road under their feet will be washed away in the next second.
However, my sharp eyes discovered that there was a passage along the river bank wall not far away. The flashlight repeatedly confirmed that it was an ancient towpath!
Metaphorically speaking, the road we are traveling on right now is like being in a huge sewer that runs through the whole city. We are like ants being rushed in, driving in confusion on the way.
This ancient towpath has played a role in ancient times and even modern times.
Those who run huge ships in large rivers and have to go upstream need to use this ancient towpath.
The ancient towpath is just a carrier, it does not provide power. What provides power are thousands of bare-shouldered trackers.
Legend has it that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had a movable city. This so-called mobile fortress is actually a "Titanic" from thousands of years ago.
The huge hull goes upstream, and the scenes inside the ship are full of luxury and luxury.
Correspondingly, on the ancient towpath on both sides of the giant ship, tens of thousands of trackers shouted in unison. They were not cheering for the emperor, but a slogan.
Each of them was tied with ropes, and the ropes on their shoulders were stretched tightly, and the squeaking sound was made by the ropes about to cut through the flesh.
In ancient times, giant ships did not have equipment such as propellers. They could not move upstream just by relying on wind, sails, and oars.
The giant ship can resist the power of nature because of the huge energy gathered by these more than 10,000 strong laborers.
We were overjoyed and hurriedly climbed up the ancient towpath.
Fortunately, this towpath looks very solid. It is made of countless boulders, and there are almost no breaks or breaks.
There is no road below the ancient towpath area, and the rushing river water is lapping at my feet. One section of the ancient towpath is a "stone bridge" formed by an eighty-nine-meter-long boulder suspended in mid-air. I stood suspended in mid-air. On the ancient towpath, what appeared before my eyes was the scene of countless trackers shouting and sweating profusely for thousands of years.
There was no one among us who was not shocked by the sight before us. This towpath built by countless boulders looked like a masterpiece of Jingwei's reclamation of the sea.
The ancient towpath is a slope with a small angle, but it stretches to the top. You can see the highest point, but it is still some distance away from where we want to be.
The boulders underfoot are stacked upon mountains, and it seems that each piece is placed in just the right place, struggling against each other, and stuck like a wedge.
We are in this position, and we can no longer see the side of the ancient towpath. We can only see a long slope in front of us. This slope is uneven, and there are large gaps that require us to stride across.
The fat man's legs and feet were not flexible, and his knees had reached the point where he could no longer bend.
I quickly asked him to lean against a boulder and then checked his wound. I said that the wound had actually turned into white rotten flesh. A piece of skin the size of a fist has become completely transparent, and the blood vessels inside are clearly visible, and they are still spreading outward.
The only good news is that the wound is not very deep, otherwise the blood vessels will rupture and no amount of blood can be restrained from flowing. We only have simple medicines now. If a fat man's blood vessels are broken, he will only die. Of course, amputation is also a life-saving method, but based on my understanding of Fatty, he would definitely choose the whole body.
The fat man didn't complain that he was in pain. I felt numb all over looking at it, so I asked him to take out the horseshoe crab quickly to relieve my injury.
Horseshoe crab blood is the only life-saving straw now. Fatty has been carefully storing it in his backpack. I rummaged through his backpack and opened the backpack. There were four bulging sea breeze fruits on it. I was flipping through it and suddenly Long Wu in front of me shouted to us. : "There is something painted on this stone!"
I hurriedly found the horseshoe crab for Fatty. The condition of the horseshoe crab was not optimistic. It looked like it was dying, but even so, it had to be squeezed. Fatty could do it alone. I handed it over to Fatty. Hurry to Long Wu.
Long Wu used his flashlight to point at the boulder in front of him. This boulder was the largest one he had seen on the slope so far.
Its existence makes a huge bulge appear on the ancient towpath, which is not closely connected with the boulders in front and behind.
There are several paintings engraved on it. The pictures are easy to understand. It only took a few glances to understand that this ancient towpath was actually prepared to feed a giant beast in the river.
There are three pictures in total.
The first picture is about this long ancient towpath. In the picture, there are hundreds of bare-chested strong men pulling fiber ropes on their backs. The long fiber ropes are dragged straight into the bottom of the river. The river surface in the picture is rippled. It was obvious that there was a huge thing tied to the other end of the rope.
At the front of the trackers were a dozen soldiers in armor, driving seven or eight cows. These cows were depicted in great detail in the painting.
The cattle looked back towards the river in fear, and the soldiers raised their whips high and struggled to move their heads forward.
The second picture shows that one of the hundreds of trackers suddenly fell down. Their expressions were even more frightened than the expressions of the cows in the first picture. They held on to the rope tightly, and a few unlucky ones fell directly into the river. This At that moment, the back of a giant object protruded from the river. Judging from the description, it looked very much like the back of a crocodile.
In the third picture, the painting style suddenly changed!
The soldiers drove several cattle down the towpath. The cattle made various postures in mid-air. The trackers struggled to get up. It turned out that the soldiers were using the cattle to hang a large crocodile. It should be called a prehistoric giant crocodile. appropriate!
A monster crocodile more than twenty meters tall was found in the water. It was as big as a dragon. Its back came out of the water like a dragon swimming in the shallows.
Hundreds of taut ropes instantly collapsed, and a huge crocodile in the river rose into the air and swallowed the poor cow in mid-air.
This third scene is the most detailed. The trackers have extremely frightened expressions. Their mouths are as big as a washbasin. Some of them are clinging to the stones of the towpath, with their faces pressed against the ground, not daring to look up at all.
After watching it, Long Wu and I suddenly felt chills on the backs of our necks. Although these scenes are carved on huge rocks, the painting techniques are definitely of the same standard. Although they are not as colorful as the murals, they still describe everything they want to describe.
Long Wu looked at several paintings and was silent for a long time. He finally said: "It seems that the painting on this is a dragon king crocodile, and it is a dragon king crocodile that is rare in the world. This size can no longer be simply described as shocking. .”
Long Wu didn't talk much along the way. This is the most time I've heard him speak so far. The fat man was still behind to collect horseshoe crab blood at this time, which was enough to shock people. He had not even looked at the scene where he was standing.
That's fine. He is a sailor himself and has a natural respect for the ocean and the creatures in it. If he were to see a crocodile of this size, I'm afraid he would lose his footing and go down to feed it to the river. of unknown creatures.
I suddenly had an idea, maybe the tomb of King Jing was not built because of the crocodile that led the crocodile into the tomb, but because of the Dragon King Crocodile.
Because the drawings of hundreds of trackers have told us that it is basically impossible to catch this monster from the sea.
In addition, the water quality here is strange. Fatty said that although there is no sea smell here, the water quality is very similar to sea water.
Could it be that this Dragon King Crocodile has been living here for thousands of years, but it was only accidentally discovered by King Jing that he came up with the idea of "Longquan Tomb"?
At this time, the fat man shouted from below: "Say! What did you see? Why didn't anyone reply? Are these erotic pictures intentionally left by the gentlemen thousands of years ago? You just enjoyed it for your own sake and forgot about it." I’m the fat man.”
Hearing the fat man's roar, I knew that his mission of collecting horseshoe crab blood to heal himself was basically completed. I just shined the flashlight at the fat man, and saw the fat man throw an oval-shaped hard creature in his hand into the river.
I quickly asked the fat man loudly: "Are you confused? Why did you throw away the horseshoe crab?"
The fat man smiled awkwardly: "I didn't control the heat just now, so the horseshoe crab was completely tortured to death. After this thing dies, its blood is useless. You must use fresh blood."
The fat man didn’t know what happened, but he would definitely not lie to me at this time, but he saw the horseshoe crab fell into the river without even making a sound, but then a wave suddenly rolled up in the river, and the wave looked like There was something huge rising up in the water.
The fat man groaned, thinking that this little horseshoe crab, although considered rare, would not make such a big noise in the river.
Why did the water suddenly become like this?
I had just seen the painting on the stone, and I immediately felt that the picture looked very familiar, except that it was missing hundreds of ropes that had lost their power!
I yelled bad!
"Fat man, don't stick your head over there, there's a sperm-like dragon king crocodile in the river!"
Fatty knew what Dragon King Crocodile was. It was an ancient creature in the sea. It could naturally grow to more than ten meters in length. It was the largest crocodile.
But the sudden appearance of this thing in the river was something that Fatty couldn't even imagine.
At this time, even Long Wu was clinging to the boulder on one side, not even having the courage to draw his knife, because such a behemoth was beyond the imagination of ordinary people, let alone seeing it.
Not long after, the waves rolled up on the river were like boiling water, making a roaring sound, and a huge dark brown back carved out of the water. That back is exactly the same as the picture carved on the stone!
