Chapter 45: Puzzle 1 (II)

"Huh...... There's really no way back. Sherpa was rather speechless at Chen Badai.

Mr. Min crouched down and looked carefully at the little figure, it was a candlestick, but why was it placed near the corner of the wall and not on the usual passage?

Chen Badai saw two dark red marks on both sides of the corner, and then looked at the wall, there were also such mottled marks on the hematite wall, and at a cursory glance, he thought it was rust, and these on the ground were accumulated in the corner after peeling off from the wall.

Chen Badai touched it with his hand and rubbed his fingers, and his hand was vermilion powder.

"Huh? What is it? Chen Badai looked at the vermilion on his fingers and asked.

"Huh? Cinnabar? "Mr. Min felt this thing familiar.

"Cinnabar?"

"A very precious mineral in ancient times, which could be used to make pigments and refine mercury."

"Let's find our way quickly!" Chen Badai lost interest in cinnabar or not, and smeared the marks on his fingers on his clothes, don't waste time here.

Turning a corner, Sherpa who was walking in front suddenly stopped, "What's wrong?" Chen Badai stepped forward, Sherpa shook the ground in front of him with a flashlight, and Chen Badai looked: "...... groove"

The light of the flashlight was swallowed up by the darkness, which proved that there was an abyss ahead, at least a big pit, and the two walked forward, walked to the edge of the pit, turned the flashlight into a strong light, and shone down, bottomless.

"Chen Badai, you did a good thing!" Sherpa said discouraged—another waste of time and energy.

"Hey...... Such a big person, a little confidence, is it good......" Chen Badai replied with a weak heart, turned on the caving flashlight and shone around, this cave seemed to have been blown up by explosives, the messy stones were stuck on the cave wall and the top of the cave, reflecting brown and pale yellow colors under the flashlight light, and the bottom of his feet was a bottomless abyss, and the road was cut off here.

You can't get past here, and the hell knows how deep this hole is? You can't jump in and give it a try.

"Chen Badai, we don't have that much time, and the batteries, water, and food don't allow us to make any more mistakes." Sherpa was a little angry, although he had been suppressing it, but the emotions were slowly accumulating in his heart, and there was no good news, he would always explode.

How could Chen Badai not know the situation? But this loser can't lose, and he also raised his voice: "I said, do you blame me for this?" ”

"Don't blame you...... You have nothing to do with a stone and knock ......" Sherpa heard Chen Badai's repudiation, and his anger rose up.

"How the hell did I know that place was as thin as an eggshell......" Chen Badai felt very wronged.

"Can you please not be so cheap......"

"Hey...... Okay, good...... I'm cheap, what's the use of arguing now? Let's figure it out. Chen Badai saw that Sherpa was angry, and he couldn't beat him, so he dared to answer, but he didn't want to apologize, so he had to take a step back and mutter.

"!" Sherpa huffed towards the edge of the cave, untied the kettle from his waist, unscrewed it, and poured two mouthfuls into his mouth, suppressing the anger in his heart.

It is better to have emotions than to be lifeless, but at this time, angry emotions cannot solve the actual problem, Chen Badai shone around with a flashlight, saw that there was a hole in the high place, and shouted: "There is still a hole there!" ”

The entrance to the cave appeared diagonally above the cave, and it was not visible until you looked closely, and there were some protruding rocks that could be used as a foothold to approach it, but there was no foothold when it was still a few meters away.

"Mr. Min, how are your climbing skills?" Chen Badai asked, he saw that there was a stone crack at the edge of the hole, although there was no fixed point to climb in other places, but the master of rock climbing could use the stone crack to climb.

"Huh?" Mr. Min has been listening to their quarrels, he is silent, and he doesn't know when he will find the way, so he has to reduce consumption as much as possible, and when he heard Chen Badai ask himself, he didn't react for a while.

Chen Badai shone a light on the crack in the stone with a flashlight, and Mr. Min looked at it and thought it could be tried: "There should be no problem......

"Mr. Min, success or failure is up to you!" Chen Badai helped Mr. Min unload his backpack, Mr. Min needs to travel lightly, and the backpack will cause the center of gravity to be unstable.

Under normal circumstances, Chen Badai should have done this, but at this time, Chen Badai sprained his foot, and he had enough reasons to let Mr. Min fulfill his responsibility.

Mr. Min carefully straightened the badge of his collar so as not to scratch it while climbing, clenched his fist to his chin and whispered a few words of prayer, ready to start climbing.

Those protruding rocks are also mixed with dirt, which is not a good foothold, Mr. Min grabbed a stone, wrenched it with his hand, tested the strength, and nodded to Chen Badai, Chen Badai topped it below, trying to make Mr. Min as high as possible, so that he could set the first foothold.

The road was quite smooth, Mr. Min took advantage of the protruding stones, held the rope on his belt, and steadily climbed up diagonally all the way to the bottom of the cave entrance, and reached out to touch the stone crack, which was still seven or eight meters away from the cave entrance.

It is a stone crack that is not too wide, but there is almost no position that can be picked by foot and normal hand, under normal circumstances, this almost vertical stone crack needs a rock plug to make a fixed point, but at this time there is no rock plug, Mr. Min pulled the edge of the rock crack and climbed up two steps, and found that his hand could not stop the falling force of the body at all, but let go and it would fall, so he inserted one foot diagonally into the stone crack in a hurry, and used his foot to make a rock plug.

Mr. Min hadn't climbed for a long time, and although he had tried the difficult climbing routes, he had not yet tried this kind of pure crevice climbing.

"Sizzle......" Mr. Min's hand was stuck in the rock crevice, and there was a sharp pain.

To put it bluntly, this form of rock climbing is not afraid of pain, you must dare to put your hands into the rock crevices, and the feet are okay to say, at least there are shoes to cushion them, but it is easy to say that the hands are stuffed into the rock crevices, and the pain is indescribable.

Mr. Min was so painful that the roots of his teeth sizzled cold, Chen Badai couldn't stand it when he saw him climb a few steps, and his heart also lifted: "Mr. Min, hold on, climb up and have roast chicken and beer...... And pretty girls...... Come on......"

Mr. Min listened to this encouragement, he wanted to laugh but didn't dare, he can't be discouraged now, even if his hand hurts, he must insist, as long as he lets go, he will fall into the darkness behind him, Mr. Min secretly shouted in his heart: "Min Rui, you can't die!" Loulan is still waiting for you! Princess Loulan's wish has not yet been fulfilled! ”

Mr. Min's hand was stuck in the rock crevice, from pain to numbness, his foot was twisted into a strange angle in the rock crevice, he was resisting gravity with all his strength, and he was embarrassed to get stuck in the stone crevice, his physical energy was violently consumed, and his brain began to go numb.

"Senior Brother Min......" An ethereal voice came from behind him, and Mr. Min subconsciously turned around, there was only darkness and nothing.

The beads of sweat on Mr. Min's pale face gathered into furrows, washing the dust off his face, and a drop of sweat slipped into his eyes, and his eyes blurred all of a sudden.

Mr. Min blinked vigorously, trying to see the figure that whispered to him in the darkness, but there was still nothing, he lowered his head and shook his head vigorously, shaking off the beads of sweat on his head, and the reflection of the platinum badge on his collar reflected in his eyes.

"Senior Brother Min...... Come on......" The familiar voice in the darkness whispered encouragement to him.

"Come on! Mr. Min ...... Come on...... What are you doing? Concentrate on it......" Chen Badai saw Mr. Min stop, turned his head strangely to look into the darkness, and shouted at him anxiously, the best thing to climb is to be vigorous, and it will be difficult to start again after stopping.

"I'm fine...... I'll continue! Mr. Min was pulled back to reality by Chen Badai's yell, and looked up again to examine the current situation.

Chen Badai saw that Mr. Min could reach the edge of the hole as soon as he stretched out his hand, but he stopped again, and urged anxiously: "Mr. Min, hurry, it's just a little bit!" ”

"There is no place to stay...... I can't put my hand on it! Mr. Min was also a little anxious, he tried several times, but the crack here has narrowed, and the method of using his hands as a rock plug does not work.

"Mr. Min, think of a way again...... Roast chicken...... Beer...... Beauty...... Think of a way! Chen Badai saw that Mr. Min's hands and feet were trembling, his physical strength was almost squeezed dry, and the rope on Mr. Min's belt was basically a self-consolation ornament, if this distance fell, Chen Badai and Sherpa couldn't pull it at all, they could only watch him fall to death!

Mr. Min was panting heavily, he felt the stars in his eyes, the beads of sweat on his forehead seeped into his eyes, blurring his vision aggravated, the sweat had already soaked his underwear, the high-end jacket was covered with a layer of sweat mist, and the beads of sweat on his chin were dripping on the exquisite badge on the collar. He adjusted his posture with all his might, trying to reach the edge of the hole, but he still couldn't reach it, no matter how hard he tried, he was half a meter away.

"Mr. Min, come on, it's a big deal, let's go out, I'll give you a discount!" Chen Badai was anxious and became incoherent.

Chen ...... Eight...... Dai ...... I can't! Mr. Min felt that all his strength had been drained, his hands and feet stuffed in the cracks of the stone were no longer sentient, and his brain was dizzy for a while.

"Mr. Min, don't give up......" Chen Badai panicked, Sherpa saw this, and clutched the rope, in case Mr. Min fell, maybe it could give him a glimmer of life.

"Senior Brother Min...... Come up ......" The dizzy Mr. Min heard a familiar voice again, the voice was above him, he looked up with difficulty, and saw a figure not far from him, waving at him.

Mr. Min couldn't help but reach out to her.

"Mr. Min!" Chen Badai's voice suddenly raised an octave, and his strange cry echoed in the cave, and he actually saw Mr. Min stretching out the hand that fixed his body, his body swaying, and he was about to lose his balance.

The strange cry rushed into the eardrums, pulling Mr. Min back to reality once more, and he found himself shaking and about to fall out of the rock crevice, and quickly shoved his hand into the stone crevice again.

Chen Badai felt his heart almost jump out of his chest, if Mr. Min didn't succeed, he and Sherpa would have to wait here to die! Sherpa subconsciously leaned back, clutching the rope and trying to resist the impending fall, but at this critical moment, Mr. Min was in control.

"Chen Badai, are you really giving me a discount if I climb up?!" Mr. Min asked.

"Master, as long as you can climb over, I'll give you a twenty percent discount!" Chen Badai secretly complained in his heart, at this time, this uncle had to agree to any conditions.

"Ahh Mr. Min suddenly roared, he wanted to use this roar to squeeze every trace of strength in his body, stretched all the strength to his feet, kicked the crack in the stone, stretched his hand as far as possible, and his whole body rose into the air......

Chen Badai's heart also soared, if Mr. Min couldn't catch it this time, it would be difficult to save him from the green smoke from the ancestral tomb!