Ancient Eden - Chapter 142
Chapter 142
(44.3)
The shaking was very short-lived, just two or three seconds, and stopped before she realized it was the aftershock of an earthquake. She would have thought she was hallucinating if it hadn’t been for some dust falling down from the roof of the cave.
She suddenly turned over and sat up, about to run outside. But when she lifted the curtain and felt the bone-chilling cold, she realized that if she went out like this, she would freeze to death in no time, and hurriedly turned back to go get the tiger skin. When her fingers touched the soft fur, she suddenly heard a strange sound.
She couldn’t tell what the sound was. But it came from above her head, and it was getting closer and closer, carrying with it a terrifying power.
The roof of the cave was shaking, and sand began to fall down non-stop once again.
Before Mu Qing could react, her entire body had already been pushed by a rushing force from behind her and she collapsed onto the couch, unable to stand on her feet. When she turned around, she was shocked to realize that a large pile of snow had rushed in behind her.
The snow pile filled up the entire outer cave, knocking over the wooden row door between the outer cave and the inner cave, and spreading all the way into the inner cave. Mu Qing choked and coughed non-stop from the snow dust. The torch that was burning in the gap of the cave wall also suddenly went out.
Mu Qing was plunged into darkness.
All sounds soon stopped. Everything was calm again.
Mu Qing suddenly understood the scene that had just happened.
The slight aftershock from the earthquake quickly passed, but its force pulled down the snow that had piled up on top of the mountain since the beginning of the winter. It was their bad luck that the snow pile on top of the mountain above their heads had collapsed just at this time, burying the cave entrance.
At this instant, Mu Qing almost stopped breathing, her heart was beating so fast that she could even hear it herself.
After a brief moment of disorientation, she immediately regained her senses and looked with her hand for the flashlight she usually kept by the stone platform where she slept, and with a trembling hand, she turned it on. The sight that appeared before her made her heart leap again.
The originally spacious inner cave was now occupied by snow for nearly a third of its area, making it appear much smaller. As for the outer cave, it had been completely buried by snow.
She had to get out, or else when the last oxygen left was consumed, she would suffocate here alive.
There was nothing in the inner cavern that could be used to dig through the snow. She was stepping on snow that didn’t go past her knees, desperately trying to sweep the snow outward with both hands. But it didn’t take long for the snow to become too dense for her hands to dig, and, besides, her hands had become so frozen she was starting to feel a sharp pain.
She began to pant, and had to take big breaths to feel comfortable.
She finally stopped digging through the snow. Because she thought of a serious problem.
There was only a limited amount of oxygen enclosed in the cave, and the more she moved, the more she would speed up the depletion of oxygen. Even if she managed to dug through the snow blocking the way to the outer cave before she ran out of oxygen, the way out would most definitely still be buried.
She didn’t know how high the snow outside had piled up, but judging from the force when the snow rushed into the cave so suddenly, the layer of snow piled up outside would not be a small amount. At that time, even if she reached the entrance of the cave, she would still suffocate and die. Moreover, with just her bare hands, it would be impossible to dig through the snow for that long.
Her heart started to beat wildly in her chest again, and she felt the coldness of her fingertips spreading throughout her body. The temperature in the cave was plummeting. The flashlight’s light was slowly starting to fade because it hadn’t been brought out into the sun to recharge for a long time.
She turned off the flashlight, wrapped the tiger skin tightly around her body, and slowly laid down.
Li Mang should have returned already.
Translator : Laura
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