Ch 13 - Hidden Cave

Purple smoke was produced by the incense burner in the village, and one could see the waterfall and the mountain valley from afar.

Up in the sky, the thousands of stars began to vanish as the bright rays of the sun started to land on the ground giving newfound hope to the living after overcoming the darkness.

The morning sun was a bit dazzling, and the sound of rumbling water came from a deep pool not far away. Chen Xing loosened the dead wood he was holding onto tightly, and the stinging pain on his body let him know that he was not dead yet.

"It seems that I fell into this deep pool, and because I hugged this section of dead wood and was washed to the shore by the waterfall, I was lucky not to die."

"Huh~!" Chen Xing breathed a sigh of relief. Once the character dies, he has to start over, and his early advantages will be lost. It is false to say that he was not worried about it. If it was not for the system upgrade, he couldn't wait to log in to the game the previous night itself.

He was feeling pangs of hunger in his stomach, reminding him that the character is hungry. In "True Gu", once the characters are hungry, they become weak, and if they don't eat for a long time, they may even die.

He habitually touched his waist pocket, but Chen Xing reluctantly found that it was empty, the food, the spirit stones he had worked so hard to accumulate, and the fine iron spear had gone with the flood.

"Oh~!" Chen Xing sighed helplessly, "I must get a storage gu worm in the future. I still have to find food as soon as possible. I survived falling down from the cliff and didn't die from the flood, but I was starved to death. Now that would be the biggest joke fate could play on anyone."

He shook his head, and looked around. When he found a boulder, he climbed up on it with some difficulty. Standing on the boulder and looking around, he saw that he was under the cliff, and the waterfall that flew down from the cliff should be the one on the north side of Guyue Mountain Village. The water of the waterfall gathered into a pool, and then flowed down the middle of the cliff. Chen Xing did know where the meandering river took twists and turns, and did not know where it was going. There were huge boulders on both sides of the cliff, which may have been washed away by the yesterday's flood.

"I'm going~!" Chen Xing secretly cried out, although he knew that Gu Yue Village was on the cliff, there was no way to go up! This cliff also had many twists and turns, and he didn't know where it led. If he tried to went down the river, he may be starved to death before he even reaches down, let alone the possibility of there being beasts between the cliffs. If he ran into one, he may be eaten before he could do anything.

"Are there any fish in the river?" Chen Xing explored the deep pool with his eyes, hoping to see one or two fish, even if it was raw, he would eat it. It's a pity that the sun was shining brightlt, the wave were sparkling, and the water of the waterfall was splashed with countless white foam. It had a heavenly feel but in such a state, it also made it impossible to see a fish.

"What to do?" This time he was really at a loss. The injuries on his body came with waves of pain. The pain of the game was only one tenth. It seemed that his body was really hurt by such pain.

"Let's go down first. There will always be a way. If it doesn't work, I will just go down the pond and there will always be a glimmer of hope." Chen Xing had never given up easily. He was about to climb down the boulder, but he didn't expect the boulder to be extremely slippery. If one didn't pay attention to the slippage of his feet, it would be difficult to control his body.

"Plop!" With a sound of water, he fell into the pool again. Chen Xing struggled to get up and was about to swim back to the shore. He squinted and saw that there seemed to be a cave behind the rushing waterfall. Through the refraction of water, it appeared as if the cave was looming, as if it was something else, something different.

"Is this?" Chen Xing swam into the cave impatiently, and even choked a bif of water in the process, but he didn't care about it. Under the water pressure, through the waterfall, a narrow cave appeared in front of him.

The cave was deep and gloomy, and bursts of cold air poured out from the cave, and there was a whirr of wind, and the darkness of the cave seemed to hide monsters and ghosts.

"Should I Enter or not?" Chen Xing only hesitated for a while before squeezing in the cave. The walls of the cave were covered with moss, and it felt extremely slippery. Gradually, he went further and further, and he was completely swallowed by darkness, the stone gaps became narrower and narrower, and even his head could not move freely.

The rock squeezed his body, and there was another burst of pain. Chen Xing gritted his teeth and continued on.

He didn't know how far he went, the sound of water behind him was now inaudible, and he found that there seemed to be a red light and shadow in the darkness ahead. Although it gave him an ominous feeling, he still gritted his teeth and continued.

At first he thought it was an illusion, but after a closer look, he confirmed that it was light!

This discovery refreshed him and mustered his strength to move on. The red light became brighter and brighter, expanding into a long vertical slit in Chen Xing's retina.

The stone wall in front of him suddenly disappeared, and his eyes suddenly opened up, and an underground space about the size of his rental house appeared in front of him.

"This is!" Chen Xing was overjoyed. The entire space was filled with dim red light. On the surrounding stone walls, there were rows of turquoise vines attached to each other. The vines were entangled with each other, weaving through most of the walls. There were still blooming flowers growing on it. Some of these flowers were shaped like rice bowls and some were like wine glasses. The flowers were filled with rice and fruit wine. The system prompted him,

[ Congratulations on discovering the Wine Sack Flower Gu. ]

"What a magical game!" Chen Xing was already hungry. He took off a rice ball and ate it. The mouth of the rice ball was smooth, sweet and delicious, and it felt more delicious than the delicacies of the mountains and the sea. Picked another fruit wine, it tasted like wine, and he, a person who didn't knew how to drink, couldn't help but get hooked in some time. After drinking several cups of fruit wine, he found that even his injuries were much better now.

"Good Gu!" Chen Xing no longer cared about eating or drinking, and quickly found the body of this Wine Sack Flower Gu. Looking for the roots, a bunch of human-shaped doll-like rhizomes appeared in front of him at the corner of the wall. The rhizomes seemed to be a little conscious. Seeing that he wanted to drill into the wall, it was the body of the Wine Sack Flower Gu.

"Hehe, follow me from now on!" Chen Xing stretched out his hand to refine the Wine Sack Flower Gu that had fallen into his hand.

There was no way out for him from the river and mountains cliff, but there was always a blessing after a catastrophe!