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  Like this crazy forward rush, even if there is something biting on my back, I didn't stop. Suddenly, a dull sound rang in my ears.

  Plop!

  It's the sound of water! It seems like something has fallen into the water.

  Before I could regain my composure, my feet left the ground and I plummeted downwards at high speed. In the blink of an eye, I splashed into the icy water. The things biting into my back were startled and retreated in a flurry, seemingly afraid of water, vanishing instantly without a trace.

  This chill is abnormal, different from the coldness of underground water. It's a bone-piercing cold. Obviously, this underground river I fell into must be connected to a snowy plain outside.

  At this moment, I was bleeding all over my body, but with a surge of ferocity, I didn't care about anything else. I immediately swam downstream along the direction of the water flow. Not long after, my whole body went limp. The turmoil of this night, excessive blood loss, and my physical limit had been reached. I couldn't swim any further. Just when I thought I was done for, a faint light appeared from the darkness.

  Is it export?

  As soon as I saw that glimmer of light, my limp body was suddenly like it had been injected with a stimulant, and out of nowhere, a burst of energy emerged, and with renewed strength, I continued downstream. Finally, I arrived at the light source, and just as I thought all hope was lost, I saw that the exit was actually above me. But what I saw in the middle of the water flow was an underwater waterfall. If I fell down, I estimated it would be a one-way ticket to purgatory.

  I swam back and forth in a hurry, but near the waterfall, the water flow was extremely fast. When I swam downstream, it was easy, but now swimming upstream was like taking three steps forward and two steps backward. As I looked on, I was getting closer and closer to the underground waterfall, my heart felt chilled. If I fell in, I would be alone in the cold underground water with absolutely no chance of survival.

  Just then, suddenly came a voice 'Next'.

  I looked in the direction of the sound, and in the dim light, I saw passerby A with one hand grasping the wall of the cave, his feet soaking in the water. It seemed like there was a place to step down over there. His clothes and pants were all gone, but instead, they had been torn into strips to make a rope.

  That rope was thrown over, and in an instant it was knocked askew by the water flow. I didn't catch it.

  Only heard passerby A cursed something, retracted the rope and danced a few times before throwing it over again. This time I stared at it intently, grabbed it tightly, Passerby A exerted force on that end, I swam frantically towards there, barely making it to shore.

  This shore is a small piece of rock protruding from the edge of the cave wall, just enough for one person to step on. As soon as I stepped up, I directly trod on the back of passerby A's foot. He let out a hiss and cursed: "Think you're a lady or something, heavy like a pig, get down."

  I had just walked around the Ghost Gate and was panting like a cow, unable to say anything. When I finally caught my breath, I felt embarrassed too - it was such a cold place, if not for me, this brother wouldn't have ended up only wearing his underwear. Just as I was about to thank him, passerby A suddenly said: "Switch feet." I didn't react in time and subconsciously looked down, only to see that passerby A's hair had turned green, clearly having been stepped on so hard that his blood flow was cut off.

  I awkwardly smiled and exchanged a cautious glance with him, then looked up at the hole above our heads.

  The entrance of the cave is about four meters high from us, and at least five meters away from the stone platform where we are taking shelter. There's no way to get past it. I looked for a while, then turned my head to look at the stone wall where we were taking shelter, thinking if I could climb up along the stone wall. But as soon as I took a closer look, I found that the stone wall had the characteristic of a limestone cave, being extremely smooth and impossible to get a grip on.

  "What should we do now?"

  Passerby A asked: "Do you have any other lighting tools on you?"

  I let out a wry smile and said, "If I had it, I would have taken it out already. What are you going to do?" Although the top of the cave was translucent, this place was too big, everything was in a haze, and nothing could be seen clearly.

  Passerby A let out a sigh, his right hand lifted up and pressed several buttons beside his ear. It was only then that I noticed there were several miniature buttons next to his sunglasses. As soon as he pressed them, I immediately recalled the magazine introduction which said this pair of glasses had many special functions, including infrared night vision.

  As expected, after he pressed the button, the entire mirror turned red. Although there was no obvious change, I knew that he must be able to see clearly now. He immediately asked: "How is it?"

  Passerby A slowly turned his head, sizing up the surroundings. After a moment, he shook his head and said, "There's no way."

  I was suddenly desperate, gazing up at the opening above my head, feeling that hope was within reach but couldn't be grasped. The feeling was like having one's throat cut with a knife - slow and agonizing, yet without any swift release.

  With both legs soaking in the icy water, after a while, I felt my legs were sore and swollen. Pedestrian A was stepping on my instep, just for a moment, but it made my blood circulation cut off. So I said: "Change feet."

  Passerby A stood still for a moment, then spat out two words: "No swap."

  I suddenly felt blood rushing to my head, I wanted to kick him down, but thinking of his selfless act of wearing underwear, I endured. I, Wu Xie, am not ungrateful, I endured.

  After standing for a while, when my legs were already numb, passerby A suddenly put the rope in my hand and said, "Go back and play."

  "What?" I stood there stupidly holding the rope, unable to react.

  Passerby A explained, "Staying put won't do any good, let's swim downstream and see if there's an exit upstream." In the dim light, I saw that he was covered in wounds. Thinking about it again, I realized that I too was battered all over, and staying in the water would eventually be fatal. So I nodded and said, "Alright, let's take turns swimming."

  Passerby A nodded, holding the rope and entering the water. With one hand supporting the wall of the hole, he stuck to the stone wall and struggled upwards. When the rope was taut, he had already swum out four meters far. Next, he grabbed a protruding part of the stone wall and said, "You come." I followed closely behind him into the water, swimming to his front. When the rope was taut again, Passerby A continued upwards.

  We were like this, relying on a rope made of clothes to take turns swimming, one person holding the head of the rope to prevent being washed away by the water.

  The water seeped into the snow in the mountains, and my cold bones ached. The muscles all over my body twitched convulsively, and the wounds were numb from the cold. As I gradually moved away from the opening at the top of my head, the surroundings fell back into darkness, and I could only hear the sound of water flowing.

  Like this, I don't know how long I swam, I felt my physical strength had reached its limit, and gradually, I couldn't move my hands or feet anymore. My whole body was sinking down with the water rushing in from all sides. At that moment, I lost consciousness, only tightly grasping the rope in my hand, unwilling to let go.

  This is my only hope, I don't want to die.

  In a daze, I seemed to have returned to the underwater tomb, surrounded by seawater, with the same suffocating feeling, the same dizziness, but in the end, two hands pulled me out, one was Mute Oil Bottle and the other was Fatso.

  "Slow turtle......are you dead yet......"

  "Really dead? Alright, then stay in the water, bye."

  I opened my eyes and stared at the person in the darkness. As soon as I spoke, my voice was hoarse and terrifying: "Shut up, Young Master is not going to die."

  Passerby A let out a chuckle and said, "Still alive... the turtle's life is indeed tenacious, causing trouble for thousands of years." My eyes were still pitch black, my body was soaked in icy water, only my upper half had emerged from the surface. At this moment, Passerby A found another foothold, bigger than the previous one, at least we didn't have to trample on each other's backs.

  The surroundings were still pitch black, after a long time, passerby A said: "Do you want to continue walking?" I stared into the darkness, a vast and endless expanse, as if it had no end in sight, while our physical strength was almost exhausted.

  "I say, 'Escape!' My voice is firm and decisive. As long as I'm not dead yet, I won't give up. This is the experience I've gained from countless life-or-death situations. If this time I really can't escape, then I'd rather die on the road to hope than wait for death here."

  The passerby remained silent for a long time, then nodded and said, "Okay." Afterwards, the two of us continued to pull on either end of the rope, taking turns moving forward while conserving our strength as much as possible. We kept alternating like this in the icy water until the originally taut rope suddenly loosened.

  I suddenly turned my head to look, it was still dark. I quickly called out: "Hey..." I realized that I didn't know the name of passerby A, so I said again: "Hey, what's wrong with you?" In the darkness, a gurgling sound of water bubbles rose up, and I was shocked in my heart - that kid had also drowned.

  I didn't dare to think too much, I immediately went into the water to feel around. Fortunately, my reaction was quick enough, and that little guy hadn't sunk too deep yet. With one hand, I pulled him out of the water, and with the other, I felt along the wall of the cave as we swam forward. The rope was clenched between my teeth, and I didn't know how much longer I could hold on. All I could do was mechanically swim forward. Just then, a large patch of light appeared in front of us again, instantly illuminating the entire darkness.

  For a moment, I thought I was dreaming, my whole body was a bit stunned, just for an instant, and then I swam forward like crazy. As I swam, I shouted: "Hey, passerby A, there's an exit, wake up!"

  "You're as heavy as a pig, Master is almost unable to drag you along."

  Finally, I swam out of the cave entrance, and what greeted me was a sheet of ice and snow.

  I dragged passerby A onto the shore, sitting in the snow, I couldn't feel the cold at all, my whole body was numb from the freezing. It's daytime outside, and now I'm in a mountain valley, unable to determine the specific direction.

  But anyway, I always got out of that damn tunnel. At this moment, I really want to sleep for a while, but obviously it's just a thought. Now my upper body only has a 'half-dress', and my pants are soaked through. Roadman A is even more miserable, wearing only one pair of underwear. When I think about it, I feel like going to check his neck, and under the nape of his neck, there is a faint pulse, indicating that he is still alive.

  The current situation, sleeping is clearly not possible, must first find a place to warm up. I stumbled and got up, tied the pedestrian A with that rope on my back, and started looking for a warm place in the snowy ground.

  Here is a mountain valley, and there are many dead shrubs in the snowy ground. It's not difficult to make fire, but the key is to find a place that can block the wind. Fortunately, I'm lucky, carrying Luojin on my back, after walking for about 100 steps, I saw a cave.

  Strictly speaking, this is not a cave, just a recess in the mountain wall, but it can at least shelter from the wind and snow. I threw passerby A into it, stumbling around on the snowy ground to collect firewood. Now there's only one thought in my mind: build a fire and then sleep.