16. See the light of day again
Footsteps, footsteps, and even gunshots came from above me, and I don't know if the crazy foreigners would have guessed that someone was hiding in the Minotaur's dwelling, but I knew one thing - I couldn't stay here forever, I had to find a way.
It's not realistic to get out of that big pit at all, and Changle's dog calf can't count on it, and there is only one way out in front of me, which is the pitch-black cave I'm in now.
The torches at the edge of the pit could not shine into the hole at all, and after only a dozen steps I was completely in darkness, without even the slightest light, and I could only lean against the wall like a blind man, and try to move forward little by little with my hands and feet in front of me.
The good news was that there was no one chasing after me, no footsteps and no torches, and the bad news was that I walked for about three minutes before I came to the end of this black hole. There was a stone on my left, a stone in front of me, and I was clinging to the stone wall in front of me until I walked to the far right, and what was waiting for me was still a stone.
It's a dead end, and I'm completely trapped in this hole!
There was no way out, and this desperate situation made my heart calm. I sat down slowly with my back against the uneven stone wall, then closed my eyes and let my beating heart slow down.
I sat in the dark for about a minute, and my heart rate finally returned to normal, followed by severe pain all over my body.
First fell from a height of ten meters, and then was slapped twice by the big giant, I was lucky that I didn't die here, and some injuries were inevitable. I groped around my body and soon found the sore spot, which was on the side of my lower left abdomen.
I tapped my fingers and a tingling pain came out of my body.
"!"
I cursed under my breath - I think it must be a broken rib. I sat there and tried to take two deep breaths, the pain was still there, but it wasn't particularly serious, and the most important thing was that my breathing wasn't blocked or difficult, which made me feel a little more relieved.
I gently rested my sitting arm on my lap while also leaning my back straight against the stone wall, using this position to reduce the pressure on my rib cage on the left side.
Suddenly, I felt like I heard the sound of running water!
I leaned forward to find the source of the sound, but that didn't help me hear more. I quickly leaned back, and then pressed my ear against the stone wall behind me, and this time, the sound of running water came through the stone wall behind me.
There may be a river in this cave, and this river is behind the stone wall, and if I can get to the river, I may be able to escape from this hole.
But the question is how to get through this stone wall?
I need light! I need to see if there are any holes I can drill!
That's right, knives!
I quickly held the handle of Qiao Wei's dagger with my right hand, and then scraped twice with the blade of the knife horizontally against the stone wall.
With the rattling of metal, two sparks also flew out at the blade, although it was only a short moment, and the light was not strong, but it was enough for me.
I used this method to scrape out the sparks again and again, and then inspected the stone wall blocking me inch by inch.
Suddenly, I noticed an acute crack at the lower end of the right side of the stone wall, and I quickly crouched down and touched it with my hand to probe the size of the crack. This opening is not wide, at most enough for me to get into it sideways, and the space inside is not rich, I guess I can't even turn around after getting in.
I leaned down and poked my head into the crack to listen to the movement inside, but there was no sound of water inside. I didn't dare to drill directly into it, in case it was also a dead end, and I couldn't survive when I got stuck in Zuihou, and I felt painful even thinking about it.
Just as I was about to retract my head from the crack, suddenly there was the sound of footsteps in the distance, and at the same time the fire was shaking, and the group of crazy foreigners must have come down and chased them into the hole.
There were five flickering torches, and the footsteps were so chaotic that even if there were only five of them, I wouldn't be able to deal with them with a dagger alone! The pursuers cut off my retreat completely, and either I was caught by them for meat, or I got into the crack and gambled my luck.
I, choose the latter!
I put the dagger in my left hand, then my right arm in front and my left arm behind, and I leaned sideways into the gap.
The space inside was very narrow, and the only thing that allowed me to crawl was my right hand stretched out in front of me, but fortunately, my strength was strong enough to drag my body forward even with one arm. I couldn't see the pursuers in the crack, so I had to keep moving ahead lest the men shoot me to death in the crack.
I struggled forward in the hole for about half a minute, and at my feet there was the sound of a machine gun, accompanied by the clanging of bullets hitting stones.
The crack was bent in the air, and I could clearly feel it when I climbed in, so I wasn't worried about bullets coming from behind. And the further I climb this rift, the narrower it becomes, my body is thin compared to those foreigners, and it is already very difficult for me to climb in this rift, and they probably can't even drill in.
The gunshots rang off intermittently for about ten seconds before there was no movement, and I stopped in the rift to see if a crazy foreigner was coming in from behind. When I was quiet, there was no special movement under my feet, but there was obviously a sound of running water above my head, and it seemed that I was very close to the exit!
I quickly clasped the stone in front of my head and dragged my body forward.
After moving forward for about ten meters, the space of the crack became significantly larger, and I could also bow my body slightly, and my legs could bend and push the ground, which made me climb faster in this crack.
It was still pitch black in the cracks, but the sound of water in front of them was getting louder and louder.
Suddenly, my outstretched hand felt hollow - it seemed like I had crawled to the exit of the crack.
I quickly scraped my knife a few times the stone at the edge of the exit, trying to scrape some sparks. When the rattling of blades sounded, something happened to me that suddenly lit up in the dark cavern in front of me with pale green fluorescent dots, which were scattered all over the stone walls like stars.
I guess it's like a glowing swarm bug that lives in the dark, and with the light of these bugs, I can finally see the terrain ahead.
The exit is located on a small cliff about six or seven meters high, and below it is a dark river with a very slow current.
"Please, send me out."
I made a wish to the river, and jumped forward into it.
The river was cold, but fortunately it didn't smell anything, and it was much stronger than the stinky ditch that I had waded all the way through. I swam along the river in the dark river, and after a while there was a faint light on both sides of the river, and I came down to an open cave, where I could even see bats hanging upside down on the cave wall.
Moving on, I finally saw the moonlit mouth of the cave, and the sound of the water at the mouth of the cave became louder and faster—there should be a waterfall in front of me!
I didn't have any intention of escaping, because the sound of the water wasn't too loud, and even the drop of the waterfall shouldn't be high.
The fact is that it is just as I thought, it is a mini waterfall with a pool at the bottom of the waterfall. I fell down the waterfall into the pool, and with it my heart, which had been hanging in my arms, fell back into my stomach.
I'm out!
Finally fucking out!!