"Squeak...... Squeaky ......"

The table was full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and Zou Youheng suddenly had a great appetite. He was about to reach for the nearest crab, but the crab in front of him suddenly turned into a black worm and burrowed into his mouth and neck.

"Ah??? ――”

Frightened, he suddenly opened his eyes.

"Ah!! ――”

But the sight made him close his eyes again.

He was still leaning against the stone wall just now, but he was surrounded by the disgusting black worm for some time. Some of them were even about to start crawling on top of him.

Zou Youheng jumped up instantly like a reflex, but those black insects were not only not scared away, but quickly narrowed the scope of the encirclement, as if they wanted to surround him on the stone wall.

The black insects are not just lying on the ground and besieging, but layering up, one on top of the other, densely packed, and suddenly it becomes a mobile fence.

Getting closer and closer, looking at these black things up close, makes people feel even more disgusting. Half afraid of poison, half afraid of annoying these disgusting black worms, Zou Youheng didn't dare to block it with his hands, but his mind was blank, and he looked at the approaching "black fence" with a stiff face, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

In the blink of an eye, the insect had already been blackened in front of him, almost engulfing Zou Youheng.

It's out of the way.

Zou Youheng gritted his teeth, blocked it with his hand, dense things, as soon as his arm touched, even if he was still wearing a thick cotton coat, he still felt a pain in his heart.

He's dead. It must have been poisoned.

Thinking desperately as he struggled to run out.

In just a moment, there was a constant pain in the east and west of the body, as if there were countless embroidery needles stabbing himself frantically. Zou Youheng didn't run a few steps, and then instantly softened.

If you're dead, you're definitely going to die here this time.

Rumble.

A burst of red light flashed, and then the layers of black insects all fell to the ground, as if they had been scorched in an instant.

There was a sudden clarity in front of me.

Zou Youheng collapsed on the ground, still in pain everywhere on his body. When he looked closely, he realized that the red light just now was actually fire, and there was a man standing there with a torch.

Isn't that right?!

Zou Youheng was a little puzzled.

When I was crossing the stone path just now. He also used the trick of fire. But not only did it not succeed in scorching the black worm, but it attracted more black worms.

The current scene can't be a vision that he is dead and appears before leaving, right? Or this person. Is it one of black and white impermanence?

He wanted to stand up and get up. But only for a moment. He quickly collapsed again.

"Don't move."

As he spoke, the man approached with a torch.

"Are you a human or a ghost?"

Zou Youheng asked with difficulty.

For an inexplicable meeting, he tried to lose his life. Whatever appeared in front of him now, he could accept it calmly.

"You've been poisoned, and you have to be cured immediately."

The man didn't answer him, leaned the torch against the stone wall, squatted down and began to check Zou Youheng's injuries.

"That black worm is poisonous? I knew it. ”

Zou Youheng said indignantly.

That golden tooth is really a villain, or the current emperor is a villain, and he actually put the students who took the examination in such a dangerous situation that they could die at any time. But the stupid man is here, knowing that there is a lot of danger here, but he still comes in.

"Drink it."

The man lowered his head and took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, pulled out the small stopper at the mouth of the bottle, and handed it to Zou Youheng.

"Antidote?"

Looking at the person in front of him, Zou Youheng was skeptical.

But he was immediately relieved, for he saw that the man was wearing a short suit of the same style as he had just been. Although his piece has been burned by himself.

"What state capital are you from?"

Zou Youheng asked.

If this person is from Huzhou, then he has to consider whether to drink the so-called antidote.

"Pull out the plug, the effect will pass quickly. Drink it quickly. ”

The man stood up, looking around as he spoke.

Sweat began to break down on his forehead, and a constant pain in his chest came from him. The huge pain made Zou Youheng have no heart to think about anything else, and when his heart was crossed, he raised his head and drank a whole bottle of antidote.

The antidote was not only not bitter, but a little sweet, like a high-quality rice wine that had been aged for several years, and he even felt a hint of wine in it.

There was no more pain in the body, but the head weighed a thousand pounds. In an instant, he fell asleep......

I don't know how long he slept, but when he woke up, he found that he was still lying in the same place where he had just fallen, and the man was sitting on the side, his handsome face was expressionless, and at first glance, it seemed that he was going to merge with the stone wall.

"Uh, that ......"

Zou Youheng tried to get the man's attention.

Hearing the voice, the man moved and turned his head around.

"How are we going to get out?"

Zou Youheng then asked.

Since he's not dead, the first problem now is to get out of here.

"Come with me."

The man said with a blank face, then stood up.

"But where is the exit?"

Zou Youheng also got up from the ground and asked while patting the dust on his body.

The man did not answer, but walked over to the chests full of gold, silver, and jewels, and pushed one of them open with all his might, revealing a hole.

"Huh? How do you know there's an exit here? ”

And such an obvious exit, there is no mystery at all, and it doesn't seem to match the overall design of this stone wall.

"Can you swim?"

The man habitually ignored Zou Youheng's question.

"A little."

didn't know what he was going to do, Zou Youheng could only answer honestly.

"Stick this to the wound in your arm."

The man said and handed Zou Youheng something similar to a plaster.

"It's fine, it's just a little hurt. You don't need to stick it. ”

Zou Youheng said with a smile.

This person is too caring, isn't he?

If he can go out along the way, he will definitely make this friend.

"The blood on the wound will attract the black worm like the one just now."

The man said with a blank face.

"What?"

As soon as he heard the black worm, Zou Youheng subconsciously took a step back.

He suddenly remembered that he had used blood to open the door of the stone chamber, could it be that so many black worms before were attracted by the blood on his wounds?

Thinking like this, I was horrified, and immediately silently pressed the plaster tightly to the wound.

"It's connected to a waterhole down here, and swim with me when you jump."

By the time Zou Youheng put the plaster on it, the man was already at the entrance of the cave. Get ready to jump down.

"Waterhole? Isn't that going to sink? ”

He's a swimmer, yes. But diving in an inexplicable pool doesn't seem to have such skills.

"Follow me."

The man didn't care about Zou Youheng anymore and jumped straight down.

"Eh, eh?!! You wait......"

Although Zou Youheng was scared half to death, this was the only way out. He could only jump down.

Knock -

The entrance to the cave was a long distance from the waterhole. So when Zou Youheng jumped. I also did a free fall for a while in the middle of the gap.

Embedded in the water, the impact left his mind blank. In a daze, the instinct to survive made him desperately want to run towards the surface of the waterhole. But suddenly a huge force came out from under his feet. Grab his feet and jerk them down.

Zou Youheng struggled desperately like a person who accidentally fell into the water, he couldn't breathe in the water, he couldn't think of anything, he just cared about swimming to the surface of the water with air. But the force was too great, but after a stalemate for a while, he was exhausted, and his consciousness gradually blurred, allowing the force to drag him deeper into the water.

His ribcage was squeezing so hard that it seemed as if something weighing a thousand pounds was constantly pressing on his chest. Even if he held his breath with all his might, Zou Youheng knew that he wouldn't be able to hold on for long.

Suddenly, a huge sense of oppression hit him, and the whole person seemed to be pressed into a crack in the stone, and just when Zou Youheng felt that his body was about to be unable to withstand the pressure and explode, the force dragged him out of the water.

Faced with the sudden feeling of comfort, Zou Youheng gasped desperately, and there was some light around him, and when he came to his senses, the man had already come out of the water and walked ashore.

"Come up."

Seeing that Zou Youheng was still in the water, the man said.

"I ...... I'll take a break...... Take a break. ”

Zou Youheng said that he didn't have any strength at all now, and he could just use the buoyancy of the water to let himself float on it for a while.

"The water is poisonous."

"W-What ???"

As soon as he heard this, Zou Youheng exploded in an instant and climbed to the shore as fast as he could.

After the thick cotton clothes on his body were soaked in water, it was as heavy as hanging several iron balls on his body, and the moment he broke off the surface of the water, he almost crawled with his hands.

He was soaking wet, and as soon as he reached the shore, he simply sat on the ground and began to take off all the wet clothes on his body.

"Put it on."

Before he had taken off his cotton clothes, he heard the man's voice stop.

"It's wet, it's all sticking to your body, it's heavy, it's so uncomfortable."

Zou Youheng looked up at the man and said.

But he seems to be at ease now, just looking at the person in front of him, which makes him inexplicably relieved.

I don't know which direction it was, but there was a shouting or the sound of fighting with each other.

"Others are nearby."

The man said lightly, his gaze drifting somewhere.

This made Zou Youheng feel a little in his heart, if the others were nearby, if they met that group of people in Huzhou, would they still be in danger now? If this is the case, the clothes can at least resist some flesh and skin injuries, thinking like this, he silently wrung out the cotton clothes that had been taken off vigorously, and then put them on his body again.

The noise is getting louder and louder, and it is accompanied by screams from time to time, it seems that several parties are gathering together to fight, this time Zou Youheng heard it clearly, and the sound was not far ahead.

"It's like a fight, huh? Or let's go over quietly......"

Zou Youheng stood up from the ground, looked at the man and said.

Since this person is also a candidate, it is better to have a companion than to act alone, and judging from the series of things just now, it is much safer to follow him than to act alone. (To be continued......)