Chapter 693: A Life-Saving Opportunity
Soon, three of Long Jiuyan's men swam over and found that there were four roads extending out from the cave.
But when several people arrived here, they also discovered that the temperature in the air was suddenly split in half by the frost knife and snow blade. The body soaked in the hot spring felt like lying on a beach in midsummer, but the air outside the hot spring was extremely cold.
Huo Shaoting shook his head and used a headlight to check the situation in the cave.
The walls were covered with thick ice, and condensed icicles fell from the walls. The ice picks were sharp, as if they would fall down and stab someone to death at any time.
The ice does not feel clear and crystal clear, but is turbid and looks like clusters of stalactites. It is probably the water vapor that accumulates layer by layer, freezes and then melts, and then melts and then condenses, over and over again, forming a unique ice crystal.
Huo Shaoting tried to climb out, but suddenly remembered that he had taken off his down jacket. Going out of the hot spring now was no different from running naked in the North Pole.
He looked at the three people around him and said, "Go and find them."
Several people had observed the situation in the cave, with embarrassment on their faces.
One of them said: "Mr. Huo, this cave is too cold. It is impossible for Miss Bai to come here."
Huo Shaoting's face suddenly turned cold, "How do you know if I haven't asked you? Or do you think I can't move you under my orders?"
The three of them were silent.
Huo Shaoting didn't intend to let it go so easily, "If Long Jiuyan knew that his men came out with such virtues, think about what he would do to you?"
His headlight flashed across the faces of three people, different faces, but the same frightened expression.
Long Jiuyan was indeed inhumane, and these three people were afraid of just mentioning his name.
"Okay, I don't want to embarrass you. When Bai Zhi is rescued, I will truthfully explain the situation to Long Jiuyan. He will definitely reward you. Of course, I will also be grateful to you."
Long Jiuyan's three men were silent in the darkness, with only the rapid breathing of a few people in the air, as if they were engaged in a fierce ideological struggle.
It's not that they didn't want to save Bai Zhi, but it was too cold here and they were not ready to rush out of the hot spring for a while.
Finally, one person took the lead and made up his mind, "Thank you, Mr. Huo, for reminding me. I will do my best to search and rescue Miss Bai, and I won't hesitate to risk my life. But please make sure to honor what you promised."
"Don't worry, I keep my word."
Before Huo Shaoting finished speaking, the three of them climbed ashore with difficulty.
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But seeing their shivering bodies when they landed, Huo Shaoting's body subconsciously shrank into the hot spring.
"Miss Bai, where are you?"
"Miss Bai..."
The three people kept shouting, and there were echoes. For a while, the human voices and echoes overlapped in the entire cave, sounding like ghosts crying and wolves howling.
"Found it, Mr. Huo, we found Miss Bai!"
Someone shouted, and Huo Shaoting rushed out of the hot spring without caring about anything else.
The movement was too violent, and his knee hit the rocks on the shore hard, causing him to gasp in pain. Ignoring his nearly broken knees, Huo Shaoting ran into the cave. The biting cold penetrated every pore of his body, but he seemed unconscious.
At this time, there was only one thought in my mind: I found Bai Zhi, great!
Bai Zhi was leaning in a corner, her limbs curled up tightly towards her body, like a baby that hadn't had time to leave its mother's body, trying to preserve the body's temperature.
Huo Shaoting felt terrible pain in his heart, and he quickly carried her into the hot spring with Long Jiuyan's people.
"Bai Zhi, wake up, I'm Huo Shaoting, and I'm here to save you."
Huo Shaoting supported Bai Zhi's body and asked her to lean against the shore to stabilize her body.
He rubbed Bai Zhi's hands and feet repeatedly and kept calling her name, but her eyes remained closed, her face was still cold, and her lips were white from the cold and there was no blood.
Huo Shaoting was anxious, "Bai Zhi, don't scare me. If you keep insisting, didn't you say you want to grow up with Xiao Ke and Xiao Ai? What will they do if something happens to you?"
When Long Jiuyan's three subordinates saw this situation, their hearts went cold at the same time.
All their hopes were pinned on Bai Zhi. Bai Zhi can't wake up, Jiu Ye is angry with them, it's better to die now.
The man closest to Huo Shaoting said in a depressed voice, "Mr. Huo, I think it's better to forget it. Miss Bai can't wake up."
Another person raised his head from the hot spring, "It's over, we're dead."
The third person started crying directly, "If I die, who will support my sister through college. Woohoo..."
In the darkness, the complaints, cries and echoes of the three grown men overlapped, making the entire cave suddenly feel colder.
Huo Shaoting was so angry that he said, "Shut up, if you want to die, you will die on your own. Bai Zhi will definitely be fine."
He hugged Bai Zhi's body tightly, fearing that if he was not careful, her body would be washed away.
Long Jiuyan grabbed the ladder thrown down by his subordinates and used his strength to climb down.
On the way, he met Lin Yi and others hanging in mid-air.
"Master Jiu, why are you down here? Your subordinates are also with you."
Ji Yi looked at Long Jiuyan in surprise, fearing that his voice would be too loud and Long Jiuyan would lose his grip on the ladder and fall down. In this way, his sin will be great.
"No need, this ladder is not long enough. You can go up later and find a longer rope before you come down."
As he spoke, Long Jiuyan took out the short knife he had worn all year round from his waist.
With a swish sound, the short knife was unsheathed, reflecting Ji Yi's headlight, emitting a captivating cold light.
The scabbard was quickly disassembled and assembled in his hand, turning it into a rock-climbing grip with strong grip.
Combining the two, Long Jiuyan grabbed two things with his arms, chiseled the rock with all his strength, and continued to climb down.
"Master Jiu, be careful, I will find a way to come and help you right away."
Lin Yi knew that it was useless to say anything at this time. He could not change what Master Jiu decided. As a subordinate, he could only try his best to find a way to rescue.
When Long Jiuyan moved down, he lost his grip for a moment. Because this piece of rock was too smooth, it seemed to be caused by long-term water vapor erosion. At the critical moment, he hit the rock wall with all his strength. With a bang, his bones seemed to be chiseled into the rock, and the short knife and rock climbing hand were hanging on the rock.
He stabilized his body and listened carefully to the movements around him.
There was no sound of water, so what was going on with the water vapor?
Suddenly, he heard a faint echo.
The cold expression on Long Jiuyan's face loosened a little. He turned on the loudspeaker taken off the ladder and began to shout down.
"Bai Zhi!"
"Huo Shaoting!"
Long Jiuyan's three men were in despair in the hot spring. Suddenly they heard Long Jiuyan's voice. The three men struggled in the water like dying loaches.
"Is it Jiuye's voice?" one of them asked.
"Jiuye is coming down!"
We don't have to be abandoned.
"Jiuye, we are here. Please come down. It's safe down there."
"Jiuye, we found Miss Bai."
"Jiuye..."
The three men shouted one after another, like dying people who had found a way out of a desperate situation.