Chapter 35: Trapped in the Cave
After a while, everyone returned to their respective jobs after their emotions had stabilized.
A figure came to Chen Fan's side, and after seeing who it was, he took the wine bottle handed over by the other party and took a sip.
"What? Josh's attitude towards you has changed? Looking at the smiling Frank Chen Fan handed back the wine bottle.
"Yes, Josh didn't understand me before, thinking that I didn't care enough about him and his mother, and after this incident, I also saw it, and after this expedition was completed, I decided to retire and spend more time with their mother and son." Taking the bottle, Frank took a sip.
"Yes, only when people have experienced life and death can they truly understand what they need." Chen Fan sighed with emotion.
"Frank, there's a communication problem, we need someone to go up to the ground to see what's going on." This is George stepping forward.
"OK, JD, Liz, Judy, Josh, you guys go to the ground shift, and by the way, let the people above look at the communication problem." Frank instructed a few people and then turned his head and handed the oxygen concentrator back to Chen Fan, "Very good thing, you can go up too, your first launch has been successfully completed." ā
As a result, oxygen concentrator Chen Fan nodded and signaled that he understood.
A few people packed up and prepared to go.
Before leaving, Frank asked Luke for an escort on the road, and the group of six began to return to the surface.
"Chen Fan, thank you very much just now, otherwise I wouldn't have known what would have happened at that time." On the way, Judy thanked Chen Fan in a sluggish spirit.
"No, I said we are a team, and this is what I should do."
"Anyway, thank you very much, I'll treat you to a drink later." Chen Fan, who couldn't survive her, readily agreed to Judy's request.
Suddenly, Luke, who was walking in the front, stopped everyone, "Listen! What is this sound? ā
At this moment, there was a roar above the cave.
"Whatever the sound, I think we should get out of here as soon as possible now." JĀ· D suggested.
Soon the six of them came to the communication office of the upper level, and at this time, the voice from above became louder and louder.
Josh picked up the walkie-talkie and began to contact the ground base, contacting the forward base after trying to no avail, and there was no response.
"Damn it!" Josh scolded resentfully.
"Anyway, we need to go up first, it's not safe here." Luke suggested.
"Chen Fan, come and help me and push Liz." JĀ· D pushes Liz towards a small hole.
"Zizizi~ Hey, Josh? Thank God I finally got in touch with you, hurry up and bring the team up, the storm has escalated into a hurricane. "The voice of Jim on the ground came from the com.
"No, there's a communication glitch at the forward base." Josh hurriedly shouted.
"Zizizi~~~" However, the communication was disrupted again.
"Shit!" Josh angrily threw away the walkie-talkie.
At this time, several people who were about to push Liz up were swept away by a stream of water that suddenly washed down from the narrow hole.
The scene was chaotic for a while, and finally waited for the current to subside, and after standing firmly, Chen Fan stepped forward and grabbed Liz's ass and pushed her who was still hanging on the rope into the hole above.
"Hurry, Judy, JĀ· D, you two go up first, it's starting to get dangerous. Chen Fan shouted at everyone.
The two of them didn't talk nonsense, and crawled into the hole with their hands and feet.
"Josh?" Chen Fan motioned for the next Josh.
"No! I can't leave my dad behind, I'm going back to the forward base for them to evacuate. Josh said firmly.
Helplessly, Chen Fan had no choice but to turn around and shout to the three people above: "You go up first, let's go back to the forward base to inform the others to evacuate, Luke, you can go up too." After speaking, Chen Fan and Josh quickly returned the same way.
Seeing the two leave, Luke gritted his teeth and chased after Chen Fan and the others without responding to the shouts of the three people above.
Soon, the three of them reached the entrance cave of the forward base, by which time the water had become untenable.
At this time, the people who advanced to the base also found that the situation was not good, and they were already organizing the evacuation.
Frank was lying at the entrance of the cave and saw Chen Fan and the three of them who had gone and returned, and said angrily: "Why are you still here? ā
"Dad, we just contacted the ground, and they said that the storm has escalated into a hurricane, and the cave is flooding, let's come back and see if we can help." Seeing his father, Josh shouted anxiously.
"Okay, tie the extension rope to the big rock for me." Frank didn't talk nonsense after hearing this, and began to command.
After the three of them hurriedly tied the ropes, Frank began to direct the evacuation of his subordinates.
In line with the principle of ladies first, everyone let the only woman, Victoria, go up first.
After some acquiescing waiting, Victoria was finally about to climb the hole, but Luke noticed that the large stone with the rope tied to it was starting to become unstable under the impact of the water.
"Stop, the stone won't hold up." Luke cried out anxiously as he leaned against the stone.
However, Victoria, who heard Luke's warning, ignored it, pursed her lips, muttered a few words, and continued to climb up.
Eventually, she climbed up, but the boulder finally couldn't withstand the impact of the water and slid down, and the four people who stayed on it were pushed by the boulder and fell off the cliff.
Josh and the three fell into the pool below, Chen Fan reacted quickly and grabbed the rope at the entrance of the cave in time so that he didn't fall.
During this period, although Chen Fan used the telekinetic power to hold the boulder, the weight of the boulder completely exceeded the bearing range of the telekinetic force.
Suddenly, Chen Fan found that Luke fell in the wrong position at this time, his head was falling towards the stone of the rock wall, if he fell solidly, then it is estimated that he would not be saved.
So, between the lightning and flint, Chen Fan decisively threw out a climbing rope and wrapped Luke's feet with telekinesis.
With Chen Fan's help, Luke suddenly stopped his falling momentum and slammed into the stone wall with the rope fluttering.
It was only then that Frank's terrible roar came.
After a period of panic, everyone who found out that there was a false alarm suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Damn, that rock is blocking the exit." Josh looked at the blocked exit, annoyed.
At this time, the rain-soaked equipment began to short-circuit, and after a burst of electric sparks, the entire forward base fell into darkness, and only the headlamps of the crowd shone faintly.
"What should I do?" Looking at the rising water level, panic began to spread in the ranks.
"We still have a way out, the passage that we explored before should be connected to the outside, and we will go from there." Ranke stabilized the panicked military spirit.
The hopeful crowd began to move, bringing with them all the supplies they might need, food, ropes, batteries, respirators, and so on.
Before he was ready to leave, Carl suddenly said, "Frank, I remember George can't dive anymore." ā
"There's no way, I can only cancel his retirement." Frank was helpless.
Carl stepped forward and pulled George: "I remember you were in Mexico before and you got sick, didn't you?" ā
"Mexico? No, in Malaysia, in Mexico I got linyl disease. George dodged Carl's questioning.