"Ah Zu?" After calling several times without a response, Yu Yanluo grew anxious, her voice tinged with panic and a hint of tears.
She could wait no longer, so she summoned the "Thousand Miles of Mountains and Seas Map" to protect her head, and then her eyes glowed red, her hair flying wildly, clearly indicating that she had activated her strongest form.
Just as they were about to go inside, a figure came out and said, "Don't come in, don't come in."
Upon hearing that familiar voice, Yu Yanluo hurriedly closed her eyes. When she opened them again, her complexion had returned to normal: "Are you... are you alright?"
As he spoke, he grabbed the other man's arm to examine him, discovering several tears in his clothes: "Are you injured?"
"It's nothing." Zu An smiled and deliberately showed her the tear in his sleeve. "The skin underneath is still delicate."
Yu Yanluo wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and gently punched him: "What time is it? You're still in the mood to joke around."
Zuan also dropped his joking tone and became serious: "This black mist is indeed strange. It can block people's divine sense from detecting it, and it also has a certain degree of corrosiveness. However, cultivators of the sixth rank and above can use an elemental protective membrane to isolate themselves from the black mist's harm. Of course, the time is not unlimited. This black mist can also corrode the elemental protective membrane. Those with slightly lower cultivation levels will definitely not be able to hold out for long."
"Even your cultivation only lasted this long?" Yu Yanluo was surprised, looking at his tattered clothes.
"Of course I lasted longer, but I deliberately withdrew my elemental protective shield to test the damage from the black mist," Zaun replied.
Yu Yanluo bit her lip: "You're not taking good care of your health. What if something goes wrong?"
"Don't worry, my cultivation method is special, and my body has undergone special tempering, making it even tougher than a dragon. This black mist can't hurt me," Zu'an reassured him.
“Xingnu and the others probably won’t be so lucky,” Yu Yanluo said, looking at the black mist in front of her. “Many of those clansmen haven’t reached the sixth rank in cultivation, so they probably won’t be able to penetrate this black mist.”
Zuan shook his head: "Reaching the sixth rank is useless. I just checked ahead and the cave entrance ahead has collapsed and is blocked. Moreover, the blockage is quite long. Xingnu and the others probably can't get through either."
"Could it be that the landslide occurred after they got there?" Yu Yanluo asked.
“No,” Zaun described what he had just seen in the cave. “Those collapse marks don’t look fresh; they must have been there for several days. There are also a lot of tools, shoes, and hats left by the workers, which were obviously left behind when they fled in a hurry. According to the notice we saw at the supply camp, all of this happened a few days ago, and Star Slave and his men only arrived earlier today.”
"It seems they changed direction and headed towards other tunnels, trying to bypass this landslide." Yu Yanluo fell into deep thought. The mine below was a maze of interconnected tunnels, so there must be other routes leading there, but unfortunately, she wasn't sure which one.
“Let’s search the area and see if we can find any traces they left behind. Xingnu is a smart man; he should have anticipated that we’d followed him and would have left us a message.” Zaun said as he walked back, soon arriving at a deserted fork in the road. His eyes caught sight of something. “Huh, is this it?”
He pointed to another mine entrance and found a strange sign that looked like a coiled snake flicking its tongue.
Yu Yanluo walked over and took a look: "That's right, this is indeed a special mark of our clan."
Zuan complained, "This is too blatant. It's obviously a mark of your snake clan. Others will follow the mark."
Yu Yanluo pursed her lips and shook her head: "This mark is only understandable to those of us inside. Leaving it at this cave entrance does not mean they went into this cave. In fact, it is a code left based on the number of times the snake coils and the position of its head and tail... Hmm, they went this way."
He then pointed to another mine shaft in the southeast direction.
While admiring the heroes of the world, Zuan was also moved by her willingness to share the secrets of the snake clan with him without reservation.
The two walked towards the cave where Xingnu and the others had left. Yu Yanluo looked back at the black mist in the mine and asked, "By the way, does this black mist block out sound?"
"Isolate sound?" Zuan was taken aback. "No, it won't isolate sound?"
"Then why didn't you answer me when I called you like that?" Yu Yanluo looked at him in confusion.
Zuan reached out and gently wiped away the tear stains that hadn't dried at the corner of her eye: "I just wanted to see if you would cry for me."
Yu Yanluo: "???"
"You bastard!" she exclaimed angrily, grabbing his hand and biting it hard.
Zuan begged for mercy repeatedly, and the two of them started playfully fighting.
A woman may not remember the person who made her laugh, but she will never forget the person who made her cry.
After leaving several teeth marks on Zuan, Yu Yanluo finally calmed down and was about to release him when a cold voice came from the side:
"I wondered who had such great ability to save Yu Yanluo, it turns out it was you."
Yu Yanluo felt a chill run down her spine and quickly turned around to look.
Zu An felt a chill run down his spine, because the voice was all too familiar; it was none other than Yan Xuehen.
As expected of a grandmaster, he came so close that I didn't even notice.
"So you're Fairy Sister." Zu An chuckled and struck up a conversation with her.
"Fairy Sister?" Yan Xuehen was puzzled by this title.
Zuan said, "Every time I saw you before, the common people would call you a fairy in private. In my opinion, this title is too fitting. Only this word can describe your otherworldly beauty."
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