Chapter 25: The Ground Splits
After a while, Ye Yousheng also returned.
Qin Zhen didn't move, just opened her eyes and looked over. Ye Yousheng understood what she meant, and quietly went over and sat down beside her: "I checked the surroundings, there is no danger for the time being, and then I used the formation map given to me by my senior sister to arrange a defensive formation at the entrance of the cave." ”
"Well, Ah Sheng did a great job." Qin Hao touched his head.
Ye Yousheng lowered his head shyly. In order to get the praise of his senior sister, he can do anything desperately.
"Now I'll wait for her to wake up." Qin Zhen said, "She entered the forest earlier than us, and she has fought with the demon beasts inside, so she will know more information than us." ”
Ye Yousheng naturally had no objection, he looked at Qin Hao, his eyes were shining: "Senior sister, can I rest with you?" ”
Seeing that Qin Zhen didn't speak, he hurriedly added: "I, I'm just too tired today, I carried people again, went out to reconnoitre, and set up a formation...... Well, I just want to rest next to my sister. ”
He bowed his head in resignation, waiting for Qin Hao's reproach.
But no.
He was hugged by a pair of warm hands, and his sister's soft hair hung down on the side of his ear, rubbing him a little itchy.
"Have a good rest, Ah Sheng, senior sister is here."
Originally, he was not sleepy, but in such an embrace, Ye Yousheng still felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and finally fell asleep in Qin Hao's gentle whispering.
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As soon as Yin Huan woke up, he couldn't feel the aura drying up at first.
She sat up a little dazedly, only to find herself in a cave she had never seen before, with a fire burning beside her, providing her with a faint warmth.
"You're awake." A beautiful voice of a maiden came from the entrance of the cave.
Yin Huan turned her head to see that it was the last girl in Tsing Yi she saw before she fell into a coma yesterday, and she was followed by the rather familiar young man.
"Did you save me...... Yin Huan's voice was still a little hoarse.
"That's right, so in order to repay us for saving our lives, you tell us everything you know about this forest, so that we can find a way to get out safely." Qin Zhen smiled.
Yin Huan has never seen such a direct person.
In the environment where she grew up, she met people who followed the rules and regulations. Everyone tacitly obeys the old rules that have been passed down for thousands of years, even if it is unreasonable and too cruel, no one takes the initiative to break it.
"Thank you for saving my life. I am the daughter of the Yin family in Zhongzhou, and my name is Yin Huan. Providing information is what I should have done, and I will repay you for your life-saving kindness. Yin Huan solemnly clenched his fists to the two.
As she spoke, she took out a bamboo slip from her storage bag and handed it to Qin Hao.
Qin Zhen took a brief look at it, and then wrote down all the contents inside. Some of the news was already known to her, but others were new.
The forest here is called the Black Jade Forest, because the trees are as smooth as jade because there is no light in the forest. There is a unique spiritual material in the black jade forest, called the Streamer Grass, which is the only light in this black jade forest.
The time of its appearance is extremely random, and no one knows the conditions under which it grows. Although it is said that it can detoxify any poison after taking it, as long as the streamer grass is out of the range of the Black Jade Forest, it will lose its effect. And people who often need to expect the streamer grass to detoxify are mostly poisonous and evil that have invaded the body deeply, even if they come to the Black Jade Forest with the help of others, they will die the moment they enter the Black Jade Forest because the aura is suppressed.
Therefore, although the effect of this streamer grass is good, it is really chicken.
Yin Huan's trip was just for the streamer grass. According to her, she had brought a magic weapon that could completely simulate space, so she had been collecting enough information for the magic weapon in the Black Jade Forest these days to prepare for picking the Streamer Grass and bringing it back to the family.
As long as the Streamer Grass thinks that it is still in the Black Jade Forest, it will not lose its effect.
"Originally, I had already found a streamer grass, but there were monsters on guard around it. Although I defeated the demon beast, the streamer grass also disappeared with it. Yin Huan sighed, "I originally wanted to rest and continue to look for the Streamer Grass, but I saw a few children being caught by demon beasts and about to go to the depths of the forest...... You should know what happened later. ”
"According to what you said, this demon beast and the streamer grass should be twins, and you have to pick the streamer grass without killing the demon beast." Qin Zhen said.
"Yes, so I want to ask you to assist me and help me contain the monsters." Yin Huan handed Qin Zhen another bag of spirit stones, "This is the reward." That demon beast that guarded the Streamer Grass cultivated under me, and now it is injured again, it shouldn't be a problem for you to contain it. ”
She didn't know Qin Hao's specific cultivation, but if she could come out and practice like this, it wouldn't be too bad to think about it.
Qin Zhen weighed the weight of the bag of spirit stones, smiled, and threw it back to Yin Huan, saying in Yin Huan's confused expression: "Then with this bag of spirit stones, we hired you to help contain the demon beast once." Streamer grass, we also need it. ”
Yin Huan happily agreed: "Okay." It's not a problem for my magic weapon to store two streamer grasses, and I can take you out together. ”
"Deal." Qin Zhen stretched out her hand to Yin Huan.
Yin Huan hesitated this time. She looked at Qin Zhen who was smiling gently, and Ye Yousheng, who had a serious face behind her, and finally reached out and gently slapped Qin Zhen.
The two children were still sleeping very deeply, and after a brief discussion, the three of them decided that Ye Yousheng would send them back to the village, and Qin Zhen and Yin Huan would go first to continue to find the remaining three children, and then go to pick the streamer grass together when Ye Yousheng came back.
Ye Yousheng was reluctant at first, after all, he knew that Qin Hao's right hand was still injured. But he also understood that letting him go back to the village to get in touch with the villagers was the best choice at the moment.
So he just emphasized several times that he would come back to find Qin Zhen after sending the child, so he picked up a child and went to the Black Jade Forest with the spiritual power given by Qin Hao to guide the route.
"Let's go, then." Qin Zhen pulled Yin Huan up, took her hand familiarly and walked forward, "Oh, by the way, I haven't introduced us to you yet." ”
"My name is Qin Zhen, and the one just now is my junior brother Ye Yousheng."
"What sect do you come from? When the time comes, I will send you the refined Streamer Grass. Yin Huan asked.
Qin Zhen thought for a moment: "We are disciples of Tianyi Sect, but it is inconvenient for the sect to receive guests, we can make an appointment at a time and place to meet there." ”
"It's fine." Yin Huan expressed understanding. She hadn't heard the name of Tianyi Sect, but there were indeed many big sects with a lot of strange rules, and although the two of them were dressed simply, their cultivation was not low, so they should have deliberately acted in a low-key manner.
Under the leadership of Yin Huan, the two successfully passed through countless vines and branches and came to an open flat land. Because of the support of Qin Zhen's elixir, they were still under control by the suppression of the Black Jade Forest, so their aura was still sufficient.
"This is it, I found those monsters here last time. They seem to be particularly sensitive to spiritual power, and we urge them together, and they are injured, and it is when they need the spiritual power of the monk to heal their wounds, so maybe we can lure them out. Yin Huan said quickly.
Qin Hao nodded to show that she understood.
The two separated, one of them stood in a corner, and together they urged the aura.
In an instant, the ground beneath his feet began to tremble violently, and even began to crack. The surrounding trees shook their branches as if they had come to life, and let out a sharp roar.
Qin Zhen barely stood firm and turned her head to look at Yin Huan.
But the speed at which the rift spreads is simply too fast.
"Boom-"
With a loud roar, the ground under the feet of the two completely cracked. Qin Zhen only had time to see the corner of Yin Huan's clothes before falling into this deep pit.
"This ...... Where is ......?"
When Qin Zhen woke up, she found herself lying by a stream, and the blazing sun in the sky was so hot that her eyes couldn't be opened.
After getting used to the strong light, Qin Zhen supported herself to get up. With this movement, I felt a heart-piercing pain in my thigh.
It should have been in the process of falling, and the thigh was accidentally hit by a boulder, leaving a hideous wound the size of a palm on it, which was already blurred and could not be distinguished.
The broken hem of the clothes was twisted into the wound, and it took Qin Zhen a lot of effort to pull out the clothes that were stuck with the flesh and blood, and also pulled out the blood and minced flesh.
Qin Zhen's face did not change, and he took out the medicine powder from the storage bag and poured it on the wound. She didn't choose to use the water from the creek to clean the wound first, after all, she hadn't figured out where it was, and rashly using the things here on herself might bring bad results.
After applying the medicine, Qin Hao tore off the bandage again and bandaged the wound.
Now that the clothes on her body were so torn that she could not look at them anymore, she could no longer save them like this, so she took out new clothes and put them on.
When doing these things, although beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead in pain, Qin Zhen's expression was always terrifyingly calm.
After treating the wound on her leg, Qin Hao slowly sat down against the big tree next to the stream.
She remembered that she had fallen from a crack in the ground, which should have been underground. But the sunlight here is even more dazzling by the black jade forest that is clearly on the ground, and it doesn't look like it's underground at all.
What's worse is that she is also separated from Yin Huan, and the tracking aura left on her body is not sensitive.
The suppression of the aura here is stronger than that in the black jade forest, and Qin Zhen can only sense one-tenth of the aura in the outside world when he runs the spirit gathering array in his body with all his strength.
In short, you have to find Yin Huan first, and then find a way to get out.
Qin Zhen rested for a while, and after regaining some strength, he stood up and walked slowly in the direction of the stream's flow. Since the stream can flow all the time, it must eventually converge at a specific place, where it may be possible to find a way out.
Although the pain can be endured, the injury is real after all, even if the medicine is applied, the wound healing is not an instantaneous thing, which will inevitably affect Qin Hao's travel speed.
Qin Zhen took one step at a time, dragging her steps forward, trying not to take too many steps that would cause the bandaged wound to tear.
I don't know what the situation is with Yin Huan, whether she is injured or not. Her old wounds haven't healed yet, and it wouldn't be good if it finally affected the picking of streamer grass.
Qin Zhen thought distressedly, her delicate brows frowning slightly.