In the dark cave, Qiu Miyazuki walked in front holding a torch, followed by Indo Rika and Dinah.
Over the past month, the three of them were in a similar situation to Xu Cheng and the two of them, and they had been wandering around in the underground cave, looking for a way out.
Fortunately, Akimiya Yue and Indo Rika are both very determined killers and did not show any despair. Their calm and composed appearance infected Dinah, allowing the little girl to maintain a good attitude.
The most important thing is that the three of them can see the hope of leaving instead of despair.
Arriving at a fork in the road, Qiu Gongyue picked up a piece of gravel and threw it against the cave wall ahead.
The gravel was smashed into pieces, and the sound spread far along the cave.
Qiu Gongyue closed her eyes and listened carefully.
With the reflection of the sound waves, the basic structure of the surrounding caves quickly took shape in her mind. Which road could be taken and which road was a dead end were also judged by her immediately.
This method can save the three of them a lot of time wasted on exploration. If the environment was too cold and the environment was too cold, causing Rika Yinto and Dinah to walk too slowly, they might have gone out long ago.
At this time, the two burdens stood quietly aside, not daring to disturb the thigh with any sound.
A few seconds later, when the sound disappeared, Qiu Gongyue opened her eyes: "Go this way."
"Sister Yue is so amazing."
Dinah looked at Qiu Gongyue with eyes full of admiration and said what she had said countless times.
At first, she was extremely hostile to Qiu Gongyue, Xu Cheng's girlfriend who suddenly appeared. However, during the month in this underground world, her attitude gradually changed from hostility to rejection, from rejection to closeness, and from closeness to closeness. Became a cult.
Now she has completely become Qiu Gongyue's little fan girl, Sister Zhangkouyue and Shukouyue, but her real sister has not been mentioned again for a long time.
Akimiya Yue was already immune to such compliments and took the lead in moving through the caves in the rugged area.
After not walking for long, she suddenly stopped and said in surprise: "It's windy!"
Yin Tenglixiang and Dinah were slightly startled, and at the same time showed expressions of great surprise.
The wind in a place like this means there is contact with the outside world and the exit is not far away.
Qiu Miyazuki stretched out her hand to hold Yin Teng Rika, and grabbed Dinah with the other hand. There was no time for them to leave slowly.
"Sister Yue."
Dinah took a step back, subconsciously turned her head and looked into the depths of the dark cave behind her, grabbing the corners of her clothes with both hands: "My sister... hasn't been found yet..."
"Your sister will be fine if she stays with my boyfriend."
Qiu Gongyue could only comfort her like this. Yin Fulin wanted to be safe only if she was with Xu Cheng.
In other words, if we are not together, we can only resign ourselves to fate.
Being stared at by Qiu Gongyue's eyes, Dinah was inexplicably afraid and did not dare to be willful anymore. She took a step forward and grabbed her hand.
Qiu Gongyue held Dinah under her ribs and led the two of them to move quickly in the direction of the wind.
"Ayue, speaking of..."
Indo Rika lay on Akimiya Yue's hand and asked: "Your boyfriend has also been missing for a month. Aren't you worried at all?"
Qiu Gongyue replied casually: "His safety factor is higher than mine. He will not die even if we all die. There is nothing to worry about."
Speaking of which, I was actually a little worried, not for Xu Cheng's safety, but for him starting to hook up with women again.
I have also seen Yin Fulin Qiu Gongyue. She is a blonde beauty with a curvy figure. She is also Xu Cheng's favorite type.
If the two of them really get together, it would be a shame for Xu Cheng's scumbag physique if he doesn't give Qiu Gongyue a green hat.
Holding the two of them between her hands, she moved quickly in the darkness, easily avoiding all the rugged rocks and dangerous environments that blocked the road.
After running like this for ten minutes, a little light appeared in Qiu Gongyue's field of vision.
She increased her speed, and the light became clearer and clearer, eventually turning into a hole leading to the outside world.
Qiu Gongyue jumped out with the two of them, shrouded in the sunshine that had lasted for dozens of days.
The dazzling light made the three of them close their eyes subconsciously, but the next second they felt their bodies falling rapidly.
When I opened my eyes, I saw a deep cliff shrouded in clouds and mist.
"Ah ah ah ah ah!"
Accompanied by the screams of Indo Rika and Dinah, the three of them fell straight to the bottom of the cliff.
Qiu Gongyue still remained calm, observing the situation below.
After falling for more than ten seconds, when she was about to fall to the opposite side, Qiu Miyazuki used both hands to throw Rika Indo and Dinah upwards one after another.
She herself was like a superman descending from heaven, kneeling on one knee as a buffer and hitting the ground heavily.
Peng!
The ground covered with thick ice was instantly smashed into a huge deep pit. Spider-web-like cracks spread rapidly along the ice surface in all directions. The ice surface within a hundred meters was cracked by the force of the fall.
Akimiya Yue, who was unscathed, stood up, raised her hands to catch the falling Indo Rika and Dinah, and used her arms to buffer the inertia and force of their falls.
Even Yin Teng Rika, who had experienced many battles, had trembling hands and feet and shortness of breath at this time, let alone Dinah, who was so frightened that her face was pale and speechless, and she collapsed directly on the ground.
Unprepared high-altitude bungee jumping is still a bit too exciting for them.
Qiu Gongyue let the two of them recover and looked around to observe the surrounding environment. This was the bottom of the deep cliff. There was no snow and there were rugged rocks covered with solid ice everywhere.
The cold wind blew from a distance, creating a strange whistling sound, as if some kind of monster was screaming.
"What's wrong?"
Indo Rika quickly regained her mood and noticed Akimiya Yue's expression was quite serious.
"I feel very bad here, please be careful."
At Qiugongyue's level of strength, she can already feel the changes in the surrounding environment in detail.
The bottom of the deep cliff was filled with the scent of a beast that made her feel uncomfortable.
At this moment, a wolf howl suddenly came from the distance.
"Ouch!!"
Different from ordinary wolf howls, this wolf howl was full of momentum, profound and terrifying. It spread throughout the entire deep cliff in an instant, and it was impossible to even tell which direction it came from.
Along with the howling of wolves, a thick fog began to fill the bottom of the deep cliff, covering the entire deep cliff in a blink of an eye, and making the three of them lose their direction.
Dinah jumped up from the ground in fright and hurried to the side of her two sisters.
Qiu Gongyue couldn't tell where the wolf howling came from for a while, so she could only choose a direction based on intuition and lead the two of them away from this strange place.
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Deep underground cave.
Xu Cheng and Yin Fulin both looked up at the top of the cave, their eyes filled with excitement.
The top of the cave doesn't look like much at first glance, but if you look closely, you can see that the smoke rising from the hot water pool has been blown away.
This proves that there is wind at the top of the cave, and wind means communication with the outside world.
Over the past month, Xu Cheng has been looking for traces of the wind all the time.
Fortunately, both of them have the habit of taking baths, and fortunately he looked up at this time, otherwise who would have thought that the wind would reach the top of the cave.
Yin Fulin's eyes were red, she lowered her head and looked at Xu Cheng, and said in disbelief: "Can we really go out?"
Xu Cheng could understand Yin Fulin's excitement. In the past month, she had actually given up the idea of escaping, which was why she gave up on herself and her temperament changed drastically.
The sudden hope of escape at this moment was like a new life, as if a person who had been blind for many years could see the light again.
"Yes, we can get out."
Xu Cheng grabbed her hands and said seriously: "I have said before that we will definitely be able to leave this place."
Yin Fulin's red eyes finally shed tears. She hugged Xu Cheng excitedly and gave him a passionate kiss to celebrate this moment of rebirth for the two of them.
Finally finding the way to leave, the two of them didn't want to stay in this dark place for a second. They stopped taking a bath in the hot water and stopped eating the fish they had just caught. They quickly packed up and hit the road.
Xu Cheng held Yin Fulin in his arms, lit the flame with one hand, and climbed to the top of the cave, only to find that there was an inconspicuous crack here, and the slightest breeze blew from it.
The area of the crack was very small, barely enough for two people to pass through. In this extremely narrow place, claustrophobia made Yin Fulin stiffen up and hugged Xu Cheng tightly, as if she wanted to rub herself into his body.
After passing through the gap, the space behind is very wide, and the air can obviously feel much fresher.
Xu Cheng used flame illumination, chasing the direction of the wind, and rushed all the way in the darkness. The rugged cave environment could not stop him even half a step.
After dozens of minutes of running around, Xu Cheng crawled out of a crack and stopped.
He took a deep breath, then patted Yin Fulin's back with his hand: "Look."
Yin Fulin turned her head and looked forward, surprised: "Is this... road?"
What appeared in front of them was a road dug into the rock. There were still traces of the digging on the ground, which could not have been formed by nature.
Xu Cheng and Yin Fulin looked at each other and could see the surprise in each other's eyes.
In this deep underground cave in the snow-capped mountains, there is an artificial road. Is there any underground civilization hidden here?
Xu Cheng hugged Yin Fulin tightly, and then walked forward along the road. Occasionally, he could find some abandoned braziers on the road, and the fuel inside had long solidified into lumps.
The path continued upwards, and after walking about half a kilometer, a stone gate appeared on the side of the road.
Xu Cheng turned Yin Fulin from his arms to his back, walked up and pushed the door open easily.
Inside is a spacious stone room divided into five rooms.
Xu Cheng checked one by one. The five rooms were the kitchen, toilet, living room, bedroom, and finally the study.
There are several bookshelves made of iron in the study room, but they are already rusty and the books on the bookshelves are also extremely old and look very old.
Yin Fulin lay on Xu Cheng's back, reached for a book from the bookshelf, and found that it was a book about human anatomy, but it had nothing to do with modern medicine. The words in the book were written and full of Colloquial.
It's like someone copying it while reciting it, not a printed book on the market.
As a poor student, Xu Cheng was not interested in books and asked doubtfully: "What do you think this place is?"
Yin Fulin frowned slightly: "Maybe it has something to do with Ives. As far as I know, there are no traces of human activities in the snowy mountains in history. Only the patriarch of the Violet family has lived in seclusion in the snowy mountains for a long time. I thought it was successive generations of patriarchs. It was on a mission, but Ives wanted to take over my body, which made me waver in that view."
Regarding Ives' behavior, Xu Cheng and Yin Fulin had discussed it countless times when they had nothing to do underground.
Ives wants to take over Yin Fulin's body, become the new patriarch of the clan as her, and continue to survive.
The question is, is this his first time doing this, or has he done it many times.
If he was a repeat offender, it would really make people shudder. With so many clan leaders in Violet, who knows how many have been replaced by him.
After realizing that this place might be related to Ives, Xu Cheng and Yin Fulin began to search the study, trying to find something useful.
The books collected here are all related to biology and medicine, and they are all written by the same person, who was researching and compiling them at the same time.
Xu Cheng couldn't understand, but Yin Fulin dared to assert that if these books were exposed, they would definitely cause shock in the medical community. The people who compiled the books had amazing talents and achievements in medicine.
Finally, the two of them found a yellowed diary in a secret compartment on the wall of the study. The edges had decayed and fallen off, and it was very old.
The two of them came together and carefully opened the diary, which was at least hundreds of years old.
"I am a coward, a betrayer, a cowardly deserter."
"Please forgive me, my goddess. I repent day and night. I am heartbroken about my crime of running away. I only hope that you can judge me and erase my failed life and unforgivable sins."
"I have received no response from you in countless prayers day and night. Great Shadow Goddess, please send down an oracle to tell me that you are only ignoring me because of my defection, not because the most terrible thing happened."
"Has the Shadow Goddess really fallen? If even the gods will die, then the world will eventually perish. What is the meaning of all humans, all creatures, and all of this?"
After reading the first half of the diary, Xu Cheng and Yin Fulin were shocked.
Xu Cheng was especially surprised that this mysterious diary actually related to the fall of the Shadow Goddess.
The Shadow Goddess disappeared hundreds of years ago, and the deceased entered the age of Senate rule. She even succeeded in creating an artificial goddess, which indirectly benefited Xu Fu and completed the trinity of becoming a god.
But no one knows the whereabouts of the Shadow Goddess. Some say she is trapped somewhere, some say she has fallen, and some say she is not interested in the world and has returned to the secret realm of shadows to live in seclusion.
Regardless of the speculation, it is an indisputable fact that the Shadow Goddess has not appeared for hundreds of years.
The owner of this diary must be a believer of the Shadow Goddess and has a high status, because the diary vaguely mentions that the diary owner was ordered to follow the Shadow Goddess to defeat the enemy. During the battle, he escaped out of fear and ran to the snowy mountains to live in seclusion.
While in seclusion, the owner of the diary regretted his defection and kept repenting day and night, hoping that the Shadow Goddess would punish him.
However, his prayers did not receive an answer from the goddess. As time passed, he began to wonder, has the goddess fallen?
After discovering that the goddess may have died, her worldview was shattered and she began to doubt life.
