Xu Xing was very curious about where the water source for these twenty people came from. If there was no food to eat, the highest record of human starvation was more than twenty days. They only drank water without eating. However, if they did not drink water,
No matter how strong a person is, they can only resist for four or five days. Those who can resist for more than a week are rare. In fact, such people are almost impossible to find. For ordinary people, if they don’t drink water, they can resist for three days.
About to die.
However, at this moment, footsteps suddenly came from outside the cave. Xu Xing instinctively put her hand on the handle of the knife, as if she might make a move at any time.
But the miners quickly waved their hands at this time, as if to indicate that the people coming were not enemies.
The vines at the door of the stone chamber were suddenly separated from both sides. A guy in military uniform had walked in. There were five or six kettles in this guy's hand. When he saw that there were other people in the stone chamber, he was immediately stunned.
, asked as soon as he opened his mouth: "Who are you? Why haven't I seen you?"
As soon as this guy opened his mouth, what he said was standard Chinese. He obviously judged from his face that Xu Xing was from China, and one of his hands secretly reached behind his waist, looking very wary of the new arrival.
people.
When Xu Xing saw the other party's appearance, she knew that the other party was on guard against her, so she quickly explained: "Don't worry, I'm not a bad person. I'm here to save you. I will take you back to Qiu Ming. You don't have to be so careful.
"
Fortunately, the guy who just came back from fetching water knew Chinese. After hearing what Xu Xing said at this time, he immediately relaxed and handed the water bottle in his hand to others. Everyone was also short of water and got it.
After filling the kettle, start replenishing water immediately.
In a cave, even if you find fuel, you don't dare to light a fire casually. It's not that you are afraid that lighting a fire will attract the attention of the enemy, but that the cave is underground and the air condition is not good enough. If you light a fire, it will consume oxygen.
, then everyone will be suffocated to death.
However, fortunately, the temperature underground is not particularly low. Even if there is no fire, it will not freeze to death. The surrounding loess is the most suitable insulation material. Even if the ground has frozen three feet, the temperature underground will not freeze to death.
There have been too many changes.
Xu Xing looked at the group of people here and said quickly: "Let me take you out of here. Anyway, there will be no better life if you stay underground now."
"Do you know the way out?" the man fetching water asked quickly.
Xu Xing nodded and said: "No need to rush me, I do know a way to leave the underground directly. Although Qiu Ming is now in dilapidated condition, the city is always safer."
Xu Xing saw that the people present were miserable. It was not a good choice to let them stay here. Since she was here to find mutant plants and save people, saving people at this time was also part of her job.
Everyone was very happy after hearing that they could leave the underground. I don't know how long it has been since they entered the underground world. There is no sunlight underground, so they can't tell the difference between day and night. They all dream about it.
Those who left the underground had no idea what was happening in the outside world.
But at this time, the guy fetching water said quickly: "I just saw that the tree people have taken action. If you go out at this time, you will definitely be attacked. Why don't we wait a moment and wait until the tree people come back? Going out again?"
Xu Xing also remembered that when she went down to the cave, the surroundings were already very dark. If she went out, it might be night, and the tree man acted in the dark.
Thinking of this, Xu Xing gave up the idea of taking people to escape immediately, and said to herself: "I only have one night away from the city lord, so it should be fine, right?"
Xu Xing was also very uneasy at this time. It could be said that she was very uneasy. The city lord clearly ordered to kill that hateful scumbag, but she let people escape. This really shouldn't be done. Moreover, she has not returned to the city lord for a long time. , this is a very inappropriate thing, but Xu Xing also knows that the more than 20 people in the cave need protection, and they cannot leave easily now, so Xu Xing has no choice but to stay.
Xu Xing trusted Shen Feng's fighting prowess. He believed that the three people on the city lord's side would be fine, so he would save them for the time being.
"Perhaps, when I tell the city lord about the road to the underground, he will praise me for it." Xu Xing thought silently in her heart.
However, Xu Xing suddenly remembered something at this time and asked quickly: "By the way, where did you find the water source? Also, how did you know that the tree people had taken action? How did you learn all this information? ?”
The man who fetched the water was named Chatev. After hearing Xu Xing’s question, he quickly said: “While we were hiding underground during this period, we have been exploring the situation underground, trying to find a way out, but we have never found it. , but we also found places with underground water, the enemy’s location, and caves leading to the enemy’s lair.”
When Xu Xing heard this, she was immediately pleasantly surprised and said quickly: "Take me to see where the enemy's lair is!"
The purpose of Shen Feng's visit this time was to find mutated plants and then burn them directly. However, he has only recently found the location of the enemy. As for where the enemy is hiding, it is completely unclear. But at this time, many Xing heard that there was a cave leading to the enemy's lair, and she immediately became excited. If she could directly find the enemy's lair, wouldn't it be a great achievement?
"City Lord, I will not let you down. I will definitely come back to you with useful information." Xu Xing thought silently in her heart.
At this time, Chatsev showed a troubled look: "But it's far away from here, and it will take at least two hours to go back and forth!"
"It's okay, it's okay, just two hours, just take two hours. Take me to see you quickly. I will take you out tomorrow. You must tell me such important news at this time. Xu Xing said stubbornly.
Xu Xing has already said it to such an extent that Chatev cannot refuse. After all, he still has to rely on Xu Xing to take him out of the underground. This cannot be offended. Otherwise, if the other party goes back on his word, he will miss out on leaving in vain. It's time for the underground.
Afterwards, Chatev took Xu Xing and left the hiding place, carrying five or six empty water bottles with him. The water he just brought back had been drank by more than 20 people, and no one had any extra water. device, so you can only bring back six water bottles at a time, and you have to take turns to get water.
The cave was dug by mutated marmots, but it was not tall enough. When Xu Xing walked in the cave, it was impossible to straighten her body. As a result, Xu Xing's waist would become sore after walking for a certain distance.
In fact, the best way to walk in this kind of cave is to kneel on the ground and crawl. This is the most energy-saving way of action, but human dignity does not allow Xu Xing to do this.
If a child crawls on the ground, no one will say anything because everyone knows that children cannot walk yet and crawling is the only way they can move.
However, if an adult crawls on his knees on the ground, he is as lowly as an animal and will be looked down upon by others.
After thinking of this, Xu Xing could only silently endure the soreness in her waist and continue moving forward.
After walking for more than an hour, I went through many forks in the road. Every time I passed a fork in the road, Xu Xing would drop something as a mark to make sure that I was not taking the wrong path. Finally, Xu Xing followed Chatsefu.
Found a cave with light.
Before she even got close, Xu Xing could hear a "rumbling" sound. When she got closer, her eyes were stunned.
Outside the entrance of the cave where Xu Xing is, there is a huge space. Although it is still underground, you can see a huge waterfall flowing out of the entrance of the cave and finally falling downward. The height of the waterfall can be more than thirty meters.
The rumbling sound I heard before was the sound made by the waterfall falling into the pool.
It's hard to imagine that there is such a scene underground. The waterfall falls from the sky and makes a loud noise. This is a huge space. It seems that the ground has been torn apart at this time, and directly below the torn earth is a pool.
There is an island in the middle of the pool, and a huge tree grows from here.
Come on, the height can be fifty meters. There are colorful fruits on this tree, which are emitting fluorescence at this time. The light seen in the cave is emitted from these fruits. Although one fruit is nothing,
The range of illumination was limited, but when tens of thousands of fruits were shining, the cave suddenly shone like daylight.
"This must be a mutated plant. It's really huge. It's unimaginable that such a tall tree grows underground." Xu Xing began to sigh silently in her heart. At this time, she could hardly believe what she saw.
, there is such a space in the underground world, and there are such big trees.
Xu Xing couldn't tell what kind of tree this tree was mutated from. He could only see the huge crown. The crown almost filled the entire underground space. There were many paper strips hanging from the bottom of the tree crown, and underneath these paper strips hung a
Although the small cages looked small, that was only in relative terms, because Xu Xing saw many animals in these translucent cages, including even as ferocious individuals as Siberian tigers.
Xu Xing was carefully observing the underground space, while Chatev stretched out his hand from the entrance of the cave and placed the kettle on the stone wall next to it. When the waterfall fell, there was water flowing on the stone wall, so as long as the kettle was placed
Come closer and it will fill up quickly.
Xu Xing continued to observe, trying to find the tree people, but found that there were only a dozen scattered tree people below, wandering around. There was a glowing fruit on the heads of these tree people, which looked like
It was like holding a lantern. Seeing this scene, Xu Xing also wanted to understand.
The scum he met before said that the tree man had one eye. Shen Feng didn't believe it at the time, but now it seems that there is just a glowing fruit on the tree man's head.
"If it's almost the same, let's get ready to go back. Now that we have found the enemy's lair, the problem is simple. Next time I will take my people to plow the courtyard and sweep the holes directly. I don't believe that we can't defeat the mutated plants." Xu Xing said at this time. Having obtained enough information, I feel very relieved. No matter how much the city lord blames me, as long as I can inform the city lord of such important news, then the city lord will definitely not punish myself.
While Xu Xing was secretly rejoicing, Chacefu hurriedly poured water into his mouth. It was a rare trip out, so of course he had to drink from the water source.
Next, Chatsev was about to continue to reach out to fill the water, but at this moment, a vine suddenly flew over, and with lightning speed, it directly grabbed Chatsev's arm, and then pulled hard , and actually dragged a tall and thick man out directly.
Chacev did not expect it. He had been pouring water at the entrance of the cave for a long time, and there had been no accidents during this period, and no tree man had ever discovered him. However, at this time, he was dragged out of the cave entrance and headed towards the bottom. As the pool fell, Chatsev immediately let out a scream.
"Ah...save me..." Chatsev's loud cry for help echoed in the air, sounding very miserable. Finally, he fell heavily into the pool.
This incident happened unexpectedly. Xu Xing wanted to reach out to rescue him, but at this time it was not even Xu Xing's turn to lend a helping hand. Chacefu had already been taken away, which made Xu Xing feel panic in her heart. Uneasy mood.
Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen vines emerged from the tree crown and chased towards the entrance of the cave. It was obvious that Xu Xing had been exposed at this time.
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