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His non-answer nearly made me jump and almost crushed me.
He and Cao Mingzhe insisted that Song Guilong was still alive, which I found hard to believe and impossible to understand. It had been too long; Song Guilong had spent too much time underground in Lop Nur. If it were me, I thought, I would have died a long time ago.
Yet the two of them never gave up, continuously striving to find Song Guilong. Today, to hear news of him from Xiao Guolin's mouth was enough to drive me to the brink of collapse!
"Are you sure it's him?"
"Of course."
"Where did you see him? How... how is he?"
"Right inside that Rubble Forest." Xiao Guolin turned his face toward the metal door. "He suddenly appeared in my flashlight, and we locked eyes for a moment. I was a bit taken aback and froze. When I called out to him, he turned and ran away.
I acted selfishly; yes, it seems my actions harmed my team members. Without thinking, I chased after his figure deep into the Rubble Forest.
He ran fast, and I had to exert all my effort just to keep up with him. My teammates couldn't possibly follow us.
To go back and find my teammates, I wandered around in the Rubble Forest for a long time until I finally reached one side of the Dam. By then, my lighting and food supplies had long been exhausted.
At that moment, I could have chosen to walk along one edge of the Dam to exit the Rubble Forest, but I didn't do that; instead, I climbed down directly."
"You abandoned your teammates."
"It wasn't abandonment; it was an inability to face them."
"Why? I don't understand."
"I got lost in the Rubble Forest; I wandered around for a long time."
"For how long? How many?"
"Not just a few. It was three digits."
I asked incredulously, "You were trapped in there for over a hundred days?"
"Now you can understand how I felt back then. Here, you, I, and the other awakened ones can survive for a long time without food or water, but they can't. I didn't want to face my teammates turning into dried corpses."
"How long has it been since you last ate? Why can't I? I believe I can't last long without food or water. I'm already feeling hungry; it's impossible to survive for too long without sustenance."
"You can," Xiao Guolin glanced at me and gestured toward A San, who was still lying on the ground. "He can too. When the calories in your body are consumed to a certain threshold and your reserves can't meet the demand, you'll start absorbing energy from this space. Of course, it will be a painful process. The transition from depleting your own heat to absorbing energy will make you feel like you want to die. But if you get through it, at least you'll survive."
Xiao Guolin's words were quite mysterious, almost like Fang Ye Tan. However, I decided to start fasting from now on; this was the only way I could prove whether what he said was true. Everything he mentioned earlier was beyond my ability to verify.
Looking at his face made my heart tighten involuntarily. I had to figure out the cost of absorbing energy here; I didn't want to end up looking like that.
"Old Xiao, your face... it has nothing to do with absorbing energy here, right?"
Xiao Guolin shook his head. "No, my face and skin are corroded by the water outside. The transition of energy absorption is a torment for both bodily functions and spirit. If possible, I advise against trying it. While you won't die, it won't be much different from dying once."
Hearing this made me shiver inside. However, I quickly set aside that topic; there were more pressing matters on my mind.
"You didn't catch up with Song Guilong?"
"No. I caught up with him. Well... he led me to a certain place."
"And then?" I asked nervously.
"He let me go, told me to leave this place."
My thoughts gradually shifted from shock and doubt to a possibility. "Does Song Guilong have a way to leave here?"
"Yes," Xiao Guolin nodded.
"You want me to take Xiao Ting and these people out through the method provided by Song Guilong, right?"
"Yes."
"Is it feasible?"
"It should be."
I took a deep breath. "Then why don't you leave this place?"
Xiao Guolin stood like a stone in front of the metal door. He didn't turn around and remained silent for a long time. Finally, he sighed, "I can't leave."
"Why?" I asked, staring at the bald spot on his head. "Old Xiao, the path you dared not take could endanger your daughter if I go with her."
Xiao Guolin turned his head, his face still expressionless. I thought my words would make him explode with anger, at least make him upset. I was already quite irritated and didn't want to care about his feelings.
"It's not what you think, Zhang." Xiao Guolin looked up at some point behind me; according to my memory, Xiao Ting should be in that direction.
Yes, he was looking at Xiao Ting, even though I didn't turn around. But I could see kindness in Xiao Guolin's eyes.
Xiao Guolin quickly withdrew his gaze from behind me and silently looked at me for a while. "The main reason is that I never intended to go back after coming down this time. I've done everything I could, including the preparations for you and paving the way."
Song Guilong led me to the entrance of a cave. It was quite a small opening that required us to crouch down to enter. From here, he could reach the Ground level.
He had explored inside; it wasn't a direct passage to the Ground but was close enough that they could quickly dig their way there.
Xiao Guolin turned around and pointed at the half-broken knife still in my hand. "This knife is what Song Guilong gave me. He told me to leave here as soon as possible and use this knife to break through the last stretch of road."
I glanced down at the broken knife. Both its surface and the broken edge were dark and lacked any metallic sheen; it resembled a stone knife more than anything else. However, it was quite heavy, about the weight of a brick.
"Of course, I couldn't run away alone; I never planned to leave without my team. But I don't want my teammates to accompany me to death. I went back to find them. Unfortunately, I couldn't find them and soon got lost.
That Rubble Forest had no straight paths; it was impossible to determine direction, like a vast maze where many times I found myself going in circles within a confined area."
Of course I made marks along the way, but can you understand my distress when I made three marks in the same place? I keep walking back to the starting point, but I can't get out of RubbleForest. This was also when I discovered that I could maintain my strength without eating or drinking. The process is painful and the consequences are dire. " "as a result of? Are there any sequelae? "I quickly interrupted Xiao Guolin and asked. I have plans to try to change the way I absorb energy. Of course, I have to understand the stakes. Don't fall for it in a daze. It's too late to regret it. "Yes, for me. There is something to come. "What are the consequences?" "I can't leave here." Or, I can't get out of here alive. " "Grass. Old Xiao, aren’t you cheating on me? I'm still going to try it. ”(To Be Continued.)
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