Chapter 129: Grand Exercise 7 [Update 1]
Ruan Xi's direction was not chosen randomly, but was guided by the big tree.
"Xiao Xi, there really is another mutant python. I don't know how big it is, but the energy fluctuations on its body are no worse than the previous one." When these words were spoken, Ruan Xi immediately heard another meaning.
"It's not that it's not bad, it's that it's stronger, right?" Otherwise, the tree wouldn't become so serious and nervous.
“You have to see it to be sure.”
"Okay, let's go meet that snake." This time, he really was at odds with snakes, one after another, endless, right? After beating the mutant snakes, wouldn't another normal snake come to bother him?
It was no use thinking about anything at this moment. Ruan Xi kept running. After running for nearly twenty minutes, Ruan Xi came to a steep slope.
Ruan Xi stuck his head out to take a look. The top of the steep slope protruded about two meters from the mountain wall. In the middle of the mountain wall, there was a crack about one meter wide, extending diagonally downward. Looking around, Ruan Xi quickly found a messy skid mark. It seemed that the fourteen-member alliance had slid down the steep slope and then fell into the crack. As to whether they fell accidentally or for some other reason, it was not known for the time being.
"Huh... After all, they formed an alliance just to deal with me, I can't just leave it alone..." He felt helpless. At this time, Ruan Xi missed He Ziqian very much.
It’s always a bit scary to go down alone to look for someone!
When Ruan Xi thought of He Ziqian, she unconsciously looked back at the way she came. Then, her eyes slowly widened and a smile of surprise appeared on her lips.
“You’re here!”
Isn't the person who came here the He Ziqian he'd been thinking about? He Ziqian is more professional for this kind of rescue mission! He's just an assistant, and he's also looking for treasure...
"Dashu, I feel like I can find the treasure again this time." Ruan Xi was in a very relaxed mood at the moment, and the tone of voice when he spoke to Dashu in his mind unconsciously rose.
"Your intuition has always been sharp, it seems you are pretty close."
"Hurry, hurry, let's go down and look for treasure!" Ruan Xi waved to He Ziqian happily, and He Ziqian almost couldn't help laughing. When he finally stood beside Ruan Xi, he let out a sigh of relief.
Finally he caught up. He was afraid that his little doctor would act alone. However, it seems that his little doctor is still very rational.
"Sensing the treasure again?" He Ziqian was already accustomed to Ruan Xi's routine. He first took the trouble to tidy up Ruan Xi's hair and clothes. Then, without saying much, he put his arm around Ruan Xi's waist and jumped from the top of the steep slope. He made a beautiful turn in the air and fell into the crack.
Ruan Xi nestled contentedly in He Ziqian's arms, acting like a delicate flower for the time being. After all, someone was there to guide him, so why was he working so hard? This wasn't a major exercise that required him to fight alone.
After the two entered the crack, they slid downward along the direction of the crack. The slope became steeper and steeper, and finally reached a nearly vertical point. Fortunately, the slope finally reached the bottom and the two stepped onto flat ground.
Ruan Xi breathed a sigh of relief, felt the texture of the ground with his feet, and quickly came to a conclusion, "It's rock. This might be a cave."
Then, He Ziqian turned on the lighting device, and the two of them could see clearly the environment they were in. It was indeed a huge cave. They didn't know how deep it was below them. When they looked down, they saw bottomless darkness, which made people feel dizzy.
"Do we need to go down further?" Ruan Xi instinctively wanted to refuse, but if those fourteen students fell down, they would have to go down to rescue them.
Before He Ziqian could respond, a scream suddenly came from the front, and then silence quickly returned, as if the sound had never been heard before.
But Ruan Xi and He Ziqian were both very sure that they were not hallucinating.
"Looks like we don't need to go down for now."
"Let's go. It should be about 500 meters ahead." He Ziqian determined the direction and distance, and the two of them quickly moved towards that direction. While moving, they had to be careful with their feet at all times to avoid falling down accidentally.
"Wait, there's someone over there!" The two had been running forward intently, but Ruan Xi suddenly stopped and pointed to the left front. No matter how he looked there, there was only emptiness and darkness. After Ruan Xi shouted, he realized belatedly that there was a deeper cliff over there, so how could there be someone there?
However, his feeling told him that there was someone there, and it was someone he knew.
He Ziqian did not doubt Ruan Xi's words from the beginning. Instead, he immediately turned the illuminator over to see what was over there. However, he immediately found that the darkness seemed to swallow up the light. Even if he opened his eyes wide, he could only see a mass of darkness.
"I'll go take a look..." He Ziqian took out a rope and was about to go over to investigate. Ruan Xi quickly grabbed him and said anxiously, "Don't go! I have a way."
Are you kidding? With a big tree like a bug, do they really need to take the risk themselves?
"I'll go and take a look." The big tree didn't even need Ruan Xi to speak. The moment he grabbed He Ziqian, it had already stretched out its branches and leaves towards that side, diving into the darkness, as if it was being swallowed. It looked quite scary.
"Big Tree, how do you feel?"
"No, it's just dark... There is indeed someone here, a boy, who should be a student of your school." As Dashu said this, he brought the boy out, successfully returned to Ruan Xi, and then gently put the boy down.
"Lu Hao." Ruan Xi recognized the boy and saw that he had fallen into a coma. He immediately took his pulse and gradually frowned.
"He was poisoned by snake venom." Sure enough, there was another big snake here.
The venom of the mutant snake is not so easy to cure.
"Big Tree, give me a few leaves to save his life first. The antidote has to be found from the snake. We have to find the snake quickly." Big Tree offered his leaves generously. Ruan Xi took them and rubbed them in his palms, squeezed out the juice and fed it into Lu Hao's mouth. Seeing that his dark complexion gradually improved and his breathing became steady, he exhaled softly.
"Should we look for the antidote to snake venom from the snake itself?" Even though He Ziqian didn't hear the conversation between Ruan Xi and Dashu, he basically guessed what they were communicating about.
After all, the current situation is obvious.
"Yes, there is another mutant snake here. Maybe it is a companion of the one I killed before. I must have the scent of that snake on me. Who knows, this snake may want to seek revenge on me." Even if it doesn't want revenge, it must want to eat him as a snack.
He is a wood-type mutant, and the mutant snake cannot resist this temptation.
"Revenge?" He Ziqian frowned tightly when he heard this word, but he did not say "no", because he knew that Ruan Xi would never escape from what he had to do.
What's more, the fourteen students were in danger, most likely because of Ruan Xi. If Ruan Xi didn't find them and bring them back safely, he would be uneasy for the rest of his life.
His boyfriend is such a person who can clearly distinguish between good and evil.
At this moment, the special communicator on He Ziqian's body rang. Here, the personal terminal cannot be turned on. If it is forced to be turned on, he will lose the qualification for the competition.
"Commander-in-chief, are you with Ruan Xi? Where are you? We are coming to find you..." An anxious male voice came from the communicator. You know, no matter whether it is a student or the commander-in-chief, if anything happens to either of them, it is not something that a small instructor like him can take the responsibility.
He would rather be the one in danger than worry himself to death.
"Don't come in. Stay where you are. Ruan Xi and I will bring the other students out." Before anyone could finish his words, He Ziqian's order was given coldly, and the person on the other end of the communicator was so frightened that he didn't dare to say a word for a long time.
"But……"
"No buts, just follow orders."
When He Ziqian said this, his aura was fully released. Even though the instructor was not in front of him, he immediately stood up straight and shouted back: "Yes, sir!"
"Handsome!" Ruan Xi couldn't help but compliment him, and she leaned over and kissed He Ziqian on the face, smiling with her eyes curved, as if they were on a pleasant date, not rescuing each other in a dark cave.
He Ziqian's heart was burning with desire, and he really wanted to press his little miracle doctor against the stone wall and kiss him hard, but it was obvious that the timing was not right, so he could only suppress the desire in his heart.
Ruan Xi knew when to stop, and while holding He Ziqian's hand and squeezing it gently, he gave new instructions to Dashu.
"Dashu, can you wrap him up first? Wrap him into a cocoon and fix him here. We can take him with us when we come back." After all, there were thirteen classmates waiting for their rescue ahead. It was really inconvenient to take him with them, and they couldn't possibly spend a lot of effort to send him up first. By the time they turned back to rescue the others, they would probably have died.
"No problem." The big tree card plug-in will grant any request.
The big tree stretched out several branches, first thick and then thin, and quickly wrapped the unconscious Lu Hao into a cocoon, and finally fixed the cocoon to the side of the road.
"Walk."
After settling Lu Hao, Ruan Xi and He Ziqian did not dare to hesitate at all and moved forward quickly. The road under their feet became smoother and wider, but the dangerous smell in the air became heavier. It seemed that they were getting closer and closer to the snake.
"Be careful!" He Ziqian suddenly grabbed Ruan Xi's waist and made a quick leap backwards, retreating more than ten meters before stopping. A gust of wind with a fishy smell blew across Ruan Xi's face, almost making him vomit.
"What a stinker! It's indeed a snake!" Ruan Xi looked closely, but only had time to see the tip of the snake's tail trembling rapidly, along with a trembling feeling as if an electric current was running through it. He couldn't see clearly how big the snake was or what it looked like.
But it was obvious that this mutant snake was more irritable and stronger than the one Ruan Xi had encountered before.
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