Chapter 26 Water Inlet
At this time, the old blind man also rushed over, but the two did not fight for it. Instead, one shone the flashlight inside while the other took the things. However, the golden monster was a bit heavy, and the old Zongzi turned around and bumped into it. Lei Xueting lost her grip and fell into the water. The water level was now up to her waist, and it was quite deep below. The old blind man and the old woman squatted in the water and fumbled around. In a panic, the book she took out was also soaked by the water.
I was so angry. Lin Yuxi was bitten by the old zongzi and refused to let go. You should save her first. I couldn't help but kick them one by one and fell into the water. Die. Then I looked down and saw a bunch of yellow talismans in the steel cage. I grabbed them all and stuck them on the old zongzi. It didn't work at first. After sticking more than a dozen talismans, the old zongzi straightened his body, opened his mouth, and froze again.
Fearing that it would wake up again later, he took out all the red ropes from Lei Xueting's bag and tied the corpse up in three layers inside and outside like a dumpling.
Lin Yuxi was bitten for a long time, half of her arm turned black, she was staggering and a little dizzy. I thought to myself, she must be poisoned by corpses, and I must find a way to suppress the poison quickly, otherwise the corpse poison will attack her heart and she will become a zombie. I helped her lean against the wall, then bit the unused yellow talisman in my mouth, and looked down to see the old blind man and Lei Xueting still groping in the water. I hooked the bag behind Lei Xueting with my toes, pulled it off my body, and grabbed a handful of glutinous rice from it.
Then I stuffed the yellow talismans into Lin Yuxi's mouth, because I was still thinking about escaping and using them to deal with the zombie guards. I put the glutinous rice in my mouth and chewed it hard, then applied it to her bite wound. Glutinous rice has the effect of removing corpse poison. Fortunately, she was not deeply poisoned. Even if the poison could not be removed immediately, at least it could temporarily suppress the poison.
I bent down and tore off a piece of cloth from Lei Xueting. The old woman was only looking for the little monster. I grabbed the bag and tore off the clothes, but she didn't react at all. I used the cloth to bandage Lin Yuxi's wound, and then looked up at the poisonous snakes on it. At this moment, the smell of realgar gradually dissipated, and they began to stir again.
Lin Yuxi looked better now. He took the yellow talisman from his mouth and said sadly, "What's the use of cracking the mechanism? Can't we still escape?" He looked down at the two old guys who were busy in the water, and smiled bitterly, "Is it really like you said? What's the use of finding the treasure? Will it be buried with you?"
When I listened to her talk, I kept my eyes on the yellow talismans, because it seemed that one of them was not a spell. When she finished speaking and nodded, I took the talisman from her hand and took a closer look. It showed the internal topography of the stone tower, the coffin, and the locations of various mechanisms. I couldn't help but smile happily and said to Lin Yuxi, "We found a way to escape!"
Lin Yuxi's eyes widened, and she quickly snatched the talisman back. Unexpectedly, it broke in the middle because we bit it in our mouths and it was stained with saliva. But I took the lower half and saw that the entrance of the water inlet was in the corner where we were. And it was marked on it that there was a wrench in the water inlet, and after turning it, the opening would expand to accommodate people.
I immediately threw this half to her, took a deep breath, squatted down and sank into the water. Lin Yuxi's flashlight was waterproof, and it illuminated the water very brightly. I looked back and saw that the golden monster was actually under the wall. Since their flashlights were not waterproof, they could not illuminate it in the water, so they could only reach out and feel around. When I shone the flashlight, Lei Xueting immediately saw it and rushed over, as if she was afraid that I would snatch it away.
I didn't have the time to do that. I turned around and cleared the broken coffin wood. I soon found the source of the water. It was in the corner of the wall, like a rat hole, with water bubbling out. Because the hole was small, the water came in slowly, otherwise the entire stone tower would have been submerged. I reached into the hole, which was just big enough for my wrist, and found an iron wrench more than half a foot deep.
As I wrenched with force, a crack appeared on the corner of the wall, and the amount of water entering increased, and the force became much stronger. I was almost washed away by the sudden force. I held the wrench tightly and adapted to the force of the water flow, and continued to wrench. Because the crack was not big, only about one foot wide. When it expanded to more than two feet wide, the wrench reached the end and could not be moved.
I stood up quickly, and heard the old blind man yelling, "Where's the book?"
"I don't know. Look again!" Lei Xueting held the little golden monster and looked at it with great joy under the flashlight.
I was about to grab Lin Yuxi and sneak away before they found the exit, when the water suddenly increased several times from the hole below, with a powerful force, making a rumbling sound, and washed us down together. The rapids washed us and Lao Zongzi to the opposite wall. We just stood up against the wall and found that the water level had risen to our armpits in a short period of time. Before we had time to catch our breath, we suddenly saw the black-browed vipers on the wall falling down one after another , falling into the water like dumplings, which immediately made us fly away.
Many of them fell on us. Fortunately, they were in a panic and didn't bother to bite us. The four of us sank into the water while fighting. Black-browed vipers are not water snakes after all. They don't have much attack power in the water, but with so many of them, it's hard to predict if they'll get bitten in the chaos. And the yellow talisman on the old Zongzi was washed away. He seemed to have his eyes closed. Who knows when he'll wake up?
I can hold my breath underwater, but I don't know how to swim, so I can't swim against the current. Especially since there were poisonous snakes all around me, forming an "S" shape and floating upwards, I was so scared that my legs went weak and I didn't dare to move even though I was squatting at the foot of the wall. The old blind man and Lei Xueting were still in their usual style, and they swam forward desperately regardless of the two of us. Fortunately, Lin Yuxi didn't abandon me and grabbed my hand and swam forward.
Black-browed vipers kept falling into the water, many of which hit our heads or backs, but were then washed away by the rapids. Swimming against the current was very strenuous, but the old blind man and Lei Xueting were particularly cunning. After swimming for a few times, they either moved forward or retreated. Finally, they climbed onto the cracks in the rock wall and swam forward, which was much easier. Lin Yuxi and I also followed their example. Although our speed was not fast, we would eventually reach the water inlet.
We swam for more than ten minutes to cover this distance of several dozen meters, but we still couldn't swim across it. We all ventured out of the water to breathe twice, otherwise we would suffocate to death. When we were about to reach the water inlet, I suddenly saw a book stuck in the crack of the stone wall. It seemed to be the one taken out of the steel cage. The old blind man and Lei Xueting didn't have a flashlight, so they couldn't see it clearly in front of them. I saw it when I got close. I took it down and stuffed it into my pants.
Now the snakes stopped falling down, and were all pushed to the back. They had no strength to swim over, and we breathed a sigh of relief. The water inlet had the strongest force, and we dug our fingers into the cracks in the rocks, stuck our heads out and took a deep breath. The old blind man and Lei Xueting sank into the water first and got into the water inlet.
Calculating the time, they should all have gone in, and we two came down. The moment we entered the hole, we felt the huge surge almost pierced our bodies. Fortunately, there were layers of bluestones below, and there were cracks in the rocks to use as leverage, otherwise we would never have been able to get down. It took a lot of effort to get into the hole, and the water flow slowed down a lot after we came down. It seems that there is an underground river in the belly of the mountain, connected to the river outside the mountain. It was just that the impact force was generated when pouring water into the hole, and it was calm in the river.
The old blind man and Lei Xueting were not far ahead. They suddenly turned around and showed a weird grin on their faces . I felt something was wrong. Are these two old guys trying to silence us?
