"This is ......" Inadvertently, Qin Xiaoyu found a line of small characters engraved on the stone wall on the edge of the waterhole: Through the waterhole, there is no cave.

The handwriting is neat and boxy. Other than that, there is no other handwriting.

Qin Xiaoyu's breathing became rapid, she stretched out her palm and gently brushed over these handwritings, and the familiar breath immediately wrapped her.

"He's here!" Qin Xiaoyu muttered softly. Looking at the seemingly unfathomable waterhole, he turned over and jumped.

It was pitch black in the waterhole, Qin Xiaoyu searched for a long time, but found nothing, so he had to swim up to breathe.

Soon, the morning sun refracted into the canyon, and everything around it began to brighten.

Qin Xiaoyu thought to himself that he should first look around in the canyon to see if he could find any trace of Li Ling.

There was a sudden sound of sonorous footsteps and sharp rubbing.

Qin Xiaoyu's face changed suddenly, and hearing this strange footstep sound over and over again had already given her a psychological shadow—it was Alma's footsteps.

Qin Xiaoyu quietly poked out half of his head, and sure enough, he saw Alma dragging a long sword and walking slowly in the canyon. Alma, who had been tormented by the raging winds in the canyon for the night, looked even more haggard and hideous than she had seen before. To her heart, Alma's half of her head was covered in blood scabs, and it seemed that she had fallen headfirst into the canyon.

Qin Xiaoyu leaned towards the edge of the waterhole, trying to block her figure, but Alma still walked towards her unhurriedly.

As a last resort, Qin Xiaoyu sank his body into the waterhole, only revealing his two eyes, and secretly prayed in his heart that Alma would not find himself and this waterhole, and it was best to leave here.

Unfortunately, her wish was disappointed, and Alma was almost passing the hollow where the waterhole was, when she suddenly turned her head and strode over.

Qin Xiaoyu was so frightened that he hurriedly hid in the depths of the waterhole.

Alma walked over, yelled excitedly, took a few sips of water, and began to wash her face again, washing away the clotted blood clots and blood stains on her head.

"The guy who killed a thousand knives, it's time to leave now, right!?" Qin Xiaoyu felt a smell of blood drift over, and couldn't help but start muttering.

It's a pity that Alma finished washing her face and began to undress again, and her mouth was still shouting: "Damn woman, you made me angry, and when I finished taking a shower, I caught you XX!" ”

Qin Xiaoyu didn't want to stay here anymore, but he didn't dare to go up and be discovered by Alma, so he had to swim desperately to the bottom of the water.

Eventually, she found a passage deep underwater, and struggled to get through it.

"Whoa!" With a sound, the clarity in front of me was restored again.

From left to right, it was a small, narrow space, with only a line of sky overhead. Unlike the outside, there are some vines growing here that look vibrant. In the distance, a few rats were squeaking in the corner.

Qin Xiaoyu gasped a few times, brushed the water on his head, couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and hurriedly shouted: "Li Ling, where are you?" Li Ling, are you there? ”

I called for a long time, but no one answered.

Qin Xiaoyu panicked in his heart, swam ashore, and looked around. The place is not big, you can see the end at a glance, but on the right-hand side, there is a small stone cave.

"Li Ling?!" Qin Xiaoyu shouted again. Still no one answered, but a few rats came out of it, startling her.

patting his chest, Qin Xiaoyu gritted his teeth and walked in quickly.

The lifelike tall stone statues and absurd religious murals made her more frightened the more she looked at them, and cold sweat broke out in her palms unconsciously.

It wasn't until the last moment that she discovered the familiar square words, not a few words, not a few words, not a few words, but a whole wall of words.

The first paragraph reads:

"Today, it's my hundredth day in the Iron Wall Canyon. I blame myself for not thinking of leaving my thoughts here sooner. Because I know that if one day, Xiao Yu escapes from those evil beasts, and even one day can defeat them and get news of me. She will definitely come here to me without hesitation. Maybe I'm here, and I'm fine. Maybe I'm not here, and I'll have to return. But I've experienced the loneliness and despair of being alone here once, and I wish she didn't have to go through it a second time. Xiao Yu, I leave these words, hoping that when you see them, you can feel that I am always with you and looking for you. ”

Behind are some long-winded-looking diaries. Most of them are memories, perhaps Li Ling's supplementary account of the first hundred days.

"For the first few days, I was tormented by anger and despair. Because he hated himself for seeing Xiao Yu fall into the hands of those beasts and was powerless, and he felt desperate because he couldn't get out of this cage-like canyon. Thankfully, I found the waterhole. And this hidden cave...... I was inspired by the mural of the mural howling in the raging wind, and I took off my clothes and tied myself to the black trunk of a rocky canyon, roaring just like him...... I gradually woke up from despair and devastation......"

"I miss you all the time, this longing turns into motivation, I can feel the changes in my body, and even faintly feel that I will be able to leave here soon......"

"The first thing I do when I get out of here is to find you, wherever you are......"

……

Qin Xiaoyu looked at it word by word, groping for the inscriptions on the wall with her palm, tears swirling in her eyes, and in the blink of a moment, tears turned into bean-sized tears rolling down.

"Li Ling, I'm here, just like you said, I'm here. But you're not here! Qin Xiaoyu shook his head and said to himself: "I'm sorry Li Ling, I didn't escape from Nayin and Keith, nor did I defeat them to get your news, but they told me." Also, I want to tell you something, even I didn't expect this day when Naine sacrificed herself to save me. It's all my fault, blame me for not insisting on coming here to find you earlier, leaving you alone here to be tortured......"

Qin Xiaoyu sighed for a long time, then looked down and saw Li Ling learning the appearance on the mural, eating those rats alive, and even staining his body with blood, and he was even more ashamed in his heart.

But she soon thought that Li Ling was just like what he said, sharpening himself in the canyon outside. What if he happened to meet Alma?

"No, in that case, wouldn't Li Ling be more auspicious?" Qin Xiaoyu thought worriedly.

At dusk, Qin Xiaoyu dived into the waterhole and swam out quietly, and she saw Alma still standing not far away, like a stone statue in a daze. Qin Xiaoyu had been hiding in the depths of the waterhole until Alma began to walk into the distance, and then quietly swam ashore.