In the early morning of the next day, Lu Liran's team was ready to go.

While counting the number of people, Ruan Xiaotian trotted up and lowered his voice to inform Lu Liran that one person they rescued yesterday still couldn't survive the night.

Lu Liran was silent for two seconds, then walked into the tent where the man was staying.

"I have used everything that can be used, but there is still no way." A team member who took care of the man said hoarsely, "His injury is too serious. A large piece of his waist was scratched off, and his internal organs were damaged. Seriously infected..."

"I see." Lu Liran said, interrupted the team member's words lightly, put his palm on the man's shoulder, and said warmly, "You did your best."

The team member choked up suddenly when he heard the words, looked at Lu Liran with red eyes, opened his mouth and closed it again, unable to speak.

Lu Liran understood the powerlessness of his teammate leaving by his side all too well, so he didn't say much, but just patted that person on the shoulder.

"Set him down and let the other team members know. We'll leave after we've tidied up." He turned around and told Ruan Xiaotian.

"yes!"

The death of a teammate cast a shadow of death on the team. When they set off again, everyone was extremely silent.

The road along the road was also dead silent. The flood after the surge submerged all the roads, and when the flood subsided, only the broken animal carcasses and tree trunks and branches were exposed.

"According to the map, we should have arrived near the lowest tributary of the Sana River. Follow the tributary along the bank, which is almost the route of Feige and the others." After walking for a long time, Ruan Xiaotian stopped for a while, and compared Said to the route.

The team members on the side looked in front of them, then leaned over to look at the electronic map in Ruan Xiaotian's hand, and muttered: "You didn't lead the wrong way, did you? Where is the road? Isn't it all water?"

Ruan Xiaotian choked, looked in front of him, then at the map, and said, "The map didn't say that the river is so wide..."

"Isn't it because of the effort in the past two days?" Another teammate guessed in a low voice.

"Yes, it makes sense." Ruan Xiaotian's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he nodded fiercely, "I didn't lead the wrong way."

Lu Liran frowned slightly, and looked not far away, the river formed one piece after another, like a vast ocean, the shorter trees only had a small piece of canopy, and the taller trees still had more than half of the water exposed .

"You did not lead the wrong way, but how do we go down like this?" The teammate took a light breath, "How deep and urgent is the water?"

Ruan Xiaotian rubbed his nose, turned to Lu Liran and asked, "Captain Lu, how do you see us going?"

Lu Liran glanced at Ruan Xiaotian, there were still a few wounded in the team who were being helped to follow up step by step, looking weak and haggard, but still gritted their teeth.

The current situation is no longer suitable for them to move forward.

Lu Liran took off the equipment bag on his back and asked everyone to count the supplies on the spot and report the number accurately.

The location they are in is much wider than last night's foothold, perhaps because they are along the side of a tributary, there are not so many tall trees covering the sky on both sides, and the vision in the sky is clearer.

This would be a good place to wait for air rescue.

"Report! The total amount of supplies left at present-two compressed tents, four fast food supplements, a complete first aid medical kit, an extra meter of medical gauze, three adrenal needles, three signal flares, one compressed kayak, and the RCLP, the rest are damaged or lost!"

There really isn't much left.

Lu Liran quickly reassigned: "All the wounded who had difficulty moving stayed where they were, waiting for rescue from the headquarters. Vivien also stayed here with a slight fracture in her arm to take care of the wounded. The remaining three people, Ruan Xiaotian, Fei Li, and Shi Nan, followed me. For medical supplies, anti-inflammatory pain relievers and a small amount of gauze are left, one compression tent and one signal flare are left, and the rest are taken away."

Shi Nan doesn't talk much, and his presence in the team is very low. He is more than 1.8 meters tall. When he rescued his teammates who fell into the water, he was the first one to get down besides Lu Liran.

Good skill, quick response, not many harsh words.

Leaving a compression tent and all food supplements, as well as some immediate medical supplies, should be enough to support the wounded until help arrives.

After redistributing the supplies, Lu Liran packed his backpack.

"After the air rescue arrives, immediately let the wounded follow them back to the headquarters, and don't stay here any longer." Lu Liran told Vivien.

"Then what do you guys do?" Vivien asked with red eyes, "and Team Mo."

"Bring people back to the headquarters first, so as not to cause complications." Lu Liran said.

Vivien nodded, understanding what Lu Liran meant.

She hesitated for a few seconds, and asked with some uncertainty: "What does the Lu team mean, what will happen next?"

Doesn't sound like it's going to be peaceful.

Lu Liran just said: "Just in case."

He put his bag on his back, nodded slightly to Vivien and the others, and said, "Then we'll separate here, Vivien, take care of these people."

"Guaranteed to complete the task!" Vivien responded.

A group of wounded who stayed in place waiting for rescue watched Lu Liran's squad leave.

The aerial camera used for the live broadcast flew into the air.

Taking a bird's-eye view of the whole team, the size of the team has shrunk by more than half. The teammates who were energetic and well-equipped before the departure became miserable in just one day, and the good team was in disarray.

There was an unusual silence in the studio.

"Are they going to be okay?" Ruan Xiaotian worriedly looked back at Vivien and her party, and asked Lu Liran in a low voice.

"That depends on the speed of rescue dispatched by your headquarters." Lu Liran said indifferently, "The higher the efficiency, the higher the probability of survival. The lower the efficiency, then they can only see whose fate is hard."

Ruan Xiaotian: "..."

Such a straightforward and unpretentious answer.

Lu Liran's words exploded a wave of living people in the live broadcast room—

【Hiss, what an impersonal answer】

[Laughing to death, with a touch of sadness in the black humor]

[It's reality, I have already left so many necessities for them, if the rescue does not arrive, the consumption will be exhausted]

[It’s not that bad, I think Xiao Lu’s experts have done enough, they are the ones who are really in danger in the future, right? And left so much medicine for the wounded]

【If you don't stay, you can't justify it】

【Holy Mother】

[Speaking of the Holy Mother, I hope that when you get hurt in the future, your companion will leave you nothing and leave you alone]

【…】

The live broadcast of the rescue scene continued, and the number of viewers in the live broadcast room increased rather than decreased.

It's just that now, the goal of the vast majority of viewers is not to look forward to finding the missing commander, but to worry about these soldiers on missions, hoping that they can be successfully rescued.

[Now I finally understand why I sent teams out to search and rescue several times before but failed to return... This ghost place is too dangerous]

[You only came in for three days and two nights, right? Threatened on the first night, flash floods on the second day, how can people live like this]

[Speaking of intimidation... that thing is really scary, I still have nightmares QAQ]

[Who is not! ! That thing was made by the natives, right? Are natives all natural horror film directors? ? 】

[Come on, at most a third-level horror film director]

【I'll just ask if you're afraid of putting this thing in front of your tent, it's at most three levels, tsk】

[I hope that the road ahead will not encounter these natives again, find the commander and return quickly]

【I don't even expect to find the commander. In that flash flood, so many DFA elites were lost, how could he survive? 】

【…Too】

Lu Liran's team set off again, accompanied by the blessings of tens of millions of viewers in the live broadcast room.

They walked along the edge of the higher hillside for the time being, until they reached the end of the road, then dropped the grappling hook cable and started rock climbing.

The landform of the river bank of the lower tributary is like a sunken underground square. There are many dead animals floating on the surface of the stagnant water, and there is a rotten breath of death in the air.

Surrounded by mountain walls, the deepest point where the water poured in was measured by Lu Liran's team. It was about 5.8 meters deep, and the shallower ones were less than 3 meters deep.

The stagnant water has been worn down overnight, and it is still so deep. It is hard to imagine how high the water level here suddenly rose when the flash flood broke out yesterday.

Lu Liran's team moved forward, carefully clinging to the mountain wall, groping forward like a spider man.

Looking at the mess in front of them, the heaviness in their hearts increased a bit.

Under the overturned nest, there are no eggs? The situation here is more serious than they expected.

[I can't bear to look directly, there are no living things here]

[Didn't you say that you fell into an underground cave? With so much water, the underground caves won’t be flooded, right?]

[You have to tell these people that they are underground, otherwise they will just search like this, and it is impossible to find anyone on the ground after searching around]

[Is there any way to notify? The communicators are almost broken, and the headquarters has not contacted these people until now, so it must be impossible to contact]

[It makes sense... Wouldn't it be cool? ? Like a headless chicken! 】

【What else can I do...】

The audience in the live broadcast room broke into a cold sweat for Lu Liran's team.

At the same time, Lu Liran's team continued to move forward. Compared to the unoptimistic viewers in the live broadcast room, Lu Liran seemed calmer, as if he had discovered something and was confident.

"Team Lu, the accumulated water has gone down a lot." Fei Li observed and paid attention to the depth of the accumulated water along the road, and said in time.

Lu Liran nodded: "The speed of water removal is a bit abnormal. There may be dark holes in the landform below. Be careful of undercurrents and vortexes."

"receive!"

[! God! Actually found that there is an underground cave below! 】

[Ah, there is hope, there is hope! 】

【People are right below, Army Lu】

[Turn your mind! Find someone now! 】

[Laughing to death, but the water hasn't receded, so even if you know someone is down there, you can't find it, right? 】

【Unless there are diving tools】

[It's no fun to dive. I haven't heard experts say that there are many undercurrents and whirlpools underneath.]

【It's too dangerous, it's too dangerous】

"Fei Li continued to observe the water level, and Ruan Xiaotian continued to try to call Yao Fei's team. After Shi Nan stopped, he would speak up immediately if something happened." Lu Liran climbed to the forefront of the team, leaned slightly, and said to the three people behind him.

"receive!"

After last night's work, Ruan Xiaotian repaired the damaged communication link to a certain extent, but the original wireless ultra-long communication distance can only be restored to the most original 100-meter coverage range, so the group must continue to maintain the call communication state, Only then is it possible to contact Yao Fei's team.

The damp mountain wall was cold and slippery. Except for the protective rope buckle around the waist, the group climbed almost with bare hands. The burden on the body was very heavy, and the cold air penetrated every hole.

Normally, rock climbing in this kind of situation can last up to 40 minutes, which is the limit of the human body, but right now, Lu Liran and his team have walked forward for nearly an hour with heavy loads, and even Ruan Xiaotian, who seems to have the weakest physical strength, unexpectedly persisted.

Lu Liran glanced at the small team behind him, and asked if the situation of those few people could persist.

"No problem." Fei Li and Shi Nan replied in unison.

Ruan Xiaotian gritted his teeth tremblingly, and said in a muffled voice: "I can hold on, but it will take ten minutes at most, Captain Lu, I can't crawl anymore."

Lu Liran nodded slightly when he heard the words, and looked at Ruan Xiaotian with an indistinct smile: "Almost, almost there."

Hearing the words, Ruan Xiaotian raised his head and looked in front of his eyes with hope. He thought he could see some obvious terrain after the water receded, but he didn't expect that there was still a cliff wall that seemed to be unchanged and a completely submerged water surface.

The hope that had just hung on Ruan Xiaotian's face disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"It's almost here... Lu Lu's consolation is too blind." Ruan Xiaotian muttered softly.

Shi Nan and Fei Li heard that they looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

No one took Lu Liran's "comfort" seriously, but they didn't expect that when they climbed a moss-covered cliff and turned the corner, they actually turned around——

What caught my eye was a piece of dry land that had almost receded from the flood. The ground height was much lower than the record on the electronic map, as if it had sunk a lot.

The large piece of land is riddled with holes, like a beehive.

Ruan Xiaotian took a deep breath, a little excited, couldn't help but let out a "grass": "God! What did Team Lu say?"

[I rely on it! One second, the pale consolation of haha ​​experts actually came true the next second! ? 】

【Experts do not lie】

[Why didn't I see it at all? ? If it wasn't for the live broadcast all the way, I would have thought it was a script]

[If we can see it, then everyone is an expert]

【This is too amazing】

【Yeah, believe in Brother Lu, let's go to the world! 】

The live broadcast room was full of cheers, and finally there was no need to continue to watch the muddy flood that filled the screen. Even if they, the audience, were separated by the screen and the network cable, they still felt strangely depressed.

Ruan Xiaotian stared at the bare ground under his feet in surprise: "Why does the water go down here?"

"Underground...karst cave?" Fei Li asked uncertainly, looking at Lu Liran.

"En." Lu Liran responded, carefully turned around the corner, and slowly descended, trying to land.

"This piece of foundation may be a little loose and fragile, be careful on your feet." He reminded.

Ruan Xiaotian got excited and excited, and the rock under his feet shattered, and many gravels rolled down immediately, smashing down, and a little hit Fei Li who was biased towards the bottom.

He hastily grasped the protrusion on the rock to fix himself, let out a sigh of relief, and asked nervously, "Fei Li, are you alright?"

"It's okay." Fei Libi gestured, "Be careful, don't move around! Captain Lu and I will go down to check first, you and Shi Nan stay where you are."

Ruan Xiaotian nodded.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and lay on the rock wall, daring not to move.

Soon, Ruan Xiaotian watched as Lu Liran and Fei Li descended to the bottom of the mountain wall, with both feet on the ground.

"How!" he yelled.

Fei Li Wensheng also shouted at the top of his voice: "It's not good! I don't feel at ease!"

Ruan Xiaotian paused when he heard the words, not sure?

He turned to look for Shi Nan, and muttered, "What does it mean to be unsteady? Not at ease in your heart?"

Shi Nan raised his head and looked at him silently, without answering, like a bored gourd.

He only listened to Lu Liran's instructions, and Lu Liran asked the two of them to stay where they were, and he stayed where they were, without any other unnecessary actions.

Seeing that there was nothing to discuss, Ruan Xiaotian could only withdraw his head dully, and stared in the direction of Lu Liran and Fei Li without blinking.

"Be careful..." He prayed in his heart very quietly.

Every time Lu Liran took a step, there was a slight movement under his feet, which seemed to come from the cracks in the ground around him. The subtle movement made Fei Li hesitate, wondering if he should follow up.

"Walk where I walked." Lu Liran seemed to see Fei Li's hesitation, and warned him.

Fei Li nodded immediately upon hearing this.

The crypts visible to the naked eye on this piece of land vary in size and are numerous. The small ones are only the size of a one-dollar coin, while the larger ones even have the diameter of a manhole cover.

As the two walked, Fei Li couldn't help but asked Lu Liran in a low voice: "Can the flood water be drained from these caves?"

"Do you think these burrows are burrows made by mountain moles?" Lu Liran twitched his lips, "The underground world is like a mirror on the ground. The space is vast and can even extend to a depth of 100 meters, carrying tens of millions of tons of flood water. Quantity is only a matter of time."

Fei Li was a little hard to imagine, he looked at a crypt at his feet, about the size of his fist, looked in through the hole, it was dark, it seemed that he could stretch out his arms at most to reach the bottom.

Lu Liran saw Fei Li's thoughts, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "You shout inside, maybe there will be an echo."

Fei Li couldn't help laughing: "Lieutenant Lu, your joke is cold enough."

Lu Liran just looked at him, neither responding to the trend nor denying it, and it took a lot of effort to see him from the original determination to the drumming in his heart.

"...Are you serious?" He paused and asked tentatively in a low voice.

Fei Li rubbed his nose, somewhat aroused curiosity in his heart, he squatted down, cleared his throat, and called out tentatively: "Hello—"

After yelling, he didn't hear anything, Fei Li felt that he was quite stupid, like a fool.

Why did he unconditionally believe the nonsense of the other party after meeting Lu Dui's eyes all of a sudden?

Fei Li stood up straight, scratched the back of his head, and couldn't help but cast a glance in Lu Liran's direction.

Captain Lu, he seems to be quite a serious person, but he didn't expect to be joking, the serious one.

[Hahahahahaha laughed so hard, I can only say that Brother Lu's acting skills are too good, he is the best at fooling people]

[No, the main reason is that my brother Lu is usually too serious, he doesn't look like a person who can tell jokes at all 23333]

[Look at the little team members fooling around, like a dumbfounded quack]

[Not to mention anything else, the way the expert looked like just now, I would have believed it in my place...]

If Fei Li could see the real-time barrage in the live broadcast room at this moment, he would be very relieved, at least knowing that he was not the only one being fooled by the Lu team.

Just when Fei Li was about to leave, there was a weak, familiar voice in his ear—

"Hey-"

Like a feeble echo.

For a moment, the expression on Fei Li's face froze there, motionless, and his eyes suddenly widened.

[Fuck, fuck, is it a human voice! ? 】

[This is absolutely lucky! Catch a trap and shout, and someone will answer! 】

[It may also be that too much bad luck was sacrificed in the early stage...]

[not unreasonable cough]

Lu Liran also heard the sound, strode back suddenly, and quickly came to Fei Li's side.

"Captain Lu...you heard that too?! That's..." Fei Li gasped when he saw this, his eyes lit up, and he stared at the crypt under his feet.

Lu Liran quickly got down on the ground and approached the crypt.

As soon as he lowered his body, he heard another slight sound from under the crypt: "Hello—is anyone—"

Fei Li heard it more clearly this time, and immediately responded loudly: "Yes! There is someone! Who is down there? Is it one of us?"

After a few seconds, there was another sound from below: "What—"

The man's echo became softer, as if he had exhausted all his strength.

Fei Li was a little anxious, and quickly lay down on his stomach, wanting to hear more clearly, and wanted to ask again, but was stopped by Lu Liran.

"The people below save energy, stay where they are." Lu Liran said to the cave in a deep voice, and at the same time turned to Fei Li, "Let Shi Nan and Ruan Xiaotian come down. And you, stay here and calm the emotions of the people below, As far as possible, determine whether the opponent's location is directly below this place."

Their voices can be communicated, but it does not mean that the people below are directly below.

The space between the underground caves is complicated, and the sound is likely to turn a corner. After all, there was a few seconds between the two replies. This may be because the respondent is too weak, or it may be because of the distance between them.

Fei Li quickly understood, just as he was about to nod, he heard Lu Liran say again: "I will find a place to go down and have a look, try the communicator, and keep in touch."

Fei Li was startled: "Go down?"

The karst cave system below the ground turns back and forth, and it is very possible that the distance between two cave entrances on the ground, even if they are no more than 30 meters apart, is even hundreds of meters underground.

In such a vastly different geological environment, it is impossible to find a person.

Even for a fully armed search and rescue team, there is a high possibility of accidents when carrying out rescue work in such a karst cave system, let alone the current situation of Lu Liran and the others.

Fei Li's heart beat faster, he was both restless and indescribably nervous and excited.

Lu Liran has the courage and ability to do things that they dare not do at all, and Fei Li wants to break through himself.

Lu Liran didn't explain much, but just indicated with his eyes that he was going to debug the equipment.

Fei Li immediately took out the communicator, and made several debugging contacts with Lu Liran. After making sure that there was no problem with the communication between the communicators, Lu Liran began to make preparations.

And Fei Li blew a loud whistle, calling Shi Nan and Ruan Xiaotian who were far away on the other side of the mountain wall to come down.

Lu Liran pulled out a bunch of ropes, tied them around his waist, and handed the other end to Fei Li.

Fei Li pulled another strand out at the same time, and tied the two strands of rope around his and Lu Liran's waists at the same time, making them live ropes, which greatly increased Lu Liran's range of action, and at the same time, it was convenient to pull back in case of emergency.

For the convenience of action, Lu Liran took off all the extra equipment, only wore a black quick-action suit, put on a helmet, drew a dagger and a long knife and stretched it across his waist from left to right.

Without the heavy equipment before, Lu Liran's long legs, narrow waist and wide shoulders are all outlined in the tight-fitting black sportswear, and the whole person looks more neat and lean, with perfect streamlines like a vigorous black panther.

Shi Nan and Ruan Xiaotian hurried to the vicinity, and seeing Lu Liran ready to go, their eyes widened in surprise: "What is this for?"

"I found the situation below, and someone is trapped." Fei Li said concisely, "The Lu team is going down, we will try our best to find out the exact location of the trapped person, keep in touch with the Lu team, and update the situation in time."

Shi Nan nodded when he heard the words, and immediately acted without any objection.

Ruan Xiaotian gasped for air hissingly: "I haven't located the specific location yet, and the Lu team is about to go down? Isn't that too dangerous?"

"Two-way action." Lu Liran raised his chin slightly, narrowed his eyes, and pulled the button twice hard to ensure its firmness.

He didn't hesitate at all: "An extra minute of hesitation on the ground will increase the threat of being trapped below. We must race against time."