"Mengyao, do you know this man?"
Seeing Leng Mengyao's expression, Lu Xuan was also stunned. It seemed that his suspicion was correct. This man was really on the same boat with him.
"That's not right..."
It was just that Leng Mengyao seemed to be muttering something to himself over and over again.
"What's going on?"
Lu Xuan looked at Leng Mengyao in confusion.
"I do know this guy. He's one of Leng Yunqiu's subordinates. The problem is... he shouldn't be on our ship."
Leng Mengyao was racking his brains to recall the scenes before and after boarding the ship, but he couldn't remember whether he had seen this man before.
"Shouldn't he be on our ship? Then could this man have reached the island through some other means?"
Lu Xuan was also surprised after hearing this. It was impossible for this man to rent a boat to reach the island by himself.
What are you doing? Did you come all this way here for vacation? Or are you just bored and here to admire the primitive people?
After hearing Leng Mengyao's words, Lu Xuan was also confused. He always felt that the island was becoming more and more lively.
"Do you know that man hanging there?"
Lu Xuan pointed at the man who had been hung up and seemed to have reported to the Hall of Yama.
"I know this person. He's a new finance officer hired by Lu Yuqiang. He's in charge of cashier work. He's only been here a few days, but I haven't had much contact with him."
As the company's president, Leng Mengyao still recognized the man, but now that he was dead, it didn't seem to matter much.
"Another man showing up out of nowhere...it's really weird. Let's go and come back another day to get our ingredients."
Since this person has already admitted it, there is no need to stay here anymore. Lu Xuan waved at Leng Mengyao and began to evacuate to the south with the girl.
The two quickly returned to the place where they parted with Taylor and his group. Lu Xuan used the marks agreed upon with Taylor in advance as a guide and gradually found the marks left by Taylor on the surrounding tree trunks.
"This way."
After rushing for about twenty minutes with Leng Mengyao, they finally saw Taylor and others in a place that looked quite spacious.
"Lu Xuan, are you back?"
Seeing Lu Xuan and Leng Mengyao coming back, Shen Keyin greeted them with joy.
"Why are you standing here and not leaving?"
Lu Xuan rubbed Shen Keyin's head, then stretched his neck to look forward. At first glance, there seemed to be neither jungle nor tall trees in front of him. It felt like a flat plain.
"Brother Lu Xuan, there's a ravine ahead. We're waiting for you here because we're worried you and Sister Meng Yao might get careless..."
Taylor scratched the back of his head and pointed forward.
"Ravine? That's no big deal. With my skills, I can climb out even if I fall in. What are you afraid of? Let's go."
Lu Xuan looked nonchalant. It was just a ditch, no big deal.
"Handsome boy, you'd better take a look before you speak. I'm afraid you might fall into this ditch and won't be able to climb out."
Yin Yichen raised her chin and motioned Lu Xuan to look ahead.
"I fell in and couldn't get out. Are you kidding me? I want to see how big the ditch is... Wow..."
Lu Xuan walked forward with an indifferent look on his face, but after he took about twenty steps forward, he suddenly saw the situation ahead clearly.
A bottomless ravine, about six or seven meters wide, stretched across Lu Xuan's path like a ferocious crack in the earth. The edges of the ravine were jagged, and the exposed rocks were a dull gray-black, as if the passage of time had etched countless traces of vicissitudes on them.
The slanting sunlight could only illuminate a small area at the edge of the ditch. Deeper into the ditch, there was endless darkness, like a giant mouth ready to devour anyone, swallowing up all light and sound.
Lu Xuan glanced down, feeling an indescribable fear freeze his blood like ice. He involuntarily took a few steps back, the crackling of gravel and dead leaves beneath his feet a harsh sound in the silent valley.
"Handsome boy, we didn't lie to you. If you fall into this ravine, you won't be able to climb out."
Yin Yichen shrugged at Lu Xuan with a gloating look, but the girl herself stood far away.
Lu Xuan quickly calmed his heart and asked Taylor, "What is this place? Why is there such a deep ravine? How can we get there now?"
Taylor seemed quite calm. He pointed to the east and said, "There's a broken tree trunk up ahead. The ravine over there is less than five meters wide. We can use that tree to walk across."
Obviously, this was not Taylor's first time to this place, and he was quite familiar with the terrain in this area.
"This... is there no other way?"
Lu Xuan bravely took another step forward and glanced down cautiously, but still couldn't see the bottom of the ditch. This was really scary. At the moment, Lu Xuan had no intention of crossing over.
"In that case... we'll have to take a long detour. We'll have to go southwest for about an hour, or north, but that would mean we'd have to pass by Richard's tribe."
Taylor pointed southwest and shook his head regretfully.
"Well... well, let's go check out the condition of the cut tree first."
To be honest, if he had a choice, Lu Xuan really didn't want to take the road across the ravine. However, at the moment, if he wanted to avoid this ravine, he would have to walk a lot more. He had been trekking through mountains and rivers all night and had experienced a big battle. He was exhausted. If it weren't for the girls who regarded him as their captain, Lu Xuan really wanted to sleep in the jungle before continuing.
So if I take a longer detour now, I really can't handle it.
Led by Taylor, the group walked for another ten minutes, and Lu Xuan and others finally saw the fallen tree trunk.
"Taylor... no way? That's it? Isn't this just like crossing a single-plank bridge? How scary is that?"
Chen Keyin saw the tree trunk, which was less than one meter in diameter, lying across the bottomless ravine and didn't dare to even look at it.
Not to mention the girl, even Leng Mengyao and Yin Yichen, who were usually fearless, were a little scared.
"Tyler…are you sure…this is actually okay?"
Yin Yichen asked tremblingly.
"It should be fine. I've walked here three or four times. As long as you look ahead and don't look down, and use both hands for balance, it's pretty easy to get across."
Taylor answered calmly, and pointed to Aphrodite beside him. It was obvious that the brother and sister had both walked across this single-plank bridge.
"Lu Xuan, are we really sure we want to walk on the single-plank bridge?"
Shen Keyin looked at Lu Xuan worriedly.
"Taylor, how about you make a sample first, or, how about this."
Lu Xuan thought for a moment and came up with an idea...
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