There were occasional faint rays of light flashing in the darkness, and on the towering cliff, several figures were climbing with difficulty, holding on to the vines. Occasionally, a few small pieces of gravel were trampled down, bouncing all the way and rolling into the endless abyss below.
A young man with red hair and a headlamp climbed up from a flat stone platform on the cliff. This is already the fourth step of the stone platform. Calculating the height, it has reached seventy or eighty meters.
The red-haired young man lowered his body and pulled up a short, fat middle-aged man, and then the two of them worked together to drag a big man with someone tied to his back.
"Oh, I'm beating my lungs out! I'm so exhausted!" Boss Zhang collapsed on the ground and panted.
"Hey, aren't you pretty good at climbing? Why, are you weak?" Yan teased.
"Yanzi, what you said is true. After all, I am already old, so how can I compare with you who are so desperate?"
"Everyone, take a break. We still have the last stone platform left, and we can climb to the top of the cliff!" Uncle Long climbed up the stone platform and said. Behind him are Chen Tao and Hao Zi, and finally Shangui.
Chen Tao rubbed his head and leaned against a boulder half a man's height. As he climbed up, every step further away from the weird abyss, the stronger the thought in his mind to look back at the abyss. Even several times, He wanted to jump directly.
"That's not my consciousness. What happened to me..." Chen Tao frowned and knocked on his head. At this moment, he felt like he was going crazy.
"What's wrong, Taotao?" Uncle Long came over and squatted beside Chen Tao.
"Nothing, I have a little headache."
Uncle Long peeled off Chen Tao's eyelids with his hands and looked at Chen Tao's eyes with the flashlight. He saw that although his pupils and whites were a little bloodshot, they were gradually returning to normal. He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: "Sure enough, it's that There’s something wrong with the canyon!”
Raising his hand and patting Chen Tao on the shoulder, Uncle Long stood up and shined his flashlight on the last section of the cliff. From their position, it seemed that there was no more cliff on the stone platform in the distance. In other words, it was already the top of the cliff!
"That group of people don't know where they are now. If we encounter them as soon as we go up, it will be very detrimental to us..." Yan walked over with a cigarette butt in his mouth, "We have to find a way to go up quietly."
"There is only one way to go up. Besides climbing up, what else can we do?" said the mountain ghost.
"We definitely have to climb. I'm worried that there might be an ambush above." Yan frowned. "There was so much noise along the way. It's impossible that they didn't know there were people behind us. They just stayed put and waited for us to surrender." Snare."
"Maybe they have already entered the ancient tomb and don't have time to care about us."
Chen Tao put down the hand that was rubbing his head.
"There are only a few of us now. Brother Wang is still unconscious, and..." Shangui patted the submachine gun on his body and said, "Our equipment is not as good as theirs, and we don't have many bullets now."
"Let's do this. I'll go up to check the wind in a moment. You guys wait for my signal." Haozi stood up and said.
"No, it's too dangerous. I'll do it." Shangui pulled the bolt of the submachine gun.
"Uncle Ghost, we have few people, you should stay and take care of Uncle Long and Taozi!" Haozi looked into Shangui's eyes and made a pun. Their situation at this time is not optimistic. There are those who arrived here before them, and there is an incalculable abyss monster below. What's more, what cannot be forgotten is that among them at this moment, Not all of them are “one of our own”. It is very common for them to be prepared for everything but miss the knife in the back.
"This..." Mountain Ghost looked at Uncle Long.
"Don't worry, I'm measured. They must be suspicious of us. Even if I go up alone, I won't shoot rashly." Haozi added.
Uncle Long frowned and thought, took a deep breath and looked at Haozi and said cautiously: "Be careful, I will give you three minutes. If no signal is received within three minutes, we will go up. There is no way out now. Instead of If you die at the hands of that thing below, you might as well fight with them." A ruthless look appeared on Uncle Long's face. He is a daring person, but he has a little more reason before being impulsive.
"Yes!" Haozi nodded vigorously, looked up at the cliff, pulled up a vine and started to climb up.
"You're good young man, let's go, we should go up too!" Yan waved to everyone and climbed up.
Several people climbed up the cliff one after another. Chen Tao grabbed a vine as thick as a baby's arm and climbed in front of Shangui and Uncle Long.
"Hold it... hold it back... you can't look at it! You mustn't look back."
From the moment he climbed the last section of the cliff, the strange feeling in his mind became extremely strong. Chen Tao gritted his teeth and persisted. He didn't know if this was his hallucination or if there was something really messing up his mind. If this continued, he felt like he was going to have a split personality.
The last section was slightly steeper than the previous steps, and it was a bit laborious for everyone to climb. There were not many stone gaps for stepping on, so they basically relied on their arms for support, and they had to be distracted to find suitable vines. Some vines disappeared halfway, with their roots deeply embedded in the rock formations, and they had to look for other thin vines nearby.
The top of the cliff is not too far away, only about ten meters away. From bottom to top, each section of the stone platform seems to have been measured at fixed points, and the distance is controlled very accurately. The inclination angle of each section of the cliff seems to have a special arrangement. The ancients must have transported it from top to bottom, otherwise they would not have processed the stone wall into this shape.
As we climbed higher and higher, everyone's hearts became tighter and tighter. After all, love isn't safe up there.
At this moment, Chen Tao's fatigue has reached the extreme. His physical fitness is not as good as others, and his shoulder is injured. From just now until now, the resistance in my mind and that inexplicable consciousness has never stopped.
After a long period of mental exertion, he felt more and more inadequate. Several times when he reached out to grab the vines, his eyes even had blurry shadows.
"Why...why is everyone else fine, only me!" Chen Tao glanced at Haozi, Acheng and others above with difficulty. Among all the people present, he was the only one who was affected by the abyss. In other words, he was the only one who had been experiencing these inexplicable hallucinations along the way.
"Jiejiejiejiejiejiejie, you can't run away! Squeak!!"
When he was less than five meters away from the top of the cliff, Chen Tao suddenly remembered a ghostly and sharp scream in his mind, and it was like countless steel needles piercing his head. Chen Tao's eyes suddenly turned blood red. He could no longer bear the sudden severe pain. After all, he rolled his eyes and lost consciousness...
"Taotao!"
"Little boss!"
"Mountain Ghost, catch him quickly!"
Seeing Chen Tao suddenly let go, Uncle Long and Shangui underground were both shocked. This is the top of the cliff. If you fall from here, even if you don't fall into the abyss, if you fall on those boulders on the stone platform at a height of more than ten meters, your brains will be blown out.
Soon after, looking at Chen Tao falling, Shangui and Uncle Long took action at the same time. One grabbed Chen Tao's back collar, and the other grabbed his arm. However, the inertia of the fall still affected Uncle Long and Shangui, and the one hand holding the vine instantly slipped a lot.
"Hold on, hold on!" Uncle Long gritted his teeth and held on to Chen Tao's arm. On the other side, the mountain ghost also held on to Chen Tao and refused to let go.
"Hold on, I'll come down right away! Useless trash!" Hearing the shouts below, Yan quickly grabbed the vine and slid down. He changed hands several times and climbed under Chen Tao. He grabbed the vine with one hand and pulled it out. A climbing rope, the lock was firmly buckled on Chen Tao's belt, and the other end was hooked to his body.
Each of them has a safety belt around their waists, which has been wrapped around their waists since the big hole in the lower mine tunnel. At this time, thanks to this belt, Chen Tao was able to be stabilized.
"You can't die, I'm still useful if you keep me! I hope the one surnamed Zhang didn't buy is a fake. If this belt breaks after breaking, don't blame me!"
"Thank you!" Seeing that Chen Tao was temporarily rescued, Uncle Long thanked Yan and motioned for him to be on top while he protected them from behind.
"Humph, this is what your Chen family owes me!" Yan tilted his mouth, smiled and grabbed the vine, and looked down at Chen Tao, who was on his back, "Would any of you think of a way to wake him up?"
"No, where is Xiaohao?" Uncle Long suddenly said in shock.
According to the plan, Haozi climbed in front of everyone. Before Chen Tao fell, they were half hanging on the cracks and protrusions of the rock wall five or six meters below the cliff. However, the agreed three minutes had passed since Haozi went up, and Boss Zhang and others who stayed at the top did not receive his signal.
"What happened..."
