Elena, whom he was holding onto, was only connected to her upper body by her left hand and head; her lower body had been bitten off by the monster, and the other monster's huge mouth was banging around at the entrance of the cave!
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Volume One: The First Signs of Growth, Chapter Thirty: Giving and Taking
At this moment, Zhou Xuan had no time for sentimentality or lamentation over his companions' deaths, but this unprecedented shock had indeed deeply stirred the fear within him. www.wenxueMi.CoM
Having discarded Elena's remains, the two monsters at the cave entrance fought and struggled for the body, but neither could squeeze into the narrow opening.
Zhou Xuan could only hold Fu Ying's body and retreat backward in the cave. The further they went into the cave, the higher and more spacious it became. After about ten meters, the length and width of the cave were nearly two or three meters, enough for them to stand up and walk.
Fu Ying's body was limp, which showed that she was in great pain from the injury in her hand and was also greatly frightened. Zhou Xuan half supported and half carried her inside.
Ito, carrying a crossbow, walked at the front. Ono Yuriko stopped, glanced at Zhou Xuan, and then joined him in helping Fu Ying.
The terrain of the cave rose higher and higher, but the width and height of the cave did not increase. Zhou Xuan looked at the water meter on his wrist. The water depth had been slowly decreasing from 270 meters at the beginning. After seven or eight minutes, the water depth was only a few meters.
Ito, who was in front, stopped and waved to the three behind him, signaling them to stop. Then he slowly poked his head out of the water, froze for a few seconds, and then immediately dived back into the water to wave to Zhou Xuan and the other two. He then jumped out of the water again.
Judging from Ito's actions, there must be no danger on the water. Zhou Xuan and Yuriko helped Fu Ying slowly walk upwards. At this time, there was no pressure in the water, and Zhou Xuan stopped transmitting ice energy into Fu Ying's body.
Fu Ying had practiced martial arts since childhood, so she wasn't particularly surprised by Zhou Xuan's ability. Masters who had practiced internal energy could have this ability. As for Zhou Xuan, she just thought that she hadn't expected him to be a master who had practiced internal energy. She didn't think much more about it. Even if she had, she wouldn't have thought of any strange or unusual abilities.
The three of them were stunned by the world outside the water the moment they surfaced!
This is an empty stone cave about four or five square meters in size and about thirty or forty meters high. There is no way out on any of the four sides, but the stone walls are inlaid with sparkling gems!
Some of these gems glowed green, some white, some purplish-red, and some blue. The largest was a large gem on the ceiling that emitted light like an incandescent bulb. It was the size of a washbasin and emitted the strongest light, illuminating the entire cave.
After taking off his diving suit and standing there for a while, Ito suddenly started dancing and shouting wildly in the cave!
Without even thinking, Zhou Xuan knew that the little Japanese devil was shouting "I'm rich" or something, but he didn't even consider whether he could take all the wealth and gems out of the country.
Zhou Xuan also disliked his actions towards Yuriko. Although he believed that one's own life was the most important thing in a life-threatening situation, he could not bring himself to sacrifice his companions' lives to protect his own.
Zhou Xuan ignored him and, together with Baihezi, helped Fu Ying out of the water and placed her on a flat rock. Then he checked Fu Ying's injuries.
Fu Ying's right wrist was pierced by a powerful arrow. Zhou Xuan breathed a sigh of relief after carefully examining it. Although it had pierced through, it was on the side and did not hit the artery or blood vessel.
Zhou Xuan also took off his diving suit. Since everyone knew that the water temperature in the cave was very cold, they all wore thermal underwear under their diving suits.
Then Zhou looked into the cave. In the very center, below the largest gemstone above, there was a large, round, golden stone weighing at least several tons. It was about two meters high and so wide that it would take three or four people to encircle it. Around the large round stone, there were six or seven other golden stones of the same size as the one Zhou Xuan had found at the bottom of the sea at Chongkou. Of course, they were also the same as the one Fu Tianlai had taken out.
Zhou Xuan's heart was pounding wildly!
This place is indeed the lair of the golden superpower stone. Six or seven stones like the one he obtained are already extraordinary. What kind of energy would that enormous stone contain?
On the other side of the large rock, there was a faint white human skeleton. Zhou Xuan had Fu Ying sit on the rock, and he slowly walked over to the front of the skeleton, where he could see it clearly.
This is a dead man sitting by a large rock. To the right of his skeleton, on the ground, there is a machete and a pistol.
Zhou Xuan walked closer, picked up the pistol, and examined it carefully. The pistol had an old-fashioned design, quite different from the newer types of pistols in modern times. It was somewhat similar to the revolvers used by cowboys in Western movies. The barrel was a bit long, and the gun body was covered with thick rust, clearly indicating that it had been weathered into scrap metal over many years.
Suddenly, Zhou Xuan had a thought: Could these skeletons be Fu Ying's great-grandfather?
But this cave is very strange. It's hard to be sure whether the skeletons are actually Fu Ying's great-grandfather's. They might have been left by other adventurers, or perhaps Fu Ying's great-grandfather had already perished in the belly of a monster. The gems and pearls on the stone walls are obviously unlikely to have grown there on their own, and they are about three meters above the ground. Apart from the huge rock in the very center of the cave, there is nothing else that can be used to step on and climb up. It's unknown how these gems were set there.
After jumping around for a while, Ito calmed down and wandered around looking for something handy to climb up and take out the gem, but he couldn't find it after circling the cave several times.
Besides the enormous boulder in the very center of the cave, there were only seven fist-sized small stones, a skeleton, and the four of them; nothing else.
Zhou Xuan squatted down and carefully examined the skeleton. On the left ring finger of the skeleton was a gold and jade ring. Zhou Xuan carefully reached out to touch the ring on the skeleton's finger, but as soon as he touched the skeleton, it all fell apart in a clatter, turning into a pile of fragments.
Zhou Xuan clasped his hands in a bow and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Then he picked up the ring, examined it, but couldn't figure out what it was, and then took it back to Fu Ying's side.
With Baihezi's help, Fu Ying took off her diving suit. However, because the steel arrow had not yet been removed from her right hand, which had been hit by an arrow, she could not take off the diving suit and could only hang it on her wrist.
Zhou Xuan handed the ring to Fu Ying and asked, "Miss Fu, take a look at this ring. It's from the finger of that pile of skeletons. Take a look."
Fu Ying reached out her left hand to take it, looked at it, then turned to look at the inside of the ring, and said, "This is my great-grandfather's. There is a Fu character engraved inside the ring. My grandfather also had one of the same kind. These are the two rings that my great-grandfather ordered back then."
Zhou Xuan took the ring again and examined it carefully. Sure enough, there was a character "Fu" engraved inside. He had been careless and hadn't noticed it. He sighed and said, "Miss Fu, your great-grandfather's remains should be that pile of bones. We've found them, but I'm afraid we can't leave this water cave anymore. The only way out is through the water cave, but we can avoid the attacks of those ferocious beasts!"
As Zhou Xuan spoke, he handed the ring back to Fu Ying. Fu Ying clutched it tightly, her brows furrowed, her face pale, and her lips turning purplish-black.
Zhou Xuan was startled. He touched Fu Ying's forehead with the back of his hand and found that she had a fever. In addition, she had lost too much blood in her wrist. Because the arrow had not been removed and the wound had not been bandaged, it was still bleeding. Fortunately, it had not damaged any blood vessels or arteries, otherwise she would not have survived until now.
"Miss Fu, please bear with it. I'll pull the arrow out for you. The wound needs to be bandaged!" Zhou Xuan gently laid Fu Ying down on the rock. The wound needed to be treated quickly.
Suddenly, with a "ding," a steel arrow struck the rock beside Zhou Xuan, causing sparks to fly from the rock!
Zhou Xuan was startled and took a step back. He looked up and saw the Japanese soldier Ito pointing a crossbow at him, grinning maliciously as he said in broken Chinese, "You... go to the rock with Yuriko, let Yuriko step on your shoulders to take out the gem... hurry up, or I'll shoot you dead!"
Zhou Xuan angrily said, "Fu Ying... Miss Fu is injured. I need to remove the arrowhead from her, otherwise her life will be in danger!"
"Who cares about her? Get to the gems and start digging!" Ito brandished his crossbow at Zhou Xuan and said fiercely, "Besides, we can use her as bait to lure those monsters when we get out. Saving her now is pointless. How can she keep up if she's injured? Hmph, you have to give up something to gain something. If you want to get out, you have to trade the lives of the wounded!"
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Volume 1: The First Signs of Growth, Chapter 31: Evolution (Part 1)
Yuriko Ono, her face pale and filled with anger, spoke a few words to Ito, but Zhou Xuan couldn't understand a word; they were speaking Japanese this time.
Ito gave a cold snort and waved the crossbow at Yuriko. Yuriko's face turned ashen, and she bit her lower lip so hard it almost bled!
Zuo Teng remained unmoved, shook the crossbow at Yuriko and Zhou Xuan, and shouted, "Hurry up!"