Chapter Forty-Eight: The Edge of Life and Death
"What's up?"
They looked at me at the same time.
"The materials for the fire."
"Burn what?"
"Come with me." I put down my backpack and pulled off the stone blocking the exit, "Long legs, you bring the machete." ”
"You wait for me, I'll go get the pot down, it will burn too much in a while."
We waited for Liu Fashan to take the red-hot folding pot off the fire, and when we came back, we got out of the hole and went to the big hole outside.
The purple light wafting inside the cave disappeared completely. Although the corpses of the two one-horned pythons were still bright, they were no longer as bright and crystal clear as before. I looked around, and Hoshino's group was nowhere to be seen, so I walked straight up to the big snake they had beaten into a sieve and said, "How about burning it?" ”
Liu Fashan pedaled the snake body thicker than a bucket with his feet: "I think it's okay, I'm afraid it's not easy to move." ”
"It should be fine to chop into sections."
Liu Changleg didn't say a word, and waved his knife and began to decompose the python.
Liu Fashan and Ma Qiang and I also helped decompose the python. The hard snake skin was full of bullet holes, and it was not difficult to cut, and soon, we chopped the whole large snake into snake meat segments of about one meter.
Seeing that Lu Keqin and Lin Xian'er covered their mouths and noses and were disgusting. When they were getting in, they were scared and gave us flashlights. The four of us men carried it back and forth several times before we transported all the pythons to the mouth of the cave.
Taking a breath, we poured some fuel from the stove on the snake meat, lit a fire and threw it into the cave. When the snake section was completely burned, we put on gas masks and prepared to enter the cave, when we heard a loud shout inside, and before we came back to our senses, we saw Lu Dachuan, Zhang Xiaohu and others holding their heads and covering their noses and rushing out of the fireworks. Hu Fatman's clothes caught fire, and he yelled "wow" as he ran.
Running out of the cave, we extinguished the fire on Hu Xiaoming's body. Liu Fashan asked, "Dachuan, are you all right?" ”
Lu Dachuan pinched his nose and said, "Let's talk about it when we go out, let's talk about it when we go out." What you burn stinks! ”
"Does it stink? How I can't smell it. Liu Fashan sniffed twice.
Lu Dachuan took off his mask and brought it to his head, and said angrily, "I can't smell it when I wear this." ”
Liu Fashan covered his nose and cried bitterly. We're happy to watch.
After a while, I packed up my things and walked outside to the big hole. Lu Dachuan and the others talked about the situation they encountered. It turned out that they all suddenly entered a void of darkness, and then became immobile as if they were frozen, and did not return to normal until a fire rolled beside them. We told them what had happened.
As soon as the two groups of people said that things were clear, but what was going on, we couldn't figure it out. I can't figure it out, so I can only hang in my heart like the mystery I encountered before.
After another toss, we were exhausted, and we slept in the dark with our sleeping bags (including Liu Fashan, who volunteered to stand guard), but fortunately there were no more accidents this time.
When we woke up, we didn't care about the pain of falling apart, we added fuel to the stove, simply cooked something to eat, turned out of the labyrinth of stone walls, squeezed out the cracks, and made it safely to the side of the road outside.
There are no lights everywhere. We guessed that the two groups of people who followed us should have entered the canyon at the end of the main road, and after a brief discussion, they decided to follow and do the yellow finch in the back as well. However, for safety, we did not follow the open road on either side, but went around the roots of the mountain in that direction.
Lu Dachuan took the lead, Zhang Xiaohu was behind, and we rushed all the way, and we arrived at the mountain pass. Leng Buding Lu Dachuan stopped, and the people behind him were caught off guard and almost rear-ended.
Stand firm, we felt strange and asked Lu Dachuan why he stopped? Lu Dachuan said that he would go over to take a look first, and then let us turn off the flashlight and wait by the side of the mountain to stay still, and turn around the bend of the mountain in the dark.
The lights were turned off, and there was darkness all around, and there was no figure to be seen standing opposite. Lu Dachuan said, "Don't speak, turn off the flashlight and wait for me here." "And left. We couldn't figure out what was going on, so we had to wait. It's nothing to wait, it's nothing to see, but it's a little unbearable not to let people talk. Especially thinking of the terrifying shadow in the cave, everyone's heart panicked, the scalp was numb, the neck was cold, and it always felt that it was standing beside it with its bloody mouth, dancing claws, and staring at the vicious eyes, and it would pounce at any time, bite its throat, and tear its chest and abdomen. Scared, we couldn't help but move closer together. Lu Keqin even shrank into my arms.
In absolute darkness, unable to speak, time is so long that there is no boundary. It's not a lot of work, but we feel like we've passed centuries.
Liu Fashan felt that he was trembling uncontrollably, and the people leaning on him on both sides were also trembling, and whispered: "It's strange to be tired from standing, let's sit down and smoke a cigarette." ”
"Why didn't you say it sooner." I don't know who muttered something in the dark.
In this case, Liu Fashan's words are tantamount to the prisoner waiting for the knife to be beheaded to hear the emperor's holy decree of amnesty to the world. We sat on the ground with a hula la hu. Before Liu Fashan took out his cigarette, someone had already lit a lighter.
"Stand in the way, don't let people see it." Liu Fashan hurriedly took out a cigarette.
In order to dispel fear, Hu Xiaoming put aside the doctor's advice and lit a cigarette. Together with Liu Peng, Liu Fashan, and Cai Zhengdong, there are a total of four cigarettes that shine. Although they couldn't see, their hands were still more or less covered, but everyone felt much better immediately. At least the feeling of going crazy is gone.
A cigarette was finished, and Lu Dachuan hadn't come back yet. We couldn't sit still. Zhang Xiaohu stood up and said, "I'll go see what's going on." ”
"Let's go together, don't go like you're in a cave." Liu Fashan got up as he spoke. Needless to say, the others naturally all stood up with it.
Lu Dachuan walked in the dark, and we didn't dare to turn on the lights, so we groped our way along the roots of the mountain one by one. After walking three or four meters, the mountain suddenly turned, and we knew that we had entered the canyon. We could see the terrain outside the pass when the lights were turned on before, and we knew the situation in our hearts, but we didn't know what was going on inside the pass. Therefore, Zhang Xiaohu, who led the way in front, walked more carefully, and every step he took first tried the road ahead with his toes before he dared to step on it, for fear that there would be no way to fall into the abyss under his feet.
In this way, he advanced for about ten meters, and Zhang Xiaohu couldn't stand. Liu Fashan, who was following him, touched him and stopped, and asked, "Why don't you leave?" ”
"No way."
"How can there be no way?"
"You touch, it looks like a stone wall in front of me." Zhang Xiaohu pulled Liu Fashan and asked him to touch it.
Liu Fashan touched forward with both hands, and indeed touched a stone wall, which felt cold and smooth: "How can there be no way?" Where did Okawa go? ”
"There is a mountain root on the left, and he should go to the right along the stone wall." Although he couldn't see it in the dark, Zhang Xiaohu was obviously not idle.
"Hmm." Liu Fashan touched the mountain on the left and the stone wall in front of him, "It can only be like this." ”
"Then I'll stick to the stone wall and go to the right."
"Let's go." Liu Fashan answered Zhang Xiaohu, turned back to us who were following him, and said, "Turn right, be careful not to bump into it." ”
The two of them walked forward in front, and we only took steps in the back. Because in complete darkness, without holding the mountain, we really dare not walk blindly.
After adjusting the direction, we walked for another while in the dark, and we had no bottom in our hearts.
Liu Fashan took two steps, touched Zhang Xiaohu and said, "Huzi, turn on the lights and take a look?" It's scary to walk like this all the time. ”
"Do you dare to open it?" Zhang Xiaohu suppressed his breathing, "In case we are discovered, we will have to let people chase after our butts again." ”
In the dark, Liu Fashan turned his head and looked around: "I can't see any light, they are not night owls, we should have found them nearby." ”
"Okay then."
Zhang Xiaohu turned on the flashlight. The bright light pierced the darkness, and when I saw the situation in front of me, I couldn't help but gasp, and I was scared of the seven souls.
It turned out that the inside of the pass was not a canyon at all, but an oval-shaped crater, and the smoke on it was not much deep, and the area occupied all the places in the pass. Of course, the sudden appearance of the big pothole is terrible, but compared to this, it is even more terrifying that the road under our feet, from the pothole to the ground between the mountain we have helped all the way is no more than two feet wide. In some places, there is a crescent-like opening, and it is even narrower. That is to say, after a vain turn along the mountain, we walked on a path less than two feet wide with a cliff on one side and an abyss on the other, and we were still in the middle of the path, with no end in sight at either end.
The eyes were real, we couldn't move, and our legs and stomachs shook like chaff. To say that it is thrilling is really thrilling, but it is more of a fear. If you take a slight step just now, you can't imagine the consequences.
When he came back to his soul, Zhang Xiaohu hurriedly turned off the flashlight.
Hu Fatzi immediately exclaimed: "It's really terrible!" Hurry up. ”
"Open what open! It's really dizzy to see it for a while. Zhang Xiaohu scolded Hu Fatzi and said to everyone: "Everyone calm down, turn around and don't think about anything, and walk back like when you came." ”
Liu Fashan added: "When I turned around, I turned my face against the wall and turned to the left. "Because we had bags on our backs, we were afraid that someone would faint for a while, so we turned around and squeezed people down because of the backpack hitting the mountain wall.
"To put it lightly, I didn't know what the situation was when I came, but now I know that the ghost gate is at my feet, how dare I go. Besides, my belly, can I turn around!? ”
Cai Zhengdong heard Hu Xiaoming's deflating words, and scolded: "Dead fatty, as long as you have a belly, are we people under the chest of the back?" ”
"You guys are also called stomachs, and no one has a round butt when you are full, what about me here, fat man, I can give birth to a child with all my strength, how can I compare!"
"You deserve it! Who let you not be confined at home and come out to run around. ”
“……”
Their quarrel was annoying at first, but then it was amusing again. The tension suddenly eased a lot, and the legs and feet were strengthened, so they tentatively turned around. Liu Peng, Zhang Xiaohu, and Liu Fashan needless to say; I, Cai Zhengdong, and Lin Xian'er stubbornly turned around; Hu Xiaoming said that, but he was not ambiguous at all, he took off his backpack and hung it on his chest, and his back against the stone wall seemed to be easier than us; On the contrary, it was Lu Keqin, who leaned sideways against the stone wall and didn't dare to move. There was no way, Zhang Xiaohu had to turn on the flashlight and ask her to close her eyes, and I helped her turn around with a lot of effort.
Seeing that everyone was facing the direction they were coming, Zhang Xiaohu said, "Everyone is ready, I'll turn off the flashlight." ”
"Do you have to walk in the dark, can't you drive?" Hu Fatzi's words are here again.
"If it's discovered, we people in this place won't have to be reimbursed for all the bullets from others." Zhang Xiaohu said and turned off the flashlight.
"It's so dark, just a little moonshine."
"Dead fatty, if you nag like a, I'll kick you down."
Liu Changleg, who changed to the head of the team, said: "You two don't quarrel, I'm leaving, you follow." ”
Who would have thought that Lu Keqin would cry. Ask her what's wrong? Said that he did not dare to go. I can't carry my back, I can't hold it, but it makes me bad...... After everyone's persuasion in turn, Lu Keqin finally nodded and was willing to leave. We're not at ease again. Liu Changleg untied the mountaineering rope hanging from his waist and said, "Let's tie a safety rope, everyone can take care of it." ”
After grinding for a long time, the rope was passed from the front to the rear, and everyone tied it around their waists. The group finally walked back.
groped all the way, and finally returned to the place where Zhang Xiaohu touched the stone wall and turned to the right. Liu Changleg said: "Everyone be careful, you have to turn a corner." ”
Listening to Liu Peng say that he had turned a corner, everyone knew that they would not be able to go far before they got out of the mountain pass, and their hearts were relaxed for a while, and they couldn't help but speed up their pace. Who would have thought that at this moment, a terrible laugh sounded in the air from far to near.