"There is no point in living for the sake of living."
Lu Li flipped the grilled fish on the fire to the other side.
"I like this about you." Friday threw a fourth fish at random, shook the water on his hands and returned to the fire. "You always say something philosophical."
"Did it move you?"
Lu Li put the three grilled fish aside, then picked up the last fish he caught and opened it up.
"No." Friday put his hands against the fire to keep warm. "Look around you. Where can you leave?"
The bloody fish entrails were thrown into the underground river. Lu Li took the sea fish and put it into the cold river water to wash it clean, then returned to the fire with the dripping water.
"underground river."
"Only fish and boats can swim upstream, we can't." Friday picked up three grilled fish next to him and put them on the fire.
Nothing changes the harsh reality: they are trapped in underground rock formations.
Lu Li skewered the fish, took the three grilled fish that were handed over on Friday, and put them on the fire together. River water dripped from the fish tails into the fire, making a sizzling sound.
The blue-grey fish skin gradually turns into the color of food during baking.
While grilling the fish, Lu Li observed the rushing river on the edge of the rock.
They rushed past under the rock wall, as if they were squeezed out of the smooth-edged rock. However, permeable water cannot form such a rapid flow, and they have an upstream.
Lu Li wanted to find a way to get upstream.
The tuna was grilled first, it wasn't cooked yet, but I wanted to eat it less cooked on Friday.
Holding the grilled fish, he reached into the shadow under the cloak and soon heard the sound of chewing.
The sound of ordinary humans eating.
"belch--"
Friday threw the fish bones and branches into the fire: "I'm full, and the rest is yours."
Lu Li waited silently for them to become completely cooked, then took them away from the fire to eat.
The three grilled fish made his tired body recover a lot. After eating, Lu Li began to prepare to leave the rock formation cavity.
"My suggestion is to wait a little longer." Friday seemed to read Lu Li's thoughts. "Do you want to drag your dying body and jump into the fast and cold underground river?"
She persuaded Lu Li simply.
The Book of Doomsday Apocalypse increased Lu Li's endurance, but it did not mean that the injury did not exist.
Lu Li needs to rest now.
"I'm very lucky. We won't starve to death." Friday said as if to reassure Lu Li.
This obviously solves the biggest problem of cavities in rock formations.
Feeling sleepy, Lu Li returned to his coat to rest and fall asleep.
When he woke up slowly, Lu Li saw Wu Wu with his back to the fire and a simple fishing rod made of branches in his hand, fishing beside the rapid underground river.
Spread out next to him were sea fish of similar sizes that were not sure whether they were caught or caught.
Lu Li woke up briefly and ate several pieces of grilled fish before falling asleep again.
He always felt sleepy and slept long enough, but it was difficult to tell whether he slept for six hours or twelve hours.
Time spent can only be calculated using times.
After waking up for the third time, Lu Li checked the wound and the evil spirit broadcast. It seemed that the mechanical parts inside it were damaged due to water seepage and could not work properly. At least Lu Li did not hear any more sounds from it.
The former has scabbed over.
After eating, Lu Li fell asleep.
Sleep became a large part of Lu Li's life in the underground rock formations.
When I woke up for the sixth time, I didn't fish anymore on Friday. I leaned against the rock wall and quietly read the book I caught, with the dead fish beside me.
The dried books become fluffy and wrinkled, but it does not affect the
When he woke up for the tenth time, Friday seemed to be tired of the repetitive grilled fish, and the food was changed to a young cow or a hind leg of a sheep.
When he woke up for the fifteenth time, the food was changed to sea fish again, but this time there were new kitchen utensils and a cooking pot in the hollow of the rock formation.
Lu Li said that fish and salt alone cannot make food delicious. Friday didn't believe it, but she didn't eat a bite after the fish was cooked, and she picked up some spices when Lu Li woke up for the sixteenth time.
When she woke up for the twentieth time, the scab on the wound had fallen off. Her questioning gaze fell on Friday, and she motioned to Lu Li to untie it and take a look.
After untying the bandage around his chest, the ugly new tender flesh clung to his chest like a spider.
Lu Li stretched out his hand and touched it. There was only a hollow under the skin without the support of the sternum, like a war drum covered with skin.
Anyway, after the wound has healed, the next step is to leave yourself.
"I want to go into the water and take a look." Lu Li said to Friday, re-wrapping the bandage to protect the wound.
"I'll stay here and be responsible for fishing you out when you're about to be washed away."
After getting the answer he wanted, Lu Li began to move his body.
"We are deep underground where evil spirits cannot affect us, and we will be fine even if there is no light." Friday added.
A minute later, Lu Li took off his shoes, sat down on the bank, stretched his legs into the cold and rushing underground river, and slid down while holding on to the bank.
The underground river is shallower than expected, and the water does not reach the chest until the soles of the feet touch the bottom. But it is wider, and there is a large dark space under the rock walls on both sides.
Holes in rock formations are like isolated islands in an underground river.
Getting used to the difficulty of breathing caused by the cold, Lu Li took a deep breath, sank into the underground river, and moved upstream holding on to the narrow rock wall.
On the first try, Lu Li only walked less than five meters before being washed away by the current.
Climbing up the "isolated island", Lu Li sat by the fire to warm himself and analyzed the information he discovered: the rock wall structure sloped upward, and the slope was close to the streets of Belfast.
If the structure of the underground river does not change, and the rock layer is ten meters above the ground, Lu Li can surface before he runs out of breath. The rock layer is twenty meters above the ground, and Lu Li can surface before drowning. If the rock layer is thirty meters above the ground,
…That’s no different than being a few hundred meters above the ground.
His lung capacity and physical strength would be difficult to hold on until then.
Lu Li did not act recklessly. After waking up for the next few times, he repeatedly explored. The furthest he explored was about 10 meters away, and the most dangerous time was when he lost his way. If he hadn't glimpsed the fire on the shore in the dark, he would have
Ignorantly follow the undercurrent and miss the isolated island until I run out of breath.
Wake up on the twenty-third time.
It might be early morning on the ground, or it might be late at night.
Lu Li boiled a pot of hot broth, sprinkled it with salt and pepper, and a pinch of sugar. When the meat was almost cooked, he added carrots and broccoli, and put it into an empty can.
"I hope you can find a way to the ground today." Friday raised the can filled with broth and handed it to Lu Li like a glass.
Lu Li raised the can and touched it with Friday.
After a bowl of heart-warming broth, Lu Li sank into the underground river and went upstream along the road he had traveled more than a dozen times.
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The rushing river pulled him backwards, and the biting cold current took away his body heat.
Lu Li moved forward step by step, his steps unwavering.
A minute later, Lu Li walked more than ten meters, but from then on, the upper and lower rock walls began to shrink inward.
The underground river becomes narrower, more difficult to navigate... and more desperate.
Perhaps not far ahead, the rock wall will close into a narrow opening of only a few centimeters.
