When Qu Ruilin noticed that the person in front of him was drowning, he started calling on everyone behind him to move forward. Only by loosening the rope could he have room to rescue the person.
Hearing that there was a problem ahead, the people behind swam over faster. Qu Ruilin heard the sound of water behind him and was about to go to rescue the people in front, but he hadn't swum half a meter when he was pulled back by my rope. He turned around and shouted, "Duan Shenxing, what are you doing?"
There's something in this water!
I was pulled by the rope, turned around and swam towards the shore, raising my voice to shout, "Forget about the people in front, everyone swim to the shore and prepare for defense!"
Qu Ruilin was pulled by my rope and turned around, roaring, "The people in front of me have already sunk! If we don't save them soon, they'll die!"
"I just saw a dark shadow swim by in the water, like a woman floating on the surface!"
I kept moving, practically dragging Qu Ruilin towards the shore: "Before we were attacked in the previous section of the river, Lin Que said he saw something like this. I'm sure I'm not seeing things. Everyone must be prepared for defense, or we'll all be doomed!"
Upon hearing my reply, Qu Ruilin's voice became somewhat tense: "Move towards the shore! Everyone swim in the opposite direction and try to keep the drowning person on the surface of the water!"
The attack we suffered in the previous stretch of water was still fresh in our minds. When the others heard what I said, they all used every ounce of strength to swim desperately towards the shore.
I dragged the rope to the shore, grabbed a rock with one hand and pulled the rope tight with the other, and began to drag Lin Que and the others to the shore.
While I was pulling the rope, Song Laosan and the others in front of Qu Ruilin also began to rescue the drowning members of the Wei family.
I pulled Lin Que to the shore with the rope, and just as I was about to rest, I saw a dark shadow rushing towards Qu Ruilin and the others on the water. I shouted, "Watch out behind you!"
Qu Ruilin was supporting the drowning Wei family member and calling for help. Upon hearing my shouts, he instinctively turned to look at the water.
Under the light of his headlamp, a dark shadow swam swiftly toward him in the water. Through the ripples on the surface, it looked like a long-haired woman swimming rapidly.
Before I could even see what it was, the dark figure had already rushed to Qu Ruilin's side, and then his body was dragged underwater.
I saw a spray of blood rise from where Qu Ruilin had sunk. I grabbed a protruding rock on the cliff and yelled, "Pull the rope!"
As our team moved forward, we were always connected to the rappelling rope on the cliff behind us. The reason I left Manjing at the back of the team was because he was strong and could pull the rope at any time to stop our team.
After I shouted "Pull the rope!", I felt a tightening in my stomach, and then I was dragged backward.
"Splash!"
As the rope tightened, Qu Ruilin's body emerged from the water. He was holding a long knife and repeatedly stabbing it into the water below the surface. With each movement, blood gushed from the surrounding water.
As Qu Ruilin swung his knife, we pulled him backward, and we quickly got rid of the dark figure.
The rope in the group got shorter and shorter as they pulled, and we all huddled together.
When Qu Ruilin floated to my side, I grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the water: "How are you? Where are you hurt?"
Qu Ruilin grabbed my arm, his eyes behind the gas mask showing some pain: "It seems you injured your left leg; it's burning hot!"
After swimming over from the front, Song Laosan grabbed the drowning Wei family member, checked his breath, and said in a deep voice, "This man is dead!"
I knew this man's death was entirely due to the attack on Qu Ruilin, which delayed the rescue. But we didn't know how long the river ahead was, and facing the danger that could come at any moment, I quickly made a decision: "Cut the rope and dump his body!"
"You can't abandon Xiao Wu!"
Upon hearing my words, another member of the Wei family shouted emotionally, "He may just be in a state of suspended animation due to drowning, and there is still a chance to save him! If we leave him now, he will completely lose his chance of survival!"
I didn't soften my stance. Instead, I said in a serious tone, "There's no riverbank around here. Dragging a corpse will severely hinder our operations. We must abandon this person!"
"Go to hell! You're not even a member of the Wei family, what right do you have to decide our lives?"
The Wei family member roared at me furiously, "We tie everyone together with ropes so that we can help each other when we encounter danger, right? What's the point of doing this if we just throw people away like a burden when we're in danger?"
"We do this so that more people can live, not so that we can be a burden to others. If I were in this situation later, you could abandon me without hesitation!"
I drew the knife from my waist and looked around warily: "After holding out in the water for so long, everyone's strength is almost exhausted. It would be a foolish thing to waste the strength of the other eight people just to save him!"
Upon hearing my words, the Wei family member angrily shouted at me across Qu Ruilin, "Impossible! Xiao Wu and I started learning martial arts together since childhood, and he has saved my life many times! I absolutely cannot let you abandon him! Miss, you are the head of the Wei family, this matter..."
"Splash!"
Before the man could finish his sentence, his body sank to the bottom of the water.
here we go again!
I saw the Wei family member sink into the water. Before I could react, I felt a tightness in my ankle, and then I sank into the water.
In a split second, my vision was swallowed by the river. The water in front of me was illuminated by my headlamp. Although my headlamp did not go out, the water was full of debris, and with so many of us splashing around, the water became quite murky, and I could not see anything.
After I sank underwater, the pull from my ankles continued to drag me down to the bottom of the river. I endured the suffocating feeling brought on by the water pressure, dove down, and reached out to grab the thing that was pulling me.
The feel of this thing is like a woman's head!
Not only was it round, but it was also very hard; I could even grab its hair.
I grabbed the thing in the water, and it began to struggle violently. I held onto its hair tightly, and with my other hand, I began to swing the military dagger at it repeatedly.
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