Chapter Forty-Nine: Hiding in the Cave
Hearing this news, Dongfang immediately turned around and beckoned me to rush to Liu Ran's side.
When I heard the news, I was also pleasantly surprised, so I didn't care about the face, and followed Dongfang to climb over quickly.
After staying in this place for so long and after so many experiences, the feeling of breaking through the darkness and finally finding hope is simply beyond words.
When we climbed to Liu Ran's side, we felt a faint cool breeze sprinkled overhead, mixed with the scent of wild flowers.
When I finally saw the exit, I couldn't contain the excitement in my heart and I wanted to climb up immediately.
However, Liu Ran told us to calm down first, this is not the time to be happy, because we still have to climb up, there are no ropes or steps here, and the height above is unknown.
I understood what Liu Ran meant, so I calmed myself down, and tried the width of the stone wall again, I feel okay, as long as I am careful, I should be able to climb up, but it is much more difficult to climb up like this.
In the gap, after my legs were straightened, my body curled up slightly, so that I could support the stone walls on both sides and climb up.
It's a lot wider than when we first came in, so it's easier for us to climb up like this, but the stone feels a little awkward, so I wrap some gauze around my hands, and it feels a lot better.
While I was trying here, I looked at Dongfang and took out Kun Tiandou again, watching the pointer on it keep shifting, and it seemed that the way out was in sight.
After putting away Kun Tiandou, we officially began to climb up, but what we thought was easy just now was not easy to get up like this.
I didn't dare to climb up the stone wall with my feet, so I had to curl up, but not to mention that I was not feeling well, and if it took a long time, I would feel numb in my legs and feet.
But after all, it was the last journey on the road to survival, so I naturally didn't want to give up here, so I gritted my teeth and endured to continue to climb up.
After crawling for a while, my fingers were already trembling as I saw the light getting closer and closer, protesting that a strike would happen at any time.
I told myself in my heart that I was going to be able to go out soon, and I must not make any mistakes at this time, otherwise I would lose all my efforts.
After the numbness of my hands, I began to prop up the stone wall with my feet, leaning my back against the other stone wall, and resting for a few minutes to catch my breath.
But it was only a few minutes, and I didn't have much time to rest, and after a while, I had to push my body back up like a duck on the shelf.
Before I knew it, we had been climbing for a long time, and when I looked down again, I saw only a narrow gap below.
But at that moment, I suddenly heard a sparse voice, which sounded both familiar and unfamiliar.
I was slightly stunned, and it occurred to me that it was sent out by countless nocturnal creatures crawling by, and maybe those were the food sources of the mountain ghosts here.
I felt a chill in my heart, thinking about the current situation, it is really up and down, if there is really any carnivorous group coming over, then do we let it go? Or won't let go?
I felt so anxious that I could even hear the strange sound of rats chewing their food in the midst of the noise.
I scolded in my heart, what bad luck! I didn't feed the group of mice just now, and now I meet this group again, did I be a cat in my last life, and I came to pay off my debts in this life?
Just as I was thinking so much, I was going to go to my backpack to grab the sulfur powder, and even if I died, I would have to fight with this group of beasts.
But at this time, an eastern voice came from above, "Be careful, it's a spider, quickly take out the sulfur powder and sprinkle it on your body." ”
Hearing him say this, my heart suddenly sank, and my heart said that it was okay not to be a mouse, but the result was not optimistic.
I didn't have much sulfur powder on my body, so I sprinkled it all over my body, then supported my body with my back, sprinkled the sulfur powder evenly, and then dared to slowly shrink up, trying to put only my hands and feet on the stone wall, and my body hanging in the air.
Waiting is often very tiring, and it is this kind of uncertain waiting, which makes people worry about waiting, and they can't wait to give up.
Perhaps it was only a short time, I can't be sure, but that voice seemed to me to cross the east and come to me very late.
I put the flashlight in my mouth and shone it in front of me, and I was afraid that I would be scared when I saw the spiders, and I would accidentally let go and fall down.
But listening to the dense sound in the dark, and feeling that I don't know anything, the interference of this sound makes me even more afraid.
Hesitating, I frowned, trying to convince myself not to think about it, but things were far from that simple.
When I felt a tingling in my hands, and those unknown things of unknown size crawled out, I couldn't bear my own weight like the stone walls on both sides.
Although the things were also afraid of the sulfur powder in my hands, and they all bypassed the contact of my hands and feet, the sound that was close at hand reminded me that they were coming.
When your hair is constantly being manipulated by something, when the sound passes by your ears, it really takes a lot of courage to keep yourself calm.
I don't know if I should avoid it, but I know I can't think about it now, it's like a nightmare that slowly fades from my world.
"Hey, they're gone, are you okay?"
It was the voice of the East, and when I heard it, I finally recovered from the long and terrible torment, and opened my eyes, only to find that the flashlight in my mouth was gone, and my tongue had licked a hard piece of metal.
The keen sense of touch made me subconsciously think of the bug that had just crawled past, and I immediately took a bite and spit out the end of this flashlight.
"I ...... OK! I replied with a strong spirit, but after getting up, I felt my hands and feet tremble non-stop, and I was afraid that I would not be able to climb up for a while.
"Then let's take a break, it's close to the exit anyway!" Dongfang said as he took out a bottle of water from his backpack, and after a few sips of his own, he threw it to me.
After a few sips of water, I was much more sober, but as soon as I dropped the empty bottle, I suddenly found that my pants were wet for some time.
In this way, we rested for more than ten minutes, Liu Ran took the lead in climbing up for a while, and when he came back, he told us that there was a lot of space in front of us, but it was covered by a spider web, which should be the masterpiece left by the group of spiders who walked over just now, so let's be careful when we pass.
At that time, I and Dongfang crawled forward and backward towards the white light not far away, and at last we saw the place she had spoken, but it was not yet an exit, but a large hollow, but this time it did not appear in the stone wall.
When we got closer, we found that there were indeed a lot of cobwebs here, dense and thick, like a mist that could not be dispersed, and the light was shining through the gaps in the mist, shooting into us.
There may be poisonous spiders in these cobwebs, so we should also be careful, but fortunately, Liu Ran was prepared and burned all the way along these cobwebs with a shirt and a torch made of wire rope.
I was confronted with this strange stone cave, but I had an indescribable fear, so I had to retreat, and I did not dare to follow until a path was burned out of this cobweb.
There are a lot of things in the cobwebs, but most of them are strangely shaped bones, snakes, rats, cockroaches, centipedes, and even a pair that looks like the hallucinogenic bugs in the tomb.
In addition to those bones, I found that underneath the cobwebs, there was a layer of withered vines, but strangely the leaves on the vines were intact.
Looking along these vines, I suddenly appeared, and the leaves on the vines seemed to be very regular, and the shape and position of each leaf seemed to be recording something.
Like those oriental faces carved on the stone walls, it seems that they exist to indicate something, like knotted rope notes, but what I don't understand is the direction they describe, and how to read them.
At the end of the vines, we naturally see its source, and in the most common and ordinary explanation, it is that the vines fall from above, and because there is no sunlight, they become dry.
The best way to hide things is to show them to the world in the most acceptable way, which is the law of nature, the most magical place, and the universal place.
Looking along the vine little by little, I still didn't understand what it was hiding and why it was hidden.
At the exit, under the towering tree, I only found its source, but the tree would not tell me, only what I saw.
I sighed, don't think about it if I can't figure it out, if it allows me to see what it shows and convince me, then why can't I let myself show what I let it see.
Under the big tree, we were even more nervous than before, obviously we had already come out, but among the three of us, only Dongfang was very happy.
It was already nearly evening, and I was overwhelmed by the emotions I had just felt at the pleasure of this freedom.
And the melancholy in Liu Ran's heart seemed to be different from me, she turned her head and whispered something in her mouth, which seemed to be about the old bell.
Looking at the remnant sun on the horizon, Dongfang Xian was the most free, but his joy of being reborn did not stay on his face for long, and was replaced by another sudden expression.
Under the red sunset, Dongfang was the first to step out of the grass surrounding the big tree, and at the same time, that nervous look reappeared on his face again.