Chapter VII Decisions of Last Resort
My search and rescue team made their way through the woods and came across a bottomless pit with an eerie cemetery standing within it.
Master and Luo Dabeard whispered behind me about the direction of the next journey, and I stared at the cemetery in the distance in the pit for a while, and then I felt a wave of sleepiness sweeping over me, and my eyelids couldn't help but sink a little. I thought: With my current physical state, it is still a little reluctant to run for such a long time.
I stood up, slapped my cheeks to force myself to cheer up, and then untied the kettle hanging from my belt, and poured a large mouthful of cold into my lungs, instantly driving away the sleepy insects. I looked back and saw that Master and Luo Dabeard were still discussing with Yan SΓΉ expressions. Now the choice of the route of travel is indeed the most important issue, the place we are now in should not be very far from the real location of the Tang Tomb on the ground, and it is clear that there are only two ways to choose, one is to bypass the deep pit in front of us, and the other is to pass through the deep pit. The pit in front of you is undetectable, and the detour is undoubtedly a waste of time, which is not conducive to rescue, and if you pass through this strange deep pit, it is not necessarily a very safe way, and the choice of route has become a big dilemma.
My personal idea is to detour, this bottomless and extremely strange pit, I really don't feel very good, especially now that the sky is so dark that I can't see my fingers, and I will undoubtedly take a big risk when I go down to the pit with very low visibility.
However, as soon as I thought that we were getting closer and closer to the mausoleum, even if we made a detour through the woods, I am afraid that it would not be a very safe path, and it would be difficult for me to see strange beasts such as ghost-faced monkeys in the woods, and the danger would not be less than that of traps. Once I encounter such a left-right choice, it is difficult for a hesitant character to make up my mind, and the fat man often says that I am a "selective difficulty", and my personality is too cautious, like a girl. Therefore, when there is a dilemma, I almost unconsciously listen to the fat man's advice, and because of this, the usual result will be contrary to my expectations, because the fat man does things completely by feeling to decide a qiΔ, and his feelings have always been very ineffective, and it has not caused us to make wrong decisions and suffer.
The discussion between the master and the others seemed endless, and I couldn't interject when I stood on the sidelines, so I was bored, so I decided to go to the search and rescue team. I picked up the backpack on the ground and slowly walked to the place where the searchlight was set up, at this time the foreigner search and rescue team was no longer busy running, but all gathered in front of a searchlight in the middle. I walked over to the crowd and saw that they were all leaning over and looking into the pit at their feet. So, curiously, I approached the female translator, patted her on the back, and asked her, "What are you seeing?" β
The female translator turned her head and saw that it was me, so she smiled and said to me, "Sven, you are here." β
Hearing the foreigner female translator calling my name affectionately, I heard a little hairy in my ears, and I had a strange feeling in my heart that I couldn't speak.
I smiled politely and nodded, "Hmm", and then asked her again, "What are you doing, is there anything I need help with?" β
The foreigner translator turned to me, and replied, "Two of our teammates went down to investigate, but they haven't come up for a long time, and we're planning to send two more people down to have a look." β
Hearing this, I realized that there were two hiking ropes hanging from the edge of the pit below, and there were only five people left on the ground. I couldn't help but say in my heart: If you don't know whether you are friends or enemies, you dare to act rashly, isn't this nonsense! So, I hurried to stop them from continuing their rash actions, and asked the female translator, "How long have those two been down?" β
When the members of the foreigner search and rescue team saw that my face was solemn and my tone was nervous, and their faces were full of confusion, the female translator said to me without knowing it: "After the two of them set up this searchlight in the middle, they will go down to the deep pit." However, they are only going down to explore the way, and they will not go far, so there should be no danger. β
After listening to these words, I thought about it in my heart, and it was half an hour ago when I set up the searchlight, which means that the two of them have been in the pit for more than an hour, and they have not come back until now, so something must be wrong. Thinking of this, I hurriedly turned around and shouted loudly to the two masters who were talking.
When Master heard me call out to him, he thought that something was wrong with us here, so he hurriedly ran over with Luo Dabeard and asked me anxiously, "What's wrong?" β
I told the foreigner search and rescue team about the unauthorized action, and when they heard me say that the people who had gone down to the pit had not returned for more than an hour, they couldn't help but turn blue and their expressions were solemn. After explaining the situation to the two of them, I couldn't help but curse in my heart: his grandmother's situation is good, the master and the two of them discussed it for a long time, and finally they had to go down to the deep pit. I anxiously said to the master, "Don't think about it, those two must have an accident, it seems that we have to go down." β
After hearing what I had done, Master said to the female interpreter, "You tell them to bring everything they can bring with them, and all the members of the search and rescue team will go down to the deep pit." However, there may be dangers below, so everyone should always be vigilant. β
The members of the foreigner search and rescue team only then knew that things were not good, and that something bad might have happened to the two people who went down, and since they saw the terrifying earth dragon, they were a group of die-hard materialists, and the mountain of perseverance in their hearts was somewhat shaken. So, they threaded the ropes through the safety buckles on the belts and began to descend into the pit in turn on the two ropes.
When the members of the search and rescue team first descended, they could still see the members of the team next to each other, but as the height of the descent gradually decreased, they gradually lost sight of the people next to each other on the rope. Moreover, there seems to be a fog rising below the pit, and the clouds and mist show the hideous and sneaky nature of the pit.
I hung on the rope, constantly pressing the safety lock on my waist, and slowly descended in the pit, my body was shrouded in fog, even if the strong light of the catapult light shone into the pit, but I couldn't see the surrounding situation at all, as if I was alone, helplessly sliding into this fog of nothingness.
Suddenly, a cold wind swept by, and the cold air climbed my legs over my head, and I couldn't help but shiver, thinking: why is this pit so deep, it has been sliding down for so long, and it has not yet reached the end. In order to save resources, the members of the search and rescue team turned on the flashlight of four people on a rope, only two people with a head and a broken tail, this kind of military searchlight flashlight, that is, moisture-proof and riot-proof, the irradiation distance is long and concentrated, but because the rays of the rays are too concentrated, the radius range of the flashlight rays is reduced a lot.
I couldn't see the players around me, but I felt a lot more relieved to see the light spots under me swaying up and down.
Silence, in the dark night, in a strange place, is really a terrible word, it silently consumes the will of man.
I hung on the rope and took a deep breath of the air in the deep pit, the smell of damp earth, mixed with the rotten smell of rotten wood and dead leaves, instantly burrowed into my spleen and lungs, stimulating the churning of stomach acid, and I couldn't help coughing uncomfortably. Just as I was coughing, I suddenly saw the light below my feet fall in a straight line, then turn into a small dot of light, and then disappear. I stopped coughing, but I stopped coughing in an instant, and my chest suddenly seemed to be blocked, and I was stunned for a few seconds. Then, immediately, he bent down to carefully discern the light below, and found that the flashlight below was indeed extinguished.
I recall that the flashlight went out a little strangely, it did not go out all at once, but gradually disappeared from my sight. This means that the person under my feet may have loosened the safety lock and quickly slid down into the pit. The members of the foreigner search and rescue team are all professionally trained, and it is impossible for them to make such a sudden move on the impromptu basis, which is too illogical.
Thinking of this, a trace of uneasiness welled up in my heart, and I hurriedly screamed to my feet twice. As a result, I didn't hear any answer, so I shouted two more times down, but there was still no answer from below. And at this moment, the air not far from me lit up.
The dark and strange pit, the light suddenly lit up in mid-air, I immediately looked over in shock, only to find that it was Uncle Luo on another rope, who descended to his neighborhood, heard my shout, worried that something had happened to me, so he turned on the flashlight, and he asked me anxiously: "What happened?" β
I replied loudly at Luo's beard, "The flashlight of the person below me has gone out." Called him, he didn't answer, I don't know if something happened? β
Luo Dabeard stopped on the rope and said to me: "It should be that the flashlight of the people below is out of power, in order to prevent the people on the rope from accidentally slipping and hurting people, so the distance between us up and down is very far, maybe the people below didn't hear your shout, you don't have to worry, continue to maintain a steady speed and descend carefully." β
After listening to what Luo Dabeard said, I felt that it made sense, so I replied loudly "yes". As a result, as soon as I finished speaking, I noticed something that climbed up my lap, and then quickly climbed up from my lap, quickly jumped over the backpack behind my back, and then climbed on top of my head, and climbed up the rope on my head. I guessed by my feeling that a rat had climbed up the rope from me, and I couldn't help but marvel at how bold the rats here were, and they weren't afraid of humans.
I was stunned that there were rats in this pit, and I was not afraid of humans, so I wanted to turn on the flashlight in my hand and see if there were any rats crawling up the rope. And at this moment, I suddenly noticed that the rope in my hand was loosened, and the light from the bearded flashlight in front of me was gradually moving away from the top of my head, and the cold wind under my feet was rushing up, pulling my hair hard, and I fell to the bottom of the pit without warning.
I couldn't control my body as it fell, and I realized that I didn't know why the rope above my head was broken, and my body was falling downward under the influence of gravity.
After being shocked, my heart said: It's over, I don't know how deep the pit under my feet is, if I fall like this, I guess I will definitely fall to pieces and be unrecognizable. And the people who helped me collect the body must not have been able to recognize me as I was.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: this kind of death from a high altitude, my handsome appearance is definitely difficult to preserve!