[The Twilight Saga·Carlyle] Hidden God

When the boy opened his eyes again, he realized that the reality was not as beautiful as he imagined at night——

His head was dizzy as if someone had just been dragged out of a fully automatic drum washing machine, and his ears began to ring continuously.The stabbing pain in his chest was even stronger than last night.

After taking a nap, his physical condition got worse instead.

"Are you really all right?—Your face looks very bad." Gail helped Edmund's shoulders to stabilize his upper body.

"It's okay." He's been through worse pain than this before. ——At least his ribs haven't snapped off yet.

"Uh, you go ahead of me." Gail stood still after handing over the nylon rope in his backpack to Edmund, "This way I can catch you if you can't hold on."

"Okay." Edmund took the rope and tied it around his waist. ——He knew that if he fell that one more time, he might really die.

"let's go."

"Ah."

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The whole climbing process was simply miserable. ——Edmund not only had to endure his own rising body temperature, but also squeezed sideways through the crevices of the rocks with sharp edges.

After only climbing about two floors, many thin and long wounds were added to his body.

Five minutes later, the boy stood on a flat rock and made a difficult move.

"What's wrong? Why did you stop?" Gail, who was following behind him, asked suspiciously.

"Because there's no way to go any further.—Look up there."

Gale looked up along the flashlight in Edmund's hand.

The nearest rock was suspended about sixteen feet (about five meters) above their heads. — Obviously, trying to climb there is a big problem for the two children.

"We can try to climb up through the cave wall.—There must be a place to stand on it."

But after a few seconds, Gail's hope was also dashed.

"Did you see it?" The boy shone the light of the flashlight on the cave wall. ——There are rough but unusually flat rocks within the visible range of light. It can be said that there is really no way to settle.

Gail swears a nasty swear word, and sits down on the rock as if venting, "We are already going out soon! Why is there such a problem! - It seems that God does not intend to let us go! Just in Wait here to die!"

"It's a pity that you can say such a thing." Edmund glanced at him. "I don't believe in 'God'.——He is the most unreliable guy. I only believe in myself."

The boy tore off his backpack and threw it under his feet, "Take out everything in your backpack, and I'll see if there is anything that can help."

Gail hesitated for a moment, then obediently opened the backpack. ——He knew that Edmund was very smart, and it would be great if the other party really figured out a way to do it.

One minute later, Edmund squatted on the stone and silently checked the two of them's current shared property——

Two lighters (Edmond's Cartire and Gail's Zippo), two mobile phones that still have no signal and can only play games, two sports bottles, two trekking poles, some chocolates, potato chips, biscuits, fudge, beef food such as grains, a roll of bandages, a box of pale yellow hemostatic medicine in a jar and some capsules for colds and stomach upsets, a double-strand nylon rope that doesn’t look very long, a compass, and two pieces of electronics A watch, two quick-drying jackets, a raincoat, a Swiss Army knife, a dagger, some cumin and salt, four canned fruits, two moisture-proof pads, two sleeping bags, two cameras, a metal whistle, a Toys, a metal slingshot, a small computer, a Walkman and a pornography magazine with an extremely hot cover [I knew this word would be harmonized]...

"..."

Gale swore he saw an emotion called "disdain" in the boy's sapphire eyes.

"Cough!!!—don't look at me like that!!! I'm going to be 15 in three months!!! What 15 year old boy doesn't have a copy or two of 'The Best Collection'?!"

"...You can hide this kind of thing in your house and take a look. Why do you have to take it with you when you climb the mountain?" Edmund felt his head hurt even more.

"When you have no energy, just look at it and it will give you energy!!!" Gail said forcefully.

"...Why do you always bring some useless things?" The boy glanced at the whistle, gun, computer and slingshot on the ground.

"Where are these 'useless things'?!" Gail jumped up, "These are all in my collection! They can even be used for help! And if there is anything that is the most redundant, your Walkman is What's the use of it!"

Edmund grinned and said angrily, "How much space can a small Walkman take up!"

The results are not yet finished.Suddenly there was a cramping pain in the chest, and the person almost twisted up.

"Wow!!! Don't be angry!!!—Don't be angry!!! It's my fault, I shouldn't have brought these things here!!!" After that, he unscrewed the lid of the kettle and handed it over.

The boy finally recovered after coughing for a long time.

"...Cough, forget it, let's see what these things are useful for..." Edmund slapped the [I knew this word would be harmonized] love magazine on Gail's lap, and then Sit down next to a pile of things and start counting slowly.

"You don't have to think about what to eat, it's definitely not going to be used." Gail was looking at the things the boy returned to him while unpacking the beef cubes. ——The leisurely look made Edmund want to kick him out of here.

"Shut up and let me think about it."

"Oh." Gail immediately shut his mouth and stopped talking.

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The boy was silent for a long time before he looked up at the white rock above his head, then stood up and shook the flashlight to look at the bottom of the cave, and he spoke after a long while——

"I might find a way up."

"Really?!" Gail immediately dropped the magazine and ran over.

"Yeah. You might be a little tired, though.—we can use the rope." Edmund flicked the end of the rope, and made a throwing gesture.

"It doesn't matter, as long as I can get out, let me do anything.—You mean tie a metal hook to the rope and throw it up on the stone, and then we grab the rope and go up against the friction of the wall? Good idea! But we No hooks."

"No." The boy held up the flashlight, "Think about what was being taught in the recent physics class."

"……pulley?"

"That's right.—I think we could attach a weight to one end of the rope and throw it up. The weight would fall from the other side of the rock, but the rope would hang on the rock above."

"and then?"

"The two of us tied two ends of the rope around our waists. You climb down, and then I will be hung up on the other end."

"Cool! That sounds like a great idea! Let's get on with it!"

"...Although the nylon rope you brought is double-strand, we can split them into a single strand and connect them together, but the rope is easy to break in that case."

"So at least one of us can go up? That's all right.—You can pull me up."

"I'm terrified it'll break with both of us hanging in mid-air."

"..."

"Would you like to try it?" The boy's beautiful blue pupils glistened in the dim light. "Even if it will fall again?"

Gail muttered for a long time with a stinky face, and then picked up the phone and started editing the text message.

"what are you doing?"

"It's definitely the craziest thing I've ever done in my life," Gail whispered. "Before I become part of the pulley, I'm going to write my will.—Would you like to come too?"

Gail handed over Edmund's black phone.

"If I fall again, it may not be a big problem. I am fat, and at most I will break a leg or something, but you are different." Gail frowned and said, "I think you are the best." Or... it would be better to leave something in advance."

The boy took his mobile phone and stared at the slightly white screen in a daze for a long time. ——He really didn't know what words he should leave behind.

"I told my mom I loved her and told her not to be sad and to feed my dog." Gale sniffed. "what did you say?"

"Thank you." Edmund stuffed the phone into his pocket, then tied the nylon cord to the empty backpack.

"Just 'thank you'?" Gail froze for a moment, "Say nothing else?"

"They all understand." The boy raised the corner of his mouth slightly. "So I just have to say the word."

Gail stared blankly at the boy with a sunny smile, his mind was in chaos.

He felt as if he couldn't understand the emotion behind that smile.

However, when he grew up, he looked at the wrinkled face of his newborn son, watched his elderly parents pass away with a smile, and watched his lover accompany him to grow old day by day... until everything around him When everything becomes blurred, he will suddenly think of his childhood friend.

Recalling that time, in a certain cave in Alaska——

That warm smile that Edmund Cullen gave him.

As deep and brilliant as the purest sky in the north, it contains the strong love of a 13-year-old boy for his family.

The author has something to say: This is today's update~~~

The next update will be on Saturday night~~~

The reason why Gail Algernon is still in the first grade of junior high school is because his grades are not very good and he has not been able to advance to the grade.