Cheng Leikai is Zou Zhiqing's team member, so this task is naturally hers to do. Moreover, she is still standing here in good health, so there is no need to worry about her soul being injured and her physical body being injured as well.

As Zou Zhiqing approached him, Cheng Leikai remained standing still. Only when she was almost upon him did he extend a hand, reminding her, "Sister Zou, be gentle, lest you get hurt too badly later."

Zou Zhi gave a soft hum and used her weapon to slash Cheng Leikai's hand. She felt the pain in her hand almost the instant she withdrew the knife. The person in front of her was her true teammate, and the wariness in her eyes was replaced by relief.

"Is there any way for you to go back into your body?"

Upon hearing Zou Zhiqing's question, Wen Zuo and the others lowered their guard and then couldn't help but become tense. After all, Cheng Leikai was different from Liu Dongcheng. Liu Dongcheng was captured by Yun Chen halfway, but Cheng Leikai had fallen into a deep sleep from the beginning. Only he himself knew what had happened.

Cheng Leikai shook his head helplessly, "I'm not quite sure either. It was all by chance that I was able to come back this time. Everyone else was taken away by the natives."

Wen Zuo immediately looked at him nervously, "You ran into Shu Wan?"

"We ran into each other, but we only met once at the very beginning, and then she left on her own."

"What exactly happened over there? Where did you go?"

Faced with Zou Zhiqing's question, Cheng Leikai hesitated for a moment before answering in a low voice: "We don't know where we went either, but I think the natives deliberately led us there. They wanted to collect the Dark Source through us. We didn't agree because we didn't know their real purpose, and then we were captured. Although we didn't see anyone else, they should have been captured as well."

Wen Zuo's heart jumped again. "Then how did you escape?"

When this question was raised, Cheng Leikai's face immediately showed a helpless expression. He scratched the back of his head and said embarrassedly, "It's not exactly that I escaped on my own. They locked me in a water dungeon, and I thought that since they wanted our help, they wouldn't hurt us. So I carelessly overlooked the situation in the water dungeon. I was sucked out by a whirlpool that suddenly appeared."

"After you came out, you followed your senses and found us?"

"Sister Zou, you're so smart!"

"Nonsense, how could I not be smart?!" Zou Zhiqing slapped Cheng Leikai hard, then noticed his face stiffen and quickly withdrew his hand. "Sorry, sorry, I forgot you're a bit vulnerable right now."

Cheng Leikai breathed a sigh of relief and raised his hand to rub the spot where Zou Zhiqing had patted him. "It's okay, but Sister Zou, you must remember not to touch me casually. I'm very fragile now."

"...Understood, fragile item!"

Cheng Leikai's sudden return livened up the atmosphere in the team a bit. Although they didn't know how the others were doing, at least one of them had returned safely, and they learned from him that the others were not in danger for the time being, which was enough.

Wen Zuo squeezed Mo Shuwan's fingers, looked at Cheng Leikai who was following Zou Zhiqing, and after a moment of silence, suddenly asked, "You just said that those natives need you to collect the Dark Source. What is the Dark Source?"

"I almost forgot about this!" Cheng Leikai slapped his forehead, then took out a black crystal and said, "The source of darkness is this kind of black crystal. I don't know the specifics, but the natives seem to urgently need our help to collect these crystals."

After saying that, he suddenly stopped in his tracks. "I've thought of a way to rescue them."

"What method?"

“They want these black crystals, right? Let’s collect more and then use the collected black crystals to exchange for them.” After Cheng Leikai finished speaking, he didn’t forget to ask for everyone’s opinion.

As his team leader, Zou Zhiqing immediately agreed after considering the feasibility of the matter.

After hesitating for a moment, Wen Zuo and the others nodded in agreement to the proposal.

To collect the black crystals, they had to actively seek out and fight dark creatures. They couldn't risk their lives carrying their teammates, so they had no choice but to find a place to stop and go out in groups to hunt dark creatures and collect the black crystals.

At Wen Zuo's insistence, they were the last team to set off to hunt the dark creatures, and those who remained within the protection zone were also responsible for protecting Zheng Shanhe and the others.

"Wen Zuo, do you really believe that we can get our captain and the others back by collecting the black crystals?"

Wen Zuo shook his head. "Whether we believe it or not, others do. If they believe it, we can't possibly stop collecting crystals and continue on our way."

Chen Jiaxu looked at Liu Dongcheng, but seeing his indifferent expression, he immediately gave up the idea of ​​talking to him. Thinking of the excitement on Zou Zhiqing and the others' faces just now, he couldn't help but sigh.

In the current situation, if they were to separate, something bad would definitely happen, so if Zou Zhiqing and the others wanted to stay, they had no choice but to stay as well.

"Hey, did you notice anything strange just now?"

Yun Chen, who was squatting next to Chen Jiaxu and childishly drawing circles with his finger, moved two steps to the side to make sure that Chen Jiaxu could not poke him with his finger again, and continued to draw circles on the ground.

Chen Jiaxu, who had been constantly criticized since they met, was on the verge of tears. "What is it about me that you don't like?"

He thought Yun Chen wouldn't answer, but to his surprise, as soon as he heard the question, Yun Chen looked up and sized him up, and said in a deep voice, "It's mainly because you're too weak. How could there be someone as weak as you among my companions? You shouldn't be my companion. Sigh, Father, you're really kind of you to take in such a weak guy."

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