More than a day had passed since they entered the abyss of nothingness.

However, the impact of snow blindness caused by Qiu Xuan in the extremely cold land has not been alleviated. Originally, the redhead was checked and said that he would be able to get better on his own after a while, and this is not a big problem. But so far, she has never seen the true landform of the Abyss of Nothingness with her own eyes.

Later, Qiu Xuan almost thought that she was completely blind, and the redhead rolled her eyelids and threw several examination techniques at her, but all of them were without any problems.

"It's psychological, you have to adjust your mentality by yourself." The red-haired man looked like a veteran doctor, "Eat and drink well...... Well, although we can't achieve this, you must have a good mentality. If you have a good attitude, you will be able to get rid of any problem at that time. ”

Qiu Xuan thought she was talking nonsense.

The group had almost exhausted most of their energy in the moor, and after completely leaving the dangerous range of the moor, they briefly discussed for a while, and decided to find a place to stay and rest collectively before continuing on the road.

It is also a practice of preserving the physical strength of the means, and almost no one has any objections.

And at this moment, the red-haired eyebrows stared at the surrounding environment for a while, and suddenly said, "I remembered!" I've been to this place before, and if the overall environment under the abyss remains the same, I remember that a few dozen kilometers further east there will be a natural interlayer with three sides against a rock wall. ”

"That place is relatively the safest, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Jairo and I rested in that mezzanine last time, even if we ran into a group of hungry people on the way, it was easily solved by relying on the natural geographical advantage."

Hearing her say this, the tired faces of the people on the 28th official road were a little more excited and looking forward to it. The leading woman was the first to speak, her tone full of hope, "That means we're close to the eye of the storm, aren't we?" We can get out! ”

"That's right." The redhead's voice smiled a little more, "I remember, the road back here is what I've been through, and we should be able to find the eye of the storm soon." ”

At this moment, even if he still had a bad feeling about the red-haired behavior before, the young man's mood quickly became happy.

He took the little girl's hand and whispered something with a little smile, and the dreary and treacherous atmosphere of the team along the way was finally diluted by the joy of being able to escape.

Qiu Xuan blinked her eyelashes and didn't speak.

Three hours later, the group successfully arrived at the natural mezzanine surrounded by mountains on three sides as mentioned by the red hair.

At this time, the overall relaxed atmosphere of the original team has faded a little, after all, a few hours of hiking and cross-country is not a joke, plus most of the physical strength consumed in the moorland before. As soon as the people arrived at their destination, they cautiously checked that there were no other hungry people in the area, and then most of them collapsed on the ground without saying a word.

There were probably only three people left who had not yet weakened their legs, and the redhead looked at the mezzanine area with a somewhat satisfied expression. "yes, that's where I remember, it's safe, we can stay here for the night. So, I'll keep watch in the first half of the night. ”

Qiu Xuan casually sat on the rock face, covered the stomach with a faint cramping pain in her palm, pursed her lips and didn't speak.

Even if people have consciously avoided this all the way, in fact, they have always had to face more than just the harsh environment at the bottom of the Abyss. From the very beginning, the biggest threat to everyone was food.

At that time, when they were blocked by countless black-robed people on the No. 28 official road, no one had the awareness to bring reserve food, and even if there were, the poor organization on the No. 28 official road itself did not have any so-called reserve food.

It can be said that the total amount of food added up by the few people present can barely last for another day.

Twenty bottles of wine had already been used up in the previous chaos, and Qiu Xuan now had two synthetic cakes in his coat pocket, and Qin Jiuyuan should be about the same. She didn't know about the red hair, but what was certain was that the three No. 28 officials did not have any food on them.

"Let's start with the kid."

As soon as there was a lot of movement around her, the redhead came over and sat down next to her, and said something faintly. "Or are you thoughtful Afu, there are really no oil bottles in this team, they can also be used as reserve food, thanks to you for saving them."

Qiu Xuan didn't really want to talk to her now.

"It's useless to avoid it, we have to recognize the reality."

Even in such a relatively safe environment, they did not dare to light a fire, but symbolically lit a fire at the only exit position to see the danger in time. The red-haired faint looked back at the three people who were sleeping soundly after being overtired, "That woman I can't move for the time being, do you think the remaining two people are enough for us to hold out until we find the exit?" ”

"Didn't you say you'll be in the eye of the storm soon?"

said that the redhead took the initiative to stay in the middle of the night, and Qiu Xuan did not sleep. Qin Jiuyuan beside her was next to her, leaning on her head and closing her eyes and pretending to sleep, she was silent for a while with her eyes open, and said to the red hair: "Hold on for a while, you shouldn't have to go to the step of eating children." ”

The redhead said, "I lied to them." ”

Qiu Xuan turned her head to look at her with godless eyes.

"In order to give them the confidence to go on without despairing, I have to say that." The redhead's tone was calm, as if he was simply stating reality. "I've been to this place before, and I'm familiar with it, but do you know how long it took Jairo and I to find the eye of the storm that time when we were relatively full? For a month, a whole month, Afu, still with the two high-ranking executioners having exhausted all props and methods. So how long do you think it will take us to do now, with the three of them? ”

Qiu Xuan couldn't answer this, she was silent for a while, and then asked, "Then what are you going to do with that woman?" ”

"Sacrifice."

Qiu Xuan: "What? ”

The redhead turned his head slowly, his face dim in the faint flickering light of the fire. "Sacrifice a companion, only a woman. The eye of the storm can be forcibly opened when the storm is not clear. ”

Qiu Xuan: "...... Light encounter? ”

Redhead: "What? ”

"I mean, how do you know that? Is it because you and Jairo used this method to open the eye of the storm last time? ”

The redhead seemed to laugh, but she didn't answer, and there seemed to be nothing around her except the faint breathing of the crowd.

Qiu Xuan sat on the rock as usual, in front of her, the red-haired face was smiling, holding a dagger in his hand, and the sharp blade was sent to her throat inch by inch.

The tip of the red-haired knife moved slowly, and not even the slightest imperceptible sound of air breaking through the air did not leak a bit, but the sharp edge did move towards the most fragile skin in Qiu Xuan's throat.

The redhead held the blade in his hand, his eyes fixed on the figure leaning against the rock, seemingly unaware. Qiu Xuan's eyes, which used to be like natural obsidian even in the dark night, dimmed and fell, and she didn't notice that her lips were still closing one by one, trying to confirm some details with the red hair, and the tip of the knife stayed at the distance between the millimeters in front of the skin in her throat.

Qiu Xuan seemed to notice that something was off, and the blade was crooked from her neck a few points, and it almost pierced into the flesh.

She asked, "Why don't you talk to me anymore?" ”

The dagger in the redhead's hand stayed in that position for a while, her eyes fixed on Qiu Xuan's face, trying to find a flaw in the clues. The blade of the knife stopped above his throat for a few minutes, until Qiu Xuan frowned impatiently, and his tone sounded a little annoyed.

"You're asleep, redhead?"

The redhead flicked her wrist, and the dagger disappeared into the cuff in an instant, and she quietly raised her hand behind her head, and responded in a lazy tone: "I'm tired." ”

Qiu Xuan snorted and turned around.

In the middle of the night, the redhead seemed to be completely defenseless, woke Renault to the vigil, and then leaned against a rock and fell asleep with his eyes closed.

Hei Shang straightened up and sat in the dark, put his coat on the back of Qiu Xuan's head, and whispered to her to go to sleep and recover her strength. The latter answered, and lay down on his side, and suddenly remembered something, and pinned his head to the side as if he had cleared his muscles.

In the dim mezzanine, Qiu Xuan's eyes were fixed on the red-haired who seemed to be asleep, and after a few breaths, everything returned to normal.

……

Qiu Xuan always felt that she seemed to be missing some details.

They were surprisingly lucky that night, and spent the whole night in the mezzanine unharmed, and not a single hungry person or unknown monster plant came to their door.

The crowd set off on time according to the route provided by the red-haired memory, and Qiu Xuan woke up once in the middle of the night, and when he woke up, he shared the piece of synthetic cake he was carrying with Qin Jiuyuan while people were still sleeping. So although she was hungry when she was on her way now, it was not to the point of losing her mind.

The redhead doesn't have red eyes, probably because she has already secretly eaten alone.

So the only ones who really endured hunger were the three people of the 28th official road, and it seemed that they knew in their hearts that they were not very useful to this team, so even if they endured it, they didn't say that they wanted to ask for food or anything.

I could endure it for two days, but on the evening of the third day, the leading woman shook her steps and fell straight face down.

Behind her was a young man with a yellow face and thin muscles, and the young man was also half-dragging and half-holding a little girl who was also skinny, and the three of them seemed to have been completely drained of the last trace of energy, and they collapsed to the ground like a fish of dried up, and even gasped for breath.

The redhead finally stopped walking, and she glanced at the three people who had collapsed on the ground with an inexplicable gaze, and turned her head to face Qiu Xuan. "It's time, and no one can go out if you hesitate."

The young man, who still had some consciousness, collapsed on the ground and stared wide-eyed, as a native who had lived in Oser for quite some time, of course, he immediately understood the meaning of the redhead's words. The sore arm trembled slightly, as if he wanted to touch the little girl who had fainted on the side, but he never did.

"Don't, please, she's still young, don't eat her......" The sentence was broken into several sentences by him, and the young man seemed to realize the ridiculousness of his words when he said this, shaking his lips and closing his eyes, a few lines of tears slid down and washed out two water marks on his stained cheeks.

"Please, please, you......"

"I'm sorry." The redhead walked over and squatted down towards him, "I can't do anything about it, but in order to live, someone has to make sacrifices, and I'm sorry." ”

She flicked the dagger from her fingertips, the same one she had pulled out that night.

"Please, beg ......" The young man lay on his back and trembled a little more often, and his chapped lips were hoarse and spat out unfinished words. And the next second, as if returning to the light, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the dagger in the redhead's hand like a fish struggling in the shallows.

It's too slow.

Not to mention the redhead who is not majoring in combat ability, even if he is a normal ordinary person here, he can easily restrain the last blow of the young man's desperate resistance.

With a hint of compassion in her eyes, the redhead reached out and brushed away the young man's fingers holding the blade one by one.

Drops of blood trickled down the snow-white knife surface, and the red hair caught it and took a sip into his mouth.

"Actually, I've been thinking about one thing."

The redhead's action of licking the knife face stopped, and she turned around to give Qiu Xuan face at this time, and stopped her movements and responded with a "what". The latter stood at the bottom of the gloomy valley, his eyes still unrecovered staring in an unknown direction.

"What should we do if the eye of the storm is mobile?"

Redhead paused, "It's just your guess again, how can you be sure?" ”

"Then how can you be sure that we have relied on these two reserves all the way to the place you call us, but in fact the eye of the storm has already moved elsewhere, what should we do then?"

"Afu."

The redhead crouched on the ground and shouted to her, and she turned the tip of the dagger in her hand. "If you're going to do that, then everything we're doing now is meaningless."

Qiu Xuan said calmly: "So it's too late to turn back now." ”

"You ......"

The person standing in front of him tilted his head slightly, as if he was softly shouting someone's name. In the next second, in the realm where no one could see, a figure suddenly appeared in the necklace space, and as soon as he landed, he said in a loud voice: "I rely on Xuan'er, I really guessed it right for you!" It was windy just now, just a second ago, the wind of the boss! Whirring and blowing, it almost scared me! ”

"Good work."

Qiu Xuan raised her head and glanced at the redhead's location as usual.

"Now you can tell me, what did Yu Tang say to you at the beginning, right?"

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