The heaviness and pain in my body have never been so deep into my bone marrow. Even the previous injury that almost caused me to go to hell, I still feel better than now. I coughed up a lot of water in my lungs. This feeling is better than the feeling of sinking to the bottom of the water.
It's even more uncomfortable when you're suffocating.
Coughing to the point where I doubt my life, coughing to the point where it seems like I will suffocate to death in the next second, coughing to the point where I have no control over whether the water will be sprayed out from my mouth or my nose, it’s so embarrassing!
Someone came over and patted my back caringly. Although this kind of help was of little use, I didn't have time to tell the other person. I was so busy coughing and coughing continuously that I didn't even have time to breathe.
It lasted like this for just over a minute, but it felt like I had been coughing for a century. My throat and lungs hurt. There were black lights flying in front of my eyes, and my head was stabbed by needles due to lack of oxygen.
pain.
His body was emptied and he lay back down directly in his original position, closing his eyes and breathing weakly.
"Sanman, open your eyes, don't give up on yourself!"
It was Lang Hongyi's voice. It sounded so close, and his hands were now hotter than mine. This feeling made me smile bitterly. It seemed that I was still alive and could feel the warmth, and Lang Hongyi was not dead either. He was still alive.
Warm!
"Don't worry, she'll be fine once she's done coughing. Tell her to take it easy. With me here, as long as someone who is still breathing can be rescued, nothing will happen to her again."
This voice was Uncle Yan. The distance when I heard the voice was not too far away from me. I calmed down the noise of my body's organs and finally opened my eyes. There was the sound of water, soil, and a lot of weeds around me.
The wind blows across my face and the air is fresh.
This feeling confirms that we are indeed outside now. We have left that damn underground palace and emerged from the deadly underground river. Above our heads is the entire sky. Although the sun has disappeared, the moon and the Milky Way are looking up.
visible.
There has never been a moment when the sky looked so lovely.
"Are we coming out?"
Because of the severe coughing before, my throat is a little hoarse, and the position of my vocal cords in my throat still hurts a little when I speak.
"We're out. Now we're on the edge of a big lake. What happens next depends on you. Once we get out of the water, I won't have any other options!"
Uncle Yan came over, holding the bamboo pennant that had been used as a crutch for Xiao Zhao in his hand, and looked at me with a smile. Lang Hongyi also pulled me up from the ground, and then he saw clearly that there was a quilt under the place where I was lying.
A man-made meadow.
They were all simple projects of pulling down the surrounding weeds and laying them together to isolate the moisture on the ground. But next to me, only Uncle Yan and Lang Hongyi were awake, and the others were still lying upright next to them.
On the other hand, the body of the victim was placed on the other side, not side by side.
"them……"
"I'm choking on water. It will gradually become the same as before. Don't worry."
Uncle Yan's explanation was concise and to the point, which dispelled my worries. I looked at the injured person on the far side and asked, "How is his condition? Can he still hold on?"
Lang Hongyi stepped forward, stood on my side, and returned some of my personal treasures to me, "Uncle Yan went down to help you fish these out, knowing that they are all things you can't stand on."
When I saw the recovered universe, the ancient dagger and those mahogany nails and mahogany hammers, I hugged them into my arms as if I were seeing a relative, "It's great, great, nothing is missing!"
These treasures are rare. If they were lost, even if they were still alive, I would be too embarrassed to go back to see Uncle Wu and Coffin Boy!
Of course, the backpack is no longer there, and the charms and bronze coins in it are lost. I am very satisfied to find these!
If the charm is gone, I can draw it again later. If the bronze coin and red thread are lost, I can go back and look for them later, and I can just make the red thread again.
Lang Hongyi sat in front of a bonfire he had raised, and pulled the firewood inside to make the fire brighter. "The student was seriously injured. He has lost too much blood now, and he fell into the water. If he doesn't seek medical treatment as soon as possible, he will probably die."
He died of wound infection. Because he was in a deep coma, he escaped the torture of choking on water, but he already had a fever. All we could do was temporarily use cold water to dissipate the heat."
I looked at the black shadows of the mountains all around, and the high cliff in the lake in front of me, and asked suspiciously, "Is the waterfall we fell down gone?"
Indeed, there is now only one cliff over a hundred feet high. If it were not for the fact that there was only one cliff standing in the water on the lake, I would not have believed that the huge water force had disappeared and it had become such a small place now.
The landform of the lake basin.
Uncle Yan also sat over. The firelight reflected his pale face and the pair of red gloves that never left his body. It was strange and quiet. "The water in the river is gone, and the waterfall is gone. We will come out probably in the morning."
At nine or ten o'clock, around four o'clock in the afternoon, the water stopped, and no one else was seen except us."
Uncle Yan was telling me that except for us who might be alive, those who turned back were probably killed and did not appear here at all. No one knows what they encountered when they were setting up their coffins and preparing to escape.
Maybe the shoe we saw before and some miscellaneous items in the backpack were the last things they had.
At this time, I had no time to feel sad and pregnant. I looked at Lang Hongyi and asked, "Is the mechanical watch on your hand still waterproof?"
"Waterproof, it's around two o'clock in the morning."
I looked at Miaomiao and the others who were still lying on the side and asked Uncle Yan, "Can they really wake up?"
"My old man, Yan, said it's okay. For so many years, I've gone into the water to fish out corpses. Whether I'm fishing dead or alive, I'll know as soon as I get started. Besides, after I get up, the old man stuffed them all with medicine. If you take it too, won't you wake up?
coming!"
Although I don’t know what kind of medicine Uncle Yan is talking about, I feel relieved with his guarantee. Uncle Yan doesn’t need to lie to comfort me on this matter.
My stomach made an unsatisfactory sound at this time. This may be because after escaping the danger, I had time to think about being hungry. Lang Hongyi glanced at me and stood up, "I'm going to see if there is anything edible around me."
Almost all our backpacks were lost before, and those compressed biscuits were probably gone. And I also knew that there was a desert island nearby. Apart from the pier, there were some supplies we rescued on the entire island, and the rest were those left behind.
There are probably no other small animals around people, except for going into the water to see if there are any water rats or iron-fin saury fish.
But I couldn't eat those things, so I could only hold Lang Hongyi back and said, "No, don't bear with me any longer. Let's get out of here at dawn. We'll have something to eat when we get to the pier or when we see other people."
"Why do you look fine? Are you so strong?" Compared with me now, Lang Hongyi doesn't look weak at all. He and I were tied together with backpack straps before, so he must have been quite choked by the water.
Among us, Uncle Yan was probably the only one who hadn't fainted, so he asked out of curiosity.
Uncle Yan looked at the two of us and laughed, "This boy is not only in good health, but also has a terrifyingly strong willpower. He only fainted after watching you being rescued. He only fainted for a while. I'm going to stuff the medicine."
I woke up when."
Hearing what Uncle Yan said, I was so impressed that I bowed to the ground and exaggeratedly cupped my hands and said, "Little girl, I would also like to thank the two righteous men for saving me. Thank you!"
Lang Hongyi gave me an eyeball directly, and Uncle Yan gave me a cut, but ignored my rare trick. I could only touch my nose and get closer to the fire to keep warm.