"Don't be afraid." Jie Ye's voice suddenly became gentle.
【fool.】
Chu Mu chuckled, put his hands around Jie Ye's waist and clung to his back tightly.
Huahuahua——
Falling straight down from a thirty-meter-high waterfall, two people shouldn't have hugged each other.
According to the survival posture we learned before, the most correct way is to protect your head with your hands and keep your legs straight.
This kind of behavior of jumping down is tantamount to seeking death.
However, the moment Chu Mu hugged her, Jie Ye was unable to refuse him, but responded with a tight hug.
I don’t know if it was a psychological effect, but the discomforts such as accelerated heartbeat and shortness of breath that Jie thought would inevitably be caused by falling from a high altitude disappeared inexplicably.
It was not until I was less than three meters away from the water surface that the feeling of losing my balance and being suspended in the air came over me.
thump.
The two men fell into the pool, splashing a large amount of water.
Lin Zhao, who had fallen into the water before them, emerged, slapping the water: "Lü Yan——"
"I'm fine." The man with a crew cut was not far from her and swam over quickly.
While Lin Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, she felt a little puzzled: "Did you feel as if there was a force holding us up as we fell?"
Lu Yan was about to nod when he was interrupted by a dull sound of someone falling into the water.
"Jie Ye! Chu Mu!" Lin Zhao and Lu Yan swam over and helped the two soaked people out of the water.
"Ah, pah, pah, pah." Chu Mu spat out the water in his mouth and sneezed several times in a row.
"Hurry to the shore!" Jie Ye held Lao Ba, who suddenly appeared beside him during the fall, in one hand, and held Chu Mu in the other hand, and swam towards the shore.
“A-choo——”
Even after climbing ashore, Chu Mu was still sneezing violently.
Several people quickly collected some dry firewood and lit a fire with waterproof lighters.
"Take off your clothes and dry them." Jie also built a simple drying rack. "Don't be shy."
Chu Mu thought for a moment, then took out a neatly folded thin blanket from his waterproof backpack, unfolded it, and handed it to the only lady present.
Lin Zhao was stunned for a moment before taking it hesitantly: "Thank you...thank you."
Chu Mu smiled with his eyes curved, and his wet face seemed to be glowing.
Lin Zhao was stunned unconsciously.
An alarm instantly sounded in Xie Ye's mind.
Without saying anything, he pulled Chu Mu to the other side of the fire and deliberately chose a position where Lin Zhao could not be seen clearly.
"Are you hungry?" Xie Ye hung the damp Old Eighth on the drying rack like a salted fish. "I'll go down to the pond and try to fish it out."
Chu Mu held his hand and shook his head.
"Xiao Chu is right," Lin Zhao said across the fire. "Did you notice when you came here just now? The stone wall was originally sealed off from the bottom of the water. It looks like the gap now was broken by some large creature using brute force."
Chu Mu nodded. "That's right. The reason they sealed that stone wall wasn't to prevent things from getting in, but to prevent things from getting out. The thing the skinning monster was afraid of was probably something that could break through the stone wall."
"But he can't starve," Xie Ye scratched his head, "The little mute is already skinny."
Chu Mu raised his eyelids and looked at him twice, then silently took out two more packs of compressed biscuits from his backpack.
Jie Ye: "...Why didn't you say so earlier."
In addition to the biscuits, Chu Mu also took out a small pot.
Jie also looked at Chu Mu's bag in surprise, which looked very small.
"What brand is this? It's perfectly waterproof and can hold a lot of things. If I remember correctly, you also stuffed Lao Ba in it before."
Chu Mu couldn't answer this question directly. He could only blink innocently and gesture: I just bought it randomly. Maybe it's because I cleaned it better.
——This bag is a product of the interstellar plane, equivalent to a space carrier. It looks small, but its actual capacity is about the size of a warehouse.
Before setting off on this trip, Chu Mu emptied out the inventory at Li's house.
[Oh! Oh right! I did bring pants!]
Chu Mu immediately took out a pair of quick-drying pants and threw them to Jie Ye who was still posing as David.
"Ha, you really are such a cunning little thing," Jie Ye rubbed his quick-drying pants, "Tsk tsk tsk tsk, you didn't even give me a pair of underwear, you did it on purpose, didn't you?"
Chu Mu instinctively felt that Jie Ye had something else to say, but he didn't want to delve into it at all. He just gave the other party a gesture of "forgot to bring it".
Jie also changed into his pants, stood up and jumped: "Hey, it fits quite well, but it feels a bit empty without underwear."
Chu Mu didn't want to pay any attention to him at all, and broke the biscuits and threw them into the pot.
The taste of the compressed biscuits soaked in boiling water is really hard to describe. Chu Mu reluctantly ate two bites and pushed away the wooden "bowl" that Lin Zhao had carved with a knife.
"Can't eat anymore?" Jie took it and swallowed it in two gulps. "I'd better go in the water and catch two fish."
Chu Mu grabbed the corner of his clothes and took out several bags of instant noodles from his bag like a magic trick.
"Damn! Why do you want me to eat compressed biscuits when you have this good stuff?"
…
The fire burned so well that the clothes were dried in about an hour.
"It's five o'clock in the morning." Xie Ye looked at his watch. "Should I take a nap first or continue walking?"
"Take a break." Lin Zhao was a little concerned about Chu Mu's small body.
"Is it dangerous to be too close to the water?"
Chu Mu looked at the black pool of water not far away, and a feeling of depression and dullness enveloped his heart.
"I'm afraid that won't work," Lu Yan pointed at the fire in front of him. "This is all the firewood we can use around here. I'm afraid we won't be able to light a fire if we move to another place."
The temperature here is much lower than outside, probably only around five degrees, so it would be impossible not to make a fire.
"Then sleep here," Xie also made up his mind, "Brother Lu and I will take turns watching over you."
This is indeed the best option at the moment.
Lin Zhao continued to sleep with the blanket covering her, while Chu Mu hugged the warm Lao Ba. There was a fire lit beside them, so she didn't feel cold at all.
After running around all night, everyone was a little tired.
Chu Mu listened to Jie Ye and Lu Yan chatting in low voices from time to time, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
…
Tick.
Tick.
The continuous sound of dripping water sounds very much like the movement of the second hand.
Spreading in the silent space.
A deep shudder quickly spread throughout his body, and Chu Mu summoned the butcher as he opened his eyes.
I don't know when the fire went out.
It was pitch black all around.
Tick.
Tick.
The sound of dripping water is getting closer.
Chu Mu put down the calico cat and stood up nimbly.
His beautiful red eyes became even more brilliant in the eerie darkness.
He could see clearly that less than a meter away from Jie, there was a wet figure lying on all fours, in a crawling posture.
Jie Ye and Lu Yan, who were supposed to keep watch, fell into a deep sleep.
"Is it you who did this?" Chu Mu knew that these people would not wake up for the time being, so he spoke boldly.
The wet figure was a naked person with long black hair that completely covered his facial features, making him look like a water ghost.
"Huh...huh..." The water ghost made a hoarse sound and slowly raised his head.
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