Chapter 199 The 199th Day of the Beginning [Second Update] "You grab..."
Day 199 of the story [Second Update]
He Lianzhou stopped instinctively when he heard Yin Yu's question.
He tilted his head slightly and listened carefully for a few seconds, then suddenly reached out and touched the rock wall on his left. His palm lingered on the rock wall for a few seconds before he moved to the other side. He repeated the same action several times, changing the location of the rock wall each time.
Upon seeing this, Yin Yu immediately reacted and, like He Lianzhou, checked the temperature and humidity differences in the surrounding cave walls.
"The rock walls on the left and top are a bit cooler." The two quickly reached the same conclusion. "Could it be water?"
After they finished speaking, their pupils constricted simultaneously. He Lianzhou gave a dry laugh, unable to turn around to see Yin Yu's expression behind him. He took a deep breath and said, "I bet Captain Yin's face is really ugly right now. He's probably thinking, 'What terrible luck I have, what an inescapable fate with the flood.'"
"Don't make me slap you from behind," Yin Yu said gruffly. "Get out of here!"
He Lianzhou didn't stop moving. He used his elbows to support himself as he climbed forward, while habitually teasing Yin Yu: "Tsk, Captain Yin likes this? This taste is hard to describe."
Yin Yu didn't realize what He Lianzhou was referring to for a moment. By the time he did, Yin Yu's face was flushed red all the way to his neck.
Grass.
He Lianzhou, that guy with a head full of nonsense!
"Captain Yin?" He Lianzhou didn't hear Yin Yu's voice. He waited a few seconds and couldn't help but greet him again.
Yin Yu followed behind He Lianzhou, sighed heavily upon hearing this, and had no choice but to respond in a low voice.
With yellow waste and nightmare trauma, how come this person has so many problems?
Unfortunately, it was his tail that brought them along, so they had no choice but to follow along and take care of him.
Upon hearing Yin Yu's movements behind him, He Lianzhou let out a barely perceptible sigh of relief, then grinned silently.
He crawled at the front. The air in the tunnel didn't smell good, especially on rainy days, when the "birth canal" was filled with a particularly strong smell of damp earth.
The visible distance of the passageway in front of He Lianzhou changed suddenly due to the ruggedness and varied angles of the birth canal, shifting from time to time, leaving less than a few tens of centimeters of light in front of him.
He Lianzhou's breathing gradually became heavy, and Yin Yu asked in a low voice, "How are you feeling now?"
"This might be the deepest road I've ever walked in the dark," He Lianzhou replied with a snort. As he spoke, he moved forward a little more, getting used to the darkness in front of him that lacked reflection.
Although this section of the "birth canal" was still cramped, it was much wider than the previous section. He Lianzhou stretched out both arms to touch the rock walls on the left and right sides, but he couldn't touch them at the same time.
The headlamp's illumination range was also very limited; beyond a distance of less than 20 or 30 centimeters, it was pitch black.
As he moved forward, he reached out to probe the rock walls on his left and right, relying solely on his hands to determine the general direction of his journey.
However, to his surprise, as he moved forward by habit and reached out to touch the ground, he suddenly found himself with nothing beneath him!
He suddenly plummeted downwards, feeling a sudden wave of weightlessness wash over him. His body swayed, and he crashed headfirst into the rock wall below. Before he could even utter a sound, the safety rope around him was tightly gripped by Yin Yu.
"He Lianzhou!?" Yin Yu cried out anxiously, "How are you?"
He Lianzhou grunted, adjusted his helmet, and replied, "It's nothing. You've got me."
The helmet cushioned and absorbed most of the impact shock. Although the impact made He Lianzhou's shoulder ache, at least he didn't feel nauseous or want to vomit.
After he finished speaking, he tried to adjust his headlamp to look down, but he immediately noticed that one of the two headlamps above him had been broken in the impact. He gently patted it, but there was no sign of it flickering or turning on.
He sighed, and could only look down by the light of his last remaining headlamp, then said to Yin Yu, "Is there a cave here?"
Yin Yu was stunned when he heard this. While he was helping He Lianzhou to stay still, he pulled up an electronic map to make a comparison.
"The map didn't indicate there was a cave here," Yin Yu frowned. "It's newly appeared. How big and deep is it? Can you tell?"
He Lianzhou adjusted his headlamp and scanned the area a few times, then took out his flashlight and shone it down, shaking his head regretfully: "It looks very deep. The flashlight beam won't reach the end before it gets swallowed up."
This indicates that the area below is very open, with few reflective objects.
Yin Yu paused for a moment, then said to He Lianzhou, "Set up a coordinate point to mark it, then come back and continue forward!"
He Lianzhou responded, placed a flashing coordinate point on the rock wall, and then grabbed the single rope, using Yin Yu's hand for leverage to climb back.
He exhaled and shone his flashlight around. He saw that the hole he had just fallen into probably occupied about 80 or 90 centimeters of the "birth canal," which explained why his headlamp illuminated only darkness ahead.
Seeing this, He Lianzhou asked Yin Yu, "Such a large section of the road has collapsed, how are we going to get across?"
Yin Yu squeezed forward, and He Lianzhou turned to the side, holding his breath, and barely managed to let Yin Yu lean in, pressing against his chest to see the road ahead.
Fortunately, this section was relatively spacious, allowing two adult men to squeeze together like this.
Yin Yu was breathing heavily, adjusting his breathing while quickly looking around.
He pursed his lips, glanced at He Lianzhou, and then continued to look at the cave passage.
Seeing this, He Lianzhou raised his eyebrows slightly: "You look like you have the answer."
Yin Yu paused upon hearing this, and He Lianzhou understood the meaning behind every expression and movement of his.
“There is a way,” Yin Yu said. He took He Lianzhou’s flashlight and shone it on the hole where He Lianzhou had just fallen. The hole walls were pitted and uneven. He said, “I can go down from here. You hold on tight to my safety rope, which will act as my safety buckle. I will climb down the hole wall to the other side, then hammer a screw into the rock wall, hang the rope on it, and then let you come over.”
They couldn't both cross the cave barehanded. The cave walls below, illuminated by flashlights, looked very slippery. If they climbed across with their bare hands, even a slight slip could leave them both hanging in mid-air, with no ground in sight, and they would almost certainly be left to die.
He Lianzhou looked at Yin Yu upon hearing this: "Are you sure?"
"The fastest and most convenient way," Yin Yu said, while simultaneously working on his safety rope and buckles, and instructing He Lianzhou to back up to give him more space.
Seeing this, He Lianzhou had no choice but to step back. Compared to Yin Yu, he was definitely not a skilled rock climber, so it was most suitable for Yin Yu to do this task.
Yin Yu stuffed a rope and a rope into his hands. Yin Yu turned his back to him and said, "Follow my instructions to release the rope. Release it only about thirty centimeters at a time. Don't release it too fast. I don't want the rope to get tangled around me."
He Lianzhou's breathing became slightly heavy, but he just chuckled and said, "Okay, slow down. I don't want to get tangled in the rope. Understood, Captain Yin."
Yin Yu chuckled upon hearing this, and then he began to continue.
He Lianzhou was taken aback when Yin Yu suddenly decided to leave. His heart tightened, and he instinctively called out, "Yin Yu?"
"Hmm?" Yin Yu looked up, his headlamp shining directly onto the rocky top above He Lianzhou, allowing him to see the shadow on He Lianzhou's face. He paused for a moment, then adjusted his headlamp and said calmly, "Hold on tight. You're my only safety rope now."
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