Chapter 145: Overnight on an isolated island
(October 16) countdown to the 75th day
Under the starlight, Yao Xiaoyi manipulated the bamboo raft down the river, and there were many twists along the way, and after several attempts, she was able to control the raft very well, and the road was smooth.
In the blink of an eye, it was early in the morning, and the time came to October 16, and she had been down the river for more than four hours.
After another big bend in the river, the water is relatively gentle, and in the distance, the shape of an island faintly appears. Yao Xiaoyi judged that this vague island should be the small island she stood on the edge of the cliff in the back mountain the day before yesterday.
As the raft approached, the island became clearer and clearer. But seeing that the island stood in the middle of the river, it split the river in two and detoured along both sides.
The outcropping of the island is about five meters wide and about seven or eight meters high, and the entire end of the island is constantly washed by the river, leaving only bare rocks.
Yao Xiaoyi decided to land on the island, one to take a break, and the other to confirm whether there were pursuers behind, the tail composed of twenty-two killers was always a stone in her heart, and if she didn't get rid of the tail completely, the road to the south would be full of risks at any time.
She took control of the raft and traveled in the middle of the river, tying one end of the rope to the raft to her waist, little closer to the island.
The river was so deep that the branches in your hands could not hold the raft. At the moment when the raft was about to hit the full rock of the island, she spotted a foothold, jumped into it, and jumped up.
The island is much wider than it looks. There is a thin layer of soil on top of the rocks, and between the crevices of the rocks, occasionally trees grow tenaciously.
She climbed to the top, only to find that the island was unique. The island was actually made up of two parts, along the back of the river, five or six meters from the island where she was, and a slightly larger island.
Between the two islands, there is a huge rock, formed naturally, like a bridge connecting the two islands. Beneath the boulders is an open area where rafts can be hidden.
Yao Xiaoyi returned to the position where she had just landed on the island, pulled the rope, and hid the raft between the two islands. After the river circles the island, it merges into one at the back, and then the water is more turbulent downward. In an emergency, she can either hide in the middle of it or take a raft to quickly go south.
She walked through the boulder to another island and found a flat place to sit.
Along the way, she was constantly paying attention to the movements in the secret passage in the back mountain through the video. Several people surrounded the sarcophagus and detonated ** one by one, and if it goes on like this, the sarcophagus will definitely break.
Her fears didn't last long before they became a reality. Not long after the break, another batch of ** was detonated, and the sarcophagus was blown open. After a while, the people in the hall surrounded them, and then scattered in all directions, probably startled by the two corpses in the sarcophagus that had been intact. However, from the mobile phone video, it is not visible after the explosion, and the body seems to be intact.
Waiting for the smoke in the hall to clear, the group gathered around again. Then one person jumped into the sarcophagus first, followed by another, and then another. One after another, a total of twenty killers jumped into the sarcophagus and disappeared, leaving only two large halls to guard.
Yao Xiaoyi naturally knew that in less than two minutes, these twenty killers would be completely submerged by the river, and how many people could survive would depend on whose creation.
If the killer survives, it will take about an hour from the mouth of the secret passage to the beach where she woke up, and it will take four and a half hours to get from the beach to the island. The five-and-a-half-hour time difference was enough for her to escape or prepare to face the enemy head-on.
She planned to rest for a while, at least until the killer showed up on the river beach and determined how many people wanted to pursue him down the river. She set the alarm clock on her phone, put her bow and arrows within reach, put her backpack behind her back, and reclined down.
She was so tired that she almost fell asleep as soon as she leaned her head on her backpack.
At this time, it was three or four o'clock in the morning, under the canyon and above the river, a person, an island and a raft, forming a wonderful picture of "Staying in the Mountains at Night", long and ethereal, quiet and serene. There was silence all around, except for the sound of gurgling water, accompanied by those who were sleeping. The starlight in the sky passed through the narrow canyon, scattered to the island, through the sparse woods, and gently sprinkled on Yao Xiaoyi's young and beautiful face, and only in her sleep could she get this short care, and she could be treated gently by the world.
Jingle bells!
The rapid alarm of the mobile phone woke Yao Xiaoyi from her deep sleep, instantly breaking the silence around her.
She sat up, subconsciously grabbed the bow and crossbow, and in the next half a second, released it again.
She clicked on the video on her mobile phone, and by coincidence, a group of figures appeared on the river beach, counting carefully, there were as many as sixteen people, judging from the clothes and weapons they carried, these people were undoubtedly the killers who entered the river from the secret passage.
But seeing a few people looking around the bonfire that Yao Xiaoyi had left earlier, a person who seemed to be the leader touched the ashes and sniffed his fingers. The man looked around the river beach for a while, and then pointed in the direction where Yao Xiaoyi had left a trace. Several people then rushed in the direction of the rock.
After a while, it was estimated that Yao Xiaoyi could leave a tissue on the cliff, and with a wave of the leader's hand, the rest of the people on the river beach surrounded him, and then they all went to the direction where the other people had just disappeared.
More than ten minutes later, seven more people came back on the river beach, each dragging a tree, and immediately began to get busy. Needless to say, these people are also preparing rafts like Yao Xiaoyi. However, they were extremely fast, and it only took half an hour for them to set up two rafts. Immediately, a total of eight people on the river beach, including the leader, each mounted two rafts, each with four people, and quickly moved south along the river.
Obviously, the sixteen killers were divided into two groups, one group followed the traces left by Yao Xiaoyi to search for the mountain, and the other group went south to the south, and they could reach the location of the island in four hours.
A full eight killers went south down, and their number exceeded Yao Xiaoyi's expectations, if they continued to stick to the island and fight the killers head-on, this isolated island could easily fall into the encirclement of the other party. Yao Xiaoyi immediately decided to continue south to find a more suitable ambush location.
Advantageously, she has identified the number of killers she is chasing, and she can also install miniature cameras to monitor her opponents at important points along the way.
Between startling the snake or preparing a meeting gift, Yao Xiaoyi chose the latter, sooner or later, it will be encountered, and it is not so important to alarm the other party.
She returned to where she had landed on the island and threw down a bag of snack boxes so that anyone coming upstream could see at a glance that someone had landed on the island. Immediately, on the route to the island, a sharp knife was buried, the tip of which was coated with a poison mixed with hallucinogens, and covered with a few dead leaves. In fact, in order to complete her revenge plan, she has already prepared a sufficient number of cameras, mobile phone cards, mobile power devices and medical kits, compressed biscuits and other materials necessary for outdoor survival.
In order to distract the other party and fall into the trap she created, she also hung a card from a branch with a "welcome message" written on it, less than half a meter in front of the knife where the knife was buried.
Finally, a miniature camera was attached to a tree, and this time on a raft and down the river.