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Chapter 128 The soaring river

"Or why we climb up," I looked at the stone wall next to me, "Can we find a way to go? We can remove the coffin and hide in the holes where the coffin is placed. Although it is a bit disrespectful to our ancestors, there is no way to do this."

Kong Xue nodded, "This is also a solution. When we came to the ancient Shanhuan Kingdom last time, we also used this method to encounter changes in the river."

"Yes, but," I said with some concern, "at that time, we encountered the cliff burial place without water. The stone wall was very rough, with a lot of bumps and cracks on it, so there were many places to climb. However, here, it was washed by water all year round, and the stone wall was very smooth and there was basically no place to settle down. The key is that this time, Nie Chuan probably thought it was entering the desert and there was no opportunity to climb, so there was no mountaineering pickaxe in the equipment. In this case, it would be too difficult to climb up." I looked up and the closest cliff burial coffin to us was almost fifteen meters away from the ground. This was basically the height of five floors.

Lantern Festival took a flashlight and said, "It's true that you can't climb up at all, at least I can't get up!" Indeed, this is a huge problem.

"I'll try!" The glasses handed the flashlight to my hands, "I'm thinner. I'll try to climb up and find a place to settle down, and then put a rope for you."

"Okay," I nodded. Glasses walked to the stone wall, grabbed the slightly raised rocks, then held the short knife, inserted it into the gap between the rocks, and started climbing up hard. Although Glasses' climbing skills are indeed excellent, the stone wall is indeed too smooth. Glasses tried several times in a row before climbing to the nearest corpse-hiding cave where the coffin was placed.

However, the glasses could not find a place to fix the ropes anyway. We looked down desperately and finally gave up this plan. However, glasses still had a chance. I shouted to him: "Glasses, just stay on top and find a way to climb up and climb. You should be able to escape the rising river water. Let's think of other ways. Don't be trapped here, one can live if you can live."

When I said these words, my heart was actually a little sad, because after all, I, Lantern Festival, Kong Xue and Tan Yaokun could not climb up.

Kong Xue's face turned pale, "What to do? What to do?" My heart was in a state of torment, and the faces of Yuanxiao and Tan Yaokun also became extremely ugly.

Yuanxiao cursed and said, "If you want me to tell me, let's run forward. What if there is a place to hide in front!" As he said, his glasses jumped down again, and he smiled at us, "I can't leave you to escape by yourself! There is still time, let's think of a way."

But what can we do? If it really doesn't work, we can only try our luck as Lantern Festival said. But in fact, what I don't like the most is to leave my life to luck.

Yuanxiao continued to urge, "Don't think about it, let's run first!"

"Wait a minute!" Tan Yaokun, who had been bowing his head and silently, suddenly spoke out: "I have a way!"

"What's the solution?" I asked quickly.

Tan Yaokun pointed to the more turbulent river water, "The river water is flowing faster now. I wonder if I can let the river water push us away so that we have a chance to outperform the river water."

Yuanxiao was so anxious that she rubbed her hands, "Uncle Kun, what do you mean? It's time to say it directly."

Tan Yaokun said: "I grew up by the river. I am good at building a raft! Judging from the speed of the river water rising, we still have some time. We can build a raft and flow down!"

"Take a raft?" Yuanxiao said in surprise, "Where do we have wood?"

Tan Yaokun stretched out his finger and pointed to the stone wall, "Although it's a bit unethical, it's better than a lack of life."

Kong Xue widened her eyes, "Do you mean to remove the coffin?"

Tan Yaokun nodded, "There is no other way!"

"Okay!" Yuanxiao patted his thighs, "That's it!" After saying that, he turned around and knelt down at Shibi and kowtowed four times, "Seniors, we really have no choice. Borrow your coffins. After you go out, I will burn more paper money for you, and I hope you can reach the Pure Land soon!"

After saying this, Lanxiao stood up and said to Glasses, "Brother Glasses, I have to rely on you!"

Glasses took a deep breath, gritted their teeth and nodded, and knelt down and kowtowed a few times at the coffin on the stone wall. Then they got up and climbed up again. Soon with a plop, a mouthful of coffin was thrown down.

The coffin was broken into pieces, fortunately, several large pieces of wood could still be used. Of course, the corpses inside also fell out, and we respectfully placed the corpses aside. Although these people were dead, we still felt a strong sense of guilt in our hearts. Kong Xue even carried her back and refused to go and see it.

Seven or eight coffins were removed in a row. Some of the coffin boards were decayed and could not be used, but some seemed to have been processed with oil bubbles, and the texture of the wood was pretty good. Tan Yaokun tied them with ropes, and some dead branches of the trunks deposited on the river beach were inserted in the middle. Finally, two rafts were made.

After all this tossing, the river has already passed our knees.

Without further ado, we jumped onto the raft separately. The Lantern Festival was heavier, so we rode one with Tan Yaokun, and I, Kong Xue and glasses, sat on the one behind.

As soon as we propeled on the stone wall, we were pushed by the rising river water, moving forward quickly, and getting faster and faster.

Seeing that this method was successful, we all breathed a sigh of excitement in our hearts. Yuanxiao laughed excitedly. But at this moment we completely ignored a situation. We had no idea where the raft would rush to.

The raft was flowing downstream, and the speed was getting faster and faster. Gradually, we finally realized the problem.

Kong Xue knelt on the raft, holding on to the rope tightly. Glasses said to me, "Brother Ran, you have to find a way to slow down. If this continues, something will happen!"

I nodded and carefully pulled out a wooden stick from the raft, wanting to lightly lower the water to slow down, but the river water is rising very quickly now, and the length of the wooden stick cannot reach the bottom of the river at all. I wanted to touch the river channels on both sides, but almost fell into the water due to the raft shaking.

Tan Yaokun turned around and shouted, "Zhuoran, stretch the wooden stick over, we two rafts are connected together, hoping to slow down a little."

Yuanxiao looked at me and said, "Zhuoran, what are you doing?"

I saw that Lantern Festival seemed to understand our current situation, so I said to him, "Do you still remember the rock that was installed in the stone wall? We are in that situation now. If the river in front turns, it will be like what the sketch says, 'You hit a tree, I will pretend to be you'!"

"Hey!" Yuanxiao smiled, "You are scolding me in a different way."

I waved my hand and said, "Okay, it's not nonsense. Let's think about how to slow down!"

"This," Yuanxiao squatted on the raft and lowered his head and thought, while we were still trying our best to slow down.

Suddenly, Yuanxiao widened her eyes and said, "No! Why did I hear the loud sound of water? Is the skyrocketing river water catching up?"

I didn't pay attention just now. Now when I heard Lanxiao say it, I immediately listened to the sounds around me seriously. Soon I determined the direction of the source of the water sound, and I shouted to Lanxiao: "The sound of water is not behind at all, it is in front!"

"Before?" Yuanxiao looked at me in surprise, and I also looked at him. In this way, we looked at each other and our faces changed suddenly. There might be something wrong with the river channel ahead!

I shouted, "What's wrong in front!! Everyone, find a way to stop the raft."

"No!" Tan Yaokun tried his best to support the bottom of the river and the stone walls, while wiping the water on his face, "The river flows too fast and it's going to get out of control!"

I grabbed the two rafts hard, and my glasses tied the two rafts together with a rope.

"I'll do it!" As he said that, Yuanxiao took out a rope and tied it to his waist and the other end to the raft. He jumped into the river with a "thump". Yuanxiao wanted to use himself as an anchor, but Yuanxiao was large in size and buoyancy. He kept floating on the water. After tossing for a long time, it was useless. However, Yuanxiao did not give up. In addition, it was indeed good in water. It was rising and falling in the rushing river water. It didn't look like an anchor, it was obviously like a fish float!

Our two rafts pulled Yuanxiao and advanced another period in the water. At this time, the sound of water just now became even louder, as if it was a sound of the impact of the water surface. I shouted to Yuanxiao underwater, "Come up quickly, it's dangerous!"

Tan Yaokun threw himself into the front of the raft and looked forward, his face suddenly changed, "Oh no, there is a fault in the river channel ahead! We are about to fall!"

"What!!" My mind buzzed, and the river channel was faulty. I don't know how big the drop was. If it was a waterfall dozens of meters high, we would definitely die!

I pulled Kong Xue up and shouted at the Lantern Festival in the water, "Hurry up and divide the rope and take Kong Xue away!"

Yuanxiao looked at the front and waved at me, "No, it's too late!"

I turned my head forward and found that the head of the raft had begun to go down. Everyone couldn't help but scream, "Ah!!!!"

Immediately afterwards, we started to fall freely with the raft, and there was a Lantern Festival on the rope behind the raft. The last scene I saw before entering the water was Lantern Festival's frightened face!
Chapter completed!
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