Chapter 249: Adversity 34┃ race against time.

With Du Lingyu's disappearance, the blizzard outside became more raging, as if this small lamp brigade could be buried at any time.
"Wow--" Xinchun's cry came from outside the window, seeming to urge everyone on the road.
"Let's go, hurry up." Zhu Haowen said.
Fang Fei climbed up the window sill again: "Follow me and jump down!"
Fang Fei's figure quickly disappeared from the window, and her voice came from outside: "Come down!"
Everyone no longer wasted time, and jumped down from the window one after another, until they steadily fell on Xinchun's back, and the hanging heart fell to the ground.
Luo Ling lay on Xinchun's furry back, feeling the familiar temperature: "Xinchun, stay calm for a while, don't be tired!"
"Wow, Wang Wang..." Xinchun responded to her master, the heat from her mouth was especially obvious in the snowy night, like steam from a locomotive.
"Why is there one less person?!" Ke Xun nodded the number of people again. "There should be ten people, why there are only nine?"
Everyone was stunned, and they all said that they were present, and soon discovered that there was no Mai Peng.
"What's going on? What about Mai Peng?" Ke Xun's gaze patrolled among the members, some of them couldn't believe that such a big living person had disappeared. Peng also jumped down, he was behind Qin Ci and in front of Cao Youning."
Cao Youning was completely stunned. Just now because of the departure of her companion Du Lingyu, she shed a lot of tears. Now that the cold wind blows, the tears are completely frozen, and the whole expression is stiff: "Mai Peng? Mai Peng? He obviously jumped down, he jumped right in front of me! I saw him jump with my own eyes!"
Cao Youning's voice diverged anxiously.
Fang Fei's snow-white mask was particularly eye-catching in the night. She looked back at the position of the window: "We have completely entered the tunnel, and the tunnel door has been closed. It will not open again until the next day."
"But, Mai Peng, where did he go?!" Cao Youning was anxious and helpless. He crawled to the edge a little awkwardly, trying to find the clue from below, but there was an abyss below, plus the wind. It was too snowy and I couldn't see anything at all.
Mu Yiran's hair was also messed up by the wind: "It seems that the meeting point of Mai Peng's death is this time. This is unavoidable."
Cao Youning turned her head, her voice trembling with extreme sadness: "I don't understand, everyone jumps down and it's okay, why is Mai Peng alone... You mean, Mai Peng died at this time?!"
Mu Yiran's voice was low and solemn: "Now we should have entered the third night of our timeline. It seems that Mai Peng on the other timeline died at the end of the fourth day--this world looks like time chaos. In fact, it follows an extremely strict time limit, and there is no more hesitation for a second in the face of the established death."
Cao Youning's voice was weak in the cold wind: "That is to say, Mai Peng... just fell down just now? Where is his body? Where is he now?"
No one answered this question, and no one can answer it.
...
Mai Peng felt that he was sinking down gradually. When he jumped down the window just now, he hadn't been able to step on the ground. He just kept falling, and he didn't even have time to call for help.
The speed of the fall did not seem to be so fast. At least Mai Peng saw the coffin hanging under the window. The first coffin contained Xi Shengnan, and the second coffin contained Lu Heng.
Think about the night before Lu Heng left. He once said to himself repeatedly: "Mai Peng, you promise me that if something happens to me here, you have to support me. You promise me."
I promised him: "Okay, I promise you that if something happens to me, you will help me support the coffin."
"Okay, it's a deal."
A word is settled.
Mai Peng felt that he had sunk for a long time, but there was still no end.
Until a person on the opposite side also came backwards towards him, yes, a person on the opposite side was also sinking, but the direction was completely opposite to himself.
Mai Peng realized that he was not afraid, he opened his eyes wide and tried to see the person opposite.
In fact, before he could see clearly, he had predicted that that person was himself.
That is Mai Peng on the dotted line. He once chose to jump out of the window to end his life.
The two Maipeng looked at each other and stopped in the air at the same time. The other Maipeng said, "I didn't expect to meet here again. Have you helped Lu Heng support the coffin?"
Mai Peng heard his voice flow into the cold air: "Yes, I helped him with the coffin."
Opposite Mai Peng smiled: "Then the two owe nothing. After my accident, it was the coffin that Lu Heng helped me with."
Mai Peng felt a pain in his heart: "Sorry, I couldn't hurry up, if I could find the signature one day earlier..."
"There's nothing to be sorry about, who is with whom." Mai Peng on the other side smiled.
After a person dies, he will meet another self.
McPeng believed this.
...
In another world, where Mai Peng could not see, Xinchun was speeding towards a place full of hope.
Everyone tried their best to maintain a safe posture and grasped the fur on Xinchun's back to prevent being thrown out in the wind.
Only Cao Youning was shivering all the time, and Ke Xun crawled to his side and patted him on the shoulder, which failed to calm him down.
The front is getting brighter and brighter, and the snow is as bright as moonlight.
Xinchun finally stopped on a large piece of protruding ice and rock, and Fang Fei observed the geographical location: "The cold night has arrived."
Everyone got down from Xinchun's back one after another. Before he could see the full picture of the giant dog Xinchun, he had recovered to its original compact state, and screamed "Woo" and jumped into Luo Er's arms.
Qin Ci looked at the phone: "The time function has disappeared again."
Shao Ling: "We can judge from the function of the mobile phone whether it is still in the Fourth Brigade. After all, the exit where the signature is located is outside the Fourth Brigade."
Weidong also thinks it makes sense: "In other words, once our mobile phones resume the time function again, does that mean we have found an exit?"
Shao Ling: "That's the truth. Just now, Xinchun's speed was very fast. I looked at my watch when I arrived at my destination. It only took less than an hour on the road."
At this time everyone is on a platform covered by ice, and there seems to be a large glacier in front of which there is an ice cave.
As soon as everyone spoke, a white breath would come out. Ke Xun looked around: "The photos of the white fish were taken in a very dark place, and the fish is in the water. I think we can get in. Look in the ice cave."
Everyone agreed and walked into the nearest ice cave.
Cao Youning couldn't restrain her trembling: "Is death really unpredictable and unpreventable? Once you get to that point in time, will you die no matter how safe you are in a place?"
Zhu Haowen: "Unless you are outside the painting."
Cao Youning's expression was extremely painful. There were five people when they came, but now he was the only one left.
Wei Dong tried to cheer him up: "We must hurry up. Once we find the signature, we won't be fiddled with by the timeline! Let's go quickly, look for it quickly, and don't delay a second!"
Cao Youning's eyes were hollow, and her voice trembled: "I seem to have seen it. I saw the knife..."
"What knife?" Wei Dong puzzled.
"I saw the knife used to cut the wrist. I used that knife to cut the wrist..." Cao Youning was like a mentally disordered person, with the wandering spirit gone, and only the walking dead.
"Don't scare me, are you hallucinating because of freezing?" Wei Dong patted his shoulder, then looked at Fang Fei: "Master Wu, you pat him?"
Fang Fei came over, looked at Cao Youning with the white mask for a while, then shook her head without speaking.
"Go on, don't delay." Shao Ling had a premonition, but didn't say anything. At this time, everyone could only speed up as much as possible.
As we went deep into the cave, the light became darker and darker, and the air gradually became warmer. There was even no ice or snow deep in the cave.
Some of the upside-down ice cones above the hole began to fall one by one as they melted.
Weidong was knocked on the head by an ice cone and felt a little pain: "Everyone, pay attention, wear a hat, this thing hurts too much..."
Before Wei Dong finished speaking, Cao Youning's screams suddenly came from him: "Ah-no -"
Everyone hurriedly came up, and saw Cao Youning clutching his left wrist. There was blood spurting from there, and there was a cone of ice that broke into several sections on the ground.
"Is it Bingcone?" Shao Ling was a little incredulous.
"The ice hammer is like a knife... it cuts off my arteries..." Cao Youning himself couldn't believe it, "Save me, I don't want to die."
"First aid! Hurry up and bandage!" Qin Ci unloaded the medicine box behind him and began to prepare tools quickly.
But the blood on Cao Youning's wrist began to spray out like a fountain, even if it was bandaged, it would not help.
"No! No!" Cao Youning's voice gradually fainted. When Qin Ci thought that he had finally controlled the blood flow from the wound, he suddenly opened a mouth near the wound, and blood gushed out again... Unable to stop.
"It's fate, it's death caused by the interlacing of timelines." Fang Fei's voice was helpless.
Ke Xun began to give Cao Youning's heart resuscitation first aid. As long as his teammates still have a chance, they can't let him die like this.
Cao Youning's eyes gradually lost light: "I seem to have seen another self... You shouldn't hesitate, you should make a decision early, as long as one day early, even a few hours earlier, maybe we will go out..."
"I don't believe you died in an instant on another timeline, cutting your wrist, there is always a slow process," Ke Xun tried to make him sober, "you won't die so fast, cheer up!"
"There is no time, go find a signature," Zhu Haowen turned his face away, trying to make his voice ruthless, "There is water in front, and the white fish must be in the water."
Ke Xun simply put Cao Youning on his back: "Go, let's go!"
Go, you can only go forward and race against time to find a signature.
There is a piece of water in front of it. Under the light in the hole, the color of the water is like black.
There are fishes swimming in the water, just like the white fish in the photo.
"These fish are alive, there is no stiffness in the photos." Zhu Haowen observed the fish in the water.
"Keep walking along the water's edge and pay attention to all corners around you." Mu Yiran said to everyone, looking around, "Watch your phone. Once the time display appears, stop immediately."
The author has something to say:
Death is the cruelest place in Infinite Flow. Yu Yue was very reluctant to bear the wheat god. Alas, there are other arrangements for the next painting.