Chapter 138: Jumping Off A Cliff… Is Impossible, But Jumping Into The Water Is Easy, Right?
The three looked downwards along the Iron Chain. The Flashlight could only illuminate the section a few meters below, while the lower end of the Waterfall was still hidden in the Darkness. Lao Yang shrank back a bit: “Isn’t this a bit too high?”
Wu Xie nodded, feeling that Lin Yan’s idea was a bit unreliable. He thought that jumping from this height might kill him.
Lin Yan became more and more convinced it was right. Although Third Uncle’s book wasn’t some standard feel-good plot, seeing the Cliff Waterfall jump-down which must not kill and could find clues felt like it was universal worldwide. So in other words, Wu Xie jumping down this time wouldn’t only not die, but could reach the correct Place, and might directly enter the tomb.
Wu Xie was still asking Lao Yang: “Didn’t you say last time that you had come in? How come you don’t recognize it now at the Waterfall?”
Lao Yang also had a face full of bitter smile. Last time he came in was accidentally smashed in by a landslide, walked around a circle and didn’t know where the main entrance was! As for here, he had never walked through it at all. Last time when going back, he followed the Iron Chain to get out. How would he know that following the Iron Chain this time could lead to a Waterfall!
Wu Xie heard this, his face turned pale like a ghost, once again experiencing Lao Yang’s unreliability: “You wouldn’t have… gone the wrong way, would you?”
Lao Yang was silent for a few seconds, shook his head: “I don’t… know either! Now there’s no other way. Either we find a Place to hide, or just like Lin… Lin Yan said, we jump down!”
Lin Yan tugged the chain in his hand, discovered the other end was still connected below the Waterfall, with a hanging feel, increasingly feeling his suggestion had potential: “I see this Iron Chain seems to lead downwards. How about we climb down along this chain?”
Lao Yang tugged the chain in his hand, the chain swayed along with his force: “Then… what if the chain breaks in the middle… what then?”
Wu Xie, holding the chain and being tossed around in the underground river by the water, hurriedly nodded to indicate he thought the same. Lin Yan glanced at the two scaredy-cats, feeling the water temperature that had become Hot Spring again, while swimming towards the Waterfall along the chain and shouting at them: “Haven’t you thought about what this Iron Chain is for? This is downstream. To go down, we could totally use other methods, even climb down along the Cliff Beside. Why bother putting a few Iron Chains here?”
Wu Xie’s eyes lit up, understanding the use of this Iron Chain, and also moved towards that side following Lin Yan. Only Lao Yang was left with a dazed face, grabbing the chain at a loss: “Hey! Aren’t you… afraid of falling down?”
Wu Xie didn’t look back, carefully moving towards the Waterfall side while saying: “Isn’t it simple? This Iron Chain isn’t for going down, it’s for climbing up! The Place we came down from is itself an exit!”
“Holy shit, so that’s it! Then we didn’t go wrong?”
Lao Yang hurriedly caught up. The few people strung together like candied hawthorns. The closer to the Waterfall, the harder it was to steady their bodies, and speaking became difficult too.
Wu Xie meaningfully turned back and glanced at Lao Yang: “Hope we didn’t go wrong! Lao Yang, after we go down later, see if you recognize this Place. Maybe it’s a Place you passed last time!”
Lao Yang felt it was unreliable though. Last time coming up he didn’t pass this Waterfall, so below definitely wasn’t the same Place! But now that they were here, backing out wasn’t realistic either. If they didn’t think of a way, they few would probably all become stewed goose!
He shone the Flashlight and looked back. Far away he saw a puff of white steam coming this way, probably not even one or two hundred meters before it arrived. He hurriedly sped up: “You two hurry up! In ten or twenty seconds, this boiling water will arrive!”
Lin Yan had no Flashlight in hand, couldn’t see anything looking back, and upon hearing this could only grit his teeth. The hand that was tightly gripping the Iron Chain loosened, changed to a loose grip, and his whole body immediately sped up being flushed down by the water flow.
By now he had arrived Beside the Waterfall. Even if he wanted to regret, there was no room for regret. He looked upwards. Wu Xie was probably two or three meters above him. Hearing Lao Yang’s words, he also sped up his climbing speed, but ten or twenty seconds clearly wasn’t enough for him to climb down.
Looked like he could only gamble once.
Lin Yan steeled his heart, shouted to the two above: “Do you trust me? If you do, directly let go of the Iron Chain and jump down, adjust the entry water posture properly, you won’t die!”
After saying that, he was the first to let go with his hand, leaned his body backwards, and disappeared from the two’s view.
“Holy shit!” Wu Xie widened his eyes. He hadn’t reacted yet when Lin Yan was gone. Lin Yan’s words at this time reminded him of those few precise “Prophecy”s. Could it be Lin Yan saw something again? Since he said so, then going down they definitely wouldn’t die. Just jump and done!
So Wu Xie gave Lao Yang an eye signal, didn’t care if he saw his look or not, directly let go with his hand, and following Lin Yan was flushed down by the Waterfall, leaving Lao Yang stunned in place, watching as in a few seconds not even the shadows of the two people were left!
Little did they know, Lin Yan at this time was completely banking on the protagonist halo on Wu Xie. Wu Xie was simply trusting Lin Yan. Who could have thought they both had this mysterious confidence in each other? But the result was good. Fact proved that below this Waterfall was a deep Water Pond, really couldn’t kill anyone!
During the fall, Lin Yan tried hard to recall the diving postures he saw people do in his previous life. He flipped in the air, trying to make his body vertical, hands clasped in front of his head. But with no reference object, he didn’t know if he jumped straight or not. Not much time was left for him. Accompanied by his heart beating violently, amid the noisy water sounds, he felt his hands touch the water surface.
Damn it, he felt he jumped straight, unexpectedly it was diagonal! This smash onto the water surface, still face down, nearly made him pass out! Even so, the impact force of entering water made Lin Yan briefly lose consciousness, until he choked on water did he wake up, struggling to float to the surface.
No time to care about posture or not, Lin Yan dog-paddled to get his head above water before breathing a sigh of relief. Only then did he have the mind to think about other problems. Like… Wu Xie and them?
If he remembered correctly, Wu Xie had a Flashlight in hand. If he came down, there should be light! Lin Yan looked around everywhere, and sure enough, not far away he saw a bit of white light flailing underwater.
He swam to near the white light, dove down, and sure enough it was Wu Xie with Flashlight tied on hand underwater, but he seemed to have lost consciousness too. Lin Yan hurriedly grabbed Wu Xie’s hand and pulled him up, used the Flashlight on his hand to shine around, discovered the surroundings was a small Pebble Beach. The distant Place was unclear, so he hurriedly chose a nearby Shore and swam over.
Wu Xie was here, what about Lao Yang? He remembered Lao Yang also had a Flashlight in hand, how come no other light was seen?
Just thinking that, he looked up, another point of light also fell down. This Direction was… Lin Yan’s pupils contracted, hurriedly swam out of this range with Wu Xie. Sure enough, a human figure smashed down, water splashing his face.
He watched Lao Yang who emerged from the water again after a few seconds, then looked at Wu Xie who could only float by leaning on him, momentarily speechless. If he hadn’t pulled Wu Xie away, this kid would probably get smashed by Lao Yang again. Not sure if his ribs could withstand it.
Felt like he hadn’t been with Wu Xie long, but Wu Xie’s ribs had been injured more than two or three times already? Really a calamity-prone ribs.
However, same jumping down, how come only Wu Xie passed out? He patted Wu Xie’s cheek, no reaction.
Alright, really a life of toil. Looked like he still had to swim with Wu Xie to Shore. But the water temperature here wasn’t hot anymore, just continuous hot water smashing down, the whole Pond was a bit warm. Compared to above, it was already very good!
Just thinking that, having just swum to Shore, accompanied by continuous falling water sounds and screams, a few big Things smashed down from above the Waterfall!
“No way, they all followed down?”
