Book 1: Chapter 183


    ck sses said slowly, "With the second route, the royal poinciana is just above the cliff. If you look carefully, the cliff at this position isnt as high as other areas. Moreover, people arent in the habit of looking around again, so theyd start climbing near the bottom of the royal poinciana."


    It didnt sound like an inevitable choice, but I felt that ck sses answer was a little perfunctory. This wasnt the real reason.


    So, was ck sses "role" to wait for us at this position?


    Leaving aside all the unexpected events, I figured Uncle Two wanted me to bring as many people down as possible. Jiang Zi Suan and Xiao Hua meeting Boss Jiao may all be considered unexpected events, so only our ragtag group made it down here in the end. But at this time, we had no other choice but to continue.


    I didn''t ask any more questions, because I knew that if everyone had the same mentality as me, then we couldnt talk about Uncle Two''s scheme. That way, it eliminated the possibility that it would be revealed. In the end, we could only cooperate by tacit understanding. At this time, we had to discuss the topic directly and test each other before we couldmunicate.


    ck sses handed me a cup of hot water, and I said firmly, "No matter what, we have to save Fatty first. Then we can lead Boss Jiaos people here. Since theres poisonous gas in the calling spring and they also have to enter from there, they probably brought protective equipment. We have to use our advantages here to snatch the equipment."


    "They have protective equipment and were running around naked in poisonous gas. What are our advantages? Liu Sang asked weakly. Is it low IQ, so its not as painful to die?"


    "What about your fur clothes? I asked. They can resist gas, right?"


    ck sses shook his head andughed, "Nope! Sorry, they can onlyst for five minutes. We got all the food here when it rained. See? He moved one of the grass coverings aside, revealing a pile of fishying behind it. Hundreds of them had been strung on branches and preserved using smoke. "We dig a few holes in the ground when it rains heavily. The fishe in when the stream rises, and after the water recedes, the fish are easy to catch. The fish are delicious. Would you like some?"


    "So doesn''t this mean we''re trapped? What did you mean when you said that the n can be implemented now that Im here?" I asked him.


    ck sses looked at Bai Haotian, "Youre from the Bai family, correct? How long can you hold your breath?"


    Bai Haotian looked at him in horror and didn''t answer. "Just tell the truth, were not bad guys," ck sses said.


    "Not for a minute. I didn''t bring my bathing suit," Bai Haotian eventually replied.


    I interrupted ck sses, "Exin it clearly."


    ck sses used a stick to draw lines in the mud, "This is our position, this is the cliff, and this is the stream. We can reach the stream in five minutes. Theres an underground rest station fifteen hundred meters away from this stream. This rest station has a narrow underwater passage leading to it. I used ash from the fire to make a gas mask. That, added with my goggles, allows me to breathe in the water three times without dying. Since its a distance of fifteen hundred meters, you can only breath three times. You definitely cant breathe a fourth time with this kind of gas mask.


    "Can''t you make more?" I asked.


    "The problem is that you dont have time to rece it. You only have three chances to breathe. What I want to do is make a mud sack and put you in it. Well rush to the stream and throw you into the water. Then youll use those three breaths to swim to the next rest station, which is only three hundred meters away from the calling springs exit. Well teach you how to make these fur clothes so you can make them yourself and enter the calling spring. Theres a cement room in that ce that mustve been built by the spies back then. When we get there, Ill tell you the next phase of the n.


    I was a little baffled as I listened, but ck sses suddenly looked at me, "You also have something to do. If you two cooperate, we can get out of this predicament." He then looked at Liu Sang and added, "You only need to do one thing to cooperate with us: tell us when itll rain."


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    <strong><em>So it looks like we agree with the Chinese fans that the four beauties are Poker-face, Wu Xie, Xiao Hua, and ck sses (in that order). I find it hrious that Brother Xiao Man is 2 votes away from knocking ck sses out of the top 4. I think some of you cheated and picked more than four. You know who you are </em></strong>( )