Book 4: Chapter 51: There is No Retreat

Book 4: Chapter 51: There is No Retreat

In order to try and get to the exit where that tiny sliver of light was shining through, Xiao Hua's group had divided into two teams and climbed up the cliff from two different directions. All of the members in one of the teams had died, and Xiao Hua had also encountered the same situation as themone extra person somehow appeared in the team without anyone noticing.

They had been trapped on the cliff for more than a week. They continued climbing up during those first three days, but they never managed to reach the top. Based on how long they had been climbing, the height of this cliff definitely exceeded the height of a normal cliff. They had also spent two days trying to climb back to the ground, but as long as they tried that, some people in their team would end up dying. It seemed as if this cliff was forcing them to climb to the top, and in the end, they had to stop.

"Could it be some kind of vertical ghost hitting a wall?" I asked him.

He shook his head and then tilted it back to look up before saying to me, "If that were the case, wed keep passing by the same rocks on this cliff. But we could clearly see the changes in the rock strata at different heights as we continued climbing. We werent going around in circles, so its obvious that this cliff is just that high."

"So if this cliff is really high, have we still not reached the top yet?"

Xiao Hua, who was still looking at the pitch-black area above his head, nodded at me.

"But if its so high, we shouldnt be able to see any sunlight from below," I argued.

"This will only work if it's truly sunlight up there," Xiao Hua said. "But I think the light above us isnt sunlight."

Xiao Hua believed that there was an opening at the top because the sky burial corpses had fallen down, but this light may not necessarily be sunlight.

For people in the dark, this light was like a deadly trap.

"What's the problem?"

Xiao Hua looked at me and shook his head before saying, "I don't know; I just think theres something wrong."

He handed me a copy of their team manual. I wanted to keep asking questions, but he suddenly said to me again, "Thank you for coming to save me."

After that, I saw him fall asleep in almost a second.

His face was buried in his long hair and it was only at this time that I saw a wave of exhaustion seem to spread out from his whole body.

I sighed.

At this moment, a flashlight suddenly flashed from below. I knew right away that Fatty was calling me down. I didnt know if something unexpected had happened while he was examining the body, but the flashlight seemed frantic so he was obviously hoping that I could hurry down and help him.

But Xiao Hua couldnt sleep here alone, so I used my flashlight to signal the people down below to come up. Not long after, a short man came up. He and I looked at each other. I didnt know why, but I suddenly felt very uneasy, so I told him to go down again and signaled for Poker-Face to come up.

Poker-Face looked at me and then looked at Xiao Hua. He signaled me to go down and conveyed that he would keep an eye on Xiao Hua.

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Authors note: Ive been traveling on business recently and the traffic situation in Beijing is too complicated. These three or four chapters were all updated in a hurry, which caused some problems with the writing. You may feel a little confused when reading them, but these issues will be resolved when theyre published.