Chapter 128: Danger is Imminent
In the end, the desire to survive still prevailed.
Leng Xue is a retired SWAT officer who has undergone rigorous training, but she is also a girl in her prime, she also longs for a better life, and she also wants to pursue Lang Man's love, and she doesn't want her life to end here.
"Leng Xue, trust me." Chu Tianshu still said softly.
"I ...... Don't worry about it! Leng Xue pretended to be stubborn and continued to resist, but her tone softened a lot. Chu Tianshu's refusal to abandon and not give up filled her with confidence and strength.
"Okay, don't be angry, I've already gone up the mountain, I guess it's not far from you, where are you?" Chu Tianshu finally told the truth.
However, Leng Xue didn't believe it, she thought that Chu Tianshu was trying to deceive her into consent. "Chu Tianshu, you have good intentions, but don't lie to me."
Chu Tianshu was really a little anxious, he kept saying in one breath: "I just passed a bluestone bridge, and now I am in a dense forest, I saw Wan Zhiliang and their motorcycle passing." ”
Leng Xue finally believed it, it turned out that Chu Tianshu had already taken the risk to track him down. She couldn't help but sobbed again, this man didn't even care about his life for himself.
"I, in front, in the middle of the cliff, I fell down the mountain road." Leng Xue spoke intermittently because of excitement.
"Cliffs?" Chu Tianshu became nervous, he raised his binoculars, and finally saw clearly that there was a cliff at the bottom of the mountain road. He gritted his teeth and asked, "Are you hurt?" ”
"It's fine." Leng Xue moved his hands and feet, and although there were some pains in some places, he was generally fine.
"Don't worry, I'm coming." Chu Tianshu got on the bike, holding his mobile phone in one hand, trying to show his composure and calmness.
While riding, Chu Tianshu said, "Tell me where you are now." ”
"I don't know. I just remember a high upright cliff on one side and an unfathomable cliff on the other, and the mountain road was an uphill slope, and at that time, my electric car hit a rock. ”
Chu Tianshu looked up, the night sky was full of stars, and a crescent moon hung alone.
"Is your backpack still there?"
Leng Xue touched her back and said, "It's still there." ”
"Okay, Leng Xue, when I get to the place, I will inform you, you take out the miniature flashlight, turn it on, and shake it up a few times, I should be able to observe it with a telescope." The mobile phone sent out an alarm sound that the battery was at a low level, and Chu Tianshu said: "The mobile phone battery is running out, so it will hang up first." ”
Leng Xue couldn't help but have a fever on her face, and scolded secretly: What are you excited about? I forgot even the easiest way to find it.
Chu Tianshu pedaled his bicycle and found the approximate place according to the terrain described by Leng Xue, and he called Leng Xue again and said, "I arrived at the place you just mentioned." ”
"However, when I fell, the electric car went far away." Leng Xue replied that she had finally gotten rid of her emotions and became calm and rational again.
"Then you turn on the military flashlight and shine it into the sky for ten seconds, and I'll see if I can determine your position."
"No, if you can see it, other people can see it." Out of the instinct of the special police, Leng Xue changed her attention, she didn't want to reveal her location, in fact, she was afraid that Wan Zhiliang and them would see it, and if she rushed over again, Chu Tianshu would be in danger.
"However, I can't help you if I can't determine your location." Chu Tianshu insisted. "Leng Xue, don't hesitate, the battery of the mobile phone is running out."
Leng Xue was moved by Chu Tianshu's fearless spirit, but she was still a little afraid in her heart: even if she took the risk of shining a military flashlight into the sky for ten seconds, the light of the flashlight would not necessarily go over the cliff to the top, just in time for Chu Tianshu to find out; In fact, the power of her mobile phone was almost consumed, and she was afraid that before Chu Tianshu could find her location, the mobile phones of the two sides would run out of power due to frequent contact and cut off contact, so she would really fall into a situation where she had no way to ask for help.
Leng Xue finally had to agree to Chu Tianshu's proposal, took out a military flashlight, and shone it towards the sky for ten seconds.
The first to discover this beam of light was not Chu Tianshu, but Wan Zhiliang.
Wan Zhiliang and his security guards searched around the scene of the crash, but to no avail, they could only be sure that the electric car had fallen to the rock, and that they had neither the laptop that Leng Xue had hung on the handlebars nor that Leng Xue had died.
Wan Zhiliang was not reconciled, and carefully inspected the terrain with a flashlight.
It is a deep valley surrounded by cliffs that form a large natural crater that the local villagers call "Tiankeng".
It is said that more than ten years ago, a brave villager wanted to go down to find his cow that had fallen into the sinkhole, and went down with a rope, but when he descended to about 50 meters, the person could not bear it, and he hurriedly beat the gong and called the people above to pull him up.
If a person falls, not to mention that he will fall to death and be injured, even normal people will never be able to climb up with their own strength.
Wan Zhiliang thought about it and decided to take the brothers who had worked hard for most of the night to go back to the villa to rest first, and then put people down with ropes after dawn, find the fragments of the laptop and Leng Xue's body, and then go back to Qin Daming to give an errand.
When Wan Zhiliang and the others went down to the halfway point of the mountain on a motorcycle, one of the guys unconsciously glanced back and found a beam of light.
"Hey, look!" The guy shouted.
The motorcycle stopped, and Wan Zhiliang looked in the direction of his finger, only to see a beam of light on the cliff wall that continued to be on for about ten seconds.
"Someone, it must be the guy who fell." Someone speculated.
"No, people will die long ago if they fall, could it be a ghost fire?" It's been busy for most of the night, and some people don't want to climb the mountain anymore.
Wan Zhiliang didn't speak, he was already observing with a telescope on the side.
He used a military telescope, with night vision, and the optical observation effect was very good, and he saw through the moonlight that there was another light on the hillside, and he judged that the person was talking on his mobile phone, and he was also looking for the direction of the light on the edge of the cliff.
Wan Zhiliang woke up suddenly: they were two people, a man and a woman, the person who fell off the cliff did not fall to his death, he called his helper with his mobile phone. And this helper is using his mobile phone to contact the person who has fallen, trying to use the flashlight to pinpoint the location of the fallen person.
Wan Zhiliang immediately ordered the motorcycle to turn off the lights, cover the flashlight with a cloth, and turn around and attack the top of the mountain.
With the help of the description of the phone and the instructions of the flashlight, Chu Tianshu finally saw the light shining from the edge of the cliff in the third ten seconds.
Cold Snow was located several meters away from where she had fallen.
Chu Tianshu pushed the bicycle, estimated that it had come to the top of the light, he took off the hiking backpack from the back seat of the bicycle, took out a small flashlight with strong light from the bag, bit it in his mouth, and took out two lifesaving ropes from the bag. He put one of them on the branch of a large tree on the side of the road, and then attached the other end, and then, he put the hiking bag on his back, and carefully checked whether the knot of the lifeline was firm by the light of a small flashlight.
It has been more than five years since the orienteering training in the summer vacation of his freshman year, Chu Tianshu looked at the black cliff, his heart was still a little nervous, he tugged the lifeline, confirmed that he could withstand the strength of the two people, and exhaled a long breath, wrapped the lifeline around his right thigh, through his chest, from his left shoulder to his back to his right waist, and his right hand held the back of the lifeline, and then, he slowly moved down the almost vertical steep slope.
This is the most standard rope descent method in wilderness survival training, and the most important trick is: to release the weight of the body evenly onto the lifeline, not because you are afraid of falling down to hold the lifeline tightly with both hands, the weight of the whole body is borne by the hand, so that the strength on the hand will soon be exhausted, and there is nothing you can do when you want to climb up.
When descending, the hand is only used to control the speed at which the body is descending.
However, this cliff is completely different from the artificial rock used for training, it is damp and smooth, and it is covered with moss, Chu Tianshu focused his attention on controlling the rhythm of the lifesaving rope, and as soon as his feet slipped, his body immediately lost his balance, and the whole body immediately slid down the rope quickly, until he clenched the front and back ends of the lifesaving rope with both hands, and stopped the trend of falling.
Chu Tianshu's body was hanging in mid-air, but his mind was still very clear.
He swayed, his feet quickly touching the straight cliff. His body clung to the cliff and stopped moving. At this time, the pain in his right thigh was intense, and he gritted his teeth, reminding himself that he was going on a formal rescue operation full of dangers, and not a simulated training organized by the orienteering club, and that he had to stay awake and calm.
The length of a single rope is thirty meters, and the fall just now is about forty meters, and his thigh must have been strangled when he slipped through the knot.
Chu Tianshu looked around and found a protruding rock on the cliff, he pedaled on the rock, pulled the lifeline with one hand, and raised the night vision telescope hanging on his neck with the other hand, looking around, the trees and rocks on the cliff were vivid, but he did not find the recessed area that Leng Xue said.
Chu Tianshu took out his mobile phone and dialed Leng Xue.
"I'm already on the cliff, about forty meters down, you can turn the flashlight into the sky for another ten seconds, I'll see if I can be near you."
"The light of the flashlight is too weak, and you may not be able to see it if you are far away." Leng Xue hesitated.
"I have night vision binoculars. Fight it, don't waste time. ”
"Okay, listen to you." For the first time, Leng Xue was so gentle and obedient.
Chu Tianshu didn't think about it, his attention was focused on the image of the night vision telescope.
Half a minute passed, and Chu Tianshu quickly looked around a few times, but still didn't find the slightest thing.
He dialed Wu Yan's mobile phone again: "Did you call?" ”
"Hit."
"One more hit, thirty seconds." Chu Tianshu said, his heart was also full of fear, and he knew that every time he fought again, he would have more opportunities to expose Wan Zhiliang.
"Okay." Leng Xue obediently obeyed and turned on the flashlight again.
Chu Tianshu looked around through the night vision binoculars again, but still didn't find a beam of light coming up.
He hadn't found any sign of the cold snow, but danger was already looming.
Wan Zhiliang led people to get off the motorcycle a little farther away and approached the location of the cold snow falling off the cliff on foot.