In 1983, three students accidentally entered the Jiulao Cave in Mount Emei and were trapped for 11 days. They narrowly escaped death and were finally rescued.

Mount Emei, one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China, is famous for its beautiful scenery, majestic beauty and picturesque scenery. It enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. It is one of the six most influential 5A-level scenic spots in my country, and is also a tourist attraction. It is an excellent holy place for vacation. It is crowded with tourists all year round and is very lively. It is said that "Emei is the most beautiful place in the world".

However, beneath the beautiful scenery, there are also invisible dangers. If you take risks carelessly or hastily, it may cause irreparable consequences. On July 24, 1983, Yang Bo, a female student from Kunming Normal College, and Li Kegong and Lin Xiang, students from Kunming Medical College, made an appointment to visit Mount Emei. Just because of a thought, she was trapped deep in Jiulao Cave for 11 days. Before she died, Yang Bo's desire to survive struggled to support her in crawling 200 meters in the dark. After calling for help with all her strength, she was accidentally rescued due to an unintentional coincidence. . This incident caused a sensation at the time, with newspapers and magazines reporting on it. What on earth was going on? How did the accident happen? What happened?

Let’s first talk about Jiulao Cave (not Jiulong Cave, Jiulong Cave is located in Xishan Island, Suzhou, and is one of the filming locations of "Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain"). Jiulao Cave is also called "Jiulao Immortal Cave" , located halfway up the Jiulao Peak in Emei Mountain, with the Black Dragon Pool below. The entrance is in the shape of a herringbone, 4 meters high and about 1,500 meters deep. The drop from the entrance to the bottom of the cave is 840 meters. Jiulao Cave is the largest natural cave in Mount Emei. It is said to be the place where nine ancient immortals practiced cultivation. The Jiulao Cave is: Tianying, Tianren, Tianzhu, Tianxin, Tianqin, Tianfu, Tianchong, Tianrui and Tianpeng. . It is also said that Jiulao Cave is the training place of Zhao Gongming, the Taoist god of wealth. The stone beds and tables in the cave are all relics used by Zhao Gongming. Of course, this is just a legend, whether it is true or not.

Jiulao Cave is one of the scenic spots in Mount Emei Scenic Area. When visiting Mount Emei, you must visit Jiulao Cave. Otherwise, it will be a pity, just like if you don’t visit Tiger Hill in Suzhou, it means you have not come ( In fact, Tiger Hill is also in name only, with nothing to see or do. For example, the Humble Administrator’s Garden, the world’s largest garden, is only in name only). This Guro Cave attraction is only open to the 200-meter section from the cave entrance to the inside of the cave. Going forward is restricted. There are eye-catching reminders on the cave wall that it is forbidden to go further inside. It is dangerous inside. So, what will happen if we go further into Jiulao Cave? The situation is this: Jiulao Cave is an extremely complex cave created by nature millions of years ago. What is wonderful or dangerous about it is that it overlaps up and down, is criss-crossed, confusing, and intertwined with caves. , a hole within a hole, deep and mysterious. The depths of Jiulao Cave are like a maze, with 67 caves of different sizes. The total mileage cannot be calculated. To this day, scientific expedition teams organized by government departments have conducted several scientific expeditions, but they have not yet fully understood the secrets of Jiulao Cave. The secret, 67 forked caves and a total length of 1,500 meters can only be explained by the word "known". No one can tell how many secrets Jiulao Cave contains and how dangerous it is.

However, the open section of Jiulao Cave has already amazed tourists. There is a cave in it, which is breathtaking. Qiong'an is watching the clouds, the woodcutter is watching chess, Jiulao Stone Shadow, the Five Gods of Wealth, Treasure Pool, Yin River, etc. all reveal the magical power of nature. The stone bed, Longquan, Fairy Bridge, small geode, swallow cave, tiger tooth cave, stalagmite cave, labyrinth cave, as well as countless stone stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, stone buds, stone flowers, stone bonsai, etc. are all... It is unforgettable and amazing. But in the depths of Guro Cave, there are many small caves hidden on both sides of the main cave. The situation of these caves is very complicated. They are interlocking and overlapping. Big caves are within small caves, small caves are connected to big caves, and there are cliffs in the depths. , Yinhe. Even in the dog days of summer, the deep cave is freezing cold, the wind is biting, and the depth is unfathomable. It is impossible to get in and out. So far, many unknown corpses are left in the cave. The earliest is from the Qing Dynasty, and the latest is from a middle school student in the 1980s. . Therefore, if you are not a professional, do not risk getting in, otherwise you will regret it.

When Yang Bo, Li Kegong, and Lin Xiang visited the depths of Jiulao Cave, they arrived at the Temple of Wealth at the end of the main cave. There was a huge stone niche here enshrining a statue of a god, which is said to be the God of Wealth in folklore. A portrait of my grandfather, Zhao Gongming. At this point, it’s time to return. However, 21-year-old Li Kegong was very curious about the Xiaocha Cave in front of him and proposed to go in and explore to see what was inside. Lin Xiang agreed. After all, they were two young guys and college students, so they had some knowledge and courage. Yang Bo didn't want to go, but she couldn't win over the two male classmates, and she was too embarrassed to go back alone, so she lit a candle, followed the two of them, ducked in, and groped deeper. This move almost cost them their lives.

The biggest feature of Jiulao Cave is that it is too complicated. There are holes in the cave, holes within holes, small holes in big holes, and suddenly a bright light at the end of the small holes. It is winding, overlapping, and mysterious. It's weird. It's very dangerous to enter the cave without knowing the situation. Later, after professional geological staff inspected the cave, they asserted that if it were not a professional expedition team, without professional equipment, and no one in the main cave to respond, then if you entered the small cave rashly, you would 100% be trapped in the cave, and it would be impossible to survive. Come out. The three young people didn't know the depth. Maybe they were young and energetic, maybe they felt good about themselves, so they rashly decided to go deep into the small cave to see what happened. As a result, going there was like going to the gate of hell, narrowly escaped death, and almost never came back. If it weren't for Yang Bo's crawling to survive at the last moment, there would have been no chance of the three people surviving.

After the three of them entered the cave, they found it dark, winding, and uneven under their feet. The three of them groped the cave wall, half-crouching and half-crawling forward. The further you go in, the lower the height of the cave becomes, so you can only move forward on your hands and knees. Yang Bo was a little scared. She saw that the candle in her hand was still four fingers long. She wanted to go back, so she cried and begged the two boys to take her back. Lin Xiang and Li Kegong also felt scared at this time, but it was too late and they could no longer find their way back. They didn't mark the turns when they came in. They had already lost their way by going back and forth, and they couldn't even remember the way they came. How could they return the same way? The complexity of Jiulao Cave is such that even experts have a headache. As long as you enter, you are entering a maze. No matter how long you wander around for three to five years, you will still not be able to get out. The three college students did not realize the huge danger, so they rashly got into the hole. From then on, they were wandering around in the hole, waiting for the last light of the candle to extinguish.

The most terrifying thing is that the three of them brought almost nothing, neither food nor cold clothing, not even the most basic flashlight. After climbing a little further, the candle in Yang Bo's hand finally used up the last bit of light and was completely extinguished. Yang Bo was so frightened that he cried. Lin Xiang and Li Kegong were also stunned, at a loss and had no choice. After calming down in the dark for a few minutes, Li Kegong said: "It's too late to say anything now. We can't sit still and wait for death. We should try to move forward and see. Maybe we can find a way out. We can only sit here and wait." Waiting to die!" Lin Xiang and Yang Bo had no choice but to agree and crawl forward behind Li Kegong.

What’s terrible is that the temperature inside the cave is very low, only about two or three degrees Celsius. The three of them are all wearing summer single clothes. It’s no wonder that it’s the hottest summer outside the cave in July, and they don’t have anything to do with it. He expected that he would crawl into the depths of the cave, but he never expected that it would be so cold inside the cave. He never expected that he would be trapped in this dark and humid cave by accident because he was just on a trip. The three of them just groped forward in the deep cave, crawling from one cave entrance to another, praying in their hearts for a miracle to happen. However, as time passed by, the hope became increasingly slim. The remaining faith and will are slowly disappearing. There were no mobile phones at that time, and even if there were mobile phones, it would be useless. There was no signal deep in the cave. Many years later, a professional scientific expedition team from Sichuan Province entered the cave with a walkie-talkie. As a result, the walkie-talkie failed, the high-frequency signal disappeared, and communication was impossible.

Time is passing. Among the three, only Yang Bo wears an electronic watch on his left wrist. Yang Bo relies on it to count the time, hoping that someone will come to rescue them.

The three of them wandered aimlessly in the cave for a long time, but could not find their way back. Facts have proved that they are lost. In the circular nesting of as many as 67 (post-event statistics) holes, without professional equipment and professional support, it is simply more difficult to get out than to climb to the sky. It is more difficult than winning the first prize by buying a double color ball. The probability is still low.

I don’t know how many holes they entered and exited in the darkness. Anyway, there was no hope of getting out. The will of the three of them was exhausted and they could no longer climb. They had not eaten for several days and were already exhausted. , cold and hungry. The three of them huddled together to keep warm in the dark. Lin Xiang said: "Let's not wander around anymore. It's useless. It's a waste of energy. We'll never find the exit. We'd better stay still and wait for rescue." Yang Bo said. He cried and murmured to himself: "Who will come to save us? No one knows we are in this deep cave." Li Kegong said: "The medical book says that people can survive for seven days without eating, but only if they don't drink water. If we can survive for three days, we should go find some water to drink and try to hold on for as many days as we can."

The three of them calmed down and listened to the sound of water dripping, and then followed the sound. Climbing forward, they heard the sound of dripping water getting closer and closer. It turned out that it was water dripping from the rock wall. The three of them looked for and drank. Li Kegong brought a thin coat in his bag. He fumbled and took it out and put it on Yang Bo. Yang Bo also opened an umbrella in his hand to protect himself from the wind and cold. Li Kegong was extremely regretful and said, "I really shouldn't have led you into this hole!" But saying this now was of no use.

As time goes by, the three of them become weaker and weaker, their physical energy is slowly exhausted, and their psychological despair makes them even more frightened. Their voices were hoarse from shouting, their throats were broken from shouting, and in the end they couldn't shout anymore. In fact, in such a deep cave, calling for help is of little use because it is difficult for the outside world to hear. Yang Bo hit the rock wall with a stone, but as his physical strength was exhausted, he finally lost the strength to lift a small stone. The three of them huddled together helplessly, waiting for the last moment to come. In a trance, they had hallucinations, warm sunshine, delicious food, dear family and friends... For most of the time after that, the three of them leaned against the cave wall, sometimes unconscious and sometimes awake, surrounded by silence. , except for the sound of dripping water from the cracks in the stone wall, there was no other sound. They could not forget the world, but the world had already forgotten them.

I don’t know how long it took, but Yang Bo woke up from her coma. She fumbled to open her bag, took out a pen and paper, and wrote a suicide note in the dark. Li Kegong and Lin Xiang also woke up, and while they still had some strength, they fumbled with their hands to write down their last words. In their hearts, they were doomed this time, and no amount of gods could save them. They just leaned together quietly, waiting for death to come.

Ten days passed in a hurry. On August 4, a tourist walked into Xianfeng Temple next to Jiulao Cave and told the abbot a strange thing: when he entered Jiulao Cave just now, he seemed to hear several faint calls for help deep in the cave. Maybe it was my imagination and I heard wrongly. When the abbot heard this, he did not dare to neglect it, because Xianfeng Temple was not far from Jiulao Cave, and we often heard about tourists being trapped, and the temple had long had regulations prohibiting monks from entering the depths of Jiulao Cave privately. In line with the compassion-based mind of a monk, he would rather believe what he has than what he has not. The abbot immediately sent people down the mountain to report to Wu Jiancheng, the squad leader of the Emeishan Armed Police Patrol Team, and Xu Wannian, the head of the Xianfeng Temple Branch of the Emeishan Tourism Service Company. After Wu Jiancheng and Xu Wannian learned about the situation, they felt that the matter was very dangerous and that human lives were at stake. They immediately organized four armed policemen and three waiters to come to Jiulao Cave with lighting equipment. The armed police and waiters were very familiar with Jiulao Cave. They had come here several times to carry out rescue operations. They were familiar with the road. It didn't take long for them to enter the small cave next to the main cave. It was more than 1,000 meters away from the main cave entrance. The maze-like cave was cold and cold. Humid, with water droplets dripping down from time to time, making a crisp sound.

Everyone was shouting and searching. Fortunately, after turning around a narrow hole, the flashlight light shone on a person lying motionless on the ground. Everyone quickly picked her up. It turned out that this person was Yang Bo. She was already dead at that time. Unconscious and dying, Yang Bo woke up amidst everyone's calls and saw several people surrounding her. She learned that she had been rescued. Yang Bo's eyes shone with hope and she said intermittently: "Hurry... …There are two people inside, please hurry up and save them.”

It turned out that Yang Bo woke up from a coma. She couldn’t hear any movement. She touched the side and found that the two boys were motionless. The belief in going down supported her and she used her last remaining strength to crawl forward. After climbing for a while, Yang Bo shouted several times. It was these calls for help that happened to be vaguely heard by the tourist. Life is not supposed to be saved eventually. It was a coincidence that the three of them were finally saved. If it hadn't been for Yang Bo's last insistence, if the tourist hadn't been "noisy", if the abbot hadn't paid attention to the matter, and if there had been any flaw in any link, all three of them would have died.

Everyone carried the three people to Xianfeng Temple first, and tried to test whether they still had pulses and heartbeats, but they were extremely weak and their lives were hanging by a thread. It was a coincidence that Deng Daochang, Zhang Jiaxi and others, teachers of Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, were visiting Xianfeng Temple at that time. When they saw this situation, they immediately participated in the treatment. At this time, the situation of the three people was not optimistic. Since they had been trapped for 11 days, all three people were in critical condition. Their complexions were gray, their eye sockets were sunken, their bodies were cold and their pulses were weak. Due to the cold in the cave, all three of them suffered varying degrees of frostbite. Deng Daochang and Zhang Jiaxi used measures such as scrubbing with warm water and feeding them vitamins and glucose. The three of them slowly regained consciousness. In order to replenish their energy, the rescuers gave them liquid foods such as egg drops and tomato soup. After the situation stabilized, the three of them were The patient was sent to Emei County People's Hospital overnight. Thanks to careful treatment and care by the medical staff of the county hospital, the three people gradually recovered from the crisis. After more than ten days, all three people recovered as usual and were discharged from the hospital smoothly.

On August 18, Yang Bo, Li Kegong and Lin Xiang boarded the train from Chengdu to Kunming and returned to Kunming, bringing an end to this near-death adventure and ending this nightmare. travel.

Three students were miraculously rescued after being trapped in Jiulao Cave in Mount Emei for 11 days. This incident caused a nationwide sensation. In fact, how many lives Jiulao Cave swallowed is still a mystery. Three years later, the 207 Geological Team of the Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources organized experts and scholars to conduct a comprehensive and systematic scientific investigation of Jiulao Cave. It was found that Guro Cave is more than 1,500 meters deep, winding, with holes in the cave and three-dimensional overlapping, making it as complex as a maze. During the investigation, the expedition team found 19 unknown skeletons. These skeletons can still be identified, but there are many scattered bones that cannot be identified. At the deepest part of the Yin River, the expedition team also discovered many bones and many inexplicable phenomena that science could not explain. In addition, the expedition team also discovered a lot of copper coins, most of which were Qianlong Tongbao, Jiaqing Tongbao, etc. from the Qing Dynasty. Experts judged that these people were trapped and died in Jiulao Cave. There were several situations. First, tourists who entered the cave for fun were unable to return after entering the small cave by mistake, and were trapped alive in the deep cave. The second is people who voluntarily enter deep caves to seek death. They may be disillusioned with the mortal world, trapped by love, forced by life, etc. Anyway, they don’t want to live anymore, so they break into Jiulao Cave to end their lives. For example, the expedition team found a man named Song Tingbi, who lived during the Guangxu period. He wrote on the cave wall: People in the world are short-sighted now, and their wealth and wealth have been exhausted! Signed on Song Tingbi on June 19, the 16th year of Guangxu's reign. Experts speculate that Song Tingbi voluntarily entered the cave to end his life, which is equivalent to euthanasia.

There are also some bones left by explorers who entered the cave. Most of them were trapped due to lack of preparation and carelessness. Many of them were students. For example, the expedition team found a corpse under a cliff. There were many scratches left on the cave wall, proving that he struggled to climb up before his death, but the cliff was more than 5 meters high and the cliff was so smooth that it was impossible to climb up. Among the relics he left behind were There is a "Handbook for Middle School Students".

Therefore, don’t take risks easily, cherish life, be responsible for yourself, others, and society.

Danger is always there, everywhere, and even professionals can make mistakes and cause disaster. For example, Peng Jiamu, Yu Chunshun, Wang Xiangjun, Sophia, Wu Yongning, etc., as well as the recent Internet celebrity who fell from a high altitude, etc. Ask a few more whys before taking the plunge, and think twice before you act.