The other two stared blankly at the girl in front of them, who was covered in wounds and whose facial features were almost unrecognizable.
Is this the person they're looking for? The sister of the Yundianzi village chief who died decades ago?
Yue Qi gave Sun Ning a wink, and Sun Ning immediately stopped Yan Che from speaking, scolding him.
"The young girl is already injured like this. Instead of talking, why don't you hurry up and find her some medicine?"
Yan Che was taken aback by his sudden reprimand, but he quickly realized that Sun Ning was probably trying to prevent him from accidentally saying the wrong thing.
After all, this Ami is someone who has been dead for decades. Yet she had previously pretended to be innocent and naive, clearly indicating that she had some ulterior motive.
Everyone fell silent instantly, watching Yue Qi heal Ami's wounds.
They weren't in a hurry; the ones who were in a hurry became like Amitabha Buddha.
"Big brother, the Cave God is dying! Can we please go and save him? Please—"
Ami didn't even care about his own injuries, and eagerly urged everyone to set off.
Yue Qi looked distressed. "But we don't know the way! And the underground passages here are so numerous and interconnected, it's easy to get lost—"
“It’s alright, I know the way!” Ami quickly interrupted him and offered to lead the way.
Since the other party was so eager, Yue Qi finally acquiesced.
Ami pointed to the fork in the road in the middle, "Go this way."
Yue Qi glanced at Wen Jiajia discreetly before walking in first.
This underground passage looks much more difficult to navigate. There are rocks and broken bones everywhere along the way, and many of them even have very intact skeletons.
They had to be extremely careful to avoid accidentally stepping on a corpse, which naturally slowed their pace considerably. In particular, Yue Qi, who was leading the way, was carrying a wounded soldier on his back.
Others had offered to take turns carrying her more than once, but Ami always refused. Not only that, she also refused Wen Jiajia's offer to have her strange pet carry her without hesitation.
Anyway, Ami has her sights set on Yue Qi, and no one else will do.
And so, at a pace noticeably half again, they continued walking for another hour or so before finally ending their long journey along the Bone Path.
The road ahead became increasingly damp, and the walls on both sides gradually turned into stone, with tiny water droplets even clinging to the stones.
Sun Ning reached out and touched the wall. Based on the dampness, he was almost certain that they were no longer in the mountains, but underwater.
"Ami, if we go any further, almost everyone will have to dive. Are you sure this is the right path?"
Yue Qi also felt that the atmosphere here was very familiar, and it looked similar to Wuyun Mountain at the bottom of Mirror Lake. He remembered that the walls of the cave where Yan Qing was imprisoned were also made of this kind of rock.
Sure enough, before long, water gradually appeared, initially only reaching their feet, but now gradually spreading to their calves.
Further ahead lay a familiar, deep abyss. Strangely, just a few meters away, the water had already submerged their heads, but at the cave entrance, it was abruptly blocked by a transparent barrier.
Su Su couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Did we just fall into the water? My God, how did they do that?"
Ami smiled weakly, "The Cave God is highly skilled and naturally has a way—this is an underwater barrier. However, we don't need to go into the water."
She suddenly reached out and tapped a spot on the wall a few times.
A miracle occurred: a door suddenly appeared on the wall that was originally on the left side.
Ami smiled and said, "The cave spirit is below. Let's go."
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When Yan Qing woke up from her dizziness, she found herself still standing in a cave, but this time, Chu Jiang had disappeared.
She looked around the cave she was in and found that its layout was almost identical to the cave she had escaped from underwater.
The only difference was that not far from her, there was a lump of something lying there, which would occasionally wriggle a few times.
In the darkness, she couldn't see what it was, but she vaguely sensed that it seemed to be some kind of humanoid creature.
So she quickly turned on the spotlight, and the next moment, she almost jumped up.
"It's you?!"
Good heavens, this thing is actually the spirited cave god she met not long ago!
However, he looks much more miserable now.
She was a little unsure. Why did this person's limbs look like they were broken? And his whole body seemed to have no bones, he was just a lump of paralyzed flesh, and he was quite heavy.
Roughly estimated, it must weigh at least 300 kilograms.
If his appearance hadn't remained unchanged, Yan Qing would hardly have believed it.
"Cave God? How did you become such a grotesque figure?" Yan Qing couldn't help but ask.
The lump of meat moved, finally reacting.
"Who is it?! Who's there?!"
This person can actually hear her voice?!
Yan Qing was even more shocked than him. Could it be that she was no longer in the past hundred years?
At this moment, the lump of flesh on the ground—no, the cave god—looked even more excited.
"Tell me, who are you? And how did you get in?" he said, while desperately crawling towards Yan Qing's direction.
His face showed no signs of injury, and his appearance was completely unchanged, which seemed quite incongruous with his enormous size.
Yan Qing's first reaction was to turn and run, but strangely, there seemed to be no way in or out of this cave, leaving her nowhere to escape and only able to watch as the other party gradually approached her.
Then,
"It's you again!!" Dong Shen's voice was practically choked out, his deep-seated hatred undisguised.
Yan Qing was puzzled. "This should be our first meeting, right? I haven't offended you at all! You must have mistaken me for someone else."
If she hadn't spoken up, it would have been fine, but once she did, the cave god became even angrier and began frantically pounding the ground with his hands, making a loud banging sound.
"Don't worry, even if I tear you to pieces, I'll still recognize you!"
This is not right. According to Yan Qing's own eyes, Qingqing, who looked exactly like her more than a hundred years ago, was killed by the Cave God. Without her self-destruction, the Cave God would not have been able to escape the black stone box at all.
Looking at it now, doesn't it seem a little strange?
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