After hearing what I said, Song Laosan waved his hand speechlessly: "What kind of time is this to be making jokes like this? Listen to me..."
"Click!"
I drew the crossbow to its full draw, raised it, and aimed it at Song Laosan's head: "I'm not kidding you. You either crawl or die. You only have one choice!"
"Xiao Duan, are you crazy?"
When Song Laosan saw my actions, his expression froze instantly: "We are of the same lineage and have been through so much together. Are you going to kill me now? In my memory, you are not that kind of person!"
People change! You change, and so do I!
I stared coldly at Song Laosan: "Get out of here!"
"I'll crawl to your grandpa!"
Old Song glared at me and cursed, "Knowing it's a suicide mission, why the hell did you send me up there? You need to understand, we're partners, I'm not your slave, understand?"
I looked into Song Laosan's eyes and replied calmly, "I'm not denying our partnership, but you have no choice now!"
"Duh!"
Before Song Laosan could retort, a crossbow bolt suddenly lodged at his feet. The monkey had fired a bolt, quickly drawn the bowstring taut, and pointed it at Song Laosan: "I've disliked you for a long time! Don't force me to kill you, climb up here!"
Seeing the monkey's actions, Song Laosan's lips trembled slightly: "I originally thought that even if we were no longer a team, we would still be friends. I never expected that you would hate me so much!"
“From the moment you betrayed us in the Far East, from the moment Wei Shengnan’s men opened fire on us, we were no longer friends.”
I replied coldly, "A knife stabbed in the back always hurts more and leaves a deeper impression, doesn't it?"
"Given the current situation, my answer is no longer important, right?"
Suddenly, Song Laosan revealed a carefree smile: "If I die, you don't have to collect my body, but I still hope that you will remember our past relationship and inform Old Master Wei of my death. I have entrusted my affairs to the Wei family."
After speaking, Song Laosan turned around and started climbing up the rope.
To be honest, I would never climb up from here unless I had no other choice.
Just as Song Laosan worried, we didn't know the situation on the cliff. Nobody knew whether the grappling hook was stuck in a crevice or had caught on a loose rock.
If the rope suddenly comes loose when you've climbed to a height of 20 meters, the person hanging in the air will surely die.
So the first person to climb up is paving the way for others with their life.
In order to rescue Jiang Man and Lin Que, I must find the Golden Bull Cave before the Black Robe Organization, so I have no choice but to climb this cliff.
I hate Song Laosan, but I never thought of hurting him or using any violent means to deal with him.
However, given that we must make a choice at this moment, I naturally won't let Monkey and Manjing take risks. Therefore, Song Laosan, who betrayed us, naturally becomes the one who is pushed out as a great injustice.
Song Laosan had received military training and climbed very quickly and with extremely precise technique.
In less than two minutes, Song Laosan had climbed halfway up the hill. I saw him stop and shone my flashlight up on him: "Why did you stop climbing?"
There's something here!
Song Laosan shone his flashlight on the mountainside: "It's a platform located on a reverse slope, and it looks like a cliff tomb inside!"
I shone my flashlight in the direction Song Laosan pointed, and I could only see the rocks on the cliff. However, there was no halo around the spot where Song Laosan's flashlight was shining. "Never mind that, go to the top of the mountain first and make sure the rope is secure!"
Song Laosan quickly climbed to the top of the mountain and then disappeared from our sight.
Seeing that Song Laosan hadn't returned after a long time, the monkey frowned and asked, "Young Master Duan, do you think that Song Laosan might have turned against us because of our attitude just now, and abandoned us down there and ran away?"
I wasn't worried about the monkey's statement. I sat down on a nearby rock and lit a cigarette. "No way. If he really wanted to run, his first instinct would be to cut the rope! Besides, the mountain paths have been blocked by the men in black robes. He's all alone and unequipped. He can't go to Golden Bull Cave or evacuate by himself."
When the cigarette was half-burned, Song Laosan appeared on the cliff. He grabbed the rope, slid down to the cliff tomb, jumped onto the platform, and shouted, "The top of the rope is tied to the rocks! It's all rocks up there, I don't see anything suspicious. Do you want to go inside the cliff tomb and take a look?"
"Can!"
I heard the rope was secure, so I took out a knot from my bag, untied it, and tied one end to the monkey: "You two go up first, I'll stay down here to pack the equipment, and then you pull the equipment up!"
As soon as we finished speaking, we each started preparing.
While the monkey and Manjing were climbing up, I had already secured the equipment below. After they hoisted the equipment up, I grabbed the rope and prepared to climb up.
"brush!"
Just as I set off, a flashlight beam suddenly shone from the bushes behind me, illuminating my location, accompanied by shouts: "Found him! He's here!"
Holy crap!
Hearing the shouts from afar, my first thought was that the man in the black robes had caught up. He wrapped the rope around his arm twice and roared at the top, "Monkey, Manjing, pull me up!"
My original thought was that they should have focused all their energy on Jinniu Cave in the face of our sudden disruption, but I didn't expect them to split into two groups, with one group going out to search for us.
At the cliff tomb location, Monkey and Manjing heard my shouts and started frantically pulling on the rope above. I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder, and my feet were already off the ground.
"Bang bang bang!"
After the people behind caught up, they started shooting at me before they had even come to a complete stop.
Although we were forty or fifty meters apart, well beyond the range of a pistol's accurate firing, the sound of stray bullets hitting the mountainside still made me shudder.
Twenty meters isn't particularly high, but with the help of the monkey and Manjing, my body quickly rose and I was soon pulled up.
As I was ascending, I didn't see any light on the cliff. It wasn't until I reached the edge of the cliff tomb that I discovered it was a sloping structure with a sloping passage dug deep into the mountainside. The entrance was less than a meter wide, and the ceiling was recessed inwards, which perfectly blocked the view from the outside.
Seeing me approach the cliff, the monkey's face lit up with joy: "Manjing, give it your all! We'll be up soon!"
"Boom!"
Just as the monkey was shouting, the rope that had been pulling me up snapped instantly because it had been rubbing against the cliff face.
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