142 Monster Lair
The deep and dark narrow cave is undoubtedly a terrifying danger that most people never want to dream of, however, for Chen Peng, the cave where he was embraced by Lu Nianxuan for the first time was a beautiful illusion that he wanted time to stand still.
Chen Peng had never seen Lu Nianxuan so gentle with him, gently telling them about the happy or special things they had spent together. Once, Chen Peng thought that he was the only one who would remember those things in his heart, just like he thought that he might eventually marry Lu Nianxuan, and he was the only one who thought he would eventually become married. However, Lu Nianxuan accurately remembered everything he also cared about, cared about his safety, and wanted him to continue to be by her side. When Lu Nianxuan smiled tearfully and said that she had long been accustomed to Chen Peng appearing in front of her eyes every day, and only when she saw Chen Peng would she feel that she had spent a full day, Chen Peng felt so happy that she could die immediately. But at that moment, Chen Peng was more eager to live than ever before, and he was looking forward to a better future more enthusiastically than ever.
Maybe it's a strong desire to survive, maybe it's fighting poison with poison, plus Lu Nianxuan's warmth and soothing effect, or the effect of a combination of various factors. In short, Chen Peng was really lucky to pick up a life. Moreover, it didn't take long for Chen Peng, who was gradually sobering up, to stand up and walk with Lu Nianxuan's support.
After making sure that the snake venom in Chen Peng's body had been resolved, Tashi and Nie Xiao went down to the vicinity of the dark river and caught some small shrimp, small fish and crabs as food, and replenished some energy for everyone.
While catching fish and shrimp, Nie Xiao also made improvised tools out of ropes and river beach gravel to roughly measure the depth of the water. Through actual measurements, it is found that
The current of the dark river is not as turbulent as expected, and the depth is only about 1.4 meters, and the team members can completely wade to the opposite bank 20 meters away, avoiding the monsters on this side of the river to find a way out.
Chen Peng, who had listened to Wang Zhigang, Ge Zhengtian and others describe what happened after he fell into a coma, decided to stand on the side of Nie Xiao and Tashi, because he felt that Nie Xiao and Tashi were both high-level special forces with rich experience in survival in the wild. Since Chen Peng's poisoning symptoms had been greatly alleviated, Lu Nianxuan, Ge Zhengtian and Yao Xi no longer insisted on retreating, so the route of travel was finalized.
For the sake of insurance, the team members negotiated and decided to let Nie Xiao explore the way as the vanguard first, and Tashi coordinated in the middle, while Liu Qian still took the initiative to ask for a break on the grounds that the instructor should supervise the group's actions at the end of the team.
In the journey downstream again, the group went down the cave and crossed the river quite smoothly, the water temperature of the dark river was much warmer than they imagined, walking in it, it was like walking in a hot spring, but in view of the various pests seen after entering the cave, everyone did not dare to stay in the water for more.
After crossing the river, everyone used the night vision devices of the riflescope to observe the environment according to the agreed arrangement, so as to avoid the irritation that the flashlight light might cause to the monsters, although the monsters seemed to have no eyes and probably had no light sensitivity, but no one dared to take the risk. At this time, Ge Zhengtian and the others were a little grateful to the mean instructor who ordered them to bring Liu Qian, Lu Nianxuan and Chen Peng's equipment to set off at the cross-country running assembly point. If it weren't for the execution of his order, some of the team members at this time would have had to march into the dark because there were no night vision devices available, further increasing the difficulty and uncertainty of this operation.
Although infrared night vision devices allow students to walk in this dark cave, the clarity and accuracy of the imaging are limited. So much so that when the group walked along the river to the opposite bank of the monster, everyone found that there was far more than one monster lying on the river beach, but like a crocodile on the edge of the swamp, lying on the opposite bank as far as the eye could see. And the dark lake that the dark river joins is so big that there is no end in sight. The only consolation for the team was that the side of the river they walked on was only a meter wide, and there were no monsters crawling on it as far as they could see. But the rugged riverbank, which is just over a meter wide, also poses a great challenge for their journey.
Holding a gun, it is not easy to use night vision devices to find the way and walk, especially for these students who have just touched the gun for less than a day, with the support of the fear of monsters as a driving force, the students rushed forward for a few hundred meters, Yao Xi, Lu Nianxuan and Chen Peng were a little unbearable.
Originally, before leaving, the team members discussed that each team member should stop every 20 steps to observe whether the teammates behind them could keep up, so as to ensure that the team members did not fall behind, and also provide time for the team members to rest; But in actual action, the queue is arranged in the order of Nie Xiao, Wang Zhigang, Ge Zhengtian, Tashi Rondo, Yao Xi, Chen Peng, Lu Nianxuan, and Liu Qian. Because Nie Xiao walked quickly, Wang Zhigang refused to admit defeat and kept following him closely, while Ge Zhengtian and Tashi were strictly behind; It didn't take long for Nie Xiao and Wang Zhigang to distance themselves from the team behind. At first, Wang Zhigang would look at Ge Zhengtian himself when Nie Xiao looked back, but then he didn't care at all. Nie Xiao thought that the people behind him were all following, so he further accelerated his speed.
Just when Ge Zhengtian and Nie Xiao had to stop because Yao Xi and the others behind them needed to stop and rest, Wang Zhigang had already chased Nie Xiao and rushed to near the observation limit of the night vision device.
Seeing that Nie Xiao and Wang Zhigang were about to completely leave the range of his vision, Ge Zhengtian was anxious, and when he saw that he could no longer see the figure of the monster, he shouted at Wang Zhigang in a low voice.
This shout did not stop Wang Zhigang, but provoked a distant "plop!" Thump! The sound of falling water. Ge Zhengtian's heart tightened, and he didn't know what to do, but he saw that Liu Qian had already turned on the flashlight, pulled up Lu Nianxuan, who was sitting on the ground, and urged Chen Peng and Yao Xi to leave quickly! Tashi also hurriedly shouted at himself: "Turn on the flashlight and run!" ”