"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 watch Researcher An sinking little by little.
At this critical moment.
"Crack..." 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...harder!" I had to use 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 had been 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!"
The hard work paid off. 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 are the people?" I took a look and realized that the man wearing the straw hat was gone. Now the place was empty and there was no one around, 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 this pair of footprints clearly had 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."
