Chapter 12: A Sudden Shock
When everyone was about to set off after admiring the beautiful golden beetle, a huge beetle landed on the top of a tall foreigner's head, pulling the foreigner's messy hair and unable to leave. And at this moment, the small golden beetle swarm that had been quietly parked around flew up, intending to rescue the red-headed beetle from the top of the tall foreigner's head. As a result, the tall foreigner casually threw out the red-headed beetle above his head, causing it to crash into the iron pillar and unfortunately die.
And when the master saw that the golden insect king was dead, he immediately shouted "run". Then, without saying a word, he grabbed my arm tightly and rushed forward. I was pulled by the master and ran out more than a dozen paces, and the people behind me reacted and ran after us.
However, it was too late, and thousands of golden beetles vibrated their wings together, making a mournful sound like the sound of a bell in a temple, and the hollow iron pillar inserted in the deep pit, every tube on its pillar made a thunderous sound, and the deafening sound made people dizzy. And the tall foreigner who was standing near the hollow iron pillar was directly stunned at once, and a large number of golden beetles surrounded the tall foreigner's head in an instant. I saw the foreigner lying on the ground covering his ears in pain, struggling to stand up and not running a few steps, then he knelt on the ground weakly, blood flowed out of his eyes, nostrils and mouth, and then trickled down between his fingers covering his ears.
The thunder sounded wildly all around, my ear hurt indescribably, one hand was tightly pulled by the master, I could only cover my ear with one hand to isolate the sound, I gradually felt as if something was leaking out of my right ear. Master held my hand tightly, did not relax for a moment, and rushed forward quickly, I couldn't take care of the people behind me, my weak body let my legs run forward by inertia.
The deafening sound was fading away, and slowly I could hear my own cow panting. I thought to myself: If it weren't for Master to pull me to run, with my current physical condition, I wouldn't have been able to run so fast and so far. Now, the sound of the bell worm could no longer be heard behind him, and the master stopped, compared to my rapid panting, the old man still did not change his face, but his breathing became slightly faster. I saw that his ears were bleeding, so I hurriedly put the backpack on my shoulder on the ground, took out a bag of cotton from it, and then let Master sit on the backpack first, and I began to wipe the blood flowing from his ears.
While wiping the blood, I asked Master with some distress, "Does my ear hurt?" â
Master shook his head and said to me, "It's good to run fast, otherwise you will become deaf if you don't die." â
I felt a little uncomfortable and said, "It's me again, an unsuccessful apprentice, dragging down your old man, Master." â
The master smiled indifferently and said to me in a relaxed tone: "It's good that you know, when you return to Beijing in the future, you and the fat baby won't cause me some trouble." I'm an old bone now, and I don't have the strength to wipe your ass and clean up the mess. However, now that you two are capable, you hardly need me to step into the coffin with one foot. â
Hearing Master's emotion, I hurriedly pinched his shoulder, and then said to him with a flattering face: "Master, your old man is strong and healthy, how can you be an old bone." You are a green pine on Mount Tai, and the fat man and I are a green onion in the ditch, and we will have to rely on the shade of your evergreen tree in the future, Master, in order to shelter from the wind and rain. When I and the fat man make a lot of money in the future, I will be filial to your old man, and you will be ready to retire easily and safely when you are old! â
After listening to what I said, the master smiled with satisfaction and stroked his goatee, and then said to me, "It is enough for you to have this filial piety." Although this tomb robbery is the fastest way to make money, it is also very risky, and there are many strange and unpredictable mechanisms in the tomb, and if you don't get it right, you will lose your life. And tomb robbery is the most damaging to yin morality, usually you and the fat baby have to accumulate a lot of virtue and do good, and the situation of seeing wealth in the tomb is also very easy to happen, you two must always remember that you must not harm the lives of others because of money. â
After listening carefully to Master's explanation, I felt strange in my heart, no matter how I listened to it, I felt like I was listening to my last words, and I couldn't help but curse myself in my heart, this kind of thought is not cursing Master! While slapping Master's back, I said to him in a firm tone, "Master, please rest assured, old man! I usually don't even dare to kill a chicken, how can I harm other people's lives. As for the fat man, he is a little fierce, but his heart is softer than cotton, and we are definitely not the kind of people who can do murderous things, don't you know this best? After saying that, I thought of the fat man, who was now uncertain about his life and death, and my heart suddenly became uncomfortable.
After listening to my sincere words, the master nodded with satisfaction, and then said to me, "You and the fat baby are both kind children, and the teacher naturally knows it. However, you can't have the heart of harming people, you can't have the heart of guarding against people, you have to be careful in everything in the future, and you must know how to be tactful in dealing with the world, especially the fat baby with an upright personality, you have to remind him a lot, he is too easy to offend people, and he doesn't know it. â
I responded with it, but I was thinking in my heart: Why haven't they chased the foreigners of the search and rescue team yet, and even Luo Dabeard, who is good at kung fu, has not seen him yet. Even if the master's skills were good enough to pull me to run faster, and they started late, it would not be possible to produce such a big gap! None of them escaped the Golden Beetle? Thinking of this, my heart began to feel uneasy, so I bowed my head and asked Master, "Master, it's been a quarter of an hour, why haven't they caught up yet, can't they all be killed?" â
Master stared intently in the direction we came, shook his head, and said, "With your Uncle Luo's ability, it won't be a problem to escape at all. It is estimated that he may have delayed some time in order to help others get out of danger. â
I walked up to the Master and looked in the direction we had come, wondering if they would run away from us, even though the road was clear at dawn, there was no reference in the pit. Thinking of this, I turned back to Master and asked him, "Shall we go back to meet them?" â
Master stood up, walked up to me, and then leaned down on the ground, pressed his ears to the ground, and listened with his eyes closed with a calm expression. So, I did the same, lying on the ground and putting my ears to the ground to listen. However, nothing was heard but silence and silence. The strange pit is surprisingly quiet, not even birds fly over the sky, and there are no small animals on the ground to burrow and build nests here. In this deep pit, except for the few daredevils who broke in, there were probably no other life forms.
Master lay on the ground for about half a cigarette before he got up from the ground, patted off the dirt stuck to his clothes, and said, "Someone is coming." â
Sure enough, after a while, I saw the tall and burly Captain Locke coming from a distance, walking beside him was Luo Bearded, followed by the blonde female translator, and Henry, who was parachuteing me on the plane, and then there was no one else to see. I know very well in my heart that the foreigners of the search and rescue team are probably in trouble, although we have not been together for a long time, but the foreigners of the search and rescue team are very kind and friendly, and I am inevitably a little sad to know that they are in trouble.
Locke and the others approached us, Master handed his kettle to Luo Dabeard, I handed my kettle to the blonde female translator, she silently took it, nestled it in her hands, and then motionless in front of me. I saw that her eyes were red, and I looked like she had just cried, and I was completely helpless in the situation, and I did not know how to comfort her.
I saw that Henry's left arm was injured next to her, so I looked away and began to treat Henry's wound. The wound on his shoulder was not very deep, as long as he simply bandaged it. So, I opened my backpack, took out the bottle of Yunnan Baiyao, and pulled a strip of clean white cloth to bandage his wound. After treating the wound, Henry smiled and said "thank you" to me in very stiff Chinese. I smiled back at him, patted him on the shoulder, and walked up to Master.
Master and Luo Dabeard were talking, and when I was bored, I looked up at the sky above. Now that the sky is bright, the fog in the pit is becoming thin, but I still see any objects in the pit, not even the magnificent cemetery in the pit, I have not found a corner, and the most disturbing thing is that the road ahead is boundless, and I don't know when I will be able to pass through this annoying pit. Now, the original purpose of finding the members of the search and rescue team who disappeared before has come to naught, no matter how you think about them, they are both lucky, and the chance of survival is almost zero.
Now, with the foreigner's search and rescue team, plus me, Master, and Luo Dabeard, there are only six people left, and we have to continue our mission to find and rescue the trapped Yue'er. The six-member search and rescue team began to set off again, and Captain Lock, of the foreigner search and rescue team, still straightened his back and walked in front to lead the way with the master. The female translator walking beside me was unkempt and had the same face as a big cat. I thought to myself: the way I am now, I must not be much better, maybe it may be worse. I looked in the mirror before leaving, and I was already a malnourished dish, and I guess now I must be no different from a beggar who eats Lulu, and now I can't maintain my image at all.
The shoulder straps of the backpack on my body made my shoulders hurt, and my legs were as heavy as lead.
Walking, without stopping the mechanical steps, I am now completely sure that the cemetery I saw in the pit before was a complete mirage, and there was no zĂ i at all. Otherwise, we have walked in the pit for so long, even if we are "looking at the mountain and running a dead horse", it is impossible that we have not come to its nearest.
My stomach began to scream uncontrollably, and I pulled open the small pocket on the side of my backpack, pulled out a compressed biscuit and nibbled it in, the dry cookie crumbs sucking up all the water in my mouth, making it even harder to swallow. In order to get rid of the terrifying conjecture, I took the initiative to talk to the female translator next to me, and a dry and hoarse voice burst out of my mouth, and I asked a question that didn't make much sense, "Are you okay?" â
The female translator turned her head to look at me, nodded silently, and then opened her mouth to say something, but she didn't seem to know what to say. The corners of his mouth twitched a few times, and then he looked away, staring down at the road under his feet.
Seeing her like this, I thought to myself: she must still be sad about the loss of her teammates. At this time, I don't know what words can be said to comfort her, and in the present situation, any words of comfort seem very weak.
The team slowly walked in the pit, the sun above them rose higher and higher, the temperature around them also became hotter, the fog in the pit gradually dissipated, and the surroundings began to become brighter and brighter. However, the pit is still like an empty desert, with no borders in sight, only the clear sky above, proving that we are not in nothingness.
Suddenly, the road surface in the pit began to shake violently, and the people leading the way in front were forced to stop, and with the violently shaking ground, everyone's bodies swayed like candles in the wind. The movement under his feet continued, and the master and Locke at the front of the line shouted "Run".
However, in the case of such a strong vibration, it was as if the feet were stepping on cotton, and "running" became undoubtedly the most difficult thing.
When the tremor occurred, I grabbed the hand of the female translator next to me and pulled her close to me. Hearing the command to run, I pulled her to fly and ran towards the periphery of the vibration.
However, the two of us stumbled almost one step at a time, and I could barely hold my body to avoid falling, and I clung to the female interpreter to escape to the periphery of the shock. The muscles of the thighs have begun to cramp due to the forced tightness, but now they cannot relax a little, and the heart says: If you fall here, there is no doubt that you will escape to death.
I pulled the stumbling female translator and wondered in my heart: Did the earth dragon chase here? Or maybe it's an earthquake? However, no matter what the situation is now, we are all on the edge of danger, and we can only try to escape for our lives in order to avoid the approaching danger.
Whether you can escape or not!