Not knowing how deep the hole was, Xie Cheng had been rolling down without touching the bottom. He felt that something was wrong, if he continued to fall like this, he might reach the core of the earth.
In the dark hole, he tried to raise his hand to reach for something that could help him stop.
Reaching into the void, there was nothing to hold on to.
Suddenly, a strange light flashed through his body before his eyes. He was blinded for a moment, and his eyes could not see anything for a moment.
Thud!
He fell from a high place and landed on the ground with a painful thud.
"Ouch..." Xie Cheng lay down with his arms spread out.
He closed his eyes and lay still for a while, rubbed his eyes, then used a stick to support himself and got up. It was truly miraculous that he did not break any bones in such a fall.
The space was quiet and dark, he lit a lighter. He could not see much, but at least he could see that this place was like a cave.
His clothes were covered with dirt and sand, so he brushed them off.
"Who dug this deep hole? Are you trying to dig through the earth?". A little annoyed by the pain just now.
He took two steps forward and waved the lighter to see where he was standing.
"Sob... Sob... Hu hu".
Suddenly, there was the sound of someone crying in front of him, he broke out in a cold sweat and looked closely. Ahead was a deep, dark passage, looking at it for a long time gave people the feeling that some monster would suddenly rush out. He clenched the weapon in his hand, threw away his fear and stepped on the sand to enter the dark passage.
The further he went, the clearer the crying became, this sound seemed to be from a girl.
There was a black shadow sitting looming in front, he immediately stopped and took a step back. Not daring to take another step.
Seeing a shadow coming, the black shadow sitting and hugging his legs, crying suddenly fell back. In the light of the lighter he was walking towards, he saw a person at his feet.
Xie Cheng frowned: "Xiao Xin?".
Xiao Xin below was scared to death by him, when she saw the black shadow coming towards her, she thought it was a ghost coming to capture her, but unexpectedly the one coming was Xie Cheng.
Seeing clearly that it was him, she was so happy that she cried and rushed to hug him, as if she had found a source of life when she was about to die.
Xie Cheng comforted: "What happened to you? Why are you here?".
Letting go of him, she wiped her tears and tried to calm down, her voice trembling as she said: "Everyone suddenly disappeared, at that time I suddenly fainted and when I finally woke up, I was already here...".
"It's so scary here, brother." Her trembling hand grabbed his sleeve.
Xie Cheng was very good at making others feel warm, he immediately patted her head, making her feel less scared.
"Don't cry anymore, let's find a way out of here first and then go find everyone." Xie Cheng said.
"Yes." Xiao Xin agreed.
So he found Xiao Xin, so the mission was only left to find Bai Hu, Li Xiao Juan, and Wang. But, what about the group of three, Xie Ying, Liu Yu, and Liang Zun?
The three of them were not in the mission, the problem was to gather enough people to be able to split up to find clues to find the secret of the Qing Fei Hotel.
Along the way, the two of them did not see any exits or turns, it was a straight path leading deep inside. On the way, no one said anything, the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
Xie Cheng started a conversation: "Does Li Xiao Juan know that you used chicken network to revive?".
Xiao Xin was tugging on his sleeve, replying: "Oh, at that time, Mr. Bai explained my strange stories, Juan also understood more clearly about the uses of chicken network, and the two sisters made up again. Hehe."
Xie Cheng nodded and smiled.
After walking for a long time, she felt extremely tired, her legs were about to give out but she couldn't find any way out. Xiao Han started to feel scared: "Where the hell is this place that I can't find a way out after walking for so long?".
"I don't know either." Xie Cheng looked around.
He said: "There was a hole just now so I jumped down thinking it would lead to the basement but I ended up here.".
"A hole?". Xiao Xin thought for a moment, as if remembering something, she stopped and said: "That's right, just now the place where I was sitting behind seemed to have a small hole to crawl into.".
She said and lowered her head, feeling that she was really slow for not telling him earlier. She secretly looked at his face and saw that Xie Cheng was frowning, thinking about something.
Luckily, he was a kind and honest person and didn't blame her.
"Then let's go back there and see." Xie Cheng turned to smile at her.
Xiao Xin raised her head: "Yes."
It took him a long time to walk, and now it took him a long time to come back. When he got there, he lit a lighter and saw that Xiao Xin was indeed sitting in a hole in the wall.
He praised her: "Very good, this saves a lot of effort".
Xiao Xin smiled shyly, thinking to himself, is he really that easy-going?
The two of them started to crawl in, Xie Cheng crawled in first, followed by Xiao Xin. The inside was both narrow and had strange smells that made it hard to breathe, Xie Cheng asked: "Are you okay?".
Xiao Xin crawled and grimaced: "I'm fine... But it's a bit uncomfortable".
Xie Cheng comforted: "Hold on, we'll get out of here".
"Yes".
After crawling for a while, he saw that it was a dead end.
"Are you kidding? It's a dead end." Xie Cheng frowned in front.
"Huh..? We can't go back out either!" Xiao Xin stopped in panic.
What a bad luck, knowing that he wouldn't have gotten in. Xiao Xin blamed himself. Was he stuck here forever?
BOOM BOOM!
BOOM!
Suddenly, the place under him collapsed, the sand sank down, and with no place to hold him, he fell. Xiao Xin behind him was scared and crawled backwards, shouting: "Xie Cheng!".
The space was pitch black, Xie Cheng fell onto the sand above, the sand flying everywhere all over his body. Feeling like he was about to die, he suddenly felt someone catch him. In his panic, he felt this person's warm breath spreading, causing him to unable to control himself and grab this person's neck.
His heart was still pounding as if it was about to explode from the panic.
That person gently landed, a man's low voice rang out: "Are you okay? Xie Cheng".
"?!". Xie Cheng regained his senses and opened his eyes wide.
In the pink light of the fire, he immediately met Liu Yu's cold phoenix eyes with a hint of worry. He was bowing his head, his forehead against his.
Just now his heart was beating so hard, now it was falling out!
This cold handsome man was holding him and also...
Being so intimate, this really made him breathless.
Embarrassedly withdrawing his hand that was holding his neck, he softly said: "Mr. Liu... Thank you, let me down".
His expression remained cold, he didn't say anything and had no intention of letting him go. He just stared at him as if he had just caught a cute lamb, just wanting to hug him to his heart's content.
"Hey Brother Xie! Brother Xie! Don't die... Hu hu, it's my fault for stupidly asking you to go into this hole." Xiao Xin was blaming herself on the hole, shouting down.
Xie Cheng struggled and escaped from his arms.
Liu Yu was caught off guard and lost the little lamb.
Wipe off the dirt and sand on his body, looked up from below, and shouted: "Xiao Xin! I'm fine, jump down".
Xiao Xin: "Jump... Jump down?".
Xie Cheng: "Don't be afraid, just jump, I'll catch you".
Looking down at this hole that was all black, a feeling of fear rose up as if this hole would take her to another space instead of falling down with him.
Xiao Xin hesitated, thinking again that she didn't want to be stuck here, so she closed her eyes and jumped down.
Thud!
Xiao Xin: "Huh?!".
Xie Cheng couldn't catch her and she fell right onto the mattress.
"Should we go somewhere else..? Huhu I don't want to be alone!". Not daring to open her eyes, she curled up on the moldy old mattress and cried.
"Xiao Xin ah..".
Hearing the voice, she immediately jumped up and opened her eyes wide, happily: "Brother Xie? I thought you disappeared and left me alone? Huhu".
Saying that, Xiao Xin rushed to hug him, but grabbed him into nothingness. Liu Yu pulled him into his arms, coldly glaring at her.
Suddenly being glanced at by this man, she was immediately scared and didn't know what was going on. She stepped back, scratched her head, and smiled to change the subject: "Brother Xie, thank you for putting a mattress for me to jump on".
Xie Cheng broke out in a cold sweat, forcing a smile: "It's not you, it's... Mr. Liu".
Xiao Xin also broke out in a cold sweat: "Really..? Thank you, Mr. Liu".
He let go of him, and he immediately dodged him and went to Xiao Xin's side. Only then could he observe everything around him.
This place was actually a ruined, desolate room, it didn't look like a bedroom and it was unclear what kind of room it was. He could only see from where he was standing that there was a broken glass door leading outside. Outside, it was drizzling, and he could clearly see that there were trees and flowers planted in the garden. The flowers seemed to not die and were still surviving in this cold, gloomy place all year round.
It was strange, the hole was clearly very deep. Falling into a place that looked like a cave, but when he crawled through the hole just now, he ended up here, and this place seemed like another dimension.
"Come here and eat." Liu Yu sat next to the fire, grilling something.
He turned around and nodded, and the three of them sat around the fire, and he moved closer to him.
Under the crackling fire, he saw some sweet potatoes and asked, "Where did you get this food?".
"In the reserve card." He split the potato open, pinned it with a branch and gave it to him and Xiao Xin.
She secretly looked at his cold face, her hands trembling slightly as she received it: "Thank... Thank you."
Xie Cheng took it, raised his eyebrows and asked: "What is a reserve card?".
He added firewood to the fire and said: "When you pass three or more missions, you will be rewarded with a reserve card to store food and clothing, but not weapons. If you want to get a reserve card right away, you have to use something else to exchange it and go to the place where the mission is given and request to exchange it. For example, this mission, the place where the mission is given is in the lobby, so go to the lobby to exchange it."
He felt interested: "Oh, then what do you use to exchange the reserve card?".
He said: "A chicken network or valuables."
After hearing that, he no longer wanted to exchange it, he would rather find a bag or something to put it in. Although it was cumbersome and not as compact as a reserve card, at least he didn't have to exchange anything.
He blew on it and ate.
"So delicious! It's true that anything tastes good when you're hungry!" His eyes lit up in praise.
Liu Yu beside him was looking at him attentively, his lips slightly raised, a smile flashing across his cold face.
He had just finished eating half a potato when he suddenly remembered something, and turned around in panic to grab his hand: "Mr. Liu... Where is Xie Ying?!".