Ghost Breath - C32

Seeing Guo Yi suddenly fall while screaming, Guo Yong immediately realized that something was wrong and quickly reached out to pull. Unexpectedly, he stepped on a slippery rock and fell down together with Guo Yi. The father and son pair continued to slide down the slope one after another.

In the midst of the chaos, Guo Yong grabbed Guo Yi with one hand and desperately supported the side of the cliff with the other. Just as he was about to stabilize his center of gravity, a big hole suddenly appeared.

In the midst of their despair, the father and son fell out of the cave without any resistance. They were then struck by leaves and rock walls, and finally landed in a small corner.

After he recovered, Guo Yong held onto the wall and slowly stood up. He saw that Guo Yi was not far from him and was a few steps away. He was worried that Guo Yi would be injured so he asked: “Xiao Yi, how was it?

“It’s just a bit of skin. It’s nothing serious. Dad, what about you?” Just like Guo Yong, Guo Yi supported himself on the wall with both hands and slowly stood up.

“I’m fine too.”

After confirming the situation, Guo Yong started to observe the terrain. He discovered that they were currently in a large, smooth crevice in the rock wall. The passageway within the crevice was filled with dried twigs and broken leaves, and it was extremely narrow. It was impossible for them to even stretch out their hands. If you looked up, you could see the sky, but it was just like the sky.

Guo Yong also saw that the cave entrance was just right above them, located in a nook in the left wall. They fell down from there, about five or six meters away. If it wasn’t for the branches that obstructed his vision and the soft soil that covered the cracks, he would have sustained serious injuries at this height.

Guo Yong was secretly glad that he and his son were both uninjured, but now he had a huge question: How do I get out?

He first tried to see if he could climb back up to the top of the cave, but he gave up after just one try. The reason was because the two giant walls were too smooth, as if they had been artificially grinded, and there wasn’t much point of force inside. In addition, even though the crevice was very narrow, it wasn’t enough to use hands and feet to slowly climb up the two sides of the wall.

In other words, they were currently in an awkward situation, as if they were trapped in a crevice in the rock wall and didn’t have many tools to use.

“Dad, how do we get out?” Guo Yi asked, trembling.

“We can’t go this way anymore, let’s go and take a look.” Guo Yong didn’t want to give his son a blow, so he decided to check the end of the passage. But there was no wind in the passage, so Guo Yong had already sensed that there were two dead ends at the end of it.

The front and back sides of the cave were indeed bare walls, and neither of them could climb. Actually, even if they could climb up, there was still one more thing that made Guo Yong’s heart palpitate, and that was that the walls on both sides of the cave were covered with green water, exactly the same as the water inside the cave just now.

The father and son pair returned to their original places, feeling a sense of despair.

I can’t get out, I’m trapped here!

These words suddenly came to Guo Yong’s mind.

At the moment, Guo Yong was regretting that he did not use a survival knife to mark the way here. Normally speaking, it was a good habit to mark the way back, as marking the journey home could be used as a sign, but on the other hand, if an accident happened, it would make it easier for others to rescue him. However, Guo Yong was always worried about Guo Yi’s safety, and had forgotten about all of these.

Guo Yong looked at Guo Yi, and realised that he was trying to contact him using his phone.

“Is there a signal?” Guo Yong asked anxiously.

After all, this was their only way to ask for help.

Guo Yi did not answer, he tried using his phone to try, and even tried to restart it a few times. Finally, he said with a frown, “No, there’s no signal at all.”

Guo Yong had expected this and once again fell into despair.

“What should we do?” Guo Yi asked.

Hearing his son’s question, Guo Yong tried to calm himself down. He felt that he had to think of a good method, and if he was really trapped here, they wouldn’t be able to hold on for long.

At the moment, the only thing worth celebrating was that Guo Yi’s backpack still had two bottles of water, two survival blades and a flint.

Guo Yi anxiously broke into cold sweat and took out a bottle of water to drink in big gulps. Seeing that, Guo Yong hurriedly advised him: “Wait, drink water slowly, don’t drink all of it in one go.”

Guo Yi stared at Guo Yong, he did not understand what was going on, because there was only half of the bottle left, and at the moment, Guo Yi was both nervous and thirsty, and felt that drinking half of it would not quench his thirst.

“Dad told you, we’re trapped here now. We don’t know when we’ll be able to go out. We don’t have anything to eat, and there’s only two bottles of water, so we have to save some water, do you understand?”

Guo Yi lowered his head.

“When you can’t hold it in, just take a sip and pour as much as you can.” Guo Yong continued.

“Got it.” Guo Yi replied.

Following that, Guo Yong took out a survival blade and poked at the walls on both sides of the mountain. He realized that the rock walls were sturdy and that they had accumulated for a long time.

He looked again at the line of sky. It was late afternoon, and the sky was darkening, and the walls pressed against each other gave him a heavy feeling of oppression and suffocation that made it difficult to breathe.

Guo Yong was very clear that no one knew they were here, and it was so strange that he couldn’t even call them for help, so no one would come to save them, and they could only rely on themselves.

Just then, Guo Yi called out to Guo Yong as if he had found something, and Guo Yong saw that he was running in front alone.

Guo Yong quickly came to Guo Yi’s back and saw that he was lying on the ground, looking at the stone pit between the stone wall and the ground. The stone pit was very small, barely enough for one person to climb in. There were a lot of moss at the mouth of the pit, and inside the pit was a pool of green water.

It was this green water again. Guo Yong thought.

“Dad, do you think this is a hole that we can climb out of?” Guo Yi imagined.

“Don’t touch the water, I’ll try.” Guo Yong said as he found a long branch from the ground and inserted it into the water. He tested the depth of the water and made a few more moves.

“No.” Guo Yong shook his head and retracted the branch, “It’s stagnant water, it’s very shallow. There are stones below, it’s impossible to get out.”

“How unlucky.” Guo Yi complained.

When Guo Yong threw away the branch, he suddenly felt that the part of the branch that was previously stuck in the water had started to shrink, as if it was being corroded.

Guo Yong then looked at the green water in the pit, and burst out: “There’s really something wrong with this water, it’s toxic water.”

Other than the green water in the pit, the walls on both sides of the hole were almost completely covered with green water. Guo Yong warned Guo Yi in a serious tone.

After a while, the sky slowly darkened. Guo Yong picked up some branches and used some flint to create a ball of fire.

When it was night, both father and son were filled with hunger that night, and the temperature had suddenly dropped. Guo Yi had only worn a short sleeve, and was currently trembling with cold, so Guo Yong could only take off his jacket and put it on Guo Yi. The two of them finally decided to take turns wearing a coat.

Guo Yi had a habit of wanting to drink water whenever he was nervous, so even though Guo Yong had warned him before, he still finished the bottle of water very quickly. On the contrary, Guo Yong resisted his thirst with great difficulty, and still hadn’t opened his own bottle of water even now.

Late at night, father and son stood guard in front of the fire, enduring darkness and hunger in the cold crevices. Guo Yong could imagine that his wife, Chen Hui, must be burning with anxiety right now. He had joined forces with a group of members of the Qin Mu Club to search every single place that the father and son pair frequent, but no matter what, it was impossible to find such an isolated place.

It was quiet and lifeless in the crevice. Although Guo Yi was hungry and cold, he still couldn’t endure the sleepiness.

“Sleep for a while, I’m watching.” Guo Yong said as he put on the jacket over Guo Yi.

“Mm, wait for me to switch with you.” Guo Yi said.

Guo Yi laid on the ground and quickly started snoring.

Unexpectedly, after a short period of time, Guo Yong heard a faint voice sounding from above the crevice, sounding intermittent and unreal.

After listening to it for a while, Guo Yong finally recognized that it was a woman crying.

It was as if there was a mysterious woman wandering over the crevices, floating and staring at them.

The woman’s cries, which were especially soft, gradually became clearer. She was crying extremely miserably, and from her cries, one could sense the hatred and extreme hatred that she had accumulated for a long time.

For some reason, Guo Yong felt that the temperature in the crevice was much colder than before, he guessed that it had something to do with the woman’s wails.

Guo Yi also noticed the strange phenomenon as he slowly got up and asked softly, “Dad, did you hear that?”

In the firelight, he could only see Guo Yong’s taut face nodding.

As he was terrified, Guo Yong suddenly remembered the rumors of the female ghost in the mountain. The things that happened seemed to fit the rumors perfectly.

It was said that there was a woman in ancient times who had been brutally murdered by her husband and thrown into the wilderness. That was why there were occasional cries from female ghosts in the middle of the night.

Guo Yong had always been an atheist, and disdained all kinds of superstitious things, but at this moment, he felt a strong fear.

Actually, the most important thing was that they had nowhere to hide. If there really was a female ghost that opened her mouth wide and pounced towards them, they could only allow themselves to be slaughtered.

Suddenly, they simultaneously heard strange sounds coming from the walls on both sides as if something was rapidly squirming.

Guo Yong immediately held up a burning branch to illuminate the wall. Only then did he realize that there was a lot of green water leaking out from the wall, and the green water was flowing slowly along the wall, as though the wounds on his body had been cut open, and was bleeding.

This scene lasted for more than ten minutes. When the woman’s wailing finally died down, the green water on the wall also stopped.

Guo Yong didn’t understand what this meant in the slightest.

After that, Guo Yong and his son did not close their eyes for the entire night.

After the sun rose, Guo Yong made a brief inspection over the place and realized that everything that happened last night was real. The rock walls on both sides inexplicably leaked out large amounts of green toxic water s.

Guo Yong understood that if the toxic water on the cliff grew at this pace every night, within three nights, they would definitely come in contact with the toxic water.

Facing this strange phenomenon, Guo Yong suddenly felt that the common knowledge he had during his previous exploration was completely useless. He didn’t know how to explain it. At this moment, he only felt that he was abnormally small, and that the things he could do were too limited.

The sunlight today was especially warm. By noon, Guo Yong and his son had almost finished drinking the last bottle of water, but because they had not eaten anything for such a long time, they were a little dizzy.

Guo Yong was very clear that if this continued, they would be either poisoned by toxic water or starved to death by thirst and starvation. However, even if he racked his brains, he couldn’t think of any way to escape.

They had searched the entire crevice several times, but still hadn’t found any flaws. He still could not use his phone, nor could he climb the walls. He had to be on guard against toxic water s that could be seen everywhere. The difficulties in front of them had forced them to a dead end.

At night, after Guo Yi finished his last mouthful of water, he looked at Guo Yong in dismay and asked: “Dad, will we die here?”

Tears welled up in Guo Yong’s eyes, not because he was facing death, but because his son’s life was about to come to an end at such a young age, and the huge pain Chen Hui was going to suffer.

In the middle of the night, the father and son were in a daze as they heard a woman crying again.

Then, just like last night, strange sounds came from the walls of the cave as a large number of toxic water began to seep out from the walls.

Seeing all of this, the father and son became even more desperate. They knew that right now, it was equivalent to waiting for their deaths, even if they barely made it through tonight, the entire corridor would probably be drowned in toxic water s tomorrow night.

Guo Yong had only slept for a short while, but when he woke up, he was shocked because Guo Yi was gone!

“Xiaoyi! “Little Yi!” Guo Yong stood up in a hurry, trying his best to avoid the toxic water s beneath him as he shouted loudly.

When he got close to the toxic water’s stone pit, with the help of the weak light, he finally saw Guo Yi lying in front of the stone pit, seemingly wanting to drink the toxic water in the pit.

“What are you doing?!” Guo Yong pulled Guo Yi away from the stone pit and asked angrily.

“Dad, let me drink some water, I’m dying of thirst, we won’t be able to get out anyway.” Guo Yi’s face was extremely ugly as he pleaded.

“I can’t drink it!” Didn’t you see the branches? This is the toxic water, it wants to kill! ”

“What does it matter? You should recognize the reality, we won’t be able to get out. ” Guo Yi said as he laid on his back and covered half of his face with his hands. Two streams of tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes.

Guo Yong could tell that Guo Yi had already given up. Forget about Guo Yi, he himself was also about to give up, too.

In a small gap in the wilderness, even if someone didn’t know where they were, the rescue team would still need to spend some time to rescue them. It was not that simple.

Guo Yong patted Guo Yi’s shoulder, wanting to comfort his son a little more, but right at this moment, he saw the toxic water in the pit slightly moved, some bubbles appearing from the water surface.

He wondered if his eyes were playing tricks on him, and then he dropped down in front of the pit and looked at it closely.

This time, he could clearly see that although the movement was very small, the toxic water in the pit was indeed showing their potential. If one did not look carefully, it would be impossible to discover.

If the water was flowing, then there was only one possibility. The water in the pit was not stagnant, and this was not a dead pit.

Guo Yong immediately found a long and hard tree branch and stabbed it back into the water. He touched the shallow bottom of the water that was full of broken stones.

Previously, Guo Yong thought that the stone pit was only this big, so he gave up.

Guo Yi saw that Guo Yong was trying to probe the pit again. Seeing that he seemed to have discovered something, he immediately crawled to Guo Yong’s side and asked: “Is there anything wrong?”