Professor Zhang sighed and said, "You are just this stubborn temper, I believe you." ”

Although Qi Yuancheng on the side was weak and unable to speak, he was still conscious. He heard the conversation between the two and felt a little anxious. The danger of this trip is by no means something that these ordinary people can handle, especially when they are in the team. A thought suddenly popped into his mind, should he leave the team by himself, so that everyone would not be in so much danger? At least not to face the unknown supernatural forces.

The more Qi Yuancheng thought about it, the more he felt that he should leave the team as soon as possible, on the one hand, to get the expedition out of danger, and on the other hand, he also planned to risk chasing the clue of the strange snake to find the letter stone.

Late at night, Qi Yuancheng tried to move his limbs slightly, and found that he had slowly regained some strength. He got up lightly, bypassed Professor Zhang, who was on duty, and came to the camp where the supplies and equipment were stored.

Qi Yuancheng picked out some necessary food, water, and tools and put them in his backpack. He hesitated to leave a simple note so that everyone should not worry and not look for it. At this moment, he heard a strange noise in the nearby mountain forest, as if an animal was approaching.

Qi Yuancheng became alert, he crouched down, hesitated, and released a wisp of red mist. The chill struck again, and he resisted the discomfort and watched intently for movement in the trees.

Strange to say, when Qi Yuancheng released the red mist, the creatures in the woods seemed to stop and slowly retreated. Qi Yuancheng breathed a sigh of relief, intending to disperse the Red Mist Gu Poison.

At this moment, Qi Yuancheng only felt that the cold feeling on his body suddenly increased, and he was horrified in his heart, and before he could quickly disperse the Gu poison, he felt as if his head had been pierced by an ice needle, and then his body lost control.

Qi Yuancheng immediately realized that it was the strange snake that appeared again!

Qi Yuancheng complained in his heart, he was about to call for help but couldn't make a sound, so he could only freeze in place. Sure enough, the strange snake slowly emerged from the bushes, and its body was glowing blue, looking strange and inexplicable in the dark night.

The strange snake stared at Qi Yuancheng coldly, seeing that he was hairy. He had a bad feeling that this time the strange snake was going to poison him.

I saw that the strange snake's eyes lit up slightly, Qi Yuancheng's legs moved, he was manipulated by the strange snake, and walked up in a strange posture. The serpent followed him.

Qi Yuancheng's consciousness was still quite sober, he was horrified in his heart, and he didn't know where the strange snake was going to take him. Gradually, he heard the sound of water getting louder and louder.

Qi Yuancheng's heart was cold, he understood that the strange snake was actually trying to manipulate himself to jump off the cliff!

Qi Yuancheng walked towards the edge of the cliff step by step, his heart was full of despair, and he began to regret his urge to leave the team. He heard Professor Zhang's shouting not far away. It should have been that he found out that he was missing and came out to look for it.

Qi Yuancheng had a glimmer of hope in his heart, he hoped that Professor Zhang could see him, and he was worried that the strange snake would hurt Professor Zhang. Sure enough, Professor Zhang was attracted by his footsteps and walked over, and the light shone on Qi Yuancheng.

Professor Zhang shouted: "Yuancheng! What are you doing at such a late hour? It's a cliff over there! Dangerous! ”

Qi Yuancheng couldn't make a sound, nor could he move, so he could only walk mechanically.

Professor Zhang ran over while shouting, but he was more vigilant than Liu Zhi before, and he actually found the strange snake next to Qi Yuancheng first.

Professor Zhang had heard Liu Zhi's description of the strange snake. He subconsciously stopped.

And at this moment, Qi Yuancheng had already walked to the edge of the cliff. Professor Zhang saw him pause slightly, and then jumped down.

Professor Zhang was so frightened that he was afraid of the snake and did not dare to move forward, so he could only flee back to the camp for help.

Seeing Qi Yuancheng fall off the cliff, the strange snake looked in the direction where Professor Zhang had escaped, the blue light on his body gradually faded, and he quietly swam into the trees and disappeared.

By the time Professor Zhang brought Curator Jin and everyone else with weapons and life-saving equipment, the strange snake had disappeared.

Professor Zhang pointed to the position where Qi Yuancheng jumped and said anxiously: "Old Jin, hurry!" There it is! Fix the rope quickly! We've got to go down to the rescue! ”

Curator Jin calmly arranged the rescue rope and said to Professor Zhang, "Old Zhang, don't worry. I'll leave this to me. You are responsible for lighting and guarding it. He said to Zhao Xingsheng on the side: "Xiao Zhao, will you use a rope to descend?" ”

Zhao Xingsheng nodded and said, "No problem." I have previous experience. ”

Curator Jin took Zhao Xingsheng to slowly descend along the rope, calling Qi Yuancheng's name while searching around with a searchlight. After a long time, Curator Jin at the lower end of the rope stopped, and he said to Zhao Xingsheng above: "I can't go down." Below this is the pool of water. ”

The two of them followed the rope back to the top of the cliff. Explain the following situation to Professor Zhang. Director Jin was a little frustrated, he said: "Lao Zhang, the place dozens of meters below is just a pond, and the water flow is very fast. If Xiao Qi really fell from here, he must have been washed away by the pool. It's too dark now, so we can only wait for dawn and follow the direction of the water flow downstream to look for it. But you have to be mentally prepared, falling from this height, there is a good chance that we will find Xiao Qi's ............"

Professor Zhang's spirits are very low at the moment. He said with annoyance, "I was frightened by that strange snake just now. I should have gone over and grabbed Xiao Qi! ”

Curator Jin comforted: "Lao Zhang, don't blame yourself. It seems that what Liu Zhi said is true, and that strange snake is indeed weird. If you guessed correctly, Xiao Qi was also controlled by it before jumping off the cliff. He paused and said, "However, I noticed a problem when I picked up the equipment just now. After Xiao Qi woke up, he didn't alarm you, but went to the equipment camp to take away some supplies and equipment. He's probably going to have other plans. ”

Professor Zhang raised his head when he heard this, and he said suspiciously, "Where is Xiao Qi going so late?" You can't be a deserter, right? ”

Director Jin said: "Xiao Qi's performance along the way is also a little weird. From the time he crossed the river, until he and Liu Zhi met the strange snake, I felt that he must have something to hide from us. ”

"It's too late to say anything," Professor Zhang said. When it dawns tomorrow, we will rush to search and rescue. ”

Qi Yuancheng was controlled by a strange snake and fell off the cliff. Fortunately, the bottom of his fall happened to be a pool of water. If it was a mountain rock, he would have been crushed.

Qi Yuancheng fell into the water, and because his body was uncontrollable, he choked a few mouthfuls of water. Immediately afterward, he was hit by the water of the pool and flowed downstream. Gradually, Qi Yuancheng vaguely felt that his body was gradually recovering, and he used his last strength to surface with difficulty to surface and breathe a few breaths of air.

Helplessly, the water flow was too strong, and Qi Yuancheng was thrown up and down, left and right by the current, constantly scraping and colliding with stones and branches. In the end, he was thrown heavily on a large rock, hit his head it, and passed out.

When Qi Yuancheng woke up, he found himself lying on a shoal, in pain like a falling apart. There were abrasions all over the limbs, body, head and face.

Qi Yuancheng turned over with difficulty, lay on the ground and spit out a stomach full of water. He tried to move his arms, legs and feet, and found that there did not seem to be any injuries to his muscles and bones, except for skin injuries. He breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at the sky, and saw that the sun was hanging in the sky, and it should have been noon.

Qi Yuancheng sat up slowly, touched his back, and his backpack was not washed away by the water. He was very fortunate and hurriedly opened his backpack to check it. The equipment is all there, and they are not afraid of water. It's just that the packaging of the food I carried with me is a little damaged, and some of the dry food is no longer edible.