There was a moment, or a long period of life, when Song Wenbin felt that it was a very pleasant thing to be a tired teacher.

At least he no longer needs others to do anything for him, no longer longs for others to save him, no longer longs for others to understand him. In the same way, he doesn't want to give for anyone anymore, he doesn't want to save others, and he doesn't want to understand others anymore.

But Sutina's words made him realize the reality, it turns out that people's desire for adults is eternal, just as the people yearn for good officials, courtiers yearn for Mingjun, and monarchs yearn for the mandate of heaven.

Sutina didn't want someone who longed for her, and why shouldn't he.

But like this bottomless dark cavern, how can he get out without a rope from heaven? Could it be that the teacher will need others one day and need someone to save him?

"Brother Song, are you okay?"

Song Wenbin came back to his senses in a trance: "Ah, I'm fine." ”

"Do you think I'm verbose?" She said.

"It's just the three of us here, there's nothing. I wish you could talk more, but how could I think you're verbose. Song Wenbin said in a daze.

Obviously, his trance-like expression was more convincing than words, Sutina began to be aggrieved again, and whispered: "But my brothers also think I'm annoyed, so is my father, and people who don't have ideas about me think I'm verbose, I want to play with them, they are always working, studying, and busy looking for objects, I can only play with the people in the book, they don't bother me......"

"Almost, your brother and your father like you a lot, I haven't seen a child graduate and the family went to celebrate." Huo Yu said lightly: "You are actually very happy. ”

"Well, you're actually quite happy. What others want, you get without much effort. ”

"Uh-huh." Huo Yu leaned against the stone wall, crossed his hands behind his head, crossed his legs, and said indifferently: "You can feel whatever you want, just be happy." ”

"Grim adults."

Sutina grunted and complained, "How the hell did you do it?" ”

Song Wenbin didn't know how to answer, he had used all his strength to comfort Sutina just now, and now he hoped that someone would come to comfort and comfort him, but that was unrealistic, the food here was only two chocolate chip cookies, and they had to save some effort and wait until the rescue came.

Time passed minute by minute in silence, and the process of waiting for rescue was extraordinarily long, Song Wenbin was sure that someone would come to save him, so he fell into a deep sleep in a daze, and this sleep was extraordinarily sweet, more than he slept at home.

When he woke up, he was glad to find that ten hours had passed, which was equivalent to ten hours having passed as soon as his eyes were closed, and if he could have come a few more times, this difficult time would have passed.

It's just that this sleep is not a morning bo, it just comes.

Moreover, he has to deal with two colleagues who seem to be full of grievances.

"Did you sleep well?" Huo Yu asked.

"It's good." Song Wenbin replied honestly.

"When I get home, I don't wake up when I sleep." Huo Yu gritted his teeth and said.

"Brother Song is a person who does great things, this psychological quality." Sutina said resentfully: "It's really enviable. ”

"I think it's because I don't have the heart or lungs to sleep so soundly." Huo Yu said.

"Didn't help come?" Song Wenbin said.

"What do you think?" Huo Yu asked angrily.

"My colleagues in the program team should know that something happened to us, and I guess we are looking for someone to help at this time. Song Wenbin swore and said, "As long as it takes a while, someone will come." ”

His determination made the female colleague look a little more relaxed.

"I hope so." Huo Yu muttered.

"You can sleep for a while, maybe when you wake up, the rescuers will come," Song Wenbin said.

"We don't have your big heart, we can't sleep." Huo Yu said.

"It's not easy to be in a hurry, and sleeping is more energy-saving. Don't worry, I'll keep watch for you, and nothing will happen. Song Wenbin said.

In such a cold grotto, Song Wenbin rarely showed his most gentle side. Huo Yu closed his eyes almost the moment he got his promise.

Su tina didn't sneak up to Song Wenbin's side like a cat until Huo Yu breathed evenly, pillowed her head on Song Wenbin's lap, and whispered, "You are so good, Brother Song." ”

"Don't talk, save some energy." Song Wenbin patted him on the back and said gently.

"Hmm......"

It wasn't until the two female colleagues fell asleep one after another that Song Wenbin understood why the two female colleagues were so resentful when he woke up. In this dark underground, when he was alone and awake, everything around him, those strange stalactites, the never-ending sound of water droplets, and the endless stones with a roof, all pressed his soul and made him suffer every minute.

The question of why the rope suddenly broke was even more like a ghost, tormenting his waking consciousness.

He was sure he had tied the rope tightly.

He was also sure that it was not a piece of broken rock.

He was more sure that there was no one on the upper floor.

If everything is OK.

What was it that untied his rope?

Is there anything that wants him to die in this dark underworld?

The unknown made him shudder all the time.

An hour, two hours, three hours, four hours, some terrible possibility fermented in his heart, hunger was eating away at his brain, downhill was a physically exhausting exercise, it had been a full day since the last meal, Song Wenbin felt that he should be prepared for the worst possibility.

He secretly got up, turned on the flashlight, and slowly walked into the thick darkness of the cave, the cold dripping water from the height gathered in the stone platform, clear, sweet and piercing, Song Wenbin silently sucked the spring water, until the throbbing in his abdomen was relieved, he slowly shook back.

As soon as he returned, he saw Sutina lying on the platform, looking around stiffly and vigilantly, her expression like a vigilant haze on the African savannah.

"Where have you been?" She asked, alarmed.

"Go to the toilet." Song Wenbin said lightly.

"I'm scared to death, don't you disappear silently." Sutina blamed.

"I saw that you slept soundly, so I didn't tell you."

"If you feel safe, you can sleep again." Sutina said as a matter of course: "How can I sleep if you scare me like this!?" ”

"Mine." Song Wenbin apologized.

Sutina didn't expect Song Wenbin to become so talkative, she was stunned and asked, "Is the rescue coming?" ”

"Not yet." Song Wenbin said calmly.

"I dreamed that they were coming......" Sutina said sadly.

Song Wenbin looked at Huo Yu, her eyes widened, she didn't speak, but she obviously didn't sleep well.

Grunt...

Sutina's stomach growled.

"I'm hungry," she said embarrassedly.

"Eat cookies when you're hungry." Song Wenbin handed her the biscuits in the bag.

Sutina took the biscuit but didn't eat it, and asked worriedly: "It's just two pieces, what if you don't come after eating?" ”

"Don't do it, keep waiting." Song Wenbin said lightly.

Sutina took the biscuit, thought about it, broke it in half and handed it to Song Wenbin: "You eat." ”

Song Wenbin handed it to Huo Yu and said, "I'm not hungry." ”

"It's really fake, haven't you eaten in a long time." Sutina didn't believe it.

"I don't feel it." Song Wenbin said duplicitously.

"I'm not hungry either." Huo Yu said.

"If you're not hungry, eat first, if you're really hungry, you'll be hungry faster, and you'll last a little longer." Song Wenbin persuaded.

"It's not like you." Huo Yu said.

"Why doesn't it look like me?" Song Wenbin asked rhetorically.

"How can you be so gentlemanly when you hate the teacher, don't you hate women the most?" Huo Yu asked.

Song Wenbin shook his head and smiled, but did not speak.

Huo Yu still didn't eat, she put away half of the biscuits, and continued to close her eyes to recuperate. Sutina finished the biscuit slowly, and her stomach stopped growling.

Forty hours later, the phone's battery level dropped from 80 percent to 5 percent. Help did not come, and in the dark cavern, the pure darkness did not show any traces of being torn.

"Why hasn't anyone come yet......" Sutina was in a hurry.

"There must be a reason why no one came, don't worry, the people outside are more anxious than us." Song Wenbin said.

"Hurry up and get us out!" Sutina kicked her legs irritably, "You haven't come to save us until now, what kind of efficiency!" ”

Her complaint went unanswered, but her stomach rumbled again. This time she didn't mean to say anything, just silently lowered her head.

But Song Wenbin didn't wait for her to speak, and handed the chocolate biscuits to Sutina.

Sutina looked at the chocolate biscuits in front of her, and then looked at Song Wenbin: "Aren't you hungry?" ”

"I don't feel it." Song Wenbin still replied.

"Really, are you a god, you haven't eaten for two days and you're not hungry??" Sutina couldn't believe it.

"There are people in India who do yoga for dozens of days without eating or drinking, and they can live well." Song Wenbin said.

"You don't come to this set, people are iron rice and steel, those yogis secretly hide food and come back to you to know?"

"Eat when my stomach growles." Song Wenbin said.

"yes, I haven't heard your stomach growl, how did you do that??" Sutina wondered.

"There's a lot of things you don't understand." Song Wenbin said: "Aren't you incomprehensible why dragons can fly? ”

Sutina looked at Song Wenbin with sparkling eyes.

Song Wenbin broke open the chocolate biscuit and handed it to her, saying: Eat, but only half of it is allowed, and I will save this half for myself when I am hungry. ”

His words convinced Sutina again, and Sutina took the biscuit bar and swallowed it, and after eating it, she began to cry and said, "I didn't even realize that chocolate chip cookies can be so delicious......"

Song Wenbin shook his head and continued to close his eyes to recuperate.

Time walked slowly in the terrible silence, little by little past the two-day watershed demarcated by Huo Yu, and continued to move towards the turtle speed ahead.

During this period, Su Tina asked countless times when the rescue would come, and every time Su Tina asked, Huo Yu replied that she would come at any time, but after the test of time, her persuasiveness began to decrease one by one.

Day 3.

On the third day, Song Wenbin's mobile phone was automatically turned off because it was out of power, and the rescuers still couldn't get to the cave.

And the men and women who stayed in silence and isolation for three days and three nights in a row have reached their physical and mental limits.

"Brother Song... Is it possible, you say, that they didn't plan to come? ”

"Nope." Song Wenbin categorically denied: "How many people's interests are involved in us, and they drink the northwest wind when we die." ”

"Then why hasn't it been so long?"

"There must be some kind of trouble." Song Wenbin said: "Just be patient. ”

"Don't talk about this, if it doesn't take a long time, I'll go crazy even if I don't starve to death!" Sutina said in despair.

"In the past few days, I have had nightmares one after another, and I haven't slept well for a day, I'm so scared, really scared. I'm only in my 20s, and I still have a lot of things I want to do, I haven't worn a wedding dress, I don't have offspring, I don't have a dog, I don't even have a house...... If I die, what am I here for......" she muttered to herself, unable to stop crying.

Song Wenbin didn't say anything more, just looked at Sutina silently, he had traveled together for so long, he also knew the girl in front of him very well, complaining was complaining, tears were tears, but Sutina also had her own tenacity, otherwise it would be impossible to persist in the cruel trip to this day.

Sure enough, the despair lasted only a few minutes, and Sutina came back to her senses, leaning against the wall and looking sadly at her two colleagues.

After the lights were extinguished, only her lamp remained. At this moment, Song Wenbin and Huo Yu seemed to be one with the darkness behind them, and they could no longer distinguish each other, in that terrible possibility, she saw her partners calmly holding hands, and disappeared into the depths of the universe in tacit understanding, leaving her alone to face the empty reality, accompanied by intense emotions all day long.

Her lips trembled, and Huo Yu's eyes that had been calm all along made her almost crazy with jealousy. She had to do something, do something to resist that terrible void, that terrible future.

"Brother Song, if we only have a few days to live, can I ask you a question?"

After a long time, Song Wenbin's answer came from the darkness: "Ask." ”

"What's going on in your mind?"

"What do you think?"

"Me and Huo Yu, who will you choose?" Sutina asked.

(End of chapter)