Chapter 423: White Bone
“…… We can't go back. ”
Qiu Xuan couldn't see the look on the face of the young man who had escaped by luck when he said this, but he could easily feel the invisible pressure and despair from their reactions.
The redhead looked back as if to say something to the Twenty-Eighth Official Road, and when she turned around again, she sighed softly. "Anyway, we've got to figure out a way to get out of here. The last time Jairo and I were trapped we were close to the end of the road, and then escaped through the crack that had been blown up by the people who had blown it up. ”
"You've been to the Abyss of Nothingness before?"
The leading woman, who had been silent, suddenly raised her head, and her originally gloomy eyes finally rekindled a little brilliance. "Then we'll go to the place you said now! If you do come out of the bottom once, you're sure to come out a second time! ”
"Don't get your hopes up." The red-haired tone was not as eager, "The Abyss of Nothingness is so large that it can even be said to occupy the entire underground level of Othello, it is equivalent to another disaster area under Othello. Last time we were purely lucky, but this time we may not even be able to walk through the abyss. ”
The eagerness in the young man's eyes dissipated somewhat, but the leading woman looked resolute as she had adjusted.
"It doesn't matter, at least it proves that we are not 100% going to die here, there is hope, there will be hope."
The redhead shrugged, but didn't say anything to dampen their confidence, and walked over to Qiu Xuan's side, taking a few glances at the sealed rock wall in front of him. "Shall we get out of this cavern from here, is there any other way?"
"I haven't looked for it yet, but I've only seen this one so far." Qiu Xuan flexed her finger and tapped on the incomparably hard rock, "And there is no doubt that there will be a road behind the stones here, so let's go and look in the opposite direction." ”
The leading woman regained her spirits and volunteered to turn and explore the way, calling away the young man, who was still immersed in self-blame, and then turned back and asked the redhead apologetically if she could help take care of the remaining young girl.
Obviously, in her heart, compared to the duo of suspected disabled people + black market bullies over there, the redhead who has had the experience of getting out and has a kinder face is more trustworthy.
The redhead seemed a little reluctant, but she had no choice but to save it herself, and finally nodded in agreement.
"Well, how are you going to get rid of this stone?"
As soon as the two left, the redhead turned to Qiu Xuan and asked, not at all shy away from the little girl who was left behind to take care of her.
Qiu Xuan glanced in that direction with empty eyes, and the little girl with two pigtails suddenly took a step back timidly. The girl knew that this person's eyes could not see, but at this moment she had a terrible illusion of being stared at by the materialized gaze.
"Why are you scaring children, it's really yours." The redhead noticed her movements and snorted. "Don't worry, she's just an aboriginal child, she has lived in the team since she was a child, she is very simple, and she won't go out and talk nonsense."
"Not about that." Qiu Xuan retracted his gaze and said in an extremely frank tone: "I can't get rid of this rock wall, as I told you before, all my means and props have been used up in the first three months, and now I am penniless. ”
The redhead made it clear that he didn't believe it, so he began to scold her again, and he was stingy, and he was reluctant to use it when it came to life and death, and he regretted it when he died. Qiu Xuan let her scold and didn't use it, looking like whatever you say anyway, I just look like my bag is empty.
The redhead was tired of scolding, and he stopped, glaring at her angrily, and then rummaged through his own space to find a way to open the rock wall in front of him.
The situation was at a stalemate on their side, and after a while, the leading woman and the young man who had gone out to explore the other side also returned.
When the two of them came back, their faces were sweating and panting, obviously looking like they were running back in a hurry.
"We've all looked for it, and it seems that this is already the end of the cave, and we can go a little further in the opposite direction, but then it's all sealed stone walls."
"Impossible." The redhead frowned contemplatively, "This cavern looks like it was artificially mined and not naturally formed by the landscape. Since it was dug by someone, there will definitely be an exit, but we didn't find it. ”
"It's also possible that someone else blocked it from the inside."
Qiu Xuan suddenly spoke, her tone was very calm, but it was not convincing with her blind eyes that were too stretched in such a sinister environment. The leading woman just looked at her for a second, and then said to the redhead: "Then let's look carefully, the exit must be hidden nearby." ”
The gaze of the young man behind her only stayed on her for a few moments, and he didn't say anything and followed to find the exit.
Qiu Xuan: Alas, the old waste wood counterattacked and slapped the face.
However, in fact, there was no chance for her to realize such a plot, and a moment later, the young man in the team actually groped for a so-called cave to find a gap between the cave and the outside world. People gathered around and found that there seemed to be a faint light slanting through the gap, and looking through the small hole, they could also see the bottom of the real abyss of nothingness outside.
"Yes, that's the whole landscape of the Abyss of Nothingness." The redhead looked at it a few times and then said categorically, "We've found the right location, this is the exit to this cave, it should have been blocked by falling rocks or other external reasons." Pry it open and we'll be out! ”
There was palpable joy on the faces of everyone from the Twenty-Eighth Official Path, as if they had escaped not from the cavern in the abyss, but from the entire abyss.
Needless to say, the leading woman and the young man had already begun to turn around and look for tools to try to pry open the blocked rocks, and even the little girl stepped forward and began to dig up the stones silently with her hands.
Qiu Xuan gave up completely after groping in the dark twice, and stood next to Qin Jiuyuan to be a bastard. She suddenly pulled down the black merchant slightly, turned over sideways and said, "Did you see a corpse in the cave when you walked over before?" ”
Qin Jiuyuan thought back for a few moments, "It seems that there is." Right on the edge of the rock wall where we first passed, unsure if it was an exit, the light was a little dim and we could only see a little clearly, not completely sure that it was a corpse. ”
"Take me to see it."
Qin Jiuyuan carefully pulled her back and walked back, he ignited some of the light of the fire breaker, and completely illuminated the two entangled white bones huddled in the corner of the rock wall.
The two of them crouched down on the edge of the dry bones, the black merchant was used to this kind of business, and knew a lot about these things. After just a few brief observations, he determined: "The corpses have been dead for at least twenty years, there are two in total, and they should have been hugged tightly before they died, and now some of the joints have completely grown together." ”
He glanced at it a few times, and did not reach out to touch the two white bones that were so entangled, but hung down and pulled away a piece of clothing that was sticking to his body a little, and twisted something out of his fingertips.
Qiu Xuan also stretched out his hand, but was lightly knocked off in the next second.
"Don't touch it yet." Qin Jiuyuan's tone sounded a little serious, he quickly let go of his hand and let the pure white crystal fall to the ground, frowning and looking at his fingers.
I saw that the skin that touched the unknown crystal on his fingertips had corroded off a small piece of flesh, and it was still spreading at a continuous rate.
"What's wrong?" Qiu Xuan didn't know anything, and twisted her eyebrows to ask about the other party's situation. The latter pulled a piece of cloth and wrapped his fingers around it, and said comfortingly with his backhand: "It's okay, I saw a spar on the corpse." I've never seen this ore before, so I'm a little curious. ”
Qiu Xuan listened to this description as if she sensed something, and over there, Qin Jiuyuan slowly picked up the spar on the ground through several layers of cloth, and sent the side of the cloth to her. "You just hold this side, don't touch it with your hands, it should be corrosive."
Qiu Xuan frowned and felt the touch of the spar through a few layers of fabric, which alone was no different from the ordinary ores on the market.
However, even Qin Jiuyuan, a person who has been running the black market for many years and has seen a considerable amount of things on the mainland, does not know what this spar is, which can only show that if it is not so precious and rare that no black merchant on the market is qualified to handle it, or it is a resource mine that is specially kept secret or even extinct on the surface.
Thirty years ago, for example, the mining team dug up a resource mine in Osser, which was a symbol of disaster.
"You don't have a place to put it, can you keep it here for me first?" Qiu Xuan Road.
Qin Jiuyuan didn't have any opinions, and then he roughly looked for other clues on the corpse, but they had either been weathered to the point of blurring traces or had decomposed into the ground along with the corpse itself.
"What are you two whispering here?"
The red-haired voice suddenly sounded behind him, and Qiu Xuan quickly put the spar that was suspected of being a special resource mine into the space, and said casually: "I saw two corpses." ”
"It's not normal that there are no corpses in this kind of ghost place, right?" The redhead seemed to think they were making a fuss, but he just walked over and looked at the white bones curled up and twisted together a few times, and said, "It's almost dug up over there." It's understandable that you can't see with your eyes now, but Renault ...... He is strong, and he must at least symbolically make a part of it. ”
"It's almost over there, what's the point of talking about this now." Qiu Xuan clapped her hands and stood up from the ground, "Really, red hair." I don't think there's something quite right, and based on what we've seen along the way, the exit you found really looks like these two guys themselves blocked it from the inside. ”
She lowered her fingers and pointed to an uneven rock wall, which was silently led back by Qin Jiuyuan and moved to the two white bones.
Redhead: "...... But normal people who are trapped in a cave should find a way to get out, these two people are killing themselves by locking themselves inside. Besides, as you can see, that's how they ended. ”
"Because they may have realized that there is something more terrible outside the cave than being trapped in it." Qiu Xuan said: "This cave may be the last place of protection for them, so they will not hesitate to seal the only exit to protect themselves from infringement." ”
"But it's all your guess, Afu."
The redhead sighed as if facing her, "All your claims are just speculation, not to mention that after so many years, the 'thing' that threatens these two people outside is long gone." That exit is the only way we can get out at the moment, otherwise what better way would you have been? ”
Qiu Xuan couldn't answer this, because she couldn't take out the internal combustion double-headed conversion light electron steam magic energy impact cannon right now and shoot it in front of the red-haired face of the sealed rock wall. In that case, her previous concealment would be completely meaningless, not to mention, the price to be paid for every use of shock artillery is to be led by energy, she is overdrawn here, and the next way out is a dead end.
So Qiu Xuan didn't speak, and seemed to acquiesce to the red-haired statement, but in fact, the palm behind his back flipped over, and several tooth fairy puppets made by high-level executioners were held in his hands.
The leading woman made a final blow, and chiseled a hole in the stone that was plugged downward.
"It worked!"
Everyone looked excited, and the young man sped up and dug down the hole with a quick pace, and soon a crack large enough for an adult was dug open.
"We can get out!"
The lead woman looked at the redhead with bright eyes, and the latter shook her head, reminding everyone, "This is just the beginning of being able to go to the Abyss of Nothingness, our Hell Road has just shown an entrance." ”
Xingtou was suddenly extinguished by her words, and the woman held the stone and was silent for a long time, "But no matter what, there is hope that we will get out alive." ”
"I hope so." The redhead let out a sigh and turned to look at the silent Qiu Xuan's position. "Since you're so skeptical, let's do it, I'll take the lead, and you'll be behind Renault, okay?"
The lead woman's gaze at the redhead was a little more eager.
Qiu Xuan nodded in agreement, and the redhead really poked out first as she said, and then the leading woman followed suit. Only Qin Qiu and the two of them and the young man and the little girl before were left in the cave, and the young man pulled the girl to be silent for a long time, and said, "If something really happens later, can I ask you to take care of Nuo Nuo?" ”
Qiu Xuan raised her eyebrows, "Do you think something will happen later?" ”
"I'm just ......," the young man muttered for a long time without saying a reason, and at last he only made up his mind to squat down and touch the little girl's head, turned around and sincerely asked the two of them a few words, and then resolutely turned around and burrowed into the hole.
The girl stood and glanced timidly at the two of them, and before she could meet their eyes, she quickly withdrew her gaze, twitched her nose twice, and crawled out in the same way as her predecessors.
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