Even though the sky is covered with dark clouds, it is not dark all around, which shows that the sun has not yet set.
They didn't wait too long. About an hour later, the setting sun came down through the clouds and the dense forest. Both of them could not help but celebrate the short duration of the heavy rain.
After this period of rest, and after the rain, John's mood has risen a lot. After suffering from one tragedy after another, his nerve tenacity is developing rapidly, and his recovery speed is much faster. Of course, it's still a little bit short of Li Fan's calm state.
After a while, they returned to the river. The water level was very high, but it seemed calm and the current was relatively gentle. Li Fan proposed to try to cross the river again, but this time he had to swim.
John's suggestion is to build a raft, which can greatly reduce the risk.
You should know that there may be a school of cannibal fish passing by the river. Besides, rafting not only saves energy, but also can clearly see the scenery on both sides of the river when crossing. If someone is really hiding in the dark, they can master more details.
Li Fan agreed to the idea. At this time, he was a little tired, and the energy consumed in building the raft was better than that of back and forth freestyle swimming.
Seeing the sun gradually slanting down, the raft was completed at this time. They did not put down their guard during this period, but cannibals and black creatures did not appear. The biggest danger was just a few snakes passing by.
Put the raft into the water, but it didn't sink. They sat on it with oars, but it didn't sink. That's no problem.
John rowed the channel: "it's getting dark. If we really can't get through, we can consider changing the waterway and going down the river far away from here."
Li Fan waved the oar on the other side and kept silent. He looked back at the river bank, but his foreboding didn't weaken.
……
At the same time.
As the plane roared down, Shao Shuai walked down from the plane without expression.
This is a completely closed and well defended secret base, built directly at the foot of the mountain.
When Shao Shuai stepped off the plane, he saw Gu Yitian coming towards him.
On one side of the airport, a car was waiting for them.
"Get in the car! It's a long way from here to the entrance
Shao Shuai took a look at Gu Yitian, got on the bus, started the car, quickly drove into a downward entrance, and drove quickly along a wide and flat underground passage.
There are light bars on both sides of the underground passage, so it looks bright, and the ventilation is good. There is no stuffy feeling.
Shao Shuai can keenly feel that the road has a small slope and is driving slightly downward, which means that they have been driving deeper underground.
After running for more than ten minutes, Shao Shuai stopped on a platform. After getting off, he was stunned by the sight.
The space here is extremely wide, with a height of more than ten meters, including the ceiling and the ground. Five sides are covered with silver metal to form a flat metal wall. Only the high mountain stone wall at the end is inlaid with two three meter high metal gates with radiation signs.
There are many staff working in this spacious hall. In front of the gate, there are two armed soldiers guarding with guns. They don't know what they have done. The two thick metal gates slowly open to both sides.
"Such a huge project has been built in such a short time It's really amazing... " Shao Shuai praised.
"That's the power of the state." Gu Yitian stepped forward and said in a flat tone: "Shaoshuai, like Li Fan, you are all talents. It's a pity that you just let yourself go."
Shao Shuai glanced at Gu Yitian and said with a smile, "don't try any more. I will choose to come to you this time. It's all for Li Fan's sake. If you have anything to say, wait until he comes out."
"Well, whatever you want! Let's go Gu Yitian waved his hand and walked inside.
"Li Fan, hold on." Shao Shuai murmured in his heart again and walked in with Gu Yitian
……
Li Fan's ominous premonition soon became a reality. When he and John's raft reached the middle of the river, the current suddenly speeded up, and the simple wooden oars in their hands immediately lost their meaning.
Then they gave up their struggle and let the raft gallop down the river. John looked at the sun sinking into the horizon behind him and said, "it's a terrible feeling to be resigned to fate."
"Obviously, there is an unknown force that doesn't want us to leave the rainforest," Li said
"That power can even control the river?" John has an unbelievable face.
Li Fan replied: "who knows Maybe the heavy rain is no coincidence
John looked at the sky. "Do you believe in gods?"
Li Fan said with a smile: "if you believe it, please tell the God you believe in and let him take it easy
He could only smile bitterly at the moment, for he had seen that the river in front of him was becoming wider and wider, and there was a whirlpool in the river which was not deep.John naturally saw this scene. He lifted the oar again. "Come on, God, we have to make the raft move, even if we move a few meters towards the shore."
Li Fan is indifferent: "forget it, under the current of this speed, moving a few meters more has no effect at all, the centripetal force of the vortex will still roll us in."
John called out, "how about jumping into the river? There should be time for that distance. "
Li Fan replied: "in my opinion, there is no difference. Swimming and rowing are the same results in such a fast stream." He suddenly changed the topic: "don't you think it's a coincidence that there's a whirlpool right here and now on our way out of control?"
John snorted coldly: "anyway, I've been having bad luck all week."
Seeing the raft getting closer and closer to the spiral current, the huge impulse overturned the raft, and a diffuse water wave passed, the scope of the vortex became even larger.
On the broad water, Li Fan and John have disappeared.
"Sneeze!" John sneezed like he was going to blow out his lungs.
Li Fan was awakened by the sneeze. He shook his head and drove the scene out of his head. Then he sat up and observed the surroundings. When his vision became clear, he was surprised.
John and himself are in a quadrangular room. The surrounding walls are all stone, showing a kind of bluish black. The walls are full of mysterious murals and words.
"Where is this?" Li Fan asked.
John was standing by a wall, gazing at the words: "I don't know. I didn't wake up long."
He stopped for a moment, as if to finish reading the text in front of him: "it's like a kind of ancient civilization text. These ghost symbols have a stone age style."