Chapter 16: Life hangs by a thread
Lantern Xiao's expression changed slightly, "Fortunately, it fell on the wrist, if it falls on the face, I will shoot it this time, but it will be broken." ”
I frowned slightly and stared at Lantern Xiao for a while, and the Lantern Festival was furious, "What are you looking at?" ”
"Actually," I said seriously, "With your appearance, there is no room for decline, and there is no pity if you break your appearance!" ”
"Hey! Your uncle! Yes! As he was speaking, Anaduo pulled Lantern Xiao's injured hand over, "It hurts!" Hurt! Tap! ”
Anador glanced at him, "How much it hurts, bear with it!" Then he said to us, "Which of you has fire?" ”
"I have!" Lantern Xiao said and went to his pocket, and at this time, a fire fold had already lit up, and Wen Mo handed it over, "Use this!" ”
Anado roasted the hook knife on the fire fold to sterilize it, then picked out all the blisters on Lantern Xiao's wrist, and then tapped the medicine noodles in the medicine bottle on Lantern Xiao's wound. Fortunately, after Lantern Xiao learned that he couldn't die at this time, he was quite strong, and he gritted his teeth and didn't say a word the whole time.
Although this time it was a bit of a thrill, we still knew that we were underestimating the jungle here, and every small species could bring great danger. We must be vigilant.
This time, the Lantern Festival is no longer so fearless, and when you see a tree nest that may be hiding bugs, you will hide it. After climbing over a high hill, we began to descend the hillside. As we moved forward, the sound of the water grew louder and louder, and I knew that we were getting closer and closer to the Caibu River.
When we walked out of this woods around a few tall osmanthus trees, we saw the rushing Caibu River not far in front of us.
Fortunately, the water level of the river is now low, and large shoals are exposed on both sides of the river. So we followed the trail in the shallows, against the current.
Without the condescending view from the suspension bridge just now, the scene under the water that we just saw was almost completely invisible from our current position. The dark shadow beneath the surface of the water seemed to have disappeared into the river.
This situation can't help but make people a little anxious, we are afraid that we will lose the trace of the huge black shadow, otherwise we can only return the same way. Lantern Xiao wanted to go into the water several times to look for it, but we stopped all of them, not to mention that the situation in the river is unknown, even if it is a turbulent river, it is very dangerous, and a mistake is washed away by the current.
The banks of the Tsebu River change with the change of the mountain, so the shallows outcropping are also intermittent, and from time to time there are steep rock walls blocking our way. So we had to climb upwards, bypass the blockage, and continue in the direction of the river.
I don't know how long we walked, but when we climbed a steep slope, bypassed a forest, and tried to find the traces of the river again, we were surprised to find that the sound of the rushing water had disappeared.
This surprised us, and we hurriedly searched around, only to find that we were already halfway up a mountain, and the river had disappeared. Several of us were stunned, and even Anado looked a little surprised.
I asked her, "Sister, where is Caibuhe?" How did it disappear? ”
Anaduo was also a little dazed, "I don't know very well, I haven't been here at all." I don't know anything about the situation here. ”
Lantern Xiao waved his hand, "Impossible, it is impossible for a big river to disappear, it must have turned away just now when we left the shallows." ”
Wen Mo looked at the vegetation around him, took out his short knife, took some soil from different positions, and twisted them with his hands, "The plants here are obviously more lush and thick than those in other places, and the stone moisture in the soil is also very large, I think, the Caibu River should have turned underground!" ”
"Underground?" Anador was a little incredulous, "No, I heard the old man of the village say that the Caibu River is a river that crosses the entire 100,000 mountains, and it will not change for 10,000 years. How do you get into the ground? ”
Wen Mo shook his head slightly, "I didn't say that it turned into an underground river from then on, but in this section, it entered the interior of the mountain. ”
Lantern Xiao looked around, "But according to what you said, where is the entrance to this underground river?" ”
As soon as the Lantern Festival voice fell, Wen Mo half-squatted on the ground, and then looked around for a while. Anadore looked a little strange, and Lantern Xiao and I were already surprised, knowing that Wenmo must be judging something with a technique or ability that we can't understand.
Soon, Wenmo stood up and pointed to our left rear, "Here, follow me!" With that, he walked briskly in that direction.
Wenmo walked fast in front, and Lantern Xiao and I followed very hard behind. The slope beneath our feet was steep, but it was well wooded, otherwise we would have to rely on a rope to get down.
We grabbed the trunks and branches, and cautiously made our way forward, but much slower than Wenmo. And as we progressed, the water vapor in the vicinity also increased, which showed that Wenmo pointed out the right direction, and we were getting closer and closer to the Caibu River.
But at the same time, this has also brought us a lot of difficulties. The ground beneath our feet became more and more slippery, especially the steep slope here was so steep that we could barely stand on it, and with each step, our bodies would slide unstoppably. So we had to hold on to the trunk of the tree next to us, and soon my hands were red from the rough trunk, so I had to put on gloves.
I glanced back at Anado, but found that this sister, as light as a swallow, was as easy as a swallow, jumping and jumping down, I don't know how many times stronger than me and Lantern Xiao.
Gradually, the sound of water came to our ears, and I was anxious to know how the river was playing hide and seek with us, so I grabbed a branch and stretched my neck down vigorously to find it, hoping to find the trace and direction of the river.
But I had just faintly seen the river below the steep slope through the bushes, when suddenly, I heard a crisp "click" in my ears. Immediately after that, my body was light, I secretly screamed in my heart, but I didn't panic, because this branch is still quite dense, I immediately reached out to grab the other one, I thought that the crisis could be easily resolved immediately, but I didn't expect an accident at this time.
I didn't notice that my right foot was just reaching into a piece of grass, and I turned around while grabbing the branch with one hand, but I didn't expect my right foot to come back all of a sudden, so I lost my center of gravity and fell backwards on my back.
In a moment, my head slammed into the trunk of a tree behind me.
I just felt a sharp pain in my head, and my brain was confused. Although I didn't faint, my consciousness instantly became a little blurry, and the branch I was holding in my hand also let go.
I could feel myself falling to the ground, sliding down or rolling rapidly, I couldn't tell, but I knew I was going down. My brain knew, but couldn't do anything to stop it.
Lantern Xiao saw me fall to the ground, rolled down, and shouted loudly: "Zhuo Ran! Exceptional! "Anado noticed my side as well, calling my name as she approached my side, but they couldn't keep up with my speed approaching free fall.
I slid all the way down, and my body hit the trees around me I don't know how many times, and I couldn't tell if it was pain or numbness.
I didn't know how long I had been sliding down, and suddenly my body was empty, and my whole person had a sense of pleasure. But this feeling didn't last a second, one of my arms was suddenly grabbed by someone, and then I pulled hard, this person was very angry, my arm was grabbed painfully, and I couldn't help but scream.
I was awakened by the pain, and when I looked closely, I realized that I was hanging over a cliff. I looked down, and more than 20 meters below was the surging Caibu River. Due to the decrease in the water level, some reefs by the river were exposed, and once I fell, not to mention that I was crushed to pieces, anyway, it was necessary to break my head and bleed, and my life was probably not saved.
The scene in front of me suddenly scared me into a cold sweat, and my heartbeat almost stopped. I immediately kicked my feet around, trying to find a place to stay. At this time, a voice came from my head, "Don't move, or we'll die together!" ”
I heard Wenmo's voice at this time, and I was immediately so frightened that I didn't dare to move again. I slowly raised my head and looked up, and suddenly my scalp tightened.
At this time, Wen Mo was holding one of my arms tightly, and the other hand was grasping his short knife, which was deeply inserted into the ground. However, due to the weight of the two of us, the short knife had already cut a deep groove of more than ten centimeters in the ground.
I nervously asked Wenmo: "Boss, can your knife hold up?" ”
Wen Mo gritted his teeth, "It's okay for a short time!" ”
I nodded, and immediately began to shout loudly for help, "Lantern Festival!" Lantern Festival! Come on! Sister!! Second aunt!! Second aunt!! ”
"It's coming! Here it comes!! At this time, the sound of Lantern Festival. I looked up and saw that the Lantern Festival had a hiking rope tied around his waist, and he was poking his head out of the edge of the cliff. He looked down, then threw another rope at me and yelled at me, "Quick! Tie it on! ”
I took the rope with one hand and wanted to tie it around my waist, but I found that I couldn't tie it with one hand at all in my current position. Without further ado, I had to run the end of the rope through my belt with one hand and tie a Bollinger knot. Now I can only hope that this cowhide belt that has been followed for several years is strong enough.
After tying the knot, I made an OK gesture to the Lantern Festival. Lantern nodded to me and returned to it again, and soon I felt the rope on my belt tighten, and slowly my body began to be pulled upward.