"Great! Finally saved."
A flash of joy flashed through my heart.
At the same time, I also felt a huge water pressure, pressing on my body from all directions.
Obviously, the outlet of this underground river connecting to the Chuanjiang River is probably in a relatively deep location.
I paddled my limbs desperately and tried to float to the surface.
Although we followed the rapids of the underground river and rushed into the Sichuan River from the mountain rock formations, there was still a certain danger as long as we didn't get ashore!
Keep going upstream...
Although in the river late at night, even if you open your eyes, you can't see anything. But I can feel that the water pressure around me is getting smaller and smaller, and my compressed lungs are slowly recovering.
This means that I am getting closer to the water!
finally……
Wow!
With the sound of water, my head popped up from the river.
The river breeze blew across my face, and I felt like I had been reborn. He opened his mouth and took in big gulps of air.
Huchi, wheeze...
After taking deep breaths for at least half a minute, I felt that my whole body was back to normal. There was just a dull pain in my lungs and chest.
I looked around, trying to find traces of Lao Cao and Xiao Yuan in the dark and fast river.
"Lao Cao! Xiao Yuan! Where are you two? Have you surfaced?"
However, no response was received.
The only sounds in my ears are the sound of the rushing river water and the blowing wind...
My heart tightened.
"Did they fail to float up smoothly? But the underground river is so big and there is no other exit. We must have entered the Chuanjiang River at the same location when we were rushed out."
I'm now worried that after all, Lao Cao and Xiao Yuan's lung capacity is not as good as mine, and they won't be able to hold their breath for such a long time.
Even I felt very uncomfortable just now. If they hold their breath for too long and are unconscious and semi-conscious when they are rushed into the Sichuan River, it will be dangerous!
"No! I have to go down and take a look."
Ignoring that my strength had not fully recovered, I took a deep breath and dived underwater again.
This time, I had time to prepare, and the water flow under the river surface was far less rapid than in the underground river, and the water quality was relatively clear. When I focus my Qi on my eyes, I can roughly see the scene not far away around me.
"The outlet of the underground river should be at that location..."
Relying on the memory I had just now, I swam in the direction where I was rushed out.
really!
Still some distance away, you can see the turbidity in the deeper part of the river below. From a distance, a large area shows a light earthy color - this is caused by the underground hot spring water containing sulfur in the mountain rock formations rushing into the river.
I didn't dare to get close to the turbid water. I swam around and found nothing.
"The three of us were rushed out together, so Lao Cao and Xiao Yuan should be nearby, right? Don't be swept away by the river."
I became more and more anxious.
This time it was almost time to hold my breath, so I planned to return to the surface to breathe.
But the moment I raised my head and prepared to swim upstream, a pale human face suddenly appeared in front of me without any warning! ! !
It's a man's face.
A sunken corpse floating above me!
He...or to be more precise, he had been in the water for who knows how long, so his face turned pale. But since it had obviously turned into a ghost, there was no swelling. It's just that the skin shows a weird kind of fine wrinkles.
The most disturbing thing is that the corners of this ghost's mouth are raised upwards, showing a weird and scary smile! His cold eyes stared straight at me.
This is a sinking corpse that wants to harm a living person!
If an ordinary person saw this scene while diving, he would probably be scared to death without even having to do anything about it.
But when I saw this scene, there was only endless anger in my heart!
"What the fuck! I encountered a lot of frustrating things tonight, but now that Lao Cao and Xiao Yuan are still missing, I feel really angry in my heart. Are you, like a corpse, coming here to cause trouble?" You think I consume a lot of energy, so you want to take advantage of it, right?"
I immediately took out the sword from my waist, and regardless of the objective fact that it had been consumed a lot, I poured a burst of Qi into it and stabbed the male corpse fiercely!
Pfft...
The magic knife pierced directly into the corpse's forehead, and the masculine energy was instantly stirred into its brain and torso. Almost instantly, the sinister smile and cold eyes on its face disappeared and became empty.
I pulled back and pulled out the sword.
It floated downstream along the river just like a real, ordinary, harmless corpse.
That's right, this corpse was destroyed by me and became a real corpse!
But I also drew the sword out of anger, which made me feel a little tired even though I was already very exhausted. Not only is there not much energy left in the Dantian, but the muscles are also a little sore.
More importantly, my lungs and chest, which had already been holding my breath for a long time, were even more uncomfortable. You must surface quickly to breathe air, otherwise you may choke on the water...
It's actually quite dangerous.
But at this critical moment, I never expected that several sunken corpses would float out from the dark and deep water next to them. Although their bodies and limbs were stiff and motionless like wood, their speed was as fast as the water. The same as the fish in it!
In the blink of an eye, they were in front of me, surrounding me from top to bottom, left and right.
There are men and women.
The hair that floats like black waterweed, the pale skin, and the cold eyes are like a nightmare.
"Holy crap! Isn't it? Why are there so many dead bodies all of a sudden..."
My heart tightened.
Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't be worried about these zombies in the water. After all, they don't look particularly powerful.
But the problem is, a series of events tonight have made me exhausted. He also performed a magic sword attack just now.
Not to mention that I can hardly hold my breath in the water!
Even without these damn things, I would be dead if I didn't surface.
"Get out of my way!"
I was roaring in my heart and wanted to swing the sword in my hand, but it felt like it weighed a thousand pounds. I can't lift it at all! Not even Qi can be poured into it.
Knowing that I might no longer be able to control this powerful magic weapon, I could only swim sideways - trying to swim out of the encirclement through the gaps between the sunken corpses.
But this really doesn't work...
Because when I passed by these dead bodies, two pale, hard and cold hands suddenly grabbed my arm!
A man and a woman, two dead bodies, stretched out their pale hands and took my arm. It was like an iron clamp restricting me, preventing me from going upstream.
"open!"
I felt angry, and the last remaining bit of energy surged out of my Dantian, and then burst out from my arms.
There was a weird and terrifying scream of pain in my ears, and the two corpses immediately let go of my arms. I can see that their pale palms are so burned that they are breaking like ashes...
But they didn't flinch, but stretched out their other hand towards me.
"Damn it! If it were in a normal state, it would be easy for me to eliminate this level of corpses. It would only take a little effort. But now they are in such a mess."
Not only that, the other three sunken corpses also stretched out their white arms and pinched my neck!
These ghosts really want to leave me in the river and kill me.
For zombies, if they have the opportunity to kill a practitioner, the power they gain is far greater than killing an ordinary person!
However, under normal circumstances, Zixu does not dare to attack practitioners who are more powerful than him. But maybe tonight, they sensed my weakness...
It's really like a tiger being bullied by a dog!
I felt a pair of hands exuding a ghostly aura grabbing my throat.
Cold, hard, evil.
I had already reached the limit of holding my breath, and now I couldn't hold on anymore... I didn't even have a chance to "choke the water". I waved my limbs desperately, trying to fight back.
But it's of no use!
I'm almost exhausted, and I can't even deal with this kind of "little corpse" that I usually don't look down on...
"Is this really a capsize in the gutter? Or is this my third calamity? It shouldn't be such a trap. Killed by such a weak corpse..."
I feel like my consciousness has become slightly trance-like.
His head tilted to one side involuntarily.
Then I saw a rope shooting out like a snake swimming fast in the water!
I stirred and whipped me directly in the water, and the banging water exploded, knocking all the corpses that were choking my neck and pulling my arms into the water and floating backwards.
Then the rope rolled down and wrapped around my waist. I felt a strong force pulling me towards the back quickly...
Then it just kept going up, toward the water.
Wow!
Huchi, wheeze...
As soon as I surfaced, I took deep, frantic breaths. My eyes were filled with stars, my vision was blurred, and I couldn't see anything. He just seemed to be trying to suck all the air into his lungs to relax himself.
I took a deep breath for at least half a minute before I regained my composure.
Then, he saw Lao Cao, who also had his head exposed next to him.
"Xiao Wu, it's so dangerous! If I hadn't arrived in time just now, you would have been in a very dangerous situation today."
Cough cough cough…
I coughed a few times and wiped some water on my face.
"Where are those buried corpses?"
"After I pushed you to the surface just now, I went down and killed them all. How dare these damn corpses fall into the water and still want to take advantage of them? If they dare to attack the monks, they will be destroyed forever!"
Lao Cao said, a trace of anger flashed across his face.
I smiled helplessly.
"I was too trusting...Old Cao, you saved my life again. Thank you very much."
He waved his hand and said.
"Our relationship, you're welcome. Think about it, when we entered the underground river from the cave covered with corpse moss in the back of your school, without Xiao Wu's [Water Refuge Talisman], I would have been doomed by then."
"Then you came to the back mountain to help me..."
"Hehe, our relationship has long been entangled in cause and effect. Why do we need to divide it so finely?"
I laughed too.
"That's right. By the way, where is Xiao Yuan's big fat bird? Lao Cao, did you see it? We rushed out of the underground river just now. I didn't see you two, so I was a little worried. So I dived into the water again to look for it. It’s yours.”
Lao Cao shook his head and said he didn't see Xiao Yuan either.
It's just that Madoka is the mysterious Jade Claw Kai Dongqing. Since this underground river does lead to Chuanjiang, she can be saved. Then it is unlikely that something unexpected will happen...
