Chapter 13 The Underground River
Manman thought for a while and said: "You can take the underground river. I know there is a huge underground river that also extends to the east. As for whether it extends all the way to the sea or some other scary place, I don't know.
It’s clear. Moreover, there are many ‘Siva’ living in that big underground river. Of course, I believe this thing does not pose a threat to the gods.”
Muma quickly told David the situation.
David was overjoyed when he heard this: "That's great. This way you can avoid the enemy's aerial search. Muma, tell Manman to ask a few warriors to search the bottom of the lower reaches of the waterfall to see if they can find the rubber boat. I guess
The enemy will not go into the water to salvage, they are so afraid of death."
Through further understanding, David learned that the water pool in front of him led to an underground river, located not far from the water hole.
The cave below the waterfall also has some relatively large openings that lead to this underground river. This underground river goes further to the northeast and floats for half a sleep (about five hours), which is the one that leads to
The greater underground river in the east.
David then asked Muma to tell Manman to find the rubber boat and transport it to the underground river next to the water hole.
Next, the warriors sent by Manman found the rubber boat stuck by stones at the bottom of the river a few kilometers downstream of the waterfall. The air in the boat had dried up.
After receiving the news, Muma hugged David and swam to the underground river under Manman's guidance.
Without glue repair, the hull of the rubber boat could not be inflated, but David tried to start the engine and it still ran.
Because it is rafting, the engine will not always be turned on. According to the original five or six hours of battery life on the rubber boat, it can still be used.
In the next few days, Muma took the "households" to the ground, found and cut down dozens of wooden stakes of different varieties and densities, as thick as a bowl, two meters long and a wooden stake as thick as Muma's wrist.
The hardwood sticks about two meters long were dragged back to the underground river one by one.
When Muma was supervising the work of the "households" on the ground, he was bored and wandered around the nearby dense forest. He saw a hill nearby that was more distinctive than other hills. There was a square, slightly flat, bare boulder on the top of the mountain.
After thinking for a moment, Muma found a banana-like plant nearby, tore off a large leaf, and ran all the way to the boulder at the top of the hill.
After looking around for a while, Muma picked up a thin branch from under a nearby bush and wrote and drew on the big leaf.
Then he picked up many small stones beside the boulder, threw them one by one to the top of the boulder, climbed up and got busy...and then quietly returned to the "household" group of monkeys.
By the underground river, David taught Muma to use a knife to cut the leather of "Siva" and "Gecko" into thin ropes, and then taught the monkeys to use leather ropes to tie the wooden stakes tightly together, and the wooden stakes were arranged in three
The bottom layer is composed of twelve wooden piles with the highest density, the second layer is eleven wooden piles with medium density, and the first layer, which is the top layer, is composed of ten wooden piles with the smallest density, arranged in this way,
Form a raft with a lower center of gravity and less likely to roll over.
Then he used stone axes to knock and chop to shape the front of the raft into a triangle, and then fixed the rubber boat's engine and battery pack to the tail of the raft.
Then cut the original black skin of the rubber boat, lay it on the surface of the raft, and fix it with wooden nails. There are wires inside these skins, like an electric blanket.
David taught Muma to pull out the remaining wires in the skin of the rubber boat and use them as wires to connect the wires in the skin with the function of solar panels to the battery pack. After trying it for a while, after returning to the surface of the water and being exposed to sunlight, it should be able to
Charging batteries.
The wooden stick as thick as Muma's arm was trimmed and used as a paddle or pole.
Finally, cut two pieces of "Siva" leather, one large and one small, and nail the leather to the raft with wooden nails, just enough for Muma and David to lean most of their bodies in, so as to prevent rapids or waterfalls.
As a result, the two monkeys were thrown out of the raft and acted as safety belts.
In order to prevent Joseph from establishing a slavery empire, David thought of many plans in the past few years.
The first plan is to sneak into the communication room of the base, send the current situation to the earth, and let the United Nations launch nuclear weapons to eliminate all living things within the base and even hundreds of kilometers around it, and then formulate and implement a solid colonization plan that can prevent the advance army from rebelling. But once
Whether Earth Headquarters believed it or not was one thing. The second was that Joseph regarded David to death and the plan could not be implemented.
Plan two is to escape first, and then find a way to sneak back to the base to implement plan one. But first, Joseph has many accomplices on Earth. Even if the United Nations can believe David's message and pass a resolution to launch nuclear weapons, the result of the resolution will definitely be revealed to Joseph soon.
It was revealed that the transmission speed of radio waves is many times faster than the speed of nuclear artillery shells. Joseph can easily lead the rebels to escape and hide anywhere on Proxima b. And bomb the entire surface of Proxima b? People can also hide deep underground.
And it will destroy most of the living things on the surface of Proxima b, which is very uneconomical.
The third plan is to persuade Lulu to help and kill Joseph and other rebel leaders. But Lulu herself is a vested interest. She secretly hides weapons for David. In fact, she just wants to give him freedom, nothing more. Do you want her to stop her from becoming queen?
impossible.
Therefore, it is basically impossible to rely on the United Nations and other people in the base. We can only rely on ourselves.
David is now powerless and has about ten years left in his life.
Spending time with Mu Ma every day made David think that he could use Mu Ma's tribe to help him.
Unexpectedly, before reaching the seaside, a small tribe of water monkeys, called "Households", had been recruited. David thought that it would be easy to continue to recruit all the "Households" in this area.
But he could see that Mu Ma was hostile to the "Huhu" ethnic group and wanted to "arm" the "Huhu" ethnic group and improve their level of civilization. Mu Ma would never agree.
Muma has helped him so much, should he abandon her and use the "household" group instead? David thinks he can't do it.
In the next few days, the "Huhu" warriors, under the leadership of Manman, used the smoking method to bake a large amount of "Siwa" and "Platypus" jerky, and made tailor-made dishes for David and Muma.
A new leather quilt, and a large dark green leaf were used to wrap various supplies in categories and fixed to the ship with leather ropes.
After everything was ready, David and Muma said goodbye to the Omani tribe members who were kneeling together on the bank of the underground river, and started a new journey.
After rafting in this underground river about seven to eight meters wide for more than five hours, David and Muma felt that the water flow suddenly accelerated. Then the wooden boat jumped up slightly, passed a small waterfall more than one meter high, and rushed into an even bigger river.
in the underground river.
Muma quickly stabilized the hull of the boat with wooden sticks and allowed the boat to continue downstream.
This large underground river is about twenty meters wide, and the flow is slightly gentler than the previous tributary. I don’t know if there will be rapids and waterfalls along the way. According to Manman, the water flow is more than 100 kilometers east.
The waterway is very smooth and easy to walk, and there are not too many "siwa", but it is unknown after that.
Of course, the concept of how many kilometers is calculated by David himself based on Manman's description of time and the speed of water flow.
After the two monkeys walked for more than a hundred kilometers, the journey was uneventful.
The next step was to enter waters beyond Manman's knowledge, so David decided to dock first and let Mumma take a rest.
After tying the two leather ropes connecting the wooden boat to a big rock on the shore, Muma ate some dried meat, spread out a "platypus" leather quilt on the ground, and began to rest.
David, on the other hand, could take a nap on the boat while sailing, so he took on the role of vigilance at this time.
At the same time, at the bottom of the underground river, a mysterious and unpredictable force was quietly considering whether to break out of the water.
Listening to Mumma's gradually increasing snoring, David leaned against the stone tied to the boat, eating "Siwa" dried meat one bite at a time, and his thoughts returned to the earth again.
It has been more than twenty years since my soul left the earth.
According to Eva's physical condition at the time, she should have been in the database for many years.
When David was sixty-two years old in his first life cycle, he died in a car accident. His wife Eva lived a longer life and was still in her first life cycle when she was over ninety years old. Therefore, after David was resurrected,
The two people, who looked like grandparents, lived together for more than twenty years.
When she learned that her husband was about to go on an expedition, most of Eva's organs had failed and she was unable to take care of herself and needed to stay in a special care unit for a long time.
In order to be able to send her husband's body off in person, Eva refused to immediately start the rebirth process.
She said that after she died, she would live in the database. When the new world was built, she would go directly from the database to Proxima b to meet David. She also joked that she wanted David to try taking care of her lover from a baby.
The taste of adulthood.
If all goes well with the original plan, in another ten years or even less, the remaining personnel of the New World Engineering Command will decide to let Eva's soul go.
But according to the current situation, at this time Eva may be begging for help in the earth database for her own rebirth.
On the other hand, given his own character, his soul was thawed after a certain procedure. After knowing that he was "missing" on Proxima Centauri b, he would definitely not agree to be reborn on Earth, but would demand to go to Proxima Centauri b again immediately.
In that case, will Eva strongly demand to go to Proxima b again with her DNA sample and backup soul? If so, her and Eva's souls who flew to the sky will definitely be deleted by Joseph immediately after arriving at Proxima b.
No, if that's the case, Eva's genetic sample is in Joseph's hands, and her soul will also have a chance to fall into his hands.
Chapter completed!