The firelight fell on Xiao Qiong's face, making his expression particularly gentle, and his eyes were focused on Gu Xingmian.

In this endless darkness, it seemed that they were the only ones left.

Gu Xingmian's heart began to beat irregularly.

At this moment, a slight movement came from Song Nanting, interrupting the two people's gaze.

Gu Xingmian came back to his senses and avoided his gaze with some embarrassment.

Song Nanting pressed his aching forehead and slowly opened his eyes, but found that it was pitch black in front of him, with only a faint firelight not far away, vaguely imprinting the faces of Xiao Qiong and Gu Xingmian.

Song Nanting remembered that after she fell into the crack in the ground, Xiao Qiong actually jumped down with her.

Although her head still hurt, it did not affect her thinking.

It would be a lie to say that she was not moved, but she also knew that with Xiao Qiong's personality, it was impossible for him to do such an irrational thing, unless...

She looked at Xiao Qiong and Gu Xingmian: "Xingmian, did you feel something?"

The question similar to the one in the dream made Gu Xingmian's heart skip a beat. She subconsciously looked at Xiao Qiong, but saw that his expression did not change at all. Instead, after noticing his panic, she realized something: "It's okay, it was just a dream."

Yes, it was just a dream.

Nothing happened in the dream.

Song Nanting noticed something: "What's wrong?"

Gu Xingmian shook his head.

Although he was able to separate reality from dreams under Xiao Qiong's comfort, he didn't want to recall the feeling of being betrayed by the person he trusted the most.

He changed the subject and said, "Xiao Qiong and I have already looked around here. There is no exit around. I wonder if the exit is above our heads?"

Song Nanting and Xiao Qiong looked up at the same time.

Xiao Qiong threw the auxiliary card toward the top of his head. During the flight, the auxiliary card turned into a ball of fire. However, the top of the cave was higher than they imagined. In addition, the mountain wall absorbed light, and the firelight could not see anything at all when it was far away. There

was no other way. They could only climb up and slowly explore using the previous method.

Song Nanting was still injured, and her agility was not as good as Xiao Qiong's, so this task could only be handed over to Xiao Qiong.

Xiao Qiong did not use auxiliary cards, but climbed up the mountain wall like a gecko in a few steps, and gradually disappeared into the darkness.

Gu Xingmian raised his head, and even though his eyes were sore, he could not see Xiao Qiong's figure in the foggy darkness.

Song Nanting summoned Amu.

Amu rubbed her obediently, and then walked to Gu Xingmian.

Gu Xingmian felt the fur at his hand, and when he came to his senses, he found that all the muscles in his body were tense.

Song Nanting took out a treatment card and treated himself while asking Gu Xingmian: "Xingmian, are you worried?"

Gu Xingmian pursed his lips: "Yeah, a little."

Song Nanting looked at Gu Xingmian with the faint light of the treatment card, and suddenly smiled: "I think there seems to be some changes between you..."

Gu Xingmian was a little guilty, and when he heard Song Nanting say this, his voice was a little stuttering: "No... No way!"

But he soon realized that his voice was a little loud. Although this mountain wall absorbs light, it doesn't seem to absorb sound much. He

was afraid that Xiao Qiong would hear him, so he could only whisper: "You must have misunderstood."

Song Nanting smiled: "Really?"

Gu Xingmian: "..."

He always felt that he seemed to be seen through. What should he do?

At this moment, Song Nanting's treatment was over, the light disappeared, and there was only darkness around.

Gu Xingmian was lucky because Song Nanting could not see his panicked expression in the darkness.

But the next second, a figure landed lightly beside them, and a cluster of firelight lit up. He and Xiao Qiong looked at each other across the firelight.

Xiao Qiong asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Song Nanting was about to speak, but Gu Xingmian immediately shouted, "No, nothing!" and quickly changed the subject, "What's the situation up there?"

Xiao Qiong looked at him again, and then said, "There seems to be a hole up there, but I didn't look closely. I'll go up and take a look later."

Gu Xingmian was a little puzzled. It was not like Xiao Qiong's character to give up halfway.

He immediately thought of something and asked worriedly, "Are you injured?"

Yes. How could he not be injured after jumping from such a high place? Xiao Qiong always liked to handle things by himself. Maybe he didn't tell him because he was afraid that he would worry.

Xiao Qiong showed a little embarrassment and said vaguely, "I'm fine."

Only Song Nanting beside him smiled meaningfully.

Gu Xingmian didn't know, but she heard it clearly. After he accidentally made a louder sound, Xiao Qiong had already come down from the cliff. It was obvious that he was worried about him.

With Xiao Qiong's assurance, Gu Xingmian finally believed that he was not injured.

Xiao Qiong was about to go up again, and Song Nanting also stood up: "I'll go with you."

Xiao Qiong thought of Song Nanting's extraordinary analytical ability, and nodded: "Follow me."

This cave was too dark. As long as the distance was a little further, it would be completely invisible. Song Nanting could only judge Xiao Qiong's position based on the sound.

Gu Xingmian watched the two people enter the darkness, and subconsciously hugged Amu's neck tightly.

The temperature of the dog made Gu Xingmian feel a little better. He touched Amu's head and was about to say something, but a sudden sense of crisis quickly invaded his heart.

He raised his head and said in a miserable voice: "Danger! Come back quickly!"

Xiao Qiong and Song Nanting just climbed to the entrance of the cave.

There seemed to be a faint light in the cave, but it was too far to see clearly. Only when you get closer can you see that it seems to be another space.

Xiao Qiong and Song Nanting were about to go in to take a look.

At this time, they heard Gu Xingmian's voice at the same time. Song Nanting was stunned for a moment, but the auxiliary card in Xiao Qiong's hand had already turned into a steel rope and rushed into the cave. A sound of piercing flesh came.

The next second, a face with a bloody mouth appeared at the entrance of the cave.

The mouth almost took up half of the face, and there was a big hole on the slippery tongue, which was just pierced by Xiao Qiong.

When he saw Xiao Qiong, he immediately rushed over fiercely.

Yu Xi...

It's an evil spirit!

Xiao Qiong leaned back, relying only on one hand and two feet to stick to the mountain wall, but with the other hand, he had already taken out the auxiliary card, and a ball of fire rushed into the mouth at lightning speed, and then the electric wire rope directly closed the mouth of the evil spirit.

There was a pair of tiny green bean eyes above the evil spirit's big mouth, but at this moment, they were almost bulging out.

The flames burned in the evil spirit's belly, and then exploded like a fireball.

Although it was only for a moment, the blazing flames were so bright that even the mountain wall that absorbed the light could not suppress it for a moment, allowing Xiao Qiong and the others to see that behind the cave, there were countless evil spirits about to drill out of this cave.

The flames went out, and a small piece of blood crystal fell to the ground.

At the same time, countless evil spirits rushed towards them.

Carlos and the others finally found a cliff, which was also full of ghosts. They could only sit on three flying God Cards and fall down.

This cliff was much deeper than they imagined. The further down they went, the darker the light became, as if the ghosts on the mountain wall were staring at them.

Everyone held auxiliary cards in their hands and did not dare to relax at all.

But to their surprise, they did not encounter any attacks until they reached the bottom of the cliff, and they did not even see the companion creatures of the Chigui.

In this case, either there is a way out under the cliff, or there is something more terrifying than the Chigui under the cliff.

Everyone swallowed their saliva quietly, but no one suggested retreating.

After an unknown amount of time, they could only vaguely see a ray of light above their heads before they finally landed on the ground.

The ground was covered with thick rotten leaves and was extremely quiet.

At this time, they heard a buzzing sound above their heads. They raised their heads and found that the flight camera had also followed them swayingly.

Carlos and the others were stunned for a moment, obviously they had not expected that after all these things, this flight camera still existed.

Mo Ye could not help but sigh: "I don't know which company produced this flight camera, but with this quality, this four-school league competition has been heavily advertised. After the competition is over, the orders will probably be overwhelming."

His words relaxed the originally tense atmosphere a lot.

Gugu shook the umbrella cover unconvinced, but thinking of Gu Xingmian, whose whereabouts are still unknown, he lowered the umbrella cover with some disappointment.

Fu Fenglin touched him gently: "Gugu, it's up to you from now on."

Hearing his words, Gugu quickly stood up again, sprayed out a few spores, and went in all directions.

However, the space under the cliff was larger than they imagined, but they didn't know if this was the same terrain that was controlled by the ghosts before, making them keep going in circles.

So they chose a direction to go.

Although it was very dark under the cliff, the light leaking from the top of the head was barely visible. Luisa found some materials and made a few simple torches, so there was no need to waste mental energy on lighting.

Several people held torches and walked in silence.

After walking for an unknown period of time, Carlos suddenly raised his hand and asked them to stop: "Did you hear any sound?"

Several people were a little puzzled, but then Fu Fenglin's face changed: "In front... it seems to be an evil spirit..."

Everyone's face changed, and they all stared at Fu Fenglin closely.

Fufeng Lin received the images from the spores: "So many evil spirits..."

Everyone: "!!!"

But soon, Fufeng Lin's face became strange: "Those evil spirits don't seem to be coming to our side..."

Everyone: "???"

They were frightened by this sudden shock and their heartbeats were unstable. Fufeng Lin said that those evil spirits were all heading in one direction and had no intention of paying attention to them.

"What's going on?!"

Fufeng Lin couldn't explain it either. In the end, everyone decided to secretly follow and see.

Their actions almost made the people who had been watching them outside the screen have a heart attack.

There are so many evil spirits, and they still have to follow and see, isn't this looking for death?

But they were really curious, so they continued to watch with this tangled mentality.

They walked lightly through a forest, and suddenly the view became clear.

Countless evil spirits of strange shapes appeared in front of them in an instant.

Even through the screen, the audience felt the chill, not to mention Carlos and his companions who were facing them directly.

Carlos had followed the mercenaries to kill evil spirits before, but most of the time, they only faced one or a few evil spirits. He had never seen so many evil spirits gathered together, even stacked up like a mountain of flesh.

Gwen and others who saw this scene also changed their faces.

Qin Ke murmured, "I have never seen such a situation, Ludwig, have you seen it..."

"Yeah." Gwen responded softly.

He had seen it.

This is what happened when the evil spirit army attacked the garrison base...

Baker was stunned: "How could this happen? How could there be so many evil spirits..."

Li Chengji, who came to help, thought of another question: "Chikui... It seems that they can't coexist with other evil spirits, right?"

So many strange things happened in this small map.

Gwen felt terrible and also felt that there seemed to be some kind of conspiracy.

At this moment, the weathered flight camera finally ran out of energy. The screen flashed and then turned black in an instant.

Everyone: "!!!"

Gwen stood up suddenly: "Speed ​​up and break the map. We must rescue the people!"

The evil spirits came one after another.

Fortunately, the entrance of the hole was not big, and not many evil spirits could squeeze out each time, so Xiao Qiong and Song Nanting could still deal with them.

They didn't care about damaging the mountain wall now, and whether they would be retaliated like the Chikui, the two of them fixed themselves on the mountain wall and caught all the evil spirits that poked their heads out.

The blood crystals fell with a clang.

Gu Xingmian looked up worriedly, but he couldn't see anything, so he could only worry.

But he couldn't wait to be protected.

Gu Xingmian took out the auxiliary card and stuffed it into his mouth.

Although Xiao Qiong and Song Nanting had tried very hard, there were too many evil spirits, and this place was dark and narrow, so there would always be fish that slipped through the net.

Gu Xingmian was almost choked by the energy of the auxiliary card, and suddenly heard Xiao Qiong's voice: "Be careful!"

He immediately felt a strong wind coming from the side, and he dodged subconsciously, but the docile Amu bit him fiercely.

Gu Xingmian quickly took out his dagger and stabbed down in the direction of the sound.

The slimy body of his subordinate disappeared in an instant, leaving only the blood crystal that hurt his palm.

Gu Xingmian took a breath, touched Amu with his clean hand, and then shouted to Xiao Qiong and the others: "I'm fine!" As soon as

he finished speaking, he felt something rushing towards him again.

Gu Xingmian cursed inwardly, and before he could dodge, he heard something else falling down.

My life is over!

He wanted to cry but at this moment, a water dragon roared down from above his head. However, the owner of the water dragon did not seem to have enough mental power to control him. The water dragon rushed over with a fierce momentum, but it had no back-up.

The evil spirits did not care and rushed towards Gu Xingmian again.

But the next second, the water dragon was like a soul injected by someone. The dragon head was raised high, the scales were lifelike, and it rushed forward with an unstoppable momentum. It collided with the evil spirits head-on and devoured them without mercy.

The clear dragon roar made the whole cave quiet for a moment, but soon, the evil spirits attacked more fiercely.

Gu Xingmian didn't care about the discomfort that was about to rush to his head. He desperately stuffed auxiliary cards into his mouth and cooperated with Xiao Qiong to kill the evil spirits that escaped.

But it seemed that those evil spirits could never be killed.

Five minutes...

ten minutes...

half an hour...

...

Xiao Qiong and Song Nanting's mental strength had long been overdrawn, but the two could only barely hold on. Otherwise, if they couldn't hold on any longer, what would Gu Xingmian and Amu do?

Unfortunately, no matter how strong the willpower is, it can't completely fight against the physiology.

Song Nanting no longer has a drop of mental strength. After being besieged by several evil spirits, he fell down with serious injuries.

Without her, all the pressure instantly fell on Xiao Qiong's shoulders, and he found that the evil spirits behind him were getting stronger and stronger. As one grew stronger, the other weakened. It was impossible for him to kill them as easily as before.

He didn't know when it would end, but he knew that he couldn't let these evil spirits go.

He had more and more wounds on his body, but his eyes were getting brighter and brighter.

If an outsider could see it, he would be shocked to find that his mental power was not wasted at all, and every point was accurately hit on the fatal point of the evil spirit.

But he was a human, not a god, and he still missed an evil spirit. But in his current state, he couldn't even use one more skill for Gu Xingmian.

Under the cave, Amu dragged Song Nanting's body to hide in the corner, while Gu Xingmian stood guard in front of them with a vigilant look on his face.

Cold sweat ran down the corner of his forehead, but it was not because of fear, but pain.

Maybe he took too many supplementary calories, his internal organs felt like they were being twisted, and the pain even extended to his head, as if a hammer was hitting it hard.

This pain made him see stars and he wanted to faint immediately, but he bit his lower lip tightly, telling himself not to faint.

At this time, a fishy wind blew in his face.

Gu Xingmian stabbed forward instinctively, but the dagger seemed to hit something extremely hard, not only did he not hurt the opponent, but he was knocked over.

Gu Xingmian's body hit the mountain wall, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Spots of blood sprinkled on the blood crystals on the ground.

Gu Xingmian stood up with difficulty, and his body, which was already in great pain, seemed to be torn apart.

He couldn't even control his limbs, and could only feel the evil spirit rushing towards him.

The distance was so close that he could even break through the darkness and see the evil spirit's sharp fangs and the countless vine-like tentacles extending from his body.

But at this moment, a furry thing blocked his way.

It was Amu!

The usually gentle dog bit the evil spirit's head with bared teeth, but his body was pierced fiercely by the evil spirit's tentacles, and warm blood splashed on Gu Xingmian's body.

The evil spirit screamed madly and threw Ah Mu against the cliff.

A crisp bone cracking sound was heard, and Ah Mu fell to the ground like a lifeless plush toy.

The evil spirit had half of his head bitten off by him, but he was not dead. He roared and approached Gu Xingmian. Countless vines shot out from his body, as if they were going to pierce into Gu Xingmian's body like they did to Ah Mu.

But at that moment, the familiar empathy appeared again.

Even if he couldn't see it, the sound was enough for him to judge.

He was like an extremely sophisticated instrument, ruthlessly harvesting the life of the evil spirit in front of him.

Until the evil spirit turned into a blood crystal, Gu Xingmian could no longer hold on and half-knelt on the ground, blood dripping from the corners of his mouth and falling on the blood crystals all over the ground.

At this time, another evil spirit attacked.

Gu Xingmian's brain quickly judged his actions and the route of his counterattack, but his body could no longer do it.

Even when he tried to support himself to stand up, his trembling legs could not complete the task.

The impending chill of death reminded him of the dream he had not long ago.

It really came true... Before

he could show his bitter smile, he saw a figure blocking in front of him, and the claws of the evil spirit pierced into his abdomen, but the next second, it turned into a blood crystal.

"Xiao Qiong!"

Gu Xingmian supported his body and hurriedly supported Xiao Qiong.

Soon, he heard the sound of something falling to the ground. Without Xiao Qiong blocking the hole on his head, the evil spirits could not wait to rush in.

Xiao Qiong swallowed the blood in his throat, but still stood up to protect Gu Xingmian behind him.

He knew that he might not survive.

No matter when he was almost starved to death in his childhood, or when he almost had his intestines knocked out in a fight with someone in Quilmo City, he never thought that he would die.

But at this moment, his terrible fighting intuition told him that he would really die this time.

However, when he felt the impending death, he did not feel afraid, but unusually calm.

Countless scenes flashed through his mind, including the auxiliary cards that Grove irresponsibly threw at him, Eric's messy tattoos, Fu Fenglin's awkward and arrogant personality... and the burning village in the memory fragments, the gentle and firm woman, the man who protected them...

In the end, all of this disappeared, leaving only Gu Xingmian's figure.

Xiao Qiong has always lived for himself and never thought that his life would change for another person.

But if that person is Gu Xingmian.

Then he would be happy and never regret it until his death.

Gu Xingmian clasped Xiao Qiong's hand tightly. He had never felt so powerless and desperate at such a moment.

Isn't he a UR card? ! !

Shouldn't he be the strongest God Card? ! !

Why couldn't he protect even the most important people!!

God——!!

Just when the evil spirit was about to pounce on him, the originally peaceful cave suddenly blew up.

The blood crystals stained with Gu Xingmian's blood suddenly vibrated.

For a moment, the originally dark and gloomy cave seemed to be shining brightly, and countless star patterns appeared on the mountain wall. The power in the blood crystals continued to be poured into those star patterns, like constellations twinkling in the night sky. It

was faintly resonating with something.

Gu Xingmian came to the starry sky again.

This time, he saw what the starry sky really looked like.

The bright stars gradually awakened.

Like diamonds, like bright moons, like the Milky Way.

They were shining brightly, illuminating the night like day.

In the silence, Gu Xingmian opened his eyes.

Everything in front of him seemed to be restored to its truest form in his eyes.

Whether it was the evil spirit or Ah Mu, chaotic and complex star patterns appeared on their bodies, like nebulae.