Chapter XXVIII: SOS
Jörmungadr fled
There is something wrong with the light signal
"Jörmungad!" This was my first reaction after hearing this voice. "Did I fall into these guys' nest?"
When I thought of this, my body couldn't help but start trembling, and this feeling was a kind of fear from the deepest heart, a fear of unknown fate, a fear of death.
"Smack!" I stretched out my hand and slapped myself hard, and a hot pain hit my brain in an instant. Pain can be a strange thing sometimes, and it can make you feel scared at times, but sometimes it can keep you awake and calm.
At this time, what I need is to calm down, because after calming down, I will have a chance to live.
I clung to the wall, holding my breath, carefully discerning with my ears which Jörmunqëd were coming in my direction.
Snakes are strange creatures that can sense the presence of warm-blooded animals from several kilometers away through the hyacinth. In other words, in such a dark and damp catacomb, I was no different from a lamb to the slaughter.
However, when I calmed down and listened to the sounds, I was surprised to find that the sounds of Jörmungadr were strange, more precisely, they were moving fast, messy, and impatient, and even to me, they didn't seem like they were chasing me, they were more like they were running for their lives, hiding from some more terrible creature.
"What's going on?" I wondered in my heart. "Is there anything more terrible?"
And in a moment of my astonishment, several cold and slippery Jörmungandr swam past my hands and legs. They move fast and look terrified, completely oblivious to my presence, as if I were a stone or an inconspicuous corpse.
"What the hell is going on?" I was curious, but the appearance of these guys reminded me of one thing, and that was the direction in which they were going, and maybe there was a way out. Thinking of this, I immediately stood up and touched in the direction where the guys were swimming.
Darkness, still endless darkness.
The wolf's eye flashlight that I had been carrying with me had long since lost somewhere, and the only thing I could do was to hold on to the wall and move forward step by step. Fortunately, the road under my feet was a relatively neatly built stone road, and there were no traps, although from time to time I would step on a few Jörmungandr who fled from under my feet, but these guys seemed to have no idea of attacking me for a long time, except for the slightest roar, more of a panicked escape.
And just after I walked in the dark for about ten minutes, I suddenly saw a glimmer of light flashing in front of me, a glimmer of flashlight.
Although this light flashed, my heart suddenly burst into ecstasy, "Zhang Chengyong! ”
I know that in such a place, it is naturally impossible for zongzi to go around the world with a flashlight, and the only person with a flashlight here is naturally Zhang Chengyong.
So, I immediately mustered up all my strength and ran towards the place where the light was shining just now, and I shouted in a low voice as I ran: "Zhang Chengyong, is that you?" Is that you? Are you hurt? How's Mei? Feed! You kid have something to say, huh? ”
But it was strange to me that no matter how much I shouted, there was no response at all, and the only sound I had was the faint sound of Jörmungar from time to time, except for my own echoes.
The light, still there, still flickering, still about 30 meters away from me, no matter how I run, it keeps such a distance from me, not far and not close.
"What the hell is going on?" After running for a while, I stopped. I felt as if I had stepped on a Jörmungandr, this guy was constantly struggling after I stepped on it, and I didn't intend to let it go, I made a hard effort under my feet, only to feel a click sound, the skull of this cargo was stepped on by me and a small fragment, and suddenly a stream of liquid flowed out, because there was no light, I didn't know if it was venom or blood, however, this feeling of killing made me relax in an instant, I took a deep breath, although this practice is a bit bloody, But I suddenly understood in that moment why so many people love the feeling of killing.
"Zhang Chengyong! What the hell is going on? Are you all right? I shouted again in a tentative tone.
There was still no response, and all that came to my ears was an empty echo of myself.
However, it was at this time that I suddenly noticed that the flashlight that had been flickering in front of me would stop for a while every nine strokes. And these nine flashes are actually three short, three long and three short rhythms.
“SOS!” I gasped once again as I set the rhythm of the flickering flashlight. "Could it be that Zhang Chengyong and they have an accident! They're asking me to save them!? ”
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a chill down my spine, reached out and pulled out the tiger tooth dagger from my waist, and rushed towards the beam of light under my feet. However, to my surprise, this time the beam disappeared with a sharp turn not far ahead. At the same time, I just felt a chill hit my back. This chill is like someone pouring a bucket of ice water on you when you are not paying attention in the heat of summer, making my body feel as if it has been frozen in an instant, every blood vessel, every cell in my body has been frozen.
Immediately afterward, I suddenly felt a powerful suction accompanied by the bloody qi, and this suction seemed to devour everything in the world, swallowing everything in the world.
I reached out and scratched at the wall, but the walls on both sides were wet and slippery, and I tried several times to no avail, but I was sucked back several steps by the suction. In desperation, I stabbed my knife at the wall, hoping to catch a chance of life. Sure enough, after a busy meal, the tiger tooth in my hand was stuck in a stone crack that was not protruding, and at this time my person had been carried off the ground by the huge suction.
The wind, so strong that it carried a disgusting smell of blood, passed over my face and made it impossible for me to breathe. What made me even more unacceptable was that because of that suction, countless Jörmunga struck me in the body, in the face, and the only thing I could do at this time was to clutch the hilt of the knife, knowing that as soon as I let go, I would be desperate for survival.
I don't know how long it took, I just felt like my arm was starting to go numb and swollen, as the suction force increased, my grip on the handle of the knife became less and less, my eyes had begun to show Venus, I knew I was exhausted, but my consciousness kept telling myself, "I can't let go!" Don't let go! Let go and it's all over! Don't let go! However, although I kept emphasizing to myself that I could not let go, the strength was gradually disappearing from my fingertips until it completely left the hilt.
"It's over! It's all over! ”
Despair, a real despair! I never thought about death, nor did I think about what it was like, but when it did, my mind went blank.
To my complete surprise, just as I let go of the hilt of the knife that I had been gripping tightly, the suction that seemed to devour heaven and earth suddenly stopped, followed by an indescribable low roar. It's a terrifying roar, a chilling roar, and certainly a pleasant-sounding roar at this time, for I don't know what kind of creature this creature is, but I know that these Jörmungald should be its food, and by this time it was full.
"Grandma's! What kind of guy is this, he actually has such a big suction! No wonder those strange snakes will run, in a little while, I guess I'm going to be a snack! I struggled to my feet as I spat out the sand in my mouth and cursed.
But just as I easily touched the handle of the knife on the wall and tried to pull it off, the beam of light that had disappeared appeared in front of me in a trance again.
It's still that distance, it's still that rhythm.
It seems to be waiting for me, waiting for me to pass, or deliberately letting me see it, or deliberately keeping me from catching up with it.
"Grandma's! What's going on here? I have to figure it out today. With that in mind, I pulled the tiger tooth dagger off the wall with all my might, and strode towards the beam.
It's strange to say that after this big guy finished eating, the original Jörmungad in this stone path disappeared in an instant. At the beginning, I was still running cautiously, I was afraid that those guys would attack me without the deterrence of the big guy, after all, the death of the guys at the entrance of the ancient tomb was really panicking, but after I ran for a while, I found that those Jörmungader seemed to have evaporated from the world, and there was actually no one. With this guy in my way, I ran even faster, and although I couldn't see in the dark, there was nothing in my feet, and I ran about a kilometer in one go.
Strange to say, this time, the beam of light is getting closer and closer to me.
And as he got closer and closer to me, I suddenly noticed that it was flashing faster and faster, and the frequency was getting faster and faster, and just as I was about to catch up with him, I suddenly realized that it was actually a woman with a flashlight, a woman with long hair.
"Xiaomei!" I yelled, "What are you running? Are you alright? Where is Zhang Chengyong? ”
She didn't answer my question, but I seemed to hear her muttering something quietly.
"Xiaomei! Is that you? I shouted as I chased.
"Don't come here! Don't go near that place! Don't come here! Don't go near that place! Don't ......"
Just as I was about to catch up with her, I vaguely heard that she had been saying "don't come closer".