The sounds around her were abundant, and although she was still alone in the middle of the jungle, Ning Qingxue was surprisingly not as scared as she was at first. It seemed that the chirping of those birds was so much lovelier than the dead silence near the sinkhole just now.
Because of the attack by the animals in Gangcai, Ning Qingxue rested for a while, not daring to stay any longer, but took out her binoculars and stood on a rock to look at it from afar. Although she had gotten closer to the cliff, she could not see it as clearly as she had when she first entered. The hazy clouds obscured everything, seemingly very close, yet seemingly very far away.
Ning Qingxue didn’t dare to stay, she had already delayed for a day, in case something happened to Ye Mo, she didn’t know what she should do.
In the middle of the jungle, apart from some of the more open places, most of the places were eerie. Ning Qingxue did not dare to stay for a moment longer, she was afraid that if she stopped, that horrible thing would come after her again. Luckily, the ‘Evil-Preventing Talisman’ on her chest would give off some warmth from time to time, so that she was not too frightened of the eerie feeling around her.
Rushing through the primeval jungle, Ning Qingxue seemed to feel no fatigue as she kept burying her head in a sprint. She only knew the direction of that cliff and didn’t care about anything else. She was also wondering in her heart, not knowing if it had something to do with Ye Mo saving her last time, or if it was because her spirit was tightened up, she felt as if her physical ability had gotten much better.
Luckily for Ning Qingxue, she didn’t meet any mountain peaks that were too high in the way along the way, although she was lucky, she was still so tired that she sat down paralyzed when she went over the second small mountain peak.
When she came back to her senses, she realised that her clothes were already in tatters. The jeans were scratched beyond recognition. The blouse was even ragged with holes everywhere.
Only then did Ning realize that she had prepared a lot of things for survival, but not her clothes. If it hadn’t been dark, Ning Qingxue would have been in a hurry and would not have noticed anything. But now that it was dark, she was surprised to panic again.
Ning Qingxue subconsciously touched the ‘evil protection talisman’ at her ** mouth. One of the two evil protection talismans had somehow disappeared, leaving only a cloth bag. She immediately knew that the evil-defying talisman should have been consumed unknowingly, and it looked like a lot of strange things were spying on her on the road.
Thinking of this, Ning Qingxue no longer dared to stop, reluctantly ate some dry food in a hurry, took out her miner’s lamp, and ran forward again in the dark with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
What Ning Qingxue didn’t even know was that she had only been walking in the dark for less than two hours when a black shadow pounced on her from behind, Ning Qingxue only knew that the ‘amulet’ on her waist had flicked the black shadow away and that her backpack had been cut by it.
She didn’t even feel her backpack getting lighter and lighter in the slightest, and only knew to rush forward. She was afraid that if she stopped, she would once again feel afraid of the various shouts or silences in the middle of the jungle at night.
Overnight, Ning Qingxue had no idea how many peaks she had climbed or how many streams she had crossed, even landing in the water more than once, but thankfully she was never attacked by anything else.
When it was just after dawn, Ning Qingxue stroked her hair, which was already in disarray, and she couldn’t believe that she had managed to walk continuously through the night. She didn’t know what was holding her spirits up, maybe it was the fear that she would feel scared once she stopped, or maybe it was because of Ye Mo.
Ning Qingxue took off her backpack, she herself was somewhat impressed that she could walk through the jungle all night with such a heavy load on her back, and she did not meet any more sinkholes, although she could not see the cliff she was going to ahead of her, but Ning Qingxue was sure that it should not be far. She also knew that although she had walked for so long, she hadn’t actually gone very far, and a lot of time had been wasted by some small peaks.
Ning Qingxue, who was ready to eat something, was immediately surprised when she took her backpack off and looked at it. Inside her backpack, apart from a loop of rope, there were only a few cliff-climbing tools that she had prepared to talk about. The bottom of the bag had already broken into a big hole, and the water and food inside, as well as the medicine she had prepared, had somehow fallen out, only two bottles of water and a packet of biscuits were still there, and when she felt her pockets, her mobile phone was also gone.
Ning Qingxue, who had been dumbfounded for a long time, finally came back to her senses, but at this time, if she were to go back and retrieve everything, she would never dare. She didn’t dare to go back, even if she looked back, she felt scared.
Ning Qingxue once again touched the talisman at her ** mouth, but it had disappeared, and she didn’t even know when it had disappeared. The only talisman left was the ‘Evil Protection Talisman’, which had also deflated.
Looking at her bag again, Ning Qingxue knew that if it wasn’t for the loop of rope blocking it, the last few tools she had in her bag to climb the cliff would have been lost.
Ning Qingxue hurriedly cut a piece of rope and tied the bag’s openings. Although she was already too tired to climb up, she no longer dared to rest where she was.
When the first rays of the morning sun came into the jungle, Ning Qingxue was finally relieved. The things that had frightened her had completely disappeared, at least without the inexplicable cries of the night.
Ning Qingxue hurriedly walked to a high point and was just about to pick up her binoculars to see how far she had to go when she unexpectedly found herself at the foot of the mountain. At this moment she actually felt the urge to cry, she had really relied on her own efforts and walked all night in the middle of this horrible primitive jungle to arrive at the foot of this cliff.
She clearly remembered that this was the place where Ye Mo had fallen, she had remembered this cliff countless times and would never remember it wrong. She didn’t care about the nine deaths, what she was afraid of was the unknown scary things in the jungle that she never wanted to face again.
After taking a breath of fresh morning air, Ning began to search for a way to get to the bottom of the cliff, but after searching for two hours, she found that there was no entrance to the cliff and the only way to get to the bottom was to climb up the cliff and go down the end of the cliff.
Ning Qingxue went back to the foot of the mountain again. Luckily, it was not difficult to go up this cliff, as the slope was very steep. She wondered if Ye Mo had also gone up from here. Ning Qingxue could not figure out why Ye Mo would go up from here and get into a fight with someone else. If she had not seen it with her own eyes, she would never have believed it.
There were a few wild peaches underneath the hillside, obviously not ripe yet. Ning Qingxue was a bit hungry and picked some to wash them, eating them with some bitterness in her mouth. She had never eaten anything like this before, but in order to increase her strength, she had to go for it. It took another half packet of biscuits for Ning Qingxue to feel a little more recovered.
Feeling somewhat recovered, Ning Qingxue did not dare to stay on, she knew that she was now being held up by a kind of spiritual will, once she collapsed, she would never be able to get up and continue. At this point, she was already somewhat certain that her physique was clearly better than before, and that her ability to support herself until now was definitely related to Ye Mo’s treatment that night. Without that treatment, even with the support of her spiritual will, perhaps she would not have been able to come here.
Although this side of the peak near the upper mountain wasn’t too steep, it was still incredibly difficult for Ning Qingxue. She strapped all her climbing tools around her waist and began to carefully climb up the mountain.
The upper part of this cliff was even gentler than the slope of many famous mountains, but it was still a bit steep for Ning Qingxue. Ye Mo and the two ancient martial arts experts could easily go up, but Ning Qingxue could only work her way up step by step.
The climb started at seven or eight in the morning, and it was only at two or three in the afternoon that Ning Qingxue climbed to the top of the cliff.
The sight that she saw almost made Ning Qingxue vomit. Two dead men, split into four halves. But Ning Qingxue soon saw the place she had seen among the binoculars, and she was sure she was right, Ye Mo had fallen down from here.
Ning Qingxue walked near this cliff and looked down, layers and layers of white fog, and she could not see the bottom at all. She subconsciously winced, would she still have a life if she fell from here? Her rope was only a hundred metres or so at most, this cliff took a look at nearly a thousand metres to say the least, how would she get down?
If she couldn’t get down, what was the point of her coming? Would she have the courage to go back along the way she came? It was only at this point that Ning Qingxue remembered that she had never even thought about going back.
To go back? If Ye Mo was no longer there, what would she go back to endure? Ning Qingxue shook her head and put these thoughts away.
Once again, she looked at the two dead people, and surprisingly, her heart did not have the same fear she had at first.
Ning Qingxue walked over to a corpse and picked up a short knife. To her surprise, she found that there was a large bag next to the corpse, and what was exposed inside the bag was actually rope.
Ning Qingxue hurriedly pulled the rope out, only to discover that it was actually made of a material she had never seen before. It was very thin, but when she tried it, it was incredibly sturdy, a little stronger than the long rope she had purposely prepared. And looking at the large loop, it might have been nearly a thousand metres.
There was also a hard iron hook in one section of the long rope, obviously meant for securing.
Ning Qingxue breathed a sigh of relief, without this section of the long rope, she could only carefully and slowly climb down this steep cliff. But she didn’t have to climb at all, she only had to look at it to know that] if she wanted to go down this cliff, it was no different from looking for death. Because this cliff was so steep, even if the cliff wall was full of raised rocks and tree rights, she would still be in a nine to life situation.
Ning Qingxue carefully fixed the long rope on top of one of the cliff rocks and tried it very firmly before she tied the rope she had brought around her waist and then fixed the short rope on top of the long rope, so that once she got loose, her own section of rope would immediately form a dead end knot to pull her down.
After repeatedly confirming this, Ning Qingxue hung some tools and the short knife around her waist before slowly sliding down the cliff.
