Chapter 221 223 Underground Lake
Cui Lie had long known that Rong Xianxian carried space equipment with her. When he traveled with Rong Xianxian, he brought nothing with him except his own weapons.
However, when Cui Lie saw the rappelling rope that Rong Xianxian took out, he was still a little surprised.
"Sister Rong, you even have a rappelling rope!"
"Isn't this a must-have item for survival in the wild? It can be used for rock climbing, rappelling, or crossing ditches and bumps." Rong Xianxian said in a natural tone.
Cui Lie thought to himself, what you said is true. If I carry a backpack, I must bring a rope as well. But you have always lived in a hotbed in the city, how can you have experience in surviving in the wild? And although your rappelling posture is not professional, it is very smooth.
The two of them made preparations and began to descend quickly. Although it was called descent quickly, it was actually not fast because some places in the crevices were very narrow.
"What do you think is usually underneath a place like this?" Rong Xianxian asked Cui Lie in a low voice while shining a flashlight downward.
"It depends on the depth. If it's deep enough, there's usually an underground river or a small underground lake underneath," said Cui Lie.
"If there really is an ice crystal tree here, it should be growing near a water source." Rong Xianxian guessed.
When Rong Xianxian and the others had descended about ten meters, they had not yet reached the bottom. The rock wall here was very narrow, with sharp protrusions on both sides, which were jagged and uneven. Two people protected the child in front of them and carefully passed through this area.
"Crack, crack." A rustling sound came from above my head, intermittent, sometimes near, sometimes far away.
"What's that sound?" Rong Xianxian tilted her ear to listen.
“I didn’t hear any sound!” Cui Lie said puzzledly.
Rong Xianxian and Cui Lie were stuck at the most dangerous part of the rock wall at the moment. It was unknown what the two walls were made of, and the protruding stones were hard and sharp, as if two irregular nail boards were surrounding the two of them.
"Mom, I heard a cry. It's right down there." Xuanxuan said as she opened the lid of the small backpack.
Rong Xianxian came back to her senses, put aside her doubts, asked Xuanxuan to close the lid of the small backpack, and continued to descend with Cui Lie.
Rong Xianxian and Cui Lie passed through the narrow area, and the space below suddenly opened up. The rock walls on both sides became smoother and steeper, and the distance between the two rock walls became wider and wider. Rong Xianxian took a high-intensity flashlight and shone it downwards, and found that the crack, which was five meters long and about thirty centimeters wide on average, had somehow turned into a dark abyss of unknown depth.
Originally, although the two of them were tied with rappelling ropes, they still walked down the rock wall bit by bit. Now, the rock wall was slippery and there was no place for their feet to gain leverage. The two of them were suspended in mid-air, with their weight supported by the rappelling rope above their heads. At this moment, Rong Xianxian remembered the rustling sound she had just heard, and her heart tightened. At this moment, Rong Xianxian felt her body tilted, and she grabbed Cui Lie's arm next to her.
"What's wrong?" Cui Lie felt Rong Xianxian's nervousness and his heart started to tighten as well.
"The rope, there's something wrong with the rope." Rong Xianxian felt that the rope seemed to have been bitten in half by something.
"Ah!" Before Cui Lie could say anything, Rong Xianxian let out a short scream, her body lightened, and she fell rapidly.
Cui Lie grabbed Rong Xianxian's wrist with his backhand and pulled her hard, "Sister Rong, hold on to me."
Rong Xianxian held the small backpack tightly in her arms with her other hand. Looking at the broken rope, she felt uneasy. With Cui Lie's arm strength, it would not be difficult for him to catch her. However, since her rope was broken, Cui Lie's rope was not safe either.
"Bang" Cui Lie's body tilted, and Rong Xianxian swayed with it. Sure enough, the rope was about to break.
Rong Xianxian gritted her teeth, untied the small backpack containing Xuanxuan on her chest, and pushed it towards Cui Lie, "Ah Lie, catch Xuanxuan."
Cui Lie protected Xiao Luo in his arms with one hand and caught Xuan Xuan with the other. Rong Xianxian's previous action accelerated the speed of the rope breaking. In order to reduce the weight of the rope, Rong Xianxian let go of Cui Lie's hand.
There was a whistling sound of wind in her ears, and Rong Xianxian fell rapidly like a kite with a broken string.
"Mom." Xuanxuan's cry with a tearing sound echoed in the space under the crack.
While using the moves in the "Wind Control Method" to cushion the downward trend, Rong Xianxian calmly took out a black bead from the sachet space, communicated with the spiritual energy in her body, fumbled to turn on the switch, and "bang" the black bead bounced off, forming a flying carpet. Rong Xianxian controlled the flying carpet to float in the air.
"Ah" Xuanxuan screamed, and saw that the rope used by Cui Lie also broke. Cui Lie, Xiao Luo and Xuanxuan fell down together. Rong Xianxian adjusted the flying carpet to the maximum mode and flew over to catch them.
Cui Lie held the small backpack tightly in his arms with one hand and held Xuanxuan with the other arm. The small backpack that Xuanxuan had just been in had been thrown away somewhere. Xiao Luo carefully stretched his head out of the small backpack in front of Cui Lie.
"Sister, are you okay?" Xiao Luo asked worriedly after hearing Xuanxuan's scream.
Aoao flew over from somewhere and was now circling around Xuanxuan.
Xuanxuan covered her chest, her face still pale, her eyes red, and two crystal tears hanging on her long eyelashes. She arched her head into Rong Xianxian's arms and said a little embarrassedly, "I'm fine."
The clear chirping sound of birds echoed in the crack space.
"Sister Rong, are you okay?" Cui Lie keenly noticed that Rong Xianxian's face was pale.
"It's okay, don't worry." Rong Xianxian's heart had been in her throat since she free fell, and it wasn't until she calmly adjusted the flying carpet and accurately caught the three of them that her heart settled back into her stomach, which was now beating non-stop.
Even though she had practiced the use of the flying carpet countless times before, Rong Xianxian couldn't help but be nervous. After all, this was related to the personal safety of her two children.
From the time the rappelling rope broke and they fell freely to the time Rong Xianxian caught them with a flying carpet, only a few seconds had passed, but they had already descended a long distance.
Rong Xianxian took out a high-intensity flashlight and scanned the area up and down, left and right, front and back. Below her was a sparkling underground lake, surrounded by slippery and sticky rock walls covered with green moss.
If there hadn't been a flying carpet, they would have plunged into the lake right now.
As they descended, they had gradually adapted to the faint light in the crack. Rong Xianxian looked carefully at the space from front to back, left to right.
This space is in the shape of an irregular cone. The underground lake is the bottom of the cone. It becomes narrower as you go up. The water in the lake is clear and deep, and the surface is calm. Around the lake there are only very smooth stone walls eroded by the water, and there are no ice crystal trees at all.
(End of this chapter)
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