Confessions of a Salesman

Chapter 1557

I hurriedly refused: "I can only help you as much as I can! I will do my best!"

Nangong kissed me heavily on the face and said, "Thank you!"

I don't know why I said stupidly: "I... am the one who has a wife!"

Nangong's smile froze for a moment, and then he laughed again immediately: "You don't think I want to marry you, do you? You think beautifully, it's okay to be your lover! Don't worry, I won't pester you of!"

I felt that my words were a bit hurtful, so I hurriedly said: "I know you didn't mean that, I just..."

Nangong waved his hand and said: "No need to explain, I understand! Let's go, if you don't go, the next wave of people will come again!"

Climbing down from the cliff is also very difficult. Here is almost a 90° vertical slope. I can’t see how high the mountain is. It’s all surrounded by clouds and mist. We studied it and decided to use two climbing ropes to go down. A safety rope.

Laozai is the lightest in weight and the best at rock climbing, so he went down first to check the situation. He threw the 50-meter rope down, but he didn't know if it reached the ground. The two ropes were tied to a strong tree. Finally, Lao Zai got down, and after a long time, Lao Zai didn't respond, and he turned on the walkie-talkie to contact Lao Zai, but there was only a rustling sound coming from the inside, and he couldn't hear anything clearly.

When we were all at a loss, the rope seemed to move. We didn't know whether it was the wind blowing or the fish below. Xiao Hei decided to go down to have a look. After a long time, the rope shook again. The first time we confirmed that it was the people below who were shaking the rope, Yaoyang chose the third one to go down.

Shiyou asked Nangong and me to go down first, and he and Guan Ze were the last to go. At the same time, we had to consider whether the safety rope should be released after the last one went down. I don’t know what’s going on underneath. Come up, but if it is possible, the rope should not be left on it. If someone comes after us, they will know that we have gone down from here, and they will leave the rope.

When we were struggling, the rope shook again. This time I asked Nangong to go down first, and the three of us discussed how to deal with the rope.

In the end, our three opinions were not unified. In the past, most of them would have listened to me, but this time, the two of them were surprisingly unanimous. They both believed that the rope should not be left, since the bottom is shaking all the time. The rope means that it is safe below, otherwise, they will not shake the rope, let us all go down!
I thought about it a lot, what if they wanted a rope for not going down again?But we would make a mistake, and climb down one by one, and untie the rope. Isn't that not leaving any retreat for ourselves?

But both of them refused to listen, they said let me go down first, the two of us will take care of it, they think I worry too much!
The rope was shaken twice, and they felt sure that it was urging us down.

I still insisted on my opinion, and when I couldn't get any better, I thought of a stupid way, that is, after Guan Ze climbed down, the two of us would not go down first, and if physical strength allowed, let one person climb up to inform us. The situation, let's go down again and decide whether to untie the rope. If no one comes up and just shakes the rope, it means that the rope cannot be untied, and we have to wait for them to come up!

After the decision was made, Guan Ze climbed down, the rope was still shaking, and Shiyou was also a little puzzled: "What does this mean? Then tell us that we can't untie the rope? Then why didn't they come up? Come up and let us know Wouldn't it be okay if you said no?"

I was also very puzzled, wondering if I should go down and have a look?

But I thought about it again, and I still felt something was wrong, so I said to Shiyou: "What do you think of the two of us pulling the rope now?"

Shiyou looked at me curiously and asked, "What did you say? Pull the rope up? Why?"

I thought for a while and said, "I have a hunch that something is wrong! It stands to reason that if it is safe below, Guan Ze should follow my instructions and climb up. If he can't climb up, it means there is danger below! Although it is said to be 50 meters the rope, but it shouldn’t be a big problem for Laozi! Climbing up, although it’s superfluous, but it can also make us feel at ease? It’s just something wrong, listen to me, pull up, finally pull up and then put it down. , just spend a little effort, and there is nothing to lose, don’t you think so?”

Seeing that I was in such a hurry, Shiyou knew the seriousness of the matter, and hurriedly started to pull the rope together with me. The rope was heavy and difficult to pull, but I could feel Shiyou behind me, as if he had endless strength , even I feel that he is pulling the rope alone.

Finally, there was a person hanging from the rope and was pulled up by the two of us. Guan Ze gasped and said, "Put down the rope quickly, let's pull another one up!"

I asked suspiciously: "What's wrong? What's going on next?"

Guan Ze didn't answer my question, he threw the rope down again, shook it, and started to pull up together, explaining as he pulled up: "I went down, and they all stood on a small stone platform, holding hands together. Crawling on the rocks, I can't stand upright, I just hang on the rope like this, I want to climb up, and you climb down again, dare not go up, don't dare to go down!"

I asked anxiously, "How long can they last?"

Guan Ze replied: "It won't last long, Xiao Hei is almost hanging in the air!"

While talking, Nangong was pulled up, panting heavily, with a dignified expression, said nothing, let the rope down again, pulled Yaoyang and Xiaohe up again, and then sat on the ground to rest together.

I looked at them puzzled and said, "Where is Laozi, isn't there still someone?"

Everyone is still.

Finally, Xiao Hei said, "Lao Zai jumped down by himself!"

I groaned and looked at them in surprise.

Xiao Hei explained: "The stone platform is too small to hold so many people. When Nan Gong came down, he couldn't stand up anymore, so Lao Zai volunteered to jump down."

I asked anxiously: "Did you jump down? Then go down and look for it? How high is there?"

Xiao Hei shook his head and said: "The bottom is full of fog, we can't see anything, otherwise, we climbed halfway and then climbed back, we all went down, and then we realized that it was not flat ground, and we didn't reach the ground at all. Hanging in the air, no one thought that the bottom is so high? The 50-meter rope can’t even touch the ground! You too, you have come down one by one, haven’t you already shaken the rope? Why are you still climbing down? ?”

I sighed and said, "How do we know that shaking the rope won't let us come down? We thought we could go down!"

Shiyou sighed: "Fortunately, Ah Fei thought of pulling the rope in time, otherwise, I would still be climbing down! This is too dangerous!"

Nangong stood on the edge of the cliff, looking down, I felt that she had the urge to jump off the next moment!

I hurried over and pulled her to persuade her, "Don't be in a hurry, Lao Zai may not be safe, let's find a way to rescue him!"

Nangong hummed and said: "In life, you must see people, and in death, you must see corpses!"

But seeing the abyss, everyone is at a loss what to do, don't know what to do?

When everyone looked at me, I saw the safety rope, and said decisively: "Tie the safety rope and the climbing rope together, and go down, I don't believe it, such a long rope can't reach the ground!"

Yaoyang hesitated and said, "Is the safety rope not too strong?"

I shook my head and said, "No, the safety rope is already safe! Listen to me, fasten it, I'll climb down and have a look!"

Nangong hurriedly objected: "How do you climb? You were injured not long ago, and Laozi is mine, so I just climb down!"

I corrected: "When is it? We still share between you and me!"

Xiao Hei asked seriously: "If you climb down, even if you find Lao Zai, can you still climb up? If he is hanging in the air, are you capable of saving him? Stop talking nonsense, waste time, there is time for discussion , let’s all go down now! Stop arguing, I’ll go down and have a look, no matter what happens, I will climb up! You go down, and if you can’t get up again, should we climb down, or wait for you on the top? It's decided!"

When Xiao Hei was about to go down, I stopped him and said, "Don't worry, I won't fight with you. I know I don't have the physical strength. I calculated the time. It takes about half an hour for you to climb 50 meters. If you After climbing to the bottom, I count you an hour and a half. When you reach the ground, don’t rush to climb up. Wait for an hour and then climb up. We, after 2 hours, start to climb down. So, since you When you start climbing, you won’t climb too high, and you won’t fall too high if the rope breaks due to the weight of two people!”

Xiao Hei didn't understand at first, so he nodded, but immediately reacted and said: "Then if two people are on the rope, if it breaks, won't the one on top fall off? I can't climb very high. , but he is in mid-air!"

I fooled him and said: "You don't have to worry about this, if you climb fast, you should all go down to the ground!"

Xiao Hei nodded with a vague understanding, and then went down the rope.

I didn't give too much advice, because everyone knows that if Xiao Hei can't do it, no one here can do it.

In fact, what I am most worried about is not the climbing rope at the top, but the safety rope connected at the bottom. I am afraid that Xiao Hei’s weight will suddenly break. Unless he can fly, he has no chance of surviving!
An hour passed, and everyone was suffering. Two hours later, I said decisively: "If the rope is long enough, Xiao Hei has been on the ground for half an hour, and in another 30 minutes, he will start to climb. Let's go down, and try to climb to the connection between the safety rope and the climbing rope within half an hour!"

Guan Ze volunteered to go down, but I didn't stop him, but it was Shiyou who suddenly said, "There seems to be something moving down the mountain!"

We hurried down the mountain, and sure enough, we saw dots and stars, similar to what we saw before, and at the same time we heard the barking of dogs.

I hurriedly said: "Guan Ze, you can't go down. You need people with combat effectiveness, people who can stop them, and those who can deal with those beasts. The most important thing is that you can escape! Shiyou, Guan Ze, you go last. I will go down first, because I know how to control the time. After half an hour, Nangong will leave, and then Yaoyang! This all depends on the tacit understanding and luck between us! No matter what happens next, you all have to go down. You don't necessarily die down there, if you stay up there, you have to fight desperately with the people who came up, if they fall into their hands, it will be worse than jumping off a cliff!"

Then he said to Shiyou and Guan Ze again: "Don't blame me for being selfish, this is the best choice!"

Guan Ze smiled and said: "Stop rambling, the people here are all saving my life, you go after I die!"

I shook my head and said, "I don't want you to die! You want to live!"

Guan Ze hummed and said, "Don't worry, they are not my opponents!"

Shiyou also comforted: "There is me, go down quickly! I don't think they came up so fast! They didn't dare to come up so fast, so many people died, they will definitely be careful! "

I stopped talking nonsense with them, and hugged each of them, like the best goodbye, and started to climb down the rope. When I climbed to the joint of the rope, there was a small stone platform somewhere. It was enough for two people to stand. I looked at my watch and it took 20 minutes, which was earlier than the expected time. The safety rope is much thinner than the climbing rope, and I hesitated for a while, whether it can hold my weight of 140 kilograms or not. I tried it, and it seemed to be ok, so I continued to climb down.

The rope was too thin, and it shook violently. At the same time, my palms were in pain. I began to feel that I couldn’t grasp it stably. I tried to slide down with my legs wrapped around the rope. It was no longer climbing, but sliding down. Finally, I saw the ground , but did not see Xiao Hei.

Xiao Hei should stay here, wait for the time, and climb up?But why is there no one!
The moment the foot stepped on the ground, it was like floating in the air for hundreds of years, like drifting on the sea for decades, and finally saw the land, and my heart was extremely at ease.

Looking carefully around, there are jungles everywhere, densely packed with trees, this place must be a place where no one has been.

I yelled a few times, but no one paid any attention to me. I looked at my watch, and I knew that Nangong should be halfway up the rope. Taking advantage of her climbing down, I went to look for Xiao Hei.

After carefully observing the footprints on the ground, I followed the footprints until I found a tree, and the footprints disappeared.

I walked around the big tree and confirmed that the footprints disappeared here. Then I went to look at the big tree and found the fallen bark, which indicated that Xiao Hei should have climbed up from this big tree. I yelled a few times and still no one answered. I guess, Xiao Hei found something and climbed up the tree, and he should climb quite high!
(End of this chapter)