Nineteen (1)
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"When I walked out of the airport, I saw Masili in the crowd, and before coming to Sicily, I made an appointment with him by telephone, and he was still my guide for this trip to Sicily, and I took into account that I needed a helper to conduct research in the cave, and Masiri, a simple and honest young man, was the most suitable.
On our way to Mount Etri, I lied to Masiri and told him that I was gathering information for a book about the history of Mount Etri, because I would be telling about the cave he had discovered that no one else had known about, so I had to go into the cave again to experience the whole thing. When I told me that the cave in the book would be named after him, the shy young man's eyes lit up with excitement, and he said on the spot that this time he would not take any payment from me, and that he would be my guide.
Looking at this simple young man in front of me, I said to myself' On the contrary, I felt that Masiri was grateful to me for granted, and that he had only stumbled upon a cave which would become famous all over the world thanks to the discovery of new material achievements in the cave, and that I was now going to name the cave after Masiri, for which he should of course be grateful, and that new element of me as a discoverer should be named after me, and that new element of me as a discoverer should be named after me in the future, and I had this intention in my heart at that time, so I was as excited as Masili was that tears were about to burst out of my eyes。
'Which of us should be more excited and joyed?' I thought to myself, looking at Masiri, 'the cave will one day collapse, and the new elements that bear my name will live on as humanity multiplies, and the name Masiri is destined to be forgotten by the world. I felt a little sympathy for Masiri in my heart.
But what happened to us afterwards was destined to make me feel guilty about Masiri for the rest of my life, and I am afraid that I will regret the lies I told Masiri for the rest of my life.
'Mr. Edson, be careful, there has been an earthquake in the sea off Sicily in the past few days, and I wonder if it has affected the stability of Sicily's geological structure. Masili reminded me that it was because I had trampled a loose rock down the cliff as we slipped down the mouth of the cave.
'Don't make a fuss, I'm an expert on volcanic eruptions and earthquakes and tsunamis, and if earthquakes do damage the geological structure of Sicily, do you think we'll have the opportunity to climb in Etri as easily as we do now?'
But this is the first time I've seen loose rocks here. 'I stood on tiptoe in the grass outside the cave, and with one hand removed the hook from the safety rope attached to my body, and Masiri reached out from the hole to support my body, and the face he poked out of the hole said to me with a look of unease.
You've been here so many times without an accident, so what's there to worry about this time. I leaned over and patted Masiri on the arm, and he retracted into the cave, and I went in.
The situation in the cave looked the same as the last time I came, but I had a strange feeling in my heart, but I didn't understand what caused that strange feeling in my heart.
This time, I followed the cave in high spirits, and along the way I counted the corners in my mind, and when I had counted the three hundred and twenty-fourth turns, I heard a shout of joy from Masiri who walked in front of me, 'It's here.' ’
Sure enough, I walked to the end of the cave again, I don't know how many times I had seen the last video I had taken here, and if I was at the end of the cave and closed my eyes, I could feel the exact location of what seemed to be another piece of lava of unknown material wrapped in it.
I couldn't wait to rush to the cave wall, and in the light, I saw the indescribably lovely dark substance poking out of the lava wall, and with the day and night contact with the first unidentified substance obtained from the cave these days, I was sure that the rock wall embedded in front of me was really another mysterious substance, and the hammer in my excited hand was a little unstable.
Then I raised my hammer and fell into the lava of an unknown substance, and I suddenly understood why I felt strange when I entered the cave.
I could see that the rock wall in front of me was covered with cracks like cobwebs, which was clearly affected by the activity of the crust at the bottom of the sea, and if the whole cave was like what I was seeing, what would happen if I hit the cave wall with a mace, I didn't think about it at all, my mind was on the unknown substance.
As I slammed my hammer against the rock wall, the sound of sand and rocks falling to the ground was constantly heard beside me and beyond.
'Mr. Edson, let's get out of here,' Massili looked helpless with fear.
'There's no hurry. I glanced at him, and while I laughed at him for his uselessness, I continued to pound the rock wall with my hammer, which must have been torn apart by the earthquake, and in a few moments it was shattered under my blow, revealing the lovely unidentified substance wrapped in it, and I reached out effortlessly to remove the unidentified substance and put it in my backpack.
'Come, let's split up and break some rocks, and I want to pick as many rocks as I can to illustrate my book. I continue to lie to Masili that since there are two unidentified pieces of material here, maybe some more lava will be broken and more will be discovered, which I had planned before I came to Sicily.
I handed the prepared hammer to Masiri, but Masiri took the hammer but did not move, and his face became more and more uneasy, so I did not have time to pay attention to the coward, and with the hammer in my hand, I struck it vigorously in a different position on the wall of the cave.
Where the hammer fell, the lava on the cave wall in front of me suddenly burst into pieces, and immediately, the lava fragments fell like quicksand, and even the rock at the top of the cave a few meters above my head was shattered by the vibration generated by my hammer hitting the cave wall, and the sand and gravel falling like a shower passed past my ears with a 'boom, boom' sound, and for a time the ground was full of dust and smoke.
When I was surprised at where I had suddenly gained so much strength, I felt the ground under my feet suddenly tremble, followed by a series of muffled and terrifying sounds from the depths of the earth, and I was unstable on my feet, and my body was like a leaf in the wild waves, and with a force that was shaking the earth, I was finally awakened by a gravel the size of an egg falling from the sky and smashing on my head.
'Run, it's going to collapse here.' I flicked the hammer in my hand and yelled at Masiri, and I ran in the direction of the hole, and Masiri reacted faster, and he ran ahead of me in one lunge.
The cavern was getting more and more dusty, and as I ran, the smoke and dust were so close that I couldn't open my eyes, and I heard the terrible sound of 'boom, boom', the crumbling of boulders and rubble.
Masiri, the coward, fled faster than the wind, and I pursued him desperately, but after a while, he was no longer visible in my eyes, and I cursed with disdain in my heart, and tried to do my best to do my best, but I could no longer go half a minute faster.
In the midst of a panicked run with one foot deep and one foot shallow, suddenly, I bumped into the body of a man, it was Masiri.
'Why are you stop?' I almost shouted in Masiri's ear, for the cave was so noisy that I had to do it in such a way that he could hear me.
'This ...... The rock is about to collapse. Masiri also tried his best to say this.
Under the suffocating smoke, I saw that the side of the cave wall in front of me was collapsing, and Masili was struggling to support the opposite wall with his arms, and at the same time desperately resisted the collapsed cave wall with his body.
'Quick, get over there. The young man, who had always been meek and polite, suddenly pressed against him with a free hand, and violently dragged me to him, and suddenly I saw a piece of broken rock detach from the wall of the cave and slide onto Masiri's back, and Masiri's bowed body was crushed and sunk, and I was stunned by the sight before me.
'Come on, you're not going to run. As Masili yelled, I felt one of his hands press my body hard in front of him, and then push outward, and I, who had become a little sluggish from the horror, suddenly reacted, and crawled through the gap where he was trying to hold on.
Just as I got under Masiri safely, straightened up and turned back to help Masiri get out of trouble, 'Don't!' Masiri roared at me, and he suddenly shoved me on the shoulder with all his strength, and I was pushed backwards and retreated a few steps, and I knew why Masiri would refuse my help, because I was shocked to see that the wall of the cave on the other side of where Masiri was standing suddenly shattered in a violent tremble, and countless rubble, The boulder was under the hood of Masiri, who was about to withdraw, and Masili didn't even have a chance to straighten up, so he was smashed by the huge impact force that the flesh and blood that could not be resisted when the heavy rocks slid down, and the whole person was buried in the sand and disappeared in an instant.
I let out a cry of despair at the sight before me, and the man rushed forward crying like a madman, his hands desperately gouging at the rocks that had devoured Masiri mercilessly, but my futile actions were only rewarded with more gravel falling.
The terrifying sound of the rocks crushing and collapsing in the cave became more and more terrifying, and the scenery one step away was completely submerged in the dust and mist, and I stopped the excavation helplessly, "It is not Masiri who gave up his life to save me, it must be me who is buried in the dust now, and I laugh at him for being a coward, for the sake of Masiri, I must escape from here." I thought to myself with a tear in my choked eyes, and I straightened up, trying not to sink my feet in the gravel, and ran as hard as I could.
Finally, I crawled out of the cave in danger, and before I could reach out to reach the rope that was still hanging on the cliff, I heard a loud 'boom' from behind me, and without looking back, I knew that the cave must have collapsed completely, and my body was suddenly thrown off the cliff from the foothold like a stone by the huge impact generated by the collapse of the mountain.
'The hole is broken, I'm finished.' It was the last thought that crossed my mind when I was thrown into the air in free fall, and then I passed out in the epicenter of the shock.
When I woke up again, I saw a lot of angels, and they were as white as the legend says, and they all had the sign of God on them, the cross, but they were red, and I didn't go to heaven, but I was taken to the hospital.