Chapter 46: The Mine (2)
As for the so-called monsters, Phil didn't think there would be any big beasts in such a small mine.
After all, this is near the town, and if there were large beasts, the hunters in the town would have been drooling and swarming there.
That's why parents are relieved to let these little kids run around, of course, only within a three-kilometer radius of the town.
It must have been some kind of small animal, looking at the kid in front of him who was taller than the house, and looking at the half-enclosed low hole, Phil decided not to hit their self-esteem.
But the situation is really troublesome at the moment.
Phil has always been reluctant to mess around with boys, preferring to play with little girls like Anna and Jasmine.
In addition to the obscene nature of Uncle Salty, I just want to avoid a similar scene like today.
A group of stupid children whose hearts are higher than the sky and whose strength is thinner than paper, the oldest is only ten years old.
If something unexpected happens, he lacks sufficient self-help ability, as a pseudo-Zhengtai, he doesn't care about such a scene.
Tube, must be managed.
If it were another bear child, maybe Phil would go back and ask for help from the adults first, but it was little Duke and Jasmine who disappeared.
Especially Jasmine, Phil can already imagine how scared this cute little brunette girl must be in the dark mine, and she will definitely cry and swell her beautiful big eyes.
As for Little Duke's bastard boy, the thought of him makes the little fat man hate him.
If he chooses to stay out of the matter at this time, even he himself looks down on himself a little.
The pride of an adult deep down in his heart will not allow him to be a coward at this moment.
The noise continued, and the two little girls who had been crying for a long time and a few younger children went out.
The remaining children are also pushing each other, trying to be heroes, but a little timid.
"Stop!" exclaimed Phil.
He climbed the big rock so that he could appear taller.
A group of bear children were startled and turned to look at the little fat man.
"What's the use of making noise, bring your fire folds, and I'll go in. ”
Among the children, only the two older children, Ma Kai, carried the fire breaker with them, but they were all outside the cave, which meant that there was no light source on little Duke and Jasmine.
Looking at the dark mine, thinking of the two little guys in a panic and Jasmine's miserable cry, Phil's inner uncle's soul was so anxious that it was about to explode.
Ma Kai handed the two fire folds to Phil, wanting to stop them, but he was embarrassed by his performance just now and couldn't speak.
But the little girl Anna on the side blew up, anxiously blocked in front of Phil, and said nothing to let him in.
"No, it just doesn't work. The little head shook quickly, and the tone was resolute.
"I'm not a hero, there's no danger in me. Well, I'll just walk around the entrance of the cave and give them a light, and if they're lucky, they'll be able to see it. Phil didn't know how to explain it to Anna.
In fact, he was acting as a hero, completely ignoring the fact that he himself was younger and shorter than most of the children here today.
"Then let's go in together. Seeing that she couldn't stop it, Anna made a new request.
How is this possible.
While taking care of yourself, finding little Duke and Jasmine in time is already a difficult task.
If he brought Anna this little burden again, not to mention whether Aunt Demi would blame afterwards, he himself didn't even have the confidence to go in.
Phil was in a hurry, and said solemnly: "There are more important tasks entrusted to you, and I don't worry about others."
When you get back to the town, you go to my house and ask Ma Kai to go to your house, find an adult, and bring more goldenthorn lanterns.
It's a good idea to bring Boa and Filip with you, they are familiar with my scent, and I'll leave markers along the way. ”
It's not too far from town, but it takes at least an hour to go back and forth, plus the time to find people and prepare things.
And it's not too early to see the sky, maybe it will be dark when you come.
This is also one of the reasons why he was so anxious that he decided not to wait for adults, and it was even more difficult to find someone when it was dark.
It took a lot of effort to appease Anna, and Phil ordered the younger children and girls to all go back to the town, leaving the two older boys to stand guard at the entrance of the cave and on the way here, ready to answer.
Perhaps it was he who came out of danger to give the panicked children a little sense of security, and the bear children consciously obeyed his arrangement.
Seeing off Anna, who had turned back three times in one step, Phil made a brief preparation, and then hurried to start looking for someone.
Holding a fire breaker in one hand and a thumb-thick stick in the other, he took a deep breath and stooped through the gaps between the rotting wooden planks into the mine.
"Ahem"
The dust kicked up was so large that he choked.
At the moment of being shrouded in darkness, looking at the depths of the dark hole, Phil was no longer nervous, and an inexplicable impulse was transmitted from his chest to his whole body, and he walked forward with his head down.
It's this damn excitement again, and it's not the first time.
If it was him in his previous life, it is estimated that he would not have succeeded this hero.
He always justifies himself as prudence and sanity, but in fact he is a little cowardly.
When encountering things, his first reaction is often to retreat, first let himself stand in a safe place, and then consider solutions, always lacking a kind of courage to face difficulties.
His gloomy supervisor once commented on him drunkenly after a certain drink.
He has a good mind and emotional intelligence, and it is his personality that makes him a supervisor, then a department manager, but at most a manager.
Character determines fate, Phil is convinced of this sentence, and it is not that he has not summarized his character in his thirties.
So what determines character?
Is it a set of codes engraved in a gene fragment, or is it a subtle difference in the structure between different spirit cores?
Phil couldn't figure it out.
Since his rebirth, he has been deeply affected by the inertia of his thinking in his previous life, and his character in this life has been more impulsive and enthusiastic many times.
I was still young before, but I was just tossing and turning in the inner house, and it may not be obvious.
But as he grew older and the range of social activities expanded, Phil had already felt the urge more than once.
The two completely opposite personalities collided in his soul and influenced each other, making him feel very bad, like schizophrenia.
However, at this moment, Phil needs to thank the blood and courage in this nature.
At least wrapped in the darkness where he couldn't see his fingers, his heart was still beating strongly, his breathing was steady, his steps were firm, and he was full of confidence that he would find his two children.
The mine had obviously been abandoned for a long time, and its height was a bit short, and it was hard for Phil to imagine how an adult's height could carry out heavy physical labor in such a hostile environment.
The front dozens of meters are still relatively open straight lines, and the light is barely okay.
But with the arrival of the first turn, the light suddenly dimmed, but fortunately, there was only one choice, just keep going.
This is a shallow mining area, judging from the trend of the mine, it does not extend too much underground, but it is just deep inside the mountain.
In this way, judging from the light of a fully burned fire, the probability of carbon dioxide deposition is not too high.
The darkness was so thick that even with the fire, the visibility here was still not high, so Phil had to rely on the stick in his hand and try to move forward.
Finally, when the first fork in the road came, Phil stopped.
The walls of the cave are hard, and with the help of wooden sticks, it is difficult to leave visible markings.
Phil had to take out three nuts from his pocket, the shape of the nuts was a bit like melon seeds from his previous life, but they were much larger.
He placed three nuts in the middle of the ground, one in front and two behind, in the shape of an arrow, pointing to the junction he had chosen to advance.
If the adult comes in time, you can follow this prompt to find someone, and when the road ahead is not clear, you only need to adjust the nut slightly, and you can point in the other direction, which is flexible and convenient.
In such a complex cave, after eliminating landslides, wild beasts, and poisonous insects, getting lost is the biggest problem.
Now, he's tackled at least one, because he has enough nuts.
As we go deeper into the mountain, there are more and more forks in the road.
Phil estimated that he had been in for half an hour and had encountered four forks in the road, and he didn't think much about it, and all of them directly chose the hole on the right.
Originally, I wanted to rely on the footprints on the ground, but it seemed that the group of children had turned around here many times, and the ground was a mess, and it was impossible to distinguish it.