Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 194 Difficult Choices
There is no climbing rope, and we will not be able to get out for a while.

Lao Yang also tried to contact the outside world with his mobile phone, but unfortunately, there was no signal at all below the tiankeng, and he couldn't even dial the alarm call.This place seems to be a dead closed space, cutting off all connections with the outside world.

After this tossing, everyone was a little tired, so they had to sit down and rest.

"Are you all right? Has anyone been bitten or scratched by a zombie just now?" I asked the other team members.

The team members shook their heads one after another.

"no!"

"I do not have either!"

"I'm lucky, I was almost bitten just now!"

My gaze swept over the faces of the team members one by one: "If anyone is bitten or scratched by a zombie, please stand up. Let me ask again, is it true that no one was injured?"

The team members answered with certainty: "No!"

I felt relieved, and Lao Yang waved at me: "Xiao Gu, come and see Lao Zhao!"

I walked over and saw that Zhao Lianqiao's face was pale, his lips were black, his entire right forearm was bitten off, and it was a bloody mess. The bones of Bai Sensen's hand were exposed, and he had fallen into a semi-comatose state due to excessive blood loss.

A burst of sadness surged in my heart. Even if Old Zhao hadn't been infected with the corpse poison, he probably wouldn't be able to get out of here safely just with such a serious injury.His arm needs to stop the bleeding immediately for surgery, which will cause a lot of blood loss over time, and the injured arm will be necrotic. If it is infected by bacteria and causes secondary disease, it will be more dangerous.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Lao Yang probably sensed something, and asked me softly, "It's hopeless?"

I sighed, opened Lao Zhao's eyelids and looked, and found that his eyeballs seemed to be covered with a layer of gray mist, which was a kind of dead gray, and a black line had faintly appeared under the eyeballs. It is an obvious characteristic of infection with corpse virus.

My heart pulled hard, I slowly let go of my hand, and shook my head at Lao Yang.

Lao Yang pursed his lips, his face was ugly: "When I went out, I promised his wife that I would definitely protect Lao Zhao and go back alive. I didn't expect... I didn't expect it to be only half a day... Hey, this makes me go back How can I explain to his wife? I have broken my promise!"

I can understand Lao Yang's mood, but I can't do anything, I can only comfort Lao Yang: "Lao Yang, no one wants this kind of thing to happen, don't blame yourself too much, many things are predestined by heaven! "

Lao Yang sighed heavily, glanced at Zhao Lianqiao beside him, and frowned: "What should we do now?"

I was silent for a while, and said with some difficulty: "He has been infected with corpse poison!"

Lao Yang was startled: "That is to say, Lao Zhao...he will have a dead body soon?"

Although I was extremely reluctant to admit this fact, I still nodded helplessly: "Yes!"

"Is there really no way to save him? Didn't you save Cao Yi last time?" Lao Yang asked eagerly.

I said confidently: "Last time, Cao Yi was only scratched by a zombie, and the poison of the corpse did not invade the internal organs. After timely rescue, he recovered a small life. But Lao Zhao's situation is different this time. He was seriously injured. Seriously, the corpse poison has quickly invaded his body, and the corpse will change at any time. Now even if there is the best medicine to get rid of the corpse poison, it will be powerless!"

"Then what should we do?" Lao Yang asked for my opinion.

I took a deep breath: "This is a difficult choice. Lao Zhao's corpse transformation is already an unchangeable thing. It's just a matter of time. If we let him become a zombie, we will face a new round of danger. If we want to protect Everyone's safety, then we must kill this danger in the cradle! Do you understand what I mean?"

Lao Yang looked at me, silently lit a cigarette, and smoked one puff after another without speaking.

This is indeed a difficult choice, Lao Yang certainly understands what I mean, Lao Yang is the captain, I leave the decision to Lao Yang.We have two choices now, one is to kill Lao Zhao directly before his corpse turns into a zombie, and prevent him from turning into a zombie; Live for a while, but when Old Zhao's corpse changes, he still has to be eliminated, and the process of elimination may be even more cruel.

"Uh...uh..." The unconscious old Zhao began to moan in a low voice, his mouth was half-opened, as if something was blocked in his throat.

Oops!

Old Zhao has already started to transform into a dead body!

I raised my eyebrows, raised a corpse-fixing talisman and slapped Lao Zhao's forehead in the middle, Lao Zhao's mouth slowly closed, and the groaning stopped abruptly.However, the corpse-fixing talisman can only temporarily restrain Lao Zhao's corpse change, or delay the time of the corpse change, but it cannot really eliminate the corpse poison in Lao Zhao's body.

"Captain Yang, make a decision as soon as possible!" I looked at Lao Yang.

Lao Yang's breathing became rapid, and after a long while, he finally choked out the word "Kill!"

This word seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and the oppressive Lao Yang couldn't breathe.

I also know that to make this decision, Lao Yang has experienced a very struggling psychological struggle.

"I'll leave it to you, Xiaogu!" Lao Yang patted my shoulder and walked to the side with his back to me.

"Old Zhao, I'm sorry, I'm going to kill you now to help you get relief. If you become a zombie, your pain will be even worse!" Spell, the fingertips shook slightly.Pinch open Lao Zhao's mouth with his left hand, and punch the newly ignited fire dragon talisman into Lao Zhao's mouth.

The flame burned all the way down Lao Zhao's throat, and soon jumped out of his body, and even two balls of fire shot out from his eye sockets.Looking at the old Zhao who was quickly wiped out in the flames, everyone was silent and did not speak, feeling very heavy.

When the flames dissipated, Lao Zhao's body was gone.

We are all saddened by Lao Zhao's passing.

Lao Zhao is a kind person. The reason why he followed us into the mountain was because he was worried that we would get lost in Huangpiziling.If he hadn't followed us into the mountains, he would still be happily sitting in the small courtyard of his home, drinking strong tea, smoking dry tobacco, squinting his eyes to watch the sun rise and the moon set.

Time passed by, and we discussed countermeasures while drinking water and eating dry food.

"It is impossible to go back along the original road, I suggest to continue to go deeper!" I put forward my suggestion.

"Continue to go deeper? I don't think so!" The old bird said, "Didn't you hear Village Chief Zhao say that after Huangpiziling was washed by the Yellow River, many fragmented caves were washed out of the mountain. Like a huge natural labyrinth, if we go deep into the mountain, we may get lost in Huangpiziling, and we will never get out of it in our lifetime!"

Cao Yi raised his hand and stood by my side: "I support Tuobagu's suggestion. If we go deeper, we may still have the possibility to go out, but if we do nothing and just sit here, wouldn't it be in vain to wait? Die? Do you think someone will come to the Tiankeng to rescue us? I can guarantee that no one will come here for three to five years, and by then we will have turned into mummy!"

"But the danger factor of going deep into the mountain is indeed very high!" Li Yuwen said.

Fang Weiran said: "Although the danger is great, at least there is hope of survival, which is better than staying here and waiting [-]% to die!"

I nodded: "That's right, I thought about it the same way, and although there are many caves inside the mountain and the terrain is complicated, there must be a road leading to the outside world!"

"Okay, stop arguing!" Lao Yang stood up and waved his hands.

Li Tienan said: "Let Captain Yang make the decision, he is the leader of this team!"

Lao Yang walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, his expression solemn, sometimes frowning, sometimes sullen.

After a while, he finally stopped and looked back at me: "I support Xiaogu's suggestion. Let's continue to go deeper into the mountains. Maybe there is still a possibility of escape. It's better than being trapped here!"

"Since Captain Yang has made a decision, everyone should follow the instructions! Captain Yang, when are we leaving?" Li Tienan asked.

After this series of events, the criminal investigation team led by Li Tienan has gradually merged with the serious crime team, no longer independent, and doing things according to his own wishes.It is really not an easy thing for a person as cold and arrogant as Li Tienan to undergo such a transformation.

Lao Yang thought for a while: "Let the brothers rest more, we will rest here tonight, and we will leave early tomorrow morning. After going through all this trouble, even the iron body is a bit too much, everyone must be very tired Now, especially Xiaogu, who just cast such a powerful spell, he is a little exhausted, and he needs to recuperate his body!"

Li Tienan nodded: "Since you said so, let's do it this way! But the temperature in this cave is very low, everyone will have a hard time tonight!"

The night was getting thicker, and the sky outside was filled with frost and fog, a layer of white, covering the stars and the moon.

The temperature in the cave is getting lower and lower. Just now, I didn't feel how cold it was when I was running and fighting with my whole body. Now I feel the cold in the cave after resting.In the words of the old bird, if you sit here overnight, you will turn into an ice sculpture tomorrow morning.What the old bird said is by no means an exaggeration, because as the temperature continued to drop, we saw with our own eyes a layer of hoarfrost slowly climbing up the rock wall.

To keep out the cold, we built two small hearths out of gravel and put solid fuel inside them.The flames blazed up, heating up the broken stones.We sat in a circle around the stove, exhaling and rubbing our hands while warming ourselves by the fire.Although it got warm for the time being, the solid fuel it carried was very limited, and it was estimated that it would not be able to last until dawn.No matter at this moment we can't take care of so much anymore, how long we can keep warm counts.

I made a formula, sat on the edge of the stove and meditated to get luck. With the circulation of my inner breath, my body gradually became warmer. The Nine Soul Iceworm in my body seemed to wake up, and I no longer felt less than cold.

(End of this chapter)