Chapter Twenty-Six: Step Falls

In the dark abyss, I decided to eat something to fill my stomach in order to ease my unusually nervous feelings, so as to relieve my nerves that were about to collapse.

However, the moment I took a bite of the bread, my eyes saw that the calm surface of the underground river was rolling, and the reason for it to roll was the countless corpses of the black-haired eyeless monsters covering the surface of the river, as if they had come back to life, and they kept struggling in the water to pounce on both sides of the riverbank.

I was speechless in astonishment when I saw such a scene, but I understood that they did not die, but fell from a high altitude into the water and fainted. I'm not sure how many black-haired eyeless monsters didn't die, but I knew that even a tenth, or even a dime, would kill me and the fat man in the abyss underground.

Fear could never overcome the idea of survival, so I quickly put on my coat, shoved the pistol and bullets in the fat man's backpack and broke them, and then dragged the fat man unconscious, gritted my teeth and limped back to the hole high behind me.

One by one, the black-haired eyeless beasts that were wet by the river like chickens in soup struggled to climb to the shore and lay on the ground and spit water. It didn't take long for them to be alert to our existence, and I endured the pain in my knees, and dragged the fat man backwards step by step, thinking to myself that as long as we were far away from these unknown monsters, so far away that their long, pointed ears could not hear us, we would be safe.

Wishes are always good, plans can never keep up with the fast changes, and in the faint phosphorescence, a few black-haired eyeless monsters shook their long ears and lifted their heads from the ground and looked at me. For a moment, I held my breath and froze motionless. My stiff body trembled in the wind, and my left leg hurt so much that cold sweat the size of a bean grain oozed from my forehead, and I kept holding myself back and sat on the ground until the black-haired eyeless monsters fell to the ground again. I finally let go of it, dragging the heavy fat man and continuing to move backwards.

People are not as good as the sky, I originally thought that retreating into the hole behind me, I could safely avoid those black-haired unknown creatures, but, the black hole is not flat, full of low-lying puddles, without paying attention, I fell into a small deep puddle, struggling, I saw the black-haired eyeless monsters lying on the shore in the distance, they turned their heads to the entrance of the cave, I knew that it would be really too late if I didn't go, and hurriedly struggled to get up, dragging the fat man to continue to retreat, but it was too late. I saw the monsters in front of me, one by one, rising from the ground, shaking their heads looking for the source of the sound.

At this moment, my wrist was suddenly grabbed by someone, and I was so frightened that I almost didn't scream. I hurriedly looked down to see that it was none other than my dear friend Comrade Qian Guangrong who grabbed my wrist, and I burst into tears with excitement and said in a choked voice: "Fatty, you have finally woken up." ā€

The fat man let go of my hand, slowly sat up from the ground, and asked me, "Where is this?" What's wrong with me? ā€

I immediately lifted him up from the ground, lowered my voice and said to him, "Now is not the time to discuss these issues, it is important to run for your life." ā€

Only then did the fat man see the black monster outside the cave, and hurriedly took a few steps back, and exclaimed softly: "What the hell are those things?" ā€

The hordes of monsters behind us are still moving, and sooner or later they will find out about our existence. I put my finger to my mouth to keep the fat man silent, and pulled him around, limping deeper into the cave. The fat man saw that I was lame and asked me worriedly, "What's wrong with you, why is your leg still injured?" After speaking, he touched his forehead again and exclaimed, "I'm cĒŽo, why is my head broken?" The back and buttocks also hurt as if they were on fire. ā€

I lowered my voice and explained to the fat man, "You broke your forehead when we fell into the abyss, but I have already sewn up the wound for you." The rest of the things are a long story, and I'll explain them to you slowly when I have time later. Now let's get out of here, you see the ghosts behind the life, they can't see, but their sense of hearing is very keen, they are all faint now, but sooner or later they will find out about our existence. Now that the two of us are walking high along this dark river, we will probably be able to return to the ground from scratch. "The abyss under the ground is outrageously deep, and I don't know whether I can return to the ground or not. However, as long as there is hope, there must be a way out.

When the fat man saw that I was lame, he was about to carry me on his back, and I said to him, "You are still very weak and cannot be strong." ā€

The fat man said with a nonchalant face: "I'm fine, as long as I eat a meal, my body will immediately return to normal." ā€

While we were talking, I heard a movement behind me, and when I turned my head, I saw that the black-haired monster had risen from the ground and scrambled into the cave. The moment I was confused, the fat man pulled me violently and shouted, "What else are you looking at, run!" Then he crawled frantically into the depths of the cave.

At this time, I really hated my parents for giving me a leg, especially when I was still lame. The sound behind me pierced my ears and shook the bottom of my heart, and my heart was in my throat.

What you are most looking forward to in a critical moment is a turnaround, but if it doesn't come for a long time, it will continue to wear down your will and force you into the abyss of despair. The constant throbbing sound was far and near behind me, and I was now carried on the back by the fat man, because I was limping too slowly.

The fat man ran desperately through puddles of different depths, but the monsters behind him were getting closer and closer to us. At this moment, I heard the sound of a waterfall in front of me, and I couldn't help but sigh in despair: God is going to kill me!

The fat man also heard the sound of the waterfall splashing, and asked me anxiously, "What should I do?" There seems to be no road ahead. ā€

I gritted my back molars and said viciously, "Fight." On the Huangquan Road, they are not lonely with each other. ā€

When the fat man replied, he put me down, and I handed him the pistol in my arms, and we turned around and faced the frantically rushing monsters, and fell backwards step by step.

The monsters didn't give us any chance, they jumped up from the ground, and the fat man next to me started the gunshot, and several black-haired one-eyed monsters were dead on the ground, the gunfire had a deterrent effect, the black-haired monster stopped attacking, but the fat man and I were constantly falling backwards. In the blink of an eye, we were forced back to the edge of the waterfall.

The waterfall in the cave does not go straight up and down, but extends upward in the form of a ladder with a steep slope. I immediately tugged at the fat man's sleeve, pointed to the waterfall behind him, and said, "Let's climb up." ā€

When the fat man heard this, he immediately lifted me up, grabbed the very slippery waterfall wall with both hands, climbed up with one foot, and jumped to the top of the waterfall stairs. And the fat man, after firing several shots in succession, jumped up and jumped up the ladder of the waterfall. The black-haired monsters in the underground also jumped up in the same way, and climbed the waterfall stairs full of water, but the fat man was a vicious person, and he was willing to give those monsters a chance, and swept many monsters down the stairs with a sweep. Because the stairs are full of water, it is difficult to stand firm, and many black-haired monsters with only three fingers jump up and fall down by themselves, which gives us a chance to escape.

The fat man dragged my ass, constantly helping me climb one staircase after another, and kept shooting the black-haired eyeless monster that pounced on me, and finally when the bullets ran out, he could only fight the black-haired monster with his bare hands, and his body was constantly adding wounds.

The dirt stairs above the waterfall grew steeper and the current grew stronger, and the impact nearly knocked me out a few times, and my back molars were literally crushed. My clothes were soaked from the inside out, my hands seemed to be cold, my knees hurt so much that my thighs were numb and unconscious, and I had the idea of letting go of my hands for a moment, so that the pain was relieved.

The fat man in the ground kept urging me to run, and I didn't dare to look down at the situation, and the soles of my feet turned into an endless abyss again, and I fell into darkness. I opened my mouth to drink the water flowing down from the waterfall, and sighed to myself: if this is a nightmare, there will be a time to wake up. But the current bad situation, I don't know when it will end?

The sound of the violent waterfall drowning down the howls of gunfire below, my eyes could no longer be opened, I could only rely on an obsession, continue to climb up in the dark, the stairs under my feet became steeper and steeper, so steep that I could only step on my toes to step on top, if I was not careful, I would lose my footing and fall into the abyss again, this time, there will be no more tree nets and dark rivers below to save my life.

When I climbed a staircase that was not wider than my wrist, I found that there was no way, and as far as I could reach, there were no more stairs, not even the slightest protrusion. I lowered my head and shouted at the fat man below, "There is no road up there, what should I do?" ā€

But the sound of the rushing waterfall drowned out my shouting, and the water poured over me, and my legs trembled like chaff, and I could not stand like this, and I began to move sideways to the side. As a result, after not taking a few steps, I stepped on the air, and I was shocked into a cold sweat, and I fell into a water hole with a "Mom", rolled three times and hit a cave wall.

A curtain of water hung from the mouth of the cave, and I fell into a puddle. I leaned against the wall and wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh, I wanted to cry but couldn't keep my tears, so I fell quietly in the muddy water.

The fat man rolled in from behind the curtain of the waterfall, and when he saw me sitting on the ground, he didn't speak, but he sat on the ground, leaning against the wall, and closed his eyes. Mourning is greater than heart death!

I steadied my feelings, leaned against the wall and wanted to stand up, the fat man opened his eyes at this time, stretched out his hand and was about to pull me, but in an instant, his arm was instantly withdrawn as if he had been electrocuted, and he looked at my back with a frightened face, raised his pistol with one hand, and made a stop gesture to me with the other, telling me not to move.

Inexplicable fear struck my now fragile heart again, and I sat stiffly in the deep pit and did not dare to move, and asked the fat man in a panicked whisper, "What's the matter?" ā€

Then I saw the fat man put his hands around his mouth and whispered to me, "Hands, hands." ā€