Chapter Fifty-Three: The Danger of Hanging
The two old men leaned against the mountain wall, blowing the cold wind, biting the biscuits for a few minutes, and drinking a few sips of cold water. ”
Han Debai was no better, his face was a little pale from the cold wind, he glared at me and asked, "Then are we going up or down?" ”
I frowned, and turned my head to look at the bottomless cliff: "What do you think?" I don't think those ancient tribes will build villages on the cliffs......"
"The last time I saw Tianhu was on a cliff. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" Han Debai shrugged: "It's all the same anyway, then listen to you, go down first!" ”
"When-when-when-"
As soon as Han Debai's words fell, suddenly there were three sounds of the bell from the cliff valley, and I was shocked again, because at this time the altitude was high, the air was thin, and I even felt a suffocation, my head was "buzzing", I staggered, and hurriedly stretched out my hands and grabbed the cliff behind me.
The sound of the three bells continued to echo in the valley, and my breathing followed its rhythm, I bit my lips tightly, leaned against the cliff wall, frowned, and after about two or three minutes, the sound of the bell slowly receded, I opened my mouth, gasping for breath, and felt all kinds of overturning rivers and seas in my body, which was really a little uncomfortable, if I didn't endure it, I guessed that I would vomit it out.
And Han Debai on the other side was also uncomfortable, he took a few breaths, and his face looked a little better, and I couldn't help but tease: "You can't do this kung fu, a few Van bells will knock you like this!" ”
"!" Han Debai swallowed his spit and scolded: "If you think about it with your ass, you know that these three Van bells are not so simple!" First, it is definitely not an ordinary quality of the bell, and second, the person who rings the bell is definitely a top master, otherwise such a strong bell will shock the bell-ringer himself! ”
This makes sense, I nodded, this sound can shake us all who are far away like this, the bell ringer is so close to the Van bell, if it is not for the profound skill, it is estimated that he can shock himself to death!
But in this deep mountain and old forest, how can there be such a person with deep skills? If so, Senior Sister? I shook my head slightly, if Senior Sister is not weak in skills, but compared to that Sun Miaomiao, it should not be her......
So who else? I went through all the people I knew in my mind, and the only ones who had this skill were the master and the Qingyue Taoist, plus He Yunchang and the Budai monk who had not fully exerted his strength, and there were only these four people......
Could it be a cloth bag monk? That's not to say, how did the cloth bag monk find a place?
"What are you thinking?!" Seeing that I didn't speak, Han Debai asked coldly.
"Oh, nothing." I looked up at him, "Didn't you say that you heard the sound of the bell last time you were on the cliff, right?" Is that how it feels? ”
"It's not!" Han Debai's head shook like a rattle: "That time, it was just three ordinary bells, how can I feel like this!" ”
I sighed, and my mind was even more confused: "Forget it, let's go, let's go, hurry down and have a look!" ”
After saying this, I suddenly remembered a key question: "No! This cliff valley, from us, must be about a thousand meters down, right? How can there be such a long rope? How are we going down?! ”
"That's it!" Han Debai was also stunned: "How to get up, how to go down!" ”
Burst!
I almost lost my breath, although I had gone down the valley before, but it was only about a hundred meters, it was very difficult, I was scared of the fart, this thousand meters of cliff, just like this, I couldn't do it!
"No, no, no......" I waved my hand again and again: "Then you might as well kill me with a knife!" ”
Han Debai looked at me as if he was looking at an alien: "You still want to install an elevator to get you down?" It's so interesting! I can tell you, even if you don't go down here, if you go back, how do you go? You can't even find the road, and even if you do, it's a steep slope of more than 1,000 meters, so go down by yourself! ”
"You ......" I was speechless, thinking to myself, this bastard is right, it's just such a high, almost right-angled cliff, just go down like this, almost looking for death......
Just when I was in a dilemma, there was a sudden sound of "squeak-squeak-squeak" in the valley!
At this time, there was only the sound of the cold wind around us, and the appearance of this sound was extremely abrupt, which startled Han Debai and me, glanced at each other, and hurriedly followed the sound, but could not see anything.
I boldly took two steps forward, stood on the edge of the rift and looked down, the empty and black valley was bottomless, but there was nothing special.
Han Debai also followed, then patted me on the shoulder, and said in a surprised tone: "You, look, the elevator you want is coming......
"Elevator?!" I almost laughed, took Han Debai's arm to stabilize myself, followed his gaze to look up, and was immediately stunned: on the cliff wall about two feet above our heads, a wooden box the size of a water tank was slowly moving downward, swaying slightly with the cold wind, making a burst of "squeak-squeak-" sounds......
"Really, really an elevator?!" I glanced at Han Debai with a wry smile, and then said seriously: "This is definitely not the 'elevator' of the ancient tribe, that is to say, the descendants have lived here for a long time, and have built an 'elevator' that can travel up and down in the cliff valley thousands of meters deep!" ”
Han Debai nodded, but did not speak, his eyes stared at the wooden box, and in about half a minute, this "elevator" appeared in front of us completely.
"Definitely built by modern people!" I looked at it, and immediately stretched out my hand and pointed to the rope on the wooden box and said: "These three pulleys can control the up and down movement of the wooden box very stably, and look at the appearance of this wooden box, it should have been built in recent years!" At least, it has changed in recent years! ”
Han Debai glanced at me, seemed a little careless, reached out and patted the wooden box, walked up, and looked at me who was still stunned: "What are you doing?" Come up, let's go down! ”
I frowned, I always felt a little insecure in my heart, if we fell, we wouldn't even have a chance to struggle!
"Squeak-squeak-" The wooden box was still slowly descending, and I took a deep breath and stepped in, reaching for the plank on one side and sliding it deeper into the valley.
This wooden box is only three square meters in size, the front and back are empty, the sides are wooden boards, I watched the front of me slowly turned into a cold cliff, there are still crystal ice edges hanging in some places, the wooden planks under my feet are also creaking, the little heart has been hanging in the air, at this time there is a little movement, can scare me......
With the weight increase of the two of us, the speed of the wooden box falling is also slowly accelerating, and after a few minutes, I have begun to feel that this speed is a little uncontrollable, and in the dimness, I turned my head to look at Han Debai and said, "Big brother, can you control this 'elevator'?" If we go any further, we'll be smashed into a bun! ”
"It's not fast!" Han Debai didn't feel that the speed of the decline was a little fast, he glanced at me and said, "Do you think it's fast?" At an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, at this speed, we have to wait for more than an hour! It's much faster than we can climb down, but it's not much faster...... It's past two o'clock in the afternoon, and at the current rate, when we get to the bottom of the cliff, it's almost dark! ”
As soon as Han Debai said this, I suddenly became a little worried: knowing that this "elevator" was built by later generations, I could almost conclude that there must be fraud, why did I stand up without even thinking about it?! Alas...... Without the second uncle and the seventh master or Liang Ruoyi by their side, I was a little inconsiderate in many things......
Seeing that Han Debai didn't mean to make a move, I simply took a small step forward, reached out and grabbed the ropes up and down the three pulleys, and pulled hard one after another, but it did not affect the speed of the wooden box falling at all.
I was a little dazed, stunned and dragged a few more times, but there was still no movement, which immediately made me frown: "It's broken!" There are also people controlling the 'elevator'! This place is simply out of control! ”
"Are you kidding?" As soon as he heard this, Han Debai, who was still standing on the side and gloating, was also a little surprised, and when he saw that I let go of my hand to look at him, he hurriedly walked over and grabbed the rope and pulled it twice, and his brows furrowed: "Really...... This is a problem, if that person stops halfway, won't we hang in mid-air, if we hang in a place where there is not even a focus point, then we will not starve to death?! In case of repeated ......"
Before Han Debai finished speaking, I hurriedly waved my hand at him and signaled him not to say anything, because at this moment, this "elevator" was slowly slowing down as he said, and with the piercing sound of "squeak-squeak-squeak", a few minutes later, this "elevator" finally stopped completely in the dim......
I turned my head and glared at Han Debai, and then carefully leaned on the wooden board on one side and poked my head out, this look, almost scared my soul away: there is still a bottomless abyss below, and we are really hanging in the air hundreds of meters high at the moment, the cliff opposite is very smooth, and most of the area is covered with a thin layer of ice, there is nowhere to put our feet - Han Debai is right, we are really going to starve to death!
The already gloomy sky seemed like darkness in my eyes at this time, I slowly retracted my head and sighed: "That's it, it's better to fall to death and forget about it......"
When people are unlucky, they will stuff their teeth when they drink cold water, this is really true, I was angry, but I didn't expect that the words did not fall, and the wooden planks on the soles of my feet "creaked", and then "snapped", one of them actually cracked!