I do not know how long it has been.
In the dark cave, Yuan Ming opened his eyes with some difficulty. He felt that his eyes were sore and painful. He subconsciously wanted to reach out and rub them, but suddenly he felt a cold feeling on his neck.
"Don't move if you don't want to die." At this time, a cold and crisp female voice sounded.
"Chen Wan...senior sister?" Yuan Ming called hesitantly.
"I'll give you a chance to explain, what's going on?" Chen Wan asked.
She still remembered talking to Kuntu and others in the temple and eating barbecue. She remembered that she seemed very sleepy and fell asleep.
While sleeping, she seemed to have a dream about fighting a vicious beast.
When she woke up, she found that she was lying in the arms of this furry beast slave, sleeping in this deep and dark cave.
Yuan Ming blinked hard, but his vision was still blurred and his mind was dizzy.
"You were conspired by several people from Kuntu to assassinate you. They drugged the meat you ate. After you fell asleep, they tried to belittle you. It was me who saved you." Yuan Ming organized his words and said.
"You and I are neither relatives nor friends, how could you save me?" Chen Wan obviously didn't believe it, and passed the cold hand forward again.
"They wanted to kill me in order to silence me, and I had no choice but to do so," Yuan Ming said.
Chen Wan frowned slightly when she heard this.
She had always known that Kun Tu coveted her, and she was very resistant to being assigned to the same team with him this time, but she never thought that he would dare to use dirty tricks against her.
"You lied. If Kuntu can silence you, he can also silence Bada and Yangchan?" Chen Wan's face remained cold, but her tone was slightly relaxed.
"As an outsider, I can see that Yangchan is jealous of you and Bada covets you. They are working together to deal with you. Otherwise, where do you think the medicine that can knock you out comes from?" Yuan Ming sneered. , said.
When Chen Wan heard this, her heart sank.
"And the fire python that chased us in the cave later. Do you think it came to save you? It came to silence us." Yuan Ming continued to add.
Hearing this, Chen Wan quickly touched her sleeve and found that a red fire thunder was really missing. Then she realized that it was not a dream, but a real experience.
She was still dubious about what Yuan Ming said, but she still took back the dagger placed behind Yuan Ming's neck.
Chen Wan rubbed her sore eyebrows, raised her hand, and a ball of fire lit up in front of her.
The condensed fireball was suspended in mid-air, illuminating the surrounding darkness. Only then did Yuan Ming see clearly that they were currently in a huge underground cave.
The surroundings were cold and damp, and there were stalactites hanging upside down above the head, with water dripping from them.
Opposite him, Chen Wan, who was wearing a red dress, had messy hair, many stains on her face, and her clothes were not neat and tidy. She looked a little embarrassed and a little pitiful, which made people feel pity for her.
He only glanced at it and quickly looked away.
Chen Wan subconsciously tightened her clothes, but the coat that had been torn by Kun Tu could not be restored to its original shape.
Her eyes fell on Yuan Ming opposite, and she couldn't help but frown slightly.
There were scrapes and bruises all over his body. Although the blood was no longer bleeding and had formed into dry scabs, it was still a bit shocking to see.
"You are injured." Chen Wan said.
After Yuan Ming heard this, he looked at himself and saw that the clothes on his arms and legs were frayed. He turned his head and looked at his shoulders.
As soon as he moved, the severe pain made him grimace in pain.
A burning pain came from my back, which seemed to be more serious than other parts of my body.
"Turn around and let me take a look." Chen Wan saw this and said.
Yuan Ming hesitated for a moment, then turned around despite the pain.
The moment she saw Yuan Ming's back, Chen Wan's eyes widened instantly and she couldn't help but cover her mouth.
I could see that the place was completely charred, almost the entire skin on his back had been burned black, and the two shoulder blades were exposed in white. The injury was obviously very serious.
"How did he endure such a serious injury?" Chen Wan couldn't help but wonder in her heart.
When she saw that there were no other wounds on her body except for her messy clothes and a few minor scratches on her hands and feet, she couldn't help but think: "Did he suffer such a serious injury to protect me?"
Yuan Ming didn't know what she was thinking, so he asked doubtfully: "Are you ready?"
"The burn on your back is severe, and it will be difficult for you to recover based on your own blood strength. Don't move, I, I will apply some medicine for you..." Chen Wan suddenly came to his senses, paused briefly, and said.
"No, I..." Yuan Ming subconsciously wanted to refuse.
Just as he was about to turn around, he heard the person behind him saying sternly: "Don't move."
Yuan Ming couldn't help but was startled, and he really stopped moving.
Immediately afterwards, he heard the sound of a bottle cork being pulled out from behind him, and then suddenly there was a burning pain on his back, which made him unable to help but let out a low growl.
"Well……"
Yuan Ming forced down his growl. The burning pain on his back only lasted for three or four breaths, and soon turned into a strange feeling of coldness, and then started to become slightly itchy.
He could feel that the woman behind him was moving very carefully, spreading the powder on every wound on his back.
At this time, the fireball hanging in the air suddenly went out, and Chen Wan's movements stopped.
"The power of Yupingsan is very fast. It will take up to half a day for all your wounds to scab, and it will take three days for you to recover as before." Chen Wan's voice came from the darkness.
"Thank you very much." Yuan Ming thanked him.
He moved a little and found that the pain in his back had also eased a lot. He immediately pulled up the white ape skin tied around his waist and draped it over his body.
In the darkness, neither of them spoke anymore, and they fell into silence for a while.
After a while, Yuan Ming broke the silence and asked: "It's not advisable to stay here for a long time. We have to find a way to get out."
As soon as he finished speaking, a ball of fire lit up again, flew upwards with a roar, rushed straight into the sky, and hit the dome of the underground cave, splashing a cloud of sparks.
"Before you woke up, I checked. We fell out of the vertical hole above. However, the turning point of the vertical hole has collapsed. It is impossible to return from the original route." Chen Wan said.
Yuan Ming looked up, struggled to stand up, staggered a bit, and said, "Then find another way."
After that, he looked around.
"This is a culvert carved out by the underground river. It should be completely submerged by the river during the flood season. I've looked at it, and there are no exits on both sides." Chen Wan sighed and said.
After Yuan Ming heard this, he walked a dozen steps forward and saw an underground river running across the front. The water was gentle and the depth could not be seen.
He stretched out his hand and touched it, it was cold to the bone.
At this time, Chen Wan also came over, just took a look, and suddenly frowned and said: "The water in the river has swollen. When I came to check before, the water line has not reached here yet. How come it has risen so much in just a moment?"
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"Although it's not a flood season, it rained heavily yesterday. It's not surprising that the water level in the underground river will rise. I just don't know how high it will rise." Yuan Ming pondered.
With that said, he walked back to the stone wall on the other side, looked up and down, and frowned.
"What's wrong?" Chen Wan noticed and asked.
"Look, there is an obvious water line mark on the stone wall. The top is slightly dry and covered with moss, while the bottom is more humid and smooth. It can be seen that this place must have been flooded frequently recently." Yuan Ming said.
Chen Wan's expression changed slightly when she saw the waterline that was about ten feet higher.
"If the water continues to rise, sooner or later it will flood here. We can't sit still and wait for death, we have to find a way to escape," Yuan Ming continued.
"How to escape? There is no way out here." Chen Wan said.
"It's not on land. You can go underwater. There will definitely be an outlet in the underground river." Yuan Ming looked at Chen Wan and said.
Chen Wan looked confused and said hesitantly: "I...I'm not good at water."
"Then... I'll go explore the way underwater first. You wait here for a while." After hearing this, Yuan Ming was slightly startled and said immediately.
After that, he took off the long bronze sword hanging from his waist, took off the white ape skin on his body, took out a dark animal skin with pimples on the body from the arms of his tattered clothes, and draped it on his body.
He walked to the river, activated his magic power, and used the furry technique.
Immediately afterwards, the black animal skin wrapped around his body like a living thing, and soon covered all parts of his body, completing the transformation.
His whole body was covered with black animal skin, and his back was covered with bulging black bumps. He looked very strong. Web membranes had grown between the fingers of his hands, as well as between his toes, and his eyes were hung up a lot.
It looks a lot like a humanoid toad.
Chen Wan was startled by his sudden change in appearance, and couldn't help but take a step back to distance herself from him.
Yuan Ming moved his body, opened his mouth and took a deep breath. He felt a faint surge of air in his chest, and his entire abdominal cavity seemed to have become much larger. He suddenly kicked off the ground with his legs, jumped up, and fell directly into the river.
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A bone-chilling cold hit him, making Yuan Ming shiver in the water. He immediately kicked off his legs and dived into the water in a breaststroke style, then shuttled along the direction of the river.
There was a splash on the water, and it quickly returned to calm, and Yuan Ming's figure disappeared.
Chen Wan stood on the shore and waited quietly.
However, a long time passed without any movement under the water, and Yuan Ming never came back.
At this moment, bursts of muffled thunder-like sounds suddenly came from the underground cave, with a "boom" sound that made Chen Wan feel palpitated.
After the fireball spell was extinguished, she immediately swung it out again, lighting up the surrounding area.
At this moment, she felt a sudden chill at her feet. She looked down and found that the water level of the underground river had actually risen again, seemingly faster than before.
Chen Wan quickly backed away, feeling anxious and worried.
However, the more anxious she became, the more rapid the roaring in the cave became, and the underground river became more rapid.
Looking at the undulating waves and the obviously faster-flowing underground river, Chen Wan secretly thought that something was wrong. She knew that this was a sign of a flash flood. I was afraid that the water level would rise rapidly and submerge the entire cave.
But Yuan Ming was still nowhere to be seen.
This chapter has been completed!