I don’t know, let’s take a walk, stay away from this place first, and watch your step.” Sister Hong walked forward after finishing speaking.
Strangely enough, there wasn't a lot of water on the ground. I don't know why the road was so muddy.
"Help, help me, I have no strength," Researcher An couldn't pull his legs out after just a few steps.
"Hold my hand."
I exerted all my strength and pulled her away from where she was.
"Just follow me, watch my footprints, and don't step on other places."
"Well, I understand."
The road conditions became increasingly difficult, and I discovered that the mud that had only sunk into my ankles just now, after just a few minutes of walking, had now sunk into my calves.
I'm really afraid of what will come. I was worried just now. I was afraid of encountering this situation. There is no way now. If we stay where we are, those people will definitely come after us. We can only bite the bullet and move forward, thinking of getting out as soon as possible.
This muddy swamp area.
Suddenly! Sister Hong’s exclamation came from the front!
"Yunfeng!" she yelled desperately.
I saw Sister Hong stepped on the wrong place, and her whole body was sinking rapidly!
"Quick! Help!"
I was shocked when I saw this, and hurriedly asked Researcher An to go over with me and win over Sister Hong.
Otherwise, people lose their sense when they are in a hurry. It would be better if I didn't come over. I rushed over in two hurried steps. Not only could I not save Sister Hong, but I also fell into it myself.
The three of us held hands and were sinking together, and soon the mud was up to our thighs.
Sister Hong was so nervous that she was sweating profusely. She shouted loudly: "Don't move! Don't struggle!"
However, this only temporarily slowed down the sinking speed. Visible to the naked eye, our bodies were still sinking little by little.
< br> "Quick! Find a way!" Researcher An cried in fright.
Don't panic, don't panic. As the only male among the three, I forced myself to stay calm, because I knew very well that once we messed up, there would be only a dead end. I was sweating profusely and looked around nervously.
, I'm thinking of countermeasures.
I tried to lie back, and at the same time I relaxed my thighs and stopped struggling. I tried my best to adjust myself so that my center of gravity changed from sinking downward to lying back.
Soon I found that this trick was effective and my lower body no longer sank any further.
I yelled at her: "Tuck your toes! Lie back!"
Sister Hong and Researcher An immediately learned my method and began to try to shift their focus.
The advantage of doing this is that it increases the stress area between the body and the mud swamp, but there is no way to escape. We can only half-float like this. At this time, it would be great if there were tree roots, driftwood or something beside us.
We can grab this kind of thing to get out of trouble.
Unfortunately, it didn't. Then, the stalemate lasted for nearly two hours. None of us dared to move. If we dared to move, we would sink. We were exhausted from maintaining this position.
Sister Hong said weakly and dejectedly: "Yunfeng, there is nothing we can do. It seems we will all die here."
"No, no, no, there must be a way, we must still have a way," I tried my best to persuade Sister Hong not to give up.
"I. I have no strength, I can't hold on anymore," Researcher An's face turned pale. As soon as she finished speaking, her body began to sink at a speed visible to the naked eye.
I was extremely anxious, but I couldn't move. I yelled with red eyes, but I could only look at Researcher An.
Point by point sinking.
At this critical moment.
"Click" a piece of rotten wood was thrown in front of us.
I looked towards the shore and saw a thin figure standing not far from us. I didn’t know whether it was a man or a woman. He looked a bit like a child. This man wore a woven turf hat on his head.
Wearing tattered clothes, he looked at us running in circles. This rotten piece of wood was thrown over by him.
Survival was crucial, and I didn't have time to think too much. I grabbed the piece of wood and lay on it with my upper body. Sister Hong, like me, immediately hugged the piece of wood.
"Hand! Quick! Give me your hand!" Researcher An's body had already sunk more than half of her body. At this moment, she saw a glimmer of hope with her own eyes, and she burst out with a strong desire to survive.
Researcher An shouted and took out her hands. Sister Hong and I saw the opportunity and grabbed her wrists one from the left and the other from the right.
"rise!"
"Sister Hong, work hard!" I used all my strength to suck milk.
Fortunately, Researcher An was thin and light. Sister Hong and I used driftwood for support and tried our best to pull her up.
This pulling caused severe pain in my left arm. Regarding the previous injury to my left arm, I always thought it was a fracture. Later, after a few days, the injury improved and the pain was not so bad. I thought it was a misjudgment before. It was possible.
It's a torn ligament or a broken bone or something.
Not far away, the little man wearing a bark straw hat saw that we were saved, and immediately waved his hands and jumped up and down to gesture at us.
Sister Hong was sweating profusely and gasping for breath: "Hold on to the wood, the three of us will work together! I will start to push harder when I count to three!"
"one two three!"
"Go! Move forward!"
Hard work pays off My dear, relying on the support of this piece of wood, the three of us finally climbed up to the safe area. It was this piece of wood that saved us, or in other words, it was the person who just saved us.
Exhausted, I bent over, put my hands on my knees, gasped for air, and looked up over there.
"Where's the person?" I took a look and realized that the person wearing the straw hat was gone. Now the place was empty and there was no human figure, leaving only a series of footprints on the ground.
Our lower bodies were covered in mud. I walked over and looked at the footprints left on the ground. I frowned and realized something was wrong.
The footprints left on the mud looked like they were not wearing shoes, but that's what was wrong. Most people have five toes, but the footprints left behind by this pair of feet were clearly four toes, which was very clear.
Thinking that the person just now was as thin as a child, Sister Hong and I looked at each other and our expressions changed drastically!
Sister Hong and I blurted it out almost at the same time.
"Mandrill!"
These footprints, and that height, who is that person here! Some kid with a straw hat! He is clearly the mandrill we have seen before!
I looked at Sister Hong and said with an incredible expression: "Hong. Sister Hong, is that thing saving us? How is it possible?"
Sister Hong looked at the row of footprints extending into the distance and said in a deep voice: "Yunfeng, have you noticed that the thing just now was wearing a straw hat made of bark, and it was also wearing rags picked up from somewhere.
The whole body is in tatters, and if it is really a mandrill, it should not be from the same ethnic group as the previous group of mandrills wearing black hats."
This row of footprints extended into the darkness ahead. Sister Hong pointed to the ground and said, "Since this thing saved us, at least it means it is not hostile to us."
"Then let's follow this line of footprints and take a look."