The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 58 Stranded
Water, all water.

Breathing became extremely difficult, and I was in the dark, being washed forward by the current, not knowing where I was going to be washed, let alone how long I could last, how long I could live.Apart from the instinctive struggle, I clearly realized that my life was at the end of my life.

In this case, not to mention Zhou Xuanye and others, even a professional rescue team would be helpless.

I can't think too much at the moment, the discomfort of my body and the fear of my mind have shattered everything. In this tumbling water, from time to time, my body will hit the surrounding stone walls.Every time I bump into it, besides the pain, it is a kind of hope.

Human survival instinct is very strong, I always try to grab something to stabilize my figure, but every time I stretch out my hand, I can always touch the smooth, edgeless stone wall.During this flushing, my body gradually became stiff and my muscles gradually weakened.

Maybe the next moment, when I can no longer struggle and come out of the water to exchange breath, will be the time of death.

At the last moment of consciousness, I was violently pushed out by the fierce water flow, bumped into a piece of cold and hard object, and my brain was also slammed into it.Although I couldn't see it, I figured that what I should have bumped into was a rock.This time the impact was the most powerful one, because the stone protruded a little, and it knocked me out directly.

I took the same path as Tan Ren and passed out.

It is obvious what happens to a man who falls unconscious in the river.

So, for a long time, I was in a state of 'death', without consciousness, without feeling, and the whole world disappeared, so when I opened my eyes again, I felt that it had been a long time, and my brain was swollen and painful Overwhelming, for a long time, I can't think of anything?
It was pitch black, and I felt like a hard, wet slate beneath me.

There was no light around.

Only the sound of huge running water.

who am I?
Why am I here?
After thinking for a long time in the dark, the memory slowly returned to the painful brain. I thought, I must have suffered a concussion.But then, I was excited and nervous, excited that I didn't die, but nervous because I didn't know the surrounding environment, and I didn't know how to escape.

I think that I should have been brought to this place by groundwater after I was unconscious. This is probably a stranding zone. Fortunately, there is such a place to stay.

There is actually water in this foothold, but the water is very shallow. I sat on the ground with my legs crossed, and the water just barely reached my thighs.

I tried to stand up, but my frozen body and overworked muscles were sore for a while. Halfway up, I fell down again and sat on my buttocks in the water.

"Damn it." I couldn't help cursing in a low voice, and then suddenly thought of something.I will be brought to this stranding zone by the current, so will Tan Ren be brought here too?This probability is actually very small, but there is still hope in a small hope, right?As soon as this thought came up, my heart jumped.

I have to confirm the surrounding environment, maybe Tan Ren is near me?

At this moment, it's so dark that I can't see my fingers. I need a light source.

By the way, a lighter!

Yes, I have a lighter with me.

That more than 1000 windproof lighter is still in my pocket. This thing is metal-sealed on the outside, absolutely waterproof, and should still work.I quickly went to touch my pocket. The pocket was zippered, and the various small things contained in it were not lost in the impact of the water.

I found the life-saving lighter.

This lighter has helped me many times, once in the ghost city and once now.When a person is in a civilized society, he will never realize the meaning brought by a small cluster of flames.At this moment, this flame is a life-saving fire.

I decided that as long as I could get out alive, I must buy a good lighter instead of using plastic ones.Some things can be saved, and some things must not be saved!No matter how poor you are, you have to buy it.

With the crackling of the flint and steel, the straight flame lit up.The faint firelight dispelled the endless darkness, creating a small part of slightly warm space.I subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and found that there was a white mist emitting from my mouth. It seemed that the temperature in this place was really low.

The place I saw was almost the same as I guessed. This is a protruding platform by the river, about four or five meters wide, and the edges are smoothed by water, if it is not because there are no sharp stones here , I'm afraid I'm already dead.

The platform is low on the outside and high on the inside, and the part near the edge has penetrated into the water, and at this moment, I am stranded on the edge very dangerously.If I turned over or moved around during the coma, it would be easy to return to the river again.

so close.

I secretly squeezed a cold sweat, I didn't care about other things, I shrank in first.No matter what, it's important to get to a safe place first.

After leaning in, I finally didn't have to soak my legs and feet in the water. I started to raise the lighter and looked for Tan Ren's figure.

The lighting range of the lighter is not large, and although the platform is not wide, it is very long. It extends all the way down along the stone wall, and the groundwater has become very turbulent, with splashes, and everything around it is cold and humid.

My muscles are very stiff, and it is difficult to move. In order to relieve this stiffness, I put a lighter beside me, quickly rubbed my muscles, and took off my clothes to wring out the excess water, although it was nothing too big However, there is still a difference between wet clothes and wet clothes with low water.

I didn't dare to waste too much time, so all this was done at the fastest speed while trembling.After finishing all this, Wei immediately took the lighter and began to walk down the platform by relying on the innermost position.

Right now, all I'm looking for is a miracle.

I hope Tan Ren will be as lucky as me.

However, just seven or eight steps down, something appeared in his sight.

But that was not a person, but the half body of a giant python.

Although I haven't seen it, I guess it is the black python that snatched away Qiuhuangxi before.At this moment, the lower body of the black python disappeared without a trace, and the skin and flesh at the fractured part were pale and swollen, halfway up in the water.The remaining half was stranded on the platform, and many sharp wounds could be seen on the black body, which seemed to be cut by something like a sword.

Obviously, those injuries should be Zhou Xuanye's masterpiece.When I saw the dead body of this giant python, I couldn't help but feel refreshed. Since it and I were able to run aground here at the same time, why couldn't Tan Ren?
After this brief observation, I found that the shape of this platform is a typical stranding zone. It protrudes out of the stone wall with a width of four or five meters, one side is higher and the other is lower. The most important thing is that when the underground river comes here, it happens to be a bend. In this way, large objects washed down from the upstream will be directly brought to the platform by the current.

As long as Tan Ren was not eaten by those strange fish, then he was likely to be stranded in this place by the current.

Thinking of this, my spirits were lifted, I didn't look at the black python, and held the lighter all the way down, calling Tan Ren's name while walking.

The further the platform goes, the wider it becomes, but in the underground waterway, uninvited guests like us rarely appear, so there is nothing stranded on the platform.If this kind of terrain is on the ground, there will definitely be a lot of garbage stranded in this area.

All the way down, the platform was clean, the longer and more carefully I checked, the more my heart sank to the bottom.

Soon, I came to the turning of the platform. When I got here, the width of the platform had reached more than ten meters, and the underground river channel that was originally on my left, after turning here, the route came in front of me, so I stood at the original You can see the underground river rushing forward.

A large amount of water and narrow water outlets have formed a huge drop in this water area. When the groundwater flows here, it is like boiling water that exploded. Vision blurred.

I walked to the end of the platform, but I didn't find Tan Ren in the end.

For a while, my brain was completely empty, and then I found a dry place to sit down, staring at the lighter, completely unable to think of what to do.Tan Ren's luck is not as good as mine. Since he didn't get stranded here, there are only two results for him: one is to drown, and the other is to be gnawed by that strange fish.

he died.

I am still alive.

I gave a wry smile, and finally couldn't help but slap myself hard: Su Tiangu, you are so fucking useless, Zhou Xuanye can protect Tan Ren and stay in the water for most of the night, and you can't even stand it for an hour Can't live!
As soon as the applause fell, I suddenly heard a voice from behind: "Why are you beating yourself?" This voice...it was Tan Ren!I was startled, and turned my head suddenly to look, and found a black figure in the dark near the stone wall.

Although he couldn't see his face clearly, but listening to the voice, who the fuck was it if it wasn't Tan Ren!Didn't you know that you didn't die and jumped out earlier?
I took a deep breath, suppressed the ecstasy in my heart and the urge to greet Tan Ren's ancestors, and said as calmly as possible: "Boss, don't be so elusive, I thought you were dead!" Damn, what? Suddenly it ran behind me. I walked past that place just now, but I didn't see anyone?
(End of this chapter)