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Chapter 11 Chapter Ten

Why do people weep with joy? Experts don't know what's going on here.But they believe that laughter and crying are two similar psychological reactions."In states of high emotional arousal, both things happen, whether you're aroused or not," says Robert Provin, a psychologist at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County and author of "Laughter: A Scientific Investigation." We tend to think of crying as a sign of sadness, but in fact crying is a very complex human response."Crying can be triggered by pain, sadness, and in some cases, extreme joy. It's just a way we evolved," said Lee Daphne, a professor of dentistry at the University of Miami's Bascom Palmer School of Ophthalmology and Medicine.

It’s a good thing that emotions can come out, because whether it’s laughter or crying, it counteracts the effects of cortisol and adrenaline and relieves stress.So if you find yourself crying with joy, no need to be alarmed. As for the six of us, now we are in the mood of crying with joy.According to Yiyi's route, it is unavoidable that she must cross the three-meter-high wall. This is why Yiyi needs six people, because she needs enough people to build a human ladder.Assuming that the average height of each person is 1.7 meters, and the legs are about 1 meter long, if you want to build a building with a height of 3 meters, you need a total of three people.

After all, only the first person's height is complete, and the rest can only sit on the shoulders of the person below, leaving only 70 centimeters of usable height.Except for the three people who built the ladder, the remaining three climbed up the wall and could pull the ladder up. The degree of this person's ladder has been carefully considered and calculated, and even I have to admit that she is smart. Some people may be surprised that if it is only a three-meter wall, six people may not be needed, and four people are enough. There are three people ladders, and the remaining one can pull people up on the wall.But the actual situation is far from the case.

The most important thing is Yiyi.After all, she is a girl, and she doesn't have the strength to be a ladder, let alone pull others up. If there are only four or five people, the one who built the ladder at the bottom must be discarded under the wall. However, those who participated in this operation were desperately trying to survive, who would be willing to be abandoned?This is not a simple permutation and combination problem.In fact, if there is a rope, everything is easy to solve.Ke Yiyi and others wandered around the school for half a year, but failed to find a strong enough rope.

The mass grave is more than 500 meters away from the wall. There are many school regulations encountered along the way. Yiyi and the others are well prepared, and all of them have been successfully cracked. . When I came to the towering wall, it was exactly twelve eleven. "Quick, act according to the plan." Yiyi ordered. After experiencing the mass grave incident, she treated me a lot more tenderly, and she also spoke out her plan openly and honestly on the way.In her operation, crossing the fence is the last step of the plan, but also the most critical. After I finished listening, I put forward some opinions of my own. She listened humbly and thought it seemed better, so she accepted it.

The height of the fence and the surrounding environment are all based on her visual observation in her free time for half a year. God knows how many variables there are.The reason for choosing this place is also out of the consideration of being far away from the school gate. There are people on duty at the school gate 24 hours a day, and the school police will take turns walking around the fence every few days. And at 12:30, it happened to be during the shift change. The half an hour before was the time when the school police were most careless. At 12 o'clock, the school police A would come out of the office and start walking around the wall. , he will go very fast.

After more than ten minutes, we passed the section of the wall that we were going to climb, and returned to the office to take over the shift in more than ten minutes.Then don't continue to patrol in circles alone. So for us, this place is the most abundant time now, and we can escape for half an hour. After coming under the wall, everyone quickly took their positions and began to build the human ladder at the fastest speed.Xu Luchang is the strongest and the tallest, so he is naturally at the bottom of the human ladder, followed by Zhang Guofeng and Li Kang. Song Mao, the one who loves jiwai the most, was the first to climb up. I supported Yiyi's slender waist with my hands and gave her a strong push, firmly supporting her on Xu Lu's shoulders.A girl's body is really not suitable for physical exercise, especially for her who only knows how to read and does not like sports.Yiyi struggled to climb up more than one meter with her own strength, and then she grabbed Song Mao's hand.

The guy pulled her up against the wall with all his strength. After that, I climbed up very smoothly. Then it's pulling people. The three of us first pulled Li Kang up, and Xu Lu, who was acting as a human ladder, played a big role at this time. He lifted Zhang Guofeng in the middle and sent him upwards, so that we could hold his hand tightly. Finally arrived at the most critical place.Zhang Guofeng's whole body was treated as an extended rope, and the four people standing on the top of the wall grabbed his hands and held them tightly.But Xu Lu jumped up slightly, grabbed his leg, and struggled to climb up along his body.

I don't know how long it took, when all of us felt our hands became numb, Xu Lu finally climbed up. "Huh." He breathed a sigh of relief, only Zhang Guofeng was left. Suddenly, at this moment, a sudden change occurred.The relatively relaxed arm that was originally supporting a person suddenly became heavy again, and the sudden weight almost pulled us all down. "What's going on?" I yelled down softly, only to hear Zhang Guofeng's vigorous kicking and low-pitched cursing. After several seconds, a message came from below: "Grandma, which bastard grabbed my leg?"

"It's me!" A deep male voice rang out, "If you don't want me to fall with him, just pull me up." Yiyi who was standing beside me trembled and said in surprise, "It's Yuan Liu!" I glanced at her with a half-smile, "You childhood sweetheart are really like random stickers, you stick them around you wherever you go." Yiyi gritted her teeth angrily, "I guess he saw us sneaking up behind us after we woke up. This guy, I really couldn't see that he still has such deep patience and scheming before." "It's said that childhood sweethearts are the couple who know each other best. I don't think so. It's because they are so familiar that they are unfamiliar." I shrugged my shoulders, "How do you think about this matter?"

Before he could answer, Zhang Guofeng had already cursed angrily: "Boss, let go. Put me down, I will challenge him one-on-one." Yuan Liu snorted coldly, "Even if you are willing, I am afraid some people are not willing." I glanced at Yiyi again, "I take back the last sentence, it seems that some childhood sweethearts still understand each other unilaterally." "You've only known me for a day, so you really understand me?" Yiyi glared at me, and ordered the surroundings, "Pull them up, if you don't hurry up, the patrols will find this place!" The weight of the two is as heavy as lead. Although there is no comparison between the two, the fatigue in the hands is very uncomfortable.As soon as they were pulled up to the wall, they pretended to be fighting. Zhang Guofeng clenched his fists and wanted to rush over, but I grabbed him. "Boss, don't pull me. I'll kill him!" He yelled and struggled. Yuan Liu squinted his eyes, didn't even look at him, just stood leisurely at the side, sizing up the people on the wall coldly. "Calm down, don't you see his fearless and disgusting look? We really want to kill him. I guess he will yell at the first time, so that the school police will notice this. We will not be able to escape by then!" I said in a calm tone. A hint of surprise flashed across Yuan Liu's face, but the surprise was well concealed, "Yebuyu, you bastard is indeed a little clever. Very good, thank you for explaining for me, there is no need to waste your saliva." "Don't pay attention to him. Even if this kind of person returns to society, he will be beaten to death sooner or later." I turned around and pointed down with a wry smile on my face: "The key is how we should go down now." "I also have a plan for this." Yiyi ignored Yuan Liu, perhaps seeing the hope of escaping, she said in a relaxed tone: "The same principle as above, since the outer wall is three meters, the inner wall It shouldn’t be too high. Even if we fall, no one can die at that height. All the key points of the plan have been successfully completed. As long as we escape from the school’s control and are not found by them, we will go home alive .” These words cheered everyone up. "It's really good if it's like this." My mouth was full of bitterness, "Look for yourself." All the staff stretched out their necks curiously to look outside the wall, and they were all stunned for a moment. I saw the white mist on the outer wall, and under the bright starlight, I could clearly see the forest and rolling mountains in the distance.This wall seems to be like a barrier, separating the fog. The churning fog is constantly flowing not far from our feet. It is white, reflecting starlight, and it is as thick as ice cream and cannot be melted away. It is impossible to judge the depth and height under the wall.Below, it may be only a few meters, or it may be an abyss. Putting this spectacle in a tourist attraction, it would be a wonderful sight that would stop tourists from admiring it, but it appeared on our escape route, but there was a trace of despair. "How could this happen!" Yiyi's face was dull, and she kept muttering in her mouth: "How can this be, is it really not giving us a chance of survival? This school, this damn school!" "It's not that there is no way out." I took out a few coins from my body and threw them down. The metal reflecting the starlight drew an arc and fell into the white mist. It was swallowed up and disappeared without making any sound at all. "You mean to find a way to measure the height of the feet?" Yiyi shook her head lightly, "But how to measure! What can we measure! There are no tools here." From the joy of escape to despair, the distance is only a few seconds.Anyone who experienced joy and sorrow in a very short period of time would be hysterical.Yiyi's current brain has begun to collapse in despair. I grabbed her hand, looked at her black and white eyes, and said word by word, very sure: "There is a way. If I say yes, there must be. When I came here, I observed the surrounding environment. There are no such things around the school." The drop is too high, so let's not be deceived by the clouds below." "But I've read the data. This kind of thick white mist will only be produced on mountain streams and cliffs with large height differences. We have no chance at all. If we escape, we will just die." Yiyi still shook her head, tears just like that flowed out. "Fool." I scratched my head, "You idiot, you can only learn by rote, no wonder you were sent to this ghost place by your parents. You forgot that this is halfway up a mountain, and its altitude is not low." Yiyi's eyes lit up immediately, and the despair on his face was also swept away. He cried and laughed like crazy, "Yeah, how did I forget the problem of altitude. Stupid, I'm really stupid, this school It is built halfway up the mountain, with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters. The white mist under your feet is nothing but clouds!" "That's right." I nodded appreciatively, and reached out to wipe away the tears hanging on her cheeks, "Be considerate when encountering things. Crying is not in line with your ladylike appearance!" Yiyi's face blushed, revealing a shy look.Looking at the churning clouds under her feet, she said softly, "The most urgent thing now is to find something heavier to measure the height below us." "Don't be so troublesome." A cold voice came out, it was Yuan Liu, he looked at us with a gloomy expression, and then kicked Song Mao down. We, who were completely unprepared, were stunned by his sudden action, and we didn't react for a while.Song Mao had already fallen off the wall, screaming and falling into the clouds. In just a moment, the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground and his painful groans could be heard clearly from not far away. Everyone stayed where they were, and Yuan Liu said in a relaxed tone, "It really doesn't look that high." Then he jumped down. The people who stayed on the wall looked at each other, pressed down their worries about Song Mao, and jumped down too. Passing through the clouds is still the clouds. Although the feet are not high, the height of more than three meters is just uncomfortable for the legs, but because the surrounding area is full of fog, the visible area is really not large. "Song Mao, how are you?" Yiyi called anxiously not far from the left. Song Mao groaned in pain, crying in his vocal cords, "My leg is broken. Woohoo, my leg is broken!" "Bastard!" Zhang Guofeng, who was inexplicably close to Song Mao, rushed up to catch Yuan Liu and wanted to beat him up.Unexpectedly, Yuan Liu flipped his hands over and pushed him, directly knocking him to the ground. "I'm a third-degree black belt in karate." Yuan Liu kicked Zhang Guofeng's stomach again, "So, don't mess with me." Yiyi looked at him coldly, and said angrily, "Why did you push him down?" "If you don't push it down, don't you want to waste it on the wall. No one can escape if you drag it down." Yuan Liu snorted: "Don't pretend to be very concerned, I'm afraid each of you is relieved deep in your heart. You can come down without sacrificing others, without getting your hands dirty. This kind of good thing is not a good thing. Every year." "Don't waste your saliva with him." Li Kang said bitterly, "Tell him to carry Song Mao on his back." Yuan Liu snorted again: "Survival of the fittest is the law of survival in nature. A person with a broken leg has no right to live. It will only drag me down. I will not waste my energy on him. You carry it yourself." For a moment, everyone was dumb, except for Song Mao's painful groans. Yiyi looked at the rest of the people, sighed softly, knelt down and said to him: "Xiao Mao, wait for us here first, and call an ambulance if we escape." Song Mao trembled all over: "Don't leave me, I can still go!" After finishing speaking, he tried his best to prop up his body with both hands, but his legs hurt so badly that he fell down hard just half way through. on the ground. Yiyi looked at me with eyes begging for help, but I could only smile wryly.In fact, from the point of view of the survival of the fittest, Song Mao has indeed become a burden, but from a human point of view, abandoning him will only make him feel guilty, guilty for the rest of his life. Sighing, I decided, "Zhang Guofeng, let's take turns carrying him." After speaking, I walked over and carried him on my back. Feeling the weight on my back, I smiled wryly again.This is the stupidest decision I have ever made in my life, I hope it will not be a reason to drag everyone down to death. Yuan Liu looked at me striding forward step by step, and the corner of his mouth showed sarcasm, "I can't tell, you really spend money to pick up girls. Don't expect me to recite it for you, I'm not that stupid. Go out You still have to walk more than 30 kilometers of mountain roads, carrying a burden on your back, and you will all die!" Zhang Guofeng looked at him fiercely, and hit him this time without impulsiveness.He just bit his lip so hard that blood flowed out from the bite. A group of seven of us left the school wall, successfully escaped from that damned weird school, and walked into the rolling fog.
Some people say that human nature is not worth mentioning in the face of life and death.I have always believed that human nature is inherently inferior and selfish, but it is covered up by layers of laws and moral constraints in a civilized society.Once caught in the danger of life and death, all hidden clothes will be peeled off abruptly, revealing the most direct side of human nature. Such as Yuan Liu, such as us. The wind was very strong, and the mountain breeze in spring was chilly, freezing my heart.But the dense fog around him didn't reduce much due to the strong wind, and he could only see the scene thirty meters away, and there was nothing he could do any farther away. Song Mao was dead on his back, he groaned and complained in a low voice, it was obvious that there was a problem with his mental state. That complaint is in the ear, no matter how soft it is, it will be very clear.After listening for a long time, people also began to become impetuous and impatient. I fumbled forward like this and walked about a kilometer. Zhang Guofeng picked up Song Mao and carried it on his back. I finally breathed a sigh of relief. Yiyi always had a gloomy look on her face, as if she had a knot in her heart that couldn't be solved.I walked over and asked softly, "What's wrong?" "Buyu, do you think human nature is very bad?" She suddenly looked at me. I neither affirm nor deny, "Why would you think this?" She shook her head, "I've been thinking about this all the time. In fact, I'm just a bad woman with a filthy heart. Just like Yuan Liu said, when he kicked Song Mao down to find out the height under the wall, my heart There is really a feeling of relief in the depths. And just now I wanted to leave Song Mao here alone, discarding it like a burden. Although I said nicely that I would call an ambulance, everyone knows that Those words were just perfunctory. The road ahead is long and long, who knows how many variables there are. When we escape, we don’t know how long he has been dead!" "Don't think too much." I patted her on the shoulder, "Everyone has the right to live, but this right lies in giving priority to their own survival. Darwin also wrote in the same way. There is a gene in the human body , When encountering danger, that part of the gene will be activated, giving people the desire to survive, and making them try to survive. So you don't need to blame yourself, standing in your position, you have done a good job, if I, I'm afraid I will throw away the burden in the first place." "But you didn't do that." Yiyi smiled inexplicably, very relieved. I scratched my nose, "I don't know what hit my head just now." "No." Yiyi reached out and touched my face: "It's your sense of justice. You always give me a feeling that I can rely on, trust, and feel at ease, so reliable and warm." Do you have a sense of justice?I smile wryly.Not necessarily, I'm afraid it's even worse than Yuan Liu's. Everyone in the road ahead knows the danger, but the burden may become a life-saving straw.If the old woman Lin Zhiyan heard Yiyi's words, she might come back laughing after death. This is the first time I heard someone say that I have a sense of justice. There was a cold snort in his ear, and Yuan Liu's eyes were burning with jealousy, "Stop making romantic dramas there, you guys look ahead." The two of us looked up and saw a dark forest not far away.Since it was night, we could only rely on starlight for illumination, so we were all walking along the edge of the forest. Although it is a bit of a detour, once you enter the interior of the forest, you will be plunged into complete darkness. The starlight cannot penetrate the thick leaves, and you will only lose your way like a blind man when you enter, and you will not be able to take a step. But more than ten meters away from us, the edge of the forest has disappeared, and the left, right and front are completely surrounded by the forest. If you want to escape from the school, you can only go through this area of ​​unknown size. forest. The current problem is very serious, but it can be summed up in two points. I observed the next four weeks and explained in a low voice: "Now we are facing two problems. The first is the lack of lighting tools after entering the forest. The second is how to hide our position from being exposed after having lighting tools." Li Kang seemed to have thought of something, and took out a box of matches with excitement on his face: "Look, I stole this from the chemistry classroom a few months ago. When I took it, I thought it would be useful. Now it really works. Come on. As long as we make a few torches, the lighting problem will be solved." Yiyi and I shook our heads at the same time, and I explained: "The second point just mentioned is for lighting with open flames. Look, the branches here are rarely dry, and the torches that are barely made are not effective, and they will burn. A large amount of white smoke is emitted. This smoke is completely different from the surrounding fog and can be seen from a long distance." "Then what should we do!" Li Kang suddenly scolded dejectedly: "Are you going to sit and wait for the dawn?" I pondered, pondered, and wondered if I should take out the flashlight in my kit.But in this way, it's really hard to explain why I have so many escape tools. After thinking about it for a long time, I looked at the helpless appearance of the people around me, that’s all, they are just children who are several years younger than me, why should they suffer so much torture. Just as he was about to take out a flashlight from the interlayer of his clothes, Zhang Guofeng patted himself on the head suddenly, "By the way, I don't know if this can be used." After speaking, he took out something the size of a finger and a half. I took it over and took a look, and immediately said happily: "This should be a tactical flashlight, where did you get it?" Zhang Guofeng chuckled, "I bought a dagger some time ago, and there was such a thing on it. I thought it was ugly, so I took it off and put it in my pocket. I didn't expect to use it now." This small tactical flashlight is generally installed on a multi-functional military dagger. It is charged with a lithium battery. The brightness is average, but it can be used continuously for eight hours. It is a very good thing.I flicked the switch lightly, and a condensed white light shot out immediately, piercing the thick white mist and the dark night in front of me. Everyone's spirits immediately cheered up.Yuan Liu's face was gloomy, and he stretched out his hand to grab it, "I'll take care of this thing!" I dodged quickly, "It's better for me to take care of things." He snorted coldly, and chased after him with his sleeves rolled up, "Give it to me." Seeing him approaching, I didn't move. I just said indifferently: "If you want to escape, you have to listen to me. I admit that you can use force, but if we swarm you, you may not win. Be smart. , it’s best to think about what your strengths are, what your weaknesses are, and whether you have the ability to escape alone!” Yuan Liu reached out to grab my hand and paused. I didn't even look at him, and said again: "In the forest, I have many ways to kill you. Now you only have two choices, first, be obedient, cooperate with us, and escape together; second, now Kill me, or we'll kill you together. Choose one." His eyes kept changing, his hands finally dropped down, and he kept humming: "Let me know that you are playing tricks, and be careful that I will make your life worse than death." "Whatever." I shrugged my shoulders, "It seems that you chose the first option, very good, now let me carry Song Mao on my back." "You!" He glared at me angrily. "What, want to choose again? Brothers!" I shouted, and the other four immediately stood behind me. "Okay, very good." Yuan Liu sneered at the corner of his mouth, didn't say any more, and quietly picked up Song Mao who was leaning against the tree. We didn't look at him again, we rested for a few minutes, and then walked into the unknown forest full of unknown range. Deep down, there was no extra excitement about escaping from school.For some reason, I always feel that things are too simple.Perhaps the terrible things have just begun...
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