Chapter 44 Cave Why is he looking at me?
Xu Xingxing felt that she had grown up. When she saw the huge cave filled with more than half of the remains, her scalp felt numb, but she didn't vomit.
This is probably because all the body parts were frozen and sealed, so the smell of blood and decay was greatly reduced.
Of course, it's just weakened, not gone.
As soon as I walked in, the rotten and foul smell became apparent.
Xu Xingxing covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves and muffled her voice, "Didn't Qi Rongli tell the provincial government about this place? Why hasn't anyone cleaned it up? There are so many body parts, how many people died? Just the few villagers we know about aren't enough."
"This is Ji Chan's lair. She has been hiding here since she escaped from the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons." Xiao Hei blocked her behind him and began to use magic to move the remains.
"What are you doing?" Xu Xingxing didn't wait for his answer and continued, "I'm helping you."
She imitated Xiao Hei and used magic to lift a large pile of body parts and move them to the side.
The body parts were sealed beneath a layer of ice. When they were still, the stench was bearable, but once they moved, the bloody, rotting corpse beneath the ice began to ooze out onto the ground. Quickly, she froze the inner layers of broken flesh, along with every crack, then ran to a corner to vomit.
Of course, nothing came out.
Fortunately, I didn’t eat today.
Xiao Hei patted her back gently from behind, his tone was rare and gentle: "You take a rest, I'll take care of it."
Xu Xingxing waved his hands, leaned against the wall for a moment, and said, "I'm fine. This isn't a good thing. How could I let you suffer this?"
Xiao Hei frowned slightly, and he suddenly remembered her refusal of his help in the jade house before, and he felt inexplicably irritated.
With a thought, the half of the corpses in the cave immediately began to burn.
Xu Xingxing straightened up in surprise. "What are you doing? Didn't they say that if the ice wall melted, the cave would collapse?"
This fire was no ordinary fire. Xiao Hei had mixed it with his own blood. Not to mention ice, it could even burn in water. In a moment, the ice around the cave slowly fell off.
Xiao Hei's eyes reflected the firelight, brilliant and extremely. He curled his red lips slightly, pulled her to his side, and said with a wicked look: "It's okay to collapse, follow me."
Before she could even open her mouth, he leaped with her and floated into the air.
He just waved his sleeve lightly, and the flames led the burning body parts to the side, revealing an open space in the center.
His pupils were wide open, very bright. He held her tightly with one hand, and with the other hand, he stretched out two fingers, placed them on his lips, and silently recited the term. Then he shouted:
"open!"
A long dragon of flames roared out from the ground, tearing a large hole in the ground! The fire dragon flew straight towards the two of them. Xiao Hei didn't dodge, but instead flew forward with Xu Xingxing!
The fire dragon opened its mouth and swallowed the two of them in an instant, but it was not as hot as Xu Xingxing had expected. The fire was steaming, but it felt warm when it touched their bodies.
The heat wave rushed past the two of them like a strong wind, blowing their clothes and long hair backwards.
She looked at the bright yellow tunnel formed by the flames in front of her, stunned for a moment, subconsciously looked at Xiao Hei, and suddenly she looked into his eyes again.
The flames filled the air, the blaze roared, and the young man's eyes were surprisingly bright. When he saw her looking at him, he was also stunned for a moment, then smiled rather proudly and said, "How is it? Are you still sick?"
She didn't answer, or to be more precise, she forgot to answer and just stared at Xiao Hei blankly.
Because, at this moment she suddenly thought of it.
The reason why she could look him in the eye every time she saw him was,
Because he had been looking at her before.
Xu Xingxing's heart trembled. When she realized this, a very soft and delicate warmth quickly rose in her heart, and together with the heat waves around her body, it made her cheeks hot.
When Xiao Hei realized that she was distracted, he also saw the astonishment and expectation in her eyes, as well as other shining meanings. He couldn't understand them, but he just felt that the woman who looked at him like this was really beautiful.
In fact, he didn't have much of a concept of beauty and ugliness. Even the pieces of flesh and limbs just now didn't disgust him. It was only at this moment that he suddenly felt what it meant to like someone.
If you want it, you like it.
It’s not because it’s beautiful that we like it, it’s beautiful because we like it.
How happy it would be if she could always look at me like this.
But he inexplicably didn't dare to look any longer, his heart filled with panic. He was so burned that he averted his gaze and looked forward, hiding his expression awkwardly and simply said, "You're welcome."
Seeing Xiao Hei's gaze shift away, Xu Xingxing came back to her senses. She also looked forward and pursed her lips.
If he had been looking at me before...
Are you secretly looking at me?
Why is he looking at me?
What's so good about it?
The two men landed on the ground, the flames disappeared, and they stood in a slightly wider tunnel.
The surrounding soil was fresh and white smoke was coming out of the wall. It must be the hole that the fire dragon had just drilled out.
The passageway gradually descends in front, and it is unknown where it extends to. There is a layer of fire-condensed barrier at the rear entrance, which should be to prevent the fire from the cave behind from rushing in.
Xu Xingxing glanced at Xiao Hei beside her again and saw that he was observing his surroundings as usual, as calmly as if her previous assumptions were all hallucinations.
Thinking of this, the joy I had just felt cooled down a lot.
By the way, what did he just say to himself?
I remember now.
She glanced at the wall of fire behind her and began to answer, "It's disgusting, isn't it? It's just that this cave is so big. If it collapses, the snow above will also collapse. The sound is so loud, it's easy for an avalanche."
Xiao Hei glanced at her and said, "Simple."
The fire behind him suddenly disappeared and was immediately replaced by ice. From here, one could see the ice growing rapidly in the cave. After a while, it filled the cave completely, making it even more stable than before.
Xu Xingxing: ...
He was able to use these two different techniques very freely.
After saying these two sentences, the wandering thoughts just now completely dissipated, and the pink bubbles in his heart disappeared. Xu Xingxing, who had already lowered his head, even reflected on it for a while.
Is she too narcissistic?
Yue Baiyin had told her that the master and the spirit beast rarely mate, and even in hundreds of years, there were not even ten pairs. This was because there was a barrier between humans and beasts. The better the spirit beast, the more it looked down on mediocre creatures like humans who needed to practice to gain spiritual power and prolong their lifespan.
They have estrus periods and only desire animals of the same species as themselves.
She was sad for a while, but it only lasted for a while before she got over it.
She had never wanted to come to this world in the first place, and the reason she actively completed the task was because the system told her that she could make a wish after completing the task.
She wants to return to the real world, so she should not delay the dog.
She calmed her mind and focused her current thoughts on the formation.
We have to find Wu Sheng quickly.
So he asked, "Where is the formation?"
Xiao Hei didn't say anything, but just raised his chin towards the deeper and darker tunnel.
She walked up to it headfirst.
Because this passage extends downward all the time and some sections have very steep slopes, Xu Xingxing has a hard time walking.
After finally finding a relatively stable position, she asked in confusion, "This place isn't close to the cave we were in just now. How did Ji Chan find it?"
Even in this muddy tunnel, Xiao Hei still felt refreshed. Instead of answering, he asked, "Do you know what advantages monsters have over other races?"
"What?" Xu Xingxing responded and continued walking forward.
"Sense of smell." Xiao Heixu helped her up, "They can smell the scent of blood from thousands of miles away. It's hard to block a monster's nose with just a formation, especially a seriously injured and hungry monster."
"Is she hurt?" Xu Xingxing stopped and looked at him.
Xiao Hei nodded: "Do you think the Ten Thousand Demons Cave is a place you can easily escape from?"
"She smelled the scent of something in the array? What did she smell?"
Xiao Hei gave her another mysterious look: "You'll know when you get there."
"..." Xu Xingxing rolled her eyes, "Thank you so much."
Xiao Hei raised his eyebrows and said, "You really should thank me."
The more I talk, the more curious I become.
Walking was tiring and boring anyway. Xu Xingxing thought of something and politely raised his hand to ask, "Doesn't Ji Chan eat people alive? Why are there so many body parts left in that cave?"
"You suffered torture in the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons and starved for thirty years. After you came out, you ate like crazy in order to heal your wounds faster. Besides that, you wanted to store more food. Is that hard to understand?" Xiao Hei glanced at her.
"Then I have another question!" Xu Xingxing raised her hand and continued, "Why is she still coveting the things in the formation even though she has stored so many corpses?"
"Of course, her injuries are serious and difficult to heal, and this array happens to contain a good medicine that can heal her pain."
"Is it a medicinal herb?"
Xiao Hei didn't comment, but just smiled teasingly.
Xu Xingxing awkwardly began to change the subject: "Ji Chan has discovered this formation, why don't you go in and take a look?"
Xiao Hei gave her a look that said "nonsense" and said leisurely, "Maybe it's because we can't get in."
"..." Xu Xingxing asked again, "How did Ji Chan discover this formation? Did he just smell something while he was bored? And then he followed the scent and found the formation?"
"Unintentionally."
"How is it unintentional?"
"..." Xiao Hei paused, looking at her with a helpless yet doting look? ?
She must have seen it wrong.
He lowered his eyes and chuckled, saying, "You want to know so much?"
Isn't this nonsense?
"Cheng Zhi and Wu Sheng said that when they were chasing Ji Chan, they encountered a formation, and then Ji Chan disappeared. Then you said that you saw the formation in Ji Chan's memory, but you took me all the way underground." Xu Xingxing began brainstorming.
"Is this formation above ground or underground? If it's underground, why was Cheng Zhi found above ground? And when did Ji Chan discover the formation? Did she discover it together with Cheng Zhi and Wu Sheng? Or did she discover it before Wu Sheng and Cheng Zhi captured her?"
She was a little confused, so she looked at Xiao Hei for help: "Please, don't keep me in suspense - ah!"
Because she was so focused on her thoughts, she didn't look at the road under her feet and almost slipped. Then Xiao Hei grabbed her waist. She immediately grabbed Xiao Hei's clothes and stood up, still looking for help: "Please tell me, how far is it? I'm so tired. Are we going to reach the center of the earth soon? Will we be able to catch up in time for supper when we get back? I'm starving."
At this point, Xu Xingxing secretly praised himself. After seeing so many rotting corpses, he still had an appetite now. This was really a great improvement.
“Before.”
"Huh?" She didn't understand.
Xiao Hei glanced at the hand that had just been around her waist, and as if he could no longer bear her question, he began to narrate, "About two months ago, one of her caves was filled with corpses, and she was looking for a new place to live underground when she stumbled upon a formation. So, she discovered the formation before Cheng Zhi and Wu Sheng captured her. Then, she found an opportunity to deliberately lure them here."
Xu Xingxing was stunned: "Why is this?"
"This formation is probably better at resisting monsters. Ji Chan tried for a long time but couldn't get in," Xiao Hei laughed, "so she came up with a plan."
"What method?" Xu Xingxing grabbed Xiao Hei's sleeve and listened attentively.
Xiao Hei led her across a pothole and continued, "Although this formation is buried deep within the mountain, it rises out of the mountain for a few days every month. After Ji Chan learned that the Kunlun cultivators were coming here, she deliberately ate the villagers outside Qingzhou City during those days when the formation appeared to attract the attention of the Kunlun cultivators."
"How did she know that Kunlun monks could break the formation?"
"Of course, it's because she's been secretly observing for a long time."
"She's quite smart!" Xu Xingxing was slightly shocked. "She even knows how to scheme?"
Xiao Hei looked at her and smiled: "High-level monsters can fight against the combined monsters. Do you think all monsters are as stupid as that bug?"
"I am short-sighted..." In order to show that he was smart, Xu Xingxing began to analyze.
"A rabbit won't eat grass near its burrow. There are so many corpses in that cave, and she only ate a few villagers in Qingzhou half a month ago, and that was after she learned that the Kunlun cultivators had arrived here. If it weren't for the things in the formation, she probably wouldn't have exposed herself so casually."
From this, Xu Xingxing concluded: "Perhaps Ji Chan really wants the things in this formation."
"Of course." A hint of disgust and ridicule flashed in Xiao Hei's eyes. "She simply wants to die."
"What exactly is inside the formation?"
Xiao Hei looked ahead and suddenly smiled: "We'll know soon."
"Here we are."
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