Yu Xiaoxiao saw Gu Xinglang pinching his brows, tiptoed and placed her hand on Gu Xinglang's forehead, and asked in a low voice: "Do you have a headache?"
Gu Xinglang put down his right hand that was pinching his brow, shook his head at Yu Xiaoxiao, and said, "It's okay."
Yu Xiaoxiao looked at the intersection on her left. The cave behind the intersection was low and water was constantly seeping from the top of the cave, just like a drizzle.
The eldest boss said, "The water is dripping too hard. Can we go in with torches?"
"You guys wait here, Xiao Gu and I will go in and take a look," Yu Xiaoxiao said to the boss. It was impossible for her Xiao Gu to have a headache for no reason. God knows what is waiting for them behind this intersection.
"Princess!" Er Gouzi held a torch and pointed at the ground at the intersection and shouted.
"Damn it," the boss took a look at the place where Ergouzi was shining the torch and started cursing.
On the waterlogged ground, there were hundreds of colorful insect eggs.
"Everyone step back," Yu Xiaoxiao raised her hand and stopped the boss on the chest.
"Gouzi, come back," Gu Xinglang called to Er Gouzi.
Er Gouzi ran back and was dragged by the boss and made to stand behind him.
Yu Xiaoxiao took a few steps forward, looked carefully at the eggs on the ground, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "The eggs are dead."
Gu Xinglang whispered, "Dead? Why is the color white?"
Yu Xiaoxiao swung her palm and blew away the insect eggs that were clustered together.
Gu Xinglang saw that the bottom of the eggs had turned black.
"He died not long ago," Yu Xiao.
"Did the people from the Temple of Eternal Life drop the insect eggs here?" Gu Xinglang asked with a frown.
Yu Xiaoxiao walked into the intersection and found a few broken porcelain pieces near the insect eggs. There were also dead insect eggs on the walls of the porcelain pieces.
Gu Xinglang walked to Yu Xiaoxiao's side.
Yu Xiaoxiao showed Gu Xinglang the insect eggs on the porcelain piece and said, "It must be some unlucky guy who fell down here and broke the porcelain bottle containing the insect eggs."
Gu Xinglang looked at the ground and asked, "Is this person okay?"
"You'll find out if you walk forward," Yu Xiaoxiao looked forward.
The boss said outside: "Princess, should we follow them or stay here and wait?" It's not that the boss is timid, but when he saw the insect eggs, even if they were dead, he was a little scared. Who knows if there are living insect eggs on the bodies of these people in the Eternal Life Temple?
"Wrap your head with clothes," Yu Xiao said, "The eggs will only be effective if they enter the brain. The closer they are to the brain, the more dangerous they are. Even if you see eggs later, don't panic. As long as they don't enter the brain, you don't have to be afraid of anything."
The big boss asked his brothers to take off their clothes and cover their heads, and asked Yu Xiaoxiao: "What if we encounter a poisonous insect?"
Yu Xiao: "Stay by my side and nothing will happen." To deal with the poisonous insect, all it takes is a palm of blazing flames, or a Flame Palm.
The eldest boss wrapped his head with clothes, ran in, looked at Gu Xinglang, and said, "Sir, don't you wrap your head?"
Gu Xinglang shook his head and said, "No need." He is just a medicine man, why does he need to guard against poisonous insects?
Yu Xiao: "Xiao Gu, take off some clothes, we'll each take half and put it in your head." She is not afraid of any bugs, but she doesn't want her Xiao Gu to look different from others, so she might as well accompany her Xiao Gu to cover his head.
After everyone wrapped their heads tightly, Yu Xiaoxiao still led the way, and the second in command was in charge, and the group walked into the fork in the road on the left.
The dripping water from the cave ceiling quickly extinguished several torches.
Yu Xiaoxiao quickened her pace. The slower they walked, the harder it would be to keep the torches in their hands.
Yu Xiaoxiao quickened her pace, and except for Gu Xinglang who seemed fine, the other bosses jogged all the way. The boss also had to take care of Ergouzi, who had the weakest martial arts among the brothers, and held Ergouzi's hand as he ran all the way.
After walking quickly for more than 500 meters, an underground river appeared in front of everyone.
Yu Xiaoxiao stood at the end of the dark river and took a look. She pointed to a place and said to Gu Xinglang, "The water eye is right below this."
Gu Xinglang looked at the place where Yu Xiaoxiao pointed. The water here was bottomless. "Is this the dark river you mentioned?" Gu Xinglang asked Yu Xiaoxiao.
Yu Xiao: "There is also a dark river above our heads."
The eldest boss said, "There are two underground rivers?"
Yu Xiao: "It's a dark river, split into two in the middle. Oh, maybe there are more than two. They may merge somewhere ahead. Don't you feel that this cave is getting shorter and shorter?"
Gu Xinglang asked: "Is there another layer of cave underneath?"
Yu Xiao: "The air gets thinner as we go down. I don't think people can reach the cave below. Let's keep going forward."
Gu Xinglang nodded and asked the boss: "How many torches do we have left?"
The eldest boss hurriedly said, "Yes, we still have a lot of torches. There must be enough."
Yu Xiaoxiao turned around and walked forward again.
"Follow me," the boss called to his brothers.
"If you feel unwell, you have to tell me," Yu Xiaoxiao walked and suddenly turned around and whispered to Gu Xinglang.
Gu Xinglang nodded, his face flickering in the light of the torch.
The group walked about a kilometer further along the underground river when they saw another corpse floating in the river. Looking at the tight clothes the man was wearing, everyone could tell that he was one of the killers from the Temple of Eternal Life.
The eldest boss asked Yu Xiaoxiao: "Princess, is there still no one alive ahead?"
Yu Xiaoxiao shook her head and said, "There are a lot of dead bodies ahead, everyone be careful."
In the dark and low cave, the former pirates felt a chill all over their bodies when they heard Yu Xiao say that there were many dead bodies ahead. Humans have an instinctive fear of darkness, even for these former pirates who have experienced many storms.
After walking a few thousand meters, a pit appeared in front of everyone. Everyone stood in front of the pit and looked into it. In the huge pit, there were mountains of bones.
"Ah!" Ergouzi screamed in fright.
"There are coffins there," a former pirate shouted, pointing at the cave wall opposite them.
Yu Xiaoxiao jumped down the pit and carried up the body of Yiken, who had just died.
The eldest boss' cheeks trembled as he asked, "Princess, do you still want to examine his body?"
Yu Xiaoxiao pried open the mouth of the corpse, and found that the oral cavity was black. Yu Xiaoxiao cut open the esophagus of the corpse and found that it was also black and had signs of burns.
"Poisoned to death?" The boss squatted beside Yu Xiaoxiao and said.
Yu Xiaoxiao looked up at Gu Xinglang and said, "He died the same way as the people in the basement."
Gu Xinglang looked into the pit again and said to Yu Xiaoxiao, "So all these people committed suicide by taking poison?"
Yu Xiaoxiao looked at the upper body of the corpse and said, "There are burns on his body. He was abandoned and knew he couldn't survive, so he committed suicide."
"Damn it," the boss cursed in a low voice, "Are these bastards so cruel to their own people?"
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