Doom Aloft Part 1

By Locke

"Huh?"

Mallory, who woke up with a start, sat up and was about to get out of bed, suddenly withdrew his legs and looked around and exclaimed.

"What's going on here?"

Mallory looked around in alarm and carefully moved his body to the side of the bed and looked under the bed.

He remembered that he seemed to have fallen asleep in his bedroom bed at home last night, but, when he woke up in the morning, he found that the bed he was lying on was actually placed on the edge of a cliff!

No, not the edge of a cliff ......

Mallory, after looking around in the other three directions of the bed, was horrified to find that his bed was placed on top of a stone pillar!

The length and width of the stone pillar exactly matched the length and width of his bed, and the height of this stone pillar seemed to be more than a thousand meters high above the ground!

"This is a dream! It must be a dream!" Mallory retreated to the center of the bed and kept comforting himself after sitting down with his body in his arms.

After closing his eyes for a while, Mallory opened them again, hoping that after opening them this time, he was back in the familiar bedroom.

Unfortunately, no.

He was still at the top of a thousand-meter stone pillar!

"Wake up! Wake up!" Mallory reached out and slapped his face, trying to wake himself up from this 'nightmare'.

Unfortunately, it was all in vain, and all he did was to make himself more and more awake.

"I've been kidnapped! I have to call for help! My cell phone ......" Mallory groped around under his pillow and bedding to find it.

Normally, he would always play with his phone at night until it ran out of battery, so he would have the habit of putting it on the desk next to him to charge it before going to bed.

So, it was impossible for him to find his phone in bed.

Reluctantly, Mallory carefully climbed to the side of the bed and took a closer look under the wooden bed.

Below the wooden bed was the smooth top of a stone pillar, and again the phone was not there.

"Who did this?"

"Who got me in here?"

"It's illegal for you to do that, you know?"

"Let me down!"

Mallory screamed at the sky.

There was no response.

Mallory, who had calmed down a bit, lay down on his bed and poked his head out of the edge of the bed and looked down at the stone pillars, trying to figure out where he was.

More than a thousand meters high, with the naked eye to see clearly below the scene is a bit difficult.

But Mallory's eyesight is good, and after looking at it carefully with his hand in a cylinder shape for a while, he was able to roughly see that there was a town below the pillar, with roads and some buildings and so on.

Is there such a town in the world?

A town with a pillar of stone in the center?

It's a pity that I don't have a cell phone, otherwise I could look up where this is online.

"Help! There's no one there!" Mallory shouted again at the bottom of the pillar.

There was no response.

Except for the whistling of the wind in his ears.

Desperate, Mallory lay back on his bed again.

Although lying in his own bed, Mallory's heart at the moment is not at all stable.

This is more than a thousand meters in the air!

A careless flip to the side of the bed, it is possible to fall and fall to pieces!

Mallory tried his best to lie in the center of the bed, so as not to accidentally fall off the edge of the bed.

Lying on the bed, looking at the sky, can not do anything.

Mallory soon discovered a problem that he now had to face urgently.

His stomach was growling.

He ate breakfast every morning at about seven o'clock, and the time now should be almost eight o'clock.

But he hadn't eaten breakfast yet, and his hunger became a matter of course.

The question is, where is he going to buy breakfa

• Language: English
• Publisher: Locke
• Release date: Dec 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005156497

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Chapter 1 This is too high?

Huh?

Mallory, who woke up with a start, sat up and was about to get out of bed, suddenly withdrew his legs and looked around and exclaimed.

What's going on here?

Mallory looked around in alarm and carefully moved his body to the side of the bed and looked under the bed.

He remembered that he seemed to have fallen asleep in his bedroom bed at home last night, but, when he woke up in the morning, he found that the bed he was lying on was actually placed on the edge of a cliff!

No, not the edge of a cliff ......

Mallory, after looking around in the other three directions of the bed, was horrified to find that his bed was placed on top of a stone pillar!

The length and width of the stone pillar exactly matched the length and width of his bed, and the height of this stone pillar seemed to be more than a thousand meters high above the ground!

This is a dream! It must be a dream! Mallory retreated to the center of the bed and kept comforting himself after sitting down with his body in his arms.

After closing his eyes for a while, Mallory opened them again, hoping that after opening them this time, he was back in the familiar bedroom.

Unfortunately, no.

He was still at the top of a thousand-meter stone pillar!

Wake up! Wake up! Mallory reached out and slapped his face, trying to wake himself up from this 'nightmare'.

Unfortunately, it was all in vain, and all he did was to make himself more and more awake.

I've been kidnapped! I have to call for help! My cell phone ...... Mallory groped around under his pillow and bedding to find it.

Normally, he would always play with his phone at night until it ran out of battery, so he would have the habit of putting it on the desk next to him to charge it before going to bed.

So, it was impossible for him to find his phone in bed.

Reluctantly, Mallory carefully climbed to the side of the bed and took a closer look under the wooden bed.

Below the wooden bed was the smooth top of a stone pillar, and again the phone was not there.

Who did this?

Who got me in here?

It's illegal for you to do that, you know?

Let me down!

Mallory screamed at the sky.

There was no response.

Mallory, who had calmed down a bit, lay down on his bed and poked his head out of the edge of the bed and looked down at the stone pillars, trying to figure out where he was.

More than a thousand meters high, with the naked eye to see clearly below the scene is a bit difficult.

But Mallory's eyesight is good, and after looking at it carefully with his hand in a cylinder shape for a while, he was able to roughly see that there was a town below the pillar, with roads and some buildings and so on.

Is there such a town in the world?

A town with a pillar of stone in the center?

It's a pity that I don't have a cell phone, otherwise I could look up where this is online.

Help! There's no one there! Mallory shouted again at the bottom of the pillar.

There was no response.

Except for the whistling of the wind in his ears.

Desperate, Mallory lay back on his bed again.

Although lying in his own bed, Mallory's heart at the moment is not at all stable.

This is more than a thousand meters in the air!

A careless flip to the side of the bed, it is possible to fall and fall to pieces!

Mallory tried his best to lie in the center of the bed, so as not to accidentally fall off the edge of the bed.

Lying on the bed, looking at the sky, can not do anything.

Mallory soon discovered a problem that he now had to face urgently.

His stomach was growling.

He ate breakfast every morning at about seven o'clock, and the time now should be almost eight o'clock.

But he hadn't eaten breakfast yet, and his hunger became a matter of course.

The question is, where is he going to buy breakfast in this condition now?

If there's no food all the time, won't he be starved to death here?

Not only the problem of starving to death, but also drinking water.

It is said that without food a person can still last for ten days, but without water, a person can not even last three days.

Mallory's heart became more and more alarmed.

Who's playing this damn joke on me?

Get it over with! Stop playing!

Help!

Help me!

Mallory folded her two hands into a trumpet shape and after lying on the edge of the bed and calling out for help to the bottom of the stone pillar a few more times, she finally gave up and honestly laid back down in the middle of the bed.

Call for help to no avail, just consume their own physical strength for nothing, and will even make their own body water loss accelerated, more detrimental to his survival at the top of the stone pillar.

The best option now is to lie motionless and try to prolong his survival until the moment he is found and rescued.

Will there be a rescue?

Mallory, who was lying in the middle of the bed and thinking, slowly drifted off.

At one point, he suddenly realized that it was too dangerous for him to fall asleep like that!

What if he fell asleep and rolled off the bed?

After sleeping in the bed for so many years, I have never had the experience of rolling off the bed while sleeping before, so I think it should not be so easy to roll off, right?

But this is a height of more than a thousand meters!

I've never slept this high before!

Just like a person standing next to the bed in his own bedroom, no matter what action he does, he will not feel afraid because it will be fine even if he falls, so it will be hard to fall down.

However, if a person standing on the edge of the cliff without guardrails, I'm afraid to do a variety of fancy death moves so calmly.

The psychological feeling is different.

When he was thinking, a faint rumbling sound came from the distant sky.

Mallory looked towards the sky and found a plane!

It looked like a civilian airliner, coming from the far sky!

Mallory hurriedly stood up on the bed and waved his hand to the approaching airliner.

Unfortunately, the airliner flew too high and flew over Mallory's head without stopping, so it was impossible to see Mallory, who was like a germ on the tip of a pin.

"There is a civilian airliner passing, at least it means that this is not a deserted place, maybe there will be other aircraft appear, I have to try to survive, will definitely wait for the day of rescue! Mallory encouraged himself.

......

Lying in bed until noon, Mallory did not wait for any other aircraft except for the occasional civilian airliner passing high in the sky.

The midday sun was a little hot, and although it wasn't very hot at over a thousand meters, it still left Mallory with a dry mouth, and he would love to have a cold, sweet drink in front of him at this time.

He would have grabbed the drink and drank it down.

Unfortunately, there was nothing.

Not only was he thirsty, he was also hungry.

Thirsty and hungry Mallory, in the midday sun, unknowingly fell asleep in the past.

I don't know how long he slept.

Mallory woke up and found himself back in his own bedroom!

Oh my God! This nightmare is finally over!

Mallory's heart was overjoyed.

Thirsty.

He hurriedly reached to the nearby table, took the glass of water and poured the cool water inside into his stomach.

It still didn't quench his thirst.

There are cold beer and drinks in the refrigerator.

I need to find some food to eat.

Mallory stumbled out of bed, staggered out of the bedroom, and was about to go to the fridge to find food and drinks when he saw the bathroom next to him and thought he'd better put some water in it first.

As he stumbled into the bathroom and unzipped his pants to drain the toilet, Mallory suddenly felt that something was not quite right.

Where is the toilet?

How come there was a cliff in front of him?

Mallory subconsciously peeked down to see, but his body stumbled and fell down a cliff!

Ah!!!

A scream Mallory then really woke up.

He found that he was still lying in his own bed.

And this bed, still at the top of a stone pillar over a thousand meters in the air!

The scene back in the bedroom just now was a dream!

Oh my God! No!

Mallory shouted out in despair.

Chapter 2: Night has fallen

The feeling of thirst was real.

No wonder I was still thirsty after drinking a large glass of water in my dream just now.

Also, the feeling of holding urine was real.

There was no water to drink, but water still had to be released.

After being trapped in the top of the stone pillar, Mallory has not been put on water.

The reason is simple ...... there is no toilet up here ah!

It is difficult not to stand directly on the edge of the bed to spill below?

Will there be townspeople in the town below? Be drenched will not think it is raining?

The smell of rain?

There is no public morality, right?

Now I can't care about that much.

Can not spill their own bed, right?

Sorry guys down there, it's too hard for me.

Mallory muttered, then carefully stood up, moved to the bed with small steps, and carefully looked down again, before pulling out his dick and unleashing it on the bed.

Standing here to pee will not fall down, right?

Both legs are trembling.

Never thought that peeing is also a high-risk job!

It can kill you if you're not careful!

After peeing, Mallory went back to the middle of the bed and sat down, panting as if he had done a heavy physical job.

It took a few days for the tension to return.

I, Mallory, have lived in this world for more than twenty years and have never done anything to harm God, why should I be punished like this?

It's not fair!

And, it's also very unscientific.

Mallory held his head in frustration for a while before trying to calm himself down again.

It was already getting a little dark.

It looked like his first day at the top of Stonehenge was coming to an end.

The coming night seemed to give him an even scarier feeling.

How should he face this long dark night?

The best way to deal with this horror would be to sleep.

Now he has no food to eat, no water to drink, no strength in his body, and nothing else to do but sleep.

Maybe when he wakes up again, he will really be able to go back to his bedroom?

Since he can suddenly appear in such a ghostly place when he wakes up, it is not necessarily impossible to wake up again and go back to his bedroom.

God and Buddha together will bless me to return home safely!

Mallory, who never believed in gods and ghosts, drew a cross on his chest and recited a few words of 'Amitabha' with his hands together before lying down on the bed again and falling back to sleep.

It was slowly getting dark.

The moon did not come out, I do not know if it is hiding behind the clouds.

People in a condition of extreme hunger, the body cells lack of sugar, no energy, will also become less active, but it is easy for people to sleep.

It may also be a semi-consciousness in a low-sugar state.

However, after nightfall, the top of Stonehenge became a little cold.

The thin blanket on the bed seemed to be somewhat unable to resist this cold.

What a living hell! It was so hot during the day, but so cold at night.

Mallory wrapped the blanket tightly around her body, and tried to shrink her body into a ball, even burying her head in the blanket.

Hunger prevents the body from generating more heat, and even in such a tight ball it still feels cold.

After a while, Mallory felt a little stuffy under the blanket, so he poked his head out of the blanket.

The wind outside the blanket, blowing on the head feels very uncomfortable.

If this continues, will I catch a cold?

It is a problem to catch a cold here.

If you get pneumonia, you'll be dead.

Mallory recalled a popular science article he read once, which said that according to scientific research, colds are caused by viruses, not by cold. The cold only makes people's resistance lower, so that the virus has more opportunities to take advantage of it.

At such a high altitude, there should be no virus, right?

Mallory tucked his head back under the covers.

Cold, hunger ......

Darkness ......

Smothered under the covers, Mallory's mind slowly drifted off.

He longed for a sweet drink, even if it was a glass of cold water.

He longed for delicious food, even if it was only a packet of instant noodles.

Unfortunately, there was nothing. A glass of cold water and a packet of noodles are a luxury for him now.

Mallory felt that he was worse off than the homeless people sleeping under the flyover.

Those homeless people can at least go out to beg and collect garbage to eat.

Now he doesn't even have to pick up garbage.

He can only survive.

Go to sleep! Sleep!

At any rate, there is a bed, right?

There is a quilt to protect the cold.

If there is no bed, he would not have to sleep on the cold stone surface of the stone pillar?

That would be really miserable.

Well, it is not too miserable now, should be thankful.

One must be content with what one has.

Trance.

Trance trance trance.

I don't know how long has passed.

Not very long, it seems.

The world outside the quilt suddenly became very bright, followed by an explosion that startled Mallory, who was hidden under the quilt, out of her trance-like state.

It seemed that something had fallen scattered on the quilt.

Realizing that something was wrong Mallory hastily lifted the quilt and sat up.

I ...... grass!

Seeing the scene happening in the sky, Mallory cursed out in despair.

The distant sky was lightning and thunder, and a large number of thunderstorm cumulonimbus clouds could be seen.

The worst part is the wind direction!

Those thunderstorm cumulonimbus clouds are drifting this way with the strong wind!

What fell on his quilt were the large raindrops formed by the scattered cumulonimbus clouds that had come over earlier!

The wind is getting stronger and faster, and it's about to blow the covers off Mallory's bed!

Mallory hungry body shivering with hunger, watching less than half a minute of work, the sky thunderstorm cumulonimbus clouds have approached the sky above his head.

The large, sporadic raindrops quickly became dense, and in a flash it drenched Mallory's pajamas, as well as the pillows, quilts, and mattresses on his bed, all drenched!

Oh my God! Why are you so desperate? Mallory wiped a handful of rainwater from his face and cursed at the sky.

The raindrops fell into Mallory's open mouth, and more rain fell from the sky like a basin.

Mallory suddenly realized what he could not care less about cursing, and hurriedly opened his mouth wide, and put two hands together to pick up the rain from the sky, holding it to his mouth and drinking heavily.

Although the cold shivering, but finally let the anxious and thirsty body all day to get a substantial relief.

Bang!!!

Another explosion, an arc of lightning that looked as thick as a thigh appeared not far from Mallory's side.

The bright light momentarily blinded Mallory somewhat, while the blast caused Mallory's ears to buzz and he could not hear anything else for a while.

Mallory was scared out of his wits.

The thunder was very close to him, if it was closer, he would have been instantly thundered to scorch!

More than a thousand meters high in the heavy rain, the wet rock pillar, in the thunderstorm rain is a super large lightning rod ah!

What makes Mallory more desperate is that the explosion not far from him is just a prelude.

Soon, thunderbolt after thunderbolt, all in Mallory's surroundings not far away, the nearest one seems to be only a dozen meters away from him!

Chapter 3: A small shelter

After a wild drinking, Mallory's stomach was soon filled with rain, but the rain still poured down on his face, so that his breathing became a little difficult.

Both hands kept wiping his face to no avail.

Just solved the problem of thirst, but now it is to be drowned by the pouring rain.

What was more deadly was the cold.

The wind blew on the wet body, swept away the little heat Mallory had left in his body, and his body kept shivering in the cold.

The blankets and bedding were soaked through and sagged heavily on the bedpan, unlikely to bring him the slightest bit of warmth.

With lightning flashes and thunderstorms, Mallory, tormented by extreme fear and cold, did not care about the risk of falling from the top of the pillar, and rolled over into the bottom of the wooden bed, shivering on his back between the top of the pillar and the bed board with the shelter formed by the bed board and the damp bedding above.

The stone wall at the top of the pillar was as cold as the soaked bed.

The wind blew in just as much, and it was even harsher.

The only difference was that the rain no longer poured directly onto Mallory's body, but dripped down through the gap in the bedpan, giving Mallory room to breathe.

What have I done wrong? Why am I being punished like this?

Mallory wanted to cry.

His face was covered in water, and he wasn't sure if it was rain or tears.

It was really time to cry.

"It's not a crime for a man to cry, it's not a crime for a man to cry, it's not a crime for a man to cry.

It's not a crime for men to cry, to cry, to cry, to taste the taste of tears after a long absence, even if it's raining, it's a kind of beauty, so let's seize this opportunity and cry a lot.

Unknowingly, Mallory, who was hiding under the bed, actually sang a song.

Not to mention, after singing for a while, Mallory's inner fear and despair was dispersed a lot.

At some point Mallory seemed to return to the real world, back to some memories of the past.

Maybe it was the deafening thunder, hunger, and bone-chilling cold had started to make him hallucinate.

Lying on top of the cold stone pillar, leaning against the shelter of the wooden bed board, surrounded by dark and gloomy, lightning and thunder.

The storm was so heavy that it did not overturn the small wooden bed and blow away.

Mallory is not in the mood to think about the principle of this, he is only in the heart to celebrate such a storm, he can still have such a small shelter.

What a blessing.

The hands and feet and body drenched by the rain had already become cold and numb.

Mallory kept singing a song to anesthetize himself, and in this way, he unknowingly fell asleep in the past.

Or maybe he passed out.

Probably never wake up again, right?

Then don't wake up.

Mallory's last thought before he fell into a coma.

In such a bad and desperate situation, there is no point in struggling.

......

Although I thought I would never wake up.

But Mallory still woke up.

When he woke up again, it was already bright around him.

It was bright.

The body was no longer so cold, as if ......

The rain had stopped and the sun was out!

The body hurt everywhere.

And very stiff.

So stiff that it didn't even look like it was its own.

Lying on the stone wall, Mallory struggled for a long time before finally stretching out his body.

Fortunately, the arms and legs are still conscious.

With the surrounding sunlight, Mallory can see clearly around.

The four legs of the wooden bed are riveted to the top of the stone pillars, no wonder this wooden bed was not overturned and blown away in the storm last night.

Who did this? How much of a pain in the ass does it take to do something like this!

Mallory was also relieved to know that the bed was riveted in place. He climbed to the edge of the stone platform, turned his body over and grabbed the edge of the bed and the bed rails, and carefully turned over to the top of the wooden bed.

The family's ancestral wooden bed is really sturdy, and other wooden beds, even if they are fixed to the stone pillars, they are afraid to be blown apart by the storm last night.

The quilt and the mattress were soaked through by the rain, and although the sun was now blazing hot, it was not possible to dry them out so quickly.

Mallory dried them on the wooden rail at the end of the bed, and then took off his pajamas, which had not yet dried, and dried them in the sun.

There was no one here, so even if he stripped naked, he wouldn't be charged with public disorder.

After all this, Mallory gasped and lay down on the bedpan, which was also not yet dry.

Hungry.

All over his body was the hunger feeling that had reached its limit.

I want a burger.

I want fried chicken.

I want a beer.

I want to drink beef.

I also want to eat pasta.

I ......

Mallory fantasized wildly, while his stomach cramped.

In over twenty years of living, he had never been so hungry as he was now.

Was this hell?

If not, how could there be such a high stone pillar in the human world?

Being trapped up there is no different from being tortured!

Unknowingly, Mallory, who was extremely hungry and weak, drifted off to sleep again under the sunlight.

Had a bunch of messy dreams.

As if they were eating all kinds of food.

Eat and want to eat, can never eat enough.

When he woke up, Mallory did not open his eyes and get up.

Instead, he imagined that he had returned to his bedroom and resumed his normal geek life.

Peace and quiet is the blessing!

After opening his eyes, Mallory still did not get up.

Looked at the sky, and tilted his head to look at both sides ......

Grass!

Apparently, he still wasn't able to return to his old life.

He still stayed at the top of this damned stone pillar a thousand meters up in the air!

Only when Mallory tried to sit up, he realized that this time he woke up, things were finally a little different from before ......

There was a flying bird resting on top of the quilt drying at the end of his bed!

Mallory did not quite recognize what kind of bird it was, it looked about the same size as a pigeon, although not as fat as a domestic pigeon, but the body can at least scrape off half a tael of meat, right?

For a moment, Mallory's eyes lit up.

The green light emitted.

For a person hungry to his degree, no matter what, as long as it is a living thing, will be included in the category of food.

The bird of prey, with its back to Mallory at the moment, did not realize that the shirtless man behind it was hitting it.

Mallory, of course, would not miss this heavenly opportunity, the only chance for two days to get food to fill his stomach slightly.

He used his hands to support the bed board, slowly moving his body, slowly approaching the bird of prey, so that the bird of prey into his hands can catch the range.

Although Mallory has been very careful, but the creaking of the bed board still betrayed him. The bird was stirred and subconsciously looked back at Mallory.

I don't know if it saw the green light in Mallory's eyes, or saw the drool around Mallory's mouth, the bird instinctively recognized the danger, in the next second it saw Mallory back, it opened its wings and ready to fly away from this dangerous place.

It was too late, but Mallory, who was already starving to a frenzy, would not let it go so easily.

Mallory is almost all the strength of the body, instantly from the bed board up the body, a hand like an eagle's claws like lightning to the flying bird swooped and grabbed.

Unfortunately, it was just a little short of ......

Mallory is not willing, has stood up the body of two legs instinctively together with force, and fiercely reached out another hand to grab the flying bird that has flown away from the bed rail.

Unfortunately, it was still a little short.

The bird easily dodged Mallory's swoop, flew into the air and chirped, looked back at Mallory seemingly sympathetically and then flapped its wings and flew off into the distant sky, quickly disappearing in the air.

This side of Mallory did not catch the bird, but most of the body is out of the wooden bed, when he realized the danger, trying to keep his balance, everything is already too late.

Mallory a backwards fall out of the bed rails, panic, he instinctively grabbed a bed rails, so that his body was not immediately flung out by the just grabbing action.

But this bedrail is too thin to withstand the huge force of Mallory's body thrown out, 'blah blah blah' broke open.

Mallory's body instantly plunged downward.

Chapter 4 Help! I'm here!

The instant he fell, Mallory's other hand grabbed a bed leg, and his feet stomped on the stone wall below, seemingly stomping on something, which temporarily stabilized his body.

After catching his breath, Mallory grabbed the bed leg with one hand and the edge of the stone platform with the other, and took a cautious glance at the stone pillar below.

This is too high, right?

A fall would shatter his bones!

Calm down a bit, Mallory hands together with force, ready to climb back to the wooden bed.

At that moment, he suddenly found some carvings on the stone pillar underneath him.

Looking over carefully, he found that those carvings were marked scales.

This scale around his body was ......1000 meters.

Further down, there seemed to be words like 999 meters.

His bare feet just now is because he stomped on the scale of the stone wall only slightly to lend some strength.

It seems that his previous estimate of the height of the stone pillar was good, and now he is indeed at a height of a thousand meters.

There is a scale on the stone pillar, which means that this stone pillar is not naturally formed, but man-made construction.

Who built such a stone pillar a thousand meters high, and while he was sleeping, his bed to the top of this stone pillar to lift it?

The four legs of the bed were also riveted.

It was as if they were experimenting with mice.

Why was I chosen?

A feeling of powerlessness rushed to Mallory's heart.

While there was still a trace of strength, Mallory struggled to roll back onto the wooden bedpan and lay down flat with a gasp.

If I let me find out ......

If I find out who did this ......

I'll strap him to a rocket and launch him into space!

Mallory was furious.

......

Hunger made Mallory's mind drift off for a while, then awake.

After a day in the sun, he became incredibly thirsty.

Although he would like to be able to drink as much rain as last night, but he does not want to experience the thunderstorm of last night again.

Lightning and thunder, it felt like he was going to hang up at any moment and be burnt to a crisp.

It was miserable!

When the sun was about to set, the quilts and padded mattresses were five parts dry.

The pillows were only about three percent dry.

Mallory's clothes were dry.

There was a slight breeze, blowing on Mallory's body, and even with the dry pajamas, it still felt a little cold.

Without food, it was hard to warm up the half-wet pad and quilt with the energy in his body, but covering his body could at least protect him from the wind.

It was getting dark.

It was cold, getting colder and colder.

The wet and cold quilt makes you feel like you are in an ice cellar.

If this continues, you will get rheumatism!

I don't even have a life, so what about rheumatism?

......

Today's night is not as dark as last night.

Because of the moon.

A very cold moon hangs in the night sky, reflecting on Mallory's face on the bed, which is also very cold.

Seeking and searching, cold and clear, miserable and tragic. It's hard to rest when it's still warm and cold. How can three glasses or two of light wine beat the wind that comes in the evening? When the geese pass by, they are sad, but they know each other from the old days.

Yellow flowers are piled up all over the ground. Who can pick them now? How can I be alone in the dark when I'm guarding the window? The wutong trees and the fine rain, to dusk dripping. What a sad word!

I'm so miserable!

In the poems, at least you can still watch the wutong trees and the rain, but what about me now?

I'm just watching a pillar!

After chanting a poem, Mallory sympathized with his current situation.

Miserable and miserable.

These six words sum it up very well.

The person who wrote this poem is so damn talented!

After a long sigh, Mallory fell asleep in a daze.

......

The night was quiet.

There was no lightning and thunder, and no ****.

When the day dawned again, Mallory also woke up slowly from his sleep.

Cold, clear and cold.

He did not sit up.

After looking at the sky and confirming that he was still trapped at the top of Stonehenge, his heart was once again filled with despair.

His body was unusually weak, and his fatigue was not relieved by a good night's sleep.

His arms and legs were almost devoid of sensation.

It was as if this body no longer belonged to him and his soul was merely residing here temporarily.

He knew it was because of hunger and thirst.

Hunger and thirst prevented his body from getting enough energy to replenish itself, which caused his body functions to begin to decline.

His whole body organs will also slowly fail as a result, and then death will come.

Unless something miraculous happens during this period.

For example, someone found him and arranged a helicopter to rescue him or something like that.

But right now, it seems unlikely that help will come.

Mallory had already decided to jump from the top of the pillar before his body was fully exhausted and before death came, if help didn't come.

Even if he died, at least let people know that he died, know that he died in what.

Otherwise his life would be too meaningless.

A life without meaning is worse than being a salted fish.

Think of salted fish ......

It would be nice to have a salted fish.

Mallory licked his dry, cracked lips.

......

Today is a sunny day.

No rain to quench the thirst.

And certainly no food.

Had to keep going.

Mallory didn't even have the strength to sit up, so he just kept lying down.

Lying down and waiting to die.

Continue to sleep is probably the best option for now.

If you die in sleep, perhaps not so painful.

Although then no one would know that he died here.

Let his life become meaningless.

After all, what do you care about meaning?

Soon Mallory found a problem ...... he found he couldn't sleep today.

I don't know if it's because of too much sleep, anyway, just can't sleep, even eyes don't want to close.

Dry lying is really hard.

The whole body is very difficult, indescribably uncomfortable.

There is also an inexplicable anger.

Although the anger, Mallory no longer want to pursue such questions as 'Why me? 'Why did you do this to me?' Who is doing this to me?' and so on.

There was no point.

His anger was unprovoked, probably just anger at why he couldn't sleep anymore.

It would have been nice to have a cell phone, at least to read a web novel to pass the time.

But now he has nothing, nothing to do.

A person who is bored to such an extent can be mentally disturbed.

Mallory felt that he was on the verge of insanity and collapse.

A rumbling sound went by.

Mallory knew it was a civilian airliner flying from a very high altitude.

Several times a day, airliners passed over his head.

He doesn't expect them to see him anymore, so he doesn't bother bouncing, shouting, or waving.

But this time, there was something not quite right about the rumbling sound.

It was loud and seemed to be nearby.

It was getting closer and closer.

Mallory subconsciously glanced in the direction where the sound was coming from and saw a scene in the air and couldn't help but stare.

The civilian airliner flew very low and became clearer and clearer in his field of vision.

So clear that Mallory could almost make out the portholes on the fuselage of the plane.

Help! I'm over here! Mallory instinctively stood up and waved his hand at the civilian airliner.

A dead horse is a living horse, what if it is saved?

After Mallory waved his hand, the airliner actually turned around in the air, and although Mallory didn't think it was his cry for help, the airliner actually came towards Stonehenge after changing its course!

Help me! Can you see me? Mallory waved her hand vigorously, trying to increase the possibility of being seen by the pilot of the civilian airliner.

'Bang!' There was a muffled sound.

A huge smoke suddenly came out from the side engine of the civilian airliner.

The plane's fuselage also trembled violently.

The nose of the plane pressed down and started to dive downward.

No way! Is this the rhythm of an air crash?

The problem was that ...... the plane was diving towards this stone pillar where he was at the moment!

Chapter 5: An extremely tragic air crash

If you look closely, the plane seems to be coming towards him at the top of the stone pillar.

This was really an attempt to drive him to the end!

It looks like it's all over.

Mallory was now left with only two choices.

One choice was to actively seek death by jumping from a height of more than 1,000 meters.

Another option was to stand on his bed with his hands in the air, looking forty-five degrees into the sky, staring at the swooping airliner with a brave and fearless spirit, and die a generous death.

At least die with some dignity.

There was not much time left for Mallory to make a decision.

The civilian airliner swooped very fast, only a dozen seconds from the far side of the sky to the front of Stonehenge.

Mallory can even see the cockpit is operating the plane's captain.

This is a straight line crash, the captain is absolutely intentional ah!

The civilian airliner is a huge thing.

Never before had he been so close to the nose of a diving civilian airliner, and now suddenly encountered this scene, Mallory felt that this thing was indeed huge and terrifying.

This huge, can be Mallory instantly rushed into slag.

When Mallory desperately suppressed his inner fear and faced death with a brave and fearless spirit, the civilian airliner that was about to hit the top of the stone pillar issued another 'bang! There was a muffled sound.

The huge fuselage of the plane tore apart in a flash.

It seemed to be torn into three sections, the nose, the fuselage and the tail.

A large number of passengers were thrown out from the cracks in the plane, some covered in blood, some mutilated, and some still fixed in their seats. mallory could even hear their screams and miserable screams, and soon they were scattered in the mountains and lakes outside the town below like a scattering of flowers in the sky.

The ripped open nose and fuselage grazed the tops of the stone pillars, whizzing away from them left and right.

They were probably only a few meters away from the pillar.

The nose and fuselage were wrapped in a huge airflow that nearly lifted Mallory out of bed.

Fortunately, Mallory found the situation is not right in time to crouch down, grabbed the bed guardrail to not be swept away by the airflow.

The nose and fuselage just whistled past, a flight attendant who was thrown out from nowhere, her body whirling in the air, continued to scream and rushed towards Mallory.

A beautiful woman falling from the sky is not a good thing for Mallory now.

The flight attendant flew over so fast that Mallory knew that once he was hit, he would either be crushed to death on the spot, or be knocked off the flight attendant's body and fall to his death from a height of more than a thousand meters.

So now Mallory simply can not produce the heroic heart to save the beauty, but the body immediately a roll to the end of the bed, grabbed the end of the bed guard.

The screaming stewardess slammed straight into the head of the bed, where Mallory was crouching.

The tremendous inertial force of her spinning body instantly shattered most of the bedside railings, but her body was also torn in two by the impact.

The part above the waist continued to scream forward and flew away, but the two legs were hanging on the broken guardrail posts at the head of the bed.

Mallory hesitated to reach out to pull her feet when the tail section of the plane followed the flying stewardess straight over and crashed into the top of the stone pillar while also robbing the stewardess of her two legs, as well as Mallory's half of the bed.

Stone pillars do not know what special material to build, after being hit by the tail of the plane without damage, only violently shaken up, holding tightly to the end of the bed guardrail column Mallory several times almost thrown out by the shaking stone pillars.

The nose and fuselage of the civilian airliner skimmed the side of the stone pillar and continued to rush forward at high speed, respectively, into the stone pillar a few kilometers below the two hard ground, making a loud noise and instantly ignited a fire.

The tail of the civilian airliner, however, just changed direction in the impact with the stone pillar, was thrown into a mountain about a kilometer below the pillar, and then rolled into a large lake on the side of the mountain.

The mountain looks like there are a lot of very tall trees, should be able to play some cushioning effect.

I wonder if there will be any survivors in the tail section of the plane.

Even if the air hostess who was crushed into two pieces fell into the lake, there is a high probability that she will not survive.

For the human body, the difference between falling from such a high place and hitting the water and hitting the concrete is not very big.

In addition, she only had half of her body left.

Even if she didn't fall to her death on the lake, she couldn't have lasted too long.

She would soon die from excessive bleeding.

It was too tragic.

How painful it should be to have your body torn into two pieces?

There are actually people in this world who are worse off than themselves.

The passengers in the nose and fuselage parts of the plane must have died, and there was so much fire and smoke that no one must have survived.

The passengers who were thrown out of the broken fuselage could not have survived either.

This should be an extremely tragic air crash that killed all of them.

Mallory's heart was pounding and his body was trembling.

Fortunately, he just reacted quickly enough, otherwise he would have gone with the flight attendants.

The stone pillar may be too high, after being hit by the tail of the airliner kept shaking violently.

If the stone pillar was broken, there would only be one consequence, that is Mallory fell from here and fell to pieces.

The good thing is that the stone pillar only lasted two or three minutes of shaking before it was stabilized.

The material of this stone pillar is absolutely extraordinary, if it is an ordinary stone pillar, this kind of force of the impact has long broken it into several pieces.

Mallory's bed is not so lucky, only three legs left, the other leg of the bed and most of his bed, his pillow, and part of the quilts, padding together with the tail of the aircraft to take away.

The quality of the ancestral wooden bed was so good that only three legs were left and it still didn't fall down.

Of course, it may also be related to the bed legs were riveted to the top of the stone pillar.

Although not dead, but looking at this tragic scene in front of him, Mallory inwardly very some frantic.

Trapped in the top of this stone pillar is just, the night before a whole thunderstorm almost killed him.

Not to be killed, but also almost frozen off half a life.

Today is good, a direct air disaster!

An air crash is an air crash, right? Why does it feel like it's coming straight at him?

Who was behind all this?

Don't let me find out who you are!

I will never let you go!

Mallory howled furiously in his heart.

Below the stone pillar, the fires at the crash site of the nose and fuselage gradually disappeared, leaving only two huge thick columns of black smoke.

The tail of the plane floated on the surface of the lake for a while, then quickly sank to the bottom and disappeared.

After a plane crash of this magnitude, there will be rescue organizations and investigators arriving soon, right?

After they come over, they will definitely be able to see this sky-high stone pillar.

After discovering this stone pillar, send a helicopter, or a drone over, they should soon be able to find me up there, right?

Maybe I can be saved from the disaster and be saved from going down?

Looking at the two huge thick columns of black smoke on the ground, Mallory's heart rekindled the hope of being rescued.

Chapter 6: A drone

A thousand meters high, with the naked eye is really difficult to see the situation on the ground.

Even if there is a rescue, Mallory can not do anything now.

Can only wait.

Waiting for the rescuers or investigators below to find this stone pillar, found this stone pillar on top of him.

I believe that as long as there are rescuers or investigators coming, it is impossible to ignore this stone pillar.

Wait for it.

......

The entire day passed and no helicopters or drones came by.

Mallory lay on the crumbling bed, his body getting weaker and weaker.

Long time without water to drink, his lips have dried and cracked, blooming with bloody mouths.

Long hours of hunger, so he could not keep his sanity fully awake.

Various hallucinations made him think from time to time that rescuers had come and saved him from the stone pillar and sent him back to the warmth of his home.

But the next moment was pulled back to the harsh reality.

Night, once again, had fallen.

As night fell once again, Mallory was once again ready to sleep when he thought he might sleep through this sleep and never wake up again.

If help doesn't come, he doesn't think he'll make it to dawn tomorrow.

But he still didn't have enough courage to leap off the edge of the bed.

He didn't want to give up his last hope yet.

This tragic plane crash is enough to shock the world, so many victims, can not just leave it here, right?

There will definitely be a rescue.

......

In a daze, Mallory started dreaming again.

He dreamed that there was an earthquake and he was trapped in the rubble, surrounded by unbearable darkness.

Suddenly a bright light shone through, stinging his eyes were a little open.

A few moments later, Mallory suddenly woke up.

There was indeed a white light in front of him!

There was also a buzzing sound.

After blocking the light with his hand and getting used to it a little, Mallory finally got a good look.

It was a drone!

A drone! The drone was shooting white light at him!

There was a gimbal under the drone, and a camera was fixed on the gimbal, and the camera's lens was pointing at Mallory.

Hi! Hello! Can you see me? I ...... me ......

Mallory was so excited that he was a little incoherent after being convinced that it was not a dream.

The drone must have been manned by a human, and the fact that a drone flew to the top of Stonehenge meant that someone had found the pillar.

Now the drone also sent the image of him trapped on top of the stone pillar back to the manipulator, and after finding him trapped, a rescue could be sent!

His days of misery were finally coming to an end!

You must have seen me, right? I'm trapped here, I don't know who got me here, thank you for calling the police for me so they can arrange for a helicopter to come and rescue me! Thank you so much!

By the way, my name is Mallory, and my SSN number is XXXXXXXXXXX ......

Mallory tried to calm his emotions and gave a detailed description of his distress message to the drone.

The drone hovered in the air without moving, seemingly listening to Mallory's description.

After Mallory finished his description, the drone flew up and down in the air and stopped only after a while.

Then it hovered silently again not far in front of Mallory.

What does that mean?

Help me pass on the distress message, will you?

Mallory again sent a request to the drone.

The drone repeated the flip-flopping action just now, and then hovered again not far in front of Mallory.

Just ...... oh ...... you do it again I'll see ...... Mallory seemed to see what was going on.

The drone's manipulator apparently heard what Mallory said and flipped through the air a third time.

I see, you're drawing some numbers ...... should be 4359, right? Mallory made a guess based on the trajectory of the drone's flight.

The drone bobbed up and down for a while, then flew away, quickly disappearing into the night.

It looked like Mallory guessed correctly, so the owner of the drone made a nodding motion with the drone.

How did it get away?

4359? Tell me what this number does? Is there any special implication? Mallory was a little confused.

After the drone was gone, Mallory leaned over the bed and looked down at the stone pillar.

It was dark underneath the pillar.

The town was also dark after nightfall earlier, and Mallory thought it was because the town was so remote that there was no electricity yet.

Now that there had been a plane crash, if rescue workers had arrived, there would have been lights on the ground, right?

Why is it still pitch black?

The drone's range is limited, and its operator should be nearby not far away, so why is there no light at all?

The drone should have sent out his distress message, right?

Help should be arriving soon, right?

After sitting quietly in the dark for most of an hour, Mallory, who was incredibly weak, collapsed on the bed again.

If the drone wouldn't help him deliver the distress message, he couldn't do anything about it.

If the drone helps him deliver a distress message, there is really help coming, he lies or sits in fact, there is no difference.

It is better to sleep, and save some more energy to prepare for rescue.

So thirsty ......

So hungry ......

Go to sleep.

I don't know how much time has passed in the trance.

Mallory felt his legs suddenly drop in his sleep.

He subconsciously sat up, his body moved forward, and ended up with two feet on the ground!

Mallory couldn't help but feel happy.

Mallory couldn't help but feel happy. Was he back in his own bedroom?

The eyes were opened with great effort, and everything in front of him was indeed the scene of his own bedroom!

In a daze, Mallory stood up and took a step forward.

Is this the desk next to ...... the bed?

There was his cell phone on it.

Mallory reached for his phone, but felt an empty hand.

It seems that ...... is a bit far away, so it was empty.

Mallory subconsciously took another step forward.

But this step has not fallen when he suddenly felt something is not right.

A sudden struggle in consciousness, Mallory finally completely awake.

He realized that he was still on top of the stone pillar.

Just now two legs fell because the bed was smashed by the tail of the civilian airliner, he rolled in the bed when he unintentionally two legs fell to the broken part of the bed, and then stepped on the ground at the top of the stone pillar.

And now he, by taking a step forward, had reached the edge of the stone pillar.

The foot that he raised had reached the outside of the stone pillar!

If he had stepped out of the way, he would have stepped out of the way and fallen a thousand meters from the top of the pillar to pieces!

After Mallory figured out his current situation, he was so scared that his whole body jolted, and hurriedly retreated back to the bed and sat down.

This illusion is too harmful, right?

Almost waiting for help, but almost jumped in a daze!

If you fall to your death before help arrives, it's too wrong to die!

After returning to bed and lying down again, Mallory was a little afraid to sleep.

He was worried that after he fell asleep, he would not have that hallucination again.

However, in the darkness of the night, the incomparably weak Mallory lay down, not to say that you want to stay awake can not sleep.

Soon Mallory went back to sleep again ...... or semi-conscious state.

This body can last until dawn tomorrow?

Can you wake up again tomorrow?

Help, will come?

Chapter 7 Can't be a starving ghost

Although Mallory thought he might not wake up again.

But when the sky lit up again, he woke up again.

It was only slightly light.

To be more precise, Mallory woke up from the cold.

His hands and feet were numb from the cold.

The whole body was cold.

This state is still not dead, Mallory think is a miracle.

Where is the help? Why hasn't it come?

Obviously there are drones coming, why is not the rescue helicopter sent over?

Is it because the department in charge of rescue does not have the money to buy a helicopter?

Mallory felt that his current situation, even if the rescue is not a waste of national resources.

After all, he's not a donkey who got trapped after making his own death.

He was kidnapped by someone.

But why didn't anyone come to rescue him?

For a certain moment, Mallory even felt a little aggrieved.

Opening his eyes, his weak body slowly regained his vision.

Looking at the gray sky overhead and feeling everything around him, Mallory had the urge to curse again.

It's actually ...... snowing!

Or goose feather snow!

What's wrong with that?

It's only April, right?

Mallory's tattered thin quilt has been covered with a thin layer of snow.

His head and face have also appeared a lot of ice.

Mallory can no longer complain about this.

Why didn't anyone come to save me?

Die!

FUCK! Let me die!

Mallory shouted in despair and anger.

But his mouth was indisputably licking up the broken snow and ice on his lips.

After a while, Mallory suddenly sat up and used his hands to gather the snow on the quilt in front of him into a snowball, and then viciously stuffed it into his mouth.

Already frozen mouth can not melt the ball of snow, Mallory had to chew the ball of snow with teeth, although the root of the teeth because of the cold was frozen raw, but he still insisted on the ball of snow to swallow into the stomach.

Ice cold.

From the mouth all the way to the stomach.

It was really sour to the extreme.

The stomach cramped up once again.

It turned upside down.

The snowball didn't resist hunger at all, it just made the stomach uncomfortable.

So uncomfortable that Mallory bent down and put his fist against his stomach.

At this moment, Mallory could not help but cry again.

It's not a crime for men to cry ......

The key is that he now does not even have the strength to cry.

After eating a snowball, cold and hungry Mallory really did not have the courage to eat the next snowball.

The body is cold from outside and inside, getting stiffer and stiffer, and it's not even close to being able to listen.

Mallory slowly moved his body to the side of the bed and looked at the bottom of the stone pillar.

Because of the drifting snow, it was impossible to see anything below the stone pillar.

Such a heavy wind and snow, it is estimated that even if there is help will not come.

Dead certain.

Jump down.

Jump down, it's all over.

Maybe, it's just a dream.

It's just a bad dream.

Mallory kept trying to convince himself to get up the courage to jump from here.

To end it all.

Even if he didn't jump now, he figured he wouldn't last much longer.

Jumping, at least, can let people know how he died.

Let his life is not meaningless.

Jump ......

Just as Mallory was repeatedly debating whether to end it all, a rumbling sound came over.

From far and near.

The sound was getting louder and louder.

It wasn't quite the same sound as the last time a civilian airliner approached.

A small dot appeared in the dimly lit field of vision in the distance.

A small black dot.

Through the snow curtain, the small black dot gradually became larger and larger.

The rumbling sound also became clearer and clearer.

It became deafening.

It even brought a huge airflow, blowing Mallory's whole body shivering.

It was a helicopter! The strong wind from the helicopter's propeller!

Finally, we could see clearly!

It was indeed a helicopter!

A black helicopter.

So black that even the glass of the cockpit of the helicopter was black, Mallory could not see the pilot inside.

It flew from below, gradually rose, and finally hovered above Mallory's head.

Is it a rescue?

The drone from yesterday called in?

There will be rescue in such a heavy snowstorm?

Is help really coming?

Or is ...... I'm hallucinating?

Mallory sat on the edge of the bed, tilting his head, looking somewhat dazedly at the helicopter overhead, even forgetting that at this time he should get up and call out to it for help.

But there was no need to hurry, the helicopter was obviously coming for him.

After hovering, the helicopter lowered a lifeline ladder.

It's really here to save me!

Thank you, Dad! Thank you mom!

Thank you rescue team!

I knew you guys wouldn't leave me alone!

In an instant, Mallory burst into tears.

As long as he could go back alive, he would be able to find out who had kidnapped him and brought him here.

This matter, Mallory will not be so easy to give up.

Of course, subconsciously, Mallory also have some doubts about the origin of this helicopter.

Suspect that it does not belong to the rescue organization, but the people who kidnapped him sent.

Now arrange for the helicopter to come, in fact, to pick him up to another more dangerous place?

It just ...... doesn't matter who this helicopter belongs to and what it is here for, even if it is to pick him up and take him to the execution ground and execute him on the spot, he will not hesitate to climb up.

The company is already not even afraid of death, what else is there to be afraid of?

Mallory stretched out his hands, using the last strength of his body to grab the rope ladder, and after climbing upward reluctantly two steps, two feet finally stepped on the ladder.

But he no longer has the strength to continue to climb up.

The operator of the helicopter also realized this, the rope ladder automatically retracted the cabin, by the way, Mallory also brought up.

After another difficult climb by the hatch, Mallory finally climbed into the helicopter's cabin.

The helicopter retrieved the rope ladder, closed the hatch, and then tore through the snow curtain and flew off into the distance.

The stone pillars below, and Mallory's bed, soon disappeared in a blanket of snow.

Mallory climbed into the helicopter's cabin only to find that it was empty.

And the cabin door closed, the black glass blocked all the light into the cabin, so that the cabin became invisible black, nothing can be seen.

Of course, there is no way to see the outside.

The front cockpit and the back cabin were separated by metal panels, so Mallory could not enter the cockpit, see the helicopter pilot, or ask him questions.

Mallory did not know where the helicopter was headed and where it was going to take him.

But it was better than staying on top of Stonehenge, right?

Mallory remembered seeing a box in the cabin when he first came up.

Now, although he couldn't see it, he could still