man of oz

Lu Yuege took Andres's flashlight and shone it at the lower left corner of the cave, "It's very narrow here." He threw a few stones in, and there was no movement except for a few bats whizzing out.

The group rested for a while, and after eating to replenish their strength, put on their equipment and helmets, Andres and Lu Yuege took the lead through the narrow passage estimated to be more than ten meters long, and the people behind entered the cave one by one.

"When I found this place, there was a cat fighting with a big snake. When I came back later, I brought a flashlight, and then I found that it was very big inside."

It's hot outside, but it's cold and lonely in the cave, giving people a feeling that time flows slowly here.

The passage became wider and wider, and everyone finally entered the main cave. Several people stood in a relatively flat place, and when they were illuminated by a strong flashlight, the sight they saw in front of them made these researchers who had explored many caves still amazed. endlessly.

When Lu Yuege came here before, he only brought two ordinary flashlights at most, and the range that could be illuminated was limited. This was the first time he saw things in the cave so clearly, and he couldn't take his eyes off it.

The cave hall is wide, and the top is very high from the ground where they are standing. Lu Yuege thinks it is higher than the 20-storey building in the county town. Stalactites of various sizes and shapes are scattered throughout the cave, and stalagmites, pillars and mantles are stacked on top of each other. , like blooming flowers, pines and cypresses, ancient pagodas, buffaloes, elephants, old people... There are also countless huge karst deposits, like rolling hills, like hills growing in the caves of mountains. People have to marvel at the magic of nature.

As the saying goes, dripping water wears away rocks, but in the caves, dripping water produces rocks. Year after year, day after day, the sky falls and the earth cracks, and the sea grows. These lava deposits are proof of the silence of time for hundreds of millions of years.

"There are still some caves around the stone wall that lead to other places. The entrance of the cave over there looks huge, but it is actually a dead end. Walking through the one over there will lead to another bigger cave." Lu Yuege pointed out the way for them as they walked. .

Brother Fang took a flashlight to a hole on the right, and asked in shock, "Have you been here yourself? Do you know which holes are not open!"

Fear of the dark is a human instinct, especially in such a confined space, where there are no dangerous animals. How could such a young child walk through this deep cave by himself?The fact that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers is not enough to describe his courage. This child probably lacks the nerve to be afraid...

When he first entered the undeveloped cave, even though he had companions, the feeling of the claustrophobic and cold cave was too scary.

So how did this child be raised? It is not like the black and thin working people in mountainous areas that people think, but it is as good-looking and smart as a ghost in a storybook...

"..." As if he had slipped his tongue, Lu Yuege nodded embarrassedly.

"You kid, how dare you come to this kind of place to play alone! I don't want to kill you!" Lu Yujing didn't expect this kid to be so bold, and he seriously warned Lu Yuege, "Don't come to this kind of place by yourself in the future, go out I'll tell you right away, Mom and Dad, I can't see if I can break your dog legs!"

"No, no, it's not sensible before." Lu Yuege crawled over a slippery stone curtain and lied, "Uncle Wu, don't tell my father."

"Stinky boy, why are you still so skinny even in junior high school!" Lu Yujing patted his forehead.

They spoke Miao dialect, which these outsiders naturally couldn't understand. Uncle He patted Lu Yuege's head, "The little guy is too bold, aren't you afraid that monsters will catch you? Even if there are no monsters, you can't enter this cave casually." , There is no oxygen in some caves, and there are many fork holes, what should I do if I get lost?"

"I...I know." Lu Yuege said on her lips, but she thought in her heart, I'm not afraid, I still have to find more interesting places.

Several inspectors started to take out instruments, take pictures, measure, sample, and record. Wendy also took a few photos of Lu Yuege, and Brother Fang said that after washing them, they would send them to their school for him.

Lu Yuege was very happy, he had never taken a photo before, the richest student in the class had taken an "artistic photo", and he was able to get rid of acne.

After they finished surveying the cave, Lu Yuege continued to lead them around among the stalactites. The terrain inside the cave was complicated, and only headlights were used for lighting, so the field of vision was very limited.

Stumbling, climbing up and down, and crossing the gap, the group of people arrived at the opposite stone wall after more than half an hour.Passing through the second cave hall, Lu Yuege waved a flashlight at a dark hole leading directly to the ground in front of him, "I won't go down here."

This is a cave shaft with a diameter of about four or five meters. When the flashlight shines down, it hits the stone wall at a certain height, but it cannot be illuminated when it goes down. It is dark, and there is a slight cold wind escaping. It's like the mouth of a terrifying giant monster that is about to devour someone in the next second.

"I took a roll of wool and tied it to a stone and threw it down. It reached the bottom at about 145 meters, but I don't know whether it was really bottomed out or just stuck somewhere on the well wall." Lu Yuege said.

"...Boy, you are amazing!" Uncle He sighed in admiration, and immediately attracted this caving talent, "Study hard, you will become a master in the future, and find uncle after graduation from university, and uncle will protect you!"

The unfathomable shaft may be like a bottomless pit, connecting magical caves one after another, or it may be a rushing underground river, or it may be just the bottom of the well, not leading to any place.

"Such a deep shaft is rare, and it is worth exploring no matter what!" The group was still very excited. Several people opened their backpacks and took out the ropes. Go down the hole with the safety rope.

Lu Yuege was also very excited. There seemed to be a mysterious force attracting him to this deep cave. He had originally planned to have a chance to make full preparations and come down to have a look, but he didn't expect it to come true so soon.

Two or three minutes later, there were three whistles, one short and one long, from the bottom of the cave.

"It works!" Several explorers were very excited, they didn't know what they said in English, Uncle He said to Lu Yuege and Lu Yujing, "They are going down now, it will take a few hours, the three of us are waiting for them here. "

"Uncle, I want to go down too!" Lu Yuege tugged at Uncle He's clothes, he raised his head, his bright eyes were full of anticipation.

"Oh, no, no, it's too dangerous. You haven't been trained. We can't be held accountable if something goes wrong. Be obedient." Uncle He pinched his face and said.

"I dared to come in alone, I don't want you to be responsible, uncle, please," Lu Yuege looked at Uncle He pitifully, "it must be fine, you see Wilson has gone down."

"June is obedient. It's not too late to come after you graduate from university. You are embarrassing others." Lu Yujing also persuaded.

The little guy can't remember the lesson, he knows to run to this kind of place every day, he is really hooked by the mountain monster.

Xiao Xia took out chocolates to coax him, "Oh, the little guy is still angry, you can't come to this kind of place by yourself, what if you can't get out and see your parents, what if you can't eat delicious food?"

Lu Yuege turned around angrily, "I saw in a magazine that someone from a foreign country went to another country by himself at the age of 13, to explore the snowy mountains, grasslands, and canyons. Why is it very dangerous to come to my place? Now you still take them with you?" Even if I don’t have such good equipment, I won’t take me down.”

He muttered in a low voice, "I have already brought you to my secret base, but you still refuse to take me down, then I will..."

Several adults were dumbfounded, finally Uncle He and Lu Yujing stayed on top, Brother Fang went down second, then Wendy, and finally Lu Yuege and Andris.

In the process of slowly descending, Lu Yuege's heart was pounding. It was not fear, but excitement. Descending from such a high place, he only relied on a rope and could not touch the rock wall. He felt like flying.

I don't know how long it took before his feet touched the stone wall, but he hadn't reached the ground yet. The original vertical shaft turned into a slope about 40 meters above the ground, and he could slowly move down by holding on to the well wall.

Down to the ground, it is another spectacle.

The cave hall here is wider than the one above, and the temperature seems to be a little lower. The underground and some rock walls are densely inlaid with yellow and white large and small round stone beads, which Lu Yuege has not seen in other caves. passed.

There are layers of stalactites of different shapes everywhere. When the light shines, the surface of the stalactites full of caves reflects a little faint fluorescence, flashing and flashing, against the tall and short stalagmites, as if there are steep and strange peaks hidden in the ground. , Starry Universe.

"Oh my god, what a great miracle!"

"What are these shiny things, I haven't seen them anywhere else." Lu Yuege asked Brother Fang next to him.

"These reflective ones are calcite concretions, a type of mineral, which are indeed relatively rare," Fango explained.

He thinks this child is really miraculous. When most people see these miraculous things that they have never seen before, they will always touch them curiously, but this beautiful child does not. He just takes a closer look and will not destroy these things. For stalactites, he will try to avoid even touching them. When he sees beautiful stones, he will not pick them up in his pocket. He will only open his eyes and appreciate them carefully, engraving these beautiful scenes in his mind.

It's like a guardian.

There are two smaller side caves on the right side of the main cave. One of the lower ones is still full of water. It is so clear that you can occasionally see a few small blind fish swimming by.

The explorers continued to take pictures and measure, and finally collected a fossil of an unknown creature.

This cave is very long, with countless forks and holes in the cave. Some caves grow on the rock wall high above the ground. The lava deposits are slippery and it is impossible to lie down. Some caves are blocked by deep groundwater. , There are too many places that they can't explore.

I don't know how long it has passed, Xiao Xia looked at his watch, it was getting late, and it would take a long time to go out, after a short rest, everyone was ready to return the same way.

Lu Yuege hasn't seen enough, he really wants to finish this magical cave and see what the end of the cave looks like...

It was more than seven o'clock when we got out of the cave entrance. In summer, the days were long and the nights were short. The sun was shining down on the hills, and the clouds in the sky were dyed golden.

Once out of the cave, bathed in the vast and magnificent sky, there is a feeling of being in another world.The cave is dark and mysterious, and the sky outside the cave is purple and the ground is green. People have to sigh the magic of nature. Human beings are so small in this world.

The scientific expedition team stayed here for a total of five days. Lu Yuege, as a qualified local tour guide, took them over mountains and ridges and surveyed many places.

On the morning of the sixth day, they left the village in the morning light and embarked on a more majestic and unforgettable destination.

Lu Yuege stood on the mountain and watched the jeep disappear into the winding mountain road.

Maybe the scenery here is not as magnificent as other places, but in Lu Yuege's heart, his hometown is always the most beautiful and his favorite.

When school started, Uncle He really kept his promise, and the grandfather in the reception room gave him a thick envelope, which was mailed from the provincial capital.When I opened it, there were more than 30 photos, ten of which were photos of everyone together, and the rest were all photos of him playing with a little monkey, with a thick flower snake coiled on his shoulders, lying on a branch Yes, swimming in the clear river...

There is also a letter written by Uncle He, writing about where he set off to explore and explore, describing the scenery there, the customs and customs there...he also needs to study hard, protect the scenery of his hometown, and be a useful person.

Lu Yuege liked this well-informed and cheerful uncle very much. The two often exchanged letters and maintained a pen pal relationship for two years.

When Lu Yuege was in the third year of junior high school, the letter was written by a colleague of Uncle He. The letter said that Uncle He was washed away by a mountain torrent in order to save people when he was exploring in C City. …

Lu Yuege put the letters and photos sent by Uncle He into the iron box where he stored many treasures. During the winter vacation, he brought incense sticks, paper money and rice wine, and went again to the cave they had investigated together.

The north wind was blowing, and the branches were covered with white and bright rime. There was a long snake bone in the hole, and it was unknown how long it had been dead.Maybe, like human beings, they died of illness, old age, or fighting with other animals...

Lu Yuege lit a joss stick and poured wine three times. Then, with a flashlight on, he walked through the narrow passage into the cave, and put a photo of the two together on a stone platform.

This is not the first time he has experienced the departure of relatives and friends. Whether it is humans, animals, or plants, they will slowly stop breathing one day, their body temperature will dissipate, and in a certain place, they will shrink, shrivel, rot, and finally slowly merge with the earth. One...

They used to exist in this world.

The old woman said that all things have spirits, and death does not mean the end. All things exist in the cycle of reincarnation. Maybe one day, they will come to this world again in a certain form.

Uncle He, have a good journey.