Chapter 114: The Last Hope
Yi Xingchen hurriedly closed his eyes again and climbed behind Tang Xiaoqi again. The net turned his back to her and closed his eyes, and after a while, he heard a clanging sound behind him, and Tang Xiaoqi used an iron stick and a hammer to dig the cave.
After a while, I heard Tang Xiaoqi gasp and say, "This rock is so hard, it took half a day to chisel such a small piece." ”
Tang Xiaoqi said this, but his hands didn't stop, and Ding Ling was still digging.
Soon, the last bit of cloth from the torches on the ground was burned out. It was pitch black in the cave.
But Tang Xiaoqi didn't stop. She already knew everything around her, and she didn't need lights to dig it.
Tang Xiaoqi kept swinging the heavy hammer and chiseling. Yi Xingchen asked her if she wanted to let herself replace it, Tang Xiaoqi said no, this stone is very hard, he himself has been infused with internal force to knock a small piece, replaced by Yi Xingchen, don't expect to be chiseled at all.
Since he said so, Yi Xingchen had no choice but to give up and wait for him to work hard alone.
For nearly an hour, at the beginning, Ding Lingdang's voice was still very fast, and the later it was, the more loose it became. Moreover, it took a long time to make a sound, obviously, Tang Xiaoqi really had no strength to go to the back, and finally Tang Xiaoqi threw down the heavy hammer and iron drill.
Tang Xiaoqi was so tired that he was panting and said, "No, the stone is too hard, I only knocked a small piece for half a day, what should I do?" ”
Since the cave was pitch black, there was no need for Yi Xingchen to close his eyes tightly, he had already opened his eyes, and he still couldn't see anything, so he groped and said, "I'll take a look." ”
He groped his way forward, crawling to a pile of rubble and touching it, more than his previous pile, but not much. It's only half a plate in a basin, which means that Tang Xiaoqi spent more than an hour. Only then did he chisel the stone of the half-basin down.
Yi Xingchen touched the mountain wall in front of him with his hand, chiseled off a shallow piece, and his heart sank to the bottom. If we follow this pace, we will not be able to go half a meter deep in a day, and without food and water, we are afraid that we will not be able to complete this arduous project.
Yi Xingchen picked up the iron hammer and hammer, chiseled it hard, and when he went down with a few sounds, he did not chisel down even a small piece of stone, only a few sparks appeared.
This is already Yi Xingchen's exhaustion of his strength to eat. Only sparks were chiseled, and at most a shallow scratch was made on the stone cliff, and not even a small piece of stone on the cover of the fingernail jumped off.
Yi Xingchen struggled and knocked for a while. Soon he was out of breath, and the hammer in his hand became heavier and heavier, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered. Tang Xiaoqi next to her was exhausted, and she didn't have the strength to stop her, so she let herself go crazy and dig it.
Yi Xingchen doesn't have Tang Xiaoqi's internal strength, so. She only chiseled for a moment. The heavy hammer could no longer be lifted, so it had to be thrown on the ground. Reaching out and touching it, there were a few shallow scratches left on the mountain wall. This made him ashamed and desperate.
"The rock is so hard that I can't figure out how those people carved out the cave.
Rested for a while. Tang Xiaoqi said: "The cave outside and the cave below are natural, only this passage is excavated. I don't believe they could have done it if it had been all chiseled. The rock is really too hard, like iron. ”
Tang Xiaoqi then picked up the hammer and hammer and continued to dig the cave with a clanging clang. This time, it didn't last as long as the first time, and it didn't progress as much as the first time, because her strength had been almost exhausted in the first time, and she couldn't recover her strength in this short rest time, especially because she was hungry and thirsty, so she had no strength all over. Hopes of escaping by digging tunnels became more and more slim as time went on.
In the end, Tang Xiaoqi began to cry. While crying, he continued to dig hard.
Yi Xingchen said with relief in the back: "Qiqi, rest for a while, you are tired." ”
Tang Xiaoqi didn't answer, still crying and kept swinging the hammer hard. But digging a cave is not something she can do as a woman after all, and she is still young and young, so she can't last long. At last, he could no longer lift the heavy hammer in his arms, and with two thuds, he threw the hammer and the money to the ground, sat down on the ground dejectedly, held his head, and began to cry.
Yi Xingchen went up and touched the cave wall, and the digging into it was much shallower than before, and the two excavations didn't add up to half a foot into it, and it had already taken them nearly two hours.
Yi Xingchen was also desperate, sat next to Tang Xiaoqi, and whispered: "This stone is too hard, I don't know how thick the mountain is over there." If there is not much distance, it is easy to do, but if the distance is relatively far, the physical strength of the two of us is not able to hold on to the opening without eating and drinking, let's sit down and think about it, we can no longer consume physical strength indiscriminately. ”
Tang Xiaoqi wiped a handful of tears and said, "What else can be done?" I finally found a cave, and it was like this, if we hadn't dug it, we would have died here. ”
After that, Tang Xiaoqi forcibly got up and wanted to grab the hammer again, but the hammer that was originally as light as nothing in her hand was as heavy as Mount Tai at the moment, and she didn't even have the strength to pick it up. He knew that his whole body's physical strength had already been exhausted, and at this moment, let alone lifting the hammer, he had no strength to raise his hands. ”
In desperation, I couldn't help but cry loudly.
Yi Xingchen couldn't help but reach over and wanted to pat her shoulder to comfort her, but after taking the picture, she remembered that she only had a bandeau on her upper body, and everything else was naked. This palm naturally slapped on her fragrant shoulder, and she was about to apologize, but she didn't expect Tang Xiaoqi to turn around, throw herself into his arms, and cry even louder when she hugged him.
Yi Xingchen Nephrite Wen Xiang hugged her with a warm embrace, and touched her back, only feeling wet, knowing that she was so tired that her whole body was sweaty, and she was afraid that she would be even more thirsty now.
Sure enough, after Tang Xiaoqi cried for a while, she said, "Brother Gua'er, I'm thirsty and hungry, what should I do?" ”
Tang Xiaoqi smiled bitterly: "We found this cave just now, except for the corpse water flowing out of the corpse, there is no other water that can be drunk. ”
"Aren't we going to die here of thirst?"
Tang Xiaoqi's voice was full of despair, Yi Xingchen knew that she was telling the truth, so he couldn't help but comfort him softly: "Don't worry, didn't I say it?" I'm here. Everything is fine. ”
Tang Xiaoqi cried and said, "Okay, then you find water for me to drink." ”
This is the simplest thing, but it is difficult to go to the blue sky at the moment, today Yi Xingchen carefully searched all corners of the cave, thinking about where to get water.
But he couldn't think of where he could get water, and how he could get it.
Seeing that he was silent, Tang Xiaoqi couldn't help but be even more desperate, and whimpered: "You said that you said that the hexagram is calculated, 'It is not suitable to go up, it is appropriate to go down.'" Daji', we really found the cave, but. What's so auspicious? Whining. ”
When Yi Xingchen heard this, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, he slapped his thigh, and said, "Yes, it's appropriate, Daji!" Hexagrams don't deceive. It's going to be a good deal. Appropriately, that's not to say. Underneath this channel, there is another channel. The above passage is not appropriate, that is, it is not passable. And the following passage is the real channel, which is the passage of Daji. So, let's look under this channel, there should be another channel leading to the outside world! ”
"Really?" Tang Xiaoqi had been disappointed several times before, and this time, she asked with a loss, I really hope that Yi Xingchen did not miscalculate this time, otherwise, the two of them would be buried in the cave. Thinking of this, he said, "But we have touched the whole cave before, and we have not found the entrance to the cave?" ”
"Maybe like you found this cave, the entrance to the cave is sealed with mud. I'll knock it on the wall with an iron drill later, and maybe I'll find out. ”
"Yes, yes!" Tang Xiaoqi said happily, but she didn't dare to place too much hope on her failure, "But what if you can't find it, or don't use this cave at all, or miscalculate?" Tang Xiaoqi was really scared to the extreme, so she asked one after another.
Yi Xingchen said: "Whether it's true or not, we can only try, your physical strength has been overdrawn too much, rest for a while, I'll go find it." ”
Tang Xiaoqi hurriedly said: "No, your physical strength is not enough, just now, it took a long time, I am afraid that there will be danger, what if you can't catch the chain and fall?" It's better to rest for a while, and when my strength recovers, I'll go. ”
Yi Xingchen said: "I'm afraid that we won't have time to wait for you to rest, your physical strength is too strong, and now you can't even lift your hands, and you have no water or food, you haven't had a good rest, you can't recover your strength in a short time, so I'll come." I'm at least a man, and it doesn't take much effort to climb the chain and slip down, don't worry, I still have the strength. ”
Tang Xiaoqi said: "What do we use to light the torch? The previous torches have burned out. ”
"Don't use it for the time being, I'll go down and beat on the wall with an iron drill, listen to the sound inside, see if there is a cave hidden behind, the other hand to grab the chain, no extra hand to grab the torch, I'll find it first, let's talk about it, the only thing we can burn is the pants of the two of us, and we can't use it again until the critical time, otherwise, it's ugly or a trivial matter, and I can't find an exit, so I really want to cry without tears!"
Tang Xiaoqi nodded and said, "Okay, then you have to be careful, you must hold on to the chains." ”
Yi Xingchen agreed to grab the iron drill and walk back.
When he reached the entrance of the cave, he stretched out his hand to pull it, but he couldn't touch the chain, and he tried to hook it up, but the iron drill was straight and couldn't hook it.
It took a long time to no avail. At this time, Tang Xiaoqi's voice came from behind him: "I'll light the velvet to illuminate you, and you will be able to see the chain, jump over and grab it." That's all there can be. (To be continued.) (。 ))
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