I was annoyed, blaming myself for being too careless, why did I slack off on this woman? After Sheng Shiyao's eyes swept around, he turned to look at me, and said lightly: "Don't worry too much, the terrain here is too familiar to her, and if she wants to escape, she can always find an opportunity." "Knowing that he was comforting me, he didn't say anything, but he was still very depressed in his heart.

After that, I sat there in silence, analyzing the past and the future in my mind, and the more I thought about it, the more my heart sank, and the more hesitant I looked at Mia.

The whole thing was weird, if there was something in front of Mia that was scared, then she would express it when she was on the shore, but she cared about Sheng Shiyao pushing her into the water, afraid of soiling her skirt. Since she cherished this skirt so much, why did she suddenly jump into the water and escape just now? Clearly contradictory. So it is almost certain that the reason why she refused to go into the water before was lying, and she did that to pretend to be forced to find this bamboo raft, which concealed her purpose of actually trying to lure us into the ditch.

Thinking back, I couldn't help but shudder, I looked down at the stone jar at my feet, and the food in it was actually ......

"The food is good." Sheng Shiyao's affirmative voice came from beside him, after what he had just said, he didn't stand at the back anymore, but the two of them sat side by side in the middle of the bamboo row, and stuck the bamboo row to prevent it from moving forward, he said: "Whether it is poisonous or not, I will know if it is tried." Food is her first step in earning our trust, so she won't be in it. ”

I groaned and asked, "Could it be that before we changed the food, she actually had no ill will towards us, until she dragged her to that yin wind outlet and brought her here, that she had evil thoughts?" ”

Sheng Shiyao shook his head lightly, "Xiaoxiao, you think of people's hearts too kindly. She also knows that you are the easiest to be soft-hearted, so she starts with you and wins your trust. From the very beginning, she hid in the corner and was caught by us, and it was judged that she was a member of the Yan tribe who had left here and came out to look for food, but in fact she had a good hiding place, which is suspicious point one; She was familiar with the hinterland of the mountains, and if she wanted to escape, she could have taken advantage of the terrain to escape in the stalactites and stalagmites, but she didn't run away, pretending to be interested in the long dress you were wearing, and gaining your trust, which is the second suspicion. ”

After his analysis, he suddenly felt reasonable, which showed that he had been suspicious of Mia for a long time, or that he had never let down his guard against her. "Any other doubts?"

"Yes, she was very frightened in front of the wind and did not dare to come forward, apparently she understood what was in it, and in that case, why didn't she signal to us not to go forward in the stalactite lot? When she got there, she wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape, but I kept an eye on her so that she didn't escape and brought her here, and she knew everything about where the bamboo row in front of the ditch was hidden. ”

In this way, in fact, this Mia is suspicious everywhere, but it is ignored.

"Alright, don't think about it anymore." Sheng Shiyao said to me in a deep voice, his eyes staring at the black water around the bamboo raft, "From the moment she jumped down just now, I have been observing the water surface, and I have also used a bamboo pole to pick it up, and I haven't noticed that she has quietly swam back." In other words, it is unlikely that there will be dangerous creatures in the ditch ahead, otherwise she would never have taken this risk. Let's take a look at the water, and let me know if anything happens. ”

I nodded cautiously, not daring to slack off, and my eyes were cramping, and I didn't take my eyes off for half a moment. The quieter it is, the more I feel that the atmosphere is weird, and when I take a deep breath, I feel that it is not good to condense. Within fifteen minutes, we were faced with a problem, because the bamboo raft floated to a fork in the road, and even Sheng Shiyao was in trouble. Originally, I thought that as long as there was no trace of Mia, it meant that the road ahead was safe, but there was a fork in the road, how to tell which way she went?

It can be seen that every step Mia takes, it is really planned, she knows that there is a fork in the road ahead, so she jumps into the ditch in advance and absconds, as long as we judge wrongly, then get rid of us completely. I raised my head and asked Sheng Shiyao, "What should I do?" Let's go back and think again. "I always feel that there is some trap waiting for us in front of us, and the only effective way to avoid it is to avoid it.

Sheng Shiyao pondered for a moment and nodded, "It's okay, let's go back to the shore first and then make plans." But when we turned around and wanted to go back, we couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "How can this be?" "There was only one way when I came, but now I look back and find that the road is gone, is it an illusion? Sheng Shiyao poked with a bamboo pole, and if he really poked the physical rock, it was not an illusion. He swept around with the light, his mouth suspicious: "Regenerated rock? ”

I saw that he saw the clue, and quickly asked what was going on, and he said uncertainly: "I have never seen it before, but I have heard that there is a kind of rock that regenerates rapidly under certain conditions, in other words, it is like magma pouring down and instantly condensing in the air." "I have never heard of the rapid regeneration of rocks, but when he said magma, he immediately understood it, and my heart was shocked, if this is really the reason that this stone wall has formed and blocked our way to come, it means that there may be magma in the rock layer above our heads, and then we are in danger of ending our lives at any time.

"Not necessarily." Sheng Shiyao frowned and looked at the top rock layer for a moment, "The magma is high temperature, if it is tiled on the rock layer above, it is possible to melt the rock out of the cracks, and then the magma is poured down, then the rock layer at the top here will be uneven, and even condensed into stalactites, but now the area that can be seen is considered flat, except for the concave and convex stones themselves, there are no more rock blocks." So it's very likely that there is only a small area where magma is stored, and just after we pass through this area, artificially release some of the magma and condense into this wall. ”

As soon as I heard him say that it was artificial, I immediately thought of Mia and asked in surprise, "Could it be that she was hiding here just now?" "Looking around at the water, there are no ripples. Sheng Shiyao said in a low voice: "Don't look for it, she ran away early." Originally, she might have been hiding around here, taking advantage of the moment when we turned around and saw that there was no way out, and took the opportunity to sneak away. Leave her alone for now, let's get out of here, in case the magma falls again, we can't hide. ”

I chose a random direction, propped up the bamboo row, and quickly left the fork in the road. This time, I didn't keep an eye on the water, and I used my flashlight to shine a flashlight on the rock formation at the top, just in case something broke and the lava poured down. As it turned out, I was too worried, there was silence along the way, nothing was happening that I was worried about, but my neck was sore because I was lying on my back all the time.

Sheng Shiyao said on the side: "Don't look at it, the space here is cold, and there can't be magma." ”

Hey, he didn't say I hadn't noticed it yet, but he did feel that it was getting cooler around me, and there was obviously air currents blowing in my face. The slope of the long ditch is also getting bigger and bigger, and it is completely straight down, like a canyon drift, and it is Sheng Shiyao who constantly uses long bamboo poles to prop up into the depths of the ditch, which slows down the speed. With such a momentum, we are going down the mountain, and then the speed is uncontrollable, Sheng Shiyao simply gave up to support, and leaned over on the bamboo row with me, and firmly clasped the gap in the bamboo row with his hand.

Because of the rapid flow of water, it is inevitable that water will rush to the bamboo raft, which will wet our bodies, and at this time, we don't care if the black water is dirty or not, and it is good to be able to control the bamboo raft without turning over, and roll into the ditch water.

Feeling that the yin wind was getting stronger and stronger, my heart was getting heavier and heavier, even if I had been mentally prepared, but when a behemoth suddenly appeared in the black water, I was still startled, because it pulled out of the water several meters high at once. didn't have time to take a closer look, seeing that the bamboo row was about to collide, Sheng Shiyao used the bamboo pole to punch in the oblique and horizontal direction, and used his hand to pick out the protruding rock next to it, and finally stopped the bamboo row a few meters away from the behemoth.

When there was a loud crackling sound and debris flying on the top, I saw that the behemoth in front of me was like a giant long worm, sticking out of the water and slapping on the rock layer at the top, and when I looked closely, I found that it also had a hard shell similar to metal on its body, and I couldn't help but wonder, could it be that this long worm is the same creature we encountered at the crack in the ground before?

Due to its slender size, it is impossible to block the entire trench cut, which is relatively small compared to the one we encountered before, and the tail is not as powerful. I didn't want to pull out the shadow moon and stuff it to Sheng Shiyao, at this time, the divine knife was much more useful in his hand than in me, when the hard long tail of the long worm flung at us, Sheng Shiyao's toes were a little on the bamboo row, and the person jumped up, raised his arm and waved the knife, only to hear a rattling sound, and saw the long tail quickly withdrawn.

Something fell on the bamboo raft, and I looked down and saw that it was the hard shell on the tail of the long worm. Sure enough, anything in the world is rarely able to match the sharpness of the shadow moon, and the long worm suffers from pain, and begins to slap the rock formation at the top indiscriminately, slapping a lot of gravel and smashing it on the head to cause pain. Sheng Shiyao lowered his eyebrows and whispered to me: "Xiaoxiao, wait a minute, you must find a way to borrow a bamboo pole to prop the bamboo raft past it." As soon as the words fell, he jumped up from the bamboo row again, and this time he jumped to the side of the mountain wall, and with a ping-pong sound, he stabbed into the stone with the shadow moon, and the whole person was attached to the stone wall.

The worm seemed to notice where he was, and the long tail that was slapping the top immediately swept towards him. I know that Sheng Shiyao is deliberately attracting the attention of the long insect, not to take this time to row over and wait for when, leaning over and pulling up the bamboo pole hard, there is no clamp, the bamboo row immediately rushed down the slope, I did not have Sheng Shiyao's agile reaction, I can only desperately insert the bamboo pole into the water to move the direction of the bamboo row, and finally moved to the side of the long insect, the bamboo pole was loosened, and even the person rushed over with the bamboo row.

Before I could feel any joy in my heart, I heard an anxious reminder: "Get down!" "Instinctively obeying his commands, I threw myself forward, only to feel something sweep over my back, carrying a strong wind.