Chapter 354: A Difficult Choice
The fat man's question is simple, but it is difficult to answer.
Xia Qing was silent and didn't speak again.
Gao Chao's mood also fell to the bottom, although he was not afraid of death, but thinking about the suffering he had suffered so much along the way, and finally ran to this kind of place, it was still a dead end, I was really a little unwilling, especially when I jumped into the fire pit with the fat man, I really felt a little wretched.
Seeing that neither of them spoke, the fat man felt even more uncomfortable, and said, "Xia Qing, let me ask you, do we have to die now horizontally and vertically?" Isn't it? ”
Xia Qing was reluctant to answer, and turned her face away, she knew very well that if a person was exposed to this intensity of nuclear radiation, there was basically no salvation.
Gao Chao saw that the fat man was emotional, and hurriedly said: "Fat man, don't worry, this is not necessarily true, even if there is an aurora cloud in this place, it does not mean that it must be a uranium mine......"
The fat man knew that Gao Chao was comforting himself, he was stunned for a while, and finally sighed, gritted his teeth, and held Gao Chao's shoulder with his hand.
"Lao Gao, it's okay, brother, I'm not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, or I wouldn't have come here, even if there is nuclear radiation here, we will have to die no matter what, but isn't this dead now? I remember where I saw it before, people who were exposed to nuclear radiation don't die so quickly, so we brothers still have time, and we have to hold on, isn't there such a sentence, what is it called...... Heavier than Mount Tai ......"
Gao Chao's tears were already rolling, and he grabbed the fat man's hand and said, "Brother, you are right, people are inherently dead, or lighter than a feather." Or heavier than Mount Tai. We're not dead yet. If you just do nothing and just wait for death, it's too sloppy and too spineless, so ......"
Gao Chao gritted his teeth and said, "So let's let go of our burdens now, finish what we haven't done yet, and if we can still do something for this world before we die." Then it's worth it for us to die. ”
The fat man puffed up his strength and nodded heavily.
Xia Qing had turned her face again, she was looking at Gao Chao and the fat man, she didn't seem to see two ordinary men, these two men had made her speechless for a while.
The three of them walked down the mountain wall, and they had once again formed a consensus that they were ready to leave the last period of their lives to find the jade cong in the tomb of the Western Night King.
It's painful to make such a decision, but when they do act. But he seems to feel a kind of relief that he has never felt before, and maybe he has truly let go of life and death. On the contrary, it will be more full of fighting spirit.
Because there is a road on the mountain wall, and this is a good road, it goes down the mountain in a zigzag shape, the road surface is about two meters wide, and it looks like it is artificially carved out of the mountain wall, so that even if someone climbs up from the bottom of the mountain, it will not be too tired.
They speculated that this road should be used to transport uranium ore, and it must have been carried up by hand, although this seemed very clumsy and inefficient, but since the Soviets chose this method at that time, they must have their reasons, as for how they thought about it at that time, no one knows now.
They descended from the huge iron gate, and without much time, they descended to the bottom of the valley along the zigzag path on the mountain wall.
The railroad track that winded into the depths of the valley was beside them, and Gao Chao roughly measured it, and the size was indeed much smaller than the ordinary rails, which also confirmed their suspicion that this was indeed a minecart railroad.
The clouds above their heads were still changing shape, and a faint green light shrouded them, and their bodies began to feel a little tired.
It's just that no one knows if this exhaustion has something to do with the strong radiation, of course, even if there is no radiation here, they should feel tired, after all, they have been fighting continuously for more than a day.
This is undoubtedly close to the limits of humanity.
Dragging the tired body, I don't know what is supporting them, sometimes people are very strange, a comfortable life will make people's will wear out, but the difficult environment, but can make people strong-willed, perhaps this is in line with the saying: "Born in sorrow and die in peace." ”
The road at the bottom of the valley is not smooth, but there is no dust at the bottom of the valley, and everywhere it looks bare, reflecting a faint green light, which is very strange.
They wanted to find the Tomb of the Western Night King, but now they didn't have a real direction, so they had to follow the railroad tracks, and they kept their heads headed.
Meticulous thinking had become a luxury at this moment, and their brains began to be a little chaotic, and they could only move forward step by step, blindly walking towards the depths of the valley.
I don't know how long it took, and the track they had been following finally came to an end.
In front of them, a cave appeared on the bare, greenish mountain wall.
It is clear that this is the pit where the uranium mine is located.
The rails extended into the pit, the mouth of which was supported by a steel pipe, and in the green light, the hole looked like a big black mouth, and the long, narrow railroad track, like a tongue sticking out of this big mouth, ready to take the three of them into its belly at any moment.
In the face of the threat of death, everything will become fearful, but when life and death are really put aside, death is like a game, but everyone knows that in the end, the winner of this game is not themselves.
The three of them faced the entrance to the uranium mine, and the fear that should have occupied a high position had now turned into a kind of indifference.
This was undoubtedly the entrance to the highest radiation, but they did not hesitate to step forward and prepare to enter the pit from here.
Although they didn't know if the Tomb of the Western Night King was in it, they still made a choice, because Gao Chao thought that maybe they could find some important clues by entering from here.
What they didn't expect was that the moment they entered here, the clue had already come.
Gao Chao walked in the front, Xia Qing was second, and the last person was fat.
Gao Chao and Xia Qing in front of them didn't pay too much attention to the hole in the pit, but the fat man accidentally stepped on an empty foot at the moment he entered this mine, because his physical strength was almost exhausted, so his body naturally tilted to one side, and he quickly reached out to hold the steel pipe used to support the mine tunnel, so fortunately he did not fall.
The sound he made also attracted the attention of Gao Chao and Xia Qing, and both of them cast concerned glances at him.
"Fatty, are you alright? Your foot didn't bend, did you? Gao Chao spoke, and was already staggering back.
The fat man scolded something and said, "It's okay, I just accidentally stepped on the air just now......"
As he spoke, he held on to the steel pipe next to him, ready to stand up straight and hurry again, but while he held the steel pipe tightly, he was suddenly stunned.
Then he let go of his hand and looked over to the surface of the pipe.
"This ...... This...... There seems to be a word here......" The fat man suddenly cried.
(To be continued.) )