Snow Ridge Lost Country Chapter 43 The Second Layer
The flames must have spread to the dry pile of corpses, and less than two steps up the stairs we had climbed to the waist of the pile.
There was an indescribable smell in the air, and inhaling it made me gag a little. Gradually, the smoke began to gather above our heads, and it slowly pressed down.
By the time we reached the top of the stairs again, we were both choking on the smoke and coughing.
"What about Raba?" At the top of the stairs, I immediately stopped, grabbed the fat man and asked him.
"Look at what has become of the back, he has already become a roast suckling pig below."
The fat man covered his mouth and nose with one hand, and pointed to the bottom of the pit with the other. When I looked back at this time, the smoke was so thick that the flashlight could not penetrate the already thick smoke, but through the smoke, the bottom of the pit was already a red sea of fire.
I prayed to myself that I would wish Rabah good luck. There was no way for the two of us to go down and find Rabah, the temperature had begun to rise slowly, and if we stayed in the temple, we would have been roasted dry.
With such thick smoke, there is no way to discern the direction. The slightest glimmer of light at the door is definitely not visible.
The temperature was still rising, and we were already sweating all over our bodies. The feeling of being in the middle of a fire is not just about burning your skin with the heat. Because the flames burn and consume a lot of oxygen, the air slowly thins out, and the flames will soon consume all the oxygen in the almost sealed hall.
The small temple gate has no time to supply air, in this way, not only will we become a barbecue, but under the high temperature and high pressure, the fat man and I will be squeezed dry into the same effect as air-dried beef, and the fat and muscle will become a trace of it.
The fear made us panic, and we walked around the edge of the stairs for a long time without seeing the light coming through the doorway, and the concentration of smoke was too great.
We're now covering our mouths and noses with our clothes, but it's basically not very useful anymore. The fat man coughed so hard that he could almost feel his lungs coming out.
"Fuck it...... Ahem...... Can't look for it here, let's ...... Follow the outer wall to find it. ”
The fat man spoke almost as he coughed, and I didn't speak much than him. Without further ado, he followed the fat man to the outer wall.
The edge of the steps down was only about twenty meters from the wall, but the visibility was barely half a meter in front of me. We were afraid of hitting pillars or other obstacles in our panic, so we ran very carefully.
The fat man touched the wall first, and then his hand touched the wall, but he couldn't see until his eyes came to the wall about thirty centimeters in front of the wall and saw a vague shadow.
The smoky eyes were constantly watering, and it was uncomfortable to close or open them. The fat man was walking a little slowly in front of me at this time, and I bumped into his already clean back several times, sticky and sweaty.
"What the fuck are you doing, let's hurry up, if you don't leave, you're going to be roasted." I shouted anxiously, but I inhaled a lot of smoke in an instant, and I choked on it and spit out a few times.
"I want to go fast, too, but there's something wrong on the ground." The fat man's voice was a little hoarse, and he said in front. If it weren't for the sound coming from him, I wouldn't have thought it was a fat man's voice.
"Don't worry about what's right or wrong, let's go."
"No matter what, we seem to be going uphill."
I tried it on the ground with my feet as I walked, but I couldn't feel the slope of the ground. The fat man stopped abruptly at this point, and I bumped into him because I couldn't see him.
"What are you going to do?" I clutched my head and looked at the smoke in such anger that I couldn't tell where the fat man was.
"No, we have to verify that there was no slope at the door. If this is an uphill climb, we will go the wrong way, and we will definitely die. ”
I'm so anxious, the fire has already burned to the buttocks, even if I don't make a mistake, in another ten minutes, we will still die.
At this time, in the smoke, the fat man's hoarse voice came from inside: "You come and try." ”
As soon as the words fell, the fat man grabbed my wrist and dragged me to the ground. Immediately after, a warm liquid flowed onto my hands.
The fat man roughly wanted to confirm that the ground was sloping and that the liquid was flowing downward. It's really strange, why is there a sudden slope on the ground when walking?
It didn't take long for me to figure it out. This is a ramp up to the upper level. I was a little glad that when I was still outside the main hall, I saw that there were windows at the upper end of the main hall and an entrance hall outward. If you can go up, you can go out from above.
It's just that the idea is a little untenable right away, in case there is a door between the two floors. If the door was closed, all kinds of thoughts were mixed for a while, and the fat man pinched my arm vigorously, and it took me a long time to hear the fat man's extremely hoarse voice.
"This could be the way to the second floor, and you might be able to go up here." As soon as I said that, I immediately heard that my voice was hoarse.
The fat man gasped, apparently choking on the smoke he had inhaled, and coughed a few times before continuing: "How sure are you." ”
I sighed, "Now is not the time to think about whether to be sure, if we don't go and continue to look for us, we must die, and if we go up, we may still have a way to live, even if we die, it is better to feel better than here." ”
The fat man sighed and said sharply, "Go." ”
The two of us hurriedly ran to the top of the slope, the temperature may have risen to 50 degrees, and the moisture on our bodies was also losing rapidly, and the sweat on our bodies stuck to the wound cut in the rainforest before, and it hurt for a while.
The efficiency of the heat transmission of the stones of the main hall is quite high, and their materials are all made of local materials, and all of them are whole Himalayan stones. There is a famous stone pot in Metuo, and the material of that stone pot is made of this stone. If it can be used as a pot, it must be more efficient than ordinary stones to conduct heat.
We are in an almost closed stone pot at this time, what is the situation, is the stone pot stewed rice? And the kind with barbecued pork?
After about six or seven minutes of running upwards, the smoke showed no signs of abating. My brain was starting to get a little foggy, and this was a sign of carbon monoxide poisoning, I thought to myself. It seems that the air in the main hall is almost exhausted.
What to do, what to do? I'm not willing to die like this, I went through hardships to get here, and the key to death is because of fire carbon monoxide poisoning, which is a little too aggrieved.
With a muffled sound, a "bang", the fat man in front of me immediately let out a muffled snort. I didn't have time to guess what was wrong with him, and I immediately experienced how he felt.
I hit my head on a stone slab, and there was a "bang". Then his eyes went straight to Venus, and a feeling of dizziness and nausea swept through his body, which was a concussion.
I was afraid of fainting, so I pinched my thigh with one hand, and I was awake a lot in an instant, but the smoke squinted, and my consciousness was close to chaos.
The fat man was supposed to be lying on the side, and I couldn't see him, so I reached out and groped, and immediately touched the fat man, who had basically dragged a fine naked, and the smooth and greasy skin seemed to be grasping a piece of lard.
As hard as I could, I pinched him as well. Then the fat man immediately became a clever, and my hand slipped away. Then I quickly got the fat man up and found the exit.
The two of them stood up in the dark, and I knocked on the stone wall and found it very solid. Immediately, I felt the stone wall move again.
The fat man suddenly shouted in the smoke of no one, "Help." ”
Only then did I realize that this stone wall was the same stone door as the first floor of the main hall, but I didn't know what kind of structure the stone door was, although it was obvious that it was quite thick, but it was easy to push open.
The door was only opened by us a small gap, and the fat man was able to squeeze through, and when he reached the stone door, the door was immediately closed by us, and then I could feel the temperature plummet, and my body immediately became comfortable.
This kind of door not only opens and closes with considerable effort, but also has a good seal. The smoke didn't come in much, because I could already see the white light vaguely, and it was supposed to be the light of the fat man's flashlight.
My eyes were so smoky that I couldn't see clearly, and I could only see some shadows dimly. There should be no problem with the second floor, this floor is still the same, because it should still be a fairly large hall. What is different is that at the top of the outer wall of the hall, there is an adjacent window, and there is also white light shining in from the inside, and what I see in my eyes is a connected white halo.
I can't see things clearly, everything is just a rough outline.
The fat man moaned on the side: "Damn, I can't see it with my eyes." "The voice is still very hoarse.
"Wait, it's smoked, wait a while."
The fat man was still talking about something, and his voice was hoarse and I didn't hear it clearly.
The temperature here is a bit lower, but it has to be in the thirties. After all, there is a fire burning underneath, and this place cannot be stayed for long, we must go out to be safe, otherwise it will only change from roasting to steaming.
I tried to speak, but my voice was hoarse, and I couldn't make out what was being said. The fat man said a few words on the side, and I could tell that he was asking me what I said.
At this time, I couldn't even communicate with the fat man normally, so I had to make movements for the fat man to stop. It seems that the smoke has caused some damage to our vocal cords, and if we continue to talk about it, our vocal cords may not be able to recover.
Although there are windows on the second floor, it is still dark. In this dim situation, two blind and dumb people could live for a few more minutes.
Eventually, what should come will come, and the same atmosphere will envelop us. This time, I noticed something was wrong. It's the wind.
The wind wasn't blowing in through the window, I could feel it was because it was going in the wrong direction. The wind was clearly brought up by a person or something else passing quickly.
I was terrified in my heart and hurried to greet the fat man. The fat man said, "What is it?" As soon as the words came out, I heard him shout again: "His grandmother's, who touched my ass." ”
As soon as the words fell, something moved my butt. The fat man scolded his grandmother, and then he should have done a 360-degree sweep, but he forgot that I was standing next to him.
A leg swept over and kicked me in the ankle. There was a sharp pain in an instant, and one of them fell to the ground before he could stand still, and then my back leaned against the body of an object. The soft is the feeling of a person.
I immediately shouted, "Fatty, that thing is right behind my back." "I couldn't do anything at this time, and I immediately felt the person behind me pull away in an instant.
The fat man then responded in a hoarse voice: "Where the are you?" ”
I was tormented: "You are blind in your eyes and ...... in your ears."
Before I could finish my sentence, another kick hit my ass, and I was kicked out.
The fat man seemed to be overjoyed, his voice was hoarse and high-pitched, and when I was kicked out, I heard him shout, "Hey, grandpa, I kicked it." ”
I flew out and crashed into the wall. A wave of anger rose from his heart, and he scolded: "Your uncle kicked me." ”
"Ahh I'm sorry, I can't see clearly. ”
I secretly condolences to the eighteenth generation of the fat man's ancestors in my heart, and none of them have been left behind. The fat man's kick was really not light, and it took me half a day to crawl and stand up.
When I stood up, I could see it by the white light in the opposite direction of the hall. In the halo of white light, there were two black shadows, one with a huge body, which must be fat, and the other who was emaciated and humanoid. I saw the emaciated one standing beside the fat man. Just as he was about to shout, it was too late, and the emaciated black shadow had already pounced on the fat man.