After dealing with that thing, Xu Yingting suddenly noticed that the mountains seemed a little brighter.
The two towering peaks that had previously felt so oppressive seemed to have shifted slightly in an instant, making the oppressive atmosphere less suffocating.
"Squeak, squeak," Qi Yan excitedly climbed onto Jiang Si's shoulder, seemingly wanting to claim credit.
Jiang Si turned her head to Qi Yan and said, "With such great merit, Heaven will not forget you."
Qi Yan looked even more smug.
It bounced around on Jiang Si's shoulder, strutting around arrogantly, the hairs on both sides of its mouth seeming to exude a sense of pride.
This was the first time Xu Yingting had ever seen such a rich array of expressions on a mouse's face.
Perhaps Xu Yingting's expression was too obvious, because Qi Yan spoke in human language: "You're the rat, your whole family are rats!"
She Zhang put his hands behind his head and lightly scoffed.
Xu Yingting: "..."
Jiang Si reached out and patted Qi Yan, looking at the mountain road ahead, and said, "Let's go find them."
In a dark cave deep in the mountains, seven or eight men sat huddled together. They hadn't eaten or drunk anything for days, and their faces looked rather listless.
Two people looked even worse, as if they were injured, and leaned against the others, motionless.
Su Yanming held the tortoise shell in his hand and kept rubbing it.
Just then, for some unknown reason, the two injured men began to convulse. The people near them quickly pried their mouths open to prevent them from biting their own tongues.
An atmosphere of sadness was spreading.
Two days have passed, and no one has come to rescue them.
Is there really any hope for us?
"What if they can't find us at all?"
The place they were in was somehow enchanted; there was a barrier outside that not only trapped people but also made the temperature extremely high. These two comrades ended up like this after they tried to touch it at the beginning.
Three comrades are still missing, and it's unknown whether they are still alive.
“Someone will come,” Su Yanming said.
He had a strange feeling; he always felt that someone would come to rescue them.
Fortunately, they have strong mental fortitude and can persevere in waiting even when all hope seems lost.
Jiang Si led them along a mountain path for about half an hour until they arrived at the entrance of a cave.
A wave of heat hit me in the face.
Even from the outside, they could feel that the temperature inside was at least seventy or eighty degrees Celsius.
Xu Yingting's voice trembled slightly, and he asked with despair, "Master Jiang, are they inside?"
How can anyone survive inside like that!
Jiang Si didn't say anything, but with a single palm strike, she easily broke the barrier.
As the barrier opened, a faint sound of liquid flowing could be clearly heard coming from inside.
The heatwave intensified.
Xu Yingting looked inside and saw that magma was flowing inside, glowing red, which made the dark cave even more terrifying.
He was about to shout a few times to see if anyone was inside when Jiang Si stopped him.
“No,” Jiang Si said. “They might rush out as soon as they hear your voice, unless you want to see your comrades scalded to death.”
Xu Yingting closed his mouth.
Jiang Si turned Qi Yan back into human form and gave him an umbrella-like object. "Go inside and give the umbrella to them. Remember, only two people can come out at a time."
Qi Yan was born with the element of fire, so the high temperature of the magma was nothing to him.
He nodded firmly with his small face and handed the umbrella inside.
The people inside were silent when they suddenly saw a child walking in.
"???"
Were they hallucinating?
Or perhaps the monster transformed into its original form to deceive them.
One of the hot-tempered men gritted his teeth and said, "Kill me or torture me, it's just a life, don't make such a fuss."
Qi Yan clicked his tongue twice, "Have you ever seen such an adorable monster like me?"
"I'm here to save you." Qi Yan tossed the umbrella to them: "This is the Heavenly Net Umbrella. You can use it to cross this lava field. Don't rush, two people at a time at most."
They remained somewhat cautious.
"Who are you, and why are you here to save us?"
“Of course it’s your leaders,” Qi Yan argued. “If I wanted to deal with you, would I need to go to such lengths?”
Su Yanming was the first to step forward, "Okay, I'll go first."
"Getting on track," Qi Yan said.
Su Yanming picked up the Heavenly Net Umbrella and said to the others, "I'll go out later. If there's nothing else, I'll come back in."
"Okay, be careful."
Su Yanming carefully stepped out, holding up the parasol. The scorching heat that could have cooked a person alive was gone.
He breathed a sigh of relief and finally made it outside after passing through the thick lava.
The sky was already beginning to lighten.
As soon as Xu Yingting saw Su Yanming, she excitedly hugged him, saying, "It's so good that you're alright."
Su Yanming was still a little confused. "How did you end up here?"
Xu Yingting said briefly, "It was this Master Jiang who saved us. Let's hurry and rescue the others first."
To avoid arousing suspicion among those inside, Su Yanming went back in. The others breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that he was unharmed.
"Give me Qiangzi, I'll carry him out," Su Yanming said.
Li Chengqiang and Yan Ziming were both injured, and the most urgent task was to get them out of there.
When Jiang Si saw the two injured people, she looked at their hands and saw that the flesh was charred black. The slightest movement would tear the skin and flesh open, and they screamed in pain while unconscious.
She took out the medicinal powder and gently sprinkled it on their wounds.
The powder has amazing effects. Although it doesn't work immediately when it comes into contact with their skin, the wounds do heal and new granulation tissue grows.
The two of them immediately relaxed a lot.
Xu Yingting felt a pang of heartache for his comrade for two seconds.
Just as he was about to speak, Jiang Si said, "Don't ask, you can't buy it even if you have money."
Xu Yingting: "..."
Master Jiang is indeed a brilliant strategist.
All nine trapped people were rescued.
While celebrating their narrow escape, the thought of three others still missing weighed heavily on their spirits.
They already knew of Jiang Si's abilities. "Master Jiang, please save them."
Jiang Si sighed inwardly.
If he still had a breath left, he might be able to save him.
But once the physical body is destroyed and the soul returns to the underworld, even a great immortal might be powerless to help.
Jiang Si said, "I'm sorry."
"I can only lead you to their remains."
Jiang Si was referring to the skeleton.
Upon hearing this, some of the others were incredulous, asking, "What does 'skeleton' mean?"
Jiang Si: "The literal meaning."
Jiang Si led them to another direction, which was another cave, where several skeletons lay scattered, already turned to dust.
"They are under the Corpse-Dissolving Curse. They will die immediately after the curse is cast, and the energy of their physical body will be absorbed by the one who cast the curse."
Jiang Si offered them a few words of comfort that weren't exactly words of consolation: "The only good thing is that they didn't suffer much pain in their lives."
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