Dark Star Field [Interstellar]

Xue Yelai waited quietly in the dark for a while.He didn't know the exact time, like ten seconds, or one or two minutes. He didn't check the communicator to confirm.

Just when he started to worry, there was another sound of splashing water under the rock.A wet hand suddenly stretched out from the slit and pressed it on his.

In such an environment, the experience was a bit intimidating.Fortunately, he heard Bai Yang's voice right away: "This is a cave. I found the exit of the dark river, but there must be two people to get out. What shall we do next?"

"What does it mean that two people can go out?"

"The exit is at a very high place." Bai Yang briefly explained, "There is a fixed device like a pulley on the stone wall, if you pull the rope, a stone slab will rise."

Xue Yelai roughly understood.From the sound of it, it was supposed to be a human lift or something.One person pulls the rope underneath, and the other rides the stone slab to the exit.

"I'll go and have a look." Xue Yelai lay on the ground, took a deep breath, held his breath, and slipped through the slit under the rock.

He was submerged almost immediately.The water was colder than he expected, his body kept sinking, and there was a dull rumbling sound in his eardrums.He didn't open his eyes, but he could feel the light in the water.

The sinking trend gradually stopped, and the body felt the lift of buoyancy.Xue Yelai maintained his balance, and began to use the technique of treading water to borrow strength upwards.

A hand wrapped around his waist and gently pushed him to the surface of the water.Xue Yelai opened his eyes slightly, adjusted to the water pressure, and looked around.Bai Yang was beside him, and the milky white light swayed gently above their heads.There are lines of light dancing on Bai Yang's face, like some kind of holy and mysterious tattoo.The green pupils are incredibly clear, as if they have condensed the lakes and forests all over the world.

This is really a man like water.In pure darkness he was darkness itself, unfathomable and elusive.But as long as he is illuminated by a ray of light, he is so beautiful and transparent that he can be seen at a glance. He can be wrapped in a crystal ball and placed under the white moonlight.

Just before reaching the surface of the water, Xue Yelai hugged Bai Yang.The feeling of floating and rising in the water is like flying in a dream.He wants to use this kind of behavior to tell the other party: the love he hopes is that two people rise to the bright place together, instead of sinking into the dark underground together.

The water pressure pressing against the eardrums suddenly disappeared, and Xue Yelai's face emerged from the water, feeling the cool air.Looking up, there is a light-transmitting hole hanging high above the head.The surrounding stone walls are soaring vertically, the surface is flat and smooth, and there are no bumps for climbing.

"The pulley is over there, we have to swim over it." Bai Yang pointed in one direction.

Xue Yelai swam with him for a certain distance, and sure enough, he saw a rotatable rope reel fixed on the stone wall. One end of a long rope hung down to the ground, and the other end was tied to the rock.

Bai Yang climbed ashore first, and then pulled Xue Yelai up.

Xue Yelai took off his uniform jacket and wrung the water.His shirt was thrown over the rocky crevice, and he was wearing nothing under his uniform jacket.

Bai Yang suddenly approached him, stared at a place on his body, and frowned: "Is this also what I did just now?"

Xue Yelai looked down, and there were bruises on both sides of his body, roughly recognizable as fingerprints.

"Who else but you?" Xue Yelai tried to make his tone more relaxed, "If you like me, you don't need to hug me so hard. My ribs were almost broken by you."

"I'm sorry." Bai Yang's eyes turned from the bruises on Xue Yelai's body to the redness and swelling of his lips, and his expression began to become ashamed. Suddenly want to hug you."

"Don't mind, it's not your fault, it's something weird in that place." Xue Yelai put on his coat to cover up the evidence for Bai Yang.

Bai Yang didn't say anything more, and leaned closer, and lightly touched Xue Yelai's bare skin on the front with his lips.Whenever he doesn't know how to express his emotions, he will instinctively use this animalistic primitive way, which is so simple and direct that it is confusing.

Xue Yelai's chest itched slightly, he covered his front placket calmly, and turned the topic to serious matters: "How do we get up there?"

Bai Yang grabbed the rope hanging down to the ground and pulled it.Only a few rattling sounds were heard, and a rectangular stone slab came out of a groove and wobbled up into the air.The edges of the stone slabs are very flat, obviously cut by hand, and fit the shape of the groove exactly.

Bai Yang lowered the stone slab back to its original position, turned to look at Xue Yelai, and seemed to say: That's it, we will do whatever you say.

Xue Ye came to think for a while.Bai Yang can pull him up, so this shouldn't be a big problem.But the problem was that after he reached the top, he couldn't pull Bai Yang up in the same way.Pulling the slate below is through fixed pulleys, which can save effort, but pulling the slate above is another matter.Not to mention Xue Yelai, even Bai Yang might not have enough strength.

"Well, you pull me up first. I'll check the situation above. If possible, find a place to fix the stone slab so that you can climb the rope. Can you climb the rope?"

Bai Yang has no opinion.

Xue Yelai lowered his center of gravity, squatted halfway on the stone slab, and grasped the ropes that bound the slate to stabilize his body.The stone slab was lifted up little by little, and it was very stable at first, but when it reached a certain height, it began to sway slightly from side to side like a swing.

"Steady, steady." Xue Yelai was frightened, and his palms were covered with sweat.Looking down, the height is dizzying.Just imagining the scene of falling makes one's legs go weak.He hurriedly raised his head, staring at the exit that was getting closer.

The light is brighter, and it can be judged that it is not natural light, but artificial lighting.A seemingly non-existent airflow continued to blow in from outside the hole, like some kind of ventilation device.Listening with bated breath, there is a faint sound similar to a machine engine.

Xue Yelai quickly made a preliminary judgment: the outside of this exit is probably still an underground place, and it is likely to be inhabited.

Could it be... an underground city?

The stone slab stopped at this moment, hanging about two or three meters away from the exit.

"Why did it stop?" Xue Yelai shouted down.

"The rope is finished. Can you go out?" Bai Yang responded from a distance below.

"..." Xue Ye looked at his feet and then at the top of his head, suddenly feeling like weeping.To get out, he had no choice but to jump on this rickety slab.