The Hunchback Mountain was 1,200 meters high and covered an area of more than 600 hectares.
There were many karst caves and caves in the Anya Geological Scenic Area.
The most famous Anya Karst Cave in the scenic area had been found to be 7.7 kilometers long.
This karst cave was known as a cave within a cave, a mountain within a cave, a cave within a mountain, and a river within a cave. The cave had a unique natural landscape and a variety of karst caves. Every year in the spring and autumn season, it attracted a large number of tourists to visit.
There was also a cave in the Hunchback Mountain.
Of course, this cave was not deep. It was only a few hundred meters long.
In this cave, which had existed for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, there was a faint breathing sound inside.
A palm-sized light lit up the space of several square meters in the cave.
In the light, a few weak and haggard faces could be vaguely seen.
These were the nine college students that the outside world and the search team were concerned about.
For some reason, they were trapped in the cave of the Hunchback Mountain.
Zuo Yu was one of the nine college students trapped.
She was 19 years old this year. When school started, she would be a sophomore at Tanzhou University of Fine Arts.
If she could wait until school started …
Zuo Yu knew that she definitely couldn't wait. Last week, her school's Chinese Art Club privately held an outdoor sketching activity, and the sketching location was the Anya Geological Scenic Area, which was hundreds of miles away from the school.
The core of Chinese Art was landscape painting.
A roll of rice paper and a brush.
She held the brush and dipped it in the ink. As her wrist danced, the ink painting jumped onto the paper.
It was such a beautiful scene.
A person silently wandered in a beautiful world, recording the beauty hidden between the mountains and rivers.
Every time Zuo Yu carried a drawing board to the scenic mountains to paint, her quiet painting always attracted the shutters of the camera. Even when she was painting with her classmates, the male classmate behind her forgot to paint the mountains and rivers. Instead, he copied her painting on the paper.
Of course …
Zuo Yu felt that it was useless to think about it now. The nine of them listened to the local male student.
The male student said that there was a particularly beautiful lake more than ten miles away from the scenic area. The lake water was even more transparent than the glass in the university laboratory. If there was no wind, no one would realize that it was a lake.
In order to prove that he was not lying, this male student even took out a TikTok video he took last year by the lake.
That video received more than 100,000 likes and thousands of comments praising the lake's beauty, which was so clear that it didn't seem like a scene on Earth.
After they finished watching, they immediately walked towards the lake. Then, due to the heavy rain, they lost their way.
After that, after a lot of effort, they were successfully trapped in this cave.
All the food they brought with them was finished on the first day. At that time, they hadn't been trapped yet. They thought that they would be able to climb the mountain at dawn the next day and find the Cloud Mist Peak, which would show them the way.
In the end, they had been trapped in this deep and dark cave for five whole days.
At first, they were flustered and at a loss, but now they were crying loudly.
Calm down and actively seek survival.
Now, he was numb and waiting for death. His entire spiritual journey had been completed in these five days, and he was about to close his eyes.
"I … I don't want to die …"
Someone murmured under the gloomy green light of the phone.
No one answered. Everyone had repeated this sentence in the past five days. Only when their tears dried up did they realize the cruel truth.
Death was not something that could be chosen.
The word "death" echoed in the silent cave for a long time. After a full five minutes, someone finally spoke up. "Why don't we kill ourselves?"
Such a negative suggestion actually attracted the attention of five of the nine people. The remaining four had already fallen into a semi-conscious state.
"Instead of slowly starving to death, why don't we think of a way to kill ourselves? That way, we won't lose our minds from hunger in two days, and some horror story will happen again."
"This … is a good suggestion." Zuo Yu responded. She said weakly, "Since we're going to die in the end, it's better to die early."
"But how do we kill ourselves?"
"We've used our phones to take pictures of this cave more than once. Other than a pool of water that keeps dripping, there isn't even a place to tie a rope."
Zuo Yu suggested, "Why don't we hit the wall like in ancient TV dramas?"
"Then forget it." The girl who made the suggestion had no strength to think about anything too complicated. Hitting the wall was definitely not within her consideration.
"If we continue to live, maybe … maybe someone will come to rescue us?"
In the darkness, someone whispered.
The voice belonged to He Qiang. He was the local college student who led the other eight people into the "ditch".
It was an accident.
He didn't mean it badly.
The lake really existed, and there was hope that it would be listed as a scenic spot in the next five years.
The location of the lake was 15 miles away from the scenic spot, separated by two mountains. He Qiang went there once with his friends last year. It took about seven hours to walk back and forth. The moment he saw the lake, he felt that his whole soul was sublimated. Compared with the beauty of the lake, the hardships of the mountain road were not worth mentioning.
He Qiang's landscape painting was good, but his geographical knowledge was very poor.
He took the eight students around the mountain for a long time and found the lake, but it was completely different from what he remembered.
The lake in front of him was very muddy, covered with leaves and branches.
He thought that he had found the wrong place and wanted to go back, but it suddenly rained heavily. The umbrellas they carried with them could not be opened in front of the storm. They hurriedly found a col to shelter from the rain. As a result, the rain fell from two o 'clock in the afternoon until dark.
The next day, the mountain was full of fog. They walked through the fog, but the farther they went, the farther they went.
They were finally trapped in the cave, and He Qiang had a direct reason. So these days, He Qiang, who felt guilty, had been encouraging everyone, saying that as long as they persevered, they would be rescued.
"There will be no rescue." Zuo Yu whispered, "Let's not talk about where we are trapped, just look at the place where we are."
"If there is a search team looking for us, do you think they can find us while we are still alive?"
"What if …"
"What if they can?" He Qiang continued to repeat the words that had been repeated countless times.
Zuo Yu closed her eyes. "We saw what happened before we entered the cave."
"There will be no search team that can find us."
"Maybe a few years later, there will be mountaineering enthusiasts or some exploration team that can find our bodies."
"Alas, we are looking for trouble!"
Then Zuo Yu opened her eyes again, and a little hope appeared in her hungry green eyes. "Yes, someone will find us in a few years."
"I want to write a farewell letter for future generations."
"Where are the rice paper and brush I used to draw?"
Zuo Yu reached out and felt around, but she did not feel anything.
"Forget it, I don't want to write. With this strength, I might as well crawl and drink some water."
Zuo Yu turned over with difficulty and was too lazy to drink water.
After a long time, in a daze, Zuo Yu felt that the cold rock under her body seemed to shake slightly.
Was this the sound of the approaching footsteps of death?
Zuo Yu thought in a daze.
"Did you feel it?"
The local student He Qiang opened his eyes. "The ground seemed to shake just now?"
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