"We're going to take a shortcut." Barong explained to Sun Yang.

There weren't many torches left for them, so they just lit the one in Ba Long's hand, he walked in front with the torch in hand, and Sun Yang followed closely behind with Lu Xiaoling in his arms.

His injuries were mainly on the little finger of his left hand and the bridge of his nose, which had little impact on his movements, but Lu Xiaoling's injuries gradually became serious.

Her ribs had begun to swell, making it more and more difficult for Sun Yang to hold her, and her tourniquet-belted left hand began to look more and more unpleasant.

"Quick!" Sun Yang had to keep urging Barong.

But there are some places that can't help him, Ba Long can climb up by himself, he can't go up with Lu Xiaoling, and he can only barely pass with Ba Long's help.

The road they had taken before had artificially hewn steps, but this road was more like a purely natural passageway.

After walking up and down in the darkness for a few laps, they were completely disoriented.

"Where exactly are you taking us?" Lu Xiaoling asked suspiciously.

"I've already said it's a shortcut." Baron's face was innocent. "It would take at least an hour and a half to get to the entrance of the cave by the original path, but this road is at most forty minutes."

"Hurry up!" Sun Yang said.

He kept looking at Lu Xiaoling's situation, and his mood became more and more anxious.

Before they knew it, they had walked into a relatively spacious space, and the faint sound of water could be heard from a distance.

Lu Xiaoling became suspicious again. "Is this the entrance to the cave or not?"

"Go through the hole above and you'll get to the mouth of the hole." Baron said.

He climbed an oddly shaped rock with a dark cavern on it.

It was impossible for Sun Yang to carry Lu Xiaoling up in such a terrain, he stood below and waited for Ba Long to turn his head to help, but this time he climbed up at a very fast speed.

"Baron?"

"I'll see if it's the way." Barong replied, but he didn't hesitate at all.

"He wants to run!" Lu Xiaoling suddenly came to her senses and reminded loudly.

Barong sneered and slammed the torch in his hand downward, and his body suddenly disappeared into darkness, never to be seen again.

"Baron! You swore it! Sun Yang exclaimed eagerly.

"Hehe~ I don't believe in Chiyou at all...... Hahaha! Ba Long's voice appeared at a height of more than ten meters, Sun Yang put Lu Xiaoling down, and was about to go up and catch him, but at this moment, his movements froze suddenly.

"Sun ......" Lu Xiaoling didn't know why, but as soon as she spoke, Sun Yang covered her mouth with his hand.

A low, hoarse and strange cry came from not far away, and Sun Yang's body froze there, blocking Lu Xiaoling in front of him.

The huge body slowly walked out of the darkness, and the torch that fell to the ground was barely burning, allowing Sun Yang to see its appearance clearly.

A monitor lizard!

He couldn't be sure if it was the one he had encountered earlier, but he could confirm that they were the same creature.

It slowly crawled to the place where the torch landed, and Sun Yang took the opportunity to pick up Lu Xiaoling and climbed into a pile of rocks in a panic.

It seemed to hear his footsteps, and its head jerked in this direction, chirping incessantly.

Sun Yang hid in the middle of the stone with Lu Xiaoling in his arms, clinging to the ground tightly, not daring to make a sound at all.

"You guys are here to be a pair of mandarin ducks with the same fate! Hahahaha! Barong's voice came from high up, and the monitor lizard looked up in that direction, but it probably knew that it couldn't climb up, and its body stopped in place.

Sun Yang searched for a stone on the ground that could be used to mislead it to leave as it had done before, but it stood there for a moment before slowly crawling towards them.

What's going on?

It shouldn't be able to see us!

The heavy smell of blood on Lu Xiaoling's hands came to her nose, and Sun Yang finally understood.

It may not have a keen sense of smell, but it can't be completely unaware of such smells.

He no longer hesitated, put Lu Xiaoling carefully, and ran out to the side violently!

The monitor lizard's body reflexively flicked, and the huge mouth full of tiny files slammed shut not far from Sun Yang's body, making a loud bang, and this bite force was enough to make his body directly break in two.

He fell into the rubble, then quickly got up and ran into the open in the distance.

"Get me! You reptile you don't have! He cried out loudly, and the monitor lizard was attracted by his voice, and its massive body turned in a direction in place and quickly pounced on him.

"Lu Xiaoling, you are waiting for me in the same place, don't come out! Believe me! I'll be back soon! He cried out loudly and departed with the monitor lizard into the distance.

Tears welled up all of a sudden, and Lu Xiaoling bit her lip to prevent herself from crying.

The footsteps of the monitor lizard and Sun Yang's cries quickly disappeared, leaving only the faint echo of the stone wall.

Lu Xiaoling tried to move her body, allowing herself to sit up against a stalactite, and then untied the tourniquet tied to her arm.

In order to prevent necrosis at the end of the arm, this is something that must be done every dozens of minutes, and now that it is done, there is no need to waste time when Sun Yang comes back.

Will he die in a cave?

In a place like this, will he still be able to find his way back?

Her left hand began to bleed again, and at this moment, in such darkness, the thoughts of weakness that she had never felt before suddenly appeared in her mind, and she tried so hard to expel them, but they became more and more clearly entrenched there.

Will it die?

She couldn't help but think so.

It's always easy to die of a moment's generosity, and it only takes a hot head to do it. But dying after continuous blood loss for several hours is a great torture for people's psyche.

Lu Xiaoling never knew that she would be so vulnerable, suffering from gains and losses like a useless girl, but alone in such a huge empty cave, she finally found that she was not as strong as she imagined.

Will I become a ghost too? She thought so.

Cultivators should not be afraid of death, because they know exactly that there is another world, and what kind of process people will go through after death.

But Lu Xiaoling was unwilling to die.

Unless for some reason they become resentful spirits, earthbound spirits, or wandering spirits, the vast majority of people will go to Lethe along the Huangquan Road, pass through the Ghost Gate, go to the Mirror Terrace, and accept the approval of the Ten Halls of Yama for their life's merits, and then decide whether to go to hell or cross the Naihe Bridge to reincarnate and reincarnate.

She believed that she would not go to hell, but crossing the Nai Ho Bridge meant drinking Meng Po soup and forgetting what she had experienced in this life.

How long will the next life be in the future? Will there be such a wonderful life? Or even, will they be reborn as human beings?

At this moment of death, she suddenly realized that she had a deep attachment to the world, and before that, she had always thought that she would face death with laughter.

I'm not going to die here!

She said hard to herself.

Sun Yang said that he would definitely come back!

She began to re-tie the tourniquet with her right hand and teeth.

The torch that fell to the ground was finally extinguished completely, and everything was plunged into endless darkness.