Seeing Wei Xiaoyu like this, Zhou Xuan wanted to rescue her even more. She rested for five or six minutes. Fortunately, she was protected by the ice, otherwise she would have been frozen by the cold water.
Zhou Xuan looked at the small indentation he had created by transforming and devouring the rock he was holding onto. Suddenly, an idea popped into his head. He looked up at the ceiling, but since there was no light, he couldn't see up. The ice energy could only measure about ten meters above. However, when he fell, he had already measured it clearly. It was a deep cave that was large at the bottom and small at the top. Under normal circumstances, no one could climb up it because the cave walls were smooth with no protrusions, making it impossible to find any leverage. Moreover, it was too high, and most people didn't have the physical strength to climb such a steep and high place.
However, Zhou Xuan suddenly thought of a method and was very excited. He immediately swam forward. Although he had an idea, he still needed to explore other exits. He swam to the other side and continued until he reached the rocky ground, but he still couldn't find any other way out.
Wei Xiaoyu cried out excitedly, "Zhou Xuan... Zhou Xuan, come back quickly, come back quickly!"
They couldn't find a way out, nor any other monsters or strange objects, and they couldn't even detect the entrance or exit of the water source. Presumably, the entrance to the water source must be very, very deep, and they could only detect a distance of fifteen or sixteen meters or less.
Wei Xiaoyu had already squatted down and stretched out her hand to wait. As soon as Zhou Xuan swam to her, she grabbed him and pulled him to the shore. After he was out of the water with a "splash," Wei Xiaoyu took a towel from her backpack to wipe him dry, and then quickly picked up Zhou Xuan's clothes and made him put them on.
Although Zhou Xuan only had 20% of the ice energy, it was enough to protect his body. However, he was still a little tired after swimming for such a long distance, unlike when he had 100% ice energy, which could eliminate fatigue.
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Seeing the tears and worry on Wei Xiaoyu's face, Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Xiaoyu, don't worry, I've thought of a way, but I need to restore my powers to at least 50% before I can last that long!"
Wei Xiaoyu was filled with despair. She didn't think too much about whether she could get out. In fact, she felt a bit of reluctance because she knew that if she and Zhou Xuan left this place, Zhou Xuan would never be as close to her as he was now. Once they returned to the capital, they would be like strangers again.
She wanted to stay there as long as possible, even though she was scared and knew there was no way to survive and that once the food was gone, she would just have to wait to die. But she was still willing to stay with Zhou Xuan like this.
Seeing that Wei Xiaoyu seemed to be in a daze and hadn't listened to him, Zhou Xuan didn't say anything more to her. He thought it was better to wait until the ice energy was restored before talking about it. It was too early to say it now. Maybe he could give her a surprise when it could really be achieved.
After getting dressed, Zhou Xuan sat down to rest for a while, then got up and retrieved the nylon ropes that the men had used to tie him and Wei Xiaoyu from the rocks.
The two nylon ropes, once untied, were each six or seven meters long. Zhou Xuan had broken them again, but after checking, he tied a knot at the joint, rejoined the ropes, and placed them beside him. He then smiled at Wei Xiaoyu and said, "Xiaoyu, just rest and rest some more. Eat when you're hungry and conserve your energy. I need you to have enough energy for the time being. I'm going to train now!"
Wei Xiaoyu listened to Zhou Xuan's words and gently complied. After turning off the flashlight, she lay down next to him and fell asleep again. Zhou Xuan stopped talking to her and simply used his ice energy to recover.
No one knows how many days passed, but Zhou Xuan just kept practicing to recover his ice energy. When he was hungry, he would eat bread and biscuits, then practice again. When he was tired, he would sleep for a while.
After waking up, Wei Xiaoyu did some gymnastics and practiced martial arts moves. The rest of the time she just slept and didn't disturb Zhou Xuan. Although Zhou Xuan said he might have a way, she didn't have much hope. Anyway, she was with him and didn't feel like she couldn't stand it.
Although Zhou Xuan did not know the exact time, he roughly estimated that four or five days had passed and the ice energy had recovered to more than 40%.
The recovery was a bit slow, and the recovery speed was not ideal. After thinking about it, Zhou Xuan decided to proceed with the plan!
This was something that had to be done, because all the food in his backpack was gone. If he stayed any longer, even if he could recover more of his ice energy, Zhou Xuan couldn't wait any longer without food. It would take at least two days to recover another 10% of his ice energy, but without food, Wei Xiaoyu might be too weak and hungry by the time he recovered about 50% of his ice energy, which would be a loss.
"Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, wake up, get up, I have something to tell you!"
Zhou Xuan woke Wei Xiaoyu up and said, "Get your things ready. Take what you need and throw away what you don't. We're leaving!"
Wei Xiaoyu had just woken him up, and her mind was still a bit foggy. She hesitated for a moment before asking, "Go? Where to?"
Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Get out!" After saying that, he picked up the two nylon ropes, tied them into a circle, and pulled hard until they broke. Then he picked up the extra piece and tied the two circles together.
Wei Xiaoyu stared at him blankly, not knowing what he meant.
After Zhou Xuan finished making the backpacks, he picked them up again. There wasn't much left inside, but he was prepared to carry them. He gave one to Wei Xiaoyu and kept one for himself, then put the backpacks on his back.
Wei Xiaoyu had no idea what Zhou Xuan was going to do, but she put her backpack on her back. Zhou Xuan then took a rope and tied it around her waist, leaving a more than one-meter-long loop exposed. He also tied another nylon rope around himself, and the ropes were connected in the middle, which meant that he and Wei Xiaoyu were strung together with rope.
After finishing all this, Zhou Xuan smiled and asked Wei Xiaoyu, "Xiaoyu, are you ready?"
"What exactly are you trying to do?" Wei Xiaoyu asked curiously. "Of course I'm ready!"
Wei Xiaoyu didn't know what Zhou Xuan was going to do, but he had gone down into the pool to explore a few days ago. Could it be that Zhou Xuan was going to take her to the bottom of the water?
Wei Xiaoyu was a little scared if she had to dive into the water. She would rather stay on the rocks with Zhou Xuan and die quietly than dive into this terrible pool and disappear!
Zhou Xuan smiled at her, then looked up at the sky. Wei Xiaoyu was shining a flashlight up there, then looked up as well, and asked curiously, "Is it possible to climb up from here?"
Zhou Xuan nodded and said seriously, "That's right, we're going to climb up from here!"
Wei Xiaoyu asked curiously, "This rock wall extends from the inside out, which is an insurmountable difficulty for rock climbing. Besides, there is nowhere to hold onto on this rock wall. It is so smooth, how can you climb it? Let alone a height of more than 300 meters, you can't even climb up two or three meters. There is nowhere to put your hands and feet!"
Zhou Xuan smiled and said, "Xiaoyu, have you forgotten that I have superpowers? Of course, my superpowers haven't fully recovered yet, and my physical strength isn't strong enough to do high-intensity tasks. But I can still do simple things. So I've been trying my best to recover my ice energy for the past few days. But we can't wait any longer today. If we wait any longer, we won't have any food and we'll run out of strength!"
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Volume 1, Chapter 347
As Zhou Xuan explained to Wei Xiaoyu, he reached out and grabbed the hard, cold rock. The rock wall immediately felt like tofu as his hand tore a hole in it!
Then Zhou Xuan moved his hand again, and the hole he had made with his hand transformed into a hook shape. He then hooked the nylon rope from his waist onto the stone hook, and kicked off the rock with his feet. As he touched the rock, the icy air transformed and swallowed it, creating two small holes just big enough for his feet to step on. ()
Wei Xiaoyu stared in disbelief as Zhou Xuan hung on the rock. Then Zhou Xuan made another hook on the rock above his head, took out the rope hanging below and put it on the hook above, then climbed up a step and made another hook on his head.
Wei Xiaoyu immediately understood!
Zhou Xuan intended to use this method to climb up step by step, which was a good approach. However, she had never considered how Zhou Xuan's special ability could be used to escape the cave, which lacked realism and immersion, so she hadn't thought of it.
Zhou Xuan had already climbed to a rock face three meters above her. He turned around and looked down at her, saying, "Xiaoyu, follow me up. Move the rope loop with each step, and re-hook it before climbing the next step!"
Wei Xiaoyu was overwhelmed with emotions. She stood there for a moment, then followed Zhou Xuan's example and started climbing.
To be honest, in terms of rock climbing and physical strength, she was stronger than Zhou Xuan. She practiced frequently in the army, but she had never climbed a rock obstacle more than 300 meters high, and it wasn't that difficult. However, after Zhou Xuan used his superpower to create inward-curving stone hooks and small holes to step on, it wasn't too difficult. All that was needed was the stamina to persist for that long.
Zhou Xuan climbed another two or three meters, then looked back at Wei Xiaoyu who had followed. She hadn't found it difficult these few times, but it was getting harder and harder as she went higher. The higher she went, the more the rock wall became like the inside of a round bottle, forming an inward curve. Her feet couldn't find a foothold, and she was almost suspended in mid-air, relying entirely on the nylon rope for support. To take another step, she would need to grip the stone hook tightly with one hand, supporting her entire body weight with just that one hand, and then use the other hand to lift the rope and hang it on the stone hook above her head. This movement wasn't difficult in one step, but the difficulty lay in continuing for hundreds of meters. If she couldn't hold on, she might lose her grip and fall.
If he falls again, Zhou Xuan's ice energy will no longer be able to transform and devour the rocks below. If he falls again, he will end up like the eleven men who died from the fall, turning into a pile of minced meat!
This feeling started when we climbed to about forty meters. With our feet in the small openings of the rocks below, our bodies were tilted so much that our heads were facing outwards and our feet were facing inwards. Our feet couldn't bear any weight at all. When we were down there, the rock walls were flat, and each step up wasn't too strenuous. But now it was different. Every step up required the strength of our hands. After climbing to about forty or fifty meters, both of us were panting heavily.
Zhou Xuan, in particular, suffered severe depletion of his ice energy. Since he had not fully recovered, he also had to expend a great deal of physical strength to first use his ice energy to transform and devour the stone hooks, and then use his hands to hang them up one by one with his physical strength!
Zhou Xuan had never been so tired before. Sweat dripped down his body, and Wei Xiaoyu, who was below, was soaked by his sweat.