After running a short distance, we saw a rising ladder.

"This is it!" I pointed to the ladder and said, "Look, this must be the way up, I'll just say it!" As he spoke, he pulled the ladder first and wanted to climb up.

My younger brother hurriedly grabbed me and fell backwards, only to hear a "boom", and a boulder grazed my head and fell. Fortunately, my brother guessed that this might be a trap, otherwise I would have been smashed into a puddle of flesh by now.

"Sister, don't be so impatient all of a sudden. Be careful. My brother patted his chest and complained to me.

"Am I in a hurry...... Well, I'll be careful, so let's move on. As I spoke, I shook my legs, which were a little weak from the sudden startle, and tried to get myself up, and then reached out to my brother and pulled him up as well. But he stumbled and almost fell to the ground again.

"Sister, why don't I go ahead? You don't look particularly good right now......" said my brother with some concern.

I thought about it for a moment, nodded helplessly and agreed, "Okay." Then, turn sideways and let him run in front first.

After traveling some distance like this, the younger brother suddenly pointed to a small wooden ladder on the side and said, "This ...... Is it the way up? ”

But after the trap just now, neither of us dared to rush to pull it again.

But it's not an option. The younger brother carefully reached the escalator with a flashlight, knocked on it quickly, and then quickly retracted.

There was no reaction.

Then he used the handle of the flashlight to flick the escalator down the ladder vigorously.

"Sister, it seems to be safe? ......," my brother reported back to me.

I stepped forward cautiously. I stepped on the interview myself.

"Well, it's safe. It's just that this wood seems to be a little rotten, and some places are softer and a little brittle, so be careful. It is very likely that you will suddenly break in the middle of the climb and fall down with one foot in the air. I analyzed it more rigorously.

"Be careful, you should be fine, right? Let's go up there. The younger brother said with some urgency, "The falling rock we just now is so loud that I guess Ono must have heard it...... Now the enemy is dark and I am clear, it's too dangerous. After saying that, he stuck out his tongue.

I nodded, and took the lead in climbing up.

Because of the wood, I didn't dare to move too much. I had to climb up slowly. After a short climb. I felt in the dark that there was a wall blocking my head.

I guess this is another exit to the ground, right?

Just as I was about to bow my head and tell my brother about this discovery, I heard a "click" from below, followed by an "ah" from my brother.

I immediately became nervous: "What's wrong with you?!" Is the wood broken?!! ”

"Well...... "my brother snorted not far below me, "and the long row down there is broken...... I'm holding one in my hand right now, and I'm okay for the time being. But I don't have a place to stay on my feet...... The flexibility of the body is too poor to pedal...... You move up a little bit and I'll come up. ”

"But......," I said with some panic. There's a wall over here...... If you open the wall, you might be on the ground......"

"Then hurry up and open it. I don't think it will last long...... This wood is too prickly. "My brother looked up at me with great difficulty.

I was about to cry: at the distance we had just climbed, it should be quite far from the ground. There are so many pieces of wood that have fallen down underneath, and if this falls...... Plus there's also an Ono who's chasing his younger brother. I was attracted by the loud sound of falling rocks that I had just made. In case I happened to see my brother fall there, I gave him that when he had no power to resist, ......

I didn't dare to think about it any further, so I hurriedly held the ladder with one hand and shook out the mobile phone that had just been stuffed into the cuff for easy access, turned on the light and looked for the mechanism while shining on the wall above, while desperately cheering up my younger brother: "Hold on for a while, I'll find it right away, don't let go, increase the amount of breathing to avoid excessive lactic acid in the arm muscles...... Hold on a little longer...... but my heart is getting more and more anxious: why is there nothing on this wall?! How do I find it?!

If you hate it, you just go straight up, and naturally you can't beat it open. Just when I was overwhelmed and anxious, I heard a few responses from the place I had just pounded: "Knock knock knock".

Well? Someone up there?!

I didn't care about distinguishing between friend and foe, so I hurriedly hammered it up again and desperately: "Knock knock knock." ”

There were three more "knocks" from above, and then the wall moved slightly, and it was opened from above.

I almost cried out with excitement. But before I could rejoice for long, after seeing who the person above who "helped" me was, my smile immediately froze at the corner of my mouth.

-- It's the aunt.

The aunt who was with the uncle came to arrest us because of the uncle's order.

When she saw me, a triumphant smile appeared on her lips. Then he pulled me up. Then I looked down again.

Because it would take some time for my brother to climb up the ladder again and struggle to get his feet up the ladder again, my aunt thought that there was no one behind me when she saw that no one was continuing to climb up.

I was about to reach out and close the opening in the ground again, when I was shocked - my brother was still there, and he hadn't come up yet!! Hurriedly struggled frantically to attract her attention.

Sure enough, when she saw that she couldn't control me, she moved the lid back and closed it again, so she had to reluctantly give up the lid and turn around and carry me back.

That's when I realized that it was a utility room. Different from the uncle's house I saw before, there is still a strong atmosphere of life in this utility room, and you can see that there are still people living here.

"Wait for him to come back...... It's going to be fun. The aunt was a little strange and smiling, and her expression was very satisfied, because there was no mouth that was completely closed, and I saw several drops of saliva dripping out of the cracks in her mouth.

I tried my best to avoid the drops of saliva, praying in my heart that they wouldn't let them drip on me.

At this time, out of the corner of my eye, I saw my brother climbing up. Fortunately, at this time, the aunt was facing away from her younger brother, so she didn't find out.

After my brother climbed up, he first cautiously slowed down and ran towards us. After receiving the warning from my eyes—he must have wanted to come and fight this aunt directly—he reluctantly turned back, pulled out a wooden baseball bat from a box of glove boxes beside him, and rushed over to hit the aunt's back. (To be continued.) )