Ambush from all sides

As the sunrise approached, the morning light spread quietly, and the sky in the distance was gradually turning pale.In the thin morning mist, a few stars flickered faintly, about to be obliterated by the bright light.

There was a faint coolness in the air.

Zhan Hao lowered his eyes, and walked quickly from the lower reaches of the floating water all the way up, in front of him was the Yuliang Mountain surrounded by a faint smog.He was still wearing yesterday's green shirt and hadn't had time to change it. He might be sweating, but who cares.

The entrance to Yuliang Mountain has still not been found, and there is no way to find the little fox.

He searched within a radius of five miles, using his skills to search for all possible passages again and again, but all failed.The sound of floating water gurgling in his ears, Zhan Hao couldn't help heaving a heavy sigh in his heart when he heard this sound.Xiaodouzi had fallen asleep with a lock of hair nestled next to his neck, but at this moment he was woken up by the ups and downs in his neck, his eyes were sleepy, and he let out a bewildered "chirp".

"Woke you up?" Zhan Hao tilted his head to look at it, and stretched out his hand to gently comfort the bird's small body.His voice had become dry and hoarse, and his eyes were also slightly black.Xiaodouzi retracted her wings, stared blankly at him for a long while, said "chirp" softly, closed her eyes and rubbed tightly into the socket of his neck again.

"Young master!" Behind him, Zheng Dong hurried over and walked to Zhan Hao's side: "I placed the maids of the Lin family in Cuiling, and Qiu Shaoqing only took away the few people who were in charge, and the rest were not too embarrassing. , but none of them know what caves exist in Yuliang Mountain."

Zhan Hao listened, his gaze became darker and darker: "Is that so?" Seeing that he was depressed, Zheng Dong paused for a while before saying, "Well, after Mr. Qiu heard about this, I have already rushed over from home, and it is estimated that I will arrive soon."

"Qiu Langxing?" Zhan Hao raised his face in doubt, Zheng Dong nodded firmly, and said, "He seems to have thought of something..."

Before the words fell, there was that mean, fearful voice from the downstream of the floating water: "Hey! It's too useless for me to talk about you! Isn't it just a person, and I can't find it yet, you all can't find it." He is a master!"

Zhan Hao and Zheng Dong turned their heads to look at the same time, and saw Qiu Langxing walking slowly behind Chong Lian.This guy has been yelling and exhausted since he came back from Suzhou, so he has been resting in the exhibition house with Uncle Zhong, and sorting out the affairs left over from Suzhou by the way.In the middle of the night yesterday, I saw Zheng Dongchonglian brought back a group of people, making a lot of noise, and only then did I know that the Lin family had been raided, and Dead Leaf and Lin Zhihuan were still nowhere to be found.

Qiu Langxing thought, isn't it just a mountain, knowing that it is inside is not enough, is it really necessary to be blocked by this mountain wall for life? "Get some thunderbolts, once you blow them up, wouldn't it be over if a hole is created?" Qiu Lang walked up to Zhan Hao, rolled his eyes and said something contemptuously.Zhan Hao stared at him expressionlessly, and said coldly: "Do you know what the structure of the hole is? A set of ten or ten sets of hundreds, one trigger will affect the whole body. If it is not blown well, The entire group of caves inside will collapse! If Cenbie is crushed, how will you compensate me?"

Qiu Langxing stared at him, and after a while he smiled embarrassingly.Zhan Hao gave him a cold look, turned around and continued walking towards Yuliang Mountain.Qiu Langxing stuck out his tongue, and trotted to keep up without saying a word.

The four of them walked along the floating water, with the river bank at their feet.Qiu Langxing turned his head to look at the groups of small fish in the river as he walked, blinking his eyes.There seems to be some gap under the river bed, or there are animals lying down below, in short, it keeps bubbling out, one after another.Looking at the bubble, Qiu Langxing couldn't help thinking of something, but it was a little vague.There is a spring on Yuliang Mountain, the spring water merges into the floating water, hiss, will it...

"Wait, Zhan Hao!" Qiu Langxing's eyes widened suddenly, and he rushed to Zhan Hao with a sudden realization of the excited expression on his face: "If you really care about it, you will be confused. Even this matter Forgot everything! Do you still remember the underground palace in the hidden mountain in Xinghua County? The underground river under the underground palace leads to a pool outside the mountain!"

Zhan Hao looked at him with vagueness and slight suspicion in his eyes.It's not that he didn't think about it, but the floating water is so shallow, it doesn't look like an aboveground river connected to an underground river!These pools are generally very deep.

Thinking about it, Zhan Hao's eyes slowly turned away again.Qiu Langxing stared at him, feeling baffled in his heart: "Why don't you try it?"

"The floating water is too shallow to connect to the underground river. Maybe I haven't thought about it." Zhan Hao said lightly, turned around and left again.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and the sun slowly rose from the edge of the sky.The sun drove away the morning mist, and the birds began to leave their nests one after another.Zheng Dong looked at Zhan Hao who was hurrying ahead, and a thought slowly settled in his mind.He exchanged glances with Chong Lian, motioned himself to check elsewhere, then turned around and walked towards the place where the spring water flows into the river.

Chong Lian looked at him for a while, until Zheng Dong went into the mountain, she turned around and caught up with Zhan Hao and the others.

In the cave, the dead leaf no longer felt hungry.His stomach was empty, but he didn't feel anything at all, as if it was just a decoration hanging in his body, without any purpose.He gritted his teeth silently, and moved his hands out slowly, little by little, trying to loosen the place where the locks were fixed, but he didn't dare to breathe out.

There was still silence around, and Nian Yuqing and the others didn't seem to want to come in and look at him, so Dead Leaf gritted his teeth, and increased the strength of pulling with his hands a little impatiently.The iron sheath was pulled out a little from the mountain wall, but immediately there was a rather ear-piercing "click" sound, forcing him to return to the original range of movements, not daring to struggle too violently.

He is very anxious now, a noisy mess.The person in the darkness should be Zhan Hao.Dead Leaf can hardly think of anyone else who can make him feel so close to him that he can't breathe.Even if his skill was sealed by Nian Yuqing's acupuncture point, it would not reach this point.And he would never mistake Zhan Hao's voice, the leisurely and bewildered tone in that tone is like the most recognizable sign, which clearly shows the identity of the visitor.

Would Zhan Hao be afraid of some shadowmen?Isn't his pupil technique unrivaled in the world?Since he could come in, wouldn't it be easy to confuse those people and take himself and Fang Qiu out?

Why did he just loosen the chains for himself?Such hypocritical help is simply as good as none at all.

If you don't want to save me, you don't have to.Anyway, I'm not your family, your brother or friend, just a guard, and I didn't get you any salary, so it doesn't matter if I lose it.And Fang Qiu, Fang Qiu is not your son, even if you like him, it's not enough, is it?Are you a businessman, you can't afford it without profit... You told me yourself at the beginning.

I shouldn't have counted on you.

Withered Ye lowered her head and clenched her teeth.In the darkness, he felt that the sea of ​​qi in his lower abdomen was still stagnant, the acupoints were sealed, and his power could not flow.Nian Yuqing had sealed too many acupuncture points, and he had to break free from these shackles before he could release his acupuncture points and rescue Fang Qiu.

With this thought in mind, Dead Leaf's hand leaning against the wall of the cave tried to rub it out again.At this time, the hosel nailed into the mountain was getting looser and looser, and he estimated that in less than half an hour, he would be able to pull out the iron hoop on his right hand.However, at this moment, there was a sound of vain footsteps from the entrance of the cave, and the dead leaf shuddered. After a while, the pale Lin Zhihuan strode in.

As soon as he saw the dead leaves, his originally blank eyes flickered strangely, revealing a strange sense of excitement.Dead Leaf was on guard all over, but his limbs had already become stiff and dull due to hunger and fatigue.Lin Zhihuan stared at him without blinking, raised the end of his reddish eyes, and asked slowly in a light and light tone: "Dead Ye, are you in a hurry?"

"I wasn't waiting." Withered Leaf sneered, but her voice was extremely hoarse.Seeing that he was so blunt, Lin Zhihuan didn't bother to chat with him anymore, since he couldn't hear anything good anyway.So he flicked his sleeves, turned around and walked out again.

Out of the cave is a narrow and long passage of about two feet.At the end of the passage is connected a larger cave, with a wide view, and even the roof of the cave has suddenly risen several feet.It is like a sunflower flower disc, surrounded by several caves, large and small, and Fang Qiu is in the second cave on the left.

When Lin Zhihuan walked to the big cave, Wang Fan, the younger brother of the Wang family brothers, just came out from Fang Qiu's place.Lin Zhihuan glanced at him and asked in a low voice, "How is he?"

"I fed him some porridge. He was crying just now, but now he is asleep."

"It's a child after all. I don't understand anything, and I don't have any troubles." Lin Zhihuan said to himself with a gloomy face, and walked towards a slightly sunken round platform in the center of the cave, and Nian Yuqing, who was dressed in black, walked towards him. Sitting there cross-legged.

Lin Zhihuan hurriedly walked behind him, stood in silence for a long while with a sullen face, and asked in a somewhat uncontrollable voice: "What are you doing here, shouldn't you be looking out from the wind!"

Nian Yuqing slowly opened his eyes, remained expressionless for a while, and then said, "Wang Jian is watching over there, you don't need to worry."

"I'm not in a hurry? It's been more than a day now, and Zhan Hao hasn't moved at all! I really can't believe it, this dead leaf is clearly wearing..." Before he finished speaking, Wang Jian yelled in a low voice Nian Yuqing's name ran over: "Master!"

Nian Yuqing looked back at him calmly, Wang Jian ran up to him with a serious expression on his face, and said, "The guard of the Zhan family, named Zheng Dong, has come here. It won't be long. You can discover Banyuetan, and by then, Zhan Hao will also..."

Hearing his words, Nian Yuqing's first reaction was to turn to look at Lin Zhihuan who was aside.Sure enough, as he expected, Lin Zhihuan couldn't suppress his excitement at this time, and a trembling cruel smile gradually appeared on his face.Nian Yuqing's breathing was stagnant, and she couldn't help swallowing heavily, stretched out her hand to grab Lin Zhihuan's clenched wrist, and said in a subdued voice, "Zhihuan, don't do this."

Lin Zhihuan was suppressed and excited, his eyes were wide open, and he slowly turned to him with a crazy expression: "What about me? Huh? I waited for so long, and I finally got this chance! He is full of lies. , arrogant and hypocritical, never bothered to treat me with sincerity, then I can only force him like this..."

"But what's the use of you doing this!" Nian Yuqing squeezed his hand hard, couldn't hold back the unwillingness in her heart, and couldn't help shouting sharply: "What do you want to do? What are you trying to force him to do?! Now things are over. In this way, you don’t even want to abandon your family business, you don’t want any business, just show him off for him! Are you worth it!”

"Do you know what it means to be worth it or not!" Lin Zhihuan was pinched painfully by him, but now his eyes are red and he is excited, and he has completely ignored it.He was suppressing the grievances and boredom of the past few years, so many things he wanted to say to Zhan Hao, so many questions he wanted to ask him... Why doesn't he know what he is doing?He used to think that he could let go of his concern for Zhan Hao for the sake of his family business, but only now did he realize...he couldn't let it go, couldn't let it go at all.

Some things are always brooding and cannot be relieved.About parting, about indifference, about the inescapable suffering, or, about the unexplained love between Zhan Hao and Ma Qingyun.

He didn't hold grudges, nor was he unwilling.He had no intention of hurting Zhan Hao, nor did he try to discredit him—what's the point of doing such a thing to someone he has always been obsessed with?It's just that he is not like this, Zhan Hao will never take off the mask that he has been wearing on his face, and will never look at him with serious eyes.

What he wants is an equal, face-to-face confrontation, which Zhan Hao has never told him... the truth about everything, the truth.

After getting the exact news, Lin Zhihuan once again stood in front of the dead leaves.At this moment, there was no expression on his pale face, nor any emotion in his eyes.

"Dead Ye, are you happy that Zhan Hao is here to find you?"

Withered Leaves was silent, raised her face in a breathless manner, and raised one corner of her mouth coldly: "Do you think I will believe this kind of lie? He won't come, Zhan Hao won't come. I don't need him to save me, I will Go out by yourself."

Lin Zhihuan lowered his eyes, and a mocking chuckle gradually appeared on his face.He stretched out his hand and stroked the shriveled abdomen of the dead leaf lightly, and said softly: "Look, you are so hungry, how can you escape? The acupoints are sealed, you can't break free from these iron hoops, don't dream You'd better beg God, I hope he can say a few pleasant words to Zhan Hao, and when I'm happy, I might be able to let you go."

"Don't make it seem like you're great," Dead Leaf cast a contemptuous glance at him, and lifted her lips disdainfully, "Zhan Hao can easily crush you to death with a single finger, and you don't need to be happy at all."

Hearing what he said, Lin Zhihuan showed a bit of cruel hatred on his face: "You actually believe him."

I believe in him?Dead Leaf sneered in her heart, if I believed him, I wouldn't run away in a hurry.

He looked at Lin Zhihuan calmly and coldly, but in fact he was pressing hard on the mountain wall with his wrist.When Lin Zhihuan went out just now, he had already pulled out the iron hoop on his right hand, so now he could only use some force to prevent Lin Zhihuan from seeing the abnormality.Dead Ye didn't know if Zhan Hao had left and returned, or if this was just some trick of Lin Zhihuan's, he didn't care anymore.The iron hoop has been solved, as long as this group of people makes a desertion, he can find an opportunity to untie all the sealed acupuncture points and break free from all shackles.

Escaping may be a little difficult.Dead Leaf didn't know how many people were inside, but judging from the movement outside, it seemed that there were not many, only the killers from Shadow Gate.None of them were his opponents, but in such a narrow space and fighting together, under the condition of physical discomfort, his chance of winning... was almost zero.

Not to mention his weapon wasn't there yet.

When no one was there, Dead Leaf also tried to summon her own Dead Leaf Butterfly, but I don't know if it was because of the structure of the cave that none of the butterflies could fly in.Recalling what Zhan Hao said to himself in the dark last night, cross the dark river, and the exit will go up... probably you have to dive to get out of the cave.

This time, Lin Zhihuan left after provoking him for a while, and seemed to have taken several people with him, including Nian Yuqing, who was the most difficult to deal with.In the end, Dead Leaf only saw Old Xiao coming in to protest with him, raised his orchid finger and sneered at him, and then walked out.

In other words, the best situation is that there are only him, Lao Xiao, and Fang Qiu in the cave.

Withered Ye pursed her lips tightly, closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths to calm herself down.Holding his breath, he slowly pulled out the iron hoop on his right hand as lightly as possible.As soon as the hosel was separated from the mountain wall, the entire iron hoop turned a small half circle immediately, and the tip of the sheath pointed to the ground.With this rotation, the iron ring immediately pulled the dead leaf's wrist with burning pain - the scar condensed the flesh and the iron ring together, so after half a circle of movement, the wound that had scabbed immediately oozes blood again.

And I don't know what's going on, with the pain in his hand, Dead Ye immediately felt his head flicker, and he felt a little dizzy all of a sudden.He didn't know if he was hungry or his body had been stiff for too long, but he couldn't care less about it.Withered Leaf took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and folded his stiff arms towards his body. With his index finger and middle finger together, he aimed at the sealed acupuncture point on his body tremblingly, and pressed down forcefully.

The moment the acupoints were untied, Dead Leaf immediately felt the inner breath that had been blocked for a long time rushing up from the sealed meridian, and he couldn't control the force suddenly, making him convulse all over.Dead Leaf frowned in pain, gasped silently, and felt something was wrong—it shouldn't feel like this.Even though the meridians are unblocked, the body is still weak and can't exert much force.He supported his chest and faintly vomited a few times. At this time, the stomach that had been empty for a long time also slowly came to life, pumping and pumping in the abdominal cavity, strongly showing its existence.

Starved to death... The extreme hunger and soreness made the dead leaf lean against the mountain weakly for a while, and breathed feebly with its head raised.Only the sound of his suppressed breath echoed in the cave, but the continuous dripping sound in the corner reminded the dead leaves again and again that time was passing.The sooner you act, the sooner you will be out of danger.

After barely breathing, Dead Leaf swallowed and slowly stood up straight.He gritted his teeth and tried to condense his body...fortunately, at least his inner strength can be used, although his body still doesn't feel right.I don't know if it's because of thirst or something else in my throat, but I always feel that it's burning, and I'm still twitching faintly, and my head is dizzy.

Withered Ye shook her head, stretched out her hand and rubbed her temple vigorously.He tightened his left hand, slowly accumulating energy in his left arm.Originally, the shackles had been loosened by Zhan Hao, and it was easy to pull them out at this time, but if there was too much noise and the old Xiao came in after hearing the sound, it would not be a good idea.Withered Ye paused for a while to think, and finally clawed his right hand, and slowly loosened the iron hoop around his neck.The iron hoop came out quietly with the sound of water drops falling, and the dead leaf threw the iron hoop onto the foot lightly with a condensed breath, and with a flick of the toe, the iron hoop slid quietly to the ground.

In this way, slowly, the left hand also broke free, and finally only two feet remained.Withered Leaf also gently put the iron hoop on the ground on the ground, leaning against it to rest for a while, and then started to deal with the two on the feet again.His head was getting dizzy. With this feeling, Dead Leaf was definitely not hungry. Although his stomach was also burning, he didn't have that weird feeling of hunger and thirst.He could feel that his concentration was gradually slackening, and it was difficult to concentrate, as if he was extremely sleepy, and he just wanted to lie down and have a good sleep.

No, I can't sleep, I need to hurry up... Ku Yeqiang cheered up, tried to concentrate his vision and skills, and tightly grasped the iron hoop on his feet with both hands...the hosel came out in response.

The two sounds of "唴——", the unique crisp sound of iron objects echoed in the cave, and the dead leaf suddenly woke up from the chaos - he heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from the entrance of the cave.

The old xiao heard the voice coming.

Dead Leaf gritted her teeth and stood up quickly. The moment the opponent approached the corner, she held one of the iron hoops in her hand, gathered her internal strength and threw it straight out.Old Xiao took a shiny scimitar and quickly blocked it in front of his eyes, but another few iron hoops followed one after another, and each one was heavier than the other, which caught him off guard in the dark.

After Lao Xiao knocked those things down to the ground, the dead leaves were no longer there.There was no wind in the cave, and a fluctuating wave of breath came from behind and above. The old owl was tense and was about to turn around and fight back, but the hand of the dead leaf was already stretched into a straight knife and pressed hard against his vest. Mouth.

"Don't move." The breath of the person behind him was a little unstable, and the old owl could even hear the dead leaf's violent heartbeat and suppressed breathing.He laughed in a low voice with some disdain, and said: "Withered leaf, you have been given the medicine of Sangong by the sect master, and you are already at the end of your strength. Even if you escape, you will be killed by the sect master at the exit. I advise you to be obedient." Yes, maybe that Lin Zhihuan will let you out if he gets the answer he wants..."

Before the words fell, the dead leaf had already chopped down with all its strength: "...there is still so much nonsense." The old owl only felt a numbness in the back of his neck, and then his eyes darkened, and he fell limply .

Withered Leaf tried hard to suppress the fatigue of her body, gritted her teeth and pulled the corners of her mouth.Panting, he glanced at the old owl on the ground, reached out to pick up his knife, turned and ran outside.

If he remembered correctly, Zhan Hao said that Fang Qiu was in the hole that turned left.Holding his breath and running outside, Dead Leaf was shocked by the huge natural cave—it was too big, too high, and dark, with only a circle of torches hanging on the surrounding mountain walls.He stared blankly at the tall cave roof, then stumbled and ran to the left.After passing through a narrow passage, he entered a tiny cave.An oil lamp was lit in the cave, and on a simple stone bed, little Fang Qiu was curled up with his back facing him, wearing the same clothes as two days ago.

"Fang Qiu, Fang Qiu!" Withered Leaf reached out and hugged him, shaking him gently.Fang Qiu shrank suddenly in his arms, frowned for a while, and opened her eyes in fear.Seeing that it was him, the child cried out almost immediately, turned around and threw himself into his arms forcefully, with his little hands tightly hugging his neck, his throat twitching.

The dead leaf patted his back lightly, comfortingly said: "Don't cry, don't cry, I'll take you out."

"Woooooo..." Fang Qiu choked up in a low voice, and bit her little lip hard to keep herself from crying.He rubbed against the dead leaf's neck, and backed away a little with his mouth flattened.Dead Leaf saw that although the child's eyes were full of tears, at least he had tried his best to hold back his voice.This child's self-control is really... Dead Ye couldn't help but reached out and rubbed Fang Qiu's face, then kissed him hard on the forehead.

"Fang Qiu is so good. I'm going to take you swimming later. You have to hold your breath, you know? Hold me tight and don't let go. I don't care about you too much in the water..." After all, the water quality is not particularly good.

Xiao Fangqiu listened and nodded vigorously with tears in her eyes.Withered Leaf looked at him, feeling relieved, couldn't help rubbing against his forehead, then picked him up, and quickly ran out of the cave.

Following the wet footprints left by Lin Zhihuan and the others when they went out, the dead leaves slowly squeezed out of the cave group from a narrow wall with Fang Qiu in one hand and a torch in the other.There are still caves outside, and there are various passages.Fortunately, there was some mud under their feet, and they left relatively clear traces, so that the dead leaves could walk out accurately all the way.

At the end of a cave, there is an underground river flowing to the right.Withered Ye looked at the dark river water, feeling a little impetuous in her heart.His water skills are really not very good, at best he can be regarded as good at swimming, but swimming...he's really not sure.

Fang Qiu was probably also afraid in his heart, the small bracelet was tightly around his neck.Dead Leaf took a deep breath, suppressing the pain in his head and comforting him in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, it's okay." Then, he hugged the child tightly and slowly waded into the water.

The water in the underground river is very cold, with the unique taste of minerals. The bottom of the river bed is slippery, and the dead leaves can only concentrate on letting themselves go.

Don't get slipped.The river got deeper and deeper, and slowly covered the chest, and the children's feet were also immersed in the water.The dead leaves were afraid that he would feel cold, so they stretched out their hands to scoop up a handful of water and splashed it lightly on Fang Qiu's clothes, trying to let him get used to the water temperature before going down the river.But at this moment, he heard Lao Xiao's messy footsteps coming from the passage.

"Fang Qiu," Dead Ye took a deep breath, hugging the little guy even tighter, "I'm leaving, breathe in—" Fang Qiu hugged Dead Ye's neck, and obediently took a deep breath.When he bulged his cheeks into a bun, Dead Leaf hugged him, breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly sank into the water.

On the hillside of Yuliang Mountain, Zheng Dong had just thrown a small male mountain sparrow into the air by the Banyue Lake.It is estimated that after a while, Zhan Hao and the others will receive the letter and find them.

At first, Zheng Dong had no idea about the caves in this mountain, but after being reminded by Qiu Langxing's words just now, he remembered that a little girl seemed to mention yesterday that the Lin family's daily water is not drawn from floating water .The spring on the top of the mountain is a bit small, so they diverted water from the Banyue Lake on the other side of Yuliang Mountain.

Half Moon Lake... Zheng Dong thought about it for a while, and then decided to investigate first.Lin Zhihuan took the dead leaves away, probably in order to attract the young master's attention.His eyeliner will definitely be staring at the young master, he should check it out first, and then notify Zhan Hao to come over.

Thinking of this, Zheng Dong climbed all the way to the halfway up the mountain.

The forests on Yuliang Mountain are dense, the soil is soft, and the thick shade blocks the sunlight completely.Zheng Dong walked along the place where the fallen leaves were relatively dense and searched all the way. After searching for more than an hour, he followed a half-sized wild boar to Banyue Lake.When Zheng Dong stood at the edge of the pool, he couldn't help but marvel at the concealment of this place—on the bank of the water, a huge rock almost covered more than half of the water surface.The shape of the pool itself is also very strange, like a big-headed tadpole with a long tail dragging behind it.

The top of the pool is covered by a big tree, and there are many shrubs growing on the bank.Zheng Dong looked along the water pool, wondering why the young master didn't find this place before?Is it really like what Qiu Langxing said, caring leads to chaos?

The young master who had always been thoughtful, calm and steady turned into what he is today. He would be distracted by a single person, running around, searching hard... Zheng Dong couldn't tell whether he was happy or regretful.In fact, life is long and mediocre, and it is certainly good to meet such a person.However, it is worth considering slowly whether the other party is also worried about me.

After waiting for a while, the mountain sparrow with orange wings flew back screaming "cha-cha".Zheng Dong took out a small handful of corn kernels from his pocket and put them on the nearby stone, and the little bird immediately jumped down and pecked at them.Zhan Hao and his party then quietly flew out from the forest and landed steadily on the shore.Zheng Dong nodded slightly at him, and said: "Master, come and see this pool."

"How did you find it?" Zhan Hao frowned slightly, staring at the deep pool of water, and walked slowly a few steps.

"I remembered those little maids who said that the water pipe going down the mountain was broken a few days ago and there was no water to use, so I found this pool. The water surface on this side is relatively large," Zheng Dong said, pointing to the direction of the cliff behind a clump of pine trees, "Over there, there is still a small tail, but it is close to the cliff, so it is relatively narrow."

Zhan Hao stared at the calm water surface, his eyes became deeper and more serious.After a while, Chong Lian, who was looking around, turned her head and saw that he had squatted down, with his palms pressed against the stones on the shore.It can be seen from the back that Zhan Hao took a deep breath, his body surged with power from bottom to top, the power gushed out from the palm of his hand, and he punched downwards violently.After a while, a series of huge bubbles appeared on the surface of the dark green water, and clear and transparent water flowed continuously from below.

"There is a cave at the bottom of the pool, it should be the entrance." Zhan Hao said, stood up and began to untie his belt.Qiu Langxing was startled when he saw it, and rushed up to stop him: "You are going to go in like this, Zhan Hao, you are crazy! Didn't you see how long it took for the bubbles to pop up just now? This pool is at least thirty feet deep, you If you want to dive to the bottom of the pool, are you going to be crushed to death by the water?!"

"I'm good at kung fu. I can hold up to forty feet with my internal strength. If Nian Yuqing can bring Cen Bie in, I can bring him out too." Zhan Hao said expressionlessly, and he had already untied his belt. down.Seeing him so determined, Chong Lian and Zheng Dong couldn't help but frowned, and went forward to stop him at the same time: "Master, be more sober! Nian Yuqing's skill is not as good as yours, let alone tie Cen farewell! There must be other entrances here, we can look for it again..."

"I don't want to look for it anymore," Zhan Hao said expressionlessly, stretching out his hands to wrap his hair tightly around his neck, "I finally found this one, how long will it take to find the next one? What should I do if something happens during this period? I can't..." Just as he was speaking, he still hadn't taken off his coat, behind the pine tree, at the end of Banyue Lake, Lin Zhihuan was dumb and out of breath. The voice came faintly:

"Don't worry, he'll be fine."

All of Zhan Hao's movements stopped at this moment, and his eyes were deeply condensed.Behind them, both Chong Lian and Zheng Dong involuntarily clenched the weapons in their hands, and their eyes became sharp in an instant.Zhan Hao stood quietly, and slowly put back the half-taken coat with his hands.He tied his belt calmly, and stretched out his hand to untie his hair unhurriedly.

"You're not surprised at all." Seeing how calm he was, Lin Zhihuan couldn't help but a wry smile and self-mockery in his voice, "I thought this time I could force you into chaos."

Zhan Hao lowered his eyes expressionlessly, and his posture returned to the ordinary expression of standing with hands behind his back.He pondered for a while, then raised his eyes to look at the dense pine trees, and said coolly, "Zhihuan, what do you want?"

"What do I want..." Lin Zhihuan smiled wryly, his voice hoarse and trembling, "Didn't you take back what I wanted?"

Zhan Hao stared at the direction where his voice came from, and slowly moved towards that place.The sun was shining near noon, the leaves were shining brightly, and the air was stuffy and heavy.Zhan Hao wasn't sure if Lin Zhihuan was crying, but he could tell that Lin Zhihuan's mood was very unstable at this time, and he was on the verge of collapse, as if he could completely collapse with just a word from himself.

"Don't come over, just stand there, your guards are not with me." Maybe it was reminded by Nian Yuqing, Lin Zhihuan realized that Zhan Hao was approaching, so he said this under his throat.Zhan Hao paused for a moment, but continued to walk slowly.

"I don't want to see him, I want to see you."

Hearing his words, Lin Zhihuan stared stiffly behind the tree, holding his breath involuntarily.

"You won't do anything to my guards, I know. I just want to see you, I don't do anything." Zhan Hao's voice was low and gentle, like the gentlest flowing water, flowing into Lin Zhihuan under the sun and drying up for a long time heart.He was suffocating for breathing, and his whole body was a little disobedient. Although Nian Yuqing was pulling him, Lin Zhihuan couldn't help but let go of his hand, and took two steps out disobediently.A fragile heart in his chest was beating wildly, and he slowly appeared in Zhan Hao's field of vision.

Pale, sharp face, thick dark circles under the eyes, and two bags under the eyes.Zhan Hao stared at Lin Zhihuan who was standing behind the bushes, precariously, pale and transparent under the sunlight, and said in a low voice, "You've lost weight again."

Hearing these words, Lin Zhihuan's lips trembled, his heart trembled violently, and his eye sockets were instantly sore.

When he was with Zhan Hao before, he often said this sentence.Zhan Hao took himself to his house for dinner just to supervise him to eat more.He always said while picking up vegetables for himself, how can you be so thin, eat more meat, don't just eat vegetables.At that time, Lin Zhihuan looked at him with drooping eyelids, and couldn't help but withdraw his eyes dodgingly, but couldn't restrain his admiration, he raised them again and again to continue looking.

At that time, Zhan Hao had a handsome face and a calm demeanor, which was almost the same as now.After all these years, he was the only one who became depressed.

Thinking of his thin and sickly face at this time, Lin Zhihuan couldn't help but flinch back, as if feeling ashamed.Seeing his movements, Zhan Hao lowered his eyes at the right time, and said in a low voice: "I won't watch, don't hide, I'm just talking to you."

"But... I, I don't know what to say to you anymore..." Lin Zhihuan trembled and leaned on Nian Yuqing, feeling confused.He knew that he was about to cry, no matter how much he hated Zhan Hao in private, how hysterical he was, how complicated his heart was filled with him...but he still couldn't resist his gentle treatment.This person, whom I have always liked until now, is still gentle and calm, understanding every look and movement of me, but a certain position around him no longer belongs to me.He had withdrawn that position a long time ago.

Without warning, without preparation, he fell heavily to the ground.

At that time, all the voices in my heart kept asking why, but they never asked.They were childhood sweethearts who had a crush on each other, but why did they suddenly push themselves far away?