Chapter 96: Rope Bridges
"More than two hours." Ming Chang led them to the left for a while, stopping at the side of the steep slope leading to the bottom of the mountain, and the light of the flashlight illuminated the U-shaped iron rings embedded in the stone wall.
He crouched down on his knees and grasped the rope tied to the U-ring: "If you want to make a detour, you have to go down from here." β
"It's so steep." Chi Yunyan pulled the rope in his hand back vigorously to measure the firmness: "If you step on the air and don't grasp the rope steadily, won't you fall into flesh?" β
"Each hoop is very close to each other, as long as your feet don't tremble, you generally won't step on the air." He withdrew his hand and looked at Chi Yue and the others: "It's definitely no problem for you to go." β
"Forget it, I don't want to take a detour."
Chi Yue didn't want to spend too much time.
She and Wen Qizhou unanimously decided to take the rope bridge, and the rest of the people had no opinion, and they followed them back to the position of the bridge.
Just as they were about to step onto the bridge, a lady standing behind the soldiers ran up to them and called them: "If you find something wrong with any of the planks, wrap them with rope and make a net on the chain, so that we don't accidentally step on them." β
She deserves it too well.
"How do you make it up?" Chi Yue took half a step back and looked indifferently at the lady who made them try and make mistakes: "Why don't you demonstrate?" β
ββ¦β¦ I won't. β
The eldest lady's eyes dodged.
The middle-aged man beside her rolled his eyes and came up with an idea: "You can also pick up some branches and put them on it." β
"You're coming, then?"
"I have night blindness and can't see clearly."
Ji Yue smiled.
She pulled Wen Qizhou to sit on a boulder and leaned lazily on his shoulder: "My leg hurts, and I can't walk for the time being." β
Middle-aged man: "......"
He watched Wen Yaxian and the others retreat from the bridge, looking for a place to sit down one after another, and it was inevitable that he would be embarrassed.
"Some people." Xie Changxiao glanced at him and the silent aunt, and said yin and yang: "The skin is thicker than the city wall." β
The eldest lady was panicked.
She secretly poked the middle-aged man's arm and motioned for him to speak, but the middle-aged man didn't want to face them, plus Xie Changxiao didn't name him, so he would be stupid to take a seat.
They were at a stalemate, and the people in the group, fearing that the flames would spread, had to beg two soldiers to take the lead.
"Young man, we can't afford to delay any longer." The wounded residents wanted to grow wings and fly away from the mountain at the thought of being scorched by the fire.
The military made a dull "um" sound.
They hung their guns diagonally on their chests, went to the vicinity to pick up a bundle of branches and carried them behind them, and stepped up to the rope bridge with a flashlight, ready to walk around the bridge deck and come back to pick up the others.
The two backs without hesitation broke into Chi Yue's eyes, she was worried that they would be in danger, so she simply got up with Wen Qizhou to keep up, and she could help if there was an emergency.
She grabbed the chain by the bridge and walked forward cautiously, and Xie Changxiao, who was left behind, picked up Xun Song, tied him in front of her first, and then stepped on the plank with Ming Zhang.
There was a creaking sound.
The rope bridge, which carried thirteen people, shook slightly.
Seeing that they walked ten meters away safely and soundly, Chi Anying and Liang Fan supported Liang's mother and walked slowly onto the bridge.
Some of the people who remained at the head of the bridge couldn't wait to pick up their luggage and walk forward with chains clutched like them.
"Clickβ"
The two planks that had been stepped on by many people broke in an instant, and the young man who happened to be standing on them fell uncontrollably.
His hand holding the chain shook, and before he could call for help, he wiped the sawdust and fell to the bottom of the bridge, swallowed up by the darkness.
A scream echoed in everyone's ears.
Chi Yue, who was about to turn back, suddenly heard the wooden plank where she and the soldiers in front of her were standing, and there was a cracking sound.
They step backwards and forwards.
The soldier stabilized her body in time, but the moment she retreated, she was unlucky enough to step on an equally unstable plank.
She fell in the blink of an eye, a pair of legs through the broken plank, dangling under the rope bridge.
"Yueyue!" Wen Qizhou threw down the flashlight, swooped forward, and grabbed her hands tightly clutching an iron chain.
In the process of pulling Chi Yue, those who witnessed the young man falling to the bottom of the bridge were frightened and ran frantically towards the bridge, making the whole rope bridge shake even more.
"Don't you move him!" Chi Yunyan saw Chi Yue's legs falling to the bottom of the bridge, and wanted to step forward, but he was afraid that the wooden board would not be able to bear it, so he was so anxious that he broke out in a cold sweat, eager to kill the group of people.
Wen Qizhou was more anxious than him.
He stabilized his body under the violent shaking, and in order to avoid dragging Chi Yue up vigorously and affecting the plank under his feet, he had to slow down his movements and pull her back at the same time.
"Don't be afraid...... Yueyue, don't be afraid. His eyes locked on Chi Yue's face, and the voice overflowing from his throat trembled faintly.
Chi Yue was calm throughout.
The one who is afraid is actually him.
She lifted her left foot with the strength of her left foot, away from the broken plank, and the moment she got up, she was hugged by Wen Qizhou.
He pressed his chin against the top of her hair, and the force that wrapped around her shoulders tightened as if to melt her into his bones.
Sensing his panic and uneasiness, Chi Yue took advantage of the fact that others were not paying attention, stood on tiptoe and kissed his slightly cool lips.
With a flashlight, she looked into the pair of shocked Ruifeng eyes: "It's okay, let's move forward." β
"Hmm." Wen Qizhou took a deep breath.
He picked up the flashlight and stepped over the two cracked planks without stopping, keeping his guard as she walked forward.
As soon as he encountered the wooden plank that was about to break, he immediately grabbed her hand and strode over, trying to avoid falling down.
The remaining dozens of meters were quite smooth, and among their group, only Ge Qinyao and Yan Shuo accidentally stepped on the split plank, but in the end, they were all pulled back in time.
Instead, there were four people in the back who fell under the bridge.
Chi Yue didn't look back.
She listened silently to the screams that sometimes echoed in the mountains, and was about to step one foot onto the dirt at the end of the bridge, when she suddenly heard someone shouting behind her: "Hurry up!" The chains are breaking! β
There is a chain on the left and right sides of the bridge deck.
The chain on the left side snapped abruptly, and the whole bridge became crumbling, and the people who were still on the bridge ran forward.
Chi Yue and his party were very close to the end of the bridge and were not affected, and the three of Chi Anying and a couple behind them rushed all the way, rushing to the mud at the end of the bridge with a sweat profusely before the bridge deck tilted.
The residents who were left behind all rushed to the right side of the bridge deck and grabbed another chain connecting the head and tail of the bridge.
The soldier said, "Move forward!" β
More than a dozen people hanging on chains dropped the luggage in their hands, stepped on the erected wooden planks, and struggled forward.
They shook their legs and moved their arms around the chains to the end of the bridge. But he didn't go far, and the fifth person suddenly stopped moving: "No, it's too high for me to go." β
"Don't look down!"
"I didn't look at ......," he shook into a sieve, refusing to move a single step in his speech, so that the people behind him could not move forward.
"You are looking for death, don't bother us!" The feeling of being hung on the bridge was so uncomfortable that some people couldn't help but scold.
The teenager was scolded and lost control of his emotions.
He shook his chains violently and screamed at them to shut up: "Shut up! If you scold me again, don't even want to live! β
"!"
"I don't scold you, you can go."
"I said I'm afraid of heights!" He turned his head and stared at the group with tearful eyes: "Can't you be deaf and hear?" β
ββ¦β¦β
The strong man behind him didn't want to consume any longer, so he forcibly suppressed the idea of punching him, and moved closer to him.
"Don't move, won't you?" The strong man pressed against his back, reaching out and grabbing the chains in front of him, trying to get around him.
"I wasn't going to move."
"Okay." He leaned sideways, dangling from the chain with the strength of his arms, and lifted his right foot to step on the plank in front of him.
The people behind follow suit.
But not everyone is like a strong man, who can not only stabilize his mentality, but also ensure that his arm strength can bear his own weight.
The third person who bypassed him failed to grasp the chain at the moment of suspension in the air and fell to the bottom of the mountain.
A scream irritated their eardrums.
The boy and the brown-haired woman behind him turned pale with fright, and their legs on the edge of the plank went limp.
The brown-haired woman didn't dare to learn from the strong man anymore and bypassed him, and trembled and begged: "I beg you, please go forward?" β
"I don't dare ......"
He clutched his chains, his forehead covered in sweat.
The brown-haired woman reluctantly leaned close to his back, giving him a sense of security and encouraging him to move his feet at the end of the bridge.
The boy swallowed and moved forward.
moved two or three meters away, and didn't dare to move.
"It's too grinding!" The strong man glanced at the woman who was stepping on the empty plank: "The people in the back are almost unable to hold on." β
"No way." Like him, the person who bypassed the young man to the end of the bridge sighed: "I can't urge and urge, I can't rush it, I can't rush it, he still has to shake the chain and die together, who can afford to provoke it?" β
"Alas, no way......"