It was still a sunny day.
Mallory was already hungry to the limit, and his eyes were bleary.
After waiting all morning, he didn't wait for the helicopter from Film City to pick him up.
After a morning in the sun, by noon he was once again unbearably thirsty.
Mallory went under the bed, wrapped together with the snow-soaked quilt has not yet dried wringing, with the mouth under the next, actually wrung out a few drops of stinky water to.
Unfortunately, there are only a few drops.
I hope the helicopter will come over this afternoon.
If it doesn't come, he really can't hold on anymore.
It is difficult to drink urine later?
But there is no container for it!
Can't we just hold it in our hands?
He waited from noon to sunset.
Mallory didn't even wait for the helicopter.
It seems that the three to five days between shows, this time not the minimum number of three days, could be four days, or even five days.
Of course, it could have been a week.
It shouldn't be a week, right?
If it does appear to be a week, won't the actors all die of starvation or dryness at the top of Stonehenge? What good would that do to the film city?
Then again, it would have been strange for Film City to do that.
Why put them on top of the pillars and force them to make a movie?
Who is this movie for?
Mallory's anger started to build up again.
But soon he didn't have the strength to be angry.
It was better to save some energy for the helicopter tomorrow.
Tomorrow, the helicopter will definitely come.
I believe that tomorrow everything will be fine.
With this good hope, Mallory put the still-undried mattress on the bed, covered with the rotten quilt, and curled up on the bed to sleep.
...
Today is still a sunny day.
Today there is a strange wind, left and right strange wind, and sometimes the wind will suddenly become very fast.
The extreme hunger and thirst pushed Mallory's body functions to the edge of collapse again.
He became so weak that he lay in bed and did not want to move.
He carefully recalled the last time he entered the helicopter.
There was a box in the helicopter with bread, cookies and drinks.
Mallory deeply suspected that those were not ordinary bread, cookies and drinks, but possibly high-tech enhanced nutritional recovery agents.
Otherwise, with such a weak body, he could not have slept in the helicopter for a few hours and just eaten bread, cookies and so on, and after going to the film city, he was almost as normal.
Perhaps, this weakness is just some kind of illusion, right?
They actors, as long as they do not actively jump from the stone pillar, will not really be starved to death, thirst?
Of course, all this is just Mallory's speculation, or rather his good wishes.
But it has also become the only motivation and belief that can now support him to continue to hold on.
...
It was noon, and still no sign of the helicopter.
Mallory was a bit dazed by the midday sun.
At one point, he suddenly noticed that the sun was blocked by something.
Mallory took a quick glance in the direction of the sun, and ...
Surprisingly, he found a hot air balloon! Floating at an altitude of more than eleven hundred meters, it passed right above Mallory's head, blocking the sunlight that was heading towards Mallory for a moment.
Moreover, it seemed to be descending slowly.
"Hey! I'm here!" Mallory shouted to the balloon as hard as he could.
Soon Mallory gave up shouting.
Because, this hot air balloon seems to be coming for him!
It is not possible that this time back to the film city is not a helicopter, but a hot air balloon?
It's not likely, right? Hot air balloons have no way to fly in a specific direction, but only by using the airflow at different heights to control the direction when raising or lowering.
It is almost impossible to approach a place at a constant height if the wind is not in the right direction.
But Mallory was lucky, the hot air balloon landed at a height of about the same height as the top of Stonehenge, and then came closer to Stonehenge with the wind!
Mallory could clearly see that there were people in the basket of the balloon!
There were at least five or six of them!
They also saw Mallory, and someone waved their hands at Mallory from a distance.
"Help me!"
"I'm trapped! Help me!"
Mallory also waved at them in a hurry.
They didn't look like they were from Film City, so did that mean they could get him out of here? Take him back to the world he was in?
Mallory's heart was pounding with the desire to be rescued, but he was afraid that if he hoped too much, he would only end up with deeper disappointment.
The wind did not disappoint Mallory, and continued to blow the hot air balloon towards the stone pillar.
Just as the basket below the balloon was about to approach the side of the pillar, a strong wind blew over and blew the balloon in the direction away from the side of the pillar.
Unfortunately, the hot air balloon ended up sliding past a dozen meters away from the side of the stone pillar.
For this situation, the balloon operator can not help, he can only control the balloon rise and fall, want to stop right next to the stone pillar to save Mallory, that the wind direction is extremely coincidental to do, the probability is very low, only by luck.
The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers.
For Mallory now, a bottle of water is his life.
The man saw Mallory's action, apparently also understood Mallory's meaning, he leaned down and quickly took a bottle of mineral water without the cap out, and then threw it with force to the top of the stone pillar where Mallory was.
Unfortunately, the power is not enough.
A dozen meters away, and still in flight, trying to throw a bottle of water to the top of the narrow stone pillar, the difficulty is too high.
A bottle of mineral water, which was invaluable to Mallory, just fell to the bottom of the pillar three or four meters in front of him.
The person who threw the mineral water stretched his hands with some regret and shouted at Mallory over here.
I don't know if it was because of the wind, Mallory couldn't hear clearly what he was shouting.
When Mallory was disappointed to see the balloon moving away, he missed this precious rescue, the wind direction near the stone pillar changed again.
The balloon once again approached the pillar with the wind.
After this approach, another man on the basket tied a bottle of mineral water with a rope and threw it towards Mallory's side.
It seems that they are a group of good people, and after finding Mallory, they are indeed very serious about Mallory's rescue.
The rope was a little thick, and the front end was tied to a thin rope, which tied the mineral water.
The first two times failed to throw over, but the good thing is that the mineral water tied with the rope, and did not fall to the bottom of the stone pillar.
Finally, on the third time, the mineral water successfully thrown to the top of the stone pillar, was Mallory caught.
Mallory quickly untied the mineral water bottle from the thin rope, and then grabbed the rope, but did not dare to grab too tightly, fearing that when the wind direction changed, the hot air balloon suddenly away from the stone pillar when he was thrown down.
The basket continued to swing left and right near the stone pillar, the man who just threw the rope shouted while demonstrating to Mallory with his hands, as if Mallory to find a way to fix the rope on top of the stone pillar, and then they can slowly approach over and rescue Mallory to their basket.
Mallory ... also thought so.
But, where to fix the rope?
Only the legs of the bed can fix the rope.
But Mallory is not too sure about the strength of the bed legs.
The wind-blown hot air balloon pulling force is huge, will easily pull off that bed leg.
Mallory had another idea to save himself.