Chapter 32: Reaching the Bottom of the Cliff
After more than a dozen laps back and forth on the cliff, Bai Yuxuan finally patted his head with his hand, and a shallow smile appeared on his face, it seemed that he had thought of a good way.
Bai Yuxuan took out a nylon rope, threw one end of it to the bottom of the cliff, and took the other end and retreated to a big tree closest to the edge of the cliff.
He tied a simple slipknot to the tree, then walked to the edge of the cliff to look down, and the nylon rope that had been thrown from the cliff had sunk into the lake.
The two nylon ropes that Bai Yuxuan bought are both fifty meters, and now there is obviously still a lot of leeway, that is to say, there is no fifty meters from the nearest tree to the bottom of the cliff, so that there is no need to worry about encountering emergencies caused by insufficient rope length.
Then Bai Yuxuan walked back to the big tree with the nylon rope tied and tied the nylon rope on the big tree tightly.
Finally, he tied one end of the second nylon rope to another tree next to the tree and tied it tightly.
Bai Yuxuan walked back to everyone with the vacant end of the second nylon rope and said to the other four.
"I'm all set, then just tie this end of the rope to the person who is going down, and untie it when he reaches the bottom without it."
The rest of the people couldn't help but be a little suspicious when they saw him say so lightly.
They first walked to the edge of the cliff collectively and looked down, then looked back at the two big trees tied with nylon ropes, and both of them showed suspicious looks on their faces, and two of them shook their heads gently.
Fu Xiao couldn't help but turn his head to look directly at Bai Yuxuan, his tone full of obvious suspicion.
"Why do you have to let us go down to that lake? What if there is any danger inside? Wouldn't it be good for us to go straight down to the ground next to us? ”
Indeed, the area of the lake below is not large, and a few dozen meters further along the cliff will be a flat ground below.
But Bai Yuxuan also has a reason to think about it, he said lightly.
"It's true that it's very convenient to go straight down to the ground. But have you thought about it, although the difference between us here and below is not particularly high, it is more than 20 meters, which is equivalent to the height of a seven- or eight-story building. ”
"And we don't have professional training in rock climbing, in case we don't hold our hands firmly in the middle of the way, and one of them misses and falls."
"If there's rocky ground down there, there's only one fate waiting for us, and that's to be crushed!" Bai Yuxuan stopped, swept over a few people with his eyes, and continued.
"But it's different if there's a lake down there. First of all, even if you miss and don't catch the rope and fall down, at least you won't fall to your death if you fall into the lake. Secondly, this small lake is not like a place where sharks or piranhas live. So, using the lake as a landing site is definitely the best choice. ”
"But one last question? You all know how to swim, right? Don't drown instead of falling to your death. ”
The other four looked at each other, but none spoke.
"Alright then, who's going to be the first to go down next?"
Since no one had any objections to Bai Yuxuan's proposal, the next group should hurry to the bottom of the cliff and then head to the village that looked like a human settlement.
But the other four still didn't speak, you look at me, I look at you, but no one spoke.
In fact, this is no longer normal, human beings' fear of things comes from the unknown, and it is normal for no one to want to be the first to challenge the unknown.
Bai Yuxuan swept around the faces of the rest of the people, revealing some inexplicable looks on his face.
"Well, since none of you want to be the first to go down, then I'll be the vanguard."
Then Bai Yuxuan stopped talking nonsense, tied the last end of the nylon rope to his waist, and then pulled the entire nylon rope with his hand to make sure that it had been tied and not loosened.
Finally, Bai Yuxuan took out a pair of gloves from his bag, and he said to several other people while wearing gloves.
"This is the nylon glove I bought when I bought the rope, although the nylon rope is not so rough, but I still wear the gloves so as not to scratch my hands when I get it."
"But since I only have this one pair of gloves, I'll tie them to the rope when I get to the bottom, and the next person can use them."
After making all the preparations, Bai Yuxuan stopped talking nonsense, he put the bag on his back and tightened his belt.
Then he squatted on the edge of the cliff, grabbed the nylon rope tightly with both hands, tentatively stretched one foot out of the cliff, and slowly suspended his body in the air little by little, and then began to move slowly downward.
Since the end of the nylon rope falling into the water was not fixed, which also caused the rope to slowly shake in the air, Bai Yuxuan felt that his whole body was light and fluttering, as if there was no point of focus, which also caused him to descend unusually slowly.
But fortunately, when it was about half down, Bai Yuxuan gradually got used to this feeling, and his hands no longer trembled.
So for the remaining half of the way, Bai Yuxuan began to descend at a relatively fast speed, so that when he was still about two or three meters away from the water, Bai Yuxuan suddenly let go of his hands holding the rope.
He fell into the lake with a "bang", causing layers of splashes, but Bai Yuxuan did not feel the slightest discomfort.
Bai Yuxuan's body fell into the lake, and he endured the natural discomfort of his physiology and opened his eyes hard.
The scene that caught his eye made Bai Yuxuan's mouth open wide in surprise, which also made him choke a few mouthfuls of water in a hurry.
The water in the lake is not deep, about five or six meters, but the water in the lake is very clear, a little unusually clear.
Bai Yuxuan held his breath and looked at the bottom of the lake, there were no clumps of silt at the bottom of the lake, and there were no patches of algae growing at the bottom of the lake.
The weirdest thing is that there are not even fish in the lake.
The water of the lake is crystal clear, there is no debris at the bottom of the lake, and there is no trace of fish and shrimp in the lake.
It's just that at the bottom of the lake, there are round and smooth pebbles of similar shape and almost the same size.
On top of these pebbles, clusters of plants grow, which look like spinach or cabbage, and they grow in a large area, almost the entire bottom of the lake is covered by this plant.
When Bai Yuxuan wanted to get closer so that he could see more clearly, he couldn't hold back his breath anymore and suddenly surfaced.
Bai Yuxuan raised his head high from the water and breathed in the sweet air.
After adjusting his state, Bai Yuxuan took off his gloves and tied them to the rope, and then pulled the rope hard. This serves as a signal to tell the people above that they have arrived, to tell them to take the rope back and replace the next person with a person.
Sure enough, within a few seconds, the rope was collected little by little by the people on the cliff.
Watching the rope rise little by little, Bai Yuxuan breathed a heavy sigh of relief, this most difficult step was finally successful.
Bai Yuxuan swam in the water and found that he felt very comfortable, so he was not in a hurry to get ashore.