Chapter 25: The Cave is Dangerous
"How are you now? Can you get up and move? Xiang Qingwu stood at the fork and asked.
Kong Yan's voice began to weaken, but he still responded, "I'm afraid not." ”
"Then you find something and tap on the ground, and I'll come to you." Xiang Qingwu reminded.
Then there was a sound of stones hitting the ground in the darkness, and the sound echoed in the empty cave, reaching Xiang Qingwu's ears over and over again. She closed her eyes and carefully discerned the direction of the sounds, and walked into the cave on her left.
There was no glowing moss in the cave, a strange fishy smell filled the air, and the road was bumpy underfoot. Suddenly, a fluttering sound suddenly came, Xiang Qingwu suddenly tensed her nerves and looked vigilantly, but she only felt that countless things like moths rushed towards her face, and they seemed to spray powder, and those powders fell on her face, Xiang Qingwu immediately felt a hot pain on her face, and it was extremely itchy.
Xiang Qingwu tried his best to resist the desire to scratch, and vigorously waved his bow and arrows in an attempt to dispel these unclear things. But the things flew around her like flies, and the powder spilled all over her face, on her neck, and even on her eyes and mouth.
Xiang Qingwu felt that her vision began to drift, and her waving movements became slow, and there was only one word in her whole mind, itchy! It's itchy all over!
"What's wrong? Miss Xiang, is there something wrong with you? Kong Yan's voice suddenly came.
Xiang Qingwu's chaotic brain seemed to have been knocked with a stick, and she suddenly woke up, she gritted her teeth and picked up the arrow without hesitation and slashed a hole on her arm, the severe pain made her wake up for a moment, and immediately waved it out with the power in her palm, and the fierce palm wind fanned the insects dancing in front of her to the wall, making a "crackling" sound like rain.
"Go on." Xiang Qingwu shouted.
Kong Yan immediately heard the sound of hitting the stone again.
Xiang Qingwu found Kong Yan in a dark corner, and when he found him, he was in a semi-fainting state, and the tapping action of his hand was completely barely supported by the last trace of consciousness. Xiang Qingwu smelled the smell of blood on his body, guessing that he must have been seriously injured, and immediately did not dare to move him easily, so he could only pat his cheek to try to make him sober.
"Kong Yan?" Xiang Qingwu frowned and shouted in a low voice, and after shouting more than a dozen times, Kong Yan finally blinked his eyes and came to his senses.
“... Miss Xiang? Kong Yan shouted weakly.
"It's me." Xiang Qingwu said, "Can you move now?" ”
"I thought Miss Xiang would leave me and go straight away." Kong Yan said with a bitter smile and rejoicing, with a sadness in his voice.
Xiang Qingwu couldn't see a big man being sentimental, so he didn't hesitate to interrupt him and say, "Don't talk nonsense, if you can still go, stand up for me, if you can't, die here." ”
Die here, what a joke. Kong Yan struggled to stand up, but failed, so he could only ask for help with a wry smile and said, "Miss Xiang, please help me." ”
Xiang Qingwu took Kong Yan's arm and dragged the person to stand up, "Do you remember where Xu Lin and you were separated?" ”
Kong Yan said, "There is a raised stone in that place I only remember, and there is ......" Kong Yan thought about it for a while, and said uncertainly, "It seems that something stirs the sound of wings." ”
Xiang Qingwu hurriedly asked, "Is the sound very noisy and not loud?" ”
Kong Yan shook his head, "I don't remember very clearly." ”
The two had no choice but to continue walking along the path of the cave. Kong Yan was kicked by Sun Hai and several people and injured his heart and lungs, he was already in poor health, and now he has to cough several times to calm down every step of the way.
"Miss Xiang, how much do you know about this island?" In the dark, Kong Yan asked.
Xiang Qingwu responded, "Not much." ”
Kong Yan coughed and said, "Miss Xiang hasn't thought about why everyone is here?" This thing is so weird, what is the purpose of the people behind it? Where is our way out? ”
In the dark, although Xiang Qingwu couldn't see Kong Yan's expression clearly at the moment, from the tone of his voice, Xiang Qingwu could imagine that this person was having a miserable white face, but his eyes showed a look full of a strong desire to explore everything.
"So what do you think?" Xiang Qingwu asked.
Kong Yan pondered for a moment and said, "I don't know yet, but soon, soon everything will surface." ”
This is equivalent to saying it in vain, Xiang Qingwu did not answer, but suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Kong Yan asked nervously.
Xiang Qingwu let go of Kong Yan, let him hold on to the stone wall, and said in a deep voice, "Something is coming." ”
Kong Yan subconsciously took two steps back, leaning against the stone wall and looking ahead nervously, he tried his best to restrain the itching in his throat, not daring to make a sound.
"Rustle~"
"Rustle ~ Rustle ~"
Xiang Qingwu clenched his bow and arrows, and listened to the approaching sound with bated breath, the sound was somewhat familiar, a bit like the wind blowing the leaves, but he could clearly feel that something was moving on the ground, making a sound of rubbing.
This voice seems to have been heard somewhere.
As soon as this consciousness entered his mind, Xiang Qingwu felt a black shadow suddenly rush out, "Be careful!" Xiang Qingwu hurriedly reminded, and the longbow was backhanded, but the thing was extremely fast, and it climbed directly onto Xiang Qingwu's arm along the longbow, and the wriggling touch reminded Xiang Qingwu of the feathered snake.
At the same time, Kong Yan also let out an exclamation, it turned out that the walls were crawling with such strange snakes at some point. Kong Yan's reaction was naturally not as good as Xiang Qingwu, who practiced martial arts, but in the blink of an eye, there were four or five strange snakes crawling on his feet and back, and the feathers of the strange snakes made a "rustling" sound, and the cold tongue occasionally touched the bare skin, causing a shiver.
Xiang Qingwu couldn't care about whether the snake was poisonous anymore, grabbed it and threw it the ground, and pulled Kong Yan's arm with his backhand, "Hurry up!" ”
Just a short time after the two of them fled, a red flame suddenly lit up in the darkness, and the flame flickered and staggered to follow......
Kong Yan felt that his legs were as heavy as lead, and every step he took had to exert his strength, because of the violent breathing, there were bursts of tingling pain in his lungs. But he couldn't stop, and he couldn't let Xiang Qingwu stop, because once he stopped, the strange snakes behind him would instantly drown them.
"There is the sound of water." Xiang Qingwu suddenly spoke.
Kong Yan was completely speechless, so he could only rely on instinct to run forward. If Xiang Qingwu looked back, she would see that Kong Yan's cheeks had completely turned black, and his pupils were constantly changing, as if he was struggling with some kind of pain.
"No way!" Xiang Qingwu stopped suddenly, only to see that there was a cliff in front of her, and the sound of water came from under the cliff, if she hadn't reacted in time, the two would have jumped directly.
Xiang Qingwu looked around, there were cliffs all around, and immediately twisted his eyebrows and said, "There is no way out, we can only jump down now." After Xiang Qingwu finished speaking, he didn't hear Kong Yan's answer, he looked back suspiciously, and was so frightened that he immediately let go of the other party's arm. I saw a pair of glowing eyes looking straight at her, and Kong Yan's head showed a strange twisted state, as if it had been forcibly moved from his neck to his shoulder.
Xiang Qingwu cursed in a low voice, and without hesitation, he pushed Kong Yan off the cliff with a palm, and jumped immediately after himself.
Just like the next strip, the strange snakes that followed Kong Yan and Xiang Qingwu jumped off the cliff "crackled" and fell into the water one after another, the scene was very spectacular, but it was a pity that Xiang Qingwu at this moment did not have the heart to sigh at the spectacular scene, because she found that she couldn't move at all in the water, her hands and feet were completely stiff, and she could only watch herself get farther and farther away from the water.
The river poured into her mouth and nose, and the inability to breathe caused a huge pressure on her lungs, and the pain of the tear gradually invaded her consciousness, and when she finally lost consciousness, she seemed to see a figure swimming towards her, the face was blurred, but with a pair of strange green eyes......
"Tick-tock... Tick ......"
Water droplets hit the ground along the upside-down moss on the roof, splashing a string of fine splashes. A small figure was curled up in a corner of the room, he was quickly stuffing something into his mouth, chewing faster and faster, until a woman's moan came from the middle of the room.
He hurriedly covered his mouth as if he was frightened, and looked at the woman who was slowly sitting up there with wary eyes.
Xiang Qingwu supported the ground with his palms, shook his head, and said unhurriedly, "Didn't your mother tell you, is it rude to eat and chirp?" ”
The man in the corner was stunned for a moment, his throat moved with difficulty, and he said angrily, "I don't have a mother, my mother died when I was born." ”
Xiang Qingwu raised his eyes to look at the other party, and saw a boy with yellow hair and a strange face curled up in the corner of the room.
"You saved me?" Xiang Qingwu asked.
The yellow-haired boy nodded, thought for a moment and shook his head, "No, it was the man who dragged you ashore, and I just happened to pass by." Originally, I was going to pick you up and eat you, but I didn't expect you to bring so much jerky with you. With that, he stuffed two more pieces of jerky into his mouth, "It's delicious." ”
Xiang Qingwu twitched the corner of his mouth, "What about the man who dragged me ashore?" ”
The boy shook his head and said regretfully, "His poisoning is much more serious than yours, and his body is soaked like a steamed bun, and it is useless to pick it up, and he should still be on the river beach now." ”
Xiang Qingwu stood up on his knees and wiped his back, but found that his bow and arrow were missing, and his face immediately changed, "Where is my bow and arrow?" ”
The boy showed an expression of "I still need to ask" and said proudly, "I'm not stupid. ”
"Give it back!" Xiang Qingwu drank coldly.
"If you let me give it to me, then I won't be very shameless, besides, I picked up something, why should I give it to you." The boy replied with a straight face.