Chapter 14: Living and Dying Together
In mid-air, I hit my head on the ear, took him away, and then fell to the hard mud floor. Later, he was smashed by a few falling clods of soil, and ate a mouthful of mud. The only good news was that my fall was just one step faster than the scarlet bats that flew by the ears, and the fangs of the beast were knocked into the air.
It's just that, next, exhausted us, how to deal with this agile and cunning opponent.
At this moment, I only heard Feng Jinhua's fake voice from above: "I wanted to pull him...... Who knew that he was physically exhausted and rolled down...... Ah Xia, you mourn, don't you...... "I don't listen to it, I am even more angry when I hear it, I want to scold my head, but I was hit a few times by the earth and rocks falling from the landslide, and my ears and I had to dodge the large rockfall in embarrassment, but fortunately, the poisonous bat was not good, and the mud and dust in the sky should have also blinded its senses, and it was hit by a few falling rocks in mid-air, and one fluttered, and it was also smashed to the ground. Seeing this, the ears got up, and actually took the time to shout to the poisonous bat: "Aren't you majestic? Come on, you come and bite me! ”
Although the poisonous bat couldn't understand it, it probably still felt the provocation of its ears, fluttered its wings and propped up its body, and finally stabilized its body, stood still in place, and suddenly hissed-
No way! It's another ultrasound attack!
As soon as I said that it was not good, my head immediately exploded in sharp pain, but I no longer had the strength to attack it again and interrupt its killing move. The condition of the ears is not much better, and the pain is so early that I roll to the ground and hold my head in a large size. As soon as I saw that I couldn't count on him, my internal organs churned uncomfortably, and my consciousness gradually became trance-like, but my heart seemed unusually calm, as if I already knew the end...... Could it be that this is what is called, and the time has come?
Just as I was almost unconscious with a headache and was about to accept my fate on the spot, I suddenly heard an anxious voice in a drowsy state:
"Plums! Hold on! ”
I struggled to open my heavy eyelids, and faintly saw a beautiful shadow, through the dust, falling from the sky, like the fairy of the nine heavens, falling steadily beside me. Seeing me look at her, she also smiled at me, and then jumped vigorously three vertically and twice, and had jumped to the fierce poisonous bat, a volley lasso, already threw out the broken half of the mountaineering rope, strangled the neck of the poisonous bat, and then turned around its body, straightened its knees, tightened the rope sleeve, dragged the stumbling poisonous bat, agile to avoid the falling rocks one after another, stepped on the rock wall, had climbed to the protrusion of a cliff in mid-air, with the tail of the rope, around the protruding rock, and landed lightly in front of me.
When I came to my senses, I saw that she had taken out the cotton ball from her ear, and in mid-air, she was hanging from the dead corpse of the white-eyed animal.
"Ah Xia", my heart was warm, I just wanted to thank her for saving her, the words came to my mouth, when I saw her watery eyes full of concern, but I couldn't speak, I thought that it would burden her to such a dangerous place, I couldn't find words for a while, and I couldn't help but count her down: "What are you doing down?" It's so dangerous, I really thought you were 'Wonder Woman'! As soon as the words came out, tears flowed down uncontrollably.
I didn't know that Ah Xia, the girl, was also stunned when she saw that I was emotional, but she became naughty, turned her head, blushed and loosened her tied ponytail, shook her long flowing hair, winked at me playfully, turned her face away, lowered her head and said: "Whatever, you think I am, then I am......"
I was stunned for a while, but I didn't say anything back to her, half a ring, only to remember that my ears were still lying next to me and moaning, I quickly stood up, walked to him, touched his carotid artery, and found that there was nothing unusual, so I gave him a kick angrily, and scolded: "Don't roll up yet, the bat monster has been knocked down by Ah Xia!" ”
The ear ate me a kick, I have come to my senses, I heard that Ah Xia is coming, I was even more excited to open my eyes, a spirit sat up, saw Ah Xia herself, I already felt tears, crying and shouting to "make a cow and a horse for Ah Xia", I almost made a personal promise, but instead made a very embarrassed Ah Xia, who had regained her reserve, and quickly diverted the topic, reminding us to quickly find a way out.
At this moment, Uncle Dachuan's voice came from his head, and just as the collapse had stopped, we told each other about the situation: he had found the thief hole in the middle of the plank road that was marked by Feng Shui Zhou when we first entered the tomb. He was going to take Gao Maocai and Feng Jinhua out first, and then find a way to save us. As he spoke, he dropped a pathfinder flashlight and a torch stick and told us to be careful. I originally wanted him to be careful of Feng Jinhua, but after thinking about it, that kid probably made me jealous that I had a good relationship with Ah Xia, and he shouldn't be bad to Uncle Dachuan, so I didn't say it. only agreed, said goodbye to Uncle Dachuan, and turned to look at the surrounding situation with Ah Xia and Er.
Looking around, we returned to the main room on the ground floor where the seal was parked before, but due to the collapse, a lot of earth and stone piles have accumulated in the four corners, and the vision is damaged, but the good news is that it should not be difficult to use these earth and stones to pile up the corners of the wall and return to the upper floor. We were about to find a place to stack the ladder, when a wave of skinless dried corpses rushed out of the corpse cave and roared towards us.
Depend on! Is there an end? In the face of these miscellaneous fish monsters, the ears that are equivalent to invisibility for them are naturally like entering a no-man's land; In contrast, I was tired and overstretched a lot, and after barely knocking down two dried corpses, I was almost knocked down by another head that pounced from the shadows, but fortunately, Ah Xia, who was quick in sight, attacked in time, beat and kicked, and broke several enemies in a row to help me resolve the decline. I was about to say thank you, but she simply stayed by my side and continued to protect me. I only felt that my heart was surging, and the word "thanks" was on my lips, but I couldn't say anything.
After repelling the faceless corpse, Ah Xia helped me sit on the ground, and seeing that I gritted my teeth and held my calf to do nothing, she had to help me wipe the sweat oozing from my forehead in distress. I saw that there was worry in her eyes, and her beautiful eyes were full of affection, and I couldn't help but feel warm in my heart, and if it weren't for the sudden sour words in my ears: "Brother, sometimes, I really wish it was me who was hurt......" I really forgot that he was still on his side.
As soon as I felt that my state had improved, suddenly the ground trembled again, I looked up, and faintly saw a thick column-shaped boulder in the ashes, which was smashing down silently to where we were, and I saw that Ah Xia, who was still paying attention to me, turned her back to the stone pillar, and did not notice the danger, so I quickly pushed her away, but I didn't have time to rush to her side, so I had to give way in the opposite direction. I only heard a loud "boom", flying sand and stones, and the thick soil was stirring. When the dust settled, I rubbed my eyes that were fascinated by the dirt, only to find that after this wave of landslides, I was separated from Ah Xia and my ears by the barrier formed by the rockfall.
I was trying to get up and find my way, but my injured leg suddenly hurt like a bone, and then I broke out in a cold sweat, I couldn't help but be shocked, my heart was cold, and I remembered the situation when the centipede poison seeped into my trouser leg before, this is not me, I am not tired, but, poisoned!?
Thinking of Liang Hu, who was raised not long ago, I couldn't help but feel dizzy and fell to the ground, and I don't know how much time it took before I heard Ah Xia's cry in a trance and woke up. As soon as I heard her anxiously calling my name, her panicked voice was tinged with tears, and I was about to struggle to get up, but I heard her sobbing helplessly:
"Plums! Promise me that nothing will happen...... I will listen to you for everything from now on, and I will never go down to the ground again...... I know you're still alive! You're going back to me...... If you have three long and two short, I, I won't go back......"
I just barely leaned against the stone wall to support myself, and I could vaguely see her figure through the crack in the stone, and I was happy and sad to see that she was okay. But when I heard her courageous confession, I didn't know how to answer for a while, until I heard her voice shouting hoarsely, and then I came to my senses and hurriedly responded to her, explaining that she was okay and asked her to find a way out first...... Ah Xia heard my weak voice, and saw through the crack in the stone that I was okay, so she burst into tears and smiled, and immediately began to look for tools to find a way to save me. I was startled, and I felt the poisonous pain in my body surge, afraid that I would become like Liang Hu, so I quickly called Ah Xia, planning to persuade her to go out to meet Uncle Dachuan first and then consider saving me. I was trying to persuade her, but my ears interrupted me and I was in a hurry, and I seemed to speak incoherently.
"Brother, it's not me talking about you, can you consider my feelings and stop abusing dogs", I was startled and was about to defend myself, but I didn't expect him to give me a chance, and continued: "Anyway, along the way, I can see it clearly, Ah Xia has secretly promised you a lot." Let's also know the fun, from now on we know the difficulties and retreat! Brother, I promise you, I will take Ah Xia out even if I work hard; But you also have to promise me that you must get out alive and live a good life with Ah Xia...... Don't let it down, her mind ......," he said, whimpering too.
I was shocked when I heard this, and when I reacted, I couldn't help but feel warm and calm; Calm down, look around, and gradually have an idea. After calming down, I realized how naïve my previous thoughts were—not to make soap operas, all kinds of life and death at every turn, wishful thinking and self-sacrifice for all how blind and impulsive it is, if you really want to be responsible for the other party, you will try your best to live! As soon as I made up my mind, I couldn't help but remember that when my father was alive, he always taught me with his actions: no matter how bad the situation is, there must be a way out! And the only way out is to find a solution to the problem as soon as possible.
Looking at it, the cave on the side I am on is slightly narrower, and the two passages that can be seen are connected to the bat cave and the corpse pit respectively, so that the side of the ear and Ah Xia should be connected to the Gu cave and the sarcophagus, although the passage up is blocked by Boss Mi, but from the culvert of the Gu cave, it should be easy to return to the upper level, and it is easier to escape! On my side, although it is much more dangerous, the top priority is to prevent the poison from degenerating, and then find an opportunity to find a way to the upper echelons. I had made up my mind, so I hurriedly told the two of them the plan, and agreed to find their own way and meet after reaching the upper floor.
I was afraid that Ah Xia would be worried, so after comforting her a few words, and promising her that she would "definitely find her", she and Ear set off under my urging. Seeing them leave, I quickly dragged my injured leg to the edge of a stepped stone platform that was more than one meter high and more than three meters high, and struggled to climb upwards - my goal was the top of this high platform, after all, in my current situation, if I were to be given another poisonous bat or even a few faceless corpses, it would be a matter of minutes to return to my position. Therefore, I had to find a relatively safe place first.
As soon as I climbed up to the next level, I suddenly felt that my eyes lit up, and a golden thing flickered - when I looked closely, it turned out to be the heaven and earth gossip plate of Feng Shui Zhou that was reluctant to borrow people! I remembered that the Lu Ban ruler that had been in my hand before was unexpectedly powerful, and I knew that this must be a baby, although I wouldn't use it, but I still took it first, in case I used it. So, blocking the charred tentacles of the corpse flower ghost vine, bowed to the wreckage of Feng Shui Zhou who couldn't tell whether it was Feng Shui Zhou, put the gossip plate into the medicine box, and then thought, doesn't he still have a treasure, an iron abacus, just borrow it together, and then give him a mound after he gets out and then return him. So I simply turned over the black ash around me, and finally found the heavy iron abacus under a stone slab, weighed it, drank it, and it weighed five or six pounds, and it was enough to kill when used as a brick. Put away the two treasures, I feel a little more steady, and finally got a worthy weapon, even if I encounter a monster, I have the capital to fight.
As soon as I climbed onto the stone platform, I was lying flat panting for breath, and I immediately heard the low roar of the faceless corpse under my feet, and I couldn't help but secretly rejoice that I had taken the lead. I looked around with fear, and although the corpses gathered around me, they were unable to move to the end, and they were stuck one after another by the high and thick stone steps, and they never came up. I was relieved to see this, and I was safe for the time being.
This platform, not too big, not too small, the area is about the same as a double bed, the height on the top is just enough for me to sit in it, even if there is a poisonous bat, I can still hide for a while if I indent it. The only hidden danger is to prevent the cave from collapsing. Seeing that I had found a suitable shelter, I quickly opened the medicine box, turned out my tools, cut open the trouser tube, and exposed the outside of the poisoned calf...... Without further ado, I had to force myself to calm down, hold my panic down, pull out the scalpel, and cross my hands to make a cross. Squeezing hard, I saw that the blood was solidified, I had to secretly complain, this thousand-legged centipede is estimated to have grown up in the pile of dead people, the cold of the venom is extraordinary, I only feel that with the growth of time, my leg is like being frozen, has gone from a tearing pain, to gradually lose consciousness. Experience tells me that amputation may be the best option at the moment - is it true that I, Dr. Li, am I going to become "Cripple Li" today?
That's still good, if I become a poisonous corpse like Liang Hu, who doesn't recognize my relatives, I might as well die with a headshot. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shiver, I was panicking, and suddenly I recalled the confession of Ah Xia's true feelings in a hurry before, as well as the words from the bottom of my ears, and my heart, which was almost frozen by the cold poison, actually beat hard, and drove the poisonous gas back to my lower limbs little by little...... consciousness, also began to get excited: yes, there is such a confidante who will cry for himself, and there is such a brother who is forced to get out alive by himself, what reason do I have to give up this cowardly self!?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but have a flash of inspiration and a bright idea: although the toxin has spread now, the poisonous blood in the ulcer has coagulated, and it seems that the method of bloodletting and detoxification is too late; But the good news is that the clotted blood also retains a lot of toxins. Moreover, from the point of view that I have been able to continue to be active, this centipede poison should not be a neurotoxin, and it is very likely that it is a virus because it is integrated into the skin by corroding the skin. Then, the most important thing at the moment should be to prevent the venom from seeping into the periosteum and bone marrow, and then spreading to the spinal cord and brain, causing a corpse.
I had to take a deep breath, take out the scalpel with the largest blade, and concentrate for a while before I opened my eyes, which were sour because of sleepiness, avoided the arteries and nerve bundles, and made three cuts more than ten centimeters long, before cutting the muscles of the outer layer of the calf, revealing Bai Sensen's bones.
Maybe the knife was too fast, or maybe the toxin was still paralyzing my nerve conduction, and by the time I felt the pain, it was already a few seconds later, but it was too painful! I only felt a strange heaviness in the wound on my calf, and the tissues around my wound were squeezing out uncontrollably, and then, there was a burst of heart-rending pain, I only rolled the gauze in my mouth to squeak, and I felt that my teeth began to tremble violently due to the excessive force...... Originally, I was always afraid that there would be sequelae from too many anesthetics during the operation, but now, I finally know the benefits of anesthetics.
My thoughts were involuntarily scattered by the pain, and a few flashback pictures immediately appeared in my mind: first, when I watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in junior high school, Hua Tuo scraped the bones for Guan Gong to cure the poison, and couldn't help laughing miserably, hehe, I didn't expect that after half my life, I would really be determined to keep up with the god of the army one day; Then, I remembered the scene when I rented a DVD to watch the movie "First Blood" in high school, when I watched the scene of the male protagonist played by Uncle Long prying the bullet and disinfecting it with gunpowder, I always felt that the expression was too exaggerated, and now, I guess I am not far from the painful and distorted face, probably; Then, thinking of the supposedly popular and popular series of games "Resident Evil" recommended by my roommate Lao Ma in college, I really hope I won't become the kind of zombie who eats relatives and friends, but if it really comes to that time, I just hope that Ah Xia or my ears can give me a good ......
As my consciousness grabbed all kinds of relevant and irrelevant fragments in my memory, I had to grit my teeth, use tweezers in one hand to pry up the rotten muscle tissue in the epidermis, and in the other hand I took a scalpel like a curved blade and a shovel. Seeing beads of sweat the size of beans dripping from my forehead to my hands and legs, I couldn't help but admire the old man Guan Gong, what kind of martial arts and courage he could withstand this kind of torment, and even calmly played against others.
It's just that admiration is admiration, but the current situation is not optimistic: when I look closely, there are already gray and black marks of different shades on my calf tibia. And the scratching of the bones like ten thousand ants devouring the heart, although it will bring me unbearable pain laggingly, but the change is still immediate after all—I saw that one of the black spots has been scraped off a lot by me.
When I saw this, I immediately judged that it should have an effect! Quickly made a decision, concocted it in the same way, scratched and scraped, gritted his teeth and turned over the flesh, scraped the black and bad bones around the affected area, and I don't know how long it took, I even felt numb to the pain, only to find that all the black spots on the surface of the bones had been removed.
This is not over, I was afraid that the toxins in the muscles would not be cleared and corrode the bones, so I didn't dare to rashly stitch them to heal, so I had to put a layer of gauze stained with spirits near the end of the bone, and sew it in the muscles. I can't do any more, I just hope to get out as soon as possible and do another meticulous treatment.
After stitching up all the wounds and performing the operation, I didn't dare to act rashly, let alone waste the energy of the pathfinder flashlight, so I had to turn off the electricity, recuperate in the dark, lie on the stone platform to recover my strength, and endure the torment of the corpse roars one after another. In the midst of great fright, sometimes I suddenly felt poisonous bats and dried corpses salivating on my face, so frightened that I quickly sat up in shock, and turned on the flashlight only to find that there was nothing but the sympathy caused by the sound of hearing to the vision in the dark...... I don't know how long it took, I just felt that I couldn't sleep, so I couldn't help but fall asleep, during which I was awakened several times by the angry roar of the dry corpse that licked the black blood dripping from my wound under the platform, but I still couldn't stand the sleepiness, and I fell asleep several times...... In a blur, I remembered that on Valentine's Day, when I was on duty after the New Year, I watched a movie in my den alone, about a beautiful woman who loves surfing, trapped on a small reef, and a great white shark struggling to find an escape, how similar it is to me now being surrounded by corpses on this stone platform a few meters square. Put yourself in their shoes, sometimes, in a difficult situation, what gradually wears away your resilience may be this blank waiting...... Sometimes I even think crankily, for fear that once I fall asleep, I won't be able to sleep.
Luckily, after a few intermittent sleeps, I finally felt like I had regained some strength. It's just that how do I get off this platform to find my way, and how do I break through this terrifying sea of corpses?