Ghost Blowing Lamp II

Chapter 51 The Molotov Cocktail

I see that although Ding Sitian has inhaled limited cockles poison, his condition is still stable now, he can walk and move, and his mind is still clear, but the early symptoms of poisoning have appeared after all. If you go out from the mountain pass on the north side of Baiyan Cave, you will arrive On the edge of the uninhabited desert, farther away from the pastoral area, even if there is no such detour, without horses, it will be too late to send her to the hospital. What should I do?Furthermore, who can guarantee that this journey will be safe and that nothing will go wrong?

I frowned, took a look at the map, and immediately made up my mind: "The golden scales are specially bred by the Devil Research Institute. They conduct research to treat soldiers injured by the poison in the Pacific battlefield. There may be detoxification serum in this research institute. This possibility is very high. Don’t take three-point risk. Looking for an antidote."

In the end, both Fatty and Lao Yangpi agreed to this plan. It is simply unrealistic to hope that she will be sent to the hospital for treatment. Ding Sitian is also completely at ease in entrusting her life to us. It seems risky to do so, but it really does not change There are many choices, and the best choice is often the choice made when there is no choice.

In order not to bring too much psychological pressure to Ding Sitian, I did not act too hastily. After confirming the route, I still proceeded at a normal speed. Anyway, the distance to the main research building is not that far from the map. No matter how slow it is, there is still time. If there is no antidote like serum in the research building, then everything will be over. I am faintly afraid, always thinking what if there is no antidote?And who among us can recognize what the antidote is?In the end, he just put his heart away and stopped thinking about it. Anyway, he didn't cry when he saw the coffin, and he didn't give up until he reached the Yellow River.

It didn't take long before I entered a very wide underground waterway, where there were many concrete pipes connected in parallel. The fat man who was walking in front of the road suddenly stepped on something, raised his foot in the black water cursingly, and exposed a few roots from the sewage. Rotten dead bones, a shoe was still hanging under half of the leg bone. I was about to check it out, but in the dark, I found that the concrete pipe we were in suddenly turned.

Judging from the map of the research institute drawn by the Russians, the huge underground drainage facility is actually an artificially diverted underground river. It is precisely because a large amount of groundwater has been dug out in the valley of the Baiyan Cave that the geological environment cannot be built. As for the water diversion channel, we can only lead it out of the mountain with a spider-like drainage pipe, otherwise the groundwater will flood the area above our heads, and this secret research facility will not be able to be built in its current location.

But the current underground drainage channel is about to dry up, leaving only some sewage silt. Presumably, the water source in the mountain has already dried up. The underground waterway is divided into two parts, one part is completely closed, and the other half is semi-closed. It can be used as an evacuation channel at all times. If you want to approach the main research building, the shortest route is through the semi-enclosed pipeline area. The environment here is complicated, and the pipeline network is intertwined like a maze. Without this map, it will be difficult to find the exit smoothly.

Holding a torch, we searched for a way, and arrived at a hub area where trenches and pipes intersect and are open. The walls here are all dark, there is a lot of sewage and mud, and various mayfly creatures breed in the water. It happens to be located in the center of the underground waterway. , Seeing that they were about to reach their destination, they found many bones in the black water at the bottom of the pipe. Seeing that those who had not rotted their clothes, they were probably the guards of the secret research institute of the Japanese army. When we saw the rotten bones of the dead, we couldn't help thinking: "How can there be a devil's corpse in this pipe?" We were about to see what happened, but found that the pipe we were in was shaking suddenly, and it seemed to be spinning for a while.

But this is just an illusion of the eyes, but there is no feeling of shaking under the feet. We held up the torches and looked up. All four of us were stunned by the sight in front of us. The wall of the pipe one meter away in front of us was covered with black cockroaches. These cockroaches are all black and brown in color, with wings growing on their backs, and they are astonishingly large. They are all about three to four centimeters in length, one by one, densely packed, and thousands of them cover the entire wall. These big cockroaches are probably stimulated by certain ingredients in the sewage. Not only are they half the size of normal ones, but they can also rely on eating each other's corpses, as well as the rats and woodworms that entered this sewer to maintain their life. life.

These cockroaches were originally lurking and slowly biting each other. At this time, a small part of them were alarmed by the fire and the sound of footsteps. Boiling water, rushing and running around without thinking, the wall of the pipe turned into a flowing black tide, many of them fell from the wall of the pipe, and immediately a layer fell on our heads and shoulders.

I wanted to tell everyone to run back, but not only did no one care about anyone, but no one dared to open their mouths to speak, and the large and small cockroaches that were squeezed out almost extinguished the torch, falling on people and crawling around. A few cockroaches may burrow into the mouth, and the small cockroaches burrow into the cracks, even the ears and noses can't bear it, they can crawl along the ears and into the human brain, so they have to drop them on the top of the head and shoulders desperately. cockroaches dusted off.

The cockroaches jumped up very fast, we had nowhere to run, so we had to drive them away with the torches in our hands, hoping that the cockroaches would disperse quickly, everyone calmed down and recovered from the black tide formed by the large swarm of cockroaches just now. Overwhelmed, he tried his best to use all the available guys, and finally used the torch to scatter the flood of cockroaches away from his side.

After a while, the cockroaches in the pipes gradually decreased. I freed up my hands to remove the cockroaches from Ding Sitian and Lao Yangpi. Not wanting to be buried alive by cockroaches, the fat man said to us, "Let's rush over while the cockroaches are gone..."

Before the fat man finished speaking, Lao Yangpi yelled, his body sank suddenly, and he was dragged to the ground by something in the sewage. Ding Sitian and I felt something was wrong, and we stretched out our hands to grab him, but we couldn't. The strength of Lao Yangpi was enormous. Although I grabbed Lao Yangpi's arm, I was pulled by the huge force and staggered on the soles of my feet, almost falling into the mud.

Ding Sitian was not as lucky as me. She grabbed the skirt of the old sheepskin, trying to stop the momentum of the old sheepskin being pulled back, but her arms were limited, and her feet were wet and slippery, so she slipped and fell to the ground. But she still didn't let go, and she was dragged into the darkness of the sewer together with Lao Yangpi. At this time, the fat man had already pulled out the southern fourteen-type pistol. This guy is no small thing, he figured out the origin of these corpse bones in his heart, it is very likely that some people wanted to escape from here when something happened, but when they encountered terrible things, they were all ended up in the stinky ditch. He couldn't hesitate at all, otherwise he would have waited to collect the bodies of those two people, so he drew out the Kangxi sword and called out to the fat man: "Don't shoot, throw the torch forward." As he spoke, he rushed forward.

The torches of Lao Yangpi and Ding Sitian fell into the mud and went out when they fell to the ground. In order to save money and start a revolution, we were not willing to use the Russian engineer lighting tube, but used the furniture and clothes in his room to make numbers. It’s just a simple torch. This torch has advantages and disadvantages. If there are insects, scorpions and centipedes in the tunnel, you can disperse them from a distance with a torch, and you can judge whether the air quality is harmless to people. But the disadvantage is that the lighting range is very limited. It's just a few steps in front of you, and you can't see it a little further away.

I chased after him with a knife in one hand and a torch in the other, so I had to let the fat man throw his torch forward as a short-term flare behind him, and use the torch to see the situation more than ten meters ahead before it fell to the ground and went out. The torch flew from his shoulder, drew a low parabola in the dark space, and then fell into the sludge in front of the pipe and extinguished.

But when the fire flashed, I could already see a few steps in front of me, there was a large gap between the pipes on the ground, nearly one meter in diameter, and the inside was bottomless, and several thick pipes protruded from it The black arthropod claws, covered with black bristles, are dragging Ding Sitian and Lao Yangpi into the big crack in the pipe.

Lao Yangpi lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground. He didn't know if he was injured or not. He tried his best to get rid of it, but he couldn't keep up. He grabbed Lao Yangpi's clothes on the ground, gritted his teeth and dragged it back, but it was of no avail, even she was quickly dragged in.

I stepped on the dead cockroaches all over the ground, creaked as soon as I stepped on it, and rushed to the front in three steps at a time, only then did I see clearly that what grabbed the old sheepskin was a big money string, the money string was much wider than centipedes and gnats, and There are fewer pairs of feet, but the claws are wider and longer, and the body can grow up to two meters long. The deep and wide gap in the drainage pipe is used as a nest by the money string. Because of the fear of flames, I want to The old sheepskin dragged to the lower level of the drain pipe.

I rushed to the front, and with the light of the fire in my hand, I found that there were human bones on the edge of the abyss-like crack, and there were a few terrifyingly large cockroaches crawling back and forth in the depths.Eager to save people, he didn't bother to take a closer look, he swung his long knife and chopped down, trying to save Lao Yangpi and Ding Sitian by swiping the big money string that was half shrunk in the hole.

Unexpectedly, the money string moves very fast, my knife is in the air, and it has already pulled the old sheepskin to the entrance of the hole. I quickly threw the torch into the cave, but the damp atmosphere in the cave was too strong, and the torch was extinguished by the moisture in a flash. I fell to the ground in the dark, stretched out my arms to hold the old sheepskin, and tried to support the cave entrance , but the crack was more than one meter wide, but I didn't expect that the money string was so powerful, and when the black-haired claws pulled it, half of my body, including me and Lao Yangpi Ding Sitian, fell into the hole.

In the confusion, Ding Sitian turned on the engineer lighting tube hanging on his chest. In the swaying beam of light, Lao Yangpi supported a dead man's skeleton with his hands. The rotten bones were firmly stuck in the narrow crack on the side of the tube wall. I tried my best to hold on, and slightly slowed down the momentum of the three of us being pulled into the cave. Seeing the swarming insect feet in front of me, I wanted to chop with a long knife, but the terrain was narrow and it was difficult to use it, so I had to go into the cave. Stretching out the knife and stabbing randomly, a yellow water splashed out every time I stabbed it. I was afraid that the insect liquid was poisonous, so I buried my face on the old sheepskin back, but my hands didn't stop at all.

Although most of the random stabbing hit the money string, they were not deep enough to be fatal. Moreover, this thing has strong vitality. Even if a few pieces were cut off, it would not die for a while. Ding Sitian was dragged Finally, at this time, he got up on his stomach, grabbed me and Lao Yangpi and pulled back with all his strength. Both my shoulders and arms were hooked by insect feet, and we were restricted by the narrow gap, so we couldn't move our arms and legs. Doing large-scale movements, although I can still hold on for a while without being dragged into the hole, it is by no means a long-term solution. It is impossible to escape with my own strength. I suddenly felt that there was a leg Ding Sitian hugged and dragged her back, but her strength was too weak to help. I became impatient and scolded that Fatty Wang for not coming to help.

Just at the moment of this dilemma, I heard someone shouting from behind: "Don't worry, poor and lower-middle peasants, I'll bring you cocktails!" Lao Yangpi and I tried our best to hold on, while we used a long knife to block the hook protruding from the hole. , He knew that the fat man was coming up when he heard the shouts behind him, but what he shouted to deliver cocktails was completely incomprehensible, but at this critical juncture, he didn't know what monster moth he was about to show.

It turns out that the fat man also knows that it is difficult to kill the string of money immediately with a knife and gun. He opened the engineer lighting tube tied to his chest, and while catching up from behind, he took a bottle of spirits from the Russians out of his bag. He took it out, stuffed a handful of pills in it randomly, blocked the mouth of the bottle with a cotton sock that was stretched out, lit it and handed it to Ding Sitian, then took me and the old sheepskin belt, and put our front Half of his body was pulled out of the hole.

A part of the string of money in the hole was also brought out. Seeing that the food in its mouth had gone out again, it was not willing to let it go, and was about to pull it back again. At this time, the Wangba box in the fat man's hand fired two shots, hitting it to the body Shrinking, Ding Sitian saw the opportunity and smashed the burning spirits into the hole. The wine the Russian drank was like a knife in his mouth. The alcohol concentration was extremely high, and some chemicals were put in it. The pills may have also played the role of a combustion aid, and the flames rose suddenly, and the cracks in the drainpipes became a sea of ​​flames, burning cockroaches, money strings and other things in a mess, and I don’t know how many twisted and struggled to die in the flames Down.

The Molotov cocktails made by Fatty were used by us when the rebels were fighting and the Red Guards were attacking. However, at that time, spirits were hard to find. Most of them used gasoline or industrial alcohol, and added fuel to replace them. The formula was also adapted to local conditions. , to catch up with what to use, this kind of combustion bottle composed of a mixture of various combustibles was first widely used in the Soviet-Finnish War and World War II, and it is called the Molotov cocktail. I look at myself and the old sheepskin though There were some skin scratches, and a few bruises on his body, but nothing serious. At this time, his mind was blank, and he had no thoughts of fear.

I looked at the burning cave under the crack, the fire was dimming, and the cockroaches that hadn't been burned to death began to crawl in and out of the crack again, which made people's hearts numb, and no one wanted to stay any longer, so the four of them interacted with each other. Continue to go deep with support. This underground waterway is full of dangers. We are worried that there are other dangers in the underground waterway. There is an exit near the sign on the map, which can lead to the ground. It is very close to the research building. So he quickened his pace and walked there, even if he took a short detour, he didn't intend to take a shortcut in the drainpipe where there were more and more woodworms and cockroaches.

At the corner of the drainage pipe, there is an iron ladder embedded in the concrete wall. The fat man climbed up first, and pushed the cement cover away. The sky outside was already bright, and then Ding Sitian also climbed up the iron ladder. , Lao Yangpi preoccupiedly prepared to go up the third one, I saw that his expression was gloomy, but it didn't look like he had just been frightened. Smoking a pipe pot is singing the sour songs of his hometown. After entering the Baiyan Cave, he often sighs and sighs. The truth of what happened to his brother Yang Erdan turned out to be murdered by the Japanese here, and at the beginning he was bound by superstition and thought, so he didn’t dare to go out to save people, so he still can’t forget it, and he can understand his feelings by heart-to-heart, especially The cremator may have burned the body of his own brother, so how could it not be worrying?
So in order to express my sympathy, when Lao Yangpi climbed up the iron ladder, I patted Lao Yangpi on the shoulder and comforted him: "I understand your feelings, I don't think too much about your brother, after all it is The past is over, people still have to think about it, we have to look forward to everything.”

Lao Yangpi probably saw that I was young, so he was very surprised to say such a thing. He asked me as he climbed up: "You know what I'm thinking? I'm the only brother. Your family has How many brothers?"

I thought to myself that I was the only child in my family, unlike the big socialist families that were popular at that time, there were no other biological brothers and sisters, but I couldn't say that, so I said to Lao Yangpi: "You have to think so, the whole world suffers. People are all our class brothers.”

While talking, I also climbed up the shaft. It was already twilight outside. Fatty and Ding Sitian both turned off the engineer lighting tubes, but they and Lao Yangpi looked around, each with a different expression, and I followed suit. When they looked at it, they couldn't help being startled suddenly, why is this place so familiar?

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