In the salt mine.
"Sister Xuefei, the cry of the Silver King that you just heard, was it coming from the cave? It couldn't be outside, right?" Li Wenxi had already walked around the mine, and even ignored Qi Xuefei's obstruction and touched the wall that Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang touched before they disappeared.
But nothing happened.
Qi Xuefei recalled the sound at that time: "Now that you mention it... No, it should have come from the cave. Although it feels a little vague, it is definitely coming from the cave."
"Can… "
Li Wenxi looked at the stone wall in front of her. She really had the urge to use an explosive crossbow to blow up the wall. She felt that Xu Xin and the others were actually behind the wall.
If she were alone, she might actually do it.
But Qi Xuefei was still here at the moment, and she wasn't sure if her actions would have any impact on Xu Xin and the others, which made her a little hesitant.
At this moment, a faint sound suddenly came from the other side of the stone wall.
"Eh?" Li Wenxi's eyes widened. "Sister Xuefei, did you hear any sound?"
"Is this... the sound of talking? The sound of people talking?" Qi Xuefei also took a few steps forward and listened carefully.
The voice was a little vague, but Li Wenxi didn't care about it. He just put his ear against the wall and listened carefully.
"… It's Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang's voices, those two!" Li Wenxi shouted excitedly, "I knew they were behind this wall!"
Qi Xuefei pulled Li Wenxi away from the wall and said helplessly, "How dare you stick to the wall? You want to disappear too!"
"Hehe, I'm really excited!" Li Wenxi heard the two people's voices and knew that they were fine for the time being, so he felt a little more relaxed and his tone of voice became light.
The sound from the stone wall became clearer and clearer. Without having to stick to the wall, Li Wenxi and Qi Xuefei could already hear the sound clearly.
"You said... if we break down this wall, can we return to our original position?" Xu Xin's voice came from the other side.
"It's Xu Xin!" Li Wenxi immediately shouted at the wall, "Xu Xin! Can you hear me? We are behind the wall!"
But the two people behind the stone wall didn't seem to hear her shouting.
"Maybe? There is no exit nearby, so we should give it a try..." This was Ji Chaoyang's voice.
"They are still together!" Qi Xuefei heaved a sigh of relief after hearing their voices. She then shouted at the wall, "Xu Xin! Ji Chaoyang! Can you hear me?"
As a result, the two people opposite did not react at all and continued to speak their own words.
They could clearly hear the normal conversations of the two people behind the wall, but when they shouted so loudly, the other side couldn't hear them!
"What's going on!" Li Wenxi was a little anxious, and slapped the stone wall with his palm, "Hey! The two people on the opposite side, can't you hear it? Is this wall one-way soundproof? "
Li Wenxi slapped a few more times and shouted a few more times, but it was still useless.
"... Let's go out and get the resources outside." Xu Xin's voice.
"Okay." Ji Chaoyang's voice.
The conversation between the two ended, and then there was the sound of footsteps gradually fading away, and after that, nothing could be heard.
"Ah! They're gone! I'm so mad, why can't I hear anything?" Li Wenxi punched the wall. She was so excited by the two people's voices and the shouting that her face turned red. "Why can only we hear it?"
"Well... they just said that they will be back later, so we can wait a little longer." Qi Xuefei thought for a moment and suggested, "If it still doesn't work next time, we can just blast open this wall and give it a try."
"Yeah! I thought so too," Li Wenxi nodded vigorously and pursed her lips and said, "If they hadn't said they would come back, I would have blown up this wall right now! Sister Xuefei, it might be dangerous in here, you go to the cave entrance, and leave me alone here."
"Okay, I'll help you keep an eye on the cave entrance. Don't do anything unnecessary, okay?" Qi Xuefei was really afraid that Li Wenxi would suddenly disappear. If she was really left alone here, it would be really scary as it was almost dark.
"Don't worry, it won't happen, at least not before they come back!" Li Wenxi raised his head and patted his chest to assure.
Qi Xuefei walked to the cave entrance, looked at the white horse lying there, leisurely eating hay from time to time, and sighed.
These two guys are really good at making trouble. They brought them out when they first met, and then disappeared, leaving them waiting here. It's really...
However, perhaps it is because of this that they are the first and second in all regions.
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The other side.
Xu Xin swam forward cautiously.
The school of piranhas, which had moved farther away, began to stir again, but no fish dared to rush towards him.
After making sure that the eight piranhas lying at the bottom of the water were dead, Xu Xin quickly put them all into his backpack and left that location.
While swimming upstream, Xu Xin grabbed a red carp that was circling around him without any warning.
He brought the fish to the surface, took out his boning knife and killed it directly.
Special Red Carp (Green): A red carp that has been affected by an unknown force for a short period of time. Currently, it is not much different from ordinary carp.
This unknown force should be referring to this bright white light.
But a shorter time
Why is it a shorter time? Isn't this space always affected by the white light
Xu Xin dissected the carp again, but didn't get anything good. He shook his head and threw it back into the lake.
There was no space in his backpack to store these ordinary carp materials.
At this time, Ji Chaoyang had basically finished picking and digging these colorful flowers.
The colorful flowers have turned into a piece of turned land. In addition, the two lush banyan trees have also been cut down by the two men. The paradise that was originally like a paradise is now only left with a layer of grass, which looks a little miserable.
"Those piranhas underwater are coming again, right?" Ji Chaoyang asked before Xu Xin could speak.
"That's right. However, these piranhas don't dare to enter the range of the white light." Xu Xin said, referring to the orb fragment in the crack of the stone wall.
"...Oh? So it seems that this orb can dispel mutant creatures?" Ji Chaoyang looked at the orb fragments, "Perhaps, this orb is the key to our escape."
Xu Xin looked at the orb above the waterfall and fell into deep thought.
The fragment of the gem was at least six or seven meters away from the lake. Although the stone wall was uneven, it was very slippery because it was near the waterfall and could not be climbed at all.
How to get this orb
It would be great if Ah Fu was here, he could just fly up and pick up the orb fragments.
"Hmm!" Coco stood up and pushed Xu Xin's leg.
"Hmm? What's wrong Coco?"
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" Coco pointed her little paw in the direction of Baozhu and cried a few times.
"Oh?" Xu Xin understood what Ke Ke meant, and his eyes lit up. "You mean, you can climb up?"
"嘤!" Coco cried again, then jumped onto the Silver King's head.
The Silver King already knew Coco's intention. He let out a roar, jumped into the lake, and swam towards the waterfall.
The two beasts soon reached the foot of the waterfall.
"Isn't your Silver King afraid of this white light?" Ji Chaoyang suddenly discovered a problem.
Now the Silver King is in the brightest place of the white light, but it still does not behave like the underwater piranhas.
"… It looks like it is." Xu Xin was also a little confused, "Could it be that the white light is not targeting mutant creatures?"
Coco jumped up from the top of the Silver King's head and grabbed the wall with her four claws.
Although Coco looks so cute and harmless, its claws are very sharp and can firmly grasp the rock wall.
Its small body crawled along the uneven wall, even using some protruding stones as springboards to climb up easily. In just a few seconds, its claws had already grabbed the gap where the gem fragment was.
The gap was not big, but Coco's body was also small, so she crawled straight in and crawled to the front of the orb.
Coco curiously poked the broken piece gently with her little paw, and then patted it twice with her paw.
Because the little paws blocked the white light, the entire underground space became dim and bright due to Coco's movements, and the fish in the lake began to swim around in panic.
The fragment of the gem seemed to have been fixed in the gap. After making sure that the glowing fragment would not burn her claws, Coco used her claws and mouth to break the fragment of the gem out.
"Ying!" The moment it was broken off, Coco's body tilted backwards and almost fell down. Fortunately, it used all four limbs to stabilize its body.
"Well done, Coco!" Xu Xin applauded when he saw that Coco had already got the pearl.
"Hmm!" Coco responded, picked up the fragment, dodged the waterfall below, climbed down the stone wall next to her in a few steps, and jumped onto the head of the Silver King.
The entire space immediately became much darker, and the moment Coco jumped onto the Silver King's head, the fish swimming in the lake were no longer panicked, but began to swim collectively around the Silver King.
Soon, the Silver King swam back to the shore. Coco jumped down and climbed along Xu Xin's legs into his arms.
Xu Xin picked up Coco and took out the fragment of the gem that was still emitting a bright white light from its mouth.
The surroundings were illuminated again, and the fish in the lake returned to their calm.
Although the light of the orb fragment can illuminate the entire space, even in Xu Xin's hand, looking directly at the orb fragment does not feel dazzling.
However, what surprised Xu Xin was that this orb did not trigger any prompts.
"Why is there no hint?" Xu Xin was a little surprised.
This orb fragment is the same as the core of the tree house, with no level color to be seen. Xu Xin thought that he would know what it is just by holding it in his hand, but unexpectedly, not only is there no level color, there is not even an introduction.
This was the first time he had encountered such a situation.
"Do you want to try it?" Xu Xin handed it to Ji Chaoyang.
Ji Chaoyang took the orb fragment.
"How about it, any hints?"
"You didn't give me any hints about your ability in this area, so I naturally don't have any either." Ji Chaoyang carefully checked it over and over again, but found nothing, so he returned it to Xu Xin, "This thing was taken by your little guy, so you can take it."
Xu Xin took it back. Although there was no introduction to this thing, looking at the surrounding environment, the two could basically guess its effect.
"You really don't want it?" Xu Xin picked up the fragment of the gem with two fingers and raised it high. The surroundings became clearer and brighter under the illumination of the white light.
"If you do this again, I might regret it." Ji Chaoyang said jokingly with a smile, "When you really find a use for it in the future, you can give me a share. By the way, you just said that the piranhas are afraid of the white light, right? Maybe we can take advantage of this."
"I have the same idea." Xu Xin also nodded.
This kind of piranha has blue scales. Now that it is right in front of them, they certainly cannot let it go.