There was a whirring wind on both sides, and Curt could feel his body falling under the pull of gravity, and the deep darkness was expanding in front of him.

The temple was built on the edge of a high platform, and one corner of it had fallen into disrepair. When the collapsed rock plate rushed out of the temple, Curt awaited a bottomless cliff and an underground river that flowed from beneath it.

With the speed at which he had just rushed towards Liqi, Curt carried her directly out of the cluster of collapsed pillars of the temple, and at the same time jumped into the outer darkness with the momentum of the forward rush. There is nothing left there - because all the ruins that were once built here have collapsed with the passage of time.

For the two of the Leinster family, jumping off the cliff was not killing themselves, but it was a useless waste of energy to continue fighting with the man.

Entangled with enemies armed with heavy weapons, they are defenseless, and since they cannot suppress their opponents in strength, they can only control their surroundings with dexterous movements. So when the man took aim at Liqi who was standing on the edge, he rushed out of the platform with her.

The man who was about to take advantage of the momentum to pursue was ready to swing his next sword, but when he saw that there was only a cliff ahead, he had to stop destroying Miè. He may have expected Curt to rush out and kill the sword, but he definitely didn't expect him to rush straight off the cliff. Looking at the figures getting farther and farther away in the darkness, he could only watch the two of them fall into the abyss shrouded in darkness.

In mid-air, Curt glanced back at the temple above and could only see a figure with a great sword standing on the edge of the cliff. It seems unlikely that the other party will chase after them and jump down together. Curt gave a bleak smile and let go of Lizzie in his arms.

"I should say you're overprotective. Or are you nosy? Even if I were cut in two by that sword, I wouldn't have died. "A head-on clash with the surface of the water is inevitable. Seeing this scene, Liqi also complained about the general complaining, "And since you know that it is only a matter of time before your body recovers, it is better to attack his back directly than rush over and interrupt." ”

Even though she said that, she couldn't let herself bump into the water, so she felt the whirring wind in her ears, and at the same time frowned and began to gesture with her fingers in the air. In a matter of moments, a translucent, geometric barrier slowly formed on Lizzie's fingertips.

Through a thin wall of light. The dark water surface of the underground river gradually filled his eyes. There are many underground veins around the city of Catrice, and this dark river is one of the best in it, and the turbulent river weaves a whirlpool and flows quickly forward.

Crash!

The water splashed everywhere, and the barrier as a buffer immediately turned into countless fragments and dissipated after touching the water surface, and the turbulent water immediately surrounded the two people, they seemed to be the hands of giants, pinching the two people who fell into their hands, dragging them all the way to drift away with the direction of the current.

The raging tide of the rush is stirring around. There were countless small sprays, and they could only drift down the direction of the current. The water of the Dark River was clear and cold, and Curt felt his body temperature begin to drop dramatically, as if his entire body was about to turn into an ice sculpture.

Distance. The tide kept beating against the rocks on the shore, playing an intense movement in the endless darkness. The air, which is getting colder by the cold water, is slightly mixed with a certain rotten stench, and the residue accumulated in the river water over the years unabashedly proclaims its own sense of existence.

There was a hot pain in the back. It was then that Curt noticed a deep wound from his lower back to his shoulder. The coat draped over his body had long since been lightly cut like waste paper, and the spilled blood left a blazing temperature on Curt's icy body.

"I'm sorry. It's -- ahem, ahem! impossible. ”

Curt, who wanted to answer, choked on a large mouthful of water when he opened his mouth, and coughed violently: "Ahem, you did succeed in attracting the attention of that guy." But the bad news is that the guy has already figured out all the possibilities. If I attack him directly, he can split you in two and give me a horizontal slash - with his experience and speed, it's not hard to do. ”

He had already pounced with Lizzie before the greatsword was swung, but the darkness that surged out still tore through his body. The man was very fast, and his reaction speed was unusually high, and it was almost impossible to solve him by sneak attack.

"Okay, okay, I see,"

Accepting this result, Liqi, who was pulled by the current, had no choice but to say helplessly: "But the ancient philosophers once said, 'disasters always happen one after another', and there is bad news on my side." ”

She struggled to keep her balance in the water, but the torrent tugged at her body at will, allowing her to drift uncontrollably from side to side in the pitch-black current. As if they had been swept up in a great flood, the water around them roared wildly, and even if they used magic to control them, they didn't react in the slightest.

Spit out the water that gushed into her mouth, Lizzie shouted, "The speed of the water is accelerating, and it looks like there is a big gap not far ahead, maybe it will be a waterfall." ”

Without Lizzie's warning, Curt had already seen a huge cavern appear in front of him, and the river began to flow rapidly downward. The sound of rushing water is endless, and in the distant cave, several water veins can be seen flowing down from the high rock wall, forming several waterfalls.

If they don't flee from the rapids quickly, they will fall into the abyss with the current. Curt nervously searched both sides of the Dark River, and finally found a pitch-black hole in the stone wall on the left, from which gusts of cold wind blew out, and seemed to be connected to the outside world. However, the current in this dark river is very fast, and it is not easy to cross the river - especially since Curt and Lizzie are still dragged in the dark river by the turbulent current.

"Lizzie, do you see there, use a spell to pull us to shore!"

He immediately pointed to a stalactite next to the cave entrance, and motioned for Lizzie to cast a spell in that direction. In a matter of moments, a glittering "chain" shot out of Lizzie's hand, wrapped around Curt's waist, and then shot at the pillar that Curt considered a target.

The heavy touch reached from afar to his waist, and Curt immediately reached out and grabbed the chain tightly, stabilizing himself. After catching his breath, Curt noticed that there were some white rocks looming in the water, and he could use those places as a foothold to reach the opposite shore.

"Hey, Curt has moving air here, but are you really sure this side can lead to the outside?" Lizzie muttered dissatisfied, tucking her wet hair back into her head, "You know, the underground caverns around here are intricate, and you will be trapped in them if you walk around." ”

When you get on the shallows on the shore, the air around you is still moist, not only the underground river flowing behind you, but also the oncoming cold wind mixed with a little moisture. It seems that the area is full of underground water veins, and the heavy rains that have been going on since a few days ago have caused the water volume of the surrounding dark rivers to skyrocket a lot.

The terrain ahead is undulating, with stalactites of different sizes scattered around. The mud deposited on the shore still contained the torn remains of some animal, as if it had been carefully chewed by fangs, and only the mutilated bones remained in knee-deep water.

"What's the solution, there are only two paths we can take now. One is the cave in front of you, and the other is the abyss over there—which do you think is better?"

The two of them walked through a narrow passage that stretched in an unknown direction, and from time to time they could feel water seeping from the stone wall on their left. The height of the passage is quite noticeable, and the surrounding stone walls are also covered with faint phosphorescent mosses and some unnamed fungi.

As he was on the way, Curt's ears picked up some small sounds not far away—the sound of some small creature flapping its wings. In an instant, Curt's body immediately reflexively jumped to the side, and several black shadows flashed past his eyes.

It was just a few bats, and Curt couldn't help but want to laugh at himself for making too much of a fuss. These bats appear to be slightly larger than their wild counterparts, but they are not dangerous, and they are frightened and fly around them before disappearing into the cave at the other end.

It was a cave overgrown with stalagmites and stalactites, with deep passages connecting the river beach where Curt and the others had climbed to a high top space in front of them. The hollow cavities in the rock walls look as if they have been artificially reconstructed, and they appear very empty, but there is nothing inside but the products of nature.

No, no, there's one more thing here

Curt sniffed the cold air, and the moisture of the tide mixed with the smell of dry decay, the smell of dead ashes that had been in the grave for a long time. He followed his faint breath to search for its source, and in the shadows of the corner of the cavern lay something resembling a human figure.

Curt walked briskly closer to the dark shadow, and eventually found a human corpse in the shadow of the rock, curled up motionless behind the rock, as if it merged with the shadow of the stone. The clothes wrapped around the body are a common men's summer attire, and there are still blackened blood stains on them.

Maybe it's an explorer who strayed into this cave and was attacked to death by monsters. He seemed to have been dead for a long time, his body had been completely reduced to white bones, and he still had a small package left by his side, which contained only a few simple tools and an unidentified decay. (To be continued......)