Fatal Tenderness
Everyone recognized this heroic young man and naturally gave him face. "Young man, if you have any advice, please feel free to share it. We are willing to cooperate with you to the best of our ability."
"Yeah, tell me now."
Yuan Xuanlang smiled, with the spirit of a young and romantic man: "I sincerely appreciate your help. My method is 'swinging on a swing'."
"Swinging? Like playing, is that okay?"
Yuan Xuanlang remained confident: "Of course you can. All you need to do is take out a long, sturdy piece of cloth and tie it to the wooden rib above the ceiling. The knot position must be chosen carefully, as it determines whether you can swing to the cave entrance."
The Haibin ceiling is made by first building a wooden grid between the beams, and then nailing wooden boards or pasting paper under the wooden grid to form a flat ceiling without protruding components. Some are painted with colorful patterns.
"That's a way! We have no other choice, this is it!" Lu Renjia slapped his thigh and smiled, as if he saw hope.
Everyone took off their clothes and tied them up in pairs or threes. Yuan Xuanlang quickly stopped them, saying, "The knots will come loose easily this way."
He looped one end of the rope into a circle, passed the other end through the circle, weaving it up and down, and finally pulled it to both sides to form a knot. "This knot will get tighter the more you pull it."
"Young man, you are so smart." Someone exclaimed.
Lin Yuan smiled. These people were so obsessed with martial arts that they didn't even know this kind of common sense.
After the long rope was made, Yuan Xuanlang chanted "Amitabha" and used his internal force to break the wooden board of the Buddha statue, revealing the beams inside.
Lin Yuan looked at the broken Buddha statue and sighed inwardly: "This is the 'If I don't go to hell, who will?' Thank you for your hard work, Buddha statue."
"The long rope is ready, but how do we tie it up? The rope is too light and can't even touch the beam." someone asked.
"I'll do it. I can dance with a rope." A young woman stood up. Her red dress was as bright as a pomegranate flower and her face was beautiful. She had an extremely aggressive and ostentatious beauty. She had a whip on her waist.
Lin Yuan noticed that the longest part of the colorful rope was a long red silk ribbon, which should be hers.
"Thank you. This rope needs to be tied to the wooden rib three meters north of the center of the ceiling. It is estimated that a five-meter long rope will be needed, and the end with the stone hanging on it will be the long rope end." Yuan Xuanlang handed the rope to her.
The woman in red waved her arm, and the colorful ropes seemed to have consciousness. They circled around the beam three times and dropped two ropes, one long and one short.
Yuan Xuanlang placed the spare wooden table under the short rope and said, "I'll hold the rope to prevent it from slipping. Who wants to try to swing?"
The first time you swing on a swing, you have no experience to draw on, and you might bump into the wall and fall into the abyss.
"I'll do it! Pan'er believes in Senior Brother Yuan." Gu Pan'er pulled the long rope, flew a few steps out of the platform, and fell into the cave like a pendulum. She threw the tied stone back, and the long rope was also pulled back.
They swung on the swings one after another. After all, most of those who survived were skilled fighters, and no one hit the wall.
Lin Yuan clutched the rope, feeling anxious. He breathed in and out, telling himself, "It's okay. Just do as they did. I'll just get over it."
Yuan Xuanlang smiled and said, "Junior sister, are you okay?"
Lin Yuan glanced at him and said, "Of course!"
Yuan Xuanlang shook his head, tied the short rope to the wooden table, held the long rope with one hand, and flicked her head with his fingers with the other hand: "Hold me tight, I will take you there."
Lin Yuan looked at him in surprise. After confirming that he was not joking, she slowly stretched out her arms and wrapped them around his waist. Yuan Xuanlang put her arms around his neck and said, "Wrap your arms around my neck so that it won't fall off easily."
Lin Yuan remembered the knot he tied. He passed the two ropes through each other and pulled them hard, so that they combined together and finally became one.
Yuan Xuanlang held her waist with one hand and the rope with the other, swinging along the smooth trajectory of the pendulum.
Lin Yuan hung on Yuan Xuanlang like a pendant. She felt her heart beating rapidly, not knowing whether it was hers or someone else's.
When landing, Lin Yuan felt so excited and it was so much fun!
Assuming that the others had already evacuated, the two stepped onto the stone path and walked towards the open stone gate.
At the other end of the stone path is a deep pool with slowly flowing water, connected to the river outside.
The river water slowly carried a large gourd, and Yuan Xuanlang fished it out. "It's Yaozhou, it must have been given by my senior sister."
Yuan Xuanlang placed the black box into the large gourd. Whether the contents would be soaked or not was no longer important. He turned to Lin Yuan and asked, "Junior sister, can you swim?"
Lin Yuan shook her head in disappointment, squatted down and splashed some clear water, which was a little cold.
She was like a kitten struggling to cross the river, repeatedly probing the shore with her claws but never daring to go into the water for fear of getting her fur wet.
Yuan Xuanlang handed her the big gourd and explained how to use it.
Following his explanation, Lin Yuan placed the gourd in front of her head, grabbed the rattan net with both hands, and paddled the water with her legs alternately up and down.
"It's okay, it's all in the past, I've grown up," she told herself, "Just hold on for a while, don't think too much."
After Yuan Xuanlang entered the water, he was like a nimble blue fish. Even though he was swimming upstream, he could still swim freely and guide Lin Yuan not far in front of him.
Lin Yuan swam slowly. A turtle was faster than me. Oh no, a turtle can reach a speed of 29 kilometers per hour in the water. I can't compare with it.
So tired...
Lin Yuan looked down and saw the emerald green water. The deeper she went, the deeper the green became, so dark that it seemed like a black hole that was about to suck people in. Lin Yuan trembled all over.
Don’t think about it… Lin Yuan warned herself.
The wind and waves suddenly arose, and Lin Yuan held on to Yaozhou, but was splashed with water in the face. She used her hand to brush away the hair that blocked her view, but unexpectedly, an undercurrent surged and separated Lin Yuan and Yaozhou.
Oops! Lin Yuan felt herself sinking, and she immediately used her hands and feet to paddle in an attempt to grab the waist boat again.
The river water rose and fell, flooding Lin Yuan's mouth and sending Yao Zhou away.
She was sinking upright, but her calves were cramping, making even her struggles look ridiculous.
Sure enough, she thought, a drowning person would not easily arouse alarm and the chance of calling for help was also very small.
The icy cold water rushed into my mouth and squeezed into my lungs, but my head was bursting with pain.
The past replays in my mind like a kaleidoscope.
The all-too-familiar, deadly, inescapable fear came over her like a brutal colonizer, domineeringly invading her mind, like a black insect in a dark room, densely swarming and gnawing at her consciousness bit by bit.
A string of tiny bubbles carrying her tears floated towards the sky. Could they touch the white clouds?
A voice in my heart said: Stop struggling, you should have died in that early autumn.
Well...that's fine.
Oh, she saw her mother's loving smile,
She is a gentle person,
Tenderly stroking her soft hair,
Tell her a bedtime story gently,
Gently pick up some food for her.
even,
He gently led her into the river little by little.
It was an ordinary early autumn.
This is an unusual summer day.
Is it fate?
Lin Yuan's consciousness sank into darkness.
At the last moment, she felt a siren entangled her body.
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