The water was cold, and my bones and joints instantly ached.

But this pain is nothing, and I am glad that those golden flame insects disappeared from my side in an instant as if they were isolated.

Countless bubbles crossed my cheeks, and the aquatic plants gently slapped my face, and I brushed them away with my hands, and in a trance, I saw several figures jumping into the water one after another like torpedoes. Before he could tell who was who, the figures disappeared from sight, and they didn't know where they had swam.

Then I saw the girl closest to me, and she didn't swim away, but kept falling down.

The water was very deep, and I saw the girl struggling to float, but it didn't seem to work, and I saw that the little body was about to be submerged by the aquatic plants.

My first instinct was that something was dragging her to the bottom, but then I figured out what was going on.

I scrambled over to her, grabbing the strap of her backpack over her shoulders to unload her huge backpack. But the girl held my hand and shook her head desperately.

This girl wants money and doesn't want her life, and she can't tell which is more important and which is lighter! I was half angry and scolded in my heart. But the girl still resisted desperately, I really had no choice but to drag the backpack desperately to help her share the weight.

Anyway, I grew up by the Yangtze River, and when I was a child, the old man often took me to the reservoir to swim, so I feel that the water is not bad, and it should not be a problem to hold it in the water for three minutes. But now it's bad that I wasn't prepared when I went into the water just now, and I didn't get enough oxygen. Coupled with the toss with the girl, it consumed a lot of physical strength, and after a while, I felt that I couldn't hold it back.

I wanted to take a breath at the surface of the water, but then I thought that if I let go, this girl would definitely fall again, not to mention, there were those insects that killed a thousand knives waiting for me on it. I was hesitating and not knowing what to do, when I suddenly felt someone pull me from behind.

I looked back and saw that it was Xiao Rong.

I saw that in the dark water, he swam and gestured to me. I immediately realized that he was asking me to keep up.

I don't know where he's going to take us, but I'm in such a desperate situation that my lungs are starting to burn, and if I don't breathe, I'm really going to suffocate. So I hurriedly shook my head at him, pointed to the water, and then to my own mouth. I couldn't care so much anymore, so I handed the backpack to Xiao Rong and swam towards the water with both legs.

But before I could swim a meter, my trouser belt was grabbed by the girl, and I tried to break free, when she forced something into my mouth. When I saw it, it was a snorkel.

I can't believe that the girl still has this?! It's a treasure for me right now! So he grabbed the snorkel and swam to the surface as fast as he could.

After pouting on the breathing tube and taking two deep breaths, I felt much more comfortable. I saw countless corpses of golden flame worms floating on the water, black, some still struggling in the water, six legs swimming, and I was sick. Then I beckoned to the girl and Xiao Rong, and the two of them swam over and exchanged a few breaths with the breathing tube.

I felt like I had a new lease on life. Nodding to Xiao Rong, the three of them swam in the direction he pointed.

After passing through a piece of aquatic plants, a stone wall appeared in front of him, Xiao Rong pointed with his hand, and the flashlight in the girl's hand immediately shone over. And there was a crack in the stone wall, about a man wide, and he did not know where it led.

Xiao Rong beckoned us to swim in. At the moment, there was no choice, so the girl and I had to do it.

After swimming into the gap, it became darker in front of me, and I couldn't see anything except the light that flickered from time to time in the girl's hand. I followed the girl and swam a short and difficult way down the waterway, when suddenly a deep hole appeared in front of me. I panicked and quickly shook my head at Xiao Rong. But as if he had a firm mind, he pushed me hard, and I followed the water into the hole.

I felt like there was a detour in the hole, like an S-bend. As soon as the body dived in, the road ahead turned upward again.

After this toss, I once again had a feeling of lack of energy.

I didn't know where the hole would lead, and I didn't know how long the road would be, and I was retreating, when my head went cold, and my head was out of the water.

What's going on?

It was so dark that it seemed like a pocket over his eyes, and he couldn't see his fingers. But I obviously heard someone talking, the voice was very familiar, and when I thought about it, it turned out to be those Xuanyuan people.

Then, the girl also came out of the water, and she shone it with the light, and the scene in front of her was immediately revealed.

I saw that this was a closed natural cave, with a palm-sized area, smaller than the rental house I lived in when I was in college. Several Regulus people stood at the water's edge and stretched out their hands to us. I coughed a few times, spat out the dirty water in my mouth, reached out and tugged at it, and crawled to the shore.

At this time, Xiao Rong also came out, looked at me, looked at me, and immediately explained, "Let's stay away here for the time being, wait until the second half of the night, those insects will disperse, and then we will swim out." ”

I listened and nodded, but I was surprised - how could this kid find such a hiding place, and he had never been here?

Xiao Rong seemed to be able to see my doubts, and immediately pointed at those Xuanyuan people with his chin, "They led the way." How I found it here, I don't know. ”

I also looked at those people, thinking that I couldn't communicate with them because of the language barrier, and even if I had doubts, I was wild. So he said "oh" and said no more.

The water was so cold that I sat on the ground shivering and shivering, and the girl sat on the side, poured out the water from my backpack, and asked me if I wanted to build a bonfire.

I looked around and said no, the air here may not be enough, and we will die faster if there is a fire.

The previous burn has not healed, and the new wound is burning and painful. The clothes on my body were full of holes, large and small, and they didn't look good. The girl and Xiao Rong took out all the medicines in their bags and gave them to me. I fought with my upper and lower teeth, shivering as I touched the gang to check the wounds.

"My clothes are all packed in waterproof bags, Mom, do you mind......"

"Mind me!" I glanced at the girl, and I knew that she was not well-intentioned, "I won't wear a woman's clothes even if I am killed!" ”

"Whatever you want!" The girl glared at me, "I can't wear my size if you want to, and my clothes are precious!" If you want to wear it, I can't afford to lend it to you! With that, she had a cold little face, picked up a bag of dry clothes and walked to the corner.

I saw that this was the rhythm of changing clothes on the spot! Immediately excited.

But then I think about it, this girl is still young, and it is estimated that she is not fully developed, so she must not have anything to look at. So I gave Xiao Rong a look, and the two of them tacitly turned their heads to the side.

After changing her clothes, the girl sat down in front of me. She changed into a close-fitting purple camisole and her white arms and chest were exposed to me.

I noticed that the girl's injuries were a bit serious, with blisters in several places on her body, and I didn't know if there would be scars, but she didn't seem to care, and her strong appearance was much stronger than mine.

The burns left by the golden flame worm were like burning with cigarette butts, and the injured skin would turn red, and it hurt the heart, but fortunately, after such a soak in cold water, the residual heat of the wound dissipated, and no blisters grew.

I used a disinfectant swab to pick out the blisters, and found an anti-inflammatory ointment to apply it to everyone. After sorting everything out, I gradually stopped shivering, and I didn't feel so cold anymore, or maybe ...... I'm used to it.

"There's something I don't understand...... "Sorting out the medicine and gauze in my hand, I couldn't help but raise my eyes to look at Xiao Rong. At the moment, we are the only ones who can talk properly, and the girl's speech has always been unreliable, and I don't want to listen to her whimsical ideas.

"Say, where did the Golden Flame Worm come from? I remember the glasses brother saying that the golden flame worm lays its eggs in the charred carrion...... With so many insects, where did the carrion come from in this garden for them to multiply? I asked.

The girl just wanted to interject, but I stopped her.

"Brother Yang, do you remember when we just entered the millet garden, we saw a large piece of hollow wood on the side of the wall?" Xiao Rong asked.

I nodded and said yes.

"I've taken the time to look twice, and it's charred man's carrion!"

"What?!" I exclaimed. I thought of the blackness of the wood, and the human corpses that might be stuffed inside, and I felt a chill down my spine.