Climbing the Sky
There must be a solution... Jiang Yi muttered to himself twice, then continued, "We need to find a mechanism or formation."
In the darkness, everyone responded with earnest "hmmmm"s, waiting for his idea.
Jiang Yi said:
"The dome above, the platform and stone door below, let's try to start from here."
Everyone immediately thought it made sense and quickly responded. But then, a hesitant voice slowly rang out:
"But... we've already climbed this high, and there's no light to illuminate us... Let's go down now, wait a moment..."
Can you still catch up?
Before he finished speaking, everyone instantly understood what he had not said and fell silent.
The darkness fell into silence again.
There is a huge difference between being inferior to others and being helplessly killed, and being abandoned and having to wait for death to come...
A person will go crazy in less than two days in the dark. Several people in the dark can only wait until they kill each other... and then one person will die of madness.
That kind of loneliness and despair makes me shiver just thinking about it.
Who among all the people here is willing to go?
He is no longer a reckless teenager who has not experienced much of the world. He will not be provoked. After so many years, he has long lost that impulsiveness.
Everyone was silent, no one spoke again. Even Jiang Yi, who had first proposed the idea, remained silent and did not press anything.
The situation... was completely deadlocked.
Suddenly, a firm female voice sounded in the darkness:
"I'll do it!"
As he spoke, there was a rapid rustling.
"etc!"
Jiang Yi suddenly stopped her and said quickly, "That stone door needs at least three people to push it. It's useless for you to go!"
The rustling sound suddenly stopped.
For a long while.
The woman's voice seemed to have drained away all her strength at once, her voice revealing exhaustion and weakness: "So... what should we do now...?"
There was silence for a moment, and everyone in the darkness could only say:
"Anyway, we have to find a way to have the best of both worlds. We've come this far, we can't give up on ourselves!"
But no one can come up with a solution that has the best of both worlds.
Jiang Yi listened without answering, and said instead: "I think the key is most likely on that door."
Everyone was quiet and listened to him:
"The door suddenly closed silently, and none of us noticed. It was so strange.
"Could it be that this platform and dome are constantly opening and closing even when no one is around? It's possible, but would it be such a coincidence that we encountered the platform and dome shrinking so soon after arriving?
"The opening and closing of the platform and dome don't seem to be very frequent—otherwise, why haven't we seen it open and closed again until now?"
Jiang Yi said calmly, "I think it's more likely to be influenced by someone... or an organization. We have to try that door."
Everyone responded seriously, and then there was silence in the darkness again.
Then... who should go?
After going around in circles, we still cannot avoid this problem.
In dead silence.
Suddenly, a heavy muffled sound was heard in the darkness.
It was a huge, labored and clumsy sound, like some giant monster walking and dragging itself.
The sound echoed in everyone's ears, and it was impossible to tell where it came from.
In the darkness, the rising and falling breathing sounds suddenly stopped.
Only the heavy, dull sound of footsteps grew louder and louder.
It was so huge that it sounded like thunder in the sky, constantly exploding in my ears.
Jiang Jingyuan sensed that Yu Linhuan next to him suddenly tensed up, and swallowed extremely slowly...
“Hey, hey…”
The teeth-grinding sound of stones rubbing against each other suddenly rang out amid the roar, and the darkness suddenly turned dim.
Jiang Jingyuan rested his head on Yu Linhuan's shoulder, opened his eyes and looked down.
In the dimness, an exceptionally clear and conspicuous bright yellow, almost white, stood straight in the abyss, emitting fluorescent light.
Is that... a door?
Jiang Jingyuan closed his eyes and was about to take another closer look.
The straight bright yellow almost white suddenly expanded, rapidly squeezing the darkness and tearing it apart—
"boom!!"
The loud crash suddenly drowned out the dull footsteps.
The white jade platform below suddenly popped out, blocking the wriggling black tide under the abyss.
The white light was so bright that Jiang Jingyuan closed his eyes subconsciously.
"Walk!"
A loud shout.
Jiang Jingyuan was suddenly lifted up and thrown up, and Yu Linhuan took her and rushed up.
His movements were swift and smooth, and he steadily dodged the venomous snakes that would occasionally dart out.
Jiang Jingyuan felt dizzy and there was a faint buzzing in his ears.
Then, she let Yu Linhuan lead her up, without exerting any effort to influence anything, just opened her eyes and continued to look down.
The darkness gradually turned into gray and hazy, and the blurry scenes around it appeared bit by bit.
The door that opened little by little emitted a fluorescent light and stood in the abyss.
Jiang Jingyuan was rising higher and higher, and he looked down...
Inside the gate, in the dim light, there was a moist white jade platform and a faint corner of stairs.
Then, just as my ears cleared, the sound of heavy and dull footsteps or heavy objects being dragged boomed.
Getting closer and closer, as if something is approaching.
Is it inside that door?
Something huge was lumbering towards them.
An inexplicable chill suddenly ran up her spine, causing her hair to stand on end and her scalp to numb, but her sight seemed to be glued to the dim light.
Unable to turn it away or retract it, Jiang Jingyuan opened his eyes and stared at the door without blinking.
My heart unconsciously tensed to the extreme, as if it had stopped beating, but my heartbeat was still making a "bang bang bang" sound in my ears.
In the abyss, the only door was opened to the extreme, emitting light outward, and reflecting the jumping flames on the white jade platform.
“No, no?”
A surprised and stunned voice suddenly sounded in the sky.
No?
The imagined giant did not appear in the fluorescent gate for a long time.
However, the heavy, dull sound of footsteps or dragging feet was still approaching.
A little closer, a little closer...
Why not?
Why...the tightly closed door was suddenly pushed open from the inside?
“Crack, crackle…rustle…”
The fragmented moonlight suddenly fell, colliding with the dim light behind the door, and then dissolving into the abyss.
The gray and dim moonlight quickly became bright and clear.
"Walk!!"
Jiang Yi shouted, "Come up quickly!"
Everyone suddenly came to their senses and continued to move upwards, closer to him and the rapidly opening dome.
Jiang Yi turned his head to look at everyone, then suddenly tensed his whole body and climbed out at the moment the dome completely disappeared into the cliff.
Immediately afterwards, a series of human figures rushed out quickly, clinging to the cliff, gasping for breath, their hearts pounding in their ears.
——When the door opened, they went up and up, and in the instant that the dome disappeared, they escaped one by one.
The night is mysterious and dark blue, its sheen flowing like silk, undulating and rising.
The night is as undulating as the sea, cloudless and dotted with broken stars.
The bright moonlight falls on people's faces.
It is as bright as pale white and as dark as thick ink.
Looking at each other, they felt a spooky, cold and lonely atmosphere.
"Gu..."
Many people swallowed unconsciously.
Everyone stopped above the vanishing dome, their "huh, huh, huh" labored breathing and "er, cough, cough" coughing sounds gradually becoming lighter...
It seemed like in just a blink of an eye, all the sounds disappeared.
Above, the moonlight is mysteriously bright, and below, a flickering door opens in the abyss. Silence and death spread quietly.
Another "Gu..."
I don't know who couldn't help it, and swallowed carefully in his throat, deliberately making it light, but it was very obvious in the silence.
Immediately afterwards, one person after another couldn't help but swallow twice.
Suddenly, Yu Linhuan seemed to have noticed something and asked nervously:
"Where are the people who went up there before?!"
Everyone snapped back to their senses, suppressed the horror that was creeping up on their bodies, and screamed in surprise:
"Yeah, the people up there, where are they?!"
"Where are they? Why aren't they here?"
"Did he, he and the others reach the top?" one person speculated. "They must have gone to explore the way first."
Thinking this way, I felt a lot better... Everyone gradually calmed down.
But then, Jiang Yi said calmly:
"Then why didn't they notice the movement or sounds at the bottom of the cliff? Why didn't we hear anything above?"
Is it really... that there won't be any sound at all?
The darkness fell into dead silence again.
After a pause, Jiang Yi did not elaborate on this, but said seriously:
"We all have to climb to the top to take a look. Let's be careful and get there quickly, and we'll find out."
Everyone quickly responded, "Hurry up, who knows if there will be any other traps." They urged each other and continued to climb steadily.
They walked slowly and steadily, without slacking off, and gathered in two loose groups on the cliffs on either side of the ravine, pushing upward.
The night is empty and dead, without words or things, giving rise to the fear hidden deep in people's hearts.
Suddenly, Yu Linhuan seemed to suddenly remember something. He tilted his head and asked blankly, "Boss, weren't you poisoned? How..."
Why are you still awake? Why are you okay?
In the quiet night, as soon as these words were spoken, the maids immediately whispered with concern: "My Lord, my Lady, how are you?"
Jiang Jingyuan closed his eyes, sighed deeply, and said slowly, "Not dead."
After a pause, she added: "I can still hold on."
Yu Linhuan immediately said "Oh" and said, "I'll take the boss up to have a look quickly." Then he quickened his speed to climb up.
Jiang Jingyuan lay powerlessly on top of her, his face filled with a faint despair, and he sighed feebly in his mind:
"This poison...why do I feel like I'm holding back some anger..."
Xu Qinglin: "..."
Xu Qinglin was silent for a moment, then asked, "Are you sure it's because of snake venom?"
Jiang Jingyuan: "?"
"Why else?" Jiang Jingyuan wondered, "Why else would I be..." She hesitated and considered, "Why would I feel like I can only sigh weakly when I want to say something?"
It may not be quite appropriate, but that’s the feeling.
My chest felt stuffy and blocked, as if a hand was grabbing my heart and pulling it down.
The stuffiness and pain in her heart made her breathe in small breaths in pain.
It hurts, it hurts. The pain spreads from the heart outwards. A large area of the abdomen is aching slightly, and the entire spine... is also in pain.
If this isn't snake venom, what is it?! Jiang Jingyuan's heart was just beginning to surge with anger, but in an instant, he felt powerless.
Jiang Jingyuan sighed weakly again, too tired to say anything else. He lay on Yu Linhuan, feeling dizzy.
Whoosh—the wind blew, and the moonlight suddenly became bright.
"Boss, we're here!"
Yu Linhuan's voice suddenly rang in his ears.
Jiang Jingyuan didn't say anything, his eyes were half closed and he didn't even have the strength to lift his eyelids.
His eyes gradually closed, Jiang Jingyuan became quiet, his consciousness sinking into a quagmire.
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