Book 1: Chapter 166

Book 1: Chapter 166

We rushed back, ran through the snake rain again, grabbed our backpacks, and then rushed out again. I looked back and saw that the shadow above the canopy was spread out like a black umbrella in the moonlight. As we were rushing back to a place where snakes werent raining down from the trees, Liu Sang found an open space, looked at his watch, and said to us, "We only have four hours to dig holes."

We had reached the bottom of the valley, so it was impossible to find a new direction to run back to the mountainside or climb the cliff. I couldnt help thinking that Liu Sangs mind worked fast and the safest way really was to dig a hole. We took out our shovels and started digging at a distance of three or four meters from each other, but the tree roots here were all tangled together. As soon as our shovels went down, we hit nothing but roots and couldn't dig at all. I figured that four hours wouldnt be enough to dig a hole deep enough to bury one person.

But after four hours, that black thing may fall to our level, and it would be very dangerous for us to act again.

After digging for ten minutes, Kan Jian suddenly ran over and took a look. When I asked him what he was doing, he said, "I was wondering if you were burying yourself horizontally or vertically?"

"Is there a difference?" I glanced at him. I wanted to dig a pit that I could squat in and use leaves to make a lid, so it would be in the shape of a rice cooker. I figured I probably wanted to squat because I didnt have a sense of security here. If I were to just lie down or be stuck in the ground like a stick, I would die if there were any changes.

In other words, I always encountered sudden changes, so I always had to give myself a way out.

Kan Jian looked at my pit, gestured at it, and then asked me, "Boss, do you want to wrap yourself in a circle?"

I went to see what he had dug. It was a slot in the ground that would have him lying on his back. Everyone has his own aspirations, I thought to myself. I just wont demand too much of him.

The gas hovering in the air will move further up in the atmosphere when the sun comes out, Liu Sang said. We can get out of this pit in the morning. Id say around eleven or twelve."

He had just finished speaking when everyone heard a deafening sound. I was stunned for a moment. Hearing something so unreal in this small space was a little overwhelming, so it took me a second to realize that it was thunder.

We're screwed, I thought to myself. Why is it suddenly thundering when we had such a clear view of the moon and stars just now. Where are the clouds coming from?

Liu Sang frowned, "It's not thunder. Someone's shooting artillery. Mortars, to be more specific."

"Shooting artillery? (1) Who's shooting artillery? Kan Jian asked. As soon as the words fell, there was a loud bang right by us and a gust of air instantly blew our lid off.

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TN Notes:

(1) Per Tiffany: Liu Sang used the words (shoot artillery), which in Chinese can be an idiom that means to have sex. Our precious Kan Jian had apparently lost the ability to think about what he was saying and his remark became an innuendo: Having sex? Whos having sex?The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))