Chapter 62: Stranded

Water, it's all water.

It became extremely difficult to breathe, and I was in the dark, washed forward by the current, not knowing where I was going to be washed away, and I didn't know how long I could hold on or how long I could live. In addition to the instinctive struggle, I was clearly aware that my life was over.

In this case, not to mention Zhou Xuanye and a few people, even if a professional rescue team comes, I am afraid that they will be helpless.

I couldn't think much at the moment, the discomfort of my body and the fear of my mind shattered everything, and in this tumbling water, from time to time, my body would crash into the surrounding stone walls. Every time I bump into it, in addition to pain, it is a kind of hope.

The human instinct for survival is very strong, and I always try to grasp something to stabilize my body, but every time I reach out, I can touch the smooth stone wall without edges. In this wash, my body gradually stiffened, and my muscles gradually weakened.

Maybe the next moment, when I can't struggle, when I can no longer emerge from the surface of the water to breathe, it will be when death comes.

At the last moment of consciousness, I was pushed out by the fierce current, and I hit a cold and hard object, and my brain also slammed hard. I couldn't see it, but I guess I should have hit a rock. This impact was the hardest of all, because the stone was a little protruding and knocked me unconscious.

I walked the same path as Tan Jian and passed out.

What will happen to a person who falls unconscious in the river waters, is obvious.

So, for a long time, I was in a state of 'death', I had no consciousness, no feeling, the whole world was gone, so when I opened my eyes again, I felt that it had been a long time, my brain was swollen and painful, and for a long time, I couldn't remember anything.

It was pitch black all around, and I felt like I was underneath me a hard, damp slate.

There is not a single light around.

There was only the sound of a loud stream of water.

Who am I?

Why am I here?

After thinking about it for a long time in the dark, the memory slowly returned to the unstoppable pain of the brain, and I thought that I must have had a concussion. But then, I was excited and nervous, excited that I wasn't dead, nervous because I didn't know my surroundings and how to escape.

I think I must have been brought to this place by the groundwater after I fell into a coma, which is about a stranding zone, and I am fortunate to have such a place to stay.

There was actually water in this landing, but it was very shallow, and I was sitting on the ground with my legs crossed, and the water was just above my thighs.

I tried to stand up, but my frozen body and overexerted muscles went limp, and I was halfway up when I stood up, and I fell down again, and I sat on my ass in the water.

"Damn it." I couldn't help but curse, and then something suddenly came to mind. I will be carried by the current to this stranding zone, so will Tan Jian also be brought over? The odds are actually very small, but in small hopes is also hope, right? As soon as the thought came to me, my heart pounded.

I have to check my surroundings, maybe Tan Jian is near me?

At this moment, I can't see my fingers, and I need a light source.

That's right, lighters!

That's right, I have a lighter on me.

The windproof lighter of more than 1,000 is still in my pocket, and this thing is metal sealed on the outside, absolutely waterproof, and it should still work. I hurriedly went to touch my pocket, which was zippered, and contained all kinds of small things, which were not lost in the impact of the water.

I touched the life-saving lighter.

This lighter has helped me many times, once in the ghost market and once now. When a person is in a civilized society, he can never realize the meaning of a small cluster of flames. At this moment, this flame is a life-saving fire.

I decided that as long as I could get out alive, I had to buy a good lighter and no more plastic. Some things can be saved, and some things must not be saved! No matter how poor you are, you have to buy it.

With the clatter of flint, the straight flame lit up. The faint light of the fire dispelled the endless darkness and created a small space of slight warmth. I subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and found that there was a white mist emanating from my mouth, and it seemed that the temperature in this place was really low.

As far as the eye could see, it was about the same as I had guessed, it was a protruding platform by the river, about four or five meters wide, and the edges were also polished very smoothly by the water, if it weren't for the fact that there were no sharp stones here, I was afraid that I would have died long ago.

The platform is low on the outside and high on the inside, and the part near the edge is poking into the water, and I am very close to the edge at the moment. If I roll over or move around in the middle of a coma, it will be easy to return to the river again.

It's dangerous.

I secretly pinched a cold sweat, and I didn't care about anything else, so I shrank in first. Either way, it's important to get to safety first.

After leaning in, my legs and feet finally didn't have to soak in the water, and I began to raise the lighter and look for Tan Blade's figure.

The lighter's lighting range is not large, and the platform, although not wide, is very long, stretching all the way down the stone wall, and the groundwater becomes very turbulent, splashing everywhere, and everything around is cold and damp.

In order to alleviate this stiffness, I put the lighter beside me, quickly rubbed my muscles, and took off my clothes to wring out the excess water, although it didn't have much effect, but there was a difference between wet clothes and wet clothes with low water.

I didn't dare to delay too much time, so it was all done as fast as possible in the trembling. After doing all this, in order to immediately take the lighter, I began to walk down the platform by leaning on the innermost position.

At the moment, the only thing I was looking for was a miracle.

I hope Tan Jian can have the same good luck as me.

However, as soon as he walked down seven or eight steps, something appeared in his sight.

But it wasn't a man, it was the half-cut body of a giant python.

Although I haven't seen it, I guess it's the black python that snatched away Qiu Huangxi before. At this moment, the lower half of the black python's body disappeared without a trace, and the skin and flesh at the fracture were pale and swollen, half in the water. The remaining half was stranded on the platform, and on the black body, many sharp wounds could be seen, like swords and other things.

Obviously, those injuries should be Zhou Xuanye's masterpiece. When I saw the corpse of this giant python, I couldn't help but feel refreshed, since it and I could be stranded here at the same time, then why couldn't Tan Blade?

After this brief observation, I found that the shape of this platform is a typical stranding zone, which protrudes out of the stone wall four or five meters wide, high on one side and low on the other, and most importantly, the underground channel happens to be a bend when it comes here, so that large objects washed down from the upstream will be carried directly to the platform by the current.

As long as Tan Jian wasn't eaten by those strange fish, then he was likely to be stranded in this place by the current.

Thinking of this, I was in high spirits, I didn't look at the black python much, I held the lighter all the way down, and as I walked, I called Tan Blade's name.

The further forward the platform becomes, the wider it becomes, but in the underground waterways, there are very few uninvited guests, so there is no stranding on the platform. If this kind of terrain is on the ground, this area will definitely strand a lot of garbage.

Along the way, the platform was clean, and the longer and more carefully I looked at it, the more my heart sank to the bottom.

Soon, I came to the bend of the platform, and when I arrived here, the width of the platform had reached more than ten meters, and the underground river that was originally on my left hand side, after turning here, the route was in front of me, so I stood where I was, and I could see the underground river rushing forward.

The large amount of water and the narrow inlet make this water area form a great drop, and the groundwater flows here like an explosion of boiling water, the snow waves roll, the water droplets burst, and the vision of the damp water vapor is blurred.

I walked to the end of the platform, and in the end, I didn't find Tan Blade.

For a moment, my brain was completely empty, and then I sat down in a dry place, staring at the lighter, completely unable to figure out what to do. Tan Blade's luck was not as good as mine, since he didn't run aground here, then he only had two results: one was drowned, and the other was gnawed by the strange fish.

He's dead.

But I'm still alive.

I smiled bitterly, and finally couldn't help but slap myself hard: Su Tiangu, you are really fucking useless, Zhou Xuanye can protect Tan Jian in the water for most of the night, you can't even fucking withstand it for an hour!

As soon as the slap fell, I suddenly heard a voice from behind me: "What are you beating yourself for?" The voice...... It's Tan Blade! I was startled, and I turned my head sharply to see a black figure in the shadows near the stone wall.

Although I can't see the appearance clearly, listening to the voice, who is the bastard who is not Tan Jian! Didn't you know to jump out sooner if you didn't die?

I took a deep breath, suppressed the ecstasy in my heart and the urge to greet Tan Jian Ancestor, and said as calmly as possible: "Boss, don't be so ghostly, I thought you were dead!" "Damn, why did you suddenly run behind me, I walked through that place just now, and I didn't see anyone?