Seeing that others were afraid, Rougu volunteered and was the first to get off.
Several men wrapped the rope around her body, and she stood on the edge of the cliff holding a torch. The wind below blew on her face with cold air, like a thin layer of frost covering her face, making her face as tough as ice under the torch.
Rougu lowered her eyes and stared at the boundless darkness. She shivered slightly due to the cold, but she still didn't know what fear meant. On the contrary, she seemed to be more fearless, stronger and braver than ever before.
When she was about to go down, she looked back at Shen Xu.
Shen Xu showed no expression and said calmly: If you find anything wrong after going down, report it loudly.
Rou Gu clenched the torch in her hand, opened her lips, and finally said softly: Yes, Master.
Holding the rope in one hand and the torch in the other, she was slowly lowered from the edge of the cliff inch by inch.
To prevent the torch from burning the rope, she raised her arms farther away from the rope.
The mountain wind made the torch dance wildly. She raised her head when she was lowering it down. Shen Shu stood on the edge of the cliff, looking down at her, his handsome face gradually moving away.
Rou Gu withdrew her gaze and looked down.
Although they don't feel scared, the world is so big that the snow mist raised by a small cliff like theirs looks like a giant beast carrying thick smoke, but to the whole world, it is like a pebble being kicked lightly. The little dust and smoke brought up by the feet.
Such a comparison cannot but be made with respect.
As she put it down, the cliff illuminated by the torch was covered with frost and snow, and the frost and snow condensed along the ravines on the cliff, twisting and turning.
The light range was limited, so she didn't see much, but when she continued to sink to about ten feet, she saw a rope bridge close to the cliff.
Rougu's hand holding the torch was waving upwards, and the firelight drew a small circle in the darkness.
Another subordinate who had already tied the rope went down immediately, followed by Shen Xu.
The night was particularly clear, and the sky was filled with stars. On the empty mountainside across the mountain, Du Xuan's dagger cut through a piece of vegetation, and finally he saw the smoke of people.
Young Master, is there a fire there? Du Xuan pointed to the cliff in the distance and said excitedly.
It was easy to go up the mountain but difficult to go down, especially the unmelted frost and snow, which was extremely slippery and difficult to walk on. The back of his hand holding the dagger was full of small cuts from thorns.
The back of Shen Lie's hand was wrapped with gauze, which was slightly better. The hand that was also holding a dagger cut the vegetation on the other side, looked at it for a while, and said: It should be them.
They didn't wait for us and had already gone down.
Well, Shen Lie narrowed his eyes, it didn't look like him.
Do you think he is too impatient? Du Xuan said, he never seemed like this in the past.
Shen Xu's impression of Du Xuan was, at best, unhurried, and at worst, gentle and slow.
After all, in the eyes of Du Xuan and the others, Shen Xu felt like my brother would be the one to hold him up if the sky fell, and nothing would happen to him, even though it was Shen Xu himself who broke the news.
Let's go. Shen Lie said, trampling down the dead branches on the roadside and walking in front.
Du Xuan looked at him. In the darkness, Shen Lie's back was particularly tall and slender, with broad shoulders and a thin waist, and a straight back, like a spear.
The past two years were the time when the young man was growing the best. Shen Lie suddenly grew taller, even surpassing him, half a head taller than him.
Du Xuan has been with him since he was eight years old when Guo Shu brought Shen Lie from the Shen family. When he first came to the Guo family, Shen Lie was like a timid sheep. He didn't like to talk, was silent, and had no words. When he took off his clothes, his back was covered with old wounds.
Guo Shu was furious and almost broke up with the Shen family. When the wound was shown to the old man of the Shen family, the old man was so angry that he did not beat Shen Shuangcheng to death.
In short, these people who accompanied Shen Lie hated the Shen family deeply, and Du Xuan was no exception.
When I see Shen Xu, I want to vomit, and when I see Shen Xu, I want to beat him.
Now, Shen Shun can no longer control Shen Lie, so he uses such a coercive method, which is really disgraceful!
Rougu, who was the first to go down, was slowly approaching the rope bridge.
The rope bridge is close to the cliff and is extremely narrow. Only two people can walk side by side at most. The rope bridge is very long and cannot be seen from the front and back, and it is completely dark.
And after getting closer, I found that there was not only this rope bridge, but there were also many more below, hidden in the darkness.
Rougu climbed over the railing, checked the firmness, and tied the rope to the railing.
The rope bridge swayed, and as its weight fell, many snow particles fell into the abyss, and there was no movement again.
Rougu climbed the cliff, holding a torch in one hand, and walked forward slowly to explore the way.
The second person came down where Rougu had settled. The swaying rope bridge made his legs and feet tremble uncontrollably. Especially when he looked down, there seemed to be a voice in the abyss, asking him to jump down. Jump down.
Rougu's figure had already gone far away, and the torch was like a match, glowing like a bean.
A sense of empty loneliness made this subordinate shiver. He tightened the torch in his hand and followed Rou Gu's back.
Rougu walked very carefully. The wooden planks on the rope bridge were extremely unstable. Even if she stepped lightly on them, she might break them. At least nearly ten planks had already fallen.
As she walked, she checked her surroundings and found that every twenty steps or so, a large iron ring would appear on the cliff, and there were also ones going up. She patted the snow off several iron rings, but found no patterns. It is the most common iron ring, but strangely, it is not very rusty.
There was a wide platform in front of it, which seemed to have been carved directly into the mountain wall. Rougu sped up and passed by, but suddenly several pieces of wood under her feet fell down. Rougu hurriedly stopped and grabbed the railing of the rope bridge. .
The rope bridge shook even more seriously, and Rougu finally became frightened, staring at the empty rope in front of her with wide eyes.
Almost six pieces have fallen, and this piece is all empty, and now there is no guarantee that the wooden planks further ahead will not fall.
Young Master! Rougu raised her head and shouted.
The sound wasn't very loud, but it was echoed everywhere by the abyss.
What happened before? Shen Xu asked.
Rou Gu paused and looked behind her. She didn't expect Shen Xu to come down so early.
Sir, there is a flat ground in front of you that you can put your feet on. It is very spacious, but the wooden board in front of me has fallen down.
Can you step on the rope next to it? Shen Xu asked.
I, I don't know
In the past, Shen Xu said.
Rougu was stunned, it was not a try, it was a pass, it was an order.
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Rou Gu pursed her lips and turned back to look at the rope bridge.
Has it passed? Shen Shu’s voice sounded.
After a while, Rougu said: I'll go there right away.
The voice was very soft, with almost no echo.
Gathering up her courage, Rougu took a step forward and stepped on the innermost rope.
With this step, the rope swayed even more violently, swaying from side to side, and kept shaking, and below was an abyss.
