But, what to do next?
Continuing to go down, who knows how deep this hole is, and the sea water has begun to pour in continuously, and it will be a matter of time before the entrance of the hole is submerged.
If she was going out, she remembered that there was an open space outside when she came up yesterday. The water was not deep enough now, and she might still be able to find a way up in the water. If you're lucky, you might be able to find one or two tree trunks to make a boat, and just drift with the current to the ends of the earth...
She quickly rejected her idea, saying it was inappropriate, inappropriate. If you are alone, you can go wherever you want, but there is still a person here who cannot touch the sea water. If you go out rashly like this, you will miss the mark and hang up directly.
Alas, no matter which choice you make, it will lead to a dead end. Tan Jiajia complained silently in her heart.
"Weird things happen every year, especially this year. I never thought that a big boss like you, Mr. Zeng, would be buried with a little guy like me. What an honor!"
Now that she knew that death would not be avoided no matter what she did, Tan Jiajia felt calm instantly. She carried the unconscious Zeng Qi inside while joking optimistically.
"Oh...oh...up..."
Unexpectedly, Zeng Qi suddenly spoke at this time. However, due to the edema in his throat caused by inhaling seawater, he had difficulty breathing and could only spit out one or two words intermittently.
"What? What?" Tan Jiajia naturally didn't understand.
"Ladder...ladder...oh...left..."
"Go up the stairs? Are there stairs on the left?"
Now Tan Jiajia understood what the other party said instantly. She stretched out her hand and touched the cave wall on the left hand side. It still felt like a whole piece of randomly stacked gravel, without the obvious undulations of stairs.
"Oh...fire..."
This time Tan Jiajia quickly understood why she was so stupid. Zeng Qi had a lighting tool there.
She reached directly into the other person's trouser pocket to find the lighter from before, and lit it.
Although the light range of the lighter was small, she could clearly see the staircase Zeng Qi mentioned. Just behind the two people, a hole about three meters high and one meter wide was dug out of the cave wall, and several steps were revealed in the cave.
Now that she knew the general direction, Tan Jiajia stopped using the lighter. After all, she didn't know what she would encounter later. It was better to save a little bit, and a lighter that kept burning like this was also very hot to touch.
While holding Zeng Qi in that direction, she said to herself: "Zeng Qi, are you okay?"
"I'm going to die... oh..." Zeng Qi struggled to speak, but before he could finish the sentence, he was breathing heavily again.
Tan Jiajia had no choice but to interrupt him: "Okay, okay, stop talking and save your energy to climb the ladder."
The two of them kept climbing up the stairs in silence. To be precise, it was Tan Jiajia who dragged Zeng Qi, who was barely breathing, up the stairs. From time to time, she took out a lighter and lit it. Look at the road ahead.
Behind them, the sea water slowly rose.
As Tan Jiajia climbed up this plank road, she felt more and more tired. Fortunately, this road is considered safe, and there is nothing else under our feet except the stairs.
She didn't know how long she had been climbing. It was so long that Tan Jiajia felt that her legs were no longer her own. Finally I saw a small bright light ahead.
Tan Jiajia, who stopped to catch her breath, saw this, gritted her teeth, and kept walking up there for a while. The journey finally came to an end - there was also a cave entrance.
Without hesitation, she immediately walked out, only to realize that the plank road originally built in the cave actually led to the top of the island.
But the scene before her eyes gave her the urge to scold her.
The two of them successfully climbed out of the cave, but now the seawater has flooded the entire island, leaving only this small area that can still stand. After the two people came out, their figures were instantly shrouded in the thick fog.
"You're just kidding me. What's the point of climbing up so hard like this? It's better to just stay in the cave and drown." Tan Jiajia roared to the sky.
At this time, she was so excited that she let go of her arms, and Zeng Qi, who was leaning on her, fell straight down, splashing with water.
"Oops! Sorry, sorry, my hand slipped. Mr. Zeng, are you okay?"
Tan Jiajia hurriedly knelt down and helped the other person up with an apology, but Zeng Qi did not condemn her behavior, but closed his eyes and said nothing.
Her heart suddenly thumped, and a bad premonition flashed through her mind. Just halfway up the ladder, the other party's rapid breathing seemed to have stopped.
No, Tan Jiajia quickly dismissed that thought, and then poked the other person's face with a smile: "Get up, stop playing, you will be drowned later..."
Zeng Qi's excessively swollen face left a deep mark when she poked it, and it never recovered for a long time.
"I'll be angry if I don't get up again..."
"…………"
"Get up, I'm really angry."
"…………"
"If you wake up now, I will promise you."
"…………"
No matter what she said, the purple-faced Zeng Qi remained silent.
perhaps……
it is true……
Die.
Tan Jiajia was silent. She stretched out her hand tremblingly to test the other person's breathing. The moment she was about to touch him, she took her hand back. He then sat down, hugged the other person into his arms, and lowered his head.
Feeling that the body of the person in her arms was slowly getting colder, Tan Jiajia went from being forbearing at first to sobbing slowly, and finally she cried loudly without caring.
He looked like a child who had lost an important toy.
The girl's mournful cries echoed across this isolated island, but they still failed to move the ocean. The surrounding seawater slowly swallowed up the remaining land.
Soon, the sea water had spread to Tan Jiajia's waist. But having vented her grief, she just hugged Zeng Qi tightly and made no other moves.
Just die like this? fair enough……
The sea water has slowly risen to her neck...
It is said that people recall important events in their lives before they die.
But……
Are the memories I have really been my real experiences?
The me in that memory...is it me? Or another mirror version of me?
The sea water flooded her nose...
Maybe, this is a dream. After I sink completely to the bottom of the sea, I will find myself suddenly waking up in bed.
Back to... before that day, before he separated from her, and he was still the aloof Mr. Zeng.
Goodbye, this false, boring world.
A wave rolled over, and Tan Jiajia and Zeng Qi completely sank into the ocean...
