Chapter 117: A Thin Slate with a Mothed Hole
The Western Expedition is facing a catastrophe, and it is possible that all of them will become underwater ghosts and turn into water ghosts.
I suddenly found a fountain pen in the jacket pocket of my shirt, so I removed the hollow barrel and stuffed it into Kunba's mouth, which looked like he was about to drown.
Kunba's brain is very shrewd, and his comprehension ability when saving his life is even better, he didn't even see my gesture, so when I inserted the pen barrel into his mouth, he already understood the intention, and immediately exposed the upper end of the pen barrel, exposed the water, and began to breathe through his mouth.
The pen barrel has become a lifesaver for everyone, and it has been changed in everyone's mouth, but this only solves the current problem, and it is not a solution in the long run.
I thought about it, I had the best water nature among these people, and I was the only one to act as a bait to lure the black charcoal ghost slave aside and create conditions for the other members of the Western Expedition to escape. Thinking of this, I stuffed the rain in my arms into the fat man's hand, and then I pointed at it, and the fat man immediately pulled me and shook his head vigorously in the water.
I saw the uneasy fat man, his face was wrinkled, for fear that he would forget that we were in the water in a hurry, and open his mouth to speak. Hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand, then grabbed his hand and wrote on his palm. I made my thoughts and intentions clear, but the fat man just shook his head vigorously, and desperately pulled at my sleeve to prevent me from leaving him half a step.
In the end, I really couldn't help it, so I pointed at the people around me one by one with my fingers with a very serious expression, and told him: There are still so many people waiting for me to save, and I can't lose a big one because of a small one. But the fat man still refused to let go. I pulled his arm away, then pushed him and Tianyu's bodies and pushed them towards the shore on the right.
I'm ready for it. Sacrificing myself and saving everyone's lives, there is nothing left to change my mind, no more.
The sulphur hot springs are erected in the lava cave passage like an insoles, and its western end is narrow and the middle is pinched, like the shape of a "paramecium". Because the sulphur hot springs are erected on the passages, there are only half arm-width pavements on both sides of the ground. Moreover, there is a large amount of sulfur accumulation attached to it, and the road surface is slippery and difficult to walk, and ordinary people cannot stand on it at all. The sulfur hot springs are wide in the east and narrow in the west, so most of the coke ghost slaves are gathered on the east bank, and the west bank is the direction we should have been heading, and a relatively small number of coke ghost slaves have gathered.
I made up my mind to stay and hold the charcoal slave. Give everyone a chance to escape. I first pushed the crowd to the right side of the sulphur spring. Then in the palm of the fat man's hand he wrote: "Take care of the rain." Then he immediately wrote in the palm of the fifth master's hand: "Run when you see the opportunity." ”
I didn't have time to tell them about my parting feelings, so I immediately swam to the left side of the hot spring, and then stuck my head out of the water without hesitation.
As I expected, the charcoal ghost slaves on the east and west banks were still mechanically attacking the center of the hot spring pool. I saw that there were not many charcoal slaves left at the exit from the West Bank. There are still a large number of charcoal ghost slaves on the east bank, and they are rushing into the water one after another.
I saw the right moment in the water. Immediately, while waving his arms, he kept making a splash and shouting: "Everyone is ready, everyone is ready." ”
I raised the splash to attract the attention of the ghost slaves, and the shouting was for the members of the Western Expedition under the water, anyway, the black slaves couldn't understand what I was saying, so I could shout directly and loudly to convey the process of action to the people underwater.
In the end, whether my method can succeed or not, I am not very sure in my heart, and it depends on how God arranges it.
As a result, the sky has eyes! I was very successful and efficient in attracting the attention of the ghost slaves, and all the charred ghost slaves immediately regrouped and aimed at the shore on the left side and began to attack, and some of the ghost slaves even climbed onto the wall on the left side and made a high-altitude dive.
I was not idle in the water, and after successfully attracting attention, I immediately dived deep into the water, and then swam to the center to expose my head, and continued to make a splash to attract the attention of the ghost slave. When I was just diving into the water, I saw the members of the Western Expedition who had been burying their heads on the shore on the right side, slowly moving westward against the stone wall under the shore, and they clearly understood my intentions, as long as the few remaining ghost slaves on the west bank were successfully introduced into the water by me, they would have a chance to escape to the shore.
My efforts were not in vain, and soon, the black slaves on the west bank all jumped into the water, and there was no longer any black figure on the shore, I knew that the opportunity had come, and the members of the underwater expedition did not hesitate at all, and some people began to quietly surface, slowly climbing ashore in the dark, trying not to make a little movement. The members of the Western Expedition were very clever to lie on the ground and crawl forward along the corner of the stone wall of the cave on the right, so that it would not attract attention at all.
I kept splashing the water up vigorously, both to attract the attention of the black slaves and to block their view, making it difficult for them to spot the people crawling on the other side.
I saw the members of the expedition climb up to the shore one by one, and when the last man climbed ashore, he stood up, and instead of crawling, he walked upright on the shore. I scolded in my heart: What kind of fool is this, why don't you learn from the people in front of you to crawl, you have to be a maverick, isn't this a stand out from the crowd and want to attract attention?
The blurred black figure, I couldn't see whose figure it was, and I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart, and said in my heart: Could it be the dark ghost hidden in the team, who wants to kill everyone now, so he will make such a stupid and crazy move.
So, I looked closely, trying to see who the enemy agent who finally couldn't help but reveal his true identity was. As a result, I found that the black shadow walked erratically, more like a black ghost with a shadow and an invisible shadow.
I wiped away the water that hung on my eyes in disbelief, and when I looked closely again, I saw that there was indeed a black figure looming, following everyone erratically, and everyone was completely unaware of its existence.
I wanted to raise my voice as a reminder, but that would undoubtedly expose the target, and the sacrifice of my self to stay to attract attention would be meaningless.
I was worried by the black ghosts that followed behind the members of the Western Expedition, and I thought of a way to escape so that I could inform my teammates in front of me. So while splashing water, he paid attention to the situation of the Western Expedition team leaving behind him, and found that he could hardly see the figure of everyone now, so he began to move slowly backwards in the hot spring water. As I got closer and closer to the west bank, I dived under the water and swam straight to the west bank at full speed. Then he jumped up quickly from the bottom of the water, and after climbing to the west bank, he spread his way and ran forward frantically.
The ghost slaves on the east bank on the opposite side finally noticed my fleeing figure, and climbed up the walls and the top of the cave one after another, and chased after me.
The floor of the cave was wet and slippery, and I was so impatient that I could barely stumble after a few steps, and I didn't run as fast as I expected. But it wasn't long before I noticed that the road under my feet was no longer smooth and difficult, and I was back on the hard, dry bedrock, which made me quicken my run for my life.
After stepping on the West Bank, the smooth, damp ground gradually turns into a dry bedrock field, and the passage becomes a straight one, no longer a complex lava cave. I don't know how far I ran in the passage, and the ghost slave had been left far behind me and disappeared.
And it didn't take long for a familiar figure to appear in front of my eyes, and I saw the members of the Western Expedition team, all standing not far in front of me, looking down at something? I quickly scanned the people in front of me, but I didn't find the sneaky black shadow just now, and I thought that I might have been dazzled by the mistake just now, so I decided not to tell others about it, so as not to be afraid in vain.
When the members of the Western Expedition team in front heard the footsteps, they turned around and found that it was me, and they all greeted me with great joy.
The fat man hugged me directly, and was so excited that he stumbled and said, "Lao Zheng, it's really good that you are still alive." After saying that, tears flowed down my eyes with excitement.
The playboy was also excited to keep me: "Brother, it's great that you're alive, thank God Almighty." ”
For the rest of my life after the catastrophe, I completely forgot the idea of sacrificing my life just now, and began to brag about my great achievements just now, and the fifth master and others were also very happy to welcome me back alive.
I saw Tianyu and Ge Laojiu sitting on the ground, leaning together weakly, while the others did not continue to hurry, but stood here, so I asked curiously, "Why don't you continue to hurry, why are you standing here?" After a while, the ghost slaves behind will chase after you. ”
The crowd didn't answer, they just let me go to the front, and I walked through the crowd and looked forward, and I couldn't help but gasp.
I saw that under the bedrock in front of us was an abyss ten zhang wide, and above the abyss there were several long irregular stone slabs, connecting our feet with the other side. And these stone slabs, which form the only pathway, are all as thin as biscuits, and some are as thin as cicada's wings, and they are so broken that they look like rotten wood eaten by ants. It seems that even a bird falling on it, not to mention the weight of a person, can cause the rotten thin stone slab under his feet to break, and then fall into the endless underground abyss.
There is no way out in front, and there are pursuers behind. I heard a sparse commotion in the bedrock passage behind me, and it seemed that the pursuers were about to arrive.
Once again, the choice of death has arisen, whether everyone chooses to be burned into charcoal by the fire, or chooses to fall into the abyss and be crushed to pieces. The dilemma of having no way out of the dilemma was once again in front of everyone. (To be continued......)