Chapter Eighty-Five: The Camp

We waited at the edge of the waterhole for a full day. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Until the next morning, we still didn't see Lan surface. My heart has also changed from full of hope at the beginning to despair now. And during this time, we didn't go into the water to check. It's just that with the lung capacity of our businessmen, the limit of each dive can only reach about ten meters. Anything further down the eardrum will rupture because it can't stand the pressure.

At a depth of ten meters, no trace of a passage was found. That is to say, unless Lan is diving deeper. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to see even a human figure.

"Ah Cheng, don't worry." The fat man came over and patted me on the shoulder to comfort me. "Maybe Sister Lan discovered that there was a road down there, so she went over to explore the road first."

I glanced at the fat man and said fart in my heart. No matter how much there is a road to walk underwater, it is also a waterway after all. Lan went down without any equipment with his bare hands, and he went down for so long. If you can't say something, you can't say it.

Although I very much hope that things are not as idle as I am. But the problem is that the reality is in front of me, and I have to choose to believe in it.

He Tao sat on the side, silently finished a cigarette and stood up. And then without saying a word, silently undressed there.

I know what he's going to do. I was also anxious, afraid that if He Tao went on like this, wouldn't it be too dangerous if he also encountered the same problem as Lan. Thinking about it, I wanted to go up and stop him. No, He Tao stretched out his hand to stop me.

"Somebody has to go down and see what's going on." He Tao said. "Since Lan hasn't come back, then I'll go. You guys are waiting up there. In case I don't come back, you can withdraw first, and then find a chance to come back next time. ”

When I heard this, my heart said yes. This time, we can't go down, but we already know the exact location. As long as we can go back safe and sound this time, then next time as long as we bring enough equipment, it will only be a matter of minutes to get into the water.

The fat man stood on the side and looked at me, and then at He Tao. Finally, he stretched out his hand and pressed He Tao, who was about to jump down when he walked to the edge of the pool, and said, "Let's do this first." With that, he pulled He Tao and walked back. He Tao wanted to break free, but he didn't break free after a few struggles. It seems that the fat man is determined to pull him back.

"Ah Cheng is only us now, don't be stupid." The fat man said. As he spoke, he picked up his clothes and threw them to He Tao.

I was stunned, I didn't expect the fat man, who has always been bohemian and freedom-loving, to say such sensational words. For a while, the nose was a little sore. I don't know if it's because Lan didn't come up, or because of the fat man's words.

yes, Lan doesn't know what's going on now. Now there are only two people left who can help me, Tao and the fat man, and I can't lose them anymore.

Faced with the choice between a mission and a tribulation, I ended up choosing the latter. Because I think that as long as people are still there, the task will always be completed one day. Thinking about it, I waved my hand, the lion ant and the clothes on the boat. We'll go back now. We'll come back when we're all set.

It took less than three minutes to pack up the gear. I stood on the edge of the waterhole and looked at the waterhole in front of me by the light of the wind lanterns. I watched it for a long time.

Maybe now I can understand how Lan feels every time she looks at the burial platform. My heart said.

Hopefully, you've found a way to get in. I looked at the pitch-black pool in front of me. I didn't have a break in the course of the day. Not even his eyes narrowed. I was afraid of missing the moment when Lan surfaced. But I still haven't waited.

Wait for me, I'll go back now and get all my gear and come back. I swear to the bottom of my heart. You've saved me so many times, and this time it's up to me to save you.

"Gone. Hurry. The fat man said.

I nodded. When I turned around, I saw that some compressed dry food had been laid on the ground, and it had been stoned down by the fat man. There was a wind lamp next to the dry food, which was also adjusted to the darkest degree by the fat man.

It's the only wind lantern we have.

"This level of illumination should last for another two days or so. If Sister Lan came back from below in the past two days, she would have seen these things. The fat man said.

"I came out with Tao Duoyun about the day's food. This is enough for Sister Lan to eat for about three days. Three days was enough time for her to get out of here. The fat man saw that I didn't speak, so he went on to talk to himself.

He Tao silently moved a stone slab, picked up another stone and carved a few words on it:

We'll go first and come back to pick you up.

My nose was sore again. Taking advantage of the fact that the fat man and the others were not paying attention, he turned around and pretended to take one last look at the waterhole, and secretly rubbed his nose.

"Alright, let's go." The fat man said.

I nodded, tightened my backpack, and followed the fat man out on his shoulders.

This time, it was He Tao behind me.

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The memory of the fat man belt is still very good. He remembered a lot of the way he walked. Therefore, it took at least half the time to go out than it took the last time I came in.

But even so, when we returned to the camp where we had fought the human-faced birds, the three of us noticed something strange in the camp almost at the same time.

The camp didn't know when it was gone. At first, we thought that the people on both sides were busy going their separate ways, but the fat man immediately objected. Say impossible. Let's not talk about what "everyone is busy" can do in this ghost place. Even if you're busy, there's no way there's no one left, right? It's all old rivers and lakes who came out to mingle, one person can make such a low-level mistake, but there are dozens of good people before we leave, it can't be that everyone is stupid, right?

As the fat man finished speaking, I noticed that he frowned, then sniffed again, and asked if we had smelled anything too.

I glanced at He Tao and sniffed. Except for the intense rancid sour smell that came from the decomposing corpse, nothing else was smelled.

The fat man looked at us with a frown and said, "That's the rancid smell." ”

"What's wrong" He Tao asked, "What, you haven't heard it yet?" ”

The fat man shook his head: "That's not right." How long have we been here? How did these corpses rot? ”

I was stunned for a moment, vaguely guessed something in my heart, and asked, "Makes sense." And weren't our people advocating for the burial of the corpse before? Even if the two sides don't agree, then it's impossible to just leave the body here, right? ”

He Tao listened and groaned. After a while, he asked tentatively, "Could it be that the corpses here haven't had time to be disposed of, and the people who stayed here have also died?" ”