Chapter Fifty-Six: Inexplicably Out of Danger
The water in the ditch was gone, and the extremely sharp gears had stopped turning, and I knew that I could not miss the opportunity, so I immediately put my backpack on my chest, and then shouted "go" to the fat man and the smoking man, and then I slid down the ditch with half back and half dragging the rain.
The pit was full of silt, and there was still some residual sewage on it, like a large quagmire.
I dragged the drowsy rain forward, and the mud in the pit was nearly a foot deep, like a pair of hands, pulling at my trouser legs, making my march difficult and very slow. The shoes and trouser legs were already covered with dirty mud and had lost their original appearance.
I turned around and saw the smoke man and the fat man right behind me, both of whom seemed to be in good shape, so I focused all my attention on the route I was traveling, gritted my teeth, and with my arms firmly fixed the rain on my back upwards, and then, trying to dodge away from the cold light of the gears, I struggled to pull out my legs that were sometimes sunk into the mud.
The other side is getting closer, closer and closer, closer to the touch.
My heart is cheering wildly, "Thank you, God"!
However, the reality of the situation at this time was like a basin of cold water, splashing all over my body from top to bottom, instantly extinguishing my premature joy.
The inevitable and headache-inducing question arises, "How do we get up?" "Looking at the wet dirt wall in front of me, although it is not high, it is impossible for me to carry the unconscious rain on my back and climb it with my bare hands.
Moreover, I vaguely heard the ghostly sound of running water in the distance. I immediately prayed in my heart: Don't open the floodgates at this time!
Time is of the essence. If the turbulent water were to pour in again, it would swallow us up in an instant, and we would be swept up in the sharp gears. It was dismantled in eight pieces.
Even if any of us are lucky enough to be washed out of the drain, who can guarantee that there will not be an abyss outside, and we will also fall to pieces and be wiped out.
The fat man was already close to me with the cigarette man in his arms, and then said to me without the slightest hesitation: "I'll go up first, and then find a way to pull them up, Lao Zheng, you go up last." ”
Although I was very worried that the fat man's poisoned body would not be able to hold on. But there is no other way around now. Although I am in the best physical condition now, I am not as good as a fat man, and this difficult task still has to be completed by him. And the sound of the water is still in my ears, so time is pressing, I can't waste any seconds.
I lifted the fat man's ass underneath and tried my best to prop his body up. The fat man stuck his fingers in the soft dirt. Then pedal barefoot on the dirt wall. He had not climbed a few steps before I saw his hands, covered with blood and mud, and immediately lowered his head in reluctance.
As a result, his eyes touched the smoke man's trembling legs, he leaned on the dirt wall in a drowsy manner, his hands kept shaking like chaff, and even his cheeks, which had been expressionless, were now involuntarily pumping. Look at his eyes, closed in pain. I choked up and asked softly, "Brother Smoker, can you still hold on?" ”
The cigarette man heard my question. I barely opened my eyes, but his body shook suddenly, and a mouthful of blood sprayed onto my body, and then he closed his eyes, and his body was crooked against the dirt wall, and he slid down weakly.
I immediately screamed and kept calling his name, "Brother Smoke, Brother Smoker." As a result, he closed his eyes tightly and did not react at all.
I hurriedly put the rain on my back on the ground, then squatted down and opened the eyelids of the smoking man, his pupils had begun to dilate, and I was so frightened that I hurriedly put my fingers on his carotid artery. The pulse is very weak, but fortunately he is still alive, but it is difficult to say what happens next. If he doesn't get treatment, I'm afraid the smoke man will really die.
After a difficult climb, the fat man finally gritted his teeth and climbed to the ground. He tore the cotton vest that was wrapped around the wound in his belly into strips, and then twisted it into several knots like twisting hemp rope, and tied them together into a rope that did not seem to be very strong.
The fat man tried the length of the rope made of the vest, and found that it was not long enough, so he opened the cigarette man's backpack, found a short piece of hemp rope and attached it, threw the knotted rope into the ditch again, and shouted to me, "Get the rain first." ”
I hurriedly grabbed the rope and tied it firmly to Tianyu's body, first picked her up from the ground, and then immediately lifted her high up. The rope tied to Tianyu's body was stretched straight, as if it could be broken at any time.
Tianyu's body quickly left the palms I was lifting upwards, but I was still standing directly below her in case the rope broke inadvertently, so that I could quickly catch her and protect her personal safety. Fortunately, there was no danger, and Tianyu was safely pulled to the shore by the fat man.
The fat man checked the rope again before throwing it. I tied up the cigarette man in the same way, and used all my strength to lift him up unconscious. The smoke man usually looks thin, but in fact, his body is very strong and full of muscles. Due to his weight, the rope was tightened this time, and it didn't make a creaking sound.
When the cigarette man left my palm, I was still standing directly under him, praying in my heart that the rope must be fought for. As a result, the rope lived up to my expectations, and the smoke man was safely hoisted to the ground.
At this time, I looked up and saw that the fat man's face was pale and frightening, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness, and his face was covered with large beads of sweat.
Now it's just me, I'm not unconscious, my body can move freely, I can climb up on my own, and the fat man doesn't have to pull me up.
I shouted at the fat man on the shore: "Tie the rope around your waist, and you can lie on the ground and rest." ”
At this time, I heard the clear sound of running water again, and the fat man seemed to hear it, and he anxiously pulled the rope and said to me, "Don't talk nonsense, come up quickly." ”
I quickly tied the rope that the fat man had thrown down to my waist, then put on the tattered cotton gloves and began to climb the slippery dirt wall, the fat man tugging hard at the top.
The clods of dirt on the dirt wall kept falling off my palms, and my fingers felt like they were going to break, but time waited for no one, and neither did the rushing current. I gritted my teeth, scolding my mother in my heart to boost my morale and divert the pain from my fingers.
In a short height, I felt as if I was climbing the Himalayas, a long time, an endless height.
I gritted my teeth, ignoring what looked like a broken finger, and finally I was about to climb to the ground. As a result, the rope on his body suddenly made a "pop" sound, and then it broke. At the same time, I heard the sound of a waterfall rushing through the ditch beneath me.
The moment my fingers broke away from the dirt and stone wall, my heart was completely cold, and I was about to usher in the dawn of victory, but at the last moment, I was swallowed by the merciless darkness, and I closed my eyes in despair.
The fat man has been paying attention to my climbing state, when the rope was broken, he suddenly fell on the ground, and quickly grabbed my right wrist, desperate I found a glimmer of life, the whole body was immediately full of strength, the left hand quickly stretched upward, tightly on the ground, the body took advantage of the momentum to climb hard, I reached the ground safely.
Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, the fat man and I looked at each other and smiled, and the laughter was mixed with countless complicated feelings.
I took out half a palm-sized pancake from my backpack and gave it to the fat man, and we put it in our mouths and chewed it bit by bit. The two of us must now replenish our bodies before we can leave here with the unconscious cigarette man.
The wound at the corner of my mouth had just crusted over, but at this moment I didn't feel a trace of pain. Because, I saw the dawn of hope for survival, and my nose smelled the fragrance of flowers and plants, which means that we are not far from the ground.
After destroying the last grain, I carried the rain on my back, and the fat man carried the cigarette man on my back, and we continued to move forward with firm steps.
As we crawled out of the cave in disgrace, I immediately put my hands over my eyes, and spent so much time in the darkness that my eyes could not adjust to the bright sunlight. I looked up at the clear blue sky through the gap between my fingers, and the white clouds were floating away in groups like a herd of cute little sheep. I put down my palm, looked around with emotion, and suddenly felt extremely ridiculous.
We climbed out of the ground with great difficulty, and now we were in a dense forest, but not far from us, a few bulging mounds of earth with scattered weeds surrounded us.
The familiar scene, this is the old grave in the forest of Chenyu Village, "Seven Stars Tomb", and the hole we drilled out is the hole that I mistakenly thought was "scooping treasure in the spoon" at the beginning, the hole that was suspected of stealing the hole, the former "soul attraction lamp and rat essence" are still vivid, it is really embarrassing, and I am very emotional!
At this moment, I suddenly saw a very familiar figure not far ahead. The emaciated body, the swaying and leisurely pace, I rubbed my eyes in disbelief, and looked carefully again, only to see that the "resentful woman" was walking in front of the forest path leisurely, and behind him, there was also a large backpack with bulging bags, as if it contained a lot of bright weapons, and it was obviously a big gain.
For about the rest of my life, I will never forget the bright smile that was quite meaningful when the resentful woman looked back at dusk.
Looking at the emaciated figure that was fading away, I remembered what the cigarette man said, "It seems that someone opened the mechanism and helped us escape the catastrophe." ”
================================= the stranger dwells there. The full volume of the Organ Poison Grave ============================= (to be continued......)