Chapter 55: The Goddess's Favor
The fat man's expression became a little too hideous and terrifying, and I knew that with his personality, it seemed that his patience had reached the limit. I hurriedly grabbed the fat man who was about to rush towards the smoke man, and pulled him aside with all my strength.
I lowered my voice and said to the fat man: "You can't bear it any longer, don't you see that the state of the cigarette boy is very bad?" ”
The fat man roared angrily: "I don't see it, he is as hard as a piece of wood, which is really unappetizing." ”
I glanced back at the cigarette man, and then whispered to the fat man, "You don't know. In the stone room, for the three of us, he saved his share of the pill to restrain the poison, and he didn't eat a single pill, so he relied on his tobacco to keep it up. ”
After listening to me, the fat man snorted with his nose, although he was very grateful, but he was probably still a little dissatisfied with the smoke man's too cold personality, and he couldn't turn around for a while.
Then I said to him, "Also, you forgot. The little brother who smoked still has cold poison on his body, and he may get sick at any time, and then freeze to death. ”
When the fat man heard me say this, his anger had almost disappeared, and he immediately turned around and wanted to leave, probably to have a salute with the cigarette man and chat a few words.
But I grabbed him and whispered to him, "Don't go, I still haven't finished speaking." ”
The fat man looked at me puzzled, and I immediately lowered my voice and said to him, "The little boy who smoked seems to be almost unable to hold on." ”
After listening to my words, the fat man was stunned for a moment, and he didn't react for a long time, staring at me in astonishment.
I pulled the fat man farther away. Secretly glanced at the shore, and found that the smoke man was pretending to sleep with his eyes closed, so he whispered to the fat man: "You also know that the smoke man brother has cold poison on his body." His whole body always seemed to be in an ice cellar, which is why he wore a turtleneck and a thick coat in the summer. But if you look at his face now, there are beads of sweat on his forehead and the tip of his nose, which is really abnormal. And, you don't notice, he talks less and less. ”
The fat man looked slightly flustered. The tone also seemed a little worried: "Brother Smoker, he is already very little talking!" ”
I looked the fat man in the eye, then shook my head and said, "The tone in which he speaks is obviously lacking in confidence now, and he has reduced the conversation with us." Probably because we were afraid that we would notice that he was in a bad state. ”
After listening to my explanation, the fat man's face and shoulders suddenly collapsed, and he asked me very worriedly, "What should I do?" The cigarette boy won't."
He didn't finish the rest of the sentence, and I knew what he meant by the second half of the sentence. That's exactly what I'm worried about. The Smoke Man has always been our spiritual pillar. If he falls, it will undoubtedly affect our feelings and morale very harshly.
Tianyu, who is very smart, is not very conscious now, if the smoke man collapses again, it will be the turn of the fat man next, and I will be left alone, and I will be at a loss, which is undoubtedly a direct death sentence to us.
But I have to hold on at this point and find a way to get everyone through this. So I patted the fat man on the shoulder. comforted him and said: "Let's think more about the good, maybe these are just our unreliable conjectures; There may be. We can get out of here before he falls. After saying some words of relief, I knew that I was talking nonsense, and it didn't play a comforting role at all.
The fat man bowed his head and said nothing with a lonely expression, and followed me silently back to the shore.
Tianyu was sleeping again, and the smoke man's eyes had been bright, but now he would close them tiredly from time to time, and then suddenly open them suddenly. Looking at the smoker man with eyes as solid as electricity, how I wish that what I had seen before was an illusion, and the speculation was a misjudgment.
However, I knew very clearly in my heart that the smoke man was making the last struggle, and I couldn't sit and wait for the situation to become more serious, but I didn't have the confidence that with the strength of me and the fat man, I could take the unconscious Tianyu and the smoke man safely through the turbulent and sharp gear ditch, and then leave here.
Brotherhood is like brotherhood, and it must not be abandoned, even if it is a guillotine in front of it, there is only one way to share weal and woe together, and let go of it.
After making up my mind, I informed the fat man directly of my decision.
The fat man, after talking to me just now, has been in a state of low pressure, completely like a mule crushed by a heavy object, unable to lift the slightest strength. Even though, after hearing me make such a decision, he just nodded, silently sorted out his backpack, and then woke up the sleeping Tianyu, and walked silently to the cigarette man's side without a sound.
Tianyu squinted his eyes and staggered to his feet, as if he would pass out at any moment. I hurriedly supported her trembling body, and the fat man also helped the cigarette man, and the four of us stood on the shore and went out, waiting for my command, and then we would jump into the water collectively.
But when the critical moment of life and death decided my fate came, I hesitated, because if I didn't hesitate at this time, it wouldn't be me.
The fat man hugged the drowsy man in an embrace, in case he would slip down, and it seemed that the man was now completely unconscious.
When the fat man saw that I had not given the order for a long time, he asked me with an anxious face, "What's the matter, what are you waiting for?" ”
I don't know what I'm waiting for, it's just my hesitant personality that prompts me to open my mouth and make a decision lightly, these are four lives! Just thinking about it, I felt endless desolation in my heart, and my lips trembled so much that I couldn't make any sound.
Beads of sweat dripped down the fat man's face, and his strength was gradually disappearing, as if he was about to be unable to hold the crumbling body of the cigarette man. The two of them look like they are both falling when a breeze blows.
I was no exception here, Tianyu fell into a coma again, my body kept sliding down like a loach, and my legs were so weak that I could hardly support them. As a result, the moment the sweat on my forehead rolled into my eyes, I fell to the ground weakly with Tianyu in my arms.
At this time, I wanted to cry, but I didn't expect that I would feel so vulnerable and helpless.
The fat man placed the unconscious smoker on the ground, then walked up to me and grabbed me by the collar. How I wished he could punch me so that my confused mind could clear up, but the fat man let go of his hand, let out a sigh, and then crouched on the ground, and held his head in chagrin.
It's over, it's all over, I gave up the last chance to live and die together, and cowardly chose to escape. We can only wait here for death slowly, waiting for everyone to die one by one, and I, who am cowardly, will watch my companions watch with my eyes. One by one, they died one after another in front of me, and it was better to face a desperate qiē alone.
I raised my head in pain, looked up to the sky and sighed, "All the gods and Buddhas in the sky, if we can leave safely this time, I will never go into the mountains again." After speaking, he was prostrate on the ground, and his fragile appearance was like fragile glass.
The fat man stood beside me and stared at me in a daze, he couldn't believe that I had said this, such a vow was equivalent to abandoning faith and life for an inverted craftsman who dreamed of us.
However, we didn't know it. At this moment, these solemn vows, which made my heart painful and uncomfortable, and which the fat man could not understand and could not accept, became empty nonsense in the future.
The dark and strange graves underground, like poisonous snakes spitting letters, are tightly entangled in the fate of every inverted fighting craftsman, and no one can easily get rid of it after stepping in. It's like a thorn embedded in your body, and if you want to peel it off completely, you will definitely force your skin to open and pay the price of blood.
But at this moment, I have nothing to think of but to get everyone out of here safely. Therefore, no matter how much the wheel pays, I am willing to exchange it for the hope of survival of our dead.
People are cornered, any gaffe will happen, and in the face of death, every qiē is fragile and vulnerable. I lay on my stomach on the cold, damp ground, buried my face deep in my hands, my nose ached, and I wanted to cry.
Suddenly, there was a loud sound of "boom" in the stone room, and then I saw that at the entrance of the ditch, a boulder was slowly lowered, and the water inlet at the entrance was blocked at once, and the water flow in the deep ditch, although it was still flowing, the water level was obviously falling rapidly, and the underwater appearance was slowly revealed.
The fat man and I rushed to the shore and looked at each other in bewilderment, as we watched the sharp gears that shimmered with cold light at the bottom of the ditch.
The fat man muttered in a low voice, "There are really gears down there, but what's going on?" ”
I don't care why or by whom the mechanism was touched now? I prefer to believe that this qiē is the goddess of luck who is looking after us.
Excitement, joy, joy, and a beautiful love made me laugh out loud and shout "Hooray, hooray." ”
The fat man laughed out loud when I was infected, and I saw tears in the corners of his eyes, and I wondered if he was crying with joy.
The smoke man and Tianyu, who had been unconscious, were probably woken up by our excited cheers.
The cigarette man staggered to my side and asked me with his eyes, "What's going on?" ”
I shook my head, indicating that I didn't know, and continued to play silly.
Tianyu lay on the shore, looked at the gears that were still turning in the ditch, and muttered, "Are you lonely? ”
I know that Tianyu is completely delirious by now.
The inlet in the ditch, although it is not known who closed it for the time being, may be opened again at any time, and there is no room for us to hesitate for a moment. (To be continued......)