Chapter 22: The Aftermath
"What's wrong? What's going on?"
After hearing the roar, Coach Li Yuan hurried to the scene of the incident. Yu Jianshu and the other students also followed, and a large group of people came to the edge of the cliff in a panic.
Zha Hongliang's consciousness is still a little unconscious. He trembled and pointed to the river below the cliff, and his mouth was indistinct: "Teach...... Instructor...... That one...... He...... He fell ...... Drop ......"
"What the hell is going on?" asked Yu Jianshu anxiously.
Li Yuan directly shook his hand impatiently, and cautiously approached the cliff a few more steps. His footsteps were almost on the edge of the cliff, and he poked his head up to look down at the river below. Soon, he found Zhao Yu, who was struggling in the river at the moment.
"What are you doing?" Li Yuan opened his mouth in shock, "I said what are you doing?"
Following the direction of the turbulent river, Li Yuan also saw an even more terrifying scene. A waterfall cuts into the river, as if splitting the river in half at different heights. And Zhao Yu was rushing towards the waterfall.
"You ...... He...... How did it fall off?"
As soon as Li Yuan asked this question, the others almost understood the situation. The students all screamed in horror, and several of the girls even covered their faces in fright.
And Zha Hongliang still didn't get out of the panic, and his whole body trembled as if he had been drained. Judging by his pale lips and distracted eyes, his mind was completely blank.
In that wide river, Zhao Yu's exposed head seemed to have only one small dot.
"Li Yuan, we have to save that child!" Yu Jianshu's gaze flickered with Zhao Yu's fluttering.
"Hungry...... Right...... Go and save ...... But ......" Li Yuan's words have reached the point of reversal.
In fact, they all understand that in such a turbulent river, it is almost impossible to rescue their companions. They could only resign themselves to waiting for their companions to be swept away by the current.
"Zhao Yu......" Liang Chaowei yelled loudly in the team.
The rest of the students also let out their shouts. There are those who pray, those who wail, and those who are unwilling. They just watched Zhao Yu and was ruthlessly devoured by the waterfall.
In the end, Zha Hongliang, who couldn't bear the reality, fell to the ground in an instant with his legs paralyzed.
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Spinning in the river one after another, Zhao Yu tried his best to expose his head to the water. But even so, he still ate a lot of river water, and from time to time he was greeted by water in his nose. These streams of water that rushed into Zhao Yu's facial features quickly took root in the depths of his brain, and he couldn't squirt out.
Zhao Yu screamed, his body floating up and down in the water. He wanted to reach out and grab something, for example, if he could touch a large reef, he could barely control his body. But now he can't catch anything but the water that scatters when he grasps it.
'Help!'Who will save me!I don't want to die!' Zhao Yu felt a sour sensation spread in his chest, and his eyes burned. He was on the verge of crying.
He could realize that his companions on the cliff were worried about him, and Zhao Yu had heard the shouts of those people just now! But as he was swept away by the river, he couldn't even see the original cliff anymore.
Zhao Yu desperately wanted to get help, but he also understood that it was a fool's dream. Right now, he was rapidly approaching the waterfall, as if it was about to be swallowed.
Zhao Yu struggled again. He stomped on his foot twice, but it was completely crooked due to the weightlessness of his body. Zhao Yu's face pressed flat on the surface of the water and swallowed his saliva violently. When he could open his eyes, he quickly pressed his waist to expose his head to the water again.
He's going to be drowned. Just when Zhao Yu had such thoughts, he had already heard the sound of the water violently washing over the stones.
That also shows ......
Zhao Yu took a few big breaths, and his eyes caught a glimpse of the waterfall that was already close in front of him.
As soon as he entered the upper area of the waterfall, Zhao Yu could clearly feel the suction on the ground. He quickly descended with the waterfall. Temporarily out of the water, but in just a second, he fell into the lower area of the waterfall. It's full of white foam from the water curtain.
Zhao Yu was deeply struck underwater, and water pressure continued to hit above his head. He struggled desperately, only to feel as if all parts of his body were being torn apart by countless hands. Soon, perhaps driven by the current, he felt the reaction again. He was ruthlessly thrown to the surface.
It was really dark, and Zhao Yu's consciousness became blurred. Maybe it was panic, or maybe it was the thoughts in his head that had been completely obliterated.
Once again, his head could rise out of the water, and he instinctively took a few breaths. However, the danger has not diminished at all. Zhao Yu was still impulsed by the river.
The hope of survival was getting slimmer, and he didn't know where he had been washed up, and his visibility was getting low, and the woods on the shore were a completely unfamiliar scene anyway.
'I'm going to die!' Zhao Yu had turned this idea from speculation to certainty.
He couldn't live anymore, and a cry that only he could hear sounded in his heart: 'Woo...... I'm going to die here...... Whining...... I don't want to die......
The frequency of physical struggles is also decreasing, and Zhao Yu is about to give up. Whether it is the mouth, the nostrils, or the eyes, they can no longer endure the ravages of the river. He slowly relaxed, and his eyes gradually closed. He accepted his fate of dying here, and no longer desperately wanted to live.
But suddenly, an idea swelled in my head. Zha Hongliang's words began to echo in Zhao Yu's mind.
"As children, only living is the greatest filial piety to our parents. ”
This sentence is like a spinning tablet, constantly flashing back in my mind.
Zhao Yu suddenly opened his eyes, and he didn't know where he got his strength from all over his body. He swung his limbs violently again.
'You can't die, you can't just die here. I want to live.'"
No matter how hard it was, Zhao Yu concentrated his thoughts. Even though only his face was on the water, he twisted his neck. He first needed to get his bearings so he could make sure he could get to the shore.
'Mommy, Mommy. I want to see you, and if I die here, I won't see you again.'" Repeating these words in his heart, Zhao Yu finally found the specific direction of the shore.
He had to stop his body now, not let the river flow. Since he fell into the water, Zhao Yu doesn't know where he has been taken.
Zhao Yu looked at the front of the river. In the next second, he saw a reef not far in front of him. That's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to live!
Zhao Yu immediately tensed his whole body, he withstood the impact of the river, and tried his best to lean towards the left. The situation was relatively favorable, and he soon came to the back of the reef. Now, as long as you are hit by the river to the edge of the reef, you can quickly stretch out your hand and stop by the reef.
This thought hit every brain cell of Zhao Yu, and he stared at the reef tightly.
There was only one chance, and there was absolutely no room for error, and his hands were slightly open underwater. The water was still so fast, but Zhao Yu no longer cared about it. Zhao Yu's target now is only that reef.
was about to collide, Zhao Yu straightened his upper body.
10 meters, 5 meters, 2 meters......
The distance of the reef seems to be within reach. He quickly spread his arms, and his legs were spread outward. He's in big print right now. At the moment when he brushed against the reef, Zhao Yu directly stretched his hands out of the water, and then smashed them down.
Grabbing the reef with both hands, Zhao Yu's body stopped for the first time.
Success, success, his heart can't help but feel joy. All you have to do now is to climb up with all your strength, and only when you get out of the water can you be sure that you won't be swept away by the river. He then gritted his teeth, his waist twisting and ready to exert his strength. Just jump forward and you'll be able to jump onto the reef.
He stepped on his legs, with the grip of both hands, and the leap of his waist. I was about to jump onto the reef.
However, the current suddenly increased a notch without warning, and he instantly felt the impulse from the left. The force of the impact caused him to lose his balance, and his body did not hit the very center of the reef, but on the edge. Due to the steepness of the edge, his body fell into the water again. Unfortunately, he no longer had the strength to hold onto the reef.
Following the impact of the river, Zhao Yu was taken into the distance. He turned to face the river and gripped the reef.
It's a pity, I thought he could save it, but I didn't expect it to ...... Zhao Yu was discouraged. No longer struggling excessively, he completely accepted the arrangement of fate.
'Mom, goodbye. I'm sorry for you, I can't do my filial piety'. He held his head high and looked out at the clear blue sky.
Just as he kept saying goodbye to his mother, it seemed that the turning point had arrived. Zhao Yu realized that there was a change in the surrounding environment, because a burst suddenly sounded behind him. He thought it was a bomb that had exploded, but when he turned around, he realized that it was a blue light that hit the surface of the river. There were many more blue light objects, and they hit the water surface in front of Zhao Yu one after another.
What is that? Zhao Yu's heart rippled with surprise. He had given up completely, and he thought he would no longer be emotionally mobilized. But the scene in front of me is really weird.
When the waves rippled on the water, the river in front of Zhao Yu actually began to freeze.
This...... Zhao Yu's mouth suddenly opened wide. The ice has been frozen from one side of the river to the other, so much so that the entire river is cut off by a layer of slotted ice. Although it is only on the surface, the river is still flowing underwater. But the impact of the water did not affect the ice on the surface of the water at all, and the ice was completely frozen.
Zhao Yu was surprised, but also realized that he was about to hit that layer of ice. He jumped to his feet to avoid his neck getting caught in the ice. But at the same time, his chest was crashing into the unexpected, extremely solid ice.
The sternum seemed to have withstood the blow of a big hammer, and Zhao Yu only felt that he was about to vomit. He gripped the ice with both hands, and finally stopped again. There was still a river behind him, but this time he wouldn't be swept away again.
What the hell is going on with the ice here? And how did the blue light object just now come from? It seems that many questions have piled up in Zhao Yu's heart. But he does not dare to waste his efforts on these issues now.
Whatever? I wish I could go ashore anyway. Zhao Yu used the action he had just done on the reef to jump onto the ice at one time. The ice was a little slippery relative to the ground, and he carefully threw his whole body on.
Now, I finally got through the crisis. Zhao Yu lay on the ice and only gasped. With his hands and feet still beneath the surface, he could still feel the horror of the river. But he didn't want to pull it out quickly. Now he just wants to rest on the block plane for a while. The previous struggle in the river had almost worn out his physical strength.
Sticking his face to the ice, Zhao Yu rested completely.
After about a minute, he still had some strength, although he had not yet regained his strength. He then held the ice with both hands, fell to his knees again, and began to crawl slowly towards the shore.
Crawling to the shore, Zhao Yu coughed violently. His soaked body was dripping with water stains, and he hung his head and gasped for a few breaths of air. The palms of his hands felt the firmness of the ground along with his knees, and his body was no longer hard. This time, he was completely relaxed. He gasped louder and began to scream again.
Unexpectedly, he could survive, Zhao Yu showed a sad wry smile.
At this point, he seemed to notice that something was wrong. Something was still moving out of the corner of his eye, and he quickly looked there.
On this shore, in addition to Zhao Yu, there was actually an old man with a wooden cane. The old man is holding a staff in his left hand and raising his right hand slightly towards the river. Not only that, but there seemed to be a strange blue light on his right hand.
In order to confirm that it was not an illusion, Zhao Yu quickly squinted his eyes. The blue light on the old man's hand quickly disappeared, and his body fell downward, as if he was about to fall.
The change in the scene was really a little unexpected, and Zhao Yu looked at the old man in surprise.
The old man had a face like dead tree bark, wrinkled and covered with a silver beard at his chin. He began to hunch over his body, borrowing a wooden staff and moving slowly a few small steps. It's just that his steps seem to be very difficult, and he stops after a few steps. The old man gasped a few times weakly, which made Zhao Yu feel as if the old man was dying.
Who the hell is it? Zhao Yu and the old man looked at each other for a while, only to realize that the old man should have been staring at him like this all along!
Feeling a vicious chill, Zhao Yu quickly turned his lower body and was able to let his front body land on the ground with his ass facing the sky. He staggered straight back, keeping his distance from the old man.
The old man looked directly at Zhao Yu as always, and his empty eyes seemed to be almost gone.
Zhao Yu's demeanor turned in the direction of vigilance. He began to observe his surroundings. The river bank is not very wide, only a few meters away, and there are endless woods in the back. However, behind the old man standing, there is a cave. The cave is about two people's height, and from the edge of the cave, it appears to lead underground.
But compared to the scene, Zhao Yu still paid more attention to the old man who was hunched over and panting.
The old man held the wooden staff with both hands, and his body was bent at ninety degrees. It seemed that he could barely stand up with that wooden staff.
Due to the other party's old state, Zhao Yu's heart is no longer hanging high. However, he still did not relax for a moment, God knows who this old man is sacred.
Zhao Yu maintained a stiff posture for a while, and then realized that the wooden staff that the old man was holding on the ground was a little strange. It didn't seem to be an ordinary wooden staff, but some kind of weapon. It's about the same length as the holder,
Suddenly, Zhao Yu realized that there was a problem. It may not be a wooden staff at all, but a staff for the root law profession. That is to say...... He continued to observe the old man.
Is the old man a magician or a doctor? Zhao Yu's eyes widened when he half opened his mouth.
Then I suddenly remembered the strange blue light on the old man's hand just now, and the direction his right hand was facing. Zhao Yu instantly understood something, and he had to twist his head towards the river behind him. The sudden ice is still cut across the river, and it has not been melting and disappearing for a long time.
Don't...... Zhao Yu's mouth opened wider. Many clues indicate that the ice was sent by the old man. In other words, it was this old man who saved Zhao Yu.
But why did the old man do this? Also, Zhao Yu still hasn't been able to figure out who the old man really is.
Zhao Yu moved his eyes towards the corners of his eyes. When he looked at the old man again, and was about to ask some questions, the old man opened his mouth first.
"Kids. The old man's voice was slightly low, just a thick sense of vagueness, "Your desire to survive seems to be very strong!"
After saying this, the old man fell vertically down as if he had lost his strength. Fortunately, he knelt on one knee to avoid the embarrassment of falling to the ground.
Zhao Yu didn't know what the old man's words meant, and he felt even more confused.
However, because the old man looked extremely tired, it seemed that there was not a trace of life in the living. Seeing this, Zhao Yu still showed a hint of sympathy. His guard was also lowered, and he no longer looked very cautious.
Zhao Yu needed to figure out what was going on, and he tried to get closer to the old man. Tightening his legs and standing up extremely carefully, Zhao Yu slowly moved his steps towards the old man.
"Old ...... Old man ......" Zhao Yu shrunk his neck lightly and called out tentatively.
But who would have thought that just three or four miles away, the old man's gaze suddenly glanced sharply.
Zhao Yu stopped suddenly, and the feeling of panic quickly crept into his heart again. For a moment, he still had the idea of fleeing quickly. The old man's eyes are too penetrating, and he is not an idle person at first glance. Fortunately, he quickly stopped looking at Zhao Yu and turned it towards the open space in front of him.
"I ...... I don't have ...... anymore There's no way......" the old man muttered to himself, his head still trembling slightly, as if he had received a lightning strike, "the matter has come to this...... I can only ...... I had to gamble...... I...... That's all I can do. ”
Zhao Yu became more and more strange, he had been in contact with the old man for a few minutes, but he was still confused about the situation.
"Kids. ”
When the old man's terrifying gaze caught another glimpse, Zhao Yu was so frightened that he immediately stood up straight.
"I ask you, are you from our Saran Kingdom?"
Zhao Yu was a little surprised, it seemed that no one had ever asked him this question since he was a child. With an instinctive reaction, he nodded.
"Yes, I see. Now ......" the old man coughed suddenly, "now...... I'm going to please...... Please, do something. ”
"Huh?" Zhao Yu glanced at the old man.
"Come ......on," the old man pointed to the cave not far away with a trembling hand, "Where are you going...... Go get something there......"
Zhao Yu followed the direction pointed by the old man and looked at the dark cave.
"Hurry up and ......"
Because of the old man's aggressive urging, Zhao Yu didn't even form a consideration of whether he should go along with his wishes, so he walked towards the cave. From time to time, he turned his head to look at the old man behind him, and from time to time he licked his lips.
"Hurry up......" The old man's hoarse voice sounded again.
Zhao Yu twitched his body, and he quickened his pace.
"What are you going to take?" Zhao Yuwei asked.
"There's nothing in the cave...... Except for a package and that 'thing'. You...... Hungry...... All you have to do is ...... Hungry...... Just take everything out...... That's it. ”
This is really general, Zhao Yu swallowed his saliva and thought. However, he now seemed to notice a problem, the old man, both in voice and tone, was developing in the direction of breathlessness, and he seemed to have a great time speaking every word, almost a little ......
With the feeling of dying, Zhao Yu finally grasped the words to describe the old man.
Walking to the cave, Zhao Yu wanted to look up and observe before entering, but the urging of the old man behind him made him give up. He continued to walk towards the cave. Although the cave looks very deep from the outside, when you really have to set foot in it, you realize that it is only a dozen steps away. And it's a little dim inside, but fortunately, you can still see something clearly.
At the end of the cave, Zhao Yu found a package. He bent down and moved the package. At this moment, right next to the package, he saw a document bag with a black cover.
It's the 'thing' of the old people!" Zhao Yu slowly picked up the file bag and threw his gaze into it.