When Nie Guangzhi heard Song Laosan say that they needed to move, he looked at me with concern: "He's already like this, can he still hold on?"
"……I can!"
Hearing their words, I gritted my teeth and replied, "Song Laosan is right. We must leave this place as soon as possible before those Gu creatures break out, otherwise if we stay here, we will all become their food!"
When Song Laosan saw me speak, he took out a gun-type syringe from his waist and injected the life-saving adrenaline into my leg: "Rest for a few minutes, and we'll set off once the drug takes effect!"
I tried moving my arm and felt pain in every inch of my skin, but it didn't affect the movement of my elbow and wrist, which meant that the bones were not injured. I shook my head and said, "Let's set off now. The sooner we leave, the further away we are from danger."
"Stay close to me!"
Song Laosan put the flashlight in his mouth and crawled into another cat-ear hole.
I saw Song Laosan move, wipe the blood off his face with his palm, and follow in second place.
The cat-ear hole that Song Laosan chose was very narrow, so narrow that he couldn't even crawl on his knees. He could only crawl forward by pushing off the ground with his feet. Fortunately, I was only bitten on the arm, and my legs were not greatly affected.
After walking for a while, Song Laosan stopped at a fork in the road and shone his flashlight on a cave ahead, saying, "The inside of this cave is very flat. It must have been a waterway with a large flow of water back then. There might be a large space below. Stay close to me!"
The symptoms of blood loss made my vision blur and I also experienced tinnitus. Hearing what Song Laosan said, I shook my head and said, "No problem, let's go!"
"Squeak!"
Just as we were about to crawl, the cries of a Gu creature suddenly came from the cat ear cave next to us.
Hearing that deathly sound, I switched on my flashlight and shone it in that direction.
Inside a cave to the side, a red, monstrous creature was baring its teeth and roaring at me.
Seeing that there was only one left, I felt a little relieved, as it was the one that had just slipped through our fingers.
Before I could tell Song Laosan that we could continue, a large group of Gu creatures suddenly surged out of a passage next to the Gu creature, rushing towards us like dirty water from a sewage pipe.
"Hold!"
Upon seeing this, Nie Guangzhi trembled and cursed, then tore open his outer garment, took off his bulletproof vest, and used it to block the entrance to the hole. He then used his body to push against it, shouting, "I'll block these things, you guys get out of here!"
Seeing Nie Guangzhi's actions, my pupils contracted: "If you stay, you'll have no way to survive!"
"It's better for one person to die than for everyone to die together! You saved my life, I'll give you mine in return, that's fair!"
As Nie Guangzhi spoke, the impact of the Gu creatures inside caused his body to sway. He held on tightly to his bulletproof vest and shouted at us, "Don't stand there, move!"
"Xiao Duan, let's go!"
Song Laosan made a quick decision and was the first to crawl into the passage ahead.
I looked at Nie Guangzhi, who was guarding the cave, and my lips moved as if I wanted to say something to him, but in the end I didn't say a word and followed him into the cave.
The cave that Song Laosan chose had an incline of at least seventy degrees, and the cave walls were smooth with nothing to hold onto.
Because of my arm injury, I couldn't exert any strength to support myself on both sides. Fortunately, Song Laosan blocked the way in front of me and used his body to support me, slowly moving me downwards.
I could feel that Song Laosan was struggling to support me, and could only try his best to spread his legs apart to reduce the pressure on him.
To prevent himself from sliding down the pipe, Song Laosan's palms had already been rubbed raw against the cave wall, leaving bloody marks: "Damn it, the previous cat-ear caves were only a few dozen meters long, but this cave feels like it has no end?"
"You said it yourself, this could very well be a former waterway, perhaps even leading directly underground!"
The adrenaline injection I received was almost worn off, and my arm was in excruciating pain: "I can't hold on much longer. We can't go on like this, or if my body goes out of control, my weight will completely fall on you, and you won't be able to hold on!"
“We can’t stop here at all, and we don’t have the tools. The problem now is not whether we can move or not, but that we can’t stop.”
Song Laosan continued his slow descent: "We have no way out, no solution, we can only try our best to hold on! Don't worry about anything, just trust me!"
believe!
Hearing Song Laosan utter this word, a complex emotion suddenly arose in my heart.
There was a time when I trusted this man completely, and was even willing to tell him all my secrets.
It was precisely because of his betrayal that our team almost fell apart.
So when he said those words, I was momentarily stunned.
The length of this sloping tunnel exceeded our expectations, but it was still much shorter than I had imagined.
I originally thought that the outcome for me and Song Laosan would be that we couldn't hold on any longer, fell down the cave, and died inside.
Unexpectedly, after climbing for five or six minutes, Song Laosan, who was ahead, suddenly beamed with joy: "My flashlight shone on the mountainside, and there's a turning point. It's going uphill!"
When I heard Song Laosan's words, my spirits immediately lifted.
The passageway has turned a corner, and regardless of whether it's a viable path or not, it allows us to stop and rest for a while.
Exhausted, Song Laosan saw this and his potential surged. He moved forward a short distance and said, "The passage ahead is sloping upwards. You steady yourself, and I'll adjust my posture to go up and take a look."
"good!"
When I heard Song Laosan say that, I pressed my hands and feet against the mountain wall.
Song Laosan climbed along the cave to the corner ahead and quickly climbed up. Less than ten seconds later, his voice came back: "Xiao Duan, we've found the exit, climb out!"
I heard Song Laosan's shout and originally thought I would slowly move down, but I overestimated my strength. My hand slipped and I slid down the cave.
In that critical moment, I knew I couldn't stop, so I bent my arms to protect my head.
"Bang!"
A few seconds later, my arm hit the mountain wall at the corner, but fortunately I hadn't slid far and the impact wasn't too great.
Looking up, we could see that the passageway in front of us wasn't going uphill; it just sloped upwards at a very slight angle.
The passage leading up was only a little over a meter long. Song Laosan, who was lying on the cave entrance, saw me fall down from above and shone his flashlight inside: "Lower your waist, let your shoulders enter the cave first, and then slowly stand up!"
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