The feeling of falling is enough to wake people up from a nightmare. It causes your heart to tighten, your limbs to stiffen, and you will shout out loud.
Strangely, when they suddenly fell, only Dispirited cried out. Wang Tanzhi, as a guy who always gets feared in Thriller Paradise, became exceptionally calm in this condition. In a flash of lightning, he buckled his backhand and seized the wrist of Dispirited, and thrown her to a higher position.
In a crisis, his instinct was to pick up his teammates and use himself as a human cushion, so this guy is a really good guy. Of course, it’s meaningless to fall into an extremely deep abyss, and the difference is just between death up and death down.
Fortunately, the feeling of falling lasted only a few seconds. Followed by a plop, the two felt into the water.
In the darkness, the feeling of falling ended abruptly, as Little Tan felt pain in his back. But at this moment he was happy because he knew that falling into the water meant they can’t die for a while.
The impact of the two players falling into the water was huge and they kept diving downward. Wang Tanzhi understood that he was not out of danger at the moment. He held his breath, and when he sank a little slowly, he swung his legs and began to kick the water. He did not let Dispirited’s wrist go, while put his left hand to embrace Dispirited and his right hand to pull water, struggling to swim up.
It wasn’t long before their heads popped out of the water, and they both took a big breath as soon as they were out of the water.
“I can swim!” It was the first thing to be said after two breaths by Dispirited.
“Why don’t you say earlier? It made me really tired.” Said Wang Tanzhi. He let Dispirited go, and drawing a little distance from her, then began to swim with both hands.
“Say your head!” She punched Little Tan’s head. “Do I have a chance to say that?”
“Ouch… “Wang Tanzhi shouted loudly:” At the time I hold you to swim up, why you didn’t move at all?”
“You talk to yourself as a lifeguard, I have to cooperate with you. What if I struggle so hard,” replied Dispirited, “and you fool do it again and again, and both of us drown in the end?”
“Oh, oh… “Little Tan muttered.” by the way, are you all right?”
“I’m not all right!” Said Dispirited, “I want to beat you.”
Wang Tanzhi thought that Dispirited was blaming that he had troubled her, so he said helplessly: “You can’t entirely blame me, how can I know the roof beam will break and the floor will collapse?”
“Ha-ha… “Dispirited responded with an awkward laugh. She did not have anything to argue with for a moment. After all, it was her that pulled Wang Tanzhi, and they fell off together. If her first reaction was to jump backward, she might still be on the ground now. It would have been better for her to find a rope or something, and rescue Little Tan. That will be much better than the situation right now.
At this moment, there was no light near the players, only a little light at the far end of the top of their head, from their falling hole. It was a pity that the hole was indoors but not in the open air so the light could not illuminate the depths of the ground at all.
They were having a conversation, but it was dark and they couldn’t see each other. However, due to the proximity and the splashing sound, they could see the each other in dark place. Five seconds before, when Dispirited beat Little Tan’s head just by his voice’s place.
“Oops, my flashlight was…”Little Tan just wanted to say his lighting equipment has been damaged, but suddenly feel Dispirited buckled something on his head.
Click, and a bright light appears. A yellow miner’s cap was over his head.
“Aye? You’re still keeping this equipment?” Asked Little Tan. He remembered that in the scenario where he first met Dispirited, she wanted to trade it for a flashlight with him.
“Yes.” Dispirited returned: “I remember I used this to change flashlight with you, but you incredibly sent me 1 and said that… “Looks silly on people’s head, keep it for yourself.”
“Then why do you keep this for now? This equipment is already worthless. “Said, Little Tan.
“I hate to be rejected by someone.” Dispirited beat the cap again and said, “You see how well you’re in tune with this silly equipment… “
“I miss when I first met you.” Wang Tanzhi showed the expression of bitterness deeply: “At that time you called me “Little Tan-Ge”. The good Dispirited which change equipment with me gentleness has gone forever…… “
Dispirited thought she was uncovered of black history, so she moved the topic indignantly and said, “Stop talking nonsense! Turn around and see if we can find someplace to stand! Do you want us running out of Stamina Value in the water?”
Wang Tanzhi shrank his neck, did not speak more, and slowly made a circle in the water, to shine on all sides and on top of his head.
Anyway, in this case, the miner’s cap is a practical piece of equipment for sure, because it’s a lighting device that can be used without a constant hand lifting.
As the light moved, the two finally saw something around them. The underground pool they were in was not very big. A stone bank was more than ten meters away. Right above the pool was a vertical cylindrical passage, which was the path they had fallen. The entrance at the top of the passageway was the sunken opening in the kitchen of the empty house, while the shape at the bottom of the passageway spread outward. From the overview, the space above the pool was like an upside-down funnel, and it’s impossible to return in the same way.
And there was only one side of stone shore around the pool that surrounded by stone walls.
Dispirited and Little Tan had no choice, the urgent matter was to find a place to settle. They swam and climbed to the bank. Also, they were all tired and panting, and sit on the ground to rest.
It was only a few minutes, but it took a lot of Survival Value and Stamina Value of them. Falling into the water from a height cost 67 percent of Wang Tanzhi’s Survival Value, while Dispirited was 59 percent. That’s not much for sure. If a people fell into the water at this height, it’s even possible that he will die directly. As players, they always have better states compare to normal people so that they can be survived.
While constantly floating on the water and swimming to the shore cost them more than 300 Stamina Value, for two players of level 17, that’s nearly 20 percent of the whole bar.
“Well… We didn’t find any tombs, did we?” Wang Tanzhi turned his head and looked behind him, there was a deep path that led to somewhere.
“How? Are you imagine I accompany you in the tomb and practicing sword naked?” Dispirited answers, actually she was the one who said shameless words. 1)
“Well… I was going to say, maybe we can find the equipment, skills, hidden missions… But you suddenly said that…” Before he could speak, he has knocked on the head again, and it was hurt even through the miner’s cap.
“And then you also think in that way?” Dispirited blamed.
“Why you say “also”… Well…… It’s all my fault… You can blame me for everything, ok?” Little Tan was bullied really bad.
This deep underground pool was as cold as an ice cave. Both of them were drenched and chilled to the bone. So, they didn’t stay put for too long, just wring as much water out of their clothes as possible and took a short break. When the feeling of fatigue disappeared, they got up and walked towards the only path.
Perhaps the rock in this passage had a special function for absorbing light. After a short walk, the two found that as long as they were a little farther ahead, it seemed to become a dark mass of shadow. And the light will almost be disappeared completely in 10 meters.
And the other thing they noticed was that this road is not going up the slope, but a way going down. Why that they had fallen into the pool below the ground, and that this path led even lower? Is this the right way to Yama’s palace?
More than a dozen minutes later, the road stopped falling, and the tunnel became almost horizontal. It became more and more spacious, and unconsciously, the height and width of the surrounding tunnel were enough to accommodate the next train.
“Did you smell it?” DIspirited suddenly asked. The hole was steaming with water and the smell was persistent, and about a minute ago she had a nasty smell, which didn’t represent some good thing.
Wang Tanzhi looked up and down with strange eyes for a few seconds, said: “You are telling me… You…… That …, I don’t even know this game is supporting for fart… “
“Cut your head off!” She was blushed, tore off Little Tan’s hat, and punched him on his head with a scolding.
“Well, I guess I misunderstood… “
“Idiot! Fool! Hooliganism!”
“Hey… You can’t even be blocked from saying that… “
“Well… Well…… “Dispirited took a deep breath and tried to calm down, “I must buy a big fan in system shop. My hand will be hurt if I keep punching…”
“I’m sorry… “Sighed Wang Tanzhi. “My head is too hard.”
“Is that what you need to apologize for?” Dispirited pressed his hat heavily back on his head.
“In a word… It’s all my fault.” Said Little Tan: “You don’t really need to punch me every time, why can’t we just solve this by language…… “
“Little Tan-Ge… “Dispirited interrupted with a smile on her face, while with a look of horror in her eyes,” Please turn back, and throw yourself into the pool.”
“You’d better hit me then…”
“Roar!”
Suddenly, a distinct roar from non-human beings interrupted their conversation.
They didn’t know if this monster was frustrated with listening to their conversations, or if it found prey and come to hunt. Anyway, some giant creature was crawling on the ground, coming from the tunnel ahead, and quickly approaching two players.
- This shameless reference came from a Chinese famous Wuxia novel, The Return of the Condor Heroes. The MC, Yang Guo, and the female protagonist, Xiao Longnv, had practicing sword in a grave naked.
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