46 The Underground Cave
The place where the Captor disappeared had nothing but a few clumps of grass, but his voice still came from…sounded like beneath the ground.
When the grass was pulled away, a hole more than three feet in diameter was exposed, like a giant monster opening its mouth, ready to devour lives anytime.
Didn't Old Qiao sneak into the cave in the mountain but the cave under the ground?
Except for Wei Gaoyuan, the others took out their Light Tubes and looked into the hole through the weak fire.
(Light Tubes: a kind of portable lighting, containing phosphorous and some flammable substances in a paper tube. It will burn once blow or quickly shake it.)
"I go down first," Liu Xingfei volunteered. He thought himself most suitable to take the lead.
"There might be something weird underneath…" Qiu Mengqin stopped Liu Xingfei and inspected the slope in the hole.
As a sister who entered the outer section eight years ago, Qiu Mengqin's experience of Jianghu should be much richer than those of the junior brothers like Liu Xingfei and Wei Gaoyuan.
One Captor behind her said, "Or send someone back to report, and the rest stay here, wait for reinforcements to come."
Sounded a good plan, but no one knew whether there were other exits in the underground cave; If Old Qiao escaped, he would never return to Huyang Town.
Then a younger Captor, looking kind of smart, walked forward and said, "Head, my sister and other twelve girls was still in his hands. Before he runs, I just feared he might..." he stopped. Every one could read his considerable concern.
"You're right, it's urgent to save people… I go down and check right now; the rest of you stay here; brother Zhao, please send someone back to ask for reinforcements," hearing the words of young Captor, Qiu Mengqin left a few work in a hurry and jumped down the hole straight.
"Sister!" as soon as Liu Xingfei shouted, the figure of Qiu Mengqin had disappeared into the seemingly endless darkness of the hole.
Brother Zhao, the leader of the Captors, said immediately, "Rat, Old Bao, go back and ask the Defensive Officer to send more brothers here, as soon as possible! Err…bring a men's suit by the way; the rest stay; I go to help Miss Qiu! "
He glanced at Wei Gaoyuan, who was still in girl dress.
"Brother Zhao, let me go!" Liu Xingfei stop him. He knew brother Zhao was the bottom of eighth-level, weaker than himself.
"Brother Liu, I go with you! Sister Yu and other Captor brothers stay, just in case, " Wei Gaoyuan said and took his sword from the girl in the yellow gown.
"Sister Yu" was the girl in yellow, named Yu Wansu. As a disciple who entered in the same year as Liu Xingfei, she had a current stage of bottom in eight-level, and had heard from Liu Xingfei that junior brother Wei seemed just different from other freshmen. It seemed that Brother Liu was right…
"Brother Liu, let's go," Wei Gaoyuan had jumped into the hole before Yu Wansu returned from her thought.
Then Liu Xingfei followed it at once.
…
All was dark in the cave, and Wei Gaoyuan didn't even take a Light Tube. He slid down along the slope, and behind him was the cry of Liu Xingfei. He only replied a few words before he found himself touched the bottom. He stood up and another deadly darkness and silence was awaiting in front of him.
Seconds later, Liu Xingfei also came to the bottom. Wei Gaoyuan removed his long dress and wore only underwear. The two moved forward carefully with the weak light of Light Tube in Liu Xingfei's hands.
Not far away appeared a stone door. Who built it? Liu Xingfei stepped forward and pushed it. Wei Gaoyuan held the breath and his sword behind him. The door was easily pushed open. The two glanced at the inside, shocked:
Behind the stone door was a dim room, with a inky huge coffin erected in the middle; Old Qiao stood a distance from the side of the coffin; Qiu Mengqin was standing in front of the coffin, trembling; she blocked the scene inside the coffin so they couldn't see what was inside of it. Having noticed Liu Xingfei and Wei Gaoyuan entered, she couldn't move even one step but struggled to open her eyes and said weakly, "Hurry ... run ..."
"Sister!" Liu Xingfei rushed towards her without any hesitation, followed by Wei Gaoyuan.
Old Qiao's figure flickered and appeared in the way of Liu Xingfei, with both palms merged to grip the sword thrusted by Liu Xingfei.
Liu Xingfei roared, trying to pull back his sword, but it remained motionless in Old Qiao's hands; Wei Gaoyuan immediately let out the "first cloud" to stab at Old Qiao.
"Good!" Old Qiao gave a spooky laugh, and kicked at Liu Xingfei's belly straight instead of dodging it.
Liu Xingfei had no other choice but let go of his sword, and shouted to Wei Gaoyuan, "Go save sister!"
Wei Gaoyuan jumped high and changed the target of his sword-strike immediately, trying to cleave the coffin from the air down!
Old Qiao seemed quite astonished and showed great fear of the coffin, just still keeping a distance from the coffin and staring at Wei Gaoyuan's sword hacking at the coffin!
"You dead meat!!!"
Just as Wei Gaoyuan's long sword was smashing into the coffin, a ghastly cold hum came from inside of the coffin, as if it was the voice from the ground under the ground. Meanwhile, a dark lightning shot at Wei Gaoyuan and penetrated into his chest! He immediately fell from the air like a kite without a string.
Then with two hollow groans, Qiu Mengqin and Wei Gaoyuan hit to the ground at the same time.
A dry ancient "corpse" in the coffin suddenly opened his empty eyes and "stared" at Liu Xingfei, making a cold, emotionless voice, "Kill him!"
"Yes!! Master!" Old Qiao grabbed Liu Xingfei's sword and swiped at him.
Having noticed Old Qiao very scared of the "corpse", Liu Xingfei just started zigzagged around the coffin to evade his attack.
Old Qiao even didn't dare to touch the cover of the coffin on the ground, he could do nothing, accordingly, but play a cat-mouse game with Liu Xingfei.
"Useless oaf!"
Rounds later, as soon as Liu Xingfei ran in front of the coffin, he was bombarded by a powerful force from the "corpse", his body flying out, hitting the rock wall heavily, and soon passed out after vomiting a large mouthful of blood.
Among the three disciples of the East Mountain Sword Clan, only Wei Gaoyuan still had a little consciousness. With his lungs penetrated by the dark lightning, the sharp pain made him hardly breathe, and even ignore a unusual thing: such a severe wound just left no blood on his chest…
Old Qiao turned to stare at Wei Gaoyuan, his face full of cruelty. He snarled, "Little bastard! Thanks to you, all of you! I couldn't complete the task! Moments later, you'll be Yin Slave!! It's your great honor to be one of us!!"
"What's…What's going on??" Wei Gaoyuan didn't hear Old Qiao's speech at this moment. Now, in his mind was full of surprises and questions:
He found himself in a dark space where nothing could be seen, but he could just "see" clearly some objects floating in front of him: a three-foot long sword, a scroll, some stones of different sizes and shapes, and a dark green crystal-like egg of unknown material...
What a beautiful crystal! If I could…As soon as he thought, the crystal-like egg just vanished!
Wei Gaoyuan was startled! What the hell was this damn place?!!
…
When Old Qiao came to Wei Gaoyuan, he saw Wei Gaoyuan suddenly open his eyes, whose pupils shot a little golden light, and a small dark golden seal flashed between his eyebrows.
"What?!!" Old Qiao blinked a few times quickly and looked at him again. No golden pupils, no golden seal…
"Old oaf! What're you doing?! Take him here! Now! I'll refine him!!" the "corpse" roared.
Shaking his head, Old Qiao felt clearer. He grabbed at Wei Gaoyuan's chest.
At this moment, a dark green crystal-like egg jumped out of Wei Gaoyuan's chest, all of a sudden, Old Qiao just touched it, and was bounced out to the air!
With a gleam of silver light shooting out from the egg, a figure of a middle-aged man suddenly appeared in front of Wei Gaoyuan!
"Who… opened my Universe in Bag?!"
