The sound was so soft that Yan Qing would have thought it was made by a very small object.
But reality left her no room for doubt; her eyes saw it for real: at the bottom of the enormous artificial lake, a long white shadow was spiraling upwards.
The solid ice that had remained frozen for so long seemed to be an extension of its body. As the white shadow rose, the ice melted rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Such a bizarre phenomenon was something she would never have believed if she hadn't witnessed it with her own eyes.
"Oh no! Quick, we have to go down and rescue them!"
As the white figure drew ever closer to the lake's surface, Yue Qi grew increasingly anxious. There were still three people on the ground!
Yan Qing didn't care whether she would disturb the white figure, and ran downstairs as fast as she could.
"Go save Wen Jiajia first. That girl is a bit strange. She might have some weird life-saving items on her!" Yue Qi instructed her as he ran, while he himself ran towards Mu Xiao, who was closest to him.
When Yan Qing arrived at Wen Jiajia's side, that brat was still dreaming.
"They're all mine, nobody can take them from me!" Well, they're still trying to steal them.
She didn't hold back; after all, it wasn't the first time. She stepped forward and slapped Wen Jiajia twice across the face, holding nothing back. Wen Jiajia's face quickly turned as red as a monkey's bottom.
However, the effect was remarkable; Wen Jiajia woke up instantly.
"It's you again!!! You hit me again!! I'm going to fight you to the death—" Before she could finish speaking, that brat Yan Qing actually stepped forward and covered her mouth.
"Shh—keep your voice down! I'm saving your life!" Yan Qing pointed towards the lakeside. "Look over there!"
At this moment, the huge white shadow at the bottom of the lake was about to rise to the surface. From Wen Jiajia's angle, it was now completely clear that it was a huge long snake.
"That's a snake—?!?!" Wen Jiajia jumped up. At that moment, the system in her mind was also reminding her to run quickly, or she would be doomed.
Yan Qing watched speechlessly as this brat quickly tidied herself up, and even summoned two tall, eerie guardian spirits to protect her from the left and right.
She was completely convinced. Wen Jiajia took a couple of steps, turned around, and saw Yan Qing still standing there. Yan Qing even reached out her little hand and waved at her, whispering something.
"What are you dawdling for? Hurry up and go!"
Yan Qing admired her immensely from then on.
The two estimated the distance and saw that Yue Qi had already carried the wooden flute on his back, leaving only Monk Yuanhui.
Wen Jiajia surprisingly showed some kindness, "Yan Qing, I think we're quite close to Monk Yuanhui, why don't we go and wake him up on the way?"
Yan Qing did not refuse; Monk Yuanhui's fighting prowess would be a great asset to them. Naturally, she wouldn't refuse.
However, she was a little curious: why didn't Yue Qi wake Mu Xiao up? She woke up as soon as Wen Jiajia called her!
She quickly found the answer to that question.
When the two sneaked up to Monk Yuanhui, Wen Jiajia volunteered to slap Monk Yuanhui several times in the same way.
Yan Qing couldn't bear to watch the force she used. As a result, Monk Yuanhui's face was almost swollen like a pig's head from being beaten, but he still didn't wake up.
"Something's not right, why isn't he awake yet?" Wen Jiajia also noticed something was wrong.
Not far away, Yue Qi was gesturing to Yan Qing, signaling them to find a way to carry the person away.
"Alright, there's no time left. Wen Jiajia, do you have any strong guys around you? Have them carry Monk Yuanhui on their backs."
"Yes, yes!" Wen Jiajia immediately summoned another enormous, eerie figure and carried Monk Yuanhui directly onto its back.
"Follow me!" Yan Qing took the initiative to lead the way. Following Yue Qi's gestures, they needed to walk along the path on the mountainside, as far away from the artificial lake as possible.
The path on the mountainside was very narrow, only wide enough for one person to pass at a time. Yue Qi, carrying the wooden flute, was directly above them on another path opposite them, the two groups separated by a spiral staircase.
Although Yan Qing didn't understand why Yue Qi insisted on leading everyone to such a difficult path, there really was no way to go down there now.
Going up might be their only way to survive.
Strangely, when she came down from below, she didn't notice at all that such a long path was hidden in the cliff-like mountain wall.
The path wound its way up the mountain in a spiral, then disappeared into complete darkness.
As the group cautiously made their way along the mountainside, a series of increasingly loud cracking sounds suddenly emanated from the frozen lake. At the same time, a silent sound wave began to radiate outwards from the center of the lake.
The next moment, the entire frozen lake shattered into pieces.
Yan Qing and the others were almost affected by the radiated sound waves. Looking at the path behind them, completely destroyed by the sound waves, she felt incredibly fortunate for the first time that she had walked quickly.
"That scared me to death!" Wen Jiajia's reaction was much stronger. "That invisible attack, could it be the legendary ultrasonic wave?! My God, is it really that powerful?"
Wen Jiajia looked at the broken path with lingering fear, and then walked even faster.
Yan Qing was just as scared. At this moment, she could clearly see that after the ice lake completely shattered, a huge white snake with its body coiled up slowly rose to the surface.
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