But after the foreigner started coughing in the afternoon, he developed a high fever that evening and lay shivering on the ground with nothing to be covered with.
Many foreign men took off their clothes and wrapped them around him, but it had no effect whatsoever.
Several foreign women had already started crying anxiously, and they looked at us with concern.
After all, in such a place, every human being is a close relative of the same species to us.
Wang Ping was initially furious with them, but he had a soft heart and couldn't help but sigh when he saw the situation.
"Sihai, I don't think it's a good idea for us to keep hiding here. Why don't we go back to the camp and meet up with Chen Jian and the others? If something really happens, at least we'll die together."
However, Yang Rui immediately refuted Wang Ping's words.
"The rain is so heavy outside, you can't even see the road ahead. Even if we do manage to get back there alive, can you guarantee that Chen Jian and the others are still in the camp with everyone? Maybe they've already escaped somewhere, and where are you going to find them?"
"Besides, the road back is fraught with danger. You never know when a bolt of lightning might strike from the sky. So I think it's best to stay here and wait for this disaster to pass before making any moves."
But seeing how anxious Wang Ping was, I felt there was no point in staying here any longer. The rain outside was pouring down, but it wouldn't stop if we stayed any longer.
If we wait for the rain to stop, and if Chen Jian and his team encounter any trouble, we won't even have anyone to help them.
I patted Wang Ping on the shoulder and glanced at Yang Rui: "If you feel there's no need to go back, then you can stay here with them. You know where we left our supplies before, so you can lead them to retrieve them. That should help you hold out for a while. But I still think we should go back to the camp first. After all, our friends and concerns are there. If we all manage to survive this disaster, then when you return to our camp, you will still be our friend, and we will still welcome you back."
After listening to me, Yang Rui wanted to say something more, but Wang Ping understood what I meant. He immediately called to his male colleagues behind him, and they wrapped all the fishing rods we had tested over the past two days in their clothes, and then they left the cave one by one.
But to our surprise, just as we left the cave and hadn't gone far, we suddenly heard a series of dozens of thunderbolts crashing down from the sky. Even a tree in front of us was struck down and quickly caught fire, but it was soon extinguished by the rain.
Wang Ping, who was originally walking at the front, stumbled upon seeing this scene and took several steps back. After he reached me, he shook his head.
"No, Sihai, we're afraid we can't go back now!"
But before Wang Ping could finish speaking, two more deafening claps of thunder roared from the sky.
Just then, a male colleague standing behind us shouted through the rain, "It looks like there's flooding over there, Brother Sihai!"
I turned my head and saw that, sure enough, a large puddle of water had suddenly appeared in the woods where we had been standing, which had only collected rainwater, and it was rushing towards us rapidly.
Several male colleagues immediately turned around and tried to run back as if they were going crazy.
But the water came on strong and reached us almost in the blink of an eye.
I immediately yelled at them, "Get up the tree! Hurry up and get up the tree!"
Fortunately, they were quick-witted and immediately climbed up the tree like monkeys.
By the time we climbed up the tree, the water had already rushed past, carrying all sorts of random things, but because the current was so fast, we couldn't see anything clearly.
Almost immediately, the water had already submerged the center of the tree trunk we had climbed.
Wang Ping squatted above me with a bitter face: "Sihai, it's not good for us to keep squatting here. I think we should go back to the cave and make a plan!"
But a male colleague who wasn't far from us suddenly exclaimed a few times. Then I saw the big tree he was standing on shake and then crash to the ground.
I was startled. Oh no! It must be because the water was flowing too fast and had carried something with it. The tree's roots weren't stable, and now the tree was going to fall.
That male colleague would definitely be swept into the current. With the current so strong, he would inevitably get injured, or even more dangerously, be swept away by the water.
I couldn't sit still any longer, and for the first time, I began to doubt whether my decision to take them back to our camp had been a mistake.
But there was no time to think about it anymore. I quickly took off my clothes, rolled up a rope, and climbed down the tree.
Wang Ping shouted at me, but I didn't have time to pay attention to him at all. Soon I had climbed to the base of the tree.
The icy, rushing water reached my thighs and even my waist, but I had no time to care. Carefully and quickly, I used the force of the current to float to the tree closest to the male colleague who was about to fall.
She forcefully pulled herself onto a tree branch, then reached out to grab her male colleague.
But in the end, it still failed because a stream of water swept over it, and the tree crashed into the water.
My male colleague also disappeared almost immediately into the water.
My heart skipped a beat; I absolutely could not allow any of us in danger again.
So I took a deep breath, let go of the branch, and quickly floated towards my male colleague with the current.
But after only two floats, I felt a sharp pain in my knee, a piercing pain that made me momentarily disoriented.
Because I had completely forgotten that there were many loose rocks in this grove of trees, I must have bumped into one of them.
Thinking about it this way, I became even more worried about my male colleague's safety. If there were so many rocks around, he would have fallen into the water and inevitably hit his head. If he were knocked unconscious, I would have no way of knowing where he was in such a fast-flowing current.
If they can't be rescued in time, they might die here.
I called his name loudly, but no one responded.
At this moment, Wang Ping, who was standing on the tree, and several other male colleagues also slid down to the side of the tree trunk with difficulty, wanting to come and help.
Just then, a large stream of water came up behind us again.
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