Chapter Twenty-Eight: Farewell
Ah Li lay at the entrance of the cave and hooked her head to look down, looking very anxious, I was startled, and I wanted to stand up by reflex, and the top of my head immediately "banged", and I didn't care about crying pain, and hurriedly crawled to the entrance of the cave. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's dark below, the swishing cold wind blows the sweat pores cold, I quickly swept a few times with a flashlight, where is there still Xiaodui's figure? I asked anxiously, "What's the matter with this kid?" If you lose a quarrel, you won't be looking for a short-term view, right? ”
Ah Li said, "Who quarreled with him?" It was he who said that he had thought of a way to catch the phantomist, so I asked him how to catch it, and he suddenly smiled, and then suddenly rolled over, and the person jumped down. ”
Although the junior brother was impulsive, he was not so bad as to joke with his own life, could it be that he really thought of the current method of persecuting the phantom master? Even if that's the case, he'll have to talk to us about it, right? Jumping down like this, what if you guess wrong? What should I do if something happens? He's in danger down there, can we get better up there? It's just nonsense, this stinky boy, eighty percent has not been educated for too long, and his skin is itchy again!
I suppressed my anger, put away the bronze box, quickly adjusted my posture, squatted with my back to the entrance of the cave instead, and said to Ah Li: "You wait for me here, I'll go down and have a look." ”
Ah Li grabbed my arm: "It's dark and steep below, and I don't know how deep it is, you don't even have a tool, how can you go down?" ”
I glanced back, and suddenly felt dizzy in front of me, and quickly shifted my gaze and said: "I checked with Xiao Dui before, this is all a meter square of holes, and the distance between the cave layers is no more than two meters, I can use these caves to swing in with the edge of the hole, and then go down layer by layer." Ah Li, you hold the flashlight, anyway, I'm useless, the more clearly I can see, the more nervous I feel. ”
I was about to leave, but Ah Li still didn't let go: "Brother Qianyi, didn't we say that we should not act separately?" ”
My heart softened, sighed, and comforted her, "Ah Li, this time and that time. Besides, this is not an official action, I just went down to bring Xiao Dui up, and eventually I have to return to this place. You are waiting for us here, by the way, recall the thief hole, can remember a little bit, besides, in case Lao Qiao himself comes out of the thief hole, we can just wait for the rabbit, and save some trouble. ”
There is another sentence that I choked in my throat and didn't say, there are too many unknown things to go down the cliff this time, and I am not very sure, I can't just take Ah Li down to adventure. Today, although Ali's identity has undergone earth-shaking changes, Ali is Lisan, the apprentice of the master, my little sister, and the one hundred and second generation errand runner like me, her skills may no longer be under me, and she no longer needs my protection, but can stand up in times of crisis, be my right and left hand, and fight side by side with me.
But in my heart, she is still a little girl who runs blindly behind my ass all day long on the old street, cute and kind, she has called me a brother for so many years, I should fulfill the responsibility of being a brother, knowing that the road ahead is unpredictable, how can I take my sister to take danger? Suddenly, I seemed to understand the smile of my junior brother before jumping off the cliff, he was not smiling at Ah Li, but sending a signal to me, beckoning me to follow him down.
Without further ado, I let go of Ah Li's hand and finally said, "I'll leave it to you here, and I'll wait for us to come back." As he spoke, he clasped his hands on the edge of the hole, jumped down, and settled at the entrance of the next layer of the hole.
A few more floors down, I found that the holes here are not neatly arranged up and down, but diagonally staggered, the center of the upper layer of the hole, against the leftmost wall or the rightmost wall of the next layer of holes, is also a little more staggered, the distance between the same layer of holes and the holes is larger, resulting in the upper layer of holes down four meters down all stone walls, there is nowhere to stand.
The position I am in now has almost reached the end of the range of the wolf's eye flashlight, and Ah Li's light has almost turned into a dim light strip, faintly hitting the top of my head, and the road below is completely dark.
People often don't know how to cherish when they have it, once they lose the light and fall into this primitive darkness, their eyes have become ornaments, and they can only rely on the palm of their hands to touch inch by inch, so they know the importance of light, which is really difficult.
I slowly turned around in place, and depending on where I had swung in, I should now be facing the hole, slightly to the left wall. I reached out to the left and touched it, and sure enough, before my arm was straightened, the tips of my fingers touched the wall, and I moved forward with small steps against the wall, and after just seven steps, my palm touched the hole.
Now the most important thing is to judge the location of the hole in the lower layer, but unfortunately my cane is not long enough, and I can't put it down first and knock it in a circle like a guide cane. The equipment I had with me was also very limited, only a disinfectant cotton pack and a lighter...... That's right! Lighter!
I quickly found the lighter, there was wind at the entrance of the hole, I didn't light it twice, I turned sideways, blocked the wind with my back, and with a "click", a small yellow flame burst out. But at this moment, I suddenly saw a pair of cold eyes, just behind the flames, no more than thirty or forty centimeters away from me, and they immediately met my eyes.
it! I felt a sigh of relief in my heart, gasping for air, damn it, I almost didn't choke Lao Tzu! The body reflexively shuddered backwards, and as soon as the feet were empty, the person fell.
This series of things happened so suddenly that it was too late to shout, only surprise! My heart panicked, and my mind flashed countless images of falling from a high altitude and dying in an instant, splashing blood, bursting brains, and being smashed into a meatloaf face...... OMG! Thinking that my handsome face is about to fall into a puddle of meatloaf, what the hell is it?!
Pulled out the scepter with a whoosh, and stabbed forward violently with all his strength, damn, it was actually empty! It must have happened to be a hole, I comforted myself, raised my hand and the head of a cane, only to hear a series of "zla" sounds, sparks flew when I landed, and the staff scratched a notch on the rock wall that was not deep or shallow, I desperately endured the sharp pain in the palm of my hand, and held the horse's head tightly without letting go of my hand, and the scratch finally stopped at a place of about twenty centimeters.
I let out a long breath when I boarded, and I was already in a cold sweat, my clothes were soaked, sticking to my body, and when the cold wind blew up from below, I immediately got goosebumps all over my body. But fortunately, his life was finally saved.
Holding my breath, I half-turned in the air, facing the rock wall with my left hand, and began to grope up and down, left and right, but unfortunately, this piece seemed to be all gurgling granite, and I couldn't even hold a finger, let alone settle down. I groped my foot underneath again, but I didn't find the hole.
Hey, this is strange, according to the previous speculation, the distance between the cave layer and the cave layer, the farthest will not exceed two meters, my height plus arm length, two meters is more than enough, is it below, what has changed? The cavern has come to an end?
Before I could think about it any more, there was a sudden sound like a stone cracking above my head, and my heart sank, and I secretly screamed terrible! The pressure on the tiger's mouth in my right hand disappeared at once, and the rock finally couldn't hold my weight and completely cracked, and I was making a final confession to the world with my back on my back, oh no, it was goodbye......