Chapter 5: Fresh Blood Juice

  The feeling of crawling through a cave is really uncomfortable, with hard rocks and dust all around, your body can only move forward like an insect in this environment, and you must also subconsciously avoid the sharp stones in the cave. Of course, even if you are careful, some scratches are unavoidable, because the cave is natural, unexcavated by humans, it's something you have to adapt to, not the other way around.

  As you move forward in the cave, the greatest sense of oppression actually comes from your heart. In this narrow space, people's hearts will feel very depressed, and you yourself are not even clear how long it will take to drill into a more open area, which will make your emotions fall into a kind of inexplicable anxiety. Adding to that, the dusty air in the cave will make you feel short of breath and increase your pressure. So, without a strong heart, one cannot play this adventure game.

  After about twenty minutes of crawling, Juno finally emerged into a relatively spacious area, which was a layer sandwiched between the rocks.

  "Aha, you guys come out quickly." Zhūnō shouted at his companions who were still crawling inside the cave.

  When they heard Juno's shout, everyone knew that this section of the cave was about to end and they all gathered their spirits and continued to crawl forward with great effort. Sarah and Beth also emerged one after another, and several girls let out excited shrieks in this vast expanse of rock, the echoes reverberating back and forth.

  Xiao Xuan also crawled out from inside, walking from the cramped cave to a relatively spacious area, indeed giving people a pleasant feeling in their hearts. Moreover, there are many beautiful stones among the rocks that can be admired one by one with a flashlight, all of which are buried beauties in nature.

  When everyone emerged from the first cave, almost everyone was dirty and disheveled, and Sarah's face had clear scratches all over it. However, they didn't seem to mind like ordinary women would; they were very casual about it, having come out to play and already prepared themselves mentally for this kind of thing.

  What surprised Xiao Xuan was that Su Mu Ran's face didn't have any scratches, perhaps she was just extremely lucky, or maybe she knew very well how to protect herself, and knew how to adjust her body in a limited space. In this aspect, she even did better than those adventurers like Sara who often played exploration games.

  When the first cave was crawled out, the main god's task prompt still didn't come out, Xiao Xuan could only continue to wait, and at this time, everyone also started sitting on a rock eating and drinking water to replenish their physical strength.

  "It really feels like being reborn after a disaster."

  Zhao Jian gnawed on an apple while saying to Su Muer who was sitting beside him, Su Muer quietly sipped water and only slightly nodded her head, which counted as a response to Zhao Jian.

  Xiao Xuan sat beside Sarah, eating compressed biscuits. Sarah handed water to Xiao Xuan's mouth, and Xiao Xuan took the water and said thank you.

  The break time passed quickly, and everyone had to continue exploring the cave. Xiao Xuan also had a premonition that, calculating the time, it was actually less than an hour before the 24 hours were up, so something would definitely happen in the next section of the cave.

  "Junho, where's the next cave?" Beth asked.

  Ruo Nu tidied up and walked over, pointing to a rather inconspicuous place with her finger. "It's here, old rules, I'll go down first, you guys follow."

  The location of this cave is not on the ground, but on the rock wall, with a high angle, belonging to upward climbing. In this way, the difficulty of crawling will increase greatly. After all, the previous downward climbing can at least borrow some of its own gravity and save some energy, while upward climbing needs to overcome its own gravity first.

  Still in the previous order, Zhūnō was first, followed closely by Shālābèi, then Xiāo Xuān and Sū Mùrán, and finally still Zhào Jiàn.

  This time's crawl was really more difficult than before, even Xiao Xuan felt a bit strenuous, and some places were really too narrow, only able to rub against the rock wall with his face, wanting to make an effort but feeling very difficult, because you basically had no space for leg movement. Fortunately, this section of the cave wasn't long, and Ruo Nu, who was the first to crawl in on the other side, had already crawled out and was shouting encouragement at the entrance towards the companions crawling downwards.

  Sarah and Beth also crawled out, followed by Xiao Xuan, who grabbed the hole with both arms and pulled himself up, even Beth couldn't help but exclaim:

  "My goodness, Xuan, I just realized how strong you are."

  Su Mu Ran also managed to crawl out successfully, only this time she looked more disheveled than before, her hair was messy and there were scratches on her face. She kept her mouth pursed, even when Xiao Xuan stretched out his hand to help her up, she shook her head slightly to indicate that she didn't need it.

  "Come on, just one more and we'll have it," Beth called into the hole.

  "Ah, I'm here." Zhao Jian continued to climb, but just when he was less than two meters away from the entrance of the cave, he suddenly let out a complaining voice: "Damn it, I got stuck. What should I do?"

  When he heard this sentence, Xiao Xuan's eyebrows jumped, and his heart was already clear. He knew that the "accident" was coming, and at this time, Xiao Xuan also subconsciously noticed that Su Muran's face had also changed slightly when she heard Zhao Jian's words. It seemed that she also had a premonition and her own analysis. Only Zhao Jian was still foolishly thinking that being the last one in the cave would be the safest. This was probably because he naively believed in his experience of searching online with his phone at night, but this was the main god space, a task world based on horror movies. Therefore, Zhao Jian's so-called experience would only harm him.

  "Relax, relax, take a deep breath, take a deep breath, try to move different parts of your body and figure out where you're stuck."

  Runo is the most experienced adventurer and this time she's leading the way, so it's only natural that she steps forward to offer help to her companions.

  Zhao Jian heard this and started taking deep breaths, doing what Ruo Nu had said. But what he never expected was that the cave suddenly began to shake violently, with rocks and soil falling down continuously, as if it was about to collapse at any moment. Zhao Jian was scared out of his wits, his whole body panicked, abandoning all thoughts of deep breathing and calmness. He frantically tried to struggle free, but the more he used brute force, the more he couldn't truly escape. In desperation, he shouted:

  "Hurry up and help me! Hurry up and help me!"

  "Come down and I'll pull you!"

  Ruo Nu didn't say a word and directly bent down, re-entering the cave, stretching out her hand to grab Zhao Jian's hand, starting to pull him over here. On the other side, Beth and Sarah were pulling Ruo Nu's legs with force, while Xiao Xuan and Su Mo Ran were also helping on the side.

  Everyone's efforts paid off, and Zhao Jian finally managed to extricate himself from the narrow place and started crawling towards the entrance of the cave. Ruo Nu also retreated to let Zhao Jian crawl out quickly.

  At this time, the tremors of the cave became more and more violent, and rocks and stones continued to fall down. However, Zhao Jian had almost succeeded. One of his hands stretched out of the cave and shouted:

  "Pull me up again."

  Xiao Xuan took a step forward, grabbed Zhao Jian's hand and was about to pull him out with force, but at this moment, a muffled sound came from inside the cave, the cave finally collapsed, and a cloud of smoke and dust burst out. Xiao Xuan also had to close his eyes tightly.

  After the dust settled, everyone was stunned to see that Zhao Jian's entire body had been buried under the collapsed cave, with only one hand still visible outside. To make matters worse, they were in an underground area over a hundred meters deep, where being buried alive meant certain death. Moreover, blood was seeping out of the rocks and soil, which undoubtedly belonged to Zhao Jian.

  Xiao Xuan put down Zhao Jian's hand, and his hand went limp and fell straight down. Apparently, the whole person had been directly crushed to death.

  "Chinese team completes main mission 1: Accompany Sarah's party into the cave. Now issuing follow-up mission:"

  【Main Quest 2】: Protect Sarah and bring her back to the wooden cabin in the forest - After completing this quest, all members of the Chinese team will immediately return to the main god space. Reward for completing the task: 1000 reward points, 1 G-level plot, if Sarah dies before returning to the wooden cabin, the entire Chinese team will be instantly wiped out!

  Side Quest 1: Kill an Underground Cannibal and receive a reward of 100 points. Kill the Mutated Cannibal and receive a reward of 1000 points.

  "Side Quest 2: Obtain the Cannibal's Offering, Reward: 1000 Reward Points, 1 G-Rank Story."

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