The hands of the compass fluctuated slightly, just like a watch with an unwound watch, moving back and forth, but the amplitude was very small.

"No way?" I asked him.

He shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It doesn't make sense, this compass can ask about life and death, what does such a transfer mean, is it possible that God doesn't know?" ”

I had to comfort him and said, "Don't think about it, this place is not bad, no matter how bad it is, it's good for a few brothers to go on the road together." ”

Later, I told the fat man that we could survive that time if we didn't die, even if the ancestral grave was smoking, the stubble and none of us were like dead leaves hanging on the branches, and no one could control when it fell. The reality is far more cruel than imagined, to what extent? If you don't eat, it's still a trivial matter, and the bottom is the same as an ice cellar, because of the lack of calorie supply, the more people sleep, the colder they get. In order to maintain body temperature, you can only get up and run on the spot, and when you run, you have to consume your physical strength, and there are two choices at that time: either starve to death first, or freeze to death first......

We were trapped for three days and three nights!

It was hard for me to remember how the rest of the bread was distributed, it was the only food we had left, and the water was there, and the little puddle in front of it could still take a few more mouthfuls when we were thirsty, and perhaps too much sooner it would carry our corpses and drift nowhere.

It was about the fourth day, according to calculations, the time outside was about eight o'clock in the morning, I and the fat man huddled together, the fat man in a daze shouted that he was hungry, and I muttered: "If you are hungry, you can get up and drink two sips, and it will be good to fill your fill." ”

The fat man is probably also hungry and faint, in the past two days we can only drink water when we are hungry, and when we walk, our stomachs are "clang, clang", and the water is not hungry, and the more we drink, the weaker our stomach becomes. The fat man also drank enteritis, yesterday he has begun to have diarrhea, he has obviously lost a lot of weight in the past two days, and he is a little unsteady when he walks, I just heard "Ah! "Gotta got, when I get up again, where are the fat people......

There was still a halo on the surface of the water in that pool, and I could imagine the scene of a hungry and dizzy fat man falling on his head.

"Fatty!" I lay on the water's edge and shouted, I was looking forward to the next moment he would come out of the water, and then teased me: "Xiao Xiaye, I haven't taken a bath for a few days, come down and bubble ......"

But this is my imagination after all, the fat man is gone, he has fallen into the water......

Cha Wenbin was silent...... For a man like him who values love and is responsible, we were brought by him, and he should bring us back, even if he can't bring us back, he should be the first person to have an accident, not us.

He was quietly packing up his things on the ground, and I looked back at him, but he looked at his feet......

"Where are you going?" Actually, I don't ask and know the answer, is there any other place to go here?

"I'll go first." He bowed his head and said, "Whether you are dead or alive, you must always give it a try." ”

"Are you crazy?" I stopped in front of him, spread my arms and said, "Don't go to death, there is no one left, I don't want to wait here alone to die." ”

"Here's for you." Cha Wenbin handed me my grandfather's compass: "This is yours, and it should be returned to you." ”

I shirked and said, "I'm not a Taoist priest, what do I want it to do?" ”

He looked at me and said sincerely, "Keep it, just in case there is hope." ”

I grabbed his clothes and shouted, "Why don't we wait together if there is hope?" ”

Cha Wenbin asked me rhetorically: "I have to look for it, what if the fat man is waiting for me to save him below?" If we give up on him like this, does that give him hope? ”

"You know, he's gone!" I took his arm, and I knew I had a hard time convincing the person in front of me, but I really didn't want to watch him die.

"To live to see people, to die to see corpses." As he spoke, he threw himself hard and ran to the edge of the pool, and I looked at his back, and I couldn't bear to look at it, and I thought okay, since that's the case, let's jump together.

I clearly saw him running, leaning forward slightly, and when I thought I was going to hear a "bang" soon, I heard Cha Wenbin shouting: "Xiaoyi, come here!" ”

"Where's the water?" I couldn't believe that there was not a drop of water in the waterhole at this moment, only the aquatic plants and water stains on both sides proved that it was a sea just a few seconds ago. At this time, I looked up at the compass in my hand, its pointer kept beating, and I quickly handed it to Cha Wenbin and said, "Look at this." ”

Cha Wenbin took the compass and turned it slightly, I only heard a soft "click", as if a part was coupled, and the pointer was placed on the bright red word "Sheng" at this time, and the corresponding pointed tip of this word pointed to the waterhole that had run out of water.

He looked at me with joy and said, "There is a way to live, just below!" ”

"What's going on?" I was very surprised, what about the water?

"What time is it?" He asked me.

I looked up at my watch and said, "8:45 a.m."

"It's the effect of the tides, it won't take more than three minutes at most, and the water here will soon refill again, so hurry up if you want to leave." Cha Wenbin looked back at me and said, "The fat man may still be alive!" ”

The pool was only three or four meters vertically down, like a pen holder, the same thickness as the top and bottom, and I slid down the smooth stones on both sides, and the only point of focus in my hand was the aquatic plants. Cha Wenbin was almost a position away from me, and after walking a little more than two meters down, he was shouting to me: "Hurry up, find a way out!" ”

On my back, there is a round hole with a diameter of more than one meter, and next to the round hole stands a tablet covered with moss, and the handwriting on the tablet is no longer legible. I grabbed the aquatic plants and slowly moved towards them, and I could clearly hear the constant "whirring" sound in the water less than a meter from the soles of my feet.

Cha Wenbin stood at the mouth of the round hole and shouted, "Hurry up, the water will rise again soon!" ”

As I grabbed the inscription, a voice in my heart told me, "You are saved!" ”

It was an epitaph, and there was no doubt that this was the main gate of the entire mausoleum, and the hole behind it was needless to say that it was the Yongdao, and the blue sky was when you walked out along the Yongdao. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to admire the epitaph, for the water below had begun to rise upwards again, and the road, whether it was a road or not, was our only hope left, and a minute later it was also covered by water.

The mud under my feet, the gravel on both sides, I used all my strength to rush out, I don't know how far I ran, when the cold wind blew in front of me, I knew that I could continue to live......

The exit was a pile of rocks, pulling away these stones and weeds, I smelled the fresh air in the air that I had not seen for a long time, it was so refreshing, and just as I was about to shout, Cha Wenbin covered my mouth and dragged me into the grass next to me. When I looked up, I realized that it was only twenty or thirty meters away from the guard's room, and I could clearly hear their conversation when I was crouching here.

The area around the mine was already busy, with workers in overcoats coming and going, and a half-loaded cinder cargo ship by the river.

"There." Cha Wenbin gave me a look, there were reeds on both sides of the river, and we slowly approached the boat along the reeds, and jumped under a piece of oilcloth in the back warehouse without the other party noticing. After waiting for a short time, the boat drove away, and Cha Wenbin and I touched the boat one after the other and swam ashore with all our might.

People say that if you don't die in a catastrophe, you will have a blessing, and the two of them were so cold and popsicles that they carried each other through one rice field after another, found a farmer's house to make a fire and asked them to buy some old clothes, and I ate three whole bowls of rice before I gave up......

The fat man still has no whereabouts, Cha Wenbin and I can only go home first to find someone, and Yuan Xiaobai has already left, but he left a number. After a few days of no news, the family was already in a mess, and they were also asking around, and it was about the third day that my father came back and said that someone in the neighboring county had found a man who had fallen into the water on the beach by the river.

When Cha Wenbin and I arrived, the person had already been sent to the hospital, and there was a person who was covered with tubes.

At that time, the fat man was still in a deep coma, and he was still alive after a long period of hypoxia and hypothermia, and the doctor said that it was already a miracle. After asking, the local medical conditions are limited, and it is said that it can only depend on the fat man's own creation, and because of this sentence, I almost didn't smash the hospital.

The fat man was found by a local child, located in a village downstream of Zhuangyuan Village, and when the child found the fat man by the river, he thought he was a dead man, and the ghost shouted to go home and report it to his parents. When people came over to take a look, they were still angry, so they got a tractor and sent it directly to the county hospital.

The fat man had only a pair of pants left on his body at that time, and he didn't know where all the clothes on his body had gone, and it turned out later that the fat man would have drowned if he hadn't taken off his clothes in time. The only clue is that the fat man was holding a golden hairpin in his hand at the time, and the guy lay in the hospital for three days, and the fist in his hand was not broken.

So when the doctor said that he was afraid that his brain would be damaged and he might become a vegetative person, I only replied: "No, this bastard has a good brain, and he still knows how to hold on to his baby until he dies, and he will be fine." ”

If possible, he should be sent to a big hospital, which was the advice given by the other doctor. I hurriedly went home to find the number left by Yuan Xiaobai, and dialed a phone call, saying to come to Shanghai quickly, and I chartered a car overnight to send the fat man to Shanghai.

In the end, it was a big family, and a specialist came early the next morning, and at noon he was notified that surgery was needed, saying that the fat man's brain had been violently hit and needed a craniotomy. The fat man is a single strip, without parents, children in the afternoon, and the operation list I signed.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the doctor announced that the operation was successful, saying that the situation was good and that he would be able to wake up tomorrow. That night, the two of them began to have a high fever that did not go away, and they were both hospitalized, which can be regarded as accompanying the fat man to make him a companion......