While he spoke, he dialed Boyce’s number, but he only heard beeps. He dialed Cormac’s, but he heard the same. He became a bit panicked, wondering why their both lines were busy. He tried to call the attorneys of the law firm but still heard beeps only.
He wondered what was going on.
“Probably there’s no signal here.” They were in a deep forest on a mountain, so it was normal for the phone not to be able to get any signals.
Armand checked the signal sign on the screen, and the signal truly disappeared. He couldn’t see any signal at all.
What should they do?
He stood up and yelled towards the entrance of the cave. He only heard echoes within the cave.
After Armand had yelled for a while, his voice became hoarse, but no one responded.
He sat on the ground. “They will come to find us for sure.”
Theresa was sitting there motionlessly all the time. She leaned against the wall and looked down at the gap. Besides the dense grasses, it was dark and deep down below.
In the past, she only learned the word “an abyss” from the book. This was the very first time that she had seen a true abyss.
It was like a huge monster with its mouth wide open. Whatever fell into it would be swallowed.
She inhaled. She was amazed by the magic of nature as well as frightened by her current situation as they had nowhere to escape.
She wondered if they would die here like this.
She smiled, wondering why it was so difficult for her to live properly.
Armand wanted to get closer to her, but he was afraid that she would reject him. In a distance, he asked, “Are you all right?”
Theresa turned around to look at him. “Yeah, I’m fine.”
Armand wanted to talk to her but didn’t know what to talk about. After hesitating for a moment, he couldn’t find a way to break the ice. Hence, he had only sat in silence. It was getting darker and darker in the cave. He felt the coldness. This cave was in the deep forest without any sunshine. Since it had two entrances, the wind was pretty strong.
He felt cold when wearing a shirt and suit trousers, not to mention Theresa had few clothes on. Her legs were almost fully exposed. He raised his hand and started unbuttoning his shirt. Theresa moved backward and looked at him on alert. “What are you doing?”
Armand paused his action and hurriedly explained, “Please don’t be afraid. I didn’t mean to do anything. I guess you must be pretty cold now. I want to give you my shirt.”
Theresa immediately refused, “No, thanks.”
“I truly didn’t mean anything else…”
“I said I don’t need it!” Theresa emphasized.
Armand looked at her, feeling quite heartbreaking. “Do you really dislike me that much?”
Theresa turned away. “I just don’t want to see your naked body. I’ll felt quite disgusted.”
Armand looked at himself. After taking off the shirt, his upper body would be nude as he didn’t wear anything else under the shirt.
Immediately, he buttoned his shirt. “I’m sorry. I’ve ignored your feelings. I’ll pay attention next time.”
Theresa was silent. Armand didn’t know what to speak. Hence, he was sitting in silence again. It got completely dark in the cave, and they couldn’t see anything at all.
When there was still light, they didn’t notice it, but after it had got dark, they heard a lot of insects chirping.
Armand pulled out his phone. He was afraid that Theresa would be scared, so he turned on the flashlight on the phone.
When he wanted to pass the phone to Theresa, he found that there were a lot of wounds on her legs, which were covered by dried blood. It wasn’t until then did he notice that she was barefoot. Although there was light in the cave earlier, it wasn’t bright, so he didn’t notice it under the dimmed light.
Feeling so sorry for her, he reached out and wanted to touch the wounds. However, he realized that she might reject it. He withdrew his hand and whispered, “You are wounded.”
Theresa said indifferently, “Just some minor injuries. I’m OK.”
Now the wounds didn’t have burning pains at all. Her legs were too numb to feel anything.
She was running in the forest barefoot earlier, so she had been injured seriously.
Armand leaned against the wall, looking down. “In the past, I was always complacent and grandiose, thinking I was quite awesome. Until this moment, I finally realize how useless I am. I declaimed that I want to gain your heart back, but I even couldn’t provide you with the basic protection, and you’ve hurt for so many times.”¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶
“You don’t need to blame yourself. I don’t appreciate it either.”
Theresa still looked quite cold. She didn’t give Armand a friendly look since they met in the cave.
Pressing his lips, Armand stared at her for a long time. Then he said, “I don’t need you to appreciate me. I just want to do things I want to do.”
Theresa looked away and quieted down.
Armand also fell into the silence.
There was no light in the cave, but outside the cave, it wasn’t completely dark. When it was dust, the sun was going down.
Boyce and Cormac couldn’t find them.
“We are in a high mountain and dense forest now. I don’t think we could find them all by ourselves. I wonder if they have encountered any dangers. There was no response at all after I’ve called for a long time,” said Boyce worriedly.
It was a high mountain, and he wondered if there were any wild beasts in the forest. If Armand hadn’t run away too far, he should have heard it when Boyce called him.
However, they completely lost his trace, so they were worried.
Cormac seemed to read Boyce’s mind. He said, “I’ve never heard that there were any wild beasts here. Call someone over.”
If it went dark, it would be more difficult for them to search.
Boyce and Cormac went out of the forest. When they were in the forest, his cell phone had no signal at all. He tried to call Armand but couldn’t reach him.
He tried to call Armand twice again after leaving the forest but still failed to connect. Hence, he had to call someone over the search with them, and hopefully, they could find Armand and Theresa before the sun completely went down.
Looking at Cormac, he suggested, “Why don’t you go home first? I’ll keep an eye here.”
Cormac checked the time and said, “I’ll wait longer.”
They failed to find Theresa, and now Armand was missing. He wondered what he should tell Loredana after going home.
Boyce didn’t insist. They found a place to sit, waiting for others to come over.
Since the road up to the mountain was way too tortuous, they arrived a bit later than expected. It took them an hour to arrive. There were over a dozen, and all of them were tall and strong, wearing camouflage uniforms. They looked heroic and valiant with all kinds of equipment. Boyce said they would search people in the forest, so they also prepared headlamps.
Boyce followed them up to the mountain. Right then, it was completely dark. After they went into the forest, birds, and animals that were perched in the forest at night were disturbed, and there was a commotion.
The searchers in the camouflage uniforms were divided into six groups, two for each group. The leader walked with Boyce. While searching, the leader said, “It’s better not to look for people in the evening, as the vision is way too poor. There should be traps as well. When you mentioned that they were missing, I guess they might have fallen into traps.”
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