Chapter 30: The Third Night: The Quagmire
This fall was completely caught off guard, compared to the fall in the jungle was completely different, I didn't even have time to react and rolled off the cliff, in the chaos I grabbed hard behind me, trying to catch anything to stop myself, but my hand was all bare and mossy rock face, my hand slid straight down, and then my knee hit the stone again, I couldn't hold my posture at once, I fell and fell to the bottom of the cliff.
Fortunately, this section is not high, and there is water and silt underneath, and there is no fatal injury, but I found that the water flow is very fast, and it pulled me downstream, I immediately fluttered a few times, grabbed something under the water, gritted my teeth and stood up with difficulty, and found that the miner's lamp was hanging at a height of half a cliff, and it was no longer within reach.
After a pause, I felt that there was no fracture anywhere, so I looked at the surroundings, and I didn't look clearly, I could only feel that I was standing in a swamp with my feet sunk in the mud, and in the area illuminated by the miner's lamp above, I saw that the rock face that had fallen should be part of a ruin.
I wondered in my heart, why was there a cliff behind the tree, and where was the man talking just now, was he lying on the tree like a gecko?
So I screamed, but there was no response. It was as if the man was trying to seduce me to fall. I suddenly remembered that I heard a voice during the day, and my heart was finished, and I was really a little auditory hallucination, could it be that the forest here disturbed my nerves.
After a few more flutters, I swam to the edge of the cliff, grabbed a stone that was about to protrude and fixed my body, and then the miner's light was reflected by the extremely faint light of the stone wall, and I began to want to climb up, but the moss was too slippery, and there was nothing to borrow, so I climbed several times and slid down.
I couldn't change sides, and the only way I could go was to follow the rock wall downstream of the swamp, where it was dark. But the water here is so fast, there is either that kind of wellhead or there will be a steep fault nearby, and if I stumble, it is very likely that the whirlpool at the wellhead will be swept in, or rushed down the small waterfall, and I will have to peel off the skin if I don't die.
After hesitating for a moment, I found that I was actually trapped in such a situation, either I had to wait until dawn, or someone came to save me, and I absolutely refused to wait until dawn, so I immediately raised my throat and shouted a few times for help.
They may not be far away, so quiet here, they may be able to hear the shouting.
But the sky did not obey people's wishes, shouting and shouting, shouting for a long time, my throat was dumb, but there was not even a single echo, there was silence all around, and the silence was ridiculous, and there was not even a little movement in the darkness that could make people reverie.
I really can't shout, don't mention the depression in my heart, my heart said that I have encountered any unlucky things, I took a deep breath and calmed down, I looked at my watch, I wanted to see when the fog would dissipate. When the fog clears, the visibility will increase, and the light of the lamp will be wider, so maybe I will be able to climb up, or I can find something under the water and smash the lamp down.
I looked at my watch, according to yesterday's experience, the fog should not last for a few hours, the time is bearable, I touched the stone protrusion on the side, let myself maintain a more comfortable posture, looked around, and said that I can't see anything, how to spend these hours.
My feet are in the mud, which makes me feel very uncomfortable, this feeling is definitely not good, the story that Panzi told me, I still remember, at this time I also felt that the feet in the mud were feeding the insects, and from time to time I lifted it out to touch it, but found that it was just an illusion.
This delusion made me feel uneasy, and I tried to climb up the rocks as much as I could, so that my feet could get out of the water, but every time I failed, I mustered up the courage and felt the rock wall to lean on the side, my feet were sticking to it, trying to find something under the water that would allow me to step on the water. Or I can step on some branches or something, I can use it to smash a miner's lamp.
As my feet moved, I stepped on something, but it wasn't a branch, and that feeling made me smart.
Fine, like human hair.
I started to break out in a cold sweat and I now have an extreme aversion to my hair, and for the first few weeks after I came back from Xisha, I felt sick almost when I touched my hair.
I immediately pulled my foot back, and I didn't dare to reach it again, but as soon as my foot moved, I kicked something again, this time it was soft, and I suddenly realized that there might be something big in the mud here.
To be cautious, I turned on the blue light of my watch and shone it underwater, which was originally designed to allow people to see the value of the electronic watch in the dark, and the light barely entered the water, so I had to crouch down and sink the watch into the water.
Then I was stunned, and under the ghostly blue light, I saw a man sunk in the mud, buried in the mud, his hair dancing like aquatic weeds.
My hands trembled and moved, and I saw that it was a corpse, and a fresh corpse, completely wrapped in mud, but I could see that he was wearing a marching uniform that resembled that of a fat man.
Then I realized that something was wrong, and turning the direction of my watch, I leaned forward, and found that the mud under the front was full of dead people, all sunk in the mud, and their limbs were intertwined, like a mass grave after a massacre. And all of them had just died.
When I pulled the corpse out of the mud in front of me, I found it dead and heavy, as if it had been filled with lead, and at once I saw that the various equipment on the man's waist were exactly the same as those of the fat man and the panzi.
I shuddered, and suddenly I understood what was going on - the third uncle's team was actually here!