Chapter 163: Midnight Terror
Perhaps the impact of the sudden slippage of the left foot was too great, and the pile of grass roots growing on the rock could not withstand the instantaneous impact of the left foot, and suddenly fell off the rock.
With Lu Yao's exclamation, his feet were already empty, and his whole body fell down the cliff.
Lu Yao was in a state of fright, and the hemp rope tied to his body suddenly collapsed, strangling the roots of his two thighs and his waist was a piercing pain, as if his muscles were being cut. At this time, his body was already suspended from the cliff, spinning and swinging.
His hands gripped the hemp rope tightly, not daring to relax in the slightest. When his body stopped spinning and swinging, he saw that he was like a grasshopper hanging on a fishing line, hanging completely in the air on the cliff, and below was the abyss that could not be seen.
He looked up at where the rope was on the rock, and because the night was too dark, the rope was thin, and the sky was still raining, he couldn't see if the rope was stuck in the corners of the rock. He could only pray helplessly in his heart that the rope would not be cut by the edges and corners of the rock.
The two hot palms and the part that was strangled by the hemp rope were in unbearable pain. At this moment, overcoming the fear of death is what Lu Yao must face.
He took two deep breaths in a row, feeling that his emotions had stabilized a lot, and then he tried to stretch out his right foot to kick the cliff, but he couldn't reach it. As soon as his right foot stretched out, his body began to spin again. It seems that it is impossible to climb up the cliff with your feet.
He waited until his body stopped spinning, then adjusted his breathing again, and prepared to climb the rope with his bare hands.
Anyone who has practiced rock climbing knows that the rope for freehand climbing is generally thicker and the rope is longer. When climbing the rope, the basic method is to use both hands and feet, grasp the rope with both hands, hang straight arms, and then bend the abdomen and bend the legs to clamp the rope, and then push the legs straight, while bending the arms to rise with pull-ups.
There is also a more difficult way to climb ropes with bare hands, which is upper limb climbing. Only the top cattle can practice, and there are not many who have really mastered this rope climbing technique and used it. That is, in the process of climbing, only use the upper limbs to exert force, hold the rope tightly with both hands, hang the legs in the air, pull up with both arms, and climb up alternately with both hands, and keep pulling up. Now Lu Yao has to choose this method.
The rope hanging Lu Yao is not long, it is still very thin, it is still very slippery after being drenched by the rain, and you must use your upper limbs to climb up, the difficulty can be imagined.
Even if Lu Yao is as light as a swallow, his upper body strength is super strong, and his climbing skills are good, in the danger in front of him, he is really not sure to climb up. Because he had never climbed like this in the mountains of his hometown before.
But now in a desperate situation, there is no choice. Only the two strands of thin hemp rope hanging from him were his only hope of regaining his life. He took a deep breath, grasped the thin two strands of hemp rope in both hands, and began to climb upwards.
When his left and right hands swapped upwards once, he felt more relaxed. Then his confidence doubled, he took another deep breath, and his hands exerted force at the same time, rubbing against each other, and after alternating his hands five times in a row, his right hand had already touched the edge of the raised cliff.
He was overjoyed, and slowly let go of his left hand to grasp the edge of the cliff. If he catches a place where he can exert force, he can use his right hand to put up the hemp rope hanging underneath and tie it around his waist, so that both hands can let go of the hemp rope to rest and recover his strength.
When his left hand grabbed the edge of the cliff, it felt bare and wet, and he couldn't hold it at all. I touched the left and right sides of the rope and it was the same. At this time, the grip of his right hand has reached its limit, and the hemp rope will slip in his hand at any time. He quickly withdrew his left hand and wiped his slippery palm on the raincoat on his chest, ready to grab the hemp rope.
At the moment when his left hand grasped the hemp rope, his right hand suddenly slipped downward. Since his left hand had just touched the wet cliff wall, which was stained with rain and mortar, it was impossible to wipe it off on the raincoat, and his grip was much reduced, and he could not grasp the hemp rope. His body sank downward, straight down the mountain.
When he felt a heart-piercing pain in his thighs and waist again, he also felt his body fall down the hill for some distance before stopping.
He immediately understood that the iron hook that had caught the pine tree had slipped, and it might have caught one of the pine trees below. Thankfully, neither the hook nor the rope broke, and he was able to save his life for the time being, thank goodness!
After a few frightes, Lu Yao, who had been hanging on the cliff for a long time, felt extremely tired, and his physical strength was close to the limit. It is impossible to climb it with bare hands. But you can't just hang here and wait for others to find out and then save yourself.
It's midnight and it's raining, and the road leading to the orchard is rarely walked, so it's impossible to go up or down at this time.
Unless the two brothers Zeng Da and Zeng suddenly become living Kong Ming, they can pinch and calculate, and they can also calculate that I am in danger on this cliff, and my life is hanging by a thread, and they will immediately come down the mountain to save me. Lu Yao knows that this possibility is almost zero, and myths will not appear in real life.
After a short break, Lu Yao decided to fight again. He adjusted his condition, put his hot hands into his raincoat, wiped the rain off his homespun underwear, and then grasped the hemp rope and began to climb up.
Due to the excessive physical exertion, he put away the hemp rope hanging under him and tied it around his waist every two climbs, and then released his hands and rested for a while.
After about ten minutes, Lu Yao almost used all his strength to climb again to a position where he could touch the rocks on the edge of the cliff.
This time he rested for a long time, and he knew very well that whether he could climb up here smoothly was the most critical node that determined his life and death.
Since the hemp rope was stuck on the protruding edge of the cliff, and his feet could not kick the cliff to borrow strength, and there were no stone crevices and notches that he could hold with his hands, he had to find the best way to climb up the cliff as soon as possible.
After a while, he felt that his strength was almost recovered, and he decided to start climbing the cliff edge.
He first wrapped hemp rope around his left and right arms, began to slowly tuck his abdomen, and bent his legs upwards until his upper body was at right angles to the cliff wall. His feet slowly crossed the hemp rope and landed firmly on the edge of the protruding cliff. He used his hands and feet together, straightening his body. As his body slowly straightened, he nailed to the edge of the cliff like a steel drill, and he saw the hope of life.
He didn't dare to let up in the slightest, his arms wrapped around the hemp rope vigorously, and his feet slowly moved upward.
When his feet sank back into the soft, slippery earth, he still didn't relax, and he didn't dare to rest. It wasn't until he had climbed into the middle of the dirt road and was fully grounded that he let go of the rope. Then his whole body went limp, and he collapsed on the dirt road with both hands on the rope, and began to gasp for air.