Chapter 81: A Boot

It's still tense along the way, and it's time that is at stake, and we're scrambling for time.

According to my analysis, as time goes by, our hope of finding Xiao Guolin will become smaller and smaller. Because I don't believe that Xiao Guolin and they will have my judgment in a short time, I mean the hexagonal channel design. I don't believe that they will calm down for a short time, stop, and make analytical judgments. I don't even hope that they didn't run away. But as long as they don't calm down, but gamble their lives to ram around, they will only get more and more lost. It is not necessarily farther and farther away from us, because if you don't master the design rules of the passage, it is possible to run anywhere, but the possibility of moving away from us is the greatest.

After that, we didn't rest, and just searched the second floor. At this time, I really felt exhausted, I didn't close my eyes for more than ten hours in a row, and my spirit was always in a state of high tension, and it was really difficult to persevere. We decided to go to the third floor and rest right away, replenish heat and water.

According to my calculations, every time you expand one layer outward, you add six more forks to search. Not only did we not slow down, but we also had to distribute food and water as reasonably as possible, and the torches could only be lit when they reached the fork in the road and needed to be marked. If we can't find Xiao Guolin or can't find the clues they left before we have the ability to continue the search, we can only wait for Xiao Guolin to come to us at the last place. Or wait for death. It would be a great tragedy.

"Arrived" Platoon Commander Zhao's voice came from the other end of the cave wall, and his voice was already weak.

I'm not exhausted. After a few steps into the middle of the fork, I lit a torch with a lighter.

Eyes that have been in the dark for a long time will feel very dazzling when the torch is lit, and they will involuntarily avoid the light of the torch. But this time, none of the three of us blinked. The floor of the passage is not very smooth and flat, but there is nothing at it, and it is difficult to find a large stone, so if there is something on the ground, especially a large object, it is clear at a glance.

Now, in the middle of the fork in the road, stands a boot.

I didn't have to look twice to know it was a boot I threw to the top of the fork in the hole. Now it stood alone in the middle of the fork in the road, as if it had been specially placed.

At this moment, time froze. My hairs stood on end, my adrenaline was pumping, my breath was short, my throat was dry. I could clearly hear the other two people, breathing heavily, like bellows.

It was really just one moment, and the next moment, I heard Squad Leader Liu let out a terrible cry and ran away along a passage.

I said to myself: It's over.

No matter how big Team Leader Liu's mistake is, it is impossible for me to watch him run into the darkness alone. In fact, at this moment, I also felt a sense of powerlessness, and I almost collapsed. It's just that it's not so intense.

"Chase!" I shouted, followed the back of squad leader Liu and chased down. Behind him, there was the sound of Platoon Commander Zhao's loud military boots stepping on the stone ground.

Although squad leader Liu in front of me only ran a few seconds earlier than me, he was completely invisible here, and I could only judge his position based on his footsteps. The three of us should be so close that I could clearly hear the footsteps in front of me and behind me, but I didn't make a sound when I ran because I was barefoot.

It's just walking, it's not a big problem to be barefoot, and although the ground of the passage is not very flat, there are no big things to put on your feet. It's different when I run, I bear the weight of one foot when I land, and I only have the soles of my feet on the ground, and there is a little thing on my feet, which makes me feel unbearable pain. But I didn't dare to slow down a single step, my position could clearly hear the footsteps of squad leader Liu, and I could accurately judge his position according to the sound. The platoon leader Zhao behind me is not good, he is far away from squad leader Liu, although he can hear the voice, if he encounters a fork in the road, he will definitely not be able to make an accurate judgment at the first time.

I could only grit my teeth and run after him, and I couldn't turn off the fire yet, so I had to show the direction to Platoon Commander Zhao behind me.

Squad leader Liu was very fast, and he was almost running desperately. It was impossible for him to see the road ahead, there would be no danger on the straight road, and when he reached the fork in the road, it would be no different from suicide if he ran like this. My original plan was to run to the next fork in the road, catch up with him, subdue him, and not let him kill myself and kill us all. But after running for a while, I realized that this task was difficult, he was too fast, and it was difficult for me to keep up with him.

I couldn't help it, I called him and scolded him in the back, and he didn't respond or slow down as if he didn't hear it. After shouting a few times, I felt that I was not breathing enough, so I simply gave up shouting and ran after him desperately.

Soon, I felt like I was about to reach the next fork in the road, and I started calling him again, telling him that there was a fork in the road ahead of him, don't knock myself to death. The crash I had a hunch didn't happen, and I didn't have time to look at the sides of the cave wall, so I could only run along with the footsteps. The worst thing was that the torches were whirring in the wind, so I couldn't tell if I had passed through the fork in the road, and which side of the fork in the road was. I shouted to Platoon Commander Zhao as I ran: "Can you hear the sound of passing through the fork in the road?" ”

"All I could hear was my heartbeat." Platoon Commander Zhao's answer made me even more desperate.

I knew that we could only catch up with him when he couldn't run, or hit his head against the wall, and the physical strength of the engineer was really not enough, he was too good at running, and his speed never slowed down.

My prayer was not in vain, and just as I was about to lose track of his footsteps and almost give up, I heard a "dang" from above. As soon as I heard it, I knew that it was Team Leader Liu who had hit the wall, so I ran over desperately, and when I saw it, he had already crashed to death.

This is a fork in the road, and he was unlucky this time, and he hit the watershed directly on the fork in the road, and his face was full of blood. I sat on the ground, panting heavily, and although Team Leader Liu was bleeding from the ground opposite, I had no strength at all, and I didn't even have the strength to see if he was alive or dead.

Platoon Leader Zhao came over after a while, and the first thing he did was to go over and kick the unconscious squad leader Liu, and then lay on the ground gasping for breath. I really don't have the strength, otherwise I would have gone over and kicked it first. It's infuriating.

After a few minutes, I took off the steel helmet of squad leader Liu and checked his skull injury, but fortunately, the steel helmet saved his life, and the impact did not hurt the old skull. The blood on his face was fresh, the bridge of his nose seemed to be broken, and there was a cut on his face. I gave him a brief handling and made him sit up against the wall.

I thought about it and decided that I couldn't go on like this, and that I had to try to control him.

PS: First update. The second is about blackjack, sorry. Last week was almost on the hit list last week, so let's try to get on the hit list this week. Thank you friends for your support.