Xivil said, putting on her jacket, and continued deeper without looking back. Behind her, Qu Xiangyun and I exchanged a look, revealing a tacit smile.
Three people moving together, what a beautiful thing!
The current situation was that although Qu Xiangyun and I still had to cooperate with Xivil for the time being, we both knew that this cooperation was fragile. As soon as there was an opportunity, I would unhesitatingly leave with Qu Xiangyun.
As for Xivil's survival, it would depend on her own fate.
To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that Xivil might have some hidden trump cards on us that we didn't know about, I would have already knocked her unconscious and thrown her to the spiders.
However, even so, I still made a few gestures to Qu Xiangyun that only we two could understand, reminding her to subdue Xivil and escape if a suitable opportunity arose!
"We'll go this way..."
The path ahead became more and more complex, with many forks in the road appearing out of nowhere.
When we reached places like this, Xivil and I would follow Qu Xiangyun's lead. Soon, we safely passed through several rooms, and gradually, a loud sound of flowing water was heard from ahead.
With such low temperatures beneath the ice, how could there be water?
I was a bit puzzled. As we passed through another bronze door, we suddenly found ourselves facing an underground river!
The river water was deep and dark. Although the current was not rapid, one glance at it would instill fear. Kuai Shu Ge
Although this underground river looked calm, who knew what dangers lay hidden beneath its placid surface?
We were at a loss for a moment because to proceed further, we would have to cross this river. The underground river was more than ten meters wide, and I wondered how Qu Xiangyun's father had managed to cross it.
As I cautiously observed the course of the underground river, Xivil was much more decisive. She took out a wooden stick from her backpack, stirred the river with it, and then pulled it up.
"The river water is a bit dark, but it doesn't seem to be poisonous. We don't have any more time to waste, so let's prepare to cross."
Xivil said this, put down her backpack, and prepared to take out some equipment.
It seemed that Xivil, that wicked woman, was truly in a hurry. Otherwise, she wouldn't be preparing to cross the river rashly without having gathered all the intelligence.
If there was something in the river, and it attacked us halfway through, my life would be over!
I sneered. Xivil was going crazy now.
I had a feeling that some danger was lurking in this underground river.
So, while Xivil was rummaging for things, I walked back and forth along the riverbank, trying to find some useful information.
Suddenly, I vaguely saw something about five meters ahead of me, being washed back and forth by the current at the riverbank.
This... this looks like?!
Su Yunran's clothes!
I stood there as if struck by lightning, holding the torn cloth I had just retrieved from the water.
Even though the fabric had been washed by the river for an unknown amount of time and its color had faded, I still recognized it as the same clothes Su Yunran was wearing when she disappeared.
Could it be that Su Yunran and Xia Liuli had ended up here?
The situation had been dire at the time, but whenever I was alone, the figures of Su Yunran and Xia Liuli would always appear in my mind. This had always been one of my lingering concerns. If I had been as powerful then as I am now, they wouldn't have gotten separated from us.
And now, to find Su Yunran's clothes beneath the ice, this information made me both nervous and excited.
I hoped that heaven would bless them and they hadn't died in this river.
I looked around and felt a bit relieved.
There were no rotting corpses in the underground river.
"Here!"
Just as I was lost in thought, I suddenly heard Xivil call out to me. I turned my head, and a dark object was thrown towards my face. I instinctively caught it and found it to be a tight-fitting swimsuit.
If I had been hesitant to cross the river just now, even wanting to kill Xivil, I had completely lost that idea now. Seeing that Su Yunran and Xia Liuli might still be alive, and they weren't with us, they could only be on the other side of the river. I was now more eager to cross the river than Xivil.
I quickly changed into the swimsuit and finally chose a spot by the river that looked relatively calm, slowly walking into it.
This underground river didn't seem very deep. I walked into the water for about three to four meters, and the water only reached my chest.
Apart from some water plants, there was nothing else in the river.
"Alright, hurry up and come down."
I shouted to Xivil and Qu Xiangyun, who were waiting for my reply on the bank, and impatiently swam towards the opposite bank.
Originally, with my stamina, it would have taken me only a few minutes to swim across this river. But when my body was completely submerged in the water, I suddenly realized something was wrong.
This river water actually possessed a strange suction!