Chapter 14 Water Escape ()

After falling into the water, the snakes began to adapt to the water, which were fast and slow. They adapted quickly and swam towards us after a few tumbling. The bearded man was a little panicked and turned his head to me and said, "No! There are too many of them, I can't handle it!" At this time, I had already expected that I would never escape again, but I was not afraid just now. I forced a smile and replied, "This is fate. I can't hide from the first day of the lunar month and cannot hide from the fifteenth day of the lunar month. The bearded man, thank you for your care. Let's see you in the next life." After that, two lines of tears came out.

The bearded man nodded to me to show his sincerity, and then smiled happily and said, "Okay! See you in the next life!"

That being said, it was not yet time to wait for death. The bearded man stood in front of me and still desperately killed the snake monster swimming near me. I hugged behind him and used a flashlight to help him illuminate it, silently hoping for a miracle in my heart.

As the snakes approached, we leaned tightly against the wall. My feet, which were kicking in the water, had kicked the hole wall from time to time, and there was no way out.

Suddenly, I suddenly felt empty under my feet and vaguely noticed a gap in the wall of the cave under the water. I kicked it in the water several times, as if there was a gap. I plunged into the water and shone it on the wall with a flashlight.

There was indeed a big hole about two meters below the water surface, enough for three or four people to swim side by side. I leaned my head into the hole, trying to show how long the hole was, but because the flashlight was approaching and the light was very light, and the black water had too low light transmittance, so I could only see a distance of one or two meters ahead.

At this time, I heard the bearded man shouting on the water surface: "What are you doing? I can't see it!" I heard the sound and hurried out of the water. While illuminating the bearded man, I said to him: "There is a hole below, which seems to be a passage, but I can't see how far it is."

Because I was holding the flashlight and suddenly entered the water, the bearded man lost his light for a moment, and the speed of killing snakes was greatly reduced. At this time, more than a dozen snakes were surrounded in front of him. He was busy killing the snakes and shouting to me: "Leave the flashlight on it, and you can go in the dark and try how far you can go."

I responded, then put the flashlight on a protruding rock on the mountain wall, took a deep breath, and entered the water again. This time I went into the water, it was completely dark. Based on my memory just now, I touched the entrance of the underwater passage with my hands, and then swam forward along the passage for a while, and found that the passage was very long, faintly, as if there was light in the distance.

I didn't dare to swim forward anymore. I couldn't get back if I didn't have enough energy to crawl, so I quickly turned around and swam back. After coming out of the water, I said to the bearded man: "It's a passage, it's quite long, and there seems to be light in the distance. I don't know if I can go out."

The bearded man was already breathing heavily at this time, and it seemed that his physical strength had reached the critical point. He said in a deep voice: "Do you dare to gamble?"

I looked around. In the water not far away, a large number of snake monsters were rolling and struggling in the water, trying to adapt to the water. The water surface was like a pot, crackling and crackling. At present, hundreds of snake monsters had floated on the water surface and swam towards us. It seemed that it would take only two or three minutes, and all the snake monsters would be familiar with the water. By then, even if the bearded man had three heads and six arms, he would not be able to kill him.

I didn't dare to think more, thinking that it was a death anyway, and it would be better to be drowned in water than to be bitten alive. After death, a snake bites me again, and I don't know. Thinking of this, I said to the bearded man with a firm attitude: "Dare to bet! Anyway, I will definitely die if I waste it."

The bearded man nodded, waved his arms and pushed the dozens of snakes in front of him to the side with the waves, turned around and picked up the flashlight, and pulled me: "Go! Lead the way!"

I took a deep breath, plunged into the water, swam straight into the underwater passage, and the bearded man followed him into the water and blocked me. But his swimming speed was much faster than mine. After swimming for several times, he had already exceeded half of my body.

I heard the sound of squirming paddlings behind me, and knew that the group of snakes had dived with us, so I hurriedly increased my strength to swim forward. But the more anxious I was in my heart, the stiffer my hands and feet became, and I swam even slower. Seeing that I was swimming too slowly, the bearded man simply grabbed my hair and took me forward.

Suddenly, my toes felt a piercing pain, and I knew I had been bitten by a snake. Then, my calves, thighs, back, and buttocks were bitten several times, and I felt the pain was unbearable and I screamed. I opened my mouth and poured a few sips of water in my mouth. I felt panic and knew that I had drowned. I hurriedly patted my bearded hand, waved him back and forth a few times, and told him: I can't do it anymore, you go quickly.

The bearded man looked back and ignored it, and still pulled me to swim forward desperately. At this time, I felt my lung pain and felt so painful that I felt so uncomfortable. I really wanted to take a breath of air, but I didn't expect that it would be so uncomfortable to die of drowning.

Gradually, my hands and feet lost consciousness and could no longer move. I felt that my body was still being bitten, but I didn't feel much pain at this time. Then I thrust my whole body and I didn't know what happened.

When I opened my eyes again, the dazzling sun was hanging above my head, and the cool breeze was blowing beside me, feeling indescribable. I narrowed my eyes by the sun, and I didn't know whether I was alive or dead for a moment, so I wanted to sit up and see what happened. But with a slight force, I felt my whole body was sore and painful. With a "Ouch", I lay down again.

At this time, my eyes had adapted to the light and looked around. I found myself lying on a soft grass, with misty flowers and birds singing and flowers blooming. Is this heaven? I don’t believe in my eyes very much, but I am even more confused.

I raised my arm with difficulty and placed it in front of me. The scarred arms were covered with mashed plants. I began to believe that I was alive. Depending on the situation, it was the bearded man who saved me and used some herbs for me.

I breathed a sigh of relief and recalled the thrilling scenes in the cave before. I really had two lives.

Ruthless footsteps sounded in my ears, and I followed the sound and saw a bundle of infamous plants in my arms, walking towards me.

Seeing that I was awake, the bearded man put the plant on the ground and walked over and smiled slightly: "Awaken?" I nodded, and suddenly there was an uncontrollable feeling in my chest, and tears rolled down.

The bearded man laughed and said, "Why are you crying? Shouldn't you be happy to be able to save your life?"

I choked and said, "Big...beard, really...thank you so much. I didn't expect that we didn't know each other before, so you sacrificed your life to save me. I...I..." As he said that, he started crying again and could no longer say anything.

I cried so sadly, not all for the life-saving grace of the bearded man. The life-saving grace of the bearded man was on one hand, and after several deaths, he was able to escape and finally escape from the nightmare cave, which seemed to be reborn. At this time, he was mixed with emotion and naturally started crying. For example, the judge who had been sentenced to death suddenly gave him a grace to forgive him. Then he was grateful to the judge, and was excited by his rebirth.

The bearded man comforted me and said, "Okay, don't cry anymore. It's easy for me to save you, and there is no need to mobilize others like this. Besides, you discovered the underwater secret passage, so you have saved my life."

I said with tears on my face: "No, no, no, I can't live without you, I... I have to thank you very much!" As I said that, I was about to sit up and kowtow to him a few times.

The bearded man hurriedly pressed me down and told me not to move. He said that I had been bitten dozens of places by the snake monster, and there was almost no skin on my body. He had already put herbs on me. Don't move around now, and make plans when the snake venom is almost pulled out.

I lay on the ground and asked him how long I had been fainting. He said you had been sleeping for two days. You had escaped from the hole the night before and slept until now.

He didn't say that I had slept for two days, but as soon as I finished speaking, I felt thirsty and hungry, and asked Big Beard if I had any food. Big Beard smiled and said that you have a strong recovery ability. As soon as you opened your eyes, you knew you wanted something to eat. It seemed that you were still not seriously injured.

I smiled awkwardly, then grabbed the wild fruit I handed to me by my beard and started eating. While eating, I asked him about the ins and outs of the snake hole.

The bearded man told me that I had already drowned and was motionless like a dead person. As a result, the bearded man was even more struggling and was soon caught up by several snake monsters and bitten him. The bearded man didn't care about killing the snake, grabbed me with one hand and swam forward with the wall of the passage with the other. Fortunately, most of the snake monsters bit me, and only a few attacked him.

More than ten meters ahead of the place where I fainted, the passage reached the end. At the end was a small lake. He dragged me to the shore and found that all the snakes in the water turned around and swam back. It was probably because the temperature of the lake water was much higher than the black water in the cave. The snake monster was afraid of heat, so he swam back to the cave.

But the snake monsters biting us were still unwilling to speak, and they still bit them until we got ashore. The big bearded man pulled down all the snake monsters and killed them one by one, then carried me to a place with a better environment, pressed out the black water in my stomach, and found that I was still breathing, so I felt relieved.

Then he picked some herbs around him, mashed them and applied them to the wounds of the two of us to remove the poison. Fortunately, this small snake monster had not grown yet and the snake venom was not deep, otherwise I would have died after being bitten dozens of bites.

I asked him when the snake venom must be pulled out? Can it be pulled out clean? He said that the medicinal materials in the mountains are limited, so we cannot remove the snake venom. We should do this first, wait until the herbs on our body turn black, and then change the medicine. When the medicine is collected in the future, decoct a few more pairs of them to remove the remaining toxicity in the body.

Now I had to do this. I ate a few wild fruits and sniffed for a while. It was not until the setting sun that I recovered a little.

After waking up, I struggled to stand up and stretch my muscles and bones, stretched my body. At this moment, I became addicted to smoking and wanted to smoke, but I didn't know where the lighter and cigarette were thrown, so I had to endure it. Seeing that the bearded man was not nearby, I guess he went to collect herbs again, so I walked around casually.

After a while, the bearded man came over from a distance. At this time, I was in a good mood and was about to joke with him, but I found that his expression was abnormal and he was frowning, as if he was thinking about something.

I staggered over and asked him, "What's wrong with the bearded man? What troubles have you encountered?"

The bearded man shook his head and murmured, "How is it possible? It's so strange, so strange..."

I had never seen him with this expression before, so I hurriedly asked him: "What's so strange?"

He raised his head and told me with a blank look that when I was sleeping, he turned around for a few times and found that where we are now is actually not far from the entrance of the cave. I said what's so strange about this? The passage on the right side of the cave was originally only one or two hundred meters long, and swam back from the secret passage under the pool for nearly one hundred meters, of course, not far from the entrance.

The bearded man waved me not to interrupt him, and then said, "I'm not saying that this is strange, I mean, when I went to the entrance of the cave just now, I found that there were no stones blocking the entrance of the cave!"
Chapter completed!