In the darkness of the night, I made my way through the sinkhole as fast as I could, the dim light and the thick foliage making it impossible to discern in detail where and how far the swamp was.

The sinkhole is several kilometers long, and I try to be as quiet as possible so that I don't make too much noise when I walk, so as not to attract their attention if there are ghosts nearby.

On the way, I stumbled several times and fell into the swamp, but when I was on the edge I climbed out with the trunk of the tree in my hand, although the person was fine, but the rancid mud was covered from head to toe, and some fallen leaves were glued to the surface, and I couldn't guess what 'thing' I was at the moment when I watched my shadow cast on the ground by the moonlight......

However, although the silt is rancid, it also provides me with a pure natural protective layer, which becomes mud after sticking to the surface of the body and dries up, which can prevent the bite of many mosquitoes and poisons, so I am too lazy to clean up, and always put all my energy on the road, hoping to meet the bald head and bones soon, and at the same time find Leng Qi in the shortest possible time to rescue her safely!

After stumbling in the sinkhole for two and a half hours, a black shadow appeared in the distance, I couldn't see the specific appearance of the black shadow, but I could probably guess that it should be the cliff at the end of the sinkhole, as long as I climbed up from there, this most difficult and dangerous road was completely completed.

Seeing the end, there was hope, I stepped forward quickly, walked near the black shadow, turned on the flashlight and shone it carefully, but I was instantly dumbfounded. This is indeed the cliff at the end of the sinkhole, and it is a cliff in the true sense of the word, there are no steps or roads leading to the top, this is almost a cliff 90 degrees perpendicular to the ground, and there is no other way to go up except to climb.

I did a lot of calculations, but in the end I didn't realize that the other side of the sinkhole was not a slope, but a cliff. Although there are many rain-washed potholes and bumps on the cliff that can be climbed, I now have limited resources and no professional climbing tools on my own.

Visual estimates show that the height of the top of the cliff from the bottom of the sinkhole is at least 50 meters, not shorter, only taller. In the middle of the night, if I risk climbing with my bare hands, and one of them accidentally falls from a height, I am afraid that I will have to stay in the sinkhole completely and wait for death......

After thinking for a few minutes and taking a breath, I knew I had no choice but to go home and give up this search because of this cliff. Although I know that the bald head and the bones will do their best to search and rescue Leng Qi, and the current skills and tacit understanding between the two of them are enough to reassure, but in the dark, I always feel that there is an invisible telepathy between me and Leng Qi. As long as I look for it step by step, I can sense where she is, and she can sense that I am doing my best to save her......

This feeling is very subtle and unfounded, but it makes people believe from the bottom of their hearts that they are willing to take risks and fight for this feeling......

Ten minutes later, I had regained most of my strength, and at the same time I had made up my mind. Looking at the steep cliff in front of me, which looked like an ancient beast, I had no fear in my heart, and I tore off a few pieces of cloth from my body and wrapped them around my hands, and began to climb the cliff without any security!

It was said that there was no safety guarantee, but I was prepared for myself and what might happen before I climbed.

Before I set out, I collected a large amount of fallen leaves from the neighborhood and piled them up at the climbing site, which can be more than a meter thick like a hill. In this way, if I do miss and fall, falling on the thick fallen leaves can also reduce some fatal damage. At the same time, I used the rope on my body, one end of which was tied to my waist, and the other end of which I had found a knot of trees that I had found nearby when collecting fallen leaves.

The knot is the intersection between the branches of the tree and the main body, and this part of the whole tree is the strongest and hardest. I used a dagger to cut the knots into the shape of a large middle and a small one on the side and fixed it on the rope, so that it could be used as a climbing piton, and the body was fixed in a suitable place, so that it could be used to rest and observe the subsequent route. This is a very important thing, because I can't climb a cliff dozens of meters high in one breath with my own strength, and it is inevitable to stop halfway to rest and regain my strength.

With everything ready, I officially started to set off, and the first ten meters were climbed easily. Although the sinkhole was eerie and dark, there were so many rocks on this cliff that I didn't even need to prepare a knot, and it was like climbing a ladder to climb quickly.

Climbing to a height of nearly 20 meters from the bottom of the pit, the protruding stones above suddenly decreased, and because of the proximity to the outside of the pit, there was less moisture, and many stones seemed to be hard, but in fact they were unusually loose, and they could be broken off the cliff wall with a little force. To be safe, I had to choose my focus carefully and test it before each climb. As a result, security is improved and speed is slowed down.

At a height of more than 50 meters, my original plan was to take one meter every two minutes, and rest for five minutes every ten meters climbed. In this way, you should be able to climb out of the sinkhole in less than three hours, and with the flat road behind, you should be able to reach the foot of Laoshan Mountain before dawn.

However, the plan could not keep up with the change, and when I saw the loose stones starting, my heart sank, and I knew that my estimated time was about to start to move back.

I clinged to the cliff wall and moved up little by little, trying to speed up as fast as I could, but by the time I managed to touch the ground beyond the sinkhole, it was already bright, and the sun was rising in the east, and a touch of orange was sprinkled all over the forest. I was originally going to come out in more than two hours, but now I have used it for more than five hours, which is almost doubled!

Climbing out of the sinkhole, I lay on the ground and gasped for breath as I watched the dark blue sky, I hadn't felt so tired in a long time......

After a short break of a few minutes, I struggled to my feet and dragged my tired body on.

Outside the sinkhole, the mobile phone has a satellite signal, and the positioning system on it begins to update. Judging from the map, the bones have not changed their location and are still at the foot of Laoshan Mountain.

Climbing out of the sinkhole, the road outside was 10,000 times better than the swamp of the sinkhole, and I almost trotted all the way through. It wasn't long before a half-sized mountain appeared in front of the forest.

The peak is not very high, and the whole mountain looks like a bald head, bare without any vegetation, it should be the Laoshan Mountain that the cloaked old man said.

The satellite positioning only gives an approximate location, and from the map, my location coordinates have coincided with the location coordinates of the bones, which means that they are nearby, most likely at the foot of the mountain!

I put away my phone and began to slow down, looking around while approaching Laoshan Mountain, and walked less than 200 meters forward, when I suddenly saw an unnamed vegetation on the side, the leaves were big and green like plates, and there was a fruit the size of a watermelon in the middle of those leaves. The fruit is crystal clear, and the morning sun reflects a bright light on it, which looks very attractive and delicious.

I came out in a hurry, except for the two pieces of dry food and those hemp pastries given by the old man in the cloak, there was only a bottle of mineral water. When I was in the sinkhole, I had already drunk it completely, and now my mouth was very thirsty, and when I saw the huge fruit, I immediately made up the tempting scene when the watermelon was cut.

I hadn't seen it, but it was probably some kind of melon fruit, so I swallowed dry saliva and leaned closer, holding a dagger in my left hand and grasping the fruit with my right hand. Just as he was trying to cut off the rhizome, he had just touched the fruit, but it moved on its own, and suddenly it turned, and the big bald face suddenly appeared......