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Qu Ling suddenly raised his head and asked: "Did you all hear anything?"

"Yes, behind us, a woman's scream." The one who replied was Murong Shan.

Pausing for a moment, Murong Shan's expression suddenly became odd, "Could it be that someone followed us in and used a hand to pull the strange person?"

Qu Ling frowned, and did not say a word.

For some reason, she felt that the voice was somewhat familiar.

But maybe it was the screams, not the voices, and for a moment she couldn't remember who it was.

Xiao Jingyue turned his head and looked at the Xiao Er and Xiao San who were holding illumination tools as they looked around the stone wall, asking, "Did you find anything?"

Xiao Er shook his head and said, "No."

Xiao San walked back to Xiao Jingyue and answered: "The stone wall has a mechanism that has been destroyed. There should be a 'road' in this place. Unfortunately, that mechanism was heavily damaged and we are unable to repair it based on the situation. We can continue to look around to see if there are any other mechanisms. "

Xiao Jingyue gently nodded and said, "Continue."

After she finished speaking, she held Qu Ling's hand and brought her along to search for him.

Seeing that, Murong Shan could only follow and do nothing.

An hour passed, but he gained nothing.

The group had to turn back the way they came and find another way.

As he walked back, Murong Shan didn't know what was wrong, and continuously used the sword in his hand to knock on the stone wall.

Qu Ling turned his head and stared at her impatiently, "Can you calm down... "Be careful!"

"Huh?" Murong Shan looked at Qu Ling with a blank expression.

Qu Ling flung Xiao Jingyue's hand away, and was about to run back and pull her away, but she was already far away, and did not know how to light her up, so how could she make it in time?

It was unknown what Murong Shan's sword struck, but suddenly, her feet touched the ground and her entire body started to fall.

In that moment of life and death, Xiao San, who was closest to Murong Shan, quickly grabbed her wrist.

Before Qu Ling could heave a sigh of relief, he saw Xiao San suddenly lean forward and actually was pulled down by Murong Shan.

Xiao Jingyue's face congealed, as he helplessly watched the two men fall, but he did not move an inch.

The Xiao Er standing in the middle also reacted very quickly, almost at the same moment Qu Ling shouted "Be careful", he immediately turned around.

But he was still quite a distance away from Xiao San, and in the shortest amount of time possible, he had pounced over, and only managed to grab onto Xiao San's leg.

In the next moment, the stone tablets on both sides of the hole began to close in on the center.

At this point, Xiao San's body had already fallen in by more than half, if he wanted to avoid the stone cave entrance, he would have to either shrink his leg down, or the Xiao Er would be able to pull him up.

But pulling him up was almost impossible, much less pulling Murong Shan.

Xiao Jingyue suddenly bellowed: "Xiao Er!"

If she insisted on holding onto Xiao San, the final result would be that she would not be able to pull him up and even allow the stone slab to clamp onto his leg.

If that was the case, he might as well just let Xiao San fall.

Xiao Er immediately decided to let go of Xiao San's hand that was grabbing his leg.

The moment the stone board struck his leg, Xiao San unhesitatingly pulled his leg back.

The stone tablet was completely shut, but in the blink of an eye, Xiao San and Murong Shan disappeared from the three people, and the long passage became quiet once again.

Qu Ling immediately pulled Xiao Jingyue and ran over.

Afraid that the hole would open a second time, she didn't dare to get too close. According to what she had seen just now, she stopped at the edge of the cave.

Staring at the closed stone tablets on the ground for a moment, Qu Ling asked in distress: "Will they be okay?"

He had only walked for a short period of time, yet he had already broken off two people. Who knew what would happen if he continued walking deeper.

Xiao Jingyue held her hand tightly and reminded her: "Green Snake."

Qu Ling then thought of this matter and immediately took Green Snake out. "Darling, tell mom, are those two still under our feet?"

Hearing Qu Ling's "mother", Xiao Jingyue's face twitched.

Green Snake opened his green eyes widely and flicked his tongue at Qu Ling.

Qu Ling's expression turned bitter, "He's still here."

If he moved, it would prove that he wasn't dead. However, he didn't move. Who knew what would happen?

Xiao Er sized up the groove left behind by Murong Shan. "The mechanism is one-time, it's already broken."

In other words, they could only continue on their way back.

When the three of them returned to the place where they met the man earlier, Qu Ling immediately went to find him.

Unexpectedly, this look scared him to the point of having angina pectoris.

Xiao Jingyue was able to sense that there was something wrong with her, and immediately grabbed her hand to help her circulate her Qi, and at the same time looked towards the man who was seated earlier.

At this moment, there were no longer any survivors in that position.

What appeared in front of them was a terrifying skeleton.

After Qu Ling recovered from his shock, he took out a blue scorpion from his bosom and gently placed it on the ground.

Just now, when she was talking to this man, the Jade Scorpion in her arms suddenly appeared strange. The alarm in her heart rang out, and she immediately pulled away from him.

But now, when she put the Jade Scorpion back in place, it was quiet and peaceful, with nothing happening at all.

In this way, it could only be explained as: This man originally had a "thing" inside him, but now that the "thing" was gone, it became a skeleton.

Xiao Er walked to the side of the man, took out his sword and pierced through the clothes on the skeleton's jacket, then used his strength to poke at the side.

The skeleton left its original position and fell to the ground, breaking into pieces and revealing a lighter stone slab that had been hidden underneath.

Xiao Er used his sword to pry open the stone slab, and a hole the size of a person immediately appeared in front of his eyes.

Looking at the cave entrance, Qu Ling was not only not happy at all, he was even more worried.

This hole that the man had blocked, perhaps Eighth Prince did not realize at all, that Eighth Prince should not be below.

Right now, they had three choices.

The first was to try and go down from here and find Xiao San and Murong Shan who had just fallen into the cave.

Second, turn around and walk back to the fork in the road. Choose another time and take the more dangerous left path to look for the Eighth Prince.

Third, try to return to the starting point and see if you can leave.

Third, there was little to consider, since there were no reinforcements available outside.

As for the first two points … Logically, they should go find Eighth Prince first. After all, if something were to happen to Eighth Prince here, none of them would be able to take responsibility. But on the surface, they were more inclined to look for Xiao San and Murong Shan first.

One was the Dark Guard that had accompanied Xiao Jingyue for many years, one was the younger sister of Xiao Jingyue's close friend, and the other was the elder sister of her good friend.

Qu Ling could not help but say: "If I knew this would happen, we would have gone to the left."

However, Xiao Jingyue said: "If the left side was indeed in danger, the situation might not be better than right now. Look at those stone spikes over there, there are traces of blood on them, it looks like they have just dyed them not long ago, proof that Eighth Prince and the rest have indeed walked this way. The mechanism that Xiao San found earlier, might have been broken by them. "

Qu Ling asked: "Then what should we do now?"

Xiao Jingyue said calmly: "Go to the left."

Without need for Xiao Jingyue's orders, Xiao Er covered the cave entrance with a stone tablet, then took the skeleton back, and covered the stone tablet with the clothes.

Afterward, the three of them passed through the passage with the stone spikes and returned to the third intersection.

In order to prevent a hole from appearing under their feet, the three maintained a close distance. Not only did they avoid the situation where two people fell at the same time, but they also wouldn't lose track of the other two people just because they fell.

This section of the road was very peaceful, unlike the dangerous situation of the stone spikes that appeared a few meters away on the other side.

Xiao Jingyue's footsteps suddenly stopped.

Then, the Xiao Er who was walking at the back stopped as well, and said with a frown: "There's someone up ahead!"