The cave was pitch black, and the cave was sloping downward. The dull sound of dripping water still came from the depths from time to time.

There were no torches or lanterns, so they had to move forward in the dark. In this darkness, Xiao Tianhe could only see the range of a few steps in front of him.

"Hey, I said, now that we don't have Xiaomei's big shield, if the cave sucks people again, how can we resist?" asked Lei Xiaoyan. His loud voice reverberated back and forth in the narrow space, causing a slight roar from the depths of the cave.

"Speak quietly, it's bad if you collapse the hole!" Tang Yuanxing said.

Shi Haoming said, "It's okay, it's okay for Tianhe to howl so loudly at the entrance of the cave just now." Besides, this cave is an unclimbable cliff, so it stands to reason that it should be very stable. ”

Xiao Tianhe said: "It's really weird that a cave can produce such a terrifying suction. I don't know how the guys who hurt us knew about this secret. ”

"Someone has died here before. Zhao Xianglin said.

"Why, do you know this?" Xiao Tianhe was surprised.

Zhao Xianglin shook his head: "That damn Zheng Huaili, at the beginning, he just said lightly that three people died at the bottom of the valley while exploring gold, and I thought it was the mountain rock that collapsed to death." Now that I think about it, he must have witnessed the cave sucking people, and then deliberately concealed the details so that he could harm people in the future. Damn, God has no eyes, why wasn't he the one who was sucked into the cave at that time!"

There was a moment of silence. Xiao Tianhe said: "Who else does he want to harm? I'm afraid that if I don't bring up the matter of testing Jin, he will also find a reason to deceive you so far." My presence and your weight have given him the opportunity and the reason to catch us all. ”

"So, I'm the one who has caused you a burden. Zhao Xianglin said sadly.

"Sister Zhao, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean that. Xiao Tianhe hurriedly apologized.

Lei Xiaoyan couldn't hold back any longer, and shouted loudly: "Hey, I said, why doesn't anyone pay attention to my words?

Shi Haoming replied lightly: "Let it be." The previous suction eruption was caused by bad people, and it was too dangerous for the boulders to fly around, and I believe that it will not be like that in the future. We were meant to find someone who had been sucked into the cave, and if we had gone deeper into the cave with the suction force, we might be able to find it. ”

"Shhhhhh

Tang Yuanxing asked, "What, are you afraid?"

"I'm not afraid of death," Lei Xiaoyan paused, "It's just a little reluctant to let my Yan'er ......"

"You won't die. Xiao Tianhe said firmly.

"Borrow your good words!" said Lei Xiaoyan.

Xiao Tianhe diverted the heavy topic: "By the way, before the cave sucked people, I clearly saw red and blue lights coming out of the cave, and then the two people from the gold exploration team exclaimed, 'Money Mine', why did they enter the cave but there was nothing?"

Shi Haoming speculated: "There is an interval between the eruption suction of the cave. Just throw some money at the entrance of the cave during the break. ”

Zhao Xianglin agreed: "That's right, Zheng Huaili's conspiracy must be to send someone to lay bait in advance, and then lure us to the entrance of the cave." Otherwise, why would it take us a few days before someone came up with a proposal to search for minerals along the valley? ”

Xiao Tianhe didn't care more about this, but about the two red and blue lights. "Sister Zhao, will the money and mines glow red and blue?"

Zhao Xianglin replied: "That's right! And the more red and blue light there are, the richer the mineral deposits." Because...... Ahh

"It's coming!" Xiao Tianhe shouted.

The terrible suction came again, and this time the men did not resist any longer, but clasped each other's hands, allowing the suction to drag them deeper into the cave.

The suction suddenly intensified, and everyone was lifted into the air, Xiao Tianhe tightened his body as much as he could, while holding Zhao Xianglin's hand. He felt his body almost torn apart by the suction, and the strong wind pouring in from outside the cave roared deafeningly in his ears like a mad beast. In the churning, I couldn't even tell the difference between up and down, left and right, and the feeling of the world spinning made my head dizzy for a while, and all kinds of strange black shadows flew in front of me, and it felt like falling into eighteen layers of hell, never beyond life.

In a daze, Xiao Tianhe's arm was cut by a sharp convex rock on the cave wall, leaving a deep wound that almost made him unable to grasp Zhao Xianglin's hand, but he still gritted his teeth and didn't let go—until his head hit another stone hard.

......

I don't know how long it took, Xiao Tianhe slowly opened his eyes. The memory was vague, and his eyes were hazy, but the comfortable feeling under his head made him think that he was lying on the bed in a trance for a moment.

"You're awake!" came a gentle female voice in her ear.

Xiao Tianhe blinked, and saw a familiar face in a soft blue light.

"Sister Zhao......" Xiao Tianhe reacted at this time, it turned out that he had been pillowed on Zhao Xianglin's legs. But as soon as he was about to get up, a wave of nausea suddenly surged in his abdomen, and he retched several times with his head sideways, so that he couldn't breathe.

Zhao Xianglin patted his back and said angrily: "Really, don't be reluctant to speak as soon as you wake up, lie down for a while, and wait until you are rested!"

"I, I'm fine......" Xiao Tianhe's breath weakened, "Where are we?"

"I don't know, but it's definitely a very deep part of the cave. Zhao Xianglin gently stroked the lump on Xiao Tianhe's forehead with her palm, looking quite expressional

I couldn't bear it, "You've been in a coma for days and nights, and I can't wake you up no matter how much I shout." It scared the hell out of me, I thought you'd never wake up again!"

"Have you been kneeling like this for so long?" Xiao Tianhe asked.

"Hmm. Your head, neck, arms, and feet are all injured, but the ground here is wet and slippery, hard and cold, how can I bear to let you lie on the ground?" Unfortunately, your friends are nowhere to be found. ”

"Hopefully they're okay. Xiao Tianhe's tone was light, as if he was not worried at all.

The blue-green fluorescence shone on Zhao Xianglin's face, and Xiao Tianhe saw her red eyes, and he didn't know whether she was boiling or crying, full of bloodshots. Xiao Tianhe's heart swelled with emotion, but he knew that if he had something to say, he had to say it first. After pondering for a moment, he asked, "Sister Zhao, I've always been very strange, I'm just a newcomer, why are you so good to me?"

Zhao Xianglin raised her head, looked into the distance, and said faintly, "You may think that I am a shameless woman, right?"

"Where, you're very nice. ”

Zhao Xianglin smiled self-deprecatingly: "Don't comfort me, I'm not unclear about the rumors about me in the Eight Kings Camp." ”

"That'...... Is it all true?"

"Alas, half-truths!"

Xiao Tianhe didn't ask any more, he was waiting for Zhao Xianglin to tell the story himself.

Zhao Xianglin's expression was very entangled, and she didn't seem to have the courage to muster up enough to speak, so she stopped talking, and opened her mouth several times without spitting out a word.

Xiao Tianhe comforted her: "Let's talk about it when you want to tell me." ”

Zhao Xianglin nodded gratefully at him: "I'm sorry, I'm afraid of ......"

Xiao Tianhe took the lead in answering: "I'm afraid that we won't even have to be friends in the future, right? In fact, you have worried too much, the past has passed, since I knew you, you are an eldest sister who cares about me very much, how can I ignore you because of your past?"

When the word "eldest sister" was spoken, Xiao Tianhe felt Zhao Xianglin's body tremble.

"Alas, it's just the two of us trapped here, and we don't know if we'll get out alive. She has been kind to you and has taken care of you for so long, why do you want to break her heart at this time?" Xiao Tianhe said to himself in his heart. "By the way, Sister Zhao, what is that blue light?" he asked, changing the subject, pointing to the bright light on the cave wall.

"It must be some kind of stone that fluoresces? I don't know. When the suction of the cave wore off, we all fell into the dark river, and thanks to this fluorescence, I was able to climb the small stone platform and find you floating down the water, seriously injured. I think it's like a lonely boat in the ocean, small but a place for us to rest. If you've been soaking in the icy dark river, I'm afraid you're already ...... by now."

"Is the water deep in the Dark River?"

"I don't know. Seeing that you were injured and unconscious, I didn't dare to leave an inch. ”

"Sister Zhao, you put me down, you go somewhere else to find a way out first, and we'll find a way out. ”

Zhao Xianglin shook his head like a rattle: "No, this cave will erupt again from time to time, and the interval is also very chaotic, sometimes twice in a row, sometimes not once for several hours, irregular." It's the only place that is safe, and the suction doesn't reach here, and if I leave, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back. ”

"Oh, so peculiar?" Xiao Tianhe struggled to turn his head and looked around at the terrain. It turned out that the location of this stone platform was a pit in the cave wall, which was less affected by suction.

"Listen, here we go again. Zhao Xianglin said suddenly.

A strange sizzling sound came, and the strange suction force flared up again, as if even the entire cave was trembling, but Xiao Tianhe only felt a slight vibration of the stone slab, and a few swirls of damp wind on the stone platform.

"Look, it's okay!" Zhao Xianglin said.

"It's a good place, but we can't be stuck here for the rest of our lives, can we?"

Zhao Xianglin's eyes wandered, thoughtful, and murmured softly: "If we really can't get out forever, we can also cultivate quietly here together until we survive the last tribulation......

Xiao Tianhe didn't reply, Zhao Xianglin glanced at him, as if he hadn't heard what he had just said, he stared intently at the dark river next to the stone platform.

Pieces of gray-white objects floated from the upper reaches of the dark river, touched the edge of the stone platform, and quickly flowed away again.

"That's ......"

Zhao Xianglin replied: "It's a pumice stone, I don't know where it floated from the cave, anyway, every time after the suction erupts, this strange stone will appear, I think it should be peeling off and falling into the water when the cave trembles." At first I wondered what it was, but then I didn't realize it was a stone until a rock hit the platform and a few pieces of debris bounced over. It's amazing that the stone can float on the water. ”

"That's why you named it pumice, right?" Xiao Tianhe picked up a piece of pumice stone crumbs in his hand, looked at it carefully, and suddenly smiled. "Sister Zhao, do you have any unusual feelings when you are floating in the dark river?" he suddenly asked an inexplicable question.

Zhao Xianglin frowned and thought about it, and hesitated slightly: "It doesn't seem to be." I was not far from here when I fell into the dark river, and when I saw the glow of the fluorite, I swam along the rushing water. Not long after you climbed the stone platform, you also floated with the water. ”

"Then I should be right, it seems that the name 'pumice stone' is still inappropriate," Xiao Tianhe said, "This is just an ordinary stone." ”

"How

How can an ordinary stone float on the water?" Zhao Xianglin was surprised at first, but suddenly reacted and understood what Xiao Tianhe meant, "You mean...... It's not the rocks that are weird, it's the water?"

Xiao Tianhe was overjoyed: "That's right! Because the water is very fast, and you are in a hurry to survive and save me, you ignore the strangeness of the water." The stone does not float because it is light, but is held up by water!"

"Hmm...... I see. Look at your happy look, but what's the use of knowing this?" Zhao Xianglin was puzzled.

"Hey, that's a lot of use! If the stone is very light, these pumice stone fragments are really useless. But since water can carry rocks, you can cut off a rock and use it as a boatman!" Xiao Tianhe smirked.

"Boats? Since water can pumice stones, it must also be able to hold people up, so why bother making boats? Also, do you know where this dark river goes?"

"No! the current is so fast that the slate can at least act as a cushion if it hits something. Besides, the water is strange, and God knows if it will be harmful if you stay in the water for a long time, and even if there is no harm, it will not help the wound, so for the sake of safety, it is better to make some effort! As for the direction of the dark river, I think it flows down the slope, and it is estimated that it will eventually either flow into the pool or lake, or into the river, and I guess that this dark river is very likely to be connected to the river in the abyss, and if it goes well, it may be able to float out of the cave along the river. Anyway, it's better than if we're stuck here all the time. Xiao Tianhe came up with his own speculation.

Zhao Xianglin pursed her lips lightly and muttered in a barely audible voice: "How can you be 'trapped to death'......?

"Sister Zhao, you use a knife to cut a stone slab from the cave wall, and when the next suction explosion is over, you can quickly go down the water. ”

Zhao Xianglin shook her head again and again: "You see you're here again, I won't leave you alone." If you want to go, you'll have to wait until you've recovered from your injuries, and we'll go together. ”

"My injuries don't matter anymore, and I can move freely after a little rest. But the water surface of this dark river is too narrow, and the stone slabs that can hold the weight of the two of us are either too long or too wide, and it definitely won't work!"

"Then cut two stone slabs down, you in front and me in the back. Zhao Xianglin resolutely refused to go first.

Xiao Tianhe persuaded again: "Alas, Sister Zhao, when the suction erupted just now, this small stone platform had already begun to tremble slightly, and we don't know how long it can hold on to the suction." If the stone platform shatters, or if a big rock floats over and crashes here, or if the wall of the cave in front of us collapses, we are finished! Time is pressing, and it is not worth it for you to stay for my injuries!"

"I think it's worth it! If you want to live, you will live together, and if you want to die, you will die together!" Zhao Xianglin was determined.

At this point, the sizzling sound came again, and the terrible suction exploded again. Sure enough, just as Xiao Tianhe was worried about, the stone platform shook much more violently than the last time.

After the cave was calmed down, Xiao Tianhe was really anxious: "Sister Zhao, if you don't leave, ......it's too late!

"Shhhh Zhao Xianglin gently covered Xiao Tianhe's mouth with her fingers, and said politely, "Before, I used to have a younger brother, and his name was Zhao Xiangwu. After my parents passed away early, I was left with my younger brother. Fortunately, we supported each other and encouraged each other, and we had smooth sailing on the path of cultivation, and after passing the Junior Cultivator Evaluation Contest together, we were transferred to the same camp.

But later, bad luck suddenly fell from the sky in a vicious battle on the battlefield of demon extermination. Xiao Wu was injured by the demon beast. At that time, I was guarding him as if I were taking care of you now, but he was the same as you, always saying that his injuries were fine, urging me to hurry up and hunt down the monsters that escaped with serious injuries. Saying that, Zhao Xianglin suddenly smiled wistfully, "And that time, I listened to him, left him in a place I thought was safe, and then chased him after the blood of the demon beast."

But when I came back, Xiao Wu ...... I cried for a day and a night, crying until my tears dried up, and I fainted, and I didn't even know how he was carried back from the battlefield. I regret it! My bowels are blue. I was eager to strangle myself at that time, how could the feats of killing a demon beast be compared to my dear brother! A momentary wrong choice will make our sister and brother forever separated by yin and yang......" Recalling the sad past, Zhao Xianglin burst into tears, and big tears fell on Xiao Tianhe's face.

Xiao Tianhe sighed regretfully, raised his arm and wiped away tears for her with his sleeve.

"When I first saw you, I seemed to find Xiao Wu's shadow from you. Your expression, movements, and tone of voice are very similar to him, very much like him...... Because I can't suppress the longing and intimacy that wells up from the bottom of my heart, I want to promote you to be my deputy and always be by my side. That's my answer to your question. Are you still satisfied?" Zhao Xianglin looked at Xiao Tianhe's eyes with teary eyes.

A smile rose at the corner of Xiao Tianhe's mouth, and he sighed lightly: "No wonder you asked me to call you 'Sister Zhao'." I'm ashamed, I thought you were ...... Hey, hey!"

"Thought I wanted to seduce you, huh?"

"Tut, Sister Zhao, you are already very good-looking, thanks to my good concentration, my feelings for you have not changed. Xiao Tianhe quipped.

"Flim tongue ......" Zhao Xianglin burst into tears and smiled, and lightly touched Xiao Tianhe's eyebrows, "The situation this time is so similar, I will never leave you 'again'." ”

The word "again" shows that Zhao Xianglin regards Xiao Tianhe as his younger brother Zhao Xiangwu in his heart. In this case, how could Xiao Tianhe bear to hurt her again?

"That's it, Sister Zhao, you just cut off this stone platform, and let's resign ourselves to fate together!"

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