Zuoqiu City's expeditionary force to the death of the bandits pursued the ghost bandits, and when they reached the vicinity of the lair of the 30th cave, they faced the trouble of unknown terrain. After temporary discussions, the commanders of the left and right sides decided to divide their forces again to exterminate the remnants. It's just that this time it was divided into four teams, each team had about forty soldiers, all of which were led by the squad leader.

Liu Han naturally became the commander of our squad. She led her team directly into Cave 33, carefully searching for the remnants of the ghost bandits.

There was a small waterfall and an underground lake in this cave, and the expeditionary force had to walk along the lake side next to the cave wall. Halfway through, a steep slope appears on the side, covered with boulders and vines, making it look like another good spot for an ambush.

Out of prudence, Liu Han first sent two city guards and two mercenaries to investigate. But I didn't want to, but there was no response after these four team members passed!

"The whole team is on alert!" Liu Han shouted, and then prepared to take out the flying talisman to send an early warning.

"Whoosh!"

A dark arrow flew out from the steep slope and went straight to Liu Han!

"Ahh

Liu Han's reaction was fast, and he dodged with his head sideways. But one of the guards behind her was shot through the head by a hidden arrow and fell to the ground screaming.

"Wow, yes!"

Strange cries came from the steep slope, and more than a dozen ghost bandits actually grabbed long vines and swung over from a distance, landing directly in the middle of the expeditionary force team. Among them, there is a ghost bandit who is the largest, wearing a pair of iron fists on his hands, and he killed a mercenary in one face!

"It's the Iron Hand!"

Long Xiaoyan roared angrily. When the enemy saw each other, his eyes were red, he didn't care, and desperately wanted to rush to the side of the iron hand. As his teammates, a few of us had no choice but to follow him to squeeze through the chaotic enemy and enemy soldiers, and protect Long Xiaoyan to attack the Iron Hand.

The pair of iron fists are the weapons of the iron hands, which can be attacked and defended, and they are extremely hard. Ordinary swords, spears and spears slashing at it cannot hurt it in the slightest, but are easy to be grabbed and broken by it with one hand. Although Long Xiaoyan was already a fourth-level cultivator, he had only just advanced and was still at the initial level. And Iron Hand is already a top-tier ink ghost, so when it is besieged by us, it can still not fall behind with one enemy and six enemies.

The ghost bandits were a little smarter than the previous ambush, and did not give the expeditionary force a chance to carry out a long-range attack, and jumped directly into the center of the military formation and began to engage in hand-to-hand combat, successfully entering the melee situation they wanted. And the level of these dozen ghost bandits is not low, and the worst is above the, and there are even three ink ghosts. The expeditionary force team led by Liu Han was suppressed by them for a while.

"Disperse the enemy! The group encircled and suppressed! Liu Han hurriedly gave a loud command.

Fortunately, even a small team still had an advantage over the remnants of the main force of the ghost bandits, and after the initial panic, the expeditionary force began to adjust its tactics. The city guards of the city guards were usually well-trained, and as soon as they heard Liu Han's order, they immediately changed their formations and split into multiple teams of three, each besieging a ghost bandit.

Although the other mercenaries were only temporarily recruited, they were not novices, and when they saw that the tactics of the city guards were effective, they followed suit. They no longer huddled together haphazardly, but separated from each other to besiege a ghost bandit every two or three people. Such a group encirclement and suppression tactic immediately turned a disadvantage into an advantage, and many high-level ghost bandit main forces were killed one after another.

Iron Hand's side was besieged by the six team members led by Long Xiaoyan from the beginning, although it did not show defeat, but it was unable to rescue its own subordinates again, so anxious that it kept screaming. It looked around, the situation on its own side was irreparable, and Liu Han, as the highest cultivator on the side of the expeditionary force, was also approaching it, and if he didn't run, he wouldn't be able to run!

So, it fought back and forced the six of us back, then turned around and ran. Where was Long Xiaoyan willing to let it go, and he actually followed after him.

"Don't chase it! Watch out for an ambush ahead! Liu Han shouted anxiously in the back.

But Long Xiaoyan pretended not to hear it, and continued to chase after him. A few of us were afraid that he would make a mistake, so we had no choice but to follow. Instead of running up the steep slope, Iron Hand went around it and into the waterfall. Presumably behind that is the entrance to the next cavern.

Long Xiaoyan was only a dozen steps behind Tie Shou, and he had to drill behind the waterfall. The rest of the team followed him a few steps behind, and I was the last one because I hesitated.

At this point, I felt someone suddenly grab my hand behind me, and I had to stop. Looking back, it was Liu Han.

She was extremely angry and shouted, "Do you want to disobey?" ”

I quickly explained: "We don't want to disobey the order, but the six of us are coming together, and we must live and die together!" ”

Liu Han didn't listen to my explanation and wanted to refute it, but at this moment, a loud rumbling sound came from the steep slope. The two of us looked up together, and there were three boulders rolling down one after another! Sure enough, there is an ambush on it!

At this time, Long Xiaoyan and the others happened to run over the steep slope with Tie Shou, and the large army behind Liu Han listened to her orders and did not rush to follow, leaving only the two of us in the middle of the rockfall area. I can't run forward, and I can't retreat backwards.

Liu Han reacted quickly, pulled me to the side again, and shouted, "Jump!" ”

I immediately understood what she meant, and hurried a few steps to the other side away from the steep slope, and then jumped into the lake without hesitation.

"Plop!"

"Plop!"

Liu Han and I both plunged into the lake, and a boulder smashed into the water right behind us. Fortunately, the boulder's falling momentum was slightly slowed down by the resistance of the water, and it didn't hit us directly. But we were still affected by the shock wave and sank rapidly.

I paddled to the side of the water a few times, dodging the boulders, and then observed the bottom of the lake. There are not many fish in the lake, there are few algae plants, and the water is clear. But there is a large whirlpool at the bottom of the lake, and the water is fast. I guess there must be a dark hole in the center of the whirlpool, and the lake is sucked in like rainwater meets a gutter, so it's no wonder that there are no fish or algae in the center of the lake.

I was going to swim to the shore first, but when I turned my head again, Liu Han on the opposite side was also struggling to swim up, but it seemed very difficult. It seems that she is average in water, and she is reluctant to discard the heavy crescent halberd in her hand. I swam over to give her a hand.

Unexpectedly, another boulder sank from above impartially, crushing us to the bottom of the lake again and being swept into the whirlpool!

It was very difficult to swim out of the whirlpool, and I was caught in a dilemma, if I wanted to survive, I had to abandon all the equipment and armor on my body, including the shield and wok, which my master had passed on to me. But even if I'm willing to abandon these things, what about Liu Han?

She couldn't hold her breath anymore, her face turned red, but she still clutched the crescent halberd in her hand. I made a quick choice, throwing away the shield and scimitar, breaking her fingers and forcibly snatching the crescent halberd from her hand and throwing it away.

But Liu Han finally lost his mind in the absence of oxygen, and hugged me tightly like a life-saving straw and refused to let go, and his feet were wrapped around my feet. I was in a hurry, and I was not like being on flat ground in the water, and I had to rely on the swing of my body and the paddling of my hands and feet to swim to the shore, so I could not swim. After being delayed by her, the two of us finally couldn't get rid of the attraction of the whirlpool and were swept into a dark hole at the bottom of the lake!

The water in the dark hole is even more turbulent, and it feels like doing an underwater roller coaster. I felt like the world was spinning, I couldn't control my body, I could only grit my teeth and insist on not losing consciousness. But the greater suffering does not come from the physical, but from the mental. It was a pain that was constantly pulled by external forces, as if the soul was about to be stripped from the body......

No! Not as if! I'm really out of my body!

I barely opened my eyes to see that my soul fruit was really slowly leaving my body. From my point of view, my hands and feet are transparent, but the flesh underneath me is real. It's a weird feeling, like you're going through the process of dying! Am I going to die?

But Yin Xiu can't turn into a ghost after death, what the hell is going on?

Liu Han was also out of her body, but her soul seemed to have lost consciousness, but the flesh of the two people was still tightly hugging each other. I hurriedly reached out to grab Liu Han's soul to prevent her from being swept away by the current, and at the same time tried desperately to return to my body.

At this moment, the whirling force in the dark hole vortex disappeared, and the two souls and two bodies were thrown out by the huge tossing force with the flow of water at the same time, and fell together. I felt myself fall to the hard ground, and I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder and back. But it's a good thing to feel pain in my body at this time, and my soul is finally back in my body!

My heart was so wide that I couldn't hold on any longer, and I fell to the ground and fainted.

……

When I woke up again, my first feeling was a pain in my head and a strong feeling of pressure, but it was not the same as when I was out of my body in the water.

How so?

Out-of-body is a painful feeling of being forcibly pulled by an unknown external force, as if you lost a fight and fell to the ground and were dragged by your hair all the way. And now the pain is like wearing a very ill-fitting small-size dress. But this dress is very tough, and it can't be squeezed no matter how you squeeze it, but it hurts.

I rubbed my temples, trying to get over the headache and try to regain my senses, all the while rushing to look up and take in my surroundings. After all, we were still fighting the ghost bandits just now, and no matter where we were now, we couldn't be careless in such a completely unfamiliar place.

The scene in front of us is still an underground lake, but this lake is obviously not the lake we just fell on, and the location is definitely not the 33rd cave just now. Because, in the middle of the lake, there is a large fountain that is spewing water out.