Chapter 16 Hold on to the high ground

Powerlessness, an unprecedented feeling of powerlessness.

How small and insignificant human beings are in front of nature, I feel it thoroughly today! After Liang Ruoyi and I lost our center of gravity, we were immediately swept into the river that was already four meters deep, and floated downstream along the river.

Luckily, I had a life jacket on my body, otherwise I might not have been able to hold on to it now. I tried to keep my balance as much as I could, poking my head out of the water and watching Liang Ruoyi, who was a foot away from me, struggling to keep his body steady.

"Hey!" I looked at the opportunity and shouted, "What are we going to do?!" ”

Liang Ruoyi turned his head to look at me: "If there is wood or something around, hurry up and grab it!" ”

I answered, and my ears were full of "whooshing": the sound of torrential rain, the sound of the rushing river, the sound of the water lapping on my body. I really regret that if I had strongly opposed this operation a few hours ago, I would not have been in the situation where I am now. According to my estimates, it should be around twelve o'clock in the afternoon.

The two of us are like two leaves, ready for the river to brew.

"Hey, which way did we just go?" I suddenly remembered that there were three forks in the valley, and the current was so strong that I couldn't see which one I had entered.

"You still care about this!" Liang Ruoyi shouted: "Hurry up and find something to hold on, otherwise there are so many gravel mountain walls here, and if we are not careful, we will become meat sauce!" ”

I nodded hurriedly and looked both ways. At this time, we were in a valley almost three zhang wide, the water was fast, and there were many protruding stones on the mountain walls on both sides, but we could not get close.

"There's a log up ahead!" Liang Ruoyi suddenly screamed.

I hurriedly turned my head to look, and sure enough, a log about three feet in diameter was floating not far in front of us, not as fast as us, and could catch up.

"You hold on!" Liang Ruoyi shouted again.

I answered in the water, saw that I was in front of the wood, hurriedly stretched out my arms, and hugged it with a "bang", but I was also directly hit by the big wooden stake in the chest, and I felt a sense of suffocation, and hurriedly coughed twice to feel better.

"Pull me over!"

I felt the rope around my waist tighten, and knew that Liang Ruoyi was pulling on my side, so I hurriedly took out one hand to hold her rope and gritted my teeth to pull it to my side.

After a lot of effort, Liang Ruoyi was finally pulled over, and the two of them hugged the wood and gasped.

"Hey!" With someone by my side, I was not so afraid at this time, and smirked at Liang Ruoyi: "I'm sorry for causing you to suffer with me." ”

Liang Ruoyi gave me a blank look and didn't say anything.

"What now?" I asked with a bitter face, "I'm cold, tired and hungry, and the current is not weak, and the rain is not light, so we have to come up with an idea!" ”

"What can I do...... Liang Ruoyi's voice was very soft, and there seemed to be nothing he could do: "If there is a mountain wall in front of us, we can rush over and stabilize it, it is much better than drifting down like this." ”

"Alas......" I sighed, "if only a big carp could come and carry us on our back!" ”

"Carp?" Liang Ruoyi turned her head to look at me, looking thoughtful.

I nodded, why didn't those carps just now follow? Could it be said? I shuddered: could it be that something even worse came from under the water and scared the carp away?!

Thinking of this, I looked at Liang Ruoyi and found that she was also frowning, probably thinking the same as me.

Finally, five minutes later, we saw a fork in the road ahead, and on the middle of the mountain wall, there was just a high ground where we could hide!

"Catch it!" Liang Ruoyi shouted at me.

I nodded, gripping the wood in front of me with both hands.

Because the water is turbulent and the flow speed is very fast, we came to the fork in the road in the blink of an eye, and saw Liang Ruoyi suddenly bracing his arms on the wood, and his body jumped out, like a dragon going out to sea, with his feet lightly on the wood, like a wild goose spreading its wings, and landed cleanly on the ground that was almost two meters above the water.

What should I do?! I watched as Liang Ruoyi left the damn river, and he drifted down the fork in the road to the left with the wood!

"Help me?!" I screamed, but the wood in my arms suddenly turned in a circle, and I also jumped in the water, and I looked up in a daze for a while only to find that Liang Ruoyi had wrapped the rope around the wood before jumping out, and was squatting on the ground at the moment and dragging hard!

"Come up!" Liang Ruoyi gritted his teeth and said.

I answered, and hurriedly climbed towards the high ground with the log, but when I climbed to the top, I found that there was still a distance of nearly two meters from the high ground.

However, the current may not give me this opportunity, and if I abandon the wood, I may be washed away in the blink of an eye......

"You untie my rope from the wood, and I'll pull you over!" Liang Ruoyi also thought of this solution.

I glanced at her and knew that if she wanted to untie and pull me over, Liang Ruoyi probably wouldn't be able to do it. You know, the four of them couldn't pull the two of us over under the fixation of the stones, and Liang Ruoyi was sitting on the high ground at this time, how could he do it?!

I see that Liang Ruoyi can't hold on, and if she is pulled down again, it will be a disaster for us.

I hurriedly untied the rope that Liang Ruoyi had wrapped around the wood and held it in my hand, trying to stabilize myself only by relying on the strength of the wood, and then looked to the side, and saw a huge rock on the mountain wall more than half a meter away from me, although it was only less than half a meter high from the water, it was enough for me to stand on it alone!

"Hey!" My eyes were washed away by the torrential rain: "I shouted to three, you pull me hard!" I'll go to the rock first, you know?! ”

In the dim rainstorm, my vision was blurry, and I didn't know if Liang Ruoyi nodded and began to shout: "One! Two! Three! ”

When I shouted "three", I instantly pushed the wood away, and then I felt that Liang Ruoyi dragged me hard, and I grabbed the stone with the strength of pushing the wood away, gritted my teeth and climbed up!

When I collapsed to the ground soaking wet, my body was like a deflated balloon, and I didn't have any extra strength left. I was gasping for air, and the hours that had gone before me had been the few hours I had ever felt closest to death.

"Are you alright?" Liang Ruoyi's rope was still tied around my waist, and I was on the stone on the side, and she was on the high ground where she turned the corner, more than two meters apart.

How could I have the strength to answer, Liang Ruoyi didn't hear the echo, and tugged at the rope around my waist. I grinned and decided to make a joke with her.

"Hello? Speak! Liang Ruoyi shouted.

I still didn't speak, and closed my eyes.

With the swing of the rope, I knew that Liang Ruoyi leaned over and was looking at me, and seeing that I was motionless, the ice beauty shouted again, "Hey? You're dead? ”

I still don't speak.

Liang Ruoyi was in a hurry, she knew that it was not easy for ordinary people to persist in this environment for so long, in case she was not in good health, as soon as she went ashore now, the spiritual strength she originally supported was discharged, and she might suddenly fall ill.

I slowly opened one eye and saw that Liang Ruoyi wanted to crawl over, but it was difficult to try, so I bowed and picked up a stone from the ground and threw it over!

"Mom! What are you doing?! I hurriedly dodged: "If I don't die, I will be killed by you!" ”

"You're sick!" Liang Ruoyi saw that I moved, and scolded coldly: "If it weren't for you, would I be what I am now?" You still have the heart to joke! Hold up the umbrella yourself and I'll get you over after I've rested!" ”

I smiled, hurriedly took out an umbrella from my bag and opened it, fortunately this waterproof field backpack has a good seal, soaked for so long, only a little water went into it, and everything was intact.

Holding up the umbrella, I took out a little bit of food from my bag: "Hey, have you eaten anything?" ”

"Yes!" Liang Ruoyi had already sat back and said angrily.

I shrugged, my stomach was already hungry, I had to eat first!