Chapter Fifty-Three: The Corpse Cave Underwater

  Anyway, I cried and fell asleep directly on the rubber boat. Too tired, didn't sleep all night, plus crying really makes people feel relaxed.

  Do you know the feeling of being in fragments? I was in fragments that day. The next time I regained consciousness, I was already on a rubber boat, and Kakashi was rowing the boat. My body was still wrapped in a woolen blanket, basking in the warm sunshine, and I was even sweating a bit.

  Kakaxi rowed the boat steadily, looking at me and smiling: "You're awake. Get ready then, we'll be arriving at where they set off yesterday soon."

  "Can you still row a boat?" I rubbed my eyes and said drowsily.

  Kakaxi smiled triumphantly: "Yesterday they were worried that I would follow them into the water, so they let the boss row the boat. If it were me, humph, my speed would definitely be much faster than the boss."

  "Where did you learn to row?"

  "We've both been to the park several times, I'll call you over on the weekend, but you still need to go home often. No choice. When we arrived, they were getting off the boat here, and I was guessing too. Sister Liu, let me tell you first, there's no harpoon on the rubber dinghy, so after we get off, the boat will drift away, who knows where it'll end up? So when we come back up, we have to rely on ourselves to swim. We must conserve our energy, don't exhaust yourself and drown after coming up."

  I nodded and started putting on the diving suit. I still had to turn my back to Kakashi to change clothes. I heard him say in a bad mood, "Hmph, your figure is about the same as mine, who cares if they see it?"

  "You've watched too many movies on your computer."

  After we changed our diving equipment, he pushed all the equipment I had packed into the water. It was very laborious to dive with these equipment, so it was simpler to throw them in first and then drag them down after we got in the water. With a few splashes, those big packages sank into the water, including Tian's guns.

  This is my first time diving, to say I'm not nervous would be a lie. But I also know that since I've come this far, I have no other choice. Even if I have to grit my teeth and close my eyes, I still have to flip over into the water.

  Kakashi seems braver than me, or maybe he's just as obsessed with this thing as I am, giving him the same urge to do it that I have.

  The water was still extremely cold, and the moment I got in, my heart stopped beating. My hands and feet couldn't move, and my whole body just sank into the water, even forgetting to breathe.

  After several seconds, I got used to the water temperature and started breathing with my mouth, kicking my legs to sink faster. The waterproof forehead lamp shone on Kakaxi's body, he was beside me, gesturing towards me, telling me that our backpacks were over there.

  At first, when buying equipment, many of the equipment were chosen by Kakaxi. As a person who lives on the internet, he would also search online before buying things, so many of the equipment he bought were relatively good and expensive.

  We pulled those bags and started looking for a way out underwater. But the water here is really deep, and sunlight can't reach the bottom of the water at all. The area that our forehead lamp can see is only that small. It's even harder to find a way out. We swam forward little by little, and we had never had such an experience before. I really don't know what the exit of the underground water seepage will be like, and I can only rely on my feelings to swim forward and look for it.

  Underwater, we can't talk, only gesture to each other. And because we still have to drag our bags, our progress is really slow.

  I accidentally saw the pressure gauge of the oxygen cylinder, and the oxygen was almost used up. The first thought in my mind was that all the equipment we bought were fake and inferior products. If it's said to be usable for four hours, how could the oxygen run out soon after we dived into the water?

  According to the diving manual, we should return to the surface now. Otherwise, it will be dangerous. But I don't want to go back, if we go back now, it may take several days for us to dive again. We need to buy new oxygen. If Su Haicheng and others are still alive and in the underwater cave, they might still be waiting for us.

  Kakaxi also noticed the pressure gauge, but he didn't show any intention of floating up either. He gestured with his hand for me to hurry and leave.

  My heart is very anxious, and the accelerated heartbeat has never calmed down again.

  Finally, when the oxygen pressure gauge started to alarm and we had to ascend immediately, we saw a cave appearing at the bottom of the lake. The cave was about two meters wide, and it was no problem to swim in.

  But we also know that going in now is a gamble. If there really is a cave inside, then we can survive. If we're wrong and it's all water inside, then we'll die here. We have about ten minutes of oxygen left, ten minutes. If this hole does connect to a large cave but we can't swim to it, then it's still a dead end.

  In? Not in?

  Kakashi and I both understand the connection here, but we almost simultaneously made a hand seal, let's go!

  Two people, dragging four bags, went inside. But only advanced two meters, my footsteps were stuck. The Kakashi who swam over from behind directly bumped into my leg.

  Although the collision in the water didn't hurt, it still startled me.

  Because my headlamp saw that the cave above and below, left and right, was stuck to the stone wall, all were corpses! Corpses! Corpses! Dense and numerous corpses. Many of the corpses presented a charcoal-like appearance, without any signs of decay. However, there were also some corpses with incomplete shoes. From the shoes, it could be seen that they were not the 3538 anti-slip liberation shoes commonly worn by locals, but military boots.

  I was so shocked that I choked, and even coughing was difficult in the water. What's more, I felt like I had swallowed some of the water here. The water here is all filled with floating corpses!

  Kakaxi pushed me forward, indicating that I should continue advancing. I don't know how I managed to pass by those corpses, but my mind only had one thought: "Hurry up, Su Haicheng is waiting for us ahead. They are just ahead."

  As I swam through the corpses, I had an illusion that those corpses were alive and they were watching us swim by.

  Such a group of corpses stretched for over ten meters. Just as I was about to pass completely by the side of these corpses, I discovered that Kakashi hadn't followed up.

  As he looked back, he was dragging his backpack, and the bag of that backpack was hooked on the foot of a corpse. He pulled hard, and the corpse had moved its position, this balance seemed to be broken, some corpses beside him began to move, floating in the water, as if they wanted to block this road.

  I dropped my bag and hurriedly swam over, oxygen time was limited, either give up the backpack or we'd both become corpses here. After a few tugs, feeling like there was no way to pull off the backpack, I patted Kakashi's hand, indicating for him to give up the backpack. But he kept shaking his head at me, refusing to give up.

  I only then noticed that it was a package containing guns and explosives. It was wrapped in several layers of waterproof material, which made it particularly heavy, so it would sink to the bottom with the corpse.

  Just then, a floating corpse floated towards us. I was so scared that I turned around and kicked it with my foot. Kakashi was even more miserable than me, he was bumped by the corpse. Although the force of drifting in the water was not great, thinking about being close to the corpse made my heart feel creepy.

  Especially in such water, we can only see a place of one or two square meters illuminated by the forehead lamp, and the sense of fear is overwhelming.

  Under such fear, let's make a forceful effort, and the backpack was pulled out. Hurriedly turned around and escaped.

  After swimming out for several meters, I turned back to take a look. The entrance of the cave was already blocked by floating corpses. If we wanted to go back, I would never take this route again. However, we couldn't come back here either, because we had run out of oxygen.

  It seems that heaven has been kind to us once, this cave although having roads leading in all directions, always has one leading upwards. We have also been choosing the road leading upwards. When the oxygen alarm sounded for the last time, we rushed out of the water surface.

  (Note: Some people may not understand this terrain. First, the underground water network is all over the place, with many waterways and also relatively large underground dark rivers.)

  Next to the lake is a mountain, after we dive into the water, it's lower than the mountain. The underwater cave goes up, actually it's walking into the mountain from under the mountain and coming out of the underground water outlet. It's like the shape of "U" between the lake surface and the water outlet in the mountain.

  Here is the translation:

  "There are many underground rivers and caves here, they have one thing in common, there is a spring water inside the cave, which is actually a pool inside the cave."