inside the channel.
Holding the torch in one hand and the sword in the other, Lin Xin slowly explored the way forward, stopping from time to time to listen carefully to the movement ahead.
Xiao Lingling followed behind him, and also carefully sensed the danger in the surrounding environment with her unique sensing secret method.
"Lin... Brother Lin." She suddenly approached Lin Xindao softly.
"What's the matter?" Lin Xin replied in a very soft voice.
"Do you feel that someone has been following us?" Xiao Lingling said in a voice like a gnat.
In this quiet environment, although her voice was low, Lin Xin could hear her clearly because of the close distance between the two of them.
"Can you feel it?" Lin Xin didn't expect Xiao Lingling to be able to detect the trace of that person in the dark. When he met the big cock just now, he had been thinking about how to lure that person out. Now that Xiao Lingling said that, he Suddenly there is a thought.
"Well, I can feel it a little bit." Xiao Lingling nodded. "I suspect it's the guy who deliberately threw the flare to provoke that rooster monster."
Lin Xin pondered for a while.
"Don't worry...you'll find a chance."
Xiao Lingling didn't say any more.
The two stopped and went, resting every few hours, eating something and drinking water. Then continue on the road. It is basically impossible to distinguish day and night in the cave. You can only judge whether it is time to sleep and rest according to your physical state whether you are sleepy or not.
The black karst cave passage extends obliquely downward, and it takes about a day to walk. The temperature is getting lower and lower, and some thin ice hoarfrost gradually appears on the cave wall and ground.
However, some small branches and dry firewood gradually began to appear in the passage, as well as many bloody symbols on the walls, which seemed a little strange.
"This place should be close to the gathering place of blood beasts." Lin Xin walked to a pile of extinguished firewood, knelt down and touched the aftermath of the ashes of the fire.
"It's been cold for a while."
"Can we still be burned? It's getting colder and colder here." Xiao Lingling hugged her arms, her expression was a little sad.
"Find a suitable place to burn a fire and rest." Lin Xin looked around the passage. "The firewood is still burning."
The entire passage is about ten meters wide and ten meters high. The walls of the cave are pitted and sunken in many places, like a very shallow cave.
He looked around, and with the light of the torch, he quickly found a recessed wall hole.
"come here."
The two picked up all the firewood that could be collected around them, piled them into the wall hole, and then used the flint to ignite some dry firewood leaves by taking advantage of the angle of the recess to avoid the wind.
The flames quickly lit up in the wall hole.
The orange-yellow halo swayed slightly, accompanied by bursts of thick smoke, quickly spread in the passage and drifted to both sides.
Lin Xin stood at the entrance of the wall with a sword in his hand, concentrating on it.
"This kind of smoke will definitely attract nearby creatures, so I will guard for a while."
"Then I'll cook some hot water and something to eat." Xiao Lingling said hastily.
Lin Xin responded and was about to continue talking when he suddenly fell silent and looked carefully towards the front of the passage.
I saw a black-haired horse man holding a sickle, walking slowly towards this direction step by step, making a hissing and sniffling sound as he walked, as if following the smell of fireworks.
Lin Xin coldly held his sword to meet him.
"It's a good time to try the strength of this blood beast."
What he drew was an ordinary long sword, and while the blood beast hadn't reacted, he took a few steps, and shook his hands with a big Songyang needle.
Chi Chi Chi at six o'clock white light floated towards the horsemen. Before it could react in time, it landed hard on the arms holding the sickle.
As soon as the Songyang Needle was touched, Lin Xin felt that the blade was slightly hindered, as if it had been pierced in a thick leather gel.
Did not penetrate very deep. I heard a roar from the horseman.
'mother! '
It exerted strength with both arms, and the sickle swept over fiercely, slashing towards Lin Xin's neck.
The huge black sickle turned into a black shadow and smashed towards it, like a black python, bringing gusts of evil wind.
"Yuanyang Yiqi!" Lin Xin didn't back down, and used the strongest sword move of Wuyan swordsmanship, surrounded by a large amount of scorching air with a sword, and ruthlessly met him.
Blade and sickle collide head-on.
Boom!
The scorching air streams swept towards the centaur at the moment of the collision, making it howl again and again, the black hair all over its body was scorched, curled up and stuck to its body, and the arms holding the sickle were also instantly burned. It was scalded and blistered, just hitting the previous wound.
With pain in his arm, it fell to the ground with a bang.
The huge force also caused Lin Xin to retreat more than ten steps in a row before slowly standing still and releasing the huge force.
There was a blush in his face,
"A lot of strength."
At this time, the centaur's arms were covered with hot and bulging blisters. It turned around and tried to escape, but Lin Xin caught up with him and stabbed the back of the neck with his sword.
The first sword pierced in, not dead, only pierced a small half, Lin Xin burst out of inner energy again, and increased his strength fiercely.
laugh.
The sharp sword pierced the centaur's neck, and its tall body froze immediately. After a few seconds, black blood gushed down the wound.
Lin Xin pulled out the blade fiercely, and shook off the black blood on it.
With a bang, the horse man finally fell down.
"It took two tricks in a row to get rid of it. It's a little difficult for me with my innate fourth-level internal energy, let alone other ordinary second- and third-level disciples." He walked up to the horse man, kicked the big guy, and confirmed it. not moving. Only then did he slash the horseman's head with his sword.
hiss..
At this moment, the horseman on the ground suddenly melted, quickly turned into black liquid and evaporated, and the rising strands of black smoke faded into the air and disappeared in a few strokes.
Only a small piece of blood-red bone was left on the ground.
Lin Xin's sword also cut to the empty space.
He was slightly surprised, and looked at the piece of bone on the ground.
The bone slices are blood red, half crescent shaped, and the whole body is as smooth and moist as glass. The size is only about the size of a thumbnail.
Lin Xin picked up the bone fragment and observed it carefully.
"Is this the so-called blood beast skull?"
"Brother Lin, are you okay?"
Xiao Lingling shouted in fear from behind.
"It's okay." Lin Xin replied. Sensing his inner energy, he secretly calculated. "There is still half of the inner energy. This trick is really not something that can be used casually. It can kill the horseman in seconds after being used twice, but the consumption is incredible. It seems that Xiantian only increases the innate energy, but the inner The total amount of gas is still not enough."
He waited in the passage for a while, and felt that there was no movement, so he returned to the wall cave and bent down to sit down.
The fire had already ignited, and the warm heat immediately drove away the chill in the nearby air.
Xiao Lingling is taking out some prepared metal utensils, pouring water and dried meat into them, hanging them on the fire to cook the soup.
Not long after, when the water in the pot boiled, the jerky began to be boiled and turned over and over.
Xiao Lingling took out another stack of white dry biscuits and gave one to Lin Xin.
"Brother Lin, this is a special dry food cake, one piece can be worth a full meal."
Lin Xin took it and pinched it. He felt that the cake was thick and a little hard, as if it had been pressed tightly.
He pulled it down and put it in his mouth. It was similar to dried steamed buns, a little sweet and a little pan sour.
Xiao Lingling filled a bowl of broth by herself, then took out her own kind of black chocolate beans, and ate it with the cake.
"Du Shi Dan can be eaten with hot soup, and the effect will be slightly better."
Lin Xin also took out the chocolate beans. This is the speed pill that Xiao Lingling said.
The two quickly resolved to eat and drink, cleaned up the food and its residues, and sat around the campfire to keep warm and rest.
"Brother Lin, tell me, will those members of the drug gang catch up from behind?" Xiao Lingling no longer had the charm of the past, but sat on the fire with her legs crossed as if she had taken off her mask On the side, regardless of his dirty clothes, he stared blankly at the flames.
"I don't know..." Lin Xin shook his head slightly. "I don't know if that square is the only passage we come in. If there are other passages, then they may not come in."
"It's just the two of us..." Xiao Lingling lowered her voice, "Actually, Brother Lin..." She opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but then stopped.
Lin Xin waited for her to continue speaking. After waiting for a while, he saw her staring blankly at the fire, not knowing what she was thinking.
"What do you want to say?" He began to slowly adjust his inner qi, turning the food he ate into inner qi to supplement, and at the same time recover his strength as soon as possible.
Xiao Lingling looked a little lonely.
"It's nothing..." She reached out and grabbed a strand of hair on the right side that was hanging down on her, and gently wrapped it around her hand.
"I originally thought that I could make good use of others, use those lecherous men to steadily improve my cultivation step by step, and protect myself from danger. Only when I entered the cave this time did I realize that I was really naive... .. "A wry smile flashed across her face.
Lin Xin didn't know how to respond. The woman seemed to regard him as a trustworthy and good person, so he didn't talk too much, and simply listened in silence.
Xiao Lingling seemed to hold back for a long time, and finally had a chance to talk about it.
"Brother Lin, in fact, you don't know... Before you saw me, I was hunted down by another monster who could pretend to be someone else. I met Senior Brother Guang and another guy who was always attentive to me. .”
When she said this, she paused, and couldn't help but let out a chuckle.
"Relying on my small-scale lightness skill and strong sense ability, I narrowly avoided chasing and killing many times, and asked Brother Guang to save me. But he seemed to be frightened by the monster that could pretend to be someone else, and I was afraid that I was also pretending. No matter what No matter what I say, they won't let me get close, and they won't save me."
"Isn't this normal?" Lin Xin interjected softly. "You don't have to worry too much, after all, they won't be able to tell whether you are real or fake for a while."
"But Brother Lin, you can!" Xiao Lingling suddenly raised her head, staring at him with sparkling eyes, looking straight into his eyes. "They have been around me all day long, and they still can't tell if I'm real or fake, but Brother Lin, you recognized me as real at a glance."
There is something in her words, and it seems that there is something deeper that has not been said.
Lin Xin didn't want to continue, so he just lowered his head to avoid her sight.
"You think too much."
Xiao Lingling couldn't help lowering her head, but her cheeks seemed to be a little red from the fire.
The two were silent for a while, Lin Xin adjusted his breath silently to restore his internal energy, Xiao Lingling focused on helping him feel the safety around him.
There was silence in the passage, only the slight sound of the fire burning.