Dust (End of Volume 4)
After hearing what I said, the broker rarely laughed and cursed, and then I saw her taking out a row of muffled thunder from her arms.
Fang Ao shrank aside, smacked his lips and said "good boy" quietly, untied Xu You from his back, and asked, "What do you want to do?"
How do you crash a mountain? How do you blow up an underground palace?
It took less than half a minute from the time this problem was raised to the time it was solved.
We consciously divided ourselves into three groups and left some people inside the boat to act as eyes for us, in order to avoid any accidents due to the narrow and blurry vision during the climb.
Before we were completely out of the boat, the straight road was already painful. The topmost opening had been almost completely blocked by gravel and cement slabs during the upside-down ascent, but now that it was cleared and the hook was raised, the scalding rainstorm and steam rushed in all at once.
We went up the straight road, facing each other, like facing a boiling waterfall. Even with the thick raincoats, we were still grinning, luckily we didn't get burned, and the heroic atmosphere was instantly gone.
Fang Ao shouted that this rat was a good-for-nothing and wanted to cook us all in one pot. He asked who had cumin on them, and he wanted to die in a very fragrant way.
Amidst the curses, the broker and Zhang Tianyi, who had been to the underground palace in the snow mountain, led the way in front wrapped in raincoats. We all wrapped ourselves tightly and put on diving goggles, but we still screamed in pain from the burns of water that accidentally splashed into our necks.
But the heavy rain poured in more and more, and those who stayed in the hull began to feel the heat. We accelerated despite the impact of the water, and soon we got burns and blisters under the thick raincoats.
After only about ten minutes of climbing, we heard a loud bang from outside the boiling water. One of the guys in charge of lookout looked up and shouted, "No! Hide! Hide! It's going to crack!"
I felt numb when I heard that. I looked up and saw a crack of medium size spreading rapidly in the rock above my head. Although it only spread to three or four meters, it stopped unexpectedly and a pile of rubble and soil fell on my head with a crackling sound.
The team leader behind him turned pale and shouted, "Everyone lower your heads and cover your mouth and nose! Such a heavy layer of mud will suffocate us to death!"
Before he finished speaking, the sky suddenly lit up and exploded with a cloud of smoke and dust.
The homemade thunder bomb exploded the fallen soil in advance, and the rolling heat wave suddenly rolled up more heavy rain and air currents. The shock wave came later but arrived first, sweeping over all of us in an instant.
Several guys almost lost their grip, being held back by the towing ropes around their waists and the weight of their teammates in front of them. My scalp went numb again, knowing that if anyone rolled down at this moment, the team would be doomed. There would be a series of falls, and losing half of their life would be a small matter.
This time, it was still a small matter for us, and the burden on the front of the team was even greater. Two consecutive muffled groans were clearly audible in the noisy rainstorm. I was anxious and shouted, "Can you hold on?"
There was no response from the front, and the vehicle continued upward, quiet and almost indifferent.
I just felt that my internal organs were twisted by the shock wave, my head was buzzing and I wanted to vomit. Seeing that the two team leaders didn't say a word, I felt unwilling and angry in my heart, so I gritted my teeth and closed my mouth tightly.
The red dust slowly fell down at this time, and quickly piled up into a thin layer on the shoulders.
I don't know whether it was a long time or a short time. My diving goggles were full of fog and I couldn't see clearly. In the end, I rushed upwards completely mechanically. I could only hear the lookout's commanding voice in the hull becoming increasingly distant and smaller.
Suddenly, my hand that was reaching forward felt a pain, and I rubbed it hard on the foggy goggles because of the burn. I squinted and looked forward, only to find that we had already got out of the straight road.
The guys in front of us had already cast the grappling rope, and the claw hook was biting into the rock above. Although it was a little shaky after being pulled, it could still bear the weight. We were dangling on the traction rope, and the terrible heat surrounded us, and the temperature rose again.
At this time, my whole body was red, and I couldn't tell whether it was because the punishment of "eversion" had already spread to me, or if I was simply about to be cooked by the high temperature and high pressure. I just felt that my eyebrows and hair were about to burn. At the same time, there were several rumbling sounds above my head, and it seemed that the rock was about to crack again.
"This won't work! There are too many people!" Zhang Jia shouted, "Leave some people hanging outside the exit of the straight road and don't move. The lighter ones go up! Avoid the cracks and find a new place to hook the rope. Put down new towing ropes for us. These ones can't be moved easily!"
The broker flashed the flashlight hanging on his waist, indicating that he knew. Zhang Tianyi couldn't hear what they discussed amid the noise. He unbuckled the buckle at his waist and flipped it up. He pressed on her shoulder and went over the broker and went up alone.
I vaguely felt that the broker seemed to have a dislocated shoulder. It was probably because he had forcibly tied the traction rope to prevent us from falling together in the chaos just now, and it was drooping limply, looking very unnatural.
She whistled down, Gao Liu responded, and also jumped over me and quickly went up, disappearing in the mist in an instant.
At this moment, every second seemed extremely long and torturous. After a while, two traction ropes hung in the water vapor and dust fog. The heavy rain did not lessen but became heavier.
My mind raced, and I knew the situation was not good. I was afraid that the outermost layer of snow on the mountain was about to melt, and now the ice that had accumulated over the years was beginning to thaw and break apart.
If this continues, the entire rock and soil layer will loosen very quickly. Not only will the ground crack again, but we're probably going to be buried alive, crushed to death, and suffocated in mid-air.
"Divide into groups, those with minor injuries go ahead, and the rest of you stay with me." Xu You said quickly and glanced at Yan Mo.
Yan Mo nodded and said, "Leave the bird guns and flares behind, and throw away the other loads."
I didn't bother to be pretentious and immediately said yes, then I grabbed the rope, felt the weight above, and was immediately pulled up.
The more dense the water vapor was, the more unbearable it felt. I lowered my face as much as possible to avoid getting a second-degree burn, and saw that the dozen guys hanging outside the straight didn't move, nor did they jump back to the straight and the cabin to avoid the rain. They just looked straight in our direction, as if they had made up their minds.
I knew this was to prevent any of us from falling, so that there would be someone to take over in time. I calmed down and held on to the rope tightly.
But at this moment, as I got closer to the top of my head, the faint chill from the snow-capped mountains was still there, and in the inexplicable silence of being pulled upward, I suddenly felt a huge palpitation and uneasiness.
No, I overlooked something.
A thought suddenly flashed through my mind, and my scalp exploded. I suddenly shouted, "Insect eggs! The snow has melted, and the insect eggs in the underground palace murals and the pool must have come out! Be careful ahead!"
Before I could finish my words, a mouthful of scalding hot air came in my way, scorching my throat so much that it felt like it was going to be burned.
At the same time, a long, blue-white hand fell from the mist and appeared in front of my eyes.
I grabbed the rope and stood there in a daze, an irresistible chill creeping up my body.
After a while, several very familiar faces looked down, with their deformed long limbs, staring at me.
The facial transformation of one of the faces had just begun, and I could vaguely recognize that the owner of this face had been scalded and gasping for breath in front of me not long ago, and seemed to have laughed and cursed.
It stared at me silently for a while, stretched out its hand, and plucked me from the leash like plucking a leaf, then, mumbling something indistinctly, put me on its back. Through the heavy raincoat, I was pushed to the center.
Those long limbs grasped the traction ropes and leaped upwards very lightly and naturally.
The cold air spewed out from them, which relieved my skin from being burned to near numbness, and then it started to itch constantly. The pouring hot rain seemed to be easily pushed away by them, and after a few leaps, I saw the snow-capped mountain rock approaching quickly.
The smoothness at this time turned into a huge and terrifying irony. At the same time, the bottom of the traction rope actually started to move again very quickly. This meant that the guys who stayed at the entrance of the straight road saw it, but chose to supplement and chase us.
"clatter."
The long man fell to the ground.
It flipped over and hung on the rock as if it were walking on flat ground. Its limbs were running quickly and alternately. I was placed on its belly, as if sitting in a stable bowl. The surrounding scenes flashed quickly in my field of vision.
Not only it, I noticed that there were also many densely packed tall people running fast in the sky. Some of them were just countless human faces, all running in one direction.
Among them, I saw the extremely weak broker and Zhang Tianyi hanging on one of the long-legged people, their foreheads covered with sweat. There were also a few familiar faces, who were being pulled by Gao Liu and thrown onto a long-legged person who was so dark that he was almost gray.
But among the group we came up, there are only these few guys left.
As for those long-legged people… In the past, some of the offerings sent into the snowy mountains were probably buried by the wind and snow before they even reached the underground palace. Now that the snow has melted, the insect eggs and them have awakened.
Just by looking at the remaining guys who were all injured to varying degrees, I could roughly imagine what the situation was like when they were caught off guard by the tall-legged man who suddenly rose up from the ice and snow.
At the same time, the long man who was holding me and running quickly began to talk, and his faces slowly turned to look at me.
As the remaining clarity on the person's face faded and was gradually replaced by malice, I broke out in a cold sweat.
One of the cold hands grabbed my calf.
A pale human face slowly approached, getting closer and closer to me. Several tiny tentacles stretched out from it, struggling stiffly and painfully.
In an instant, the long-legged man who was running wildly did not stop, but most of his limbs stretched out towards me. I was horrified, but while struggling, I was held down and could not move at all. I couldn't help sweating profusely.
Oh shit, my mood was like a roller coaster. I understood that the sacrifice might not be able to control itself, but those insect eggs wanted to escape.
They want to divert the host's call to escape from the underground palace.
Damn it, they're trying to crawl into my mouth!
I lowered my head suddenly and used my headbutt to knock away the face of the person who approached me, clenching my teeth tightly. I didn't care about the red spots on my body, I picked up the flashlight hanging around my neck and swung it at him.
"Xiao Ran! Lower your head!"
The broker's voice shouted from a distance, and he suddenly turned on a high-intensity flashlight and pointed it at me.
Without thinking, I immediately covered my face and lay down. With a "bang", a sharp sound came from far below. A bullet accurately hit the face of a person who was just a line away from me. The next second, with a buzz, a flare also followed the trajectory, emitting a strong heat wave and flames.
The faces and limbs of those people were waving in the chaos. I gritted my teeth, struggled free and flipped out, then fell to the ground.
The wind whistled in my ears, and before I could close my eyes and wait for death, a hook was thrown towards me and grabbed my waist.
Then a few guys on the leash came up, one of them swooped over and grabbed me, and with the help of another guy, I swung back.
After this huge ups and downs, I took a deep breath and realized that the two life-saving bullets were fired by Xu You and Yan Mo who were still hanging below. The broker's extremely steady flashlight was guiding them in the thick water mist.
"Anything else?" I was shocked and shouted, "Can you hit it from farther away?"
In response to me, a tall man stumbled suddenly while running, and a bullet insidiously blew up the rammed earth at its feet.
Needless to say, we all started to take off the weights tacitly, tied all the homemade bombs to the spare hook ropes, and threw them at the long-legged creatures.
With a whistle, the broker, Zhang Tianyi and Gao Liu all jumped off the long-legged man, and the traction ropes around their waists were pulled apart to become three trip ropes.
The other few survivors jumped towards us, shouting "Hold on, hold on!", but we held them tightly one by one like carrots.
At the same time, one after another of the long-legged people who were running wildly were tripped, and we took the opportunity to tighten the hook rope to prevent it from falling off. Zhang Tianyi directly grabbed the ground and flipped over to one of the long-legged people who was still stabilizing his center of gravity, and then tightened the rope and stuffed the thunder firmly in the center.
The broker and Gao Liu also fell down, and in no particular order they were walking among the tall people who were struggling to get up.
Just then I heard Fang Ao was trying to stir up trouble again. He laughed and at this juncture he actually yelled:
"Help me, everyone! Fix it! If you sprinkle these thunders, there will be no more! It has to be a bow!"
I suddenly laughed too, thinking that we have many experts here, and we have never faced such a wealthy situation in our life, so there is nothing to be afraid of.
As the traction rope shook violently, he shouted with his burned throat: "Come on!" Without mentioning any names, he deliberately shouted: "I believe you are the best!"
We heard someone laughing and cursing from afar, and we swung the towing rope again. After a while, the three figures had lost their momentum and fell down quickly, and were caught by us.
With a humming sound, the overloaded traction rope was stretched to its tautest. The long-legged people had already climbed up, and amid the endless sound of the ground cracking, the horses all rushed forward like a frightened herd.
"Let's go! Back to the ship!"
Someone shouted, and the speed of descent was lightning fast. We buckled the buckle tightly and, under the action of gravity, we crashed into the still scalding water mist faster than the elevator. The grayish corner of the underground palace in the distance was revealed, and it was already within reach.
I didn't linger and looked around.
"Three, two, one—"
Some wicked person laughed and shouted, "We won't go on the one-day tour of the underground palace! Send us fireworks!"
At this moment, we all who were falling turned our flashlights to the brightest level and shone them towards the tall people in the billowing smoke and dust.
"Bang!"
The long-legged people hit the outer walls of the underground palace one after another.
"Bang!"
Point-blank bullets fired.
"Bang!"
The flares whizzed upwards, and the intense light and heat swept across, engulfing the muffled thunder tied to the long men. High temperature and light and heat swept across.
The water vapor is too heavy, most of the thunder will be muted, and the explosion will probably not be enough. I thought calmly, but being able to blow up a broken wall is also a good thing.
Thinking of this, I feel an indescribable satisfaction, and say to myself, I have resisted, and I don’t regret it.
"……actually."
In the middle of the final sentimental monologue, I heard someone speak softly, a little embarrassedly:
"Every time I go to get water from the pool, I always plant some mines in front of the underground palace. Because the rules don't allow us to bring dangerous goods to gatherings... My family is so strict, there's really no place to hide."
The other voice was stunned and said honestly: "Me too."
"Me too."
"Me too."
I was stunned, dumbfounded.
The next second, a small artificial sun exploded in the glow of the moving mouse. The surging dark red suddenly stopped, twisted, and stagnated.
After a while, team leader Zhang Jia shouted angrily: "I am responsible for the security of these water fetchings! You bastards!"
"——I report it! The instructor is hiding too!"
Oh, these psychopaths.
"boom--"
The explosive shock wave swept over me, and I laughed helplessly, letting the tow rope lead us down and back home.
(End of Volume 4)
Rule 4, see chapter 105
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