Chapter 1721: Chapter 1721: The Storm Continues
Another day passed, and outside the storm showed no sign of letting up. The horrible weather, combined with the terrifying atmosphere, had everyone in constant fear.
The rescue personnel still hadn’t appeared, and the rescue operations repeatedly failed. After continuous attacks, the number of trapped people dwindled, and a sense of hopelessness about escaping gradually spread among everyone.
Gu Fan sat on the ground, arms crossed. He was still thinking and hadn’t given up.
Indeed, Gu Fan had never been so frightened before, his legs were trembling with fear, which forced him to sit on the ground. But he couldn’t retreat; if he gave up, what about Li Shi?
Soone looked at the empty backpack, then swallowed and said with difficulty, “Does anyone have food and water? I’m a bit hungry.”
Upon hearing this, everyone avoided looking at the person. Now food and water were more precious than gold; who would be willing to share?
Gu Fan decided he couldn’t just sit and wait for death. He imdiately got up and asked the rescue personnel, “According to your estimate, when can the rescue team co in?”
The rescue personnel shook his head with an unoptimistic expression. As it appeared, with such weather, helicopters were impossible. And having experienced monster attacks, it was impossible to send a team to brave the rain and climb the mountains.
With such heavy rain, road flooding was severe, making it difficult for excavators to enter the tunnel, which ant—
The rescue personnel didn’t continue, but his aning was clear: don’t expect the people outside to co in and save everyone in a short ti; self-rescue seed more feasible.
“What should we do?” Everyone looked towards the driver, feeling he was the most suitable leader here.
However, the driver said, “The key is persistence; don’t give up prematurely. So people fail because they give up too early.”
Although his words made sense, it really gave everyone no hope as they feared waiting would miss the best chance for self-rescue.
To move forward or to hold firm—it was really a tough choice.
Gu Fan again felt strange; so much ti had gone by, but why hadn’t the monsters attacked? It seed unusual.
With this reminder, everyone started to speculate; so thought monsters had already gone over the mountains to attack the rescue team, which would undoubtedly delay their rescue.
The driver believed that these monsters were deterred by the determination of everyone united together, unable to find an opportunity to strike.
That’s not right; Gu Fan disagreed. Last ti, when everyone united, the monsters shattered the floor forcing everyone to scramble and scatter. If the monster could do it once, it could do it a second ti?
“This…” Everyone panicked, feeling Gu Fan made a valid point.
Then Gu Fan overturned the idea of monsters attacking the rescue team. As long as the rescue team strengthened their defenses, the monsters wouldn’t have a chance to strike, leaving only one possibility.
“What possibility?” Everyone beca frightened.
Gu Fan looked at the food and water in the backpack and showed an unoptimistic expression.
Li Shi was the first to understand, “You an, the monster is waiting for us to exhaust our food and water before attacking.”
Upon hearing this, everyone’s hearts sank.
“What do we do, what do we do?” Soone began to panic, and the fear spread.
Gu Fan furrowed his brow, glanced outside, and proposed the idea again: to venture into the forest and take a gamble.
This ti, Li Shi and other classmates stood by Gu Fan, believing in his judgnt.
The driver saw others wavering and started to scold, “What’s going on? You’re just a bunch of students; in such situations, you should listen to us adults.”
Li Shi rebutted, “You adults haven’t encountered this kind of situation either, so you might not be right.”
With those words, everyone didn’t know how to counter.
The driver’s face turned sour and he could only angrily retort, “Even though we haven’t experienced such dangerous situations, our experience in other areas is more than yours. When facing danger, we certainly handle it better than you do. You’re just a group of students. Just listen to us.”
“You…” Gu Fan and Li Shi were at a loss for words, unable to respond.
The woman in the red dress saw everyone arguing and imdiately tried to diate, “Alright, we’re all in the sa boat. There’s no need to argue. Our principle is that we absolutely cannot split up because once we do, we’re all finished.”
Although everyone agreed with this principle, it was difficult to implent. With disagreents, one group wanted to leave, and another wanted to stand firm. Soone had to compromise.
In the end, Gu Fan chose to back down; after all, he was a student, unable to match the aura of the adults.
However, Gu Fan made a condition: when food and water ran out, they had to adopt his plan and imdiately take action, no longer sitting and waiting for death.
Everyone generally accepted Gu Fan’s idea, then looked at the food and water in their bags, finding it would only last half a day.
At this point, perhaps to make conversation or to divert attention, Uncle blacky suddenly said, “I wonder how boss and Old Two are doing now?”
The woman in the red dress playfully joked, “You care about them? You can go find them.”
Uncle blacky imdiately shook his head, “I don’t want to find them. Maybe they’re starving mad now and want to eat people?”
At first, everyone thought Uncle blacky was joking, but suddenly, a thunderclap struck the sky, scaring everyone, with an ominous feeling creeping in.
Li Shi patted her heart, and then a lightning flash illuminated the dark outside, and in that mont, Li Shi saw a shadow moving.
Everyone was startled by Li Shi’s scream and quickly asked what she had noticed.
Li Shi pointed outside, speaking in a trembling voice, “Outside, the monster is outside.”
This ti, everyone was scared, instinctively retreating a step.
The driver and Gu Fan took a step forward at the sa ti, grabbing flashlights to illuminate the outside. They were nervous, their hearts racing, but they still summoned the courage to do it.
More people were motivated to grab flashlights and illuminate the outside.
Under the repeated illumination of five flashlights, besides the storm outside, there was no movent.
Li Shi firmly believed she hadn’t seen wrong; it was the monster.
“Everyone be careful, the monster is nearby, looking for a chance to strike.” The driver gripped the gun tightly, his body tense.
Gu Fan felt frustrated; the weather blocked rescue and masked the monster’s presence, which was trendously disadvantageous for them. Was fate hinting that they couldn’t escape?
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