Chapter Twenty-Eight: Crawling with All Your Life
Seeing my shocked and frightened expression, the seventh master explained with a smile: "First of all, according to the satellite images that Miss Liang got before, the specific location is in this area, and we have walked out of the fog area. Secondly, as you can see, there is no road around us, so we can't go back the way we came now! ”
I sighed and looked at the bottomless abyss: "But, how can you go down so deep?" ”
"There's a way!" The old clam has already made a few ropes on the side, with buckle locks, hook locks and nail locks, and after a long time, he divided them with a few of us: "I have explored it before, and the depth of this cliff is about 800 meters, which is not as exaggerated as you said." We strung ourselves together with ropes, just like we had in the canyon of Jinsu Mountain before when we encountered floods, but this time it was more dangerous, so everyone got their gear ready. ”
"That's right." The Seventh Master added: "This is not better than Jinsu Mountain, there is just flowing water in the canyon, and there is hope of surviving if it is washed away, it is different here, if it falls here, there is no hope of survival, it would be good to leave a whole corpse!" So be careful. ”
I shuddered and took the rope and tied it around my waist, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Seeing that we were all tied to the ropes, the old clam strung us together again, so that if someone fell, someone else could hold him and stabilize him. Then the clam took out the rivets from the backpack and put them on the shoes for us to put on, so that it was easier to find the focus point.
"Good girl, this is not going up the mountain, this is going down!" I still think the danger factor is a little too high: "I'm the only one in us who doesn't have kung fu, you are all masters, this ......"
The seventh master nodded slightly, and still had that kind smile on his face that has not changed for thousands of years: "Xiao Gu, don't worry, we have thought of all the dangers you can think of, and we can't do it without anyone here, so don't worry." ”
"This, put on your wrist, may be used." The old clam patted me on the shoulder and handed me a pickaxe for climbing.
I sighed, now I can only bite the bullet, anyway, if I fall, I will pull you to pad my back, I don't believe you can't protect me!
With everything ready and checked the belongings and gear on one side, we stood sideways in a row and began to climb down one by one, in order.
The first one was naturally the old clam, this kid first hung down his feet, propped his arms on the edge of the cliff, and almost waited until his feet found a point of focus, and then slowly moved down.
The second was the cloth bag monk, and the third was the toad, and they all went down in the same order. The fourth is me, because I am the weakest, and I am placed in the middle, and if something goes wrong, people on both sides can even drag me down.
"Don't be nervous!" Liang Ruoyi saw that my face was pale and my head was full of sweat, so he simply walked over: "Go down, I'll pull you up above, it'll be fine!" ”
"Oh-" I nodded, and fell to the ground tremblingly, slowly lowering my legs. I deeply felt that the moment my legs hung in the air, when the cold wind blew past my ears, I was almost scared to pee!
"Relax!" Liang Ruoyi saw that I was trembling, and reached out to squeeze my hand: "Don't be nervous, if your body is too tight, you won't be able to make a move after going down, and there will be problems!" ”
My hands were already cold, or rather, in the cold wind and the tension at this time, I was cold all over my body, and Liang Ruoyi's hands were a little warm, which made me feel a lot warmer in an instant, and my body was much looser, nodding at her, my feet began to find a place to stay, under the guidance of the toad that had gone down, I quickly found a place to stay, and then slowly climbed down, holding the cliff with one hand, and the other hand was free to drill into a small gap with a pickaxe, and then I was relieved. Carefully pressed his whole body against the cliff wall.
"Whew...... "......At this time, I found out that when I was on it, I still thought about this matter simply, at this time I was sticking to the cliff wall, my feet were almost hanging in the air, only my toes stepped on the two stones raised on the cliff wall, one hand grabbed a stone, the other hand grabbed the mountaineering pickaxe, I didn't even dare to move, how to climb down the cliff hundreds of meters high?!"
Luckily, the wind wasn't very strong, and if it was, I think I'd already be drifting down by now!
"Hey, toad, I don't think I can do it!" I looked at the toad with a shudder, the expression on my face was probably distorted, and if I could cry, I really wanted to cry.
"Don't dwell on it!" The toad buzzed and said, "Don't worry, it's okay, even if you lose your balance, a few of us will help you." ”
Well, I'm still useful to you, and you won't leave me behind!
I didn't dare to speak anymore, my head was spinning against the cliff, and I didn't dare to look down at all.
Soon, Liang Ruoyi and Qiye also came down, and the rope between us was only two and a half meters long, which became the lock of our lives.
"Listen up, everyone!" "When you start to climb down, you must talk less, and try to keep our rhythm in line so that we can save a little effort." At a normal pace, it's half past two in the afternoon, and before seven in the evening, before it gets completely dark, we'll climb as far down as we can! ”
The Seventh Master answered: "Everyone must pay attention, if you are ready, we will start now!" ”
After that, everyone began to climb down slowly, first let go of one foot and one hand, and then went down to find the next foothold, and soon found it, then moved the remaining foot and one hand down, and so on, and climbed very quickly!
I still didn't dare to move until the rope around my waist was tightened, and everyone stopped to look at me: "Xiao Gu, don't worry, just take the first step!" ”
"Yes, don't be nervous, even if you fall this step, we can hold you!" Liang Ruoyi added with a smile.
No matter how you listen to it, this sentence seems to despise me.
I gritted my teeth and began to climb down, following their example. Not to mention, when you really take the first step and find the rhythm, the speed starts to get faster. But even so, the speed was much slower than climbing the mountain, gritting our teeth and persevering for an hour, we climbed less than 100 meters, and we could not reach the bottom of the cliff until midnight.
"Take a break!" I let out a feeble cry, steadied myself, and let out a long breath.
The rest of the people were not relaxed either, and they also stopped to rest. At this time, the surroundings were dark, and the sunlight above my head was shining in, making me feel a little warm. In fact, the close-fitting clothes have long been soaked with sweat, and now that I stop, I feel a little cool when I am blown by the cold wind.
"Go ahead! We don't have much time! The Seventh Master took a few breaths and said to us, "If it is after dark, it will be even more difficult for us to go down. Xiao Gu, when you really can't hold on, just say something, a few of us can add more strength to support you. ”
I smiled wryly and shook my head: "Don't worry, at least you can hold on to it until now." ”
Fortunately, I practiced sanda for a year when I was in college, and I also pay attention to running and exercising on weekdays, otherwise I would never have lasted so long.
A group of six people began to continue to climb down, I don't know if it was because they were in a hurry, everyone's speed was a little faster than before, I was lucky, I was always able to find a foothold easily along the way, so that I could keep up with their speed.
Another hour passed, and by this time we had almost climbed more than 200 meters, and it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. There was a look of unease on everyone's faces, and if it were really dark, our difficulties would be multiplied several times in such a place......
And then, for the first time, I seriously looked down down - the dizziness came over me so that I couldn't see the bottom at all, and below was a cliff that pierced into the depths, and there was endless darkness, like a big mouth, waiting to devour us......
"Go ahead! No way! Liang Ruoyi said and began to climb down again......