"Everyone says that Gu Tongjing is extremely evil. I feel it today. Without you, I would really die." Liang Wan put his arms around Li Cu's shoulders and rested his head on his shoulders. "Thanks, little brat."
"You don't need to thank me. It was Zhang Qiling who saved us two in the end. If I want to thank you, you should also thank him." Li Cu said.
"I have decided." Liang Wan sat up and looked at Li Cu, "I will cooperate with you."
"Cooperation?" Li Cu smiled, "How do you want to cooperate?"
Liang Wan took out the blueprint from behind and handed it to Li Cu. Li Cu unfolded it and looked at it with surprise on his face, "This...is this the engineering design drawing of Gu Tongjing?"
Liang Wan nodded, "That's right."
"Where did you come from?"
Liang Wan looked at him with serious eyes, "According to our current progress, we can enter Gutongjing in a day or two. With this, I think I can help you."
"Why is the water rising in Haizi?" Li Cu glanced around, and at some point they were surrounded by Haizi.
"What should I do?"
"Don't move here, I'll call them." After Li Cu said this, he returned to the big tent where they lived and woke them up.
"Get up and pack your things." He pushed Su Wan.
Su Wan sat up impatiently and said, "What are you doing? I'm sleeping soundly. It's been a tiring day and I still want to sleep." After that, he lay down again.
"Where are Che Galiba and Zhang Qiling?" Li Cu asked, looking at the tent with only two people left.
Yang Hao also sat up at this time, "Didn't they sleep with us?"
"Get up quickly. The water in Haizi is rising. The camp will be flooded soon. Carry all the equipment on your back and leave quickly." Li Cu urged.
Before Su Wan and Yang Hao could react, Li Cu shouted again, "Why are you still standing there? Let's go, hurry up."
"Why did the water in Haizi rise?" Su Wan stood up and asked while picking up things.
"How do I know? The ditch we dug has been flooded. Pack your things quickly." Li Cu replied.
After a few people packed up their things, they opened the tent and went out to find that the water had flooded outside the tent. Yang Hao looked at the waterway at his feet: "Why is the water so deep?"
As soon as he walked down, he heard Liang Wan shouting: "Don't go into the water, there is something in the water that will bite you."
"What is it?" As soon as Yang Hao asked, there was a pain in his leg, and he returned to the shore with water dripping.
"What's wrong?" Li Cu and Su Wan heard his shout and followed him to the shore.
Yang Hao lifted up his trouser legs and saw dense blood holes all over his legs.
"What should I do about Li Cu? I can't get through." Liang Wan was trapped in the middle of the water, standing on a raised sand, and asked anxiously.
"What is this?" Li Cu asked doubtfully as he looked at the blue light in the water.
"These are fairy shrimps," Su Wan glanced at the water. "Local people catch them and sell them to people on the coast to raise shrimps."
Li Cu frowned and looked into the water, "How can this thing bite people?"
Su Wan: "I don't know about this, it's not written in the book."
"Can you talk to me later? The water is coming up. What should I do? I can't make it through." Liang Wan said with a cry.
"Sister Wan, don't worry, just stand there and don't move. I'll come and pick you up." Li Cu shouted to her.
"Why are you here?" Liang Wan looked at him and asked.
"Su Wan, give me a tape." Li Cu looked at Su Wan and said.
Su Wan looked confused, "What explanation can I give you?"
"Tape!" Li Cu looked at him and gestured to him: "That tape to wrap things around!"
"Ouch!" Su Wan reacted and quickly took out the tape from his backpack and gave it to him.
As soon as Li Cu took the tape, his wrist was grabbed. Li Cu looked up in confusion and saw Zhang Qiling standing in front of him at some point.
Zhang Qiling looked at him and said, "I'll go." After saying that, he let go of Li Cu and walked towards Haizi.
Li Cu was startled and said quickly: "There is something in the water that can bite people."
"It's okay," Zhang Qiling replied without looking back. As soon as he stepped into the water, under the eyes of several people, the blue-light things suddenly scattered in all directions, as if they had encountered some wild beast.
Zhang Qiling walked all the way to Liang Wan, looked at her and said calmly: "Follow me."
Liang Wan looked at him with some hesitation. Zhang Qiling just looked at her without moving. Finally, Liang Wan gritted his teeth and stepped into the water.
Zhang Qiling took her all the way back to the shore, and was greeted by the starry eyes of Su Wan and Yang Hao.
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The next morning, while several people were packing their equipment, Che Galiba suddenly appeared from the sand dunes in the distance.
The moment he saw him, Su Wan glared at him angrily, "Are you a human? You abandoned us and ran away."
"What are you talking about? Am I, Che Galiba, that kind of person?" Che Galiba said angrily, "I was just attracted by another unexpected incident. Come with me."
Several people put down their things and followed him, and stood on the sand dune where Che Galiba came down. They looked at the river in the distance. Su Wan looked surprised and said: "I have read the atlas, there should be no river here, right? "
"Yes," Chegalipa explained to him, "There is an inland river here, but this one is not. This one should be a ghost river."
"You mean," Yang Hao said with a scared look on his face, "you can see ghosts when you see this river?"
"Are you so willing to see ghosts?" Che Galiba turned to look at him, "It describes the river flowing underground. It is usually invisible. I guess it is the underground river of the inner river. The tributary suddenly flowed onto the sand in a certain section. This was the first time I saw it.”
"So the Haizi we found yesterday is a connected underground river. There should be more water sources under this desert. When encountering strong geological activities, water surges to the surface. Then..." Liang Wan He looked at Che Galiba in confusion, "The fire wind we encountered before was also a sudden geological activity that caused local climate changes."
Che Galiba nodded, "You can say that."
Li Cu knelt down and spread the map flat on the sand. He took out the drawings Liang Wan gave him last night and compared them with the river. "Come over and take a look." Several people squatted down to look at the map.
Li Cu said: "Does the direction of this river exactly match this black line?" Li Cu pointed to a black line on the map and looked up at the river, "Brothers, it seems that we have to Build a boat before this river disappears."
"Isn't this simple?" Zhang Qiling patted Su Wan on the head, "Take out your flamingo lifebuoy."
After hearing this, Su Wan immediately took out several flamingo lifebuoys from his backpack. Yang Hao looked at these lifebuoys and said, "This thing can turn into a boat. What are you talking about?"
Su Wan smiled, "Yes, it's just blowing."
Zhang Qiling chuckled and said, "I leave it to you, come on." After saying that, he took a step back and left the battlefield to them.
